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The Menifee City Council’s denial of an appeal that would have overturned a planning commission’s decision to place a raised median on Bradley Road, resulted in the withdrawal of an application to build a shopping center and restaurant in the city Wednesday, Dec. 15. see page A-2

Local Dream Extreme Future Leaders learn about their city Diane A. Rhodes SPECIAL TO VALLEY NEWS

Several Lake Elsinore youth stepped up to participate in the Dream Extreme Future Leaders program that taught them about city government from a firsthand perspective. see page A-4

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Lake Elsinore City Council meeting ends with change in leadership Diane A. Rhodes SPECIAL TO VALLEY NEWS

Timothy J. Sheridan is Lake Elsinore’s newest Mayor and Natasha Johnson is now Mayor Pro Tem. The announcement was made near the completion of the Nov. 14 City Council meeting.

Positive and congratulatory remarks were made to the newest leaders and also about the service of former mayor Robert “Bob” Magee, who held the position of mayor seven times.

During a short presentation, Sheridan said to Magee, “I want to say that you are an exceptional public servant. There is not a time that I hear you speak that I don’t learn something. And you’ve done a great job, not only for the City see ELSINORE, page A-2

Timothy J. Sheridan is named Mayor of Lake Elsinore for 2022.

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California’s SCE faces $550M in penalties for Liberty and 4 other wildfires Kim Harris MANAGING EDITOR

California regulators approved a settlement Thursday, Dec. 16, placing more than half a billion dollars in fines and penalties on the utility Southern California Edison for its role in five wildfires in 2017 and 2018, including the Dec. 7, 2017, Liberty Fire in Murrieta.

The penalties also relate to the Thomas, Woolsey, Rye and Meyers fires. The Thomas Fire, which burned in Ventura and Santa Barbara counties, is the eighth largest fire in California history, burning more than 439 square miles, according to state fire officials.

Meanwhile, the Woolsey Fire that also tore through Ventura County ranks as the eighth most destructive fire in state history, destroying more than 1,600 structures.

The Rye Fire sparked in Santa Clarita, and the Meyers Fire in San

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Menifee Crossroads application pulled after appeal to halt raised median on Bradley Road denied Tony Ault STAFF WRITER

The Menifee City Council’s denial of an appeal that would have overturned a planning commission’s decision to place a raised median on Bradley Road, resulted in the withdrawal of an application to build a shopping center and restaurant in the city Wednesday, Dec. 15.

The decision, reluctantly made by the council in the absence of council members Bob Karwin and Matt Liesemeyer who recused themselves after citing a conflict of interest, followed a lengthy and detailed explanation of why the proposed median was not needed by representatives and attorneys for the proposed Menifee Crossroads shopping center developer and landowners. The project was to be built at the northeast corner of Newport Road and Bradley Road.

The raised median was added to the final Crossroads center plan by

ELSINORE from page A-1 of Lake Elsinore but for the County of Riverside as well. Thank you for your service.”

Council Member Steve Manos added comments about the great job Magee has done. “He’s always so polished. He is always good with a speech on the fly and is always excellent at bringing some of the history of the city into the fold of whatever he’s talking about.

Like Mayor Sheridan mentioned, I also have learned a lot from watching you over the years.”

The meeting began with two members of Boy Scout Troop 430 leading the Pledge of Allegiance to complete their citizenship badges.

Young men and women who took part in the Dream Extreme Future Leaders program, which concluded Dec. 6 with a mock City Council meeting, were recognized for their participation.

Their meeting can be viewed at http://lake-elsinore.granicus. com/player/clip/1531?view_ id=2&redirect=true.

During public comments on non-agendized items, a complaint was voiced about the U.S. post office being located at the south

the Menifee Planning Commission that would decrease dangerous turns into and out of the center because of the heavy traffic flows.

A simple on-street line median was initially proposed at the Newport/ Bradley roads intersection.

The proposed Crossroads project, owned by the Ali Tabrizizadeh family who also owns Denny’s restaurants in Murrieta and Wildomar, was represented by project manager Bart Pebbles of Caliber Retail Properties and his traffic and land use team at the called public hearing. Other construction requirements that were initially appealed, were waived by the owners, hoping the Council would more readily favor the median appeal, Appeal No. PLN 21-0368.

The Menifee Crossroads, which was originally approved by the planning commission with conditions, would have included a Denny’s restaurant, a specialty grocery store, a retail store, a medical office and several shops along

with adequate parking spaces. The south side of the center would face Newport Road with one limited entrance. The main entrance would be off Bradley Road where the raised median was recommended to be built.

The appellant’s team worked to show how a raised median would not have made the entrance and exit to the center any more dangerous and how it might detract from traffic backed up by large transport trucks and heavy rush hour traffic.

They argued that the raised median condition was added after the project was initially approved and other factors that would disturb the decisions of other retailers to move into the center. Pebbles said that if the appeal was not approved by the council, the owner would have little choice but to take legal action or withdraw from the application.

Appearing as opponents to the project were attorneys for the adjacent Newport Plaza. They argued the Plaza shop owners were not

end of the city. Later in the meeting, Manos explained that the city had made objections to the federal government to no avail. He said the Council had been hopeful to see a brand-new post office in the downtown area rather than a service center at the south end.

Consent Calendar items 2 through 26 were approved with the exception of items 15 and 22, which were pulled for comments. Item No. 15 concerns a commercial project at Riverside and Lincoln. The matter before the Council was to approve Parcel Map No. 37958 subject to the City Engineer’s acceptance as being true and correct; Authorize the City Clerk to sign the map and arrange for the recordation of Parcel Map 37958, and; Authorize the City Manager to execute the Construction Agreements for Street Improvements and Monumentation.

City Attorney Barbara Leibold told Council that the applicant has had trouble securing the necessary bonds for making agreed upon improvements and was given three options to allow the proposed project to proceed. Located at the westerly corner of Lincoln Street

and Riverside Drive, the commercial development consists of 6.35 acres with four parcels to tentatively be used for fast food, convenience store with gas station, car wash and a self-storage facility.

“We will not allow the parcel map to be approved without financial assurances,” Magee said.

It was decided that the applicant would be given until Feb. 15 to secure the bonds and that decision, as amended by city staff’s prestation, was passed unanimously.

Item No. 22, to authorize the City Manager to execute a License Agreement with Jack’s Bar-B-Q for the use of city-owned vacant and unimproved lots for the purposes of access, parking, recreational uses and outdoor storage elicited much discussion. Resident Douglas Norfolk has attended numerous City Council meetings to voice complaints about outdoor fire pits used at the restaurant as well as what he felt were noise violations. Lake Elsinore’s Assistant Community Development Director Justin Kirk presented the City’s view on the request and explained that all complaints have been investigated through Code Enforcement and were either resolved or unfounded.

Although near a residential area, Jack’s Bar-B-Q is located within the Lakeshore zoning district which permits by right the operation of a restaurant. The proposed License Agreement would permit the use of the City-owned properties for access, parking (including car club gatherings), recreational uses (fire pits and parachute landing), and outdoor storage, consistent with previous Council direction. Use of the property for parking and other ancillary uses is permissible according to applicable restrictions. Additionally, the proposed License Agreement incorporates specific elements to address ongoing operations in a manner consistent with the City’s

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properly apprised of the Menifee Crossroads project and its proposed traffic controls on Bradley Road. The attorney said all of the Newport Plaza retailers opposed the raised median condition as well and presented a petition to the council.

At the conclusion of the public hearing, Crossroads owners said they decided they did not want to take any legal action and instead, once the appeal was denied, chose to withdraw their application. An attorney from Cox, Castle & Nicholson LLP, the client’s attorney, took to the podium.

“We have no choice but to withdraw our application,” he said.

Following the lengthy appellant’s presentation, the remaining council asked questions about the project. The council agreed that the project was well liked and needed in the community, but they believe they should listen to the planning commissioners, who are professionals, to keep the raised median

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condition in keeping the residents’ safety and wellbeing in mind.

Council member Lesa Sobek asked Nick Fidler, director of Menifee Public Works, if he would put his stamp on the Crossroads project without the median included.

“No,” he said.

She said that she asked a member of the planning commission the same question, and he too said, “No.” “I just have to go with the staff as recommended on this project tonight,” she said. “We have to go off with what is safe for our residents.”

After the vote to deny the appeal, Mayor Bill Zimmerman said, “I see the project has a lot of value.”

He said he had to go with the planning commission’s recommendation on the median as well.

“I believe there is a way… there can be a way to get this done,” Zimmerman said.

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The vote was unanimous to authorize a license agreement to allow Jack’s to use additional city-owned lots in such final form as approved by the City Attorney.

The final business item was to officially nominate and vote for the new Mayor and Mayor Pro Tem who will also serve as Chair and Vice Chair of the Successor Agency of the Redevelopment Agency of the City of Lake Elsinore, the Lake Elsinore Recreation Authority, the Lake Elsinore Public Financing Authority, the Lake Elsinore Public Facility Financing Authority and the Lake Elsinore Parking Authority. Magee nominated former Mayor Pro Tem Sheridan and Tisdale nominated former Council Member Johnson. All aye votes were recorded during roll calls administered by City Clerk Candice Alvarez.

Magee said in closing, “What an honor it is to sit up here and be elected time and time again, not only by the residents but by my colleagues. I do not take that responsibility lightly; I am passionate about this city.”

The next regular meeting of the Lake Elsinore City Council and Successor Agency is scheduled for Jan. 11, at 7 p.m. For more information, www.lake-elsinore.org.

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Malcolm Lilienthal tapped as Hemet’s newest Mayor; New telephone system considered Tony Ault STAFF WRITER

The Hemet City Council reorganized itself at the Tuesday, Dec. 14, meeting by appointing council member Malcolm Lilienthal as the newest mayor and council member Karlee Meyer as mayor pro tem for 2022 and by swearing in new council member Joe Males.

Lilienthal and Meyer took over the leadership of that night’s lengthy council meeting, agreeing to the tentative selection of a firm to upgrade the city’s entire telephone system and continuing its investment strategies with Public Trust Advisors for the city’s monies. They also heard a report of an amendment to the zoning code to change the second story design criteria on single family homes.

These discussions followed 20 requested consent items, proclamations and public comments.

It was near midnight before the meeting adjourned.

Communications Strategies LLC presented a review of the city’s current aging telephone system providing four options for its improvement each costing over $1 million. The city’s current telephone system in the recent COVID-19 pandemic brought a number of changes to the city’s way of doing business, which involved a much greater use of its current telephone systems. The council, seeing the need to upgrade the system, added its improvement into the city’s strategic plan goals.

The city staff found that due to the system’s age, its “location and connectivity integrating the city’s telephone system with new and enhanced technologies is limited. Limited integration prevents these enhancements from achieving their full potential and benefits. Without moving forward on replacing the telephone system, strategic goals related to enhancing customer service and streamlining processes are in jeopardy of not being fully implemented,” according to a report.

Communication Strategies said a telephone system using digital cloud technology for future data storage would improve its performance and presented the options for its design, construction and installation. The council requested information about the costs of improving the system as recommended. The firm presented Option 3 at $1.02 million and Option 4 at $1.7 million. The latter option included the remediation of the cable plant with fiber-based extenders currently used by most businesses.

The council accepted the report but requested city staff look into other firms offering similar improvements before committing to the offers from Communications Strategies.

Despite an appeal in public comment by city treasurer Sue Savage who requested the council not keep Public Trust Advisors for their investment strategies and instead let her do what she was elected to do. Staff said Public Trust Advisors was hired to recommend an adequate level of investments that work well with the city’s immediate cash flow needs. The city currently has approximately $140 million in pooled cash balances for all city funds including the general fund.

The council was asked to provide direction on how much of the money should be in long term funds and how much in short-term investments. The council responded, requesting 40% in short term investment and a 60% in long-term investments.

The advisors were asked to report back in 60 days on the investment strategy.

The council amended the second story residential housing zones to allow better visibility by increased setbacks and slanted roofs in the residential zones.

The council members also decided to continue to allow local restaurants use of parking lot spaces in the future and heard some ideas on how other cities have

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employed the outdoor restaurant services with parklets extending out from their indoor businesses with rails and other methods to direct motor and pedestrian traffic. Some parking spaces would be eliminated as a result.

Their only concern was that the outdoor parklets and extensions not interfere with motor and pedestrian traffic for other businesses.

The restaurants would still need permission from the city to have the outdoor facilities and would need to follow specific guidelines.

A professional services agreement was approved for Best Best & Krieger attorneys to serve as the city’s redistrancing consultants.

They would determine if and how many of the five voting districts should be changed to meet the 2021 census requirements. The cost would be $44,000 for the service.

A draft copy of Hemet’s Housing Element was formally submitted to the state Housing and Community Development Department for a 60day review period. Council learned that comments are anticipated by Wednesday, Dec. 29. The draft document, workshop presentations and videos can be viewed at www.hemetca.gov/1029/HousingElement-Update. Additionally, the draft section related to the Housing Plan can be viewed at www. hemetca.gov/DocumentCenter/ View/7472/04-Section4_HousingPlan_Hemet_09242021.

Former council member and real estate broker Michael Perciful appeared before the council to request his firm be considered to help sell some city property, although due to COVID, he could not submit his bid for the services before the deadline. Initially, the council was to enter into an agreement with Epic Land Solutions for an amount not to exceed $50,000 to sell some parcels of city land. The council continued the matter until Perciful’s request was reviewed along with Epic and other brokers.

The other consent items were approved by the council.

Joe Males has returned to Hemet City Council following a Tuesday, Dec. 14, council meeting where Males was sworn in.

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Meyer was honored by the council with a service award for her past year’s work as mayor.

Awards were handed out for the best entries in the Saturday, Dec. 4, holiday lights parade, for several

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Dream Extreme Future Leaders learn about their city Diane A. Rhodes SPECIAL TO VALLEY NEWS

Several Lake Elsinore youth stepped up to participate in the Dream Extreme Future Leaders program that taught them about city government from a firsthand perspective. Taking on the roles of several key positions, including those of Lake Elsinore City Council members, the teens spent eight weeks learning what goes into making things happen in their community. The program culminated in a mock city council meeting, Monday, Dec. 6, that included presentations by city “staff” and public comments about agenda items they compiled.

“This program seeks to introduce our youth to local government and the many roles we play in building a great community,” Deputy City Manager Nicole Dailey said. “Junior and senior high school students are given mock positions and must come up with a project; this project is then outlined in a staff report and submitted to the mock council made up of their peers.”

Lake Elsinore City Clerk Candice Alvarez facilitated the annual program that began in October and ended with the Dec. 6 public meeting at the Cultural Center where they implemented everything they learned throughout the program.

Lake Elsinore City Clerk Candice Alvarez works with Francisco Sulbaran who served as the Dream Extreme Future Leaders’ city clerk.

This year’s Dream Extreme Future Leaders program culminates in a mock City Council meeting Dec. 6. Participants include, from left, Valerie Castro, Jaimie Phothisen and Josephine Nguyen.

“We met virtually about twice per week, and we had one meeting in person where they attended a tour of Launch Pointe,” Alvarez said.

She said the Future Leaders program was first implemented in 2017 and is intended to develop civic, critical thinking, problem-solving, communication and collaboration skills while obtaining practical and hands-on work experience. Due to COVID-19, the program has evolved into a virtual setting, so the program now involves nine virtual learning sessions and one in-person

tour and culminates in the mock city council meeting. This program includes the participation of city council, department directors and key community stakeholders who all mentor the youth.

“We work closely with the local school district,” Alvarez said. “We post information and flyers to our website and social media accounts.

We also distribute our flyer through the school district’s parent connection app and PeachJar email notifications. We’re always looking for more ways to further promote the program and invite applicants.

Dream Extreme Future Leaders program participants are recognized at the City Council meeting, Dec. 14.

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The information shared during this program would be great for all residents, not just high school students, but we are focused on our youth right now.”

Students who stepped up to participate this year and the positions they were given, are Jaimie Phothisen as mayor; Josephine Nguyen as mayor pro tem; Valerie Castro as city council member; Joanne Quan as city attorney; Francisco Sulbaran as city clerk; Annika Phipps as deputy city manager; Jocelyn Leon as community development director; Amanda Buenrostro as city engineer/public works manager; Sydney Adams as community services director and Emily Heraz as public safety director.

Francisco Sulbaran Sulbaran wanted to participate in 2020 during his senior year but the program wasn’t held due to COVID-19 restrictions. He was given permission to get involved this year while a first-year student at Mt. San Jacinto College.

“We were happy to allow him to participate,” Alvarez said. “It was a pleasure watching his confidence grow throughout the program.”

Sulbaran, 18, said he applied with the intention of improving his leadership capabilities and achieving his personal goal which is to be more involved with his local city government.

“This experience has shifted my perspective on city governance and the part I wish to play as a resident of Lake Elsinore,” Sulbaran said.

“I knew little about our city’s government before this program. I was living in the dark. Mrs. Candice Alvarez, my mentor and current city clerk, has taught me the value of having an active community and municipal government to have a flourishing future.”

He said a lesson he learned from the program is that when it comes to dealing with city government and its people, it is important to meet the deadline given to show respect to the people who put their trust in you.

“To other students who might consider signing up for the Lake Elsinore Dream Extreme Program, I highly recommend this program if you are interested in leadership, learning about city government or have an urge to explore new subjects,” Sulbaran said. “I implore you to have the courage and take the time to apply because this program has expanded my interests and point of view.”

Valerie Castro Temescal Canyon High School senior Valerie Castro, 17, served as a city council member and applied to gain knowledge and understanding of local government so she can make informed decisions when she votes at age 18.

“This program was a wonderful opportunity for me to connect with other students in my community, as well as get to know the people who run the community I live in,” Castro said. “Ms. Candice is a wonderful mentor that made the whole experience interesting and made the program run smoothly.

For those who are fearful of getting rejected (if they apply), I respond with the question: ‘What do you have to lose?’”

She said the process taught her to value communication, collaboration and interaction.

“So many errors and misunderstandings can be avoided simply through communication; being able to value collaboration and communication is a valuable life skill that I now realize is crucial for government positions,” Castro said. “This program has absolutely opened my eyes to how easy it is to be an active member in the community.

I wish to pursue computer science and I now see that there could be a position for me at the city, one that I had not realized existed previous to this program.”

“Being informed on what events and problems are taking place

in your community is as easy as attending a city council meeting which is open to public. If anything, this program has taught me that being involved in some way, shape or form in your community will allow you to make informed decisions that will ultimately affect your community and for that I will forever be grateful to Ms. Candice and the other city employees that were involved in creating a wonderful learning environment for me and the rest of the future leaders,” she said.

Jaimie Phothisen Jaimie Phothisen from Elsinore High School took on the position of mayor. He was interested in looking for opportunities to contribute to his community and learn new things that will help him in his future.

“I have learned that it is vital to understand how life functions and how society progresses, like the government, in order to help and aid people around the world,” the 16-year-old said. “I would say that the Future Leaders program is an incredible opportunity to experience a hands-on project to better understand how a government works. It is a program to meet new people and learn how many responsibilities are required to work in a government organization.”

Phothisen said participating in the program has encouraged him to pursue a career in the field of government.

“This program made me feel welcome and comfortable working with government staff like the city clerk and city assistant,” he said.

Josephine Nguyen Serving as mayor pro tem, Josephine Nguyen said the most valuable thing she learned through the program was how much behindthe-scenes work it takes to run Lake Elsinore, or any city. The Temescal Canyon High School junior said she applied to help further develop her leadership skills and see if city government might be something she wanted to participate in in the future.

“The Future Leaders program has definitely made me more curious in how I can play a more active role in the happenings of the city whether that be through volunteering or working for Lake Elsinore or another local government in the future,” Nguyen, 17, said. “Even if you aren’t looking to go into political science, the program is a great opportunity to learn more about Lake Elsinore and how you can participate actively as a resident of the city.”

Alvarez has personal knowledge about the value of a program like this saying that she and Lake Elsinore’s city attorney Barbara Leibold are both products of similar programs.

“As far as Lake Elsinore’s program, I’m aware of at least one student who is currently studying political science at UCLA and continued to volunteer for the city for about a year and a half after the program ended,” she said.

“The highlight for us is seeing how much the students grow in such a short period of time and their increased appreciation for the city, its staff and our role in serving the community,” Alvarez said.

“Witnessing their confidence skyrocket is also inspiring. A highlight from this year, in particular, was being able to see them in person, especially for the mock meeting.

Overall, for the program, the city is grateful to have the opportunity to encourage and educate our youth to connect with their community and love where they live. We hope to see many more who will choose a future career or volunteer opportunity serving their community.”

To view the Dream Extreme Future Leaders mock city council meeting, visit http://lake-elsinore.granicus.com/player/clip/1531?view_ id=2&redirect=true.

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First winter storm covers local mountains in snow

Menifee road construction and delays continue along McCall Road and the Rockport Ranch area Tony Ault STAFF WRITER

Menifee resurfacing work continues this week, weather permitting, on McCall Boulevard with work mostly done from Encanto Road and Oakhurst Avenue with the utility work completed within the intersection at Menifee Road.

School winter recess will help with continuing projects in the city after having some impact on the school traffic in prior weeks.

