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The Hemet City Council named reelected councilmember Karlee Meyer and the city’s newest mayor as councilmember-elect Joe Males as mayor pro tem for 2021 at the Tuesday, Dec. 8, city council meeting. see page A-2

Local Menifee businesses offer unique shopping opportunities MENIFEE – For more than 30 years Doug Hartwick has been a part of the art scene, but not with photos or paintings or sculptures.

Instead, Hartwick, who owns Mom and Pop’s Frame shop in Menifee, works behind the scenes providing framing services for a variety of artists from all over the world. see page A-3

Katie, Scarlett and Shane Gibson, Valley News staff photographer, are awarded a trip to visit all the amusement parks in Orlando, Florida, by Baking Memories 4 Kids and Panera Bread’s Share the Dough recently.

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The Wildomar City Council meets via teleconference to address a series of issues and choose a mayor and mayor pro tem for 2021.

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at Panera to provide children with life-threatening illnesses or experiences with trips to make memories for a lifetime.

At the opening of the Wildomar City Council meeting, council members Bridgette Moore, District 4 and mayor pro tem, and Dustin Nigg, District 2 and mayor, were sworn in after the council voted to certify the Nov. 3 election results with a resolution.

“It’s official, four more years,” Nigg, who ran unopposed, said.

Moore, an incumbent who has served on the council since 2008, regained her seat by defeating challenger Kenneth “Kenny” Mayes.

The council heard an update from the Lake Elsinore Unified School District about the district’s see WILDOMAR, page A-6

Naggar bids Temecula City Council farewell after 22 years; Stewart, Alexander sworn in Edwards to serve as mayor in 2021 with Rahn as mayor pro tem Will Fritz ASSOCIATE EDITOR

A longtime Temecula council member walked off the dais for the last time, a former mayor returned to council chambers and a newly elected councilmember took her seat at City Hall, Dec. 8.

The Temecula City Council’s final meeting of 2020 was one for the books, marking Councilmember Mike Naggar’s farewell to city government after 22 straight years on the council. James “Stew” Stewart, the Temecula mayor who resigned in June over an email that many described as racist but which he has always maintained was a result of a typo, also took the oath of office at the meeting, as did see TEMECULA, page A-6

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Hemet City Council names mayor, mayor pro tem for 2021 Tony Ault STAFF WRITER

the council chambers are filled with the family and friends of the newly elected city officials to witness their swearing-in. Treasurerelect Gladys Savage, observing the stay-at-home order, was not in attendance and took her oath on video screen.

In regular business, the council in an early closed session conferred with labor negotiators from employee organizations seeking raises and consulted with cybersecurity personnel. The city attorney said on the council’s webpage meeting portal that there was no action to report upon the council’s return to open session.

During public comment in open session, the council heard several Hemet city employees and an employees union negotiator plea for raises they said they have not received for the past 14 years. In a September council meeting, many

The Hemet City Council named reelected councilmember Karlee Meyer as the city’s newest mayor and councilmember-elect Joe Males as mayor pro tem for 2021 at the Tuesday, Dec. 8, city council meeting.

Meyer, Males and Malcolm B. Lilienthal Jr. were sworn into office that evening with outgoing city council member Michael Perciful and city treasurer Judith Oltman honored by the incoming council with certificates and named street signs. Oltman leaves her post after 24 years serving the city.

Observing the latest COVID-19 state and county health mandates, the newly sworn councilmember’s families were permitted in the council chambers one family at a time for the ceremony. Normally,

Shane Gibson, Scarlett’s father, is an employee of ReederMedia Inc., publisher Valley News and Village News.

“I’m calling you from New York (and) Rachel (Flanagan) is in California, and we have a really great surprise to share with you,” Frank Squeo said on the Zoom call when Scarlett was invited to the chat.

“Are you ready for a really great Christmas present and surprise that mommy and daddy have been keeping a really good secret?”

Squeo explained that Panera Bread customers had donated money with the Change for Children program.

“Rachel has all of the Panera’s asking for change when people come and they buy food, and they say can you give us 5 and 10 cents and then we put all that money in a piggy bank,” he told Scarlett.

He said they had to find some really special children to use that money with a gift.

“And we found you,” Squeo said. “Mom and dad told me how hard it was when you were little baby and everybody was praying for you and you’re a miracle, a miracle, and you’re so beautiful right now.”

Spueo told Scarlett that the whole family was going to go to Orlando, Florida, to Disneyworld, SeaWorld, Legoland and others as the kindergartner smiled really big in silence.

“We’re going to go on a plane, go to Florida and go to Disney World to see Mickey (Mouse),” Shane Gibson told her.

“Are you excited?” Squeo asked.

“Yeah, thank you!” Scarlett said as she bounced up and down on the family’s couch.

“You are so sweet, Scarlett. We are so blessed to be able to surprise you with this,” Flanagan said. “I can’t wait till you get to go on your trip. It’s going to be so much fun.”

SCARLETT from page A-1 The Gibson family was nominated as a beneficiary of the gift by Rady’s Children’s Hospital.

Roughly 29 weeks into Katie Gibson’s pregnancy with Scarlett, she developed severe preeclampsia symptoms. The complication caused her blood pressure to increase to dangerous levels and could cut the oxygen off to the fetus, and then she went into liver failure and kidney failure.

Scarlett was delivered by cesarean section at Rancho Springs Medical Center in Murrieta and quickly transferred to Rady Children’s Hospital in San Diego for treatment in the newborn intensive care unit.

The newborn baby girl spent two months in the NICU in San Diego while her mother recovered at Rancho Springs. Later, Scarlett transferred to Rancho Springs’ NICU for another two months.

Katie Gibson said Scarlett had heart issues, including two holes in her heart, feeding and eye issues, a hernia, and other setbacks during her stay.

Scarlett was discharged to go home after 81 days in the hospital weighing only 4 pounds. At 2-years-old, she contracted severe bacterial pneumonia and was again taken to Rady Children’s by LifeFlight.

Since then, Scarlett has lived with a compromised immune system but has blossomed into a feisty, fun-loving 5-1/2-year-old who loves Disney.

“She is our feisty little miracle, and we couldn’t love her anymore,” Katie Gibson said. “Scarlett has been through so much in her short number of years, and it is so special to see how strong and what a fighter she is since the day she was born. She deserves this special trip.”

city employees staged a protest and spoke before the council about not receiving any raises for many years. The council received their comments but under meeting procedures were not allowed to comment.

The council, with new members Lilienthal and Males on the dais, approved an amendment to Hemet Municipal Code Section 90-45.3 that would allow higher buildings and the use of more square footage on commercial buildings specifically to hotels, medical facilities and “unique projects” located only in commercial zones. The amendment, according to staff studies, will encourage more medical and hotel operations to move into the city or expand their current buildings improving the city’s economy.

It would allow the issuance of administrative adjustments in the height and size of commercial

buildings still following all other local building codes.

Staff responding to a council question about changing the height of commercial buildings around the Hemet Ryan Airport said the height of any surrounding airport buildings will still need to be under what the Federal Aviation Administration allows and other planning requirements.

The council heard a no-cost presentation from Centrica Business Solution Services about a series of recommended changes made to the library and municipal buildings. The Hemet Library was the focus of most of the recommended changes in its heating and cooling systems, kitchen and new solar energy panels. A resolution to accept the audit was made in a 5-0 unanimous vote.

Centrica is an enterprise specializing in software solutions for

businesses with their customers, like the city of Hemet, to help customers to harness the power of distributed energy by combining heat and power, solar, battery storage and standby generators in facilities. They design, install and maintain and service the equipment as contracted.

They also adopted a resolution to declare city vehicles, save those that are still operational, electronic waste equipment and miscellaneous scrap as surplus and up for sale. They established an evaluation committee to evaluate proposals received by banks and investment companies for citywide banking services.

The city will stay within the state limitations for campaign contributions for candidates for city of Hemet elected officials.

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

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The weeklong trip to Disneyworld is all-paid for travel and includes a stay at a special resort called Give Kids the World Village next to the park. It was unclear given the COVID-19 pandemic when the family might have the opportunity to take the trip.

“Baking Memories 4 Kids told us that this trip will never expire until we set our dates so we will obviously be watching the many developments of the pandemic before we make our decision on when to go,” Shane Gibson said.

“I think the soundest choice would be when it is safe and when everything is open again, so we will get the most optimum amount of fun and memory-making at the resorts Orlando.”

Reflecting back to the surprise, Scarlett’s parents said they think she was shocked, but the happy reality has set in.

“Scarlett was very surprised,” Katie Gibson said. “We have kept this a secret for so many months; she had no idea. Scarlett loves Disney so much and is so incredibly excited.”

“I think she was shocked,” Shane Gibson said. “Now that it’s been a little while since the surprise, the excitement has settled in and she’s talking a lot about this trip.

“I think for her, like most kids, this trip will be a dream come true.

We are just so incredibly thankful to everyone involved in making this happen for her and our fam-

ily. Nonprofit organizations like Baking Memories 4 Kids, Panera Bread’s Share the Dough, and all of the donors really do make a world of difference for families.

The children deserve it. We are truly humbled to even be considered for this and we will be forever grateful for this unforgettable opportunity,” he said.

For more information on Baking Memories 4 Kids, visit http:// www.bakingmemories4kids. com. To learn more about Panera Bread’s Share the Dough, visit http://www.mannadevelopment. com.

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The San Jacinto City Council was called into a special meeting Tuesday, Dec. 8, to adopt a resolution to certify the November election results declaring the passage of Measure V. Measure V is a one-cent sales tax passed by a majority of registered voters, Nov. 3, that will help the city provide for additional law enforcement, public safety, street

and highway and other infrastructure repairs during the next decade.

The meeting authorizes the city staff to execute agreements with the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration to implement the one-cent sales transactions and use tax and to examine tax records.

Normally, a special meeting to certify the election results comes in January, but the council was asked by the city attorney and staff to do so earlier so that it could

receive the first 2021 sales taxes collected by April 1. If the election was certified during the regular Dec. 15 meeting the city would not be able to receive those sales taxes until June 1, at the beginning of the 2020-2021 fiscal year.

The council in a 5-0 vote with little discussion quickly passed the resolution that evening.

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

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Menifee businesses offer unique shopping opportunities

Mom and Pop’s Frame shop owner Doug Hartwick poses with some of the artwork he has framed.

The store has been a Menifee staple for more than two decades.

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MENIFEE – For more than 30 years Doug Hartwick has been a part of the art scene, but not with photos or paintings or sculptures.

Instead, Hartwick, who owns Mom and Pop’s Frame shop in Menifee, works behind the scenes providing framing services for a variety of artists from all over the world.

“I frame anything anyone brings in, anywhere from toilet paper to priceless artwork,” Hartwick said, adding that toilet paper was the oddest thing he had ever framed.

“Her husband was in World War II; she traveled with him and whenever they went to a different country, she would take a little square of paper and write the date on it,” he explained. “So, she brought in this box of toilet paper and it had all of the dates on it wherever they were around the world … It was pretty cool.”

Hartwick said that he has been in business at his Menifee location at 29800 Bradley Road, Suite 108, for 19 years.

“I was the first tenant here,” he said.

Hartwick said that he loves what he does, not just because it gives him a chance to be creative, he creates frames from scratch, but because people come in with their artwork and other items, sharing their stories.

“They bring in whatever they have, and I make it look as pretty as I can.” he said.

Hartwick is just one of the many

people who own businesses in Menifee, offering a particular service that can be difficult to find anywhere else in the city. Hartwick is not alone though. Menifee Bicycles Inc. owner, Craig Cooper, is yet another innovative business owner in the city.

Cooper, a Los Angeles County native has owned Menifee Bicycles for 39 years.

“My dad and I built one of the first homes in Canyon Lake in 1973 ourselves because we couldn’t afford to pay someone to do it,” Cooper said.

Cooper said that he was an avid cycler and saw a need so he and his father, who knew nothing about bicycles, opened Sun City Bikes and Televisions where the elder Mr. Cooper fixed televisions and Cooper himself sold bicycles.

“That was his forte,” Cooper explained.

Menifee Bicycles Inc., at 26100 Newport Road, Suite A20, carries a wide variety of bicycles from BMX bikes to mountain bikes and racing bikes. The shop also carries cycling gear and does bicycle repair, Cooper said.

“We do all facets of the bicycle industry at the retail level,” he said. “Sales, service, parts.”

Cooper said that there are a million reasons he does what he does, but that his mission is to get people on bicycles for health reasons or to give them a reason to spend time with their families and even to create a lifelong passion.

“You can see the elation on a kid’s face after he’s been locked up in the house, then that kid gets a bike and you see his face and it brings tears to your eyes,” he said.

For Cooper, a Quail Valley resident, who is at retirement age, it’s about bringing joy into people’s lives.

Shopping local not only supports other residents and neighbors, but it also keeps tax dollars in the community, which benefits everyone in the city, Gina Gonzalez, director of Menifee Economic Development, said.

“There are far-reaching advantages to shopping local – shopping Menifee,” Gonzalez said. “When we support our local businesses, we in turn support our local economy – where the revenue from sales taxes are then turned into vital services, programs and projects in Menifee, which ultimately affect each of our family’s quality of life.”

To help keep residents shopping local, the Menifee Economic Development Department is offering a new Shop Local Holiday Bingo program in partnership with the Menifee Valley Chamber of Commerce.

“People can get a bingo-style card that they take around to any Menifee retail business,” Gonzalez said. “Shoppers attach their receipts to it and when they get five in a row, they can drop off their completed bingo cards at the Menifee Valley Chamber of Com-

Craig Cooper, owner of Menifee Bicycles Inc., shows off some of the bicycles for sale in his shop.

merce, along with accompanying receipts, to receive an exclusive free Menifee Forward tote and be entered to win a raffle basket, valued at over $500.”

The city is also continuing its hashtag #MeniFREEwards program to encourage patrons to shop local in Menifee and support Menifee’s local eateries who have been hit hard financially by the COVID-19 pandemic.

“When a patron dines at a Menifee eatery and they ‘share’ it on Facebook, the Menifee Economic Development Department will reward them with a $10 MeniFREEward for every $20 they spend on each order,” Gonzalez said. “If you spend $60 you can get $30 back.”

Participating eateries change daily and can be found on Menifee’s social media pages.

Gonzalez said patrons do have to spend a minimum of $30 so she recommends single diners or those who wouldn’t normally spend that minimum amount buy a gift card to reach that reward level. It is a

great bargain, and it helps our local businesses.

Gonzalez said that shopping local in Menifee not only includes the small “mom and pop” shops.

“I always like to remind people that mom and pop shops don’t all look the same,” she said. “Just because it’s called Firehouse Subs, it may be a national brand or a franchised brand, but it’s owned by a mom and pop. They are local people who actually put their life savings into opening a business and running it. If you go into that store, you will see them working it. Many national chain stores are owned by local people who pay their rent like the rest of us do and that is important to understand and why we all should support who we can.”

For more information on the new Shop Local Holiday Bingo program, or about starting a business in Menifee, visit http://www. menifeebusiness.com, http:// www.menifeeforward.com, or call 951-672-6777.

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Newly elected Hemet city treasurer questions city’s investment portfolio before taking office Tony Ault STAFF WRITER

Hemet’s newest elected city treasurer Gladys Savage emailed the Hemet City Council and staff before being sworn to office Tuesday, Dec. 8, asking if the outgoing city treasurer should respond to a series of questions about errors and omissions allegedly left out of previous treasurer reports.

She is also asking the council and staff to authorize a three-year audit of the city’s investment portfolio.

In her email, she questioned whether or not the city’s October and September treasurer’s reports were reported correctly by outgoing Hemet City treasurer Judith Oltman. Oltman was honored by the city council for her 24 years of service to the community as its city treasurer Tuesday evening.

The council did receive and file the investment portfolio as of October without comment at the meeting, following a lengthy closed session meeting where the city attorney said there was nothing to report to the public. By law,

Correction In the Valley News, Dec. 11, “Murrieta to receive an estimated $590,000 of CDBG funds,” it incorrectly stated that “Mayor Gene Wunderlich will finish his time on the council at the end of the year and did not run for election;” however, a city councilmember said, Wunderlich “would never actually run for reelection” as both times he’s been appointed to city council to fill vacancies. Also, councilmember Lisa DeForest was incorrectly given the title “Dr.” She has a Doctor of Chiropractic and not a medical degree. We apologize for any confusion.

city and other government officials are permitted to discuss any actual unadjudicated or pending legal actions with their attorney’s outside of the public view. Only actions, if any are, are reported.

In an email Savage sent to the Valley News before the meeting, she said, “The (treasurer’s) report states a ‘$2,082.60 library withdrawal’ from LAIF (Local Agency Investment Fund) was made. Yet, the LAIF October statement shows

no withdrawal at all. Which is correct? Is there a withdrawal or not? Should a revised October treasurer report be required to provide the correct amount? For the September treasurer report, what is correct?

“Under Government Agencies, a $730,000 monthly activity deduction is made. Yet only additions are made to the monthly GA total.

What is correct – a deduction or the additions? Should an amended/

revised September treasurer’s report be required to report the correct amount?”

Along with those questions, Savage asked, as she had many times before being elected in city council public comment, if the city

council would call for a new threeyear audit. The city manager said that investment audits are made every year with the results made public in city council minutes.

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

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Riverside County records 22,920 new COVID-19 cases, 101 deaths last week Jeff Pack STAFF WRITER

More than 100 Riverside County residents died and 22,920 positive cases of COVID-19 were recorded recently by the Riverside University Health System from Monday, Dec. 7, through Friday, Dec. 11, in the biggest one-week surge the county has experienced since the pandemic began.

For southwest Riverside County cities and communities, the numbers were record-breaking as well with 3,775 new coronavirus cases recorded and 16 deaths in the region.

Meanwhile, 809 people were hospitalized with the virus countywide, and 170 of them in intensive care units. The county said 700 people were in the hospital Monday and 658 the Friday, Dec. 4. People being treated in the ICU rose by 34 with numbers fluctuating throughout the week but starting with 146 Monday.

On Wednesday, the county recorded 28 people had moved into the ICU, the largest one-day jump in new ICU patients since Valley News began tracking data surrounding the virus in June.

In all, 112,950 Riverside County residents were recorded to have contracted the virus since the county’s public health department began documenting cases in early March.

On Friday, the adjusted case rate per 100,000 residents stood at 47.8% and the state adjusted positive rate was 14.8%. Available ICU beds was at 10.1% in Southern California on Tuesday, but had dropped to 6.2% by the end of the week. Riverside County had 6.1% of beds available on Tuesday, but just 4.3% available on Friday.

The county said it had tested 119, 206 people for the virus since

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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Monday.

The number of verified patient recoveries is 70,040. That figure has previously been under-reported due to health officials not being able to confirm the status of patients in follow-up interviews.

Locally last week, Temecula had 414 new cases and one death, Murrieta had 544 and two deaths, Wildomar 183 and no deaths, Lake Elsinore 437 and no deaths, Canyon Lake 79 and one death, Menifee 652 and two deaths, Hemet 549 and five deaths, and San Jacinto recorded 457 new cases and one death.

The community of Anza recorded seven new cases, East Hemet 123 and one death, French Valley 126 and two deaths, Lakeland Village 63 and one death, Valle Vista 119 and Winchester

recorded 22 cases.

Only Anza and Winchester haven’t lost a resident to the virus.

Bruce Barton, director of county Emergency Management Department, told the Board of Supervisors Tuesday that the biggest challenge now is staffing facilities. He said the county is trying to fill “resource requests,” finding health care workers able to step in where personnel shortages occur.

Gov. Gavin Newsom’s “regional stay-at-home” order, which went into effect at 11:59 p.m.

Sunday, Dec. 6, is expected to remain in effect until Dec. 28, when regions may be moved out of lockdown if bed capacity has recovered.

It impacts bars, theaters, museums, hair salons, indoor recreational facilities, amusement

parks and wineries all of which are supposed to remain closed.

Restaurants are confined to takeout and delivery, with capacity limitations on retail outlets.

Below are the COVID-19 case totals for all southwest Riverside County cities and communities.

Temecula Confirmed Cases: 2,289 Deaths: 21 Recovered: 1,334 Murrieta Confirmed Cases: 2,719 Deaths: 34 Recovered: 1,527 Wildomar Confirmed Cases: 1,137 Deaths: 15 Recovered: 717 Lake Elsinore Confirmed Cases: 2,344 Deaths: 23

Recovered: 1,475 Canyon Lake Confirmed Cases: 311 Deaths: 4 Recovered: 149 Menifee Confirmed Cases: 3,213 Deaths: 46 Recovered: 1,824 Hemet Confirmed Cases: 3,211 Deaths: 84 Recovered: 1,963 San Jacinto Confirmed Cases: 2,188 Deaths: 31 Recovered: 1,315 Anza Confirmed Cases: 34 Deaths: 0 Recovered: 18 East Hemet Confirmed Cases: 656 Deaths: 10 Recovered: 406 French Valley Confirmed Cases: 670 Deaths: 4 Recovered: 401 Lakeland Village Confirmed Cases: 366 Deaths: 3 Recovered: 242 Valle Vista Confirmed Cases: 492 Deaths: 5 Recovered: 272 Winchester Confirmed Cases: 59 Deaths: 0 Recovered: 25 Riverside County reports updated numbers every weekday and provides the latest information and guidance from county public health officials at www.rivcoph. org/coronavirus.

City News Service contributed to this report.

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

Belco awarded contract for traffic signal at Briggs Road and Evening Glow Drive Joe Naiman WRITER

Elecnor Belco Electric Inc. was awarded the Riverside County contract to construct a traffic signal at the intersection of Briggs Road and Evening Glow Drive in French Valley.

The county Board of Supervisors voted 5-0, Dec. 8, to award the contract to Belco for the Chino company’s bid of $356,105. The supervisors’ action also approved an addenda to the bid documents.

Briggs Road is a north-south street, and Evening Glow Drive is an east-west road. At the in-

tersection Briggs Road is five lanes, including a turn lane, and Evening Glow Drive is two lanes.

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dendum requiring the contractor to have a Class C10 electrical license was issued Sept. 1.

Eight bids were received by the deadline. The Belco proposal had the lowest cost and was below the estimate of $373,000. Belco was deemed qualified to perform the work.

Development Impact Fee revenue will provide the entirety of the funding. Gas tax revenue will fund the estimated $5,500 annual operation and maintenance costs for the signal once it is completed.

Construction of the signal is expected to begin in early 2021.

The work will be phased so that the intersection and the roadway approaching the intersection can remain open as much as possible.

The project is expected to be complete approximately two months after the start of the work.

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A suspected DUI driver smashed into the back of another car at a Hemet intersection Saturday, Dec. 12, killing two people and injuring a third person.

The crash was reported at about 4 a.m., according to the Hemet Police Department.

Investigators said Jesus Rios, 33, of Downey was driving east on Florida Avenue, approaching Kirby Street, in a BMW 535i sedan when he failed to break at the intersection and rear-ended a Honda Fit hatchback stopped at a

red traffic signal.

The driver of the Honda, an unnamed 21-year-old Hemet woman, was killed, along with one of her passengers, Sgt. Dan Reinbolt said.

Another passenger in the Honda was seriously injured but is expected to survive, he said.

