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COVID-19 takes center stage at Southwest Regional Economic Forecast

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Despite assurances from Bruce Barton, director of Riverside County Emergency Management, who told the county Board of Supervisors Tuesday, Nov. 17, that the current rise in COVID-19 caseloads has not overwhelmed area hospitals, the county saw a sharp rise in hospitalizations over the course of previous week that could begin to test his statement. see page A-2

Local New research extends range of Pacific mastodon into eastern Montana Tony Ault STAFF WRITER

On video, Aaron Adams, the Temecula city manager, discusses the progress the city has made.

Ice age mastodons, who once roamed the Hemet San Jacinto Valley where the Diamond Valley Reservoir is located, may also have lived as far away as eastern Montana, according to new findings released by Western Science Center and Museum of the Rockies paleontologists. see page A-5

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Taner Osman of the University of California Riverside School of Business, Center for Economic

Forecasting & Development, didn’t sugarcoat it.

“There’s no way to sugar coat it, it looks like we’re in for a bleak winter,” Osman said. “Every day as we see the number of cases tick

up and as we see the number of restrictions on consumer activity in response to the growing spread of the coronavirus, this is a headwind for the economy, but ultimately the COVID-19 economy has been an

economy of winners and losers.

“As I mentioned, we cannot expect a full recovery of the labor market until 2023 for us to return see FORECAST, page A-4

Temecula plans to widen a portion of Ynez Road within the next 2 years Will Fritz ASSOCIATE EDITOR

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Cars travel north on a stretch of Ynez Road that the city of Temecula is planning to widen to two Valley News/Will Fritz photo northbound lanes in the 2021-2022 fiscal year.

Drivers will soon see some traffic relief on a long-congested Temecula roadway.

Ynez Road, one of the Temecula’s most important north-south thoroughfares, is designated as a “principal arterial” roadway for a 2.2-mile stretch between Winchester Road and Rancho Vista Road, according to the city’s general plan, meaning it should have three lanes in either direction for that length.

But the road actually goes down to four lanes in either direction south of Rancho California Road, and while it retains two southbound lanes from there to Pauba Road, it has just one northbound lane south of Tierra Vista Road.

As anyone who has tried to drive Temecula end-to-end in the middle of the afternoon knows, that single northbound lane on Ynez Road is see YNEZ, page A-6

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In a short Murrieta City Council meeting, Nov. 17, city staff briefly discussed governing body announcements, among news of election results.

Councilmember Jonathan Ingram discussed that the Regional Conservation Authority, which manages the largest habitat conservation plan in the nation, according to their website, is now under a new management entity, which will be the Riverside County Transportation Commission for 2021.

Although the RCTC will be see MURRIETA, page A-2

Councilmember Kelly Seyarto, bottom right, announces his soon-to-be departure from city council, since he Valley News/Courtesy photo was recently elected to the California State Assembly for District 67.

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Riverside County sees rise in COVID-19 hospitalizations, ICU patients

Health care workers conduct testing for COVID-19 at the drive-thru testing site at Diamond Stadium in Lake Elsinore managed and operated by Riverside University Health System Public Health Department.

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Also, since the previous Friday, the Riverside County Department of Public Health reported 4,262 new cases of COVID-19 within the county, the biggest reported numbers coming Tuesday (876) and Wednesday (912). Toward the end of the week, however, those numbers dropped significantly without explanation. Thursday reports were 373 new cases and Friday was “We are surpassing our previous statewide surge (in July),” Kim Saruwatari, director of county department of Public Health, said. “It’s consistent with what’s happening in the nation.”

Saruwatari said the county now has a state-adjusted new case rate of 22.4 per 100,000 residents and an overall state-calculated positivity rate of 8.9%, up from 6.7%.

On Monday, Nov. 16, Gov. Gavin Newsom placed 28 counties in the most restrictive “purple” tier of the state’s color-coded “Blueprint for a Safer Economy.”

The move was predicated on a 50% statewide upswing in coronavirus cases, which the governor said is “the fastest increase in cases we have seen yet.”

The new mandate requires residents in those counties to wear face coverings whenever they

Despite assurances from Bruce Barton, director of Riverside County Emergency Management, who told the county Board of Supervisors Tuesday, Nov. 17, that the current rise in COVID-19 caseloads has not overwhelmed area hospitals, the county saw a sharp rise in hospitalizations over the course of previous week that could begin to test his statement.

“The good news is, there has been a lot of surge planning,” Barton said. “This is familiar territory for the hospitals. They have processes and procedures in place.

If there is a need for medical care, know that our hospitals are still safe. Don’t delay seeking medical care for any reason.”

Since the previous Friday, 89 residents were newly hospitalized and 34 were added to intensive care units. As of Friday, there were 375 residents in the hospital, 99 of those in the ICU. From Monday to Friday of last week, 26 county residents died from the virus. In total, 1,400 residents have died from the virus since the county began recording data in March.

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are outside their homes, unless they are alone in a car traveling with members of their household, working alone, outdoors while maintaining social distancing of 6 feet, and eating and drinking as long as they are social distancing.

Newsom went a step further Thursday, Nov. 19, issuing a soft overnight curfew prohibiting “nonessential” activities and gatherings between 10 p.m. and 5 a.m. that began Saturday, Nov. 21.

The “limited stay at home order” applies to all counties in the “purple” tier which includes Riverside, Los Angeles, Orange and San Diego counties. The order will remain in force until 5 a.m., Tuesday, Dec. 21.

“The virus is spreading at a pace we haven’t seen since the start of this pandemic and the next several days and weeks will be critical to stop the surge,” Newsom said in a statement. “We are sounding the alarm. It is crucial that we act to decrease transmission and slow hospitalizations before the death count surges. We’ve done it before, and we must do it again.”

Dr. Mark Ghaly, the state’s Health and Human Services secretary, said California is starting to experience the wave of cases that have affected other parts of the nation.

Ghaly said the order is not a hard curfew, indicating that people can still go outside to walk their dog at 11 p.m. if that is their normal routine. He said the idea is to cut off

activities and gatherings of people that can promote virus spread.

At the start of November, the state saw a 51.3% increase in a one-week period, Newsom said.

He called it an “increase simply without precedent in California’s pandemic history.”

But many were left questioning how the curfew and mandate that masks be worn will be enforced.

On Thursday, Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco indicated that his deputies would not be enforcing the state mandates in a statement released on Facebook.

“To ensure constitutional rights are not violated and to limit potential negative interactions and exposure to our deputies, we will not be responding to calls for service based solely on non-compliance with the new order or social distancing and mask guidelines,” Bianco said.

However, he did encourage “responsible behavior and compliance with the governor’s orders.

“It is very important that all of us do everything we can to protect ourselves from contracting or spreading this virus,” Bianco said.

“The only way to ensure you do not contract the virus is to stay at home and avoid contact with others. For those going out into public, it is very important to protect yourself from contracting and/or spreading the virus by wearing a mask and social distancing.”

The total number of cases, deaths and recoveries by southwest Riverside County city and community: Temecula Confirmed Cases: 1,497 Deaths: 19 Recovered: 1,248 Murrieta Confirmed Cases: 1,745 Deaths: 27 Recovered: 1,407 Wildomar Confirmed Cases: 811 Deaths: 15

Recovered: 666 Lake Elsinore Confirmed Cases: 1,639 Deaths: 22 Recovered: 1,368 Canyon Lake Confirmed Cases: 165 Deaths: 2 Recovered: 133 Menifee Confirmed Cases: 2,085 Deaths: 43 Recovered: 1,677 Hemet Confirmed Cases: 2,262 Deaths: 73 Recovered: 1,841 San Jacinto Confirmed Cases: 1,469 Deaths: 29 Recovered: 1,241 Anza Confirmed Cases: 23 Deaths: 0 Recovered: 16 East Hemet Confirmed Cases: 455 Deaths: 8 Recovered: 388 French Valley Confirmed Cases: 449 Deaths: 2 Recovered: 379 Lakeland Village Confirmed Cases: 256 Deaths: 2 Recovered: 226 Valle Vista Confirmed Cases: 299 Deaths: 5 Recovered: 249 Winchester Confirmed Cases: 28 Deaths: 0 Recovered: 23 The COVID-19 data recorded

by Riverside County can be located at http://www.rivcoph.org/ coronavirus.

City News Service contributed to this report.

Jeff Pack can be reached by email at jpack@reedermedia.com.

Kim Saruwatari, director of public health with Riverside County, addresses the county Board of Supervisors during the Tuesday, Nov. 17, meeting.

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MURRIETA from page A-1 managing the RCA, the RCA will still be an independent body, and will be sending out information to their councilmembers regarding the transition, according to Ingram.

As councilmember Kelly Seyarto was recently elected to serve on the California State Assembly for District 67, he announced during the meeting that he will have to step down from the council as of Dec. 5, so that he can be sworn in Dec. 7.

“It’s been a pleasure to serve on the regional bodies representing Murrieta,” Seyarto said.

In Mayor Gene Wunderlich’s announcements, he said that Murrieta is handing out $10,000 checks in their Back to Business Grant Program; they presented three more recently.

“I believe we have two more tomorrow afternoon, and we’re up to about 20 now, we’ll have a total of 25,” Wunderlich said. “Given away $250,000 in $10,000 increments to help businesses in the city of Murrieta who are having difficulties making it through this, so, they’ve been most appreciative, you can’t believe the overwhelming thanks that they have when we come in and present those checks.”

Lastly, Wunderlich attended the presentation of the Murrieta Rotary Club.

“We missed a lot of our festivities this year for Veteran’s Day; our big parade that we have, the junior and high school choruses, letters from the war; all of the accolades that we normally provide to our veterans and thank them for their service, and that was very limited this year,” Wunderlich said. “How-

ever, the Murrieta Rotary did put up the Field of Honor; thanks to the city for working with them to make that happen in a timely manner.

Last Thursday they presented the Paul Harris Fellow Award, which is one of the highest honors that the rotary club can bestow.”

The award was presented to the Murrieta Police Department and Chief Sean Hadden, and the Murrieta Fire Department Chief David Lantzer in the Field of Honor.

City council congratulated council members-elect Lori Stone and Dr. Lisa DeForest. Stone has been elected to fill Murrieta City Council’s District 4 seat, and DeForest will fill District 3.

They will be seated and sworn in during the meeting Dec. 15.

Lexington Howe can be reached by email at lhowe@reedermedia. com.

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Noted economist reviews economic outlook for Murrieta and Wildomar Tony Ault STAFF WRITER

Noted Inland Empire research economist Dr. John Husing reviewed the area’s economy for the rest of this year with a look into 2021 as the COVID-19 business shutdowns continue in Wildomar and Murrieta at a virtual chamber sponsored 2020 Economic Outlook meet Wednesday, Nov. 18.

“It’s obvious we are in a world of hurt right now,” Husing began outlining the economic outlook for the region and in particular Murrieta and Wildomar. With that statement he showed on screen numerous graphs showing everything from the regions job losses to the effects of the COVID-19 state and county recommended shutdowns on local businesses and predicting the possible results into 2021 if the pandemic continues.

While the pandemic is still negatively affecting the two cities, he predicted a possible 50% recovery to the local economy, above many other cities and counties in the region. He said since April in the nation jobs losses have decreased, but “as we have gone through the year, the degree we are in the hole has lessened, but we are not out of hole, we are still without 9,600,000 jobs.”

While saying the situation was actually worse than in the great recession of 2008-2010, he showed a chart with the employment losses and gains in the Inland Empire. The chart showed that in the period from April to now, the area lost 260,065 jobs but by December 2020, it was down to 102,065 jobs. He predicted that

by December 2021 another 62,822 will be gained. Other than that, he foresaw little gain over that figure through the end of the year unless ways are found by the cities to recover more job losses.

He continued to explain with his charts which areas lost the most jobs and which other jobs had increased. He suggested the cities development agencies work with the schools, colleges and employers to bring back jobs mostly in the education, logistics, trades and health care fields where the needs are greatest in the area, keeping in mind the rapid growth of e-commerce.

Those attending the virtual conference were invited to ask questions of the presenter and other

Economist John Husing; Kimberly Davidson, economic development director of Wildomar; Patrick Ellis, CEO of Murrieta Wildomar Chamber of Commerce, and Scott Agajanian, deputy director economic development of Murrieta, serve as presenters at the virtual Nemo 2020 Economic Outlook, Wednesday, Nov. 14.

Economist John Husing shows a graphic displaying job losses in the sectors of the Inland Empire including Murrieta and Wildomar due to the COVID-19 pandemic business shutdowns during the 2020 Valley News/Courtesy photos Economic Outlook.

presenters including Kimberly Davidson, economic development director of Wildomar, and Scott Agajanian, deputy director of economic development of Murrieta.

Patrick Ellis, president and CEO of the Murrieta/Wildomar Chamber of Commerce, introduced Davidson first. She said Wildomar, a city of about 37,000 residents with each household averaging about $100,000 in income, was growing thanks to the residents who passed Measure AA, 1% sales tax, that helped the city keep up its public safety services and a balanced budget to date through COVID-19.

She said the city is pleased to have purchased a medic squad for the fire department with the Measure AA funds. She said the city’s effort to reach out to homeless people in the area has also been successful at helping those in need and picking up the trash left behind. She said the city added shade structures for the Marna O’Brien and Windsong parks, which was an improvement for the residents, and replaced sidewalks and repaved many streets.

She said one of the major Capital Improvement Projects is the widening of Bundy Canyon Road and designing for the widening of Clinton Keith Road in the city.

“As you can see, we have a lot of things going on this year in Wildomar even despite the pandemic,” Davidson said.

She named a number of new and soon-to-open businesses coming

with top in sales and administration, and this year health care replaced management as the top earning field, followed by legal, sciences and engineering, he said.

Murrieta added five major companies with more than 100 employees in the last five years, but companies with one to four employees dropped from 35% down to 32.6% when some small businesses closed.

He said the city gained 1,250 new businesses in the last two years, but this year they added 45 licensed businesses.

“It was not a great year of new business licenses,” Agajanian said.

He discussed the new business programs the city created recently, including $25,000 grants to some new businesses, a helping new business virtual event, created the Murrieta Dines Out program, deferring business licensing costs, a community resources guide and e-conversations webcast with the chamber of commerce. He said nine new biotech businesses have

into Wildomar. They include Accelerated Urgent Care, Angelo’s Brick Oven Pizza expansion, Grocery Outlet, Wing Stop, Montague Brothers Coffee Shop and the Wildomar Shooting Academy coming late next year.

“Things have been weird, 2020 has been hard,” Agajanian said.

“The question is, Has the abnormality been greater than the economy? Even now economics is a science based upon what people do.”

He observed that the current situation with the coronavirus pandemic left the city with many questions, showing a graph of the changing foot traffic patterns recorded in downtown Murrieta that trended downward with the advent of the health restrictions.

“I have to insist today we are more capable and more ready and more accountable to economic resilience in the city today,” he said.

He said the median family income in the city rose in the last year and net jobs have increased “slightly” since the last year.

The city’s current population of 116,781 residents is expected to increase to 123,676 residents by the year 2025.

“Things seem to be heading in the right direction,” Agajanian said.

However, Agajanian said unemployment has tripled since last year in a city that has the largest workforce in the county. Overall incomes are going up, however,

Temecula Chamber’s Legislative Summit will address issues affecting business TEMECULA – The Temecula Valley Chamber of Commerce will host the 2020 Legislative Summit Tuesday, Dec. 1, from 8-9:30 a.m.

It will be presented virtually as a Zoom webinar, and there is no cost to attend.

The summit is the Chamber’s premier advocacy event with presentations by legislative and policy experts, as well as elected and appointed government officials. The event will focus on both federal and state issues such as COVID-19, water, stimulus, gasoline vehicles, climate change, wildfires and more. This event is sponsored by Abbott, Pechanga Resort & Casino and Southwest Riverside County Association of Realtors.

The event presents the following panelists: Sen. Melissa Melendez, California State Senate District 28; Assembly Member Kelly Seyarto, State District 67; Allen Zaremberg, president and CEO of the California Chamber of Commerce and Gene Wunderlich, vice president of government affairs for the Southwest Riverside County Association of Realtors as panelist moderator.

All guests must register to receive the Zoom webinar link. For more information or to register to attend, visit https://temecula.org/ legislativesummit/ or call 951676-5090.

The mission of the Temecula Valley Chamber of Commerce is to promote positive economic growth

while protecting the environment for all businesses and by doing so, support the programs which preserve and improve the quality of life for the entire community.

To learn more about the Temecula Valley Chamber of Commerce, visit http://www.temecula.org or call 951-676-5090.

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In the next month, he said the city will roll out a business retention and expansion plan, working to add office space to the area, as the city’s available industrial space and manufacturing space has dropped to almost nothing.

However, Agajanian said the median home price in the city is now up to $512,500 with demand growing.

“It is a really good time to be a real estate agent in the city of Murrieta,” he said.

Key event sponsors included Murrieta Outreach California, Loma Linda University Medical Center Murrieta, Abbott, Southwest Healthcare System, Rady Children’s Health Services, Nikkiso Cryoquip, Altura Credit Union, EMWD water district, Western Municipal Water District, Pacific Premier Bank and Edison.

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“The good news is we are recovering from the depths of the recession that we experienced in April although that recovery is slowing in California. Recovery is underway as well, but in California, the economy hasn’t fared quite as well as it has in the rest of the U.S.,” he said.

At the heart of the issues, Osman said, during the Temecula Valley Chamber of Commerce’s annual Southwest Regional Economic Forecast via teleconference Tuesday, Nov. 17, was COVID-19.

“I think the sort of overarching theme of my talk or my presentation is that we’ve come a long way since April, but there is still quite a long way to go until we are out of the woods,” Osman said. “Right now, everything with respect to the economy is being dominated by what is happening with respect to the coronavirus. As anybody who’s been following the news, will see we have had a drastic, dramatic surge in cases over the last two to four weeks.

“There were a whole raft of new measures that were put in place around the United States to contain the spread of the virus. As many of you will have seen in California in particular, we entered a new sort of phase with respect to the state’s efforts to contain the virus.

All of these restrictions do stymie consumer activities. In addition to this sort of public health crisis, these efforts to try and contain and solve this public health crisis is creating a drag on the economic recovery,” he said.

Osman said, nationally the unemployment rate has been dropping and hovers around 7%, which is an improvement from being in the teens a few months ago. The biggest impact of job loss was affecting middle and lower wage jobs, he said.

“One of the striking features of the damage that has been sustained in a labor market is the extent to which it has affected different incomes,” Osman said.

He said jobs and workers earning $60,000 a year have actually seen job growth compared to where the market stood in January.

“But if we look at this sort of lower lowest income threshold, we see that one in five jobs for those

Taner Osman of the University of California Riverside School of Business, Center for Economic Forecasting & Development, is the keynote speaker at the Temecula Valley Chamber of Commerce’s annual Southwest Regional Economic Forecast Tuesday, Nov. 17.

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people earning $27,000 a year nationally has been lost,” Osman said. “So this is an economic fallout, which has disproportionately affected lower income people and people of color.”

Osman said there has been encouraging news regarding the housing market.

“We’ve seen a pretty phenomenal recovery in August and September, and as home sales have continued,” he said. “We’ve also seen an increase in housing prices as well. And I don’t think too many people were forecasting that early this year, but the strength of the housing market, I think, has been primarily driven by three factors.”

One he said was pent up demand, another was low interest rates and the third was at how minimally the economic downturn has affected higher income workers.

“Inevitably, all roads are leading to the coronavirus. This was not a structural recession. This was not

a recession which was driven by a debt incurred by consumers. This was not a recession that was incurred by an unwise decision made by banks. This was a recession which was grounded in this global pandemic,” Osman said. “A lot of the recovery, a lot of the strength that we’ve seen to this point, especially with respect to the consumer has been driven by Congress with respect to stimulus payments and enhanced unemployment benefits.

As these stimulus measures have worn off, what we’ve seen is the economic slide. Open question as we head into 2021 is the extent to which Congress is going to act again and your guess is as good as mine. I have no idea what Congress is going to do from one day to the next.”

He discussed how the economy is faring regionally.

“It’s been especially disruptive for the Inland Empire, because the Inland Empire was on a great growth trajectory,” Osman said.

Grant Yates, city manager of Lake Elsinore, gave an update on the economic progress the city has made in the past year.

Armando Villa, city manager of Menifee, provided a video update on the city of Menifee’s progression over the past year.

“Since the great recession, the Inland Empire has been one of the strongest growing parts of the state.

“We see a similar picture to what we observed in the U.S. and California. We saw this snapback, you saw this contraction of the labor market in April and May, and we’ve seen a snapback which has been slowing ever since, although the recovery has recovered around half of the jobs that were lost in the Inland Empire.

“Remember that in California, the number of jobs has fallen by over 9%. In the Inland Empire the number of jobs as of today is still about 8% lower, which is better than the state performance,” he said.

Osman said there were 124,000 fewer jobs than there were before the pandemic, which again, he said has affected lower income workers.

“Nearly one in three, a third of the lower wage residents in the Inland Empire have lost their jobs,” he said. “That said, within the Inland Empire, the higher wage earners have outperformed both

the California and the national economy. So again, we do have this sort of bifurcated recovery, whereby job loss is really impacting some members of the community harder than others.”

Osman said taxable sales fell off the cliff during the pandemic, as it did with the rest of the state and nation. The sectors of business affected most were fuel and service stations, followed by restaurants and hotels.

He said the loss of taxable revenue would have implications on public budgets.

“You cannot lose this amount of sales tax revenue and not have repercussions,” he said. “And throughout the state we have seen early retirements and cuts in certain services from the state level all the way down to the local level.

In addition to the keynote by Osman, city managers from Lake Elsinore, Menifee, Murrieta, Wildomar and Temecula presented video updates on how each city has progressed over the past year.

Jeff Pack can be reached by email at jpack@reedermedia.com.

Kim Summers, city manager of Murrieta, updates viewers on the economic progress the city has made in the past year.

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New research extends range of Pacific mastodon into eastern Montana Tony Ault STAFF WRITER

Ice age mastodons, who once roamed the Hemet San Jacinto Valley where the Diamond Valley Reservoir is located, may also have lived as far away as eastern Montana, according to new findings released by Western Science Center and Museum of the Rockies paleontologists.

A nelwly published paper from the museums reveals that the Pacific mastodon, Mammut pacificus, described in 2019 from the Pleistocene of California and Idaho, was also found in eastern Montana between 639,000 and 160,000 years ago.

The paper is now available in the open access journal PeerJ; the authors include WSC curator Andrew McDonald; Amy Atwater, collections manager MOR; Alton Dooley, executive director WSC and Charlotte Hohman, undergraduate student at Montana State University.

The paper shows the Pacific mastodon is distinguished in part by third molars that are much nar-

rower than those of other North American mastodons. Specimen MOR 605, a partial skull of a mastodon from Miles City in eastern Montana described in this paper, was assigned to M. pacificus because of its extremely narrow molars. The identification of this jaw as a Pacific mastodon greatly expands the geographic range of M. pacificus more than 500 miles east. MOR 605 was found by a Doeden Construction crew working at a gravel pit and donated to the Museum of the Rockies in 1989.

Determining the new find were the Pacific mastodon fossils sent to the Western Science Museum located at 2345 Searl Parkway in Hemet for study by scientists there.

Other fossils found there include extinct Columbian mammoth, giant ground sloths, giant shortfaced bear, horses, camels and musk oxen.

The realization that Pacific mastodons lived in Pleistocene Montana helps scientists paint a better picture of what was happening in this prehistoric environment.

Glaciers expanded into Montana several times during the ice age

– MOR 605 lived between two glacial episodes, when Montana was somewhat warmer. The Pacific mastodon might have been pushed out of Montana by the next glacial episode as the local climate became colder and drier, but more fossils need to be studied in order to learn more about how the distribution of Pacific mastodon changed as glaciers expanded and contracted.

“The Pacific mastodon embodies how much we still have to learn about the ice age, a slice of time relatively close to ours – much closer than the age of dinosaurs for example,” McDonald said. “This discovery of Pacific mastodon in Montana adds to the picture of a dynamic time of great and repeated change, as animals were affected by the comings and goings of glaciers.

“The easternmost occurrence of Mammut pacificus (Proboscidea: Mammutidae), based on a partial skull from eastern Montana, USA” is now available for download on PeerJ’s website, http://peerj.com, McDonald said.

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

The photo shows the fossil of the easternmost occurrence of Mammut pacificus or scientifically named Proboscidea: Mammutidae, based on a partial skull from eastern Montana.

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San Jacinto offers small businesses hurt by COVID-19 downturn grant help Tony Ault STAFF WRITER

The San Jacinto City Council unanimously approved individual $5,000 to $10,000 grants to as many as 30 qualified small businesses to stave off pending closures or help them with measures to stop the spread of the coronavirus in their shops or restaurants.

The approval came in the Tuesday, Nov. 17, regular council meeting.

The $150,000 funding for the San Jacinto Small Business Emergency Assistance Grant Program comes in part from the federal coronavirus relief fund. San Jacinto was eligible for coronavirus relief in the amount of $630,049,

choosing to use it to improve business retention and expansion keeping with the requirements of the CARES Act. The larger portion of the funds went to community partners such as Mt. San Jacinto College, the San Jacinto Unified School District and Riverside County Workforce Development, along with the city’s Economic Development Department staff.

The council, with Mayor Pro Tem Crystal Ruiz absent, approved the funding distribution by the city manager to the neediest qualified small businesses in the city.

The local businesses seeking the grants ranging from $5,000 to $10,000 will need to apply between Dec. 1 and Dec. 17, and

meet certain minimum requirements. The grants will be awarded on a first come, first serve basis and the amount determined by a sixpoint system, if they meet all the minimum requirements, according to the city.

The businesses must be located in San Jacinto, must be a for-profit, sales-tax generating businesses.

They must show a loss of income due to the pandemic health orders and must demonstrate that the grant will be used for operational needs. They must have a valid San Jacinto business license as of March 1, 2020, insurance and all applicable required permits.

The business must be in good standing on paying their bills, have no liens or judgements, current on

all sales tax payments as legally required, unless directly correlated to COVID-19 impacts. The small business must have a minimum of one employee, including the business owner.

The council approved the point system that will garner one point if the applicant is the owner and living in the city. A point if the applicant plans on utilizing the funds to create additional jobs or preserve existing jobs. Another point if the applicant’s business employs less than 25 employees. A point will be given if the business generates less than $5,000 in annual sales tax generation to San Jacinto. A point will be added if business is operating in retail, service or a restaurant.

And finally, a point may be given if

the business has not received other federal, state or local assistance.

