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Thousands walk in memory of lost loved ones

Western Days wrangles up fun for the entire posse Kim Harris Managing Editor Gunslingers, calf ropers and country music are just a few of the exciting things that visitors to Old Town Temecula’s Western Days will experience this weekend, according to Melody Brunsting, promoter for the event.

Western Days, now in its 15th year, will be held throughout Old Town Temecula on Saturday, May 16 and Sunday, May 17. see page B-2

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2015 Crystal Apple recipients honored Brenda Tullis Special to the Valley News More than 350 people gathered at a local church on Sunday, May 3 to recognize and applaud local teachers for their dedication and hard work, closing with the bestowal of an esteemed award to a select four. see page C-2

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TOPSoccer a success for TVSA recreational soccer league

Roughly 3,000 participants begin their way around a 5k trail at Lake Skinner during the Southwest Riverside Heart & Stroke Glow Walk on May 9.

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Daniel Lane Multimedia Journalist Thousands of people flocked to Lake Skinner for the fifth annual American Heart Association’s Southwest Riverside Heart

& Stroke Glow Walk on Saturday, May 9.

At about 6 p.m., participants got ready for the walk by taking part in Zumba exercises and stretches as live music filled the background.

Walkers hit the trails around the

Who let the dogs out?

Ashley Ludwig Staff Writer Temecula Valley Soccer Academy, a regional recreational soccer club, is built on the platform that “Everyone plays.”

TVSA’s TOPSoccer—The Outreach Program for Soccer—ensures that disabled children, regardless of disability, get a chance to enjoy the team soccer experience, too.

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Eddie, the pot-bellied pig strolls along the Levee with his owner Ted Parry.

Kim Harris Managing Editor Overcast skies and chilly weather didn’t keep pets and their owners away from the Lake Elsinore Twenty 15 Pet Walk held outside Diamond Stadium on Saturday, May 9.

Hundreds of pets, along with their owners came out for the one and a half-mile walk along the Lake Elsinore Levee. The event, sponsored by the city, gave participants the opportunity to earn raffle tickets for prizes. A pet expo in the walk

see PETS, page A-5

Axel, a pit bull mix, checks out the camera during the Lake Elsinore Twenty 15 Pet Walk. Axel is up for adoption by Luxx’s Paw, an independent pet rescue owned by Jessi Sanchez.

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According to Denyse Wilson, member of the walk’s Executive Leadership Team, this year’s walk was one of the most successful events.

see WALK, page A-6

City expects to reinstate positions, increase revenues in upcoming budgets Kim Harris Managing Editor

see page D-5

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lake at 6:30 p.m. as the sun slowly went down behind the mountains to the west. Many walkers had shirts on to support the walk and some had hand written names of those who were lost to a heart attack, stroke or other cardiovascular event.

Murrieta City Council hosted a budget workshop for the 2015/2016 fiscal year on Tuesday, May 5.

During the meeting, Finance Director Joy Canfield said she had budgeted for the reinstatement of 12 full-time positions as well as was projecting increased revenues to allow for vehicle replacements and the purchase of much needed technology items.

Council heard an overview presented by Canfield that included past history of the budget and an update as to where the budget process is currently.

“During the great recession, as they refer to it, our revenue declined significantly,” Canfield said. “We lost about $11 million in the general fund, $3 million in the fire fund and about $800,000 in the library fund.”

The city is on the upside of the recession, though, according to Canfield who said revenues have improved “significantly” over the past couple of years.

At its highest point, in the 20072008 budget cycle, the city was bringing in $42.5 million, at its lowest, during the 2011-2012 cycle, the city saw revenues drop down to $32.5 million.

In the current budget cycle, revenues are projected to be near $37.5 million, with a projection of $39.9 million for the upcoming budget cycle.

“Out of that 32.5 about 800,000 dollars of that was funded from the economic contingency funds,” she said. “Right now we are talking about putting together our 15/16 and 16/17 budgets. Based on current projections, even in 16/17 we won’t be back to our prior year level and that is a period of nine years. We’ll see what happens in

the future, but that is a long recession.”

According to Canfield, cuts to the previous years’ budgets included reducing staff by 61 positions, suspending prefunding for post retirement health, reduced vehicle replacement funding and furloughs for non-safety employees.

Major additions to the 2015/2016 budget include adding two fulltime and two part-time positions in development services, adding a full-time and conversion of a part-time position to a full-time employee in the police department. Canfield said there has also been a full-time position added to fire administration, Community Services Development, funding to water and different maintenance items and addressed some deferred maintenance items for repairs to various facilities.

“We’ve also started to provide funding for vehicle replacement,” she said adding that the vehicle replacements were for police, fire and public works. “We’ve also started to rebuild our vehicle replacement reserves which were depleted during the recession.”

In the new budget, money has been allocated for technology including computer replacements, purchase of software and other applications. Small amounts have been earmarked for post retirement health funding and the economic contingency fund.

Proposed general fund revenue for the 15/16 budget is $39.6 million and $41.4 million for the following fiscal year. Overall revenue is expected to increase by 6.7 percent, with the biggest jump in revenue coming in the form of the Transient Occupancy Tax which is projected to increase at 125 percent due to hotels that are currently

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Temecula takes the lead in 2015 population estimates, Murrieta comes in 2nd

John Hunneman Columnist It’s not a contest. Really it’s not.

It used to be, but not anymore, I think.

This month the California Department of Finance released their annual estimates of the populations of the state’s cities and counties as of Jan. 1, 2015.

As of Jan. 1, 2015, for the first time in over a decade, Temecula has passed Murrieta and is now the largest city, population wise, in Southwest Riverside County.

Back in the day Temecula and Murrieta used to duke it out over which city was larger. Those days are over, or are they?

In the early days, as both cities grew rapidly, Temecula, which incorporated in 1989, had more people than Murrieta, which was founded in 1991.

By 1994 Temecula (36,472) had pulled ahead of Murrieta (31,412) by more than 5,000 folks. But slowly the Gem of the Valley began to gain more residents than their

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“I support the budget as it is now,” Mayor Pro Tem, Randon Lane said. “I would at some point like to have a discussion to see where we might be able to partner with the chamber financially with the businesses they support. I’d like to see how we can partner with them not just in special events.”

Councilman Rick Gibbs pointed out that not much in taxes stays with the city. He quizzed Canfield who said that six cents on every dollar goes to the general fund, seven cents on every dollar goes to the fire fund and 15 cents goes to the library fund. He said that while people have the assumption that their property taxes pays for all of the city services, that is not the case.

“It’s a very small percentage coming from property taxes,” he said. “Where we are right now, clearly we need more money in the operating reserve, we can’t keep taking from the economic contingency fund for general fund right now because we have a $5 million potential liability if we lose a lawsuit.”

Gibbs said that he believes it might makes sense to start taking out of the economic contingency reserves in small “dribs and drabs” for the other funds.

“This will be up to you as the finance director to decide how much quicker you can start throwing money back into the operating reserves and once that lawsuit is resolved then we probably ought to be contributing more to the operating reserves for the general fund,” he said.

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partment heads.” She said, adding that department heads did a great job of working together.

Items on the list included the reinstatement of one part-time and 12 full-time positions. Four of the positions would be in Development Services, four in the police department for officers and one position each in Economic Development, Recreation, Information Services and Risk Management.

Council had previously said that a specific plan for downtown was a priority so that was also included in the proposed budget along with customer service training for employees and software for online applications. Ongoing items include building maintenance, equipment replacement, tree trimming and removal and city wide training.

Items deferred for consideration until the end of the year for funding include post retirement health care prefunding, replenishment of the economic contingency fund, vehicle replacement funds, drought contingency, tot lot upgrades, Glen Arbor Park parking lot improvements and north and south technology corridor master plan.

“We’ve worked money into the budget for water, but with the drought continuing who knows where water rates are going to go,” Canfield said. “We’d like to start building a reserve in the Community Services District to help with these droughts because they just keep coming.”

Overall, council expressed their thanks to Canfield for the presentation.

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land. That number does not include the large unincorporated areas of this region.

Overall California’s population grew by 0.9 percent as of Jan. 1, 2015, up 358,000 residents to 38,715,000 people.

Taft, a city in Kern County, had the honor of being the state’s fastest growing community with a 6.3 percent population growth.

However that figure comes with an asterisk, or maybe a pair of handcuffs, because most of that growth came from the reopening of a correctional facility.

Riverside County grew 1.2 percent to 2.31 million, an increase of 28,250 people.

Beaumont was the county’s fastest, and California’s 6th fastest, growing city, up 4 percent. Lake Elsinore grew 3.1 percent (14th statewide), Temecula was up 2.5 percent (22nd statewide) and Menifee was up 2.0 percent (34th in California).

Since 2010 Lake Elsinore has been this region’s fastest growing city, expanding by 12.4 percent, followed by Menifee at 10.15 percent and Temecula at 8.81 percent.

Wildomar has grown 6.13 percent in that same period followed by Murrieta at 3.81 and the gated-city of Canyon Lake at 3.22 percent.

But like I said, it’s not a race and it’s not a contest. This isn’t the old days when Temecula and Murrieta competed on many levels to be Top Dog. It’s simply that more and more people are discovering this is a pretty special place to live.

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under construction within city limits.

The triple flip – where the state took 25 percent of sales tax revenue – is also expected to end next year, creating even more revenue for the city.

“It significantly affected the city’s cash flows but that will end and we will get a one-time clean up payment so we will have a little extra one time revenue from the ending of that triple flip,” Canfield said.

The general fund is heavily reliant on sales tax and property tax, Canfield said, adding that it provides about two-thirds of the city’s income. The city receives about $1 for every $100 spent in Murrieta.

“Shopping in Murrieta definitely provides revenue to the city so that is what you can do to help your community,” Canfield said.

The vast majority – more than half – of Ad Valorem taxes goes to support the local schools with only about 7 percent going to Murrieta Fire and 6 percent going into the city’s general fund. About $375, 000 each year is transferred into the general funds from other funds to pay for things budgeted in general fund that is cost shared between different city agencies.

According to Canfield, the city is currently on track with its revenue versus expenditures, but she doesn’t expect the city to be back where it was prior to the recession for another two or three years.

“Right now the budget, as it has been submitted by the departments, is at about $38.4 million with a gap of almost $1.6 million,” she said.

“We have about that same amount in 16/17.”

Canfield said some impacts already worked into the budget include CalPERS rate pools for unfunded liabilities, reinstatement of the Community Services District subsidy and in 2015, an end to furloughs for non-safety employees.

Departments submitted budgets with no new items along with a list of wants and requests to help city leaders determine what would be reinstated going forward, she said.

“The prioritized lists were compiled and agreed upon by the de-

neighbors in Baja Murrieta.

In 2003 Murrieta (77,641) passed Temecula (77,460) for the first time. Both cities continued to grow and in 2009 each reached the 100,000 population mark.

The 2010 census showed Murrieta (103,466) had zoomed ahead of Temecula (100,097). Race over?

Not yet.

During this decade the population pendulum has slowly swung the other way with Temecula growing faster. By last year Murrieta’s lead had shriveled to just 136 people, or roughly the same number of cars in line right now at your local In-N-Out. This month, when the new figures were released, they showed Temecula (108, 920) had overtaken Murrieta (107,279) for the first time since 2002.

This makes Temecula, once again, the largest city in Southwest Riverside County. It is also the fourth largest city in the entire county behind Riverside (317,307), Moreno Valley (200,670) and Corona (160,287). Murrieta is now the county’s fifth largest city.

Statewide Temecula is California’s 59th largest city, Murrieta ranks 63rd and Menifee (85,385) is 92nd.

The combined populations of the regions six incorporated cities–including Lake Elsinore (58,246), Wildomar (34,148) and Canyon Lake (10,901)–passed the 400,000 mark this year and is now at 404,852.

Combined these six cities would be that state’s 9th largest city, ahead of Bakersfield and just behind Oak-

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Local couple finds unique way to celebrate nuptials, support local charity Kim Harris Managing Editor Natasha Yeates and Russell Pennington are getting married in a few short months, but unlike most couples who are out selecting china patterns and other wedding gifts, the Menifee residents are doing something a little out of the ordinary in celebration of their upcoming nuptials.

“Our friends and family wanted to give us a wedding shower, but we did not want people to shower us with gifts,” Yeates said. “Instead, we thought this would be the perfect opportunity to host a fundraiser for someone with greater needs.”

Yeates said that she and Pennington wanted to help local people in Menifee and came across the Canine Support Teams website, http:// caninesupportteams.org.

“After learning about the charity’s programs, we saw that they’re always looking for volunteers to help them raise money and get supplies,” she said. “We contacted them right away with our idea.”

The idea was a good one. The future Mr. And Mrs. Pennington decided to host a shower, where instead of receiving items for their future together, guests and community participants shower Canine Support Teams with much needed supplies.

“We presented Canine Support Teams with our idea to accept donations of supplies and money in lieu of registering for wedding gifts for ourselves,” Yeates said. “We were especially attracted to their ‘Pawz for Wounded Veterans’ program, which gives service dogs to local wounded veterans at no cost to them.

To help Canine Support Teams offset their costs to raise and train their service dogs; we decided we would sponsor a local wounded veteran.”

After the two initially contacted Canine Support Teams with their idea, they were invited, along with their entire wedding party, to the group’s picnic in honor of puppy raiser volunteers.

“We were able to tour the facility and meet all the puppies in training,” Yeates said. “We also met the Canine Support Teams’ staff and some of the disabled clients who benefited from

Natasha Yeates and Russell Pennington pose for a photo with Canine Support Teams Founder Carol Roquemore. Instead of a wedding shower the couple is hosting a fundraiser to benefit the nonprofit organization.

Natasha Yeates and Russell Pennington, center, along with their entire wedding party attended the Canine Support Teams’ annual barbeque honoring the organization’s puppy raisers earlier this year.

The happy couple’s official engagement photo.

their mission. We were all inspired by their mission and each and every one of us fell completely in love with Canine Support Teams that day.”

The couple, who went to the same high school and became good friends after graduation, started dating and have been together ever since and are now part of Canine Support Teams’ volunteer fundraising program.

There are several ways to support the couple’s fundraising efforts, those who are interested in helping can go online to Canine Support Teams’ website and make a monetary donation or shop online for Canine Support Teams’ most needed supplies, Yeates said.

“We’re encouraging all of our supporters to visit our website at http://caninesupportteams.org/

as their charity.

“Canine Support Teams will receive a cash donation every time someone shops on Amazon,” Yeates said.

For this couple, the fun doesn’t stop after the wedding shower is over. They want to continue on with their tradition at their Nov. 7 wedding, too.

“Russell and I have chosen not to register for any wedding gifts for ourselves. As a part of our wedding festivities, we are encouraging all of our friends and family to give to our favorite charity,” Yeates said.

“We won’t stop working for Canine Support Teams until we reach our fundraising goal, so we’ll keep coming up with ways to get involved even if it’s after our wedding day.”

Readers wishing to support the

natasha-and-russells-virtual-wedding-shower/,” she said, adding that a wish list can be found there. “For people who prefer to shop in store, we’re hosting a Wish List drive event on Saturday, May 30 from 12 p.m. to 2 p.m. at the Petco store in Temecula. We’ll be there to hand out special coupons and a shopping list that supporters can use to donate supplies to Canine Support Teams.

Everyone who makes a donation at Petco will have the chance to participate in a silent auction and will get a free raffle ticket to win other prizes for participating. We’ll also have free refreshments and a fun kid station.”

Supporters can give even more by making purchases through Amazon Smile at https://smile.amazon.com/ and selecting Canine Support Teams

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couple in their endeavor to help Canine Support Teams are invited to attend the bridal shower on May 30 or to mail in a check made out to “Canine Support Teams” with “Wedding Shower” in the memo line and mail it to P.O. Box 891767, Temecula, CA 92589-1767.

Yeates said she and Pennington want to thank Canine Support Teams for turning their idea into a reality.

“They have been an amazing organization to work with and we look forward to offering our continued support for years to come,” she said.

“We would also like to thank our friends and family for all their love and support. We can now start a new life together with joy in knowing that we will also be helping a local wounded veteran start his new life!”

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Jessi Sanchez came out with Axel, a pit bull mix, and a stroller full of abandoned puppies that she rescued to enjoy the day.

“They were just left there in a box with their mom and dad – who was chained to a cinderblock,” she said of the four blue-eyed babies.

“They were only four days old when we found them.”

Originally there were six pups in the litter, but one had died at birth and a second died in the time it took her to get to the four-legged family, according to a post on her independent rescue’s Facebook page, www. facebook.com/luxxspaw.

“Mom and dad both seem to be very sweet with myself and my husband,” Sanchez posted. “While at the vet, mama let the vet and tech manipulate her for her check-up and took treats gently out of his hands.”

Sanchez, said the pups, named Maynard, Jett, Gypsi and Lyxx, at six-weeks old are now looking for loving homes.

“I am weaning them, they are eating dog food now,” she said as the pups stirred in the stroller, peering out at their surroundings.

“Their dad, Tytus is all vetted up and ready to go, too.”

The pups’ mother, Shiva, will be available for adoption after the puppies are fully weaned and Axel is also up for adoption she said.

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Otis, a 4-month-old Golden Retriever, checks out a stroller full of puppies during the 4th annual Lake Elsinore Twenty 15 Pet Walk on Saturday, May 9.

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Pot-bellied pig Eddie seemed less than excited to be out on the trail in the cool morning weather.

Eddie’s owner, Ted Parry had to prod him along as he made his way back to the staging area from the trail.

“He walked out there then we got to a point where he was just done,” said Parry of his pet. “Pig-headed is what comes to mind.”

Parry, who also owns a Lake Elsinore preschool with his wife, said Eddie is part of the preschool, an unofficial mascot of sorts. Parry said that pot-bellied pigs make great pets.

“He’s a little bit spoiled, he sleeps in the house and is litter box trained,” Parry said. “He’s never had an accident in the house. They are the cleanest pet you could ever imagine.”

Six-week-old, Jett, along with her three siblings, took part in the Lake Elsinore Twenty 15 Pet Walk riding in a stroller. The litter was rescued along with their parents by Jessi Sanchez of Luxx’s Paw, an independent pet rescue and is up for adoption.

Scully and Mulder, along with owner, Brian Catterson, lead the pack across the Lake Elsinore Levee during the 4th annual Lake Elsinore Twenty 15 Pet Walk.

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The American Heart Association mascot gets participants ready for the start of the 5k walk to raise awareness and raise funds for the fight against heart disease, stroke and other cardiovascular diseases.

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People get an up close look at “Rosie” the 30 year old Asian elephant before the start of the Southwest Riverside Heart & Stroke GlowWalk Shane Gibson photo at Lake Skinner on May 9, 2015.

Tangi Scott, 45, of Murrieta, stands to the left of her 44-year-old husband Charles to remember friends lost and their loved ones who have suffered from a heart attack or a stroke.

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WALK from page A-1 “We had more participants this year than we did last year and we’ve raised more money so far to date than we did all of last year,” she said. “It was an awesome turnout and was the best in a while.”

As of press time, $118,000 has been raised towards the $150,000 goal set for raising money to fight heart disease and stroke, according to the AHA’s website. Wilson says that donations continue to come in and that number is likely continue rise towards the set goal.

She also encourages those who want to support the American Heart Association to donate year round on their website at www.heart.org.

According to Darlene Wetton, chair of the 2015 Southwest Riverside

County Heart & Stroke Glow Walk and CEO of Temecula Valley Hospital, more than 831,000 people die each year from heart disease, stroke and other cardiovascular diseases It is very important and can be life saving for people to know the signs of a possible heart attack or a stroke, according to Wilson.

“When or if they or someone they know are having those symptoms, they know the steps to follow to get help right away,” she said. “The key thing is to know your body and if there is something that doesn’t feel of the norm, to get it checked out right away. Our whole goal is for people to be informed about heart disease and the signs of a heart attack or a stroke.”

Tangi Scott, 45, of Murrieta, walked along side her 44-year-old husband Charles to remember friends

lost and their loved ones who have suffered from a heart attack or a stroke.

“We are here to support my brother in-law,” she said. “I do have family members that have experienced heart attacks and strokes. I’m out walking for those who have survived and in memory of those lives lost to cardiac arrest.”

Scott believes that some of the most important things someone can do for their health is to learn about their family history, eat right and exercise.

“I think it is important to be aware and to educate yourself about the things you can be exposed to, especially genetically,” she said. “If it is something that runs in the family, be proactive in your habits on how you eat and exercise and your future.”

Walkers finished between 7:30 and 8 p.m. and most attended the final ceremony. Participants held their balloons with blinking lights in them up high in memory of those lost as the cool evening breeze blew the balloons from side to side.

“During the final ceremony, we had balloons that had a little light inside them (participants) light their balloon at a specific time,” Wilson said. “This was for anyone who lost someone or anyone who is battling it right now.”

Wilson said you could feel the emotion in the air at the close of the event.

“People were very passionate, they were heartfelt and they had hope,” she said. “We are looking forward to 2016. Thank you for coming out and supporting the Heart and Stroke Walk.”

Scott says the choices you make today, could impact your life tomorrow.

“Be proactive in your health, it is important and it is beneficial to you,” Scott said.

A new twist on sleep-away summer camp TEMECULA—Fox Mountain Adventures is bringing a unique twist to traditional sleep-away summer camp programs to Temecula Valley kids ages 10-17. Unlike other programs, it offers nighttime laser tag, live action board games and over 50 electives.

At Fox, campers can choose from dozens of activities and electives each week that are intentionally designed to create opportunities to develop important lifelong skills while being fun. Every day is filled with surprises, adventures and incredible activities.

“My son has become a leader through his experiences over two summers at Fox Mountain. The intentionality of activities staff offers to develop strong social/emotional skills and to teach the kids how to treat others with respect have made an amazing difference in my son’s maturity,” said the mother of one 14-year-old camper. “Fox is more than just a summer of fun – it’s an investment in character development. I highly recommend this camp for pre-teens/teens.”