Rios was uninjured and allegedly attempted to flee on foot after the crash but was stopped by a witness at the scene, police said.

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LOCAL WILDOMAR from page A-1 inability to apply for a waiver from the county and the district’s plan to reopen schools tentatively, Jan. 13.

“Our goal, No. 1, still remains to bring students back to a hybrid cohort model when it’s safe for students it’s to return,” Dr. Kip Meyer, assistant superintendent for LEUSD, said. “Now next Thursday (Dec. 17) our board will action item to be able to discuss and provide another update for our public.”

They also heard department reports from the Economic Development and Public Works department.

Kimberly Davidson, director of Economic Development, gave a presentation regarding how residents can support local businesses.

“It’s just important to note that 28 million small businesses make up almost 100% of all U.S. businesses, so small business is a big deal for the United States economy,” Davidson said. “It’s one of the reasons why I for one in Wildomar am constantly pushing to support small business and to shop local.”

Davidson suggested purchasing gift cards for local businesses to give as gifts. She shared a list of locally owned businesses and asked more small businesses to reach out to her to be included in future information she provides to residents.

Assistant city manager Dan York provided the council an update on some land use developments within the city, including the Richmond American project, grading on Clinton Keith Road and a residential townhome and senior living development on Prielipp Road.

He said the KB Homes project and Smith Ranch Storage project are in construction and undergoing improvements. York talked about getting closer to grading on projects such as the Wildomar Shooting Range/Academy, Faith Bible Church, the St. Frances of Rome expansion and the Village at Monte Vista. He also talked about some guardrail repairs and upgrades happening around the city as well as upcoming capital improvement projects.

The council approved the consent calendar, a short one this time, which included a cooperative agreement with the Riverside County Flood Control District for the construction of Line C, Stage 3, and a revised resolution for the county’s Urban County Program for federal fiscal years 2021, 2022 and 2023.

The calendar was approved unanimously.

The council then held a public hearing considering the annexation of territory to be annexed to Community Facilities District No. 2013-1 (Services), which was approved, as was a tax within the area

proposed to be annexed.

The council also adopted a resolution authorizing the fire marshal to proceed to the next phase of the abatement of all weeds declared as a public nuisance.

In general business, the council heard and filed a COVID-19 update from city manager Gary Nordquist, which included discussion about parks within the city, which he said are being cleaned by staff throughout the week.

“A new ruling came down this morning that relaxes some of the restrictions on playgrounds, so we will be implementing those and freeing up all those facilities to be available to use the parks,” Nordquist said.

“I was contacted by many residents, of course, voicing their displeasure over the fields be blocked off and they all understood, I explained to them and they completely understand why,” Moore said. “But these aren’t leagues, he wants to go with his grandchildren and he hits the ball to them. They’re not leagues are not organized as far as they’re just families enjoying the fields.”

She suggested moving some of the fencings at parks to allow residents to use the grass fields and the playgrounds. Nordquist said they will look at an alternative plan for the fencing.

The council also adopted the Public Right of Way Enhancement Program and authorized the

city engineer to collect a $2,500 deposit with any CFD Annexation Application.

The council also had a discussion on truck route designations on residential streets within the city.

“Our municipal code does not prohibit trucks on all the different city streets, but streets and highways code does provide a provision that if the city wants to put regulations on their streets they would have to do so by an ordinance,” York told the council.

“That’s not being considered tonight, an ordinance. What’s being considered tonight is the discussion if the council does want to move forward with certain truck prohibitions or designation of truck routes, we would need to come back to you with an ordinance.

“We have heard from time to time over the years a resident or two concerned about a truck driving on their street and to have us stop trucks driving on that street.

It’s not a citywide problem, at least what we’ve seen at the staff level,” York said.

The council gave the staff some direction to conduct some studies.

York presented streetlight acquisitions and retrofits update and recommended authorizing staff to complete the acquisition of additional streetlights from Southern California Edison, under the previously approved loan; and an authorized Nordquist to execute

the Southern California Edison Company Schedule LS-1 Option E, Energy Efficiency-Light Emitting Diode Fixture Replacement Rate Agreement with SCE and asked the council to direct staff to add to the next five-year CIP update the retrofit of traffic signal safety lighting and the Clinton Keith Road bridge lights.

The council approved the Parks and Community Services special events calendar and Nigg and councilmember Joseph Morabito volunteered to judge the Holiday Lights Home Decorating Contest 2020.

The council divided up appointments to committees, commissions, and board and chose the city’s mayor and mayor pro tem for 2021.

Nigg was selected to serve as the city’s mayor as many of the council members brought up the subject of continuity with staff considering the pandemic emergency that looks to continue through next year.

Nigg nominated councilmember Ben Benoit to serve as mayor pro tem. No other nominations were accepted, and Benoit was selected unanimously. Morabito was discussed as taking the pro tem role in 2022.

“I think that’s something we can do,” Nigg said.

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

TEMECULA from page A-1 incoming Councilmember Jessica Alexander, who won the city council district when Naggar chose not to run for reelection.

The council also selected Maryann Edwards as mayor and Matt Rahn as mayor pro tem at the meeting.

Council members and city staff spent much of the meeting recognizing Naggar for his years of service to the city – being first elected in 1998 and having served as a city commissioner for a year before that, he has been involved in Temecula government for the majority of the city’s 31 years.

“You have had a hand in building and planning this great city over 20 years, shaping our future, developing and supporting programs and events, infrastructure, and developing policy and direction,” Aaron Adams, city manager of Temecula, said, addressing Naggar and naming some of his

Temecula City Councilmember Jessica Alexander is sworn in for the first time after securing the District 2 council seat.

Temecula City Councilmember James Stewart is sworn in Dec. 8. He won his bid to return to the council in November after his resignation earlier this year.

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accomplishments. “You certainly deserve credit for being the champion over a decade ago to raise our awareness and our understanding of special needs advocacy and you brought education and collaboration on inclusive programs to a city where none existed before.”

Naggar is known as a champion

bested his closest opponent in the four-way race for the Temecula City Council District 2 seat by more than 1,000 votes.

In his first statements as a reelected council member, Stewart said he learned from his experience earlier in the year.

“I am very glad to be back and I have learned a lot in these last six months,” Stewart said. “I’ve spent a lot of time soul searching talking to people, and I have a new appreciation of this job and what it entails.”

Alexander is a newcomer to city politics – a former Marine and New York Police Department officer, she said she’s lived in the city with her husband and five children for a few years. She defeated longtime Temecula small-business owner Alisha Wilkins, chair of the state Commission on the Status of Women and Girls, by a little under 700 votes.

She acknowledged to her council colleagues she has “a lot to learn” but said she was excited to join them.

“It’s an honor and a privilege to be here with all of you,” she said.

In Temecula, as in many general law cities in California, the positions of mayor and mayor pro tem are rotated among city council members on an annual basis.

While Edwards, who served as mayor pro tem in 2020 and ran council meetings in Stewart’s place after his resignation, was voted by her colleagues to take the title of mayor for the next year with no opposition, things did not go as smoothly when it came time to select a mayor pro tem.

Edwards moved for Rahn to take the mayor pro tem position, though he served in that role in 2017 and as mayor in 2018, while Councilmember Zak Schwank – who was first elected in 2018 – will this year be the most-senior council member to have held neither role.

Edwards acknowledged that some councilmembers, including both Stewart and Rahn, have served as mayor pro tem and mayor in the third and fourth years of their first terms, but she said it is not a set-in-stone process, and she preferred for Rahn to take up the

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of inclusion in education, work, city facilities and other areas for those with autism spectrum disorder and other special needs, a cause he became involved in after his son, Liam, was diagnosed with autism in 2008 – and it was in this spirit that Margarita Community Park was renamed for Naggar in November.

Naggar’s fellow council members also had plenty of kind words for him.

“You’re a staunch advocate,” Councilmember Matt Rahn told Naggar. “Incredible. You know, when you believe in something you believe in it. And it’s not that you’re not for hearing other people, because you are, but you fully believe after getting all that information that you’re doing the thing that makes the most sense.

Your passion, your strength, your understanding, your compassion, that’s what any city needs and that’s what Temecula has benefited from.”

Staff members attending the meeting were mostly masked except when approaching the microphone to speak. Councilmembers were not masked but were spaced apart on the dais, though Naggar hugged his fellow councilmembers after making a motion to accept the results of the November election and seat the new councilmembers.

For Stewart, the Dec. 8 meeting was his first time on the council dais in the six months since a June 2 email he said was sent in response to “a person concerned about our police officers and their sensitivity training” which made the assertion that no “good person of color” had ever been killed by a police officer.

Stewart said at the time that the email was a result of his use of a speech-to-text app and erroneously included the word “good,” and that at any rate, he had intended to say that no person of color had been killed by police in Temecula, which some commenters on his Facebook posts regarding the email pointed out was not true.

The situation led to Stewart’s resignation a couple of days later, but voters sent him back to City Hall by a wide margin – Stewart

mayor pro tem role in light of what she characterized as a challenging year ahead.

“I think that started because we did have the same council for 10 years and so we pretty much did follow a rotation just so that we had even spacing of everyone who served as mayor and everyone was experienced, but there really isn’t a fixed rotation, especially when we have new people,” Edwards said.

“I think I want to go with councilmember Rahn this year because of his experience, and I think it’s going to be another challenge.”

Schwank said he appreciates Rahn and his level of experience but respectfully took issue Edwards’ motion.

“I feel that I also bring a lot to the table in my history with the city, six years on community services, two years now here,” Schwank said. “You know what you get, you get honesty, you get a hard worker, you get somebody who jumps in and does what he has to do.”

The newly elected Stewart, while also noting Rahn’s qualifications, told the council he understood Schwank’s position.

“I do feel there is a certain expectation based on past rotation schedule, so that’s where I’m kind of struggling with it a little, too,” Stewart said.

Rahn, speaking after the rest of his colleagues, said the discussion “just got elevated to the top five most uncomfortable conversations I’ve had in my life” and reassured Schwank that he has “full faith in your abilities,” but said he would accept Edwards’ nomination.

Schwank said he felt a discussion on drafting an actual policy for mayoral rotation should take place in the next year, but he said he would not vote against Rahn on principle, and Rahn was elected mayor pro tem unanimously.

The council also voted unanimously to seat Schwank as president of the technically separate Temecula Community Services District for a second year in a row, with Stewart as vice president.

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

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Naggar receives much praise after 2-decade run on Temecula council Will Fritz ASSOCIATE EDITOR

Dec. 8, 2020, was the end of an era for the city of Temecula as longtime Councilmember Mike Naggar marked his last meeting on the Temecula City Council.

And while an actual celebration was not possible in the middle of the pandemic – though city manager Aaron Adams assured Naggar there would be one in the new year when it is safe to do so – all manner of city staff as well as all of Naggar’s current colleagues on the council spent much of the meeting wishing him well and reflecting on his lengthy career before sending him off.

“For a city that just turned 31 years old, you’ve given 23 years of your life to public service in the city of Temecula,” Adams said.

“First as a public safety traffic commissioner, then 22 years as a city council member.”

It means Naggar has served on the Temecula City Council for more than two-thirds of the city’s history. And while he has over that time drawn the ire of voters and council members alike – a 2003 article written by John Hunneman for The Californian referred to an early rift between Naggar and the established council members at the time, and more recently a resolution condemning socialism he co-sponsored with Councilmember Matt Rahn was allowed to die after it drew backlash from the community – it’s clear that he remains much-loved.

It was certainly an emotional

meeting, filled with the occasional teary eye from Naggar and punctuated by applause as he made his final motion as a council member: to accept the results of the latest election, paving the way for his replacement, Councilmember Jessica Alexander, and returning Councilmember James Stewart, to be seated.

“Mike, I consider you a friend, a mentor, a colleague and a brother, and I emphasize that last because it’s important to create the kind of family that we did here with the city council,” Rahn told Naggar Dec. 8. “I learned a lot of very important lessons from you over that time and I wanted to share some of those thoughts and ideas I’ve gotten.”

Rahn said Naggar’s love for Temecula is “infectious.”

“What you brought forward, your initiatives, your ideas, your passion, your love, it helped set the tone, when I was a new council member, of what being a council member was really about,” Rahn, who was first elected in 2014, said.

Mayor Pro Tem Maryann Edwards, who would be appointed mayor at the end of the night, has known Naggar for much longer.

“I cannot remember the first time we met,” she said. “We both served as commissioners, so 1995 maybe?”

It would have been 1998 – Naggar served as a commissioner for one year before his first election in 1999.

But at any rate, Edwards and Naggar go “way back,” she said.

“Way back.”

She said she’s often heard remarks from residents on the “family” dynamic of the Temecula City Council.

“And we really are a family,” she said. “Yes, you and Matt (Rahn) have had some spectacular disagreements in closed session, and I think it’s several of them I was right in the middle of … but we leave those meetings and we agree to move forward as a cohesive leadership body and that’s the end of that.

“There have been times, I loved you like a brother and I wanted to punch you in the face, and at the same time knowing that if Tom and I ever needed anything, you would be there,” she said.

Councilmember Zak Schwank, who was first elected in 2018, has served with Naggar for the shortest period of time. But his first interaction with Naggar goes much back further than that, he said.

“We’ve known each other for a while, and I think I’ve shared this with you one of the first times I came to City Hall,” Schwank said. “But the first time our family met you was just on our street.

My daughter was riding her bike, and you happened to be passing through. There was a really tragic crash prior to that that was clearly weighing on you, and you saw my daughter riding her bike and you stopped and talked to my wife and my daughter just to make sure they were OK, just checking in, and (my wife) came back home and we’re sitting around the dinner table and she’s telling me this story, right, and I thought, gosh, if

he cares this much about my family, think about the other families in the city.”

While Schwank wouldn’t join the city council until years later, he said that experience colored his future relationship with Naggar.

“That was really the first interaction we had ever had with you as an elected official,” Schwank said.

“We didn’t know you as a person yet. But that really set the tone for the way our family views you, and appreciates you, and loves you.”

Naggar, finally getting a chance to speak after being lavished with praise, said all of these years after joining the council for the first time, he still considered it an honor to be there.

“I just really marvel that I got the opportunity to do this,” Naggar said. “I look at being able to bring things that are stirring up in me and bring them to a place where people would listen, get massaged by my colleagues and staff and then see them out there come to fruition. I can’t explain to you how amazing, how satisfying that is.”

And while he said he knows many people may never think about how a city facility they use got built or developed, that’s perfectly fine.

“You still get to see them out there enjoying things that are just remarkable, when you see people out on the skating rink or when you see them being treated in the hospital or when you, I don’t know, see a new sports park or something of that nature,” Naggar said.

He thanked his family – his wife

Mylah, his daughter Sienna and his son Liam – for putting up with the enormous amounts of time he’s devoted to the city over the years.

But he said he also did his best to knit his duties as a councilmember into the “fabric” of his life.

“In order to do it and to do it with love, something has to give,” Naggar said. “But then you find out that, well, maybe you can weave it in. So you go to the parades and you bring your family.

I was counting them up since we skipped this year – 22 Fourth of July parades, 22 Christmas parades, countless tree lightings, you just go down the list, this event and that event, the Rod Run, you learn to just say ‘well that’s what we do as a family.’”

And finally, he credited his faith with granting him the opportunity to serve his community for two long decades that he did.

“I’m a firm believer in Jesus Christ,” Naggar said. “He gave me this ministry, and let me be real clear when I tell you, it was clearly a ministry. And what I mean by that is: just as I said, I marvel I got to do it and got to do it with a blessing. I can’t even put value on that. But in the same manner I know clearly that that door has closed. So as far as leaving, I have only remorse of missing everybody but I know there are some other things out there. I don’t know what they are yet but that fire is still in me, so we’ll see where that goes and what that does.”

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

MWD grants Hemet permanent easement along Chambers Street Joe Naiman WRITER

The Metropolitan Water District of California has granted the city of Hemet a permanent easement along Chambers Street between Lyon Avenue and State Street.

The MWD board meeting, Nov. 10, included approval of the easement agreement. Hemet will have the right to construct, operate and

maintain a public road along with appurtenances. MWD will receive $22,000 which covers $14,000 for the fair market value of the easement and $8,000 for MWD processing expenses.

The easement area is within MWD’s Diamond Valley Lake North property. The River Oaks Ranch development will require the widening of Chambers Street and the placement of utility lines

underneath the street.

Not only will the granting of the easement facilitate the widening of Chambers Street, but it will also provide an improved public street along the northern boundary of Diamond Valley Lake and thus benefit MWD itself. MWD had previously declared property north of Domenigoni Parkway and west of State Street to be surplus, so the easement transaction

allows part of that property to be marketed. The widened street will also increase the market desire of the remaining surplus property and thus increase the likelihood of a sale.

Hemet was the lead agency for the environmental mitigated negative declaration and mitigation monitoring reporting program which were approved in September 2019 along with the rezone and

River Oaks Ranch tentative tract maps. The California Environmental Quality Act requires MWD to certify that it has reviewed the city’s MND and MMRP and adopt the lead agency’s findings, so that was also part of MWD’s Nov.10 action.

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

Contracts awarded for Skinner I Lift Station replacement Joe Naiman WRITER

The Eastern Municipal Water District board meeting of Dec. 2, included the award of two contracts for the Skinner I Lift Station.

A 5-0 vote approved the construction contract with Caliagua Inc. Stephen Corona recused himself from the vote on the engineering support services contract with Krieger & Stewart due to a professional conflict of interest, so that contract was approved with a 4-0 vote. The 5-0 vote included authorizing Paul Jones, general manager of EMWD, to execute standard consultant and supplier contracts, and that action also appropriated $1,270,680 for the construction phase of the project.

“We feel confident that we have a good bid,” Joe Moawad, assistant general manager for planning, engineering and construction of EMWD, said.

The Skinner I Lift Station was constructed in 1975 and is at the Lake Skinner Recreation Area.

The lift station is actually owned by the Riverside County Regional Park and Open-Space District, whose board members are the county Board of Supervisors. The Riverside County Regional Park and Open-Space District and the Eastern Municipal Water District have an agreement for the county to operate and maintain the wastewater facilities within the Lake Skinner Recreation Area including the Skinner I Lift Station. The agreement was initially approved in 1975, and in 2009, the agreement was extended for an additional 25 years.

The 45-year-old lift station is approaching the end of its service life, and a 2014 condition assessment concluded that the facility should be replaced. The replacement lift station will be a prefabricated system which will be installed on-site after being assembled elsewhere.

The work for the new lift station will also include installing a new generator and undertaking various

improvements to the electrical system.

In January 2019, the EMWD board approved an agreement with Krieger & Stewart, which is based in Riverside, to prepare the final design documents for a prefabricated lift station including assistance in the preliminary negotiations for the lift station. The January 2019 design contract also covered the generator and electrical system work. A January 2020 amendment to that contract added design work to prepare an access driveway, an engineer’s construction cost estimate and a site investigation to incorporate the existing electrical system into the design drawings.

District staff negotiated the new contract with Krieger & Stewart for the engineering support services during construction. Krieger & Stewart will receive $125,720 in the absence of any contract amendments.

Five companies submitted bids for the construction contract by the Oct. 27 deadline. Caliagua, which is headquartered in Anaheim, had the lowest bid at $893,670.79.

Atom Engineering Construction Inc. of Hemet submitted the second-lowest bid of $925,398.79. The engineer’s estimate was $926,370.

In addition to the two contract amounts, the $1,270,680 construction budget includes $149,888 for contract administration, $11,335 for soils work and $89,367 for contingencies. The total project budget which also includes the design, plans and specifications review, bid and award and administrative closeout phases is now $1,419,196.

The operations and maintenance agreement with the Riverside County Regional Park and OpenSpace District calls for that district to reimburse Eastern for the cost of the Skinner I Lift Station replacement project.

The construction is scheduled to begin this month and be complete in December 2021.

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

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Introducing New Eateries to Menifee Restaurateur Meet & Greet January 26 at 10 am Inviting all home-based culinary artisan and established eateries! Learn tips & advice on growing your business!

Restaurant RSVP’s by January 22: EconDev@cityofmenifee.us | (951) 672-6777

Assisting Existing Eateries in Menifee Individuals will also be able to win gift cards to local Menifee restaurants that are participating in this year’s restaurant week, by shopping and sharing information on Menifee’s Official Facebook page, their favorite Menifee restaurant or eatery and why!

The rewards programs is part of the City’s “MeniFREEwards” program, where participants can earn $10 for every $30 in local gift cards that they spend in Menifee with participating Restaurant Week Eateries. Additionally, there will be raffle gift cards each day of the week – so please follow our social media platforms!

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Showing Menifee’s BEST! Show us your BEST! Participating Menifee restaurants and eateries have an opportunity to showcase their “BEST dish” during restaurant week. Eateries are encouraged to submit a favorite dish to be featured on their City’s Restaurant Week Page and social media platforms, including local business information.

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Old T own Blues Club ad d s sax ophone player Walter G entry to their Wall of Fame

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Saxophone player Walter Gentry has been performing for at least half a century, beginning in high school.

Gentry first met Andrew Doty, owner of Temecula’s Old Town Blues Club, after he started coming to Temecula.

“We kind of got along (was in several different bands) so we got to know him pretty well,” Gentry said. “Then I ended up being in his band.”

Gentry is from San Diego and comes to Old Town Blues Club to play at least two to three times a month.

“He is probably one of the top saxophone players,” Doty said, noting that Gentry first played with a band called Bill Magee Blues Band.

“Until you’ve seen him, it’s kind of hard to explain, but he’s just, he’s an amazing performer. He’s a one-man show,” Doty said. “He had played on Bourbon Street for about 18 years.”

The Old Town Blues Club has a Wall of Fame, which has five artists currently on the wall who have helped grow the club and are amazing players.

“When you go to most blues clubs in the country, nothing wrong, I’m not criticizing, but they’re going to put up the industry legends; which is great, they all deserve it, but I kind of look at it a little differently and I wanted to put the people’s faces on the wall of my place that actually help me grow it and make it what it is,” Doty said.

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A friend of Doty’s, Chris Monson has done all the paintings so far, recently adding a portrait of Gentry, which now hangs on the wall as well.

“I loved it,” Gentry said. “I kind of got tears in my eyes. I wasn’t expecting it, you know. It was totally unexpected.”

Old Town Blues Club wasn’t initially playing the blues – in fact, before the blues, it was an Irish pub – and before that, it was owned by someone else and was called Front Street Union.

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sion in the early 90s, and I was kind of a middle-aged senior management and I was kind of tired of working for corporations anyway. I wanted to do something on my own, and I saw how the Old Town Temecula was booming,” Gentry said.

He ended up buying Front Street Union when the previous owner had to sell.

“We turned it into an Irish pub called the Lucky Stone Irish Pub,” Doty said. “It was only like 800 square feet. Really tiny, I mean the dance floor was no bigger than 10 feet by 10 feet. But there was a stage, a little dance floor, and we

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That was December 2015, he said. In January 2018, Doty decided to rebrand it into a blues club, since there were other Irish pubs in town. “(We) just started a couple local blues bands, brought them in, and was looking at the response of the people and they loved it,” Doty said.

Shortly after, it became Old Town Blues Club.

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they offered me the space next door to expand, and I took advantage of it,” Doty said. “So we literally doubled in size and then I invested in and remodeled. We built a huge outdoor patio, and we took the place and built it specifically for live music.”