The awards will be awarded up to $10,000. One to 2 points will make the business eligible for awards up to $5,000. Applications with 3-4 points will be eligible for awards up to $7,500, and applications with 5-6 points will be eligible for awards up to $10,000. Once the $150,000 total is awarded, the program will be complete. The council expressed the hope that all the awards will be given before the first of the year.

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Menifee City Council approves extensive future bike and pedestrian improvement plan Tony Ault STAFF WRITER

The Menifee City Council endorsed an extensive Active Transportation Plan for the city that promises to complete and extend miles of bicycle paths, improve pedestrian safety and encourage residents to safely use the bicycle paths and pedestrian walkways provided.

The approval from Mayor Bill Zimmerman and the council, with Mayor Pro Tem Lesa Sobek joining online from her home where she is quarantining herself after being in contact with a person who tested positive for COVID-19, came after a lengthy presentation of the ATP plan by Carlos Geronimo, Menifee’s senior civil engineer.

The plan focuses on improving the safety of bicyclists and pedestrians in the city and encouraging the healthy use of the trails and pathways in the city and providing greater safety to children walking to schools and parks in the future.

The ATP report listed in order of priority importance, bicycle and pedestrian projects that will provide the most health and social

YNEZ from page A-1 the frequent site of traffic backups, with northbound vehicles sometimes crawling along until the roadway opens into two lanes at the Temecula Duck Pond.

The city will be moving forward with widening the section of Ynez Road between Rancho Vista and Tierra Vista roads to two northbound lanes within the next two years.

The widening project, which ultimately calls for Ynez Road to have two lanes in either direction all the way from La Paz to Tierra Vista roads, was originally planned for the 2021-2022 fiscal year, then was moved back to 2024-2025 due to budget cuts caused by anticipated coronavirus-related revenue declines. However, in October, Temecula finance director Jennifer Hennessy said the city had actually been much less affected by revenue declines than was previously expected, and midyear budget adjustments approved by the Temecula City Council allowed the city to reverse some of the budget reduction measures it had taken earlier – including moving one section of the Ynez

benefit to the residents, businesses and visitors of Menifee. The staff after receiving a $293,817 ATP grant in June 2018, and the council allocating $35,742 in matching funds, hired a consultant, KTU&A, experts in ATP planning, to help. In the next 18 months the city created an ATP team that sought community outreach through city events, meetings with school principals, website posts, surveys, walk audits and three-day community planning meetings.

The final report, given to the council before a public hearing Wednesday, Nov. 18, identified and prioritized 93 bikeway projects needed and focused on 20 pedestrian projects that prioritized routes within a half mile distance from schools, senior communities, parks and civic centers.

The 10 most needed bikeway projects and the distances are from Menifee Road to Mapes Road at the city limit for 7.8 miles; Murrieta Road to Ethanac and Scott roads for 5.6 miles; Bradley Road to Rouse and Scott roads for 4.7 miles; Newport Road at the east city limit and Menifee Road for 1.3 miles and Aldergate Drive to Evening Star Drive at the city for

5 miles.

Then on La Piedra Road to Murrieta and Menifee roads for 3.3 miles; McCall Boulevard to Valley Boulevard and Menifee Road for 3.5 miles; Goetz Road to Ethanac and Newport roads for 4.6 miles; Briggs Road to Mapes Road at the city limit 8.6 miles and Barnett Road to Ethanac and Ridgemoor roads for 4 miles.

The 20 pedestrian projects needed with sidewalk repairs, additions and signage in order of ranking according to the ATP reports are located next to Romoland Elementary, Bell Mountain Middle School, Chester W. Morrison Elementary, Callie Kirkpatrick Elementary, the Sun City Shopping Plaza and Civic Center. Lazy Creek Park, Hans Christensen Middle School, Bradley Road at Rio Vista Drive, Evans Ranch Elementary, Ethan A Chase Middle School, Quail Valley Elementary, Harvest Valley Elementary and Heritage High.

Also listed: Freedom Crest Elementary, Central Park, Ridgemoor Elementary, Mesa View Elementary, Boulder Ridge Elementary, Southshore Elementary, Menifee Elementary and Menifee Valley

Road widening project back into 2021-2022.

The city will partially fund the project by dividing it into two phases, with the $2 million phase one, which will have northbound Ynez Road expanded to two northbound lanes between Rancho Vista and Rancho California roads, to be completed by 2022.

Pat Thomas, director of Temecula Public Works, said the first phase of the project calls for not only creating additional lanes, but also adding a sidewalk along the eastern edge of Ynez Road in the project area, which will supplement the existing sidewalk on the opposite side of the road.

Thomas said the city is also currently trying to collaborate on the project with a developer that is planning to build multi-family housing in part of the vacant land east of Ynez Road in the area.

“They’re required to do their frontage, which is about half of that, so we’re attempting to work something out with them where we could do it all as one project,” Thomas said.

The second phase, in which Ynez Road will be widened to two lanes in each direction between

Rancho Vista and La Paz roads, remains pushed out to the 20242025 fiscal year, and work cannot begin until a funding source is identified for about $5.6 million out of the total $6.5 million cost of the project.

The second phase will also add a sidewalk on the eastern side of Ynez Road north of Santiago Road. South of that intersection, where Ynez Road is designated a “modified secondary arterial” through the Los Ranchitos neighborhood, there will be a dirt trail in lieu of a sidewalk, Thomas said.

While the second phase is planned for the 2024-2025 fiscal year, Thomas said it’s unclear if or when funding will actually be identified.

“What we typically do is when we have projects we don’t have all the money for, we put it in that last year (of a five-year capital improvement plan) and show it as unspecified so we attempt to find the funding,” Thomas said.

But even just the first phase of the Ynez Road widening project will surely be a welcome traffic remedy.

Will Fritz can be reached by email at wfritz@reedermedia.com.

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A question was poised by the council on the classification of the bikeway which listed four different classifications. The differences showed if they are by themselves, on marked roadways, separated by greenery or a fence.

The council in its endorsement of the ATP, also agreed to join the Southern California Association of Governments in its Go Human campaign, a community outreach and advertising campaign with the goals of reducing traffic collisions in Southern California and encouraging people to walk and bike more.

Go Human is funded by grants from the California Office of Traffic Safety, the California Active Transportation Program, the Mobile Source Air Pollution Reduction Review Committee and

other sponsors. The program encourages local agencies to design and build safer streets that promote walking, biking and community connections. Each agency is asked to adopt the SCAG Safety Model resolution and submit a safety pledge.

In other business the council decided to keep the city’s election campaign contribution limits up to the California State campaign contribution limits of $7,800 per candidate.

“That’s plenty for us,” Zimmerman said.

The city can at any time change its own campaign contribution limits not to exceed the state limit as outlined in Assembly Bill 571 recently passed by the state Legislature.

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

The Valley community helps bring a soldier home for Christmas

Tony Giordano, dressed as Santa, strings lights across his fire truck and plays Christmas music in preparation for the fire truck parade to welcome Gunnery Sgt. James Chavez home from deployment and to Valley News/Courtesy photo surprise his 5-year-old son.

Lexington Howe STAFF WRITER

One soldier is hoping Santa will bring him home to his family for Christmas.

A father, husband and Marine, Gunnery Sgt. James Chavez is currently deployed in a combat zone, but is looking forward to seeing his family when he can return home.

In an online post, Chavez reached out to the local community to see if they could help surprise his 5-year-old son by showing up to their house with a fire truck, with Santa on board, to welcome Chavez home.

Raven Leigh Hilden, who runs a Temecula/Murrieta nonprofit called MilVet, was tagged in the post by a friend.

“MilVet – we’re dedicated to helping deployed troops and veterans in the community,” Hilden said.

“MilVet is kind of coordinating the pickup and the time, the homecoming, getting all the different organizations together in the community to make it super special.”

Chavez has four children from the ages of two to 13.

“The original intention is to have the Riverside County Fire Department out there, so we’re working with them right now to make that happen, and they’re talking about getting the whole battalion out,” Hilden said.

Murrieta resident Tony Giordano is a retired firefighter who owns a fire truck. He said he plans to be there too.

MilVet said they don’t have a date set for the fire truck parade yet, since they don’t know when Chavez will be allowed to return home.

“It’s a two-week window, and it’s going to be in December,” Hilden said. “We won’t have a date until right before he leaves and gets on the plane to come home. MilVet’s going to organize the pick up from

the airport and get him to the fire station with the fire trucks and all the gifts and stuff.”

The plans are still in the early stages, she said.

“I’m waiting for that final confirmation from the fire department to see what they’re going to do, and let Tony know what his role is and then also just have everybody on standby,” Hilden said. “We really won’t know until right before it happens.”

Giordano is a retired fire captain from the city of San Bernardino.

“I worked there for about 15 years,” Giordano said. “I was medically retired, so I had such a hard time leaving the fire service and I was just born to serve, I don’t know how to explain it.”

His cousin helped put him in touch with a guy who had antique fire trucks that had been retired out.

“I was having a hard time at that time and he had three rigs and I met him and ended up purchasing one of the rigs, and it’s just been a blessing to me and my family and our community ever since,” Giordano said.

“We decorate it on the holidays, drive around and just make people laugh and have fun and stuff, we’ll just completely cover it in lights and play Christmas music, pass out candy canes.”

MilVet, which sends out military care packages to deployed troops overseas, along with other methods of support, is excited to be a part of helping out Chavez and his family.

“When they come home it’s so super special, and having the opportunity to be a part of it is amazing,” Hilden said.

MilVet is currently looking for volunteers to help with the event.

If anyone is interested, they can contact Hilden at ceo@milvet.org.

Lexington Howe can be reached by email at lhowe@reedermedia. com.

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Crews break ground on new Lexus dealership in Temecula Will Fritz ASSOCIATE EDITOR

The Temecula Valley Lexus Team attend “COVID-19 safe” groundbreaking ceremony, Nov. 10. Valley News/City of Temecula photo

A ground-breaking ceremony was held Tuesday, Nov. 10, at a planned Temecula Valley Lexus dealership, a Temecula official said Nov. 19.

Grading began for the approximately 54,000-square-foot dealership, according to Christine Damko, economic development manager for Temecula.

The dealership will sit on nearly 5 acres at DLR Drive, near Ynez Road, and will be part of the Temecula Valley Toyota

Temecula City Council candidates will see limits on campaign contributions beginning next year Will Fritz ASSOCIATE EDITOR

Donors to city council candidates in Temecula and elsewhere will soon face limits on their campaign contributions.

While cities and counties have always been allowed to set their own limits for campaign contributions, most, including Temecula, allowed unlimited campaign contributions to candidates for local offices like city council seats.

But in 2019, the California State Legislature enacted Assembly Bill 571, which establishes campaign contribution limits, subject to adjustment every two years by the state Fair Political Practices Commission, for local jurisdictions that have not already enacted their own contribution limits. While AB 571 still allows cities and counties to establish contribution limits higher or lower than the state limit, which is currently $4,700 per donor to a candidate each election cycle, any cities and counties that take no action will see the state limits go into effect Jan. 1, 2021.

The Temecula City Council, Nov. 10, agreed to do just that – take no action and allow the state limits to go into effect.

It was a simple choice for city

council members, who cited the fact that if the state campaign contribution limit is in effect in a city, the FPPC will enforce violations of the contribution limit, but will not enforce any city-established limits.

“I think the thing that convinces me that we need to support the state limits is that if we were to take this on ourselves, the city clerk’s office would have to track every contribution and authenticate those and keep track of every campaign and every person who’s running and then save those records forever,” Maryann Edwards, mayor pro tem of Temecula, said.

None of the council had a problem with the $4,700 amount, which the FPPC adjusts biannually based on changes in the consumer price index.

“I think when you look at some of the money that starts flowing into races in cities, I think it makes a whole lot of sense to adopt that state amount and really for that enforcement side of it, I would be fully supportive of going with that recommendation,” Councilmember Zak Schwank said.

The state contribution limit for city candidates is equivalent to the limit for State Assembly, State Senate and other non-statewide offices.

AB 571 also establishes additional restrictions on candidates for city council offices, including barring them from loaning their campaigns more than $100,000 or making donations to other candidates over the statutory amount.

The law does allow candidates to accept campaign contributions to oppose the qualification of a recall election, accept campaign contributions after the date of an election as long as the contribution does not exceed their campaign’s outstanding debt, carry over contributions raised in one election to pay for expenditures incurred in a later election for the same office and raise contributions for a general election before a primary election.

While the Temecula City Council did not have to take any action to allow the state contribution limits to go into effect in January, the city did vote to repeal a section of the Temecula Municipal Code requiring additional disclosures of campaign contributions to City Council candidates following the filing of required FPPC reports, as the FPPC has since adopted disclosure requirements that supersede the city’s rules.

Will Fritz can be reached by email at wfritz@reedermedia.com.

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“We are thrilled to bring Lexus to the Temecula Valley,” Tom Rudnai, president of Temecula Valley Toyota, said in a news release from Damko’s office. “This has been a long process but we thank the city and community for the ongoing support. We look forward to opening our doors with a brand-new, state of the art facility in the fourth quarter of 2021.”

In the news release, Mayor Pro Tem Maryann Edwards said the city is “ecstatic to welcome Temecula Valley Lexus to the community and proud that a local deal-

ership is maintaining ownership.”

The Lexus dealership has been planned for nearly two years – the city first announced it had received initial plans for the dealership in April 2019. City staff told the Temecula City Council in December 2019 that the dealership at that time was expected to be completed by October 2020. According to Damko’s news release, with construction having just begun, the dealership is expected to be complete in about 11 months.

Will Fritz can be reached by email at wfritz@reedermedia.com.

Temecula to extend Santa Gertrudis Creek Trail

Temecula’s Santa Gertrudis Creek trail currently ends at Ynez Road, but the city plans to extend it under Interstate 15 all the way to Murrieta Creek.

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Will Fritz ASSOCIATE EDITOR

If all goes to plan, construction will begin early next year on a plan to extend the Santa Gertrudis Creek Trail in north Temecula all the way to Murrieta Creek on the west side of Interstate 15.

The creek runs roughly parallel to Winchester Road before crossing over to run adjacent to the northern edge of Nicolas Road, and the current trail extends along the southern edge of the creek from Ynez Road in the west to near the intersection of Joseph and Nicolas roads in the east.

A project to extend the existing trail westward to Murrieta Creek underneath Interstate 15 is currently out for bidding, according to Pat Thomas, director of public works in Temecula.

The total budget for the project is about $6.2 million, Thomas said.

Assuming the city receives bids within its budget, Thomas said he expects construction could start as soon as January or February 2021.

The project will take about one year to complete from there, Thomas said.

Will Fritz can be reached by email at wfritz@reedermedia.com.

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Temecula’s Margarita Community Park to be renamed after retiring councilmember Will Fritz ASSOCIATE EDITOR

The city of Temecula will rename a local park after retiring councilmember Mike Naggar.

The Temecula City Council, with Naggar recusing himself, voted unanimously Tuesday, Nov. 10, to rename Margarita Community Park, which contains the Margarita Recreation Center, as Michael “Mike” Naggar Community Park.

The city will also rename the public pool planned for the Margarita Recreation Center as “Liam’s Place,” after Naggar’s son, Liam Naggar, “who has been the inspiration to councilmember Naggar’s strong advocacy in support of the special needs community,” according to a city staff report on the resolution to rename the park and pool.

“After learning of Liam Naggar’s autism diagnosis in 2008, councilmember Naggar championed many inclusionary accomplishments in the areas of recreation, education, workforce, facilities, parks and community

engagement,” according to the staff report.

The name change resolution was drafted at the request of councilmember Matt Rahn.

Naggar logged off the city council’s virtual meeting ahead of the remaining members’ vote on the resolution, but he expressed his gratitude to the city council before leaving.

“My family was honored that councilmember Rahn brought this forward and that the council is even considering this – to say honored is really an understatement,” Naggar said.

The three Temecula council members who remained at the meeting shared their praises for Naggar, who has served on the Temecula City Council since 1999.

“Mike’s commitment to the city and his heart really changed our city, and even at a statewide or even a national level became an inspiration for other communities to do the same with their special needs communities,” Rahn said of Naggar’s contributions to Temecula’s special needs population. “And it’s not just that, I mean he’s left an

indelible mark on Temecula in so many different ways, and so I can’t think of a better way to have him be recognized (along with) his family for all that they’ve contributed to over so many years.”

Rahn said while he is the council member who originated the resolution for the name change, he wanted to share credit with his council colleagues.

“Although my name is on the recommendation, this is something that we all carried forward,” Rahn said. “I know, Maryann (Edwards), we had basically talked about the same concepts and things, so I’m honored to have my name associated with it but it’s something that I know we all truly believe.”

Councilmember Zak Schwank shared an anecdote from his family’s first meeting with Naggar.

“We’ve been in Temecula for 20 years, and our family’s first interaction with Mike was, he was just driving through our neighborhood and spotted my daughter, my very young daughter, riding her bike and my wife riding with her and he pulled alongside and just asked them how they were doing,”

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Schwank said. “Like, here’s a councilmember of the city just (asking), ‘Is everything OK? And how are you?’ And that really struck a chord with us and really spoke to Mike’s heart and how he genuinely cared about the community.”

Mayor Pro Tem Maryann Edwards, who was first elected to the city council in 2005 and served with Naggar that entire time, reflected on his tenure.

“I’ve known Mike for, well, forever, and in fact he beat me in our first bid for election to the city council, and I think that was 1999, and how fitting that I get to be here today to honor him in this way,” Edwards said. “He has done so much when you think parks and playgrounds and things like that, but in addition to that, he helped to garner the support of local businesses, restaurants who are now offering special hours or more secluded spaces within their restaurants so that special needs families can go in and have it be a little more quiet for children who don’t respond well to noise or things like that, and same thing for our theaters and so many things like that.”

The name change was not without opposition. Two members of the Temecula community sent statements to the city clerk to

be read into the record, registering their objections to renaming Margarita Community Park after Naggar, with one referring to the retiring councilmember as “Mike ‘socialism and liberals suck’ Naggar.”

Along with Rahn, Naggar was a proponent of a symbolic resolution in 2019 calling socialism and communism a “serious threat to our republic and representation described in our Constitution.” The resolution was controversial with some in the community.

“I am respectfully opposed to change the Margarita Community Park to Michael Naggar Community Park simply because Councilmember Naggar does not embrace the residents as one community,” the second public commenter said.

“Councilmember Naggar consistently submitted divisive and biased resolutions for council approval, putting our city on a national racist spectrum. There is no place for any city landmark showcasing the name of those who caused division.

Shame on anyone who supports this idea.”

After the reading of the two public comments, Rahn, Schwank and Edwards all voted in favor of the name change.

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Coping With COVID-19: Arrow Printing has history in San Jacinto

Arrow Printing’s Kevin Walker stands beside his newest printer, a Konica Minolta multi-functional digital press, which has allowed him to produce some print obs much faster and more cost e ciently than other methods.

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Kevin Walker of Arrow Printing in San Jacinto stands behind the Kluge letterpress, Sept. 25, his grandfather purchased in 193 6 that he still uses regularly for custom printing jobs.

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A 3 0-foot tall steel arrow is installed in front of the Walker family’s print shop in San acinto to help customers find it. ue to the arro , the family changed the business’s name to Arrow Printing.

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Customers ordering posters, invitations, programs and other items to advertise and host special events constituted a large part of business for Arrow Printing in San Jacinto.

With the advent of the coronavirus pandemic, all celebrations, concerts and public events had to be canceled or postponed and printing other items became the norm.

Owner Kevin Walker said his grandfather Roy started the family’s printing business in 1928 in Los Angeles before moving to San Jacinto in 1953.

“The original name of the business was Walker Forms. When they moved to our present location (in 1955), there was nothing here but orchards and farmland,” Walker said. “No one knew where to go to find us. My dad (Walt and grandfather came up with the idea to make a large arrow. It was welded (by Carl’s Welding in San Jacinto)

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out of 3-foot lengths of scrap pipe, sanded and painted and went in the ground in 1961. A couple of years later they decided to advertise that they were not just a printer of forms but could produce regular printing also. Hence the idea of the new name: Arrow Printing.”

Walker said his father joined his grandfather in the business in 1960, and both families lived near the company’s current location.

“My first job was working at the shop doing sweeping and cleaning at 9 years old,” Walker said, adding that it was considered family chores back then. “My grandfather taught me how to put the old handset type back in the cabinets and in high school, it became my after-school job. I came on full time in 1976, became a partner in 1983 and now I’m sole owner.”

Learning curv e Walker said that when COVID-19 closed many businesses, he was fortunate that printers were considered essential and were able

to stay open.

“There was concern, but the printer’s association that we belong to fought and got the state’s blessing, if you will,” Walker said.

“When (the coronavirus pandemic) really hit in March I had to tighten my belt. There was one layoff, and shortened hours, although we are back to three employees now.”

He said a blessing was the newfound popularity of graduation yard signs, especially for local high school seniors.

“My daughter Shelby used social media to promote them and it took off. Signs and banners were a hit. The sales were so good that it helped to replace much of the loss of regular work,” Walker said. “My thanks go out to Kelly Laskowski at Abby’s Café and Melissa Galletta at Smitty’s Auto Paints. They are both moms of seniors who gave us the idea and helped on social media.

We also started printing yard signs and banners for other events and that continues.”

Management changes Although Walker said a decent percentage of Arrow Printing’s business came from advertising and revenue continues to be down in that area, he hoped it would improve soon. He said many of his regular accounts have canceled events through the end of the year, however.

“Part of being an essential service as printers, we have produced COVID-19 related printing such as notices, informative items, closure and safety-related waterproof signage and banners plus floor distancing stickers,” Walker said. “Along with generic floor signs, we have produced custom floor signs.”

He said most of this type of printing is requested by local schools, cities, parks and recreation and some small businesses.

“Also, because of COVID-19 issues, giveaway menus were needed along with signage and banners for our local small restaurants,” Walker said.

Staying healthy The printing press building is housed separately from the office space at Arrow Printing. When Walker is running the presses alone, he doesn’t need to worry about facial coverings and social distancing, but he said he and others inside the office always practice safe guidelines and proper distancing with customers and among co-workers.

“Our strength continues to be our reputation in this community of providing excellent printed materials at very competitive prices,” Walker said. “We have a strong inventory of equipment in our own buildings

that allows us to produce most work in the plant.”

This advantage has allowed Arrow Printing to continue its work without relying on a questionable supply chain that has affected many businesses during the coronavirus pandemic.

Weathering the storm Walker said that his stress level has been high during these past several months, but he has been inspired by those in his community that continue to remain strong.

“Our world looks ugly as presented by the media. I wish that there would be more good news,” he said. “So many of the people in our valley and surrounding area continue to uplift me with positive actions and it makes me glad that this is my home.”

Walker said he is grateful to have stayed busy due to a strong presence on social media and having the chambers of commerce and community members continue to refer new customers. He said the business has survived other economic downturns such as the Great Depression of 1929 and he recalls firsthand the devastation of the Great Recession of 2008/2009.

“We have been family owned since 1928, with continuous operation under the Walker name,” he said. “God-willing, we will stay at it.”

Arrow Printing, 1400 Mountain Ave., in San Jacinto is open from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. For more information, call 951-654-9101 or visit http://arrowprinting.net.

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Nana’s Tamales opens in Old Town Temecula TEMECULA – Nana’s Tamales is hosting a grand opening celebration in Old Town Temecula, Friday to Sunday, Dec. 4-6, offering New Mexico-style specialties.

Michelle Ann Sandoval, owner of Nana’s Tamales, comes from many generations of New Mexicans.

“I grew up in a New Mexican home only knowing New Mexico specialties,” Sandoval said. “Growing up in our house, the question was always “red or green tonight?

“In my kitchen, I do real. Real love, real ingredients, real handmade, real and authentic,” she said.

Sandoval, who operated Nana’s Tamales for many years as a local catering business, cooks from scratch using fresh local ingredients and New Mexico chiles.

The new restaurant offers a small seating area and take-out service.

“My nana Adalia birthed 15 children, so she knew how to cook.

She was known for feeding all the neighborhood kids,” she said. “My mom Rita, who is my kid’s nana,

ana s Tamales, 2 2 ld To n ront St., in Temecula o ers e Valley News/Courtesy photos Mexico-style specialties.

was a widowed mother of three, loving and kind. Food was love to her, so between them both I was taught. I’m a mother of seven and a nana to four, passing on the love they showed me.”

Before coming to Temecula,

Nana’s Tamales was first established in 2007 in Fort Worth, Texas.

“Our place is small but our hearts are big,” she said. “My nana and mother, now in heaven, were so very special to me – a lot

Michelle Ann Sandoval, owner of Nana’s Tamales, describes some of her family recipes using New Mexico green and red chilis in her cookbook.

like beautiful Temecula – so my passion for artisan, home-style, authentic cooking inspires me to feed Temecula Valley, one family at a time.”

For more information, call

951-383-8049 or visit https:// temeculatamales.com/. Nana’s Tamales is open from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. at 28286 Old Town Front St. in Temecula.

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Grocery Outlet Bargain Market opens newest store in Wildomar

Grocery Outlet Bargain Market opens its newest location Thursday, Nov. 19, at 24060 Clinton Keith Road in Wildomar.

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WILDOMAR – Grocery Outlet Bargain Market, extreme-value grocery retailer, opened its new-

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Grocery Outlet Bargain Market, which held its grand opening Thursday, Nov. 19, at 24060 Clinton Keith Road in Wildomar, has 3 0 new employees.

Grocery Outlet stores are independently operated by local families who are committed to supporting their communities.

“We are overjoyed to be a part of the Wildomar community and be able to provide big savings on quality groceries,” owners Carl and Marc Saldivar said. “This partnership with Grocery Outlet gives us the ability to grow our business, create new jobs and more importantly, give back to our local community.”

Grocery Outlet offers the same trusted brands as traditional grocery stores, but at lower prices.

Its buyers scour the country to find the top manufacturers with excess inventory and seasonal closeouts so Grocery Outlet can offer “WOW savings” on thousands of name-brand products at significantly lower prices.

In celebration of the opening, until Dec. 17, customers may enter for a chance to win $1,000 in groceries. To enter, customers may access the online contest at https://groceryoutlet.com/wingroceries-wildomar. Entry must include a valid, working email address where the entrant can be notified. Winner need not be pres-

ent to win but must claim the prize within three days of notification or another winner will be chosen. No cash value and no substitutions, prize distributed over twenty $50 rewards certificates. Valid only at Wildomar Grocery Outlet, which is open from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. daily.