If parents are not satisfied that that their child gained value from Fox Mountain Adventures, it refunds their money. It is the only overnight camp in San Diego offering a 100 percent satisfaction guarantee.

Fox Mountain Adventures offers three programs: Overnight Adventure (ages 10-15), Leaders in Training (ages 16-17) and Southern California’s only overnight High School Improv Camp (grades 9-12).

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Menifee City Council awards more than $70,000 in grants to nonprofits

Shelli DeRobertis Writer The regularly scheduled Menifee Union School District board meeting April 28 opened with a school snapshot presentation of Hans Christensen Middle School.

Michelle Randall, new principal at Hans Christensen Middle School for the 2014/2015 school year, shared about the school’s academic supports that are in place, its 174 musicians in choir and band, its focus on children, commitment to first class customer service, and such.

Randall said there is new energy at the school because it has some new teachers, a new counselor and an entire new office staff.

“The staff members formerly in the front office at Christensen are now at other sites in the district,” said Betti Cadmus, public information officer for MUSD. She said many district employees stay with the district as opportunities are happening and the district continues growing.

The growth of MUSD has esca-

lated at such a high rate that in the past year the new student population reached almost 1,000 students, Cadmus said.

“Our student enrollment is growing, and is just shy of 10,000 students,” she said.

Just hours before the meeting, board members posed for a groundbreaking photo at the site of MUSD’s 10th elementary school, which expects to begin serving students in late 2016.

The school will be in Murrieta, on Pat Road between Winchester and Leon Roads, South of Scott Road.

A new district education center is also slated for development, and will replace the portables currently used as MUSD’s district office at 30205 Menifee Rd. Cadmus said construction on the large district education center is in the early stages.

It’s set to be built on the entire circular lot on Haun Road, across from Menifee City Hall, she said.

Other news mentioned at the meeting included reports from board members on district-related

events they attended.

Clerk Reg Bennett thanked Cadmus for her role in helping host “An Evening of Excellence,” held April 24 at the Pechanga Resort & Casino.

The annual dinner was made possible by generous donations from the district’s business partners, Cadmus said, and added that they received more than $40,000 in cash and donations, with nothing coming from district coffers to fund the event.

The evening was an opportunity to honor one certificated employee and one classified employee from each school in the district.

An administrator, librarian and custodian were among some of the honorees.

“I just love that those people are being recognized, too,” Cadmus said.

She also said that MUSD is currently hiring and they are looking for “the best of the best” to apply.

For more information, visit www. menifeeusd.org.

Menifee property owners required to remove weeds, excess vegetation posing fire risk MENIFEE — Fire season is approaching and the city of Menifee is asking property owners, especially those of vacant lots, to remove wild brush, weeds and any junk, trash or debris located on the property. The process of maintaining land and keeping vegetation to a minimum is known as weed abatement. Weed abatement is critical in preventing the start and fueling of wild land fires.

Menifee property owners are required to cut down and remove hazardous vegetation by May 31. Owners who do not remove

wild brush and weeds on his/her property will be notified. If not corrected, the city may fine owners then remove the hazardous materials at the owner’s expense.

Weed abatement requirements are as follows: the parcel must have weeds cut and maintained as noted below and be free of rubbish/trash or debris at all times; land owners must keep clear a 100-foot wide strip adjacent to a land parcel with a structure and land owners must keep clear a 100-foot wide strip adjacent to roadways.

Land owners may meet abate-

ment requirements by discing (tilling), mowing, handwork or brush cutting wild brush and weeds and then removing cut vegetation.

Properties which have overgrown, dead, dry, decayed, diseased or overgrown trees, weeds or brush, not only pose a serious fire risk, but they also deter from an attractive environment for residents, and businesses in Menifee.

For more information on Menifee’s weed abatement policy, visit the city’s website at www. cityofmenifee.us/365/WeedAbatement-Program.

EMWD approves infrastructure contract for former County Water Company connections Joe Naiman Writer The Eastern Municipal Water District board authorized a construction contract for RSH Construction to provide the infrastructure to provide water to properties previously served by the County Water Company of Riverside.

The 5-0 board vote April 1 authorized the $1,547,836 contract with RSH Construction, which is based in Hemet, and authorized total appropriations of $2,975,000 to cover project expenses and associated engineering labor costs for the various phases of the project.

The County Water Company of Riverside was a private entity which served 140 customers in Wildomar and Menifee. The well used to serve

the customers has nitrate levels which exceed state standards, and it has also failed to provide water and has not met fire flow standards.

Because of the health-related water quality concerns the Eastern Municipal Water District and the Elsinore Valley Municipal Water District provided temporary connections to the area and both agencies were willing to annex the service area if they were exempted from liability for conditions from prior operations.

State legislation passed in 2014 gave such liability immunity to the two water districts. The annexation, which transfers the eastern portion of the former County Water Company area to EMWD, is in the process of being finalized.

In 2013, EMWD obtained a

$500,000 grant from the state Department of Public Health to fund the planning and design of facilities for both EMWD and EVMWD and subsequently approved an engineering services agreement for preliminary and final design. The Department of Public Health has also provided a construction funding agreement which will fund up to $3,000,000 for the construction itself.

On March 5, EMWD opened the six bids for the construction. The RSH amount of $1,547,836 was the lowest of those six bids and was below the engineer’s estimate of $1,967,000. The bid was reviewed and found to be responsive with the contract documents.

The contract duration is 210 days from the notice to proceed.

Deadline to file for unclaimed property-tax refunds is Aug. 3 RIVERSIDE, CA—People who own residential or business property in Riverside County have until Aug. 3 to file for unclaimed property tax refunds.

Board of Supervisors Chairman Marion Ashley and Treasurer-Tax Collector Don Kent recently issued the reminder to give taxpayers sufficient time to file for refunds and not be caught short by the deadline. Filing instructions and a list of all unclaimed property-tax refunds from tax year 2010 and prior are available on the Treasurer-

Tax Collector’s website at www. countytreasurer.org/TaxCollector/ UnclaimedMoney/PropertyTaxUnclaimedRefund.aspx Kent said 1,217 refunds totaling $2,243,482.66 remain unclaimed. Most refunds stem from valuation reductions by the County Assessor and are related to corrections or cancellations to the tax roll after taxes already had been paid.

Under California law, propertytax refunds unclaimed for four years after the payment date – or one year after a requested claim form has

been mailed back to a taxpayer by the county, whichever is later – may be transferred to the county general fund by order of the Board of Supervisors. After Aug. 3, any unclaimed money shifts to the general fund and no longer can be claimed.

Completed claim forms and supporting documentation should be emailed to PropTaxUnclaimed@ co.riverside.ca.us or mailed to: Riverside County Treasurer-Tax Collector, Attn: Property Tax Unclaimed Refunds, P.O. Box 12005, Riverside, CA 92502-2205.

According to the city’s website, “The City of Menifee’s 20152016 CDBG Program will enable the City to channel an estimated $486,858 into public works, housing, public (human) services, and public safety activities that benefit low and very low income city residents.”

A technical workshop was held in January that explained the requirements of applying for the CDBG grant.

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Inside the rail, Councilman Greg August thanked all who applied for the grants, and encouraged those who did not receive approval this year, to apply again next year.

“They are all (programs) very worthwhile and they all have a high value to benefit the community,” August said.

Mayor Scott Mann said that he is a little challenged by the funding of the same organizations over and over again each year.

The council voted to approve the committee’s recommendation and approved Assistance League of Temecula Valley’s Operation School Bell for $10,000, Boys & Girls Club of Menifee Valley’s Before & After School Scholarship Program for $13,028, City of

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During a May 6 meeting, the Menifee City Council approved a motion to allocate at least $10,000 in funds to six of 10 eligible organizations that applied for the annual Community Development Block Grant.

A public hearing was held before the vote and representatives from the organizations recommended for approval of grant money and thanked the committee.

But in at least one case, the director of the nonprofit organization, EqUU8, said she was present to appeal the committee’s decision to not approve her horseback riding therapy center in Murrieta for

grant funds.

Director Suzanne Hodges said the horseback riding center has an all-volunteer staff and certified instructors, but wants to expand and help additional children on top of the 39 students with special needs it currently serves.

She said a 6-year-old boy with cerebral palsy is a student at the center and has shown tremendous improvements under the program.

“We have a student who just started to hold up his head independently, and since he started riding with us, he’s had 26 rides and started to develop trunk control,” she said.

Several other people also spoke during the public hearing in support of EqUU8.

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Over 600 participate in this year’s Temecula Valley Helping Hands event Brenda Tullis Special to the Valley News More than 600 men, women and children worked across Temecula Valley assisting in an array of service projects on Saturday, April 25.

Braving the rain, wind and cold, 601 people including members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and other volunteers participated in the Temecula Valley Helping Hands event working at nine different locations in Temecula, Murrieta and Wildomar.

Locations benefitting from the service projects included Harveston Community Park, Vail Ranch Park, Chaparral High School, Temecula Valley Rose Society, Kent Hintergardt Memorial Park, Murrieta Creek Trail and the Jefferson Recreation Center.

A volunteer group of 109 people planted 74 trees at Kent Hintergardt Memorial Park and 139 others spread mulch along a one-mile stretch of the Murrieta Creek Trail.

Others painted the metal fence around Harveston Community Park while another group painted the trellis at Vail Ranch Park. Additional volunteers painted the interior walls of the Jefferson Recreation Center’s warehouse. Still others deep cleaned the Chaparral High School’s gymnasium. Volunteers also worked at the Temecula Valley Rose Society and a smaller group helped at a Veterans Supplemental Support Network project at the Temecula Duck Pond and Veteran’s Memorial, an event honoring local veterans by taking time to serve them a meal with accompanying stories and entertainment.

Another small gathering took place in Wildomar where volunteers assembled emergency toiletry kits for members of the military, veterans and their families.

Stacy Fox works as a landscape inspector for the city of Temecula and was amazed at the people coming out to volunteer. “I think it’s fantastic that hundreds of people would come out on a Saturday and volunteer their time,” he said.

Serving alongside dozens of others by hauling wheel barrows of mulch, pulling weeds and beautifying Rose Haven at the Temecula Valley Rose Society, Doctor Erik Lundquist of Morgan Hill said, “I can’t think of a better way to spend a Saturday than serving the community with my family.”

While their dad steadies the tree, 10-year old Cody and 7-year-old Hailey prepare the ground for the planting at the Kent Hintergardt Park at the Temecula Valley Helping Hands service day.

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Phyllis Bettleheim, co-president of the Temecula Rose Society, gratefully oversaw the 63 volunteers who came out to help her organization. “This has been a marvelous help to us,” she said.

Two of the projects requiring paint had to be postponed due to weather. “The wind has been very challenging and the rain has halted our work some but we’re always happy to serve,” said Greg Thompson who volunteered at the Vail Ranch Park repainting the trellis of the picnic area.

Although the painting of the metal fence at the Harveston Community Park was also postponed, Temecula Valley High School Junior Cory Ruf was still happy to work while he could. “I thought it would be nice to come out and do something for the community,” he said.

Mike Eynon brought his two children to plant trees at Kent Hintergardt Memorial Park and was pleased to know that he and his family had planted the first tree of the day. “I brought the kids out

to teach them about community service,” he said.

Eynon’s 7-year-old daughter, Hailey said she loved being in the outdoors. “I came to help the earth,” she added.

With an obvious seriousness about his work to dig a hole for the planting, young Tristan Nicora threw down his shovel, looked around and yelled, “Hey, where is my pick axe?” An auger was then made available, efficiently digging a hole for the young boy to plant his tree.

Ken Goss enlisted his family to assist in the Murrieta Creek Trail project to spread mulch. “I’m hoping my children gain a sense of responsibility to the community and a love of service,” he said.

“I guess it’s about giving back,” said Jim Neeley, who has raised eight children in Temecula Valley.

Working to clean the Chaparral High School gymnasium, he said his oldest daughter graduated from TVHS because it was the only high school in Temecula at that time. “I remember the excitement we had

when they had just built this brand new high school 20 years ago. It’s nice to help make it new again and keep it special, like it is.”

Temecula resident of 18 years, Dana Crisp, said that her oldest daughter was in the first senior graduating class at Chaparral High School. Serving at the VSSN project on Saturday, she explained why she and others had such a strong desire to serve her community.

“We serve because we have been given so much and we want to give back,” she said. “I feel like all that I have--has been given to me by God and when I serve others, it’s my way of paying Him back for my blessings.”

Next year’s Temecula Valley Helping Hands service day will again be featured at www.justserve. org, a website that successfully matches local organizations with willing volunteers. The website is sponsored by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and can be freely utilized throughout the year. An invaluable resource, www.Justserve.org is available to

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Volunteers paint the rusted metal gate at the Harveston Park in Temecula on Saturday.

anyone seeking service opportunities or service hours in our community. Projects for consideration can be submitted to www.justserve.org by emailing justservetemecula@ gmail.com.

Helping their group plant 74 trees at the Kent Hintergardt Memorial Park, Dave Tenney, Bill Watson, Kevin Kartchner, Russell Fox and Dan Sorenson maneuver an auger at the Temecula Valley Helping Hands service project.

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Ken Goss and 4-year old daughter Emma and 9-year old son David enjoyed spreading mulch along the Murrieta Creek Trail which was held during the Temecula Valley Helping Hands event.

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Denise Earl, Jennifer Rhead and the teenaged girls belonging to the Earl family weed and beautify the gardens at the Temecula Valley Rose Society during the Temecula Brooklyn McClure photo Valley Helping Hands service day.

Tristan Nicora, center, son of Sally and Daniel Nicora, works between Jax and Crew Moody, sons of Carl and Chantel Moody, planting trees at the Kent Hintergardt Memorial Park during the Temecula Valley Helping Hands service day.

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Western Days wrangles up fun for the entire posse

Smoke rises after gunslingers engage in an epic battle, Western Days style.

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Kim Harris Managing Editor Gunslingers, calf ropers and country music are just a few of the exciting things that visitors to Old Town Temecula’s Western Days will experience this weekend, according to Melody Brunsting,

promoter for the event.

Western Days, now in its 15th year, will be held throughout Old Town Temecula on Saturday, May 16 and Sunday, May 17.

“It used to be a part of the rodeo that was once held in Temecula,” said Brunsting. “They had a tractor pull and a rodeo and Western Days

was part of that.”

Since the city took over the planning of the event, the rodeo and the tractor pull are no longer part of the event; instead, visitors can expect tons of fun with the zany antics of the Old Town Temecula Gunfighters during the gunfights scheduled throughout the weekend.

“The Old Town Temecula Gunfighters have been around a long time. They basically have a show with other performance gun clubs,” Brunsting said. “They don’t use live ammunition and they are very safe. They offer gun safety tips as well when it comes to doing their shows. They are kind of crazy and they always do comical skits that end up in people having fake glass broken over their heads.”

Brunsting said that the group is offering a comical look at the Old West.

“They do a high noon shootout at the Bank Mexican Restaurant and they have been doing that for 15 years,” she said. “They always announce the gringo of the day so the sheriff can catch them.”

In addition to the excitement and fun of the Old West gunfights, there will be pony rides, calf roping demonstrations on Saturday, and an old fashioned loom weaver on Sunday.

“Judy Taylor who is a trick roper and singer will be performing on both days,” Brunsting said.

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Taylor’s Wild West Show is a full on production and has been featured as an educational program for schools and historical events.

“This year I will have my banjo student, who is a highly accomplished banjo player coming to accompany me,” Taylor said. “I will be doing my Wild West Show, complete with trick roping, gun spinning, bull whips and the whole theatrical act.”

The show is interactive so visitors can learn how to trick rope, line dance or even become part of Taylor’s musical performance.

“All the years I have done the Western Days in that particular location, I just snatch the kids up or the adults, who are playing around, they come up or play spoons or washboards and join in with us.”

Taylor said the fun family atmosphere keeps her coming back to Temecula for the event year after year.

“I think Old Town is so suitable for it with its ambience and it draws such an awesome family-oriented audience,” she said. “You just put

those two together and it is always a nice feel for everyone.”

On Sunday, the International Chili Society Regional Chili Cookoff becomes part of the fun.

“The winner of this event goes on to the world competition,” Brunsting said. “It’s held every October and last year it was held in Las Vegas.”

Chili Cookoff winners will be named in the categories of ICS Red, ICS Chili Verde, ICS Salsa and a people’s choice award.

All events will be held in Old Town Temecula on Front Street, Main Street or the 6th Street parking lot.

The event is free, but there is a fee to enter the cookoff and tastings of each chili entered are $1 each. Tasting will be held from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. or until the chili is gone. An awards presentation will be held on 6th Street near the wine and beer gardens.

For more information, a Chili Cookoff entry form or a complete schedule of events, visit www. temeculacalifornia.com.

Temecula Historical Society to hold presentation on Hidden America TEMECULA—Temecula Historical Society has invited historian Andrew Thompson to give a presentation titled “Hidden America, What They Didn’t Teach You In School” at the Little Temecula History Center on Monday, May 18 at 6 p.m. The public is welcome to come at 5:30 p.m. for refreshments.

The center is located in the red barn at the corner of Wolf Store Road and Redhawk Parkway.

As a history teacher and a former tour director in Washington, D.C. Thompson will give an inside view on several gripping and little known topics that he has researched.

Topics for discussion are varied and will include Christopher Columbus who is credited for discovering America. Thompson will look at others who came before him and where they left their mark in North America. He will also examine where Columbus’s body is today.

Apparently, there are two places on earth who claim to have his remains, Thompson will examine the mystery.

Also on tap for discussion are the stories of Sybil Ludington, Napoleon Bonaparte, John Wilkes Booth and Nazi prison camps in America.

Ludington, who was forgotten to history, mounted her horse named Star on April 26, 1777 and at age 16, rode 40 miles to alert American colonial forces that the British were coming. She was credited with alerting over 400 soldiers to help drive back the British at the battle of Ridgefiled. She was honored and recognized for her bravery by George Washington. Two years before, on April 18, 1775 Paul Revere made his famous ride (but only went half the distance). Why has history forgotten this brave young

Historian Andrew Thompson will give a presentation at the Temecula Historical Society on Monday, May 18. Courtesy photo

girl and what ever happened to her?

Napoleon Bonaparte was emperor of three-quarters of Europe late in the 18th century. Learn about Napoleon’s secret plan to invade America. He began his troop buildup in the Caribbean Islands and would invade north into the colonies. Learn what the president of the United States knew and what he didn’t... and the unexpected turn of events that stopped the invasion and eventually lead to Napoleon’s fall from power.

John Wilkes Booth, the Tom Cruise of his day, has forever gone down in history as the assassin of Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States. History records that Booth was captured days later in a barn in Maryland.

Several witnesses at the time came forward and insisted that the body of Booth was misidentified.

According to witnesses, documentation and physical evidence, Booth may have made his escape.

Thompson will examine the facts and take a look at an astonishing book published in 1907 by attorney, Finis Bates who claims that he spoke to Booth and was at his death bed in 1903 in Enid, Okla.

Learn the shocking details of what happened.

History records the brutality the Nazis during the 1930s delivered to millions of Jews, the disabled, homosexuals and racially impure citizens throughout Europe within German death camps. The treatment of these prisoners was so horrific it overshadowed what was happening to Nazi prisoners here in America. Thousands of Nazi soldiers were sent overseas as prisoners to America where they stayed in prison camps in various parts of the country. Learn about the privileges extended to the Nazis here in American prison camps as American soldiers were being killed and mistreated as prisons in Europe.

What about the Nazi’s leader, Adolph Hitler, what became of him? History records that his body was found in a bunker in Berlin, Germany near the end of the war. Learn about secret FBI files, recently released, that sent FBI agents to search for the Nazi leader in South America as late as the 1960s. Also, did America help Hitler escape?

For more information on this event, please contact Rebecca Farnbach at (951) 699-5148.

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Bonnie Boekeloo selected as Artist of the Month by Arts Council Menifee Arts Council Menifee Special to the Valley News Bonnie Zick Boekeloo has been involved with creative endeavors since the age of 3 when she started studying classical ballet. She took piano lessons for 11 years and began her first serious painting effort when her brother gifted her with paints and a canvas as a teen.

Although she had no prior interest in art, her love for oil painting continued through college and beyond.

Since moving to Menifee in 2001, she has become active in the local art community, including joining Arts Council Menifee that has honored her as May’s Artist of the Month. “Arts Council Menifee leaders do a wonderful job of providing opportunities for artists of all ages in our community,” she said.

Boekeloo and her husband of 57 years, Maury, are retired but art has become an activity they can participate in together. “My husband backs me 100 percent and enjoys making cards and prints (of my artwork) and talking to people at exhibit receptions,” she said. “He is quite the fan.”

While raising their three children, Boekeloo’s art was limited to occasional recreational painting and a Lake Michigan scene commissioned by a good friend. “We

were sailors on Lake Michigan and enjoyed the water, sunrises and sunsets,” she said.

The Boekeloos also spent a few years in Hawaii where she taught kindergartners. “Working with children, one sees stories,” she said.

“They were inventive and a delight.

I like to tell a story with my paintings–the children taught this to me.

I try to feel everything I do.”

Boekeloo’s commissioned paintings have found homes in several states and Washington, D.C. Recently, one of her works was selected for the holiday card of the Inland Valley Habitat for Humanity chapter in Temecula. “Someone handed out small squares so we could donate to Habitat,” she recalled. “When I won it was a surprise for sure; I did not know it was a contest.”

After moving to San Dimas in 1985, her art interest increased and she joined the San Gabriel Fine Arts Association.

“Entering contests and being judged takes away from the joy of painting for me,” she said. “I don’t compete–I paint.”