Doty brings in a lot of different bands and musicians.

“I’ve seen a lot of great shows,” Doty said. “He’s (Gentry) actually one of the top, if not the best, saxophone player I’ve ever seen in my life. He’s astounding.”

Lex ington H owe can be reached by email at lhowe@reedermedia. com.

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ENTERTAINMENT

Curbside senior meals, charcuterie workshops and more Dec. 18-24 Lexington Howe STAFF WRITER

Editor’ s Note: D ue to California’ s Regional Stay At O rder announcement, D ec. 3 , residents should call ahead and see if an event is still available before registering or attending. Please comply with county and state health orders, including washing your hands, wearing a face mask and staying 6 - feet away from other people while social distancing.

Christmas Ed ition Charcuterie Workshop The Craft House in Temecula is hosting a Christmas-themed charcuterie workshop Friday, Dec. 18, from 6-8 p.m. It will start with a trio wine and cheese pairing, followed by a hands-on workshop.

For more information and tickets, including other events, visit http://grazingtheory.com/events.

Free Virtual Christmas Concert The Old Town Temecula Theater is hosting a free virtual Christmas

concert featuring Sherry Williams Monday, Dec. 21, at noon. The concert will be available on Facebook and YouTube.

For more information, visit http://TemeculaCA.gov.

Driv e-T hru Be A Santa to A Senior & Curb sid e Senior Meals Program During this week, the Curbside Senior Meals Program will be held Tuesday, Dec. 22, from 9-10 a.m. alongside the Be a Santa to a Senior Event. Seniors can drivethru and pick up their meals for the week as well as a gift from the Rotary Club of Temecula all while listening to classic Christmas music.

For more information, contact the city of Temecula at 951-6946444 or visit http://TemeculaCA. gov.

Beginning Watercolor The Fallbrook School of the Arts is hosting a beginning watercolor class Friday, Dec. 18, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.

For more information, visit http://fallbrookschoolofthearts.

org/class.php.

Af ter-School Art Camp The Craft House in Temecula is hosting an after-school art camp for ages 7 and older Tuesdays and Thursdays in December with an experienced art instructor.

To purchase tickets, visit https:// thecrafthousetemecula.as.me/ schedule.php.

Southern Calif ornia Railroad Museum Throughout the month of December, the Southern California Railroad Museum in Perris will host weekend train and trolley rides.

For more information or tickets, visit http://socalrailway.org/scrmevents/weekend-rides.

Peltzer I ce Rink Peltzer Family Cellars in Temecula is hosting their third annual Peltzer Ice Rink until Jan. 10. The rink will be open daily Monday through Friday from 3-9 p.m., and Saturday and Sunday from 1:30-9 p.m. 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

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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.

Lex ington H owe can be reached by email at lhowe@reedermedia. com.

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JDS Creative Academy looks at 2020: a year in review TEMECULA – As 2020 comes to an end, it is hard not to look back at the year in review, reflecting on the good and the challenging. Although it’s difficult to find the right words to describe all that has gone on this year, at JDS Studios, they said they like to make lemonade out of lemons – creating and celebrating the memorable moments.

JDS Creative Academy is known for its year-round programs, classes, special events and live productions, including Riverside County’s only news-magazine program, Spirit of Innovation. Putting our “names” to good use, they got “Creative” with their “Spirit” and continued their mission of providing career pathways and opportunities in visual, performing and digital arts for youth, teens and adults.

At the start of the stay-at-home

order, JDS Creative Academy put their backstage designers to work.

Normally, they create sets, props, and design original outfits for stage productions and the television show, “Spirit of Innovation,” instead, they started sewing for a cause and made over 500 masks that were donated to local senior homes, hospitals and businesses throughout the Temecula Valley.

While working remotely, their 7,000-square-foot building at 28069 Diaz Road in Temecula wasn’t being occupied, so they partnered with LifeStream Blood Bank to host four mobile blood drives, collecting over 50 pints to help blood levels remain stable at the peak of the coronavirus pandemic.

All events that were planned before the pandemic had to be rescheduled or reinvented, like

DigiFest Temecula. After months of planning, nonprofit turned their annual three-day festival in April into an eight-hour virtual interactive experience in August with special guests, workshops, networking, screenings, entertainment and awards. They plan to incorporate some of the virtual aspects into DigiFest Temecula moving forward, according to organizers.

Like Charlie Bucket said in “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory,” “You’ve got nothing to lose so why not choose to think positive!”

Speaking of that eccentric man, JDS Creative Academy’s Musical Theater Group and JDS Actors Studio joined forces to create the first-ever teleconference production of “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.” The 50-minute produc-

tion included every aspect of a live stage performance via oom. The team said they were proud of the performers who brought their gifts to the computer screen to entertain the virtual attendees.

JDS Studios brought families together by producing a video for Chaparral High School’s 2020 graduation. They also produced and livestreamed the Women in Business event for the Temecula Valley Chamber of Commerce to over 300 people.

Another challenge was how to reinvent the annual Haunted Studio fundraiser for Halloween.

Before the pandemic, JDS Creative Academy welcomed the community into their studios for a haunted walk through production with tricks, treats, thrills and chills to enjoy the holiday and raise scholarship

funds for at-risk and foster youth.

This year, the nonprofit went into hypercreative mode and put together a 360-degree virtual reality immersive experience that went right along with their Drive-thru Spooktacular and Blood Drive.

As 2020 ends and the new year begins, JDS Creative Academy said they anticipate the fifth DigiFest in April, along with creative visual, performing and digital arts classes, whether they are virtual or in-person, live productions in some form, plays and events. They shared their thanks for the continued community support especially in these adverse times and look forward to a fresh slate in 2021. JDS Creative Academy wished everyone blessings and prosperity for the New Year ahead.

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Debbi Manion is ACM’s Ambassador of the Month for December Jim T. Gammill SPECIAL TO VALLEY NEWS

Debbi Manion has been an important part of the culture and arts in Menifee for the past three decades, and it is for this reason that Arts Council Menifee is pleased to name her as its Arts Ambassador of the Month for December.

Manion has called Menifee home since 1991 and has been an active member of the community ever since. When she is not busy serving the community, she prepares taxes and helps run a local tree and firewood service with her husband, Jim Schultz. They have a large family, which includes their six children and 12 grandchildren.

Many years ago, she moved with her four children from the Diamond Bar area and noticed right away that there were no places for her girls to play softball. She had always been into athletics and had quite the youth sports career, playing on varsity teams in softball and volleyball during her freshman year. She said she couldn’t stand the thought that her own children would not have the same joyful experience with youth sports as she did, so she decided to do something about it. Just one year after moving to Menifee, she succeeded in creat-

ing a girls’ softball league with help from her brother and from Bobby Sox Softball. By its third year, the league had 480 players.

Her work within the community continued to grow. As more people moved to Menifee, the needs of the city grew as well. Manion was on the committee that helped get Paloma High School built, and once it was established, her children attended the high school.

As they grew older, her children found themselves more drawn to music, she said, and participated in the band program at Paloma Valley.

The problem was that with only 31 participants, the band was too small to be considered official. Manion went to work, serving with the Band Booster Club. She filled the ranks with additional band members and remained on the booster club for 14 years and after all of her children had graduated.

“It was clear during my first year as head of the booster club that I was not a music buff. One time during the Christmas concert, I announced halftime instead of intermission,” Manion said. “I was just trying to do whatever was needed for the band and the kids.”

She wore many hats and served many roles while working in the booster club. One time, a school

janitor asked her if she would be returning the following year. He thought that she was a teacher because she spent so much time at the school and was shocked to learn that she was only a parent volunteer.

More recently, Manion held positions in the Lake Menifee Women’s Club, serving as the chairperson for Menifee Santa’s Workshop for Spark of Love. The Rotary Club sponsors the event, and Manion is the 2020 Rotary president-elect.

She has been served with the program for over a decade. Manion said she is happy to be a part of a cause which provides a Christmas

experience for over 1,200 underprivileged children every year.

Manion has helped organize numerous local events over the years and often include local artists and Arts Council Menifee. Whenever she needs flyers, paintings or any artistic input, ACM is always her first stop. Last year, one Rotary Club and Arts Council Menifee collaboration resulted in an ACM-painted pine wood derby car that was piloted by one of Manion’s grandsons. One of her other grandsons is former Artist of the Month, Joshua Brady, who continues her spirit and passion of service to the community.

John Tribilhorn of Arts Council Menifee said, “I have known Debbi since Menifee Valley MS band boosters circa 1997. She has always been the leading voice in middle school and high school to promote and grow the band programs.

She’s the one that convinced me to be Paloma Valley band booster president. Ever since, I’ve tried to promote music in our community with the enthusiasm I learned from Debbi.

Congratulations Debbi, you deserve this recognition for the many years you put into promoting the band programs in Menifee,” he said.

Temecula Valley Museum celebrates Christmas around the world TEMECULA – The Temecula Valley Museum visited Christmas celebrations around the world virtually in December as it continued its Second Saturday At Home Cultural Celebration online. This monthly event celebrated world cultures with food, crafts, activities and entertainment.

For December 2020, the museum invited guests to experience how the featured cultures from the 2020 Second Saturday Series, celebrate Christmas including China, Cuba,

Jamaica, Mexico and more. The museum shared Christmas around the world through recipes posted online and activities including crafts, cultural facts and virtual tours.

The museum also offered a free, live, online art lesson provided

by Bigfoot Art Classes, Dec. 12.

Guests of all ages joined professional art instructor Tony Moramarco for an interactive, 90-minute, mixed-media art lesson online.

Second Saturdays at Home are

part of the Temecula Valley Museum’s educational and cultural offerings for the community, celebrating the history and heritage of the various and diverse cultures that live in the Temecula Valley. The goal of the program is to embrace diversity and celebrate contemporary life in Temecula.

For more information and other fun online activities, visit http:// TemeculaValleyMuseum.org, or call 951-694-6450.

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WINE & DINE

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TEMECULA – Holiday celebrations ding-dong merrily on high in the vineyards and at The Vineyard Rose Restaurant at South Coast Winery Resort & Spa in December. The culinary team has created celebratory and contemporary California cuisine and awardwinning wines to be presented on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. Physical distancing and the safest health and sanitary practices will be implemented, including limited seating. Families and friends should plan on being seated al fresco as they wine and dine overlooking the winery – warmed by heaters and their own cozy sweaters and outerwear.

Christmas Eve and Christmas Day dinner at The Vineyard Rose Restaurant is Thursday, Dec. 24, and Friday, Dec. 25, from 5:30-9 p.m.

Holiday dining at The Vineyard Rose Restaurant will delight guests with such much-loved favorite dishes as seared Skuna Bay salmon with saffron rice, roasted peppers

and onions, Spanish chorizo and lemon oil; braised short ribs with “Flavors of Pot Roast” accompanied by herb roasted potatoes, baby carrots, cipollini onions and natural jus; and pork osso bucco with white cheddar grits and Brussels sprouts florets. The feast can be complemented by specialty cocktail such as Old Sage’s Fashioned made with Buffalo Trace Bourbon, and guests will want to sip pairings such as South Coast Reference Chardonnay, Wild Horse Peak Tempranillo, South Coast Winery Group Therapy, Wild Horse Peak Touriga Nacional or other awardwinning selections from South Coast or Carter Estate Winery.

Reservations are required and are now being accepted at OpenTable or by calling 951-719-8356.

Seating is currently limited to county guidance of outdoor dining only.

Christmas carry out from The Vineyard Rose Restaurant is Friday, Dec. 25, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

For Christmas to-go, a pre-ordered traditional holiday dinner for four, eight or more can be picked up by drive through at The Vineyard Rose Restaurant Friday, Dec. 25, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Dinner includes slow roasted turkey breast with whipped potato, herb stuffing, yams, balsamic glazed Brussels sprouts, cranberry sauce and gravy. Pumpkin pie with bourbon cream and traditional pecan pie are available at an additional charge of $30 each.

Christmas dinner for four togo is $99, with additional orders available. Pre-orders must be placed by noon Tuesday, Dec. 22, by calling 855-232-1557 or emailing c nere r c .

The Vineyard Rose Restaurant at South Coast Winery Resort & Spa is located at 34843 Rancho California Road in Temecula. For more information, call 951-5879463 or visit http: www.southcoastwinery.com.

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Try a savory way to start holiday celebrations

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It’s the holiday season and your family can feel the cheer as loved ones fill their appetizer plates and excitement fills the air as gifts are being placed beneath the tree.

Someone asks, munching away near the table, “Wow, how did you make this?”

In your mind, you think, “It was too easy.”

These Savory Cheese Balls are not only simple to make but perfect for any holiday get-together or celebration. They’re fun to create and even more enjoyable to dive in to once finished. Texture and color are the name of the game with this recipe. The result is a beautiful array of red, gold and green, all on one plate.

Start by rolling cream cheese into balls and mixing up three bowls with powerful flavors to create the three different colors.

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thyme, rosemary and, of course, some garlic, just for an extra kick of seasoning. The “gold” ball calls for caraway seeds, poppy seeds and garlic. Finally, the “red” ball includes cranberries and pecans.

Simply roll each cream cheese ball around gently until it’s coated.

It doesn’t get any simpler than that.

Display the array of cheese balls on a festive plate for something equally cheery and heavenly.

Serve the plate with crackers, fruit or vegetables for complementary dipping options.

Find more recipes and holiday fun this season at http://Culinary. net.

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In small bowl, combine caraway seeds, poppy seeds and half the garlic.

In second small bowl, combine parsley, thyme, rosemary and remaining garlic.

In third small bowl, combine cranberries and pecans.

Roll two cheese balls in seed mixture, two in herb mixture and two in cranberry mixture.

Cut each ball in half and serve with crackers, fruit or vegetables, if desired.

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Director Carol Lee GonzalesBrady was elected as president and Director John V. Rossi was also

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elected as senior vice president of the Rancho California Water District Board of Directors for a one-year term beginning in January 2021, during the Thursday, Dec. 10, meeting of the directors.

Gonzales-Brady is local vineyard owner and member of the Temecula Winegrowers Association who previously served on the Temecula-Elsinore-Anza-Murrieta Resource Conservation District’s Board. She is an alternate representative to the Association of California Water District Agencies Joint Powers Insurance Authority and is an elected member of ACWA’s Region 9 Board.

Rossi has served on several committees at Rancho Water, including the Planning and Administration Committee and the Finance and Audit Committee. Rossi has more than 28 years in the water industry, including serving as the general manager at Western Municipal Water District for 13 years.

Gonzales-Brady was chosen unanimously, and Rossi was confirmed as the pick with a 4-3 vote.

The board also considered and approved a 5 temporary pay

increase for assistant general managers Richard Aragon and Eva Plajzer. The pay increase to begin Jan. 1, 2021, was approved with a 6-1 vote with Director Angel Garcia the lone no vote.

The directors also voted to reinstate the state lobbyist contract.

“We really need to start doing some more influencing and looking at upcoming opportunities that the district can take part in,” Meggan Valencia, Rancho Water’s governmental affairs manager, told the directors. “And that’s going to include building relationships.

Because of the area that we’re from, our representatives are all Republicans, which can be difficult when California is much more dominated by the democrats. We need to be able to get into other people’s offices, not just our own elected officials’ and create those relationships so when we have projects that need funding or we

need changes, we can make more of an influence with them. That’s one of the things that lobbyists really help us do.”

The board also saw information items including an activity report from committees for November and a claims activity report.

They heard a coronavirus pandemic update and an update from the interim general managers.

During the general counsel report by James Gilpin, he discussed the Brown Act issues surrounding the recent election of Director Brian J. Brady, husband of Gonzales-Brady, as well as social media activity law changes at the state level.

The meeting was the first for Brady and Director John E. Hoagland since their election wins in November.

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

EVMWD and Western form partnership to secure water supply for the future

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liant on sources from the northern part of the state. This partnership, which took more than five years to solidify, represents a model for other agencies to follow,” Donald D. Galleano, board president of Western, said. “Together, Western and EVMWD are taking the lead to come up with creative solutions to diversify our water supply and share local resources so that our region can continue enjoying a high quality of life, now and for generations to come.”

The partnership will consist of three separate agreements.

The first agreement will cement EVMWD’s capacity in Western’s Mills Gravity Line, a 14-mile imported water distribution line, allowing the purchase of 9 cubic feet per second of service rights

by EVMWD. EVMWD will join the other project partners including the cities of Corona and Riverside, Temescal Valley Water District and the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California in sharing in the proportional costs of operation, maintenance, repair and replacement of the 14-mile pipeline. The second agreement allows EVMWD to reserve an additional 12 CFS capacity in the Mills Gravity Line through 2024 at a guaranteed rate, securing a means to convey imported water for EVMWD customers into the future.

The third element is a 20-year agreement allowing Western to lease EVMWD’s water rights in the San Bernardino Basin Area totaling 4,680 acre-feet per year – enough to serve the indoor needs of nearly 19,000 families of four every year. Western will lease this water from EVMWD and use an existing agreement with the city of Riverside to produce, treat and deliver the water to its Riverside retail service area at a lower cost than imported water. The lease agreement, which provides a cost savings to Western customers and revenue to EVMWD of approximately $930,000 per year, also includes an optional 20-year extension.

“This innovative, multifaceted arrangement exemplifies the benefits of collaboration. The assurance of permanent capacity in the pipeline is a win for the growing Elsinore region, and the benefit of local water supplies made available for Western reduces reliance on expensive imported water. A win-win for our region,” Andy Morris, board president for EVMWD, said. “President Galleano and I would like to thank the efforts of district staff whose professional, collaborative approach and tireless efforts were instrumental in making this happen.”

Western and EVMWD officials

said they look forward to the implementation of this partnership and future collaborative efforts that reduce costs and increase water supply options for our customers.

Stay up to date on Western’s latest projects and happenings by visiting http: wmwd.com or following them on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Learn more about EVMWD by visiting, http:// evmwd.com or following them on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

Western Municipal Water District is one of the largest public agencies in Riverside County, providing water and wastewater services to nearly 1 million people either directly retail or via wholesale customers who live, work and play within 527 square miles in one of California’s most populous regions. Learn more at http: wmwd.com.

EVMWD provides service to over 155,000 water and wastewater customers in a 97-square mile service area in western Riverside County. The district is a subagency of the Western Municipal Water District and a member agency of the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California.

For more information, visit http:// www.evmwd.com for additional information.

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RIVERSIDE – Western Municipal Water District and Elsinore Valley Municipal Water District announced a partnership that is more than 20 years in the making.

After working together through temporary agreements to ensure reliable and safe water supply to their customers, a long-term partnership was approved by both

boards of directors in late October and executed by both agencies in November. The new agreement between Western and EVMWD will provide water supply stability for both agencies as they plan for existing and future service demands across the region.

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“It is extremely important that we continue to support our local and small businesses as best as we can at this time and call attention to all the services, food and experiences that are still available to safely enjoy,” Emily Falappino, president of Temecula Valley Chamber of Commerce, said. “We want our residents to understand that every choice to spend locally will positively impact our community in more ways than one.”

The new program hopes to communicate the innumerable benefits to shopping local, beyond what residents might initially expect.

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port local jobs, improve public city works like building new roads and schools, and help the environment by reducing waste and pollution emissions. For every $100 that is spent at a local and small business, $68 is reinvested back into the community.

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Great Oak’s Science Olympiad team continues to compete virtually

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Jeff Pack STAFF WRITER

The Science Olympiad team at Great Oak High School in Temecula was cruising right along last spring, looking to nail down yet another regional championship.

That’s when COVID-19 struck.

Though the worldwide pandemic ended the season, the team is up and running again this year, competing at new events they couldn’t have competed in before, according to Jeff MacLean, GOHS science teacher and Science Olympiad coach.

“In essence, because we can’t meet in person opportunities to compete more often and or to compete in bigger sessions and bigger places has opened up things that we would’ve never done or had time to do,” he said in a phone call.

“Things we could never afford to do are now affordable and we have time to do because the kids don’t really have anything else.”

So far, they’ve competed in competitions hosted by University of California Berkeley, the University of Texas at Austin, one in Georgia and another hosted by high schools on the East Coast called the Transcontinental Invitational.

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They finished fifth at that one, fifth out of 85 teams from across the country, and the team won medals in four events.

All the competitions are held virtually. Due to the shutdown of schools because of the coronavirus, that’s all they can do. But MacLean said he sees a silver lining. “(The program has) actually grown,” he said. “We have more kids doing it now than we had in a regular year, even though we don’t meet in person. We meet on oom, and the kids meet in Google classrooms and Canvas just like we do in class.

“And then they do it themselves, and they want to do it. And we’ve been very successful. We’ve got 60 kids that have been competing and there’s probably 75 that have been here, involved that haven’t been competing,” he said.

At a Science Olympiad competition, students work together in teams of up to 15 to compete in 23 events. The events change from year to year, covering fields and topics including: anatomy and biology, earth science, chemistry, physics, geology, mechanical and structural engineering and technology.

MacLean said one of the most

popular events this year is epidemiology.

“All the kids want to do it, but unfortunately it’s limited to two on each team,” MacLean said.

MacLean said the students try to make it onto teams in areas they are interested in. Most compete in several areas during the competitions.

“I have kids that are really good at chemistry and so they’ll do chemistry and there’s another event, forensics, and they will maybe do chemistry in forensics and water quality,” he said. “It’s all chemistry and that’s their strength.

Other kids that are really good at building stuff, and they’ll usually do the build events. This year, that would be the helicopter.

“Because there’s some structural engineering, we’re using some high, high power engineering software called SkyCiv and the kids will design that. They’re doing another one where they use CAD. There’s one called cybersecurity this year, and they will write some code or look at some situation and problem-solve it and figure out what’s wrong with it,” MacLean said. “They’re still doing some builds, but most of it is tests on topics like fossils, ornithology and machines.

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“There’s one team, they built a helicopter. It’s a rubber band powered thing, and you try to make it stay in the air as long as possible with certain building parameters,” MacLean said.

He said to get to 45 students, they have a varsity, junior varsity and freshman team. The program is for students looking to get into college with science majors, and a number of them have made it into Stanford University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, California Institute of Technology, Princeton University, etc.

“Being involved in this program helps them get in too,” he said.

As for this year’s teams, the early season competitions are behind them, and they are ready to go for the big wins.

“As we’re moving forward in the season, now the kids are getting more experienced, they know some stuff,” MacLean said. “So, from a coaching standpoint, now I want the kids working with their partners, getting comfortable. You’re supposed to know this material, and they know it. They’re getting better and stronger and our performance has been better as well.

“I think of it just like I’m coaching basketball. I think of it the same way. I want scrimmages at the beginning. I want to see what the kids can do. let them get the hang of it. At the end of practice, you always have a scrimmage and see what people can do. That’s what we did early on. And now we’re into where, OK, now we’ve got our top teams put together and now we’re going to do some real competitions,” he said.

MacLean said the teams will compete Saturday, Dec. 19, at the

Yosemite Competition, then in the University of California Davis Invitational, the Golden Gate Invitational hosted by Stanford and UC Berkeley and at the MIT Invite.

The regional competition is set for late February and if all goes well, he said, they will move on to the state competition next April.

“I always make a goal at once like that if our team can come in the top half, then we’re successful,” MacLean said of the national competitions. “If we can come in, let’s say 60th, then we’re beating half the teams from across the nation and that’s pretty good.