Grocery Outlet, based in Emeryville, offers big savings on brand name products every day, at more than 350 locations in California, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon, Pennsylvania and Washington. Grocery Outlet carries a full range of products from fresh produce, meat, deli and dairy to a wide assortment of natural and organic choices. They also offer a large selection of beer and wine, health and beauty care, as well as seasonal items. A third-generation, family-led company founded in 1946, Grocery Outlet exists to provide customers an exciting place to find “WOW” deals on name brands they trust.

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Lawn mowing app GreenPal expands to Temecula TEMECULA – GreenPal, an app that connects homeowners with local, vetted lawn care professionals, launched in Temecula recently.

Nashville-based GreenPal allows homeowners to find local, prescreened lawn professionals.

Homeowners can list their lawns with their service date and lawn care needs. Vetted lawn care pros post bid on the properties based on the Google street and aerial images and any other lawn details the homeowner provides, and the homeowners select who they want to work with based on the vendor’s ratings, reviews and price.

Once a vendor has completed the service, the lawn care pro will send a time-stamped photo of the completed work. Homeowners can pay via the app and set up more

appointments.

“After successfully launching in 200 other markets, we are excited to help homeowners in Temecula find reliable, safe and local lawn care,” co-founder Gene Caballero said.

Nashville-based GreenPal currently operates in Chicago, Tampa, St. Petersburg, Atlanta, Charlotte, Orlando, Houston, Oklahoma City, San Antonio, Los Angeles, San Antonio, Phoenix, San Jose, Jacksonville, Fresno, New Orleans, Sacramento, Miami, Ft. Lauderdale, Louisville, Cincinnati, Columbus, Cleveland, Kansas City, Pittsburgh, Denver, Baltimore, Detroit and St. Louis. To visit GreenPal, visit http://www. yourgreenpal.com.

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Temecula Valley Southern California Wine Country makes holiday shopping easy during COVID-19 TEMECULA – Shopping for holiday gifts during a pandemic can be challenging, but Visit Temecula Valley shared some great gift ideas as well suggested places to shop online and in-person for unique items made in Temecula Valley.

Many retail shops have specialty items that are locally produced like olive oils, personal care products, spice blends, handmade treats, wines, beers and spirits. Temecula Valley shops have something for everyone. Gift ideas from a few of the specialty shops in Old Town Temecula can be found at Temecula Olive Oil Company, Temecula Lavender Company and Old Town Spice & Tea Merchants.

Temecula Olive Oil Company sells locally grown fresh olive oils and blends as well as customizable gift boxes and gift certificates, which can be used toward a ranch tour. Pre-made gift boxes run from $28 to $92. “Everything But The Bread” gift set includes bottles of seasoned olive oils “Just Dip It and “Just Dress It” and jars of their most popular dips and spreads: carameli ed onion fig spread, Parmesan artichoke tapenade and Asiago Parmesan cheese dip for $74.95.

These handmade gift boxes are available online at http://TemeculaOliveOil.com.

Temecula Lavender Company creates their own recipes to produce lavender products from their wine country farm. They sell individual lavender items for the bath, skin, home and kitchen as well as gift sets. The Travel Gift Set is great for trying a little bit of several items.

It includes foaming bath, travel oil, Shea glycerin bar soap, bath salts, lemon lip butter, all for $24.95.

Shop for these lavender products and more at http://TemeculaLavenderCo.com.

Old Town Spice & Tea Merchants carries items for the home chef, a connoisseur of fine teas and the person who has everything.

They have created aromatic and flavorful gift boxes, spicy samplers and tea gifts. Some of their most popular housemade blends, quality loose-leaf teas, unique hot cocoas are packaged and ready for gift giving. Gift sets from $8.95 to $42.95 are available at http:// SpiceandTeaMerchants.com.

A plethora of locally made beverages including wines, beers or spirits are available for shopping online if gift givers aren’t ready to travel. A few great holiday wine suggestions for giving or entertaining are Akash Winery 2019 Parlez Vous Rosé at $35, Carter Estate Blanc de Blanc Brut at $40, Chapin Family Vineyards 2017 Cabernet Sauvignon at $68 and a dessert wine from the oldest vineyard in Temecula Valley – Hart Winery Angelica at $75.

Batch Mead carries a Pie Mead gift box for $60 which includes four or five meads: Strawberry Rhurbarb Pie, Boysenberry Pie, Cherry Pie, Apple Pie and Pumpkin Pie ranging from semi-sweet to sweet. Purchasing as a set is a $12

The Temecula a ender Company o ers gift baskets ith items made Valley News Courtesy photos with local lavender for holiday shoppers.

savings, available as soon as all the meads are released, anticipated date was Nov. 19. Look for these new items on their website at http:// BatchMead.com.

Galway Spirits offers several gift sets that contain their own distilled vodkas and gins. Their “Duet in Black” is on sale for $83.30 and includes their signature bottles of vodka and gin. Individual bottles of whiskey, bourbon, gin and vodka blends are also available for purchase online at http://GalwaySpirits.com.

Refuge Brewery is releasing three beers for the holidays: Cranberry Cinnamon Sasion, Sweet Baby Jesus and Holiday Beermeister IPA. Sweet Baby Jesus is a play on the movie “Talladega Nights.”

This popular beer is released annually in December. It is a strong Double IPA with stone fruit/apricot and a dank.

For shoppers that decide to travel, they can visit where the products are produced and sample the goods. Temecula Valley Southern California Wine Country is open to those that want to shop in person.

Suggested places to shop for great finds are Old Town Temecula and Promenade Temecula, as well as individual wineries, breweries and distilleries. To create a shopping itinerary, visit http://VisitTemeculaValley.com.

When shoppers get hungry, they can dine al fresco at one of the 19 winery restaurants, in Old Town Temecula or at Promenade Temecula. When it’s time to relax, the scenic beauty can be enjoyed in wine country while sipping on a glass of wine or really unwind

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Notice for the Owners and Occupants of Rental Property in Hemet The purpose of this letter is to notify you that the City of Hemet’s Rental Registration and Crime-Free Rental Housing Programs (“Programs”) are being repealed pursuant to a voluntary compliance agreement with the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) related to a compliance review HUD conducted of the Programs pursuant to Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Owners of rental property are no longer required to submit a Crime Free Certification, utilize the City’s Crime Free Lease Addendum, pass CPTED inspections, attend Crime Free Rental Housing Training, or undergo annual code inspections under the Programs.

Owners and managers of rental housing are reminded that they must comply with fair housing laws. Owners and managers should be mindful of the following: • You may not evict or refuse to renew a lease because the tenant or a household member is a victim of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, stalking, human trafficking or elder abuse (as described in Cal. Code of Civ. Proc.§ 1161.3).

• You may not evict or refuse to renew a lease solely because the tenant or a household member calls emergency services, including 911.

• An arrest on its own is not evidence of a crime. Many people who are arrested later have the charges against them dropped. An eviction or other adverse housing action for criminal activity should be based on a conviction or other substantial evidence that a crime occurred.

• Not all convictions suggest that a person would be a bad tenant. The best way to assess whether an applicant who has a criminal history will be a good tenant is to conduct an individualized assessment of that person’s circumstances, including the nature, severity and recency of each offense, and any evidence of rehabilitation.

If you believe you have been harmed by the City’s Rental Registration and Crime- Free Rental Housing Programs, you may file a complaint with HUD by contacting Nathanael Hill at 415-489-6541 or nathanael.r.hill@ hud.gov.

Temecula Olive Oil Company’s fresh olive oils and blends are available in gift boxes ready for wrapping or shipping.

A couple shops for holiday gifts in Old Town Temecula.

Women shop at Temecula Lavender Company in Old Town Temecula

at GrapeSeed Spa at South Coast Winery Resort & Spa. Southern Californians can book rooms in wine country, Old Town Temecula or Uptown Temecula at http://VisitTemeculaValley.com for their shopping getaway.

Temecula Valley is open and welcomes local visitors. The businesses have strict cleaning protocols to ensure everyone’s safety and comfort because they consider

Country, Old Town Temecula and Pechanga Resort Casino. In 2019, Wine Enthusiast named it a 10 Best Wine Travel Destination.

Visit Temecula Valley is the region’s official tourism marketing organization and resource for visitors. For visitor information and assistance, call 888-363-2852 or visit http://VisitTemeculaValley.com.

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CALENDAR OF EVENTS N o t i c e t o o u r r e a d e r s : While some activities in our communities are starting, as the Riverside County moves to the red tier, under state orders for social distancing and recommendations to wear face masks to reduce the spread of CO VI D-1 9 , contact event sponsors for the latest updates.

CHILDREN’ S EVENTS: Dec. 14-18 – weekdays only.

Santa’s virtual visits are presented by the Menifee Community Services Department to visit the children live from the North Pole. He will hear their wish list and read a story. The cost is $15 for a 10-minute virtual visit and a goodie bag to pick up. Reservations are required by contacting 951-723-3880 or http://www.cityofmenifee.us/ holidays, and is limited to one household per reservation.

COMMUNITY EVENTS: Nov . 2 7 to Dec. 2 5 – daily. The city of Menifee and Menifee Valley Chamber of Commerce has launched the Shop Small Bingo game. Pick up special bingo cards at City Hall, 29844 Haun Road, or the chamber office, 29737 Hub Drive, in Menifee. While shopping at participating Menifee small business, have the cards signed and take with receipts back to the chamber or city for an entry in a $500 ra e basket drawing.

For more information, contact eondev@cityofmenifee.us.

Dec. 3 – Mt. San Jacinto College and Food 4 Thought partner for a drive-thru food distribution Thursday, Dec. 3, from 2-5 p.m. at the Menifee Valley campus, 28237 La Piedra Road, at the main entrance until supplies last. For more information, contact Alyssa West at awest@msjc.edu.

Dec. 3 – 10:30 a.m. to noon.

LE Gives virtual workshop is presented by the city of Lake Elsinore as part of the city’s proactive approach to ending homelessness that focuses on creating tangible ways for the community and its leaders to support efforts by giving those in need a hand up, not a hand out. The Zoom broadcast will seek to connect community members, local organizations and businesses together to share specific ways they can work as a community to reduce homelessness. For more

details and register at http://www. lake-elsinore.org/LEGivesWorkshop.

Dec. 4 – 7-8:30 p.m. Temecula’s 20th annual candlelight vigil will be held at the Hawk Ranch, 42149 Elm St., in Murrieta. The Community Christmas Caroling: A Celebration of Love and Light will bring together families, friends and the community to celebrate those who were lost and those who were loved. This free community event will feature acoustic caroling, complementary hot chocolate and cookies, candles and fellowship. Be sure to bring chairs, blankets and good cheer.

Dec. 7 – Noon to 1 p.m. The Client Attraction is a five-day online workshop for entrepreneurs presented by Laura Thompson exploring the mindset blocks that keep people from creating the income they desire and other ideas of how to better attract clients to merging businesses. For more information, visit http://www.

Lauralacy-thompson.com Dec. 11 – 5-7:30 p.m. Enjoy Drive-Thru with Santa at the Kay Ceniceros Senior Center, 29995 Evans Road, in Menifee. The cost is $5 per participant. Santa will be on-site to greet all in attendance with special prizes for the most festive vehicles, sweet treats, take-home crafts and interactive activities. Five sessions will be held: 5:15 p.m.; 5:45 p.m.; 6:30 p.m.; 7 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Space is limited. Make a reservation by calling 951-723-3880 or visiting http://www.cityofmenifee.us.

ONG OING – 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.

ONG OING – 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 of mortgage payments and paying vendor notices. Eligible businesses, including nonprofits, must be in Riverside County, with less than 50 employees and a minimum of 1 and operating for at least one-year since March 1. For more information, call Riverside County Business and Community Services at 951-955-0493.

ONG OING – 7 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. The Temecula Winchester Swap Meet continues at 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.

ONG OING – 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.

ONG OING – Temecula’s Farmers Markets are offered in Old Town Temecula Saturdays from 8:30 a.m. to noon at 4100 Main St. in Temecula; at Promenade Temecula, 40640 Winchester Road, outside JCPennys 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 of Disease Control and Prevention and Riverside County Public Health orders, the farmers markets will be restricted agriculture products only. Follow the Old Town Temecula Farmers Market on Facebook to stay updated. No pets are allowed.

WORK SHOPS, MEETING S and ANNOUNCEMENTS: ONG OING – Noon to 1 p.m.

Attend Murrieta Wildomar Chamber of Commerce’s weekly business briefing via oom or watch live on Facebook every Wednesday. Register 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.

ONG OING – Everything KETO classes. These interactive step-by-step workshop 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 http://www. cityofmenifee.us/register or call 951-723-3880.

ONG OING – Menifee Community Services offers online driver’s education courses with a $21.95 fee. The course includes animated driving scenarios, instructional videos, sample test, licensed instructor available to answer questions, DMV approved certificate of completion with all lectures and exams completed from home. Designed for students and does not include behind-thewheel instruction or a California driver’s permit. Contact 951-7233880 or visit the city of Menifee to register at http://www.cityofmenifee.us.

ONG OING – 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 833349-2054.

ONG OING – Local National Association of Female Entrepreneurs group helps women grow both personally and professionally and meets monthly. Contact Robbie Motter, the NAFE global coordinator, at 951-255-9200 or rmotter@aol.com for information about future meetings after the coronavirus restrictions are lifted.

ONG OING – 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.

ONG OING – 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.

ONG OING – The Murrieta Garden Club meets each month at the Murrieta Community Center, 41810 Juniper St., in Murrieta.

Anyone who likes to garden or is interested in plants is welcome.

Memberships are $10 per year.

Find more information about the monthly event or project on Facebook.

ONG OING – Temecula Valley Rose Society meets each month.

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

ONG OING – 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.

ONG OING – Sons of Norway/ Scandinavia meet the first Saturday of every month from September to June. The virtual meetings are held on Zoom, at 11 a.m. Join Zoom meeting at https://us02web. zoom.us/j/4232348177?pwd= e Dd1SDlDdW5sdVowWUp1N3 pBYmpGZz09 with the Meeting ID: 423 234 817 and passcode: yCp0js. Everyone is welcome to enjoy some virtual company with fellow Scandinavians. For more information, call 951-849-1690.

ONG OING – Parent Support Group is available for parents whose children of any age struggle with addiction. Education, skills and support are available in Temecula. For more information, call 951-775-4000 or email info@ thecenter4 lifechange.com.

ONG OING – The city of Menifee offers a fitness class on Zoom Mondays through Fridays at 7 a.m., at 9 a.m. and at 12:30 p.m.

For more information, contact 951-723-3880 or visit http://www. cityofmenifee.us/register.

cottonwood timber culture was under water.

“In the winter, heavy rains beat against the south bedroom wall at night. In the summer, thunder storms brought out the fragrance of the sage on the hills. Not every-

thing was wild. Pop and Mom always had a good garden and fruit trees, sub irrigated watermelons and corn.”

Submitted by Menifee Valley Historical Association.

Recall Menifee in simpler days MENIFEE – The Menifee Valley Historical Association thought residents might enjoy reading this memory written by Rosamond (Brown) Morrison about her early years growing up in Menifee, when life seemed a lot simpler.

From “Childhood” by Rosamond B. Morrison, written Aug. 10, 1992, “When I was about 5 years old, Pop came into the house early one morning saying there was a young barn owl down in the field. ight away I went to see, The owl looked big to me, I approached him slowly. He was not afraid. We communicated for a few minutes before I went back to the house.

“Climbing Bell Mountain every spring was a must do. One time we went up the south side, the steepest. Walter went first, I held on to his jumper tail. In the old days, denim jackets were called jumpers. Margaret came next, Hazel behind her. We went before the first warm days when rattlesnakes could be coming out of hibernation. We enjoyed the good view from the top of Bell Mountain.

“We three girls often took walks around the fields accompanied with dogs and sometimes cats.

After rains we looked for tadpoles in the ponds in the timber culture. One time I found a nest of baby rabbits. Mom had said do not touch young creatures: that would upset the mother, she might abandon them. I just looked at the babies but not too long and did not touch.

“There were eagles and hawks.

When a chicken hawk came in to grab chicks, mother hen squawked loudly. We ran out to frighten the hawk away. Walter did hunting and trapping, which is not acceptable today. He always went out very early every morning to check the traps. He sent pelts some place and received money.

Fields were fenced so that the horses could be turned out when not in use for the farm work. Before a storm, the horses liked to run their manes and tails flying in the wind.

“There were also sweet peas in several places and cactus. A small, sweet-smelling star-shaped lily grew by the west fence. When the roads were improved, these and many other small plants disappeared. After a hot summer day, we could see and hear the burrowing owls as they sat on the

fence posts.

“After a rain, the water ran for a long time in the streams. Coming home from school, I liked to leave the road to follow the streams. I came home with wet shoes. When there was heavy rains much of the

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ENTERTAINMENT

Small Business Saturday, Paint Nights and more the week of Nov. 27-Dec. 3 Lexington Howe STAFF WRITER

Old Town Blues Club Fear of Phobias is playing live Friday, Nov. 27, from 9 p.m. to 12:30 a.m. at the Old Town Blues Club in Temecula.

For more information, visit https://www.facebook.com/oldtownbluesclubmusic.

Small Business Bazaar In The Loop and Vail Headquarters in Temecula is hosting Small Business Bazaar for Small Business Saturday, Nov. 28, from 3:30-8:30 p.m. Activities include a DJ, holiday decorations, painting and crafting, train rides and more.

The event is free to attend and welcomes all ages.

For more information, visit https://www.facebook.com/ events/3543837899066642/.

Old Town Paint Night On Monday, Nov. 30, from 6-8 p.m., Pretty Paints and 1909 in Temecula is hosting a paint night

with a special guest. Hint: It’s a big green guy from a popular Christmas movie.

For more information, visit www.prettypaintsparty.com.

Sand y Claws Painting Class The Craft House in Temecula is hosting a step-by-step painting class of Sandy Claws, from the movie “The Nightmare Before Christmas.”

For more information, visit http://thecrafthousetemecula. as.me/sandyclaws.

Peltzer Ice Rink Peltzer Family Cellars in Temecula is hosting their third annual Peltzer Ice Rink. The season will run daily Monday through Friday from 3-9 p.m., and Saturday and Sunday from 1:30-9 p.m. until Sunday, Jan. 10. Session times are 3 p.m., 4:30 p.m., 6 p.m., 7:30 p.m., plus 1:30 p.m. on weekends.

Their ice rink bar will be open for drinks Wednesdays and Fridays from 3-8:30 p.m., plus Saturdays and Sundays from 1:30-8:30 p.m.

Hot chocolate and treats will be available for purchase at the snack bar.

To limit lines and maintain social distancing, Peltzer Family Cellars asked that guests reserve their session online in advance.

For more information and tickets, visit http://reservations.orderport.net.

Weekend Train and Trolley Rid es The Southern California Railway Museum in Perris is hosting weekend train and trolley rides throughout the month of November, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Ride street cars, interurban electric cars and trains on the museum railway on their 100-acre campus. Parking, entry to grounds and entry to open exhibits are free.

For more information, visit https://socalrailway.org/scrmevents/weekend-rides/.

Lexington Howe can be reached by email at lhowe@reedermedia. com.

The Craft House is hosting a step-by-step paint night Friday, Nov. 27, of Sandy Claws, from “The Nightmare Before Christmas” movie.

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Soboba’s annual toy drive is in full swing Mike Hiles SPECIAL TO VALLEY NEWS

The Soboba Gives Back! Toy Drive annual philanthropic event to collect and distribute Christmas gifts to the neediest of children this holiday season began recently.

The remaining days of the drive are Tuesday, Dec. 1, and Dec. 8, from noon to 8 p.m. at the Soboba Casino Resort Event Center, 22777 Soboba Road, in San Jacinto.

This atypical year, mostly due to the COVID-19 pandemic, has left many families with less earnings to provide toys for their children.

Soboba Foundation members said they are grateful that the Soboba Casino Resort is allowing them to help out the community by partnering with them this year. SCR staff are working to make sure every toy is properly sanitized with a UV wand and that volunteers remain socially distanced.

For each toy, valued at $20 or more, donors will receive a

voucher for $40 in free slot play at the casino. There is a limit of one coupon per customer, per day. All visitors to the casino must be wearing an approved mask – no gaiters or bandanas are allowed – and have their temperature checked at the entrance. Floor signs direct casino guests to the toy drive but visitors can also enter directly at the Event Center entrance.

During the drop-off times, every donor was greeted with cheers and applause as they came in with their toys. Donna Banta and her daughter Christy Banta, both of Hemet, said they look forward to this event every year.

“We’ve been coming since it began,” Donna Banta said. “We do it to give toys for the kids. This is a really tough year, and this program will help a lot.”

The pair said they often bring a boy-friendly toy one week and a girl-friendly toy the following week and try to make sure they are the newest toys that children

Saniti ed toys a ait distribution to nonprofits that benefit from the Soboba Foundation’s annual philanthropic Soboba Gives Back! Toy Drive, at Soboba Casino Resort. Valley News/Soboba B and of L uiseñ o I nd ians photos

are wanting each year. On Nov. 10, they both brought in a Baby Yoda toy.

“We usually spend about two or three hours in the casino after we drop off the toys it’s something we like to do together,” Christy Banta said.

All volunteers working at the

A UVC LED handheld sanitizer is used to scan each toy at Soboba Give Back! Toy Drive when it is received. The wand is portable and rechargeable with a 99.9% sterilization rating.

donation stations wear masks and gloves and sit behind Plexiglas partitions. Each toy undergoes sanitation, using a UVC LED handheld sanitizer, upon receipt and before it is stacked behind the check-in tables. The wand is portable and rechargeable with a 99.9% sterilization rating. The

toys are taken into a back room for sorting by another group of volunteers so they can be distributed to nonprofits that have requested to be included this year.

For more information about the Soboba Gives Back! Toy Drive, visit http://www.soboba.com.

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HEALTH

Temecula Valley Hospital staff receives Jimmy Moore Citizen of the Year Award TEMECULA – The Kiwanis Club of Temecula Valley presented the Jimmy Moore Citizen of the Year Award to the Temecula Valley Hospital staff for the outstanding services and care provided to the citizens in the Temecula Valley, Tuesday, Nov. 17.

Jimmy Moore was known by many as “Mr. Temecula” for having played a major role in the city incorporation in 1989. Moore was a 29-year veteran of the U.S. Army who served as a pilot in the Vietnam War, and was an Icon within the Temecula Valley Community. Moore was a member of the Kiwanis Club of Temecula Valley, and they acknowledge his accomplishments by recognizing them annually with a “Citizen of the Year” award in his name.

“Each year our club presents this award to individuals, community service organizations or institutions that contributes to our community in an exceptional way.

The Temecula Valley Hospital staff, management and facility certainly cover all three types of past recipients of this award,” Mark Ward, president of the Kiwanis Club of Temecula Valley, said.

“It is an honor to receive this very special award on behalf of our hospital staff,” Darlene Wetton, CEO of Temecula Valley Hospital, said. “Our Temecula Valley Hospital employees and the Kiwanis

Club have our community at heart in everything they do. What a wonderful way for our teams to come together to celebrate Jimmy Moore’s legacy of our region.”

Temecula Valley Hospital, with a 5 Star Medicare Hospital Compare rating, brings advanced technology, innovative programs, patient-centered and family sensitive care to area residents featuring 140 private patient rooms. The hospital is the first Universal Health Services Hospital Emergency Department in the country to achieve accreditation from the American College of Emergency Physicians as a Geriatric Emergency Department. Temecula Valley Hospital specializes in advanced cardiac services, stroke care, general and surgical specialties and orthopedics as a recent Blue Distinction Center designation for quality in knee and hip replacement surgeries. The hospital is nationally recognized for patient safety by the Leapfrog Group, with a 2017 Top Hospital Award and seven “A” grades for patient safety. For more information, visit https://www.temeculavalleyhospital.com/about/news.

Kiwanis International is a global organization of volunteers dedicated to improving the world one child and one community at a time.

The Kiwanis Club of Temecula Valley is focused on serving the

Darlene Wetton, second from left, CEO of Temecula Valley Hospital, receives the Jimmy Moore Citizen of the ear ard Tuesday, o . 1 , on behalf of hospital sta , hich as presented by Mark ard, left, president of Kiwanis Club of Temecula Valley with Dale Q ualm of Kiwanis Club of Temecula Valley; Maj. Gen. Claude Reinke, board chairman of Temecula Valley Hospital, and Jim Stead, Kiwanis Club member.

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needs of their community with emphasis on children, but is also involved in projects that serve

others. For information about the Kiwanis Club of Temecula Valley, visit http://www.kiwanistv.org.

Submitted by Temecula Valley Hospital.

Golden Era Production in San Jacinto runs in Mission Inn Foundation fundraiser Tony Ault STAFF WRITER

A 23-member team from Golden Era Productions, called The Truth About Drugs Running Team, took to the San Jacinto campus to run the 5-kilometer and 10-kilometer Mission Inn Run Foundation fundraiser for the fifth year Sunday, Nov. 1.

In its 43rd year, the Mission Inn Run has been one of the main fun-

draising events for the Mission Inn Foundation that helps maintain the historic Mission Inn in downtown Riverside.

The running team from Golden Era Productions has participated in the Mission Inn Run with thousands of other runners for many years. This year, the team learned fundraising run which takes to the streets of downtown Riverside was not taking place because of the coronavirus pandemic.

So, the team decided if the Mission Inn Run was not happening in Riverside, they still wanted to take part on their 525-acre campus in San Jacinto. All the COVID-19 protocols were kept in place by the team who ran on campus.

The running course passed “The Castle” film studio and wound around all the sports facilities, which include basketball courts, sand volleyball courts, a 3.3-acre lake and par course – a running

course with exercise stations. The race got off to a patriotic start with the national anthem sung by Linda Greilich, according to Golden Era officials.

The Truth About Drugs Program is the largest international and most comprehensive nongovernmental drug educational and prevention program of its kind.

Overseen by the Foundation for a Drug-Free World, the program provides effective drug education

resources–videos, booklets and other teaching aids in 18 different languages designed to catch the attention of young people and leave them informed. The documentaries for this program were produced at Golden Era Productions. All of the materials are free and downloadable. For more information, visit http://drugfreeworld.org.

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

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HEALTH

Improve your mental health with better sleep

Make a pot pie with leftover turkey TEMECULA – Pot pie makes for a delicious meal, especially when home cooks go the extra mile and prepare homemade pie crust.

Although some may be intimidated by the idea of making their own pie crusts, the following recipe for “Turkey Vegetable Pot Pie with Whole-Wheat Crust” from Michelle Dudash’s “Clean Eating for Busy Families,” published by Fair Winds, simplifies the process. And since the recipe calls for turkey, the timing is perfect to use those Thanksgiving Day leftovers.