Boekeloo makes time to work with her oils on a daily basis – drawing from her memory, photographs or pictures of things she likes. She looks for character in her portraits and loves recreating a

Lake Elsinore set to kick off Safe Boating Daniel Lane Multimedia Journalist The City of Lake Elsinore is kicking of National Safe Boating Week with their Paddlecraft Adventure Cruise at La Laguna Resort and Boat Launch on Saturday, May 16.

The free event, held from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., will feature courtesy boat inspections by the United States Coast Guard Auxiliary, along with stand-up paddle boarding and kayaking on the lake.

According to the city’s event coordinator Melissa Houtz, the main goal is to promote safety on the lake and to get people involved in more activities on the water.

“We are excited to be offering more recreational activities on the lake,” she said. “By having this event, we are promoting fitness and more activities on the lake.”

Instructors will be on hand teaching water safety along with offering paddle boarding techniques. Those in attendance will be able to kayak and take the paddle boards on the water, according to Houtz.

“We want to help the community to be prepared and to have knowledge on boating safety and why it is important for people utilizing our lake,” Houtz said. “We are going

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to have information for boaters on boating safety.”

During the three-hour event, boaters will have the opportunity to get a free boat inspection and information on what should be kept on board.

“It is beneficial and extremely helpful for the Coast Guard Auxiliary to be out there helping everyone and getting them prepared,” she said. “We want everyone that utilizes the lake to be safe.”

This event is also a great opportunity to meet those who help to keep boaters safe on the water.

“The sheriff’s lake patrol will be there for public safety and to answer questions,” she said. “We will have Lake Elsinore Marine Search and Rescue there to do lake patrol and they will host a booth highlighting boating safety and assistance to disabled boaters.”

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Bonnie Boekeloo poses with one of her paintings.

flower’s stages of bloom.

Many of her favorite memories have become subjects for paintings that colorfully cover the walls of every room in her Menifee home.

Boekeloo appreciates all of the opportunities that Arts Council

Menifee offers to local artists, and has been a patron member of the nonprofit organization since its inception. Her pieces are often displayed at Art Council Menifee’s gallery at the Kay Ceniceros Community Center. She is also excited

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about the upcoming “Arts Showcase” event on Saturday, May 16 at the Countryside Marketplace.

For more information, visit www.artscouncilmenifee.org or call (951) 290-ART1.

Fly high above the festival TEMECULA—It is the most picturesque flight over Southern California Wine Country. A hot air balloon flight during the Temecula Valley Balloon & Wine Festival May 29 through 31 whisks riders over the pristine landscape of Lake Skinner Recreation Center and surrounded by a multi-species reserve.

Outside of the preserve rolling hills of vineyards fill the vista – a protected agricultural district.

The flight is magical. But, what a festival flight gives the passenger is something they can’t get any other day of the week – a chance to fly with 40 other balloons. It is a photographer’s dream – the perfect setting for proposals – the ultimate “check” to a bucket list wish.

Balloon flights from the festival are scheduled for 6:30 a.m. (time approximate, weather permitting) Saturday and Sunday of the event.

Occasionally cloud cover may force the balloons to launch offsite and at times providing another unique experience of actually landing at the festival.

Festival guests can catch a flight Saturday ($210) and Sunday ($200) by reserving a balloon flight now at

www.hotairtours.com or by calling (800) 965-2122.

Balloon flights offer the best view of the festival flying from the Lake Skinner Recreation Area. The 40 to 50 minute flight majestically lifts passengers over the festival grounds and often takes them out past vineyards and the surrounding terrain. The flights include sameday festival admission, champagne or orange juice and a first flight certificate. Weather ultimately determines when and where the balloons can launch and land.

For guests who want to “try” their wings without letting go of terra firma, the festival offers free tethered rides Saturday and Sunday morning after the launch. These balloon rides are about 10 minutes long.

Late sleepers and families often enjoy the close up view that the Friday and Saturday evening balloon glow offers. This balloon spectacular starts at sunset when up to a dozen balloons inflate in the Wine Gardens, but remain tethered to the ground. As the colors fade from the evening sunset, the balloons begin their “glow” by simultaneously igniting the burners.

Placed up against a black velvet sky, the luminous orbs of colorful canopies appear to dance to the beat of selected music. A crowd favorite, the balloon glow highlight occurs when the entire crowd shouts their plea of “glow” and the entire field alights with color.

Show choirs open the glow with tribute songs to the evening event.

Friday will feature Resonate an independent youth show choir.

Saturday will feature Synchronize Vocal Jazz Ensemble.

Early bird spectators will catch a prize this year during launch hours. A discount for adults at the gates only, offers a $10 admission ticket. Yes, the ticket is good for the entire day. But, you have to arrive early and purchase your tickets at the gate between 6 a.m. and 9 a.m., Saturday or Sunday. One ticket per person per day.

Sponsored by Riverside County and the city of Temecula, the event is held annually at Lake Skinner Recreation area in Temecula Valley Wine Country. For more information contact the festival at (951) 676-6713 or visit the website at www.tvbwf.com.

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CALENDAR OF EVENTS KIDS AND TEENS: May 13 – 4 p.m. American Girl Tea Party at Grace Mellman Library Community Room, 41000 County Center Dr., Temecula. Ages 6-12 can bring their favorite doll or stuffed animal for a fun-filled hour of American Girl crafts, tea and treats.

Registration begins on Monday, April 27. Registration and Information: (951) 296-3893.

May 15 – 5:30-7:30 p.m. Time Will Tell – Explore some of Einstein’s theories on travel with Professor Pennypickle and his staff at the Temecula Children’s Museum, 42081 Main St. Tickets and Information: (951) 308-6376.

May 22 – 5:30-7:30 p.m. Professor Gadget…Wait…What? Professor Pennypickle is busy experimenting with lots of different things…who knows what he will demonstrate this night! Come to the Temecula Children’s Museum, 42081 Main St. to find out! Tickets and Information: (951) 308-6376.

May 25 – Monday Madness at the Temecula Children’s Museum, 42081 Main St. The museum is open!

Information: (951) 308-6376.

May 28 – 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Splash Medics - a presentation about water/ pool safety for preschoolers at Menifee Preschool, 26350 La Piedra Rd., Menifee. Information: Helen (951) 672-6478.

ENTERTAINMENT: May 14 – 7:30 p.m. Jazz at the Merc, 28816 Pujol St., Temecula.

Enjoy an evening of jazz hosted by Sherry Berry in association with Temecula Presents. Featuring: Dick Weller Trio with John Tendy, Sax and Carey Frank, Organ. Tickets: $15.

Information: (866) 653-8696.

May 14 and 15 – 2 p.m. MSJC presents: Menifee Valley Campus Week of Music with guitar ensemble: Classical guitar in an intimate setting at the Lab Theatre, 28237 La Piedra Rd., Menifee. Reservations: (951) 639-5790. Information: Jeremy (951) 639-5665 or jebrown@msjc.edu.

May 15 –7:30 p.m. Dixieland at the TCC co-produced by Timeless Productions in association with Temecula Presents at 28816 Pujol St. Tickets and Information: (866) 653-8696.

May 16 – 2 p.m. MSJC presents: Menifee Valley Campus Week of Music with Menifee Jazz Ensemble: high-energy blend of contemporary and standard big band sounds.

Influences include bebop, swing, funk, Latin, avant-garde and various genres.

Performance at the Lab Theatre, 28237 La Piedra Rd., Menifee. Reservations: (951) 639-5790. Information: Jeremy (951) 639-5665 or jebrown@msjc.edu.

May 16 – 7:30 p.m. MSJC presents: Menifee Valley Campus Week of Music with a Music Student Showcase: solo and small group performances by several singers and instrumentalists at the Lab Theatre, 28237 La Piedra Rd., Menifee. Reservations: (951) 639-5790. Information: Jeremy (951) 639-5665 or jebrown@msjc.edu.

May 16 – 7:30-9:30 p.m. SaintSaens & Company at the Murrieta United Methodist Church, 24652 Adams Ave. Presented by California Chamber Orchestra and Temecula Presents. This season finale features works for smaller ensembles by four of the most important composers of the early 20th century. Each of these works will demonstrate how chamber music made the transition into the modern world. Tickets and Information: (866) 653-8696.

May 16 – 7 p.m. Country Live! At the TCC, 28816 Pujol St., Temecula Presented by Gwyn Sanborn featuring the house band backing up the valley’s hottest country artists. Tickets and Information: (866) 653-8696.

May 16, and 17 – 7:30 p.m.

Children’s Letters to God Musical Production presented by Temecula Arts Company at the Stephen Price Theater at Elsinore High School, 21800 Canyon Dr., Wildomar.

Creative Jillian Stone has been turning out youth-based musical theater productions that deliver heartfelt message through meaningful story lines without compromise. This will portray the lives of five young friends as they voice their beliefs, desires, questions and doubts common to all people about God. May 16 and 17 Matinee performances at 2 p.m. May 17 performance at 6 p.m. Information: www.temeculaperformingarts.com.

Reservations: (909) 241-3521 or tpacrocke@gmail.com.

May 16 & 17– 2 and 7 p.m. Alice in Wonderland The Academy of Ballet Arts presents this performance at the Temecula Valley High School Golden Bears Theater, 31555 Rancho Vista Rd. The Academy is also proud to announce their first Autism-Friendly performance at 5 p.m. on the 17.

Tickets and Information: (951) 2161853 or www.academyofballetart.org.

May 17 – 2 p.m. MSJC presents: Menifee Valley Campus Week of

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Music with Menifee Campus Singers – fine choral group, performing arrangements of colorful songs at 28237 La Piedra Rd., Menifee.

Reservations: (951) 639-5790.

Information: Jeremy (951) 639-5665 or jebrown@msjc.edu.

May 19 – 7 p.m. danceXchange presented by Dance Theatre Collective of Southern California in association with Temecula Presents at the Temecula Conference Center at City Hall, 41000 Main St., Temecula.

Information: (866) 653-8696.

May 21 – 7:30 p.m. Jazz at the Merc, 28816 Pujol St., Temecula.

Enjoy an evening of jazz hosted by Sherry Berry in association with Temecula Presents. Featuring: Rose Mallett Quartet with Theo Saunders, Piano, Henry Franklin, bass and Ramon Banda, drums. Tickets: $15.

Information: (866) 653-8696.

May 24 – 3 p.m. Classics at the Merc, 42051 Main St., TemeculaClassics is a weekly chamber recital series co-produced by the California Chamber Orchestra and Temecula Presents. Performers are all working professional musicians or advanced conservatory students will perform at the Temecula Community Center, 28816 Pujol St. Tickets and Information: (866) 653-8696.

May 28 – 7:30 p.m. Jazz at the Merc, 28816 Pujol St., Temecula. Enjoy an evening of jazz hosted by Sherry Berry in association with Temecula Presents.

Featuring: Chris Dawson Trio with Roger Shew and Sinclair Lott. Tickets: $15. Information: (866) 653-8696.

May 31 – 2-5 p.m. IE Entertainers performing at North Hall, 26850 Sun City Blvd., Menifee. This is a free event open to the public. Come and hear many talented IE musical artists performing. The show is limited to 100 audience members. Reservations and Information: Lenore (951) 719-0242.

COMMUNITY EVENTS: May 15 – 10 a.m. Menifee United Church of Christ offering prayer time in its Peace Garden every Friday.

Scriptural Prayer and Spoken Prayer.

The community is invited to take part in this weekly prayer time. The UCC is located at 26701 McCall Blvd., Menifee. Information: Rev. Bill Freeman (616) 796-5598.

May 16 – 4-9 p.m. Menifee United Way to host 1st annual Food Truck Festival at MSJC, 28237 La Piedra Rd., Menifee. Gourmet food trucks, live entertainment, beer garden, petting zoo, children’s activity center,

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May 16-17 – 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Old Town Temecula Western Days at Old Town Front and Main streets. The Wild West comes to life when the Old Tow Gunfighters host other gunfight clubs. There will be a daily high noon shoot out and robbery at The Bank, skits, Old West costumed characters music, calf roping instruction, pony rides and more! This is free and open to the public. Information: Melody at melody@melodysadworks.com.

May 16 – 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Paddlecraft Adventure Cruise at La Laguna Resort & Boat Launch, 32040 Riverside Dr., Lake Elsinore. Join this event as the kick-off celebration of National Safe Boating Week. This event will feature stand-up paddle boarding and kayaking in the lake for free. All participants have the opportunity to take home information on boating safety and courtesy boat inspections will be provided by the USCG Auxiliary.

Information: (951) 674-3124, ext. 292.

May 16 – 11 a.m.-4 p.m. 5th annual Arts Showcase sponsored by the Arts Council Menifee at Countryside Marketplace, 30010-30472 Haun Rd., Menifee. Come on out and enjoy a day of music, art and culture.

May 16 – 6 p.m. Studio 395 Live Art and Music at Lake Community Center, 310 W. Graham Ave., Lake Elsinore. Enjoy live music, buy and sell arts and crafts, art demonstrations and food and drink. This is a free event open to the public.

May 16 – 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Lucas Oil Off-Road Regional Race at Lake Elsinore Motorsports Park, 20700 Cereal St. Main Events beginning at 1 p.m.

May 16-17 – Relay for Life – Menifee at Paloma Valley High School, Be a part of the American Cancer Society Relay for Life and join in for 25 hours of fun, excitement! Enjoy music, food contests, awards and prizes while honoring the courageous spirit of those battling cancer. Information: www.relayforlifemenifee.com.

May 17 – 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Mad Madeline’s Car Show at 28464 Old Town Front St. Temecula. This classic car show presented by Slowlane Familia Car Club is open to the public.

There will also be raffles and trophies for the winners. Information: Sid (760) 201-7851.

May 17 – 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Eibach Honda Meet at Storm Stadium, 500 Diamond Dr., Lake Elsinore. During this event you will be able to view showcased cars, check out vendors, enjoy music and more. Information: (951) 245-4487.

May 23 – 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Got Tires?

Lake Elsinore Tire Recycling Event for the cities of Lake Elsinore, Wildomar and Canyon Lake at Lakeside High School, 32593 Riverside Dr. Proof of residency is required. Residents can transport up to 9 tires maximum per trip. Light truck and passenger vehicle tires only. Tires from businesses and nonprofits will not be accepted. All tires must be removed from rims.

Information: (951) 674-3124 or (562) 944-4766.

May 23 – check in 7 a.m. Run begins at 9 a.m. Selfie Run 5K at Lake Elsinore Storm Stadium, 500 Diamond Dr. The Selfie Run is an event focused on the social experience with friends and family. The runners/walkers are encouraged to take selfies and post pictures to the Selfiz App. At the end of the race there will be a Selfie Run After Party filled with music and more! Information: (951) 245-4487 or service@selfierun.com.

May 25 – 10 a.m. Lake Elsinore’s Community Wide Memorial Day Service at Elsinore Valley Cemetery, 18170 Collier Ave., Lake Elsinore.

Free Admission open to the public.

Bring your lawn chairs. Information: (951) 674-2418.

May 25 – 7 a.m. Murrieta’s Memorial Day Ceremony at Town Square Park. Join the city of Murrieta for a solemn ceremony to honor and pay tribute to those servicepersons who have paid the ultimate price in the defense of our nation. Information: (951) 304-2489.

May 27 – 10 a.m. 2015 Special Olympic School games at Lakeside High School, 32593 Riverside Dr., Lake Elsinore. Special Olympics Southern California along with Lake Elsinore Unified School District will host over 400 student athletes to compete in Olympic style competition.

Admission is free. Join in and cheer for these athletes! Information: (951) 245-8848.

May 30 – 8:30-11:30 a.m. The city of Murrieta would like to salute military moms and wives with a free brunch in memory of Kathy Moe Gibbs at Murrieta Library Garden of Verses, 8 Town Square adjacent to the Murrieta Public Library. Daycare will be provided by Centerpoint Church.

RSVP: militarymoms@murrieta.org

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WORKSHOPS, MEETINGS and ANNOUNCEMENTS: Now – MSJC Summer School to help students reach their educational goals by providing high demand

classes during summer 2015 with flexible and convenient times and locations. Summer classes available in all quarters at the Menifee and Temecula campuses. Six-week session begins June 22 and eight-week session begins on June 8. Information: (951) 506-6752 or www.msjc.edu.

Boys & Girls Clubs of Southwest County On-Going Car Wash fundraiser – The Boys & Girls Club of Southwest County are selling tickets for $21 to Rancho Car Wash or Temecula Car Wash. To purchase tickets to support this club please contact Beth Soltysiak (951) 6991526, ext. 109.

May 14 – 12:30-1:30 p.m. MSJC’s STEM Program (Science, Technology, Engineering & Math). STEM Program Orientations at 28237 La Piedra Rd., Room 419, Menifee. Information: Crystal (951) 639-5628 or cranthony@ msjc.edu.

May 14 – 9 a.m.-12 p.m.

IE SBDC Certifications for Your Business and 8(a) Applications. This seminar will discuss how obtaining the designation of Small Business Enterprise, Woman Owned, MinorityOwned, or Disable Veteran Business Enterprise can help you do business with reputable government agencies, prime contractors and Fortune 500 companies. The SBA will be in attendance to discuss the SBA’s 8(a) application. Registration: www. iesmallbusiness.com.

May 14 – 5:30-7 p.m. Tri-Tech SBDC CEO Storytelling with speaker BJ Fazeli, a pioneer in the direct response industry. BJ Global, does everything from designing products to producing infomercials to sell products, to buying media time and more. Information: www.tve2.org/ newsandevent/calendar.

May 14 – 1-3 p.m. The Lake Elsinore Genealogical Society to host their monthly meeting at the Mission Trail Community Library, 34303 Mission Trail, Wildomar.

Topic: Using Google’s Features to Search for Your Ancestors – Part Two. There is no charge to attend this informational meeting. Information: Arlene at aamoore@yahoo.com.

May 16 – 10 a.m.-1 p.m. MSJC College Business Competition “Shark Tank” style to receive start-up fund for a business at 28237 La Piedra Rd., Menifee. MSJC students are learning what it takes to get an innovative business idea off the ground. The team that successfully pitches its idea has a chance to receive $5,000 through the MSJC Business Plan Competition.

The goal of the competition is to give students a practical and applied understanding of the pitch meeting process and how entrepreneurs and financiers interact. Information: Denis at dnurmela@msjc.edu.

May 18 – 6 p.m. Hidden America, What They Didn’t Teach You in School presented by historian Andrew Thompson at the Little Temecula History Center, corner of Wolf Store Rd. and Redhawk Pkwy. This event is open to the public. Information: Rebecca (951) 699-5148.

May 19 – 5-8 p.m. Temecula Valley Art Association will host their May meeting at the Assistance League, 28720 Via Montezuma, Temecula.

May 19 – 10:15 a.m. Temecula Valley Republican Women Federated to host meeting at Wilson Creek Winery, 35960 Rancho California Rd., Temecula. RSVP to Colleen (951) 2233500 or cnielsen14@roadrunner.com.

May 20– 4:30 p.m. MSJC to offer sessions on Business Degree Program with Cal State University San Marcos.

This program allows students to earn an Associate’s Degree from MSJC in two years and a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration from CSUSM in another two years. Students must be prepared for college-level math and English. This session will be held at THE Center, 43200 Business Park Dr., Room 225, Temecula.

Second Session: 6 p.m. Information: (951) 487-3409 or kdimemmo@smjc. edu.

May 21 – 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m.

EWDC Luncheon – An update on the Southwest California Legislative Council at The Diamond Club, 500 Diamond Dr., Lake Elsinore. These monthly luncheons provide up to date information on current issues and events that affect the valley with special emphasis on the issues that impact businesses. Information and Reservations: Michelle (951) 245-8848 or michelle@lakeelsinorechamber. com.

May 22 – 9-11 a.m. TVCC Professional Development Series: It’s All About the Customer: Managing Customers. Learn how to communicate with your customers, exceed their expectations and customer retention.

Reservations are complimentary for TVCC members and $20 per class for non-TVCC members. Information: Brooke (951) 676-5090 or brooke@ temecula.org.

May 22 – 1-3:30 p.m. Senior Scam Seminar with Senator Jeff Stone at the Murrieta Public Library, 24700 Adams Ave. Free lunch will be provided. RSVP and Information: city of Murrieta (951) 304-2489.

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Dining in the Valley Blackbird Tavern for large groups, intimate dining in Old Town Temecula

Chef Jonathan Perez and Sous Chef Algier Castro of Blackbird Tavern.

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lackbird Tavern, off 5th and Front streets in Old Town Temecula, welcomes all with rustic whimsy and amazing flavors. Founded in 2013, the barn-style building has charm to spare, in the self-described continual pub experiment.

“We started out as a pub, but Blackbird Tavern has morphed into something unexpected,” owner Julian Nelson said.

Blackbird Tavern is rising as an event location for Old Town Temecula, already booking events, rehearsal dinners, and group gatherings into November of 2016. As we strolled through the brick and concrete interior, it also holds a “mountain resort” appeal, combined with the SoCal charm. Window boxes stuffed with succulent plants, the larger than life chalkboard menus and drawings, and the honey bear light fixture over the host stand.

Taste is the word of the day at Blackbird Tavern.

Walk in, and the restaurant keeps going, with expansive dining area behind the deceptively small 5th Street façade. Out a rolling glass door, the open air patio “yard” boasts fire pit seats, booth seating, sidewalk chalk for the kiddos, and grassy area with enclosed yet open feel. Blackbird Tavern is an ideal location for Wednesday night’s specials for wood fired pizza and pints, or any number of special events such as the tavern’s frequent Campfire Sessions over the summer months.

Prices range from the $6 Brown Bag Special

Sharable to low $20s for dinner favorites—such as the scallops, barramundi, or pork chops. All are worth the price of admission for lunch, or a night on the town. Nelson, together with Blackbird Tavern’s Chef de Cuisine, Jonathan Perez and sous chef Algier Castro, are constantly seeking ways to better serve their clientele.