“Then we go to our regional competition in February where if we don’t win, I’ll be disappointed.

That’s competing against Riverside County and San Bernardino County schools,” he said.

He said teams from Temecula Valley and Chaparral high schools compete in the Science Olympiad as well.

Ultimately, the teams and the competitions are about giving students an opportunity to learn, MacLean said.

“If the kids want to do this, they can, and I’m trying to give them the opportunity,” he said. “I think it takes the focus of the kids off all the c going on in the real world, and they buckle down and study…

They look past the next few months toward their futures. That’s why you do this – you want the kids to be successful with whatever they want to do.

“I’m excited for the kids, and I’m excited they’re doing as well as they are,” MacLean said.

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

Lake Elsinore Unified school board to discuss reopening plans Dec. 17 Will Fritz ASSOCIATE EDITOR

The Lake Elsinore Unified School District board of trustees will next meet Dec. 17 to discuss whether to extend distance learning into February.

A new stay-at-home order based on intensive care unit capacity went into effect Dec. 6, after the state reported capacity in the Southern California region fell below 15 .

The order does not alter existing state and public health guidance for schools, but the district said certain restrictions “may result in more employees and teachers working from home” while the stay-athome order remains in effect.

Board members will vote Dec. 17, after press time, on whether to give the district’s superintendent the “authority to authorize the continuance of distance learning for the start of the spring semester through Feb. 1, 2021, for all grade levels.”

Trustees previously voted Oct. 22 to continue distance learning through the rest of the semester and set a tentative restart date of Jan. 13, with students being allowed to return to classrooms part-time on that date. The district also voted to approve draft plans for part-time reopening.

“We cannot predict the public health impact as the COVID-19 pandemic moves into this winter,” Superintendent Doug Kimberly told the LEUSD board said at the time. “We do know COVID-19 will continue to heavily impact instruction and school operations this school year. Reopening schools will likely be like starting a brand new school year because of the pandemic and social distancing requirements as well as the changes

to master schedules to accommodate parent wishes.”

Board members had said at the Oct. 22 meeting that they would reexamine the tentative restart date depending on health conditions.

The board approved an “a.m.p.m.” cohort model for elementary students at the October meeting, which would, once in-person classes begin again, have one group of students sent to school in the morning and another will attend school in the afternoon, minimizing the number of students on campus at any given time. Students will still participate in a period of asynchronous learning – that is, learning that does not take place in real time with an instructor – during the part of the day when they are not on campus. The middle school reopening model presented to the board is a morning block schedule, in which students are divided into two groups and come to campus two days a week.

The first group would attend class periods 1, 4 and 6 on Monday mornings and periods 2, 4 and 6 on Tuesday mornings, while the second group would instead attend those classes Thursdays and Fridays, with Wednesdays being a distance learning day for all students.

The high school reopening plan presented to the board was similar, with students being divided into two groups, one of which would attend periods 1, 4 and 6 on Mondays and the other attending the same classes Thursdays and Fridays, with Wednesdays being all-virtual classes.

The district previously said it would still offer a distance learning format for families that wish to continue in that format.

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

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New 20-acre Heritage Lakes Sports Park in Menifee opens Tony Ault STAFF WRITER

Heritage Lake residents welcomed the opening of the Heritage Lakes Sports Park Saturday, Dec. 12, at 29209 Heritage Drive in Menifee with the formal celebration planned later.

The 20-acre park was constructed in partnership between Valley-Wide Recreation and Park District and Lennar Homes.

The park includes six lighted soccer fields; two lighted pickle-

ball courts; three lighted tennis courts; three lighted full basketball courts; two restroom buildings – one with concessions; tot lots and gazebos.

“This beautiful park is a wonderful addition to the community,” Nick Schouten, president of Valley-Wide board of directors, said. “We are pleased to offer such a great facility in the Heritage Lakes neighborhood. Although the COVID-19 pandemic prevents us from having an opening celebration at this time, we are happy to open the park for residents to use

and enjoy.”

The formal opening ceremony will be scheduled when public gatherings are allowed again.

The park is the 70th for ValleyWide, which operates parks and recreation centers in the cities of Hemet, Menifee and San Jacinto and the communities of Aguanga, French Valley and Winchester.

For information about ValleyWide Parks and activities, visit http://gorecreation.org.

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

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R.D. Olson Construction completes Artesa at Menifee Town Center

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MENIFEE – R.D. Olson Construction, an award-winning general contracting firm in California, announced Dec. 3, the completion of Artesa at Menifee Town Center, a 330-unit luxury apartment community located in the heart of a master-planned community in Menifee. Offering urban-inspired living in a small-town setting, the MBK Rental Living community

was delivered in 10 phases and consists of 37 apartment buildings as well as two clubhouses and extensive amenities. It is now fully open for leasing.

With a Spanish mission-style design, the community offers two and three-story walk-up apartment buildings with one-, two- and three-bedroom offerings. With eight floor plans ranging from 820

to 1,322 square feet, units feature quartz countertops, smart thermostats, gourmet kitchens with prep islands, custom cabinetry, contemporary lighting, covered patios, ceiling fans, wood-style flooring, in-home washer and dryers and stainless steel appliances in an open living environment. All units also have access to a private garage and select units have vaulted ceilings and direct garage access.

“Artesa at Menifee Town Center has experienced strong leasing demand and exceptional resident satisfaction since its opening,” Bill Wilhelm, president of R.D. Olson Construction, said. “R.D. Olson Construction has a rich history of building multi-unit projects, and we look forward to continuing to deliver high-quality communities like Artesa at Menifee Town Center across California.”

Artesa at Menifee Town Center offers a wide variety of amenities for residents, including a resortstyle pool and spa, barbecue area, dog park, package lockers, Wi-Fi in common areas, playground,

large clubhouse with a full kitchen and sports TV wall and a mix of outdoor community spaces.

R.D. Olson Construction and MBK Rental Living partnered with SummA Architecture, Gouvis Engineering, Alliance Land Planning and Sitescapes on the project.

Located at 30414 Town Center Drive, the apartment community is located within Menifee’s masterplanning community and within walking distance of Menifee Town Center. The area features a five-acre Central Park, community recreation center, walking paths, amphitheater and a wide variety of retailers, restaurants and entertainment venues. It is also within a half mile of the I-215 freeway, offering convenient access to Temecula and Murrieta.

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Angeles. Both are scheduled to break ground in December.

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Best Friends Animal Society offers 9 tips to keep your pets safe during holiday season LOS ANGELES – Coronavirus cases continue to surge around the country, so this year’s holiday season may be quieter than usual.

Gone are the guests, but there are still plenty of seasonal things that can be troublesome for pets.

Human holiday traditions such as food, decorations and plants that may seem harmless can be dangerous or life-threatening to dogs and cats.

“Our pets are naturally curious and love new things. The holidays provide a whole new world for them to explore that can lead to a potential illness or injury,” Erin Katribe, veterinarian and medical director for Best Friends Animal Society, said. “Since many veterinary offices

have limited hours and services during the COVID-19 crisis, it’s crucial to keep your pets as safe as possible, as a trip to the vet won’t be as easy as in previous years.”

As such, Best Friends Animal Society offered the following tips to keep your dogs and cats safe during this holiday season.

Be aware that increased noise and lights can cause stress. If your pet seems agitated, turn down the music or consider placing your pet in a quiet, calm room with dim lighting.

Curb the tendency to give your dog or cat human food. Any change in your pets’ diet may give them indigestion, diarrhea or worse. Foods that people should avoid giving their pets include chocolate, grapes,

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known to be toxic to pets and should be kept out of reach.

The water a Christmas tree sits in is a breeding ground for bacteria and can be extremely harmful to pets. Keep water covered with a thick skirt so pets can’t get into it.

Tape electrical cords safely to the wall and make sure that all electrical connections, batteries and outlets are concealed.

Tinsel, ribbon, metal hooks, plastic and glass can obstruct or perforate the intestine if ingested.

Use an alternative such as paper and hang decorations out of reach from your pet. uickly dispose of wrapping paper, packages and bows after opening presents and put children’s toys out of reach of pets after playtime to avoid accidental ingestion.

Make sure your pets’ identification and microchip are up-to-date in case anyone inadvertently leaves the door open during your holiday celebration.

Some symptoms that your pet has become ill and should be taken to a veterinarian quickly include prolonged vomiting of more than three times in a row, dry heaves, a distended abdomen, sudden weakness or inability to stand, respiratory distress, change in gum color and or seizures.

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CIF Southern Section paints picture of 2021 spring sports playoff groupings Basketball and soccer up first in this week’s look JP Raineri SPORTS EDITOR

As local student athletes and their families hold on to the hope that high school sports will return in 2021, the offices at the Southern Section of the CIF released its playoff groupings for the spring sports season. The sports calendar is going to look extremely different in 2021 as the COVID-19 pandemic has significantly altered the high school sports year schedule. Though there will not be state playoffs, or regional playoffs for that matter, if a team qualifies for their league playoffs, these are the predetermined divisions that they will play in based upon a formula created by the CIF that reflects the success of the teams over the past two years.

Up until a week ago, many high school spring sports programs have been hard at work getting ready for the start of their 2021 seasons the best they can, going through phases of conditioning only. With the recent spike in positive COVID-19 cases, officials withing the state and southern section offices have put a halt to releasing the updated guidelines for youth sports, including high schools. Though, the request to stop conditioning until further notice is a recommendation, it has been left up to the athletic directors at member schools to decide what needs to be done within their programs. Some have canceled workouts overall, and some have let the positive case numbers per county decide what their plan will be, allowing teams to continue with what they had already been doing.

With high hopes all-around, the recent release of the CIF Southern Section playoff groupings is a positive sign for the following schools being mentioned, who are inside the Valley News coverage area for the cities of Hemet, Temecula, Murrieta, Menifee and Wildomar. This week the Valley News will highlight the sports of basketball and soccer for both the boys’ and girls’ teams in the area.

BOY S’ BASK ET BALL DIVISION 1: Great Oak, Rancho Christian, Vista Murrieta, Murrieta Mesa DIVISION 2AA: Murrieta

Mesa, Rancho Verde, Temecula Valley DIVISION 2A: Chaparral, Murrieta Valley DIVISION 3AA: Citrus Hill, Temescal Canyon DIVISION 3A: Heritage, Orange Vista, Paloma Valley, Perris, Vista Murrieta DIVISION 4AA: Elsinore DIVISION 4A: Hemet, Lakeside, Linfield Christian, San Jacinto, West Valley DIVISION 5AA: California Military, San Jacinto Valley, Santa Rosa, Tahquitz, Temecula Prep DIVISION 5A: Cornerstone Christian, Hamilton, River Springs Hemet/Temecula G I RLS’ BASK ET BALL DIVISION 1: No local teams DIVISION 2AA: Murrieta Mesa, Vista Murrieta DIVISION 2A: Great Oak, Lakeside, Paloma Valley DIVISION 3AA: Hemet, Temescal Canyon, Chaparral DIVISION 3A: Murrieta Valley, Orange Vista, San Jacinto DIVISION 4AA: San Jacinto Valley, Temecula Valley DIVISION 4A: Cornerstone Christian, Elsinore, Rancho Christian, DIVISION 5AA: California Lutheran, Heritage, Citrus Hill, Linfield Christian, Tahquitz, West Valley DIVISION 5A: California Military, Hamilton, Perris, River Springs Hemet Temecula, Santa Rosa, Temecula Prep BOY S’ SOCCER DIVISION 1: No local teams DIVISION 2: No local teams DIVISION 3: No local teams DIVISION 4: Chaparral, Vista Murrieta, DIVISION 5: Citrus Hill, Temescal Canyon, Great Oak, Temecula Valley, Tahquitz, Murrieta Valley, Rancho Verde DIVISION 6: Murrieta Mesa, Hemet, Paloma Valley, Perris, San Jacinto, Lakeside, Cornerstone Christian, Orange Vista, Elsinore, Linfield Christian, DIVISION 7: San Jacinto Valley, Hamilton, Santa Rosa, Temecula Prep, California Lutheran, Rancho Christian

The Southern Section o ces of the CIF release playoff groupings for the 2021 basketball season, which is Valley News/Annette Saenz photo set to begin in March.

see CIF , page C-2

New high school club football league receives pushback from CIF Commissioner Ron Nocetti says possible violation of state guidelines for youth sports is a concern JP Raineri SPORTS EDITOR

Due to the recent uptick in COVID-19 cases, the CIF o ces remove the state playoffs from the sports calendar and announce that all high school practices and competitions are on hold until further notice.

Valley News/David Canales photo

CIF State commissioner Ron Nocetti said recently that an organization that started a club football league in Southern California is violating the state’s youth sports guidelines. Nocetti was responding to a report made by a news outlet in Palm Springs that claimed the CIF has “given their blessing” for athletes to take part in the league, which was started by Corona-based Winner Circle Athletics.

According to the state’s youth guidelines that the California Department of Public Health announced in August, competitions are not permitted due to the coronavirus pandemic. High schools were told last week that they should not expect new guidelines until after Jan. 1.

Nocetti said he was upset that the report claimed the CIF supported the new league, Winner Circle Champions League, because of the uncertainty of the high school football season this school year.

“There was a news story published that stated the CIF has given their blessing and allowed these high school athletes to participate in the WCCL,” Nocetti said. “We have reached out to this news source … it is not in our authority to even give such a blessing with the current CDPH guidance in place, which does not allow for youth sports competition.”

Winner Circle Athletics has said its league will include 20 teams from throughout Southern California and some from outside the state.

Many of the area’s top football recruits are considering playing in the WCCL this season and not for their high school teams due to the decision the CIF State made when they announced that football and other fall sports are on hold until new state guidelines are released by the CDPH. Despite the rise in positive COVID-19 cases on a national, and local level, a group of local football coaches in the Temecula Valley see F OOTB ALL, page C-2

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CBU men’s basketball pick up first win of the season JP Raineri SPORTS EDITOR

The California Baptist University men’s basketball team captured its first win of the season Friday evening, Dec. 11, as the Lancers beat the Lions of Southeastern Louisiana University in the final series matchup, 83-66. Cal Baptist used a 14-0 run to start the game on their way to an 83-66 win over the Southeastern Louisiana men’s basketball team Friday afternoon at the CBU Events Center.

For the third straight game, the Lancers had a different player post a career-high, as Tre Armstrong led the charge for the Lancers with a career-best 27 points. He went 9-14 from the field, 4-8 from the 3-point line and a perfect 5-5 from the charity stripe. Armstrong also tied his career-high in rebounds with seven.

The Lancers went wire-to-wire over the Lions as the lead never changed hands, and the home team led by as many as 21 points throughout the game. Despite having four players foul out late in the game, the Lancers were dominant from start to finish, holding the Lions to 14 from the 3-point line (3-22) and 31 from the field (19-62).

Ty Rowell was right behind Armstrong with 20 points, going 6-12 from the field and 3-6 from deep. Rowell and Armstrong become the first Lancers to score 20-plus points in a game since De’jon Davis and Milan Acquaah accomplished that feat in the overtime victory over Seattle University, Feb. 29, 2020.

The win also crossed off a milestone for head coach Rick Croy, as he recorded his 300th career victory as a head coach. Croy now holds a 300-91 overall record and is 170-56 in his 13 seasons with the Lancers. Joining Croy is longtime assistant and current director of basketball operations, Doc Wellman, who has been by Croy’s side for all 300 of his wins.

The Lancers have now had three different players lead the team in scoring in the first three games.

With Ty Rowell (USC), Reed Nottage (SE Louisiana) and Tre Armstrong (SE Louisiana) posting career-highs in the first three games, it marks the first time the Lancers have had a different leading scorer in each game to start a season in the NCAA Division I era. CBU will host three more home games before Western Athletic Conference play starts.

The Lancers’ only nonconference

California Baptist University guard Ty Rowell 2 shoots a -point shot over SE Louisiana guard Byron Smith .

road game will be against another Pac-12 opponent, as they will make the trip down to Tucson,

California Baptist University shooting guard Tre Armstrong 11 goes up for a shot during the game.

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Arizona, to face the University of Arizona.

JP Raineri can be reached by

email at sports@reedermedia. com.

Former local football standouts take part in record-breaking college game ASU tops University of Arizona in historic 70-7 victory JP Raineri SPORTS EDITOR

It has been a wild and unpredictable college football season, during a wildly unpredictable year. This past weekend, things got even wilder when Arizona State beat Arizona. It wasn’t just the fact that Arizona State University beat University of Arizona, it was more of the score they beat them with.

The Sun Devils jumped out to a 14-0 lead less than a minute into the game and never looked back in a historic 70-7 victory. It was the fourth consecutive season the Sun Devils have topped their archrival, a feat they had not accomplished since 1975-1978. ASU’s 70 points are the most either team has scored in the 94 meetings between the two schools.

With more than half of the roster from ASU being recruits from California, one local former standout was smiling big after the game. Giovanni Sanders, who went to play at Riverside Community

College and at Dixie State after graduating from Murrieta Mesa in 2018, transferred to ASU this past year. Sanders, on the winning end, shared the moment with former Murrieta Mesa teammate Kyon Barrs (U of A sophomore), who unfortunately was on the losing end.

Other local players that got to feel the punch from the Sun Devils included University of Arizona redshirt senior Lorenzo Burns (Linfield Christian School), sophomore Jaxen Turner (Rancho Verde High School) and freshman Dion Wilson Jr. (Orange Vista High School).

Highlights from the game involve ASU running back Rachaad White rushing for 133 yards and three touchdowns, including a 93-yard score, to earn the Bob Moran Most Outstanding Player award. On defense, ASU forced seven Wildcat turnovers. The Sun Devils moved to 1-2 in this COVID-19-shortened season, while the loss drops the University of Arizona to 0-5. Last week’s

defeat was the 12th consecutive for the Wildcats, dating back to last season.

Arguably the best moment of the night came midway through the fourth quarter from ASU running back, He Peizhang (AKA Jackson He), who is the only Chinese-born player in the FBS, and after a long and remarkable journey, walked on at Arizona State last year.

In the fourth quarter, He made his debut. He ran four times for 7 yards, including the game’s final touchdown.

“It’s unreal. It’s unbelievable,” he said.

He, who had his name in Chinese on his jersey, hoped that he will inspire players back in China to pursue football.

“I’m just blessed to have this opportunity to be the first one,” He said. “I am the first one, but I am not the last one.”

It was a touching capper for a historic night for the Sun Devils.

After a season delayed twice, then derailed by three straight

The Ari ona State University Sun Devil football team rewrites numerous sections of the record book with its 0- dismantling of its rival Ari ona in the annual Territorial Cup contest in Tucson, Ari ona.

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COVID-19-related cancellations, Friday’s win was a cathartic moment for the Sun Devil program.

“I was happy for our coaching staff and our players,” ASU head coach Herm Edwards said. “What they’ve gone through this past year...you can’t even imagine.

There is no playbook for it. I was simply happy to see these guys win a football game.”

ASU won big and will continue to hold on to the Territorial Cup for another year. They will have at least one more game in this abbreviated 2020 season. The Pac-12 announced this week’s matchup will be against Oregon State Saturday, Dec. 19, at 8:30 p.m.

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

Sports equipment drive helps local families during the holidays JP Raineri SPORTS EDITOR

A sports equipment drive was held Saturday, Dec. 12, at the Temecula D-BAT location, to help local families that could use some uplifting for the holidays. Temecula residents,

Left Temecula residents, Kelsie Whitmore USA Women’s Baseball Team Cal State Fullerton Softball , and Gavin Johns Tennessee Tech University Baseball NJCAA National Champion collect sports e uipment Saturday, Dec. 12, at the D-BAT training facility in Temecula.

Valley News/J P R aineri photo

F OOTB ALL from page C-1 have decided to go forth with putting together a team for the WCCL and held tryouts earlier in December. The Southwestern Warriors posted on social media that were

Kelsie Whitmore (USA Women’s Baseball Team; Cal State Fullerton Softball), a 2016 graduate of Temecula Valley High School, and Gavin Johns (Tennessee Tech University Baseball; NJCAA National Champion), a 2015 graduate from Chaparral High School, teamed up to host a holiday sports equipment drive to give back and help some families that may be in need in our area.

Both Whitmore and Johns are home for the holidays and wanted to help anyone in the local sports community that could use a blessing, especially during these times. The holiday sports equipment drive took place in front of the D-BAT training facility in Temecula, and the turnout could not have been greater accord-

ing to Johns.

“It ended up being really fun and a good turnout,” he said. “We are hoping to deliver the gear to families this coming week and we are still looking for families in need to give the gear to.”

If you personally know of any families that may be struggling during these times and can use some baseball or softball gear for their children, contact Johns at 951-9720422, or Whitmore at 951-764-5822.

Donations can also be dropped off outside the Temecula D-BAT training facility, which is located at 26201 Ynez Road, Suite 103, in Temecula.

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

going to focus on helping players get their much-needed game film by entering the newly announced club league. The first five games are going to be held in Southern California in 2021, with a championship weekend taking place in

Bullhead City, Arizona. For more information on the Southwestern Warriors, email Coach Atencio at ieultimateathletes@gmail.com.

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

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G I RLS’ SOCCER DIVISION 1: No local teams DIVISION 2: No local teams DIVISION 3: No local teams DIVISION 4: Chaparral, Vista Murrieta, DIVISION 5: Citrus Hill, Temescal Canyon, Great Oak, Temecula Valley, Tahquitz, Murrieta Valley, Rancho Verde DIVISION 6: Murrieta Mesa, Hemet, Paloma Valley, Perris, San Jacinto, Lakeside, Cornerstone Christian, Orange Vista, Elsinore, Linfield Christian, DIVISION 7: San Jacinto Valley, Hamilton, Santa Rosa, Temecula Prep, California Lutheran, Rancho Christian * These groupings can also be seen on the CIF-SS website on the

The playoff groupings for the 2021 spring soccer season are released recently by the CIF Southern Section o ces.

Valley News/F ile photo

sport page at http: www.cifss.org.

If we missed any local high school teams, please let us know.

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

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The rescue from madness

Joakim Book SPECIAL TO VALLEY NEWS

In his memoirs, written in the 1940s but not published until after his death, the great economist Ludwig von Mises said, “I set out to be a reformer, but only became the historian of decline.”

Most people contemplating the political and economic climate of 2020 can probably relate.

Many people, frustrated at the loss of liberty and overreach by governments in the single-minded battle to eradicate a virus they don’t understand, have reached for George Orwell or Aldous Huxley. In their novels, “1984” and “Brave New World,” they explored incredibly dystopian worlds. Real-world events that resemble anything in those books invite the fear that we’re destined for the same tyrannical lives.

While literature captures something deeply real about what it means to be human particularly during the first half of the despicable 20th century in which these authors lived they ultimately depict something unreal. The superstate of “1984’s” Oceania hasn’t quite emerged anywhere, except perhaps North Korea; the foolish quest for unstructured and uninhibited pleasure in the World State has so far restricted itself to communes and sections of woke university campuses.

Instead, I find Mises, or his

contemporary, the novelist and poet Stefan weig, much more revealing. Both came of age at the end of the century in Vienna with its coffee houses, intellectual advancements, literary achievements, famed circles and aura of learning for learning’s sake that posteriority much envied.

