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Carlos Torres, longtime Ramona Bowl maintenance chief, dies
T E M E C U L A – Va l l e y News’ print deadline was Monday, Nov. 2, ahead of Tuesday’s general election, so results from the election were not available to publish in this week’s issue. All of our coverage of local elections in Riverside County, however, can be found on our website at http://myvalleynews.com, as well as the Valley News and Anza Valley Outlook Facebook pages and on Twitter @TheValleyNews. Election coverage will run in print for our Nov. 13 issue.
Local COVID-19 hospitalizations, deaths spike in Riverside County City News Service SPECIAL TO VALLEY NEWS
Riverside County health officials reported 24 deaths related to COVID-19 since Friday, Oct. 23, while also seeing a spike in hospitalizations from the virus over the past week and a half. On Friday, Oct. 30, just ahead of the Halloween weekend, county officials reported 498 newly diagnosed coronavirus cases since the day before and 13 additional virusrelated deaths, marking the largest one-day increase in reported fatalities in nearly two months. see page A-2
Local Former foster youth creates The Penny Project community network Lexington Howe STAFF WRITER
Menifee resident Kaylee May is creating a community communications network called The Penny Project, named after her foster mother, for those working together in the foster care system. see page A-4
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Carlos Torres Dominguez, longtime Ramona Bowl maintenance chief who died recently, poses for a photo in golf cart at the Ramona Bowl Amphitheater. Valley News/Courtesy photo
Tony Ault STAFF WRITER
The Ramona Bowl staff and many friends are grieving the death of longtime Ramona Bowl
Amphitheater maintenance supervisor Carlos Torres Dominguez, 66, in Hemet. Dominquez, who was known more by Carlos Torres, was the lead maintenance supervisor for
the Ramona Bowl for the past 18 years. “He knew everything about the bowl,” Lori Van Arsdale, past president of the Ramona Bowl Amphitheater, said. “It is so tough
Jeff Pack STAFF WRITER
An agreement between Ambient Communities LLC, developers of the long-planned Altair Development in the far southwest portion of Temecula, the city and the Center for Biological Diversity, Sierra Club, Mountain Lion Foundation and the Endangered Habitats League, put an end to a lawsuit that had dragged on for two years. The agreement focused on a 55-acre portion of land known as the “South Parcel” which will be set aside as open space to allow mountain lions a way to pass by the development and through an underground crossing at Interstate 15. The environmental groups said creating the buffer for the lions to see ALTAIR, page A-6
A section of Temecula Creek under Interstate 15 serves as a corridor for mountain lions to cross into wildland in the southwest portion of city of Temecula. Valley News/Shane Gibson photo
Temecula announces improved financial standing after projecting losses earlier in pandemic Will Fritz ASSOCIATE EDITOR
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here without him. Carlos did absolutely everything for us from getting the Bowl ready and looking beautiful for ‘Ramona’ to building
Temecula city council members listen as Jennifer Hennessy, finance director of Temecula, lays out the ways in which the city has received more revenue than initially projected at the start of the coronavirus pandemic. Valley News/Courtesy photo
The city of Temecula is in a much better financial position than was projected earlier in the coronavirus pandemic, a city financial official said. Jennifer Hennessy, Temecula’s finance director, told the city council, Tuesday, Oct. 27, that after projecting a loss of almost $15 million across the city’s major revenue sources between March and June 2020, the city now estimates that it only lost just under $5.2 million during that time period compared to what had been projected for the 2019-2020 fiscal year, leaving the city’s general fund with a $9.6 million surplus. “Now that we’ve closed the books, the results were much less devastating than we originally see TEMECULA, page A-4