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Temecula Cares theme of 2021 State of the City address

Michelle Gerst SPECIAL TO VALLEY NEWS

In an effort to squash disruptive behavior during meetings, Temecula City Council passed an ordinance that threatens to toss citizens they deem unruly out of meetings. see page A-2

Local Menifee to offer permit-ready plans Tony Ault STAFF WRITER

The City of Menifee heard from residents interested in adding an accessory dwelling unit to their properties in a community meeting at City Hall Oct. 19. Comments from those attending will help the city develop an ADU permit plan may be available next year free of charge. see page A-4

Business San Jacinto Valley women don’t give up Diane A. Rhodes SPECIAL TO VALLEY NEWS

The annual San Jacinto Valley Women’s Conference has raised and awarded more than $30,000 in scholarships to deserving women since its first conference in 2012. see page B-6

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The Temecula State of the City Address presented by Mayor Maryann Edwards puts emphasis on the theme “Temecula Cares” during the annual event.

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Kim Harris MANAGING EDITOR

It was a full house at Pechanga Resort Casino for Temecula Mayor Maryann Edwards’ annual State

of the City address, Thursday, Oct. 14.

The early morning event kicked off with Edwards singing the entire Armed Forces Medley in honor of all U.S. service members who

stood to be recognized while attendees waved American flags during the Temecula Cares themed gathering.

Edwards highlighted the city’s recent accomplishments and fu-

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SRPNEF and Wildomar’s Rooted in Nature Craft Brew Festival an outstanding success Tony Ault STAFF WRITER

More than 2,000 people, from children to thirsty adults, visited the Rooted in Nature Craft Brew Festival to enjoy the warm day at Marna O’Brian Park Saturday, Oct. 16.

“It is like taking your handcuffs off,” said one visitor who was at an event for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic restrictions hit in March of last year. The event served two purposes, to celebrate Craft Brew Week and to support school children’s visits to the Santa Rosa Plateau Ecological Reserve and learn how to become good stewards of nature.

Attendees even arrived at the festival after 5 p.m. with only two hours left of the event, said a ticket see BREW, page A-4

Ryan Filar and his wife Dani enjoy a tasting of beer at the Rooted in Nature Craft Festival at Marna O’Brien Park in Wildomar, Oct. 16. The event benefits the Santa Rosa Plateau Nature Education Foundation.

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Local water districts celebrate construction completion at regional wastewater treatment facility Construction ushers in a new era of energy and operating efficiencies to benefit customers in Murrieta, Temecula and Wildomar

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ture plans as she spoke to those who gathered for the hourlong event which included a Nonprofit Expo where local nonprofit

Rancho Water General Manager Robert Grantham welcomes guests to a celebration event at the Santa Rosa Water Reclamation Facility (SWRF) for the completion of the three-year and $37.6 million rehabilitation project in Murrieta, Oct. 13. The new facility which treats wastewater sludge making it less toxic and impactful to the environment will provide cost saving efficiency.

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MURRIETA – Three regional water agencies hosted a celebration event Oct. 13 to commemorate the recent completion of their $37 million, three-year construction project that enhances energy and operating efficiencies of the Santa Rosa Water Reclamation Facility.

The project and facility are owned and managed by the Santa Rosa Regional Resources Authority, a partnership between Elsinore Valley Municipal Water District, Rancho California Water District and Western Municipal Water District.

The facility serves portions of see WATER, page A-8

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Newly passed ordinance threatens those who disrupt Temecula council meetings

Temecula City Council members discuss a new ordinance that threatens to remove disruptive citizens from meetings.

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Michelle Gerst SPECIAL TO VALLEY NEWS

In an effort to squash disruptive behavior during meetings, Temecula City Council passed an ordinance that threatens to toss citizens they deem unruly out of meetings. Those who are believed by council to be disruptive under the new rules could also face criminal charges, according to the

new ordinance.

During the Oct. 12 Temecula City Council meeting, members voted 4-1 on behavior they consider unacceptable including cheering, stomping, clapping and sign-waving. Councilwoman Jessica Alexander cast the dissenting vote. The action which was introduced in September by Mayor MaryAnn Edwards and Mayor Pro Tem Matt Rahn was an update to

Lake Elsinore City Council gets third quarter update on law enforcement Diane A. Rhodes SPECIAL TO VALLEY NEWS

The Oct. 12 Lake Elsinore City Council meeting’s first order of business was to hear the 2021 third quarter statistical update from the Riverside County Sheriff’s Office, presented by Lt. Jim Rayls. Covering the period of July through September, patrol officers made 182 felony arrests and 370 misdemeanor arrents.

Assaults were the most reported violent crimes; no homicides were reported. Larceny theft topped the list of property crimes during that period. Total traffic citations issued were 453 in July, 459 in August and 420 in September with three fatal collisions during the quarter.

Average response times remained consistent.

Rayls provided the first report of statistics from the recently installed Flock Safety cameras. He said the technology has enabled them to make 19 arrests, recover 29 vehicles and utilize the cameras for six investigations. He said this first report contained rough stats and probably reported on the low side because it took a little time to gather the information. He said he has now streamlined all of the stats so future reports will reflect exact numbers.

Rayls also announced “Pancakes in the Park” a free community event Saturday, Oct. 23, from 8:30 to 10 a.m. Hosted by the Lake Elsinore Sheriff’s deputies and sponsored by Target, the event will be at Machado Park, 15150 Joy Street. “We will feed you breakfast and bring your kids out and we’ll play some games

the Temecula’s Municipal Code 2.04.030.

According to the ordinance, citizens can face prosecution and be fined if they refuse to cooperate.

This action was brought forward following recent meetings where residents were upset and disruptive when council discussed topics such as renaming the Race, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Commission and heard presentations over Covid 19 vaccine effectiveness.

Councilwoman Alexander wanted to rename the REDI commission to replace the word “race” with “human race.” The August meeting drew hundreds of concerned citizens who supported Alexander and emotions ran high.

According to Temecula’s new ordinance, “The Council expects persons speaking at City Council meetings to do so in a civil manner that promotes the free exchange of ideas and encourages public participation.”

Examples of behavior that disrupt, disturb, or otherwise impede the orderly conduct of a city council meeting, according to the ADDRESS from page A-1 organizations advertised their resources.

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ordinance, include, but are not limited to, speaking without being recognized by the mayor or the presiding office, continuing to speak after the allotted time has expired, speaking on an item at a time not designated for discussion by the public, throwing objects, speaking on an issue that is not within the jurisdiction of the city council, speaking to the audience rather than to the city council, and interrupting a person who is speaking to the city council during such person’s allotted time.

Other disruptive behaviors outlined by the council included, preventing a person from speaking to the city council during such time as is allocated for comments from the public, wearing of a mask, costume, disguise or other regalia or paraphernalia that actually disrupts, disturbs or otherwise impedes the orderly conduct of the city council meeting, uttering loud, threatening, or abusive language that actually disrupts, disturbs or otherwise impedes the orderly conduct of the city council meeting and clapping, whistling, stomping

feet, and sign waving that actually disrupts, disturbs or otherwise impedes the orderly conduct of the City Council meeting.

Enforcement will be handled, according to the new ordinance, in the form of warnings, If, after receiving a request from the mayor, the person persists in violating the rules, the mayor can order a recess.

“Any representative of law enforcement who is present at the meeting when the violation occurs shall be authorized to warn the person that his or her conduct is violating the rules and that he or she is requested to cease such conduct and could be removed from the meeting or prosecuted,” the ordinance said.

Other actions to enforce the ordinance include barring disruptive people from meetings, removal and clearing of the room so that city business can continue to be conducted.

The entire ordinance can be viewed online at, https://temeculaca.legistar.com then clicking on City Council 10/12/2021 agenda.

Edwards called “the collective strength, resiliency and growth that Temecula experienced during the past, very challenging year.”

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

with the deputies, do a couple of raffles and just have a good time.”

He said there is an upcoming “Pizza in the Park” soon. “We are trying to do these (events) every couple of months and we’d like everybody to join us,” he said. For more on upcoming events, visit Facebook @LakeElsinoreStation.

No reportable action was required for three items discussed during the city council’s closed session before the public meeting, per the city attorney. Consent Calendar items 2-12 were passed unanimously with the exclusion of Councilmember Steve Manos voting no on Item No. 5 and abstaining from voting on Item No. 6.

Two Successor Agency Consent Calendar items were approved 5-0.

Item No. 15 was the one and only Public Hearing item and a staff report by the city engineer was waived. This resolution of the City Council authorizing the execution of a freeway maintenance agreement by and between the State of California and Lake Elsinore for Interstate 15, between Malaga Road and Lake Street, rescinding previous resolutions associated with freeway agreements within the said limits was unanimously adopted.

During City Council Comments, Mayor Pro Tem Timothy J. Sheridan announced his Town Hall Meeting Thursday, Oct. 28, at 6 p.m. at Cottonwood Canyon Hills Clubhouse, 31989 Hollyhock Street.

The next regular meeting of the Lake Elsinore City Council and Successor Agency is scheduled for Oct. 26 at 7 p.m. For more information, www.lake-elsinore.org.

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Wildomar Council amends its Housing and Safety Element to meet Fair Housing standards Tony Ault STAFF WRITER

The Wildomar City Council, considering their five-year Housing and Safety Element to bring it up to the latest state mandated Fair Housing requirements, made several amendments to the city’s Housing Codes at their Oct. 13 meeting.

The city had to amend a number of requirements in their housing codes for any new apartments, condominiums and apartments to allow for better access for lower moderate income families in need of affordable housing. It would allow for more apartments in smaller areas of land, more amenities and parking that eliminated most new single family home development zoning standards.

The city held a number of public meetings on the housing and safety element plans to review the new standards set by the state that attempts to address the state’s housing shortage and homeless problems.

Many residents in the public meetings expressed their displea-

sure with changing the housing elements but agreeing there is a state housing shortage. The council said it had little choice but to abide by the state’s housing rulings. They did indicate they would take a better look at the parking problems created by the new housing element and the problems it might create as a safety issue.

Those findings were considered in the council’s evening discussions.

The council did adopt a resolution that approved a General Plan Amendment adopting the 2021-2029 Housing Element in accordance with the California Government Code Section Safety Element.

After the General Plan Amendment was made, the council in public hearings heard a proposed amendment to the off-street vehicle parking standards for single-family, multi-family and commercial developments. The ordinance provides a general rule exemption in accordance with a section of the California Environmental Quality Act guidelines and a zoning ordi-

nance amendment modifying the off-street vehicle parking standards of the city municipal code related to parking standards for single-family, multi-family and commercial developments. The code amendment would require a greater percentage of a property set aside for parking depending on the size of a family.

It would hopefully eliminate some of the off-street parking problems experienced in the city.

However, in the ordinance there was a reference that every apartment in an apartment complex would be required to have its own enclosed parking spaces in a garage. This found objection by Mayor Pro Tem Ben J. Benoit said it would restrict any new developers who might want more outside parking and less garages for their apartment developments, otherwise it would bring a much higher price for the apartment rental, which is statistically already very high in the city.

Councilmember Bridgette Moore from District 4 in the city said she thought every apartment should have its own enclosed garage be-

cause of safety for the vehicle and motorist. She said most apartments in the city do have their own garage space.

Benoit retorted that he objected to the order because many of the apartment and condominiums in the city have garages that are used for storage and not parking which is creating more off-street parking.

There was a suggestion that maybe the city had wording in the ordinance that the garages could only be used for parking. This was ruled out because it would cause an enforcement problem.

Finally, it was agreed that the current 50-50 or some other percentage of parking could be allowed to let the potential developer know he still had a choice in the amendment. In the final vote it was 4 to 1 with Moore voting no.

The council authorized a construction contract of $206,000 with Becko Inc. for the house demolition for the Bundy Canyon Road Improvement Project for those purchased in the right of way.

Right of way purchases needed for the Palomar Street and Clinton

Keith Road Widening Project were approved and authorized the execution of an agreement for Transportation Uniform Mitigation Fees with the Western Riverside Council of Governments for the Bundy Canyon Road and Interstate 15 Interchange on Palomar Street between Mission Trail and Jefferson Avenue that will benefit both Wildomar and neighboring communities.

It would include the planning, engineering, right of way and construction phases and the environmental documents needed.

The council authorized the abatement of all weeds declared as a public nuisance that will cause the removal of weeds, rubbish or refuse declared to be a nuisance after due notice is given and not mitigated.

They also restated the solid waste collection and disposal ordinance in the city that will follow the new disposal practices ordered by the state to separate food waste and its disposal in residential and commercial facilities.

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

Menifee Romoland residents and seniors offer CDBG funding requests during meeting at Mottes Museum Tony Ault STAFF WRITER

A small but verbal crowd attended the Menifee Community Development Block Grant fund outreach meeting Oct. 14 providing some ideas for improving low to medium income residents’ quality of life in the next five years.

The public outreach meeting held at the Motte Historical Museum, called by Menifee’s Senior Management Analyst Edna Lebron and city consultants, was to provide citizen feedback on housing, transportation, business and infrastructure, social services and other needs that can be funded by annual CDBG grants.

The Menifee consultants at the

meeting were challenged with many of the questions, some outside of the CDBG funding area with various problems facing some of the lower income residents in the city.

The main focus of those attending was to seek more CDBG funds for senior citizens in the community and some internet and broadband services for what they saw as Menifee’s Romoland and Homeland areas. Several residents pointed out that many of the streets in that area of the city have little lighting, poor roads and lack of transportation in an area with many low-income families.

Other residents contended the CDBG monies coming through the Housing and Urban Develop-

ment entitlement program would help with senior programs that are badly needed in portions of the community. Those needs include better health care, transportation and housing although some of those things are offered with some CDBG funds and the city. The attendees saw better communication to those seniors in the city about the programs including free transportation, home repairs and educational meetings, many are unaware of.

It was explained that such input from the community is needed so the city can formulate a plan that meets the CDBG standards and will benefit low- and moderate-income persons and hopefully help with revitalizing neighborhoods, economic development and providing

improved community facilities and districts. Lebron said those things may mean more sidewalks and streetlights, free transportation and food for those residents in those lower income areas.

The meeting was one of several called residential outreach meetings held in different areas of the city to solicit ideas that will go into a strategic plan from 2022-2027 that will be forwarded to HUD for the disbursement of CDBG funding for the next five years. The funding offered by CDBG has been in the $250,000 to $500,000 range each year for Menifee. A percentage of the money may go to the nonprofit agencies that offer help to those in need but not to individuals under the CDBG terms.

The city, on its webpages, has a residential survey that any resident can take that will also help to develop the CDBG Consolidated Plan.

Lebron and the Menifee consultants said they hoped those attending the meeting had or will fill out the survey to help with the planning process. Several written surveys were passed out to those attending.

The CDBG Consolidated Plan and the survey findings will be made public by Nov. 15 in a meeting before it is sent to HUD. Edna Lebrón from the Community Development Department can be contacted with any questions at elebron@cityofmenifee.us or (951) 723-3713.

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Menifee soon to offer permit-ready plans for accessory dwelling units Tony Ault STAFF WRITER

The City of Menifee heard from residents interested in adding an accessory dwelling unit to their properties in a community meeting at City Hall Oct. 19. Comments from those attending will help the city develop an ADU permit plan available next year free of charge.

The ADUs, also known as an in-law unit or granny flat, is an attached structure on a residential lot that provides independent living BREW from page A-1 taker at the fundraiser which is a signature event for the City of Wildomar. There were no masks seen at the event since many of the COVID mandates have been lifted, although festival officials recommended all to follow the latest Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommendations.

During the event itself, 30 local and nearby craft brew companies opened their booths to serve the best of their brews in 2 ounce pours until 5 p.m. when a Happy Hour began lasting until 7 p.m. with music by Jimmy and Enrique onstage.

Tastes were included in the festival’s entrance tickets. The event not only provided the many tastes of the beer blends for the adults while the children in a family Wildlife Park on the grounds had the opportunity to play fun games, pet Llamas, shoot a bow and arrow with most attending a Western Science Center exhibition show-

facilities for one or more people.

The city’s plan, incorporating the citizen comments, will complement the city’s plans for detached ADUs. City officials said permit-ready ADU plans will be available to homeowners early next year.

They will be designed to expedite the permitting process, save money for property owners, and help meet state requirements to increase affordable housing stock in California.

It was late last year the Legisla-

ture passed bills that they believe will help alleviate the state’s lack of fair housing for low to moderate income families. Many cities, until the bill was passed, did not permit attached granny flats to established homes. Some, following strict zoning rules, allowed for those not attached to existing homes, but they were the exceptions or available only in newly built homes.

Menifee, following the new state guidelines, will have the ADU plans available in a variety of floor plans and architectural styles

from studios to three-bedroom, one to two baths, and range from 305 square feet to 1,100 square feet. The plans will be accompanied by a free ADU Guidance Handbook.

“ADUs are a great option for providing additional housing units in the community and for residents who want to help their parents live independently but close by, increase their property value or generate rental income,” Community Development Director Cheryl Kitzerow said. “Having permit

ready plans allows homeowners to skip the building design and review and streamlines the process.”

For more information visit www.cityofmenifee.us/751/Accessory-Dwelling-Units. For questions, please contact Doug Darnell, Senior Planner in the Community Development Department, at (951) 723-3744 or via email at ddarnell@cityofmenifee.us.

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“The museum was the most popular place there,” said one visitor with her children.

Food trucks, serving everything from Mexican to American Food and barbecue with tri-tip sandwiches, fed the hungry crowd.

Booths from the Riverside County Park Open-Space District who manage the 9,000-acre Santa Rosa Plateau Ecological Reserve to the Riverside County Library District were open with information about the many county parks and libraries available to county residents.

Wildomar City officials opened their booth with council members Bridgett Moore, Joseph Morabito, Mayor Dustin Nigg and Mayor Pro Tem Ben J. Benoit attending through the day.

A Lake Elsinore contingent of the Riverside County Sheriff’s Posse rode their horses around the park during the festivities draw-

ing a lot of smiles from the many children and adults.

Other attendees strolled around holding some of the gifts they bid on and won during a silent auction with the proceeds helping the SRPNEF fulfill its goals to support the youth field trips to the Plateau and provide yearly scholarships to

those students most interested in preserving nature that surrounds them for generations to come.

Ginger Greaves, executive director of the Santa Rosa Plateau Nature Education Foundation, expressed her gratitude for the better-than-expected crowd to this year’s festival, the first major fun-

draiser for the foundation since the COVID-19 pandemic began. She said she was especially grateful for dozens of sponsors and volunteers that helped with this year’s festival and Herb Massinger the event director and champion to the Southwest Riverside County Craft Brew Week enthusiasts.

Beer fans enjoy the variety of regional craft brews at the Rooted in Nature Craft Brew Festival in Wildomar.

[Left] Santa Rosa Plateau Ecological Reserve Park interpreter Rob Hicks provides information about the reserve to guests attending the Rooted in Nature Craft Brew Festival in Wildomar.

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Soboba Gives Back! is on track for this holiday season Soboba Band of Luiseño Indians SPECIAL TO VALLEY NEWS

The Soboba Foundation, in collaboration with Soboba Casino Resort, is getting ready for its annual Soboba Gives Back! Toy Drive event. Each year, toys are collected by volunteers who sort and count them for distribution to organizations that request help for community children in need.

From noon to 8 p.m. Nov. 9, 16, 23 and 30 plus Dec. 7, one toy valued at $20 with a receipt can be taken to the Soboba Casino Resort Event Center to be exchanged for a $40 Free Slot Play voucher. Limit one coupon per customer, per day.

Despite the pandemic shutdowns and slowdowns of 2020, Soboba Foundation members hosted its signature event but didn’t receive nearly as many toys as it had in the previous 10 years. Organizers are hoping this year will be bigger and brighter than it has been in the past. And deserving recipients are hopeful as well.

Last year’s drive collected 4,100 toys, the lowest amount in the history of the event. Planning early, expectations are high to exceed 5,000 this year, enough to provide for the groups that depend on this assistance each holiday season. The toy drive has allowed as many as 50 nonprofits and child-based groups to present toys to young families each year.

Soboba Foundation President Dondi Silvas acknowledges that these past few years have been very difficult for everyone, especially the little children. She enjoys collecting the toys from the patrons of the casino.

“I’m always eager to hear how much fun they had picking out the toys, because some of them don’t have little ones at home to shop for, or they do and they say they got the same toy for a grandchild,” Silvas said. “Now that I’m a Glamma, I need to see what the latest and greatest toys are on the market.”

Silvas also appreciates attending any events when she can watch the families come in to pick up the toys.

“Just the look on their faces knowing that they have been blessed during the holidays, that’s what Christmas is all about,” she said.

Soboba Casino Resort Assistant General Manager Jason Cozart said the toy drive is always a special event.

“Together, the Soboba Foundation, our team at SCR and our wonderful guests are able to collect and distribute thousands of toys to children at Christmas,” Cozart said. “The joy this Toy Drive brings to not only

those kids, but to those who participate in it, is immeasurable.”

Catie Stanley, who was recently promoted to director of marketing at SCR, said partnering with the Soboba Foundation for the annual Soboba Gives Back! Toy Drive is something the staff looks forward to all year long.

“As a Team Member, we are fortunate enough to touch each part of the donation process, from the charitable spirit of those who come out each week to donate, to the gratitude of charity organizers and children who are receiving these wonderful gifts,” Stanley said. “It is truly heartwarming from start to finish and we couldn’t ask for a better opportunity to give back to the local community. This event reminds me of how fortunate I am to live in a community that prioritizes serving those in need. I am grateful to the Soboba Foundation and Soboba Band of Luiseño Indians for making this annual event possible. It is amazing to see all of the wonderful Tribal Members and Tribal employees who take time out to serve our community each and every year. We truly do rise by lifting others, and that philosophy can be seen in action right here at Soboba Casino Resort every November at the Soboba Gives Back! Toy Drive.”

Many volunteers help Longtime volunteers include Soboba Tribal Members Joey Placencia, his mother Doris and his aunt Tara, among others.

“It’s always been in my nature to give back. My family has always taught me to do so,” Joey Placencia said. “We enjoy helping out with the toy drive; it is one of the highlights of our year and so much fun! The faces of everyone involved really give a sense of community and the giving of the season.”

He said he’s been volunteering for about seven years now and said it’s a good feeling to put in the work. He primarily works the check-in area, which he prefers.

Tara Placencia said she loves volunteering for the toy drive and looks forward to it every year.

“I get to know the employees on a different level, and I also get to know the guests who are so generous,” she said. “My husband Patrick Placencia is an employee and tribal member, so he is the one that got me involved. It is so much fun to do this and it is such a positive event.”

Doris Placencia has spent eight years as a volunteer and sometimes gets to attend the events where the organizations distribute the toys.

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“It makes me feel so good to see the little kids smile,” she said. “One thing I like most about helping out is collecting the toys and seeing how those who donate, many of whom are regulars, light up in the spirit of giving and providing toys for children who might otherwise go without.”

Ginger Bejar, who works at Tribal Administration as a Benefits Coordinator, said she volunteers because it is so rewarding to see how many participants there are each year and also because she likes to provide support for the Soboba Foundation.

Laura Hernandez, a Tribal Member Benefits Coordinator, said, “I have never worked in a company that gives so much in return, especially during the holidays in which it is a blessing to have.”

Making a difference Staff Accountant Anna Moses said what she loves most about helping out with the toy drive is being able to help put a smile on someone else’s face. “Giving back was something that was ingrained in me as I grew up. My parents always told me, ‘if you can make a difference, then do it!’” Moses said. “I have been blessed throughout my life and I strongly believe that to whom much is given, much is required. If you have a chance to do more and create change, then take every opportunity to do it.

Sometimes the smallest things can change a life.”

New this year will be the utilization of volunteers from the organizations that directly benefit from the toy drive. About six to eight are needed in front at the check-in area and three to five to work in the back of the house, sorting and counting during each weekly eight-hour shift.

Along with smaller nonprofit groups that benefit from the donation of toys, local school districts have been able to count on Soboba for support for its neediest students to ensure they have a happy holiday season as well. Alexandrea Sponheim, Public Information Officer for Hemet Unified School District, said this will be the third year their students will be recipients of Soboba’s generous toy giveaway. Last year the district received 1,000 toys to distribute to children that are identified by parent liaisons who work with families every day and are able to identify those that would benefit the most from this event.

Without the Soboba Gives Back!

Toy Drive, Sponheim said there would be less youth in the valley that would receive a gift over the winter break.

“Our community always finds a way to rally around our youth, but it would not be done to the extent we are able to do it with the support we get from Soboba,” she said.

San Jacinto Unified School District does more than distribute the toys to students who have been identified as needing a little extra help with toys during the Christmas season. For many years, with the exception of 2020, it has hosted an “Unstuff the Bus” community event where volunteers from all over the San Jacinto Valley come to unstuff a Soboba bus full of toys to be stored inside the district’s warehouse until they are

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given to the chosen families. It is a time for everyone to come together to celebrate the season of giving with Christmas lights, hot chocolate, holiday music and other festive things.

Gale Hill, executive assistant to the superintendent and board of trustees, said they missed not being able to host the event last year and are hoping it can be held in 2021.

“The Unstuff the Bus event is a great joy, knowing that those toys are going to some needy children who will have some happiness puts a smile on all our faces,” Joey Placencia said.

300 families served About 300 families are served through SJUSD’s program, which provides more than 1,000 toys to the students and helps with gifts for younger siblings as well. SJUSD’s Family & Community Engagement Specialist Carla Adame said the district currently has about 80 identified students who are living in a qualified homeless situation and they are still working to identify others.

“We have many more in a needy situation during this time where the rental moratorium and additional unemployment benefits have recently ended. Our district teams are continuing to identify the needs and make sure to place students who need the holiday help and cheer on our special lists,” Adame said. “Soboba Foundation has been generous enough to increase the amount of toys most of the years. Last year we received about 1,600 toys; Soboba is amazing!”

Tara Placencia said she was “so moved and so proud to see the community come together to unstuff the bus in the past. I can’t wait to see how we do in 2021 as 2020 was a little slower. I hope we as a community will receive many toys to help make many children happy.”

Valle Vista Assembly of God has been a grateful recipient of toy drive collections for more than six years.

They receive about 100 toys each year to distribute to the community where it is located.

Based on financial need “Nominations are taken from members in the community and then considered based on need (financial, living situation, grandparents caring for grandkids, single parents, tragedy (death/fire) and how many toys are available),” congregation member Andrea Helms said. “Each year we adopt a few families from local schools who are in need. The toys are wrapped and delivered to families along with a food basket, typically the week before Christmas.”

She said each basket includes a thank you card that lists all the community supporters who contributed to the baskets. Helms said without the toy drive the church would most likely provide food baskets only or give much smaller, less quality gifts for the children from places like the dollar stores.

My City Youth in Hemet has been a recipient of about 150 toys each year for the past three years. The toys are distributed at two separate Christmas parties; one it hosts for its afterschool program children and one for its teen parents and their little ones. The mission of My City Youth is “to be the best examples that guide our youth toward reaching their full potential as productive, caring, kind and responsible citizens.”

Christopher Oliver with the County of Riverside Public Defender’s Office said he can’t even begin to express his gratitude for the hundreds of toys that have been donated to the

children of parents involved with the courts.

“In our local judicial system, we have specialty courts that are collaborative in nature. We have substance abuse courts, veterans court and mental health courts. Each of these courts have embedded teams from five different departments (district attorney, probation, behavioral health, defense bar and the courts themselves). In these specialty courts we work together to treat the consumers for ailments they may have that caused them to be in the system. It is the children of these consumers that benefit from the amazing donations,” Oliver explained.

“The programs are very intense and depending upon where they are in their treatment, they may not have the time to work nor provide for a Christmas for their families. Also, most of these families have suffered greatly due to their family member’s struggles,” Oliver said. “The parents and families know that Soboba made this happen, but the children think the toys are from Santa. Prior to meeting Soboba, many people would dive into their own pockets to make (toy purchases) possible but with changing times and financial struggles it would get more and more challenging. Honestly, when you see the look in these consumers’ faces that their children are enjoying this celebration it is very humbling.”

Dolores Odom from the Santa Rosa Band of Cahuilla Indians said they are grateful to be recipients of toys since the Soboba Gives Back! program began. They usually receive about 250 toys for Tribal children and reservation community children.

“Everybody gets something,” Odom said. “We usually distribute the toys to the children at our Tribal Christmas Party but because of COVID-19, we are not able to hold large gatherings.”

She said with the help of eight Community Events Committee members, Tribal parents can choose up to four presents per child and pick them up from the Tribal building while observing safety protocols.