On a cloudy afternoon, Perez and Castro served up some old favorites and new creations for us to sample.

With a little something from the Shared, Soups and Greens, Wood Burning Pizza menu—the same for both lunch and dinner—and a specialty from The Main Course, dinner menu only, Blackbird Tavern promises to be a place we return with a plethora of friends and family.

Lunch time on a weekday, tables are available for ready seating.

Blackbird Tavern offers indoor and outdoor dining. Family friendly, Nelson and his wife Jill have created a welcoming atmosphere for all ages. Large groups are easily accommodated, when you plan in advance, with varying menu options and prices per head from farm-style family fare—with starch, veggie, protein platters, to individual menu offerings. Behind the bar, the mixologist’s unique creations, along with craft beer, and local/California wines will please any palate.

This is the year of the Brussel sprout, and Blackbird Tavern’s Trip to Brussels is a meal in and of itself.

“Fried, fried, and fried,” Perez said with a smile as the bountiful, highly sharable portion was served up.

These julienned, fresh Brussel sprouts are fried, served with crispy fried, delicate shallot strings, and topped with a fried, farm fresh egg all tossed with capers and a mustard vinaigrette. A unique twist, excellent on a chilly day, this bowl combines crisp and tender textures, with warmth and farm fresh goodness.

Roasted Beets salad served with citrus dressing and goat cheese.

“I’ve had a few dozen bowls myself,” Nelson said of the Trip to Brussels. “It has been on the menu forever, and people would likely string me up if I took it off. People feel the same way about the roasted beets.”

A picture of farm freshness, the platter of earthy roasted beets, tossed in a honey-balsamic vinaigrette, and served on a mix of baby kale and arugula greens, with citrus slices and creamy farm fresh goat cheese. This highly sharable dish— a favorite among regulars, according to Nelson—is well-balanced in both flavor and consistency. The mellow cheese is a perfect pairing with the rich, roasted root veggie salad.

Next up was from the Wood Burning Pizza selections. We enjoyed the Verde Pizza. A Neapolitan style thin crust, this wood fired pizza starts with an arugula pesto, topped with roasted garlic, extra virgin olive oil, generous portions of mozzarella, goat cheese, cherry tomatoes, and Kalamata olives. Smoky flavors abound in this flavorful pizza, and this will definitely be a must-order upon our return.

For our dinner entrée, the Scallop on Scallop commanded attention. It arrived with fire roasted, searing hot scallops served atop scallop potatoes, with buttered farm fresh peas, and creamed corn to finish. The dish arrived with mouth-watering aromas and the visual display of seared scallops. Cooked to perfection, the ocean-fresh scallops that burst to perfection with each bite.

When combined with the layered scallop potatoes, a mix of sweet to counter the salty in a once again balanced dish. All three together, with the creamed corn, or individually, was a taste-sensation. Castro outdid himself with this creation.

Nelson took a moment to chat while we enjoyed the meal, and discussed the finer points of Old

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“It’s exciting watching Old Town evolve,” he said. “It’s packed here on Friday nights, but midweek there are always places to eat, to enjoy for the locals.”

The 5th Street Corridor, as owners call it, is highly stroll able for Old Town visitors. With shops, restaurants, and bars all within walking distance in this one location, Blackbird Tavern is the perfect place to start for groups of any size to dine in Old Town.

“The special events and rehearsal dinners are definitely working in our favor,” Nelson said. Blackbird Tavern recommends planning ahead

for groups of 10 or more. Prices for large groups can range from $25 to $35 per person, with no venue rental fees.

A family man, Nelson looks forward to a summer packed with the brand new Movie Nights. “I strive to balance family and the restaurant.

We want Blackbird Tavern to be welcoming to all.”

Blackbird Tavern is located at 41958 5th St. in Old Town Temecula. To call ahead for information or reservations, phone (951) 699-9150.

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Tri-State Materials can help homeowners save water Kim Harris Managing Editor Tri-State Materials recognizes the severity of the current drought and wants to assist home owners and commercial land management to find products to transform their land into a water-wise property, according to Jason Azevedo, manager of the Winchester location.

“The professionals at Tri-State Materials can help you determine what Water$mart rebates and Turf Removal rebates you may qualify for and help you select what to do before rebate programs in your area expire,” Azvedo said.

According to Azvedo, business has increased by leaps and bounds as California continues to face the one of the worst droughts on record.

He said that customers are looking for a product to put down after they remove their grass and to not have to worry about watering lawns.

“We are seeing a huge increase in business,” he said. “Every single day I have someone coming in telling me about the water rebates that they signed up for. They are looking to lay natural stone, dry river beds, decomposed granite, I mean you name it.”

Sales Manager Anthony Alvarez said the products offered at TriState Materials are a perfect solution to the problem of waning water supplies and drought restrictions.

“We are rockscape, natural stone, our material doesn’t need any water, we are drought friendly,” he said.

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Tri-State Materials can help homeowners save water by offering materials to replace turf. Some examples of how homeowners have used various rock to create beautiful landscaping and yards are pictured here.

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landscaping the crew at Tri-State Materials is there to offer up advice, and recommendations, whatever the customer needs to make their water-wise landscaping a reality.

“I always ask them what kind of a look they want at least to start and after that you point them in the right direction,” Azevedo said. “There is always something that catches their eye.”

There are many beautiful options to transform areas, Tri-State offers every material from decomposed granite to natural stone in varying sizes to meet the needs of customers.

“I take the customers around the yard, everybody is different, they

all have different tastes, size wise, color wise, some people want real small rock, some people want big rock. It depends on the type of area that you want to cover,” Azevedo said. “I steer them in the right direction, but ultimately it is their money, it all depends on the customer.”

According to Azevedo, projects range in cost from a few hundred to several thousand dollars depending on the size of the project and the materials chosen.

“You can do something really nice for a couple of hundred bucks,” he said.

Once the customer makes a purchase, Tri-State will deliver the materials so the customer can place them where they would like them in the yard.

“We don’t place the material, we just supply it,” Azevedo said.

With the savings accumulated from a customer’s water bill, along with available rebates, the transformations pay for themselves, he said.

Alvarez said that Tri-State wants to simplify the process for people who want to take advantage of the rebates currently available.

“We want to point people in the right directions how which water districts are participating, which links to use to get to the proper websites for their area and to tailor it down and make it simple for consumers and contractors,” he said. “We are educating the public, we might not have all the answers but we are pointing them in the right direction. We offer top-notch service with great education and explanation for all of our clients no matter how big the job.”

Alvarez said he doesn’t think that people necessarily realize the beauty of what they offer at TriState materials.

“We don’t just focus on decomposed granites or boulders, there are pavers, decorative block, decorative outdoor tile, natural stone veneer,” he said. “There are so many products to create your own oasis without putting all that money into water.”

Tri-State Materials will host “Build a Pond Day,” on Saturday, May 16 from 11 a.m. – 1 p.m. where visitors can come out to the yard and learn how to build a bond, meet with contractors and receive help with planning and material selection for yard transformations. There will also be a sand castle contest for kids, prizes and raffles and free hot dogs and drinks for those in attendance.

“Ponds actually use a lot less water than people think,” Azevedo said. “I am going to have a bunch of vendors, Q 103.3 is going to be out here and various contractors from different aspects of the field as well as vendors will be on hand for customers.”

Tri-State Materials has been a leading supplier in hardscape/ landscape supplies for more than 13 years and is located in the heart of Southwest Riverside County. Staff is available for consultations and willing to help.

With California’s drought crisis, drastic changes are being implemented. Tri-State Materials has a helpful and knowledgeable staff that can assist with eligibility requirements specific to each homeowner’s area.

Call Tri-State Materials at (951) 926-5522 or drop by the yard on Winchester Road near the sod farm at the Garbani Road stop light. For more information, visit Tri-State online at www.tristatematerials. com.

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TEMECULA—The Temecula Education Foundation is the recipient of a $500 award from the Temecula Valley Arts League to support visual arts in local classrooms.

At TVAL’s April meeting, President Marilyn Latimer noted that the TEF supports visual and performing arts and other curriculum for all schools in the Temecula Valley Unified School District via its classroom grant program.

Accepting on behalf of the foundation, President Rebecca Weersing said, Temecula has had a longstanding reputation as an arts-rich community, and the TVAL has played a major role in providing workshops, demonstrations, and exhibits for local and area artists.

The foundation will ensure that this donation supports visual arts programs in classrooms across our district. We look forward to working with you, and we appreciate your support.

Since 2011, the TEF has provided more than $80,000 to teachers via its classroom grants program.

Grant applications are available to all TVUSD teachers in the fall; TEF grants are awarded and must be spent on an annual basis each school year.

TVAL’s purpose is to promote interest in and encouragement of the arts among its members. It provides art demonstrations by talented local and regional artists; workshops, tours, art shows, and networking opportunities. For more information, visit www.temeculavalleyartsleague.com TEF is a 501(c)3 nonprofit foundation established to support students in Grades K-12 in the TVUSD. Its focus has been on funding visual and performing arts, sciences, and technology programs via grants for classroom teachers. For the past five years, it has sponsored the Taste of Temecula Valley, its most visible community fundraiser. For the past six years, TEF has sponsored accelerated and enrichment classes for Grades 9-12 via its summer high school program. For more information, visit www.tvfee.org.

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Menifee Plumbing – Falco and Sons to continue Accurate Leak Locators quality tradition

Anthony Falco.

Ashley Ludwig Staff Writer When it comes to plumbing and leak location, homeowners are often at the mercy of their insurance companies, or faced with hefty plumbing bills. Tony Falco, who owns both Menifee Plumbing – Falco and Sons and Southern California’s Accurate Leak Locators, hopes to change the way Southwest Riverside County looks at hiring a plumber.

“You’re only as good as your last job,” Falco said. “For me, it’s simple. I have a service, our clients have a need. If I work to resolve those needs for a good price, at a good speed, with neat and clean service, I’ll have a customer for life.”

Falco has seen his share of floods, hurricanes, and earthquakes, and dealt with the aftermath in his over 30 years of his varying businesses.

“Since 1987, I’ve worked in insurance repairs. I followed Hurricane Andrew to Louisiana, worked in the Midwest following flooding, and in Whittier and Northridge, but plumbing has always been at the center of my work,” he said.

Now, he is expanding Accurate Leak Locators into Menifee Plumbing – Falco and Sons. What he hopes will be the business you call before insurance repair. Falco plans on continuing his track record of fostering good relationships with clients.

“As Menifee grows, we want to be the plumber that the city can rely on,” Falco said. “People shouldn’t have to wait when they have an emergency, and we’re right in Me-

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nifee’s backyard.”

The desire to help others is the basis of Falco’s business plan. Menifee Plumbing – Falco and Sons is just the start for his long term goals, a business he wanted to run with his sons, and start in his own backyard.

“Whether we are talking about the 12 trucks running for Accurate Leak Locators, or the Menifee Plumbing – Falco and Sons operation, for me it’s always about customer service,” he said.

Accurate Leak Locators services six counties in Southern California, where almost all of his work is insurance related.

“We have three offices in Southern California that serve Los Angeles County, Orange County, San Bernardino County, Riverside County, and North San Diego County,” Falco said of his 24-houra-day, seven days a week operation.

Building a solid base through his clients, and relationships based upon good work for fair prices, is his first priority.

“We have over 20 years of fixing slab leaks, doing gas leak repairs, removing roots and debris from snaking and jetting drain lines, replacing water regulators, re-piping and rerouting plumbing lines, and installing water heaters, and we have built a solid reputation in the community,” he said. Now, with his new branch, Menifee Plumbing – Falco and Sons, he hopes to work the same way in his own backyard.

“When you buy a former rental house or a foreclosure, your plumbing problems will be about the same. No one’s fixed anything until they were ready to sell the place.

That’s when the average home-

owner calls the insurance company for a claim,” he said. “When you’re faced with a plumbing emergency or problem, we hope our clients will call Menifee Plumbing – Falco and Sons first, before the insurance company.”

Falco’s in depth knowledge and areas of expertise center on water and gas leak detection, repairs, and finding state of the art solutions in comprehensive plumbing.

“We can provide camera inspections to determine the source of damage, the extent of the damage, and possible long term effects,” he said.

Falco’s experience with insurance, as well as homeowners warranty issues, his company can guide clients without charging more than necessary to get the job done.

“I’m hands on with my business because I care. I’m here to offer guidance to my employees. We train weekly, have safety meetings, and keep everyone up to date with the latest information,” he said.

“We are not a commission based company. My guys are on salary, so they won’t try to upsell clients on selling more service than they need.”

If a job then turns into an insurance claim, Falco can handle that as well.

“Chances are, we will be the one your insurance company will call,” Falco said. “We are the insurance friendly company.”

Find out more about Accurate Leak Locators online at accurateleaklocators.com or call (888) 3335325. In Menifee, and surrounding areas, call Menifee Plumbing – Falco and Sons at (951) 679-0732.

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Motion Sports and All Star Physical Therapy hold join ribbon cutting

Michelle’s Place announces new communications director TEMECULA—Michelle’s Place Breast Cancer Resource Center, a support organization serving those living with breast cancer since 2001, has announced the selection of Ashlee Collins as its new communications director. Collins is stepping into a newly created position due to the growing needs of Michelle’s Place and its many constituents.

“We are very pleased to announce the newest member of the Michelle’s Place family,” said Executive Director Kim Goodnough.

“Ashlee will bring leadership and creativity and a deep sense of commitment to our mission. She has served nonprofits at fundraising, executive and leadership levels, and brings a fresh perspective for reaching out to the community and those we serve.”

Collins’ resume includes several years of strategic planning, administration, communications and marketing experience in the nonprofit and for-profit sector. She received her bachelor of arts in communication and a public relations certificate from Boise State University. She is also a member in the Public Relations Society of America Inland Empire and San Diego Chapters, Temecula Chamber Valley Young Professionals and Women’s Peer Connection.

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Ashlee Collins has been named as communications director for Michelle’s Place. Courtesy photo

for Michelle’s Place, she will be charged with handling the communication flow of the organization and further reaching the community and all those they serve through their programs and services.

Michelle’s Place is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization providing emotional and educational support to those living with breast cancer and facilitates services for breast health.

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www.WildomarChamber.org Dr. Jerry Hizon of Motion Sports gets scissors ready to cut the ribbon at a celebration with All Star Physical Therapy.

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MURRIETA—Motion Sports and All Star Physical Therapy had a shared ribbon-cutting celebration on May 7 in front of their office building at 25495 Medical Center Dr. in Murrieta.

Dr. Jerry Hizon of Motion Sports has been practicing in the Inland

Empire since 1984 specializing in sports medicine and family practice.

John Waite, DPT, OCS of All Star Physical Therapy has practiced in the valley since 1989. Recently Waite joined Paul DiMeglio, OT of All Star Physical Therapy and is the director of the Medical Center office.

“We think this is really good for the valley and we are excited for the patients,” Hizon commented.

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NEWS May 15 – 21, 2015

Includes: Education Health Real Estate Home & Garden

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Volume 15, Issue 20

REAL ESTATE / HOME & GARDEN

Healthy & Beautiful Gardens Suggestions on how to be a thrifty gardener

Linda McDonald-Cash Special to the Valley News Hello neighbors and fellow gardeners! Hope you all enjoyed a nice Mother’s Day weekend, and the rain preceding it – that wasn’t exactly expected for this time of year, but welcome nonetheless!

This week I’d like to talk a little bit about how to save money while still gardening – which, obviously, is something most of us would love to do!

One area, which I’ve certainly harped on enough in my articles, is water waste, and that’s now going to be your largest expense in the garden, so my advice, if you haven’t read my articles previously, is to get rid of the lawn first off. It uses more water than just about anything else in your garden, sans fruit trees possibly, but at least with fruit trees you get something for the money. With lawn, it’s just something green to look at, and there’s many other possibilities out there that are “green” and something to look at that use far less water, thereby saving you money.

Speaking of water waste, I highly recommend converting existing sprinklers, wherever possible, to drip irrigation, that will also save you money in the long run because you’re putting the water exactly where it’s needed, and not vaporizing up in to the air, or on the sidewalk, driveway, etc.

Let’s talk about plants and how to save some dinero there. If you’re thinking of buying new plants to

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install, think “water wise” first of all, and then also think “smaller” size, in other words, rather than going out and spending $25 for a five-gallon plant, get a one gallon, or two gallon, for less than half the cost. Most plants grow quickly if they’re planted correctly, think compost, and it’s

usually not worth the extra money to get the bigger size, because the

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Market at a glance (As of May 10, 2015) TEMECULA (all zip codes)

MURRIETA (92562)

WILDOMAR

LAKE ELSINORE / CANYON LAKE

MENIFEE / SUN CITY

HEMET

No of Homes Sold

40

38

7

24

47

35

Inventory of Properties Listed

465

450

86

276

149

438

Average Selling Price

$449,142

$331,217

$330,486

$292,719

$262,646

$211,607

Average List Price

$716,176

$600,276

$388,111

$342,854

$349,735

$235,516

Median List Price

$499,900

$419,450

$364,450

$334,950

$339,500

$204,950

$191

$160

$147

$148

$144

$125

Asking Price per Square Foot Average Days on Market

91

90

64

87

77

111

Most Expensive Listing

$4,700,000

$4,499,000

$1,299,000

$1,250,000

$875,000

$2,000,000

Least Expensive Listing

$180,000

$129,900

$115,000

$80,000

$165,000

$9,900

Average Age of Listing

16

16

23

18

13

35

% of Properties w/ Price decrease

35%

34%

31%

28%

33%

31%

% of Properties Relisted (reset DOM)

13%

10%

6%

9%

8%

12%

% of Flip properties (price increase)

6%

4%

3%

8%

7%

8%

Median House Size (sq ft)

3000

2952

2267

2316

2374

1611

8001-10,000

6501-8000

8001-10,000

6501-8000

6501-8000

6501-8000

Median Number of Bedrooms

4.0

4.0

4.0

4.0

4.0

3.0

Median Number of Bathrooms

3.0

3.0

2.5

2.5

2.5

2.0

Seller (41.5)

Seller (41.9)

Seller (49.4)

Seller (44.6)

Seller (49.4)

Seller (41.4)

Median Lot Size (sq ft)

Market Action Index*

* This Index measures the current rate of sale versus the amount of inventory. Index above 30 implies a seller’s advantage. Below 30, conditions give the advantage to the buyer.

Market data provided by Escrow Leaders (Altos Research) and is current as of 05/11/15. Sales Data provided by SRCAR (MLS) and current as of 05/10/15. Valley News makes no representation as to the accuracy or completeness of this data.

Sun City man has blooming good time tending to roses Laura Rathbun Writer Practically everything’s coming up roses in the garden of Sun City resident Don Nordike. When he bought his house in 2004, the property had five rose bushes and over the years he gradually added more.

Now he has over 200 rose bushes that he lovingly tends to and refers to as his “children.”

“I’m so proud of myself this year.

The color is just brilliant,” Nordike said on April 27 when his roses were at their peak of perfection this spring. He spends two to four hours a day tending to the roses in his front and back yards and even more time in the spring when he has to cut them back. He doesn’t mind the time he spends on his roses though because it’s a labor of love.

Nordike, 67, grew up in Illinois on a farm that had a few rose bushes and he dreamed of having a large rose garden one day. “I always wanted a rose garden since I was a kid,” he said. He was finally able to realize his dream after retiring early from the travel industry and becoming a homeowner for the first time 11 years ago. He quickly got busy planting rose bushes and joined the Temecula Valley Rose Society about eight years ago.

At the TVRS’ flower show on April 25, Nordike won best of show for floral arrangement and first place for floribunda.

“I never win against Don, never,” said TVRS member Lenore Vogel of Murrieta who came to view his roses along with her daughter

Don Nordike poses in his back yard with his prized roses or “children” as he prefers to call them.

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Marlinda Curd of Hemet. Nordike often invites fellow TVRS members, friends and neighbors to tour his garden.

“I’ve been here 11 years and it’s the most beautiful bloom I’ve had,” Nordike said as he led Vogel and Curd around his back yard.

He attributes the beautiful blooms this year to the odd weather.

“That freezing cold in January really helped because they (the roses) went into that dormant state and then we had the hot heat in February and it made them leaf out quicker and that made the bloom more beautiful. This year is the best,” he said.

Nordike stated that there are over 25,000 known varieties of roses in the U.S. and that he only has “a small portion” of the varieties. He has roses named after celebrities such as Barbara Streisand, Phyllis Diller, Doris Day, Laura Bush, Nancy Reagan and Dolly Parton, which has a “big buxom bloom.”

“Most of the roses are named after women,” Nordike said. He added that he does have some roses named after men such as Pope John Paul II, Ronald Reagan and Henry Fonda. Other roses in his back yard are Sweet Surrender, About Face, Love and Peace, and Rock & Roll.

He likes to selects roses for their color. “I want color all year round as much as I can do it,” he said.

He noted that only 50 percent of roses have scent.

Sometimes he plants a rose bush for sentiment. He has a Dublin Rose bush in honor of a female friend who was from Dublin and died of cancer at the age of 31.

Nordike said that roses are easy to grow. They just need a little water, a little attention and lots of sunshine. Most roses need six to eight hours of sun a day and his property gets sunshine most of the day.

“I have perfect conditions for roses,” he said.

Nordike has a gazebo in his backyard surrounded with colorful rose bushes.

In addition to roses, Nordike has a huge peach tree, blood orange tree and other plants in his front and back yards. He uses organic products as much as possible on his plants and conserves water when irrigating them.

Nordike likes to travel and when he’s away from home he has three neighbors come over and tend to his roses so he doesn’t have to worry about them.

“I have three ladies and I’ve taught them how to do it,” he said.