Both witnessed the prolonged and enduring collapse of their civilizations.

In contrast to Orwell and Huxley’s unreal worlds, the demise that Mises and weig discuss actually happened, and just a few generations ago. In our times, in our worlds, with roughly our civic institutions and social structures and values.

We are watching, in real time, the destruction of our own civilization. In the history books, events like these seem so quick and inevitable, following one upon the other until rescue from madness is too late. With the benefit of hindsight that plagues most history, this makes caricatures of the past: really, ask even precocious middle schoolers, couldn’t the secessionists or democrats or the nationalists or the Bolsheviks have anticipated what their inane beliefs and actions would lead to?

Yes, they could, but they discarded them as unrealistic, lowprobability outcomes that we didn’t have to care about right now: look at all the beautiful things we are trying to achieve!

When the disasters that these movements had unleashed upon civilization were more clearly visible, it was too late to roll them back.

Beginning in the 2010s, and rushing to the forefront in the godawful year that is 2020, we have been chipping away at the base that made the West great: individualism, restrained state power, competing scientific advances under a shared commitment to truth objective, verifiable, provable truth.

In the 2010s, with the intel-

lectual bastion of universities and mainstream media as the center of power, we demolished truth. Per critical theory, nothing is and anything goes; narratives dominate statistical facts and cherry-picked events are enough to advance conspiratorial beliefs about structural harm. We have grievance studies and wishywashy words of oppression; logic is White supremacy; competence hierarchies and meritocracy are nefariously designed to harm those left behind. All is power struggles.

With governments around the COVID-19 world suspending everything that people value, we suddenly warped society. Truthspeakers are only listened to if they are politically expedient.

Individualism has been effectively de-anonymized by the mandated use of masks. There is something overwhelmingly sinister by measures that inhibit person-to-person communication and aggregation, the very features which the state most fears. We impaired the workings of a free society, voluntarily, for a promise that someone, somewhere might not catch the flu. We directed attention, suspicion and later blame to those among us, friend or foe, who got infected instead of the governments from whence the power grab stemmed.

Somehow, we jumped from an Enlightenment and scientific method-based understanding of the world to suddenly blaming whoever tests positive for their flaws. If anyone gets infected, or the overall infection rates rise, being the docile sheep we are and having the hysterical media outlets we have, we conclude that people must have flaunted the rules. Take better precautions, you irresponsible virus spreader! Instead of asking whether the rules even work, we ask what moral flaws fuelled the guilty.

The Salem Witch Trials called and want their rationality back.

Julia Marcus, the Harvard Med-

ical School professor who’s on record for calling many political actions “pandemic theater,” said recently in The Atlantic.

“As cases surged in the fall, elected officials blamed the trend on misbehavior at private social gatherings. Restaurants, stores, and other workplaces aren’t the problem, the talking point goes; people just need to behave better everywhere else – in parks, playgrounds, and their own homes.”

Instead, we must “consider the possibility that when huge numbers of people indicate through their actions that seeing loved ones in person is nonnegotiable, they need practical ways to reduce risk that go beyond Just say no.’”

Take the pandemic clown at the Department of Justice’s news briefing, viewed online by millions of people. First, he walks by staff without wearing a mask.

Then he takes one out of his pocket, mishandles it and repeatedly touches his face, before he walks the few steps to the podium where he takes it off. Whatever the scientific assessment is on the effectiveness of masks in preventing the disease to spread, the hypocrisy and make-believe doesn’t get clearer than this.

That segment indicates to us what we already knew about our House of Cards-like governments. They play charades and make nonsensical rules for us, their subjects, before they themselves routinely flaunt them: Ferguson and Cummings in the U.K., Cuomo and Newsom in the U.S. In “Memoirs,” Mises said, “I recognized the corruption that is an inevitable concomitant of (government) interventionism.”

Decades later, we can sympathize.

Forty years before Robert Higgs explored the Ratchet Effect governments grabbing power in the name of some emergency but never returning all of it when the threat of doom had passed weig wrote of the civilization that tyrannical governments and

the great wars had destroyed.

Apart from grand technical advances between the two total wars that plagued us from 1914 to 1945, weig wrote in “The World of Yesterday: Memories of a European” that “There is not a single nation in our small world of the West that has not lost immeasurably much of its joie de vivre and its carefree existence.”

Expect the same of today’s bloated government, filled with delusions of grandeur, always shoving down one-size-fits-all “solutions” to its underlings.

Every step along the way they overthrow the fundamental liberty and live-and-let-live conviction that make civilized life bearable.

The only good news in all this madness is that large sways of the public are slowly starting to ignore their overlords. From this, the cynic assumes that it’s useless and the tyrants will win anyway; the optimists say that they will bravely fight till their dying breath and both find support in Memoirs. Reflecting on his time in Austrian policymaking, Mises said, “I fought a battle in the (Austrian Chamber of Commerce) for 16 years in which I achieved nothing more than the postponement of catastrophe. I made weighty personal sacrifices, even though I always foresaw that I would be denied success. But I do not regret having attempted the impossible.

I could not act otherwise. I fought because there was nothing else I could do.”

You have a similar choice.

Welcome to our brave new world.

Joakim Book is a writer, researcher and editor on all things ney nance and nanc a h tory. H e holds a master’ s degree from the U niversity of O x ford and has been a visiting scholar at the American I nstitute for Economic Research in 2018 and 2019 .

Reprinted with permission of American I nstitute of Economic Research.

Paxton’s lawsuit accuses Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin – without seemingly any evidence backing the claim – of counting invalid votes. He said it violates the constitution.

But let’s examine the source of this misguided, in my opinion, treasonous behavior.

Paxton was indicted in 2015 and remains under indictment for felony securities fraud where he allegedly told friends to buy shares in a company without telling them he would make money off the transactions.

The case has never gone to trial, but Paxton has already paid a fine, mostly because his wife, who is a Texas state senator, filed legislation that would allow her husband to issue exemptions for exactly the crimes he is alleged to have committed.

Draining the swamp, eh?

But that’s not all.

In 2019, Paxton was accused of “violating federal and or state law including prohibitions related

to improper influence, abuse of office, bribery and other potential criminal offenses” – by his own staff.

“We have a good faith belief that the attorney general is violating federal and/or state law including prohibitions related to improper influence, abuse of office, bribery and other potential criminal offenses,” according to a letter provided by some of the complainants to Austin-American Statesman and KVUE-TV. Paxton has allegedly repeatedly come to the aid of one of his campaign donors, Nate Paul, a man Paxton allegedly encouraged to hire Paxton’s mistress – he’s admitted it – a Republican aid to a state senator. He denies pressuring Paul to hire the mistress.

Why is it important?

Back in November, it was reported by The Associated Press that Paxton and Paul were being investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation for allegations pertaining to Paxton helping Paul get out of legal trouble with, again, the FBI along with several other matters.

Sure, this might all be something not worth discussing when we’re dealing with matters on a national level. But keep in mind,

Trump is handing out pardons and the marketplace is wide-open.

Paxton’s treasonous lawsuit, joined by Trump himself and 17 other red state attorneys general, reeks of a thinly veiled attempt at currying favor with the lame duck chief in hopes of garnering one of those get out of jail free cards.

Stealing votes from Americans for political power is not what America is about. Falsely accusing four states of holding illegitimate elections without proof or evidence is not what this country is about.

We keep reading about how these so-called false patriots are spending time and money to keep “America’s election system honest and hold cheaters accountable,” while many continually ignore the premise for their behavior: They intend to steal the election for the purpose of retaining power and currying favor with the powerful.

They aren’t doing this because they care about America or Americans, they care only about themselves.

But hey, “if you ain’t cheating, you ain’t trying,” right?

‘If you ain’t cheating, you ain’t trying?’

First, let me be clear. I do not begrudge anyone doing their best to ensure that elections in the United States of America are fair.

While they are undertaking the task of cleaning up our election process, I assume they will also tackle the issues of widespread voter suppression and the gerrymandering of districts throughout the country and particularly in historically red states.

I’ll wait.

In the meantime, let’s talk about the headline I choose for this column.

For me, the saying – “if you ain’t cheating, you ain’t trying” – is a problem. It’s a cute saying, possibly attributed to NASCAR legend Richard Petty, but it’s become an accepted form of “effort” to use while climbing the ladder of perceived success.

And it is being used today to justify what amounts to an attempt to steal an election from a candidate that clearly won – and has been certified by all 50 states.

If you can’t beat them, sue them, I guess.

And that is exactly what Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, Republican, is trying to do with his lawsuit.

Paxton, who is also the subject of several investigations of misdeeds and wrongdoings, asked the Supreme Court of the United States to throw out the votes of millions of voters and hand the election to President Donald Trump.

That’s right.

The powerful are repeatedly trying to litigate away the will of the people, and they are attempting to do so without a shred of evidence of so-called voter fraud.

Keep in mind, folks signing affidavits and or appearing before a legislature – sometimes allegedly drunk and sick with COVID-19 – and making false, unsubstantiated claims without proof is not evidence. It’s hearsay; it’s most likely a lie, and at best an attempt to become famous.

It’s way past time to fix EDD

Assemblymember Marie Waldron SPECIAL TO VALLEY NEWS

The Employment Development Department has clearly not been up to the task of providing unemployment benefits to the millions of Californians thrown out of work when the COVID-19 pandemic struck.

That’s why I joined several of my Republican colleagues Dec. 7, the first day of the new session,

to introduce a package of bills aimed at making EDD more efficient and more secure. My bill, Assembly Bill 24, will ensure that claimants quickly receive decisions about their applications by requiring a response from EDD within 30 days, or within 15 days when follow-up information is requested. Other legislation will establish an advisory committee to provide oversight and accountability at EDD, along with antifraud measures requiring EDD to cross-check claim information with state and county correctional inmate data. Still another antifraud measure will require EDD to stop including full Social Security numbers in mailings to claimants, a practice that invites fraudulent claims. Because of bank glitches and concerns about fraud, another bill will allow claimants to receive their benefit payments by direct deposit instead of debit cards.

In fairness to EDD and its employees who must deal with this crisis, the massive increase in unemployment claims would have

overwhelmed any state agency.

Even so, over half a year since the crisis began, there is still a backlog of about 1.6 million cases, with many claimants waiting five or even six months to receive the unemployment insurance they have coming. And fraud, including false claims from convicted killers, rapists and other felons who have collected at least $400 million while in prison, is running rampant. In short, EDD’s response to this crisis has been a disaster.

Millions of workers and their families have suffered an economic catastrophe because of EDD’s failures. It has to change, now.

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HEALTH

Blood drive in San Jacinto to honor young Ewing Sarcoma victim

Cassi Tichy, who died in 2018 of Ewing Sarcoma, will be honored at LifeStream blood drive in San Jacinto. Attendees are encouraged to wear yellow in her memory, as they did at a blood drive in May 201 at Tichy’s high school.

Ellen Tichy, right, is hosting at a blood drive Thursday, Dec. 1, at Stater Bros. in San Jacinto in honor of her daughter Cassi Tichy, 18, who died of Ewing Sarcoma in 2018, not long after this photo was taken during a blood drive in May 201 . Valley News/E llen Tichy photos

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In honor of her daughter who died from Ewing Sarcoma, a San Jacinto mother will host a charity blood drive Thursday, Dec. 31, in

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San Jacinto benefiting LifeStream Blood Bank and the charity Wings for Ewing Sarcoma.

Ellen Tichy, mother of 18-yearold Cassi Tichy who died the day before her birthday of the rare childhood cancer, is hosting the

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Because of the current COVID-19 emergency, LifeStream is taking donations from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. by appointment.

“My precious daughter died at age 18 after a very difficult, yet courageous, 32-month battle with Ewing Sarcoma,” Ellen Tichy said. “For her 21st birthday, I just wanted to wrap her in a warm embrace and give her a great big birthday and kiss. Sadly, that is no longer possible.

“The public is invited to attend this celebration, and to give the gift Cassi would have wanted – to give the gift of life,” she said.

The bloodmobile at the site will be sanitized after each donation.

“It is very safe,” Tichy said.

Along with the blood drive, the six-hour celebration will include refreshments, souvenirs, a raffle, caricaturists and information on Ewing Sarcoma.

Ewing Sarcoma is a painful bone cancer that often attacks children and young adults. The rare disease begins in the legs, bones of the pelvis and arms and occurs in fewer than 1,000 U.S. cases per year.

Tichy said there has been no change to the chemo treatment in over 30 years, and the survival rate has not improved. The prognosis is very poor for patients who are misdiagnosed, and if the cancer has metastasized before discovery, as with Cassi’s prognosis.

Cassi was home-schooled for her junior year of high school, as she went through chemo and radiation treatments, her mother said.

“Her courage and quiet spirit inspired and touched many people as she bravely battled the terminal disease,” she said.

Her daughter returned to Hemet High School, before graduating in May 2017, with highest honors, numerous awards and scholarships. She participated in tennis as the team manager, theater, chamber singers, art classes and other activities on campus until her diagnosis.

“She always took a sketch pad with her wherever she went,” Tichy said.” It brought so much joy to her.”

Her mother said her daughter believed in giving back and in helping others.

LifeStream Blood Bank services 80 hospitals and their patients throughout Southern California.

Wings for Ewing Sarcoma is a nonprofit organization founded by ballerina Chiara Valle, a 22-yearold Ewing Sarcoma survivor.

“Great advancements have been made in other types of cancers, and our mission is to provide that same type of awareness to Ewing Sarcoma,” Valle said. “I want to make everyone a survivor.”

Follow Wings for Ewing Sarcoma on Facebook and Instagram.

Tichy said attendees can wear yellow in memory of Cassi to receive a raffle entry.

“While not physically with us, her spirit of light and love continues to shine ever so brightly,” she said.

Appointments may be made by calling 800-879-4484 or by visiting http: LStream.org. Face masks and social distancing are necessary before making the donation. Drinking plenty of fluids is suggested and to bring a photo ID with proof of age. Those who wish to donate under age 17 are required to bring a LifeStream note of parent or guardian consent and must be in good health.

LifeStream tests each donation for COVID-19 antibodies that could help prevent or reduce the effects of the coronavirus.

LifeStream will be making a donation to the Wings of Ewing Sarcoma foundation based on the number of units donated.

Donors are asked to mention code “REPLCT21” to donate blood in honor of Cassi, and tax-deductible monetary donations can be made to Wings of Ewing Sarcoma, http: wingsforewingsarcoma.org, at any time.

“Although a cure was unavailable for Cassi, the sad reality is that there are still those, currently (and yet to come), who are impacted by this horrific disease,” Tichy said.

“So, let’s also remember and stand with everyone who is battling Ewing Sarcoma and other cancers. No one deserves this kind of suffering, nor to become a tragic statistic.”

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HEALTH

Local ICUs approach During the season of giving, Red capacity, but COVID-19 Cross urges blood donations – December may 21, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in attendance. Donors are asked to patients are not a majority beRIVERSIDE the season of giving – but it’s I mportant COVI D-19 inf or- schedule an appointment before artypically a challenging time to col- mation f or d onors riving at the drive and are required of hospitalizations – yet lect enough blood donations. Add As COVID-19 hospitalizations to wear a face covering or mask Will Fritz ASSOCIATE EDITOR

As Riverside County continues to trend upward in coronavirus cases, new data released by the federal Department of Health and Human Services recently painted a clearer picture of just how full hospitals are locally and across the country.

The HHS released detailed data Tuesday, Dec. 8, on hospitals’ number of occupied beds, ICU capacity, number of confirmed and suspected coronavirus patients and more.

In southwest Riverside County, the data show hospitals are close to ICU capacity, with the lowest being at 70 , but COVID-19 patients are not the majority of those hospitalized locally – at least not yet.

The data tracks with statements made by Riverside County Emergency Management Department Director Bruce Barton, who told the county Board of Supervisors, Dec. 8, that bed occupancy at hospitals throughout county was at 70 , with about one-quarter of that number attributed to COVID-19 patients, who are adding to the load mounting on medical facilities.

“There are a lot of folks in ICU beds who are not COVID,” Barton said.

The federal data show COVID19-positive patients make up on average about 20-30 of those hospitalized at Temecula Valley Hospital, Loma Linda University Medical Center Murrieta and Southwest Healthcare System, which includes both Rancho Springs and Inland Valley medical centers in Murrieta and Wildomar.

Loma Linda had the highest percentage of its patients testing positive for COVID-19 at 29 , while Southwest had 21 and Temecula Valley had 17 , on average in the

seven days leading up to Dec. 8.

Based on the data, ICU beds were at 70 capacity at Loma Linda, 97 at Southwest and 85 at Temecula Valley in the week before Dec. 8.

The larger, state-defined, 11-county Southern California region’s available ICU capacity dropped to 6.2 Dec. 11, down from 7.7 a day before.

Here is some of the data released

by HHS on those three local health facilities: Loma Lind a U niv ersity Med ical Center Murrieta • Total beds (Seven-day average): 172.3 • Total inpatient beds used (Seven-day average): 103.9 • Total adults hospitalized, confirmed COVID-19 positive (Seven-day average): 33.3 • ICU beds (Seven-day average): 20.1 • ICU beds used (Seven-day average): 14 Southwest Healthcare System • Total adult inpatient beds (Seven-day average): 217.9 • Total inpatient beds used (Seven-day average): 205.4 • Total adults hospitalized, confirmed COVID-19 positive (Seven-day average): 42.1 • ICU beds (Seven-day average): 19.4 • ICU beds used (Seven-day average): 18.9 T emecula Valley Hospital • Total beds (Seven-day average): 139.4 • Total inpatient beds used (Seven-day average): 129.1 • Total adults hospitalized, confirmed COVID-19 positive (Seven-day average): 20.6 • ICU beds (Seven-day average): 16.1 • ICU beds used (Seven-day average):13.7 Will Fritz can be reached by email at wfritz@reedermedia.com.

in a pandemic, and this year could be tougher than usual. That’s why the American Red Cross is urging those who are feeling well to give the gift of life by donating blood or platelets this holiday season.

The need for blood doesn’t stop for holidays. Between Thanksgiving and Christmas, more than 1 million blood transfusions will be given in the United States.

Donations of all blood types are needed to ensure hospital shelves remain stocked to meet patient blood needs.

Make an appointment to give blood, platelets or plasma with the Red Cross by downloading the Red Cross Blood Donor app, visiting http: RedCrossBlood. org, calling 1-800-733-2767 or enabling the Blood Donor Skill on any Alexa Echo device.

To encourage donations this holiday season, those who come to donate blood, platelets or plasma with the Red Cross, from Dec. 18 to Jan. 4, will receive a longsleeved Red Cross T-shirt, while supplies last.

U pcoming b lood d onation opportunities In Hemet, Hemet San Jacinto Masonic Lodge 338, 150 Laursen St., will host a blood drive Wednesday, Dec. 23, from 1-7 p.m.

In Lake Elsinore, Bread of Life Fellowship, 21020 Malaga Road, will host a blood drive Sunday, Dec. 20, from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.

In Murrieta, Rancho Springs Medical Center, 25520 Medical Drive, will host a blood drive Friday, Dec. 18, noon to 6 p.m., and Walmart, 41200 Murrieta Hot Springs Road, will host a blood drive Sunday, Jan. 3, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

In Temecula, Walmart, 32225 Highway 79 South, will host a blood drive Sunday, Dec. 20, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., and Bank of America, 27489 Ynez Road, will host a blood drive Monday, Dec.

increase, hospital demand for convalescent plasma has also grown.

COVID-19 convalescent plasma is a type of blood donation given by those who’ve recovered from this coronavirus. Their plasma contains antibodies that may help patients actively fighting the virus. Learn more about convalescent plasma and sign up to give at http: RedCrossBlood.org Plasma4COVID. The Red Cross is testing blood, platelet and plasma donations for COVID-19 antibodies. The test may indicate if the donor’s immune system has produced antibodies to this coronavirus, regardless of whether an individual developed COVID-19 symptoms. Red Cross antibody tests will be helpful to identify individuals who have COVID-19 antibodies and may now help current coronavirus patients in need of convalescent plasma transfusions.

Convalescent plasma is a type of blood donation collected from COVID-19 survivors that have antibodies that may help patients who are actively fighting the virus.

COVID-19 antibody test results will be available within one to two weeks in the Red Cross Blood Donor app or donor portal at http: RedCrossBlood.org. A positive antibody test result does not confirm infection or immunity. The Red Cross is not testing donors to diagnose illness, referred to as a diagnostic test. To protect the health and safety of Red Cross staff and donors, it is important that individuals who do not feel well or believe they may be ill with COVID-19 postpone donation.

Each Red Cross blood drive and donation center follows the highest standards of safety and infection control, and additional precautions – including temperature checks, social distancing and face coverings for donors and staff – have been implemented to help protect the health of all those

while at the drive, in alignment with Centers for Disease Control and Prevention public guidance.

Ab out b lood d onation Simply download the American Red Cross Blood Donor app, visit http: RedCrossBlood. org, call 1-800-733-2767 or enable the Blood Donor Skill on any Alexa Echo device to make an appointment or for more information. All blood types are needed to ensure a reliable supply for patients. A blood donor card or driver’s license or two other forms of identification are required at check-in. Individuals who are 17 years of age in most states, weigh at least 110 pounds and are in generally good health may be eligible to donate blood. High school students and other donors 18 years of age and younger also have to meet certain height and weight requirements.

Blood and platelet donors can save time at their next donation by using RapidPass to complete their pre-donation reading and health history questionnaire online, on the day of their donation, before arriving at the blood drive. To get started, follow the instructions at http: RedCrossBlood.org RapidPass or use the Blood Donor app.

The American Red Cross shelters, feeds and provides emotional support to victims of disasters; supplies about 40 of the nation’s blood; teaches skills that save lives; provides international humanitarian aid and supports military members and their families. The Red Cross is a not-forprofit organization that depends on volunteers and the generosity of the American public to perform its mission. For more information, visit http: redcross.org, http: cruzrojaamericana.org or visit them on Twitter at RedCross.

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Temecula Valley Hospital earns 2020 Leapfrog Top Hospital Award

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TEMECULA – Highlighting its nationally recognized achievements in patient safety and quality, Temecula Valley Hospital was named a Top General Hospital nationally by The Leapfrog Group.

The Leapfrog Top Hospital award is widely acknowledged as one of the most competitive awards American hospitals can receive.

The Top Hospital designation is bestowed by The Leapfrog Group, a national watchdog organization of employers and other purchasers known to be one of the toughest standard-setters for health care safety and quality.

The quality of patient care across many areas of hospital perfor-

mance is considered in establishing the qualifications for the award, including infection rates, practices for safer surgery and the hospital’s capacity to prevent medication errors. The rigorous standards are defined in each year’s Top Hospital Methodology. It is the second time that Temecula Valley Hospital has received the Top General Hospital Award, previously in 2017.

“Receiving the Leapfrog Top Hospital Award is an honor that our physicians and staff should be very proud of,” Darlene Wetton, CEO of Temecula Valley Hospital, said. “Receiving the award for the second time is a testament to the dedication of our Healthcare Heroes. As our nation faces unprecedented challenges, Temecula Valley Hospital continues to demonstrate our commitment to patient safety and quality.”