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Family Features SPECIAL TO VALLEY NEWS

For some, the holidays may be the happiest season of all, but for others the hectic pace and endless to-do lists can take a real toll on their mental health. This year, the impact is heightened by a global health pandemic.

According to a survey from Mattress Firm, more than 60 million Americans said COVID-19 has worsened their quality of their sleep, and those losing sleep are often seeing their mental wellbeing and healthy habits worsen.

Nearly half of respondents said COVID-19 increased their worries and prevented them from falling or staying asleep at night, with 41% said their poor sleep has a negative impact on their daily lives.

“It’s no surprise that when our minds are full or our hearts are heavy, our mental health tends to suffer,” Dr. Sujay ansagra, a sleep health expert for Mattress Firm, said. “What many people don’t realize is that mental health struggles also affect sleep, and adequate rest is a key component of maintaining and improving your mental health.”

If stress and worry are preventing you from getting a good night of sleep, try these ideas from Kansagra to help improve your mental

state and ease your body into rest.

Think positive ly.

Every night before going to bed, list three good things from your day. They don’t have to be amazing things, just three positive aspects of your day. For example, acknowledge you had a good virtual catch-up with a colleague or enjoyed a new recipe or workout class. Listing your positive experiences at night can help you maintain a positive frame of mind as you unwind for the day.

Create a to-d o list.

This technique is for those who mentally work through their list of pending responsibilities before bed. In a fast-paced world, sometimes lying in bed is the first time you have to actually think about what’s on your list. By creating a list of tasks or writing down your worries, you can prevent yourself from thinking about them excessively before bed and throughout the night.

Try progressive relaxat ion.

It involves taking slow, deep breaths and slowly tensing the muscles in your body for a few seconds then relaxing them. Start at your feet and work your way up the body. This technique can help you relax and decompress after a long day.

G ive yourself a b reak.

Especially if you’re working

from home or tackling a lot of seasonal tasks, it’s easy to keep yourself busy up until the minute you fall into bed. However, your mind may still be whirling from all that activity. Build in a few minutes before bed each night to let your mind rest, whether it’s spending a few minutes with a good book, practicing meditation or sipping on a cup of sleepy-time tea.

Appeal to your senses.

Being mindful of how your senses react to various stimuli can play a role in your ability to drift off to sleep. Some people need silence others benefit from ambient sound. Certain scents can be soothing and make good choices for essential oil diffusers, such as lavender oil. Also be conscious of the touches that affect your sleep, like the support from your mattress, the softness of your sheets or the temperature of the room.

Whether it’s your family, your health or general stress that’s keeping you up, find time in your day to give yourself some grace.

Your mental health is extremely important and should not be overlooked, so if you’re feeling a little worn down, ensure you’re getting the quality sleep you need to tackle the day and week ahead.

Find more tips for better sleep at http://MattressFirm.com.

Turkey Vegetab le Pot Pie with Whole-Wheat Crust Start to finish: 1 hour, 45 minutes. 30 minutes active time.

Serves: 6 For the crust: • 1 cup whole-wheat flour • 1 cup all-purpose flour • 1/4 teaspoon salt • 2/3 cup corn oil • 1/3 cup orange juice For the filling: • 1 carton condensed cream of chicken soup (organic preferred) • 1/2 cup low-fat milk • 1 1/4 pound turkey thinly sliced into bite-size pieces • 1 cup thinly sliced carrots (or frozen sliced carrots, thawed) • 1 cup leeks, quartered lengthwise, then thinly sliced crosswise, using white and pale green parts only • 3/4 cup thinly sliced celery • 1/2 cup frozen peas, thawed • 3 tablespoons whole-wheat flour • 2 teaspoons dried herbes de Provence (or 1/2 teaspoon each thyme, rosemary and basil) • 1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper • 1/4 teaspoon salt To make the crust: Combine flours and salt in a medium bowl.

Pour in oil and orange juice and stir until moistened. Press dough to flatten and chill.

Turkey pot pie made with leftover Thanksgiving Day leftovers makes for an easy and delicious fall Valley News/Courtesy photo meal.

To make the filling: Blend soup and 1/2 cup of milk in a large bowl. Mix in the remaining ingredients.

Directions: Preheat the oven to 350 F. Divide dough into 2 balls, one slightly larger than the other. Roll the larger ball between two large sheets of waxed paper until it is 1/8-inch-thick or until it fits in the bottom of a 9-inch pie pan.

Remove the top sheet of waxed paper. Turn dough over and carefully place in the pie pan, removing remaining piece of waxed paper. Press out any bubbles and patch holes with scraps of dough.

Pour filling into the prepared pan. Roll remaining dough and lay it on top. Cut any excess dough hanging from the edges and crimp the crust between your thumb and forefinger to seal. Cut a heart into the center to allow steam to escape.

Place the pie on a sheet pan and bake for 1 hour and 15 minutes, until center of crust becomes golden and an instant-read thermometer inserted into the pie’s center reaches 165 F, covering browned edges only with foil about halfway through cooking.

Remove the pie from the oven and allow it to rest for at least 5 minutes before cutting.

Medical expert says, ‘We are living in a very toxic society’ Shelby Ramsey SPECIAL TO THE VILLAGE NEWS

In regards to one’s health, it’s common to have an understanding of family medical history and whether or not you are living a healthy lifestyle. But how aware are you of the chemical content in the food you ingest day after day?

Weighing in on this topic is Dr. Nancy Klimas, who has advised three Secretaries of Health and Human Services serving the United States. Klimas received international recognition for her research and clinical work in multisymptom disorders.

“Anything that drives the immune system or damages the immune system so it can’t be as responsive is bad for patients,” Klimas said.

She said that mycotoxins in the environment are a big factor in conditions such as chronic fatigue syndrome. She explained that mycotoxins are naturally occurring toxins produced by certain molds, which can be found in food, potentially causing disease and death in humans and animals.

“There is a lot of evidence of mycotoxins in (my0 patients,” Klimas said.

Mold exposure is one of the leading examples of an environmental intolerance that can lead to health problems.

“Roof leaks and plumbing leaks can lead to mold (being) trapped in our airspace; (it’s) recirculated and concentrated since we close up our homes to air-condition or heat,” Klimas said. “Myriad problems are caused by mycotoxins. These are not allergies; these are poison.”

These toxins are known to damage cell functions, and considering toxins in the food people eat is a sobering topic.

“Certain foods have much bigger pesticide and Roundup content than others,” Klimas said. “Think corn and soy, but also almonds, peaches, cherries and citrus.”

Pesticides are considered neurotoxins, a poison which acts on the nervous system.

The Environmental Working Group identifies the Top 12 “Dirty Dozen” of non-organic foods: strawberries, spinach, kale, nectarines, apples, grapes, peaches, cherries, pears, tomatoes, celery and potatoes. It is also noted that hot and sweet bell peppers “can carry residues of neurotoxic chemicals such as the organophosphate insecticides acephate and chlorpyrifos.”

“We are living in a very toxic society,” Klimas said, adding that these chemical pesticides are having a negative impact on food.

While many people strive to find healthy foods that are mindfully grown in a clean environment for human consumption, the reality is that throughout their lives people are exposed to chemicals through different environmental factors.

“Roundup, for example, is sprayed in playgrounds; it can and does make its way (into) the water we drink,” Klimas said.

Given how common the weed killer is, it is used in many parks, people’s yards and more.

On the positive side, there are individuals and businesses who have a passion for helping others lead a healthier life and avoid chemical exposure.

One such example is the Maciel Family Farm, a certified organic farm in Bonsall, owned by Adam and Laura Maciel.

The Maciels are passionate when discussing the value of truly organic produce and the importance of avoiding toxins for better health.

“A lot of people believe that if the FDA (Food & Drug Administration) says chemical pest control won’t hurt them, it really won’t,” Laura Maciel said. “But how do you know that for sure? How do you know what will happen down the road with your health due to those chemicals?”

Following the stringent guidelines to be a certified organic farm is something the Maciels adhere to without a second thought.

“We’ve had the same customers for years,” Laura Maciels said.

“They become good friends. You never want to break that trust your

customers have in you.”

The Maciels have a good reputation in the organic farming industry since 1987 and provide high-quality, farm fresh produce to customers each week.

As consumers, people associate how produce is grown and handled based on the classifications: nonorganic, SDA-certified organic or organic from another country.

What are the variations of standards in these categories?

Under the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s guidelines, for crops to be classified and labeled “100 organic” or “certified organic,” agricultural products, including ingredients, must be produced and handled per their regulations.

Food grown in other countries, although labeled “organic,” is not necessarily held to the same USDA standards. It is advisable to ask the origin of produce labeled “organic.”

Klimas said that with USDA certified organic farming we “can be pretty confident the plants and soil are randomly tested.”

The Maciels reaffirmed this information, saying, “(The authorities) come out periodically and run tests on the vegetables and fruit.”

Before being classified a certified organic farm, “They had to verify that the soil hadn’t been treated with any synthetics (nonorganic chemicals) for at least three years,” Laura Maciel said.

For fertilization, Adam Maciel said he favors natural chicken compost. In following the USDA’s certified organic guidelines, the Maciels said that they use beneficial insects for pest control purposes, which have been successful.

The No. 1 beneficial insect the Maciels use are lacewings. Lacewings are known to eliminate aphids, thrips, whitefly, leafhoppers, spider mites and mealybugs.

They are able to tolerate wide temperature ranges and work well in tandem with other beneficial insects.

“We haven’t had to use (organic) sprays for quite some time,” Adam Maciel said.

The graphic depicts black mold fungi aspergillus, which produces poisonous carcinogens, especially in certain food crops.

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More and more people are seeing the benefit of food that is free of chemicals, Klimas said.

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Former Great Oak baseball player is MVP of local scout ball league with players, scouts, and coaches getting to know each other,” Israel said. “It was truly about providing a rare opportunity to compete against some of the best upcoming and present talent in the state in a great atmosphere.”

Local collegiate and high school players were evaluated by coaches and pro scouts and at the same time got in some repetitions to improve their game. Former Great Oak High School baseball player and current Palomar College Comets player, Jonah Sebring, was named the MVP of the All-Star game, which took place Sunday, Nov. 1, at the Diamond in Lake Elsinore.

“The BRG scout games in my opinion was a complete success,” Sebring said. “There was great competition, great exposure, and best of all we got the opportunity

The aseball esource Group at the ake lsinore iamond.

to play on a beautiful field. All the hard work culminating toward getting the MVP honor was great. It is an ama ing feeling to know you can play your game against such high-level players.”

Sebring graduated in 2019 from Great Oak where he was part of the CIF Division 3 Championship team. He also spent the shortened 2020 season at Palomar College.

“After I graduated, I’ve been trying to stay in shape as best I can and continue to hone my skills as a baseball player,” Sebring said, who was selected because of his tools.

“Tools get you in the game,” Israel said. “How well you play and display your tools in the game gets you MVP.” see B ASEB AL L , page C-2

raps up their first season of scout ball

JP Raineri SPORTS EDITOR

It has been almost 10 months since local high school and college baseball players have been able to play competitively against each other, as well as for college and Major League scouts. With COVID-19 numbers on the rise and the pandemic slowing things down for recruiting, enter The Scout Ball Games LLC. This social enterprise of is also known as Baseball Resource Group, a California nonprofit corporation whose mission is to support an opportunity for a preselect group of baseball players who are highly regarded in the baseball industry.

BRG’s goal is to provide optimum competition to expose players to some of Southern Cali-

Valley News/Sebring P hotography photo

fornia’s best talent and they just wrapped up their first season, which was held at the Lake Elsinore Diamond. Players who signed up and paid their fees played against some of the top arms in the area. While pitchers faced some of the top bats in a legitimate atmosphere of an actual minor league park.

“The first season was great,” Mishael Israel, executive director of BRG, said. “We accomplished all of our corporate goals on why we started it.”

BRG had local MLB scouts, assisted by local coaches, coach the individual teams six-game schedule, which was followed by an end of season All-Star game.

“It was an excellent opportunity for scouts and coaches to share their knowledge of the game along

ormer Great ak igh School baseball player and current Palomar College Comets player, onah Sebring, is named the M P of the G ll-Star game, Sunday, o . 1, at the iamond in ake lsinore.

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Great Oak competes in Indiana as South Temecula XC Club

Comprised of si senior boys and one sophomore, the Great ak boys, running as the South Temecula C Club, take fifth place o erall at the C To n S Meet of Champions the a ern Gibson Championship Cross-country Course in Terre aute, ndiana, Saturday and Sunday, o . 1 -1 . Valley News/Courtesy photo

JP Raineri SPORTS EDITOR

There may not be a high school cross-country season this fall, but a few California club programs are

finding a way to get their runners some competitive meets amid the coronavirus pandemic.

The South Temecula X C Club, which features head coach Doug Soles and runners from Great Oak

High School, headed the Lavern Gibson Championship Crosscountry Course in Terre Haute, Indiana, to compete at the X C Town USA Meet of Champions Saturday and Sunday, Nov. 14-15.

Joining the Temecula club was another club from Newbury Park, who won the inaugural event in literally runaway fashion to affirm itself as the premier program in the land for a second year running. Their top five runners were all among the race’s first do en scorers in recording a blowout win over Northwest powerhouse Jesuit of Portland and Midwest elite squad St. Charles East.

The Newbury Park Athletic Club tallied 32 points, to 97 for Jesuit, competing as Stumptown TC Club, and St. Charles East, lining up as Saints X C Club. No other teams scored under 150 points. South Temecula X C Club placed fifth with 172.

“The meet in Indiana went well,” Soles said. “The goal was to give the kids something to look forward to and an opportunity to compete when so many of their normal opportunities just aren’t there.”

It was cold and it was rainy in the day leading up to the race, but it was a lot like the annual Nike Cross Nationals, where the weather is comparable and everyone must race in the same conditions.

The South Temecula girls had a great pack and finished eighth in a National class field.

“Hannah Miller had a great day, and showed she is one of our best up and comers this year,” Soles said. “There was only a 15 second spread between our 1-4 which gives me a lot of hope for the regular season, whenever that happens. Six of the girls racing were sophomores, so we are developing for a strong future.”

The boys’ team was comprised of six senior boys and one sophomore, with many getting their first time on a national stage.

“They did great,” Soles said.

“We got fifth overall and competed well against the top ranked teams in the country.”

It had been three years since Soles and his Great Oak crew lost to four boys’ teams in a single race, but there were some positive early signs for the program that has swept the last six California Division 1 state titles. Great Oak is on a mission of extending that streak to seven when the pandemic-rescheduled state meet hopefully takes place in late March 2021.

Competing with just one runner from last year’s NX N championship runner-up squad as four runners have since graduated, a fifth has transferred and a si th has opted not to run this season, Great Oak will be led toward another championship run by senior Austin Monte , who is being tabbed to provide senior leadership this season. Monte e celled under pressure, passing 13 runners along the final mile to lead the Wolfpack contingent by placing 36th in 15 minutes 58 seconds.

“Austin had a great run in 36th place, and John Worthy stepped up big to keep us close to the top teams,” Soles said. “Senior Quinn Saville saved the day with a strong race to give us a good fifth man and a top 5 finish on the day.”

Worthy, who has run well over the years, showed encouraging progress in Indiana after suffering from an Achilles’ tendon issue for much of the summertime.

“Worthy showed clearly better here than at the Desert Twilight last month, taking second in the team order,” Soles said.

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Troy Percival resigns as UC Riverside’s head baseball coach JP Raineri SPORTS EDITOR

The University of California Riverside announced recently that Troy Percival has resigned as the Highlanders head baseball coach. Percival, who was a longtime reliver for the Angels, said he is leaving to spend more time with his family and to guide and support his son Cole, a pitcher who recently signed a minor league contract with the Dodgers as an undrafted free agent.

“I’ve decided to watch Cole play as he begins his professional journey with the Dodgers,” Percival said in a statement released by the university. “Our family is incredibly excited about this next step in his career and I want to be there to support him. This is the right time for me to step down from my current position.”

Cole Percival, 21, had a 3.19 ERA and 63 strikeouts in 14 starts as a University of California Riverside freshman in 2018, but an elbow injury that eventually led to

him receiving a platelet-rich plasma injection sidelined him for the 2019 season. The 6-foot-5, 220-pounder made four starts (24 innings, 3.38 ERA) as a redshirt sophomore in 2020 before the pandemic ended the season in March.

The university was 111-177 in five seasons under Percival, who was a high school coach at Riverside Poly and Moreno Valley high schools before taking over at University of California Riverside in 2014. The Highlanders won at least 20 games three times under Percival, but they never had a winning season. They were 9-7 last spring before the 2020 season was halted because of the coronavirus pandemic.

“Troy has been an integral part of what we are building with UC Riverside Athletics and has elevated our baseball program,” Tamica Smith Jones, athletics director of University of California Riverside, said in a statement, thanking Percival for his time leading the program. “We are happy for Troy and excited for

Cole and wishing the entire Percival family all the best.”

Troy Percival attended and played for University of California Riverside from 1987 to 1990. A sixth-round draft pick of the Angels, he spent four years in the minor leagues, where he was converted from a catcher to a relief pitcher.

He made his major league debut in 1995 and the four-time All-Star went on to save 358 games in 703 appearances over 14 seasons with the Angels, Detroit Tigers, St. Louis Cardinals and Tampa Bay Rays. Percival spent 10 of his major league seasons with the Angels and still holds the franchise record for saves (316).

Associate head coach Justin Johnson has been named the Highlanders’ interim head coach and is eager for the opportunity to take over.

“I am honored and grateful for the opportunity to coach this team and lead our program into the future,” Johnson said. “I would like to thank Troy Percival for all he has done for

ormer ngels pitcher, Troy Perci al, resigns as ni ersity of California i erside s head baseball coach recently.

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my career as a leader, mentor and friend. I am ready to step into this role and lead our student-athletes.”

Percival said that Justin is a strong leader who has done an outstanding job recruiting their student-athletes and building up the program over the past several years.

“He has recruited most of our current student-athletes and our players have a great relationship with him.

They trust Justin and I am excited to see him continue to build the program,” he said.

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

Chaparral student athletes celebrate National Signing Day JP Raineri SPORTS EDITOR

Student athletes from Chaparral High School also took part in National Letter of Intent signing day ceremonies as they were recognized for committing to play sports and further their education at the next level. Athletes did not sign in front of big campus crowds, but they found other ways to enjoy their big day, despite the coronavirus pandemic.

The first day of the year that a high school senior can sign a binding national letter of intent with an NCAA, NCCAA or NAIA college, committing in writing to attend that school in exchange for a commitment from the school to receive financial aid and scholarships for 2021 was Wednesday, Nov. 11.

Most students are currently not

on their school campuses due to the pandemic, and with high school sports teams limited to workouts that require physical distancing, signing day for these Puma athletes included ceremonies at home so these athletes could enjoy their big day.

Here is a look at the colleges and universities to which these Chaparral student athletes will be reportedly taking their talents.

Volleyb all Brooklyn Frederick, Weber State Anna Hawthorne, California State University Fullerton Boys Lacrosse Jakob Hudson, Westcliff niversity Sof tb all Makenzie Guiliano, California State University San Marcos Jaelynn Lambert, Brigham Young University

Chaparral softball player, Maken ie Guiliano, ill play at California State ni ersity San Marcos ne t Valley News/Courtesy photos year.

If there are other student athletes from any area schools playing at the next level and did not get rec-

Chaparral softball player, aelynn ambert, signs her national letter of intent to play at Brigham Young ni ersity in 2021.

ognized by the media, send more information to sports@reedermedia.com.

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

DI Council extends recruiting dead period in all sports Pandemic prompts extension until April 15 JP Raineri SPORTS EDITOR

Jonah Sebring, a 2019 graduate from Great Oak High School, pictured here with Mishael Israel, left, executive director of Baseball Resource Group, and former Los Angeles Dodger Reggie Smith, is named MVP of the BRG All-Star game.

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B ASEB AL L from page C-1 The next step is to keep working hard, Sebring said.

“Just because I’m starting to get noticed doesn’t mean I stop getting better. If anything, it motivates me to work harder,” he said.

Sebring also said the B G staff and scouts gave him great advice on how to better his game.

“Being around people with the years of experience they have was a blessing,” he said.

Currently the organization has plans for an instructional league in spring 2021.

“We will do some clinics and camps in the winter and tryouts in the summer for 2021 fall season,” Israel said. “We also plan for the BRG scout ball games to expand with more teams and other locations.”

To find out more information about the BRG Scout Ball Games, visit http://www.scoutballgames. com. Interested participants can also call 951-381-0585 or email info@scoutballgames.com.

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

The NCAA Division I Council extended the recruiting dead period Wednesday, Nov. 18, for all Division I sports through April 15.

“The COVID-19 numbers are not trending in the right direction for the council to allow in-person recruiting and the associated long-distance travel for coaches, prospective student-athletes and their families,” M. Grace Calhoun, council chair and athletics director at University of Pennsylvania, said. “We acknowledge the impact the restrictions are having on prospective student-athletes and coaches alike, and we will continue to assess how to best balance health and safety concerns with the desire to support prospects and coaches in the recruiting process.”

Members also voted to permit additional flexibility in virtual recruiting in football by allowing all coaches, full-time school staff members and current students to conduct recruiting calls such as telephone calls and video calls without a countable coach being present. This fle ibility, proposed by the Football Oversight Committee, includes volunteer coaches

The C i ision council e tends the recruiting dead period for all Division I sports through April 15. Pictured is Vista Murrieta graduate, Mish Conde, a member of the ni ersity of California i erside omen s soccer team.

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in the Football Championship Subdivision. The council plans to address similar fle ibility for other sports at its December meeting.

The dead period extension was supported by the oversight committees for football, men’s basketball and women’s basketball.

Members acknowledged that while

Divisions II and III had loosened recruiting restrictions, Division I schools are managing active fall sport seasons, which is not the case at most schools in Divisions II and III. JP Raineri can be reached by email at sports@reedermedia. com.

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d e b u t s a t D e s e r t Tw i l i g h t , both Scott Kiehn and Nathan Lennox found the challenge a bit frustrating in Indiana as the duo combined to surrender 43 positions over the final 1.1 miles, but laid the groundwork for personal growth ahead amid the temporary adversity.

“Our problem right now is we don’t have any frontrunners,” Soles said. “But we’ve got several runners making progress. I thought we raced better than we did at Desert Twilight and of course, we’re not on campus right now for workouts and so between the (missed) plyometrics and medicine balls, we’re a bit behind schedule in some regards, but making some good progress regardless.

“It’s been nice to get out and set some type of normalcy. I think the parents are really seeing the value

The South Temecula girls finish eighth o erall at the C To n S Meet of Champions in Terre aute, ndiana. Valley News/Courtesy photo

and to me, it was a great day in the famed LaVern Gibson course in Indiana, and we all had a great

time,” he said.

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

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Investigating possible fraud and corruption is the best medicine for unity

Julie Reeder PUBLISHER

This week as I watched a news conference from five high-powered attorneys who argued that they have proof of widespread election tampering, I wasn’t very surprised.

I did wonder if there was enough to really make a difference. Here are three questions or concerns people are discussing: Is there evidence of actual widespread voter fraud or tampering?

Why does President Donald Trump cause division by firing people, including his election cybersecurity chief?

Trump should just concede like Hillary and Obama did in 2016 for the good of the country.

The Trump team has 11,000 complaints and 500 sworn affidavits signed under penalty of perjury, which is firsthand evidence that now has to be presented in court and judged. It doesn’t include the Dominion fraud charges from attorney Sydney Powell’s team. It also doesn’t include the many other lawsuits that are being filed by individuals across the country.

Trey Trainor, chair of the Federal Elections Commission, has gone on the record several times since Nov.

3, recently telling Just The News that there is a significant amount of evidence pointing to fraud and irregularities.

“The massive amounts of affidavits that we see in these cases show that there was in fact fraud that took place,” he said.

That is why Trump fired his own cyber elections chief. He obviously failed.

There have been some counties that have reported 350% turnout – that means every person of every age would have voted three times.

There are reports of thousands of clean, unfolded ballots – supposedly mail in ballots with no folds? – that were 100% for Joe Biden and were allegedly brought in through back doors from Biden/Harris vans during the night. Sounds too nefarious, but it warrants investigation.

For more information, check out this Nevada news conference with the former Nevada attorney general who reported fraud: https://www. youtube.com/watch?v= mX 2S_ II2SY&feature= youtu.be.

I have read three different data scientists reporting election results across the country that are literally impossible. For example, a data scientist in Pennsylvania flagged around 90,000 votes. Voters surveyed said they did not request absentee ballots, despite records showing that they did. A data scientist says about 90,000 ballots may have been requested by someone other than these people themselves.

Meanwhile, about the same number of ballots were returned but not counted.

Then there is the question of whether Dominion software and voting machines are safe and secure and whether they can be manipulated.

The Texas Secretary of State investigated Dominion three times and rejected it because it wasn’t

secure and was open to fraud and manipulation.

For more information, visit https:// www.sos.texas.gov/elections/laws/ dominion.shtml.

Others have uncovered ties between Dominion leadership and Antifa as reported in the first four minutes of this video. The Dominion executive told Antifa members not to worry about Trump being reelected because they are taking care of it.

Giuliani also alluded to this conversation during the news conference recently. For more information, visit https://youtu.be/mX 2S_ II2S-Y. In addition, those five high-powered attorneys put their reputations, livelihoods and family wealth on the line in that news conference, alleging crimes against the Democrats and Dominion. They could be sued into financial ruin. Because they have decades of experience, I doubt they would be careless. I also don’t see why they would risk everything if it wasn’t substantial enough to change the outcome of the election.

I respect the previous work of Rudy Giuliani. As mayor, he cleaned up New York City, applied the “broken windows theory” to clean up the town, reduce crime, drugs and prostitution, the subways and bringing in prosperity. Also, as the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York he led the 1980s federal prosecution of New ork mafia bosses.

He’s a smart, tough prosecutor.

Powell has practiced law in the Fifth Federal Circuit for decades.

She was lead counsel in more than 500 federal appeals – 350 of them as an assistant U.S. attorney and appellate section chief in the Western and Northern Districts of Texas. She is a past president of the American Academy of Appellate Lawyers and the Bar Association of the Fifth Federal Circuit, and a member of the American Law Institute. It was from

her experience in several of her cases that she flipped to a defense attorney because she saw the need for clients’ defense from a corrupt Department of Justice, and she took two years off to write a book called “ icensed to Lie” because of the government corruption she saw. She is an expert at fighting government corruption.