“We have so much love and appreciation for Soboba and want to thank the Tribe and the Soboba Foundation for always caring for our children in such a generous way,” Odom said.

“We also wish to thank Andrew Vallejos for being so helpful to us with this process each year.”

Jared Dobbins, Executive Director of VIP Tots in Hemet, said the school receives about 175 toys each year for families that are identified by teachers and the administration. Parents can “shop” at the center for their child the week after the toys arrive. He said without Soboba’s generosity, things would be completely different.

“As a nonprofit, we would be unable to provide toys to families due to budget constraints. The partnership with Soboba is vital in our being able to make our families’ holiday more special,” Dobbins said.

Silvas wants to remind everyone to, “Bring in one toy worth $20 to bless one child in your community on Christmas Day and you will receive $40 in free slot play, giving Soboba a chance to bless you with some winnings as well.”

Toy drive dates are Nov. 9, 16, 23 and 30 and Dec. 7 from noon to 8 p.m. at Soboba Casino Resort’s Event Center, 22777 Soboba Road in San Jacinto.

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JDS Creative Academy to host Haunted Studio Local nonprofit holds annual haunted studio fundraiser to benefit arts education scholarships

Jordan Strand (left) with JDS Creative Academy co-teacher May Lo constructs a haunted house inside the creative studio in Temecula, Oct. 13. JDS Creative Academy is offering a class every Wednesday during the month of October to teach students how to design and construct the haunted house that will be open to the public, Oct. 29-30 from 6-9:30 p.m.

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JDS Creative Academy students sort spooky props for the construction of their haunted mansion inside the creative studio.

Topa Black Cat (left) and Matt Seelbinder help design a haunted mansion inside the JDS Creative Academy in Temecula.

JDS Creative Academy co-teacher Mckenna Marshall works with students on the costume design of the creative studio’s haunted mansion.

JDS Academy co-teacher May Lo supplies more spooky props for students in the haunted house class.

Ainsley Ruse (left) and Lily Redman help cut out cardboard dentist tool props that will be added to the haunted house at the JDS Creative Academy in Temecula.

TEMECULA – Local nonprofit, JDS Creative Academy is gearing up for their annual Haunted Studio fundraiser. Join JDS Creative Academy Friday, Oct. 29, and Saturday, Oct. 30, from 6 to 9 p.m. at JDS Studios for the Haunted Studio event.

There is a $5 cash donation required at the door to enter the Haunted Studio with all proceeds going toward scholarships for classes at JDS Creative Academy as well as scholarships for higher arts education.

“COVID-19 has really made us rethink everything,” JDS Creative Academy founder, Diane Strand said. “Last year’s Haunted Studio was a drive-thru experience, and while it was fun and COVID-safe, nothing beats in-person scares.”

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in the Temecula Valley and has provided thrills and chills with their Haunted Studio for the past five years. As Temecula Valley slowly returns to normalcy, JDS Creative Academy is ready to create the scariest family-friendly haunted event in the area, Strand said, adding that attendees should remember to bring along some cash for the bake sale.

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COMMUNITY EVENTS Oct. 22-30 – 5-11 p.m. Temecula Terror at Galway Downs.

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Oct. 23 – 5 p.m. Boys and Girls Club Our Kids Rock Gala “Boots and Bling” fundraiser at the Pechanga Casino Ballroom, 45000 Pechanga Parkway, Temecula. Auction, live music, dinner and dancing. Contact Michelle Taylor at Michelleret@bgcswc. org or visit www.bgcswc.org/ OKR for more information.

Oct. 23 – 4-8 p.m. Menifee’s Fall Festival. Mt. San Jacinto College Menifee Valley Campus, 28237 La Piedra Road. There will be costume contests (register online by 5 p.m. Oct. 15), a kids zone, live entertainment, community acts, food and craft vendors.

Attendees are urged to bring full-sized toiletries, new clothing, socks and/or gift cards to support the local domestic violence shelter. Email communityservices@ cityofmenifee.us.

Oct. 29 – 5-8:30 p.m. Menifee’s Day of the Dead celebration or Dia de Los Muertas at Menifee Central Park, 30268 Civic Plaza Drive. It is a free family festival with live entertainment. It will include costume contests for children aged 13 and younger. Costumes must fit the theme. Vendors are being sought. Families should register at communityservices@ cityofmenifee.us.

Oct. 30 – Noon-4 p.m. “Merewif, the Mermaid Witch” Local author book signing. Amanda Adam will be signing hardcopy and paperback books at Barnes & Noble, 40570 Winchester Road in Temecula. Complimentary swag on a first come, first served basis.

Nov. 5 – 6 p.m. Hemet State of the City address by Mayor Karlee Meyer at the Hemet Public Library, 300 E. Latham Ave. Sponsored by the Hemet San Jacinto Chamber of Commerce.

Tickets $25. Call (951) 255-3425.

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Nov. 20 – 9 a.m. Elinor Evans Martin to speak at the AntelopeMenifee Rural Center with Part Two of her story about the Canyon Lake dam construction, the fish camp and Canyon Lake’s community development.

ONGOING – The City of Menifee offers in-city or out-of-city Special Event Vendor applications online or at Menifee City Hall to apply for signature and other special events. Contact Menifee City Hall, 29844 Haun Road, (951) 672-6777, or online at businesslicensing@cityofmenifee.us.

ONGOING – Riverside Transportation Commission is offering Park and Ride Lots to connect with carpools, vanpools and transit systems in Beaumont at 600 E. 6th Street, in San Jacinto at 501 S. San Jacinto Ave. and in Temecula at Grace Presbyterian Church, 31143 Nicolas Road, open from 5 a.m. to 10 p.m. but not on weekends.

ONGOING – Sun City Civic Association Monthly Square Dance sessions on Sundays from 1:30-5 p.m. at 26850 Sun City Blvd., Sun City.

ONGOING – If you know a homebound older adult, resources in Menifee are available, including grab-and-go, cooked and frozen food for pickup. Courtesy Pantry items and meals delivered with no contact. Three days of emergency food can be delivered immediately or restaurant meal delivery for those who don’t qualify for food assistance programs.

Call (800) 510-2020 for help.

ONGOING – The Riverside County COVID-19 Business Assistance Grant Program is accepting online applications for business grants up to $10,000 at www.rivercobizhelp.org that can be used for employee retention, working capital, protective equipment purchases, rent or mortgage payments and paying vendor notices. Eligible businesses, including nonprofits, must be in Riverside County, with a minimum of one but less than 50 employees and operating for at least one year since March 1. For more information, call Riverside County Business and Community Services at (951) 955-0493.

ONGOING – 7 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. The Temecula Winchester Swap Meet continues, 33280 Newport Road in Winchester, Saturdays and Sundays only. The small local swap meet is only 50 cents for entry, and anyone under age 10 is free admission. No dogs allowed.

ONGOING – 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Every Sunday, Murrieta Village Walk Farmers Market is at Village Walk Place in Murrieta. The Sunday morning farmers market at Village Walk Plaza is a place to buy fruits and veggies, gourmet food and crafts. Come to the center in the northwest corner of Kalmia/Cal Oaks at the Interstate 215 exit in Murrieta.

ONGOING – Temecula’s Farmers Markets are offered in Old Town Temecula Saturdays from 8:30 a.m. to noon, 4100 Main St. in Temecula; at Promenade Temecula, 40640 Win-

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chester Road, outside JCPenney every Wednesday from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. and at Vail Headquarters, 32115 Temecula Parkway, every Tuesday from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. In compliance with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Riverside County Public Health orders, the farmers markets will be restricted to agriculture products only. Follow the Old Town Temecula Farmers Market on Facebook to stay updated. No pets are allowed.

WORKSHOPS, MEETINGS and ANNOUNCEMENTS Oct. 22 – City of Menifee calling local artists to help design a city flag. Menifee residents are encouraged to participate by creating flag designs that capture the history, beauty and uniqueness of the community. One submission per person. Categories include those from kindergarten through college age and adults. Details of the design criteria and the entry form at www.cityofmenifee. us/753/City-Flag-Design.

Oct. 22 – California Rail Plan hosting a series of interactive regional workshops to collect input on how the rail system could contribute to creating a more resilient transportation system that equally distributes the benefits and burdens to the current and future generations of Californians. To provide your input, please send the project team a message from the Contact Us page, or send an email to info@2022californiasta terailplan.org.

Oct. 25-28 – Daily Virtual Open House and 2021Winterfest

by Eastern Municipal Water District to learn more about their waste and wastewater district in a week of seminars. There will be discussions on EMWD history, the drought, careers and a water leaders academy. Prizes awarded each day. For more information and to participate in the programs, please visit iewaterfest.org.

Oct. 25 – 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

4th Monday Book Club meets at Grace Mellman Community Library, 41000 County Center Drive, Temecula. Discussion on “Mexican Gothic” by Silvia Moreno-Garcia in the Community Room. Even if you haven’t read it you can join in.

Oct. 25 – 6 p.m. A presentation about the early days of Temecula’s development will be made

by Dan Stephenson, founder and chairman of the Rancon Group at the Little Temecula History Center, the red barn at the corner of Wolf Store Road and Redhawk Parkway. The presentation is free to the public.

ONGOING – Sons of Norway/ Scandinavia meets the first Saturday of every month, September to June. Meeting at the Heritage Mobile Park Clubhouse, 31130 S. General Kearny Road., Temecula, at noon. Potluck lunch, followed by a cultural program, and short business meeting. Please come and enjoy company with fellow Scandinavians. Call (951) 3091597 or (951) 849-1690 for more information.

ONGOING – MilVet sends military care packages for deployed U.S. Troops throughout the world and is seeking support for nutrition snacks, hygiene supplies and other small items that will show the love of those at home. Help shop for most needed items without leaving your home by purchasing items remotely and having them delivered to volunteers for packing. All items on the list are special requests from deployed military men and women sent through Amazon at https://smile.amazon.com. Know someone deployed? Sign them up for monthly care packages: https://milvet.org/request-forcare-packages.

ONGOING – 5-8 p.m. The City of Temecula Community Services Department hosts “Art Off The Walls” every first Friday, featuring art from a variety of artists exhibiting in multi-genre forms. “Art Off The Walls” is housed exclusively at The Merc, 42051 Main Street, Temecula.

ONGOING – The First Fridays art events, in the ambiance of great music and food, are free and offer an exciting opportunity for varied artists to share their work with the community and the many visitors to Temecula.

This event is held at The Merc and The Lot on Main, 42051 Main Street. For more information, call

the Community Services Department at (951) 694-6480. Artists may apply using the 2021 AOTW Application online at https:// temeculaca.gov/DocumentCenter/View/11605/2021-AOTWApplication.

ONGOING – 8-9 a.m. Attend the city of Wildomar’s Small Business Roundtable on the third Wednesday of each month on Zoom. Register by emailing kdavidson@cityofwildomar.org and put “small business roundtable” in the subject line.

ONGOING – Noon-1 p.m. Attend Murrieta Wildomar Chamber of Commerce’s weekly business briefing via Zoom or watch live on Facebook every Wednesday.

Registration required at https:// bit.ly/MWCBizBriefing. The chamber business briefing is an opportunity to hear from city, county and business leaders about current and relevant business information.

ONGOING – Everything KETO classes. These interactive step-by-step workshops and classes on Zoom will guide students to begin this new way of eating and learn how to easily steer their decision making for effective results. For more information and to register, visit www.cityofmenifee. us/register or call (951) 723-3880.

ONGOING – Menifee Community Services offers online driver’s education courses for a $21.95 fee. The course includes animated driving scenarios, instructional videos, sample test, licensed instructor available to answer questions, DMV approved certificate of completion with all lectures and exams completed from home. Designed for students and does not include behind-thewheel instruction or a California driver’s permit. Contact (951) 723-3880 or visit the city of Menifee to register at www.city of menifee.us.

ONGOING – 10-11:30 a.m.

Michelle’s Place Cancer Resource Center and The Elizabeth Hospice host a virtual support meeting for caregivers every second and fourth week of the month via Zoom. Get helpful tips and learn from others who are also dealing with similar challenges. For more information and to register, contact The Elizabeth Hospice Grief Support Services at (833) 349-2054.

ONGOING – Local chapter of the National Association of Female Entrepreneurs group helps women grow both personally and professionally and meets monthly. Contact Robbie Motter, the NAFE global coordinator, at (951) 255-9200 or rmotter@aol. com for information about future meetings.

ONGOING – Hemet/Winchester National Association of Female Entrepreneurs meets monthly. For new meeting dates and destinations, contact director Joan Wakeland at (909) 721-7648 or email Joanewakeland@gmail. com. Lake Elsinore/Murrieta/ Wildomar NAFE also meets each month in Lake Elsinore with director Sandie Fuenty. Call Fuenty at (714) 981-7013 or email sandiesldy@aol.com to learn when meetings will resume.

ONGOING – Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous, a free 12step recovery program for anyone suffering from food obsession, overeating, undereating or bulimia, has meetings throughout the U.S. and the world. Contact (781) 932-6300, or for local meetings, call (925) 321-0170 or visit www. foodaddicts.org.

ONGOING – The Murrieta Garden Club meets each month at the Murrieta Community Center, 41810 Juniper St. Anyone who likes to garden or is interested in plants is welcome. Membership is $10 per year. Find more information about the monthly event or project on Facebook.

ONGOING – Temecula Valley Rose Society meets each month.

For more information and new meeting dates and places, visit www.temeculavalleyrosesociety. org.

ONGOING – Menifee Toastmasters meets every Thursday at noon for one hour at a designated place to have fun, enhance speaking capabilities, gain selfconfidence and improve social skills. For new dates, call (760) 807-1323 or visit www.MenifeeToastmasters.org for more information.

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ENTERTAINMENT From a top-secret wine cellar in Temecula Wine Country, it’s…

Cougar Vineyard & Winery

The

Winery Review

Cougar Vineyard & Winery in Temecula’s wine country is located at 39870 De Portola Road.

Valley News/Shane Gibson photos

The Mystery Wino SPECIAL TO THE VALLEY NEWS

Welcome to fall in Temecula!

Time to unpack those wool sweaters, stack a cord of firewood by the back porch, and retrieve the snow blower from the shed. Winter is coming.

Just kidding. Harvest time in Temecula is usually scorching and this year is no different.

Despite the heat, I love early fall in wine country. The ardent anticipation of hundreds of winemakers, owners, and wine lovers hangs palpably in the air. Each year’s harvest, crush and press are like final exams for which the grades will be largely unknown for another year. It’s also a perfect time to visit the wineries, where new vintages, smaller crowds, cooler temperatures (eventually), and an overall more pleasant winery experience await.

The Background I have to admit that until fairly recently, I had never been to Cougar Winery. I didn’t know anyone who was a member, and perhaps I was put off by its awkward name.

There aren’t many cougars around here, aside from the two-legged species that frequent the wineries.

I was also skeptical of a place that makes wines exclusively from Italian varietals, which is Cougar’s claim to fame.

Then in 2019, I went to Rome to visit my son who was studying there. I tasted interesting and delicious red wines from all over the country, along with amazing food. I took side trips to Orvieto, San Gimignano and Capri, where I finally developed an appreciation for Italian whites. The trip reminded me that wine is made for food and food for wine. Italy has been teaching the world that lesson for 4,000 years.

Suddenly, a winery devoted to Italian varietals seemed like a brilliant idea.

Today, Cougar is among my favorite wineries in Temecula. It offers a magical combination of

Tasting room inside Cougar Vineyard & Winery.

good wine, reasonable prices, nice views, moderately sized venue, casual atmosphere, small crowds and tasty food. Believe me, ticking all those boxes at a single winery is rare.

Owner-winemakers Jennifer and Rick Buffington made wine for years as dedicated hobbyists in Texas and Washington. When they moved to Fallbrook in the early 2000s, they purchased 17 acres across the road from the sprawling Glen Oaks community in Temecula. In 2006, they opened their winery doors. As highly successful retirees from the world of high-tech software development, they bring a sort of casual intensity to their job.

Most afternoons, you can spot them enjoying the fruits of their labor on the covered patio with their winery dogs and a few guests. But only if all the work is done.

The Buffingtons have a laserlike focus on making wines solely from Italian varietals. They aren’t just winemakers, they are latterday grape missionaries, bringing obscure varieties to Temecula from the country the Greeks nicknamed Oenotaria, the “land of the vines.”

The Visit I drop by Cougar on a recent Wednesday afternoon, the 100-degree heat just beginning to wane.

From the dirt parking lot, it is a short, flat walk to the winery.

The cool, vaulted interior space

is dominated by a long, L-shaped bar and a dozen or so tables. A carved wooden cougar guards the entrance to the restrooms. A map of Italy with the states and their corresponding varietals decorates every table. A cork board displays Polaroids of members’ dogs. The atmosphere is mellow and unpretentious.

My server Robin is friendly, confident and well acquainted with the wines. Along with my tastings, I order a Reuben panini from Sangio’s Deli, the Italian-style bistro in the corner of the tasting room.

It serves food from 11 a.m. until 6 p.m., seven days a week. I’ve had salads, antipasto, sandwiches, charcuterie and pizza (Spicy Capichini is my favorite). The food is always excellent and well suited to the wines. I usually sit at one of the cement tables on the outside patio where I can admire the vineyards and the sprawling valley views.

The Wines The number of different wines offered at Cougar is daunting.

Depending on availability, there are more than 20 different whites, reds, blends, rosés and sweet wines. All are well made, interesting yet approachable and often downright delicious. As a wine geek, I adore all the technical information about the wines on their website, along with informative essays about each varietal.

COUGAR VINEYARD & WINERY Address: 39870 De Portola Road, Temecula, CA 92592 Telephone: (951) 491.0825 Website: www.cougarvineyards.com Details Owners: Rick and Jennifer Buffington Winemakers: Rick and Jennifer Buffington Established: 2004 Acres planted: 17 Current Wines: Whites: Arneis, Coda di Volpe, Falanghina, Fiano, Greco di Tufo, Pinot Grigio, Vermentino and Malavasia Bianca (for sweet wines). Reds: Aglianico, Barbera, Lambrusca di Alessandria, Montepulciano, Nebbiolo, Negroamaro, Piedirosso, Primitivo, Sangiovese, Sagrantino, Teroldego, Brachetto (rosé). Also red blends, sparkling wines, peach sangria, and two different styles of port. Most fruit is from Temecula, with some from San Diego County.

Cost per bottle: $ (of $$$) Cases per year: 7,500 + Access • Open seven days per week, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m..

• Closed on major holidays.

• Wheelchair accessible • Tastings & tours • Charge for tasting: $21 per six one-ounce tastes (includes logo glass). Reservations are strongly suggested on weekends.

• Groups of seven or more should make reservations or email groupsales@cougarwinery.com. Registered Responsible Partner program (RPP) limos only..

Food Sangio’s Deli/Bistro, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily.

Entertainment & picnics • No outside food allowed. Dogs on leashes are permitted on patio.

• Amenities: Tours, private gatherings, special tastings, wine club.

Check website for more details.

On this visit, I tasted three whites, five reds and a rosé. The first white was the 2019 Greco di Tufo, an uncommon grape even in Italy. It is almost an amber color with subtle aromas of citrus and peach, with broad acidity and spicy minerality. The 2020 Pinot Grigio is different from the typical Italian version I’m used to. I smelled capers and olive on the nose, with a pleasant citrus flavor and a sort of Sour Tart finish. I also tried the 2019 Estate Falanghina, another obscure grape that I think most white wine drinkers will appreciate. Finally, I tasted the 2020 Brachetto, which is a refreshing, dry rosé that is as good as any I’ve had in Temecula.

The first red is the 2017 Reserve Sangiovese. It was one of the best wines of the day for me, a light ruby color with an oaky, dark fruit nose. On the palate, there are black cherry, roasted tomato, leather and vanilla notes. It paired perfectly with my panini. (All of Cougar’s wines clock in at reasonable alcohol levels.) Next, I try the newly released 2018 Kaleidoscope, their new Super Tuscan blend of Sangiovese and Cabernet Sauvignon.

It was well balanced and wonderful. The 2017 Primitivo (the same varietal as Zinfandel) is full of ripe dark fruit and stewed plums, but made in a lighter style than a typical Temecula Zin. I finished with the 2017 Montepulciano Reserve, nicknamed the “Full Monty,” since it is 100% varietal. It has a deep ruby color with a complex, earthy, almost meaty aroma. The taste is of dark fruit, dried figs, tobacco, oak and mushroom. Cougar was one of the first to introduce Montepulciano to the U.S., with some of the oldest vines in the country on their property.

Conclusion Go to Cougar Vineyard & Win-

Stampede’s inaugural Oktoberfest brings German culture to Old Town Temecula Hannah Hanford WRITER

Oktoberfest, held Oct. 9-10 at the Temecula Stampede located in Old Town was a German inspired event with German beer, mechanical bull riding, Bavarian bands and food that brought together residents and visitors to celebrate German heritage.

The inaugural event was wellattended and those participating enjoyed live music, drinks, food and more, providing an immersive cultural experience for all ages.

“For the last 20 years the Temecula Stampede has been really stagnant,” Stampede Manager Steven

Merems said, “same thing every weekend and the owners wanted to bring something new into the community.”

Merems said the positive feedback of Stampede’s Old Town Music Festival led him to believe that more events like it would be welcome in the community.

“Oktoberfest will probably return, the owners do want to do one next year,” Merems said when asked about the future of the event.

Temecula Stampede, 28721 Old Town Front Street, is open Thursdays through Saturdays.

For more information, visit www. thetemeculastampede.com or call (951) 695-1761.

Stampede bartenders Kimberly Riley and Adam Reinwasser pose for a photo dressed in their German attire for the Oktoberfest festival in Temecula Oct. 9.

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Cougar Vineyard & Winery popular wines from left, Kaleidoscope Red Table Wine blend, Lambrusca di Alessandria and Sangio’s Peach Sangria.

ery if you like… Italian varietals, premium reds and whites, affordable prices, Italian bistro fare, family friendly, dog-friendly grounds, knowledgeable servers, laid-back atmosphere, small crowds, tours, views.

Avoid Cougar Winery if you like… French or Spanish varietals, hip vibe, younger crowd, live music, party atmosphere, people watching, full-service restaurant, wine slushies, food trucks.

Feel free to reach out to me with tips, questions or comments at mysterywino@protonmail.com.

Next up: Callaway Winery

Temecula development history to be presented by Rancon Group founder and chair The Temecula Valley Historical Society invites the public to a presentation by Dan Stephenson, founder and chair of the Rancon Group, Monday, Oct. 25, at 6 p.m. at the Little Temecula History Center, the red barn at the corner of Wolf Store Road and Redhawk Parkway.

Stephenson first purchased property in the Temecula area in 1968 and has since been involved with the development of the area. He is revered as a businessman, a business advocate and a generous humanitarian. Stephenson attended the Harvard University School of Business and graduated from the University of Southern California. He founded the Rancon real estate business in 1971, during Temecula’s first spurt of growth.

Some of his most well-known projects include the Bear Creek Golf Course Community and the Europa Village Winery Resort.

During his presentation to the historical society, Stephenson will tell his observations of the early days of the community’s development.

The presentation is free to the public.

For more information about the presentation, contact Rebecca Farnbach at info@temeculahistory.org.

Submitted by Temecula Valley Historical Society.

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HEALTH

Temecula senior leads 100 Boy Scouts to fight Alzheimer’s Four years ago, Timothy Dull, created a “Scouts Fighting Alzheimer’s Team/Temecula Troop 384” to participate in the Alzheimer’s Association Walk to End Alzheimer’s Temecula.

Since then, he has grown the team exponentially and has set a goal of raising $25,000 overall. Dull was named the Most Outstanding Walker for the Alzheimer’s Association California Chapter in 2020, out of 13 walks which serve a geography of 16.3 million.

For his Eagle Scout project, Dull created the first and only flower bed in the country for the event’s Promise Garden Ceremony and it will be used at walks across the Inland Empire throughout October.

Dull has become a representative for the Alzheimer’s Association, meeting with his local congressman on behalf of those facing

Alzheimer’s and their caregivers.

“The inspiration for doing all this is my Grandma Carole Smith,” Dull said. “We lost her to Alzheimer’s in 2017. I decided to dedicate my Boy Scout Eagle Project in her honor. I created the Promise Garden flower beds for all of the Inland Empire Walks in 2018.”

This year, for the first time since 2017, Dull was not able to attend the walk himself because the Great Oaks High School senior has to take his SAT exams, also scheduled for Oct. 2. Initially this year’s Temecula Walk, one of two scheduled in the month of October across the Inland Empire, was planned for Oct. 3. Dull ramped up the same day the walk date was announced, calling fellow Scouts, organizing fundraising and planning the reconstruction of the flower bed that is now nationally known. When the walk was moved

up a day, he grappled with the date and ultimately realized he needed to take his SAT. However, not attending in person on walk day did not stop him. He gathered current and former Scouts from across Temecula, their friends and family members to help the team become a top fundraiser again. Dull met with the walk’s organizers to bring the flower bed back and he worked closely with the Alzheimer’s Association Walk to End Alzheimer’s Temecula to offer any support needed.

Dull has trained to become an Alzheimer’s Impact Movement Advocate, to begin regularly meeting with his local congressman to speak about Alzheimer’s and find prevention and treatment options and ultimately a cure.

The young Scout personally has raised nearly $14,000 this

year alone, is the top individual fundraiser this year in Temecula and his “Scouts Fighting Alzheimer’s” team is the top fundraising team. Dull’s personal page can be found at https:// act.alz.org/site/TR/Walk2021/ CA-CaliforniaSouthland?team_ id=684165&pg=team&fr_ id=14314). Dull is among the “2021 Top Performers Nationwide,” having raised $13,655 for the cause, per the alz.org website.

Funds raised through the walks and donations support the Alzheimer’s Association 24/7 Helpline at (800) 272-3900, more than 40 virtual support groups and educational classes, research and advocacy and more across the Inland Empire. For more information, visit alz.org/walk.

Temecula Boy Scout Timothy Dull at the flower bed he created for the Alzheimer’s Association Walk to End Alzheimer’s Temecula Valley Promise Garden Ceremony. The annual walk is full of flowers, each carried by someone committed to ending the disease. Because, like flowers, the participants don’t stop when something is in their way.

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How to find health plan ‘perks’ during open enrollment season Rebecca Madsen CHIEF CONSUMER OFFICER, UNITEDHEALTHCARE

When it comes to health benefits, many people may often think about the financial protection provided in the event of a serious medical issue, illness or accident.

While that is a valuable aspect of having major medical coverage, some health plans may also offer a slew of other resources that can contribute to well-being and financial fitness.

That’s why it is important for people to research their health plan options during this fall’s open enrollment season, the time when individuals can select or switch their health benefits for 2022.

While 82% of people responding to a recent UnitedHealthcare survey said they are prepared for open enrollment, more than onequarter (28%) spend less than one hour researching their health benefit options.

Depending on the plans available, people may be able to access “health plan perks” that are potentially overlooked during the en-

rollment process. Here are several benefits, programs or discounts to look for when considering health plans for next year: Digital fitness apps. The COVID-19 pandemic has prompted some people to avoid public gyms due to potential exposure risks to the coronavirus, contributing to a surge in the popularity of at-home fitness routines. In fact, 30% of Americans surveyed said they had used a digital fitness app as part of their fitness regimen since COVID-19 emerged. To help more people access live and on-demand workouts virtually, some health plans now include subsidized subscriptions to digital fitness apps, in some cases giving yearlong access at no additional cost.

Wearable devices. Many U.S. employers offer well-being programs, some of which include financial incentives for healthy activities such as completing walking goals, going to the gym or meeting certain health benchmarks (e.g., cholesterol levels, body mass index or non-nicotine use). To help encourage participa-

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By using the device and meeting specific daily activity goals, such as for walking, biking, swimming or strength training, people may earn over $1,000 per year in financial incentives to help cover out-of-pocket medical expenses.

Physical therapy and chiropractic care. About 80% of people experience low back issues at least once, with pain ranging from a minor nuisance to a major disability. As a first course of treatment,

the American College of Physicians recommends exercise-based therapies followed by nonsurgical options such as physical therapy and chiropractic care. With that in mind, some health plans waive usual deductibles or copays for some of these nonsurgical options for new onset low back pain, to help improve access to this type of care while potentially avoiding often unnecessary (and expensive) treatments such as imaging or surgery.

Health care open enrollment usually occurs during a two-week period in the fall. For people with

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By looking for and using these potentially overlooked benefits and resources, people can help maximize the value of their health plan, support well-being and save money. To determine access to these programs, people can check with their company’s HR department or directly with their health plan.