Over 2,200 hospitals were considered for the award. Among those, Temecula Valley Hospital was one of only 29 hospitals across the nation to receive the Top Hos-

pital award in the General Hospital category. Hospitals that are selected as a Leapfrog Top Hospital have shown a caliber of performance that all hospitals should aspire to.

Top Hospitals have achieved true excellence in quality and safety and only a select few in the nation are honored with the Leapfrog Top Hospital designation.

“Being recognized as a Top Hospital is an extraordinary feat and we are honored to recognize Temecula Valley Hospital this year,” Leah Binder, president and CEO of The Leapfrog Group, said. “Despite the extraordinary pressure and strain of the COVID-19 pandemic, Temecula Valley Hospital has demonstrated an unwavering dedication to patients and to the Temecula Valley community. We congratulate the board, staff and clinicians whose efforts made this honor possible.”

To qualify for the Top Hospitals distinction, hospitals must rank top among peers on the Leapfrog Hospital Survey, which

assesses hospital performance on the highest standards for quality and patient safety, and achieve top performance in its category.

To see the full list of institutions honored as 2020 Top Hospitals, visit http: www.leapfroggroup. org/tophospitals.

Founded in 2000 by large employers and other purchasers, The Leapfrog Group is a national nonprofit organization driving a movement for giant leaps forward in the quality and safety of American health care. The flagship Leapfrog Hospital Survey collects and transparently reports hospital performance, empowering purchasers to find the highest-value care and giving consumers the lifesaving information, they need to make informed decisions. The Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade, Leapfrog’s other main initiative; assigns letter grades to hospitals based on their record of patient safety, helping consumers protect themselves and their families from errors, injuries, accidents and infections.

Temecula Valley Hospital, with a 5 Star Medicare Hospital Compare rating, brings advanced technology, innovative programs, patientcentered 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. TVH is nationally recognized for patient safety by the Leapfrog Group, with a 2020 and 2017 Top Hospital Award and seven “A” grades for patient safety. For more information, visit https: www.temeculavalleyhospital.com/about/news.

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Protect your skin from sun damage during colder months NEW YORK CITY – As autumn turns to winter, many places in the country are experiencing cooler weather and less sunlight. While it may be tempting to slack off on sun protection when the rays aren’t beating down, it’s imperative to stay vigilant through the darker winter months.

“Most ultraviolet rays from the sun can penetrate cloud cover and fog,” Dr. Deborah S. Sarnoff, president of The Skin Cancer Foundation, said. “So you can still sustain sun damage – which can lead to skin cancer and premature skin aging – during winter months.”

Ultraviolet B rays, which are mainly responsible for sunburn, are the strongest in the summer; however, UVB rays can burn and damage your skin year-round, especially on reflective surfaces such as snow or ice. Snow reflects up to 80 of the sun’s UV light, so the rays hit you twice, further increasing your risk of skin cancer and premature aging. Winter sports enthusiasts should take special care: Skiers and snowboarders are at greater risk because these

sports take place at a higher altitude, where the thinner atmosphere absorbs less UV radiation.

Ultraviolet A rays, which lead to tanning, dark spots and wrinkles, remain constant throughout the year and can penetrate through clouds and fog. UVA rays can also penetrate glass, so it’s still possible to damage your skin while spending a bright winter day indoors.

Winter sun strategies The first line of defense against this sun damage is clothing. Covering up is easier in the winter – it’s cold. The face, head and neck, however, tend to remain exposed year-round, and these locations are where most skin cancers occur.

Don’t forget a wide-brimmed hat and UV-blocking sunglasses before heading out. A hat keeps you warm while keeping UV rays from damaging your face and scalp, and sunglasses protect your eyes while also fighting glare.

Apply a broad-spectrum sunscreen with an SPF of at least 15 or higher daily to all exposed skin, and make sure to cover often-missed spots like the tops

of your ears, around the eyes and near the hairline. Consider choosing a moisturizing sunscreen with ingredients like lanolin or glycerin to combat dry winter skin. Finally, try to avoid the peak sun hours, generally between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. in the winter months, and seek shade when you can.

Winter is approaching, but that’s no reason to let up on the sun-safe habits you practiced during the summer. Continuing sun protection efforts through the colder, cloudier months of the year reduces your risk of premature skin aging and developing the world’s most common cancer.

The Skin Cancer Foundation saves and improves lives by empowering people to take a proactive approach to daily sun protection and the early detection and treatment of skin cancer. The mission of the foundation is to decrease the incidence of skin cancer through public and professional education and research. Since its inception in 1979, the foundation has recommended following a complete sun protection regi-

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County supervisors approve resolution supporting plan to bridge ‘digital divide’ City News Service SPECIAL TO VALLEY NEWS

The Riverside County Board of Supervisors Tuesday, Dec. 8, approved a resolution declaring county’s intent to join six other Southern California counties in calling for increased efforts to expand broadband internet access to the farthest reaches of the region to ensure all residents can get online.

“Without expansion of broadband access, we don’t close the digital divide,’” Supervisor Chuck Washington said. “Some kids still don’t have access to the internet.”

Tom Mullen, director of the county’s Department of Information Technology, told the board that moves are afoot throughout the region and state to “bring broadband access to underserved communities.”

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Council is preparing a master plan to submit to the governor before the end of the month, he said, and that will likely be followed by legislation funding the initial stages of a build-out.

“Mobile home parks, rural areas, even urban centers (stand to benefit),” Mullen said.

In 2016, the board approved a proposal for a public-private partnership titled “RIVCOconnect,” under which a countywide, high-speed internet system would be constructed, ultimately covering all 7,200 square miles of the county.

The ambitious endeavor envisioned 1-gigabyte-per-second

connectivity via fiber optic cables and was projected to cost between $2 billion and $4 billion. However, only two entities tentatively responded to the county’s offer to partner.

The idea has been on the shelf for the last three years.

Mullen said one of the challenges has been obtaining privileged information from telecommunications firms, including AT&T, Charter and Frontier, regarding their existing networks and how far they extend.

“They are unwilling to share the data with us,” he said. “But the California Public Utilities Commission is now requesting that

level of detail.”

Supervisor Karen Spiegel said there are “gaps all over the county,” and she urged the Department of Information Technology to enlist support from special districts to identify cellphone towers that might be utilized to aid in “signal boosting.”

“By working together, this could be very beneficial,” she said. “This is very timely.”

The Southern California broadband initiative additionally involves Imperial, Los Angeles, Orange, San Bernardino, San Diego and Ventura counties.

“Upon identifying broadband opportunity zones, (this resolu-

tion) supports ... a regional effort that would allow local jurisdictions to develop specific rules to expedite low-cost broadband deployment by internet service providers,” according to proposal.

Because of the coronavirus public health lockdowns and more people – especially children whose schools are shuttered – staying home, greater access to high-speed broadband networks has been accentuated.

“High-speed broadband service is important to all residents, businesses and institutions, and it is desirable where residents and visitors work, live, learn and play,” according to the resolution.

UC Riverside receives more than $4 million for avocado anti-fungus research City News Service SPECIAL TO VALLEY NEWS

University of California Riverside received more than $4 million in federal funds to research methods of shielding avocados from a fungus that can be devastating to crops in California and elsewhere, it was announced Thursday, Dec. 10.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture awarded the university a $4.4 million grant as part of its National Institute of Food Agriculture Specialty Crop Research Initiative, with the goal of promoting development of nextgeneration methods of protecting orchards from Laurel Wilt, a fungus introduced by the non-native redbay ambrosia beetle.

“When the beetle attacks, the

fungus enters and colonizes the tree’s vascular system, and within weeks, the tree wilts and dies if not managed properly,” Patricia Manosalva, director of the university’s Avocado Rootstock Breeding Program, said.

The fungus has been found in Florida, and growers believe it will eventually surface in California.

Along with Laurel Wilt, growers are also facing losses stemming from Phytophthora root rot, or PRR, and soil salinity, according to University of California Riverside.

Salinity levels are a worldwide problem due to persistent droughts and use of reclaimed water for irrigation, officials said.

“Under this grant, we will select rootstocks harboring resistance to the current pathogen population, and we will register new

fungicides with different modes of actions to reduce avocado losses to the destructive pathogen,” Manosalva said.

The university’s avocado breeding program was established 70 years ago, so it is on the leading edge of developing strategies for crop protection, according to the researcher.

“This grant will allow us to keep moving the UCR rootstock breeding program forward and continue developing hearty avocado rootstocks,” she said.

The program has already isolated lines that can tolerate high salinity levels, and researchers believe the same rootstocks can be refined to bolster resistance to Laurel Wilt, using grafting techniques.

Field trials are pending in California and other states, as well

as Puerto Rico, according to the university.

The avocado industry generates more than $350 million in crop yields annually, according to the California Avocado Commission.

“California’s produce feeds the nation, and the world,” Monsalva said. “Our science will help feed people and empower growers everywhere.”

In a separate but related grant, the U.S. Department of Agriculture awarded a team of 15 scientists from University of California Riverside and four other universities $1.9 million to study how essential oils may aid in combating algal stem blotch, brown rot, gray mold and powdery mildew that impact crops.

The grants have a four-year duration.

Supervisors order review of election to examine ‘strengths,’ ‘weaknesses’ City News Service SPECIAL TO VALLEY NEWS

The Riverside County Board of Supervisors Tuesday, Dec. 8, directed Executive Office staff to initiate an examination of the 2020 election in Riverside County and report back to the board, identifying “strengths and weaknesses” from which the county might learn.

“This was an unprecedented election, and it’s still not even done,” Supervisor Karen Spiegel said, who was joined by Supervisor Manuel Perez in calling for the “after-action review.”

“Things happened differently, and we need this review,” she said.

“We need a summary, so we can

look at strengths and weaknesses and find out what we can do better. There are concerns from some constituents.”

Spiegel did not cite specific problem areas but said she hoped the review might illuminate points of concern that the board intends to discuss in 60 days.

No anomalies were uncovered in the canvass of ballots cast countywide in the Nov. 3 general election, which is now in litigation in five states stemming from President Donald Trump’s unsubstantiated allegations of “systemic fraud.”

No recount was requested in Riverside County.

The board approved Registrar of Voters Rebecca Spencer’s of-

ficial “statement of votes cast,” certifying the ballots recorded countywide, as well as authorizing expenses associated with the election.

According to the registrar, 1,016,896 registered voters – 82 of those eligible – cast ballots.

“As a result of the significant interest in the presidential election, both the total number and the percentage eclipse previous voter turnout records,” according to a joint statement by Spiegel and Perez, posted to the board’s agenda.

“This year, every registered voter received a vote-by-mail ballot,” they said. “For those individuals who preferred to vote in person ... in-person early voting

was available for the first time.

The net effect of these changes was almost 650,000 ballots were cast, and received, before Election Day.” The supervisors said this “new model” for voting opens opportunities but also merits a second look.

The goal is for the after-action review to increase understanding of best practices for the future.

“The review will be conducted with a commitment to openness, frank discussion, clarity and commitment to identifying and recommending solutions,” the supervisors said.

The Executive Office’s report is due by Feb. 9.

How to make 2020 secured property taxes payments

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RIVERSIDE COUNTY – The deadline for Riverside County residents to make the first installment of secured annual property taxes was Thursday, Dec. 10. The treasurer-tax collector’s office encouraged taxpayers to make payment online, over the phone or through the mail.

Owners who need to pay their property taxes in person without an appointment were able to do so only at the County Administrative Center, 4080 Lemon Street, in downtown Riverside. Social distancing and safety guidelines were observed, which may cause extended wait times.

Upcoming dates of interest for property owners include: Jan. 1 – Lien date for the establishment of ownership, value and unsecured taxes for the ensuing fiscal year; Feb. 1 – Second installment is due for current secured property taxes; April 10 – Second install-

RIVERSIDE COUNTY – Nominations are now being accepted for the First 5 Riverside Champion for Children Award. The award was created to honor and bring awareness to people and organizations whose leadership and advocacy embody the vision of First 5 Riverside. Nominations are due by Jan. 11.

The 2020 Champion for Children was Carmela Garnica, director of the Escuela de la Raza Unida Learning Centers in Blythe. The next Champion for Children will be awarded up to $1,000 sponsorship to support a community event.

They will also be presented a plaque and certificate by the Riverside County Children and Families Commission in 2021 and will be recognized on the First 5 Riverside website and social media channels.

Nominees must live and or work in Riverside County for at least two years to be eligible.

The recipient selected will have

ment payment delinquent date for current secured property tax and a 10 penalty and cost is added after 5 p.m.

In May, the treasurer-tax collector mails delinquent notices for any unpaid, current year secured property taxes, and June 30 is the end of the fiscal year.

Cash payments will not be accepted in person at any location and can only be made through a drop box located in the lobby of the County Administrative Center.

Taxpayers may visit the Temecula and Palm Desert offices by appointment only.

Payments made by phone at 951-955-3900 or online at http: www.countytreasurer.org can be made 24 hours a day. Payments made by debit or credit card will incur a convenience fee. Payments made online using the electronic check option will not charge.

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achievements that align with their strategic goals, including quality early learning, comprehensive health and development and resilient families.

Visit http: www.First5Riverside.org for the complete nomination packet and process.

For additional information, contact Sean Pravica of First 5 Riverside at 951-203-3079.

First 5 Riverside, the Riverside County Children Families Commission, is funded by Proposition 10 tobacco tax revenues. First 5 Riverside supports early childhood development through educational outreach, partnerships and funding for services that benefit children, from prenatal through age 5, their families and communities. For more information about First 5 Riverside programs and other funded services, call 800-266-3880 or visit http: www.

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US agencies hacked in monthslong global cyberspying campaign Eric Tucker, Frank Bajak and Matt O’Brien THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Hackers broke into the networks of the Treasury and Commerce departments as part of a monthslong global cyberespionage campaign revealed Sunday, Dec. 13, just days after the prominent cybersecurity firm FireEye said it had been breached in an attack that industry experts said bore the hallmarks of Russian tradecraft.

The FBI and the Department of Homeland Security’s cybersecurity arm were investigating what experts and former officials said appeared to be a large-scale penetration of U.S. government agencies – apparently the same cyberespionage campaign that also afflicted FireEye, foreign governments and major corporations.

“This can turn into one of the most impactful espionage campaigns on record,” cybersecurity expert Dmitri Alperovitch said.

The hacks were revealed less than a week after FireEye disclosed that foreign government hackers had broken into its network and stolen the company’s own hacking tools, first reported

by Reuters. Many experts suspect Russia is responsible. FireEye’s customers include federal, state and local governments and top global corporations.

The apparent conduit for the Treasury and Commerce Department hacks – and the FireEye compromise – is a hugely popular piece of server software called SolarWinds. It is used by hundreds of thousands of organizations globally, including most Fortune 500 companies and multiple U.S. federal agencies that will now be scrambling to patch up their networks, Alperovitch, the former chief technical officer of the cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike, said.

FireEye, without naming any

specific targets, said in a blog post that its investigation into the hack of its own network had identified “a global campaign” targeting governments and the private sector that, beginning in the spring, had slipped malware into a SolarWinds software update. Neither the company nor U.S. government officials would not say whether it believed Russian state-backed hackers were responsible.

The malware gave the hackers remote access to victims’ networks, and Alperovitch said SolarWinds grants “God-mode” access to a network, making everything visible.

“We anticipate this will be a very large event when all the information comes to light,” John Hultquist, director of threat analysis at FireEye, said. “The actor is operating stealthily, but we are certainly still finding targets that they manage to operate in.”

FireEye said it had confirmed infections in North America, Europe, Asia and the Middle East, including in the health care and oil and gas industry – and had been informing affected customers around the world in the past few days. It said that malware that rode the SolarWinds update did not seed selfpropagating malware – like the 2016 NotPetya malware blamed on Russia that caused more than $10 billion in damage globally – and that any actual infiltration of an infected organization required “meticulous planning and manual interaction.”

It means it’s a good bet only a subset of infected organizations were being spied on by the hackers. Nation-states have their cyberespionage priorities, which include COVID-19 vaccine development.

Cybersecurity experts said recently that they considered Russian state hackers to be the main suspect in the FireEye hack.

On Sunday, National Security Council representative John Ullyot said in a statement that the government was “taking all necessary steps to identify and remedy any possible issues related to this situation.”

On its website, SolarWinds said it has 300,000 customers worldwide, including all five branches of the U.S. military, the Pentagon, the State Department, NASA, the National Security Agency, the Department of Justice and the White House. It said the 10 leading U.S. telecommunications companies and top five U.S. accounting firms are also among customers.

The government’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency said it was working with other agencies to help “identify and mitigate any potential compromises.”

President Donald Trump in November fired Chris Krebs, the director of CISA, after Krebs vouched for the integrity of the presidential election and disputed Trump’s claims of widespread electoral fraud.

In a tweet Sunday, Krebs said “hacks of this type take exceptional tradecraft and time,” adding that he believed that its impact was only beginning to be understood.

Federal government agencies have long been attractive targets for foreign hackers.

Hackers linked to Russia were able to break into the State Department’s email system in 2014, infecting it so thoroughly that it had to be cut off from the internet while experts worked to eliminate the infestation.

The intrusions disclosed Sunday included the Commerce Department’s agency responsible for internet and telecommunications policy.

Treasury deferred comment to the National Security Council. A Commerce representative con-

The U.S. Treasury Department building is shown as seen from the Washington Monument, Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2019, in Washington. photo atric

firmed a “breach in one of our bureaus” and said “we have asked CISA and the FBI to investigate.”

The FBI said it was engaged in a response but declined to comment further.

Austin, Texas-based SolarWinds confirmed Sunday a “potential vulnerability” related to updates released between March and June for software products called Orion that help monitor networks for problems.

“We believe that this vulnerability is the result of a highlysophisticated, targeted and manual supply chain attack by a nation state,” Kevin Thompson, CEO of SolarWinds, said in a statement.

He said it was working with the FBI, FireEye and intelligence community.

FireEye announced Tuesday, Dec. 8, that it had been hacked, saying foreign state hackers with “world-class capabilities” broke into its network and stole tools it uses to probe the defenses of its thousands of customers. The hackers “primarily sought information related to certain government customers,” Kevin Mandia, CEO

emans y, file photo

of FireEye, said in a statement, without naming them.

Former NSA hacker Jake Williams, the president of the cybersecurity firm Rendition Infosec, said FireEye surely told the FBI and other federal partners how it had been hacked and they determined that Treasury had been similarly compromised.

“I suspect that there’s a number of other (federal) agencies we’re going to hear from this week that have also been hit,” Williams said.

FireEye responded to the Sony and Equifax data breaches and helped Saudi Arabia thwart an oil industry cyberattack – and has played a key role in identifying Russia as the protagonist in numerous aggressions in the burgeoning netherworld of global digital conflict.

Mandia said there was no indication they got customer information from the company’s consulting or breach-response businesses or threat-intelligence data it collects.

Bajak reported from Boston and O ’ Brien from Providence, Rhode I sland.

SBA announces Military Spouse Employment Partnership with the Defense Department WASHINGTON – The U.S. Small Business Administration joined the Department of Defense’s Military Spouse Employment Partnership for a virtual ceremony, Wednesday, Dec. 9.

The SBA is one of 85 new partners joining MSEP, bringing the number of employers to 500.

MSEP connects military spouses with hundreds of partner employers who commit to recruit, hire, promote and retain military spouses. Since its inception in 2011, MSEP employers have hired more than 175,000 military spouses.

“SBA proudly joins this partnership, which will strengthen our agency’s dedication and support to the 1 million military spouses in our nation’s military community located around the world,” Jovita Carranza, administrator of SBA, said. “Military spouses are skilled, diverse, problem solvers, and we welcome their contributions to SBA.” The SBA Office of Veterans Business Development also ensures that military spouses and service members remain empowered to grow and succeed as small-business owners. The SBA provides veterans and their

spouses with valuable business ownership tools, including entrepreneurial training, government contracting, disaster assistance and capital access.

“It is a privilege for SBA to enter into this partnership. Our agency understands the challenge for military spouses to find and maintain employment with frequent change of station moves,” Elias Hernandez, chief human capital officer of SBA said.

“Military spouses contribute significantly to our nation, and SBA looks forward to offering opportunities to these talented individuals who support their spouses serving

our country.”

The MSEP initiative is part of DOD’s broader Spouse Education and Career Opportunities program. The department established the SECO program to provide education and career guidance to military spouses worldwide, offering free, comprehensive resources and tools related to career exploration, education, training and licensing, employment readiness and career connections. This program also offers free career coaching services six days a week.

The U.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 extensive network of SBA field offices and partnerships with public and private organizations. To learn more, visit http: www.sba.gov.

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While practicing social distancing, a small group of Jewish faith worshippers gather at Congregation B’nai Chaim synagogue in Murrieta to conduct a menorah lighting for viewers watching from home, during the Valley News/Shane Gibson photos start of Hanukkah, Thursday, Dec. 10.

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Most of Congregation B’nai Chaim in Murrieta celebrated the first night of Hanukkah 2020 in their homes for the first time via oom Thursday, Dec. 9, but not without celebration songs and prayers.

Hanukkah is the Jewish “Festival of Lights” celebration that commemorates the rededication of the Second Temple in Jerusalem at the time of the Maccabean Revolt against the Greek Seleucid Empire in the second century BCE. In that time Jewish warriors, called the Maccabees, took back occupied Jerusalem and regained the oncedesecrated temple.

Hosting the virtual Hannukah celebration at Congregation B’nai Chaim, 29500 Via Princesa, in Murrieta was Jamie Nadel who led more than a dozen families and the congregation’s band in lighting the first of eight candles on the large menorah. Over the next seven nights, the remaining candles were lit, signifying the miracle of a very small oil lamp burning for eight days straight during the time of the second temple when no other oil was immediately available.

The story of Hannukah was told

by Hefsiba “Jen” Cohen and later followed by a game of Dreidel, a Jewish game on Kahoot, with 25 challenging questions about Hannukah answered by most participants. Children often play

with dreidels during the eight-day celebration.

Each day on oom, a new candle on the menorah was lit, along with scripture readings, recitations of some psalms, almsgiving and the singing of a special hymn. The first night’s hymn was “Maoz Tzur,” followed by “Mi Yimalel,” a song about the Maccabees restoring the temple.

After other songs were played, families spent time visiting virtually during the remainder of time in keeping with the state and country health orders. In 2019, the first day of Hanukkah celebration, which is based on the Gregorian Calendar and comes on different days in December, was held at the Temecula Duck Pond where more

Congregation B’nai Chaim board member Lawrence Chalfant leads the lighting of a large menorah at the start of Hanukkah during a livestream event.

than 100 members of the Jewish community, visitors and city officials attended to witness the first night’s lighting of the menorah.

Families celebrate the Jewish holiday by cooking potato pancakes, called latkes in Hebrew, and baking sufganiyot, or round jelly doughnuts. Other, mostly oily foods, in relation to the oils used

in the menorah, are served at the family dinner tables and parties during the holidays.

Money is a favored gift given to those in the Jewish community celebrating Hanukkah. Only one gift is usually given during Jewish Hanukkah tradition.

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

Learn from Congregation B’nai Chaim: When Joseph was young Rabbi Marc Rubenstein SPECIAL TO VALLEY NEWS

The ninth weekly Torah portion, Vayeshev, “And he dwelt,” covers the story of Joseph in Egypt from Genesis 37:1-40:23.

When Joseph was young his brothers, including Judah, had it out for him.