He always keeps several pairs of nippers out on his patio so neigh-

bors can come over and cut roses for themselves. He’s happy to share his roses with others.

His next door neighbor Kathryn O’Shaughessy said she loves to drink coffee in the morning on her back yard patio and view Nordike’s roses.

“He does all the work and I get to enjoy it,” she said, laughing. “I have one rose bush over here and it’s all I can do to keep up with it.”

For more information o n T V R S , v i s i t w w w. temeculavalleyrosesociety.org.

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2015 Crystal Apple recipients honored Brenda Tullis Special to the Valley News More than 350 people gathered at a local church on Sunday, May 3 to recognize and applaud local teachers for their dedication and hard work, closing with the bestowal of an esteemed award to a select four.

At the 11th annual Crystal Apple Awards ceremony students from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from the Chaparral, Temecula Valley and Great Oak high schools honored 117 exemplary teachers they had individually nominated to receive a Crystal Apple award.

City officials attending the event included Riverside County Supervisor Chuck Washington, Temecula City Council members Matt Rahn and Michael McCracken, Temecula City Manager Aaron Adams, TVEA Union President Jeff Kingsberg, Temecula Valley Unified School District Superintendent Tim Ritter, TVUSD school board President Allen Pulsipher and school board member Julie Farnbach as well as the three principals from each high school, Gil Compton, Keith Moore and Allen Williams.

Finalists for the Crystal Apple included CHS’s James Smith and Heidi Solis, GOHS’s Amber Preston and Jennifer Scharf as well as TVHS’s Derek Heid and Clinton White. The Crystal Apple leaders were announced, confirming winners to be Jacqueline Schmidt, Melissa Casady and Eric Burlingham from CHS, GOHS and TVHS respectively. A fourth award, an honorary Crystal Apple award to commemorate a lifetime achievement for teaching award, was presented to retired TVHS teacher, Sandra Huth, a Crystal Apple finalist multiple times who had never been the recipient.

Presenting the award to her, her nominator, Alexis Gonzales acclaimed, “A lifetime achievement award to the teacher of a lifetime!”

With a standing ovation, Huth accepted the award.

“The Crystal Apple award is special to all who teach,” said Huth, who has been teaching for 20 years and estimates that during this time she has taught over 3,000 students, “because it represents recognition by the most significant member of the classroom—the student.

There is no greater validation for a teacher than that which comes from a student.”

“Being a teacher is a big deal,” said Eric Burlingham, who has taught for nine years and estimates he has taught more than 1,750 students during this time. “It’s definitely my passion as I’m sure it’s the passion of many of the teachers here tonight.”

Burlingham is married to a former recipient of the Crystal Apple and says it’s an enormous honor to win the Crystal Apple for himself.

“It’s so cool to be honored for something that I love to do. I also love that it solidifies that my actions and lessons are being heard.”

“The best accolade a teacher can earn is the praise of their students,” said Schmidt, who has been teaching for 13 years and estimates that she has taught around 2,470 students during this time.

“To be selected as the recipient of the Crystal Apple is an incredible honor and blessing.”

“The Crystal Apple awards mean so much because they come straight from the students,” said Casady, who has been teaching 14 years and estimates during this time she has taught more than 2,800 students.

“It’s a reminder of the impact we can have, particularly in May, when we need it most. It reminds

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The common denominator found in comments made by both the students and teachers involved in the nomination process was an evident mutual respect.

“Ms. Schmidt helped me to realize it’s important to be myself,” said her nominator, Jenny Duvall, “to be comfortable in my own skin.”

“Jenny is a beautiful light,” Schmidt said. “For the past three years her model of kindness, respect, encouragement and love toward her peers has inspired me to be a better person.”

“Mrs. Casady has changed my life,” said her nominator Max Lundquist. ”She taught me that never is there a day wasted. I love the passion she emanates with her students and the love she has for

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BATON ROUGE, LA—The following local residents recently were initiated into the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, the nation’s oldest and most selective collegiate honor society for all academic disciplines: Zachary Bryan of Murrieta was initiated at California State University, Fullerton; Victoria MacDonald of Menifee was initiated at California State University, Fullerton; Cheryl Schendel of Wildomar was initiated at California

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“Max is a catalyst for discussions in class because of his enthusiasm for learning new things,” Casady said. “He makes me a better teacher because I always know he will come to class prepared, ready to immerse himself in our study, and that he will leave pondering new ideas, ready to take on a new challenge.”

“Mr. Burlingham inspires me to be a better person,” said his nominator, Annie Hoaxton. “He taught me not to dwell on the negative. He showed me how to keep growing and to develop my strengths.”

“Annie is an amazing person,” Burlingham said. “She works so hard at everything she does without need for recognition. She pushes herself and those around her because she knows it’s the right thing to do and because she wants to make her school a better place.”

“What I learned from Mrs. Huth as a freshman still impacts me as a senior,” said her nominator, Alexis Gonzalez. “She gave me the confidence to be myself.”

“Alexis listens with her heart,” Huth said. “She was always attentive in class with thoughtful comments and questions that fostered greater understanding for her classmates and for me. She is cloaked with an aura of kindness and sincerity that will help her attain any goal she desires. I know her future will overflow with success.”

“Here, in Temecula, we thrive upon community,” Casady said.

“This night reminds me of the importance of community. The students I see here tonight demonstrate such great character and assure me that our community’s future is one of many successes to come.”

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2015 Crystal Apple Award recipients stand amid their Temecula Valley Unified School District principals.

From left to right are TVHS retired teacher Sandra Huth, TVHS principal Allen Williams, TVHS Activities Director Eric Burlingham, GOHS English teacher and yearbook advisor Melissa Casady, GOHS Principal Keith Moore, CHS English teacher, speech and debate coach and yearbook advisor Jacquelyn Krupa Alisha Hammond photo Schmidt and CHS Principal Gil Compton.

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State University, San Bernardino; Gena Alltizer of Murrieta was initiated at California State University; San Bernardino, Samantha Camello of Temecula was initiated at San Diego State University; Maneet Deol of Murrieta was initiated at San Diego State University and Saliha Bazmjow of Temecula was initiated at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

These residents are among approximately 32,000 students, faculty, professional staff and alumni to be initiated into Phi Kappa Phi each year. Membership is by invitation and requires nomination and approval by a chapter. Only the top 10 percent of seniors and 7.5 percent of juniors, having at least 72 semester hours, are eligible for membership. Graduate students in the top 10 percent of the number of candidates for graduate degrees may also qualify, as do faculty, professional staff, and alumni who have achieved scholarly distinction.

Founded in 1897 at the University of Maine and headquartered in Baton Rouge, La., Phi Kappa Phi is the nation’s oldest and most selec-

tive all-discipline honor society.

The Society has chapters on more than 300 college and university campuses in North America and the Philippines. Its mission is “To recognize and promote academic excellence in all fields of higher education and to engage the community of scholars in service to others.”

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Proposed instructional materials up for review TEMECULA—The Temecula Valley Unified School District is making instructional material for AP Psychology available for public review, according to a district news release.

“Myers’ Psychology for AP 2nd ed.” written by David G. Myers and published by Bedford/Worth Publishing is accessible now through Monday, May 25 at the District Administration Center, 31350 Ran-

cho Vista Rd. The district office is open from 7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., weekdays, the news release stated.

Community members can make comments on a form, which will be available at the viewing table.

Completed forms will be reviewed as part of the textbook adoption process.

For more information, call (951) 506-7934.

Army and Navy cadets named to Honor Roll CARLSBAD—Army and Navy Academy announced that students Zong Li Huang of Temecula and Anthony Tucker of Murrieta have been named to the Honor Roll for the fifth grading period of the 201415 academic year.

This is an impressive accomplishment as the academy’s college preparatory curriculum is challenging and unique. It includes a required leadership course in addition to the core subjects.

“Congratulations on your academic success,” said Dean of

Academics Dr. Lisa Basista “Keep working hard and striving for excellence.”

Founded in 1910, the Army and Navy Academy is a private notfor-profit institution that provides an academically robust, characterbased education for young men, grades 7 through 12. It is the only private boarding school in San Diego County and the only private military academy for high schoolage students in California and surrounding states.

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Murrieta Students of the Month honored for April River Springs Charter School Senior Lorena Soloria Lopez Lopez is a kind, empathetic, gentle young lady with a sweet spirit.

While she said she didn’t excel in school when she was younger, during high school she has gained confidence in herself and has been self-motivated, disciplined and dedicated to her studies at River Springs. Lopez is creative and she aspires to become a bakery chef.

April’s Murrieta Students of the Month. Standing from left: SOM Founder Sally Myers, MVUSD Superintendent Pat Kelley, Murrieta Mayor Harry Ramos and SOM Chair Margaret Jones. Sitting from left: Students Harrison Morgan, Lorena Solorio Lopez, Xiaotong “Tonnie” Huang. Jacob Castaneda and Thomas McGraw.

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MURRIETA— The Murrieta Chamber of Commerce High School Student of the Month Recognition program was held on April 16 and the following students were recognized.

Vista Murrieta High School Senior Harrison Morgan Morgan is an outstanding athlete

who was captain of the varsity football team, first team all-league for wrestling, second team all-league for football. He holds the school’s total weightlifting record and he also competes on the varsity track team. Morgan is polite, respectful, trustworthy, honest and loyal. He gives 100 percent to everything he does including serving his com-

munity in the school’s Do Good Things Club. After Morgan’s father died in a plane crash in October 2013, he decided to honor his father’s memory and carry on his legacy by pushing himself to work even harder. He plans to attend Azusa Pacific University, major in business management and become a financial planner.

Calvary Murrieta Christian High School Senior Xiaotong “Tonnie” Huang Huang came to the United States three years ago from China. When she came to this country, although she had acquired basic English skills in China, the language barrier proved to be difficult for her every day. She has managed to overcome that barrier through her hard work, inquisitive nature and perseverance. Huang’s English has improved tremendously and she now helps other international students at her school. She has a gentle, quiet spirit but she is motivated and determined to succeed. Huang hopes to attend the University of Washington and pursue a major in hotel management.

Murrieta Valley High School Senior Jacob Castaneda Castaneda has excelled in high school. He maintains a 4.3 GPA

in the academically challenging IB diploma program on top of taking six AP courses. Castaneda is a scholar athlete who plays baseball and helps umpire little league games. He recently ran 18.6 miles in a 182 mile relay race to raise money for Feed the Children in China. He plans to attend Cal Poly Pomona to study engineering and he wants to one day take over his father’s civil engineering firm. He is passionate about the learning process and he is driven, dedicated, honest and sets a great example for his peers.

Murrieta Mesa High School Senior Thomas McGraw McGraw is a big guy with a big heart. He has maintained a 3.6 GPA while serving as captain of the varsity football and wrestling teams and participating in track.

He is known for being quiet, humble about his accomplishments, polite and respectful. He has accumulated 230 hours of community service as a volunteer at the boys and girls club. McGraw is a leader on campus who reaches out to help other students. During his sophomore year, he suffered an injury that helped him realize the importance of developing himself academically. He plans to attend Mt. San Jacinto and then transfer to Humboldt and major in marketing.

NFRW Scholarship applications due June 1 TEMECULA—The National Federation of Republican Women is accepting applications for the following scholarships through June.

National Pathfinder Scholarship The NFRW established the National Pathfinder Scholarship Fund in 1985 in honor of First Lady Nancy Reagan. The three annual

scholarships of $2,500 provide financial assistance and support to women seeking undergraduate or graduate degrees. Undergraduate sophomores, juniors and seniors, as well as students enrolled in a master’s degree program, are eligible to apply for the scholarship.

Recent high school graduates and undergraduate freshmen are not eligible. Scholarship winners may

not reapply. Applications are due to State Federation presidents

by June 1.

Betty Rendel Scholarship The NFRW established the Betty Rendel Scholarship Fund in September 1995 in honor of NFRW Past President Betty Rendel’s extraordinary leadership skills and dedication to the Republican Party

in her home state of Indiana, as well as at the national level. The three annual scholarships of $1,000 are awarded to female undergraduates who are majoring in political science, government or economics and have successfully completed at least two years of college coursework. The recipients are chosen from applicants from across the nation. Scholarship winners

may not reapply. Applications are due to State Federation presidents

by June 1.

For more information and applications, visit www.nfrw. org/programs/scholarships or contact the Temecula Valley Republican Women Federated Scholarship Chair Claire Beamer at clairebeamer@gmail.com or (909) 633-1000.

Local residents graduate from Air Force and Army basic training SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS— Air Force Airman Patrick A. Wyatt graduated from basic military training at Joint Base San AntonioLackland, San Antonio, Texas.

Wyatt is the son of Sharon A. Wyatt of Murrieta. He is a 2010 graduate of Murrieta Valley High School in Murrieta.

A i r F o r c e A i r m a n S h e l bie F. O’Neal graduated from basic military training at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, San Antonio, Texas. O’Neal is the daughter of Patrick D. O’Neal of Norco and Rhonda K. Wilson of Quail Valley, granddaughter of Joyce M. and

Randall L. Snapp of Quail Valley and Denise L. Chaffin of Unknown, Okla., and Steven P. O’Neal of Lake Elsinore. She is a 2013 graduate of Hemet High School in Hemet.

Air Force Airman 1st Class John B. Dashiell graduated from basic military training at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, San Antonio, Texas. Dashiell earned distinction as an honor graduate. He is the son of Luz A. Aponte of Philadelphia, Pa. and John B. Dashiell of Temecula. He is also the grandson of Carmen Aponte of Philadelphia, Pa and husband of Jennie M. Dashiell.

The airman completed an in-

tensive, eight-week program that included training in military discipline and studies, Air Force core values, physical fitness, and basic warfare principles and skills. Airmen who complete basic training earn four credits toward an associate in applied science degree through the Community College of the Air Force.

Army Pvt. Justin P. Fletcher has graduated from basic combat training at Fort Jackson, Columbia, S.C. Fletcher is the grandson of Ellis L. Jackson of Sun City. He is a 2008 graduate of Chaffey High School in Ontario.

During the nine weeks of training, the soldier studied the Army mission, history, tradition and core values, physical fitness, and received instruction and practice in basic combat skills, military weapons, chemical warfare and bayonet

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Michelle’s Place educational seminar to feature Dr. Amy Bremner Ashley Ludwig Staff Writer

pies in breast cancer, the utility of genomic profiling, what’s happening with vaccinations for breast cancer, and facts about benign breast disease, according to a press release issued by the nonprofit.

“Michelle’s Place is thrilled to host Dr. Bremner once again,” said Ashlee Collins, communications director of Michelle’s Place.

As of press time, 30 have registered for the talk, but there is still room to RSVP. The discussion is open for all people, whether women with questions about their breast health, to patients in all phases of breast cancer treatment, and recovery.

Michelle’s Place Breast Cancer Resource Center is opening their doors for a free educational seminar, “The Leading Edge of Breast Cancer,” on Thursday, May 21.

Dr. Amy Bremner, M.D.—Temecula’s leading breast dedicated surgical oncologist, lead surgeon of Breastlink Temecula Valley, and board member of Michelle’s Place— will give updates on what’s new in the breast health world, sharing information on breast cancer news, including the latest information on surgical techniques, adjuvant thera-

“A renowned specialist, like Dr. Bremner, can give hope to women and families seeking answers for how to manage their specific needs,” according to Collins. “Getting to speak with her and learn from her is priceless.”

Educational seminars at Michelle’s Place, such as Bremner’s “The Leading Edge of Breast Cancer,” further the organization’s mission to provide support and resources to women battling breast cancer, as well as to educate the community about breast cancer prevention and detection.

“She will speak on where the breast health world is currently, and where it’s headed from here,” Collins said.

According to the Breastlink website, Bremner provides a unique and supportive experience for patients with breast cancer and breast related issues.

The free session is planned to last approximately an hour and a half, starting with Bremner’s presentation and ending with a question and answer session.

Bremner attended the University of California, San Diego, worked in Northern California in the area of women’s health, and attended medical school at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. She conducted

her residency at Huntington Hospital in Pasadena, Calif. where she determined that her calling was in the field of breast cancer. She trained with a fellowship at the University of Southern California, specializing in Oncoplastic breast surgery techniques, studying under Dr. Melvin Silverstein, a pioneer in the field. She is certified as a breast surgeon by the Society of Surgical Oncology.

Having a specialist like Bremner speak at Michelle’s Place seminars, teaching women who are going through the process of learning how to battle their disease, is just one of the benefits of having her be a board member of the organization, according to Collins. Outside of the office, Bremner speaks Spanish, will go to Spanish speaking groups in Riverside and take the time to discuss breast health without language barriers.

“Gathering information can be overwhelming for patients and their families,” Collins said. “Dr. Bremner helps our Michelle’s Place community, and gives them the confidence they desperately need.”

The Leading Edge of Breast Cancer Seminar takes place on Thursday, May 21 from 6:30 p.m. – 8 p.m. at Michelle’s Place Breast Cancer Resource Center. Michelle’s Place encourages all to RSVP to the event

Dr. Amy Bremner, M.D. Surgical Oncologist and Lead Surgeon at Breastlink Temecula Valley will speak during an educational seminar at Michelle’s Place.

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Yoga Daleep Kaur Kundalini Yoga is offering classes for anyone who is 16-years-old and older. Each class combines rhythmic movements, postures and balance along with breathing techniques to gain strength and emotional balance. Classes are held Mondays from 5:45 to 7:15 p.m. at the Lake Elsinore Senior Center, 420 E. Lakeshore Drive. Cost is $13 per class and those in attendance are asked to bring a yoga mat.

Basketball Skills Class Cyclone Athletics is offering their “quality basketball instruction” to those looking to improve their skills on the court and game knowledge.

The program will help those who are 5-years-old and older to play at the next level and is taught by a NASM certified personal trainer that has AAU and college basketball experience.

Beginning classes, which cost $60 for one day a week or $96 for two days a week, are held from 9 to 10:30 a.m. on Sundays at the Lake Elsinore Community Center. Tuesday classes are held at Terra Cotta Gym from 4 to 5:30 p.m.

Advanced classes are held on Sundays from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at the Lake Elsinore Community Center and Tuesday classes are held at Terra Cotta Gym from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.

The advanced classes cost $88 for one day a week and $144 for two days a week.

Zumba Class Zumba fitness classes, offered by the City of Lake Elsinore, offers a dynamic workout that is easy to follow. Anyone with any fitness level is welcome to join for $25 a month or just $4 to drop-in on a class. Classes are held on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 9 to 10 a.m.

Craft Stars The City of Lake Elsinore offers a monthly all-day crafting workshop.

During the 10-hour workshop, many will learn scrapbooking, knitting, jewelry making, card making, quilting and crocheting. The city also provides a continental breakfast and brunch along with snacks and drinks. The next workshop is scheduled for May 23 from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. and costs $40.

For more information send an email to lakeelsinorecraftstars@gmail.com.

Call the Lake Elsinore Community Center at (951) 245-0442 for more information on all events.

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10 tips on getting the best mortgage, part 2 of 2

John Occhi and Mike Mason Special to the Valley News Last week, we discussed the steps to take in order to prepare to get the best mortgage. Now that your credit is clean, your debts have been paid and your job is stable it’s time to find the best mortgage.

While there is still some work to be had, finding the best mortgage will be a bit easier, now that you are prepared.

It’s important to be completely comfortable and familiar with your finances if you want to get the best terms and conditions for a new home loan. The difference of only a few points in the interest rate can make the difference of tens of thousands of dollars over the course of your home loan.

Compare lenders First time home buyers are typically unaware of how much variation there can be between different lenders providing similar loans. It can be so tempting to go ahead and sign on for the first loan offered and to feel really good about it.

This though, is not recommended.

Remember, even small variation on the interest rate can easily amount to $10,000 or more – not an amount that anyone should take lightly.

Credit score Last week we discussed your credit score, so we won’t go into great detail here again. The big take-a-way is that just a few points on difference in your FICO Score can potentially make the difference between one loan program and another – a difference that again can cost you tens of thousands of dollars over the course of the loan.

Tell the truth You will develop a relationship with your mortgage banker/loan officer that is unlike nearly any other you will ever have. Realize that they will have complete access to everything relating to your financial life. Like every important relationship, it is best if built on the truth. Tell a lie now and it will come back and bite you.

Realize that the lender has strict requirements to ensure ethical lending practices. If there are obstacles, work with the lender to find a solution. The loan officer is there to help you get your home loan and if they know what they are working with, there is a lot they can do to help you achieve your goal of home ownership.

Big down payment Sure, there are many programs that only require a 3.5 percent down payment. These loans also require the borrower to pay ‘Private Mortgage Insurance’ or PMI. PMI is an insurance program that protects the lender in the event the borrower defaults on their home loan. PMI offers the borrower zero benefit and remains with the loan for the entire duration of the loan.

Lenders still love big down payments. If you can put 20 percent down then there will not be the requirement for PMI. Larger downs not only mean no PMI, they also mean that you’ll have a smaller amount financed which again is potentially tens of thousands of dollars in savings over the life of the loan.

The other benefit of a large down payment is you should be able to qualify for a lower interest rate.

Why use a mortgage broker A mortgage broker is able to obtain financing from numerous sources that they have established relationships with. With many sources to choose from, they can shop and find the best loan product that meets your needs.

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Do you want to pay closing costs?

Pay points? Fixed or variable rate?

The bank will have their product with their options – a good mortgage broker will be able to pull the pieces together to meet your needs and desires.

Points A “point” is equal to one-percent of the loan amount. Paying points will allow you to buy down your interest rate. The more points you buy, the lower your interest rate will be.

To determine if paying points and buying down your rate makes any sense you need to determine how long you plan on staying in the home. If it’s a starter home and you hope to be gone in three to five years, paying points probably won’t make sense. However, when buying the home of your dreams that you plan on staying in for 20 years or more, than buying down the rate is the logical course of action.