RivCo residents see increase in food benefits CalFresh customers to receive one of the largest increases in history of federal program RIVERSIDE COUNTY – A quarter million people in Riverside County saw a healthy increase in their grocery budget last week when an expansion of their federal food benefits began.

The Friday, Oct. 1, increase marks one of the largest-ever in the federal program known as SNAP, or CalFresh in California.

Anti-poverty advocates say the extra help will be felt by millions of Americans, including Riverside County households that are struggling to make ends meet in the face of rising prices.

The average monthly CalFresh benefit per customer will increase by about $36, which equates to more than $140 for a family of four. Officials say the increase will make a positive difference at the grocery store checkout counter.

“This program is vital to children and adults in Riverside County. It empowers our customers by providing them with means to buy healthy food and increase their food security,” Allison Gonzalez, assistant director of the Self Sufficiency program at the county’s Department of Public Social Services, said.

CalFresh, the state’s largest anti-hunger program, has been crucial in reducing food hardship and stimulating economic

Students at University of California, Riverside, hand out bags of groceries to fellow students in need at the campus’ food pantry. Some UCR students receive food assistance through the federal SNAP program, or CalFresh in California.

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activity during the pandemic. Last year, CalFresh generated more than $1 billion in economic activity for local grocers and eateries in Riverside County, according to the state program’s calculator.

Customers who currently receive CalFresh benefits do not need to take any steps to receive the increase. The extra benefits will automatically appear on monthly balances on their Electronic Benefits Transfer cards in October.

The increase in food benefits also corresponds with an increase in cash assistance. Customers in the CalWORKs program who receive cash-aid will see their maximum benefit amount rise by 5.3% to help individuals and families with rising costs for goods and housing.

Riverside County residents interested in applying for food and cash benefits can visit BenefitsCal. com or apply for CalFresh at GetCalFresh.org.

Eighth Annual Temecula Yoga 4 Hope in the Vines at Lorimar Winery TEMECULA – The eighth annual Yoga 4 Hope event Nov. 7 is projected to raise funds, awareness, prevention, rescue and rehabilitation of human sex trafficking victims and survivors by benefiting The Salvation Foundation. Michelle Trabelsi, creator of Bootie Camp Fitness and Temecula Yoga in the Vines, hosts this event each year and is also one of four local yoga instructors leading this all-level master class. Also in the lineup will be Danny White, Temecula Yoga Collective; Sally

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Kara Garland, founder of The Salvation Foundation and Amber Young from Ashima Soul will lead participants through a relaxing sound bowl healing and meditation. There will be live music by Joe Guillispie and inspirational speakers throughout the event from 8 to 11 a.m.

Temecula Yoga 4 Hope in the Vines is for yoga beginners and experts alike to bring awareness

to a very important cause. During the past eight years, hundreds of yogis from all over the Inland Empire and Southern California have been touched by this event that opened their hearts to hope.

The diverse, four-instructor lineup guarantees a little something for everyone on the mat. Off the mat there will be mimosas, shopping, live music and raffle and silent auction items. A donation of $35 includes a mimosa. To register, visit temeculayoga4hopinthevines.org.

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Rose care FUNdamentals for October

Gardening makes morning people out of us as it is the best time to assess garden conditions. Look for wilted or dry crispy foliage.

Frank Brines, ARS Master Rosarian SPECIAL TO VALLEY NEWS

Well, I always enjoy looking back to last year’s care column for the month. October 2020 was the hottest Oct. 1 on record with 102.8 degrees. According to Accuweather the average normal temps for Temecula is high of 83 and a low of 54. The average for 2020 was high 86.8 degrees and low 55.7 degrees. Predictions for this October are mild 90s for the first week decreasing to 80s by month’s end. Just to show the climate is changing.

All this is helpful for garden activities this month. Midseason pruning and fertilizing must be carefully coordinated with weather conditions. When temperatures are in the 90-100s range, take care to not remove too much foliage because this can overexpose canes to the fierce sun resulting in sunburn which can damage or kill otherwise healthy canes or entire plants. Heat damage was widespread this year. Make sure to routinely check your irrigation system.

Some gardeners experienced Chilli thrips, I was one of them.

My garden was attacked at the end of September. I missed timely

spraying and had to prune more heavily than normal.

Rose Societies are beginning more normal meetings and shows.

Orange County Rose Society is sponsoring a show Oct. 23 in Yorba Linda at the Nixon Library.

There are possibly two shows in November. The closest one will be in Palm Desert Nov. 13. I hope my roses will repeat that soon so I will be able to participate. I think everyone should visit a show when they are so close to learn what does well in local areas, to find a new variety for your garden and to get acquainted with other rose enthusiasts.

If you missed starting your fertilizer program last month, it is time to restart now if you’re following my summer growing schedule. Make sure plants are thoroughly watered the day before you fertilize. I recommend organic types and alternating with one that includes fish emulsion. This time of year, I suggest using a fertilizer that contains a greater percentage of phosphate in relation to nitrogen and potassium to encourage stronger root systems and resistance to stress. A soil test may indicate that you may need some other mineral to make the added phosphate available or if needed.

When temperatures are in the

90-plus and you do not use organics, hold off fertilizing for cooler weather. If you apply a fertilizer dissolved in water early in the day you can apply it right over the bush from top instead of at the base in a well. This application also does a foliar feed. A Hybrid Tea needs about 2 gallons of solution and should be watered after a couple of days.

Dry granular products should be scratched into the soil surface around the base of the plant to the drip line and then watered in.

Apply at the recommended concentration on the label. If growing in pots, use half the recommended concentration but apply more frequently. Repeat every two weeks.

Alternating with liquid and dry is most beneficial. The last day for fertilizing is 30 days before the “first frost date” which is around mid-November in the Temecula Valley.

It is necessary that plants receive adequate water to stay hydrated. It takes only a few days of 90-degree temperatures for a bush to become seriously stressed and damaged without sufficient

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water. Hybrid Teas can survive with 3 gallons of water twice a week. Make that your absolute minimum. The composition of soil affects water retention and the time for the soil to dry out.

Four inches of good mulch will greatly reduce evaporation of soil moisture. With potted roses this is even more critical.

Gardening makes morning people out of us as that is the best time to assess garden conditions.

Look for wilted or dry crispy foliage. If discovered soon enough, dousing severely stressed plants with plenty of water may save it. If you wait until afternoon or evening to inspect it may be too late. After a hot day most plants can appear a little wilted while still receiving sufficient hydration so afternoon checking would give you wrong information.

Routinely inspect the irrigation system to make sure it is delivering water as designed. Correct any problems ASAP: Your plant’s life depends on it. Plants in clay pots require more water, plants in plastic pots are better. Soil in any type of pot material can pull

away from the sides of the pot and water will just run through and out the drain holes in the bottom.

This problem can be corrected by pressing the soil back against the inside sides of the pot when the soil is wet. Saucers under the pots may help too.

Spider mites and Chilli thrips are common problems in hot, dry, dusty conditions. This topic was covered in September care column: https://www.temeculavalleyrosesociety.org/nl/NL202109. shtml#h12.

A valuable bimonthly magazine which covers rose topics is the American Rose published by the American Rose Society. Go to www.rose.org for more information on obtaining it.

When you have a moment to spare, or feel the need to get away, or when the day cools down, take your favorite beverage, a picnic basket and visit our local one-ofa-kind Rose Haven Heritage Garden, 30592 Jedediah Smith Road, Temecula (cross street Cabrillo Avenue). Also, visit our website, www.TemeculaValleyRoseSociety.org. Spread the joy of roses!

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San Jacinto Valley women don’t give up Diane A. Rhodes SPECIAL TO VALLEY NEWS

The annual San Jacinto Valley Women’s Conference has raised and awarded more than $30,000 in scholarships to deserving women since its first conference in 2012.

The nonprofit usually hosts its annual event in February but due to pandemic-related restrictions, this year’s conference didn’t happen until Oct. 7.

This year’s theme of “Women Don’t Give Up” seemed to address both the postponement and the personal stories of some of the guest speakers. The event attracted 85 women, and a few men, to the Elks Lodge in Hemet. San Jacinto Unified School District’s Dawn Lawrence emceed for the second time.

On behalf of the San Jacinto City Council, councilmember Brian Hawkins presented a Certificate of Recognition plaque to SJVWC President Dee Cozart to express its sincere appreciation for the “ongoing contributions and continued work as leaders in strengthening our community.”

Dalida Jaafar was the first guest speaker and her story exemplified how “Women Don’t Give Up.” Before building a successful business for herself in her home country of Lebanon, the single mom said she had relied on unhealthy relationships because she lacked confidence in her own abilities.

“One of the biggest courageous actions you can do is to seek help if you need it,” Jaafar said. “That’s why we’re here today; to help each other and to support each other because no one can do it alone.” She said finding a life coach helped raise her awareness and raise her confidence. Because she was focused on her daughter’s well-being, she didn’t heal from what was going on within her own self.

She said when she started caring about herself first, she got involved with self-development and found her purpose and passion from the misery and pain she had been through. She built a company that empowered other women and traveled all over the world, helping women everywhere.

“For the first time in my life I was proud of me, and I didn’t need anyone else to make me feel that I’m worth it,” she said. “In 2019, I was in heaven. In November 2019, I woke up to hell. A revolution started in Lebanon and the country was on fire. My business collapsed and my work of 11 years all went away.”

San Jacinto Valley Women’s Conference President Dee Cozart accepts a recognition plaque for the nonprofit from San Jacinto City Councilmember Brian Hawkins, Oct. 7. Valley News/Diane A. Rhodes photo

Jaafar wanted to build again but felt it would not be able to happen in Lebanon. She chose to move to the United States, full of hope and looking forward to pursuing her passion of coaching and training and empowering young women.

But she had her doubts about starting a new life in a new country.

She was able to cope when she learned “how you see yourself is how people see you; how you value yourself, people value you.”

This led her to move forward and get back on her path to success.

Jaafar works in management with H&R Block while focusing on her Transformative Coaching sessions, training and network marketing to empower entrepreneurs and especially single mothers like herself to overcome hardships and pursue their own dreams. She is in the process of building a nonprofit to promote youth development.

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“Life without a dream is not a life,” she said. “My message to you today is: don’t give up on yourself.”

Lauri Morris, a certified personal styling coach and image consultant, gave an inspiring presentation about how she started her Diversified Diva online fashion boutique business. She has been in the cosmetics and fashion industry for 20 years, starting with Merle Norman Cosmetics. Her many years of becoming attuned to a women’s fashion needs based on their body type and colors also helped empower women to find their confidence. After overcoming strokes and chronic leukemia, she is happier, healthier and ready to share her secrets with other women on how to look good,

feel fabulous and overcome any setbacks.

“I was always so focused on other women as part of my job that I didn’t think about me,” Morris said. “In 2014, I had three strokes and had emergency surgery to place a stent in my carotid artery, giving me a 50-50 chance of recovery.” A few months later she learned that a rare blood cancer is what led to her strokes and she had to spend the next couple of years focusing on herself.

Using herself as a human mannequin, Morris gave the audience a quick fashion lesson that gave insight as to how to be fashionable with a few simple changes throughout the day in what she calls “column dressing.” She explained that because we are still in that hybrid period of virtual and in-person meetings, it is important to think about what works “head-to-toe” as well as “head-to-waist” so you always look “put together.”

“Because we are coming out the pandemic, I don’t think we are ever going to lose the Zoom meetings; remember why your personal style is important and know you are worth the time,” she said. Morris’ many specialized services can be found at https://linktr.ee/divagirl.

Guest speaker Rebecca Owens’ motto is “Nothing is impossible, so find the possible.” Since she was 10 years old she knew that working with cancer patients would be her life’s purpose and passion. She has spent 20 years researching, learning, selling, creating and building novel solutions to bridge the gaps in communication and understandings about cancer. At the core of

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Rebecca Owens discusses the importance of customized cancer testing and treatment during her presentation at the 2021 San Jacinto Valley Women’s Conference, Oct. 7. Valley News/Diane A. Rhodes photo

Dalida Jaafar shares her self-development journey with guests at this year’s San Jacinto Valley Women’s Conference in Hemet, Oct. 7.

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her work are ethics, quality, transparency and respect for the patient as they deal with this life-altering disease. Owens’ startup company, Swellter.com, is using technological advancements and knowledge she has gained through the years to create a “patient immersion app” that enables the patient to understand the illness they are dealing with in real time.

A cancer pandemic “Cancer is the real pandemic,” Owens said. “One in four will get it and 60-80% of patients are still not receiving the standard of care testing they should. Knowledge and access to care is greatly lacking, and I’ve spent my career educating physicians on when and where to use cancer testing.”

In her field of cancer study, she is working on genomic profiling associated to novel targeted therapies and said “Physicians, on average, are 20 to 30 years behind in their medical literature and these are the people we go to and entrust with our lives and yet they can’t possibly keep up with the evolving science and literature.”

Another statistic Owens talked about was that there are 70,000 new clinical tests brought to market each year. The average oncologist sees 30 to 50 patients a day so there is no way they can keep up. In trying to find a way to let cancer patients know and understand what tests or treatments are available to them, Owens is building a platform right now where patients can become their own advocates by navigating personalized resources that will optimize their care.

“There are plenty of reasons why this has to be done,” Owens said, after holding up a laptop screen that displayed her “why” for doing what she does. Her father, mother, fiancé and friend who all have been affected by a cancer diagnosis and should have had access to customized care. Owens can be contacted at connect@swellter.com.

Nikkal FeyRose brought entertainment to the conference with her explanation and demonstration of the history of belly dancing. She explained some of the key movements and invited guests stand up to learn them along with her. FeyRose has trained in many styles of world dance and has professionally performed for more than 20 years.

She is one of the few Polynesian fire sword dancers in Southern California. She is the house dancer at Café Sevilla in San Diego, Costa Mesa and Long Beach. FeyRose teaches classes and private lessons online and in person as the owner and producer of The Dancing Belly Dance Company.

“The dance was originally taught by women for women; each country has a different style,” FeyRose said. “You can get a quite a workout from doing this.”

Throughout the event vendors of all types set up tables and displays to share with guests. From jewelry

to crafts, knick-knacks and health enhancing items, there was something that appealed to a wide array of tastes and interests.

Conference attendee Margaret Jimenez said she enjoyed all the speakers and thought the event was very well put together. “All of us have different stories but we’re all in the same boat,” she said.

Barbara Harvey has attended several San Jacinto Valley Women’s Conferences in the past and said she always receives lots of good information. She particularly enjoyed Morris’ presentation. “It’s very interesting how new technology is helping people and why it’s important to be your own advocate,” she said.

Organized by a group of local businesswomen in 2010 who shared a mission “to provide a positive experience for valley women as we raise funds to help local women improve and advance their educational goals” the annual San Jacinto Valley Women’s Conference is meant to be “a dynamic day of speakers and networking for so many women to refresh, learn and be inspired.” Twelve women from that original group came together with a common goal of providing a Women’s Conference by and for women in the San Jacinto Valley and the surrounding region.

“This began as a networking, learning experience and it took us a whole year to plan our first conference; by our third year, we had to put a cap on the number of tickets we sold,” Cozart said. “We continue to progress. All of this was built on the backbone of really dynamic women volunteers and the support of women owned and/or operated businesses.”

Cozart said the scholarships can be used for many different purposes such as a woman who needs the money to pay for a certification program or to pay for a test to get a better job or position. She said some of the recipients are reentering the workforce after taking time off to raise a family or because they faced life-changing hardships that altered their course.

The SJVWC Scholarship Program serves to encourage and enable women to obtain and further their education to allow them to provide for themselves, their families and the community. The awards are funded by the work of the annual Women’s Conference.

Completed applications, along with all required documents, must be recorded as sent via email or postmarked no later than March 8, 2022.

The COVID-19 pandemic may have crippled communities and altered many events, but San Jacinto Valley women don’t give up and they have already scheduled the 2022 Women’s Conference for Thursday, Feb. 24. For more information, a scholarship application and updates, visit SJVWC.org, Facebook or call Diana at (760) 898-9585.

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Chi Construction to replace Lake Mathews wastewater system; Overlook named after late representative Lake Mathews overlook named after Don Galleano Joe Naiman WRITER

Two actions at the Oct. 12 Metropolitan Water District of Southern California board meeting addressed Lake Mathews.

One vote awarded a $3,815,000 contract to Chi Construction to replace the wastewater system at Lake Mathews. The other vote named the overlook at Lake Mathews after Don Galleano, who was the Western Municipal Water District representative on the MWD board before passing away June 2.

The on-site wastewater system at Lake Mathews serves the facility’s maintenance buildings, administrative offices and repair shops. Lake Mathews was constructed in the 1930s as the western end of the Colorado River Aqueduct system which conveys Colorado River supply from Parker Dam, and the wastewater system was installed when Lake Mathews was constructed. The wastewater system was expanded significantly in the 1960s. At the time no municipal sewer service was available in the area.

The wastewater system consists of five community septic tanks, leach fields, collector lines which convey wastewater from facilities to the septic tanks, and sewer

laterals which convey wastewater from individual buildings to the collector lines. The system includes approximately 6,000 feet of collector lines and sewer laterals. At each septic tank solid waste settles to the bottom of several chambers and then receives biological treatment. Pump trucks periodically remove the solids and the liquid effluent is dispersed through perforated pipes into subsurface soils at the leach fields.

The system has received regular maintenance but is deteriorating due to its age. Slow-draining sinks and toilets, clogged pipes, septic tank backups, and clogged leach fields have been experienced.

MWD staff determined that replacement of the system would be more economically feasible over the long term than continuing to repair components.

Recent residential development near Lake Mathews has expanded the area’s municipal wastewater collection system, which is owned and operated by the Western Municipal Water District. When the Lake Mathews wastewater system is replaced it will be connected to the public conveyance system.

When Western constructed its nearby sewer main a connection point was specifically installed for Lake Mathews’ future use, and that connection can accept

wastewater by gravity flow from all of the Lake Mathews facilities.

MWD’s board authorized the preliminary design process to replace the wastewater system in May 2017 and the final design process in May 2018. The approval of the final design also found the replacement of an existing facility to be categorically exempt from California Environmental Quality Act review. The scope of work includes removing the existing collector lines, septic tanks, leach fields and accessways, installing new collector lines, accessways and cleanouts, connecting the new lines to the existing facilities and to the Western sewer main, traffic control during construction and site restoration $3.815 milllion low bid.

The engineer’s estimate for the wastewater system replacement was $4,970,000. MWD received three bids by the Sept. 1 deadline.

Chi Construction, which is based in Anaheim, had the low bid of $3,815,000 Trinity Construction of Blue Jay bid $3,904,458.88 and CEM Construction Corporation of Montebello submitted a bid of $4,153,720. The Chi Construction bid included subcontractor work

by Manhole Builders Inc. of Corona and Brickley Environmental of San Bernardino.

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Vineyard Place names community relations director M U R R I E TA – A d r i a n n e Brouckaert has been named community relations director for Vineyard Place, an Anthem Memory Care community in Murrieta. In this position, she will be responsible for community outreach and marketing.

Brouckaert previously was sales director for Felicita Vida Senior Living in Escondido. She was also community relations direc-

tor for Las Villas De Carlsbad in Carlsbad. She brings over 10 years of senior living experience to this position. She earned an associate degree in criminal justice from Macomb Community College in Warren, Michigan.

Vineyard Place is located at 24325 Washington Avenue in Murrieta.

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Adrianne Brouckaert is now the community relations director for Vineyard Place responsible for community outreach and marketing.

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Primerica promotes local representative to regional vice president TEMECULA – Primerica Inc., a leading provider of financial services to middle income families in North America, announced the promotion of Aida Karina Rocha to regional vice president. Primerica

representatives educate their clients about how to better prepare for a more secure financial future by assessing their needs and providing appropriate solutions through term life insurance and mutual funds, an-

nuities and other financial products.

Rocha may be reached in Temecula at (951) 365-9422. Additional information about Primerica may be found at www.primerica.com.

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the difference between the bid amounts and the engineer’s estimate the lower bids were attributed to expanded use of power equipment to excavate non-rippable earth material, which will likely avoid delays and cost increases compared to other rock excavation methods. The $5,425,000 total budget includes $446,000 for construction inspection and support, $292,000 for program management and environmental monitoring, $248,000 for review of drawing submittals, $150,000 for connection fees and permits and $474,000 for contingency in addition to the contract amount.

MWD expects the wastewater system replacement to be complete by February 2023.

MWD’s facilities naming policy establishes criteria and procedures to submit a request to name a Metropolitan Water District facility after a person. The criteria includes that the person had a substantial, important and positive impact on MWD as a board or staff member and/or demonstrated distinguished civic achievements while maintaining close ties with and providing significant support to MWD and/or the water industry. Eastern Municipal Water District board member Randy Record, who is the EMWD delegate to the MWD board, requested that

the overlook at Lake Mathews be named for Galleano.

“I think it was appropriate. I think it’s well deserved. Don was a quiet leader. He spent most of his life serving the community,” Record said.

Galleano had been on the Western Municipal Water District board since 2004 and had been Western’s delegate to the MWD board from May 2015 until his death.

“I really enjoyed serving with Don on the Met board,” Record said.

Galleano often made monthly visits to Lake Mathews to monitor lake levels and report updates to MWD staff. During his years on the MWD board he was on the Agricultural and Industry Relations Committee, Communications and Legislation Committee, Engineering and Operations Committee, Integrated Resources Plan Special Committee and Organization, Personnel and Technology Committee. He also served on the board of Riverside County’s Local Agency Formation Committee which handles jurisdictional changes for cities and special districts.

Record grows wine grapes professionally as did Galleano. “Just a very good personal friend,” Record said.

National Charity League Inc. Temecula Valley Chapter announces annual membership drive TEMECULA – The Temecula Valley Chapter of National Charity League Inc., the nation’s premier mother-daughter volunteer organization, has announced its annual membership drive and has begun accepting applications from women with daughters currently in sixth grade. The Temecula Valley Chapter has more than 250 members who reside in Temecula and Murrieta.

Temecula Valley Chapter motherdaughter teams contribute hundreds of volunteer hours annually for over two dozen philanthropic organizations in the community, including Jacob’s House, Community Mission of Hope, Michelle’s Place and Rose Again Foundation.

“We are excited for the opportunity to welcome new mothers and daughters into our chapter as we continue to create life-long philanthropists who graciously serve the community,” Autumn Herrera, Tem-

ecula Valley Chapter President, said.

For more information, prospective members are encouraged to visit the Temecula Valley Chapter’s website at nationalcharityleague. org/chapter/temeculavalley, or send an email to Nicole Gann at membershiptemeculavalley@nclonline.org.

Applications for membership are accepted only during the annual membership drive from Oct. 1 to Jan. 15, 2022. A prospective member shall reside in Temecula or Murrieta and have a daughter currently in sixth grade. Interested mothers are encouraged to attend one of the prospective member meetings. To receive an invitation, please contact the chapter at membershiptemeculavalley@nclonline. org. Completed applications are due

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SPORTS October 22 – 28, 2021

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Volume 21, Issue 43

Week Eight high school football recap from around the valley JP Raineri SPORTS EDITOR

Only two weeks remain in the high school football regular season. That’s it. Two weeks to figure out what needs to be done to advance through to the playoffs.

Some teams, who might not have had the best of seasons, can still be spoilers for other teams when it comes to the elusive league title, as long as complacency doesn’t set in for those with no hope. With the completion of Week Eight games, the Southwestern League is still where most of the eyes in the valley are focused as both the Murrieta Valley Nighthawks and Vista Murrieta Broncos remain undefeated in league. Both teams managed to put up healthy numbers again in Week Eight, while only allowing a combined 13 points from their competition.

The only Southwestern League game that saw a decent amount of action from both sides was the Chaparral and Temecula Valley bout. The Pumas, who had quite a few of their top players sidelined for recovery reasons, struggled to move the ball as they only led 20-13 going into halftime.

Unfortunately, the Golden Bears would be no match for Chaparral’s second half rebound as the Pumas scored five touchdowns to defeat their crosstown rival host, 55-27.

Chaparral’s freshman quarterback Dash Beierly, who got the start in place of injured Caron Tyler, threw for four touchdowns and senior running back Hunter Roddy added three rushing touchdowns as Chaparral (5-3, 2-1) unloaded on the Golden Bears. Temecula Valley quarterback Jake Bester threw two fourth quarter touchdowns, an 8-yard pass to Gavin Howell and a 77-yard touchdown to Samuel Gbatu.

Beierly finished the night completing 18 of 28 passes to nine different receivers for 277 yards and Roddy ended the game rushing for 143 yards on 20 carries.

Bester completed 17 of 29 passes for 257 yards and Gbatu hauled in six receptions for 176 yards.

As the game concluded, both teams set the tone for an amazing gesture as Temecula Valley senior Brody Lock was given the ball at the 40-yard line and scored a noncounting touchdown. Afterward Lock was celebrated by members of both teams in the end zone.

Lock has been the Team Manager for Temecula Valley all four of his high school years. His job has been to run out and pick up the tee after every kickoff.

“He has earned respect from his peers for his energy, team spirit and engagement with the crowd,” TV football mom and local business owner Charity Prestifilippo, who also runs the nonprofit “Char-

Murrieta Mesa’s Cade Moran (23) is brought down by a Murrieta Valley defender during league play at Murrieta Mesa High School Friday, Oct. 15.

Valley News/Andrez Imaging

ity for Charity” said.

In an online video description, it was noted that at the last home game, Lock also won Homecoming King and in last week’s game against Chaparral, proving the school’s love, respect and admiration for him, he was given the opportunity to suit up for senior night.

“This is the last time this team would play on their home field, so Brody suited up in full uniform for one of the biggest moments of his life,” Prestifilippo, who uploaded the video on social media, added.

Just down the Interstate 15 freeway, Temescal Canyon’s Grant Givens had a night hauling in three touchdown receptions in the first half of the Titan’s Week Eight 3422 victory over Rancho Verde in Ivy League play.

Givens had 5 catches for 78 yards for the Titans, who also managed three turnovers by the defense and a pair of key field goals to secure the win late in the game. Rancho Verde did find their way back in the game early on with a pair of rushing touchdowns from Rickey Renwrick and Dylan see FOOTBALL, page C-2

Murrieta Valley’s Tayven Lamprey (6) drags defender Izaiah Rivas (10) down the sideline with him for a big Valley News/Andrez Imaging gain during Week Eight action.

Prep volleyball recap: Week ending 10/16 Derryl Trujillo CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Breanna Mitchell has been key in Linfield’s sixteen-win season.

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Well, the regular season has ended, and our attention now turns to the playoffs. Valley News has the pairings, rankings, a preview and players of the week to honor.

CIF-SS Final Coaches Poll as of 10/16 A new poll comes out just after deadline so here are Valley News area teams with rankings as determined by the CIF-SS volleyball advisory committee from last week.

Division 1 6. Vista Murrieta Division 2 9. Great Oak Division 6 5. West Valley 6. San Jacinto Division 8 6. Temecula Prep Division 9 4. San Jacinto Valley Academy 6. Lakeside 8. St. Jeanne’s De Lestonnac 10. California Lutheran

Players of the Week 10/16 There are several players of the week Valley News would like to honor below.

Breanna Mitchell, SR, Linfield Christian After the Lions graduated most of Eric Hawes’ back-to-back CIFSS championship team, folks like myself had questions about whether they could keep the wave up.

Mitchell has been key in Linfield’s sixteen-win (eight in Ambassador League) season which will continue next week with CIF-SS playoffs. Last Thursday at Aquinas she posted 13 kills, 2 aces, 8 digs, 4 blocks and 11 assists in another five-set win which clinched that playoff bid.

Note: Stats are through four sets due to technical difficulties with Linfield’s stat keeping system.

First year head coach Dana Ortiz said about Mitchell, “Bre has been a steady player for us all season.

Despite being a libero in her club season and signing to play that see VOLLEYBALL, page C-3

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SPORTS

Anza’s Hamilton overcomes Santa Rosa in South Valley League action, 21-12

Santa Rosa QB Adam Pinard looking downfield against Hamilton.

Valley News/Joe Quinn photos

Joe Quinn SPECIAL TO THE VALLEY NEWS

The Hamilton Bobcats met the Santa Rosa Rangers Saturday, Oct. 16, under the lights and given the first quarter activity, it looked to be a slow but “crunch football” game.

Neither team managed significant early gains and indeed, through the night, there were few to speak of showing the strength of both team’s defensive units. A hard open field tackle by the Rangers Jeremiah Park seemed to symbol-

ize the quarter that ended tied at zero and with only a few flashes by either team.