One day the brothers grabbed Joseph and threw him into a deep well and left him for dead.

The brothers actually sat and had lunch, while Joseph’s screams came echoing from inside the well.

At that moment, a caravan of people headed for Egypt was passing by.

The brothers decided rather than

leave Joseph to die; they would sell him as a slave to the passing caravan.

The brothers pulled Joseph out of the well and sold him as a slave.

After being taken to Egypt as a slave, Joseph ran into more undeserved trouble.

The wife of his owner and master tried to seduce Joseph. In the Torah, Joseph was described as a handsome man, and his mother Rachel was also noted to be incredibly beautiful.

After rejecting the wife of his master, she became furious and wrongfully accused Joseph of trying to abuse her.

Joseph was imprisoned as an innocent man.

While in prison, Joseph developed a skill of interpreting the dreams of his fellow inmates.

He impressed two of his

cell mates by interpreting their dreams. One inmate was a baker, and the other was a butler.

Later, after being released, the butler was working for the pharaoh, who at the time was having deep emotional struggles. The pharaoh was haunted by his dreams and no one could help him. The butler remembered Joseph from prison and told the pharaoh.

Immediately Joseph was summoned by the pharaoh to interpret his dreams and make a prediction for the future. Joseph predicted there would be seven years of famine followed by seven years of prosperity.

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by Joseph that he appointed him as his direct assistant and his righthand man.

Joseph was given great power over Egypt.

Jacob and his 11 sons were living in the land of Canaan, which is modern day Israel, when a terrible famine broke out, as predicted by Joseph. People were starving to death every day.

He sent 10 of his sons – all, except his youngest, Benjamin – to Egypt to find food.

When Jacob’s sons arrived in Egypt, they went straight to the pharaoh’s palace, where they saw their brother Joseph sitting on a glorious throne.

Joseph recognized his brothers, but the brothers did not recognize Joseph.

When they talked with him the story Joseph’s brothers told did not match up exactly.

Where was their father? Where was their youngest brother Benjamin?

Joseph ordered the brothers to

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The brothers did as they were asked. They went back to Canaan and returned with their brother Benjamin and their father Jacob.

During this spectacular family reunion, Joseph revealed himself to his brothers and forgave them for the horrible things they did.

Joseph embraced his father and hugged him after all the years of being apart.

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Forest Serv ice closes develo ed cam grounds on national forests in California

The long-awaited dedication of the Riverside County Sheriff’s Mountain Station took place Mon-

SAN BERNARDINO – U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service Pacific Southwest Region closed developed campgrounds on eight national forests in California to provide consistent COVID-19 mitigation response in accordance with Gov. Gavin Newsom’s stayat-home order, Dec. 3.

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day, Dec. 7, at the facility near Lake Hemet in Mountain Center.

Riverside County Sheriff’s Capt.

Leonard Purvis opened the event with the Pledge of Allegiance. A chaplain gave a benediction, be-

fore Purvis offered a brief description of the building and its intent.

The facilities are owned by the Lake Hemet Water District, and the sheriff’s department worked with them to bring the building

up to date.

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Turkey shoot raises funds for fire victim Diane Sieker STAFF WRITER

The Anza Lions Club hosted a turkey shoot fundraiser at the Minor Field shooting range to raise funds to assist Aurora Perez and her family, who lost their home due to fire Sunday, Nov. 8.

Perez works at the Hamilton K-8 school and is a lifelong resident of the Anza Valley. She gives her time to the community through a local women’s ministry. Recently, she lost her home and her belongings in a house fire.

The first-place winner of the main event was Frank Opice, with Greg Sandling coming in a close second.

“We had about 40 shooters show up, including many women and children,” organizer Jeremy Parsons said. “Many new shooters who had never participated in a contest like this before. Everyone see SH OOT, page AVO -3

Shooters line up and fire upon targets shot into the air at the An a Lions Club turkey shoot fundraiser Sunday, Dec. , at Minor Field in An a.

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Diane Sieker STAFF WRITER

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AC L ost ones board election

An a Civic Improvement League elections are postponed due to delays in member validation.

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Anza Civic Improvement League elections have been postponed due to delays in the nonprofit’s member validation and to allow some people who desired to run in the election the opportunity to do so.

The election was to be held Saturday, Dec. 5, at the Little Red School House in Minor Park in Anza, but it has been delayed until the issues can be resolved.

“Due to an inability to validate current member status at the ACIL because of improper handling of forms and funds, our elections were put on hold and will remain there until all issues are resolved,” Charles Cadwell Sr., president of ACIL, said.

“A committee has been formed and it was able to deliver up a substantial and current list of members.”

The board appointed an election committee of four people, consisting of two board members and two see ACIL, page AVO -5

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Volunteers welcome. For more information, contact the AEC office at 951-763-4333. egular Ha enings 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 Road in Anza. For more information, call 951-763-1350 or visit http:// www.hamiltonmuseum.org. Find them on Facebook at “HamiltonMuseum-and-Ranch-Foundation.”

Health, exercise, resources and recovery meetings Narcotics Anonymous Meeting – 6 p.m. Every Tuesday at Shepherd Of The Valley Church, 56095 Pena Road, in Anza. Open participation.

Veterans Gathering Mondays 9-11 a.m., The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 39075 Contreras Road, in Anza. Men and women veterans come to share and help each other deal with posttraumatic stress disorder and other difficulties. Call John Sheehan at 951-923-6153. If you need an advocate to help with VA benefits, call Ronnie Imel at 951-659-9884.

The Most Excellent Way Christ-centered recovery program for all kinds of addiction meets Fridays from 7-8:30 p.m. and Tuesdays from 8-10 a.m. Program is court approved; child care is provided. Transportation help is available. The group meets at 58050 Highway 371; the cross street is Kirby Road in Anza.

AA Men s Meeting 7 p.m.

Meetings take place Thursdays at 39551 Kirby Road in Anza, south of Highway 371.

Alcoholics Anonymous 8 p.m. Wednesday evenings at Shepherd of the Valley Lutheran Church, 56095 Pena Road in Anza.

For more information, call 951763-4226. ereaved arents of the SA The Aguanga-Anza Chapter of BPUSA will hold its meetings 6 p.m. on the first and third Wednesday of each month at 49109 Lakeshore Blvd. in Aguanga. For more information, contact chapter leader Linda Hardee at 951-551-2826. ree Mobile Health Clinic – Open every third Wednesday of the month from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.

No appointment is needed. Uninsured may only be seen in the Anza Community Hall’s parking lot or inside the hall.

Medication Assistance and Treatment for ioid e end ence – Get treatment for heroin addiction. Transportation to the clinic is provided. For more information, contact Borrego Health’s Anza Community Health Center, 58581 Route 371, in Anza. For more information, call 951-7634759. ood ministries N Grou weekly food ministry Deliveries arrive noon Thursdays at the Anza Community Hall. To order a paid box and help feed those who can’t afford to pay, drop off payment and cash donations by Thursday at

1:30 p.m., to ERA Excel Realty, 56070 Highway 371, in Anza. Pay inside or drop off during the day in the red box outside. To drop it off, put name and request on an envelope with payment inside. A $30 box has about $100 worth of food and feeds six people. Half boxes are available for $15. Food is delivered once a week to those who cannot find a ride. For more information, call Bill Donahue at 951-288-0903.

Living Ho e Christian ellowshi Community inner 1 p.m.

Dinners are held the last Sunday of the month at the Anza Community Hall. All are welcome. Donations of time, money, etc. are always welcome. ood for the aithful 8 a.m.

The food bank hands out food the last Friday of the month until the food is gone. The clothes closet will be open too. Emergency food handed out as needed at Sacred Heart Catholic Church. FFF is a non-denominational nonprofit. All in need are welcome; call Esther Barragan at 951-763-5636. ible Studies The Church of esus Christ of Latter-day Saints in An a Sunday Sacrament is held 10 a.m.; Sunday School is 11 a.m.

Priesthood/Relief Society meets noon; Wednesday Boy Scouts gathers 6 p.m. and Youth Night is 7 p.m. For more information, call Ruiz at 951-445-7180 or Nathan at 760-399-0727. The Wednesday Genealogy/Family History Class, 5-8 p.m., is open to the public at 39075 Contreras Road in Anza.

Native Lighthouse ellowshi 10 a.m. The group meets the first Saturday of the month, and breakfast is served. All are welcome to fellowship together at the “Tribal Hall” below the casino in Anza.

For more information, call Nella Heredia at 951-763-0856.

Living Ho e ible Study 8-10 a.m. Tuesdays at Living Hope Christian Fellowship, 58050 Highway 371, in Anza. All are welcome. For more information, call Pastor Kevin at 951-763-1111.

An a V Clubhouse 7 p.m., the second Wednesday of the Month, Pastor Kevin officiates at 41560 Terwilliger Road in Anza.

Monthly Christian Men s reakfast 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.

She herd of the Valley Lutheran Church 10 a.m. Weekly Wednesday Bible study takes place at 56095 Pena Road in Anza. Call 951-763-4226 for more information.

Valley Gos el Cha el 7 a.m. Saturday Men’s Study meets weekly with breakfast usually served at 43275 Chapman Road in the Terwilliger area of Anza.

For more information, call 951763-4622.

An a irst Southern a tist Church 9 a.m. The church offers Sunday school for all ages with a 10:30 a.m. worship service and 6 p.m. for prayer and Bible study. Youth ministry meets Mondays from 6-8 p.m. The women’s Bible study meets Thursdays at 10 a.m., but it is on hiatus through

the summer. Celebrate Recovery meets Fridays; doors open at 5:30 p.m. with large group meeting, 6-7 p.m.; small group share, 7-8 p.m. and Cross Talk Cafe, 8-8:30 p.m.

Church is located at 39200 Rolling Hills Road in Anza. For more information, contact at 951-7634937, anzabptistchurch@gmail. com or http://www.anzabaptistchurch.com.

Clubs T S Meeting Take Off Pounds Sensibly support group meets Wednesdays weekly. Weigh in at 8:30 a.m., meeting at 8:45 a.m. at Thompson Hall at the Anza Baptist Church, 39200 Rolling Hills Road, in Anza. For more information, visit http://www.

TOPS.org.

High Country ecreation Second Monday of the month attend committee meetings at ERA Excel Realty in Anza. For more information, call Albert Rodriguez at 951-492-1624 or Robyn Garrison at 805-312-0369.

HC ingo fundraisers 6:30-9:30 p.m. second and fourth Fridays at Anza Community Hall.

An a Valley V W ost 1 Capt. John Francis Drivick III Post, the Ladies’ and Men’s Auxiliaries are located at 59011 Bailey Road in Anza. Mail P.O. Box 390433. Request monthly newsletter and or weekly menu by email at vfw18 7 3 anzaca@ gmail.com. For more information, call 951-763-4439 or visit http:// vfw1873.org.

High Country -H Club 6:30 p.m. Meetings are on the third Wednesday of the month, except February, at Anza Community Hall. 4-H Club is for youth 5 to 19 years old offering a variety of projects. High Country 4-H Club is open to children living in the Anza, Aguanga and surrounding areas. For more information, call Allison Renck at 951-663-5452.

An a 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 Rosie Grindle at 951-928-1248. Find helpful art tips at http://www.facebook.com/ AnzaValleyArtists/.

An a 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 Road, in Anza.

An a Valley Lions Club The Anza Valley Lions Club is open to all men and women who want to work together for the betterment of the community. Guest meetings with dinner are held 7 p.m. on the first Monday of each month at Anza Valley VFW Post 1873, 59011 Bailey Road, in Anza.

Meetings and events are posted on the Anza Lions Club website, http://www.anzalionsclub.org. For more information, call president Michele Brown at 760-637-9173. oy Scouts Troo 1 Cub Scouts meet 6 p.m. every Tuesday, and Boy Scouts meet 7 p.m. every Wednesday at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on Contreras Road, south of state Route 371, in Anza. For more information, call Richard Hotchkiss at 951-551-3154. oys Scouts Troo 1 Boy Scouts meet at Lake Riverside Estates. For more information, call Ginny Kinser at 909-702-7902.

Civil Air atrol Squadron 59 is looking for new members of all ages. For more information, call squadron commander Maj. Dennis Sheehan from the Anza area at 951-403-4940. To learn more and see the club’s meeting schedule, visit http://www.squadron59.org. ire Ex lorer rogram 6 p.m. The program meets every second, third and fourth Tuesday of the month at Fire Station 29 on state Route 371 in Anza. Call 951763-5611 for information. edshank iders – 7 p.m.

Backcountry horsemen meet at the Little Red Schoolhouse in Anza, the second Thursday of each month. Visit http://www. redshankriders.com or call Carol Schmuhl for membership information at 951-663-6763.

An a Thimble Club The club meets the first Thursday of the month at Valley Gospel Chapel, 43275 Chapman Road in Anza.

The social hour is 11:30 a.m., and lunch is served at noon. Contact Carol Wright at 951-763-2884 for more information. rgani ations Terwilliger Community Association – 6 p.m. Second Monday of the month at VFW Post 1873, 59011 Bailey Road, in Anza. Potluck dinner open to all. For more information, call Tonie Ford at 951-763-4560. rom the Heart Christian Women s Ministries Noon.

Monthly luncheon and guest speaker are held the second Saturday of each month. The $5 charge covers lunch at Shepherd of the Valley Lutheran Church, 56095 Pena Road, in Anza. From the Heart helps the area’s neediest children and invites all women and men to join in their mission.

Donate or help with the rummage sales twice a year to raise funds for the cause or other events. For more information, call president Christi James at 951-595-2400.

An a 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: Anza Community Building Inc. at P.O. Box 390091, Anza, CA 92539. The hall is located at 56630 Highway 371 in Anza. Swap meet held each Saturday of the month, weather permitting, early morning to 1 p.m. Vendors wanted. For more information, call 951-282-4267.

An a Valley Munici al Advisory Council 7 p.m. Second Wednesday of each odd month at Anza Community Hall. Group serves as local liaisons to the county from the community. For more information, call 951-805-6800.

An a Civic m rovement League 9 a.m. meets the first Saturday of each month at the Little Red Schoolhouse. The league maintains Minor Park and Little Red School House, which are both available to rent for events. No government funds are allowed; the membership pays the bills – $10 a person, $18 family or $35 business membership.

For more information, visit http:// www.anzacivic.org.

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PSPS explained Diane Sieker STAFF WRITER

The reality of the new policy of deenergizing certain electric grids to prevent wildfires has hit home in the Anza Valley. Called a public safety power shut-off, the strategy is meant to help avoid utility structure-caused fires that erupt in fire prone areas.

Recently text, email and social media messages sent by the Anza Electric Cooperative warned that such action may be imminent.

Fortunately, during that last Santa Ana windstorm, the power cutoffs did not occur. But it is important to understand what a power safety power shut-off is and what leads to the utility providers calling for it.

According to Southern California Edison, a public safety power shut-off may occur when there is a high risk for a wildfire. The provider may temporarily shut off power to certain neighborhoods to prevent the electric system from becoming the source of ignition. When there are potentially dangerous weather conditions in fire-prone areas, they may need to call a public safety power shutoff event. The events are one of the ways the electric companies can better ensure the safety of the public, their customers and employees.

When forecasts indicate elevated weather conditions, SCE begins assessing the potential impact to affected areas. They analyze historical data to help predict the likelihood of a wildfire occurring, closely monitor weather watch alerts from the National Weather Service, and place incident responders on alert, if needed.

The Anza Electric Cooperative Inc.’s imported power is carried on SCE’s lines and can be affected by a public safety power shut-off issued by Edison. The public safety power shut-off can be called by SCE or AEC in the event of dangerous weather conditions, and affect part or all of the AEC service area.

The Public Utilities Commission, which has regulatory authority over all utilities, has made it

mandatory that all utility corporations must take steps to prevent accidental ignition within their systems.

Over the last several years, of the top 20 largest fires, three were caused by utilities, and of the top 20 most destructive, there were actually 11 that were utility-caused, with two of them still under investigation. Regarding the deadliest wildfires in California, five of them were utility-caused.

As a result of these figures, the laws have changed to further protect the public and property.

In 2016, the California legislature passed Senate Bill 1028 which requires all electric corporations, including the electric cooperatives, to develop wildfire mitigation plans.

The AEC has provided an overview of their efforts to reduce the likelihood of its facilities becoming a source of ignition and causing a wildfire event.

Current laws now require public safety power shut-offs, to be implemented under certain conditions. It is an operational practice that SCE and the AEC may use to preemptively shut off power in high fire risk areas to reduce the danger during extreme and weather conditions.

If officials call for a public safety power shut-off, the AEC must comply. There are many factors, such as red flag conditions, winds, humidity and fuel conditions that are examined before such action is taken.

SCE covers 50,000 square miles of service territory and nearly 35% of it is in high fire risk areas. The company has been adding 1,200 weather stations to their system, as well as cameras to keep up to date on conditions. SCE also has meteorologists and fire scientists on staff to keep up on the latest developments and inspect over a million trees in their service area.

Weather conditions are critical to the implementation of a public safety power shut-off. The National Weather Service said, “A Red Flag Warning is used to warn of an impending or occurring Red Flag Event. Its issuance denotes a high

Fires can be ignited by high winds impacting utility structures, and public utility companies sometimes must deenergi e sections of the electrical grids in a public safety power shut-off to prevent wildfires.

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degree of confidence that weather and fuel conditions consistent with local Red Flag Event criteria will occur in 12 to 24 hours or less.

Forecasters can issue the watch or warning for all or selected portions within a fire weather zone. The Red Flag event is verified when the weather and fuel conditions listed below are met simultaneously for any three hours or more during the period. The warning should remain in effect until the critical fire weather pattern ends.”

Weather and fuel conditions that are forecast to occur or can already be happening before issuing a Fire Weather Watch and/or Red Flag Warning include minimum relative humidity equal to or less than 15%, winds of 20 mph or higher and/or gusts to 35 mph or higher. These watches and warnings are most likely to be posted during Santa Ana windstorms, where powerful, dry winds pummel southern California during the autumn months.

Santa Ana winds are strong down-slope winds that blow through the mountain passes in Southern California. These

winds – which can easily exceed 40 miles per hour, with isolated gusts as high as 70 mph in narrow passes – are usually warm and dry and can severely exacerbate brush or forest fires, especially under drought conditions. Being the end of the dry summer, and before the winter rains, fall is an exceptionally dangerous time for wildfires to start and get out of control.

These powerful windstorms can bring the lowest relative humidity of the year to affected areas.

This, combined with a warm, compressionally heated air mass, plus high wind speeds, create critical fire weather conditions. The Santa Anas are blamed for causing countless regional wildfires to become extremely large, destructive and life-threatening.

The public safety power shutoff, or deenergizations, are permissible during high fire danger to prevent electricity lines from arcing, or transformers from throwing sparks and igniting fires, particularly in places not easily accessible to firefighters.

Keven Short, general manager

of Anza Electric Cooperative Inc., said that the Red Flag warnings, as posted by the National Weather Service, put all electric utilities on high alert for the danger of fire. The safety of the community and AEC employees is always a primary concern, he said.

People need to be prepared for the possibility of a public safety power shut-off of unknown duration during these times. Having cars full of fuel, flashlights and blankets handy and other emergency supplies available and ready.

For more information about the AEC, visit them at http://www. anzaelectric.org/.

To learn more about how SCE is protecting against wildfires, visit http://www.sce.com/safety/ wildfire psps.

Visit the Riverside County’s Emergency Management Department at https://rivcoemd.org/.

To sign up for alerts from RivCo Ready, visit https://www.rivcoready.org/AlertRivCo. D iane Sieker can be reached by email at dsieker@reedermedia. com.

Kids of Anza hosts toy drive Diane Sieker STAFF WRITER

Kids of Anza is holding a toy drive to benefit local children at Christmas. Russell Kitchen, Susie Rodriguez, and Neil Fredberg of KOA are encouraging donors to give cash and cards instead of new toys this year.

Two collection boxes located at the Variety Store and the Soil Kitchen, but those donations have been slow, Rodriguez said.

“We have always been short on gifts for teenagers and this year is no exception,” she said.

“With the cash donations, Russell and I could go down and pick up

toys for age groups that we may be short on. I appreciate every donation and want to thank the Cahuilla Casino and Mr. Happy’s Mercantile for the donation of the collection boxes.”

“We are asking for cash donations, and a receipt for your donation will be available at the Soil Kitchen,” Fredberg said. “Cash donations or gift cards for the families are best.”

To learn more about Kids of Anza, find them on Facebook. To donate, call Susie Rodriguez at 951-765-7174.

D iane Sieker can be reached by email at dsieker@reedermedia. com.

For the 2020 toy drive, Kids of An a is focusing on cash and card donations instead of new, unwrapped Anza Valley O utlook/ Diane Sieke r photo toys.

SH OOT from page had a fun, safe time, and the fundraiser was successful in raising over $1,600 for Aurora.”

Money was also raised from a bake sale at Sacred Heart Catholic Church and added with the funds raised at the turkey shoot. All proceeds will go to the Perez family. A GoFundMe account has also been placed in her honor, so far raising over $5,000.

A “turkey shoot” is a shotgun shooting contest where frozen turkeys are awarded as prizes.

The targets are clay pigeons, commonly called skeet and made of a biodegradable ceramic type material that decomposes into the soil. The skeet are flung from a remotely controlled machine and fly quite a distance, making for great sport.

Original turkey shoots long ago were contests in which live turkeys were shot at distances from 25-35 yards, but that is no longer the case. No live birds were harmed at the turkey shoot.

To donate to the Perez GoFundMe effort, visit https://gf.me/u/ y7xx9u.

D iane Sieker can be reached by email at dsieker@reedermedia. com.

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ANZA LOCAL

Forest Service closes developed campgrounds on 8 national forests in California SAN BERNARDINO – U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service Pacific Southwest Region closed developed campgrounds on eight national forests in California to provide consistent COVID-19 mitigation response in accordance with Gov. Gavin Newsom’s stayat-home order, Dec. 3.

The eight national forests are in California’s Southern and San Joaquin zones: Angeles NF, Cleveland, Inyo, Los Padres, San Bernardino, Sequoia, Sierra and Stanislaus national forests. These regional orders will be in effect through Jan. 6, 2021.

If you’re keeping score, this change temporarily closes the

last remaining open camping opportunities on the San Bernardino National Forest: Holcomb Valley Campground in the Big Bear area, Pinyon Campground and Ribbonwood Equestrian Campground, which are both in the Santa Rosa Mountains.

Other camping opportunities were already closed due to the winter season. Dispersed camping and yellow post camping are prohibited due to fire danger.

Day use of national forests will remain open for the health and welfare of Californians. The Forest Service urged all visitors to follow Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines to recreate

responsibly and check with the local national forests before visiting.

“This order will protect visitors and our employees by reducing exposure to COVID-19 and mitigating the further burden on limited health care facilities,” Randy Moore, regional forester of the USDA Forest Service’s Pacific Southwest Region, said.

“Campgrounds, like other overnight accommodations, create opportunities for people from differing households and communities to gather, require maintenance and regular cleaning and entice the public to travel distances far enough from home to necessitate overnight accommodation. Taking

those things out of the equation is a prudent measure at this time.”