Of course, if interest rates drop and you consider refinancing at a later point, or perhaps once you’ve built up to 20 percent equity you may want to refinance to drop the PMI – in either of these scenarios, it probably doesn’t make sense to pay the points. Run the numbers and determine what the best path for you to follow is.

Adjustable rate or fixed?

This is another scenario that is based on your needs. Again, it’s all about the timing. Are you only going to be in the home a short time (two to five years) and the adjustable rate is significantly lower than the fixed, then by all means take the adjustable.

On the other hand if you can get a great rate now and never want the payment to go up, then consider a fixed rate.

Good faith estimate A “good faith estimate” is where the lender must provide the buyer with a document that discloses all costs and fees associated with the home loan. This ensures the borrower has the ability to compare apples with apples.

While one lender may offer a slightly lower rate, it may not be

the best loan when considering all of the other fees associated with this loan.

Timing is everything Once you are ready to start shopping for a loan, don’t spin your wheels and stretch the process out.

First, you need to shop for a home loan in the same market – meaning that time changes everything.

Mortgage rates and programs are very volatile and subject to change frequently.

You also don’t want your credit score to be impacted by numerous credit inquiries over an extended period of time. Take the time to do a thorough search with reputable lenders and compare your options before selecting the lender you want to work with.

Lock your rate A good mortgage broker will have a professional understanding of where the real estate loan market is going. Are trends showing a decline in rates or are they on their

way back up. Rely on your mortgage broker to help determine when a rate should be locked.

Follow the advice shared in this and the previous article and you’ll be on your way to a successful home search knowing that you have the best possible loan for you and your family to achieve your American Dream goal.

Mason is the broker/owner of Mason Real Estate Cal. BRE: 01483044, board of director of Southwest Riverside County Association of Realtors and traveling state director of the California Association of Realtors.

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Canyon Lake - lakefront property or just lake view?

Gene Wunderlich Special to the Valley News The Southwest Riverside County Association of Realtors recently provided an expanded disclosure document for real estate agents conducting transactions in the city of Canyon Lake as a result of ongoing litigation between the Canyon Lake Property Owners Association and the lake’s actual owner, the Elsinore Valley Municipal Water District the outcome of which may affect the value or desirability of property within Canyon Lake. The dispute appears to be a complex legal matter and the disclosure makes no representations, offers no opinion nor offers any statement of law or fact as to the possible or probable outcome or the merits of any allegations by either party.

However, to quote EVMWD counsel, “I must remind you that one of the real consequences of the POA achieving what it hopes to achieve legally, may be the circumstance that the POA, as well as members of the POA, may no longer be permitted or able, as a matter of law and public policy, to make recreational use of Canyon Lake.”

Translation - keep it up and your lake front home may become simply lake view property. The

privilege of boating, fishing and swimming in your own private lake may become only a memory.

How did it get to this point?

There are currently a series of pending lawsuits, countersuits and claims related to the Canyon Lake lease agreement between the CLPOA and EVMWD. You didn’t know the lake was leased?

Neither did a lot of Canyon Lake residents apparently. EVMWD owns the lake and has leased recreational use of it to Canyon Lake residents for the past 40+ years. The current lease expires in 2022 but may be renewed for an additional 40 years. May be.

Material pleadings and allegations within Riverside County Superior Court Cases RIC1503428 and RIC1504034 include: a claim by the CLPOA that the Lake Lease is oppressive and unfair to the CLPOA; a counterclaim by the EVMWD that the CLPOA is presently in default of the Lake Lease; a claim by the CLPOA that the EVMWD’s billings to CLPOA violate the California Constitution; and to reinforce their claims, the CLPOA withheld the 1st quarterly installment of their 2015 lease payment, $344,302.92.

Now nearly $1.4 million a year sounds like a lot of money, doesn’t it? Until you do the math and realize that amounts to about $25 per Canyon Lake household per month for their own private lake. Would you pay $25 a month to have your own private lake?

Me too.

After some discussion of the ramifications of a lease default and, I would suspect, some input from Canyon Lake residents concerned about the potential for plummeting home values, the CLPOA sent EVMWD a check for the $344,302.92 on April 13. That payment included a conditional provision that the payment was under protest and that it constitut-

ed payment in full of the default.

EVMWD promptly returned the check citing Section 2(b)(3) of the Lease Agreement allowing the EVMWD to deduct any expenses incurred as a result of the default, an additional $132,157.62 and climbing. Oh, and by the way, you’re still in default. The letter also contains some rather pointed legal advice, attorney to attorney.

Some might characterize it as being “schooled” on the finer points of the law using terms like “continuing confusion” and “defies common sense.”

So what’s the outcome? As of this date the situation is as fluid as the lake itself and as murky as the back bay. The pleadings could take years of court wrangling or they could be decided under the terms of a demurrer filed by EVMWD as early as next month. The CLPOA could either prevail in their initial claim, or not. They might decide to pay the lease amount plus fines and fees, or not. The EVMWD could tell everybody to get their boats and docks off the lake by next week, or not. It could get even more complicated because of the drought, or not.

All we can tell you for sure is that if you or someone you know is contemplating buying or selling property in Canyon Lake, do your homework. State law prohibits non-attorneys from providing legal analysis, opinion or advice so your broker can provide the disclosure but parties to a real estate transaction should engage in their own due diligence, which may include seeking the advice of independent legal counsel.

Don’t you love that? Pay an attorney to tell you what the other attorneys are up to. ‘Merica!

Wunderlich is the Government Affairs director of the Southwest Riverside County Association of Realtors.

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2BR

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3BR

2BA

62

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1680

4BR

3BA

66

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2888

4BR

3BA

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2683

4BR

3BA

54

13

40349 Jacob Way

$420,000

4063

5BR

5BA

44

2BA

34

40301 Jacob Way

$425,000

4063

5BR

5BA

29

3BR

2BA

9

193 Jordan Avenue

$43,000

598

2BR

1BA

19

1497

3BR

2BA

28

1417 Malaga Drive

$185,000

1526

3BR

2BA

59

$267,500

1659

2BR

3BA

39

1138 Pardee Street

$202,000

1741

3BR

2BA

36

29162 Calcite Street

$274,990

2258

4BR

2BA

198

1773 Roanoke Street

$207,500

1759

3BR

2BA

15

29681 Desert Terrace Drive

$276,000

1488

3BR

2BA

2

946 Sussex Road

$209,000

1903

3BR

3BA

220

2BA

1

175 Nightfall Road

$220,900

2087

4BR

2BA

15

2BA

108

1017 Washington Avenue

$249,000

2686

5BR

3BA

26

28960 Del Monte Drive

$114,204

992

2BR

1BA

35

26261 Mccall Boulevard

$119,000

1378

2BR

2BA

200

26170 Germantown Drive

$150,000

1000

2BR

1BA

67

27634 Genevieve Drive

$177,000

845

2BR

1BA

30

1683

3BR

3BA

San Jacinto

Sun City

2

29786 Farbo Court

$285,000

1524

3BR

3BA

8

43

26862 Mountain Glen Drive

$293,000

1757

3BR

2BA

17

2BA

3

29369 Milford Court

$294,975

2255

4BR

3BA

43

25587 Orion Court

$180,000

1497

3BR

2BA

1

3BR

2BA

7

25484 Wagontrail Lane

$300,000

2463

4BR

3BA

63

26883 Buccaneer Drive

$185,500

1269

2BR

2BA

29

1642

3BR

2BA

226

30217 Via Palermo

$305,000

2140

4BR

3BA

8

26299 COLUMBUS Drive

$262,500

1641

2BR

2BA

77

$187,500

1384

3BR

2BA

83

30121 Via Palermo

$310,000

2140

4BR

3BA

21

25696 Turfwood Street

$275,000

2691

6BR

3BA

10

$189,000

1968

3BR

3BA

11

29381 Oak Crest Court

$310,000

1690

2BR

2BA

21

39331 Oak Cliff Drive

$275,000

1383

4BR

3BA

54 17

Temecula

25393 Stephvon Way

$196,000

1555

4BR

2BA

221

29733 Rock Canyon Road

$310,000

2179

3BR

2BA

58

42152 Veneto Drive

$290,000

1855

3BR

3BA

2493 Woodberry Avenue

$209,000

1600

3BR

2BA

10

29772 Cool Meadow Drive

$319,900

1961

4BR

2BA

33

29945 Compania Drive

$300,000

1985

4BR

3BA

30

26786 Amanda

$210,000

2205

4BR

3BA

118

31719 Yale Lane

$320,500

2132

4BR

2BA

8

27444 Lovettsville Lane

$320,000

1890

3BR

3BA

109

3153 Avon Place

$212,500

1680

3BR

2BA

44

28882 Loire Valley Lane

$320,500

2581

4BR

3BA

150

42041 Chestnut Drive

$335,000

1922

3BR

3BA

22

43380 Peartree Lane

$213,000

2190

4BR

3BA

21

27474 Finale Court

$325,000

2097

4BR

2BA

2

41628 Big Sage Court

$338,500

1951

4BR

3BA

41

43097 Charlton Avenue

$220,000

1906

3BR

2BA

86

29299 Moon Hill Court

$325,000

2417

4BR

3BA

29

30882 Kiowa River Court

$380,000

2272

4BR

3BA

30

208 Furyk Way

$223,060

1761

2BR

2BA

312

28693 Plantain Street

$326,500

2290

4BR

3BA

92

27407 Lock Haven Court

$389,900

2304

4BR

3BA

32

1242 Riverstone Court

$229,000

1652

3BR

2BA

32

30672 Carriage Hill Drive

$335,000

2816

5BR

3BA

65

39376 Shree Road

$397,650

3586

4BR

4BA

12

1374 Rabbit Peak Way

$242,000

2418

5BR

3BA

31

29861 Lake Court

$335,000

3376

5BR

4BA

162

$446,225

3052

5BR

4BA

14

1944 Mini Lane

$245,000

1922

3BR

2BA

104

31019 Mountain Cliff Road

$362,000

3140

5BR

4BA

78

39188 Pagosa Springs Drive

4232 Willowcreek Court

$250,000

1951

4BR

3BA

17

25500 Water Wheel Court

$372,000

3414

5BR

4BA

121

27454 Buena Vista Street

$260,000

2039

4BR

2BA

129

29892 Lomond Drive

$380,995

3406

5BR

4BA

63

1585 Stoneside Drive

$264,900

2389

6BR

3BA

75

25891 Pueblo

$415,997

3450

5BR

3BA

133

3072 Thyme Way

$270,000

3335

5BR

3BA

85

32800 Brampton Court

$419,900

4047

5BR

4BA

4

27300 Big Springs Ranch Road

$315,000

2749

4BR

3BA

334

44604 Adobe Drive

$340,000

2762

3BR

3BA

69

23055 Beech Street

$500,000

2535

4BR

4BA

148

26259 Stanford Street

$145,000

1512

4BR

2BA

105

1070 Merced Way

$155,000

1246

3BR

2BA

2

30505 Canyon Hills Road

$197,500

1274

2BR

3BA

52983 Alba Street

$263,000

2270

3BR

45036 Promise Road

$314,900

3081

41045 Crimson Pillar Lane

$323,000

32386 Windemere Drive

Murrieta

41722 Niblick Road

$450,000

2786

3BR

3BA

6

28956 Bristol Road

$459,900

2202

3BR

3BA

32 197

30845 Avenida Del Reposo

$495,000

2625

4BR

3BA

31416 Britton Circle

$505,000

3197

6BR

3BA

7

29915 Compania Drive

$307,000

1855

3BR

3BA

40

33179 Corte Yaca

$340,000

1841

4BR

3BA

31

43698 Altamura Court

$360,000

2959

4BR

2BA

97

43340 Corte Barbaste

$365,000

1935

3BR

3BA

34

33295 Via Alvaro

$385,000

1636

3BR

2BA

31

32947 Adelante Street

$395,000

2005

3BR

2BA

37

32290 Calle Avella

$400,000

2317

4BR

3BA

29 34

37474 Vineyard Knoll Drive

$300,000

1858

3BR

3BA

187

23882 Constantine Drive

$330,000

2626

5BR

3BA

42

37769 Amber

$363,000

2385

4BR

3BA

124

42327 Circulo Cavinara

$365,000

2320

4BR

2BA

29

41441 Serrai Court

$369,500

2300

4BR

3BA

93

35

23435 Sycamore Creek Avenue

$435,000

3187

5BR

3BA

13

2BA

113

22880 Rolling Glen Court

$765,000

3187

4BR

4BA

90

43850 Carini Court

$415,000

2250

5BR

3BA

5BR

3BA

92

2

30326 Calle Halcon

$450,000

2080

4BR

2BA

5

2643

4BR

3BA

78

40530 Via Malagas

$305,000

1502

2BR

2BA

63

43020 Calle Camellia

$587,500

3550

5BR

4BA

91

$350,000

3242

4BR

3BA

46

40426 Clybourne Circle

$313,000

1428

3BR

2BA

6

33071 Sage Court

$592,000

2891

4BR

3BA

49

360 Avenue 10

$264,900

1705

3BR

3BA

64

23751 Via Compadres

$324,000

2086

3BR

3BA

174

32195 Corte Utnehmer

$615,000

4290

5BR

4BA

67

29566 Mascot

$295,000

2049

3BR

3BA

184

40060 Via Oporta

$343,000

2010

3BR

2BA

37

32740 Tulley Ranch Road

$316,000

1315

3BR

2BA

36

29213 Prestwick

$338,960

2200

4BR

4BA

46

27535 Pinyon Street

$395,000

3371

5BR

3BA

37

31233 Mangrove Drive

$355,000

2111

4BR

3BA

69

32907 Ethlene Drive

$129,000

600

1BR

1BA

142

26390 Arboretum Way

$149,000

787

1BR

1BA

32

44865 Corte Sierra

$355,000

1891

4BR

3BA

34

32977 Maiden Lane

$130,000

1451

2BR

2BA

10

26496 Arboretum Way

$160,000

787

2BR

1BA

84

32053 Live Oak Drive

$427,000

2898

4BR

3BA

151

33242 Lime Street

$215,000

1092

3BR

2BA

61

29101 Via Playa Del Rey

$197,500

1440

2BR

2BA

54

46008 Paseo Gallante

$435,000

2742

4BR

3BA

58

15610 Shadow Mountain Lane

$235,000

1220

3BR

2BA

87

29050 Via Princesa

$207,000

1760

2BR

2BA

50

32539 Campo Drive

$440,000

2852

5BR

3BA

15

33835 Landerville Boulevard

$244,000

1700

3BR

3BA

21

39277 Turtle Bay

$230,000

1387

3BR

3BA

4

46239 Lone Pine Drive

$474,000

3133

5BR

3BA

28

37409 Paseo Violeta

$235,000

1363

2BR

3BA

77

44200 Reidel Street

$610,000

3482

4BR

4BA

170

1012 Dolly Drive

$260,000

1698

3BR

2BA

255

37269 Tucana Place

$269,000

1485

3BR

3BA

35

45414 Saint Tisbury Street

$645,000

3600

4BR

3BA

41

16114 Grand Avenue

$450,000

2252

5BR

3BA

44

25267 Madrone Drive

$295,000

1368

3BR

2BA

46

33101 Pampa

$695,000

3667

5BR

4BA

0

$325,000

1480

3BR

3BA

18 88

27438 Larabee Court

$214,900

1201

2BR

2BA

192 Massachusetts Street

$305,000

1753

3BR

3BA

3

25232 Shadescale Drive

$305,000

1744

3BR

2BA

181

32973 Rossman Circle

30302 Gedge Avenue

$318,000

1901

5BR

3BA

164

39253 Devotion Lane

$306,000

1512

3BR

3BA

18

33352 Madera De Playa

$520,000

2100

3BR

3BA

15116 Ficus Street

$319,000

2037

4BR

3BA

29

38425 Encanto Road

$315,000

1752

3BR

3BA

54

41665 Valencia Way

$525,000

2640

4BR

2BA

59

15024 Valencia Way

$325,000

2000

4BR

3BA

46

30378 De Caron Street

$319,000

2849

3BR

4BA

124

42405 Sandak Road

$1,250,000

5060

5BR

6BA

187

29101 Tradewinds Circle

$345,000

2539

5BR

3BA

33

39724 Chambray Drive

$330,000

2411

3BR

3BA

0

34191 Olive Grove Road

$246,500

1840

3BR

2BA

51

15643 Vista Way

$192,000

1386

3BR

3BA

20

25442 Blackthorne Drive

$332,000

1933

4BR

3BA

126

34234 Countryside Circle

$305,000

1970

3BR

3BA

103

3507 Lake Crest Drive

$232,000

1464

3BR

2BA

55

26274 Jaylene Street

$339,900

2788

4BR

3BA

41

22980 Joy Court

$319,000

3210

5BR

4BA

77

36

35647 Michael Court

$335,000

1564

4BR

2BA

51

$359,900

2708

6BR

3BA

57

30150 Puerta Vallarta Way

$100,000

1792

3BR

3BA

46

28349 Bruning Street

$340,000

2297

3BR

3BA

Wildomar

26480 Redford Court

$120,000

1066

2BR

2BA

42

29141 Hydrangea Street

$356,000

2916

5BR

3BA

71

32133 Bayberry Road

27800 Murrieta Road

$144,000

1204

2BR

2BA

0

35917 Coyote Hill Court

$360,000

2617

4BR

2BA

30

32985 Canyon Crest Street

$373,000

3408

4BR

3BA

83

26844 INVAREY

$155,000

1328

2BR

2BA

7

29782 Alya Court

$361,500

2736

4BR

3BA

11

$375,000

2771

4BR

3BA

67

26108 BLUEBELL

$165,000

1008

2BR

2BA

5

37050 Wildoak Drive

$366,250

2597

4BR

3BA

258

23026 Empire Penguin Road

26406 Tanglewood Drive

$165,000

1358

2BR

2BA

140

29691 Hunter Road

$375,000

2156

3BR

3BA

10

WestMar Commercial Real Estate announces recent transactions TEMECULA—WestMar Commercial Real Estate, a leading local real estate services firm, announced on May 6 the following transactions: Sales Biocellular, LLC purchased approximately 1,849 square feet of office space within Murrieta Professional Center from Indian Park, LLC. The property is located at 24910 Las Brisas, Suite 116, in Murrieta. Jerry Palmer and Luanne Palmer of WestMar Commercial Real Estate represented the buyer in the transaction.

Butterfield Holdings, LLC, dba Temecula Valley Cardiology, purchased 4,906 square feet of medical office space adjacent to the Temecula Valley Hospital from Rancho Pueblo Properties, LLC. The property is located at approximately 31565 Rancho Pueblo Road, Units 4 and 5. Jerry Palmer and Luanne Palmer of WestMar Commercial Real Estate represented the seller in the transaction.

Leases Avenue Stores, LLC, dba Avenue, leased approximately 3,028 square feet of retail space for five years within Winchester Marketplace from Winchester Marketplace, LP. The space is located at 40695 Winchester Rd., Suite B-108. Lessee will be operating a clothing store at this location. Scott Forest of WestMar Commercial Real Estate and Chad Iafrate of DTZ represented the lessor in the transaction.

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CBAADA honors area’s Most Outstanding Athletes Paul Bandong Staff Writer RIVERSIDE – The Citrus Belt Area Athletic Directors Association (CBAADA) held its annual breakfast at California Baptist University on Tuesday, May 12, honoring The Most Outstanding Athletes (male and female) from each of its 87 member schools throughout Riverside and San Bernardino Counties.

The CBAADA issued 12 scholarships totaling $6,000, their largest number yet. They also honored 43 schools’ athletic directors and principals for earning the prestigious “Sportsmanship Award.”

The event was presided over

by CBAADA President Richard Shearer, Athletic Director from Citrus Hill. Guest speaker was Commissioner of the CIF Southern Section, Rob Wigod. His message was short and sweet: “Find those who helped get you here and be sure to thank them.”

Among the scholarship recipients were Kristina Alvarado from Chaparral who will be attending Williams College in Massachusetts, Claire Garland from Paloma Valley who will be attending El Camino College, Harrison Morgan from Vista Murrieta who is still undecided, and Logan Gallagher from Temescal Canyon who will be attending Cal State University at Long Beach.

Twenty four valley athletes were selected as Outstanding Athlete of the Year from their respective schools; all were in attendance except for three who were in AP or IB testing. Each school selected their Athlete of the Year on the basis of athletic achievement, academic excellence, school and community service and character. Each Athlete of the Year received a certificate and a commemorative patch.

SOUTHWESTERN LEAGUE: Chaparral: Arlette Evora (cross country, track) will be attending UCSB. Jared Wolf (football, soccer) will also be attending UCSB. Great Oak: Monika Poomchareon (golf) will be attending the University of Iowa. Brandon Presley (football, basketball, track) will be attending the University of Nevada at Las Vegas.

Murrieta Mesa: Mikayla Greens (basketball, track) will be attending the United States Air Force Academy. Joseph Pinkava (football, baseball) is still undecided.

Murrieta Valley: Olivia Sanchez (softball) will be attending BYU. Sage Casaga (golf) will be attending Cal Poly San Luis Obispo.

Temecula Valley: Emma Arenas (tennis) will be attending the United States Naval Academy. Josh Cortez (football, wrestling) will attend Cal Poly SLO. Vista Murrieta: Texie Petchel (golf) will be attending the University of Nevada at Las Vegas. “CJ” Alumbres (track) will be attending UCLA. SUNBELT LEAGUE: Elsinore: Tymerie Vincelli (volleyball) will be attending the University of Great Falls in Montana. Jacob Guglielmana (football, basketball) will be attending the University of Redlands.

Heritage: Kristen Briseno (cross country, soccer, track) will be at UC Riverside. Axel Uveakovi (football, volleyball, track) will be at Riverside Community College.