The voter fraud possibilities were also being testified about by Democrats Elizabeth Warren and Amy Klobuchar in Congress a few years ago. They were talking specifically about Dominion. It was more than just Trump over the last four years.

Shiva Ayyadurai, Ph.D., a computer scientist at MIT, who helped invent email, recently won a lawsuit against Massachusetts after they destroyed all the digital copies of ballots in the election which was illegal. He also figured out that the voting software was programmed to cheat during his election. Find more information in this video: https:// youtu.be/TAxr3EgsJik. Someone close to me said, “Trump beat Hillary in 2016 by a smaller margin than Biden beat Trump this month and Hillary won the popular vote. She conceded that night and Obama started the transfer of power.

Trump should just concede already for the good of the country.”

The fact is that it was far from a friendly transition in 2016, and while the popular vote was close, Trump won the electoral votes by a landslide, 304 to Clinton’s 227.

Then Hillary Clinton, the DNC, former President Barack Obama and the FBI all started Crossfire Hurricane – fake Russia allegations – to bring down Trump because they never thought he would win. That’s not partisan rhetoric, it’s all documented, and there is ample evidence that it all started from the Hillary campaign and the fake Russian Dossier was paid for by Hillary and

the DNC. There is a constant stream of exculpatory evidence for Trump and Michael Flynn being released from the FBI, CIA and DOJ now. It was a setup. And, she told Biden in October to never concede if it looked like he lost.

Best case scenario is that Trump is a bad loser. Worst case scenario is that we do have widespread voter fraud or interference. That conflict needs to be played out, just like in 2000 when 35 days were spent investigating the Bush/Gore ballots in Florida. No one complained as far as I can remember.

The most healing and healthy situation for our country is not to stick our heads in the sand, but to follow the rule of law, the Constitution and find the truth. Only then can we have a healthy outcome. If there is voter fraud happening, we need to prove it and prosecute it. Then we need to shore up our voting system so that it’s not old and open to cyber fraud.

As far as Trump firing people, I believe he hasn’t fired enough people fast enough. There are so many snakes in the grass you can hardly keep up. I’d start with Christopher Wray, the head of the FBI. Trump has been openly divisive with the democrats and the media, but they have been at all-out war with him since before he was in office.

He’s fighting against corruption at every level and the media is complicit. If it turns out our elections are free and fair, then our new president will be former Vice President Joe Biden.

If there is a problem and we investigate and prosecute it and fi it, then we will be much better off in the long run whether Biden or Trump wins. If our elections are compromised and we don’t do anything about it “for the sake of unity” we will lose our country to thieves and liars.

Julie Reeder can be reached by email at jreeder@reedermedia.com.

we haven’t reached our goal yet.

Our litigious ways do not, in my opinion, represent a society based in pure, unadulterated justice.

Don’t like something, sue ‘em.

Lose an election, sue ‘em.

We’re a long way off.

“Domestic tranquility” – see Facebook.

“Promote the general welfare” – again, see Facebook. But also consider the Black Lives Matter movement, which didn’t spring up from nowhere, but from a collective outrage over system racism and abuse by law enforcement within our “perfect union.”

The “blessings of liberty” can only be obtained when they are offered to and available for everyone equally. Ideally, we would be working in unison for the freedom of American liberties that don’t infringe on the liberties of each individual.

Are we doing that? Sure, we have disagreements about which and what are rights and how those apply to our now bastardized ideas of what freedom and liberty is in

our nation.

Heck, we can’t even come to an agreement on how to protect each other in our neighborhoods, much less protect every single American.

I’m talking about masks, not guns. See what I did there?

How do these missed targets affect our “posterity?”

Don’t make me talk about climate change and the position the current administration has regarding protecting our beautiful country for future generations, all in the chase of the almighty dollar.

Now, it might sound like I don’t love our country. In that regard, you would be dead wrong.

While we bicker over politically powerful agendas disseminated through channels which in turn gaslight us with spin and rhetoric, we’ve lost focus of what we stand for to begin with.

We had an election. We’ve had 59 such elections, and yet we’ve never suffered through a time as we are enduring now.

Americans are dropping dead from an airborne virus, while those we

elect as leaders debate legal strategies and concoct schemes to overturn a rightly won election.

Masquerading as patriots and marketing outlandish conspiracy theories that have nothing more to offer than to chip away at our nation’s faith in our elections, these leaders have one goal in mind: Power.

That’s where we come in and remind them that their goal is a “more perfect union” and this nonsense must stop.

If we can’t do that now, if we can’t ensure the posterity of this nation for generations to come without regulating liberties and ultimately injuring our tranquility and the welfare of our nation … then how does our fight toward perfection continue?

We have to continue to hold elected representatives accountable for their actions and continue to speak truth to power.

It’s the only way, it’s always been the only way.

Jeff Pack can be reached by email at jpack@reedermedia.com.

in the course and conclusion of the late war – for the great degree of tranquility, union and plenty, which we have since enjoyed – for the peaceable and rational manner, in which we have been enabled to establish constitutions of government for our safety and happiness, and particularly the national One now lately instituted – for the civil and religious liberty with which we are blessed; and the means we have of acquiring and diffusing useful knowledge; and in general for all the great and various favors which he hath been pleased to confer upon us.

And also that we may then

unite in most humbly offering our prayers and supplications to the great Lord and ruler of nations and beseech him to pardon our national and other transgressions – to enable us all, whether in public or private stations, to perform our several and relative duties properly and punctually – to render our national government a blessing to all the people, by constantly being a government of wise, just and constitutional laws, discreetly and faithfully executed and obeyed – to protect and guide all sovereigns and nations (especially such as have shewn kindness unto us) and to bless them with

good government, peace and concord – To promote the knowledge and practice of true religion and virtue, and the increase of science among them and us – and generally to grant unto all mankind such a degree of temporal prosperity as he alone knows to be best.

Given under my hand at the city of New York the third day of October in the year of our Lord 1789.

Go: Washington New York, Oct. 3, 1789 To view the proclamation, visit https://founders. archives.gov/documents/ Washington/05-04-02-0091.

state’s controller’s unclaimed property website at http://claimit.ca.gov and type in your name and see if you are listed. If it looks like you have some funds coming to you, you can file a claim immediately if the value is less than $5,000. Higher amounts require you to mail a form and takes longer to process. Also, please remember that there is no charge to retrieve your property from the state controller – so watch out for scams that try to charge for this free service.

Thousands of people have received their unclaimed properties over the ears, valued at over $23

million. You could have been one of them. So don’t let the state keep funds that may rightfully belong to you, visit the controller’s website at http://claimit.ca.gov or call 800992-4647.

Assembly Republican Leader Marie Waldron, R-Escondido, represents the 7 5 th 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.

What does America stand for anyway?

Jeff Pack STAFF WRITER

It’s getting blurry, isn’t it?

The most marketed to society in the history of the planet is getting a steady dose so murky and laced with spin and rhetoric that it’s hard to tell up from down, left from right and where we even started?

Where is it that America stands and what do we stand for?

I believe I know, in fact, I think most Americans know.

The idea of America is clear as day – it’s right there in the Preamble to the U.S. Constitution.

“We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, ensure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”

In today’s political atmosphere, a few of those words are missing from our motivations for the things

we say or do. Missing from the way we treat each other and missing from the targeted end goal of what we’re doing here.

And just to be clear, I am no less guilty of these sins.

While I believe in our ongoing formation of “a more perfect union” – and have enough perspective to realize that our union is more perfect than many others – I recognize that many of my neighbors and country members believe we have already achieved that goal.

I, however, do not. Nor do I believe we will ever be able to rest on our laurels and consider the job done. What’s perfect for you, may be lightyears from perfection for many, many others.

Have we established “justice?”

In many ways, yes. In many other ways, no.

Considering the legitimacy of our election system is being challenged in courts of law to an abusive degree by the one person charged with upholding and promoting the virtues and sanctity of our American values … apparently

‘Thanksgiving Proclamation, Oct. 3, 1789’ By the president of the United States of America, a proclamation.

Whereas it is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits and humbly to implore his protection and favor – and whereas both Houses of Congress have by their joint committee requested me “to recommend to the people of the United States a day of public thanksgiving and prayer to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many signal favors of Almighty God especially by affording them an opportunity peaceably to establish a form of

government for their safety and happiness.”

Now therefore I do recommend and assign Thursday the 26th day of November next to be devoted by the people of these states to the service of that great and glorious being, who is the beneficent author of all the good that was, that is or that will be – That we may then all unite in rendering unto him our sincere and humble thanks – for his kind care and protection of the people of this country previous to their becoming a nation – for the signal and manifold mercies, and the favorable interpositions of his providence which we experienced

Does California owe you money?

Assemblymember Marie Waldron SPECIAL TO VALLEY NEWS

The state could owe you money.

The holiday season is fast approaching and many are suffering from severe economic distress resulting from the COVID-19 shutdowns, so take a few minutes to see if you have some money coming to you. California is sitting on almost $10 billion in unclaimed properties. Some of that money could be yours.

Under California’s Unclaimed Property Law, banks, insurance companies and other businesses

are required to transfer property to the controller’s office if it goes unclaimed over a specified period of time, usually three years. Bank accounts, stocks, bonds, uncashed checks, insurance benefits, wages and the contents of safe deposit boxes are common types of unclaimed property. Funds are held for as long as it takes to reunite the property with its rightful owner, so the pot keeps growing simply because many do not search for the property they may have coming.

Checking to see if you have unclaimed funds is easy. Visit the

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EDUCATION

Return to school as an adult TEMECULA – Education opens many doors. Sometimes life throws a person a curveball and education is put on the back burner. Even if school plans have been derailed for several years, people can explore how to return to school as an adult.

Adult students are often described as nontraditional students, while traditional students are those who enroll in a college or university or go on to trade school immediately after graduating from high school. Nontraditional students are those who return to get their degrees as adult learners. According to a 2013 National Study of Prospective Adult Students by the higher education marketing group STAMATS, students over the age of 25 are the fastest-growing segment in higher education.

For those people planning to

return to school, these tips can help them confront any uncertainty they may have about cracking the books after a long layoff.

Recognize you’ re nev er too old .

If you have the time and the means to attend school, you can likely find a program that can benefit you regardless of how old you may be.

Rememb er that ed ucation can help you get out of a rut.

No matter your age or experience, it’s easy to get stuck in a rut.

Going back to school can help a person get out of that rut and on a path to something new. A return to school can help professionals earn more money, update their skills or learn a new trade.

Ask f or the support of f riend s and f amily.

Students’ success often depends

on a strong support network. Be sure to discuss plans to return to school with a spouse, family members or others who can lend a helping hand. Schooling will take time out of a schedule and certain responsibilities you handled may have to be taken on by family members.

Exp lore accessib ility.

Now more than ever schools are adapting to the changing times by offering an abundance of classes online. Remote learning became a necessity in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, but it may be an increasingly popular method of conducting classes in the future.

For adult learners who worry about juggling time inside of the actual classroom with work and home responsibilities, virtual programs can be the perfect fit.

Goals for the coming year

or those people returning to school this year, these tips can help them confront any uncertainty they may ha e about cracking the books after a long layo .

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may include returning to school.

Whether a person is completing a diploma program, finishing a

degree or learning new skills, there’s no wrong time to continue your education.

PETS

County approves cash grant, van for cat lifesaving program Joe Naiman WRITER

The Riverside County Board of Supervisors voted 5-0 to approve a $190,000 donation from Best Friends Animal Society Tuesday, Nov. 10, while also accepting a 2013 Ford Transit van from the nonprofit. The cash donation will be split into four $47,500 quarterly payments and will support the county Department of Animal Services’ Cat Lifesaving Program.

The director of Animal Services was given the authority to execute any necessary documents to complete the grant and to administer the grant agreement.

Best Friends Animal Society’s grant is intended to reduce the kill rate at county animal shelters by funding the spaying and neutering of cats during an 11-month period.

The Department of Animal Services seeks to become a “no-kill shelter,” which means that more than 90% of animals taken to the shelter are saved, by 2023. A dog or cat may still be euthani ed due to illness or vicious behavior even if euthani ing animals who cannot be placed is eliminated.

The quest to achieve the 90% save rate will involve a comprehensive and targeted community cat program. The Department of Animal Services, if not partners, will work with contract cities as well as targeting the unincorporated portion of the county to implement the program. Cats will be spayed or neutered. They will be vaccinated for feline viral rhinotracheitis, calicivirus, panleukopenia and rabies. The cats will also be microchipped, and feral cats will have the tip of their ear

clipped to identify them as cats which have undergone the process.

All eligible cats will be returned to their place or origin.

The Department of Animals Services and Best Friends Animal Society set the goal of achieving save rates of 81% by December 2020, 83% by March 2021, 86%

by June 2021 and 90% by September 2021. In addition to the cash donation, Best Friends Animal Society will provide Department of Animal Services staff members with mentorship, training and tools necessary to implement the Cat Lifesaving Program.

The Ford Transit T-150 van will allow the Department of Animal Services to provide lifesaving animal welfare programs. The county will be responsible for the cost to maintain and repair the vehicle.

According to the Kelly Blue Book

i erside County appro es a 1 0,00 donation and a 201 ord Transit an from est riends nimal Society, o . 10, to benefit the county s epartment of nimal Ser ices Cat ifesa ing Program.

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the fair market value of the 2013 van is $8,129.

Joe Naiman can be reached by

email at jnaiman@reedermedia. com.

Best Friends Animal Society offers tips to keep pets safe during holiday season LOS ANGELES – Like everything else in 2020, the holiday season will look quite different from traditional ones for most people. There will likely be fewer folks around the dinner table, as friends and family connect through

videoconferencing apps.

Although there might be fewer human visitors, one thing that’s certain is that more than 600,000 American homes have newly adopted dogs and cats to be thankful for, with an additional 60,000 or

so pets currently grateful to be spending the holiday in foster homes, according to PetPoint’s 24Pet ShelterWatch report.

Thanksgiving is often one of the busiest evenings for emergency vet clinics, so it’s an important time to

be extra careful with any animal friends. Especially this year, when many animal hospitals are operating under COVID-19 restrictions.

That way the holiday can be happy and healthy for everyone, and maybe the veterinarian can have

Pets of the Week Animal Friends of the Valleys

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The shelter is open by appointment Monday through Saturday from a.m. to 2: 0 p.m. for adoptions. or more great pets a ailable for adoption, contact the amona umane Society at 1- 002 or isit .ramonahumanesociety.org.

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or more information on ny , Sela and other pets up for adoption at i ing ree nimal Sanctuary, call the kennel at 1- 212, the cattery at 1- 1-1 or isit https: li ing-free.org.

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ello m a 1-year-old black and hite male kitty. m looking for some gentle training and plenty of attention. o you ha e treats and toys for me Come meet me today. ntake umber: 2 0

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the night off too.

Best Friends Animal Society hoped to help make this a happy, healthy holiday for all family members by offering a few special precautions to protect pets.

Those soulful eyes may tempt pet owners to give in to their begging critters but sharing the fabulous feast can lead to trouble for pets.

Too much rich, fatty food or simply new, unfamiliar foods can upset a pet’s stomach – and even cause pancreatitis, which can be life-threatening – so owners should go easy on the tidbits.

Poultry or ham bones can break up or splinter in a pet’s stomach and be deadly, so dogs and cats should never be allowed to gnaw on them, and bones should go outside to the trash immediately.

Other food-flavored items like plastic wrap, string, mesh or the pop-up timer can smell tempting to curious pets but can injure their stomachs if stolen and ingested.

Chocolate, especially that used for baking, is toxic for dogs, so it should be kept out of reach. Other common food items that can be poisonous to dogs include onions, raisins and grapes, so avoid sharing these.

It’s a good idea to review these rules with any guests as well, since well-meaning holiday visitors might not know the potential harm caused by slipping treats to the pets under the table.

If pet owners want to make the holiday special for their fourfooted family members, they should plan ahead and have dog and cat treats on hand, like canned pet food, pet treats or toys.

There are also many great recipes online for homemade dog and cat treats that are fun to make and extra special for our pets.

A final note to consider is that many common decorative plants and flowers can be to ic for curious cats and dogs, so before buying plants or creating the centerpiece, it’s wise to check to ensure that you’re not using anything that could poison your pets.

According to the AVMA, some plant ha ards include amaryllis, baby’s breath, sweet William, some ferns, hydrangeas and others.

Submitted by Best Friends Animal Society.

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San Jacinto, Hemet schools honor November students of the month Diane A. Rhodes SPECIAL TO VALLEY NEWS

The Hemet/San Jacinto Student of the Month program recently recogni ed seven local high school seniors for demonstrating character, integrity, love of learning, involvement in school activities, athletics and community service. Students were nominated by teachers or other school personnel for making a difference in their home, school and community.

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic limitations regarding public gatherings, the event was held virtually, Oct. 8. About 50 participants logged in to the Zoom meeting where students shared their stories and sponsors and administrators offered their support.

Program founder and master of ceremonies Karena Zermeno also represented one of the sponsors, Altura Credit Union.

Backpacks filled with gifts, a plaque, certificates of recognition and much more were donated by the program’s sponsors and will be delivered to each recipient. The students were given the opportunity to thank their families and school staff who have supported them and helped them plan their future life goals.

November’s students of the month from Hemet nified School District schools were Michael Adams, Paola Gutierre , Jack aurin, Angelina Parisi and Joseph Sala ar. San Jacinto nified students were Anthony Galavi and Joana Hernande .

Several of this month’s recipients were acknowledged and applauded for unwavering patience in their interactions with others – at home and at school.

West Valley High School’s Mi-

chael Adams was said to have a calming presence who impresses everyone he meets. He is at the top of his class but is very relaxed about it. His participation in Academic Decathlon was just one area where he worked at this highest level to shine.

Paola Gutierre of Tahquit High School was chosen because her passion for life and helping others is noticed by many. Nominating teacher acy Simpson said Gutierre is the type of student she wishes she had been at her age. The senior served as her school’s Girl’s State representative and is the current AVID president. Her goal is to attend Stanford University with plans to become a doctor.

Hamilton High’s Jack Lauren was singled out for being punctual and proactive in his approach to his academics that have led to his “A” student status. He aspires to be a oologist because he has always loved animals. He said he had to learn ways to overcome the lack of focus he faced since being diagnosed with Attention Deficit Disorder in middle school.

Angelina Parisi has been a student at the Western Center Academy since sixth grade. Her future goal is to become a forensic psychologist. She said she faced a lot of fears growing up and felt she wasn’t smart enough or good enough but came to reali e that everyone has light and dark within them and it’s just a matter of which one we focus on and share with others.

Hemet High teacher Cassidy Steenbock said she was happy to see Joseph Sala ar, her student of two years, get the recognition she feels he deserves. He is part of the AG

o ember s students of the month from emet nified School istrict schools include Michael dams, Paola Gutierre , ack aurin, ngelina Parisi and oseph Sala ar. San acinto nified School istrict students include nthony Gala i and oana ernande .

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mechanics program at the school but also participates in sports.

While many students are struggling with forced online learning due to the pandemic, Mountain View High School’s Anthony Galavi is thriving.

“He showed patience, and that it is possible to excel even when it seems impossible,” his science teacher Ron Garrison said.

Galavi said he always worried about the wrong things as a result of moving around a lot during his childhood and coping with the mental health disorder of post-traumatic stress disorder.

“No matter what the worst you can go through, there will be better on the other side,” he said. “No matter what,

life will go on.” ermeno echoed Galavi ’ sentiments by telling all the students to remember that “change is good and bad is not forever.”

Joana Hernande was nominated

by San Jacinto High School teacher John Norman Jr. who said she has made a huge turnaround in her young life – in general and in her academics.

Her plan is to enlist in the U.S. Marine Corps after graduation and eventually become a special education teacher.

Peter Serbantes, from the RCOE Foundation, was part of the virtual event and said he hopes that all the students recogni ed by this program come back to be part of the communities in which they were raised.

“We look forward to your future accomplishments,” he told them.

HUSD’s assistant superintendent of educational services, Tracy Chambers, thanked the students for being vulnerable while sharing their powerful stories.

“What stood out most to me is that you all have a sense of oneself in the light of uncertainty,” SJUSD Superintendent Dave Pyle told this month’s honorees. “Sometimes the smallest things have the greatest impact – like saying hello to others and checking in with them. I was truly inspired and reminded what we can overcome.”

For more information, visit http:// www.studentofthemonth.net.

Soboba Foundation honored by San Jacinto Unified Mike Hiles SPECIAL TO VALLEY NEWS

San Jacinto nified School District recogni ed the Soboba Band of Luiseñ o Indians Tribal Council

and the Soboba Foundation at its most recent board of trustees meeting for their financial support through the Soboba Turkey Giveaway, the Soboba Charity Golf Tournament and the Soboba

Gives Back! Toy Drive as well as its support of the Hemet-San Jacinto Student of the Month Program, which is now in its eighth year, were some of the projects mentioned.

“These are only a few of the programs Soboba supports on an annual basis but we want them to know we appreciate everything,” Gale Hill, executive assistant to the board of trustees and superintendent, said.

Sherry Smith, SJUSD assistant superintendent, personnel services, said the crystal award being presented was a “super small token of our appreciation.”

“This is a recognition that is long, long overdue so I’m very excited that this evening we finally, with all of the cra y pandemic in

our life, we are going to be able to recogni e the continuous support and generosity that we receive from Soboba,” she said. “There are no words to describe how valued we feel and how fortunate that we have this partnership with (Soboba).”

She introduced the representatives of the Soboba Band of Luiseñ o Indians who attended the Zoom meeting, including the Tribal Council’s Chairman Isaiah Vivanco, Vice Chairwoman Geneva Mojado, Secretary Monica Herrera and Treasurer Sally Moreno-Orti and the Soboba Foundation’s President Dondi Silvas, Vice President Jacob Briones and Treasurer Julie Parcero.

“All of these people are beyond special,” Smith said. “I have a list

a mile long to talk about all the ama ing things they are doing or have done for us. Even in these unprecedented times, Soboba has stepped up as they always do to help us give back to our families” Vivanco said he appreciated the recognition and was honored to receive the award on behalf of the tribe and said, “We don’t do these things for the accolades – we enjoy the partnerships we are able to create.”

Silvas said she is working with all the other volunteers at this year’s toy drive to make it a special year for all the kids in the community and said, “It is our pleasure to have such a strong relationship with San Jacinto nified.”

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CO RCHRISTIAN N E RPRESCHOOL, S TO N E t the San acinto nified School istrict oard of Trustees meeting o . 10, the Soboba and of uise o ndians and Soboba oundation are recogni ed for their continued financial support of students and their families. alley ews an acinto nified chool istrict photo

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Sarah Caballeros and Jingxuan Zhang of Menifee began virtual classes, along with Mariah Carlson and Jillian Jinkins of Murrieta.

From Temecula, Matthew Holmes, Nathanael Mariano, Robert Mosher, Caden Baird and Sydney Moran began online classes, with Abie Nowak and Brie Nowak of Winchester.

The university’s incoming class represents an accomplished, diverse group of individuals who hail from 47 states and U.S. territories and 34 countries around the world. Students began classes Monday, Aug. 31. Biola University students are attending classes remotely this fall through “Biola at Home” – Biola’s new digital experience.

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Sheriff Bianco says no to enforcing governor’s stay-at-home orders City News Service SPECIAL TO VALLEY NEWS

iverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco said deputies will not enforce any part of Gov. Gavin Newsom’s revised stay-at-home order, joining other sheriffs throughout the state Friday, Nov. 20, who affirmed that no resources will be dedicated to enforcing it.

“To ensure constitutional rights are not violated and to limit potential negative interactions and exposure to our deputies, we will not be responding to calls for service based solely on noncompliance with the new order, or social distancing and mask guidelines,” Bianco said in a statement released Thursday night, Nov. 19.

The sheriff said that it is “important that all of us do everything we can to protect ourselves” from coronavirus risks, but as he did in March when he declined to enforce Newsom’s original stay-at-home order, Bianco emw

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phasized the need for individual responsibility to govern residents’ decisions – not the fear of government penalties.

At the time, the sheriff questioned the data being produced to justify the governor’s public health lockdowns, as well as additional requirements then imposed by county public health officer Dr. Cameron Kaiser, saying during one Board of Supervisors’ meeting that the mandates hindering people’s freedoms “cannot be the new normal.”

Bianco’s no-enforcement declaration followed one issued by Orange County Sheriff Don Barnes, and since then, others have telegraphed the same intentions.

Among them are San Bernardino

said. “It is crucial that we act to decrease transmission and slow hospitalizations.”

Earlier this week, he announced that 28 counties were going back into the “purple” tier under the California Department of Public Health’s color-coded regulatory framework for virus containment.

It’s the most restrictive tier, impacting offices, restaurants, movie theaters, hair salons, gyms, houses of worship and other entities deemed by the state to be “nonessential.”

Riverside County was reclassified “purple” nearly a month ago, after a roughly four-week turn in the less restrictive “red” tier.

The only curfews that have been actively enforced in Riv-

erside County in the last two decades have stemmed from gang injunction lawsuits. Permanent injunctions against Riverside’s Eastside Riva and Cathedral City’s Barrio Dream Homes gang resulted in mandatory curfews – applicable only to known gang members – within narrow specified locations of each city, generally from 10 p.m. to 5 a.m.

The injunctions, imposed in 2007 and 2008, respectively, mandated that documented gang members were not supposed to congregate or be on the streets for any reason during the curfew periods. Otherwise, they were subject to detention and possibly arrest.

SBA proposes small-business size standard revisions in three industrial sectors Public comments due Jan. 12 WASHINGTON The .S. Small Business Administration is seeking public comments on a proposed rule that would revise the small business size standards for businesses in three North American Industrial Classification System sectors to increase small business eligibility for SBA’s loan and contracting programs.

Comments may be submitted on this proposed rule on or before Jan. 12, 2021, at http://www.regulations.gov, using the following RIN No.: IN 3245-AG91. ou may also comment by mail to Khem R. Sharma, chief of Size Standards Division, 409 Third Street SW, Mail Code 6530, Washington, D.C., 20416.

The NAICS sectors reviewed in the proposed rule are: professional, scientific and technical services management of companies and enterprises and administrative and support and waste management

and remediation services. SBA proposes to increase size standards for 46 industries in those sectors.

The following table includes the number of industries reviewed and the number of industries with proposed increases in size standards by NAICS sector.

SBA estimated that about 2,600 additional firms in these three sectors will become eligible for SBA’s programs under the revised size standards, if adopted.