Material imports by double trailer trucks to Rockport Ranch development continues along Antelope Road, Garbani Road and Briggs Road. Holland Road is also being used for the material import but eliminated Wednesday afternoon hauling considering the school minimum day and holiday

schedules the weeks of Dec. 3-17.

Riverside County Transportation also advises Menifee motorists using Newport Road to the Lake Elsinore and Interstate 15 interchange should be advised of continuing work at that location and watch for detours and directional signs.

Work is also continuing on pedestrian and median improvements on Highway 74 by Caltrans crews in the Romoland area to Interstate 15 in the Menifee area. Watch for lane changes or delays.

For questions on project/construction updates in Menifee residents are urged to contact Construction Manager Don Sharp at 951-723-3726 or at dsharp@ citgyofmenifee.us.

Tony Ault can be contacted at tault@reedermedia.com.

San Gorgonio Mountain gets a fresh coating of snow after a recent storm brought needed precipitation across the region.

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Pedestrian killed by vehicle near Promenade Temecula Mall

Unexpected Menifee Measure DD surplus to enhance 2021-2022 Quality of Life goals

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Tony Ault STAFF WRITER

The Menifee Measure DD Oversight Committee received some good news during a recent meeting that Measure DD, or Quality of Life measure revenues, were more than $2.8 million above what was expected during the last fiscal year.

The news prompted the committee to recommend increasing the funding for several outstanding Capital Improvement Projects including expanding and remodeling two of its fire stations at a follow-up Dec. 9 meeting.

Presenting the new revenue figures showing the Quality-of-Life measure was Wendy Preece, deputy finance director who also presented the figures at the meetings.

An accounting of the Measure DD funds June 30 showed the city expected to receive $14 million in its Fiscal Year 20202021 but earned $16,724,722 or $2,874,673 over that amount.

Deducting $50,049 in interest, the

added revenues brought the surplus to $2,674,673 that was not in the planned budget, according to the presentation.

In an expenditure budget Preece showed, the budget expenditures for the 2020-2021 fiscal year were estimated at $19,594,557 but penned out to $10,771,127 leaving the unexpended total to $8,823,430 that would be carried over to the 2021-2022 budget. That left the beginning fund balance for 20212022 at $5,713,075 tied into the actual earned revenue at $16,724,722 plus $4,951 in interest earnings bringing the total to $22,442,748.

The expenditures budgeted totalled $11,671,621 that included Code Enforcement, Cal Fire, Menifee Police and Capital Projects expenditures. The uses of the fund balance went to the Capital Projected Budgets rolled into the 2021-2022 fiscal year; Assigned encumbrances, $826,480; Assigned to the Holland Road Overpass and the Bradley Bridge, $671,614 and $223.872 respectively.

The good news for the commission that was forwarded to the council, is $2,811,438 in surplus money that can be spent for other Quality of Life uses.

The commission recommends to the city council adding $800,000 to the Newport Road Safety Median Design, $1.3 million for the Fire Station No. 5 expansion, $70,000 for the Goetz Road and Vista Way traffic signal design and right of way acquisition and $60,000 for the PMP Romoland South grid. A total of $2,230,000, leaving a little left over.

The recommendation was forwarded to the City Council and Dec. 15 they approved the $1.3 million for Fire Station No. 5’s expansion, Fire Station No. 68’s temporary housing and the the PMP Romoland South grid resurfacing with costs totaling $1,554,110.

They also set aside about $1 million in surplus reserve for a future community hall.

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

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WILDFIRES from page A-1 Bernardino County also occurred in early December 2017.

In Murrieta’s Liberty Fire, 300

acres were scorched and one house and six outbuildings were destroyed.

Investigations found utility equipment sparked the fires.

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A pedestrian was killed while allegedly jaywalking near a Temecula mall Saturday, Dec. 18. The crash occurred around 4 a.m. near the intersection of Winchester and Margarita roads, steps away from the Promenade Temecula mall, according to the Riverside County

Sheriff’s Department.

Investigators said Kent Alandre, 22, of Murrieta, was jaywalking across Winchester before being struck by the vehicle. The driver stopped at the scene and cooperated with authorities, sheriff’s officials said. No arrests were made.

“It is not believed intoxication played a role in this collision,” Sgt. Joey Sinz said.

Twin-engine aircraft damaged during hard landing at French Valley Airport A twin-engine airplane’s nose wheel collapsed during a hard landing at French Valley Airport near Murrieta Thursday, Dec. 16, but all of the plane’s occupants walked away uninjured.

The accident occurred about 1:50 p.m. on Runway 18, according to the Riverside County Fire Department.

Five engine crews were sent to the airport and found the Grumman GA-7 on the runway and the

three occupants including the pilot and two passengers, outside the plane, officials said.

No one required medical attention, and none of the parties were identified.

According to the Federal Aviation Administration, the dual-engine aircraft, bearing tail number N755GA, was manufactured in 1978 and is based in Pomona.

The reasons for the hard landing and nose gear collapse were under investigation, the agency said.

The plane was removed from the runway shortly after 3 p.m.

the five-member commission.

The utility’s shareholders will pay a $110 million penalty to the state’s general fund and put $65 million toward safety measures, according to the settlement. It also bars the utility from tapping ratepayers to cover $125 million in claims related to insurance for the Thomas Fire and $250 million for the Woolsey Fire, The Associated Press reported.

California has seen increasingly destructive wildfires in recent years and utility equipment has been blamed for sparking some of the state’s worst fires.

According to The Associated Press, the CPUC’s safety and enforcement division found the utility violated state safety regulations that govern design, construction and maintenance of overhead electrical lines and communication facilities. State regulators used a relatively new process to reach the agreement with the utility, bypassing a more formal investigation process. It resolves all claims by state regulators related to the fires.

Southern California Edison serves 15 million customers and is one of the state’s three major investor-owned utilities. In signing the agreement, the utility is not admitting any fault.

SCE representative Ben Gallagher called the settlement “fair and reasonable.”

He said it “puts one additional uncertainty behind us as the utility continues to implement its comprehensive wildfire risk

mitigation measures.”

Safety measures, to which the utility must put $65 million of shareholder money, include things like system enhancements, community engagement and contributions to fire safety-focused nonprofits, according to the agreement, The Associated Press said.

The Liberty Fire was reported about 1:14 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 7, in the area of Los Alamos and Liberty roads and tore through heavy brush with the help of strong Santa Ana winds.

By late afternoon, the fire had grown to its full size, and an evacuation order was in place for residents on several nearby streets.

Murrieta Mesa High School served as a care and reception area for evacuees.

Three school districts in the area decided to cancel class for the next day, citing smoke from both the Liberty Fire and the 4,100-acre Lilac Fire in north San Diego County as the reason.

The Menifee Union School District, Murrieta Valley Unified School District and Temecula Valley Unified School District all announced the cancellation of classes.

The districts pointed to a smoke advisory from the South Coast Air Quality Management District, which said northeast winds could bring smoke into the region and make air quality unhealthy.

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

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May you all have the opportunity this Christmas to spend some quality time with your family and friends.

The gifts are purchased, decorations in place, your schedule for Christmas Day is planned and about to get under way.

Our hope and prayer for you is safety if you are traveling, comfort and joy wherever you spend the day, and most of all, that you would take some time with your family to remember the miracle of this Holiday and thank GOD for the birth of our Savior, JESUS CHRIST.

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The Birth of Jesus And there were shepherds living out in the fields nearby, keeping watch over their flocks at night. 9 An angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were terrified.

10 But the angel said to them, “Do not be afraid. I bring you good news that will cause great joy for all the people. 11 Today in the town of David a Savior has been born to you; he is the Messiah, the Lord. 12 This will be a sign to you: You will find a baby wrapped in cloths and lying in a manger.”

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When the angels had left them and gone into heaven, the shepherds said to one another, “Let’s go to Bethlehem and see this thing that has happened, which the Lord has told us about.”

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So they hurried off and found Mary and Joseph, and the baby, who was lying in the manger. 17 When they had seen him, they spread the word concerning what had been told them about this child, 18 and all who heard it were amazed at what the shepherds said to them. 19 But Mary treasured up all these things 13 Suddenly a great company of the heavenly host and pondered them in her heart. 20 The shepherds appeared with the angel, praising God and saying, returned, glorifying and praising God for all the 14 “Glory to God in the highest heaven, and on earth things they had heard and seen, which were just as they had been told. peace to those on whom his favor rests.”

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Volume 21, Issue 52

Jeep owners bring holiday cheer to Temecula

A group of Christmas decorated Jeeps and other trucks from members of the Temecula Jeep & Off Road Facebook Group gather at the Promenade mall in Temecula before parading around town and spreading Christmas cheer, Dec. 18.

Valley News/Shane Gibson photos A red Jeep is decorated with Christmas lights before parading around Temecula with members of the Temecula Jeep & Off Road Facebook Group. The Temecula Jeep & Off Road Facebook Group is a community based group free of obligations where meetups, trail rides, sharing information and other off road community events are organized.

People gather with their offroad vehicles decorated for Christmas before parading around town in Temecula.

Matt and Laura Beile share their Christmas cheer with their decorated vintage Studebaker during a community parade around Temecula.

People decorate their Jeeps and trucks for Christmas for a parade around Temecula.

Matt and Laura Beile share Christmas cheer with their decorated vintage Studebaker during a community parade around Temecula.

Jeep owners put lights and decorations on their rides before participating in a parade around Temecula.

A Santa Claus greets families gathering at a staging area for a community-based Christmas parade of Jeeps and off road vehicles in Temecula.

Jeeps and trucks stop at a staging area along Moreno Road in Old Town Temecula before parading through Front Street.

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CALENDAR OF EVENTS If you have an upcoming community event, email it to valleyeditor@reedermedia.com, put “attention events” in the subject line. Readers should call ahead on some listed events for the latest updates.

COMMUNITY EVENTS Dec. 24-Jan. 2, 2022 – 5 p.m.

Temecula on Ice on Main Street, downtown Old Town Temecula.

Dec. 31 – 8 p.m. to midnight.

New Year’s Eve Grape Drop at the Temecula Civic Center, Main Street, Old Town Temecula.

Jan. 9 – 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Kiss the Bride Show at Wilson Creek Winery, 35960 Rancho California Road, Temecula. Runway fashion shows and displays from the area’s best wedding professionals.

Jan. 15 – 8 a.m. to noon. Hemet Farmers Market, South Harvard Street and 135 E. Florida. Year around event.

Jan. 15 – 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.

Mom Matters Mini Conference at Ronald H. Roberts Temecula Public Library, 30600 Pauba Road, Temecula. Create local friendship connections, provide education and ignite mothering motivation.

Jan. 28 and 29 – 8 a.m. to 11 p.m. Stars of the Valley Golf and Gala at Pechanga Resort Casino, 45000 Pechanga Parkway, hosted

by Charity for Charity. The 15th anniversary of the event helping local charities. Gala Saturday, Jan. 29. See Facebook for details.

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, 951-6726777 or by email 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. Sixth 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 are held 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 800510-2020 for help.

ONGOING – The Riverside County COVID-19 Business Assistance Grant Program is accepting online applications for business grants up to $10,000 at http://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

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Old Town Temecula Saturdays from 8:30 a.m. to noon, 4100 Main St. in Temecula; at Promenade Temecula, 40640 Winchester 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 Dec. 24-31 – Menifee residents are encouraged to take advantage of a survey that will help determine what is the best method of future transportation opportunities throughout the city. Take the survey at www.cityofmenifee. us/mobilitysurvey. Survey will conclude at the end of December.

Dec. 24-30 – 10 a.m. Last month of the Pala Casino Spa Resort Pala Bowl Slot Tournament and the $10,000 grand prize package with tickets to football’s biggest game of the year on Feb.13. Running until 11:59 p.m. Dec. 30.

Guests can insert their card in any tournament machine to play once every 24 hours. Winners will be announced and contacted January 1, 2022, at 10 a.m. The top five winners of the monthly tournament will each receive two tickets to select L.A. football home games of their choice, along with an Added Play prize. The top 200 scores from each month of the slot tournament will be invited back to participate in the Finale Tournament for the Big Game Prize Package. Starting Friday, Jan. 3 and running until Saturday, Jan. 29. Many other prizes.

Dec. 24-31 – Daily. Grinchmas Holiday Experience, 17600 Collier Ave., B117, Lake Elsinore. A selfie-experience gallery.

Jan. 8 – 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. Urban Adventure Quest Amazing Scavenger Hunt Adventure at the Temecula Valley Visitors Center, 28690 Mercedes St. #A, Temecula.

Jan. 9 – 2-4 p.m. Tribute to Frank Sinatra and the Rat Pack: Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr., Dean Martin, Joey Bishop and Peter Lawford who ruled Hollywood and Las Vegas in the 1960s. Held at the Old Town Community Theater, 42051 Main St., Temecula.

Information and tickets at Temecula theater.org.

Jan. 10 – 3 p.m. Theater workshop at the Lakeland Village Community Center, 16275 Grand Ave., Lake Elsinore. Bob Rubel presents the workshop for all age groups.

Learn to act. Reserve your place by emailing info@studio395.org or call 951-471-4407.

Jan. 27 – 6 p.m. Menifee announced that the city will be receiving some federal Community Block Grant Program funding for fiscal year 2022-2023. Nonprofit and service organizations are urged to apply for portions of the grant before Feb. 10, 2022. An information workshop will be held Thursday, Jan. 27, at Menifee City Council Chambers, 29844 Haun Road. Attendance is required if applying for funds. For more information, 951-723-3713 or elebron@cityofmenifee.us.

Jan. 29 – 7 a.m. Professional

Demonstration Skydiver Course.

Skydive Elsinore, 20701 Cereal St., Lake Elsinore. One day course for USPA C- and D-licensed/qualified skydivers who want to learn how to organize and perform safe and professional demonstration jumps. This course constitutes a download of 35 years. Details on Facebook.

Feb. 17 – 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Menifee’s annual Broker’s Appreciation Luncheon at Fairfield Inn and Suites, Civic Plaza Drive.

ONGOING – Caltrans offers volunteers a stipend of $250 a month for cleaning up highways from the Clean California Adopt a Highway Program. Visit http:// www.cleancalifornia.com for full details.

ONGOING – Sons of Norway/ Scandinavia meets at noon the first Saturday of every month, September to June, at the Heritage Mobile Park Clubhouse, 31130 S. General Kearny Road., in Temecula. A potluck lunch is 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-for-care-packages.

ONGOING – 5-8 p.m. 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 951-6946480. 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-the-wheel 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 951-2559200 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 781932-6300, or for local meetings, call 925-321-0170 or visit http:// 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 http://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 self-confidence and improve social skills.

For new dates, call 760-807-1323 or visit http://www.MenifeeToastmasters.org for more information.

Pala Casino Spa Resort announces New Year’s Eve entertainment lineup PALA – Pala Casino Spa Resort announced the New Year’s Eve entertainment lineup, featuring some of the top local dance bands.

Guests can celebrate the new year throughout the afternoon and late into the evening Friday, Dec. 31, with a lineup of shows. The high energy events will be held at both the Center Bar and Events Center.

Admission is free at each venue.

At the Center Bar, Forward Motion will perform from 12:30 to 4:15 p.m. followed by Dudes of San Diego from 4:45 to 8:25 p.m. and Jazmine Roger’s Band with special guest DJ G-Squared rounding out the entertainment from 9 p.m. to 12:40 a.m.

At the Events Center, Pulp Vixen with special guest DJ Eddey will perform from 8 p.m. to 1:15 a.m.

All events and promotions are subject to cancellation without notice. Learn more about the upcoming events at Pala Casino Spa Resort by visiting https://www. palacasino.com/entertainment/ all-entertainment/.

Pala Casino is still committed to playing it safe. All shows continue to have increased cleaning, sanitizer stations, as well as masks and gloves available upon request. For a full list of the property updates and safety protocols at Pala Casino, visit https://www. palacasino.com/.

As SoCal’s Entertainment Capital, Pala Casino Spa Resort includes a Las Vegas-style casino including an expansive gaming floor with over 2,000 slot and video machines, 78 table games, 9 restaurants, two lounges, 2,000-

seat Pala Events Center, outdoor Starlight Theater and luxury hotel; five swimming pools with two hot tubs and 14 luxury cabanas. Pala Casino’s wide variety of HD premium sporting events enhance an exciting collection of live bands daily at both indoor and outdoor venues. Pala Casino Spa Resort is an AAA Four-Diamond Award winner for 15 consecutive years.

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ENTERTAINMENT

Christmas cheer spreads throughout the San Jacinto Valley Diane A. Rhodes SPECIAL TO VALLEY NEWS

It wasn’t difficult for families in the San Jacinto Valley to find Christmas spirit all day long Saturday, Dec. 11. Starting first thing in the morning, Valley-Wide Recreation and Park District hosted its annual Breakfast with Santa at its Regional Park Sport Center in San Jacinto. Two sessions, starting at 8 a.m. and 10 a.m., were offered, providing time and space for

social distancing for all attendees.

Due to health restrictions, the walk-thru event welcomed about 300 visitors posed with holiday characters and scenes, took a photo with Santa Claus, got a take-home craft project and a pancake breakfast to go. Prizes were given away as well, including two bikes and the grand prize, a $300 gift card to Disney courtesy of The Friends of ValleyWide Foundation.

The Ramona Courtyard Christmas

welcomed guests from 2 to 9 p.m. with a constant flow of holiday music, comedy skits, theatrical performances, singers and dancers all amid a festively decorated courtyard at the Ramona Bowl in Hemet. The concession stand was open, serving apple cider and hot cocoa among other goodies and the newly renovated gift shop offered Christmas tree ornaments to commemorate California’s oldest outdoor play, “Ramona.”

Movie Review: ‘West Side Story’ A girl smiles for a photo with Santa Claus at Valley-Wide Recreation and Park District’s Breakfast with Santa, Saturday, Dec. 11.

A boy poses for a photo with a gingerbread cookie character at ValleyWide Recreation and Park District’s Breakfast with Santa.

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Families enjoy an outdoor holiday scene at Valley-Wide Recreation and Park District’s Breakfast with Santa.

Bob Garver SPECIAL TO VALLEY NEWS

I first saw 1961’s “West Side Story” in a middle school music class.

My opinion at the time was mostly focused on how the street gangs looked none-too-tough with all that stagey dancing. As I got older, I gained more appreciation for the film and show, not just for its excellent singing and dancing, but also its exploration of issues like immigration, race relations and the criminal justice system. When I heard Steven Spielberg was updating the property in his first-ever full-blown musical, I was worried that some of that thoughtfulness would be lost. But it turns out that Spielberg’s version is just as thoughtful as ever. It may even outdo the original by throwing gentrification into the mix. And the singing, dancing and most of the acting is also outstanding.

The story follows star-crossed lovers Maria, played by Rachel Zegler, and Tony, played by Ansel Elgort. Maria is a somewhat naïve and recent immigrant from Puerto Rico who lives with her brother Bernardo, played by David Alvarez, and his girlfriend Anita, played by Ariana DeBose. Bernardo is the leader of the Sharks street gang, who are in the midst of a war with the Caucasian Jets over a shrinking New York territory. Leading the Jets is Riff, played by Mike Faist, though he’s in constant contact with founder and longtime friend Tony.

Tony is trying to get out of the gang life, having spent time in prison and

currently living under the watchful eye of respected local shopkeeper Valentina, played by Rita Moreno.

But Riff keeps trying to pull him back in, convincing him to go to a local dance where the Jets and Sharks will discuss the terms of an upcoming winner-take-all rumble.

It is at this dance where Tony meets Maria, and the two fall instantly in love despite their conflicting affiliations. Can the two bring peace to the warring factions and live happily ever after? Since the story is based on the Shakespearian tragedy “Romeo and Juliet,” I’d say… don’t get your hopes up.

The musical numbers are, of course, legendary. Songs like “Tonight,” “I Feel Pretty” and “Somewhere” are so famous that many people probably know them even if they can’t match them to the show. I’m partial to the comedicwith-a-tinge-of-tragic “Gee, Officer Krupke” myself. And it’s all expertly choreographed. If I wasn’t already familiar with Spielberg’s filmography, I would have guessed that he’d been directing musicals his entire career. Though I’m not sure he always nails the pacing. Some of the songs, especially toward the end, seem to be “milked” when they should be briefer and more effortless.

Most of the cast will be high in the running for Oscars come awards season, with the exception of Ansel Elgort. Most critics are rightfully pointing out that, despite the actor’s best efforts, he just doesn’t fit in here. I’ve been trying to pinpoint

why, and I’ve narrowed it down to his look. His build is that of someone who has access to a personal trainer, not just to get ripped, which could be explained by the character’s time in prison, but to know exactly which areas to work on for maximum handsomeness. Compare that to co-star Faist, who looks malnourished in consistency with the character’s rough upbringing.

Speaking of the Oscars, “West Side Story” will no doubt be in contention for several, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress for Zegler and a bunch of technical awards. But I’m particularly interested in the race for Best Supporting Actress. Rita Moreno won the award for playing Anita in the 1961 version. I could see her getting nominated for playing Valentina in this version, but I could also see Ariana DeBose getting nominated for playing Anita here. What if they’re both nominated? Moreno vs.