Hamilton did break away in the second quarter scoring on their second play of the drive after recovering a Ranger fumble on their six-yard line. QB Caleb Speir carried it in for the first score of the night. The conversion by Brady McDermott was good and they led 7-0. They weren’t done yet and after a Santa Rosa punt and a beautifully executed pass over the middle, which caught Alex

Santa Rosa’s defense swarms Hamilton during Week Eight action.

Lopez in full stride, he was off on a long gain for the Bobcats’ second touchdown.

Although the half saw the Rangers head into the locker room down 14-0, they did not stay submissive and scored the only TD of the third quarter when Daniel Gonzalez took it in over right tackle. That lead only expanded as Hamilton scored again in the third on four long and fast plays that seemed to put the game away with a 21-6 lead.

The fourth quarter reverted to

the slow and hard action of the early game until the Bobcats fumbled the ball several yards forward from midfield on a hard tackle.

Santa Rosa’s Brody Worthington scooped it up and advanced it to the Bobcats 45. From there the Rangers advanced quickly and on the fourth play from scrimmage, Adam Pinard lofted a bomb to Tyler Baxter in the back of the end zone bringing the Rangers seemingly into range, 21-12. The conversion failed. It was not to be for the Rangers of course as the score

was late in the game and it ended with no further opportunities.

Along the way the game featured some strong punting by Sydney Geske, perhaps the only female in the league in varsity football and heads up running and gains by freshman Daniel Marlow.

Santa Rosa is away this week at Perris, to play the California Military Academy. Both are at 2-2 in league play.

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

USC Athletics and Pechanga announce official sponsorship agreement Multi-season, first in state sponsorship to extend to University-Tribal education alliance In a first of its kind agreement in California, Pechanga and the University of Southern California announced a new sponsorship agreement that establishes a university-tribal education alliance and creates an annual scholarship fund.

Under the agreement, the Pechanga Resort Casino was designated as the Official Resort & Casino of the USC Trojans and an official partner of USC Athletics. The partnership stands apart from other Pac-12 schools and California casinos and tribes with the establishment of the education alliance. Pechanga has committed an additional $200,000 per year to further students’ higher education goals.

“We are very excited about the scholarship fund and the opportunity to establish and deepen a formal relationship between the Tribe and the University,” Mark Macarro, Tribal Chairman of the Pechanga Band of Luiseño Indians, said. “This partnership will result in new and meaningful enrichment

opportunities for Native youth.”

“Pechanga has a very long and proud history of giving back to the community,” Andrew Masiel Sr., President of the Pechanga Development Corporation, said. “I love going to USC games because they’re an experience. The energy, physical ability, and dedication the student athletes exude week after week is what we hope to show our own Pechanga youth. And to be able to contribute to students’ next chapters in life so they can become the doers and leaders of tomorrow, this is where our hearts are. We are honored to know our contribution and this partnership will resonate throughout our Southern California community for years to come.”

“We are thrilled to announce this inspiring partnership with Pechanga Resort Casino,” director of athletics Mike Bohn, said.

“Their commitment to community initiatives and cause marketing is aligned with our campus values and represents the foundation

upon which this alliance is built.

The future of our partnership is so bright because of our shared dedication to the development of young people and positively impacting our community. This relationship is much more than the typical sponsorship agreement, and we are extremely excited to set a new industry standard in this space.

We’re grateful to Pechanga leadership for supporting our university and student-athletes.”

The Pechanga and USC partnership extends across the NCAA collegiate football season, men’s and women’s basketball season, the USC Trojans Radio Network, digital and social platforms, USC Athletics and extensive community outreach and cause-based initiatives.

Audiences will see Pechanga’s logos and name inside the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, home of USC Trojans football. Pechanga and USC plan to share more details of the scholarship and University-

Cal Lutheran running back Andre Ramirez (6) rounds the outside edge of the line for a Valley News/Andrez Imaging good yardage gain against Cal Baptist Saturday, Oct. 16.

FOOTBALL from page C-1 Riley, only trailing 21-14 at the half after Givens recorded his third touchdown reception. Temescal Canyon would score 10 unanswered points to start the second half, which would be enough to secure the victory. The boot from Titan kicker Ismael Figueroa would be the edge they needed after he drilled shots from 38 and 44 yards to fend off the Mustangs.

Temescal Canyon (6-2, 3-0) quarterback Koa Apana completed 14 of 25 passes for 221 yards while rushing for 60 yards. Zachary Horton had four receptions for 54 yards and teammate Sonny Kessell helped with three catches for 53 yards. Riley led Rancho Verde (25, 1-2) on the ground with 21 carries for 152 yards, while Renwrick gained 94 yards on 15 attempts.

More quick game recaps Murrieta Valley (3-0, 5-3) 49, Murrieta Mesa (0-3, 0-7)

7: Brandon Rose passed for 271 yards and three touchdowns and added another score on the ground in the Nighthawks (5-3, 3-0) third straight Southwestern League win.

Tiger Bachmeier had six catches for 129 yards and a touchdown, and Kavin Young caught two touchdown passes. Asa Chatman scored twice on the ground.

Vista Murrieta (3-0, 7-1) 38, Great Oak (1-2, 3-5) 6: Brady Jones threw four touchdown passes and ran for another as the Broncos (7-1, 3-0) picked up their third straight Southwestern League win as well. Grant Wayne had two touchdown receptions for Vista Murrieta, and Gavin Galzote and Jack Pedersen each had one for the Broncos as well.

North (3-0, 8-0) 41, Hemet (11, 4-4) 7: Jaidyn Gamble threw for 193 yards and five touchdowns as the Huskies (8-0, 3-0) win.

Ashar Granger, Ahson Elliott and Damien Allala each scored two

The USC Athletics Department and Pechanga Resort Casino recently announced a sponsorship agreement.

Valley News/Courtesy photo

Tribal Education Alliance in the weeks ahead, as well as additional support and involvement in special charitable causes important to both Pechanga and USC. Pechanga Resort Casino offers one of the largest and most ex-

pansive resort/casino experiences anywhere in the United States and is owned and operated by the Pechanga Band of Luiseño Indians.

For more information, call (877) 711-2946 or visit www.Pechanga. com.

Caleb Burge gets a few yards straight up the middle for Cal Baptist as Cal Lutheran defender Reece Kennedy helps bring him down.

touchdowns for North.

San Jacinto (1-0, 5-1) 49, West Valley (1-2, 4-3) 0: Dereun Dortch threw two touchdown passes, and David Myers added two touchdowns on the ground as the Tigers (6-1, 2-0) coasted to a Mountain Pass League win.

California School for the Deaf - Riverside (2-0, 7-0) 60, San Jacinto Valley Academy (2-1, 4-4) 15: Trevin Adams threw for 374 yards and six touchdowns and also ran for 111 yards and two touchdowns as the Cubs (7-0, 3-0) won their Victory League match-up.

Jory Valencia and Felix Gonzalez caught three touchdowns apiece, and Valencia also registered his seventh interception of the season.

Heritage (2-1, 3-5) 15, Elsinore (1-1, 5-3) 14: Isaac Ahmed kicked a field goal during the final minute as the Patriots (3-5, 1-1) rallied for an Ivy League victory. Heritage came back after trailing 15-6 early in the fourth quarter. Donovan

Harvey rushed for 80 yards and a touchdown for Elsinore (5-3, 1-1).

Lakeside (2-1, 5-3) 35, Canyon Springs (0-3, 4-4) 3: Darius Norwood and Braiden Toohey combined to rush for 265 yards and two touchdowns as the Lancers (5-3, 2-1) won their second Inland Valley League game. Rene Maldonado threw a touchdown pass and ran for another.

Hamilton (3-0, 4-3) 21, Santa Rosa Academy (2-2, 3-4) 12: See full article from Joe Quinn at top of page.

Other Week Eight prep football scores from around the valley include: THURSDAY 10/14 Sunbelt League Orange Vista (2-1, 5-3) 28, Paloma Valley (0-3, 0-7) 21 (2 OT) FRIDAY 10/15 Ambassador League Ontario Christian (2-0, 5-1-1) 52, Linfield Christian (1-1, 1-6) 0 Mountain Pass League

Tahquitz (2-1, 3-3) 31, Citrus Hill (1-1, 1-6) 6 South Valley League Nuview Bridge (4-0, 4-3) 21, California Military Institute (2-2, 2-5) 0 Nonleague Vista del Lago (3-0, 5-3) 69, Perris (0-3, 1-7) 12 SATURDAY 10/16 Majestic League Cal Lutheran (1-0, 4-2) 56, Calvary Baptist (1-1, 4-3) 48 Nonleague Cornerstone Christian (1-1, 2-4) 34, Southlands Christian (0-5) 0 *Photos and sports scores/stats/ highlights can be submitted to sports@reedermedia.com. Stats, standings, results provided by MaxPreps, local ADs, fans of the game, social media and the Valley News Sports Department.

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

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Local F45 gyms compete in playoffs JP Raineri SPORTS EDITOR

Earlier this month the owners, members and trainers from the two local F45 HIIT training facilities (Temecula and Murrieta North) met up to compete in a playoff driven competition where bragging rights were surely up for grabs. In F45, the ‘F’ stands for functional training, a mix of circuit and HIIT style workouts geared toward everyday movement and the sessions are usually no longer than 45 minutes. Leading up to the playoffs, those who chose to compete trained at weekly sessions that were geared toward friendly competition.

“The F45 Playoffs is the ultimate fitness test, 10 grueling minutes that will test your strength, agility and endurance,” Murrieta North owner Brad Coonradt said. “We have fun at our studio, but we are also incredibly competitive. Not only did we want to compete at our facility, but we also took it one step further and decided to schedule a “friendly-competitive” match against Temecula to see who is the ultimate F45er.

The F45 playoffs between Murrieta and Temecula members was held earlier this month at the Temecula location.

Valley News/Ericka Chavez photos

Coonradt was the overall individual winner with 689 points, representing his gym well, but Temecula secured the team victory with their average scores.

Averages had to be taken into consideration because Murrieta showed up with a studio full of eager competitors, while Temecula kept their competitor count small and comfortable.

“It was a great day for both studios and for our members, we look forward to hosting the next one in December,” Coonradt said.

The Murrieta North location, 36100 Hidden Springs Road Suite A, is currently open in the mornings and afternoons before and after work, as is the Temecula location, 41493 Margarita Road Suite G101. Current membership

Two F45 Murrieta North members, Aja Paculba and Breanna Ohler, compete in a team competition held in Temecula earlier this month.

offers include a one-week no risk trial at either location. Inquire with owners and staff regarding pricing. Search F45 online for more

information.

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

Students of MVHS Virtual Enterprise class set to host upcoming golf tournament JP Raineri SPORTS EDITOR

Students at Murrieta Valley High School, who participate in the Virtual Enterprise program, are beginning to get ready for their upcoming competition season. Virtual Enterprise is an internationally recognized business simulation program that transforms students into executives. The student-run club will create a business that replicates all functions of a real company and then they compete across the state and nation against other schools in a variety of competitions.

In order to afford these trips, the

club is looking to have a major fundraiser, which will be an annual golf tournament held at the Bear Creek Country Club. This year they are looking to hold this golf tournament Monday, Nov. 22.

“This class offers an incredibly unique experience by allowing today’s students to be transformed into tomorrow’s business leaders,” says MVHS student and VP of Public Relations for their Virtual Enterprise class, Erika Salcedo.

Currently, the students are working to finish establishing their business, Desert Rose. Desert Rose will sell a line of fashion accessories made of cactus leather ranging from purses to wallets.

Their marketing plan is working to establish manufactures, graphing design is creating logos for the business, and accounting is working on the financial aspects of the company.

The Murrieta Valley Virtual Enterprise students plan to compete in five trade shows across the nation this year. The students are looking for sponsorships, donations, and golfers for their upcoming tournament. Updates on the program, and ways to contribute to it, can be found at https://mvhsvirtualenterprise.weebly.com.

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

Students from the Murrieta Valley High School Virtual Enterprise class are looking for sponsorships, donations, and golfers for their upcoming November tournament.

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VOLLEYBALL from page C-1 position in college (CSUN) she has done an excellent job of learning to set and hit this year.”

Rachel Lowe, SR, Paloma Valley Thursday morning at Elsinore, with an Ivy League championship on the line, the senior hit .667% with 10 kills on 15 attempts without an error.

Paloma Valley has won three straight Ivy League championships and will continue their season next week in the CIF-SS D2 playoffs.

Linfield Christian stays perfect in 5s with another in regular season finale Earlier this year Beaumont won five straight five set matches before dropping a second meeting to Cajon. Thursday night in San Bernardino the Lions won a sixth straight five set match, all in Ambassador League play. If Linfield Christian can get one more five set victory, they will tie Woodcrest Christian’s 2016 team for what is believed to be an area record seven straight five set wins (five in playoff competition). That was the 10th five set match in Ambassador League play which ties the Baseline with most matches going five during league play.

CIF-SS Playoff Schedule All matches start at 6 p.m.

Thursday unless otherwise noted.

If there are changes in time, date

or site please email socaltrekkieatgmail.com.

D1: Lakewood at Vista Murrieta (10/27 at 6 p.m.)

D2: South Pasadena at No. 9 Great Oak, Murrieta Valley at No. 10 Ontario Christian, Temecula Valley at Paloma Valley and Chaparral at La Canada D5: Elsinore at San Dimas and Heritage at No. 2 Mayfield D6: Adelanto at No. 5 West Valley and Leuzinger at No. 6 San Jacinto D8: Wildcard “B” winner at No. 5 Temecula Prep D9: No. 8 St. Jeanne’s at Noli Indian, Waldorf at No. 4 San Jacinto Valley Academy, Wildcard “D” winner at Lakeside and River Springs/Temecula at No. 10 Cal Lutheran Wildcard Matches All matches Tuesday evening at 6 p.m. unless otherwise noted and all wildcard winners will play on the road in round one.

Linfield Christian at Crescenta Valley (D4), winner to play No. 9 Los Altos Apple Valley at Hemet (D4), winner to play No. 3 Palm Desert Tahquitz at Temescal Canyon (D7), winner to play No. 4 Hillcrest Analysis D1. After defeating Murrieta Mesa in their regular season finale, No. 6 Vista Murrieta (Southwestern League champion) will have to wait two weeks to take the floor against No. 3 Lakewood. Winner

Vista Murrieta will take on Lakewood in their first game of the Division 1 CIF Southern Section playoffs.

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of that match will play either Sierra Canyon or Mater Dei. By earning a Southern Section Division One berth, the Broncos have earned a CIF-State berth. Junior Claire Little leads the Broncos averaging 4.8 kills per set while hitting .305%, 36 aces, 31 total blocks and 204 digs.

D2. Great Oak (No. 9) is having their best season since the departure of longtime coach Mark Motluck under the rookie Cheyenne Te’o. The Wolfpack posted a runner-up finish in Southwestern League play and as a result earned a home game against South Pasadena (who knocked out Linfield Christian in 2019). Great Oak recorded 17 wins (7 in Southwestern League play) and was 5-2 in five set matches (5-1 in league plus a loss to Citrus Belt League runnerup Redlands, No. 10 D4).

D3: Murrieta Valley follows up their 2019 D2 CIF-SS finals appearances with another appearance in the 2021 playoffs. Ann RomeroParks’ squad recorded 26 wins including a five-set win against Corona Santiago (No. 5 in D3) and won the Freeway Games tournament but struggled to just four Southwestern League wins. They were 1-3 in 5s during Southwestern League play and 2-3 overall but that one is the only loss taken

by Vista Murrieta in league play.

This is clearly not your typical at-large team, and they will visit No. 10 Ontario Christian. In Dave Mohs Tournament play the Lady Knights have victories against Chaparral and Temecula Valley, both in three sets. It’s a rematch of the 2019 Freeway Games final.

Via text message Romero-Parks said, “It’ll be a fun match. They are a good team and well coached.

We’re excited to play such a historically strong program out of the gates.”

For context here is what Ontario Christian has accomplished in the last decade under coach Paige Liebhart: Back-to-Back CIF-SS and State Champions (2018 and 2019; Southern Section Semifinalists in 2012, 2016 and 2017; Back-toback-to-back Ambassador League championships (2018, 2019 and 2021).

The Lady Knights are 2-0 against Southwestern League op-

South Pasadena will travel to take on No. 9 Great Oak this week in the Division 2 CIF Southern Section playoffs.

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ponents with Dave Mohs Tournament play wins over Chaparral and Temecula Valley which both went to decisive third sets.

Chaparral visits La Canada and makes back-to-back playoff appearances just four years after finishing in fifth place in Southwestern League play.

D4. Hemet and Linfield Christian both play in Wildcard matches Tuesday night. The Bulldogs would play No. 3 Palm Desert if victorious and No. 9 Los Altos awaits the Lions.

D6. No. 5 Hemet West Valley and No. 6 San Jacinto both have favorable paths to the round of eight starting at home as neither will see a ranked opponent until at least the quarterfinals.

D7. No. 4 Hillcrest awaits the winner of a wildcard between Tahquitz and Temescal Canyon.

D8. No. 5 Temecula Prep made a deep run in 2019, losing to eventual champion Cornerstone Christian, and looks to continue that momentum in D8. Donald

Reyes’ team will likely see No. 4 Big Bear in the quarterfinals with two wins.

D9. A lot of teams in this division. No. 4 San Jacinto Valley Academy looks to take advantage of the momentum generated by a CIF-SS girls basketball appearance with a deep run in volleyball.

No. 6 Lakeside won the Inland Valley League and is enjoying their best season in program history under coach Dena Lindsey. With two wins, No. 3 Tarbut V’Torah awaits the Lancers in quarterfinal play. No. 8 St. Jeanne’s De Lestonnac earns the first poll ranking of a sport in school history and will likely see No. 9 Silver Valley Saturday with a quarterfinal spot at stake. No. 10 California Lutheran makes the playoffs under first year head coach Michelle Treder and is likely to play No. 7 Redlands Adventist in round two either early Friday or sometime Monday.

Derryl Trujillo can be reached by email at socaltrekkieatgmail. com.

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REGIONAL NEWS

California judge tentatively rejects cutting inmate crowding Don Thompson THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

SACRAMENTO (AP) – A Northern California judge tentatively ruled Friday, Oct. 15, that state prison officials acted with deliberate indifference when they caused a deadly coronavirus outbreak at one of the world’s most famous prisons last year.

But he said vaccines have since so changed the landscape that officials are no longer violating inmates’ constitutional rights.

The lawsuit stemmed from the botched transfer of infected inmates in May 2020 from a Southern California prison to San Quentin, which at the time had no infections. The coronavirus then quickly sickened 75% of inmates at the prison north of San Francisco, leading to the deaths of 28 inmates and a correctional officer.

Prison officials “ignored virtually every safety measure in doing so,” Marin County Superior Court Judge Geoffrey Howard wrote in a 114-page tentative ruling Friday.

“The tragic, inevitable, result of this bumbling sequence of events was an exponential COVID-19 outbreak at San Quentin that, to date, has killed 28 people,” he wrote. “It more than qualifies as deliberate indifference to a known risk.”

But he preliminarily rejected inmates’ request that he essentially reinstate an appeals court ruling from October 2020 requiring corrections officials to cut the inmate population to less than half of San Quentin’s designed capacity.

The California Supreme Court put that appeals court order on hold in December pending the trial that took place in Howard’s courtroom this summer.

The appeals court order came during the height of the pandemic

in October 2020, after the deadly summer surge at San Quentin and before a statewide winter spike that strained hospitals and intensive care units.

Howard tentatively concluded that conditions have substantially changed since then, mainly because he said prison officials have done their best to vaccinate every inmate who agrees to be inoculated.

Those vaccinations “substantially reduce the danger posed by COVID-19 within the prison. That risk, though undoubtedly substantial and serious, may well not exceed contemporary standards of decency,” he wrote.

“The vaccine, in combination with the myriad other measures (the prison system) has undertaken, has essentially eliminated the more serious threat from COVID-19 to any inmate who accepts the vaccine.”

Howard said he will hear attorneys’ objections or comments Nov. 8 before making a final ruling.

Attorney Charles Carbone, who represented the first inmates in a case that now involves hundreds, said there is little chance of changing Howard’s ruling, but a 100% chance that it will be appealed.

Howard meticulously documented human rights and constitutional abuses, Carbone said, but then said, “Sorry, so what.

Sorry that people died, sorry that hundreds of correctional staff got sick, and sorry that it was largely if not entirely preventable. But as a body of law, we’re not going to do anything about it.”

Carbone said that also sends the wrong message to corrections officials, who may now feel “you can violate the rights of your prisoner population to the point where you basically cause preventable

California OKs new protections for leatherback sea turtles

In this Aug. 16, 2016, file photo, general population inmates walk in a line at San Quentin State Prison in San Quentin. A Northern California judge tentatively ruled Friday, Oct. 15, that state prison officials acted with deliberate indifference when they caused a deadly coronavirus outbreak at the prison last year but said vaccines have since so changed the landscape that officials are no longer violating inmates’ constitutional rights. The lawsuit stemmed from the botched transfer of infected inmates in May 2020 from a Southern California prison to San Quentin.

(AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File)

deaths, and there’s really not going to be any accountability.”

Corrections officials said they are reviewing the tentative ruling.

In arguing for a court-ordered population reduction, inmates’ attorneys called overcrowding the “original sin” of the California prison system.

Overcrowding “is why San Quentin presented a virtual tinderbox for an epidemiological conflagration in early 2020, because its population stood at 131.4% of capacity,” they argued.

California prison officials countered that they took numerous steps to try to protect inmates from infection, including temporarily

reducing the population of the state’s oldest prison by 40%, short of the 50% recommended in June 2020 by health experts.

Prison officials said the botched transfer itself was a flawed but well-intentioned effort to move 121 vulnerable inmates away from an outbreak at a Southern California prison. Some of the inmates sent to San Quentin had already been infected but were inadequately tested for the virus, and they were not quarantined upon their arrival.

The outbreak prompted more than 700 San Quentin inmates to petition the Marin County Superior Court for their immediate

release. About 300 were consolidated into a single case.

A federal judge in September ordered all California prison employees to be vaccinated, though the state is fighting the mandate.

Howard ruled in one of several lawsuits resulting from the San Quentin outbreak, including a federal civil rights lawsuit by the family of 61-year-old inmate Daniel Ruiz, who died, and a proposed Marin County class-action lawsuit on behalf of inmate Steven Malear and what the lawsuit says are at least 1,400 infected San Quentin inmates.

Popular California safari park stripped of accreditation THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

SANTA ROSA (AP) – A popular wildlife preserve in the San Francisco Bay Area has been stripped of accreditation by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums over concerns about the facility’s care for animals.

The association, also known as the AZA, announced this week that it would deny its “gold standard” accreditation to Santa Rosa’s Safari West, SFGate reported Friday.

“The Commission noted serious concerns with veterinary practices and care, and acquisition and disposition of animals,” Dan Ashe, the association’s president, said in a statement. “I am hopeful that the owners and leadership at Safari West are taking these matters seriously.”

KTVU-TV reported Thursday that Safari West is appealing the decision. Executive director Keo Hornbostel said its operations

remain largely unchanged in the decades since it first received AZA accreditation.

“Some of the information they were provided is not accurate,” Hornbostel told the news station.

“Having our vet care compromised is not true at all.”

After the appeal is filed, AZA’s commission has 45 days to change its mind. If the denial is upheld, the association said, Safari West can apply again next September.

Ship owner, operator of interest in California oil spill In this July 30, 1999 file photo, Michael Coffman of The Marine Mammal Center, inspects a endangered leatherback sea turtle which washed ashore on Pismo Beach, Calif. The giant leatherback sea turtle was found dead floating in a kelp bed. The California Fish and Game Commission voted Thursday, Oct. 14, 2021, to add the leather back sea turtle to the state’s Endangered Species Act. (AP Photo/Phil Klein, File)

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SACRAMENTO (AP) – California has added the Pacific leatherback sea turtle to its endangered species list, guaranteeing more protections for a rapidly dwindling population.

The California Fish and Game Commission voted Thursday to add the turtles under the state’s Endangered Species Act. The world’s largest turtle species have been on the federal endangered species list since 1973.

But scientists now know more about how crucial California is to their survival, according to Catherine Kilduff, an attorney with the Center for Biological Diversity.

A subpopulation of leatherback sea turtles hatch on beaches in Indonesia. Once fully grown, they swim nearly 6,000 miles (9,656 kilometers) to eat jellyfish off the California coast. Adult leatherback sea turtles weigh an average of

1,000 pounds (453 kilograms).

Scientists say these sea turtles have declined by about 5.6% in California each year for the past three decades. About 50 sea turtles visit the California coast each year, compared to about 178 turtles in the 1990s, according to the Center for Biological Diversity.

Adding turtles to California’s endangered species list will make them a conservation priority for state agencies. It will also increase the state’s cooperation with federal agencies to protect the sea turtle population.

“Leatherbacks that forage for jellyfish off the California coast will now receive greater protection in our state from entanglement in fishing gear, giving them a better chance at survival,” said Todd Steiner, executive director of Turtle Island Restoration Network.

“We are hopeful this action will put these ancient, gentle giants on a path to recovery.”

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HUNTINGTON BEACH (AP) – The U.S. Coast Guard has designated the Mediterranean Shipping Company and others as parties of interest in an investigation into a vessel that was determined to be the source of an offshore pipeline leak in Southern California.

Coast Guard and National Transportation Safety Board marine casualty investigators boarded a container ship, MSC DANIT, Saturday, Oct. 26, in the Port of Long Beach that was involved in a January anchor-dragging incident discovered to be the source of the spill off Huntington Beach Oct. 2, according to Lt. Cmdr. Braden Rostad.

The designation announced in a statement on Saturday names ship operator Mediterranean Shipping Company S.A. and ship owner Dordellas Finance Corporation.

It provides the owner and operator of MSC DANIT the opportu-

In this Thursday, Oct 7, file photo, Workers in protective suits clean the contaminated beach in Corona Del Mar after an oil spill in Newport Beach. California’s uneasy relationship with the oil industry is being tested again by the latest spill to foul beaches and kill birds and fish off Orange County.

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nity to be represented by counsel, to examine and cross-examine witnesses and to call witnesses relevant to the investigation, the statement said.

An investigation into the spill, which includes multiple pipeline scenarios and additional vessels, is ongoing.

Inland Empire economic expansion outpaces nationwide GDP growth rate City News Service SPECIAL TO VALLEY NEWS

The Inland Empire’s economy is showing signs of sturdy growth as 2021 nears a close, with the housing market leading the way, according to a report released last week.

The UC Riverside School of Business’ Center for Economic Forecasting released its quarterly Inland Empire Business Activity Index, Wednesday, Oct. 13, which indicated private sector activity as a whole expanded 8% throughout the region in the second quarter of this year, topping the nationwide gross domestic product growth

rate of 6.6%.

“The Inland Empire’s better relative performance stems both from the fact that many parts of the local economy have shed the effects of the pandemic and because the area fell into a deeper hole during the crisis than the nation overall, leaving more room for growth,” Center for Forecasting Chief Researcher Taner Osman said.

“We anticipate the region will continue to experience a more rapid growth rate in its business activity this year,” he added.

The real estate market remains a standout across the IE. From the second quarter of 2020 to the

second quarter of this year, median single-family home prices surged 24.7%, besting neighboring Orange County, but coming in just below Los Angeles and San Diego counties.

According to the report, the “fundamentals” supporting regional housing market acceleration remain strong, including “high demand, low inventory that will continue for years, relative affordability and low interest rates.”

The complete report is available at ucreconomicforecast.org/ wp-content/uploads/2021/10/ IE_Business_Activity_Index_ Fall_10_13_2021.pdf.

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Hospitals brace for strikes as California workers protest staff shortages Kristen Hwang CALMATTERS

Labor advocates are calling it “Striketober.”

As weary health care workers across California enter the 19th month of the pandemic, thousands are walking off the job and onto the picket line, demanding more staffing.

The strikes and rallies threaten to cripple hospital operations that have been inundated by the COVID-19 Delta surge as well as patients seeking long-delayed care.

More than two dozen hospitals across the state, including some Kaiser Permanente and Sutter Health facilities and USC Keck Medicine, have experienced strikes by engineers, janitorial staff, respiratory therapists, nurses, midwives, physical therapists and technicians over the past four months.

This week, nearly a third of all California hospitals reported “critical staffing shortages” to the federal government, with more predicting shortages in the coming week. Hospitals are unable to meet the state’s required staff-to-patient ratios for nurses or schedule adequate numbers of other critical personnel.