The proposed rule is part of a five-year comprehensive review of small business size standards, as required under the Small Business Jobs Act of 2010. The proposed revisions reflect changes in industry and federal marketplace conditions and SBA’s policy position under the current economic situation due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In response to the pandemic, SBA is retaining current size standards where data suggests that size stan-

dards should be lowered.

As part of the ongoing review of all si e standards, SBA considers the structural characteristics of individual industries, including average firm si e, the degree of competition, and federal government contracting trends. This ensures that small business si e standards reflect current economic conditions in those industries. The proposed revisions to the size standards in these sectors will enable more small businesses to retain their small-business status, provide federal agencies a larger pool of small businesses to choose from for small-business procurement opportunities and help eligible small businesses benefit from SBA’s loan programs.

An SBA-issued white paper entitled, “SBA’S Si e Standards Methodology,” which explained how SBA establishes, reviews and modifies its receipts-based and employee-based small business si e

standards, can be viewed at http:// www.sba.gov/size.

For more information about SBA’s revisions to its small business size standards, visit “announcements about updating size standards” at http://www.sba.gov/ size.

The .S. Small Business Administration makes the American dream of business ownership a reality. As the only go-to resource and voice for small businesses backed by the strength of the federal government, the SBA empowers entrepreneurs and small-business owners with the resources and support they need to start, grow or expand their businesses, or recover from a declared disaster. It delivers services through an e tensive network of SBA field offices and partnerships with public and private organizations. To learn more, visit http://www.sba.gov.

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Riverside County has a contract with Statewide Towing and Recovery Inc. for the removal of illegally parked recreational vehicles. A iverside County Board of Supervisors action, Tuesday, Nov. 17, extended the contract while increasing the annual budget for recreational vehicle abatement.

The supervisors voted 5-0 to increase the total contract amount to $500,000, which will provide an additional $100,000 for fiscal year 2020-2021. The contract had been scheduled to expire March 24, 2021, and the Nov. 17 action extends the contract until June 30, 2023.

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In 2016, the county issued a request for proposals to towing services providers. Statewide Towing and Recovery Inc. was determined to be the lowest, most responsible and most responsive bidder and was awarded the contract. The initial maximum annual amount was $40,000, and in 2017, that maximum annual amount was amended to $99,000.

The budgeted $99,000 was not e hausted during fiscal year 2017-2018, but abated recreational vehicles in unincorporated Riverside County have been increasing during the three most recent fiscal years. Fiscal year 2018-2019 had a 67% increase in recreational vehicle abatements and thus abatement cost compared to 2017-2018.

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The state Abandoned Vehicle Abatement program provides reimbursement for abated vehicles which have paid an AVA fee, and recreational vehicles are subject to that fee. The state AVA grant will fully cover the county’s cost of the contract.

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Sidney Powell promises ‘biblical’ lawsuit in coming days Jack Phillips THE EPOCH TIMES

After Sidney Powell and the Trump team broke ties this weekend, Powell said Saturday, Nov. 21, that her team will file a lawsuit of “biblical” proportions, alleging that some election officials were embroiled in a pay-to-play scheme with a prominent manufacturer of voting software.

“We’ve got tons of evidence; it’s so much, it’s hard to pull it all together,” Powell told Newsmax.

She didn’t provide or elaborate on the evidence.

“Hopefully this week we will get it ready to file, and it will be biblical,” Powell said, adding that “it’s a massive project to pull this fraud claim together with the evidence that I want to put in.”

Powell said that the voting system’s algorithms provided Democrats 35,000 extra votes, although she didn’t elaborate. She added that Democratic candidate Joe Biden’s votes were “weighted” at 1.25 times while President Donald Trump’s votes were parsed at 0.75.

The longtime lawyer and former federal prosecutor also alleged that there were modifications to some voting machines after the legal cutoff for changes.

Powell also said that some

governors may have engaged in a pay-to-play scheme to use Dominion Voting Systems – one of the Trump campaign’s chief targets in recent days.

“Georgia is probably going to be the first state I’m gonna blow up,” she said, accusing Gov. Brian Kemp of engaging in a pay-to-play scheme. emp’s office has not responded to a request for comment, although Georgia Secretary of State Brad affensberger has frequently said there were no instances of fraud or irregularities in the state.

Dominion, in several statements to The Epoch Times, has categorically denied allegations of election tampering and voter fraud in recent days, saying that Trump’s team has peddled “falsehoods regarding Dominion” in recent news conferences and interviews.

“Dominion employees do not have access to the (canvass) adjudication system, nor do they operate it,” the Toronto-based firm said in a statement. It added that “access to the adjudication system resides with the election authority using it” and that “the system is controlled through secure and verifiable user accounts, and all voter intent adjustments are securely logged in the system and then recorded in the digital image of the ballot.”

Dominion also cited statements made by the secretaries of state in Michigan, Arizona, Pennsylvania and Georgia, who also said they have found no evidence of voter fraud large enough to overturn the election.

Trey Trainor, the chairman of the Federal Election Commission, however, has repeatedly said there was voter fraud in key states.

“The massive amounts of affidavits that we see in these cases show that there was in fact fraud that took place,” he said during an interview with “Just the News AM” Friday, while suggesting a lack of transparency.

The questions raised by the Trump campaign in recent days is “very important for the legitimacy of the presidency,” Trainor said.

Trump himself had touted Powell’s involvement in his “truly great team.” She was one of three attorneys who spoke during last week’s heated campaign news conference in which the “elite strike force” delineated a wide-ranging case for how Trump had been wronged.

There is speculation that Sidney Powell’s willingness to go after both Republican and Democrat politicians may have been the reason for their split. Powell agreed on various news shows that she agreed with Rudy Giuliani’s announce-

Trump campaign la yer Sidney Po ell speaks to the media hile anked by Trump la yer and former e ork City Mayor udy Giuliani, left, and Trump campaign senior legal ad iser enna llis at a ne s conference at the epublican ational Committee head uarters in ashington, o . 1 .

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ment that she was not officially part of the Trump team.

Trump has not conceded. The Epoch Times will not declare a winner of the 2020 presidential election until all legal challenges have run their course.

Powell told FOX Business recently that she will prove Trump’s voter fraud case within the next two weeks or so.

“We have evidence now of information from the systems going to three or four different foreign countries during the time of the

election, those countries themselves could have watched the live votes come in and changed the numbers,” Powell said. “There’s significant evidence of foreign interference from the worst communist countries on the Earth with our election.”

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Biden taps Obama administration veterans as national security picks Matthew Lee THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

President-elect Joe Biden tapped Obama administration veterans Monday, Nov. 23, for top national security positions, signaling a shift from the Trump administration’s “America First” policies.

The six picks, including former Secretary of State John Kerry, mark a return to a more traditional approach to America’s relations with the rest of the world and reflect Biden’s campaign promises to have his Cabinet reflect the diversity of America.

Biden will nominate his longtime adviser Antony Blinken as secretary of state, lawyer Alejandro Mayorkas as homeland security secretary, Linda Thomas-Greenfield as ambassador to the nited Nations. Avril Haines, a former deputy director of the CIA, will be nominated as director of national intelligence, the first woman to hold that post.

The incoming president will also appoint Jake Sullivan for his national security adviser and Kerry for his climate change envoy.

Those posts do not require Senate confirmation.

Thomas-Greenfield, a Black woman, previously served in high-level State Department positions will take the helm of the .S. Mission to the nited Nations, and Mayorkas, a Cuban American lawyer and a deputy Homeland Security secretary under Obama will be the first Latino to lead Homeland Security.

Mayorkas said he was humbled by the nomination.

“When I was very young, the nited States provided my family and me a place of refuge,” he said.

“Now, I have been nominated to be the DHS Secretary and oversee the protection of all Americans and those who flee persecution in search of a better life for themselves and their loved ones.”

Thomas-Greenfield served for more than 30 years as ambassador to Liberia, director general of the foreign service and assistant secretary of state for African affairs – paid tribute to her mother in accepting the nomination.

“My mother taught me to lead with the power of kindness and compassion to make the world a better place,” she said in a tweet.

“I’ve carried that lesson with me throughout my career in Foreign Service and, if confirmed, will do the same as Ambassador to the nited Nations.”

Perhaps the best known is Kerry, who made climate change one of his top priorities while serving as Obama’s secretary of state during which he also negotiated the Iran nuclear deal and the Paris climate accord.

“America will soon have a government that treats the climate crisis as the urgent national security threat it is,” Kerry said. “I’m proud to partner with the president-elect, our allies and the young leaders of the climate movement to take on

this crisis as the president’s climate envoy.”

Sullivan, 43, will be one of the youngest national security advisers in history. He was a top aide to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton before becoming former Vice President Biden’s national security adviser. He said the president-elect had “taught me what it takes to safeguard our national security at the highest levels of our government.

Blinken, 58, if confirmed by the Senate, will take over the nation’s oldest Cabinet agency and be fourth in line for the presidency.

He served as deputy secretary of state and deputy national security adviser during the Obama administration and has close ties with Biden.

A graduate of Harvard niversity and Columbia Law School, Blinken aligned himself with numerous former senior national security officials who called for a major reinvestment in American diplomacy and renewed emphasis on global engagement.

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What people need to see and hear

Zachary Elliott SPECIAL TO VALLEY NEWS

What people see in your life and what people hear from your life matters, especially now. More than ever, people need to see and hear your faith and hope in Jesus.

Recently I saw both of these examples on display, during the pandemic.

It all started when Marlene, a

member of our church family, asked if she could get bapti ed and prayed over before heading to Indonesia.

Because she had to quarantine before her flight, she only had a few days during the week for the baptism to take place. And because of COVID-19, she asked to do it with a small crowd to limit exposure.

At first, I had mi ed emotions.

On the one hand, I was extremely excited for Marlene. It was an exciting step for her. But on the other hand, I was sad that the whole church family couldn’t celebrate with her, so I asked her if she would mind if we recorded it and showed it to the world.

At first, she hesitated, as most people do when they think of being on camera. Still, I assured her that it would be encouraging to the church family if they could see her step of faith. She agreed, and I was ama ed at her willingness to step out of her comfort one.

After we settled on the plans,

we now had to focus on the place.

I knew it was an issue because our church baptismal doesn’t have a heater, and it was cold. That’s when, thanks to the prodding of my wife, I made the last-minute call to our friends and members of our church family Scott and Jolene.

Word on the street was they had a hot tub, and “hot” was the keyword.

So I made the call.

And when I say last minute, I mean the night before. That’s right. I called Scott and Jolene the night before the baptism to ask if we could invade their home to bapti e Marlene. Honestly, I felt a little awkward making the call. I wasn’t even sure if they really had a hot tub.

Thankfully they did and were more than willing to welcome our small crowd into their home. But they didn’t stop there. Scott and Jolene began to put their hospitality on full display. They laid out pastries and coffee and had towels

available for us. Jolene took the morning off work just so she could host us. Are you kidding me?

They were so excited to participate in Marlene’s baptism. Jolene asked if it would be OK if she shared the pictures on her personal Facebook page. She wanted everyone to know what happened at her house that day. It was awesome.

Long story short, the small group of us blessed Marlene through prayer and the laying on of hands and bapti ed her in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.

It was a powerful time.

Why am I telling you this story?

In a quick read, these might just look like simple things. One might even say, “Hey, no big deal! A lady got bapti ed in someone’s hot tub.”

And on the surface, you would be right.

But what happened that day was nothing less than supernatural.

What really happened that day was that the people of God came

together so that the world could see and hear about another soul who is fully committed to following Jesus and wanted to be bapti ed just as we were told to do. That little group of people became witnesses of the Good News to all who saw it on Facebook or Instagram and to those who heard it through wordof-mouth.

It reminds me of the verse in Hebrews 10:24-25, “Let us think of ways to motivate one another to acts of love and good works. And let us not neglect our meeting together, as some people do, but encourage one another, especially now that the day of his return is drawing near.”

I witnessed this verse in action that day. What are people hearing and seeing in your life?

Z achary Elliott is the lead pastor of Fusion Christian Church in Temecula. For more information, visit https: / / www.fusionchristianchurch. com, http: / / www.encouragementtoday.tv r nd them n nstagram

Learn from Congregation B’nai Chaim: Seek encounters with God

Rabbi Emily JK Holtzman SPECIAL TO VALLEY NEWS

Encounters with God might seem few and far between these days, especially as we aren’t able to pray in person together. The familiar surrounds us constantly, and it is hard to set boundaries on what is family and what is work or school.

In the Torah portion this week, Parshat Vayet e, Genesis 28:1032:3, begins with Jacob fleeing

from his angry older brother Esau.

This action, of course, is after Jacob has just stolen both Esau’s birthright and his blessing from their father, Isaac. Jacob, fearing for his life, runs and ends up spending the night in the desert.

The language used to introduce this location is va’yifga ba’makom, which means “in/at the place.” The translation provided by Sefaria, which is a popular source site for Jewish texts, is “He (Jacob) came upon a certain place.” In the Hebrew, there’s no direct translation for “certain,” so what is this place?

The phrase literally translates as “he encountered in or at the place.”

Not a “certain” place but he was at “the” place.

Let’s dive into the verb “va’yifga” which is translated as “he came upon.” Upon further dictionary investigation, the verb roots for “pay,” “gimel” and “nun” have a vast number of meanings. The first definition is to encounter. Jacob doesn’t just end up in this place by accident or randomly. He is here – in this place

– according to the Hebrew, to have some sort of encounter.

When he falls asleep, Jacob dreams of angels climbing up and down a ladder to the heavens. God appears to Jacob for the first time, identified as the God of his grandfather Abraham and his father Isaac.

Jacob, like his father and grandfather before him, is promised by God that he and his offspring will be made into a great nation. This covenant ensures that he will be protected and blessed throughout his life.

When Jacob awakens the next morning, he proclaims “Surely Adonai is present in this place, and I did not know it.” He reali ed how significant this dream was and indeed this place. The few stones he gathered and piled the night before to sleep on, how powerful they were. Again, we see the word for “in or at the place.”

My teacher and cousin, Rabbi Shawn Fields-Meyer said that the Torah is written with an economy of language, it always tries to express

the greatest possible meaning while at the same time using the least amount of words.

Knowing this, we start to pay attention to repetition of words or phrases, maybe something that just seems obvious or out of place. The rabbis said the text is screaming out to us to interpret or explain me So the repetition of the word “place,” only a few verses later, is significant. It lets us know that we need to be alert and pay attention, this place is special. And indeed it is.

After his dream Jacob names the place Beit-El, which is the house of God. His experience in this place, dreaming about the angels and encountering God, changes him profoundly. He wakes up linked to his ancestral heritage, despite being on the run from his angry brother.

The encounter with this place, the encounter with God, gives Jacob the strength to continue on in his journey with the knowledge of God’s presence.

In our everyday moments, washing dishes or brushing our teeth,

how are we allowing God into our lives? Are we drowning out the chaos and fear around us with more noise? Or are we taking the time each and every day to be silent and breathe deeply? Do we only reali e after the fact like Jacob that the place we are in is indeed unique?

I charge us this week to look at our surroundings and try to find godliness. Even in the moments of monotony, in the times of exhaustion and when we lie our head down on our pillow at night after running all day. Let us take these moments more slowly and recogni e their uniqueness in the moment. We need to live presently in each moment and not wait until after they are over.

Shabbat Shalom. A good and peaceful Sabbath.

Congregation B’ nai Chaim is located at 2 9 5 0 0 Via Princesa in Murrieta. For more information, visit www.bnaichaim.com or https: / / www.facebook.com/ CongregationBnaiChaim/ .

American donate more during holidays BERGEN COUNTY, N.J. – The holiday season is not only about gifts and extravagant light displays, but also a time when we are reminded that it’s important to be kind and give back. And according to TopCashback.com, the USA’s most generous cashback site, 84% of Americans feel the most generous around the holidays.

The survey polled a cross section of 1,363 adults, aged 18 and over.

Why people d onate They were asked “Does giving back make you feel good?” Adults answered yes at 99% and no at 1%.

Do the holidays affect your donation habits? Fifty-seven percent said yes, and 43% answered no.

What do you donate most during the holidays The top five answers

included money at 36%, clothes at 21%, toys at 18%, food at 13% and volunteer time at 12%.

Americans support b usinesses that d onate While most Americans are bound to shop for gifts, decorations and more, the study also found that seven in 10 respondents or 70% are more likely to shop at a particular store or brand if they donate a portion of the proceeds or merchandise to a good cause.

Do you take the time to research stores and brands who give back?

The responses showed 50% answered yes, and 50% answered no.

So, whether it’s through donating, volunteering or supporting a business that cares, here are five ways to give back throughout

the holiday season from Rebecca Gramuglia, consumer expert at TopCashback.com.

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Shop at stores that give. Around the holidays you’ll find lots of stores that give back – whether it’s locally, nationally or internationally, there will likely be a chance for you to give back simply by

shopping. Retailers like Olivela, Pura Vida Bracelets, TOMS and DIFF Eyewear combine giving back with their brand. Whether it’s donating a portion of the proceeds to a charitable organi ation or donating products to those in need, you can easily shop and give back at the same time.

Volunteer. As we know this holiday season will look and feel different, but volunteers are still needed. If you want to safely donate your time in-person, check with your local organi ation to make sure they’re accepting volunteers.

Set up a holiday food drive. Picking the right organi ation to donate to can be a tough decision. So if you’re struggling with where to start, a good rule of thumb is to

start locally. This holiday season, safely connect with your neighbors and organi e either an in-person or virtual food drive to help your local food bank. Food drives are a helpful way to stock the shelves for those in need and bring attention to hunger in your community. Pro-tip: Reach out to your local food bank ahead of time to see if they’re accepting donations and noting what they’re in need of.

Give a gift that gives back.

Whether it’s gifts or donating, the holiday season is all about giving.

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Anza eq uestrians take part in horsehead photo challenge

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The An a ions Club will host a turkey shoot fundraiser to help collect money to assist Aurora Pere and her family, who lost their home due to fire Sunday, Nov. 8. Pere is a staff member at Hamilton -8 Schools and is beloved by students, parents and colleagues.

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Sacred Heart church to hold Christmas b outiq ue Diane Sieker STAFF WRITER

The Women’s Guild at Sacred Heart Catholic Church will present a Christmas boutique Saturday, Dec. 5, to raise funds for the organi ation to disperse within the community. see page AVO -4

Mike Tarrant’s mare Maddie is featured in the hashtag # drop_ your_ horse_ head_ challenge on social media.

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High Country 4-H Club goes v irtual Ariana Madrid SPECIAL TO ANZA VALLEY OUTLOOK

This year has been difficult for 4-H Clubs up and down California due to COVID-19 however, to fulfill its purpose of helping and educating children, High County 4-H Club of An a has gone virtual. ather than not meeting, High Country 4-H Club has worked to overcome the technological obstacles for the sake of their club members.

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K arl K urtz runs f or ACIL b oard Diane Sieker STAFF WRITER

Army veteran arl urt announced his intention to run for the An a Civic Improvement eague’s board of directors at their December meeting.

The election will be held Saturday, Dec. 5, at 9 a.m. at the ittle Red School House in Minor Park in An a.

“I am running for the ACI board to help my community and to help save Minor Park,” urt said. “I am a people person and a team player and will get the job done.”

“I had the pleasure of meeting arl when I interviewed him for the radio station,” radio host Annika noppel said. “He impressed me with his passion. He really seems intent on helping to build community in our community.” urt served his country, and he see K URTZ, page AVO -4

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nza swap meet vendor Lori o Wood o ers creativ e hand iwork Diane Sieker STAFF WRITER

Lori Jo Wood is no stranger to selling unique items, as a member of the ibbonwood Art Guild.

The An a swap meet is her latest endeavor, where she offers gourd art, handmade soaps and gourmet jerky to the crowds that show up every Saturday. Her bestsellers are luffa soaps and hand-painted gourd piggy banks, she said.

Wood has been making soap for several years and said that her inspiration began with a plant luffa. uffa is the fruit of a vine in the cucumber family that is allowed to mature and is used as a bath

or kitchen scrubber after being processed to remove everything e cept the network of course fibers. She researched how to make soap from scratch and mi ing in the luffa fibers, creating a product that is both useful and attractive.

Her fascination with gourds began when her youngest daughter wanted a piggy bank for Christmas when she was 4-years-old, she said.

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Regular Happenings Hamilton High School – Find out what is happening using Hamilton’s online calendar at http:// www.hamiltonbobcats.net/apps/ events/calendar/.

Hamilton Museum – 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Open Wednesdays and Saturdays at 39991 Contreras oad in An a. For more information, call 951-763-1350 or visit http:// www.hamiltonmuseum.org. Find them on Facebook at “HamiltonMuseum-and- anch-Foundation.”

Health, exercise, resources and recovery meetings Narcotics Anonymous Meeting 6 p.m. very Tuesday at Shepherd Of The Valley Church, 56095 Pena oad, in An a. Open participation.

Veterans’ G athering Mond ays – 9-11 a.m., The Church of Jesus Christ of atter-day Saints, 39075 Contreras oad, in An a. Men and women veterans come to share and help each other deal with posttraumatic stress disorder and other difficulties. Call John Sheehan at 951-923-6153. If you need an advocate to help with VA benefits, call onnie Imel at 951-659-9884.

The Most Ex cellent 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 irby oad in An a.

AA Men’ s Meeting – 7 p.m.

Meetings take place Thursdays at 39551 irby oad in An a, south of Highway 371.

Alcoholics Anonymous – 8 p.m. Wednesday evenings at Shepherd of the Valley Lutheran Church, 56095 Pena oad in An a. For more information, call 951-763-4226.

Bereav ed Parents of the USA – The Aguanga-An a Chapter of BPUSA will hold its meetings 6 p.m. on the first and third Wednesday of each month at 49109 akeshore Blvd. in Aguanga. For more information, contact chapter leader inda Hardee at 951-5512826.

Free Mob ile Health Clinic – Open every third Wednesday of the month from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.

No appointment is needed. ninsured may only be seen in the An a Community Hall’s parking lot or inside the hall.

Med ication Assistance and Treatment f or Opioid Depend ence Get treatment for heroin addiction. Transportation to the clinic is provided. For more information, contact Borrego Health’s An a Community Health Center, 58581 oute 371, in An a. For more information, call 951-7634759.

Food ministries F.U.N. G roup weekly f ood ministry – Deliveries arrive noon Thursdays at the An a Community Hall. To order a paid bo and help feed those who can’t afford to pay, drop off payment and cash donations by Thursday at 1:30 p.m., to A cel ealty, 56070 Highway 371, in An a. Pay inside or drop off during the day in the red bo outside. To drop it

off, put name and request on an envelope with payment inside. A $30 bo has about $100 worth of food and feeds si people. Half bo es 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.

Liv ing Hope Christian Fellowship Community Dinner – 1 p.m.

Dinners are held the last Sunday of the month at the An a Community Hall. All are welcome. Donations of time, money, etc. are always welcome.

Food f or the Faithf ul – 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. mergency food handed out as needed at Sacred Heart Catholic Church. FFF is a non-denominational nonprofit. All in need are welcome call sther Barragan at 951-763-5636.

Bib le Stud ies The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-d ay Saints in Anza – Sunday Sacrament is held 10 a.m. Sunday School is 11 a.m.

Priesthood/ elief Society meets noon Wednesday Boy Scouts gathers 6 p.m. and outh Night is 7 p.m. For more information, call ui 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 oad in An a.

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 An a.

For more information, call Nella Heredia at 951-763-0856.

Liv ing Hope Bib le Stud y – 8-10 a.m. Tuesdays at iving Hope Christian Fellowship, 58050 Highway 371, in An a. All are welcome. For more information, call Pastor evin at 951-763-1111.

Anza RV Club house – 7 p.m., the second Wednesday of the Month, Pastor evin officiates at 41560 Terwilliger oad in An a.

Monthly Christian Men’ s Breakf ast – 9 a.m. Breakfast takes place the fourth Saturday of each month and rotates to different locations. Contact Jeff Crawley at 951763-1257 for more information.

Shepherd of the Valley Lutheran Church – 10 a.m. Weekly Wednesday Bible study takes place at 56095 Pena oad in An a. Call 951-763-4226 for more information.

Valley G ospel Chapel – 7 a.m. Saturday Men’s Study meets weekly with breakfast usually served at 43275 Chapman oad in the Terwilliger area of An a.

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. outh 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 ecovery 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 olling Hills oad in An a. For more

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Club s 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 An a Baptist Church, 39200 olling Hills oad, in An a. For more information, visit http://www.

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High Country Recreation – Second Monday of the month attend committee meetings at A cel ealty in An a. For more information, call Albert odrigue at 951-492-1624 or obyn Garrison at 805-312-0369.

HCR Bingo f und raisers – 6:30-9:30 p.m. second and fourth Fridays at An a Community Hall.

Anza Valley VFW Post 1873 – Capt. John Francis Drivick III Post, the adies’ and Men’s Au iliaries are located at 59011 Bailey oad in An a. Mail P.O. Bo 390433. equest monthly newsletter and or weekly menu by email at vfw1 8 7 3 anzaca@ 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, e cept February, at An a 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 An a, Aguanga and surrounding areas. For more information, call Allison enck at 951-663-5452.

Anza Valley Artists Meetings – 1 p.m. Meetings are third Saturday of each month at various locations. Share art, ideas and participate in shows. Guests speakers are always needed. For more information, call president osie Grindle at 951-928-1248.

Find helpful art tips at http:// www.facebook.com/An aValleyArtists/.

Anza Q uilter’ 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 oad, in An a.

Anza Valley Lions Club – The An a Valley ions Club is open to all men and women who want to work together for the betterment of the community. Guest meetings with dinner are held 7 p.m. on the first Monday of each month at An a Valley VFW Post 1873, 59011 Bailey oad, in An a.

Meetings and events are posted on the An a ions Club website, http://www.an alionsclub.org. For more information, call president Michele Brown at 760-637-9173.

Boy Scouts Troop 319 – Cub Scouts meet 6 p.m. every Tuesday, and Boy Scouts meet 7 p.m. every Wednesday at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on Contreras Road, south of state oute 371, in An a. For more information, call ichard Hotchkiss at 951-551-3154.

Boys Scouts Troop 371 – Boy Scouts meet at ake iverside states. For more information, call Ginny inser at 909-702-7902.

Civ il Air Patrol – Squadron 59 is looking for new members of all ages. For more information, call

squadron commander Maj. Dennis Sheehan from the An a area at 951-403-4940. To learn more and see the club’s meeting schedule, visit http://www.squadron59.org.