Anita – not that there’s not plenty to be said for the Valentina character and DeBose’s performance. Does the Academy go with the distinguished veteran or oversee a passing of the torch? And how awesome is this movie if the debate is between “which” actress wins an Oscar?

Grade: B “West Side Story” is rated PG-13 for some strong violence, strong language, thematic content, suggestive material and brief smoking. Its running time is 158 minutes.

Contact Bob Garver at rrg251@ nyu.edu.

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HOME & GARDEN

Thomas moderates ACWA panel on financial impact of mandatory cutbacks Joe Naiman WRITER

Greg Thomas, general manager of Elsinore Valley Municipal Water District, was the moderator of a panel at the Association of California Water Agencies fall conference, Thursday, Dec. 2.

The session was called “Here We Go Again: When Does Voluntary Become Mandatory.” It was under the financial track of the ACWA conference, which was held from Nov. 30 to Dec. 2 in Pasadena and focused on how agencies have been impacted from sales revenue loss.

“Given the current climactic conditions, this was important to all agencies across the state,” Thomas said.

Kevin Mascaro, director of finance for Western Municipal Water District, and Aaron Baker, chief operating officer of Santa Clara Valley Water District, joined Thomas for the session which addressed financial impacts from the previous drought and what the agencies are doing to address new drought mandates. EVMWD board member Harvey Ryan, who is the vice chair for ACWA’s Region 9 and a member of ACWA’s Finance Committee, coordinated the session.

A new drought “We’re in a new drought,” Thomas said. “What we want to do is cover the previous drought.”

Thomas was the general manager of the Rincon Del Diablo Municipal Water District, which serves unincorporated Escondido, before becoming the EVMWD general manager in 2019, so his experience with the 2014-2017 drought was with the northern San Diego County agency rather than with the Elsinore Valley district.

The drought of 2014-2017 began earlier, but in January 2014

former Gov. Jerry Brown issued a state of emergency, and in May 2015, the State Water Resources Control Board mandated a 25% statewide reduction from June 2015 to February 2016. Urban water suppliers were assigned a reduction from 8% to 36% based on their summer 2014 per capita use.

“We talked about the financial impacts of that and what agencies did to deal with the revenue loss as well as incremental costs,” Thomas said.

Agencies were subject to fines and drought surcharges, and in some cases, water meters were added to agencies’ capital expenses. The revenue losses depended on the size of the agency and their sources of water.

“It depends on the district.

Normally any reduction in water sales volume does equate to some revenue loss,” Thomas said. “You still have fixed costs. You don’t have the variable rate of water, but you still have the fixed rates.”

It includes operations and maintenance costs. Electricity is also an expense which isn’t necessarily reduced. If local supply is available but reductions prevent sales that water is often pumped to storage facilities.

“When Southern California Edison raises its rates 17%, it has a big impact,” Thomas said.

Sales reductions from adoption of voluntary conservation and efficiency measures don’t have the scale of a mandatory reduction.

“As ratepayers become more water efficient, yes, there is a reduced sales,” Thomas said. “It’s a gradual loss.”

Agency financial staff can incorporate those trends when preparing budgets. The potential of mandatory cutbacks will increase budget preparation effort.

“When we do water rates and projected sales, we’re using a base-

line from the previous drought,” Thomas said. “When we did our rates, it was based on a more realistic view of sales volume, so we took the previous drought and water efficiency into effect.”

A wet year will reduce the need for irrigation, and based on Thomas’ past experience, the sales loss is between 5% and 10%. Such reductions often also reduce the need for imported water so agencies may be able to utilize more local supply with a lower cost.

“You can balance those impacts of your finances based on that,” Thomas said. “It all depends on your supply.”

The Santa Clara Valley District serves approximately 2,000,000 people in 15 cities with San Jose being the most populous of those cities. The district’s water portfolio consists of 50% from the Bay Delta and Hetch Hetchy Dam imported water sources, 30% from groundwater aquifer and reservoir local water supplies, 5% from recycled water, and 15% from conservation reuse. Valley Water increased water conservation, reduced groundwater pumping, improved groundwater recharge capabilities and secured imported water during the 2012-2016 drought.

Water use reduction A 30% water use reduction from fiscal year 2013-2014 to fiscal year 2015-2016 resulted in approximately $90 million in revenue losses and $73 million in incremental costs. Valley Water delayed small capital projects, sold excess properties which provided the district with $2.4 million, and increased water rates by 19.7% in fiscal year 2016 and 19.9% in fiscal year 2016-2017.

The Western Municipal Water District is in western Riverside County. Western provides imported wholesale water to nearly

1 million people including to the Elsinore Valley Municipal Water District and the Rancho California Water District. Western also provides retail service to more than 100,000 people. The district was assigned a 32% reduction in 2015, but it appealed due to past investments which reduced imported demand before 2013 and obtained a 28% cutback. Residential per capita use was reduced from 176 gallons per day in 2014 to 135 gallons per day in 2015. Western’s operations and maintenance billing component is only for the two most efficient use tiers, so when 20% less water in those tiers was delivered the district lost $1.4 million of revenue and had drought-related expenditures of $0.9 million.

EVMWD water tests The Elsinore Valley Municipal Water District is a retail agency.

Testing in late 2019 for per and polyfluoroalkyl substances contaminants found elevated levels of PFAS in the Canyon Lake Water Treatment Plant, so that has been shut down and currently approximately 65% of Elsinore Valley’s water is imported from Western.

Elsinore Valley, Western and Santa Clara Valley water districts thus have different portfolios and customer combinations as well as geographical differences.

“It was a great mix,” Thomas said. “We kind of talked about the differences of the north versus south. Northern California is suffering a more severe drought than Southern California.”

Part of that is that much of Southern California is part of the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California whose supply is obtained from the Colorado River Aqueduct which transports water from Parker to Lake Mathews, the State Water Project which brings water from Oroville to Lake Skinner, water banking

agreements, local supply and other sources.

“We’ve got multiple sources,” Thomas said. “We’ve put a lot of water in storage. In Southern California we’ve been saving and doing things to diversify our water supply.”

Southern California was thus not as impacted by the previous drought as Northern California was, although the statewide reduction mandate didn’t take past conservation or local supply and storage investment into account.

“I think the state has finally learned that,” Thomas said.

The presentation included a call for the state to take past investment measures into account if reductions become mandatory. A mandatory reduction will also result in allocations, so agencies will need to address that issue.

The presentations were followed by a question and answer period.

“It was a very interactive session. We had a lot of audience participation,” Thomas said.

Thomas has lived in Temecula since 2004 and pays his water bills to the Rancho California Water District. He spent 22 years with the U.S. Marine Corps before retiring in 2006 as a lieutenant colonel and was stationed in Washington before closing out his career at U.S Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton.

Thomas was in charge of facility maintenance on the base including water, wastewater, electricity, gas, roads, buildings and landfills. After his retirement from the military, he worked for engineering and construction companies, and he had a consulting business specializing in wastewater. Thomas took over as the general manager of Rincon Del Diablo Municipal Water District in 2013.

Joe Naiman can be reached by email at jnaiman@reedermedia. com.

Supervisors approve Tierra Del Sol final map and security agreements Joe Naiman WRITER

The Riverside County Board of Supervisors approved the final tract map for the Tierra Del Sol development in French Valley along with improvement security agreements.

The supervisors’ 5-0 vote Tuesday, Dec. 14, approved the final map which subdivides 16.63 acres into 139 residential lots and

one park space. The action also approves the security agreements provided by Meritage Homes of California Inc. and posted by Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company.

Tierra Del Sol is located north of Benton Road, south of San Remo Drive, east of Sicily Lane and west of Pourroy Road. The area is part of the Winchester 1800 Specific Plan approved by the Board of Supervisors in

April 1997. In August 2020, the county supervisors approved the tentative map along with a general plan amendment, a specific plan amendment, a rezone and an Environmental Impact Report addendum. All lots have a minimum size of 2,700 square feet. A tentative map can be recorded as a final map when all conditions of the tentative map, other than those for which a final map is required, are fulfilled including the pay-

ment of all fees and deposits. The conditions of a final map include secured agreements to ensure that the infrastructure will be built and that payment for labor and materials used to build the infrastructure will be made. The security agreement covers completion of road, water, sewer and other infrastructure improvements but does not require completion of the homes or other lot improvements themselves.

The Tierra Del Sol security agreements include bonds of $2,633,500 for the completion of road and drainage improvements, $321,500 for completion of the water system, $318,000 for completion of the sewer system and $156,400 for boundary marker monumentation.

Joe Naiman can be reached by email at jnaiman@reedermedia. com.

EMWD approves water supply assessment for Keller Crossing development Joe Naiman WRITER

The Eastern Municipal Water District approved a water supply assessment for the planned Keller Crossing development.

A 3-0 EMWD board vote Wednesday, Dec. 15, with Stephen Corona and Randy Record absent,

approved the water supply assessment which addresses whether the projected normal, single dry year and multiple dry year expected supply over a 20-year period can meet the demand for the project along with existing and other planned projects. The water supply assessment will be incorporated into the environmental impact

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report for the project. D.R. Horton is the developer of Keller Crossing while Riverside County is the lead agency for the EIR. Keller Crossing would include 436 residential dwelling units of varying densities, 17.7 acres of commercial retail use and 77.4 acres of open space including 9.5 acres of parks. The project site at the northwest corner of Keller Road and Winchester Road is approximately 196 acres.

Eastern’s most recent Urban Water Management Plan, which was adopted June 30, estimated that the mixed use demand for the

parcels which comprise the project would have an annual demand of 277.83 acre-feet. The demand estimate was based on the very low density residential, low density residential, medium density residential, medium-high density residential, mixed use policy area and commercial retail land uses.

The estimated annual water demand for Keller Crossing is 267.06 acre-feet. Residential demand is anticipated to be 199.98 acre-feet annually; commercial retail has an estimated annual demand of 43.65 acre-feet and open space recreation use is expected to use 23.43 acre-

feet each year.

The Urban Water Management Plan forecasts anticipated supplies and demand in five-year increments through 2045, when the district is expected to provide service to approximately 1,131,300 people. The projected EMWD demand is 204,800 acre-feet in 2025 and 239,200 acre-feet in 2045.

The specific facilities needed to serve the water demands for Keller Crossing will be addressed in the project’s design conditions phase.

Joe Naiman can be reached by email at jnaiman@reedermedia. com.

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What to do when the Christmas tree comes down Diane A. Rhodes SPECIAL TO VALLEY NEWS

After the Christmas celebrations end and things are being stored away for another year, don’t forget to wisely dispose of your Christmas tree. Natural Christmas trees can be recycled and made into useful mulch or compost. Residents are encouraged to recycle trees to save valuable landfill space. For residents living in areas serviced by CR&R Environmental Services, the following recommendations have been provided.

Collection of natural Christmas trees will be available from Dec. 27 through Jan. 7, 2022. All ornaments, tinsel and lights need to be removed along with any tree stand to prepare them for recycling. If the tree is taller than 6 feet, it needs to be cut in half. The cut tree should be placed in the green organics (greenwaste) container, bottom first and in an upright position. Trees may also be dropped

off at 1706 Goetz Road in Perris during the same tree collection period. Residents who miss the tree collection period or drop-off can use CR&R’s bulky item service.

Flocked trees cannot be recycled and must be disposed of in regular trash/refuse containers.

Trees aren’t the only thing that can be recycled this time of year.

Christmas cards can be reused in a variety of ways, instead of being thrown away. The front can be used as a postcard to send to friends throughout the year. Or they can be used to decorate next year. Be sure to compost food scraps from holiday meals or place them in the organic waste bin as that will be the only way they can be disposed of starting in 2022. See more information on this at www.calrecycle.ca.gov/ organics/slcp/collection. Reuse all packaging materials possible; for example, line a dresser drawer with wrapping paper and save cardboard boxes for future mailings.

Hemet’s Ramona Courtyard Christmas featured a decorated tree.

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For more information contact your local refuse company, visit the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery website at www.calrecycle.ca.gov or call 916-341-6500.

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HEALTH

Health officials in Riverside County report first case of Omicron variant RIVERSIDE COUNTY – Riverside County health officials are reporting the first confirmed case of the Omicron variant in a 41-yearold fully vaccinated man from the western portion of the county.

Officials received confirmation this week. The individual is not being identified because of confidentiality guidelines.

“The reporting of this case reminds us of the importance of taking steps to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in all its forms,” said Dr. Geoffrey Leung, Riverside County public health officer.

The variant was first reported outside the United States recently and health officials indicated then it was likely the variant would be

found in other countries. State health officials Dec. 1 reported the first case in California from a traveler who had returned to San Francisco from South Africa late last month. The patient had what was described as mild symptoms.

In Riverside County, health officials are investigating whether the individual had traveled before being

tested in Los Angeles County Dec. 8 for COVID-19. The sample tested positive and was sent to a laboratory for genome sequencing, which showed positive for the Omicron variant.

“We knew that it was likely the variant would eventually arrive in Riverside County, so this is no surprise or cause for widespread

concern,” said Kim Saruwatari, director of Public Health. “The same steps that helped protect us against the virus in the past remain in place.”

Officials are encouraging residents to continue to wear facemasks, avoid large public gatherings and wash their hands frequently.

For more information, visit www. rivcoph.org/coronavirus.

Prepare favorite foods with nutrition in mind TEMECULA – Beloved dishes and comfort foods share some common elements, notably their flavor and ability to quell hunger pangs; however, those creamy mac-and-cheese recipes or Buffalo wings also may share some less savory characteristics, including a lack of nutrition.

Various popular dishes are made from ingredients that are high in saturated fats and calories. In fact, Nutritionix, a nutritional information reporting company, indicates the average one-cup serving of homemade macaroni and cheese measures in at 510 calories, with 29 grams of total fat and 16 grams, or 80% of the total daily recommended value, of saturated fat.

Certain foods also may be cooked through less healthy techniques, such as frying, but rest assured that being fit and healthy doesn’t mean having to give up on tasty comfort foods. Just about any recipe can get a healthy makeover.

Consider these cooking tips that can make popular dishes a little more nutritious.

Use an air fryer.

Frying makes everything from chicken to fries to sliced vegetables more delectable. But with that crispy coating and juicy interior comes the addition of fat and calories from the oil. Healthline said a small baking potato contains

the recipe. Greek yogurt also can be used in onion or vegetable dips for snack platters.

Cook with the right pans.

Cast-iron, nonstick or enamelcoated pans and skillets require less oil or butter while cooking to prevent foods from sticking. That translates into roughly 120 fewer calories per tablespoon of oil.

Taste before seasoning.

Replace salt with other herbs

and spices that can add flavor without extra sodium. In addition, always taste the recipe before adding more salt, as it very well may be fine without it, according to Harvard Medical School.

Tweaking recipes can make it possible to enjoy those favorite foods without sacrificing nutrition.

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93 calories and 0 grams of fat. The same amount of french fries contains 319 calories and 17 grams of fat when fried.

Air fryers can simulate the benefits of deep frying without the negative side effects. An air fryer uses heat and air through convection to mimic the results of deep frying with little-to-no oil.

Ditch the cream.

Thick and tasty dishes like fettuccine Alfredo involve the use of cream. Using low-fat milk that’s thickened with flour or cornstarch instead of cream can make such dishes a little healthier. Thickened

low-fat milk trims more than 680 calories and 53 grams of saturated fat per cup off recipes that call for heavy cream, according to EatingWell.com.

Swap mayonnaise or sour cream for Greek yogurt.

Potato salads and coleslaws are prized for their creamy and tangy flavors. These sides can be made more nutritious by replacing mayonnaise with a thick Greek yogurt as the base of the dressings. Greek yogurt adds live and active cultures that can improve gut health, and the yogurt also will cut down on the calories and fat in

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Take on a hobby, like these for busy people TEMECULA – Carving out some time for personal pursuits can provide a sense of achievement and a break from the daily grind. Hobbies also can improve physical and mental health in a variety of ways.

People with tight schedules may think that they’re too busy to engage in hobbies. In such instances, individuals should look for activities that don’t require too great of a time commitment.

Photography Photos can be snapped just about anywhere and at any time, making photography ideal for busy people.

Thanks to advancements in mobile phone cameras, individuals do not even need a high-tech or expensive camera to snap great shots.

Cooking Everyone needs to eat, making cooking a very useful hobby. Many people who cook for pleasure also note how relaxing it can be to prepare a meal.

Curating music playlists People with a love of music can take advantage of the many music streaming services to curate their own archives. Discover new music or find old favorites and make digital playlists for the activities of everyday life, such as backyard barbecues or commutes into work.

Various streaming sites allow users to make playlists public so they can

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Reading The benefits of reading are numerous. Reading bolsters readers’ vocabulary, can teach them about current events, provides an escape and also serves as exercise for the brain, potentially delaying agerelated cognitive decline. Reading can be a solitary venture done in short or long periods of spare time.

It also can be shared with others through book clubs and other reading groups.

Scrapbooking Photographs are now routinely relegated to digital cloud storage, where they linger in a sort of digital limbo. Scrapbooking inspires people to not only print their photos, but to get creative putting them together with designs, sayings and other mementos.

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BUSINESS

Bestselling author T. Jefferson Parker makes appearance in Fallbrook

The Friends of the Fallbrook Library have announced that tickets are on sale for the book launch event of Fallbrook resident T. Jefferson Parker’s new book, A Thousand Steps. The story is a gripping thriller, an incisive coming-of-age story and a vivid portrait of a turbulent time and place.

Parker is a New York Times’ bestselling author and Edgar award winner for his works that include Silent Joe and California Girl, both in 2005. In 2008, his short story Skinhead Central won Parker another Edgar award, making him one of the elite few writers to have won the Edgar three times.

The book launch event will be at the Pala Mesa Resort, 2001 Old Highway 395 in Fallbrook Saturday, Jan. 22, 2022. Doors open at 11:30 a.m., followed by a light lunch at noon. The author

will speak and sign copies of his new book. Barnes and Noble will be present to sell the novel for 20% off retail price. You may also order copies in advance online from a preferred bookseller and bring it along for signing.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention COVID guidelines will be followed. Questions may be directed to either Nancy Javier at njeanjavier@gmail.com or Helen McHargue at foodsmarts@gmail. com. Tickets for the event are $35 and are available at the Bottom Shelf bookstore at the Fallbrook Branch Library, 124 S. Mission Road or online at www.fallbrooklibraryfriends.org until Jan. 7, 2022.

Tickets to the event would make a great gift for the holidays. Seating is limited so purchase tickets before they run out.

Rancho Water board reelects Gonzales-Brady and Rossi TEMECULA – Rancho California Water District Board of Directors unanimously reelected Carol Lee Gonzales-Brady as president and John Rossi as senior vice president Thursday, Dec. 9, for a one-year term beginning in January 2022.

Gonzales-Brady is a native Californian with long family ties to the Temecula region. She is a local vineyard owner and member of the Temecula Winegrowers Association, and previously served on the Temecula-Elsinore-Anza-Murrieta Resource Conservation District’s board. Gonzales-Brady served on the Rancho Water board of directors since 2020 as president in 2021 and as senior vice president in 2020. She is an elected member of the Association of California Water Agencies’ Region 9 board and an alternate representative to the ACWA/Joint Powers Insurance Authority.

“I appreciate the vote of confidence from the board, and it is an honor to continue in this role as we address the important issues before us,” Gonzales-Brady said. “I would also like to congratulate Senior Vice President Rossi on his reelection. He is a trusted and respected colleague and a pleasure to work with.”

Rossi served on the Rancho Water board of directors since 2019.

He is chairman of the Engineering and Operations Committee and serves as an alternate on the Finance and Audit Committee.

Carol Lee Gonzales-Brady is reelected as president of the Rancho California Water District Board of Directors Thursday, Dec. 9, for a one-year term beginning in January 2022.

John Rossi is reelected as senior vice president of the Rancho California Water District Board of Directors for another year.

Additionally, Rossi serves as chair on the Santa Rosa Regional Resources Authority board and is a member of the ACWA Federal Affairs Committee. Rossi has been a Temecula resident since 1993 and has over 29 years in the water industry, including serving as the general manager at Western Municipal Water District for 13 years.

“I feel privileged to be serving as senior vice president once again,” Rossi said. “I look forward to supporting President GonzalesBrady and the rest of the board as we serve the community and support Rancho Water’s goals of high-quality, reliable water.”

During the past year, Gonzales-

Brady and Rossi led Rancho Water through several projects. One project was the Temecula Parkway Recycled Pipeline project, which replaced nearly 8,000 feet of a recycled water pipeline along Temecula Parkway, to protect future water reliability and produce highly treated wastewater.

In addition, the construction and rehabilitation of the Santa Rosa Water Reclamation Facility was completed ahead of schedule and under budget, providing a stateof-the-art facility that provides wastewater services to Temecula, Murrieta and Wildomar.

Submitted by Rancho California Water District.

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Supervisors adjust TUMF rates Joe Naiman WRITER

The Transportation Uniform Mitigation Fee rates developers in unincorporated Riverside County pay to mitigate the impact of cumulative traffic impacts from their development have been adjusted.