In the Central Valley, the region hit hardest by the Delta surge, National Guard medics have been deployed since September to assist area hospitals.

The reason for the shortages?

Record patient volumes at the same time that many workers have been driven away from the bedside by burnout, early retirement and the seemingly unending stress of the pandemic.

SEIU-United Healthcare Workers West estimates that about 10% of its members or close to 10,000 people, have retired, left the profession, or taken extended leaves of absence during the pandemic.

“What’s really important is that 10% doesn’t turn into 15%, does not turn into 20%. There’s not enough temporary staff out there to fix what’s going on,” said Dave Regan, president of SEIU-UHW. The shortages are an untenable scenario, unions say has persisted for many years brought to a boiling point by the pandemic.

Since the pandemic began, union grievances with hospitals are increasingly about inadequate staffing, although bargaining over pay remains a key issue.

Money matters when it comes to holding onto workers, they say, especially because temporary staff brought on for pandemic response often make more than regular employees. In some instances, traveling nurses have been paid $10,000 per week at California hospitals with severe staffing needs.

“You’re paying exorbitant amounts for travelers while the existing workforce makes exactly the same amount (as before the pandemic),” Regan said.

Striking to “stop the bleeding” Early in the pandemic, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced efforts to expand the health care workforce through a volunteer health corps. Although tens of thousands signed up, most people didn’t have the necessary medical skills, and only 14 volunteers worked out.

The California Department of Public Health also signed a $500 million contract to help hospitals pay for emergency health care workers like traveling nurses. That contract expired in June.

Hospital staffers and union organizers waved signs and banners in protest over staffing shortages at Kaiser Permanente Hospital in Roseville Oct. 14.

Fred Greaves for CalMatters

Unions say those efforts are a Band-Aid on a larger problem.

Instead, they say policymakers should get hospitals to try harder to retain their current employees.

“Right now, hospitals, the health industry, the state of California, you need to do a lot more so that it doesn’t get worse,” Regan said.

“We’re doing very little as a state to support this workforce that has been under a really unique set of pressures.”

In an early attempt to stop the churn, SEIU-UHW sponsored a bill that would have provided hazard pay retention bonuses to health workers. Opposed by the hospital association. the bill stalled before it was voted upon by the Assembly and did not make it to the Senate.

Assemblymember Al Muratsuchi, a Democrat from Torrance who introduced the bill, said the hospitals’ claims that they couldn’t afford hazard pay were unfounded since they received billions in federal pandemic funds, some “specifically earmarked for hazard pay and bonuses for frontline workers.”

“The state made a decision that they were not going to provide financial incentives to recognize and retain healthcare workers, and we think that’s shortsighted,” Regan said.

Over the summer, hundreds of nurses at hospitals, including USC’s Keck Medicine, San Francisco’s Chinese Hospital and Riverside Community Hospital, staged strikes over inadequate staffing and safety concerns.

Now more than 700 hospital engineers employed by Kaiser Permanente facilities in Northern California have been striking for four weeks, demanding higher wages.

In Antioch, more than 350 workers at Sutter Delta ended a weeklong strike over inadequate staffing Friday but have yet to reach a contract agreement with their employer.

In the Victor Valley and Roseville, hundreds of workers staged recent rallies and vigils to highlight what they’re calling a “worker crisis.” Advocates say their upcoming schedules are packed with pickets planned in solidarity with other unions.

And perhaps the strongest flexing of union muscle has come in Southern California, where members of the United Nurses Associations of California/Union

Murrieta, Riverside police to host Halloween events City News Service SPECIAL TO VALLEY NEWS

The Murrieta and Riverside police departments will host Halloween events at the end of the month to provide safe places for children to trick-or-treat, while also offering their parents and guardians an opportunity to meet and mix with law enforcement personnel.

In Riverside, officers will host their annual “Trunk-or-Treat” outing Oct. 29 in front of the Orange Street station downtown, between 10th and 12th streets.

“We always have a great time seeing the youth of Riverside dressed up and having fun,” according to an RPD statement posted to social media.

Candy will be handed out between 5:30 and 7 p.m., and representatives from the Riverside

Police Officers’ Association will be available to talk with attendees about public safety, neighborhood concerns or any other subject of interest.

In Murrieta, the inaugural “Goodies 4 Goblins” event will be held Oct. 30 in Town Square Park, beginning about 5 p.m.

According to the police department, in addition to treats for children, officers, firefighters and community service personnel will have information booths set up on disaster preparedness, building safety and library services.

There may also be K9 and SWAT demonstrations, organizers said.

After the treats are distributed, the film “Beetlejuice” will be shown on a big screen set up in the park.

The event will be free and open to the public.

of Health Care Professionals, or UNAC/UHCP, voted overwhelmingly to approve a strike against Kaiser Permanente if negotiations remain at a standstill. Should a strike materialize in the coming weeks, more than 24,000 members would walk out of the health care giant’s medical centers and clinics in more than a dozen cities.

Although the dollars and cents of bargaining vary from union to union, the common thread is clear: They want employers to “stop the bleeding” of health care workers fleeing the profession and invest more in recruiting and retaining staff.

The union found 72% of its members — which includes nurses, occupational and physical therapists, midwives and other medical staff — were struggling with anxiety and burnout, and between 42 to 45% reported depression and insomnia. About 74% said staffing was a primary concern.

How hospitals are responding to shortages Hospitals say it is not as easy as hiring more employees. With so many people leaving the workforce, there aren’t enough candidates to fill the gap. Even support staff like janitors, cafeteria workers, clerks and assistants are in short supply.

“There is no question there is a shortage of health care workforce. We have far fewer people in the workforce today than we did when the pandemic started,” said Jan Emerson-Shea, representative for the California Hospital Association.

Many hospitals have offered employees shift bonuses, child care subsidies and temporary housing to keep them from spreading the virus to family members while keeping them at patients’ bedside.

But it hasn’t been enough.

“I don’t know that it’s anybody’s first choice, but we are in a situation where we have to rely on the travelers (traveling nurses),” Emerson-Shea said. “Hospitals would much rather have their permanent staff, but in this situation, with as long as it has been and the workforce dynamics so complex, we need both.”

The state hospital association has asked state Health and Human Services Secretary Dr. Mark Ghaly to assist hospitals with workforce concerns in part by reinstating funding for traveling workers and making it easier for hospitals to

get exemptions from the state’s strict nurse-to-patient ratios. In a written response, Ghaly said the state would continue helping designated surge hospitals pay for extra staff and was working to expedite nursing ratio waivers for heavily impacted regions.

“There’s no resolution yet, but the conversations are occurring, which is important because we are not through the pandemic,” Emerson-Shea said.

Like many industries, hospitals rely on historic averages to predict the need for employees. The average number of patients in a given time period determines how many employees will be scheduled each day. The problem, workers say, is that using the average means frequently they are working with minimal staff.

“There needs to be a massive paradigm shift of how hospitals treat clinicians, and that’s less just-in-time staffing and less justin-time supplies,” said Gerard Brogan, director of nursing practice at the California Nurses Association and National Nurses United.

Peter Sidhu, a former intensive care nurse at the Kaiser Woodland Hills Medical Center, said the union has filed staffing grievances each year for the past seven years. During the pandemic, the strain has gotten worse. Woodland Hills Medical Center is one of the facilities that may be affected by a strike.

“Between the first surge and second surge, we had several months where there was zero planning.

There were no new grad programs, there was no new hiring,” Sidhu said.

“So going into that second surge, which was really bad here in California, we knew we were in trouble,” Sidhu said. With adequate staffing before the pandemic and efforts to increase staff levels in between surges, workers would not have burned out so rapidly, he contends.

Bargaining over salaries and benefits between Kaiser and Alliance of Health Care Unions, which includes the Southern California group UNAC/UHCP, stalled at the end of September after five months. The strike authorization is the first of its kind for UNAC/ UHCP in the past 26 years, and members say long-standing staffing issues and burnout contributed to employee dissatisfaction.

“The vote to authorize a strike by

union members is disappointing, especially because our members and communities are continuing to face the challenges of the ongoing pandemic,” Arlene Peasnall, Kaiser’s senior vice president of human resources, said in a statement. “In the event of any kind of work stoppage, our facilities will be staffed by our physicians along with trained and experienced managers and contingency staff.”

‘Burnout can only be getting worse’ In a recent study by the UC San Francisco Health Workforce Research Center on Long-Term Care, the number of nurses aged 55 to 64 planning on quitting or retiring in the next two years jumped nearly 14% between 2018 and 2020, setting up the field for a five-year shortage.

Joanne Spetz, the center’s associate director of research and lead study author, said new graduates before the pandemic sometimes struggled to find employment while employers frequently complained about not being able to find enough experienced nurses to hire.

But the overall number of nurses in the workforce was enough then.

Now, with nurses reducing their hours or quitting, the state is in a more tenuous position. About 7% fewer nurses reported working full time in 2020 compared to 2018, and sharp declines in employment were seen among nurses 55 years and older, according to the study.

“We’re looking at having a shortage in the short term,” she said. “The wild card is, with the pandemic lasting this long, burnout can only be getting worse.

What if we have a bunch of 30 to 35 year-old nurses who say ‘screw this,’ then we’re losing a lot of years of working life from these nurses.”

Sidhu is one of those experienced nurses who found himself reeling from the dual forces of COVID-19’s brutal emotional toll and short staffing.

He had volunteered to work with the first COVID-19 patient that arrived at his ICU in March 2020. That first patient quickly turned into dozens each day, with many dying.

“One day you walk in and your unit is full, and two days later you walk in and a large portion of those patients have passed away. You’re double-stacking body bags,” Sidhu said.

He struggled with anxiety, anger and insomnia before his shifts, knowing there would be more patients than nurses could care for, and that they would have no time for breaks. He said he was told that under the state’s temporary emergency waiver of nurse-to-patient ratios he would have to take on more patients.

A year into the pandemic, Sidhu called it quits and now works as the union’s treasurer. Of the eight members in his original ICU nursing team, only two remain working, he said.

“I’m 42, and I was planning on working at the bedside until I turn 60,” Sidhu said. “And then after COVID, I said ‘I am done.’ I was super-done.”

This article first appeared on CalMatters Network and is being republished under a Creative Commons license. CalMatters.org is a nonprofit, nonpartisan media venture explaining California policies and politics.

Braille Institute Coachella Valley, Guide Dogs of the Desert team up City News Service SPECIAL TO VALLEY NEWS

Braille Institute Coachella Valley has entered into a partnership with Guide Dogs of the Desert to help visually impaired individuals get the training needed to qualify for a guide dog, officials said Thursday, Oct. 14.

As a part of the agreement, the Braille Institute will train their visually impaired students in needed skills to increase their independence and mobility, then refer them to the Guide Dogs of the Desert’s application process if they wish to apply for a dog, according to the institute’s Bob Bogard.

To qualify for a guide dog, applicants must demonstrate daily

living skills such as calendaring, measuring, managing appointments and self-care, according to Bogard. The required skills include navigating one’s home and community using a white cane.

As part of the partnership, Guide Dogs of the Desert will also refer applicants lacking such skills to Braille Institute to be trained.

“We were thrilled when Braille Institute approached us with this wonderful solution,” Dr. Jonathan Lorenzo Yorba, executive director of Guide Dogs of the Desert, said.

“Working with a trained guide dog requires a set of learned mobility skills. Braille Institute already has the institutional expertise in training students with these skills, so partnering with them was an

easy decision. We look forward to providing this elegant solution to our students.”

Applicants accepted into the Guide Dogs of the Desert program get matched with a guide dog and go through a 28-day in-residence training program to learn how to live and work with their new companion. All training is provided at no cost to the student, officials said.

All Braille Institute classes and workshops are free, with many classes also offered in Spanish.

More information is available at BrailleInstitute.org/coachellavalley.

To learn more about Guide Dogs of the Desert, visit guidedogsofthedesert.org.

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Current lifesaving COVID-19 information shared between doctors, scientists The following is a transcript of a Roundtable discussion between professionals with experience regarding COVID-19, including one of the original architects of the mRNA technology, frontline doctors and surgeons who have actually treated thousands of COVID patients, a psychiatrist and a statistician. They discuss treatments, the vaccines, natural immunity, pregnancy, children, Delta, and other variants, and a proven strategy to successfully fight COVID. Panelists included Dr. Robert Malone, Inventor of mRNA technology, Dr. Ryan Cole, Mayo Clinic-trained, board certified pathologist who has diagnosed 300,000 patients, Dr. Pierre Kory, M.D, M.P.A, a Pulmonary and Critical Care Specialist and President, Frontline COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance, leader in intensive care and author of medical student textbooks used across the world.

Kory has influenced the standard of care for COVID and given US Senate testimony.

Also on the panel were Dr. Richard Latell, a Family practice doctor, Dr. Heather Gessling, MD, FABFM, a Hospital Chief of staff that has been working with children and families around COVID since the beginning of the pandemic, Dr. Mark MacDonald, Psychiatrist, Dr. Brian Tyson, who has possibly treated more COVID patients than anyone in the world, seeing over 6,000 of them, Dr. Richard Urso, an Ophthalmologist and inventor of FDA-Approved wound healing drug and an eye surgeon with one of the largest clinics in the country and has spent the last year and a half deep in COVID, Mathew Crawford, a Biomedical statistician with Metaprep Education Group and Moderator Rob Nelson.

Moderator: We are seeing a spread of Delta right now. Officials say we’re all going to get Delta. Should we be scared?

Is Delta upon us? Are we in a permanent pandemic right now?

Dr. Richard Urso, MD FAAO: It’s like the same song, second verse. We’re going to keep seeing variants. It’s normal. I don’t expect that to change. We’re vaccinating in a very narrow framework. And so when you vaccinate just the spike, you’re going to get variants because we are doing very specific treatments, what you’re seeing now in the Delta variant is you’re seeing the same thing. Just a small change will allow the virus to mutate and get around that and you’re going to see this happen over and over again.

Moderator: Dr. Malone, We’re seeing all these variants and I think the question people often ask is, why?

Dr. Malone: This is really controversial. There’s a lot of discussion that this is a pandemic of the unvaccinated and the unvaccinated are the ones that are driving these escape mutants. That from a fundamental evolutionary standpoint, as a molecular virologist, doesn’t make sense. This virus now is known to mutate and throw off mutants at a much higher rate than we expected it to be. So there are very many mutants. The virus is evolving very rapidly. This is akin to what happens if you overuse antibiotics. So in sum, what we’re doing with universal vaccination is driving towards this end point of vaccine resistant mutants. We don’t have to.

Moderator: So it sounds like we’re on the defensive. We’re trying to defensively vaccinate our way out of something that we’re already deeply in.

Dr. Cole: Here’s my optimistic

view on Delta. Yes. Delta’s new, it’s shaped differently. Technically it has escaped the antibodies from the vaccine. So we give a shot, give another shot and say, we’re going to give a booster with the same shot for a virus that existed five variants ago. It’s like saying to healthcare workers, we’re going to give you a flu shot for the upcoming flu season, but we have leftover flu vaccines from four or five years ago in the freezer. Illogical, no common sense in that whatsoever.

So the variant has escaped it. And if you use a vaccine only approach you select for these variants, my optimistic point is Delta is a wildfire. A lot of people are going to get it. If you look at countries that handled it right, the death rates from Delta in most countries were far lower from this variant than other variants. So I want to give that optimistic message. Does it mean people aren’t going to get sick, not be hospitalized, not going to die? No, it doesn’t mean that, but what we do need to look at, is early treatments because if you’ve been vaccinated, I think scientifically we need to be 100% honest with everybody and say, even if you’re vaccinated or you’re not. We can get the virus now, vaccinated or not. And the vaccinated can carry equal or higher viral loads.

Dr. Kory: This path that we’re on, which is this sort of monolithic vaccine only strategy. We’re explaining the science, why that can’t be the only solution. We can not vaccinate ourselves out of this problem. The positive that I want to say is that there we know of strategies. They’re actually largely being ignored and suppressed. And I don’t want to sound conspiratorial about this, but the reason why is because there’s still a firmly held belief that the vaccines will solve this. The evidence that you just articulated is that it’s becoming increasingly clear that that’s not true.

And so my hopes are that more and more attention is going to be paid to the other strategies, which have so far been ignored, which is that of early treatment. Especially now that the vaccinated are getting sick. Many of the vaccinated, many people were led to believe that if you get your vaccine, we’re going to end this thing. You don’t have to worry about it. You can carry on with your lives. But guess what, we’re talking about variants. My colleagues are now talking about even scarier variants that are coming. And so we need more tools to fight this. We need more weapons to fight this. And guess what the positive message is. We have them.

And I’ll tell you the strategies that we have are independent of the variants. They can handle any variant that comes at us. We just need to get that message out.

Moderator: None of you are against vaccinations in general, meaning the idea of vaccinating, you probably all have vaccinations. Your kids have vaccinations, your family, right? Is that a fair statement?

Dr. Cole: That’s a fair statement.

I’ve had all my childhood vaccines as have my children. I’ve had plenty of military vaccines back in the day. I’m not anti-vaccine, never have been, but I am pro good science. And right now there’s science that’s very questionable with something that’s very quick and we’re seeing things that we’ve never seen before. So I’m hesitant in this regard.

Dr. Malone: I think that the vaccines need to be used intelligently.

That’s my objection. And as Dr. Cole has mentioned this set of vaccines that we have right now, Moderna, Pfizer and J & J, they’re

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all gene therapy based vaccines.

And they all have a common problem. They only have one antigen: the spike antigen. And when they were developing them, they didn’t realize that spike was biologically active--no fault of theirs. Everybody was in a rush. It was the fog of war and they made decisions on the fly. But now it’s time to take a breath and say, ‘Hey, does this really make sense? And where does it make sense?’ We don’t have to be just left or right. Pro or anti-vaccine, there’s a middle ground. And I’m suggesting, and I think we all are aligned that what we’re talking about is intelligent deployment, strategic and tactical deployment of vaccines. We, as a community, need to protect these people at high risk, not just here in our community, in our states, in my opinion, we need to protect the elders throughout the world. We don’t need to hoard all the vaccine for people that don’t really need it. We need to make it available across the world for all cultures, for those people that are at very high risk.

Moderator: Dr. McDonald, you’ve talked a lot about fear and about how you feel the pandemic has created almost an incurable fear.

Dr. McDonald: I think fear has really been the driving force of this pandemic from the very beginning.

I said, as early as may of 2020, that we’re not in a medical pandemic, we’re in a fear of pandemic. I think that it is evolved. However, a bit beyond fear. I think that what’s driving the fear now is propaganda.

Moderator: Your point is it’s really messed kids up. And that struck me the first time I heard you say that, that, that kids, unlike adults, don’t just bounce back. That’s your point kids.

And you said, you think an entire generation of kids has been screwed by this, that they will not get their psychological health back, which is really depressing.

If that’s true.

Dr. McDonald: I work with children. I see kids all day long.

I’m a child psychiatrist. This is happening all the time. Every day in my practice. My concern is that the developmental stage that children need to go through: babies. toddlers, young adults, is being foreclosed on them. Brown university department of pediatrics published a study two weeks ago that found that babies born after January 1st, 2020, which is when this whole pandemic started, have a IQ point drop of 20 points compared to babies born before January 1st, 2020. That’s huge. Why? They don’t see faces. They don’t play, they don’t have exposure to friends. They don’t go to school.

They’re basically locked in their homes, looking at their parents for a year and a half. And their brains have not developed. My concern is that we are building a generation of young people who are so traumatized that they will never fully recover from this. And even if we give them therapy and treatment, they’re always going to be damaged. They’re always going to be scarred emotionally. I don’t mean for it to be depressing. I mean, for it to be alarming so that everyone can finally say “stop.” We’ve got to stop the damage and then figure out what to do about it.

Moderator: What does the damage to you guys actually mean?

Dr. Heather Gessling: I’ll speak to that. I think stopping the damage means to acknowledge what we have done wrong. I think that we should reverse all of the measures that have been implemented. I feel like patients, families, and parents should take it upon themselves to

feel empowered. We need to get being number one, diabetes being back to the basics because we’ve number two and weakened imdone this wrong for so long. It’s mune system being number three, been so damaging. One of the kids on chemotherapy and things books that I had in medical school like that. So, it’s no different than and that we all had in medical RSV, rhinovirus, influenza, that school was Harrison’s principles would normally take out these kids of internal medicine. This is basic anyway, unfortunately. But yes, we medicine. This is what we have are seeing a higher number of COforgotten. “Many specific host VID cases in the morbid obese and factors, (That’s us) influence the the severity of illness in the morbid likelihood of acquiring an infec- obese in kids is problematic. tious disease, age, immunization Moderator: Do healthy people history, prior illnesses, level of die of COVID? I mean, is it all nutrition, pregnancy status, co- comorbidities? Is it obese peoexisting illnesses, and perhaps ple? Is it people with, you know, emotional state all have some im- immunocompromised? pact on the risk of infection after Dr. Kory: Greatest predictor for exposure to a potential pathogen. dying from COVID is age. With All we have done is focus on one of every decade of life, your risk goes those--immunization history. And up and it’s a straight line. Then you so the factors level of nutrition, have to worry about comorbidities, emotional state, as we have dis- right? So, the diseases that they cussed can not be underestimated. have make them more prone like The ability to provide early effec- obesity and diabetes. However, tive treatment should make us feel we are seeing younger people empowered. We should not feel now coming into ICU. We are afraid anymore. seeing relatively healthy people Moderator: Are kids more at die. We’re now seeing people with risk? The numbers don’t seem to less comorbidities than before in suggest that. I mean, the number the first wave last spring, almost of deaths of kids from COVID everybody was either obese or was lower than the number of diabetic. Now we’re seeing much deaths from the flu. But now less of that. You know? So when people are saying Delta’s more my colleagues said not one healthy severe. So are kids at risk? kid died of COVID, I would also Dr. Urso: I’ll just give a few like to say, I don’t believe that statistics. There are about 330 chil- there’s anybody who’s died who’s dren that have died of COVID in a gotten an effective early treatment. year and a half. There’s typically Dr. Urso: People don’t die of about 50,000 children per year, the virus. They die of inflammation who die. Many more have died of and they die of thrombosis. Do we drowning and car accidents. So if have drugs for inflammation that we look at the relative risks, CO- are not off-label, steroids? There’s VID has killed about 330 children a bunch of drugs that are on-label in the last year and a half. So I think that can be used for the purpose of you need to look at that as you look inflammation in this disease. These forward to the risk to children. Do are not controversial topics. There they spread? No, they don’t spread. are many, many different products There’s at least seven different we can use: Lovenox, Aspirin, studies that show that essentially Eliquis, XARELTO® . There’s the spread of children to adults is a bunch of drugs for thrombosis. close to zero. So children are not So when people say they died of super spreaders and children don’t COVID, they died of an inflammadie from the tory thromdisease. botic disease.

“This is a pandemic of unDr. Tyson: I They didn’t own three ur- dertreatment. Long haul covid die from the gent cares in is only caused by one thingvirus running the Imperial their undertreatment. Getting Covid through valley area, body. Hopewhich is one is only caused by one thing - a fully at some of the hotbeds lack of preventative strategy. point we’ll for COVID-19 The good news is we have have a really because Mexigood early, cali sits right those [strategies],” Dr. Pierre early treatacross from Kory ment that’s us. That’s two directed to the and a half million people. So we virus itself. Right now, we have see about 200 to 300 patients a other treatments as Dr. Kory said, day. I don’t do telemedicine. We they weren’t originally designed do straight face-to-face encoun- for this virus, but they are very ters. So one of the things that I effective against this virus. wanted to differentiate was,’Are Dr. Latell: What we’re seeing these infections truly COVID?’ now is that patients are getting because they have the cough, cold early treatment with medications, and rhinitis and sore throat. Or, such as Ivermectin, Hydroxyare there other viruses going on? chloroquine, and a host of other So I decided to buy a $100,000 medications because of this free PCR machine, and we’ve been exchange of ideas and this group running these PCR tests. And re- of physicians and others around cently I can tell you, we’ve seen the world.

90% of rhinovirus and also RSV Moderator: One thing I think in the kids. So RSV typically is a we’ve all seen, Ivermectin is a winter illness. It causes pulmonary great example, where the media symptoms. It causes pulmonary has politicized the issue. So debronchiolitis, not bronchitis, but pending on your politics, you’re bronchiolitis in the lower, lower going to see one or two differairways. And that’s why the kids ent things. And you’re going to are having trouble right now. It’s hear, “oh, well, it’s horse medinot in my opinion from COVID, cine. People are taking horse but from RSV. medicine. But Ivermectin is an Moderator: Clearly, kids are FDA approved drug for human being hospitalized. I know the treatment.

CDC recently said it’s actually Dr. Kory: It’s how the system is not a higher proportion, it’s the designed, which is largely against same proportion, but kids are the use of repurposed drugs. If getting sick. you know what a repurposed drug Dr. Tyson: You’re correct to say, is, it’s generally a drug that’s off kids are getting sick. And, under patent and not profitable. It’s been that CDC data that Dr. Ursa was approved for use in another disease talking about, healthy children for which it’s found to be effecdidn’t die from COVID-19. Okay. tive. So Ivermectin is well known It was those children who had four as an anti-parasite. In fact, the or five risk factors, morbid obesity discoverers won the Nobel prize

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because it eradicated two globally endemic parasitic diseases. I mean, it transformed the health status of good portions of the world. We knew on the ground that corticosteroids were going to work. We knew it because of our experience treating severe lung disease. We started using it. And guess what we started to see? As we started to use steroids, people started to come off ventilators.

People who were needing oxygen were coming off oxygen, getting discharged. The entire landscape changed. And I went into the US Senate, and I testified to the world that it was critical we use corticosteroids in the hospitalized patient. And I did that at a time where every national international healthcare agency was recommending against its use because they thought it would increase mortality. And I got heavily criticized for that. It’s now the standard of care worldwide. Everything else that we’ve discovered, everything that’s in our protocols is because we have used good clinical sense, lots of experience. And we’ve used trial and error using our best judgments of risks and benefits.

We don’t want to cause harm, but undertreatment and nontreatment is harm, I think this is a pandemic of undertreatment. Long-haul COVID is only caused by one thing--undertreatment. Hospitalized COVID is only caused by one thing--undertreatment. I’m even going to push the envelope here.

Getting COVID is only caused by one thing, which is a lack of an effective preventative strategy.

I thought, everyone thought and hoped it was going to be the vaccine. It’s not.

Moderator: You’re saying getting COVID itself is completely preventable?

Dr. Kory: There’s a number of agents that have been shown, if you take them regularly, your chances of getting COVID are far lower. For me the most effective is Ivermectin. There are dozens of trials. We’re now up to 14 trials with thousands of patients. In the trials which you take it the most frequently, you’re nearly perfectly protected from getting COVID. It is a highly effective agent. The reason why Ivermectin is so important in this disease is that it has numerous mechanisms of action.

The most important mechanism is that we know it binds tightly to the spike protein. The spike protein on this virus is how it gets into our cell, how it’s allowed to replicate.

If you can bind it, you can block it and you can prevent yourself from getting sick. The one caveat though, is what we’ve learned is that in the Delta variant, just like the vaccines, we have started seeing breakthroughs. So we have to change our dosing strategy of all of the trials done on Ivermectin.

The strongest evidence is actually in prevention. It is a wickedly effective, highly potent preventative agent. You, if you take it regularly, your chances of getting sick or near nil.

Moderator: Matthew, you’ve done a lot of statistical research, particularly around the success of early treatments and it hasn’t gotten a lot of attention. Why don’t you take a second and talk about your findings?

Mathew Crawford: So early on, I was a little frustrated, not seeing much analysis. And so I started to reach out to doctors that I knew and said,”What do you see?

And, numerous doctors told me “I’m using this and it looks good” and there wasn’t much data out.

So I kept reaching out to more and more doctors around the world and eventually collected about 20,000 data points. And this is almost a year and a half ago. And it looked like those who were using Hydroxychloroquine, and especially if they included Azithromycin and zinc, or possibly another macrolide other than azithromycin, but with the zinc in particular, it looked to everybody in their communities about a 98% lower mortality rate.

And this was across like seven different nations I got this data from, so put all this together and it was tens of thousands of data points by the end of last year. But it’s difficult to get a lot of this data published.

I’m working on Dr. Tyson’s data right now, and we’ve had the results for months, but it’s difficult to get it published. Anything that goes against the narrative takes longer in peer review.

Moderator: Is that a valid thing that it would take longer?

I mean, is that understandable or is that politics?