Lakeside: Jaycie Dennison (cross country, soccer, track) will attend Chaminade University in Honolulu. Nathaniel Folsaga (football, wrestling, track) will be attending Lassen College.

Paloma Valley: Christina Rodriguez (soccer) will be at Cal State San Bernardino. David Hamilton (football, volleyball) will be at Palomar College.

Perris: Paulina Chavez (water polo, swimming) will attend UC Santa Cruz. Aaron Berry (football, basketball, track) will be attending Azusa Pacific University.

Temescal Canyon: Kora Wade (water polo, softball) will be attending Boise State. Cobie Chavez (cross country, track) will be attending the University of Portland.

Athletes of the Year from the Southwestern League honored at the CBAADA Breakfast held at California Baptist University on May 12. Top row, left to right: Jared Wolf (football, soccer), UC Santa Barbara; Arlette Evora (cross country, track), UC Santa Barbara; Brandon Presley (football, basketball, track), University of Nevada, Las Vegas; Monika Poomchareon (golf), University of Iowa; Mikayla Greens (basketball, track), United States Air Force Academy; Joseph Pinkava (football, baseball), undecided. Bottom row, left to right: Olivia Sanchez (softball), BYU; Emma Arenas (tennis), United States Naval Academy; Josh Cortez (football, wrestling), Cal Poly SLO; Texie Petchel (golf), University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

Athletes of the Year from the Sunbelt League honored at the CBAADA Breakfast held at California Baptist University on May 12. Top row, left to right: Jacob Guglielmana (football, basketball), University of Redlands; Tymerie Vincelli (Volleyball), University of Great Falls; Axel Uveakovi (football, volleyball, track), Riverside Community College; Kristen Briseno (cross country, soccer, track), UC Riverside; Nathaniel Folsaga (football, wrestling, track), Lassen College; Jaycie Dennison (cross country, soccer, track) Chaminade University. Bottom row, left to right: David Hamilton (football, volleyball), Palomar College; Christina Rodriguez (soccer), Cal State San Bernardino; Aaron Berry (football, basketball, track), Azusa Pacific University; Cobie Chavez (cross country, track), University of Portland; Kora Wade (water polo, softball), Boise State.

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This is only the second year that the CBAADA has recognized outstanding schools with the “Sportsmanship Award” for sportsmanship, supervision and security.

Elsinore received its “CBAADA Sportsmanship” banner this year.

Chaparral, Great Oak, Heritage, Lakeside, Murrieta Mesa, Murrieta Valley, Paloma Valley, Perris, Temecula Valley, Temescal Canyon, and Vista Murrieta received the award for the second consecutive year.

Claire Garland from Paloma Valley will be attending El Camino College.

Logan Gallagher from Temescal Canyon will be attending Cal State University at Long Beach.

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Blotter Man arrested in connection with Winchester hit and run WINCHESTER – A Homeland man suspected of barreling over a Hemet mother — killing her, and then fleeing — was jailed on Friday, May 9.

Felipe Avalos Gonzalez, 43, had fled to Mexico but turned himself in at the urging of his family and friends. Gonzalez was arrested by the California Highway Patrol at the San Ysidro crossing at the Mexican border at 5:30 p.m. Friday, according to jail records.

He was booked into the Robert Presley Detention Center Friday on vehicular manslaughter with gross negligence and hit-and-run death and is being held on $75,000

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A sports car allegedly used in a fatal hit-and-run just north of Winchester was located May 1, but authorities were unsure of the driver’s whereabouts.

According to the CHP, the 2001 black Ford Mustang was found a few miles from where it struck 36-year-old Jennifer Campbell of

Hemet and her friend.

Campbell and the other woman were out for a walk about 10:20 p.m. Wednesday when they were hit. According to Officer Travis Monks, the victims were heading south on Sultanas Street, just north of state Route 74, facing traffic, when the Mustang came barreling toward them from behind.

“For reasons still under investigation, the driver allowed his vehicle to veer left, directly toward the two female pedestrians, colliding with both women,” Monks said.

Campbell, a mother of two, suffered fatal injuries and was taken to Menifee Valley Medical Center, where she died less than a halfhour later.

Two injured in two-vehicle Motorcycle police officer crash in Lake Elsinore hit in Lake Elsinore LAKE ELSINORE – A twovehicle crash on Ortega Highway near Lake Elsinore on Saturday, May 10 injured two people, one of them seriously.

Firefighters responded about 4:50 p.m. to the crash scene in the 35000 block of Ortega Highway, also known as State Route 74,

near the Candy Store, said Jennifer Fuhrman of the Riverside County Fire Department.

The seriously injured patient was airlifted to a hospital, Fuhrman said.

The other patient sustained minor injuries and was taken to a hospital via ground ambulance, she said.

Man suspected of online tryst with French Valley child cion of multiple counts of having unlawful sexual contact with a child under 14, Wade said.

During that arrest, officers allegedly found evidence that Flores Lopez might have been in an inappropriate relationship with a minor in French Valley, and notified local authorities.

The Riverside County Sheriff’s Department opened an investigation, which resulted in the warrant, Wade said.

Flores Lopez was being held at the Robert Presley Detention Center in lieu of $2 million bail.

MURRIETA – A 20-year-old Los Angeles man faced charges in Riverside County on Friday, May 18 for allegedly trying to engage in a sexual relationship with a French Valley child whom he met online.

Javier Flores Lopez was booked into a jail in Los Angeles County, then transferred to Riverside County on an arrest warrant alleging contact with a minor with the intent to commit sexual offenses, and distribution of sexually explicit matter over the Internet, sheriff’s Sgt. Jon Wade said.

Bakersfield police arrested Flores Lopez April 18 on suspi-

Adults and 18-monthold stabbed during 215 freeway attack Daniel Lane Multimedia Journalist

further investigation, it was determined that the male pedestrian had originally crossed southbound and northbound traffic lanes to attack the party of the disabled vehicle.”

Lassig said that Garcia “had a broken plastic freeway paddle marker with a jagged end in his hands” and he allegedly broke the driver’s side window of the hatchback.

“The male pedestrian walked to the rear of the vehicle and broke out the rear window and began stabbing an 18-month-old male child in the rear of vehicle,” Lassig wrote. “The four adult parties of the Mazda exited the vehicle and attempted to disarm the male pedestrian.”

Before the adults were able to reenter the Mazda and call 911, they suffered minor to moderate lacerations in their attempts to disarm Garcia.

“The 18-month-old male child sustained lacerations to the neck,” Lassig wrote, adding that the boy and his mother were transported to Inland Valley Medical Center with “non-life threatening injuries.”

As of press time, Garcia was hospitalized with unknown injuries.

This incident is currently under investigation by the CHP.

A man allegedly attacked and injured three adults and an 18-month-old boy in Menifee early on Monday, May 11. The victims were assaulted while in a Mazda hatchback that was disabled on the northbound I-215, just south of Newport Road.

Officers responded just before 1:20 a.m. to the vehicle that was pulled to the right shoulder of the freeway, according to a report issued by Officer Mike Lassig with the California Highway Patrol.

“CHP Officers responded to the scene and observed the male pedestrian on the right shoulder on his knees setting fire to the personal belongings of the party of five,” he wrote. “CHP Officers extinguished the fire (and) began giving orders to the male subject.”

According to the report, the alleged suspect was identified as 44-year-old Nicalos Lopez Garcia of Romoland.

“Officers were forced to use an Electronic Control Device (ECD) to subdue the male subject and take him into custody at approximately 01:39 a.m.,” he wrote. “Upon

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Daniel Lane Multimedia Journalist An investigation launched in April into the alleged sales of narcotics in Murrieta ended in a search warrant, drugs, cash, stolen guns and two arrests on Friday, May 8.

According to a report by Murrieta Police Sgt. Steve Dyer, the Parole and Compliance Team along with Special Enforcement Team Detectives, and the Murrieta Police Department Regional Gang Task Force conducted the search of a motor home in the 24600 block of New Clay Street.

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Highway Patrol, who is investigating the incident, the officer was taken to a local hospital for treatment of minor injuries.

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The other victim, a 37-year-old from Homeland, was transported to Riverside County Regional Medical Center in Moreno Valley for treatment of major injuries, according to Monks.

He said witnesses reported seeing the Mustang continue south until reaching Highway 74, where the driver turned east.

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Barking up the right tree; pet owners are healthier, happier Kim Harris Managing Editor I have several dogs and a cat in my house. Polly at 9-years-old, is one of my favorites. She’s a dachshund beagle mix, pound puppy and even though she is aging, still runs as fast as the other three and jumps higher than all of them put together.

She brings a smile to my face each and every day as all 20-plus pounds of her cuddles up next to me on the couch at night.

Sandy is a Min Pin/Schnauzer mix and has the personality of a fun loving surfer girl. She loves to catch a wave on the boogie board.

She is perpetually happy and loves nothing more than to sit on my lap while I work. Her favorite thing is when her daddy sings to her and she’ll scramble up onto his lap and cover him with kisses anytime he

does. Such a sweet pup and definitely the cutest of the bunch.

Without any doubt, our teacup Chihuahua Tia is the diva in the Harris household. In constant need to be superior to the other dogs, she climbs up as high as she can so she towers over the bigger dogs, looking down her nose at them as they play and scamper throughout the house. Tia is too good for any of that nonsense, but when it comes to giving kisses and sharing the love, Tia is top dog.

Simon is our baby, and was a definite surprise to me. My husband brought this feisty little Pekingese home to us one night after taking the kids for flu shots. I was expecting him to bring home the kids with immunity to the dreaded flu, instead I got immune kids and a 12-weekold puppy. Simon is truly one-ofa-kind, and like most other dogs

of the same breed, doesn’t like to be disciplined and is the true ruler of our castle. He is sweet, funny and just plain adorable to watch as he fearlessly barks at the leaves rustling in the trees or floats around with us on a raft in our swimming pool.

As different as each of these pups are, I would be lost without them and their mascot, Oreo, our cat.

I was inspired to write this week’s editorial after getting home from covering a great local event, the Twenty 15 Lake Elsinore Pet Walk. Thinking about how much my pets mean to me and witnessing the bonds between so many people and their pets at the walk, got me thinking about the benefits of being a pet owner so I hopped online and headed on over to Google to see what kind of information I could find.

Helpguide.org says that the average domestic pet can provide an array of mental and physical health benefits by easing loneliness, reducing stress, anxiety and depression, promote social interaction and encourage exercise and playfulness.

Petpartners.org has a great little publication highlighting the benefits of owning pets that completely backs up what Helpguide.org said.

This website covers how pets can be part of the social support system for both families with children and families without.

Psychology Today says that owning a pet makes people healthier and happier.

“In three different studies, we found consistent evidence that pets represent important social relationships, conferring significant benefits to their owners,” psycholo-

gytoday.com states in the report “Friends with Benefits: Pets Make Us Happier, Healthier.”

According to the report, in one study involving 217 community members, pet owners exhibited greater self-esteem, were more physically fit, were less lonely, were more conscientious, more socially outgoing, and had healthier relationship styles than nonowners.

Being the mom to five fur-babies none of what I found surprised me much, but if you’ve been on the fence about getting a four-legged friend for your family, I would highly encourage you to do some research, ensure you have the time, money and effort to devote to a pet and then contact the nearest shelter or pet rescue and adopt a new member for your family. After all, billions of pet owners worldwide can’t be wrong.

Separation of church and state is a hot topic Mental health issues need early intervention Dear Editor, I’m writing in response to an article I read, “City votes unanimously to display national motto.”

As I have been learning, in government, separation of church and state is a hot topic.

In the article there are some comments made by citizens of Murrieta regarding the placement of the national motto in their city hall. A woman stated that she had felt like she was being told implicitly she is less than those who believe in God. I agree that the city has the

right to represent their patriotism, but not at the expense of making their citizens uncomfortable. Also, I believe that instead of using the taxpayers to pay for the display, they should have had people volunteer to donate money. In that case it would have made those individuals, who were opposed, feel more comfortable with the thought that they didn’t fund something that offended them.

Rachel Garcie Temecula

Article inspires people to recycle more Dear Editor, I’d like to start off by saying how much I enjoyed reading the “Recycled Turf” article. As a future environmentalist I enjoy finding things that report about the community’s efforts to living in a sustainable manner. I think that I might take a visit to the AGR facility to see what it’s all about.

I feel that seeing newspapers taking interest on these matters inspires others to want to do their part to use less and recycle more.

I hope I do not sound like a crazy hippie or something, I just wanted

to say that this article was a really good one.

I just think it’s really interesting that Mr. Georgian has recycled over 5 million square feet of turf and offers the recycled product at different levels of quality (all good I assume). I just get excited seeing things like this so I appreciate your decision to put it in the newspaper.

Nacirema Johnson CHS government student Temecula

Thanks for an excellent article Dear Editor, I found the piece on “Senate poised to authorize dedication of passage in honor of MOH recipients.” an excellent piece. The men deserve way more than a ceremony I think. They need an after party, the best way to go out. You know what they say though. Go out with a bang.

There should’ve been dancers there and tons of music. What’s a better way to send off the men who made MOH? Party long and hard.

In fact, you know what? We should

throw events like this every Sunday. Sure it will be very expensive but think about the expenses it will bring. But that will be a letter to a city council.

Don’t get me wrong you’re important too, which is why I’m writing to you. The article is very nice and it dealt with not only a governmental issue but an award ceremony to one of our own. Thank you.

Brandon Chen Temecula

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Dear Editor, May is Mental Health Awareness Month. Mental health conditions should be treated long before they reach the most critical points in the disease process—before Stage 4.

Addressing mental health before Stage 4—this year’s theme—calls attention to the importance of addressing mental health symptoms early, identifying potential underlying diseases, and planning an appropriate course of action on a path towards overall health.

When we think about cancer, heart disease, or diabetes, we don’t wait years to treat them. We start

before Stage 4—we begin with prevention. So why don’t we do the same when dealing with our own or our loved one’s mental health?

This month, we are encouraging everyone to learn the signs, ask for help if needed, address symptoms early, and plan an appropriate course of action on a path towards overall health.

Take some time and check in on your own mental health. What has your mood been like lately? Do you have any behaviors that are concerning? Do you have any thought patterns that are troublesome? Are you moving towards your larger life

goals? Are you happy within your relationships? If you have any concerns about these or other mental health issues, intervene early. Talk to a trusted family member, friend, religious leader, or professional mental health provider.

Whatever treatment path you choose, know that early intervention is important and treatment is available. For more information on May is Mental Health Awareness Month, visit www.DrAmberLearn. com.

Dr. Amber Learn Clinical Psychologist Temecula

The stranger we know Mary-Catherine Hayes Special to the Valley News A couple weeks ago I received an automated message from my daughter’s school. This message started off like every other one I get on a nearly daily basis, “Please hold for an important message from…” But this message was different. This was not an announcement about an upcoming school event or crazy [insert article of clothing here] day. It was a warning about one of her school mates being approached by a stranger. It reminded parents to talk to our children about “stranger danger” and how to react if they are approached by someone they do not know. This got me thinking about what our schools are doing to educate our children directly. Schools educate kids about what to do in the event of an earthquake, about not talking to strangers

and what to do in other emergency situations. Teaching kids about stranger danger is not a bad thing, but after doing some research about child abduction and sexual violence against children I discovered that as many as 93 percent of sexual crimes against children are perpetrated by someone the child knows–a family member or friend of the family, but this fact is little talked about. Studies show that one in four females and one in six males have experienced child sexual abuse. Incidents are often kept quiet to protect young survivors if the abuse is even ever discovered. These kids live in fear and confusion about the abuse because the perpetrator is controlling what they know. As a community we need to do more to protect our children by providing age appropriate education.

In September 2014, Erin’s law (AB 2016) was passed in California

that endorses sexual abuse/assault awareness and prevention content for grades K-12. Research has shown that this instruction increases the number of children who report abuse. It takes the coercive power away from the abusers and gives kids the vocabulary and courage to tell a trusted adult. This bill is a step in the right direction, but it requires consideration by the state board and recommendations by the Superintendent of Public Instruction, Tom Torlakson, with a vague timeline for implementation. I want to encourage community members to support age appropriate sexual abuse and assault education in schools by urging decision makers to expediently implement this instruction. How many more children need to suffer in silence?

Hayes is a Fallbrook resident.

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HS baseball; Recent scores and league Great Oak’s Robinson named standings as regular season wraps up Semper Fi Coach of the Year

JP Raineri photo Master Gunnery Sgt. Kevin Knight and Staff Sgt. Curtis Rankin stand with Athletic Director Gil Rodriguez (far right) and Coach Robbie Robinson along with some of his coaches after presenting Robinson with the Semper Fi Coach of the Year Award.

JP Raineri Sports Editor Courtesy photo Matt Lucas (15) and the Linfield Lions will attempt to pick off the second place Ontario Christian Knights in order to secure a post season spot as the regular season wraps up this week for all the local baseball teams in the area.

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league Great Oak – 11-11-1 overall, 5-7 in league Murrieta Mesa – 13-13 overall, 3-10 in league

It came quick this year as this week marks the end of the regular season for the local baseball teams and the tension is mounting for someone to take control of each and every league in the area.

Drama unfolded this past week in the Southwestern League as the first place Vista Murrieta Broncos, who lost an entire series to the Chaparral Pumas, were granted a one game forfeit by CIF-SS officials due to a miscalculation in pitching logs by Chaparral, which gives the front running Broncos little room for error as Temecula Valley, Murrieta Valley and Chaparral all hope for big things to happen this week in order to clinch a playoff spot.

Great Oak’s Wolfpack have been plagued by injuries this year, but have high hopes of turning things around as they face Murrieta Valley three times this week and along with Murrieta Mesa, who took two games away from the Wolfpack last week, are hoping to be spoilers for the teams on top.

In the Sunbelt League all the focus is on Temescal Canyon and Paloma Valley, who face each other twice this week and enter their league bouts tied for first place with 12 wins and one loss in league. Elsinore plays last place Perris and should wind up grabbing a third spot in the post season with a couple of wins The South Valley League has both the top teams also facing each other, Calvary Murrieta and Nuview Bridge will go toe to toe as Rancho Christian and Temecula Prep try to force some wins in order to lock up third place and a potential playoff berth.

In the Ambassador League, Linfield has one game to go against second place Ontario Christian and could either share second or lock up third place with a win as they hope to find themselves in the post season once the brackets come out on May 18.

Recent scores: May 9 Temecula Valley – 3 Murrieta Valley – 1 WP: Isaiah Moten – LP: No stats entered TVHS: David Maldonado – 2-3, RBI, RS / Connor Trippet – 1-3.

RS MVHS: No stats entered Chaparral – 5 Vista Murrieta – 0 WP: Cameron Haskell – LP: Jack Moberg CHS: Cameron Haskell – 2-3, Triple, HR (2), 3 RBI, 2 RS / Louis Tade – 2-2, RS, BB VMHS: Hunter Tidwell – 1-3 * Chaparral losses by forfeit due to a CIF Pitching Violation May 7 Great Oak – 1 Murrieta Mesa – 3 WP: Austen Salcedo – LP: Zack Knoll MMHS: Andy Thomas – 1-3, HR (3), 2 RBI, RS / Kevin Palm – 2-3 GOHS: Mitch Hayes – 2-4, Double, HR (5), RBI, RS *Week of 5/11 schedule: Temecula Valley vs. Vista Murrieta, Murrieta Valley vs. Great Oak and Chaparral vs. Murrieta Mesa.

Sunbelt League Paloma Valley – 17-7 overall, 12-1 in league (Ranked 5th in Division 3 CIF-SS Poll) Temescal Canyon – 20-4 overall, 12-1 in league (Ranked 4th in Division 3 CIF-SS Poll) Elsinore – 10-14 overall, 6-7 in league Heritage – 8-15 overall, 5-8 in league Lakeside – 6-18 overall, 3-10 in league Perris – 4-20 overall, 1-12 in league May 7 Perris – 4 Lakeside – 13 WP: Collin Baker - LP: No stats entered LHS: Matt Crow – 1-3, 2 RBI, RS / Jeremiah Tapia – Double, 2-4, 2 RBI, 2 RS, 2 BB PHS: No stats entered

Southwestern League Vista Murrieta – 16-8 overall, 9-4 in league (Top 20 in Division 1 CIF-SS Poll) Temecula Valley – 13-8-1 overall, 8-5 in league Murrieta Valley – 18-7 overall, 7-5 in league Chaparral – 13-11 overall, 6-7 in

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Paloma Valley – 6 WP: Jed Walz - LP: No stats entered yet PVHS: Dominic Monachino – 2-4, 2 RBI, RS / Michael Fritchman – 2-2, Double, RBI, RS HHS: No stats entered yet Elsinore – 5 Temescal Canyon – 9 WP: Dylan Alhanati - LP: Travis Willis TCHS: Dylan Alhanati – 4-4, HR (6), 2 RBI, 3 RS / Josh Konkol – 3-3, 2 RBI, RS, BB EHS: Anthony Jimenez – 3-4, Double, Triple, RBI, RS / Chapman Wheeler – 2-4, 2 Doubles, RBI, RS *Week of 5/11 schedule: Elsinore vs. Perris, Lakeside vs. Heritage and Temescal Canyon vs. Paloma Valley

South Valley League Calvary Murrieta – 14-5 overall, 8-1 in league (Ranked 8th in Division 6 CIF-SS Poll) Nuview Bridge – 11-2 overall, 7-1 in league (Ranked 7th in Division 6 CIF-SS Poll) Rancho Christian – 9-5 overall, 5-4 in league Temecula Prep – 11-8 overall, 4-5 in league Santa Rosa Academy – 10-10 overall, 2-8 in league California Military Institute – 6-10 overall, 1-7 in league May 6 Rancho Christian – 6 Calvary Murrieta – 12 WP: No stats entered - LP: James Hauck CMCHS: No stats entered RCHS: Luke Nobiensky – 3-4, Triple, 3 RBI

On Friday, May 1, students, faculty and family members gathered in the front office of Great Oak High School to witness Head Football Coach Robbie Robinson accept his award as the Semper Fi Coach of the Year.