A 5-0 county Board of Supervisors vote Tuesday, Dec. 7, adopted the new fee schedule. The increases are based on the Construction Cost Index adjustments.

The county and 18 incorporated cities within the county comprise the Western Riverside Council of Governments. In 2002, WRCOG developed the Transportation Uniform Mitigation Fee to enhance the regional highway and arterial system. A nexus study was performed to ensure that the improvements

were based on the increased demand from new development, and the county adopted an ordinance for the county’s participation in the TUMF program.

In July 2017, WRCOG’s Executive Committee adopted a TUMF nexus study to allow for annual Construction Cost Index adjustments, and in December 2017, the board of supervisors updated the county’s TUMF rates. WRCOG must present the Construction Cost Index adjustment annually for consideration by the Executive Committee, who most recently approved an adjustment in July 2021. The WRCOG approval is followed by member agencies preparing amendments to their own ordinances.

Effective Monday, Feb. 7, 2022, the TUMF payment for single-

family residential units in unincorporated Riverside County will increase from $9,810 to $10,104 per unit. The increase for multifamily residential dwellings will be from $6,389 to $6,580 per unit. The retail commercial TUMF will change from $7.50 to $7.72 per square foot while the service commercial fee will increase from $4.75 to $4.89 per square foot. The increase for industrial construction is from $1.81 to $1.86 per square foot. Construction of office space currently has a TUMF payment of $2.38 per square foot, and that amount will increase to $2.45 as of Feb. 7.

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Soboba hosts 2021 Holiday Chamber Mixer at SCR Event Center SAN JACINTO – As longtime Hemet San Jacinto Valley Chamber of Commerce Circle of Influence members, the Soboba Band of Luiseño Indians, Soboba Casino Resort and Soboba Foundation hosted the organization’s 2021 Holiday Mixer again this year.

More than 450 guests celebrated the season at the Soboba Casino Resort Event Center Wednesday, Dec. 8.

With Christmas music played

by DJ Mike Nevarez, festive decor throughout the room and gifts via hundreds of raffle prizes, everyone enjoyed the festive atmosphere with dinner and dessert. Soboba tribal employee Andrew Vallejos served as master of ceremonies for the event and will serve as the chamber’s incoming chair in 2022.

He said he feels the volunteer position will help bring the community together as Soboba continues to work closely with so many local nonprofits and businesses. Vallejos introduced members of the Soboba Tribal Council and Soboba Foundation who were on hand to help hand out raffle gift baskets.

Cyndi Lemke, who has served as the chamber’s executive director for the past three years, said there are more than 350 businesses and about 150 nonprofits that are active members. She said the primary purpose of the chamber is to let every member know that they are supported.

“We are behind you,” she said.

“People join a chamber of commerce for different reasons. Some people want the chance to network with other business and community leaders. Some welcome the publicity that active involvement in chamber activities can generate for their business. Some people want the opportunity to have a role in community affairs or obtain tools to support their success.”

Lemke said that the Hemet San Jacinto Valley Chamber of Commerce works hard to help its members achieve all these objectives.

The chamber has a core of active volunteers and staff who are committed to fulfilling the mission of the chamber and help other members achieve their specific goals.

“These volunteers lead and serve on the key committees and task forces,” she said. “The chamber’s programs are divided into five categories: economic development, membership development, community services, business training resources and events.”

Specific to the recent mixer, Lemke said she loves the joy of the holiday season and the nature of this particular event.

“We are there to appreciate each other,” she said.

Networking opportunities were available as chamber members interacted with attendees, and Lemke assisted Vallejos with hosting duties.

Sonia Ramos, founder and CEO of Boxing for Christ, said the nonprofit has been a chamber member

for eight years and she has been an active volunteer during that time.

Her program offers professional training for community youth to participate in boxing tournaments, most recently in Arizona, Nevada and Texas. Celebrating its 10th anniversary in January, the organization has helped more than 3,000 youth reach their dreams of becoming successful boxers.

Good Chamber connection “Being part of the chamber has given us the connections we need for our program,” Ramos said.

Kathy and Vince Conway serve on the board of directors for Carol’s Kitchen, a nonprofit that offers hot dine-in lunches for the community free of charge. It has been serving residents in Beaumont, Banning and Cabazon for 24 years, and in April, a kitchen was opened in San Jacinto.

“Our guests also leave with a bag of extra groceries and can select a few items from some slightly used clothes; all for free,” Kathy Conway said.

The Conways were recently named Beaumont Chamber of Commerce Citizens of the Year.

They joined the Hemet San Jacinto Valley Chamber in 2021 and said it has helped them get to know the community.

“We have attended their Network for Businesses meetings where we have made connections. Also, they did a big announcement in the CHAT for our big fundraiser last October as well as an article about who Carol’s Kitchen is and where we are serving our free hot dine-in meals,” Kathy Conway said. “We are looking forward to next year for more events and working with the chamber to increase our attendance of guests and raising money to be able to keep feeding the hungry.”

A fun event She found the Holiday Chamber Mixer to be a beautiful and fun event, she said.

“The food and desserts were fabulous,” Conway said. “It was even better because all four of us that attended went home with a gift. It was great to be back out mingling with and chatting with people in a fun and safe environment.”

Photographer Sara Pastrano has been in business for about eight years and found great support from the chamber since joining about three years ago.

“It has been an overall important business move and investment,” the Hemet resident said. “I was very excited to attend this year’s mixer and see old and new faces but my favorite part was seeing everyone cheering for others during the raffles.”

Lemke said the relationships and connections that the chamber builds with its members is her favorite part.

“I love to see our members reach their goals,” she said. “Their goals are our goals because their success is our success.”

After Vallejos wished everyone

Guests enjoy the festive atmosphere, dinner and dessert at the Hemet San Jacinto Valley Chamber of Commerce’s 2021 Holiday Chamber Mixer at the Soboba Casino Resort Event Center Wednesday, Dec. 8.

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Table settings add to the festive holiday atmosphere at the 2021 Holiday Chamber Mixer, hosted at the Soboba Event Center.

at the 2021 Holiday Chamber Mixer a safe and Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah and Happy New Year, Soboba Foundation President Dondi Silvas gave closing remarks.

Appreciate partnerships “We really appreciate the partnerships we have with all of you.

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Former standouts play in inaugural college football ‘Jimmy Kimmel' LA Bowl

Paloma Valley alumni, Chance Nolan, who is the starting quarterback for Oregon State, gains yardage during the Inaugural Jimmy Kimmel LA Bowl.

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Utah State freshman football players and Chaparral high school alumni, Enoka Migao (45) and Elia Migao (73), after winning the Jimmy Kimmel LA Bowl.

JP Raineri SPORTS EDITOR

INGLEWOOD — Whenever local prep football fans can have some added value when watching college games, it makes things a bit more enjoyable. This past weekend college football was definitely more enjoyable when former Paloma Valley High School alumni, Chance Nolan, Oregon State’s starting QB, took the field against Utah State in the inaugural LA Bowl. Also from Oregon State is Tavis Shippen, a redshirt sophomore formerly of Vista Murrieta.

On the other side of the ball was former Chaparral Puma standouts Enoka and Elia Migao who were semi-dressed out for Utah State, and Xavion Steele of Hemet (Orange Lutheran) also saw play time with the Aggies as well.

The game, at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, has been coined the “Jimmy Kimmel” LA Bowl, as part of a naming rights agreement with comedian and late-night talk show host, and it was just as exciting as anything named Jimmy Kimmel should be. Kimmel was also one of the presenters of the game, was frequently seen on the videoboard and sidelines throughout the game and played clarinet with the Oregon State band before the game. Leading up to the game, Kimmel also had both teams as guests for tapings of “Jimmy Kimmel Live!”

The game was not a letdown either, in fact, it was filled with flares of drama, keeping those watching in suspense almost through the entirety. Utah State third-string quarterback Cooper Legas had a breakout performance Saturday night as the sophomore came off the bench to throw a touchdown pass on his first collegiate attempt and helped lead the Aggies to a 24-13 victory over Oregon State.

Legas came in when starter Lo-

gan Bonner suffered a knee injury during the first quarter. Andrew Peasley was Bonner’s backup throughout the season but was ruled out before kickoff due to a shoulder injury he suffered Nov. 26 against New Mexico.

Legas’ only action this season was late in the New Mexico game.

Coach Blake Anderson said Legas had received extremely limited team snaps all season, but that he has an extremely high football IQ. He showed that on his first snap when he connected with Deven Thompkins on a 62-yard touchdown strike to tie it at 7.

Thompkins got a couple steps on defensive back Jaydon Grant, hauled it in at the Oregon State 25 and was gone to the end zone.

“It was a checked play by him at the line of scrimmage based off the look that he saw. That is probably the first time he’s checked, physically check to that particular play, and it came at the most critical time for us,” Anderson said.

Legas also had a 5-yard scoring toss to Brandon Bowling with under four minutes remaining in the third quarter to extend the Aggies lead to 24-13. He also had a 34-yard reception on a double pass from Derek Wright.

“Nothing really changed with the system today when he went in. We stayed true to form, we stayed with the plan, and just put him in a position where hopefully guys could take the heavy lifting off him. But he exceeded every expectation I had of what he could do,” said Anderson about Legas, who was 11 of 20 for 171 yards and an interception.

Thompkins had six receptions for 115 yards and set a singleseason school record with 102 catches. The senior — who was named the Offensive MVP of the game — said he had confidence that Legas would be able to step up “I told all the wide receivers

Utah State quarter back Cooper Legas came off the bench to lead Utah State to victory in the inaugural Jimmy Kimmel LA Bowl.

Jimmy Kimmel (left) was present at his self-titled L.A. Bowl, which was played Dec. 18 from SoFi Stadium in Inglewood.

Oregon State quarterback Chance Nolan scrambles to escape the pressure of a Utah State defender.

we got to help Coop, just build that confidence, play good. And, honestly, he didn’t even need it,” Thompkins said. “He was ready to go, and it showed the future he’s going to have here as a Utah State Aggie so I’m definitely proud of him.”

Calvin Tyler Jr., who was at Oregon State for four years before transferring, ran for 120 yards. He also scored what ended up being the go-ahead touchdown on a 15yard run with 4:24 remaining in the second quarter to give Utah State (11-3) a 14-10 advantage.

Oregon State (7-6) received the opening kickoff and scored 58 seconds into the game when Jesiah Irish went 20 yards up the left sideline on a jet sweep. That would prove to be the Beavers only touchdown though as its other points came on a pair of field goals

by Everett Hayes.

Chance Nolan was 21 of 30 for 263 yards and an interception

while B.J. Baylor, who led the Pac-12 in rushing, had 18 carries for 78 yards.

“We helped them out and had a lot of self-inflicted wounds,” coach Jonathan Smith said. “I thought we had enough defensively but weren’t able to do anything on offense.”

The Mountain West champion (Utah State) has won four of the past five bowl games when paired against the Pac-12. The victory also gave the MWC a 6-5 advantage over the Pac-12 in games this season. It is the third time since 1999 and first since 2008 that the conference has had a winning record over the Pac-12. The Aggies ended up having two of the wins.

They opened the season with a 2623 victory at Washington State. It is the first time Utah State has had two wins over Power Five teams in a season.

Defensive end Nick Heninger, who had three sacks and five

tackles for loss to capture Defensive MVP honors, said the past two Utah State wins have meant something extra to him.

“I came from a Pac-12 team, University of Utah. And knowing that San Diego State had beat Utah and Oregon State had beat Utah, I kind of had a little extra motivation,” he said. “I like to think it doesn’t matter who we play. We’re going to go out there and we’re gonna put our best on the line,” Despite the loss, the Beavers finish with their first winning record since 2013. They will return most of their starters, but Baylor — a first-team, All-Pac 12 selection — hasn’t decided on if he will leave early for the NFL draft. Article contributions made from AP writer Joe Reedy.

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

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Early signing period takes place for local high school football players JP Raineri SPORTS EDITOR

Some of the top high school football players from schools in Southwest Riverside County have begun the next step in their journey of playing sports at the next level.

Signing Day ceremonies, under what is noted as the early period, were held Wednesday, Dec. 15, which was the first day that a high school senior who played football can sign a binding National Letter of Intent with an NCAA school.

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Four names that were synonymous with this past season’s accolades included Brandon Rose (MV), Jake Steele (MV), Hunter Roddy (Chaparral) and Jack Pedersen (Vista Murrieta). Steele and Rose have been playing sideby-side since the days of youth football, in fact, almost every early local signee played against, or on the same teams growing up, and have all since been longtime friends dreaming of this day.

Rose, a senior quarterback, signed with Pac-12 champ Utah, while Steele, a senior offensive lineman, made things official by signing with San Jose State. The Murrieta Valley twosome were among the nearly two dozen Inland football players who signed Wednesday, which is the first day of the early signing period. The window for this period also closed just as quickly as it came, which was Friday, Dec. 17.

Roddy, who rushed for almost 1200 yards with 12 TDs this past season, will be taking his talents to West Point, and Pedersen, who could easily play both football and baseball at the next level, is headed to UCLA. Pedersen could fill a role the Bruins need if other players depart this winter. At 6-foot-4 and 235 pounds, the Vista Murrieta standout has the traits to pass and rush block as well as catching the ball from the tight end spot in the offense.

Rose, who donned his cap and gown at the ceremony because he is enrolling at Utah next month, told the media that this is everything he and his friends have wished for. “We worked hard for it over the years, so it has all been very exciting,” he said.

Murrieta Valley High School football players, Jake Steele (left), and Brandon Rose (right), signed their National Valley News/Courtesy photo Letters of Intent Wednesday, Dec. 15, during a ceremony held at the school.

“It’s amazing,” Steele said to the media as well. “Everything that we’ve been through, from riding in cars together to going to games, to this moment right now.

It’s surreal.”

With only a few local high schools reporting so far, here is a look at the colleges and universities to which some of the area’s top high school student athletes will be taking their talents. If you know of a student athlete that is playing at the next level and did not get recognized in the paper this week, send more information to sports@

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Chaparral’s Hunter Roddy will be taking his football talents to West Point after signing his commitment letter at a ceremony held at the school last week.

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Inland prep football players who signed early NLIs Player, School, Position, College A.J. Duffy, Rancho Verde*, QB, Florida State Dylan Lopez, Rancho Verde*, OL, Oregon State Jack Pedersen, Vista Murrieta, TE, UCLA Hunter Roddy, Chaparral, RB, Army Brandon Rose, Murrieta Valley, QB, Utah

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Temecula Valley High School wins Best in the West girls’ soccer tournament JP Raineri SPORTS EDITOR

IRVINE — Temecula Valley and Los Alamitos battled it out in the finals of the Best in the West girls’ soccer tournament this past Saturday. Ranked in the No. 5 and No. 7 spots in Division 1 of the CIF Southern Section polls, both teams battled back-and-forth in an all-out duel at University High School.

Los Alamitos beat San Juan Hills 2-1 in the semifinals on goals by senior Espi Logan and freshman Vivi Zacarias, but Temecula Valley (6-1-2) put the pressure on their two standouts all game. Griffins’ goalie Aurora Schuck, a Washington State commit, made a few late crucial saves to keep the Griffins (2-2-2) close.

Natalie Mitchell, Temecula Valley’s leading scorer so far this season, put away the first shot of the match in the fourth minute. Mitchell, who is bound for East Carolina, also scored the lone goal in a 1-0 victory against Newport Harbor in the semifinals and stopped a quick counterattack against the Griffins in the final game by scoring off a cross pass by forward Kate Jacobsen for her 11th goal.

Temecula Valley defeated Los Alamitos 2-1 Saturday, Dec. 18, in the finals of the Best in the West girls’ soccer tournament.

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Junior wing Jenna Chaput would strike after teammate Camryn Vehlow headed the initial cross from Natalie Mitchell toward the goal from the far post. That is when Chaput put the game away off a corner kick in the 63rd minute to lift

the Golden Bears past Los Alamitos 2-1 for their first ever Best in the West title.

Temecula Valley, who has been a powerhouse in the area for the past four years, took the title this year in a tournament that featured

defending Division 1 champion Harvard-Westlake, No. 2 Santiago of Corona and No. 3 San Juan Hills, among others.

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Prep basketball polls updated during preseason play JP Raineri SPORTS EDITOR

The high school winter sports preseason is in full swing and the updated rankings show quite a few local teams getting great exposure in their prospective divisions as the seasons get underway. The latest CIF Southern Section polls were released Monday, Dec. 13, as we bring you some of the local area teams that have cracked the rankings.

CIF-SS BOYS BASKETBALL POLLS (Selected by CIF-SS Boys Basketball Advisory Committee) Next polls will be released Monday, Jan. 3, 2022.

OPEN DIVISION First Open Division list will be published Monday, Jan. 10, 2022.

DIVISION 1 No local teams DIVISION 2AA No local teams DIVISION 2A No. 15 – Elsinore (Sunbelt League) DIVISION 3AA No. 2 – Linfield Christian (Ambassador League) No. 6 – Chaparral (Southwestern League) No. 10 - Vista Murrieta (Southwestern League) DIVISION 3A – DIVISION 5AA No local teams DIVISION 5A

No. 2 – Temecula Prep (South Valley League) CIF-SS GIRLS BASKETBALL POLLS (Selected by CIF-SS Girls Basketball Advisory Committee) OPEN DIVISION First Open Division list will be published Monday, Jan. 10, 2022.

DIVISION 1 No local teams DIVISION 2AA No. 8 – Chaparral (Southwestern League) No. 15 – Vista Murrieta (Southwestern League) DIVISION 2A No 7 – Rancho Christian (South Valley League) DIVISION 3AA No. 1 – Murrieta Valley (Southwestern League) DIVISION 3A No local teams DIVISION 4AA No. 2 – Heritage (Sunbelt League) DIVISION 4A No. 15 – San Jacinto Valley Academy (South Valley League) DIVISION 5AA No. 2 – California Lutheran (Arrowhead League) DIVISION 5A No local teams *Polls are created by CIF-SS Advisory Committees representing each sport listed above.

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Heritage is ranked in the No.2 spot of the CIF Southern Section girls’ basketball polls.

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Linfield Christian, sporting an 11-1 season record, is ranked No. 2 in the 3AA CIF Southern Section boys’ Valley News/Courtesy photos basketball polls.

The Elsinore Tigers cracked the top 15 rankings in the latest 2A CIF Southern Section boys’ basketball polls.

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CIF Southern Section girls’ water polo polls released JP Raineri SPORTS EDITOR

Last week’s CIF Southern Section polls for the sport of girls’ water polo were released and here is a look at the local area teams that have cracked the rankings.

The polls are managed by the CIF-SS Advisory Committees that oversee each individual sport and are up-to-date as of Monday, Dec. 13. The Next polls will be released Monday, Jan. 3, 2022.

The newly formed Open Division will be the top eight teams and may come from teams in any division. The top eight teams selected to the Open Division will be finalized during the playoffs’ seedings.

DIVISION 1 Top 15: Redondo Union, Murrieta Valley, Mira Costa, Rosary, Santiago/Corona, Schurr DIVISION 2 Top 15: Sunny Hills, Murrieta Mesa, Edison DIVISION 3 No local teams DIVISION 4 No local teams DIVISION 5 No. 5 – Chaparral DIVISION 6 No local teams *Polls are created by CIF-SS Advisory Committees representing each sport listed above.

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The Murrieta Mesa girls’ water polo team has cracked the Top 15 of the CIF Southern Section Division 2 rankings after last week’s polls were released.

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Pala Casino Spa Resort supports Toys For Tots as a national donor PALA – The Pala Band of Mission Indians and Pala Casino Spa Resort supported Toys for Tots this holiday season as a national donor through a $5,000 donation. The Toys for Tots program provides toys for children in need during the holidays.

“We know the severe effects that COVID has had on children and families in our community and around the world.,” Robert Smith, chair of the Pala Band of Mission Indians, said. “Pala is happy to help

lites was confirmed, launch commentator Youmei Zhou at SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, said.

Starlink is a satellite-based global internet system that SpaceX has been building for years to bring internet access to underserved areas of the world.

Saturday’s mission was the 34th launch for Starlink, a constellation of nearly 2,000 satellites in low Earth orbit.

SpaceX also was scheduled to launch a Turkish communications satellite from Florida at 10:58 p.m.

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county for that work. Because the county’s transportation director has the authority to sign reimbursement agreements for up to $100,000, the EMWD agreement does not need board of supervisors’ approval.

The engineer’s estimate for the project was $1,968,429. Seven bids were received by the Oct. 6 deadline. Hardy and Harper had the low bid. Onyx Paving Company, which is based in Anaheim, had the second-lowest bid at $1,817,000.

Hemet will make an initial $823,500 deposit which includes a 10% contingency for the city’s portion of the work. After the project is complete any remaining funding will be refunded to the city. Revenue from the Road Repair and Accountability Act, which raised the tax on gasoline by 12 cents per gallon effective November 2017 and vehicle registration fees between $25 and $175 depending on the vehicle’s value effective spring 2018, will be used to fund the county’s cost for the resurfacing and associated work.

The work will be phased so that the road can remain open during construction. The resurfacing is scheduled to begin in early 2022 and take approximately two and a half months to complete.