Mathew Crawford: “I think there’s some politics involved.”

Moderator: Dr. Tyson you’ve said you have how many deaths out of the 6,000 people you’ve

treated.

Dr. Tyson: So with treatment starting from day one to 7, zero.

Moderator: Zero deaths.

Dr. Tyson: Right. With treatment starting from day seven to 14, I have four. Two died the same day they showed up at the clinic and two died in the hospital.

Dr. Gessling: And I want to say, my numbers exactly match up with Brian’s. I’ve treated about 1500 and I have had one death. And it was because there was some delay in treatment. And I know that several physicians who have treated didn’t have any deaths until approximately July, August. And that was with the change in the virus. Within a week or two, all of us were saying the exact same thing--something has changed.

What do we need to do to change the protocol?

Moderator: Dr. Gosling, you’re treating vaccinated and unvaccinated, Dr. Gessling: Absolutely. Vaccinated and unvaccinated. And so I would say in July, the majority of my sicker patients were unvaccinated. And then I noticed in August, it seemed to be about 5050, and now it’s more vaccinated.

And so it happened as a very quick change in my practice.

Dr. Latell: Dr. Tyson, Dr. Gosling and myself are family physicians. Okay. So we are the folks who have been in those front lines, getting the phone calls in the middle of the night from concerned parents. And what you’ve just heard from Dr. Kory is that if you take the right preventive plan of medications, either hydroxychloroquine or ivermectin or both, you’re approaching 0% mortality.

Moderator: I hear your passion and understand where you guys are out there in the trenches. It’s bizarre that we are facing a pandemic that has left us where we are clearly divided about the simplest thing of treatments. They’re not all going to work. Some are going to fail. You’re going to experiment, but in most diseases, doctors get in there and you figure it out. And in this one, for some reason, we got blocked into this thing where it’s like, no, no, no. And I think you have an opinion, partly why.

Dr. Kory: If we have a solution or we have effective treatments.

Why aren’t they being recognized and disseminated across the world?

And there’s really two forces that I think we’re up against. The first force is that in general, our health agencies are suffering what’s called regulatory capture. They’re largely driven by financial interests, external financial interests that are really influenced in making sure that the solution to the pandemic is one that is profitable.

Vaccines are profitable. The other challenge that we were having, which is somewhat overlapping is that academia, which we call the ivory towers, the big academic institutions in the last 10 years, there’s been this increasing belief into the idea that the only proof of efficacy of a drug has to come out of a large double-blind randomized controlled trial. When you do a randomized control trial, you have to first make the diagnosis.

Everyone has to have a positive test. They have to have symptoms. They have to be enrolled consented, randomized, and then the drug is delivered. Each one of those steps takes time. And so by the time they do these randomized control trials, oftentimes it’s very delayed. And oftentimes it’s underdosed because they’re using doses that I was using six months ago. We move with this pandemic because we can’t prove it with the one tool that we need to prove it, we are getting suppressed. And that message is getting suppressed.

Moderator: Who funds big randomized controlled trials?

Dr. Kory: That would be pharma generally. Now there is philanthropy and there is the NIH. But the NIH and pharma are quite tightly linked.

Moderator: Let’s just take a minute and address some of the vaccine related questions that I think people have. And I want to start with you, Dr. Malone, if that’s okay, because you are the one of the architects of mRNA technology. And if I were to ask you Dr. Malone, are you against the vaccine for COVID? I know your answer would be absolutely not, but you do have some issues with this particular vaccine. Why? Dr. Malone: So thanks for that opportunity to make the point that I’m not an anti-vaxxer. I’m a guy who spent the majority of my adult life developing vaccines and trying to get vaccines licensed. For example, the Ebola vaccine that we call the Merck vaccine. This is a technology platform (m RNA)

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that I believe and many believe women even included in the has enormous promise. And right clinical trials?

Dr. Malone: Of course they now it’s in its infancy. The safety of the underlying technology is weren’t. The NIH just funded the not yet fully demonstrated. It study like a week ago on reproduchasn’t been fully characterized and tive toxicology and birth defects that will come, that’s good news. in children. The major study on However, in the fog of war and the potential risks in pregnancy wasn’t need to come up with something, started until almost a month after as soon as possible, some deci- the CDC said it’s okay to go ahead sions were made to move things and start taking the vaccine.

Dr. Ursa: For those who don’t forward very rapidly. They were based on incomplete information. know, a good percentage of the People did what they did in good COVID vaccine, the spike protein, faith and focused on a protein that I’m sorry, the lipid nanoparticles they thought was fully safe--spike actually goes to the ovaries. They protein. But now over a year later, knew this before they started, that we know that, in the virus, this this was what happens. So I do protein is responsible for much of think while there might not have the disease that the virus causes, been intent, anybody who did that the pathology in your vascular kind of work would know that they endothelial cells, the coagulation. [lipid nanoparticles] would actuAnd it’s unfortunate that this par- ally go to those places. That’s what ticular protein in what appears to they do. They go through those be a biologically active form, was very easily. And of course they’re carrying spike protein, and spike used in these vaccines.

Moderator: What is the result protein we know is going to cause inflammation in the ovaries. What of that? What does that mean?

Dr. Cole: This is a thromboem- do we know about that? Well, as bolic disease. COVID is a clot- Dr. Malone said, we don’t know ting disease. Now, when we give what that means. Is that going to a spike protein to Dr. Malone’s affect fertility? We don’t know.

We’ve got to point, that is an and pray active biologic “So we give a shot, give a hope that it doesn’t molecule. We because many chose the wrong booster with the same shot people have takmolecule that for a virus that existed five en that and they causes disease. variants ago. It’s like saynow have sigSo what do I see nificant inflamunder the mi- ing to healthcare workers, mation that has croscope? You we’re going to give you a see these CO- flu shot for the upcoming flu gone to those organs.

VID skin cases, And so we you know, these season, but we have leftover literally have weird COVID flu vaccines from four or rashes. What five years ago in the freezer. pregnant women coming in. is that? That’s Illogical,” Dr. Ryan Cole.

One woman had clotting in the two miscarriagskin.

We unfortunately have doctors es during her 10th week and her that say there’s no damage from OB actually told her to go get the the vaccines and no deaths from vaccine. And he cannot know that the vaccines. We should use the that’s safe. It’s impossible. So French legal system. When we she just happened to have mishave a new product that’s never carriages. She’s at high risk for been used on humanity in the another miscarriage. It’s a high market. It’s guilty until proven risk pregnancy. There’s no reason to introduce any new therapeutic of innocent.

Every time there is damage or any sort in this patient. So this is disease from that product, we need what we’re seeing: a one size fits to assume that it is guilty until we all policy. That makes no sense, prove it isn’t. So under the micro- and we need to stop it. And we scope, we see clotting in the lungs. need to adopt early treatment and We see clotting and the vessels. We other measures.

Moderator: What if your see clotting in the brain, not from the virus, but from the spike, from COVID recovered? You may be the vaccine itself. Now consider vaccinated, but unvaccinated the numerator and the denominator and COVID recovered is a whole are most people going to be fine? unique group that you actually Yes. And I want to emphasize that would argue has actually more in our data, around the world, from immunity and is more valuable the United States, from the UK, than all the others together.

Dr. Cole: A hundred percent from the Euro vigilance in Europe, we have seen more death and dam- true if you’ve had COVID, you’re age from this one medical product than all other vaccines combined in the last several decades. In just a short eight month window of time, it has done more damage than any other medical product therapy, shot, um, modality of anything we’ve ever allowed to stay on the Estate Sale market to this point. Do I mean to a sound alarmist? No, I’m being Estate Sale 24th and 25th 41560 factual. And when I look at it un- Terwilliger rd. Anza, CA 92539 Antique der the microscope, and I see the furniture, electronics, and household parts of people or people that are goods. no longer with us, the damage and Garage Sales the disease is caused by that spike protein. It is present.

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done with COVID. We don’t need to modify mother nature. And if you think of what a vaccine is, a vaccine mimics a small portion of a natural infection. So to say, a natural infection is not equal to a vaccination is insanity. In vaccinology, we’re trying to mimic a part of nature, whereas mother nature does it right. If you have had COVID you may get it again, but you’re going to get it in a much more mild manner. So as to this two tier polarization of our society--a virus isn’t politically red or blue or purple --a virus is a humanitarian issue.

And when we divide ourselves in thought and don’t listen to science anymore, we’re going down the wrong path. When we look at what’s happened to the children, going back to the children point, half of kids in the U S have already had COVID, we’re not antibody testing. We’re treating everybody with this terrible oppression of you’ve got to wear a mask. It doesn’t matter that you had COVID, you know, you’ve got to stay home. If somebody in your classroom tests positive, it denies basic science. And this isn’t upper level immunology.

This is basic immunology 1 0 1.

And we are forgetting what our amazing immune system does.

How many of you had chickenpox when you were a kid? Probably a lot. Okay. How many have you ever gotten them again? Yeah, no.

Did you need a shot? No. Have any of you had a grandma who had measles and ever got measles again? No, because her immune system works.

Dr. Malone: This gets back to common sense. Why are they telling us that natural infection isn’t protective? Why are they telling us that those of us covered still got to get the jab. There is a financial incentive here. And if there are a few examples that make it so abundantly clear one is this crazy labeling of Ivermectin as a horse paste drug. I give ivermectin to my horses, but I don’t take the horse version for myself. You know?

Um, and, And the other thing is this crazy messaging about natural infection. Why are they saying these things that make no sense?

Dr. Cole: If you are under age of 50 with no comorbidities your chance of dying from this disease are about nil. And if you get early treatment, they’re even closer to nil. So if you recovered, which half of the young people in North America are, you don’t need a shot and the shot can damage the see COVID-19, page C-8

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Tahquitz High School students become ‘Anti-Social’ starting Nov. 4 Diane A. Rhodes SPECIAL TO VALLEY NEWS

In this age of texts, tweets and abbreviated thoughts, Tahquitz High School theater students aim to shed some light and light-heartedness on the popularity of social media through their performances in “Anti-Social” Nov. 4 and 5.

Drama teacher Monica Reichl said the production is a collection of short plays that make fun of the “social” in social media, and how we engage with, value and behave on our various platforms, from Instagram to Myspace, asking “is anyone even on Myspace anymore?” She said, “From real life followers to real life trolls to parents shocked and disappointed about their daughter’s Instagram account to becoming internet famous, “Anti-Social” is a comedic and at times painful look at some of the more ridiculous aspects of our lives online.”

With a cast of about 15 students of various grade levels, most play multiple roles in the different vignettes. As Tom in The Last Living Myspace User, senior Alyssa DuPont struggles with the loss of contacts to share her favorite movies and music choices with. When she encounters a janitor, played by senior Adrian Rivas, who has been instructed to purge all the deleted accounts, she is upset. Then she reconnects with Kathy, played by senior Phallon Gudat, who hadn’t been on the platform in years.

Phallon, 17, said she was always interested in trying theater but didn’t take the plunge until this year. She said everyone has been so supportive and she is learning a lot about theater in the process.

She admits she doesn’t have a big presence on social media but says her brother has popular Twitter and Facebook accounts.

“Kathy’s monologue really hits home for me,” Phallon said. “You hear about all the terrible news and horrible things happening in the world. If you hear on the news about something happening in Syria you might think ‘but I live in America so it doesn’t affect me’ but then you go online and there is someone who is living in that environment and it gets you more involved.”

Alyssa, 16, said that she personally feels that social media is like a roller coaster with all that happens online. “You see all these bad things that happen and then someone says, ‘look at this funny meme,” she said. “It’s a tug-of-war of different emotions.”

She said it has its advantages in that it is a good way to stay connected to friends, “especially when the only way to stay afloat during the quarantine was social media.”

Reichl said, “There are some COVID-19 from page C-7 heart of children. There are more children who’ve had myocarditis, and there’s never such a thing as mild myocarditis. That’s inflammation of the heart. Once you get inflammation, get scarring, those kids’ hearts are damaged for life.

There are more kids, like 5, 10, 15 kids now that have died of heart attacks after the shots. 400 plus kids that have had myocarditis, that have damaged hearts for life.

That’s more than the kids that have died from COVID. Now the ratio to damaged children is much higher than due benefit.

And children survive this virus at a statistical 100%. Age zero to 18 - 99.97% of children survive this virus. So why are we punishing kids for a virus they survive?

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Senior Isabella Marlette rehearses her part in “Anti-Social” at Tahquitz High School, Oct. 14. Students will be wearing clear face coverings during the show so as not to distract from the action.

Stage manager Lynn Walter, seated at right, oversees a scene from “Anti-Social” featuring Adrian Rivas and Alyssa DuPont during Valley News/Diane A. Rhodes photos rehearsal Oct. 14.

powerful messages in this play even though it’s a comedy. It’s also timely because everyone has practically been living on social media for the past two years.”

Having been unable to produce shows during the school’s closure due to the pandemic, Reichl chose a play with a lot of small parts for the department’s first in-person stage production in 18 months. This would allow her to accommodate any changes that may be required since rehearsals began Sept. 8.

“We used to power through our colds and other minor ailments,” Reichl said. “Things have definitely changed.”

Alyssa said she hasn’t been on a stage since October of her sophomore year and she’s still fully processing it.

“I have to remember how to project and remember how important it is that I don’t break character,” she said.

She also has a role in the Followers play and a key part in the Viral/Rival play that focuses on a co-worker’s post on Twitter that goes viral.

Freshman Yoseline Macias has parts in three of the plays. She admits to being a creative person and said her mother encouraged her to try many different things while in high school, such as drama. She said her mother won’t allow her to be on social media because there are “weird people out there” but she does have a TikTok account.

Adrian, 16, joined drama in his

freshman year so he could express himself and learn how to communicate with others. He said, “It felt good to be onstage and entertain the audience.” He enjoys the parts he is playing, especially in Viral/ Rival where he plays one of the call center workers.

Freshman A’aliyah Lucas plays the boss in that segment but said she really enjoys her role of the daughter in Parental Oversight because she can relate to the character’s personality as a sheltered teen whose parents monitor her social media account.

“I think parents should monitor their children’s accounts for safety reasons,” A’aliyah said. “Honestly, there are a lot of weird people on social media that you see on a daily basis.”

First-time stage manager Lynn Walter said it’s more difficult to handle social media situations off stage. “It is 100% harder to deal with trolls and internet bullies in real life,” she said. “We’re giving comedic relief to deeper problems.

I choose to not be on Twitter, Instagram has enough drama.”

Lynn said that children are becoming more dependent on social media because many parents let them use it as a coping mechanism and that is just setting them up for failure. She hopes that shows through with the performances as it touches on some serious topics.

Assistant stage manager Sydney Bundy said she thinks the play will connect with everyone who has

Tahquitz High School theater students rehearse a scene from “AntiSocial” about a viral Twitter post, Oct. 14. From left, Alyssa DuPont, A’aliyah Lucas, Isabella Marlette, Phallon Gudat and Adrian Rivas.

social media accounts, regardless of their age, especially those who use it every day. “I don’t think there’s enough education about social media,” she said, adding that she hopes this play will shine a new light on things. She works at a day care center and sees young children with Twitter and Instagram accounts and thinks that many parents don’t understand the severity of what their children are getting into.

They both agree that the internet can be a useful tool to provide necessary information but that it is also contributing to a lack of “people skills” that are critical in the real world.

Other cast members are Olivia

Corcoran, Micaela Elevario, Ashley Hernandez, Aamiyah Mallory, Isabella Marlette, Isis Mathis, Mariya Padilla, Olivia Pena and Makhi Taylor.

“Anti-Social” creator, Don Zolidis, is a former high school and middle school theater teacher and is the most-produced playwright in American schools. His more than 100 published plays have been produced more than 11,500 times, appearing in every state and 63 countries.

Performances are Nov. 4 and 5 at 6:30 p.m., at the Tahquitz High School Performing Arts Theater, 4425 Titan Trail in Hemet. Tickets are $5, cash only at the door.

It’s illogical.

Moderator: There’s lots of people who got the vaccine and are wondering how risky it is.

Dr. Malone: Here’s what I do know about multiple boosters.

The immune system is really, really complex. And it’s as complex as the nervous system, which by the way, comes from the same cell type--incredibly complex.

And one thing as somebody that’s been in this business and had all this training for 30 years--more is not better. The assumption that another dose is going to boost your immunity, to levels that it was previously needs to be demonstrated clearly. And the safety of that needs to be demonstrated, because as immunologists, we know darn well, there’s a thing called high zone tolerance. More is not better. More can actually suppress the immune response.

Dr. Cole: After the extra shots, we’re seeing the depletion of certain cell types. To your point, we’re starting to document it and are studying it. And to his question, why give a third shot to a virus that was gone in January and February of this year? We’re on to Delta. The booster is not something new. It’s the same shot for the virus that’s gone. Delta’s a new virus, essentially. So is there any logic to boost something that’s not even here anymore? No. Moderator: So we’re vaccinating for COVID and we’re already on to Delta now.

Dr. Cole: The strain that we made the sequence for the spike against isn’t even circulating anymore, it’s not even here. We’re, you know, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 variants on from that. Delta is behaving as a new virus. The antibodies don’t neutralize it anymore, especially

at the end terminal domain of the spike. It’s a wrong approach at this point. It is the wrong protein now, it’s not even a virus that’s here.

Dr. Littell: Everyone in my practice wishes and prays every day that COVID goes away.

We don’t want to treat another patient with COVID ever, ever again, to be honest with you, my other patients have been neglected because of COVID. It’s impossible for us to keep up with the displaced.

Dr. Urso: We don’t have to know what pharma’s motives are.

It doesn’t matter to me. I’m not interested. What I’m interested in is a comprehensive plan. I’m interested in contagion control.

I’m interested in vaccination.

I’m interested in prophylaxis.

I’m interested in early treatment.

The motivation side doesn’t matter. It’s the data that matters in a comprehensive plan that matters.

So we don’t have to fight and say, they’re bad. We’re good. It doesn’t matter. It’s a comprehensive plan that we need to emphasize that encompasses everything The fact of the matter is what really matters is we need to do everything all at the same time, because that’s how we do it. That’s how we’ve always done it. We’ve never done it differently. It was a shock to us to find that people were not emphasizing early treatment. That is just something that is incomprehensible. And we still don’t know the answer and we don’t care. I don’t care. We’re just going to go forward.

Audience question: After 2020 do you think there was an emergency. Is there an emergency, now?

Dr. Kory: I’m an intensive care

unit physician. I take care of the patients who come at the end of the line, and I will tell you, we still are having an emergency. This is an emergency situation. If you look around the United States, there are dozens of cities and areas where the hospitals are filling. The ICU’s are filling. This is an emergency of undertreatment. There’s undertreatment early. There’s undertreatment late in the hospital using low doses of corticosteroids when we have immense amounts of data, showing higher doses are lifesaving. Combinations of therapies are life saving. We know how to get these patients better, but we have to be more aggressive at every phase. Everyone is being restricted to following the protocols that come from the top. They’re not working, they’re failing. And that’s the emergency.

Moderator: I think there is a perception because it’s been very politicized. This whole COVID thing has just been exaggerated. Your issue is we’re not treating it. Not that it’s not a real deadly disease.

Dr. Kory: Yeah. I have to tell you my perspective is quite different. I’ve never, ever walked into an ICU that’s full of every patient on a ventilator with the same disease. I’ve never seen 24 patients on a ventilator with the flu at any one time. I’ve never seen dermatologists taking care of patients on ventilators in regular hospital floors. It is getting better. We’re not in that catastrophic phase, but this is the most complex and most violent disease that I’ve seen. And the most difficult to treat in the ICU. The trick is to avoid getting into the ICU. Moderator: Can we VAX our way out of this? Is that possible?

Dr. Malone: Now, you can run the numbers. In order to get to herd immunity, you have to have a vaccine that’s generally more than 80% effective in preventing infection, not preventing disease.

To block the spread in the CDC slide deck that they leaked to the Washington post, they showed clearly, even with Delta, let alone the new variants, we cannot stop the spread of Delta. If we were to vaccinate with these leaky vaccines, which efficacy in terms of prevention of infection is something between 40 and 60%. You could vaccinate the whole world with that and you still won’t stop the spread. What you will do is select for even more potent escape, okay. That are going to blow through those vaccines. And who’s going to die? The people that we wanted to protect in the first place. No, we can’t stop it.

Can we make it worse? Yes. Dr. Cole: Again, I’m going to put it in layman’s terms. You can’t play whack-a-mole with a vaccine with the variant. Because by the time you get vaccinated against the next variant, the new one’s here and then the new ones here, and you’re not going to roll out a new one every time. So to that point, you have to focus on treating early.

Moderator: It’s not as black and white or as simplistic as it seems. We need more than anything in this country right now, in this world right now, to start having conversations we’re not having and be willing to have them.Have the guts, to have them and hear what we’re not comfortable with.

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ACIL to host Halloween festivities Diane Sieker STAFF WRITER

The Anza Civic Improvement League, along with community businesses and organizations will host Halloween trunk or treats, hand out candy and food and present fun and games at Minor Park Saturday, Oct. 30. see page AVO-2

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Thimble Club to host coat drive Diane Sieker STAFF WRITER

The Anza Thimble Club has announced a coat collection event to provide needy area residents with warm clothing for the coming winter months. see page AVO-3

Local American Youth Soccer Organization team members, including Jacob and Jackson Nahsohn, huddle in preparation of a successful game.

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Crash at highway junction in Aguanga injures two

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Special needs twin brothers Jackson and Jacob Nahsohn received well-earned awards at the

with their name on it, a pin with their soccer picture on it and a photo sheet with their individual and team photos.

“We went to the awards ceremony straight from the hospital

after Jacob had his 27th and 28th neurosurgeries and had been in the hospital for 12 days,” his mother see BROTHERS, page AVO-4

ACIL opening nominations for upcoming election

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A sewage tanker truck overturned Wednesday, Oct. 13, at the junction of Highways 371 and 79 in Aguanga, hitting an SUV and seriously injuring its occupants, including a child.

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The Anza Civic Improvement League is currently accepting nominations for their upcoming board of directors election.

For the 2022 election cycle, seven directors will be selected.

The four directors receiving the highest number of votes will be given a two-year term, with the three remaining directors assigned one-year terms for the purpose of staggering director appointments.

The winners will be announced and seated on the board at the Saturday, Jan. 1, 2022, meeting.

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American Youth Soccer Organization end-of-season celebration Saturday, Oct. 9. Surrounded by team members, coaches and parents, the boys beamed with pride.

Each player received a medal

The Anza Civic Improvement League announces upcoming board elections Jan. 1, 2022.

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High Country Recreation seeks volunteers to kickstart baseball season Diane Sieker STAFF WRITER

High Country Recreation is seeking volunteers needed to support their youth sports organization.

Baseball and T-ball games are held on the baseball fields at the intersection of Mitchell and Kirby roads. Volunteers are needed as HCR board members, coaches, umpires, team mothers and fathers, field maintenance and a host of other activities.

“It is important that we get volunteers to help, as we’d like to get a baseball season started, but we need the people power to make it happen,” Lorraine Elmore, HCR treasurer, said. “If you are interested in participating, please Youths learn to play baseball and T-ball at High Country Recreation sports events.

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Hamilton Museum – 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Open Wednesdays and Saturdays at 39991 Contreras Road in Anza. For more information, call (951) 763-1350 or visit http:// www.hamiltonmuseum.org. Find them on Facebook at “HamiltonMuseum-and-Ranch-Foundation.”

Health, exercise, resources and recovery meetings Narcotics Anonymous Meeting – 6 p.m. Every Tuesday at Shepherd Of The Valley Church, 56095 Pena Road, in Anza. Open participation.

Veterans’ Gathering Mondays – 9-11 a.m., The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 39075 Contreras Road, in Anza.

Men and women veterans come to share and help each other deal with post-traumatic stress disorder and other difficulties. Call John Sheehan at (951) 923-6153. If you need an advocate to help with VA benefits, call Ronnie Imel at (951) 659-9884.

The Most Excellent Way – Christ-centered recovery program for all kinds of addiction meets Fridays from 7-8:30 p.m. and Tuesdays from 8-10 a.m. Program is court approved; child care is provided. Transportation help is available. The group meets at 58050 Highway 371; the cross street is Kirby Road in Anza.

AA Men’s Meeting – 7 p.m.

Meetings take place Thursdays at 39551 Kirby Road in Anza, south of Highway 371.

Alcoholics Anonymous – 8 p.m.

Wednesday evenings at Shepherd of the Valley Lutheran Church, 56095 Pena Road in Anza. For more information, call (951) 7634226.

Bereaved Parents of the USA – The Aguanga-Anza Chapter of BPUSA will hold its meetings at 6 p.m. on the first and third Wednesday of each month at 49109 Lakeshore Blvd. in Aguanga. For more information, contact chapter leader Linda Hardee at (951) 551-2826.

Free Mobile Health Clinic – Open every third Wednesday of the month from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. No appointment is needed. Uninsured may only be seen in the Anza Community Hall’s parking lot or inside the hall.

Medication Assistance and Treatment for Opioid Dependence – Get treatment for heroin addiction. Transportation to the clinic is provided. For more information, contact Borrego Health’s Anza Community Health Center, 58581 Route 371, in Anza. For more information, call (951) 7634759.

Food ministries F.U.N. Group weekly food ministry – Deliveries arrive noon Thursdays at the Anza Community Hall. To order a paid box and help feed those who can’t afford to pay, drop off payment and cash donations by Thursday at 1:30 p.m., to ERA Excel Realty, 56070 Highway 371, in Anza. Pay inside or drop off during the day in the red box outside. To drop it off, put name and request on an envelope with

payment inside. A $30 box has about $100 worth of food and feeds six people. Half boxes are available for $15. Food is delivered once a week to those who cannot find a ride. For more information, call Bill Donahue at (951) 288-0903.

Living Hope Christian Fellowship Community Dinner – 1 p.m.

Dinners are held the last Sunday of the month at the Anza Community Hall. All are welcome. Donations of time, money, etc. are always welcome.

Food for the Faithful – 8 a.m.

The food bank hands out food the last Friday of the month until the food is gone. The clothes closet will be open too. Emergency food handed out as needed at Sacred Heart Catholic Church. FFF is a non-denominational nonprofit. All in need are welcome; call Esther Barragan at (951) 763-5636.

Bible Studies The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Anza – Sunday Sacrament is held 10 a.m.; Sunday School is 11 a.m. Priesthood/Relief Society meets noon; Wednesday Boy Scouts gathers 6 p.m. and Youth Night is 7 p.m.

For more information, call Ruiz at (951) 445-7180 or Nathan at (760) 399-0727. The Wednesday Genealogy/Family History Class, 5-8 p.m., is open to the public at 39075 Contreras Road in Anza.

Native Lighthouse Fellowship – 10 a.m. The group meets the first Saturday of the month, and breakfast is served. All are welcome to fellowship together at the “Tribal Hall” below the casino in Anza.

For more information, call Nella Heredia at (951) 763-0856.

Living Hope Bible Study – 8-10 a.m. Tuesdays at Living Hope Christian Fellowship, 58050 Highway 371, in Anza. All are welcome.

For more information, call Pastor Kevin at (951) 763-1111.

Anza RV Clubhouse – 7 p.m., the second Wednesday of the Month, Pastor Kevin officiates at 41560 Terwilliger Road in Anza.

Monthly Christian Men’s Breakfast – 9 a.m. Breakfast takes place the fourth Saturday of each month and rotates to different locations. Contact Jeff Crawley at (951) 763-1257 for more information.

Shepherd of the Valley Lutheran Church – 10 a.m. Weekly Wednesday Bible study takes place at 56095 Pena Road in Anza. Call (951) 763-4226 for more information.

Valley Gospel Chapel – 7 a.m. Saturday Men’s Study meets weekly with breakfast usually served at 43275 Chapman Road in the Terwilliger area of Anza.

For more information, call (951) 763-4622.

Anza First Southern Baptist Church – 9 a.m. The church offers Sunday school for all ages with a 10:30 a.m. worship service and 6 p.m. for prayer and Bible study. Youth ministry meets Mondays from 6-8 p.m. The women’s Bible study meets Thursdays at 10 a.m., but it is on hiatus through the summer. Celebrate Recovery meets Fridays; doors open at 5:30 p.m. with large group meeting, 6-7 p.m.; small group share, 7-8 p.m. and Cross Talk Cafe, 8-8:30 p.m.

Church is located at 39200 Rolling Hills Road in Anza. For more information, contact at (951) 763-4937, anzabptistchurch@gmail.com or http://www.anzabaptistchurch. com.