Robinson has been the head football coach at Great Oak since 2010, when he shared the duties with former head coach, Scott Strosnider. In his time as head coach, Robinson has led the Wolfpack (36-30) to the playoffs four times with last season being their best season ever in the Southwestern League going 10-3 where they powered through the playoffs losing to eventual CIF-SS winner, Mission Viejo, in the semifinals.

The Semper Fi Coach Award, which is currently in its third year, is given by the U.S. Marine Corps and Glazier Football Clinics to honor high school football coaches who display faithfulness to the mission of their team and exemplify the Marine standard of excellence in developing leaders.

This year the selection process involved combing through 334 coaching candidates from the San Diego, Riverside and San Bernardino counties.

USMC Master Gunnery Sst. Kevin Knight, who has a son attending Azusa Pacific next year on a Football Scholarship, said it was a privilege having his son Kevin play for Robinson over the past four years, as he was on hand to be a part of the presentation for Robinson.

“This award recognizes a high school football coach who lives out the Marine Corps motto: Semper

Fidelis (“Always Faithful”), and who models the Marine Corps leadership values of Honor, Courage, and Commitment and that is Coach Robinson in not only my eyes, but also to those that were involved in the selection process from the United States Marine Corp,” said Master Sgt. Knight, who added, “It’s not only about football, but academics and personal character, and this man truly cares for the boys that he helps turn into men and I could not of let this ceremony be complete without adding my own personal touch. I also want to say thank you to Coach Robinson’s wife, Cindy, because no man with any type of responsibility is going to be effective without the support of a wonderful wife and she has been there the whole time and we could also not be more proud of their accomplishments together.”

Alongside Knight were Athletic Director, Gil Rodriguez and Staff Sgt. Curtis Rankin, who is the Marine recruiter for Great Oak High School.

All three helped present the award to Robinson with some of his coaches standing beside him as well.

“I want to thank the Marine Corps; this is truly a tremendous honor. I’m very blessed, Great Oak High School is an amazing place to work, I am surrounded by amazing people and I have an awesome administration that supports me and I am blessed with a great coaching staff, I mean they did this, I have great kids and so I know I am truly a very blessed man from where I am at, thank you very much.”

The Great Oak football program is already in full swing preparing for the 2015-16 season when they kick things off against Heritage on Aug. 28 of this year.

HS softball: league standings

Nuview Bridge – 0 Temecula Prep – 1 (10 innings) WP: Sergio Dawson - LP: No stats entered TPHS: Jaden Whitehead – 2-3, Double / Xander Arias – 1-4, RBI / Ethan Dougherty – 1-5, RS NBHS: No stats entered *Week of 5/11 schedule: Calvary Murrieta vs. Nuview Bridge, Rancho Christian vs. Nuview Bridge and Temecula Prep vs.

California Military Institute.

Ambassador League Woodcrest Christian – 15-4 overall, 9-1 in league Ontario Christian – 17-6-1 overall, 8-2 in league Linfield Christian – 14-9 overall, 8-3 in league Aquinas – 15-8 overall, 7-4 in league Notre Dame – 9-16-1 overall, 4-8 in league Western Christian – 5-15 overall, 1-9 in league Arrowhead Christian – 2-11 overall, 0-9 in league

May 11 Linfield Christian – 8 Notre Dame – 5 WP: Kevin Wiseman – LP: Brett Finnel LCHS: Taylor Bush – 4-4, 2 RS / Connor Kisgen – 3-4, Triple RBI, 3 RS, BB / Juan Parra – 2-3, 3 RBI NDCHS: Nick Aldana – 2-3, RS, BB *Week of 5/11 schedule: Linfield vs. Ontario Christian **Scores and Polls updated through 5/12/2015

David Canales photo Amber Bishop gives the undefeated Nighthawks a 3-0 lead as she watches her blast clear the fence for a 2-run homerun in last week’s league action at Chaparral High School.

Southwestern League

South Valley League

Murrieta Valley – 23-6 overall, 8-0 in league (Ranked 4th in Division 1 CIF-SS Poll) Great Oak – 16-5 overall, 8-0 in league (Ranked 7th in Division 1 CIF-SS Poll) Chaparral – 10-15 overall, 2-5 in league Vista Murrieta – 12-11 overall, 2-5 in league Temecula Valley – 13-13 overall, 2-6 in league Murrieta Mesa – 8-13-1 overall, 1-7 in league

Nuview Bridge – 15-5 overall. 8-0 in league Calvary Murrieta – 12-5 overall, 8-1 in league California Military Institute – 4-6 overall, 3-5 in league Temecula Prep – 11-9 overall, 3-6 in league Rancho Christian – 2-11 overall, 2-6 in league Santa Rosa Academy – 4-12 overall, 1-7 in league

Sunbelt League Temescal Canyon – 20-5 overall.

12-1 in league (Ranked 10th in Division 4 CIF-SS Poll) Lakeside – 14-9 overall, 10-3 in league Paloma Valley – 15-9 overall, 8-5 in league Heritage – 12-12 overall, 7-6 in league Elsinore – 5-19 overall, 2-11 in league Perris – 0-17 overall, 0-13 in league

Ambassador League Ontario Christian – 18-4 overall, 11-1 in league Aquinas – 18-3 overall, 10-1 in league Notre Dame – 11-9 overall, 8-3 in league Woodcrest Christian – 8-10 overall, 6-6 in league Linfield Christian – 11-8 overall, 6-6 in league Western Christian – 7-12 overall, 3-8 in league Arrowhead Christian – 4-14 overall, 2-10 in league Loma Linda Academy – 1-12 overall, 0-11 in league

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TOPSoccer a success for TVSA recreational soccer league Ashley Ludwig Staff Writer Temecula Valley Soccer Academy, a regional recreational soccer club, is built on the platform that “Everyone plays.”

TVSA’s TOPSoccer—The Outreach Program for Soccer—ensures that disabled children, regardless of disability, get a chance to enjoy the team soccer experience, too.

“Every one of our TOPSoccer families are amazing,” Linda Norton, director of TVSA TOPSoccer, said. “Our numbers have more than doubled this spring with the addition of coach, Aundrea.”

According to Norton, coaching special needs soccer comes naturally to Aundrea Whitacre, whose brother is on the autism spectrum.

“The addition of (Aundrea) has made a tremendous difference in the experience the TOPSoccer kids had this spring,” Norton said.

“Aundrea has experience both playing soccer, and coaching, and she also has a total heart for kids with all levels of needs.”

Kids who play in the TOPSoccer program are separated into groups by ability, and not age.

“We have kids with different levels of special needs, from mild autism to severe Down syndrome, cerebral palsy, kids with limited mobility. All are treated with respect, and given the team experience,” Norton said.

The TOPSoccer program, designed for special needs athletes from age four to 17-years-old, stresses player development over competition. Each child gets a uniform, a trophy, and complimentary pictures.

“Our parents get to sit back for an hour a week and just be parents, watching their kids play on the field,” Norton said. “We do have many siblings and family members who take part as ‘peer buddies’ for our players, too, which works great for everyone.”

The basic TOPSoccer strategies are built around the concept of fun, according to the TVSA website.

A player’s success can be gauged based upon personal ability, selfesteem improvement, fitness and social skills, as well as the sense of belonging that being part of a team engenders.

“Our kids get to take part in obstacle courses, programs designed based upon ability and level of need,” Norton said. “Our peer buddies help the kids, and it’s amazing the sensitivity many of them have, such as the girls U-12 Signature soccer team, and their coach, Dan Settle who came out to play.”

Settle, also a member of the TVSA board of directors, geared up his team to aid in a TOPSoccer practice as “peer buddies” teaching them in advance what it means to be a special needs buddy on the soccer field.

“When Coach Dan and his girls came out, it was amazing to see those girls out there in full uniform, playing a game with our TOPSoccer kids,” Norton said. “They really felt like they were playing against a real team. There was positive reinforcement, no fear, everyone buddied up right away. The girls on the U-12 team were amazing with their positive reinforcement of our players.”

Settle wanted his signature team to participate, so that they would have the opportunity to make someone else’s day a little bit better.

“As a coach, I feel it is important to develop character traits in our players as well as their individual soccer skills,” Coach Settle said.

“The game of soccer can teach us many things about life and I feel it is important to give back to the community whenever and wherever we can.”

Volunteering for TOPSoccer brings awareness and understanding to the special needs community, according to Norton. Volunteer jobs range from helping run practices to coordinating games.

“Kids can receive community service hours by acting as a ‘soccer buddy,’ or volunteering at a TOPSoccer program activity,” Norton said. “The families also help act as ‘buddies,’ but we like to have them sit back and watch, to make memories they can keep forever.”

Part of the lasting memories are the photo packages, offered in spring 2015 by MVP Studios owner, Andy Stockglausner. MVP offered each family a memory matte composite, including the team and individual photo, four wallet sized photographs, and a player button. A heartfelt gesture for a family with many extra challenges in their lives.

“This was actually our first year photographing TVSA but it went

Nick N., with TOPSoccer Director Linda Norton, uses Courtesy photos an adaptive foot to kick the ball and have a blast with his team mates.

Grant B. with Coach Dan Settle’s G-U12 Signature team. Grant has some amazing parents and a supportive family unit.

extremely well, and we look forward to a long term relationship with this customer. We donate packages to the special needs programs to all of our local leagues,” Stockglausner said. “Photographing these kids is a lot of fun, and

dren participate, to make a friend, if there is just one thing they hope to gain from the TOPSoccer experience, we can help them achieve that. That’s why we do this.”

The fall 2015 program, currently open for registration, includes a full

our photographers love it.”

“We truly appreciate MVP Studio’s generosity and partnership with our league,” Norton said. “It’s so meaningful to get to watch these parents see their kids socializing for the first time. To watch their chil-

uniform and trophy for each player, for the $45 registration fee. Fall registration is currently underway on the TVSA website. For more information, visit www.TVSA.org or follow TVSA on Facebook at www.facebook.com/tvsarec

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Vintage racer Chavez began with drag strip in 1953 Joe Naiman Writer When the Western Racing Association vintage midget cars conduct an exhibition race on the Perris Auto Speedway track May 23, one of the drivers will be Fred Chavez, whose oval track experience began with midget cars at Balboa Stadium in 1958 and whose racing career began at the Paradise Mesa drag strip in 1953.

“I get a chance to drive my racecar again,” Chavez said. “I’m hoping that folks come out to watch.”

The number of laps is to be determined, as the exhibition race will be the first casualty if delays from other races jeopardize the ability of the track to meet its 11 p.m. curfew.

When the vintage cars are not on the track they will be in front of the grandstands for spectators to view.

Chavez, whose children include a son living in Temecula, joined the Western Racing Association to drive at Perris. He is also a member of the Arizona Vintage Racing Association, which engages in midget car exhibition races in California as well as Arizona. Approximately

300 to 400 vintage car clubs nationwide venture to various tracks for exhibition races.

“That’s all we do, go to the tracks and put on shows if the promoter lets us do that,” Chavez said.

Chavez was also formerly in the United Racing Association and served as both its president and its vice-president before the remaining members disbanded that club.

“Most of our members had passed on,” he said.

At one time the minimum age for the vintage car organizations was 50, although it has been lowered to 40.

“Since guys have passed on it starts going on to the younger generation,” said the 78-year-old Chavez, who was born in 1937 at Mercy Hospital in San Diego.

Vintage cars can be no newer than 1980. Chavez drives a fourcylinder midget car with a 1970 manufactured chassis which was built by Don Edmunds, who was the Indianapolis 500 Rookie of the Year in 1957.

Chavez grew up in the Grantville area of San Diego when Grantville consisted of mostly farmland. His

sixth-grade Grantville Elementary School class had nine students.

Chavez is a 1955 graduate of Hoover High School and went to Hoover at the same time as Don Vesco, who lived in Murrieta before passing away in 2002 and drove vintage cars in addition to holding four-wheel and motorcycle land speed records.

Chavez worked at four of the six dairies in his neighborhood. When he was 16 he obtained a mechanic job at Joe White Motors, a dealership which sold Nash, Kaiser, Hudson, and Frazer automobiles.

The Paradise Mesa drag strip was in what is now the Paradise Hills area of San Diego. Chavez began racing in his father’s 1950 Studebaker pickup truck, which was the family’s only vehicle.

“My dad didn’t know about it,” he said.

In each of his first six weeks he won the “C” class, which provided his mother with signs of his activity.

“I came home with a trophy every Sunday,” he said.

When a driver showed up with a 1938 Buick with a straight-eight

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engine, Chavez began losing. He then switched to a rail car, which was the equivalent of today’s Top Fuel dragsters. The Model A chassis with a 1954 flathead engine had a top speed of 146 mph.

Chavez’s fastest time at Paradise Mesa was 153 mph; during his final year at that drag strip the track record was 156 mph.

Chavez raced at Paradise Mesa from 1953 to 1958. He went to the oval track races at Balboa Stadium to help a friend with a jalopy class vehicle and began racing there himself.

“I got hooked,” he said.

Chavez raced jalopies, midgets, and cage midgets at Balboa Speedway. He bought his first racecar from driver Jimmy Waite, who owned a wrecking yard in downtown San Diego. “ It was the ugliest car on the racetrack,” Chavez said.

Chavez’s worst racing injury as a driver was when a clod of dirt from the track hit him in the face and gave him a bloody nose. His worst injury at the track was on August 22, 1959, when Frenchy Faulkner burned to death after his modified sportsman car hit a guard rail and caught on fire during a Balboa Stadium race. Faulkner was able to loosen his seat belt but could not unfasten his shoulder harness.

Chavez was one of the drivers from other classes who tried to pull Faulkner out of the car as it was on fire.

“It burned all the hair off my face and my arms,” Chavez said.

Chavez escaped with slight burns on his face.

Faulkner was a retired chief aviation machinist mate who had recently started his own business in North Park as a mechanic.

Chavez took over as a mechanic at that shop, which also sold Mobil gasoline, after Faulkner was killed.

Racing at Balboa Stadium continued until 1960. When Los Angeles Chargers majority owner Barron Hilton decided to move the Chargers to San Diego, the San Diego City Council voted 4-3 to expand Balboa Stadium.

Hilton moved the Chargers to Balboa Stadium for 1961, which meant that the stock cars couldn’t race there any longer.

Earle Brucker Sr. took in the stock cars at County Stadium, which became known as Cajon Speedway.

When the Chargers played at Balboa Stadium, their administrative offices were at the Lafayette Hotel, which was less than a block away from the Mobil station where Chavez worked. Hilton named his team the Chargers to promote Hilton Hotels’ new (at the time) Carte Blanche credit card and Mobil took Carte Blanche, so many of the Chargers players as well as Hilton and Chargers coach Sid Gillman patronized the Mobil station.

Chavez worked on many of their cars. After working for two other Mobil dealerships and driving a Mobil truck which delivered fuel, Chavez began working for Shell dealerships and then worked for Chevrolet dealerships.

Chavez now works part-time in a shop in Alpine which specializes in classic vehicles.

“It keeps my racecar going,” he said, adding that it also keeps him busy.

Chavez raced at Cajon Speedway from 1961 to 1965 before taking time off to raise his family and returned to racing in the 1970s. His older son, Fred Chavez Jr., lives in Alpine and drives Legend cars, which are replicas of Chevrolets from the late 1930s, primarily at Irwindale Speedway. His younger son, Rick Chavez, lives in Temecula and drives late model cars at the Orange Show and Irwindale asphalt tracks. His daughter lives in Colorado and is not involved in racing. Chavez has a grandson who doesn’t race but serves on pit crews at Barona Speedway.

“Right now I’m trying to get my great-grandson involved in it,” Chavez said. “He’s only three.”

Chavez drove on and off at Cajon Speedway until 1990. Rick Chavez began racing at Cajon Speedway in the 1980s.

Over the years Fred Chavez has owned 11 racecars and has also driven for other car owners. “It’s a hobby you fall in love with and you can’t put it away,” he said.

Chavez began racing vintage cars in the mid-1990s when former Balboa Stadium driver Dean Meltzer had a Ford midget car but no driver. Chavez purchased his current vintage car in 1999, although it sat for approximately four years before being restored.

Chavez refuses to haul his vintage car in a box trailer.

“It will ride on an open trailer just so people can see that car,” he said. “A lot of people are going to see that car.”

The first street car Chavez owned was a two-door 1953 Mercury, which he had for nearly 20 years before his wife was driving it and was hit broadside by a 1956 Chevrolet. His goals include owning a 1953 Mercury once again.

“I’m still looking for one and if I ever find one I’d probably buy it and restore it back to stock,” he said.

Because the vintage cars do not meet modern safety standards and because the purpose is an exhibition rather than a competitive race, the drivers do not take any risks to gain positions and there are no official finishing positions.

“We’re just putting on an exhibition show. It doesn’t matter who finishes up front. There is no winner,” Chavez said. “That still gives us a chance to go out there and run around the track.”

Temecula United partners with ChievoVerona International Academy for 2nd annual Elite Camp The Temecula United Soccer Club is proud to announce that it has partnered with ChievoVerona International Academy, another Series A League team from Italy, for a three-day soccer ID camp in Temecula.

The ID camp will be overseen by a senior member of the ChievoVerona International Academy coaching staff and will consist of coaching methods and drills from the ChievoVerona International Academy.

Each each player will be receiving a complimentary camp t-shirt.

The camp will run from June 12 through June 14, 2015 with three separate sessions a day, depending on players and their age group.

Age groups for ID camp are U8 - U18.

Sessions for players U8 to U10 will be held from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m.

Sessions for U11 to U14 will run from noon to 2 p.m.

Sessions for playrs U15 and up will be held from 3 p.m. - 5 p.m.

ID camp will be held at Birdsall Sports Park .

Cost for the three-day camp is $125 and includes a T-Shirt.

Players excelling at this camp will be invited to the 2015 ChievoVerona International Academy National Residential Camp.

The 2015 ChievoVerona International Academy National Residential Camp will be staffed by the ChievoVerona Academy staff in Verona, Italy.

Registration is now open, go to Temeculaunitedsoccerclub.org for more information.

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Car For Sale 65 CHEVY TRUCK 2007. 5.3L Motor and Trans. $55,000 OBO (760) 4439206 or (760) 723-0239.

Commercial OFFICE/RETAIL SPACE AVAILABLE Call or text 858-699-6318. Fallbrook

Commercial/Industrial Building PROFESSIONAL SUITE 1593 S. Mission Rd. 756 sq ft. Two office reception area, conference/ kitchen area. Bathroom with storage. Furnished available. (760) 728-0185

RESIDENTIAL CARE FACILITY in Fallbrook. We are looking for dependable people to work in a residential care facility in Fallbrook. Part time and full time positions available.

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Email cover letter, resume, and availability to slreh@slreh.com. (M,W,F 8am-5pm at $12/hr).

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PROJECT MAHMA Moms At Home Making a difference and a lot of money too. Call Lorraine 760-421-1103 MISSION HOME CARE In-Home Caregivers. Now hiring Male and Female. Fallbrook, Temecula, Murrieta, Menifee, Hemet & San Jacinto. Contact Judi 619-972-3998 V O C AT I O N A L C O A C H We a r e looking for people with patience and compassion to be a vocational coach for developmentally delayed adults in our community based day program.

Previous experience a plus but not necessary. We will train. MondayFriday. 8am-2pm Requirements operable car and clean DMV. 115 W. Aviation Rd. Fallbrook. Call 760-7286951

EXPERIENCED KITCHEN HELP Line Cook/Prep needed for fast paced Mexican restaurant in Fallbrook. Bilingual a plus. Call Jon 760-728-4556

For Rent FOR RENT IN RAINBOW $650 Monthly. 32ft. trailer. with patio. (760) 443-9206 or (760) 723-0239.

FALLBROOK HOUSE FOR RENT Unfurnished. 3 BD plus office/two baths. 1850 sq ft. 1/3 acre. 2 1/2 car garage, family room, sky light living room, high ceiling and beams. Outside deck, tile and wood floors. Private dead end St. large yard for growing. $1,895.

Available Now. (760) 917-4789 COTTAGE IN THE COUNTRY 1 Bed + Office, 1 Bath 800 sq ft. Very quiet and secluded, many oaks, large deck w/views. 85 year old Fallbrook home w/charm. Available 5/1. $1600/mo. Cell 760-994-8440.

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Clean up your property and save some money. Call Bill at 760-468-9673.

ETERNAL HILLS 2 Eternal Hills Lakeview Mausoleaum Crypts sideby-side in Eternal Hills, Unit 3 Prime 2nd Tier. Value $19,195 each; will sell for $12,000 each or $23,000 for both.

Leave Message at (760) 728-1236.

OWL BOX INSTALLATIONS Full Service Owl Box installations, on poles or in trees. Three models. Bee Proof.

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INVACARE FULL ELECTRIC BED Head, foot and height adjustment by remote control. This bed includes a $1500 Synergy Air Elite mattress system. Avoid bed sores during long term care. Air circulating mattress adjusts patient position which alleviates pressure points. Everything works perfectly. Call Joe: 760-803-9710

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Lost & Found PUPPIES FOUND! On Old Hwy 395 near the nursery, not far from Lilac Road. 760-519-5001.

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3 FAMILY GARAGE SALE Saturday May 16th. Furniture, tools, golf equipment, toys, clothes, LP Records. 8am-12pm.

1045 E. Fun Quest. Fallbrook.

GARAGE SALE-MEADOW VIEW IN TEMECULA 5/15/15 & 5/16/15, 7am-3pm. 40545 La Cadena Ct. Patio benches, book cases, clothes, bike and misc. items. 2 family sale. Come early to get the best deals.

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