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the benefits on roads with high traffic volumes close to residential streets. The work will also include placement of an asphalt concrete dike, reconstruction of cross gutters and spandrels, driveways meeting Americans with Disabilities Act standards, pavement safety edge, traffic striping, thermoplastic crosswalk and pavement markings and the upgrade of the traffic signal at Stetson Avenue from an inductive loop vehicle detection system to a video vehicle detection system.

The county supervisors voted 5-0, Sept. 14, to authorize the advertisement for bid of a contract, accept the plans and specifications for the East Hemet project, find that the resurfacing is categorically exempt from California Environmental Quality Act review and set an Oct. 6 bid opening date. The bid package was structured with a base bid for the resurfacing from Thornton Avenue to the Hemet city limit and three alternate bids which required Hemet and Eastern Municipal Water District approval. One alternate bid will extend the resurfacing from Florida Avenue to the Hemet city limit, one involves EMWD maintenance hole adjustments in the unincorporated area, and one is for EMWD maintenance hole adjustments in Hemet. The city and the water district found the bids acceptable and will reimburse the

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VA N D E N B E R G S PA C E FORCE BASE – A SpaceX rocket carried 52 Starlink internet satellites into orbit from California early Saturday, Dec. 18.

The two-stage Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from coastal Vandenberg Space Force Base at 4:41 a.m. and arced over the Pacific.

The Falcon’s first stage returned and landed on a SpaceX droneship in the ocean. It was the 11th launch and recovery of the stage.

The second stage continued into orbit and deployment of the satel-

children in need,” Staff Sgt. Nunez.

The Pala Tribe and Pala Casino are committed to providing support for local communities and organizations during the holidays and throughout the year.

For more information about Toys for Tots, visit https://www. toysfortots.org/.

To learn more about Pala Casino Spa Resort, visit https://www. palacasino.com/.

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Hardy and Harper given San Jacinto Street resurfacing contract

A SpaceX rocket launches early Saturday, Dec. 18, from Vandenberg Space Force Base. The Falcon’s first stage successfully returned and landed on a SpaceX droneship in the ocean. It was the 11th launch and recovery of the stage, marking a milestone in reusability. The second stage continued into orbit and deployed the satellites.

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support an organization that makes such a great difference.”

Members of the Pala Tribe and Pala Casino presented the donation to members of the U.S. Marine Corps Thursday, Dec. 9. The U.S. Marine Corps presented Pala with a Commander’s Award certificate in recognition of the donation.

“Toys for Tots is extremely thankful for the generosity shown

by Pala Casino and the Pala Band of Mission Indians that helps the Marine Corps spread holiday cheer to

Hardy and Harper Inc. was awarded a contract from Riverside County for the resurfacing of San Jacinto Street.

A 5-0 Riverside County Board of Supervisors vote Tuesday, Dec. 14, accepted the $1,745,000 bid Hardy and Harper provided and awarded the contract to the Lake Forest company. A separate 5-0 vote that day approved a service agreement with the city of Hemet which addresses work within the city limits.

San Jacinto Street will be resurfaced for approximately 1.5 miles between Thornton Avenue to Florida Avenue. The county’s general plan classifies San Jacinto Street south of Stetson Avenue as a local road, and San Jacinto Street north of Stetson Avenue is classified as a secondary highway. The road ranges in width from 20 feet to 64 feet and has curb and gutter along various segments. The deterioration of the pavement has created the need for resurfacing which will include both hot mix asphalt and rubberized hot mix asphalt, although rubberized asphalt concrete is approximately10% more expensive than ordinary asphalt concrete the rubberized surface has been proven to be more durable and also decreases noise which maximizes

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San Jacinto Mayor Russ Utz praised the city staff for the city’s recent and manager growth in retail development and creating environment more attractive an businesses and to residents during the past year.

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by Linda Mejia, who lost her son more than 20 years ago, featured music, stories, words of encouragemen t and support for the families and friends in attendance.

Before taking the podium, Faith Zember played a recorded by her song that was daughter Lily Harrison, a Murrieta 15-year-old who was killed earlier this year by a DUI driver in Temecula.

“Like many of season has foreveryou, the holiday been changed,” Zember said. “They will forever be altered, diff erent The years of family and revised. traditions and fond memories are now unable be furthered in to the same ways that see VIGIL, page A-8

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Some sleepy eyes and cranky faces appeared on but the thousands Black Friday, of residents at local stores and malls were hitting on savings and deals – instead hitting each other of – for the most part.

Late Friday, video surfaced of two men fighting inside the Murrieta Walmart location, apparently over what one of sidered to be the the men conelderly woman. disrespect of an In the video posted by Ryan Kimberly Mountain, the two men – one a Marine retired Marine and the other a – were standing a checkout line in Thanksgiving night when an elderly woman allegedly and repeatedly bumped into one of the men.

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The Murrieta paying tribute Field of Honor, to who served or heroes – those are serving in the United Mt. San Jacinto College shared enforcement,States military, law news about various fire and other new suc- responder first cesses, initiatives, programs and heroes – posts, plus personal new building projects opened to the public SatState of the College, at its annual urday, Nov. 9.

More MSJC’s Menifee held Friday at Valley Campus. 5-foot than 2,000 3-foot by American flags are on display at Murrieta’s Town Square see page D-4 Park, all recognizing those who served along with personal heroes.

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Supervisors adopt California Voters’ Choice Act, despite criticism Paul J. Young CITY NEWS SERVICE

Though several speakers criticized the move as potentially inviting fraud, the Riverside County Board of Supervisors Tuesday, Dec. 14, unanimously adopted all provisions of the California Voters’ Choice Act, changing election processes to ensure a ballot is mailed to every registered voter while still allowing for in-person voting if a resident prefers.

The VCA, introduced as Assembly Bill 37 during the most recent legislative session, was signed into law by Gov. Gavin Newsom Monday, Sept. 27, and permits counties to opt in or opt out of some of the requirements.

County Registrar of Voters Rebecca Spencer told the board that if the county continued to operate outside the VCA, costs would escalate due to a mandate that counties that remain within the former parameters of the Election Code establish a minimum of one voting center per 30,000 residents.

“If we were to stick with the polling places, we would be required to

have 600,” Spencer said. “If we go with the VCA, there’s only a need for 150.”

The registrar estimated an additional $7 million more would need to be spent on equipment and staffing 600 polling stations was viewed as steeply challenging in the COVID era.

“This gives us more opportunities to vote, in person or by mail,” Supervisor Chuck Washington said. “The way we certify elections is still the same; this is more efficient.”

The VCA specified that while every registered voter is entitled to receive a mail-in ballot, a recipient can still exercise the privilege of in-person voting – without casting the vote-by-mail ballot.

According to AB 37, county elections officials must “permit any voter to cast a ballot using a certified remote accessible system for any election.”

Voting centers, which will be outfitted with at least five computers on which residents can input their votes, must be available for 11 days before statewide elections, officials said.

Board OKs fire mutual aid agreements with March ARB, Canyon Lake City News Service SPECIAL TO VALLEY NEWS

The Riverside County Board of Supervisors Tuesday, Dec. 14, authorized the Riverside County Fire Department to finalize aid agreements with the city of Canyon Lake and March Air Reserve Base, making county fire personnel available to one or the other, and the partners’ first responders available to the county.

The “automatic aid agreement” with Canyon Lake was approved just as the gated municipality prepares, Saturday, Jan. 1, to switch to a stand-alone fire department, after decades of contracting with the county, with one extended pause in the relationship.

Under the agreement, county firefighters will be available to automatically respond to the city in the event of an emergency that the single engine crew in Canyon Lake cannot handle. Similarly, Canyon Lake’s crew will be available to the county for fire mitigation and control, as well as other emergencies, when the county is in need of assistance near the city.

According to the compact, Canyon Lake must maintain a 24/7 minimum service level of three firefighters staffing the city’s engine at the municipality’s lone firehouse for the agreement to remain in effect.

Canyon Lake is the only city in Riverside County to cancel fire services over the last decade. It shuttered its firehouse July 1, 2015, after the city and county became embroiled in legal wrangling over nearly $2 million in unpaid fire services bills, which Canyon Lake representatives at the time blamed on increased firefighter staffing that the city did not want and could not afford.

The result was a breach of contract lawsuit in which the county alleged that, beginning in the last half of the 2013-2014 fiscal year,

Canyon Lake stopped making payments under the fire protection contract that went into effect July 1, 2011.

The suit was resolved in the fall of 2015, when Canyon Lake agreed to reimburse the county $1.7 million.

The Canyon Lake City Council, however, kept the local fire station closed while examining the prospects of establishing a city-run fire department.

Between July 2015 and May 2017, the city paid for fire protection on an as-needed basis, with county fire trucks from Lake Elsinore and Menifee responding to 911 calls in Canyon Lake. The city, through the offices of Supervisor Kevin Jeffries, eventually reached a compromise agreement with the county to reopen the fire station in June 2017.

The “mutual aid agreement” with March Air Reserve Base is a continuation of a long series of aid agreements between the base and the county. The last one was signed in 2013 and expired this year.

Under the new one, county firefighters will be available to respond to “emergency fire and emergency medical or rescue incidents within the boundaries of March ARB,” according to documents posted to the board’s agenda.

“In some circumstances, the base will respond to emergency incidents within the boundaries of the county,” accord to the documents.

The most recent high-level mutual aid coordination occurred in May 2019, when a National Guard F-16 suffered a hydraulic failure while landing at the base and crashed the roof of a warehouse adjacent to Interstate 215.

March ARB crews and county firefighters, along with personnel from other agencies, worked together over a week to secure the site and remove the jet.

The mutual aid agreement will be in effect for five years, officials said.

California suspect in women’s deaths now charged with rape THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

LOS ANGELES (AP) – A Beverly Hills man arrested in connection with the drug overdose deaths of two unconscious women who were dumped at hospitals was charged Friday with sex assaults on four other women.

David Pearce is accused of two counts of forcible rape and one count each of rape of an unconscious or asleep person and sexual penetration by a foreign object, the Los Angeles County district attorney’s office said.

Pearce allegedly sexually assaulted a woman in 2010, raped another woman in 2019 and raped two more women last year, prosecutors said.

Prosecutors didn’t immediately provide other details.

Pearce remained jailed on $1 million bail Friday, Dec. 17, and it wasn’t immediately clear whether he had an attorney to speak on his behalf.

Pearce was arrested on suspicion of manslaughter in connection with the deaths last month of model Christy Giles, 24, and her friend, architect Hilda Marcela Cabrales-

Arzola, 26.

Two other men were held on suspicion of being accessories to manslaughter but both have been released from jail. It also wasn’t immediately clear whether they had attorneys.

No criminal charges have been filed against the three men in connection with the women’s deaths.

“This case is evolving and we continue to work with law enforcement in developing evidence of other possible crimes,” District Attorney George Gascón said in a news release.

Giles and Cabrales-Arzola were reportedly last seen attending an East Los Angeles warehouse party.

Authorities believe they then went to Pearce’s townhouse. Detectives said they believe both women were given drugs and overdosed.

Giles was found dead outside Southern California Hospital in Culver City after masked men in a car with no license plates dropped her there Nov. 13, police said.

Cabrales-Arzola was left at Kaiser Permanente West Los Angeles Hospital, where she was removed from life support and died Nov. 24.

“A vote center will allow a voter to vote in-person, drop off their ballot, get a replacement ballot, vote using an accessible voting machine, receive assistance, request voting material in multiple languages, register to vote and update their registration,” according to the county Office of the Registrar of Voters.

Spencer said the VCA permits same-day voter registration; however, voters who miss the cutoff date for registration ahead of an election will still be required to cast a provisional ballot, resulting in greater scrutiny.

Under the VCA, voters are supposed to receive an absentee ballot at least 29 days before an election, and any ballot bearing a postmark on or before Election Day must be processed up to seven days after the election.

But ballots are not required to be delivered by the U.S. Postal Service. According to the legislation, “a bona fide mail delivery company” may also drop ballots, as long as there is some indication “the date on which a ballot was mailed.”

“Our voting system is every-

thing,” Supervisor Chuck Hewitt said. “I got a feeling this is going to be changing quite a bit every election cycle. But everything I’ve seen with our (countywide) system is pretty sound.”

Riverside-area resident John Parker deemed the VCA “flawed straight out of the gate.”

“You need to be going in the opposite direction,” he told the board.

“Both parties have complained about (deficiencies) in mail-in balloting for years.”

County resident Yvette Anthony condemned the move as “a drastic change to our election system” that should have been subject to public hearings.

“This is putting electronics at every stage of our elections, and there are going to be glitches,” she said. “I think you’d find your constituents want less machines and more direct participation.”

San Gorgonio Pass resident Roy Bleckert said the board was “throwing voter polling stations into the trash heap of history” by adopting the VCA. “We should look at what they discovered in Pima County, Ari-

zona,” he told the board, referring to election integrity hearings in the Arizona Legislature focusing on alleged mail-in ballot fraud. “People were over-voting. We should probably reform a lot of things in our election process. Nothing is more sacred than ‘one man, one vote.’”

Board Chair Karen Spiegel acknowledged that it was past time to “clean up our voter rolls.”

“This requires that we work toward weeding out fraud,” she said.

“Some people are not happy with the VCA, but I think it’s a good direction.”

The board earlier this year approved a bevy of changes to operations within the Office of the Registrar of Voters in response to an “after-action report” on the Nov. 3, 2020, general election, which uncovered discrepancies.

Revisions included hiring new vendors to print and distribute ballots, increasing the registrar’s budget and ensuring that the county is consistently in sync with the state’s ballot tracking system, which provides voters a means of seeing whether their ballots have been processed.

Board formally adopts new county supervisorial districts City News Service SPECIAL TO VALLEY NEWS

The Riverside County Board of Supervisors Tuesday, Dec. 14, formally adopted new supervisorial district boundaries based on the 2020 census, with most cities and unincorporated communities remaining intact within one district.

The 4-1 vote was recorded without comment and with Supervisor Manuel Perez as the sole dissenter.

The board’s action beat the Wednesday, Dec. 15, deadline that might have otherwise thrown the matter into Riverside County Superior Court for adjudication. County officials are still anticipating potential legal challenges to the changes.

The final public hearing on the redrawing of boundaries occurred Tuesday, Dec. 7, and lasted roughly three hours. The supervisors debated four different maps before finally settling on the one that is now established for the next 10 years.

The majority’s map kept District 5, represented by Supervisor Jeff Hewitt, largely intact and in the same profile; however, it moved Hemet and San Jacinto out of Supervisor Chuck Washington’s District 3 and into Hewitt’s sphere of representation.

Board Chair Karen Spiegel’s District 2 will expand well to the south under the redraw, encompassing all of the Interstate 15 corridor from Jurupa Valley to Lake Elsinore. The latter was formerly part of Supervisor Kevin Jeffries’ District 1. He resides in neighboring Lakeland Village, which is now represented

by Spiegel.

District 3 will lose territory; however, Washington will continue to represent the communities where he has been domiciled for over three decades – Murrieta and Temecula.

Menifee will also remain under one supervisor – Washington -- instead of several, which the city’s representatives did not want. Menifee had been part of Hewitt’s district.

Under the redraw, District 1 will be the most compressed but will represent all of Riverside and all of Perris. The latter had been part of Hewitt’s district.

Perez’s District 4 will expand across practically all of the San Bernardino National Forest south of Interstate 10, garnering the mountain communities of Idyllwild, Pine Cove and Mountain Center. The western boundary of the district will end at Anza, Valle Vista and Cabazon, enveloping most of Whitewater, though a sliver will go to District 5.

The Morongo Band of Mission Indians in Cabazon had emphasized last month the need to keep the San Gorgonio Pass and tribal lands together, and the redraw largely accomplished that.

Perez favors different map Perez favored a map that was lauded by the American Civil Liberties Union and other interest groups but which would have sliced multiple cities and communities into disparate parts, particularly on the west side of the county.

“It’s the only map that ... allows for an effective opportunity to elect preferred candidates and does not crack or dilute the Latino vote,” he said, Dec. 7.

Spiegel responded that the final adopted map made “the best of the

districts we have.”

“People are happy where they live, and they’re fighting for their districts. I’m a proponent of what’s best for the county,” she said.

The principal goal remained having 483,637 residents per district; however, there were other considerations, including adhering to components of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, which prohibit “racially polarized voting,” mandating that communities of color not be divided up so as to lose their influence in elections.

Transportation and Land Management Agency officials said all of the maps met the baseline criteria.

According to census figures, the county grew 10.4% over the last decade, with the population increasing from 2,189,641 in 2010 to 2,418,185 by 2020, a net change of 228,544.

Under the county’s balancing policy, three districts – 1, 2 and 4 – were in a deficit, while Districts 3 and 5 had surpluses.

State and federal law require that the districts remain contiguous, meaning no gerrymandering or broken lines to fit cities and unincorporated census-designated communities into pockets of one district or another. District 4 had the largest deficit at 26,173, while District 1 had the smallest at 11,079. District 2 was down 17,579, according to the Executive Office.

The Constitution requires a decennial census, and in addition to local political boundaries being redrawn, federal ones are also modified, impacting congressional representation; however, that job will be left to a statewide committee.

Municipalities decide for themselves how to divide up wards.

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Manchin not backing Dems’ $2T bill, potentially dooming it Alan Fram and Hope Yen THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON (AP) – Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin said Sunday he cannot back his party’s signature $2 trillion social and environment bill, dealing a potentially fatal blow to President Joe Biden’s leading domestic initiative heading into an election year when Democrats’ narrow hold on Congress was already in peril.

Manchin told “Fox News Sunday” that after five-and-a-half months of negotiations among Democrats in which he was his party’s chief obstacle to passage, “I cannot vote to continue with this piece of legislation. I just can’t. I’ve tried everything humanly possible. I can’t get there.”

Manchin’s choice of words seemed to crack the door open to continued talks with Biden and top congressional Democrats over reshaping the legislation.

But the West Virginia senator all but said the bill would die unless it met his demands for a smaller, less sweeping package, something that would be hard for many Democrats in the narrowly divided Congress to accept.

The bill would provide hundreds of billions of dollars to help millions of families with children by extending a more generous child tax credit, creating free preschool and bolstering child care aid. There is more than $500 billion for tax breaks and spending aimed at curbing carbon emissions, which experts consider the largest federal expenditure ever to combat climate change.

Other provisions would limit prescription drug price increases, create hearing benefits for Medicare recipients and bolster aid for the elderly, housing and job training. Nearly all of it would be paid for with higher taxes on the wealthy and large corporations.

In an unusually hardball response to a lawmaker whose vote

is crucial in the 50-50 Senate, White House press secretary Jen Psaki called Manchin’s announcement “a sudden and inexplicable reversal in his position” and “a breach of his commitments” to Biden and congressional Democrats. She pointedly said that Manchin, whose state is among the nation’s poorest, “will have to explain” why many families will have to cope with higher health and child care costs the bill is intended to address.

Psaki said in a statement that Manchin had “in person” given Biden a written proposal Tuesday, Dec. 14, that was “the same size and scope” of a framework for the bill that Democrats rallied behind in October, and agreed he’d continue talks. That framework had a 10-year cost of $1.85 trillion. Officials hadn’t previously disclosed that Tuesday meeting.

“We will continue to press him to see if he will reverse his position yet again, to honor his prior commitments and be true to his word,” Psaki said.

A Manchin aide gave the White House about a 20-minute notice before the lawmaker announced his position on national television, said a person familiar with the senator’s actions who described them only on condition of anonymity.

The legislation’s collapse would deepen bitter ideological divisions between progressive and moderate Democrats. That would imperil the party’s ability to get behind any substantial legislation before the November congressional elections, when their control of Congress seems in doubt. And it would add a note of chaos just as Democrats need to demonstrate accomplishments and show a united front to voters.

Manchin’s declaration was a stunning repudiation of Biden’s and his party’s top goal, and its delivery, a last-minute heads up from a staffer, seemed little short

of a slap in the face to Biden. A rejection of the legislation has been seen by many as unthinkable because of the political damage it could inflict on Democrats.

It is rare for a member of a president’s own party to administer a fatal blow to their paramount legislative objective. Manchin’s decision called to mind the famous thumbs-down vote by Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. that killed President Donald Trump’s 2017 effort to repeal the health care law enacted under President Barack Obama.

Manchin’s comments, as Congress was on a holiday recess, drew fury from Democratic colleagues he already has enraged and frustrated for months. Other problems have arisen, caused by another moderate Democrat, Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, and bickering between progressives and centrists, but none has approached the magnitude of Manchin’s stands.

Senate Budget Committee Chairman Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., said in a written statement that if Manchin wants to oppose the legislation, “He should have the opportunity to do so with a floor vote as soon as the Senate returns.” Rep. Pramila Jayapal of Washington state, a leader of House progressives, said Manchin can no longer say “he is a man of his word.”

Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden, D-Ore., said it would be “extremely disappointing” to abandon top priorities but that a package helping families, containing health care costs and creating clean energy jobs “would go a long way toward addressing our challenges.”

Rep. Suzan DelBene, D-Wash., reiterated moderates’ desire to see the bill refocused on fewer programs. “Failure is not an option,” she said.