Clubs TOPS Meeting – Take Off Pounds Sensibly support group meets Wednesdays weekly. Weigh in at 8:30 a.m., meeting at 8:45 a.m. at Thompson Hall at the Anza Baptist Church, 39200 Rolling Hills Road, in Anza. For more information, visit http://www.

TOPS.org.

High Country Recreation – Second Monday of the month attend committee meetings at ERA Excel Realty in Anza. For more information, call Albert Rodriguez at (951) 492-1624 or Robyn Garrison at (805) 312-0369.

HCR Bingo fundraisers – 6:30-9:30 p.m. second and fourth Fridays at Anza Community Hall.

Anza Valley VFW Post 1873 – Capt. John Francis Drivick III Post, the Ladies’ and Men’s Auxiliaries are located at 59011 Bailey Road in Anza. Mail P.O. Box 390433.

Request monthly newsletter and or weekly menu by email at vfw1873anzaca@gmail.com. For more information, call (951) 7634439 or visit http://vfw1873.org.

High Country 4-H Club – 6:30 p.m. Meetings are on the third Wednesday of the month, except February, at Anza Community Hall. 4-H Club is for youth 5 to 19 years old offering a variety of projects. High Country 4-H Club is open to children living in the Anza, Aguanga and surrounding areas. For more information, call Allison Renck at (951) 663-5452.

Anza Valley Artists Meetings – 1 p.m. Meetings are the third Saturday of each month at various locations. Share art, ideas and participate in shows. Guest speakers are always needed. For more information, call president Rosie Grindle at (951) 928-1248.

Find helpful art tips at http://www. facebook.com/AnzaValleyArtists/.

Anza Quilter’s Club – 9:30 a.m. to noon. Meets the first and third Tuesday of each month at the Shepherd of the Valley Lutheran Church, 56095 Pena Road, in Anza.

Anza Valley Lions Club – The Anza Valley Lions Club is open to all men and women who want to work together for the betterment of the community. Guest meetings with dinner are held at 7 p.m. on the first Monday of each month at Anza Valley VFW Post 1873, 59011 Bailey Road, in Anza. Meetings and events are posted on the Anza Lions Club website, http:// www.anzalionsclub.org. For more information, call president Michele Brown at (760) 637-9173.

Boy Scouts Troop 319 – Cub Scouts meet 6 p.m. every Tuesday, and Boy Scouts meet 7 p.m. every Wednesday at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on Contreras Road, south of state Route 371, in Anza. For more information, call Richard Hotchkiss at (951) 551-3154.

Boys Scouts Troop 371 – Boy Scouts meet at Lake Riverside Estates. For more information, call

Ginny Kinser at (909) 702-7902.

Civil Air Patrol – Squadron 59 is looking for new members of all ages. For more information, call squadron commander Maj. Dennis Sheehan from the Anza area at (951) 403-4940. To learn more and see the club’s meeting schedule, visit http://www.squadron59.org.

Fire Explorer Program – 6 p.m. The program meets every second, third and fourth Tuesday of the month at Fire Station 29 on state Route 371 in Anza. Call (951)763-5611 for information.

Redshank Riders – 7 p.m.

Backcountry horsemen meet at the Little Red Schoolhouse in Anza, the second Thursday of each month. Visit http://www. redshankriders.com or call Carol Schmuhl for membership information at (951) 663-6763.

Anza Thimble Club – The club meets the first Thursday of the month at Valley Gospel Chapel, 43275 Chapman Road in Anza.

The social hour is 11:30 a.m., and lunch is served at noon. Contact Carol Wright at (951) 763-2884 for more information.

Organizations Terwilliger Community Association – 6 p.m. Second Monday of the month at VFW Post 1873, 59011 Bailey Road, in Anza. Potluck dinner open to all. For more information, call Tonie Ford at (951) 763-4560.

From the Heart Christian Women’s Ministries – Noon.

Monthly luncheon and guest speaker are held the second Saturday of each month. The $5 charge covers lunch at Shepherd of the Valley Lutheran Church, 56095 Pena Road, in Anza. From the Heart helps the area’s neediest children and invites all women and men to join in their mission.

Donate or help with the rummage sales twice a year to raise funds for the cause or other events. For more information, call president Christi James at (951) 595-2400.

Anza Community Hall – 7 p.m.

General membership meetings are held the fourth Thursday of the month. Memberships cost $20 per person or $35 per business, and both get one vote. No government funds are allocated for the Hall, which pays its bills through memberships and swap meets. Voting members receive discounts off hall rentals, swap meet booths and save on propane gas from Ferrellgas.

Mail membership to: Anza Community Building Inc. at P.O. Box 390091, Anza, CA 92539. The hall is located at 56630 Highway 371 in Anza. Swap meet held each Saturday of the month, weather permitting, early morning to 1 p.m. Vendors wanted. For more information, call (951) 282-4267.

Anza Civic Improvement League – 9 a.m. meets the first Saturday of each month at the Little Red Schoolhouse. The league maintains Minor Park and Little Red School House, which are both available to rent for events. No government funds are allowed; the membership pays the bills – $10 a person, $18 family or $35 business membership. For more information, visit http://www. anzacivic.org.

ACIL to host Halloween festivities Diane Sieker STAFF WRITER

The Anza Civic Improvement League, along with community businesses and organizations will host Halloween trunk or treats, hand out candy and food and present fun and games at Minor Park Saturday, Oct. 30.

“Join us for the 15th Anniversary Halloween Event at Minor Park,” ACIL director Tabitha Dawes said. “Trick or treating will be in town, then dinner, music, scream contest, pumpkin carving contest, costume, and dance contest and hayrides will be presented at the Park.”

Businesses located along Hwy. 371 will pass out candy and other goodies to costumed spooks, robots, clowns and cartoon characters from 4 to 6 p.m. Events at the park will continue until 9 p.m.

Anza celebrates its Halloween and this year promises to bring out the very best in costumes, goodies and down-home spooktacular fun.

Costumed spooks will abound for Halloween fun at Minor Park Saturday, Oct. 30.

To learn more about ACIL events, visit them on Facebook or at www.anzacivic.org. To join the ACIL, visit anzacivic.org/

join.html, write P.O. Box 391000, Anza, CA 92539, call (951) 3304411 or email anzacivic@gmail. com.

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Thimble Club to host coat drive Diane Sieker STAFF WRITER

The Anza Thimble Club has announced a coat collection event to provide needy area residents with warm clothing for the coming winter months.

Coats, vests, hats, gloves, scarves, sweaters and new socks will be accepted. Clothing collection will continue until Thursday, Nov. 4.

Collection sites include the Anza Electric Cooperative, 58470 Hwy. 371; The Marketplace Cooperative, 56840 Hwy. 371 and the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 1873, 59011 Bailey Road in Anza.

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The Anza Thimble Club is collecting coats, jackets and more to distribute to those in need Thursday, Nov. 4.

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Off-road lights illegal for street use

In this simulated event, the light bar and auxiliary off-road lights blind oncoming drivers.

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Diane Sieker STAFF WRITER

Off-road enthusiasts depend on very bright extra lighting for visibility in dusty conditions and for safety, to allow other off-roaders to see them, even in daytime hours. Lights are popular offroading modifications and come in a variety of shapes and intensities. These single lights or light bars are mounted facing front, to the grille, bumper or the top or bottom of a windshield. LED light bars provide bright, direct light. For those who frequently off-road, the extra visibility improves safety.

While auxiliary light bars are useful while driving trails and playing in the desert, it’s dangerous and illegal to deploy them on public streets and highways. The intense light emitted from an LED light bar can blind oncoming drivers, possibly causing an accident.

In California, when on public roadways, off-road lights must

be turned off and covered with an opaque cover.

Auxiliary lights fall into three categories: fog, driving and offroad lights. These lights can improve visibility but aren’t necessary to the safe operation of a motor vehicle like headlights are on the public roads.

Lights measure output in lumens. This means that off-road light manufacturers advertise the lumen output of their lights.

Unfortunately, most states define their legal limits in terms of candlepower, which is an outdated phrase. To convert candlepower to lumens, multiply by 12.57.

Enthusiasts want a lot of output, but that could spell disaster for other motorists on the highways.

Forward-facing lights cannot be red, blue or other colors associated with law enforcement or first responder agencies. They can’t flash or spin. In the United States, amber is used for turn lights, red for tail lights or warning lights and white for front-facing lights. Most

off-road lights are white.

On a national level, Federal Department of Transportation compliant lights will have a DOT logo on them. However, off-roading lights are not usually evaluated by the DOT. Additionally, a vehicle may be equipped with not more than eight lamps for use as headlamps while the vehicle is operated off the highway. They are required to be wired independently of all other lighting circuits. Whenever the vehicle is driven on a highway, the lights must be covered or hooded and turned off.

While sometimes encountering an oncoming driver with off-road lights blazing, keep in mind that the fact that you can see them on indicates a violation of California vehicle code law. A quick flick of your headlights or high beams may remind them.

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Woman suffers injuries while hiking trail near Idyllwild, requiring rescue City News Service SPECIAL TO VALLEY NEWS

A woman hiking a trail on the eastern edge of Idyllwild Thursday, Oct. 14, suffered injuries that left her stranded, requiring firefighters to rescue her.

The “hiker down” call was received just after noon on the Ernie Maxwell Scenic Trail, near Tahquitz View Drive, according

to the Riverside County Fire Department.

Idyllwild Fire Protection District personnel reached the location first and started a search for the victim, along with county fire crews, who arrived minutes later.

The hiker, whose name was not disclosed, was found about 12:35 p.m., roughly a half-mile from the trailhead with unspecified minor injuries, according to officials.

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There was no immediate word on whether she required hospitalization.

good standing with their dues paid

by Sept. 1 of this year.

Nomination forms for the 2022 board of directors must be returned

by Friday, Nov. 5, and will be reviewed to ensure the nominated person is a member in good standing and to ensure they are accepting the nomination.

Nomination forms can be obtained by contacting ACIL via email at anzacivic@gmail.com.

Members eligible to vote for the 2022 board must have a membership that was paid for before Nov. 15. Electronic voting is offered from Dec. 15 until Dec. 22 and in-person voting will be held Saturday, Dec. 18, from 9-10 a.m. at the Little Red Schoolhouse at Minor Park.

“We hope you will consider nominating an existing member for our upcoming board of directors’ elections or will consider joining our group to support Minor Park so it continues to exist for our community to enjoy,” board member Tabitha Dawes said. “We look forward to seeing you at our upcoming events.”

The ACIL is run solely by volunteers with income that is generated from fundraisers, park rentals, Schoolhouse rentals, and generous donations from community members. Meetings are held at the Little Red Schoolhouse on the first Saturday of each month

The donated clothing will be dispersed free of charge at Minor Park in Anza, Thursday, Nov. 4, from 9 to 11 a.m.

“The overwhelming response from our community to help our members in need is heartwarming and necessary. The success of this venture would not have been possible without the help of so many,” AEC member services representative and Thimble Club member Betsy Hansen said of the 2019 event.

For more information, please call (951) 763-4333.

Diane Sieker can be reached by email at dsieker@reedermedia. com. at 9 a.m. and the public is invited to attend.

The mission of the ACIL, a nonprofit corporation, is to restore, manage and enhance the Little Red Schoolhouse and Minor Park in partnership with the public, for the enjoyment of present and future generations, according to the league’s website.

Minor Park is not a public park and it receives no funding from county or state tax dollars. The park and school building are the centerpieces of the town and a hub of activity. From the Anza Summer Nights concert series to car shows and horseshoe tossing contests, the park is a popular place in Anza.

Both the park and the schoolhouse are available to rent for meetings and events. Members may credit 100% of their current membership dues toward rental fees during the same time period.

Only members can vote for the board of directors.

Minor Park and the Little Red Schoolhouse are at Highway 371 and Contreras Road in Anza.

To learn more about the ACIL events, visit them on Facebook or at www.anzacivic.org. To join, visit anzacivic.org/join.html, write P.O. Box 391000, Anza, CA 92539, call (951) 330-4411 or email anzacivic@gmail.com.

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Crash at highway junction in Aguanga injures two, causes sewage spill City News Service SPECIAL TO ANZA VALLEY OUTLOOK

A sewage tanker truck overturned Wednesday, Oct. 13, at the junction of Highways 371 and 79 in Aguanga, hitting an SUV and seriously injuring its occupants, one of whom was a child.

The crash happened at about 11:30 a.m. as the tanker attempted to transition from the eastbound 371 to the northbound 79, according to the California Highway Patrol.

The agency said the trucker may have tried to cut the turn too close, losing control and causing the rig to tip over, landing on a Ford Expedition.

An adult and child inside the SUV both suffered traumatic injuries, according to the Riverside

County Fire Department.

Crews spent nearly a half-hour extricating one of the victims, who was airlifted to a hospital in critical condition, according to reports from the scene.

The other victim was taken by ambulance to a hospital, also in critical condition.

Neither party was identified.

The trucker was not injured.

The CHP shut down the northbound lane of Highway 79 at the junction because of the wreck and leaking chemicals from the truck.

According to officials, the rig was hauling about 2,300 gallons of sewage, which was seeping onto the roadway and running onto the shoulder.

A hazardous materials unit was sent to clean up the mess.

Rightfully Hers: American Women and the Vote exhibit at R.H. Roberts Library in Temecula TEMECULA – During October, the Ronald H. Roberts Temecula Public Library, 30600 Pauba Road, will be the home of the Rightfully Hers: American Women and the Vote pop-up exhibit from the National Archives. The exhibit marks the Centennial celebration of the ratification of the 19th Amendment in August 1920. The 19th Amendment allowed fuller citizenship for many women across the country and paved the way for universal women’s suffrage in 1965.

The pop-up display was originally scheduled to coincide with the 100th anniversary in 2020 but was postponed due to library closures related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Too important to be

forgotten, the pop-up exhibit was rescheduled for October 2021.

The Temecula Valley American Association of University Women offered to join in the celebration by creating a complimentary display of their own that highlights notable figures and events of the suffrage movement. The public can view both displays during regular library hours. For additional information, please call (951) 693-8900.

For a full list of programs and offerings at the Ronald H. Roberts Temecula Public Library, visit TemeculaCA.gov/Library.

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For more information, please contact Jeff Walls at (951) 5148588 or Lorraine Elmore at (951) 763-0033.

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BROTHERS from page AVO-1 Tansy Nahsohn said. “He is a warrior. We didn’t know if we were going to make it. My husband was there with Jacob’s twin brother, Jackson, and let them know we were on our way, so they said they would stop the party to recognize Jacob when he got there.”

Jacob wasn’t the only player with disabilities on the team. His twin brother Jackson has some mild disabilities. But that did not prevent the boys from enjoying a successful soccer season.

Jackson and Jacob are 9 years old. Jackson has mild cerebral palsy and high functioning autism, although most people who meet him don’t realize he has any disabilities. Jacob has a long list of disabilities, but the major ones are spastic quad cerebral palsy, hydrocephalus, epilepsy and vision impairments. The children’s disabilities, except for Jackson’s autism, are due to being born prematurely at 27 weeks gestation, which resulted in brain bleeds.

“Jackson participated with the AYSO two years ago and really enjoyed it,” his mother said. “He plays during recess at school, too.

Jacob watched his brother playing, and would ask to play, too. I saw on the AYSO website that they encouraged all children to play, regardless of ability. Also, AYSO regional representative Brooke Blackmore mentioned that Jacob could be included. One of Jacob’s IEP goals is to be able to kick a ball into a goal, so I figured soccer

would be a great way for him to practice that goal.”

Parents Adi and Tansy Nahsohn did have questions about involvement in the soccer organization.

“Our biggest concern at first was finding cleats to fit over their ankle braces,” Tansy said. “Cleats are very narrow, so we had to go up several sizes to be able to fit.

Adaptive clothing and shoes are becoming more popular, but most people don’t even consider adaptive sporting gear.”

For Jackson’s first year, they had concerns about his abilities with his age group, so he was placed with the younger group. After doing so well with them, this year he played with his age group and classmates. He did great socially, with them, and physically he improved.

Jacob was a whole other level of concern.

“We were worried about the other children being welcoming to him, as well as his physical health. We never know when Jacob will need to go to the hospital next, but based on his most recent medical complications, we knew to expect another hospitalization sooner rather than later, and we were right,” Tansy said.

Jacob had to miss the last game because he was in the hospital for neurosurgeries, and almost missed the awards ceremony, going straight from the hospital to Minor Park.

Both boys were placed on the same team and it allowed ease of scheduling for their parents.

All of their siblings were extremely supportive of them playing. Their older brother, Alex, would sometimes come watch them play after his football practice and he helped Jacob on the field during one of their soccer games.

“Provided everyone is healthy, they are both excited to play again next season. We will probably put Jacob with a younger age group as a safety precaution,” Tansy said.

“This has been the best experience for the boys. We have appreciated how everyone has been so accepting of both of them.”

Jacob was approved for a Make A Wish, but everything has been delayed due to COVID. He wished for accessible play equipment in our yard so he can play outside with his friends.

“It was nice to see the community really come together and cheer them on,” Tansy said.

AYSO teams are divided into age groups to ensure fair play.

Player development is one of AYSO’s core philosophies, and that means that coaches take the talents that the children bring to the field and teach them how to use them to the team’s advantage in order to score goals.

To learn more about the AYSO program, please visit www. ayso1641.org and www.facebook. com/aysoregion1641 or email aysoregion1641@gmail.com.

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COURTS & CRIMES

Pair plead guilty to using inmate’s info to commit unemployment fraud City News Service SPECIAL TO VALLEY NEWS

A Moreno Valley man and woman who conspired with a Riverside County jail inmate to steal $18,000 in unemployment insurance benefits by filing a series of fraudulent claims pleaded guilty Friday, Oct. 15, to conspiracy to commit fraud and were immediately sentenced to terms of probation.

Blake Thomas Fallon, 52, admitted the conspiracy count, as well as perjury and filing false earnings statements for purposes of theft, while his girlfriend, 45-year-old Jennifer Rose Kaye, admitted only the conspiracy charge.

They made the admissions at

the outset of a preliminary hearing before Superior Court Judge O.G. Magno. It was not immediately clear whether the pleas were part of an agreement with prosecutors or were proffered and accepted by the judge alone.

Kaye was sentenced to one year of felony probation, and Fallon was sentenced to 90 days in county jail and two years’ probation. Fallon will not have to commence his detention until Jan. 14, according to court records.

T h e p a i r ’s c o - d e f e n d a n t , 58-year-old Brian Jay Davison, was sentenced in July to nine years in state prison following a jury trial that led to his conviction for involuntary manslaughter and assault

resulting in great bodily injury for the 2019 death of a man at a Moreno Valley mobile home park, where Davidson worked as a parttime security enforcement agent.

Davidson admitted a conspiracy charge connected with the jobless claims rip-off during his sentencing, but the felony count was not factored into his prison term.

He, Fallon and Kaye are friends and were identified during an investigation handled by the D.A.’s Bureau of Investigation.

“What is particularly offensive about these crimes is that these criminals are stealing much-needed benefits from people experiencing extreme economic hardship because of the (coronavirus public

Tentative settlement reached in San Bernardino clergy abuse case City News Service SPECIAL TO VALLEY NEWS

A tentative settlement has been reached in a lawsuit brought by two plaintiffs who allege they were sexually abused by a priest at a Riverside parish more than 25 years ago, a lawyer for the pair told a judge Tuesday, Oct. 12.

The two plaintiffs are identified only as John R.R. Doe and John R.F. Doe in the Los Angeles Superior Court lawsuit they filed in February 2018.

Tuesday’s announcement came during what was scheduled to be a final status conference with Judge David Sotelo ahead of an Oct. 25 trial of their case against the Archdiocese of Los Angeles and the Diocese of San Bernardino, as well as the Congregation of the Mission Western Province, which conducts religious education and activities.

The Does allege they were abused by the Rev. Carlos Rene Rodriguez when he was assigned to a Riverside church that was part of the San Bernardino diocese.

The parish is not identified in their suit. Rodriguez allegedly was a

member of the Congregation of the Mission Western Province before, during and after the period when he is accused of molesting the two Does.

The Does’ attorney, Anthony DeMarco, told Sotelo that the resolution was reached Monday evening and that it will take about two months to finalize.

The tentative terms were not divulged.

“In light of everything going on in the world, the settlement is truly extraordinary,” DeMarco said.

The judge scheduled another hearing for Jan. 11 for an update.

The Archdiocese of Los Angeles in 1988 assigned Rodriguez to work within its Office for Family Life to minister throughout Southern California, including the Diocese of San Bernardino, but did not inform the latter organization that Rodriguez had an alleged history of molesting children, the suit states.

John R.F. Doe alleges Rodriguez began abusing him in 1993 at a time when the plaintiff was a minor and unaware the Archdiocese of Los Angeles had previously suspended the clergyman from

the ministry for allegedly abusing other children.

In fall 2016, John R.F. Doe saw a television report regarding Rodriguez that dealt with the priest’s ministry at a church in Los Angeles and allegations he had molested children in the past, the suit states. The plaintiff “became very upset” after hearing the report and for the first time in his life began to “actively think about Father Rodriguez and child sex abuse he had committed” upon him, the suit alleges.

John R.R. Doe says he was 7 or 8 years old when Rodriguez allegedly began molesting him, also in 1993.

In spring 2017, John R.R. Doe’s brother asked him if he had been abused by Rodriguez and the plaintiff replied that he had, the suit alleges.

John R.R. Doe says his memories were affected by a longtime alcohol problem and that he also subconsciously suppressed his memories of the abuse allegations due to his feelings of shame and guilt.

health) lockdowns,” Riverside County District Attorney Mike Hestrin said at the time the trio was arrested. “We as state and local government officials have to cooperate with one another to make sure this never happens again.”

The defendants procured funds from the Employment Development Department by claiming they had lost work and income after the lockdowns went into effect in the spring of 2020. According to prosecutors, Fallon and Kaye used Davidson’s personal information to file for unemployment benefits with his consent.

A report released Jan. 28 by California State Auditor Elaine Howle estimated the EDD last

year disbursed at least $10.4 billion in benefits based on fraudulent claims.

The claims, up and down the state, related to the federal Pandemic Unemployment Assistance provided under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief & Economic Security Act, according to officials.

The audit uncovered instances in which the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Inspector General flagged nearly 3 million unemployment claims as likely connected to fraud, but the EDD failed to respond proactively to stop it.

The audit indicated more than $800 million in benefits were distributed to prisoners.

Two children killed in 2-vehicle wreck in Menifee City News Service SPECIAL TO VALLEY NEWS

A two-vehicle collision in Menifee killed two children, who were ejected from a pickup truck, authorities said Thursday, Oct. 14 The crash occurred about 5:20 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 13, on Domenigoni Parkway, between Laguna Vista Drive and Leon Road, according to the Menifee Police Department.

Capt. Dave Gutierrez said 18-year-old Logan Shell of Corona was driving a Ford F-150 pickup going west on Domenigoni Parkway when, for reasons unclear, he allegedly veered into the adjacent westbound lane and hit a Chevrolet Silverado pulling a trailer and occupied by five people, including two children, Legend Aries Girard, a 1-year-old from San Jacinto, died along with a 16-year-old boy, whose name has not been released.

“As a result of the collision, the Chevrolet lost control, crossed over the center divider and rolled onto its side, where the two juve-

niles were ejected from the cab of the truck,” Gutierrez said.

The children were pronounced dead at the scene minutes later by Riverside County Fire Department paramedics.

The driver of the pickup and two other passengers suffered minor injuries. The driver declined medical attention, while the other two victims were taken to a hospital for treatment, according to Gutierrez.

Shell, who was not injured, was arrested on suspicion of gross vehicular manslaughter, according to Gutierrez.

The suspect was booked into the Byrd Detention Center in Murrieta.

Bail information was not immediately available.

The crash resulted in the closure of Domenigoni Parkway until the predawn hours Thursday.

The collision remains under investigation. Anyone with information was asked to contact Sgt. Matt Bloch at (951) 723-1565 or mbloch@menifeepolice.org.

Man attacks Corona girl, strips nude, flees on bike City News Service SPECIAL TO VALLEY NEWS

A 41-year-old probationer accused of trying to sexually assault a Corona girl walking to school, then fleeing nude on his bicycle, was charged Friday, Oct. 15, with attempted lewd acts on a child and other offenses.

Carlos Lorenzo Martinez of Corona was arrested Wednesday following the alleged attack on West Ontario Avenue.

Along with the lewd acts count, Martinez is charged with allegedly contacting a minor with intent to commit a sexual offense, felony assault and indecent exposure.

The defendant, who is being held in lieu of $80,000 bail at the Robert Presley Jail in Riverside, is slated to be arraigned Monday at the Riverside Hall of Justice.

According to Corona Police Detective Daniel Clary, at about 7:15 a.m. Wednesday, Martinez

was riding a bicycle on Ontario Avenue when he confronted the 12-year-old girl as she neared her school campus.

“Martinez was wearing women’s clothing and approached the student,” Clary said. “Martinez shoved the student to the ground with his bicycle and removed his clothing, exposing his nude body while making sexual references.

The girl acted quickly and was able to escape the assault by running to a nearby school bus.”

The defendant rode away, bare naked, and a witness driving through the area flagged down a Corona patrol unit moments later, reporting what he had seen, according to the detective.

The patrol officers quickly caught up with Martinez, taking him into custody without incident.

According to court records, he has traffic-related misdemeanor convictions from last year.

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COVID-19 and variants, experts say prevention is the cure

Julie Reeder PUBLISHER

I lost a cousin last week to COVID-19. If you are losing a loved one to COVID, you shouldn’t have to fight the hospital as well.

His children weren’t allowed

to see him until the end, and just for five minutes. They were also asking the hospital to treat him with Ivermectin, but the hospital refused. From what I’ve learned, early intervention with Ivermectin is the most useful, but honestly, if someone is dying, what’s the risk?

They’re dying! It reminds me of an employee I had 20 years ago that was dying of cancer and we were asking the doctors to give her more morphine for pain and they refused. I asked, “What are you afraid of? She’s going to get hooked? She’s dying!”

I read one law firm has 60 cases right now, representing families with loved ones in the hospital who are being refused this Nobel prize-winning drug.

This is one of the topics that is covered in a two-page spread in this week’s paper, which I expect will be too much for short attention spans. But it is important to listen

to doctors who know what they are doing. It is a transcription of a roundtable discussion between nine doctors and scientists about the present state of COVID and how to fight it.

The roundtable participants include an inventor of mRNA technology, a statistician, a psychiatrist, and several well-respected doctors and scientists who have treated thousands of COVID patients.

Most of them agree that the COVID pandemic is a pandemic of undertreatment and a lack of preventative strategy using medicines that have been utilized by billions of people all over the world. Medicines that are on the World Health Organization’s list of essential life-saving medications.

The problem with these off-label medications is they don’t make people rich. They are cheap and available. You can likely take them

long-term preventatively. Other countries, much poorer than the U.S., are using them with much success.

The doctors also are sounding the alarm because, while they all are pro-vaccine, they warn that the vaccines and the boosters we are using now are not effective against the Delta and other variants, and in fact may cause problems, especially to children and pregnant women.

They didn’t address the loss of personal freedom to control what you have injected into your own body, and it was kept completely unpolitical, which I appreciated.

Dr. Pierre Kory, who has testified before the U.S. Senate, said he has never seen anything like COVID. He’s never seen floors of hospitals full of people with ventilators for the same disease and he takes it very seriously.

It’s a mistake to censor and shut

to power its Texas facility, and 250 million gallons of water is recycled each year at its Riverside facility.

San Diego County leads the country in nursery crops and avocados, we’re fifth in lemons, ninth in strawberries, 10th in egg-laying hens. We’re No. 1 in part-time farmers and small family farms, No. 2 in farms operated by women.

San Diego is the 19th most productive farm county in the nation.

But California agriculture faces monumental issues, including drought and wildfires. This session I wrote legislation to restore Lake Wohlford Dam to its full capacity, and I will continue to advocate for additional water storage and conveyance in the state budget.

I also secured almost $3 million to fund local fire districts in rural North County to help ensure this

region’s farms and surrounding communities are safe from wildfires.

As an Assemblymember representing one of the nation’s leading agricultural counties, I am proud to recognize outstanding leaders like Ken Altman. I will continue to do all I can to encourage and support California agriculture.

out the opinions of doctors who have successfully treated thousands of patients. They made the point that it’s how doctors work.

They share information.

It also may be wise to talk with your doctor and have a proactive strategy in place since they say there are now just as many people getting COVID who are vaccinated as unvaccinated. They also confirmed that people who get COVID have superior immunity to not only COVID-19 but the variants as well.