Fire Ex plorer Program – 6 p.m. The program meets every second, third and fourth Tuesday of the month at Fire Station 29 on state oute 371 in An a. Call 951763-5611 for information.

Red shank Rid ers 7 p.m.

Backcountry horsemen meet at the Little Red Schoolhouse in An a, the second Thursday of each month. Visit http://www. redshankriders.com or call Carol Schmuhl for membership information at 951-663-6763.

Anza Thimb le Club – The club meets the first Thursday of the month at Valley Gospel Chapel, 43275 Chapman oad in An a.

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 oad, in An a. 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 utheran Church, 56095 Pena oad, in An a. 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 Farrell Gas. Mail membership to: An a Community Building Inc. at P.O. Bo 390091, An a, CA 92539. The hall is located at 56630 Highway 371 in An a.

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 Valley Municipal Ad v isory Council – 7 p.m. Second Wednesday of each odd month at An a Community Hall. Group serves as local liaisons to the county from the community. For more information, call 951-805-6800.

Anza Civ ic Improv ement League – 9 a.m. meets the first Saturday of each month at the ittle ed 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.an acivic.org.

Reduce wildfire risk to your home, business SAC AM NTO With more than 4 million acres of the state burned in 2020, most Californians are aware of their wildfire risk.

Before the ne t fire comes, though, residents can make their home or business less likely to be damaged or destroyed. The key is to reduce the fire’s access to fuel on a property or the dwelling itself.

Mitigation specialists divide a property into two ones. The first e tends from the home out for 30 feet, which Cal Fire said should be “lean, clean and green.” If you live on a hill, it should be extended on the downhill side. No shrubs or landscaping should be within 5 feet of the house.

Vegetation that has branches growing from the ground level up should be removed. The one should be kept clear of any dead

plant matter. Create a second reduced fuel one for the ne t 70 feet. andscape with fire-resistant plants. Maintain hori ontal and vertical spacing between trees. eep plants watered.

Identify combustible materials outside the house, such as a woodpile, which should be kept 100 feet from the house, or a propane tank, which should be kept 15 feet away. emove piles of flammable construction materials and all dead vegetation. eplace flammable patio furniture with metal furniture.

A porch, balcony, deck or the like with open space underneath is fuel for fire. The risk increases if vegetation grows underneath, the area is used for storage or any other combustible material accumulates.

Eaves trap heat as it travels up

a home’s e terior siding they should be enclosed. Any vent or other opening through which embers could enter should be covered with 1/8-inch or smaller, corrosion resistant wire mesh. oofs should be made of fireresistant materials. Siding should also be fire-resistant, such as cement shingles or stucco. Windows can allow radiated heat to pass through and ignite combustible materials inside. The larger the pane, the more vulnerable it is to fire. Dual or triple-pane thermal glass and fire-resistant shutters or drapes are among the ways to reduce this risk. Plastic skylights melt.

Mitigation specialists said these and other measures can dramatically increase a property’s resistance to wildfire destruction. For

additional resources, visit Cal Fire’s eady for Wildfire site https://www.readyforwildfire.org/.

The Federal mergency Management Agency teamed with Firewise Communities, the Federal Alliance for Safe Housing and the Institute for Business and Home Safety to create the fact sheet to help you rebuild after a fire. Find comprehensive information for communities and individuals to mitigate their wildfire risk at http:// www.firewise.org.

The International Code Council offers wildfire mitigation information at https://www.iccsafe.org/ content/protect-your-home-fromwildfire/.

Submitted by Federal Emergency Management Agency.

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Anza Valley to hold fundraiser for fire victim Diane Sieker STAFF WRITER

The An a ions Club will host a turkey shoot fundraiser to help collect money to assist Aurora Pere and her family, who lost their home due to fire Sunday, Nov. 8.

Pere is a staff member at Hamilton -8 Schools and is beloved by students, parents and colleagues.

The event will be held at the Minor Field range, Dec. 6, with signups beginning at 9:30 a.m. and a $30 donation for entry.

“Aurora would like to thank you all for your love and support,” longtime friend Christina James, who organi ed a GoFundMe effort to help the family, said. “She is honored and so grateful. verything she owned was in her home and she has lost it all.”

A “turkey shoot” is a shotgun shooting contest where fro en turkeys are awarded as pri es. The targets are paper or clay pigeons,

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which are commonly called skeet and are made of a biodegradable ceramic type material that decomposes into the soil. The skeet are also called clay pigeons. They are flung from a remote-control machine and fly quite a distance, making for great sport. Originally, turkey shoots were contests in which live turkeys were shot at distances from 25-35 yards, but that is no longer the case. No live birds will be harmed at the turkey shoot.

Shooting experts, beginners, friends and family are all welcome to attend. All proceeds will go to the Pere family.

For additional information, contact orne arson at 951-7339700 or Jeremy Parsons at 951306-2402 To donate to the Pere GoFundMe effort, visit https://www. gofundme.com/f/help-ms-aurora.

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A turkey shoot fundraiser with Anza Lions Club, Dec. 6, will collect money to assist Aurora Perez and her family, ho lost their home to a fire Sunday, o . .

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Sacred Heart church to hold Christmas boutique Diane Sieker STAFF WRITER

The Women’s Guild at Sacred Heart Catholic Church will present a Christmas boutique Saturday, Dec. 5, to raise funds for the organi ation to disperse within the community.

Baked goods, handmade crafts, donated holiday items, decorations and gifts will be offered for sale, as well as a hot chocolate bar for to-go cups.

The event will be held from 1-4 p.m., at the Sacred Heart Catholic Church, 56250 Highway 371, in An a, across from the Sinclair gas station.

Funds raised go back into the community.

“We support the From the Heart Christian Women’s Ministries and Food for the Faithful. We hope to see you there,” Marta Spencer said.

All county health mandates regarding social distancing and facial coverings will be observed.

“We all need a little Christmas cheer right now,” Aggie McGowan of Sacred Heart’s Women’s Guild said. “All are welcome to our Sacred Heart Church Christmas boutique. Delight in homemade baked goods, enjoy a cup of hot cocoa and browse our collection of Christmas crafts and treasures.

Merry Christmas.”

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festi e ariety of items a ait isitors to the Sacred eart omen s Guild s Christmas outi ue fundraiser Saturday, ec. , at the Sacred eart Catholic Church in n a.

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Idyllwild grinding facility to operate two days per week ID WI D As summer weather gives way to cooler temperatures, the winter schedule is in effect for the Idyllwild grinding facility. ffective Dec. 1, the facility will be open Wednesdays and Fridays from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. and closed from noon to 1 p.m.

The facility is located at the 5,000-foot marker, 1 mile south of the Idyllwild transfer station on Highway 243. The site accepts wood waste affected by the bark

beetle. Prohibited waste includes household waste, appliances, ewaste, metals, tires, burned debris and other ha ardous, e plosive and medical wastes. Customers who use the facility pay a per-ton rate on pre-paid accounts.

For more information, contact the iverside County Department of Waste esources at 951-4863200 or visit http://www.rcwaste. org/Idyllwild-Grinding.

Submitted by Riverside County.

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The park and school building are the centerpieces of the town and a hub of activity. From the An a Summer Nights concert series to car shows and horseshoe contests, the park is one of the special places in An a.

Both the park and the schoolhouse are available to rent for meetings and events. Members may credit 100 of their current membership dues toward rental fees during the same time period.

Only members can vote for the board of directors.

Minor Park and the Little Red Schoolhouse are located at Highway 371 at Contreras oad in An a.

To learn more about upcoming ACI events, visit them at http:// www.facebook.com/An aCivicImprovement eague/ or at http:// www.an acivic.org.

To join the ACIL visit http:// an acivic.org/join.html.

The address is P.O. Bo 391000, An a, CA 92539, and the phone number is 951-330-4411. mail is anzacivic@gmail.com. arl urt may be reached at karl.d.kurtz@gmail.com or 909667-6159.

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also serves the community in the An a Valley. urt first joined the Army in November 1989. After putting in three years, he left the service in 1992, only to rejoin in 1996. He remained until 2013, retiring with 20 years of service.

In 2013, urt enrolled in college and earned a degree in organi ational leadership from Brandman niversity. urt is involved with the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 1873 in An a, the Veterans Paying it Forward group, Boy Scout Troop 319, and he organi es Veteran’s Day celebrations in Lake Riverside states.

“I want to live life to the fullest, be happy and help my fellow man,” he said.

Volunteering to assist the park and ACIL is the perfect place to start, he said.

The mission of the ACI , a 501(c 4 nonprofit corporation, is to restore, manage and enhance the Little Red Schoolhouse and Minor Park in partnership with the public, for the enjoyment of present and future generations, according to the league’s website.

Minor Park is not a public park, and it receives no funding from county or state ta dollars.

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Forest Services declares Apple, El Dorado and Snow fires 100% contained SAN BERNARDINO - San Bernardino National Forest officials announced Monday, Nov. 16, that three major fires have reached 100 containment. The Apple, l Dorado and Snow fires were previously at 95 containment because uncontained perimeters were located in steep and inaccessible terrain. Containment has now been achieved as fire in uncontained areas has reached natural features void of vegetation.

Although full containment has been reached, the three fires remain in a status called uncon-

trolled, which means smoldering continues within the interior of the burn scar perimeters. As an illustration of that, smoke continued to be seen from the l Dorado Fire in the Forest Falls community recently after a winter storm brought several inches of snow to the area.

“We’re pleased to see this improvement, but we remain cautious,” deputy fire Chief Scott Howes said. “We’ve e perienced below normal precipitation and several heat waves over the last si months. Temperatures continue to be high the vegetation is dry-

ing out again and there is no new precipitation in sight.”

Fire restrictions on the forest will remain in effect until conditions improve. Campfires, dispersed camping, smoking and recreational target shooting are among a number of temporarily prohibited activities related to fire safety. All fire restrictions are listed on https://www.fs.usda. gov/detail/sbnf/learning/safetyethics/ cid FSBD V7 007776.

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How to balance a retirement plan in an unstable time D BAN , N.J. The upheaval of 2020 has upended many financial plans, causing people to reassess their retirement strategies.

More uncertainty lies ahead in 2021 with regard to COVID-19 and its effect on the economy. In this unstable setting, keeping a retirement plan balanced is essential, but many people are missing an important piece a whole life insurance policy, John Smallwood, president of Smallwood Wealth Management and author of “It’s our Wealth eep It: The Definitive Guide to Growing, Protecting, Enjoying and Passing On Your Wealth,” said.

“The key to a successful retirement plan is having beautiful balance in it,” Smallwood said. “A whole life insurance policy is the lynchpin in a balanced plan. With 20 to 30 of your net worth in life insurance cash values with a death benefit, you will have substantial funds to cover taxes, health care costs and other needs and leave money for your family.

“Unfortunately, what often happens is that when people retire, they lose the policy because the premiums increase. The purpose of a sound financial strategy is to reduce taxes, risk and fees, increase your retirement income and pass more money on to your family. But losing your life insurance in retirement defeats that whole strategy. With a strategy that has no insurance, you have to spend down your assets,” he said.

Smallwood e plained the benefits of a whole life insurance policy as part of a retirement strategy.

Waive r of premium “This is one of the main benefits of a whole life policy,” Smallwood said. “If you were to become disabled at some point while the policy is in force, then the policy itself pays the premiums.” ncreasing death enefit “This pays your beneficiaries when you pass, and since there is guaranteed cash value on a whole life policy, it has value even if you pass prematurely,” Smallwood said. “When you die, the death benefit is passed to your heirs income ta free, although some state ta es may need to be paid.”

Creditor proofing “In many states, the value of the policy is creditor-proof, meaning it is not subject to the claims of creditors,” he said.

Div id end s A whole life policy has dividends, and those dividends have unique ta features.

“You can take those dividends in cash, or you can reinvest them back into the contract,” Smallwood said. “If you have the dividend paid out to you in cash, you receive that tax-free until you receive your basis in the policy, which is figured as premiums paid multiplied by the number of years you’ve paid premiums. That ta -free dividend does not appear on your tax return, which can be a huge benefit.”

G uaranteed cash v alue “The beauty of the cash value is that it is available at any time.

And it is money you can use strategically, to take advantage of opportunities or for emergencies,” he said.

Loans When someone borrows from their whole life policy, they’re actually borrowing from the premiums that they’ve paid in. These policy loans can be taken ta -free.

However, “you must pay back the loan, including interest, and failure to do so may make the loan ta able,” Smallwood said.

Volatility u er Portfolio withdrawals in a down market put pressure on the portfolio and increase the odds of running out of money.

“Here’s where the life insurance cash value can help you at a critical time,” Smallwood said.

“It offers a volatility buffer. When the market is down, you could pull some income from your policy to use while the stock market portion of your portfolio returns.

“The whole life policy is the main tool at the foundation of your financial plan. It allows you to do multiple things in retirement, and potentially can even increase your income,” he said.

John L. Smallwood is a senior wealth adviser and president of Smallwood Wealth Management and a liated c m anies, r viding investment consulting and nancial lan design r c r rate executives, entrepreneurs and professionals. He is the author of “ I t’ s Your Wealth – K eep I t: he e nitive uide r wing, Protecting, Enjoying, And Passing O n Your Wealth, ” and a previous book, “ Five Ways Your Wealth is U nder Attack.” For more information, visit http: / / www.johnlsmallwood.com.

Help a friend or relative with their anxiety and depression TEMECULA – Do you know a friend or loved one who suffers from fear, an iety and depression and do not know what to do?

It can be frustrating to watch someone you know suffer and not be able to help them. Here are si ways to help the person cope in these kinds of situations and the best way to deal with an iety. earn as much as you can in managing an iety and depression. There are many books and information that will educate you on how to deal with fear and an iety. Share this information with the person who is struggling with their mental health issues.

Be understanding and patient with the person struggling with their fears. Dealing with depression and anxiety can be

difficult for the person so do not add more problems than what is already there. Do not get into arguments with the person who is having a difficult time with their an ieties.

Talk to the person instead of talking at them. It is important not to lecture the person who is struggling with an iety and depression.

Talk to the person about their issues without being rude. Most people will listen if you approach them in a proper manner.

Get help. Seek help from a professional who can help your friend or relative with their mental health struggles. A counselor can give you advice and ideas on how to overcome an iety, fear and depression. Getting help from a professional is the No. 1 priority in

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helping your loved one deal with fear and an iety. Joining a local mental health support group can also be helpful. Talk to your doctor to get more information about potential groups in your area.

Another way to convince the person who is struggling with fear and depression is to tell them what may happen if they don’t get some assistance. An iety and depression can make things worse, and usually it won’t go away by itself without some kind of treatment.

Find out the reasons why the person won’t get help. Address the issues on why the person will not get the necessary help. Many people who are struggling are fearful and frustrated. Try to find out the reasons why they won’t get the help they need and try to find ways that will overcome their resistance of seeking assistance.

Stan Popovich is the author the , A a man s uide To Managing Fear.” For more information, visit http: / / www. managingfear.com.

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High Country 4-H Club goes virtual Ariana Madrid SPECIAL TO ANZA VALLEY OUTLOOK

This year has been difficult for 4-H Clubs up and down California due to COVID-19 however, to fulfill its purpose of helping and educating children, High County 4-H Club of An a has gone virtual. ather than not meeting, High Country 4-H Club has worked to overcome the technological obstacles for the sake of their club members.

“4-H provides a vital connection that youth need right now,” Stephenie Barrett, the 4-H youth program representative said. “The previous daily schedule of going to school, seeing friends, participating in afterschool activities, or visiting e tended family has left youth without any social interaction and has contributed to boredom, loneliness and depression.

“Studies are showing that negative mental health has risen in these last few months. Virtual programs allow members to interact with other 4-H youth and

adult leaders. Adult and teen leaders work hard to find ways to make virtual meetings fun, interactive and engaging so youth aren’t just staring at the screen but are doing a hands-on activity and talking with their 4-H friends.

These meetings help to maintain a sense of belonging and create connections with others. In a time when physical health has so much of our focus, 4-H virtual programs are a tool to maintain good mental health,” Barrett said.

The annual state leadership conference and the annual county leadership day were both held virtually. These leadership programs have taught many children all around the United States how to become good leaders. The programs also advise youth how to demonstrate to others how to be motivated 4-H Club members.

Parents have expressed gratitude to the University of California system for continuing to offer these opportunities.

“The 4-H leadership programs have made my kids bolder, so

I’m glad that 4-H didn’t give it up just because it has been more difficult,” one High Country 4-H Club parent said.

The annual 4-H Club Horse Classic was held virtually this year, as participants entered their classes by video. For each class, a pattern was provided and the rider followed the pattern as they were caught on video. The videos were uploaded to the Horse Classic website. After two weeks, riders could log in to the website and view their placing. ibbons were mailed to the winners.

Two members of High Country 4-H Club participated in this show. achel Anne Madrid rode western and Savannah Bell rode nglish. Madrid won third place in the trail class and sixth place in showmanship. Bell received second in junior dressage suitability and third in junior English showmanship. These are impressive standings for a statewide event.

The SoCal Fair, which is normally held in October, was shut down this year because of CO-

VID-19 however, elly Secord, who runs the livestock portion of the fair, decided to hold a virtual show for 4-H Club and National FFA Organi ation members.

She knew that exhibitors had invested in their livestock and had been raising them for as long as a year. She wanted to give the children the opportunity to show and sell their animals.

In a letter sent to exhibitors, she said, “Our e hibitors are important and we will do the best we can to make this ama ing.

On Oct. 1, 4-H Club and FFA members uploaded videos of their livestock to The SoCal Fair Jr. ivestock website. In addition, they held showmanship classes for rabbits, dogs and poultry. I showed my rabbit and achieved champion in Senior abbit Showmanship. Madrid and Carter Doran, also from High Country 4-H Club in An a, won champion in their classes. Henry Bell showed his dog in dog showmanship and won reserve champion.

Christen Doran, mother of two

4-H Club members, said these virtual shows help keep her children’s skills sharp.

“Our kids have not showed their animals since February, and it’s hard to stay on top of your game when you have no opportunity to compete,” she said.

Other events from this year included two virtual camps in the summer and a hippology contest.

For Halloween, the county 4-H Club office held a Teen Spooky Game Nite, Oct. 30.

4-H Club is still not done.

High Country 4-H Club is holding oom meetings the third Wednesday of the month at 6:30 p.m. for radio, rabbits, dogs and photography. Also, members can also currently take on a 4-H Mars Base Camp Stem Challenge with videos and interviews with NASA scientists. For more information, contact Allison enck at 951663-5452 or email Ali9 5 9 1 @ aol.com.

Riverside County announces death of deputy probation officer RIVERSIDE COUNTY – It is with great sorrow that the Riverside County Probation Department announced the death of deputy probation officer Julio Beltran Saturday, Nov. 14. Beltran was 34 years old and is survived by his wife, a son and his parents. Out of respect for the family, additional details are not being released at this time, according to the county probation department.

“We are devastated and heartbroken,” Ron Miller II, chief probation officer of iverside County, said. “We ask that you join us in remembering his commitment and contribution to his community and to keep his family in your thoughts and prayers.”

Beltran was a seven-year veteran of the Riverside County Probation

ori o ood also o ers a at the Community Hall.

Department who began his career in 2013. He worked with both juvenile and adult clients at assignments with Juvenile Services Division, Southwest Services Division, Special Services Division and supervised an adult caseload in his most recent assignment with the Central Services Division.

Colleagues remember Beltran as a vibrant, funny and endearing person who was dedicated to helping clients in his care make positive changes in their lives. Others recalled the e tra time he took assisting colleagues and mentoring young probation officers. Beltran made many friends in the department and he will be missed, the county probation department said.

Submitted by Riverside County.

The Riverside County Probation Department announces the death of deputy probation o cer ulio eltran Saturday, o . 1 .

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SW AP from page Her additional offering of quality gourmet jerky has also proven successful with shoppers, she said.

“We were thinking of selling jerky and my jalapeno pepper jelly together,” she said.

The outdoor market is held at the An a Community Hall almost every Saturday, from 7 a.m. until about 1 p.m.

Sellers use the venue to earn extra cash and to sell their unwanted items.

Vendor spaces are $18 per spot.

Members of the An a Community Hall receive a $3 discount. The funds collected go to help keep the Community Hall operating and

serving the community.

Social distancing protocols are recommended, and masks are encouraged as well.

Community Hall memberships are $30 per year per person and $50 annually for a business.

For more information about the An a swap meet, call 951-2824267 or visit the An a Community Hall on Facebook.

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Dominion software allegedly switched millions of Trump votes to Biden

Harold W. Pease, Ph.D. SPECIAL TO ANZA VALLEY OUTLOOK

A 6,000-vote switch in Michigan giving Trump votes to Biden, which is said to be a glitch, has brought electronic voting machines and programs into national focus. The attention is centered on the software program Dominion, which was made by Smartmatic in Vene uela and used in 30 states and 2,000 jurisdictions throughout the nation. Te as refused its use three times because of serious security concerns.

It prompts the question. Why does Dominion switch votes only from Trump to Biden, one way Perhaps a few votes but could it switch millions of Trump votes to Biden, enough to steal an election?

Apparently, yes and it did.

White House attorney Sidney Powell told Maria Bartiromo, Sunday, Nov. 15, “President Trump won by not just hundreds of thousands but by millions that were shifted by this software that was designed expressly for that purpose. We have sworn witness testimony of why the software was designed. It was designed to rig elections We have so much evidence I feel like it’s coming in through a firehose.”

Powell spoke of Peter Neffenger, president and board of directors member of Smartmatic, the manufacturer of Dominion, and now on Biden’s transition team, as having known of its capacity to alter elections and its having done so effectively in other countries especially in Vene uela. Its use in America was to do the same here.

Powell said, “Even their own manual e plains how those votes can be wiped away. They can drag and drop Trump votes to a separate folder and then delete that folder. It’s absolutely bra en how people bought the system and why they bought this system. In fact, every state that bought Dominion, for sure should have a criminal investigation or at least a serious investigation of the officers in the states who bought the software They know that they can win the election if they are using that software. It’s really an insidious, corrupt system.”

At another point in the conversa-

tion, she said, “No honest person would use the system But the people who bought the Dominion system for sure knew e actly what they were getting. It should never have been installed anywhere.”

Bartiromo mentioned that her whistleblowers said similar things.

One, an IT specialist familiar with the software, spoke of “an unusual patch that was put into the software while it was live. And it’s highly unusual to put a patch in there.”

She asked, “Is that what you’re referring to Tell me how it’s done and how these backdoors work.”

Powell responded, “That’s part of it. They can stick a thumb drive in the machine or load software to it even from the internet. They can do it from Germany or Vene uela even. They can remote access anything. They can watch votes in real time. They can shift votes in real time. We’ve identified mathematically the e act algorithm they used and planned to use from the beginning to modify the votes, in this case to make sure Biden won And they can do anything they want with the votes. They can have the machines not read the signature. They can have the machines not read the down ballot they can make the machines read and catalog only the Biden votes.

It’s like drag and drop whatever you want, wherever you want. pload votes eah.”

Powell explained that this scenario is what happened in the wee

morning hours of Nov. 4 in Michigan and Pennsylvania when “all of a sudden, hundreds of thousands of votes at a 67 ratio for Biden 23 for Trump uploaded multiple times into the system.”

Adding, that is why Biden “said he didn’t need your votes now.

He would need you later. He was right. I mean, in his demented state, he had no filter and he was speaking the truth more than once, including when he said he had the largest voter fraud organi ation ever. Well, it’s massive election fraud. It’s gonna undo the entire election.”

Bartiromo asked Powell, “ ou say you have an affidavit from someone who knows how this system works and was there with the planning of it ou can prove this?”

Powell answered, “ es. Oh, oh, yes. We have a witness who knew e actly how it worked from the beginning, why it was designed to work that way... That was the same play that had worked in other countries.”

None of this confusion should surprise Democrats as they have warned about electronic election fraud long before Donald Trump.

“Just last year, several leading Democrats in the Senate, moderates, including Amy lobuchar and Mark Warner of Virginia, sent a letter to the three largest vendors of election systems in our country.

Those companies included elec-

tion systems and software: Dominion, Voting Systems Inc. and Hart InterCivic,” she said.

It read in part, “The integrity of our elections is directly tied to the machines we vote on, the products that you make. There has been a lack of meaningful innovation in the election vendor industry and our democracy is paying the price,” according to “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” Nov. 16. nfortunately, Democrats seem strangely quiet. They appear happy with the fraudulent vote count, saying nothing of the overwhelming evidence surrounding it, and their media’s participation in the censorship of those who do. If it were the other way around, they would squawk like geese. nless censorship prevails, look for them to return to flag and city burning and Molotov cocktail throwing when the courts throw out the illegal ballots and give Trump his rightful second term.

Dr. Harold W. Pease is a syndicated columnist and an expert on the U nited States Constitution.

He has dedicated his career to studying the writings of the Founding Fathers and to applying that knowledge to current events. He taught history and political science from this perspective for over 30 years at Taft College. To read more of his weekly articles, visit http: / / www.LibertyU nderFire.org.

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FICTITIOUS B USINESS NAME STATEMENT ile umber The following person s is are doing business as SRW TRANSP ORT L L C enton r, ndio, County: R iversid e Transport , enton r, ndio, 9 2203 This business is cond ucted by a L imited L iability Company This L L C is registered in CA/D E R egistrant has not yet begun to transact business under the fictitious name listed above declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. ( A registrant who d eclares as true any material matter pursuant to ection of the usiness and rofessions ode that the registrant nows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to e ceed one thousand dollars , . egistrant helley . illiams tatement was filed with the ounty ler of iverside ounty on T T a T , TT STATE M E NT GE NE R AL L Y E X P I R E S AT TH E E ND O F FI VE Y E AR S FR O M TH E D ATE O N T T T CO U NTY CL E R K , E X CE P T, AS P R O VI D E D I N b T , I T E X P I R E S 40 D AY S AFTE R ANY CH ANGE I N TH E FACTS SE T FO R TH I N TH E STATE M E NT TT T T T A CH ANGE I N TH E R E SI D E NCE AD D R E SS O F T .

TT B U SI NE SS NAM E STATE M E NT M U ST B E FI L E D B E FO R E TH E E X P I R ATI O N. TH E FI L I NG O F TH I S STATE M E NT D O E S NO T O F I TSE L F AU TH O R I Z E TH E U SE I N TH I S STATE O F A FI CTI TI O U S B U SI NE SS NAM E I N VI O L ATI O N O F TH E R I GH TS O F ANO TH E R , T T , T T ., P R O FE SSI O NS CO D E ) . I H E R E B Y CE R TI FY TH AT TH I S CO P Y I S A CO R R E CT CO P Y O F TH E O R I GI NAL STATE M E NT O N FI L E I N M Y O FFI CE .