South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham, top Republican on the

Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., walks to a caucus lunch at the Capitol in Washington, Dec. 17. Manchin said Sunday, Dec. 19, he cannot back a $2 trillion social safety net bill, dealing a potentially fatal blow to President Joe Biden’s signature legislation.

(AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, file)

Senate Budget Committee, had spent weeks trying to turn Manchin against the bill by saying it was too expensive. “I very much appreciate” Manchin’s opposition, Graham said.

Manchin said he was opposing the 10-year, roughly $2 trillion bill because of his concerns about inflation, growing federal debt and a need to focus on the omicron COVID-19 variant. He accused Democrats in a written statement later of trying to “dramatically reshape our society in a way that leaves our country even more vulnerable to the threats we face,” seemingly delineating an ideological gap between himself and his party.

He also wants the bill’s initiatives to last the measure’s full 10year duration. Democrats made many of them temporary to limit the bill’s cost, which Manchin says is misleading.

The bill’s extension of enhanced child tax credit benefits, including monthly checks to millions of families, would only be extended one year. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office

projected the credit’s full 10-year cost at $1.6 trillion, nearly the size of the entire package Manchin says he’d accept. To fit, any compromise would likely have to reduce the tax credit’s benefits and deeply cut many other proposals.

Democrats dismiss Manchin’s assertions that the bill would fuel inflation and worsen budget deficits.

They say its annual spending would be a tiny percentage of the country’s $23 trillion economy and have little impact on prices.

Its job training, education and other initiatives would spur economic growth and curb inflation long-term, they say.

Democrats note that CBO estimated the bill’s savings would leave it adding $200 billion to federal deficits over the coming decade, small compared to the $12 trillion in red ink already projected.

Associated Press writer Josh Boak in Wilmington, Delaware, and AP Congressional Correspondent Lisa Mascaro in Washington contributed to this report.

COVID-19 outbreak reported on Royal Caribbean cruise despite fully vaccinated adult passengers Jack Phillips THE EPOCH TIMES

Royal Caribbean’s Symphony of the Seas docks in the Port of Miami. Forty-eight people onboard the cruise ship tested positive for COVID-19 despite being vaccinated.

Wilfredo Lee/AP photo

Forty-eight people who were onboard the Royal Caribbean Symphony of the Seas cruise ship tested positive for COVID-19, although Royal Caribbean requires everyone aged 12 and older to show proof of vaccination in order to board their ships.

The cruise operator said Sunday, Dec. 19, that each person who tested positive for the virus immediately went into quarantine.

Another six people who had tested positive disembarked the ship when it docked in Florida and were taken home, the company said.

Passengers who tested positive

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“We were notified by the (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) that a guest on board our Dec. 4 cruise tested positive and it was identified as omicron,” Sierra-Caro added in a statement to outlets. “They asked us to notify guests on the sailing, the one that ended today, and the current one.”

It’s not clear if there were any children under the age of 12 onboard the ship. The Epoch Times has contacted Royal Caribbean for comment.

According to a statement published on Royal Caribbean’s website, guests who are aged 12 and older have to show proof they’ve been vaccinated for COVID-19 in order to embark on the cruise.

“All Royal Caribbean guests age 12 and older must present proof of COVID-19 vaccination, with the final dose of their vaccine administered at least 14 days before sailing. Children ages 5 to 11 who have been vaccinated may present proof of full vaccination and follow the protocols for vaccinated

guests,” Royal Caribbean said.

It added: “Each guest’s regimen must include at least two doses of vaccine unless the guest received the single dose Johnson & Johnson vaccine. This guidance is per the U.S. CDC, and no exceptions will be made, even if the guest’s resident country has authorized a single-shot regimen for a two dose vaccine.”

In a statement, the CDC confirmed it is aware of the Royal Caribbean outbreak and is “working with RCI to gather more information about the cases and possible exposures, and RCI will be collecting specimens from the current voyage for genetic sequencing.”

Sierra-Caro said that future cruise trips have not been impacted by the outbreak.

Earlier in December, COVID-19 cases were reported on a Norwegian Cruise Lines ship, according to the Louisiana Department of Health. The Norwegian Breakaway cruise ship had left New Orleans Nov. 28, making stops in Mexico, Honduras and Belize.

Norwegian Cruise Lines said at the time that it requires everyone on board to be fully vaccinated.

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Pushback to U.S. Health agencies grows over handling of COVID-19 vaccine boosters Zachary Stieber THE EPOCH TIMES

Pushback to two top U.S. health agencies is growing over how officials handled clearing and recommending COVID-19 vaccine boosters.

The Food and Drug Administration last month authorized boosters of all three vaccines available in the United States for all adults. Soon after, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended that any American 18 or older should get a booster, regardless of prior infection or underlying health conditions.

Then, earlier this month, regulators cleared a booster of Pfizer’s shot for 16- and 17-year-olds.

The agencies did not convene their vaccine advisory panels before making the major decisions, stoking pushback.

Philip Krause and Luciana Borio, two former top FDA officials, said in a recent op-ed the bypassing of the panels means “the costs and benefits of these policy moves, from a medical perspective, were not fully aired publicly and discussed in advance.”

“At this point in the pandemic, the world faces a host of new questions related to vaccines and boosting. The recommendations of experts on the outside advisory committees are needed more than ever, so the scientific community can understand the empirical bases for decisions, and so the public can be assured that science, not politics, is driving vaccine policy,” they added.

An FDA spokeswoman told The Epoch Times in an email: “As we said in our Nov. 19 press release, the FDA has determined that the currently available data support expanding the eligibility of a single booster dose of the Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccines to individuals 18 years of age and older. Streamlining the eligibility criteria and making booster doses available to all

In this March 26 file photo a member of the Philadelphia Fire Department prepares a dose of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine at a vaccination site setup in Philadelphia.

(AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

individuals 18 years of age and older will also help to eliminate confusion about who may receive a booster dose and ensure booster doses are available to all who may need one.”

The CDC did not respond to requests for comment.

Push for Boosters The FDA and CDC have assumed greater importance in people’s day-to-day lives during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Medicines and vaccines are only available after receiving clearance from the FDA, while the CDC makes recommendations that have been widely adopted by state and local authorities. Most vaccine mandates, for instance, cite the CDC and use its definition of fully vaccinated.

Strong political influence over key agency decisions has been recorded in internal documents later made public, including major teachers’ unions that helped craft guidance on school reopenings. Continuing a trend started during the Trump administration, the most Americans hear from top health officials is during press briefings moderated by the White House. In the case of boosters, top administration officials in August announced all adults

should get one, even though the FDA had only cleared them for the immunocompromised.

Krause and another top FDA official resigned amid the push for widespread boosters.

That push was rejected the following month by the Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee, which advises the FDA on vaccines. Members said there was little evidence backing the widespread use of boosters. The FDA adopted the recommendation from the panel, which widened authorization for boosters but fell short of clearing the additional shots for all Americans. However, after the CDC’s vaccine advisory panel recommended narrowing who could get a booster, Dr. Rochelle Walensky, the CDC’s director, overrode the recommendation.

Instead of consulting the panel anew, the FDA in November authorized boosters for all adults.

The CDC did convene its panel before saying all adults may get boosters, but did not call a meeting before later recommending all adults get an additional shot. The FDA this month cleared boosters for 16- and 17-year-olds without convening a meeting of VRBPAC, and the CDC rec-

ommended all teenagers in the population get an additional shot without consulting with its panel.

The FDA said in a release that it didn’t convene VRBPAC because no new questions arose “that would benefit from additional discussion by committee members” since an earlier meeting already went over boosting.

Krause and Borio said that was “unpersuasive, given the previously expressed views of panel members.”

The effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines against the new CCP virus variant, omicron, has waned considerably, particularly against infection. Early studies show the vaccines provide little defense against the virus but that boosters restore some of the lost protection.

The CDC cited the recent data in announcing it was recommending boosters for all adults.

But the case for boosters for teenagers is much weaker, since young, healthy adults are at little risk from COVID-19, and are at elevated risk of heart inflammation after getting vaccinated with the Moderna or Pfizer vaccines.

Surprised Some experts were caught off guard by the clearance and recommendation of boosters for the 16- and 17-year-olds, especially given the lack of data on safety and efficacy in the age group.

Some said it was clear panelists would have pushed back against the expansion proposals, and the panels may have rejected them.

“I’m surprised to see the CDC push boosters in healthy 16- and 17-year-olds just after Germany is reporting that no child 5-17 has died (most unvaccinated) of COVID in that country,” Dr. Marty Makary, chief of the Johns Hopkins Islet Transplant Center, wrote on Twitter.

The surprise deepened when the agency released a review memorandum explaining Pfizer’s application relied on a clinical trial that included just 78 indi-

viduals, some of whom received a placebo. Even more concerning, one of the 78 experienced postvaccination heart inflammation.

Dr. Paul Offit, professor of pediatrics at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, is a member of VRBPAC. He reviewed the memo and found it lacking.

“I believe that the booster dose is safe and that it increases the level of neutralizing antibodies.

But where is the evidence in the U.S. that it is necessary for prevention of serious illness in young healthy people?” Offit told The Epoch Times in an email.

Central to the FDA’s decision was a risk-benefit calculus from Pfizer that predicted boosting 1 million 16- and 17-year-olds would avert 29 to 69 hospitalizations but cause 11 to 54 heart inflammation cases. Pfizer predicted the boosters would also avert as many as 43,143 COVID-19 cases.

Pfizer assumed a higher vaccine effectiveness than seen in some studies and assumed rates of myocarditis by taking reports to two U.S. reporting systems and reducing the estimate based on data from Israeli 16- to 19-year-olds.

The figures suggest that boosting “is not associated with an unacceptable risk of myocarditis and pericarditis,” two forms of heart inflammation, the FDA said.

Dr. Paul Alexander, a former adviser to the World Health Organization/Pan-American Health Organization and to the Department of Health and Human Services during the Trump administration, disagrees.

He told The Epoch Times in an email that the FDA’s decision “is misguided and not based on any science.”

“This age group do not even need the first and second shots and a booster makes no sense and this is all risk and no benefit especially when you consider the heightened risk of myocarditis in this age group,” Alexander added.

Fentanyl-related overdoses become leading cause of death in adults aged 18 to 45 Charlotte Cuthbertson THE EPOCH TIMES

Fentanyl-related drug overdoses in 2020 became the top killer in adults aged 18 to 45, overtaking suicide, vehicle accidents and gun violence, according to an analysis of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data by the nonprofit group Families Against Fentanyl.

Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid that’s 50 to 100 times more potent than morphine, highly addictive and deadly. Buyers may be unaware that the drugs they buy contain illicit fentanyl, a 2 milligram dose of which can be fatal.

The substance is most often manufactured in Mexico using chemicals supplied from China and trafficked across the southern border by Mexican drug cartels.

Fentanyl is mixed with other narcotics to increase potency as well as pressed into counterfeit pain pills that are made to look like blue Oxycodone prescription pills and are commonly known as “Mexican oxys.”

Families Against Fentanyl is advocating for the U.S. government to designate fentanyl and its analogs as a weapon of mass destruction under federal statute.

The statute defines “weapon of mass destruction,” in part, as “any weapon that is designed or intended to cause death or serious bodily injury through the release, dissemination, or impact of toxic or poisonous chemicals, or their precursors.”

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Scottsdale Police Chief Jeff Walther said, “It’s not just a drug,” it’s an “intended destabilizing influence in our country” wrought by the cartels and their partners.

“And if those across the border can continue to push this destabilizing influence in our country, we’re going to continue to see … these record numbers of seizures, because this is just flowing like a river into Arizona and then it has tendrils that go around the country,” Walther said during the news conference.

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At the news conference, Oz announced the results of a two-month joint DEA and local Scottsdale, Arizona, drug trafficking operation run by the Sinaloa Cartel.

“In total during the two-month surge, we seized 3 million pills, 45 kilos of fentanyl powder, over 35 firearms, and arrested over 40 drug traffickers,” she said.

Oz said drug traffickers are using social media platforms, posting emojis and coded language that has specific meanings related to selling drugs more efficiently.

“Traffickers are using technology to get into your homes and sell pills to your children and loved ones,” Oz said. “Watch their social media and educate yourselves on the dangers and lingo of the online emojis being used.”

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Record Volume This year, as the southern border became more porous, record amounts of drugs have been seized by authorities.

During fiscal year 2021, which ended in September, Customs and Border Protection confiscated 11,200 pounds of fentanyl, up from 2,150 pounds the year prior.

In addition, the Drug Enforcement Administration seized a record-breaking 20 million-plus counterfeit pills containing fentanyl this year, according to Cheri Oz, DEA special agent in charge of the Phoenix field division.

Almost half of those were seized in Arizona, she said.

“The Sinaloa Cartel primarily uses the trafficking routes that run through Arizona,” Oz said during

a record amount, died of drug overdoses in the 12-month period ending in April, according to CDC data. Fentanyl was involved in almost two-thirds of those deaths.

During 2020, as lockdowns became prolonged and widespread as a response to the pandemic, overdose fatalities accelerated.

“This represents a worsening of the drug overdose epidemic in the United States,” the CDC stated in an emergency health advisory issued more than a year ago, Dec. 17, 2020.

An analysis by the Well Being Trust in May 2020 estimated a possible 75,000 additional “deaths of despair,” including suicide as well as drug and alcohol abuse over the ensuing several years, due to the shutdown measures.

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Hemet Unified’s Parent Resource Center expands community outreach Diane A. Rhodes SPECIAL TO VALLEY NEWS

Hemet Unified School District is rebranding its Parent Resource Center to be more reflective of the services it provides to families.

Emily Shaw is the new director of wellness and community outreach after serving as principal at Hemet High School for 11 years.

Officially starting in her new role July 1, she said the primary goal is to provide parents the support and information they need as they work with the school system to identify and meet their child’s unique learning needs. The center’s function is to be more inclusive of serving the whole family.

“This is a position that was created by the assistant superintendent of student support services, but the roles and responsibilities are something that I am deeply passionate about,” Shaw said. “I loved being the principal at Hemet High, and I would still be there if this position had not become available. I was not willing to promote for the sake of promotion; I really need to do something that I love.

This is a dream position for me.”

Shaw hit the ground running, surrounded by a team of likeminded individuals who embrace the center’s mission to “break barriers to learning, meeting families where they are at, providing a direct service and connecting families with needed resources within the community,” she said.

Joining Shaw are Parent Engagement Specialist Miriam Ortiz, District Parent Liaison Vicente Ramirez, Wellness Coach Connie Edwards, Student Intervention and Outreach Specialist Shavon Osborne, custodian Jack Holhauzer and Administrative Secretary Amelia Trinidad.

“We also have an army of volunteers,” Shaw said. “Without each member of our team, we would not be able to provide the services and supports that we are committed to providing. We wouldn’t be where we are without their commitment.

This staff has the heart to help others.”

Ortiz has worked at HUSD for five years and at the PRC since it was first created four years ago.

She said the restructuring and new leadership all around allows the district to offer creative solutions to help all HUSD families.

Since she began as director, Shaw has overseen the establishment of a food pantry and monthly food distribution events, monthly haircut opportunities through

local beauty/barber schools, the establishment of a shoe closet, a “Welcome Back to School” fair and a “Holiday Adopt a Family” event. The goal is to have the PRC be a one-stop shop for all families in need, she said.

“We have moved mountains,” she said. “It has definitely been a passion project.”

Shaw said the district’s partnership with Soboba to provide Thanksgiving meals and toys is a significant opportunity afforded to local families.

“Additionally, we have developed positive partnerships with the Wheelhouse and the Western Science Center (museum) to provide an array of family engagement events,” Shaw said. “We have had a laundry room built here at the PRC to support our families in need with the ability to wash clothes. We have a community partner, Eco Fresh, that donated $18,000 in laundry supplies.”

The three washers and dryers will be installed soon, she said.

The parent training room has a superhero theme to promote its goal that “every child needs a hero, be that for your kid.”

Furniture on wheels All furniture is on wheels so it can be configured for group sessions, classroom style learning or individual one-on-one lessons.

Students from the district’s LifeWorks Adult Transition Program regularly work at the center, sorting clothes and helping out in other ways. Storage is limited but shelves are filled with paper goods, diapers, backpacks filled with school supplies, shelf-stable food items and other ongoing necessities.

Edwards, who previously worked at a wellness center in Moreno Valley, said PRC staff wouldn’t be able to do anything if Hemet Unified didn’t provide the backup as needed. The center utilizes several buildings at an approximately 9,600-square-foot campus that has served HUSD in many different ways throughout the years, including as school sites.

“We’ve made the best of an old facility,” Shaw said.

Family specific needs The center works on a tier system as staff learns about specific needs for each family. The first tier offers support and opportunities to all families within the district.

The other two tiers offer assistance based on identified needs after families are registered through the PRC. Among the wide variety of services provided at the center

HUSD Parent Resource Center team members include, from left, Emily Shaw, Miriam Ortiz, Connie Edwards, Shavon Osborne and Vicente Ramirez.

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are focused attention and services provided to McKinney-Vento and foster youth students, as well as families in poverty; parent classes for self-efficacy, health, mental health, literacy, nutrition and overall wellness and basic and personal needs such as clothing, shoes, transportation, housing and food assistance. A case management component includes outreach and follow-up to provide family support and health services referrals for access to physicals, dental, vision, immunizations and health insurance. The center regularly provides family engagement activities within the community.

Partner relationships “Due to the relationships Connie Edwards has with partners throughout our area, we have been able to accelerate services to our families,” Shaw said.

Parent Resource Center staff and volunteers hosted a “Winter Wonder ‘llama’ land” party Saturday, Dec. 11, for 52 families, supporting nearly 200 children, who were “adopted” by district employees and community members for the holiday season. Families were given gifts, met with Santa, received a take home craft project, decorated a Christmas cookie, had lunch provided by an In-NOut food truck and received some canned goods and other food items to take home.

Shaw said the true challenge within her position has been navigating the complexity of CO-

More than 50 families enjoy a holiday celebration at Hemet Unified School District’s Parent Resource Center Saturday, Dec. 11.

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Santa Claus and Director of Wellness and Community Outreach Emily Shaw welcome families to the Parent Resource Center in Hemet for a holiday celebration Saturday, Dec. 11. Valley News/Anthony J. Pipkins photo

Gifts for 52 families are ready to be distributed during the Parent Valley News/Diane A. Rhodes photo Resource Center’s holiday party.

VID-19 case management from a student perspective with the continually changing guidance from public health. The center has dedicated space for this purpose and also serves as a home base for all district nurses.

The PRC works closely with families and their needs run the gamut from homelessness to language barrier issues that prevent them from utilizing services they are eligible to receive. Shaw shared the case of a father who came to the center to find out where he could safely surrender his children because he did not have a safe environment for them to live.

The PRC staff helped him secure temporary housing until they could find him an affordable place to live so the family could stay together.

Another situation concerned a family who had lost their Section 8 funding and didn’t know they could reapply, so staff helped them get it completed and referred the

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family to property owners who support Section 8 tenants.

“The PRC stands ready to assist all of our caregivers and students,” Shaw said.

She is hoping that by providing more community engagement opportunities for families, awareness will increase and more volunteers will get involved, she said.

“We are in need of financial donations to support our programs,” Shaw said. “We also can use donations of new or gently used jackets and clothing, as well as donations of new shoes, particularly in smaller sizes for children.”

Families can be referred through a school site, but parents can also self-refer. The PRC is open weekdays from 7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. and extended hours by appointment and for special events. For more information, call 951-7650004, visit https://parentcenter. hemetusd.org/, follow @husdparents or email info@hemetusd.org.

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Local nonprofits, churches and businesses invite Anza Valley residents to a free, home-cooked community Christmas dinner Saturday, Dec. 25, at the Community Hall in Anza. see page AVO-4

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How to stay safe in a power outage Diane Sieker STAFF WRITER

Any time of year presents hazards to our power grid. But winter brings with it a new series of events, such as storms, freezing temperatures and Santa Ana winds that suggest residents have a plan for unexpected power outages.

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Baskets of Love serve local residents Diane Sieker STAFF WRITER

In a festive event Friday, Dec. 17, at the Little Red Schoolhouse in Minor Park, Michelle Aarvig’s Baskets of Love were dispersed to deserving residents in the Anza Valley.

Amid holiday decorations, candy canes and laughter, basket recipients patiently waited their turn to accept loads of Christmas goodies compiled by Aarvig and several volunteers.

Since 2018 Aarvig has been crafting baskets of gifts as a community service. She called her project Baskets of Love and distributed the loads of new items to residents in need. To complete the baskets, she invested her own money and creative ideas. The baskets feature brand-new useful and decorative items. Members of the community even save large baskets for her all year to help out see BASKETS, page AVO-4

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lies at their Christmas Kids Gift program giveaway Thursday, Dec. 16, at the Shepherd of the Valley Lutheran Church in Anza.

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Illexus, Justis and Haleigh Brown are excited about the presents they receive at the From the Heart Christmas Kids Gift program giveaway Thursday, Dec. 16.

Tianti Lynn, left, and Michelle Aarvig share a tender moment at the Baskets of Love giveaway, Friday, Dec. Anza Valley Outlook/Diane Sieker photo 17, at the Little Red Schoolhouse in Anza.