“Getting Covid is only caused by one thing – a lack of preventative strategy. The good news is we have those strategies.” Kory said.

“My colleagues are now talking about even scarier variants that are coming. And so, we need more tools to fight this. We need more weapons to fight this. And guess what? The positive message is. We have them.”

A salute to agriculture

Assemblymember Marie Waldron SPECIAL TO VALLEY NEWS

At the San Diego County Farm Bureau’s annual celebration, I was proud to present Ken Altman with an Assembly Resolution honoring

him as “Farmer of the Year.” As owner of Altman Plants, the largest nursery in the United States, located right here in the 75th Assembly District, Ken has been active in California agriculture for decades. He represents the best of San Diego agriculture. His service includes the Dean’s Advisory Committee for California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, and the San Diego County Farm Bureau Executive Committee, with two years as President.

Committed to his employees and the environment, Ken Altman provides for employee growth through continuing education and internal training, including scholarships to employees and their families. Altman Plants’ environmental commitment is ongoing.

The company relies on solar panels

Assemblywoman Marie Waldron poses with Ken Altman after presenting him with an Assembly Resolution honoring him as “Farmer of the Year.”

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FAITH

Would You Rather be Like Jesus?

Zachary Elliott SPECIAL TO VALLEY NEWS

You’ve probably heard the term “Good Samaritan” before. Maybe in the news or conversations with friends. People who do something selfless or heroic are often labeled “The Good Samaritan,” although most people probably don’t even know what it means.

You might not know that the

term comes from a story Jesus told in Luke 10:25-37. It’s about three guys and their response to a stranger in need who was fighting for his life after being robbed, stripped, beaten and left for dead.

As he lay there dying, a priest happened to be traveling down the same road, and when he saw him, he crossed the street to the opposite side. He apparently had more important, godly things to do than love his neighbor and help someone in need.

After a little while, a second guy came strolling down the road.

He was from the tribe of Levi.

Which means he knew God’s word that commanded him to love his neighbor and was probably a pretty religious guy. But when he saw him naked, bleeding and dying, he too crossed to the other side of the road and kept on trucking. Busy, busy!

I’m sure by now, the naked and bleeding man thought his time was up. So far, two grown men, who

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were supposed to be spiritual leaders, had simply looked at him and passed him by without a single care in the world.

“But a Samaritan, as he journeyed, came to where he was, and when he saw him, he had compassion. He went to him and bound up his wounds, pouring on oil and wine. Then he set him on his own animal and brought him to an inn and took care of him. And the next day he took out two denarii and gave them to the innkeeper, saying, ‘Take care of him, and whatever more you spend, I will repay you when I come back.’” (Luke 10:33-35) We can all learn a lot about ourselves in this story. We’ve all been every person in it. Which one are you today? Two of these men were not like Jesus, but one of them was.

The question now is which one do you want to be? Would you rather be like Jesus?

If so, here are a few steps to get there.

Have compassion for people.

Compassion means you have concern for the suffering and mis-

fortune of others. It means you care about what’s going on in the lives of others. Just like the Samaritan.

Is that you?

Care for people.

Caring for people is up close and personal. It’s hands-on. It’s compassion in action. When the Samaritan saw the man lying there, he didn’t say, “Oh, that’s so sad,” and ride off.

Instead, he did something about it.

That’s caring. You can’t do it from a distance or through social media.

Sacrifice for people.

After the Samaritan saw the man, he cared for his immediate needs and sacrificed for him. Then, placing the man on his own donkey while he walked, he took time out of his busy schedule to make sure his care lasted.

Let me ask you a tough question.

Are you the type of person who is too busy to be inconvenienced to have compassion and care for people? Is your life so busy that you are the only one on the schedule?

The Samaritan sacrificed for this stranger just like Jesus sacrificed for you, and he calls us to do the same.

Be generous toward others.

Most people think they are generous. But in all reality, they’re not.

It’s a generosity of the mind and word but not in deed.

The Samaritan used his resources and money to place this man in a safe environment and get the care he needed. But he didn’t stop there.

He went above and beyond and gave the innkeeper more money for more care. He gave his best.

In every circumstance, the Samaritan gave his best. Is that you?

Too often, we just give our leftovers or garage sale fodder to God and others. But we are commanded to be like Jesus and give our best.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File Number: R-202110742 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: COOL CRUISERZ 40820 Winchester Rd, Temecula, CA 92591 Mailing address: 271 E Workman St, Ste 106, Covina, CA 91723 County: Riverside CRK International Business LLC, 28341 Rodgers Drive, Sagus, California 91350 This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company This LLC is registered in the state of CA Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious name listed above on 07/01/2021 I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000).)

Registrant: Cyril Nicola, CCO Statement was filed with the County Clerk of Riverside County on 08/03/2021 NOTICE—IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBDIVISION (a) OF SECTION 17920, A FICTITIOUS NAME STATEMENT GENERALLY EXPIRES AT THE END OF FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE ON WHICH IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK, EXCEPT, AS PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION (b) OF SECTION 17920, WHERE IT EXPIRES 40 DAYS AFTER ANY CHANGE IN THE FACTS SET FORTH IN THE STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 17913 OTHER THAN A CHANGE IN THE RESIDENCE ADDRESS OF A REGISTERED OWNER. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THE EXPIRATION. THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT OF ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE, OR COMMON LAW (SEE SECTION 14411 ET SEQ., BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS CODE). I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS COPY IS A CORRECT COPY OF THE ORIGINAL STATEMENT ON FILE IN MY OFFICE. PETER ALDANA RIVERSIDE COUNTY CLERK. LEGAL: 3396 PUBLISHED: August 13, 20, 27, September 3, 2021 Republished: October 1, 8, 15, 22, 2021 Business name was incorrect in original publication.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File Number: R-202112688 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: GREEN LIGHT WEST, LLC 32237 Copper Crest Lane, Temecula, CA 92592 Mailing address: PO Box 892855, Temecula, CA 92536 County: Riverside Green Light West, LLC, 32237 Copper Crest Lane, Temecula, CA 92592 This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company This LLC is registered in the state of CA Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious name listed above on 08/26/2021.

I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000).)

Registrant: Kenneth Shin, Managing Member Statement was filed with the County Clerk of Riverside County on 09/09/2021 NOTICE—IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBDIVISION (a) OF SECTION 17920, A FICTITIOUS NAME STATEMENT GENERALLY EXPIRES AT THE END OF FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE ON WHICH IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK, EXCEPT, AS PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION (b) OF SECTION 17920, WHERE IT EXPIRES 40 DAYS AFTER ANY CHANGE IN THE FACTS SET FORTH IN THE STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 17913 OTHER THAN A CHANGE IN THE RESIDENCE ADDRESS OF A REGISTERED OWNER. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THE EXPIRATION. THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT OF ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE, OR COMMON LAW (SEE SECTION 14411 ET SEQ., BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS CODE). I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS COPY IS A CORRECT COPY OF THE ORIGINAL STATEMENT ON FILE IN MY OFFICE. PETER ALDANA RIVERSIDE COUNTY CLERK. LEGAL: 3438 PUBLISHED: October 1, 8, 15, 22, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File Number: R-202113405 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: ICYPAC 40096 Sagewood Drive, Palm Desert, CA 92260 County: Riverside Riad Elias Chedid, 40096 Sagewood Drive, Palm Desert, CA 92260 This business is conducted by an Individual Registrant has not yet begun to transact business under the fictitious name listed above I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000).)

Registrant: Riad Elias Chedid Statement was filed with the County Clerk of Riverside County on 09/23/2021 NOTICE—IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBDIVISION (a) OF SECTION 17920, A FICTITIOUS NAME STATEMENT GENERALLY EXPIRES AT THE END OF FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE ON WHICH IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK, EXCEPT, AS PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION (b) OF SECTION 17920, WHERE IT EXPIRES 40 DAYS AFTER ANY CHANGE IN THE FACTS SET FORTH IN THE STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 17913 OTHER THAN A CHANGE IN THE RESIDENCE ADDRESS OF A REGISTERED OWNER. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THE EXPIRATION. THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT OF ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE, OR COMMON LAW (SEE SECTION 14411 ET SEQ., BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS CODE). I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS COPY IS A CORRECT COPY OF THE ORIGINAL STATEMENT ON FILE IN MY OFFICE. PETER ALDANA RIVERSIDE COUNTY CLERK. LEGAL: 3439 PUBLISHED: October 8, 15, 22, 29, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File Number: R-202112982 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: EZIONY 79727 Morning Glory, La Quinta, CA 92253 County: Riverside a. Shay -- Eziony, 79727 Morning Glory, La Quinta, CA 92253 b. Dorit -- Eziony, 79727 Morning Glory, La Quinta, CA 92253 This business is conducted by a Married Couple Registrant has not yet begun to transact business under the fictitious name listed above I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000).)

Registrant: Shay Eziony Statement was filed with the County Clerk of Riverside County on 09/15/2021 NOTICE—IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBDIVISION (a) OF SECTION 17920, A FICTITIOUS NAME STATEMENT GENERALLY EXPIRES AT THE END OF FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE ON WHICH IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK, EXCEPT, AS PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION (b) OF SECTION 17920, WHERE IT EXPIRES 40 DAYS AFTER ANY CHANGE IN THE FACTS SET FORTH IN THE STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 17913 OTHER THAN A CHANGE IN THE RESIDENCE ADDRESS OF A REGISTERED OWNER. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THE EXPIRATION. THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT OF ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE, OR COMMON LAW (SEE SECTION 14411 ET SEQ., BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS CODE). I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS COPY IS A CORRECT COPY OF THE ORIGINAL STATEMENT ON FILE IN MY OFFICE. PETER ALDANA RIVERSIDE COUNTY CLERK. LEGAL: 3440 PUBLISHED: October 8, 15, 22, 29, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File Number: R-202109152 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: 1. LITHIUMGOLFCARTS.COM 2. LITHIUMGOLFCART.COM 3. LITHIUMGOLFCAR.COM 4. LITHIUMGOLFCARS.COM 5. LITHIUM GOLF CARTS 6. LITHIUM GOLF CART 7. LITHIUM GOLF CAR 8. LITHIUM GOLF CARS 1 Lazy B, Palm Desert, CA 92260 County: Riverside Michael -- OSullivan, 1 Lazy B, Palm Desert, CA 92260 This business is conducted by an Individual Registrant has not yet commenced to transact business under the fictitious name listed above I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000).)

Registrant: Michael OSullivan Statement was filed with the County Clerk of Riverside County on 07/02/2021 NOTICE—IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBDIVISION (a) OF SECTION 17920, A FICTITIOUS NAME STATEMENT GENERALLY EXPIRES AT THE END OF FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE ON WHICH IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK, EXCEPT, AS PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION (b) OF SECTION 17920, WHERE IT EXPIRES 40 DAYS AFTER ANY CHANGE IN THE FACTS SET FORTH IN THE STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 17913 OTHER THAN A CHANGE IN THE RESIDENCE ADDRESS OF A REGISTERED OWNER. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THE EXPIRATION. THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT OF ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE, OR COMMON LAW (SEE SECTION 14411 ET SEQ., BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS CODE). I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS COPY IS A CORRECT COPY OF THE ORIGINAL STATEMENT ON FILE IN MY OFFICE. PETER ALDANA RIVERSIDE COUNTY CLERK. LEGAL: 3390 PUBLISHED: July 30, August 6, 13, 20, 2021 Republished: October 1, 8, 15, 22, 2021 File date in first publication did not match the Fictitious Business Name Statement

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File Number: R-202113851 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: ROOTS AND MANE HAIR STUDIO 44630 Monterey Ave #200, Palm Desert, CA 92260 Mailing address: PO Box 14070, Palm Desert, CA 92255 County: Riverside J Russell And Co. LLC, 44711 San Jacinto Avenue, Palm Desert, CA 92260 This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company This LLC is registered in the state of CA Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious name listed above on 2/1/2020 I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000).)

Registrant: Gerard Washack Jr, Managing Member Statement was filed with the County Clerk of Riverside County on 10/04/2021 NOTICE—IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBDIVISION (a) OF SECTION 17920, A FICTITIOUS NAME STATEMENT GENERALLY EXPIRES AT THE END OF FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE ON WHICH IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK, EXCEPT, AS PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION (b) OF SECTION 17920, WHERE IT EXPIRES 40 DAYS AFTER ANY CHANGE IN THE FACTS SET FORTH IN THE STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 17913 OTHER THAN A CHANGE IN THE RESIDENCE ADDRESS OF A REGISTERED OWNER. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THE EXPIRATION. THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT OF ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE, OR COMMON LAW (SEE SECTION 14411 ET SEQ., BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS CODE). I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS COPY IS A CORRECT COPY OF THE ORIGINAL STATEMENT ON FILE IN MY OFFICE. PETER ALDANA RIVERSIDE COUNTY CLERK. LEGAL: 3443 PUBLISHED: October 15, 22, 29, November 5,2021 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File Number: R-202114126 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: BLUE MOUNTAIN INSURANCE AGENCY 30468 Cherry Opal Lane, Menifee, CA 92584 County: Riverside Harold Lloyd Webb, 30468 Cherry Opal Lane, Menifee, CA 92584 This business is conducted by an Individual Registrant has not yet begun to transact business under the fictitious name listed above I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000).)

Registrant: Harold Webb Statement was filed with the County Clerk of Riverside County on 10/12/2021 NOTICE—IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBDIVISION (a) OF SECTION 17920, A FICTITIOUS NAME STATEMENT GENERALLY EXPIRES AT THE END OF FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE ON WHICH IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK, EXCEPT, AS PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION (b) OF SECTION 17920, WHERE IT EXPIRES 40 DAYS AFTER ANY CHANGE IN THE FACTS SET FORTH IN THE STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 17913 OTHER THAN A CHANGE IN THE RESIDENCE ADDRESS OF A REGISTERED OWNER. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THE EXPIRATION. THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT OF ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE, OR COMMON LAW (SEE SECTION 14411 ET SEQ., BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS CODE). I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS COPY IS A CORRECT COPY OF THE ORIGINAL STATEMENT ON FILE IN MY OFFICE. PETER ALDANA RIVERSIDE COUNTY CLERK. LEGAL: 3450 PUBLISHED: October 22, 29, November 5, 12, 2021 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File Number: R-202114389 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: MVS HOME SERVICES 76550 California Dr, Palm Desert, CA 92211 County: Riverside Michael Vincent Sperber, 76550 California Dr, Palm Desert, CA 92211 This business is conducted by an Individual Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious name listed above on April 27, 2021 I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000).)

Registrant: Michael Vincent Sperber Statement was filed with the County Clerk of Riverside County on 10/18/2021 NOTICE—IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBDIVISION (a) OF SECTION 17920, A FICTITIOUS NAME STATEMENT GENERALLY EXPIRES AT THE END OF FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE ON WHICH IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK, EXCEPT, AS PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION (b) OF SECTION 17920, WHERE IT EXPIRES 40 DAYS AFTER ANY CHANGE IN THE FACTS SET FORTH IN THE STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 17913 OTHER THAN A CHANGE IN THE RESIDENCE ADDRESS OF A REGISTERED OWNER. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THE EXPIRATION. THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT OF ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE, OR COMMON LAW (SEE SECTION 14411 ET SEQ., BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS CODE). I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS COPY IS A CORRECT COPY OF THE ORIGINAL STATEMENT ON FILE IN MY OFFICE. PETER ALDANA RIVERSIDE COUNTY CLERK. LEGAL: 3454 PUBLISHED: October 22, 29, November 5, 12, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File Number: R-202113936 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: HAIR DESIGN BY CARLY 40404 California Oaks Road, Suite E, Murrieta, CA 92562 Mailing address: 30865 Windy Ridge Way, Menifee, CA 92584 County: Riverside Carlene Michelle Vaeena, 30865 Windy Ridge Way, Menifee, CA 92584 This business is conducted by an Individual Registrant has not yet begun to transact business under the fictitious name listed above I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000).)

Registrant: Carlene Michelle Vaeena Statement was filed with the County Clerk of Riverside County on 10/06/2021 NOTICE—IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBDIVISION (a) OF SECTION 17920, A FICTITIOUS NAME STATEMENT GENERALLY EXPIRES AT THE END OF FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE ON WHICH IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK, EXCEPT, AS PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION (b) OF SECTION 17920, WHERE IT EXPIRES 40 DAYS AFTER ANY CHANGE IN THE FACTS SET FORTH IN THE STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 17913 OTHER THAN A CHANGE IN THE RESIDENCE ADDRESS OF A REGISTERED OWNER. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THE EXPIRATION. THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT OF ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE, OR COMMON LAW (SEE SECTION 14411 ET SEQ., BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS CODE). I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS COPY IS A CORRECT COPY OF THE ORIGINAL STATEMENT ON FILE IN MY OFFICE. PETER ALDANA RIVERSIDE COUNTY CLERK. LEGAL: 3444 PUBLISHED: October 15, 22, 29, November 5, 2021 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File Number: R-202113946 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: 1. CORINTHIAN 2. CORINTHIAN ACTIVEWEAR 3121 Strawberry Tree Ln, Temecula, CA 92592 County: Riverside Steve -- Monzon, 3121 Strawberry Tree Ln, Temecula, CA 92592 This business is conducted by an Individual Registrant has not yet begun to transact business under the fictitious name listed above I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000).)

Registrant: Steve -- Monzon Statement was filed with the County Clerk of Riverside County on 10/06/2021 NOTICE—IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBDIVISION (a) OF SECTION 17920, A FICTITIOUS NAME STATEMENT GENERALLY EXPIRES AT THE END OF FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE ON WHICH IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK, EXCEPT, AS PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION (b) OF SECTION 17920, WHERE IT EXPIRES 40 DAYS AFTER ANY CHANGE IN THE FACTS SET FORTH IN THE STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 17913 OTHER THAN A CHANGE IN THE RESIDENCE ADDRESS OF A REGISTERED OWNER. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THE EXPIRATION. THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT OF ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE, OR COMMON LAW (SEE SECTION 14411 ET SEQ., BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS CODE). I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS COPY IS A CORRECT COPY OF THE ORIGINAL STATEMENT ON FILE IN MY OFFICE. PETER ALDANA RIVERSIDE COUNTY CLERK. LEGAL: 3451 PUBLISHED: October 22, 29, November 5, 12, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File Number: R-202113775 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: P3 PROPERTIES 32421 Cassino Court, Temecula, CA 92592 Mailing address: 32421 Cassino Court, Temecula, CA 92592 County: Riverside P3 Properties, 32421 Cassino Court, Temecula, CA 92592 This business is conducted by a Corporation This Corporation is registered in the state of CA Registrant has not yet begun to transact business under the fictitious name listed above I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000).)

Registrant: Priscilla Daniels, Managing Member Statement was filed with the County Clerk of Riverside County on 10/01/2021 NOTICE—IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBDIVISION (a) OF SECTION 17920, A FICTITIOUS NAME STATEMENT GENERALLY EXPIRES AT THE END OF FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE ON WHICH IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK, EXCEPT, AS PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION (b) OF SECTION 17920, WHERE IT EXPIRES 40 DAYS AFTER ANY CHANGE IN THE FACTS SET FORTH IN THE STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 17913 OTHER THAN A CHANGE IN THE RESIDENCE ADDRESS OF A REGISTERED OWNER. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THE EXPIRATION. THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT OF ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE, OR COMMON LAW (SEE SECTION 14411 ET SEQ., BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS CODE). I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS COPY IS A CORRECT COPY OF THE ORIGINAL STATEMENT ON FILE IN MY OFFICE. PETER ALDANA RIVERSIDE COUNTY CLERK. LEGAL: 3447 PUBLISHED: October 22, 29, November 5, 12, 2021 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File Number: R-202113398 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: 1. TEMECULA VALLEY LOCK & KEY 2. MURRIETA LOCK & KEY 3. WINCHESTER LOCK & KEY 4. INLAND VALLEY LOCK & KEY 40224 Buckwood Way, Murrieta, CA 92562 County: Riverside Mohammad -- Hemmati, 40224 Buckwood Way, Murrieta, CA 92562 This business is conducted by an Individual Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious name listed above on 09/23/2021 I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000).)

Registrant: Mohammad Hemmati Statement was filed with the County Clerk of Riverside County on 09/23/2021 NOTICE—IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBDIVISION (a) OF SECTION 17920, A FICTITIOUS NAME STATEMENT GENERALLY EXPIRES AT THE END OF FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE ON WHICH IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK, EXCEPT, AS PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION (b) OF SECTION 17920, WHERE IT EXPIRES 40 DAYS AFTER ANY CHANGE IN THE FACTS SET FORTH IN THE STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 17913 OTHER THAN A CHANGE IN THE RESIDENCE ADDRESS OF A REGISTERED OWNER. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THE EXPIRATION. THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT OF ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE, OR COMMON LAW (SEE SECTION 14411 ET SEQ., BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS CODE). I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS COPY IS A CORRECT COPY OF THE ORIGINAL STATEMENT ON FILE IN MY OFFICE. PETER ALDANA RIVERSIDE COUNTY CLERK. LEGAL: 3452 PUBLISHED: October 22, 29, November 5, 12, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File Number: R-202114088 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: KOTARCHE TRANSPORT 11711 Independence St, Riverside, CA 92503 County: Riverside Bourhan -- Kotarche, 11711 Independence St, Riverside, CA 92503 This business is conducted by an Individual Registrant has not yet begun to transact business under the fictitious name listed above I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000).)

Registrant: Bourhan -- Kotarche Statement was filed with the County Clerk of Riverside County on 10/12/2021 NOTICE—IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBDIVISION (a) OF SECTION 17920, A FICTITIOUS NAME STATEMENT GENERALLY EXPIRES AT THE END OF FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE ON WHICH IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK, EXCEPT, AS PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION (b) OF SECTION 17920, WHERE IT EXPIRES 40 DAYS AFTER ANY CHANGE IN THE FACTS SET FORTH IN THE STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 17913 OTHER THAN A CHANGE IN THE RESIDENCE ADDRESS OF A REGISTERED OWNER. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THE EXPIRATION. THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT OF ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE, OR COMMON LAW (SEE SECTION 14411 ET SEQ., BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS CODE). I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS COPY IS A CORRECT COPY OF THE ORIGINAL STATEMENT ON FILE IN MY OFFICE. PETER ALDANA RIVERSIDE COUNTY CLERK. LEGAL: 3448 PUBLISHED: October 22, 29, November 5, 12, 2021 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File Number: R-202113530 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: KAYLEE NAILS & SPA 57100 Desert Cactus, Thermal, CA 92274 County: Riverside 1820 Hamner Ave Ste B, Norco, CA 92860 Mailing address: 1509 S Old Fashion Way, Anaheim, CA 92804 This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company This LLC is registered in the state of CA Registrant has not yet begun to transact business under the fictitious name listed above I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000).)

Registrant: Kaylee Tran, Manager Statement was filed with the County Clerk of Riverside County on 09/27/2021 NOTICE—IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBDIVISION (a) OF SECTION 17920, A FICTITIOUS NAME STATEMENT GENERALLY EXPIRES AT THE END OF FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE ON WHICH IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK, EXCEPT, AS PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION (b) OF SECTION 17920, WHERE IT EXPIRES 40 DAYS AFTER ANY CHANGE IN THE FACTS SET FORTH IN THE STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 17913 OTHER THAN A CHANGE IN THE RESIDENCE ADDRESS OF A REGISTERED OWNER. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THE EXPIRATION. THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT OF ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE, OR COMMON LAW (SEE SECTION 14411 ET SEQ., BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS CODE). I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS COPY IS A CORRECT COPY OF THE ORIGINAL STATEMENT ON FILE IN MY OFFICE. PETER ALDANA RIVERSIDE COUNTY CLERK. LEGAL: 3453 PUBLISHED: October 22, 29, November 5, 12, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File Number: R-202114100 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: THERMAL TRUCK AND RV 57100 Desert Cactus, Thermal, CA 92274 County: Riverside Thermal Truck And RV, Inc, 57100 Desert Cactus, Thermal, CA 92274 This business is conducted by a Corporation This Corporation is registered in the state of CA Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious name listed above on 10/5/2021 I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000).)

Registrant: Ronald G Huff, President Statement was filed with the County Clerk of Riverside County on 10/12/2021 NOTICE—IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBDIVISION (a) OF SECTION 17920, A FICTITIOUS NAME STATEMENT GENERALLY EXPIRES AT THE END OF FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE ON WHICH IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK, EXCEPT, AS PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION (b) OF SECTION 17920, WHERE IT EXPIRES 40 DAYS AFTER ANY CHANGE IN THE FACTS SET FORTH IN THE STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 17913 OTHER THAN A CHANGE IN THE RESIDENCE ADDRESS OF A REGISTERED OWNER. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THE EXPIRATION. THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT OF ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE, OR COMMON LAW (SEE SECTION 14411 ET SEQ., BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS CODE). I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS COPY IS A CORRECT COPY OF THE ORIGINAL STATEMENT ON FILE IN MY OFFICE. PETER ALDANA RIVERSIDE COUNTY CLERK. LEGAL: 3449 PUBLISHED: October 22, 29, November 5, 12, 2021

ABANDONMENT STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME File Number: R-202111923 Filed Riverside County Clerk’s Office Peter Aldana The following fictitious business name(s) has been abandoned by the following person(s): ETZIONY CONSTRUCTION 79727 Morning Glory, La Quinta, CA 92253 County: Riverside a. Dorit -- Eziony, 79727 Morning Glory, La Quinta, CA 92253 b. Shay -- Eziony, 79727 Morning Glory, La Quinta, CA 92253 c. Guy -- Etziony, 79727 Morning Glory, La Quinta, CA 92253 This business is conducted by a General Partnership The fictitious business name referred to above was filed in Riverside County on 08/24/2021 Signed by: Dorit Ez THIS STATEMENT WAS FILED WITH THE RECORDER/COUNTY CLERK OF RIVERSIDE COUNTY ON 09/15/2021 LEGAL: 3441 PUBLISHED: October 8, 15, 22, 29, 2021

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CHANGE OF NAME

CHANGE OF NAME

CHANGE OF NAME

AMENDED ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME Case Number: CVMV 2104047 TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS Petitioner: DARNITA ELMETER BELMASTER Filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present Name: DARNITA ELMETER BELMASTER Proposed Name: DONETHIA ELMETER JORDAN THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted.

Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.

NOTICE OF HEARING Date: 11-9-21 Time: 8 a.m. Dept: MV2 The address of the court: 13800 Heacock Str, Bldg D #201, Moreno Valley, CA 92553 A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the following newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county: Anza Valley Outlook Date: SEP 02 2021 Signed: Belinda A. Handy, Judge of the Superior Court LEGAL: 3446 PUBLISHED: October 15, 22, 29, November 5, 2021

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME Case Number: CVMV 2104665 TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS Petitioner: YOANA AYALA & DAVID GUERRERO Filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present Name: LLUVYA AZULEY AYALA GUERRERO Proposed Name: LLUVYA AZULEY GUERRERO AYALA THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.

NOTICE OF HEARING Date: 12-7-21 Time: 8 a.m. Dept: MV2 The address of the court: 13800 Heacock Str, Bldg D #201, Moreno Valley, CA 92553 A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the following newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county: Anza Valley Outlook Date: SEP 30, 2021 Signed: Belinda A. Handy, Judge of the Superior Court LEGAL: 3455 PUBLISHED: October 22, 29, November 5, 12, 2021

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME Case Number: CVCO 2105506 TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS Petitioner: MARIAM ALEXA GASPARYAN Filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present Name: MARIAM ALEXA GASPARYAN Proposed Name: ALEXA GASPARYAN THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.

NOTICE OF HEARING Date: 12-01-21 Time: 8 a.m. Dept: C2 The address of the court: 505 Buena Vista, Corona, CA 92882, Corona Court A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the following newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county: Anza Valley Outlook Date: OCT 12 2021 Signed: Tamara L. Wagner, Judge of the Superior Court LEGAL: 3456 PUBLISHED: October 22, 29, November 5, 12, 2021

licensed by the Contractors State License Board. State law also requires that contractors include their license number on all advertising. You can check the status of your licensed contractor at www.cslb.ca.gov or 800-321-CSLB. Unlicensed contractors taking jobs that total less than $500 must state in their advertisements that they are not licensed by the Contractors State License Board.

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Anza Valley Outlook • www.anzavalleyoutlook.com • October 22, 2021

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