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FICTITIOUS B USINESS NAME STATEMENT ile umber The following person s is are doing business as SUP ER B ARG AIN OUTL ET . amsey t., anning, County: R iversid e a. mar hand, . amsey t., anning, CA 9 2220 b. arinder aur hand, . amsey t., B anning, CA 9 2220 c. u hwinder hand, hurch t pt , ancho ucamonga, This business is cond ucted by a General P artnership R egistrant commenced to transact business und er the fictitious name listed above on declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. ( A registrant who d eclares as true any material matter pursuant to ection of the usiness and rofessions ode that the registrant nows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to e ceed one thousand dollars , .

R egistrant: Amar Chand General P artner tatement was filed with the ounty ler of iverside ounty on T T a T , TT STATE M E NT GE NE R AL L Y E X P I R E S AT TH E E ND O F FI VE Y E AR S FR O M TH E D ATE O N T T T CO U NTY CL E R K , E X CE P T, AS P R O VI D E D I N b T , I T E X P I R E S 40 D AY S AFTE R ANY CH ANGE I N TH E FACTS SE T FO R TH I N TH E STATE M E NT T T T T T A CH ANGE I N TH E R E SI D E NCE AD D R E SS O F T .

TT B U SI NE SS NAM E STATE M E NT M U ST B E FI L E D B E FO R E TH E E X P I R ATI O N. TH E FI L I NG O F TH I S STATE M E NT D O E S NO T O F I TSE L F AU TH O R I Z E TH E U SE I N TH I S STATE O F A FI CTI TI O U S B U SI NE SS NAM E I N VI O L ATI O N O F TH E R I GH TS O F ANO TH E R , T T , T T ., P R O FE SSI O NS CO D E ) . I H E R E B Y CE R TI FY TH AT TH I S CO P Y I S A CO R R E CT CO P Y O F TH E O R I GI NAL STATE M E NT O N FI L E I N M Y O FFI CE .

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FICTITIOUS B USINESS NAME STATEMENT ile umber The following person s is are doing business as CAL IFORNIA CAB INET CENTERS one o r. uail alley, County: R iversid e alifornia abinet enters, one o r. uail alley, This business is cond ucted by a Corporation This orporation is registered in the state of R egistrant commenced to transact business und er the fictitious name listed above on uly , declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. ( A registrant who d eclares as true any material matter pursuant to ection of the usiness and rofessions ode that the registrant nows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to e ceed one thousand dollars , .

R egistrant: P amela D orothy D unn, P resid ent tatement was filed with the ounty ler of iverside ounty on T T a T , TT STATE M E NT GE NE R AL L Y E X P I R E S AT TH E E ND O F FI VE Y E AR S FR O M TH E D ATE O N T T T CO U NTY CL E R K , E X CE P T, AS P R O VI D E D I N b T , I T E X P I R E S 40 D AY S AFTE R ANY CH ANGE I N TH E FACTS SE T FO R TH I N TH E STATE M E NT T T T T T A CH ANGE I N TH E R E SI D E NCE AD D R E SS O F T .

TT B U SI NE SS NAM E STATE M E NT M U ST B E FI L E D B E FO R E TH E E X P I R ATI O N. TH E FI L I NG O F TH I S STATE M E NT D O E S NO T O F I TSE L F AU TH O R I Z E TH E U SE I N TH I S STATE O F A FI CTI TI O U S B U SI NE SS NAM E I N VI O L ATI O N O F TH E R I GH TS O F ANO TH E R , T T , T T ., P R O FE SSI O NS CO D E ) . I H E R E B Y CE R TI FY TH AT TH I S CO P Y I S A CO R R E CT CO P Y O F TH E O R I GI NAL STATE M E NT O N FI L E I N M Y O FFI CE .

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L EG AL : 3 2 1 8 P UB L ISH ED : Au g u s t 2 8 , Se p t e m b e r 4 , 1 1 , 1 8 , 2 0 2 0 Republished: o ember 1 , 20, 2 , ecember , 2020 Registrant’s name was missing a letter in the original publication.

FICTITIOUS B USINESS NAME STATEMENT ile umber The following person s is are doing business as CAREER CONCEP TS SEARCH G ROUP lat oc rive, uite , iverside, CA 9 2505 County: R iversid e ason ondon ssociates, lat oc D rive, Suite 200-29 3, R iversid e, CA 9 2505 This business is cond ucted by a Corporation This orporation is registered in the state of alifornia R egistrant has not yet begun to transact business under the fictitious name listed above declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. ( A registrant who d eclares as true any material matter pursuant to ection of the usiness and rofessions ode that the registrant nows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to e ceed one thousand dollars , . egistrant ason illiams, resident tatement was filed with the ounty ler of iverside ounty on T T a T , TT STATE M E NT GE NE R AL L Y E X P I R E S AT TH E E ND O F FI VE Y E AR S FR O M TH E D ATE O N T T T CO U NTY CL E R K , E X CE P T, AS P R O VI D E D I N b T , I T E X P I R E S 40 D AY S AFTE R ANY CH ANGE I N TH E FACTS SE T FO R TH I N TH E STATE M E NT TT T T T A CH ANGE I N TH E R E SI D E NCE AD D R E SS O F T .

TT B U SI NE SS NAM E STATE M E NT M U ST B E FI L E D B E FO R E TH E E X P I R ATI O N. TH E FI L I NG O F TH I S STATE M E NT D O E S NO T O F I TSE L F AU TH O R I Z E TH E U SE I N TH I S STATE O F A FI CTI TI O U S B U SI NE SS NAM E I N VI O L ATI O N O F TH E R I GH TS O F ANO TH E R , T T , T T ., P R O FE SSI O NS CO D E ) . I H E R E B Y CE R TI FY TH AT TH I S CO P Y I S A CO R R E CT CO P Y O F TH E O R I GI NAL STATE M E NT O N FI L E I N M Y O FFI CE .

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FICTITIOUS B USINESS NAME STATEMENT ile umber The following person s is are doing business as TH E MOTH ER L EAG UE ista urrieta pt , urrieta, County: R iversid e aitlyn utumn ilva, ista urrieta pt 434, M urrieta, CA 9 2562 This business is cond ucted by an I nd ivid ual R egistrant commenced to transact business und er the fictitious name listed above on declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. ( A registrant who d eclares as true any material matter pursuant to ection of the usiness and rofessions ode that the registrant nows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to e ceed one thousand dollars , .

R egistrant: K aitlyn Silva tatement was filed with the ounty ler of iverside ounty on T T a T , TT STATE M E NT GE NE R AL L Y E X P I R E S AT TH E E ND O F FI VE Y E AR S FR O M TH E D ATE O N T T T CO U NTY CL E R K , E X CE P T, AS P R O VI D E D I N b T , I T E X P I R E S 40 D AY S AFTE R ANY CH ANGE I N TH E FACTS SE T FO R TH I N TH E STATE M E NT TT T T T A CH ANGE I N TH E R E SI D E NCE AD D R E SS O F T .

TT B U SI NE SS NAM E STATE M E NT M U ST B E FI L E D B E FO R E TH E E X P I R ATI O N. TH E FI L I NG O F TH I S STATE M E NT D O E S NO T O F I TSE L F AU TH O R I Z E TH E U SE I N TH I S STATE O F A FI CTI TI O U S B U SI NE SS NAM E I N VI O L ATI O N O F TH E R I GH TS O F ANO TH E R , T T , T T ., P R O FE SSI O NS CO D E ) . I H E R E B Y CE R TI FY TH AT TH I S CO P Y I S A CO R R E CT CO P Y O F TH E O R I GI NAL STATE M E NT O N FI L E I N M Y O FFI CE .

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AB AND ONMENT B USINESS NAME STATEMENT OF AB AND ONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS B USINESS NAME ile umber iled iverside ounty ler s ce P eter Ald ana The following fictitious business name s has been abandoned by the following person s MINUTE MORTG AG E aun d uite , enifee, County: R iversid e merifirst inancial, nc., . c ellips d , esa, This business is cond ucted by a Corporation This Corporation is registered in CA/AZ The fictitious business name referred to above was filed in iverside ounty on Signed by: E ric B owlby, CE O T T T T T T R E CO R D E R /CO U NTY CL E R K O F R I VE R SI D E T L EG AL : 3 2 5 2 P UB L ISH ED : No v e m b e r 6 , 1 3 , 2 0 , 2 7 , 2 0 2 0

P ETITION TO AD MINISTER ESTATE NO TI CE O F P E TI TI O N TO AD M I NI STE R E STATE O F MARIL YN REB ECCA SMITH To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent cred itors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both of MARIL YN REB ECCA SMITH A P e t i t i o n f o r P r o b a t e has been filed

by W AND AK AYE CRAW FORD in the uperior ourt of alifornia, ounty of iverside.

The etition for robate re uests that W AND AK AYE CRAW FORD be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the d eced ent.

The petition re uests authority to ad minister the estate und er the ndependent dministration of E states Act. ( This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. efore taki ng certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be re uired to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The ind epend ent ad ministration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an obj ection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

Ah e a r in g o n t h e p e t it io n w ill b e h e ld in th is c o u r t a s fo llo w s : ate Time ept. t The Courthouse is closed . Y ou must attend the hearing by ebe call enter meeting number If y o u o b j e c t to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your obj ections or file written ob ections with the court before the hearing. our appearance may be in person or by your attorney.

If y o u a r e a c r e d i t o r o r a c o n t i n g e n t c r e d i t o r o f t h e d e c e d e n t , you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either f o u r m o n t h s from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section b of the alifornia robate Cod e, or ( 2) 6 0 d a y s from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section of the alifornia robate ode.

Ot h e r Ca l i f o r n i a s t a t u t e s a n d l e g a l a t orit ma a ect o r ri ts as a c r e d i t o r . Yo u m a y w a n t t o c o n s u l t w ith a n a tto r n e y k n o w le d g e a b le in Ca l i f o r n i a l a w . o ma e amine t e le ept b y t h e c o u r t . f you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a e uest for pecial otice orm of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provid ed in P robate Cod e section . e uest for pecial otice form is available from the court cler . ttorney for petitioner regory shcraft, Technology r., te , urrieta, , L EG AL # : 3 2 5 7 P UB L ISH ED : No v e m b e r 2 0 , 2 7 , D e c e m b e r 4 2 0 2 0

FICTITIOUS B USINESS NAME STATEMENT ile umber The following person s is are doing business as V ISIG H T latroc rive, uite , iverside, 9 2505 ailing address ucerne lvd uite , os ngeles, County: R iversid e hang in m, ucerne lvd, os ngeles, This business is cond ucted by an I nd ivid ual R egistrant commenced to transact business und er the fictitious name listed above on declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. ( A registrant who d eclares as true any material matter pursuant to Section of the usiness and rofessions ode that the registrant nows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to e ceed one thousand dollars , .

R egistrant: Chang M in I m tatement was filed with the ounty ler of iverside ounty on T T a T , TT STATE M E NT GE NE R AL L Y E X P I R E S AT TH E E ND O F FI VE Y E AR S FR O M TH E D ATE O N T T T CO U NTY CL E R K , E X CE P T, AS P R O VI D E D I N b T , I T E X P I R E S 40 D AY S AFTE R ANY CH ANGE I N TH E FACTS SE T FO R TH I N TH E STATE M E NT TT T T T A CH ANGE I N TH E R E SI D E NCE AD D R E SS O F T .

TT B U SI NE SS NAM E STATE M E NT M U ST B E FI L E D B E FO R E TH E E X P I R ATI O N. TH E FI L I NG O F TH I S STATE M E NT D O E S NO T O F I TSE L F AU TH O R I Z E TH E U SE I N TH I S STATE O F A FI CTI TI O U S B U SI NE SS NAM E I N VI O L ATI O N O F TH E R I GH TS O F ANO TH E R , T T , T T ., P R O FE SSI O NS CO D E ) . I H E R E B Y CE R TI FY TH AT TH I S CO P Y I S A CO R R E CT CO P Y O F TH E O R I GI NAL STATE M E NT O N FI L E I N M Y O FFI CE .

P E TE R AL D ANA R I VE R SI D E CO U NTY CL E R K .

L EG AL : 3 2 2 5 P UB L ISH ED : Se p t e m b e r 4 , 1 1 , 1 8 , 2 5 , 2 0 2 0 R ep ub lish ed: N ovemb er 1 3 , 2 0 , 2 7 , D ecemb er 4 , 2 0 2 0 egistrant s address did not match the fictitious form in the original publication.

FI CTI TI O U S B U SI NE SS NAM E STATE M E NT ile umber The following person s is are doing business as B L AD ES TACTICAL rancine t, erris, alifornia County: R iversid e B lad es L L C, 2279 9 Francine Ct, P erris, CA 9 2570 This business is cond ucted by a L imited L iability Company This is registered in the state of R egistrant has not yet begun to transact business under the fictitious name listed above declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. ( A registrant who d eclares as true any material matter pursuant to Section of the usiness and rofessions ode that the registrant nows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to e ceed one thousand dollars , .

R egistrant: R omano P ettaway, M anaging M ember tatement was filed with the ounty ler of iverside ounty on T T a T , TT STATE M E NT GE NE R AL L Y E X P I R E S AT TH E E ND O F FI VE Y E AR S FR O M TH E D ATE O N T T T CO U NTY CL E R K , E X CE P T, AS P R O VI D E D I N b T , I T E X P I R E S 40 D AY S AFTE R ANY CH ANGE I N TH E FACTS SE T FO R TH I N TH E STATE M E NT TT T T T A CH ANGE I N TH E R E SI D E NCE AD D R E SS O F T .

TT B U SI NE SS NAM E STATE M E NT M U ST B E FI L E D B E FO R E TH E E X P I R ATI O N. TH E FI L I NG O F TH I S STATE M E NT D O E S NO T O F I TSE L F AU TH O R I Z E TH E U SE I N TH I S STATE O F A FI CTI TI O U S B U SI NE SS NAM E I N VI O L ATI O N O F TH E R I GH TS O F ANO TH E R , T T , T T ., P R O FE SSI O NS CO D E ) . I H E R E B Y CE R TI FY TH AT TH I S CO P Y I S A CO R R E CT CO P Y O F TH E O R I GI NAL STATE M E NT O N FI L E I N M Y O FFI CE .

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FICTITIOUS B USINESS NAME STATEMENT ile umber The following person s is are doing business as G IFTS AMAZING inchester oad, , Temecula, ailing address ilt oad, allbroo , County: R iversid e tacey ane iggs, ilt oad, allbroo , This business is cond ucted by an I nd ivid ual R egistrant has not yet begun to transact business under the fictitious name listed above declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. ( A registrant who d eclares as true any material matter pursuant to ection of the usiness and rofessions ode that the registrant nows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to e ceed one thousand dollars , .

R egistrant: Stacey Ja ne R iggs tatement was filed with the ounty ler of iverside ounty on T T a T , TT STATE M E NT GE NE R AL L Y E X P I R E S AT TH E E ND O F FI VE Y E AR S FR O M TH E D ATE O N T T T CO U NTY CL E R K , E X CE P T, AS P R O VI D E D I N b T , I T E X P I R E S 40 D AY S AFTE R ANY CH ANGE I N TH E FACTS SE T FO R TH I N TH E STATE M E NT T T T T T A CH ANGE I N TH E R E SI D E NCE AD D R E SS O F T .

TT B U SI NE SS NAM E STATE M E NT M U ST B E FI L E D B E FO R E TH E E X P I R ATI O N. TH E FI L I NG O F TH I S STATE M E NT D O E S NO T O F I TSE L F AU TH O R I Z E TH E U SE I N TH I S STATE O F A FI CTI TI O U S B U SI NE SS NAM E I N VI O L ATI O N O F TH E R I GH TS O F ANO TH E R , T T , T T ., P R O FE SSI O NS CO D E ) . I H E R E B Y CE R TI FY TH AT TH I S CO P Y I S A CO R R E CT CO P Y O F TH E O R I GI NAL STATE M E NT O N FI L E I N M Y O FFI CE .

P E TE R AL D ANA R I VE R SI D E CO U NTY CL E R K .

L EG AL : 3 2 5 9 P UB L ISH ED : No v e m b e r 1 3 , 2 0 , 2 7 , D e c e m b e r 4 ,2 0 2 0

FI CTI TI O U S B U SI NE SS NAM E STATE M E NT ile umber The following person s is are doing business as 1 . V INEYARD B L IND & SH UTTER, INC. 2 . V INEYARD B L IND & SH UTTER ighland t., ildomar, County: R iversid e ineyard lind hutter, nc., ighland t., ildomar, This business is cond ucted by a Corporation This orporation is registered in the state of R egistrant commenced to transact business und er the fictitious name listed above on declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. ( A registrant who d eclares as true any material matter pursuant to ection of the usiness and rofessions ode that the registrant nows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to e ceed one thousand dollars , .

R egistrant: M atthew K reamer Gand y, P resid ent tatement was filed with the ounty ler of iverside ounty on T T a T , TT STATE M E NT GE NE R AL L Y E X P I R E S AT TH E E ND O F FI VE Y E AR S FR O M TH E D ATE O N T T T CO U NTY CL E R K , E X CE P T, AS P R O VI D E D I N b T , I T E X P I R E S 40 D AY S AFTE R ANY CH ANGE I N TH E FACTS SE T FO R TH I N TH E STATE M E NT TT T T T A CH ANGE I N TH E R E SI D E NCE AD D R E SS O F T .

TT B U SI NE SS NAM E STATE M E NT M U ST B E FI L E D B E FO R E TH E E X P I R ATI O N. TH E FI L I NG O F TH I S STATE M E NT D O E S NO T O F I TSE L F AU TH O R I Z E TH E U SE I N TH I S STATE O F A FI CTI TI O U S B U SI NE SS NAM E I N VI O L ATI O N O F TH E R I GH TS O F ANO TH E R , T T , T T ., P R O FE SSI O NS CO D E ) . I H E R E B Y CE R TI FY TH AT TH I S CO P Y I S A CO R R E CT CO P Y O F TH E O R I GI NAL STATE M E NT O N FI L E I N M Y O FFI CE .

P E TE R AL D ANA R I VE R SI D E CO U NTY CL E R K .

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FICTITIOUS B USINESS NAME STATEMENT ile umber The following person s is are doing business as SENIOR CARE REFERRAL SP ECIAL ISTS i on ourt, enife, ailing address ntelope d, , enife, County: R iversid e enior are eferral pecialists, nc., i on ourt, enife, This business is cond ucted by a Corporation This orporation is registered in the state of R egistrant commenced to transact business und er the fictitious name listed above on ept. declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. ( A registrant who d eclares as true any material matter pursuant to Section of the usiness and rofessions ode that the registrant nows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to e ceed one thousand dollars , .

R egistrant: Catherine Shepard , P resid ent tatement was filed with the ounty ler of iverside ounty on T T a T , TT STATE M E NT GE NE R AL L Y E X P I R E S AT TH E E ND O F FI VE Y E AR S FR O M TH E D ATE O N T T T CO U NTY CL E R K , E X CE P T, AS P R O VI D E D I N b T , I T E X P I R E S 40 D AY S AFTE R ANY CH ANGE I N TH E FACTS SE T FO R TH I N TH E STATE M E NT TT T T T A CH ANGE I N TH E R E SI D E NCE AD D R E SS O F T .

TT B U SI NE SS NAM E STATE M E NT M U ST B E FI L E D B E FO R E TH E E X P I R ATI O N. TH E FI L I NG O F TH I S STATE M E NT D O E S NO T O F I TSE L F AU TH O R I Z E TH E U SE I N TH I S STATE O F A FI CTI TI O U S B U SI NE SS NAM E I N VI O L ATI O N O F TH E R I GH TS O F ANO TH E R , T T , T T ., P R O FE SSI O NS CO D E ) . I H E R E B Y CE R TI FY TH AT TH I S CO P Y I S A CO R R E CT CO P Y O F TH E O R I GI NAL STATE M E NT O N FI L E I N M Y O FFI CE .

P E TE R AL D ANA R I VE R SI D E CO U NTY CL E R K .

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FI CTI TI O U S B U SI NE SS NAM E STATE M E NT ile umber The following person s is are doing business as P INK H OUSE B AK ING . ogert Trl, alm prings, County: R iversid e elly roves athryn tern , . ogert Trl, P alm Springs, CA 9 2264 This business is cond ucted by an I nd ivid ual R egistrant has not yet begun to transact business under the fictitious name listed above declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. ( A registrant who d eclares as true any material matter pursuant to ection of the usiness and rofessions ode that the registrant nows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to e ceed one thousand dollars , .

R egistrant: K elly Groves tatement was filed with the ounty ler of iverside ounty on T T a T , TT STATE M E NT GE NE R AL L Y E X P I R E S AT TH E E ND O F FI VE Y E AR S FR O M TH E D ATE O N T T T CO U NTY CL E R K , E X CE P T, AS P R O VI D E D I N b T , I T E X P I R E S 40 D AY S AFTE R ANY CH ANGE I N TH E FACTS SE T FO R TH I N TH E STATE M E NT TT T T T A CH ANGE I N TH E R E SI D E NCE AD D R E SS O F T .

TT B U SI NE SS NAM E STATE M E NT M U ST B E FI L E D B E FO R E TH E E X P I R ATI O N. TH E FI L I NG O F TH I S STATE M E NT D O E S NO T O F I TSE L F AU TH O R I Z E TH E U SE I N TH I S STATE O F A FI CTI TI O U S B U SI NE SS NAM E I N VI O L ATI O N O F TH E R I GH TS O F ANO TH E R , T T , T T ., P R O FE SSI O NS CO D E ) . I H E R E B Y CE R TI FY TH AT TH I S CO P Y I S A CO R R E CT CO P Y O F TH E O R I GI NAL STATE M E NT O N FI L E I N M Y O FFI CE .

P E TE R AL D ANA R I VE R SI D E CO U NTY CL E R K .

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FICTITIOUS B USINESS NAME STATEMENT ile umber The following person s is are doing business as P ROTECT A H OME TERMITE AND P EST CONTROL ebble each r, enifee, County: R iversid e a. scar erda Torres, ebble each r, enifee, b. andi llen Torres, ebble each r, enifee, This business is cond ucted by a M arried Couple R egistrant commenced to transact business und er the fictitious name listed above on declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. ( A registrant who d eclares as true any material matter pursuant to ection of the usiness and rofessions ode that the registrant nows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to e ceed one thousand dollars , .

R egistrant: R and i Torres tatement was filed with the ounty ler of iverside ounty on T T a T , TT STATE M E NT GE NE R AL L Y E X P I R E S AT TH E E ND O F FI VE Y E AR S FR O M TH E D ATE O N T T T CO U NTY CL E R K , E X CE P T, AS P R O VI D E D I N b T , I T E X P I R E S 40 D AY S AFTE R ANY CH ANGE I N TH E FACTS SE T FO R TH I N TH E STATE M E NT TT T T T A CH ANGE I N TH E R E SI D E NCE AD D R E SS O F T .

TT B U SI NE SS NAM E STATE M E NT M U ST B E FI L E D B E FO R E TH E E X P I R ATI O N. TH E FI L I NG O F TH I S STATE M E NT D O E S NO T O F I TSE L F AU TH O R I Z E TH E U SE I N TH I S STATE O F A FI CTI TI O U S B U SI NE SS NAM E I N VI O L ATI O N O F TH E R I GH TS O F ANO TH E R , T T , T T ., P R O FE SSI O NS CO D E ) . I H E R E B Y CE R TI FY TH AT TH I S CO P Y I S A CO R R E CT CO P Y O F TH E O R I GI NAL STATE M E NT O N FI L E I N M Y O FFI CE .

P E TE R AL D ANA R I VE R SI D E CO U NTY CL E R K .

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FI CTI TI O U S B U SI NE SS NAM E STATE M E NT ile umber The following person s is are doing business as L A P UERTA FOUND ATION 3205 Sheery D r, H emet, CA 9 2545 County: R iversid e ichard avid ary, . yon p. , emet, CA 9 2543 This business is cond ucted by a Corporation This orporation is registered in the state of R egistrant has not yet begun to transact business under the fictitious name listed above declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. ( A registrant who d eclares as true any material matter pursuant to ection of the usiness and rofessions ode that the registrant nows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to e ceed one thousand dollars , .

R egistrant: R ichard D avid Cary tatement was filed with the ounty ler of iverside ounty on T T a T , TT STATE M E NT GE NE R AL L Y E X P I R E S AT TH E E ND O F FI VE Y E AR S FR O M TH E D ATE O N T T T CO U NTY CL E R K , E X CE P T, AS P R O VI D E D I N b T , I T E X P I R E S 40 D AY S AFTE R ANY CH ANGE I N TH E FACTS SE T FO R TH I N TH E STATE M E NT TT T T T A CH ANGE I N TH E R E SI D E NCE AD D R E SS O F T .

TT B U SI NE SS NAM E STATE M E NT M U ST B E FI L E D B E FO R E TH E E X P I R ATI O N. TH E FI L I NG O F TH I S STATE M E NT D O E S NO T O F I TSE L F AU TH O R I Z E TH E U SE I N TH I S STATE O F A FI CTI TI O U S B U SI NE SS NAM E I N VI O L ATI O N O F TH E R I GH TS O F ANO TH E R , T T , T T ., P R O FE SSI O NS CO D E ) . I H E R E B Y CE R TI FY TH AT TH I S CO P Y I S A CO R R E CT CO P Y O F TH E O R I GI NAL STATE M E NT O N FI L E I N M Y O FFI CE .

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CH ANG E OF NAME AMEND ED

ORD ER TO SH OW CAUSE FOR CH ANG E OF NAME ase umber TO AL L I NTE R E STE D P E R SO NS P etitioner: ASH L EE NICOL E G EIB iled a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows P resent Name: ASH L EE NICOL E G EIB P roposed Name: ASH L EE NICOL E ZETZER TH E CO U R T O R D E R S that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted . Any person obj ecting to the name changes described above must file a written ob ection that includes the reasons for the ob ection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. f no written ob ection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.

NOTICE OF H EARING ate Time am ept The address of the court uld oad, M urrieta, CA 9 2563 copy of this rder to how ause shall be published at least once each wee for four successive wee s prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the following newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county: Anza Valley O utlook ate igned radley . nell, udge of the uperior Court L EG AL : 3 2 5 1 P UB L ISH ED : No v e m b e r 6 , 1 3 , 2 0 , 2 7 , 2 0 2 0

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