Cahuilla Casino Hotel makes sanitizer donation to Hamilton High School Diane Sieker STAFF WRITER

Tim Thornsberry, Hamilton High School Principal Jeff Franks, left, Tribal Chairman Daniel Salgado, Elly Castilleja, Melissa Asmus and Shane Bishop stand by 24 pallets of hand sanitizer donated to Hamilton High School by the Cahuilla Casino Hotel Thursday, Dec. 16.

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Hamilton High School received a donation from Cahuilla Casino Hotel of 24 pallets of hand sanitizer Thursday, Dec. 16. The donation included cases of 27,648 three-ounce bottles, 18,432 eightounce bottles and 8,640 sixteenounce bottles of sanitizer valued at $250,000.

Cahuilla Casino Hotel remains committed to supporting local communities through charitable giving programs.

“Supporting our local community has been a staple for the Cahuilla tribe for years. This donation to Hamilton High School is not only an opportunity to support our community but also the children of this valley,” Tribal Chairman see CAHUILLA, page AVO-5

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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 “Hamilton-Museum-and-RanchFoundation.”

Health, exercise, resources and recovery meetings Fit after 50 – 10:30-11:30 a.m.

Tuesday and Friday mornings at Anza Community Hall. Free.

Wear comfortable clothes and supportive shoes. Call or text instructor Teresa Hoehn, at 951751-1462 for more information.

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 951-763-4226.

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 951763-4622.

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 951763-4937, 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.

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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 951-763-4439 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 has been reinstated and is open to all men and women who want to work together for the betterment of the community. The group is working on securing a new venue for meetings. Meetings and events are posted on the Anza Lions Club of Anza Valley Facebook page at https://www.facebook. com/LionsofAnzaValley. For more information, email president Greg Sandling at President.

AnzaLions@gmail.com or Chris Skinner at Secretary.AnzaLions@ gmail.com.

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.

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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.

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Mayor Max gives Christmas greetings Diane Sieker STAFF WRITER

The Mayor of Idyllwild has been busy greeting his constituents on an almost daily basis in the downtown shopping district during the Christmas holiday season. He has been listening to concerns over snowfall, accepting praise for his hard work and hearing heartfelt suggestions for the best doggie treats.

Mayor Max, an 8-year-old goodnatured Golden Retriever, has captured the hearts of people in Idyllwild and beyond.

“He sure had a lot of fun with the visitors downtown today during this beautiful sunset,” his Chief of Staff Phyllis Mueller said. Max and his entourage make frequent forays into the public to spread his message of love and peace.

Holiday shoppers stopped to greet

the friendly canine and give pets and cuddles.

Mayor Max’s mission is to help make the world a better place by conveying unconditional love and doing as many good deeds for others as possible. He and his deputies are advocates for animal adoption and well-being, and they foster goodwill among everyone, no matter the time of year.

Max, or Maximus Mighty-Dog Mueller, was voted into office during an election hosted by ARF, Animal Rescue Friends of Idyllwild, in 2012. He was inaugurated to a one-year term.

Idyllwild is an unincorporated town in Riverside County and has no official mayor or city government. All business is handled at the county level.

On April 2, 2013, Mayor Max I died, and the successor for the remainder of Max’s term, Maximus

Mighty-Dog Mueller II, arrived in Idyllwild to finish the term.

Max is accompanied by two deputy mayors: Mikey and Mitzi, often referred to as “the Mayor and the spares” or simply “the Mayors of Idyllwild.”

Contact Mayor Max at the Office of the Mayor of Idyllwild, P.O. Box 1848, Idyllwild, CA 92549.

Call the mayor’s headquarters office at 951-659-0283 or Phyllis Mueller at 949-525-0100 or max@ mayormax.com.

For more information, visit http://www.mayormax.com or find Mayor Max on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/mayor. max.3 or on Instagram at http:// www.instagram.com/mayormax1.

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Mayor Max greets passersby in Idyllwild like he does on a daily basis.

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GIFTS from page AVO-1 “Every year we get a few more kids than the year before,” organizer Christina James said. “And every year the community jumps in and helps even more. This year we had over 550 children and over 200 families. Each family was asked what they wanted, and what they needed for each child. Things that topped the requests this year were warm coats and clothing, blankets, art supplies, Legos and dolls! We had very few requests for electronics or gift cards this year in comparison to years past.

What was so amazing about it was that again, the community worked together.”

Families lined up, eager to have their children enjoy a happy, funfilled holiday. Parents said they were thrilled with the outpouring of generosity toward their children.

“Look what happens when we all work together,” James said.

“How many children were covered because of it. How many parents’ burdens were lifted even just a little. My dad always told me that we are supposed to take

care of each other. Let’s continue.

Thank you to all who donated, who shopped, who wrapped, who spent hours getting everything ready for the event. Thank you to all of the rest of the From the Heart ladies.

Thank you to all of the families who received gifts; we are grateful to have had the opportunity to give them!”

The From The Heart Christian Women’s Ministries serves and focuses on families and children in need in the mountain communities of Anza, Aguanga, Mountain Center and Idyllwild.

Fundraising events are held throughout the year to help collect money to aid the worthy cause.

Rummage sales, luncheons and raffles all help to present activities such as the gift giveaway.

To learn more about From The Heart Christian Women’s Ministries, please visit their Facebook page at www.facebook.com/ groups/115200731856938/about or write to: From The Heart Christian Women’s Ministries, P.O. Box 391224, Anza, CA 92539.

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Local organizations present Christmas dinner at the Anza Community Hall guidance from volunteers to get in line for their to-go meals.

All are welcome to these free events hosted at the Community Hall at 56630 Hwy. 371 in Anza.

While offered at no cost, the community meal organizers will accept donations of food or funds.

For more information about Anza Community Hall events, please call 951-282-4267 or visit the Anza Community Hall Facebook page online at www. facebook.com/AnzaCommunityBuildingInc/.

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Local nonprofits, churches and businesses invite Anza Valley residents to a free, home-cooked community Christmas dinner Saturday, Dec. 25, at the Community Hall in Anza. The meals will be offered to-go, and available in a drive-thru.

Turkey, ham, dressing, potatoes, salads, stuffing, cranberry sauce and all the extras will make for a fine traditional Christmas meal to help celebrate the holiday.

The dinners will be served in the drive-up from 1 to 3 p. m. Guests should follow instructions and

Ham, turkey and all the fixins’ will be served at the free Christmas dinner at the Anza Community Hall Christmas Day, Saturday, Dec. 25.

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How to stay safe in a power outage Diane Sieker STAFF WRITER

Any time of year presents hazards to our power grid. But winter brings with it a new series of events, such as storms, freezing temperatures and Santa Ana winds that suggest residents have a plan for unexpected power outages.

The key is to have a strategy and prepare before something happens.

Utility providers suggest making a list of the items you need that rely on electricity. Talk to your medical provider and utility company regarding an outage plan for medical devices that rely on electricity and even refrigerated medicines.

Plan for batteries and other alternatives, even solar lights, to meet your needs when the power goes out. Sign up for local alerts and warning systems from your utility provider and county resource center. Have flashlights with extra batteries and enough nonperishable food and water for your family for several days. Keep devices

such as mobile phones charged and automobile gas tanks full.

After you’re prepared and a power outage occurs, be sure to keep freezers and refrigerators closed. The fridge should keep food cold for approximately four hours. A full freezer should keep food frozen for about two days.

Use coolers with ice if needed to keep perishable foods cold and safe. During the outage, eat food that does not require refrigeration.

Use a thermometer in the refrigerator and freezer so that you can see the temperature when the power is restored and determine the safety of the food.

Generators, charcoal or propane grills and camp stoves should always be used outdoors, never in the home, the providers warn.

By the same token, never use a gas stovetop or oven to heat your home. Carbon monoxide poisoning may result if these appliances are used incorrectly. To be on the safe side, install carbon monoxide detectors with battery backup on every level of your house.

Check on your friends and neighbors. Seniors and young children are especially vulnerable to extreme temperatures of heat or cold. If possible, go to a community location with power if heat or cold is extreme and dangerous.

Turn off or unplug appliances or electronics, as power may be restored with momentary surges that may cause damage to these items.

After the power has been restored, there are still things to do.

Discard any food that has been exposed to temperatures of 40 degrees or higher for two hours or more, or that have an unusual odor, color or texture. Spoiled food can cause illness.

Again, check on your friends and neighbors and make sure that they have weathered the outage in a safe manner. Power outages are inevitable due to unforeseen conditions. Be assured that crews are working hard to restore electricity as soon as they can.

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“These Baskets of Love I received helped to bring three female youth aged 12-17 years old the joy of Christmas this year,” Tianti Lynn said. “I asked for the gifts to give to the kids at the nonprofit organization I’ve worked at for almost a year. I reached out to Michelle for donations for our girls and she went above and beyond with her thoughtfulness. Baskets of Love truly is filled with Mi-

chelle’s love toward others. Thank you to Michelle and her donors.”

This year, Aarvig joined forces with Christi James and From the Heart Christian Women’s Ministries to receive the names of needy families.

The Baskets of Love send the message that people are never alone and that others in the community care greatly about them, Aarvig said.

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Baskets, bags and gifts overflow the shelves and tables at the Baskets of Love giveaway, Friday, Dec. 17, at the Little Red Schoolhouse in Anza.

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Man indicted for allegedly supplying student with fatal dose of Fentanyl City News Service SPECIAL TO VALLEY NEWS

A 22-year-old Riverside man accused of supplying a lethal dose of fentanyl to a young Temecula woman was arrested Dec. 17 by federal agents, following his indictment in connection with the fatality.

Brandon Michael McDowell was taken into custody without incident following a two-year investigation into the death of 20-year-old Alexandra Capelouto.

A federal grand jury returned an indictment Wednesday charging McDowell with one count of distributing fentanyl resulting in death, which carries a minimum 20-year sentence, up to life in prison without the possibility of parole, if convicted, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.

McDowell is being held without

bail and was slated to make his initial appearance in U.S. District Court in Riverside Dec. 17.

According to prosecutors, Dec. 22, 2019, Capelouto, a student at Arizona State University, was home for the holidays and contacted the defendant via Snapchat to order Oxycodone, a prescription medication generally provided for relief of chronic pain.

McDowell allegedly sold the victim an undisclosed quantity of “counterfeit Oxycodone M30 pills,” according to a U.S. Attorney’s Office statement.

C a p e l o u t o ’s f a t h e r, M a t t Capelouto, has publicly stated his daughter did not realize she was ingesting fentanyl-laced pills.

“This is another incredibly sad case that demonstrates the deadly threat of fentanyl that is now seen in a wide array of drugs sold on the street,” U.S. Attorney for the Cen-

tral District of California Tracy Wilkison said. “We investigate fatal overdose cases to identify and bring to justice every individual involved in the trafficking of fentanyl.”

The Capelouto case has generated wide publicity and prompted Sen. Melissa Melendez, R-Lake Elsinore, earlier this year to introduce Senate Bill 350. The bill, which failed in committee, would have mandated that under state law, anyone convicted of dealing fentanyl or other potentially deadly drugs be issued a written warning that an overdose death resulting from providing such drugs in the future could result in the party being prosecuted for murder.

The intention was to facilitate prosecutors’ efforts to file murder charges against dealers.

However, some county prosecu-

tors, including Riverside County District Attorney Mike Hestrin, are now pursuing second-degree murder charges against dealers who allegedly sell lethal doses of fentanyl. Nearly a dozen individuals countywide have been charged with murder in connection with fentanyl-traced fatalities.

The McDowell case was investigated by U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agents, along with Riverside County sheriff’s detectives and personnel from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Investigations.

Fentanyl is manufactured in China and smuggled across the Mexican border, according to Sheriff Chad Bianco.

It is known to be 80-100 times more potent than morphine and is a popular additive, seamlessly mixed into any number of narcotics and pharmaceuticals.

Bianco and Hestrin announced earlier this year that they would be taking a hard line on fentanyl deaths, charging murder whenever circumstances warrant and the evidence is unmistakable.

Hestrin told the Board of Supervisors over the summer that the county was on pace to document 500 fentanyl deaths this year. The number of fatalities has doubled every year since 2015, and in that time, there has been an overall 800% rise in fentanyl-related overdose deaths, according to public safety officials.

The prosecutor handling the McDowell matter is a deputy district attorney for Riverside County, given a special assignment as an assistant U.S. attorney.

Background information on the defendant was not available.

Felon who shot, killed Hemet senior while Man accused of killing gun sentenced to 6 years Anza resident, fleeing to cleaning “Mr. Jowkar is extremely remorse- panicked,” Greenberg said. “Instead City News Service ful about the victim’s death. He is still of going to the victim and trying to SPECIAL TO VALLEY NEWS NorCal, arraigned very upset about the situation and administer first aid or calling 911, City News Service SPECIAL TO VALLEY NEWS

A 36-year-old felon accused of killing an Anza resident during a dispute, then fleeing to Northern California, where he was apprehended, pleaded not guilty Wednesday, Dec. 15, to murder and other charges. Benjamin Franklin Winkle was arrested in November by Placer County Sheriff’s Department personnel after he allegedly committed unspecified offenses in that area.

Winkle was returned to Riverside County less than a week later. Along with murder, he is charged with witness intimidation, being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm and sentence-enhancing gun and great bodily injury allegations.

Winkle was arraigned before Superior Court Judge Judith Clark, who scheduled a felony settlement conference for Friday, Jan. 21, at the Southwest Justice Center in Murrieta and left his bail set at $1 million. The defendant is being held at CAHUILLA from page AVO-1 Daniel Salgado, said. “Cahuilla Casino Hotel stands by our commitment of protecting the health and safety of the community and have donated a truckload of hand sanitizer for the school and students to help stay protected against the spread of germs and viruses.”

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Riverside County sheriff’s Sgt. Richard Carroll alleged that in the afternoon, Wednesday, Oct. 6, Winkle and 37-year-old Michael Mendoza were involved in a confrontation in the 61200 block of Indian Paint Brush Road in Anza regarding prior conflicts.

During the dispute, the defendant allegedly pulled a handgun and shot the victim multiple times, according to the sergeant. Winkle allegedly fled before deputies arrived, but investigators soon confirmed his identity, culminating in a warrant being issued for his arrest, Carroll said.

He said Placer County officials notified homicide detectives in Perris during the last week in November that the defendant was behind bars. Intrastate extradition proceedings began immediately.

According to court records, Winkle has a previous felony conviction in another jurisdiction, but details were unavailable.

A felon whose mishandling of a firearm while under the influence of drugs led to it discharging and fatally wounding a 75-year-old Hemet woman remains “extremely remorseful”’ over what happened and is prepared to do his time for the crime, his attorney said Wednesday, Dec. 15.

“This was the most unique case I’ve ever seen,” defense attorney Phillip Greenberg told City News Service. “It was the perfect storm of circumstances that caused a really bad situation.”

On Tuesday, Greenberg’s client, 38-year-old John Reza Jowkar of Hemet, pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter and possession of controlled substances while armed, with a sentence-enhancing gun use allegation, for the October 2020 death of Janice L. Graves.

Under the plea agreement with the Riverside County District Attorney’s Office, two felony charges were dismissed. Superior Court Judge Timothy Hollenhorst sentenced Jowkar to six years in state prison, per the plea agreement.

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how it all went down,” Greenberg told CNS. According to court documents, Jowkar was a caregiver for Graves’ son, identified only as a man in his 50s, who suffered from Lou Gehrig’s disease.

Hemet police Lt. Michael Arellano said that about 1:30 p.m. Oct. 9, 2020, the defendant was cleaning a 9 mm semi-automatic handgun in Graves’ garage in the 700 block of Via Linda Drive, and in the process, “the firearm inadvertently discharged.”

“The bullet went through the wall separating the garage from the bedroom of the patient,” Greenberg said. “The victim was in a chair next to her son, and the bullet struck her in her hip. What are the chances? If the trajectory had just been 2 inches one way or the other, she wouldn’t have been hit.”

According to the attorney, his client’s actions immediately afterward were what made the accidental shooting worse.

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Greenberg said every second counted for Graves, and the time wasted by Jowkar meant paramedics were delayed in reaching the residence.

“They might have helped her, saved her life,” the attorney said.

“That’s why he’s got to do the time (in prison).”

Graves died at Hemet Valley Hospital within an hour of being shot. Greenberg said a “combination of drugs and not being skilled with firearms” because he’d never used one significantly contributed to the accidental shooting. It was unclear how long the defendant had worked for the victim and her son.

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Christmas dinner; Avoiding religion, politics and now ‘science’ Julie Reeder PUBLISHER

Christmas is a special time in our culture when we connect as a family and friends. We spread love and good cheer and catch up on each others lives. We give gifts to each other after the model of Christ’s birth and the gift of salvation to everyone.

But family has always been complicated. Everyone has their own individual beliefs. Last year Christmas was pretty much canceled due to COVID-19 and this year, with the emergence of the omicron variant, we are being urged to be very careful.

If we were in Florida, we

wouldn’t have any restrictions and we would probably be fine.

So this year, if your family is like ours, a mix of pro-vaccine, pro-mask, anti-mask, pro-choicevaccine and anti-mandate, you have to find a way to have honest discussions about those things that are important, without pushing anyone’s buttons. If you can’t do that it might be better to not discuss these things at the dinner table at all.

We joke about people coming to dinner with political shirts saying things like “Unvaccinated and ready to talk politics” or “You can’t comply your way out of tyranny!”

But honestly, we just have to love each other and continue to

respect each others opinions just like we have to do with two other very important topics: religion and politics. The challenge with this vaccine mandate topic is that it is politics, health and religion combined. It’s like the perfect storm.

This year “trust the science” seems like it’s more of a religion or a cult, but definitely political.

We have been asked to trust something that affects our personal health, our family, our children’s health and our civil liberties. Pfizer doesn’t want to tell us what the ingredients of the jab are for 75 years. If we research online about Covid vaccines, it’s censored. Doctors and scientists are censored.

It’s crucial to think critically and

be skeptical. It is the right thing for an intelligent responsible person to do. It is the burden of a free person. Citizens of authoritarian led countries don’t have the right or the opportunity.

But we don’t need to discuss it at Christmas dinner.

If people want to share or are interested in what we’ve learned or found, we can talk at a different time than the holiday.

That’s been our solution, and it works so if your family is struggling too, consider not talking about it at the dinner table. Save the discussions on hot button issues for a more opportune time.

Merry Christmas!

if trafficking resulted in death.

One of my bills, Assembly Bill 3105, made trafficking a detectable amount of fentanyl subject to life imprisonment without possibility of parole, depending on circumstances, if a death or great bodily injury resulted from use of the drug.

But AB 3105, like most recent legislation to increase penalties for drug trafficking, failed in the Public Safety Committee.

While Sacramento legislators seem to agree that those addicted to fentanyl and other substances should receive treatment, the majority can’t bring themselves to increase penalties for the drug

dealers responsible for so much death and devastation.

That must change.

For more information and resources on the fentanyl crisis, visit https://www.dea.gov/ resources/facts-about-fentanyl.

Assembly Republican Leader Marie Waldron, R-Escondido, represents the 75th Assembly District in the California Legislature, which includes the communities of Bonsall, Escondido, Fallbrook, Hidden Meadows, Pala, Palomar Mountain, Pauma Valley, Rainbow, San Marcos, Temecula, Valley Center and Vista.

no pairs of nesting bald eagles, long horn sheep or California oak trees – all federally protected species – within this 14-mile median.

The governor could, with just one executive order, release us from this wasteful obligation and allow the pavement to begin to be laid immediately for half the price.

Three years ago, the people of California were promised road improvements in exchange for their vote for Senate Bill 1 – a 10-year $50 billion gas tax. We have all seen gas prices skyrocket, premium gas for my wife’s Mini is at $5.16/gallon. But where are all the new lanes?

While I applaud the governor’s outside the box thinking in quickly adding lanes near the Nevada border for weekend travelers, our working families need relief during the week as well to get them safely and quickly back and forth to their jobs so that they can spend more time with their families and less time stuck in traffic.

If you agree, go to http://www. rctc.org/support and let the governor know that we deserve help too.

Fentanyl trafficking is out of control

Assemblymember Marie Waldron SPECIAL TO VALLEY NEWS

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,

over 100,000 people died from drug overdoses in the United States in the 12 months ending in April 2021. That’s a new record, exceeding the previous record of 93,331 in 2020. That record is not acceptable. Much of this increase is driven by fentanyl, a drug similar to morphine, but 50 to 100 times more potent.

Treating drug-addicted persons can break the cycle of dependency for many and can significantly reduce overall crime rates and recidivism. That’s why I introduced Assembly Bill 653, which recently became law, to support medication assisted treatment programs for persons

incarcerated in county jails and under community supervision.

While effective, treatment is just one tool. Those trafficking in poisons like fentanyl need to face severe legal consequences. Over the past several years, legislation has been repeatedly introduced in both the Assembly and Senate to crack down on drug trafficking. The bills would have substantially increased penalties, including imprisonment in county jails for up to 13 years. Other legislation would have allowed a manufacturer or distributor of controlled substances, including fentanyl, to be charged with voluntary manslaughter or murder,

California governor steps up to help Nevada – What about us?

Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Sunday, Dec. 5, that he was committing $12 million to the temporary expansion of a 5-mile stretch of Interstate 15 – near our California border with Nevada – allowing Caltrans to utilize the shoulder of the roadway during periods of peak congestion on the weekends.

This work, he promised, will be completed next spring.

Hooray for our governor! He has found a fast and inexpensive way to increase freeway capacity and enable his residents to spend their money in Las Vegas – read Lost Wages – and return in time for the regular work week. But it’s

the regular work week traffic that needs relief, not a tourism mecca that is dripping with cash from hard-working Californians.

Our section of the I-15 needs relief, and we’ve needed it for some time now. When the freeway first opened more than 35 years ago, my 40-mile commute to Riverside was 35 minutes. Today, that same drive averages more than 70 minutes, most of which is spent in stop and go traffic.

The Riverside County Transportation Commission has made congestion relief a priority – it’s what the voters wanted – and billions of dollars have been spent

toward improving the quality of life for hard working taxpayers.

But those efforts are slowed by needless reams of bureaucratic red tape.

Right now, $29 million has been committed to analyzing the environmental impacts of adding lanes within the median along the I-15 between Cajalco Road in Corona and state Route 74 in Lake Elsinore to relieve the choke point through Temescal Valley. This study will take four years to complete. While I’m no expert, I can say with reasonable certainty that based on my own personal observations there are

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Deal with your family God’s way

Zachary Elliot SPECIAL TO VALLEY NEWS

Besides the Christmas traffic, crowded stores and last-minute shopping, there’s one common denominator we will all have to deal with this Christmas: it’s family.

Family is the one central theme to every Christmas. But let’s be honest, it’s not always a jolly occasion. Sometimes it can be downright awkward, painful, and full of stress.

The question is, how do you deal with your family during the holidays?

Here are four steps to dealing with your family God’s way this Christmas. And just remember, the choice is yours.

Choose not to be offended.

Why can we have such thick skin from everyone but our family?

For some people, just the mere presence of their family makes them offended. They’re even annoyed at the thought of being in the same room with them.

If you’re going to have a great Christmas, you have to choose not to be offended.

Proverbs 12:16 said that “Fools show their annoyance at

once, but the prudent overlook an insult.”

This Christmas, don’t be too quick to fly off the handle. Take a deep breath and overlook the insult, whatever it might be. And remember, “Good sense makes one slow to anger, and it is his glory to overlook an offense,” in Proverbs 19:11.

Choose to be patient.

The older I get, the more I realize being in a hurry doesn’t get me there faster. Sometimes it gets me into trouble. It gets me into trouble because I get angry when things don’t happen in my time frame.

Sound familiar?

Do you know what’s never gotten me into trouble? Being patient.

Proverbs 15:18 said, “A hottempered person stirs up conflict, but the one who is patient calms a quarrel.”

If you want to have a calm Christmas with your family, you need to be patient. Take a deep breath and enjoy the moment and the people you’re with.

Remember, “Better is the end of a thing than its beginning, and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit. Be not quick in your spirit to become angry, for anger lodges in the heart of fools,” in Ecclesiastes 7:8-9.

Choose to say kind things.

There’s a disease that’s been going around since the beginning of time, and it’s ruined hundreds of millions of relationships. It’s called “Run of the Mouth” disease.

Maybe you’ve heard of it?

What you need to remember is that your words matter for eternity.

Jesus said, “A good person produces good things from the treasury of a good heart, and an evil person produces evil things from the treasury of an evil heart. And

Robert “Bob” Magee Lake Elsinore City Councilmember

I tell you this, you must give an account on judgment day for every idle word you speak. The words you say will either acquit you or condemn you,” in Matthew 12:35-37.

If that doesn’t make you think before you speak, nothing will.

This Christmas, you should “let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear,” in Ephesians 4:29.

Choose to love them anyway.

Love is not an option in God’s family, and it’s not a suggestion.

It’s a command. Love for Jesus and hate for people cannot come out of the same person. Love and hate don’t go together.

That’s why Jesus took love to the next level when he said, “But to you who are willing to listen, I say, love your enemies. Do good to those who hate you. Bless those who curse you. Pray for those who hurt you,” in Luke 6:27-36.

If you are willing to listen, this Christmas, Jesus said to love your family. With all their quirks, differences and failures. Love them as Jesus has loved you, unconditionally.

If you do, “Your reward from heaven will be very great, and you will truly be acting as children of the Most High, for he is kind to those who are unthankful and wicked. You must be compassionate, just as your Father is compassionate,” in Luke 6:35-36.

Zachary Elliott is the lead pastor of Fusion Christian Church in Temecula. For more information, visit https://www.fusionchristianchurch.com, http://www.encouragementtoday.tv or find them on Instagram.

SUMMONS SUMMONS STATE OF INDIANA, MARION COUNTY IN THE MARION CIRCUIT COURT PATERNITY DIVISION CAUSE NO: 49CO1-0601-JP-002059 IN RE: THE MATTER OF Kamya Phillips b/n/f Shaquita Tunstill, Petitioner Mother; Brent Phillips, Respondent Father TO RESPONDENT FATHER: Brent Phillips, Whereabouts unknown You are hereby notified that you have been ordered to appear virtually via Webex for a final hearing set in response to Petitioner Mother’s Verified Petition to Modify Custody on March 8, 2022 at 4PM in the cause number and court indicated above and that Petitioner Mother has filed a Verified Petition to Modify Custody.

Logon information is as follows: https://mscourts.webex.com/mscourts/j.php?MTID=m05b4231c1ba181ce95344867699747c9 Meeting number (access code): 179 344 6270 Meeting password: sWVyvbf4452 (99898234 from phones) Join by phone 1-844-992-4726-toll free If you do not appear, evidence may be heard in your absence and a determination made by the court of all issues raised by the Petition. If you wish to retain an attorney to represent you in this matter, it is advisable to do so before the date stated in the order to appear.

If you take no action in this case after receipt of this Summons, the Court can grant Petitioner Mother’s petition and make a determination regarding any of the following: child custody, child support, parenting time, payment of medical expenses, or any other matters related to the minor child.

Dated: 12/3/2021 BY: Myla A. Eldridge, Clerk, Marion County Indiana The following manner of service is hereby designated: Service on individual by publication Merryn Gluys, Counsel for Petitioner Mother/Gluys and Miller, An Association of Attorneys/Broad Ripple Office/1915 Broad Ripple Avenue/Indianapolis, Indiana 46220/Office 317-503-5932/merryngluys@ sbcglobal.net/www.indyfamilyatty.com ORDER ON PRETRIAL CONFERENCE And ORDER TO APPEAR FOR FINAL CUSTODY HEARING Pending before this court is Mother’s Verified Petition for Termination of Third – Party Custody and related relief. This court conducted a pretrial conference on Thursday, December 3, 2021. Mother appeared in person and by counsel. Pro se Father failed to appear. Intervenor did not appear; the Court observes that Intervenor’s consent to the granting of Mother’s Verified Petition has been efiled previous to today’s hearing.

The Court now sets a final hearing in this cause for March 8, 2022 at 4PM, thirty minutes. All parties are ordered to appear before the Court at this time. This hearing will be conducted remotely via Webex. Parties are to check in with Court staff remotely prior to the start of the hearing. Any exhibits to be offered at the hearing shall be each be e-filed separately 48 hours prior to hearing. E-noticed exhibits should be premarked as Pet. or Resp. and comply with the Indiana Rules on Access to Court Records or be subject to being stricken from the record.

Meeting link: https://mscourts.webex.com/mscourts/j.php?MTID=m05b4231c1ba181ce9534486769974 7c9 Meeting number (access code): 179 344 6270 Meeting password: wWVyvbf4452 (99898234 from phones) Join by phone 1-844-992-4726-toll free SO ORDERED ON 12/6/2021 Laura Gaskill JUDGE, MARION COUNTY INDIANA CIRCUIT COURT PATERNITY DIVISION LEGAL #: 3486 PUBLISHED: December 17, 24, 31, 2021, January 7, 2022

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File Number: R-202115822 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: 1. ROBINSON’S REAL ESTATE INVESTMENTS 2. LILIKOI PROPERTIES 3. NEW CENTURY INVESTMENTS 4. NEW CENTURY REAL ESTATE 5. ROBINSON’S MEDICAL BILLING 6. HAMILTON BILLING SERVICES 9041 Magnolia Avenue, Suite #006, Riverside, CA 92503 County: Riverside Eric Bernard Robinson, 2428 Saltbrush Circle, Corona, CA 92882 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: Eric Bernard Robinson Statement was filed with the County Clerk of Riverside County on 11/16/2021 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: 3481 PUBLISHED: December 3, 10, 17, 24, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File Number: R-202116146 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: INLAND RETRO 11637 Hubbard St, Moreno Valley, CA 92557 County: Riverside Eduardo -- Rodriguez, 11637 Hubbard St, Moreno Valley, CA 92557 This business is conducted by an Individual Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious name listed above on 6/27/2016 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: Eduardo -- Rodriguez Statement was filed with the County Clerk of Riverside County on 11/29/2021 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: 3482 PUBLISHED: December 3, 10, 17, 24, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File Number: R-202115930 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: DEA TRANSLATION SERVICES 3390 Country Village Rd, Riverside, CA 92509 Mailing address: P.O. Box 310927, Fontana, CA 92331 County: Riverside Dea Elena Abraham, 3390 Country Village Rd, 1106, Riverside, CA 92509 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: Dea Elena Abraham Statement was filed with the County Clerk of Riverside County on 11/19/2021 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: 3483 PUBLISHED: December 3, 10, 17, 24, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File Number: R-202112982 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: EZIONY CONSTRUCTION 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 Republished: December 3, 10, 17, 24, 2021 Business name was incomplete in original publication.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File Number: R-202115991 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: ALL TECH TUNE UP 8651 Indiana Ave O., Riverside, CA 92504 County: Riverside a. Ruben Ortega Estrada, 11002 Nebraska Ave, Riverside, CA 92505 b. Elizabeth Lynell Ortega, 11002 Nebraska Ave, Riverside, CA 92505 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: Elizabeth Lynell Ortega Statement was filed with the County Clerk of Riverside County on 11/22/2021 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: 3484 PUBLISHED: December 10, 17, 24, 31, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File Number: R-202116118 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: 818 CONSTRUCTION INC. 3877 Malaga St, Corona, CA 92882 County: Riverside 818 Construction Inc., 3877 Malaga St, Corona, CA 92882 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: Marko David Birlea Statement was filed with the County Clerk of Riverside County on 11/24/2021 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: 3485 PUBLISHED: December 10, 17, 24, 31, 2021 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File Number: R-202116174 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: KK CASTRO RENTALS 4154 46th Street, San Diego, CA 92105 Mailing address: PO Box 890868, Temecula, CA 92589 County: Riverside Karen Kay Rogers, 31908 Leigh Lane, Temecula, CA 92591 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: Karen Kay Rogers Statement was filed with the County Clerk of Riverside County on 11/29/2021 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: 3491 PUBLISHED: December 24, 31, 2021, January 7, 14, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File Number: R-202116771 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: ROMO CONSTRUCTION 31560 Via Del Paso, Winchester, CA 92596 County: Riverside Osvaldo -- Romo, 31560 Via Del Paso, Winchester, CA 92596 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: Osvaldo -- Romo Statement was filed with the County Clerk of Riverside County on 12/10/2021 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: 3495 PUBLISHED: December 24, 31, 2021, January 7, 14, 2022

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File Number: R-202116383 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: BIG FLUFF 8401 Rocky Rd, Anza, CA 92539 Mailing address: PO Box 390736, Anza CA 92539 County: Riverside Victoria Jewell Jackson, 8401 Rocky Rd, Anza, CA 92539 This business is conducted by an Individual Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious name listed above on 9/01/2021 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: Victoria Jewell Jackson Statement was filed with the County Clerk of Riverside County on 12/03/2021 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: 3487 PUBLISHED: December 17, 24, 31, 2021, January 7, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File Number: R-202116887 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: 4TH DIMENSION DIGITAL ARTS 31940 Via Cordoba, Temecula, CA 92592 County: Riverside Joseph Steven Figueroa, 31940 Via Cordoba, 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: Joseph Steven Figueroa Statement was filed with the County Clerk of Riverside County on 12/13/2021 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: 3492 PUBLISHED: December 24, 31, 2021, January 7, 14, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File Number: R-202113530 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: KAYLEE NAILS & SPA 1820 Hamner Ave Ste B, Norco, CA 92860 Mailing address: 1509 S Old Fashion Way, Anaheim, CA 92804 County: Riverside KT Beauty Services, LLC, 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 Republished: December 24, 31, 2021, January 7, 14, 2022 Registrant and business information was missing in original publication

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File Number: R-202116328 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: RIDE ON MOBILE DETAILING 8301 Rocky Rd, Anza, CA 92539 Mailing address: PO Box 390736, Anza CA 92539 County: Riverside Jeffery Allen Kessman, 8301 Rocky Rd, Anza, CA 92539 This business is conducted by an Individual Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious name listed above on NOVEMBER 8, 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: Jeffery Allen Kessman Statement was filed with the County Clerk of Riverside County on 12/02/2021 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: 3488 PUBLISHED: December 17, 24, 31, 2021, January 7, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File Number: R-202116608 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: BEAUTIFUL MEMORIES PHOTO BOOTH 24443 Leafwood Drive, Murrieta, CA 92562 County: Riverside Schneidig Albert Aroche, 24443 Leafwood Drive, Murrieta, CA 92562 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: Schneidig Albert Aroche Statement was filed with the County Clerk of Riverside County on 12/07/2021 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: 3493 PUBLISHED: December 24, 31, 2021, January 7, 14, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File Number: R-202116943 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: CURIOS TONILA 33280 Winchester Rd, Winchester, CA 92596 County: Riverside a. Alma -- Munguia De Cisneros, 30790 Paradise Palm Ave, Homeland, CA 92548 b. Eduardo Rocha Cisneros, 30790 Paradise Palm Ave, Homeland, Ca 92548 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: Alma Munguia De Cisneros Statement was filed with the County Clerk of Riverside County on 12/14/2021 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: 3494 PUBLISHED: December 24, 31, 2021, January 7, 14, 2022

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File Number: R-202116207 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: 1. THE FLANNEL STORE 2. MALLORY BLOOM 3. ADDISON FROST 33034 Vendange Drive, Winchester, CA 92596 County: Riverside Myrtle Tree Holdings, 33034 Vendange Drive, Winchester, CA 92596 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 10/17/2021 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: Jelena Allen, President Statement was filed with the County Clerk of Riverside County on 11/30/2021 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: 3489 PUBLISHED: December 17, 24, 31, 2021, January 7, 2022

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File Number: R-202116310 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: RAM TEAM CONTRACTOR 39884 La Moria Ct, Murrieta, CA 92562 County: Riverside Ram Team Contractor, 39884 La Moria Ct, Murrieta, CA 92562 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 11/2016 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: Victor Ramirez Neri, President Statement was filed with the County Clerk of Riverside County on 12/01/2021 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: 3490 PUBLISHED: December 17, 24, 31, 2021, January 7, 2022

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File Number: R-202114547 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: SANRIO SURPRISES 1212 Galleria At Tyler, Riverside, CA 92503 County: Riverside Doris Eunhee Cho, 1212 Galleria At Tyler, Riverside, CA 92503 This business is conducted by an Individual Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious name listed above on 9/29/2010 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: Doris Eunhee Cho Statement was filed with the County Clerk of Riverside County on 10/20/2021 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: 3457 PUBLISHED: October 29, November 5, 12, 19, 2021 Republished: December 24, 31, 2021, January 7, 14, 2022 Registrant’s name was spelled wrong in original publication.

TRUSTEE’S SALE NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TS No. CA-19-876184-CL Order No.: DS7300-19007639 YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DEED OF TRUST DATED 7/19/2000. UNLESS YOU TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY, IT MAY BE SOLD AT A PUBLIC SALE. IF YOU NEED AN EXPLANATION OF THE NATURE OF THE PROCEEDING AGAINST YOU, YOU SHOULD CONTACT A LAWYER. A public auction sale to the highest bidder for cash, cashier’s check drawn on a state or national bank, check drawn by state or federal credit union, or a check drawn by a state or federal savings and loan association, or savings association, or savings bank specified in Section 5102 to the Financial Code and authorized to do business in this state, will be held by duly appointed trustee. The sale will be made, but without covenant or warranty, expressed or implied, regarding title, possession, or encumbrances, to pay the remaining principal sum of the note(s) secured by the Deed of Trust, with interest and late charges thereon, as provided in the note(s), advances, under the terms of the Deed of Trust, interest thereon, fees, charges and expenses of the Trustee for the total amount (at the time of the initial publication of the Notice of Sale) reasonably estimated to be set forth below. The amount may be greater on the day of sale. BENEFICIARY MAY ELECT TO BID LESS THAN THE TOTAL AMOUNT DUE. Trustor(s): Robert F. Szymanski and Kimberly Anne Szymanski, husband and wife as joint tenants Recorded: 8/3/2000 as Instrument No. 2000-301564 of Official Records in the office of the Recorder of RIVERSIDE County, California; Date of Sale: 1/26/2022 at 9:00 AM Place of Sale: 2410 Wardlow Road #111, Corona, CA 92880, in the Auction.com Room Amount of unpaid balance and other charges: $74,958.41 The purported property address is: 51590 OLD MINE TRL, ANZA, CA 92539 Assessor’s Parcel No.: 572-090-026-3 572-090-027-4 NOTICE TO POTENTIAL BIDDERS: If you are considering bidding on this property lien, you should understand that there are risks involved in bidding at a trustee auction. You will be bidding on a lien, not on the property itself. Placing the highest bid at a trustee auction does not automatically entitle you to free and clear ownership of the property. You should also be aware that the lien being auctioned off may be a junior lien. If you are the highest bidder at the auction, you are or may be responsible for paying off all liens senior to the lien being auctioned off, before you can receive clear title to the property. You are encouraged to investigate the existence, priority, and size of outstanding liens that may exist on this property by contacting the county recorder’s office or a title insurance company, either of which may charge you a fee for this information. If you consult either of these resources, you should be aware that the same lender may hold more than one mortgage or deed of trust on the property. NOTICE TO PROPERTY OWNER: The sale date shown on this notice of sale may be postponed one or more times by the mortgagee, beneficiary, trustee, or a court, pursuant to Section 2924g of the California Civil Code.

The law requires that information about trustee sale postponements be made available to you and to the public, as a courtesy to those not present at the sale. If you wish to learn whether your sale date has been postponed, and, if applicable, the rescheduled time and date for the sale of this property, you may call 800280-2832 for information regarding the trustee’s sale or visit this internet website http://www.qualityloan. com, using the file number assigned to this foreclosure by the Trustee: CA-19-876184-CL. Information about postponements that are very short in duration or that occur close in time to the scheduled sale may not immediately be reflected in the telephone information or on the internet website. The best way to verify postponement information is to attend the scheduled sale. NOTICE TO TENANT: You may have a right to purchase this property after the trustee auction pursuant to Section 2924m of the California Civil Code. If you are an “eligible tenant buyer,” you can purchase the property if you match the last and highest bid placed at the trustee auction. If you are an “eligible bidder,” you may be able to purchase the property if you exceed the last and highest bid placed at the trustee auction. There are three steps to exercising this right of purchase.

First, 48 hours after the date of the trustee sale, you can call 800-280-2832, or visit this internet website http:// www.qualityloan.com, using the file number assigned to this foreclosure by the Trustee: CA-19-876184-CL to find the date on which the trustee’s sale was held, the amount of the last and highest bid, and the address of the trustee. Second, you must send a written notice of intent to place a bid so that the trustee receives it no more than 15 days after the trustee’s sale. Third, you must submit a bid so that the trustee receives it no more than 45 days after the trustee’s sale. If you think you may qualify as an “eligible tenant buyer” or “eligible bidder,” you should consider contacting an attorney or appropriate real estate professional immediately for advice regarding this potential right to purchase. The undersigned Trustee disclaims any liability for any incorrectness of the property address or other common designation, if any, shown herein. If no street address or other common designation is shown, directions to the location of the property may be obtained by sending a written request to the beneficiary within 10 days of the date of first publication of this Notice of Sale. If the sale is set aside for any reason, including if the Trustee is unable to convey title, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the monies paid to the Trustee. This shall be the Purchaser’s sole and exclusive remedy. The purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Trustor, the Trustee, the Beneficiary, the Beneficiary’s Agent, or the Beneficiary’s Attorney. If you have previously been discharged through bankruptcy, you may have been released of personal liability for this loan in which case this letter is intended to exercise the note holders right’s against the real property only. Date: Quality Loan Service Corporation 2763 Camino Del Rio S San Diego, CA 92108 619-645-7711 For NON SALE information only Sale Line: 800-280-2832 Or Login to: http://www.qualityloan.com Reinstatement Line: (866) 6457711 Ext 5318 Quality Loan Service Corp. TS No.: CA-19-876184-CL IDSPub #0175872 12/24/2021 12/31/2021 1/7/2022

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