The Forest Service recommended that residents not travel long distances to recreate and, again, check with their local national forest before visiting. If you or anyone in your household is feeling sick, remain at home and plan the trip for another time. All visitors should practice self-sufficiency during visits to national forests.

Recreating responsibly will help ensure that expanded access to recreational facilities, services and opportunities continues.

Responsible recreation practices should be maintained at all times, including: research winter road

conditions and make sure your vehicle is snow ready, maintaining at least 6 feet distancing from others.

Do not gather in groups and follow the latest guidance from officials.

Communicate with others as you pass. Alert trail users of your presence and step aside to let others pass.

Pack out your trash and leave with everything you bring in and use.

All services may not be available, so plan accordingly.

Submitted by U .S. Forest Service.

Capt. Leonard Purvis thanks those that helped make the event possible at the dedication of the Mountain Station.

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will be one community service officer available at the station from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.

Two sergeants will be based at the station, and eight vehicles stationed there to support the staff.

Deputies who live in the mountain communities will staff the station.

“This will lessen response times and provide the community with familiar faces to assist them,” Purvis said.

Sheriff Chad Bianco spoke about the wishes of residents to reopen the long vacant station to allow for better deputy coverage and a safer community. He said he was proud that the building was finally getting put back into service.

Jeff Hewitt, supervisor for Riverside County District 5, said a few words about the benefits of the more local presence of deputies in the mountain communities.

Representatives from the California Highway Patrol, Idyllwild Fire Department, Riverside Fire Department, U. S. Forestry Department, Riverside County Parks, Riverside Sheriffs Association, the Riverside County Sheriff’s Media Information Bureau and the Butterfield Family were in attendance, as well as Gisela Sterns, Bill and Noel Donahue from the Sage Town Hall Association, the

Cahuilla, Ramona and Santa Rosa Tribal Chairmen, Justin Barrett with the Idyllwild Arts Academy, Jeff Franks from Hamilton School, Matt Kraemer from Idyllwild School, Lucy Dressel from the Hemet Unified School District and Mayor Max, the canine mayor of Idyllwild.

“This was a long time in coming,” Bill Donahue, president of the Sage Town Hall Association, said. “For at least 10 years the residents on the mountain have complained about the fact that the deputies working the mountain had to drive up from the station in Valle Vista. They have begged and pleaded for a substation. By reallocating existing funds, Sheriff Chad Bianco made one possible.

This is a huge win for the residents of Sage. It was important to attend the event and let the RCSD know that the vast majority of the residents of Sage support them. There are enough negative voices in their ears, all the time, that I wanted them to hear the collective voices of the majority in Sage saying thank you.”

The event concluded with a ribbon cutting and tour of the facilities, where a wood stove fire greeted those who attended.

D iane Sieker can be reached by email at dsieker@reedermedia. com.

Mounted posse members stand by at the dedication of the Mountain Station near Lake Hemet in Mountain Center.

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Easy dishes to boost immunity Family Features SPECIAL TO VALLEY NEWS

Staying healthy is important yearround, but especially in the cooler months when temperatures drop, people spend more time inside and germs can spread easily. What you eat and the lifestyle you embrace are critical components of staying healthy.

Nourishing meals full of fruits, vegetables, protein-rich foods and whole grains help provide the body’s immune system with the nutrients it needs. Maintaining a healthy lifestyle by getting enough sleep, being physically active every day, having enough fluids and reducing stress also help keep the immune system in shape.

As a nutritious food to include on your grocery list, grapes of all colors – red, green and black – contain more than 1,600 natural plant compounds such as antioxidants and other polyphenols that help protect the health of cells throughout the ACIL from page members at large, to make recommendations on how to proceed.

ACIL treasurer Tabitha Dawes, member Jazmyn McCammon, member Paola Canaday and director Andrew Carey participated in the committee.

A closed board meeting was held Saturday, Dec. 12, to present the committee’s findings and discuss election procedures.

The committee presented the following discoveries.

Fourteen previous ACIL members were not sent renewal reminders.

The board decided some of those people might have renewed if they had received reminders. The board concluded that those who would have renewed were denied the opportunity to receive nomination forms or to vote.

Funds were received by two people who were not added to the mailing list.

One paid member wanted to run but was not on the mailing list used to send member nomination forms, and because of this lapse, was denied being placed on the ballot. Nomination forms will be sent out again, but they will not be for a specific office.

Current members of ACIL are encouraged to submit nominations for the board of directors for 2021.

Nominees are required to currently hold a valid membership that is 30 days old or older. Memberships purchased less than 30 days ago are ineligible for nominating or voting in the current election held by this group. Nominees must also be 18 years or older.

The nomination process will be open from Dec. 14, and will close Dec. 31, at midnight for names of nominees to be submitted. Nominations will then be reviewed to ensure all nominees are eligible to run for the board of directors.

“Please contact the Anza Civic Improvement League via our Facebook page or email anzacivic@ gmail.com if you have questions or need additional information regarding the annual nomination process,”

Include on your grocery list, grapes of all colors red, green and black which contain more than 1, 00 natural plant compounds such as antioxidants and other polyphenols that help your immune system.

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body. They also contain about 82 water, so they provide important fluids for hydration, which is also Phil Canaday said.

A link to online voting will be emailed on or around Friday, Jan. 29. Online voting ends at 11:59 p.m.

Friday, Feb. 5.

In-person ballots will be available at 8:30 a.m. at the Saturday, Feb. 6, board meeting at the Little Red Schoolhouse. In-person ballots must be completed and put in the ballot box by 9 a.m.

Results will be announced and a new board seated.

The mission of the ACIL, 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 tax dollars. The park and school building are the centerpieces of the town and a hub of activity. From the Anza Summer Nights concert series to car shows and horseshoe tossing contests, the park is one of the most special places in Anza.

Both the park and the schoolhouse are available to rent for meetings and events. Members may credit one hundred percent of their current membership dues toward rental fees during the same time period.

Only members may be able to vote for the board of directors.

Minor Park and the Little Red Schoolhouse are located at Highway 371 at Contreras Road in Anza.

To learn more about the ACIL events, visit them at http://www. facebook.com/AnzaCivicImprovementLeague/ or at http://www. anzacivic.org.

To join the ACIL, visit http:// anzacivic.org/join.html.

The address is P.O. Box 391000, Anza, CA 92539. Contact ACIL at 951-330-4411 or anzacivic@gmail. com.

For more information, contact Philip Canaday at 951-809-7604.

D iane Sieker can be reached by email at dsieker@reedermedia.com.

critical to a healthy immune system.

Grapes can be enjoyed as a healthy snack or an immuneboosting ingredient in recipes like Chicken, Spinach and Grape Pita sandwiches and Grape and Salmon Power Salad. Each provides a mix of immune-supporting nutrients, including zinc in chicken, vitamins A and C in kale, polyphenols in grapes and other important nutrients in the salmon, walnuts and barley.

Find these recipes and more in “Eating for Immune Health” along with additional ways to eat healthy and stay well at http:// grapesfromcalifornia.com.

Chicken, S inach and Gra e ita Start to finish: 30 minutes Servings: 4 Ingredients: • 2 tablespoons pine nuts • 2 tablespoons lemon juice • 2 tablespoons minced shallot • 3 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil • 1 pinch red pepper flakes • 1/4 teaspoon ground sumac • Salt • Freshly ground black pepper • 1 package (5-6 ounces) fresh baby spinach, washed and dried • 1 1/2 cups shredded, cooked chicken (about 8 ounces) • 1 cup red California grapes, sliced • 1/4 cup crumbled feta cheese • 4 whole-wheat pita breads (6 1 2

inches each), warmed and halved D irections: In small skillet over medium-high heat, toast pine nuts, stirring constantly until toasted, about 5 minutes. Transfer to bowl and let cool.

In large bowl, whisk lemon juice, shallot, olive oil, red pepper flakes, sumac, salt and pepper. Add spinach, chicken, grapes, feta and pine nuts; toss to mix. Stuff into pita breads and serve.

Nutritional information per serving: 445 calories; 24 g protein; 46 g carbohydrates; 20 g fat (39 calories from fat); 5 g saturated fat (10 calories from saturated fat); 57 mg cholesterol; 658 mg sodium; 6 g fiber.

Gra e and Salmon ower Salad Start to finish: 1 hour Servings: 6 Ingredients: • 3/4 cup pearled barley • 3 cups firmly packed kale leaves, torn and sliced into ribbons • 1 cup halved red or black seedless California grapes • 8 ounces cold, cooked salmon, skin and bones removed • 1/2 cup walnuts, lightly toasted and coarsely chopped • Dressing:

Grape and Salmon Power Salad provides a mix of immune-supporting nutrients, including vitamins A and C in kale, polyphenols in grapes and other important nutrients in the salmon, walnuts and barley.

WORLD-CLASS EXPERTISE FOR ALL YOUR DENTAL NEEDS

Recognize seasonal affective disorder HENDERSONVILLA, Tenn.

– Seasonal affective disorder is characterized as a type of depression that is related to changes in seasons, typically tied to the start of fall and persisting into the winter months.

Depressive disorders don’t take holidays, and this time of year can be stressful. For individuals who suffer from or are at risk for depression, though, the impact of holiday stresses and pressures can be much more severe than the momentary frustrations that almost everyone experiences.

Typical symptoms of SAD, sometimes referred to as winter depression, may include the following from the Mayo Clinic: feeling depressed most of the day, nearly every day; a lack of energy; losing interest in activities you once enjoyed; feeling sluggish or agitated; oversleeping or having problems with sleeping; social withdrawal; feeling hopeless, worthless or guilty or substance abuse.

Recently, more people are willing to engage in more meaningful conversations regarding mental health, but that has not always been the case. Many of the same symptoms listed above are commonly associated with warning signs of suicidal thoughts or behavior, the second leading cause of death for ages 10-24 in California.

The Jason Foundation, a nationally recognized leader in youth suicide awareness and prevention, has developed a program designed to help reduce the stigma surrounding mental health issues and suicide. Hashtag IWONTBESILENT is an awareness campaign to raise the conversation on suicide prevention and mental illness, allowing open conversation regarding these serious subjects.

Visit http://www.iwontbesilent. com to learn how you can become involved and make a difference within your community. Creating an environment where people of all ages feel comfortable to talk about their struggles is an important step in preventing unnecessary tragedies.

Contrary to a prevalent myth, suicide rates do not peak during the holiday season; however, depressed individuals are hardly immune from either depressive episodes or suicidal ideation during this time. If you or someone you love is struggling with depression and/ or thinking about suicide, get help now. The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline, 1-800-273-8255, is a free resource that is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week, for anyone who is in suicidal crisis or emotional distress.

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• 1/4 cup freshly squeezed lemon juice • 1 clove garlic, mashed • 1/2 teaspoon salt • 1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper • 1 pinch cayenne pepper • 1 2 cup extra-virgin olive oil D irections: In a medium pot, cook barley according to package directions.

Drain and cool.

Tenderize kale by blanching in boiling water 2-3 seconds or microwaving 1 minute. Rinse pieces in cold water to stop cooking; squeeze dry. Fluff and uncrimp dry kale pieces with fingers.

In medium bowl, mix barley, kale, grapes, salmon and walnuts.

To make dressing: In small bowl, whisk lemon juice, garlic, salt, pepper and cayenne. Gradually mix in olive oil. Pour onto salad and fold gently to combine.

Nutritional information per serving: 413 calories; 15 g protein; 30 g carbohydrates; 16 g fat (47 calories from fat); 3 g saturated fat (8 calories from saturated fat); 22 mg cholesterol; 232 mg sodium; 500 mg potassium; 4 g fiber.

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6 options, 5 could reseat Trump for a second term

Harold W. Pease, Ph.D. SPECIAL TO ANZA VALLEY OUTLOOK

Editor’ s Note: This submission was written Wednesday, D ec. 9 , before the Electoral College’ s vote, Monday, D ec. 14 .

This is the most bizarre presidential election in U.S. history.

There exist six options forward, five could reseat President Donald Trump for a second term. One, Trump will concede the fraudulent election to Biden to save the country from possible civil war.

Two, former Vice President Joe Biden will concede the fraudulent election to Trump to save the country from possible civil war. Biden will not do this; nor should Trump with the tsunami of evidence of election fraud against Biden.

The credibility of this election,

and all elections that follow, is at stake. At no time has Biden publicly opposed the illegal vote in his favor. If Biden wins by fraud, he will be inclined to serve despotically, as do Democrat governors respecting COVID-19, with censorship because the people will never fully trust him.

Hundreds, perhaps thousands, participated, so election fraud can never be fully hidden. It will be a permanent stain on his administration. If he wins by manipulating the vote, he will stay in power by the same practice. It’s unlikely that fraudulent elections will ever end.

Three, state legislatures are constitutionally required under Article II, Section 2, to decide the Electors for the College for their state, which supersedes state law subsequently making it based upon population. If state elections were fraudulent, and if legislatures have integrity, they will reassume this responsibility.

Five of the contested states have Republican legislature majorities who themselves come up for reelection in two years. If they do not step forward now, given the enormity of the evidence of Democrat election fraudulency, they will face hostile constituencies then. Trump should win these five states and the election. All he needs is three of them. The state Legislature should do its job. This is the preferred and probable win option. Look for the Supreme Court to expect the state Legisla-

ture to perform.

Four, the Supreme Court must accept the pending Texas suit, joined by Louisiana and others states, against Georgia, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin as it is a state suing another state therefore, under original jurisdiction, it does not have to be advanced through lower courts. This suit is attempting to prevent these states from voting Dec. 14, in the Electoral College on the basis of due process and equal protection of the law – 14th Amendment clauses – contending that these states have knowingly used the pandemic to break election law.

These four states comprise 62 Electoral College votes. This will prevent either candidate from having 170 electoral college votes and the presidency. Therefore, Joe Biden is not president-elect. The Supreme Court is likely to encourage the state legislatures to solve the problem by Article II, Section 2, as described above. Two paths are now possible. State legislators will follow through as described above, if they refuse the House of Representatives will decide.

Five, should the election be thrown into the House of Representatives, Trump still benefits.

The Constitution only allows each state one vote regardless of its population. Trump only needs 26.

Currently Republicans govern 29 of these and Democrats 19. Trump will win whatever is contested here. Pelosi knows this so will not

encourage the use of this part of the Constitution.

Should the Supreme Court accept election lawsuits, it must throw out all illegally cast votes.

This option alone would give the election to Trump. It could also declare a state’s popular vote too fraudulent to call and require it to forfeit its Electoral College vote, or give it to Trump as no fraudulency has been alleged on the Republican side and he was significantly ahead before known fraud was injected into the election, although no precedent for these actions presently exist.

Theoretically the Supreme Court also could void the Electoral College count in the 28 states using Dominion voting machines or states using Smartmatic software if states using it had foreknowledge of its ability to rig elections.

A judge in Wisconsin has ordered the impounding of 22 Dominion voting machines used in the county that switched 6,000 Trump votes to Biden. If vote switching is prevalent in other machines and shown designed to do so, such could be seen as a coup against a seated president and treason, more especially if the previous administration had foreknowledge of this capacity or intent to do so.

This is amplified if these machines or software came from China or any other foreign entity intending to overthrow an election. Treason and national security now come into play big time. At the moment,

treason or national security appear draconian.

Six, Congress could reschedule the election of the president from Dec. 14, to a future date as per Article II, Section 1, Clause 4, which said, “The Congress may determine the time of choosing the Electors and the day on which they shall give their votes; which day shall be the same throughout the United States.” This option is very unlikely as Congress consists of two bodies the Senate and the House of Representatives, the latter of which is run by Nancy Pelosi who would never support an Election Day beyond Dec. 14.

It would only give her opponents more time to reveal more 2020 election fraud.

Of these options, the only path for Biden is if Trump concedes the election or neither the Republican state legislatures or Supreme Court have the constitutional integrity to stand. Trump will serve a second term.

H arold W. Pease is a syndicated columnist and an ex pert on the U nited States Constitution. H e has dedicated his career to studying the writings of the Founding Fathers and to applying that knowledge to current events. H e taught history and political science from this perspective for over 3 0 years at Taft College. To read more of his weekly articles, visit http: / / www.

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F I CTI TI O U S B U SI NE SS NAM E STATE M E NT F ile Number: R -202012055 The following person s is are doing business as: H OT STUF F ESTH ETICS 10311 H ole Ave., U nit C, R iversid e, CA 9 2505 M ailing ad d ress: 5209 E clipse Ave., Ju rupa Valley, CA 9 1752 County: R iversid e Cory Ann M inyard , 5209 E clipse Ave., Ju rupa Valley, CA 9 1752 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 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 d ollars ( $ 1,000) .)

R egistrant: Cory Ann M inyard tatement was filed with the ounty ler of R iversid e County on 11/20/2020 T T SU B DI VI SI O N ( a) O F SE CTI O N 179 20, A F I CTI TI O U S NAM E STATE M E NT GE NE R AL L Y E X P I R E S AT TH E E ND O F F I VE Y E AR S F R O M T T T T O F F I CE O F TH E CO U NTY CL E R K , E X CE P T, AS P R O VI DE D I N SU B DI VI SI O N ( b) O F SE CTI O N , T T ANY CH ANGE I N TH E F ACTS SE T F O R TH I N TH E STATE M E NT P U R SU ANT TO SE CTI O N 179 13 O TH E R TH AN A CH ANGE I N TH E R E SI DE NCE ADDR E SS O F A R E GI STE R E D .

TT STATE M E NT M U ST B E F I L E D B E F O R E TH E E X P I R ATI O N. TH E F I L I NG O F TH I S STATE M E NT DO 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 F I 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 , ( SE E SE CTI O N 14411 E T SE Q ., B U SI NE SS AND P R O F E SSI O NS CO DE ) . I H E R E B Y CE R TI F Y 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 F I L E I N M Y O F F I CE .

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F I CTI TI O U S B U SI NE SS NAM E STATE M E NT F ile Number: R -202012148 The following person s is are doing business as CK O MURRIETA 40385 M urrieta H ot Springs R oad , M urrieta, CA 9 2563 M ailing ad d ress: 7725 Gateway U nit # 1540, I rvine, CA 9 2618 County: R iversid e AK F itness, 7725 Gateway U nit # 1540, I rvine, CA 9 2618 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 d ollars ( $ 1,000) .)

R egistrant: K imia Sad eghian, Secretary tatement was filed with the ounty ler of R iversid e County on 11/03/2020 T T ( a) O F SE CTI O N 179 20, A F I CTI TI O U S NAM E STATE M E NT GE NE R AL L Y E X P I R E S AT TH E E ND O F F I VE Y E AR S F R O M TH E DATE O N T T T CO U NTY CL E R K , E X CE P T, AS P R O VI DE D I N b T , I T E X P I R E S 40 DAY S AF TE R ANY CH ANGE I N TH E F ACTS SE T F O R TH I N TH E STATE M E NT P U R SU ANT TO SE CTI O N 179 13 O TH E R TH AN A CH ANGE I N TH E R E SI DE NCE ADDR E SS O F T .

TT B U SI NE SS NAM E STATE M E NT M U ST B E F I L E D B E F O R E TH E E X P I R ATI O N. TH E F I L I NG O F TH I S STATE M E NT DO 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 F I 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 , ( SE E SE CTI O N 14411 E T SE Q ., B U SI NE SS AND P R O F E SSI O NS CO DE ) . I H E R E B Y CE R TI F Y 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 F I L E I N M Y O F F I CE .

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F I CTI TI O U S B U SI NE SS NAM E STATE M E NT F ile Number: R -2020119 69 The following person s is are doing business as MISSION CARRIER 79 10 A M ission B lvd , R iversid e, CA 9 2509 County: R iversid e R anbir -- Singh, 79 10 A M ission B lvd , R iversid e, CA 9 2509 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 d ollars ( $ 1,000) .)

R egistrant R anbir -- Singh tatement was filed with the ounty ler of R iversid e County on 11/17/2020 T T ( a) O F SE CTI O N 179 20, A F I CTI TI O U S NAM E STATE M E NT GE NE R AL L Y E X P I R E S AT TH E E ND O F F I VE Y E AR S F R O M TH E DATE O N T T T CO U NTY CL E R K , E X CE P T, AS P R O VI DE D I N b T , I T E X P I R E S 40 DAY S AF TE R ANY CH ANGE I N TH E F ACTS SE T F O R TH I N TH E STATE M E NT P U R SU ANT TO SE CTI O N 179 13 O TH E R TH AN A CH ANGE I N TH E R E SI DE NCE ADDR E SS O F T .

TT B U SI NE SS NAM E STATE M E NT M U ST B E F I L E D B E F O R E TH E E X P I R ATI O N. TH E F I L I NG O F TH I S STATE M E NT DO 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 F I 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 , ( SE E SE CTI O N 14411 E T SE Q ., B U SI NE SS AND P R O F E SSI O NS CO DE ) . I H E R E B Y CE R TI F Y 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 F I L E I N M Y O F F I CE .

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F I CTI TI O U S B U SI NE SS NAM E STATE M E NT F ile Number: R -202012176 The following person s is are doing business as F RIEN DLY DEN TAL CEN TERS 28314 O ld Town F ront St., Temecula, CA 9 259 0 M ailing ad d ress: 28314 O ld Town F ront St., Temecula, CA 9 259 0 County: R iversid e Sand eep Singh Cheema, D.D.S., I nc., 28314 O ld Town F ront St., Temecula, CA 9 259 0 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 d ollars ( $ 1,000) .)

R egistrant: Amad a R ivera, Secretary tatement was filed with the ounty ler of R iversid e County on 11/25/2020 T T ( a) O F SE CTI O N 179 20, A F I CTI TI O U S NAM E STATE M E NT GE NE R AL L Y E X P I R E S AT TH E E ND O F F I VE Y E AR S F R O M TH E DATE O N T T T CO U NTY CL E R K , E X CE P T, AS P R O VI DE D I N b T , I T E X P I R E S 40 DAY S AF TE R ANY CH ANGE I N TH E F ACTS SE T F O R TH I N TH E STATE M E NT P U R SU ANT TO SE CTI O N 179 13 O TH E R TH AN A CH ANGE I N TH E R E SI DE NCE ADDR E SS O F T .

TT B U SI NE SS NAM E STATE M E NT M U ST B E F I L E D B E F O R E TH E E X P I R ATI O N. TH E F I L I NG O F TH I S STATE M E NT DO 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 F I 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 , ( SE E SE CTI O N 14411 E T SE Q ., B U SI NE SS AND P R O F E SSI O NS CO DE ) . I H E R E B Y CE R TI F Y 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 F I L E I N M Y O F F I CE .

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F I CTI TI O U S B U SI NE SS NAM E STATE M E NT F ile Number: R -202012181 The following person s is are doing business as DAK DEN TAL MAN AG EMEN T 28314 O ld Town F ront St., Temecula, CA 9 259 0 County: R iversid e DAK Dental M anagement, 28314 O ld Town F ront St., Temecula, CA 9 259 0 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 d ollars ( $ 1,000) .)

R egistrant: Amad a R ivera, Secretary tatement was filed with the ounty ler of R iversid e County on 11/25/2020 T T ( a) O F SE CTI O N 179 20, A F I CTI TI O U S NAM E STATE M E NT GE NE R AL L Y E X P I R E S AT TH E E ND O F F I VE Y E AR S F R O M TH E DATE O N T T T CO U NTY CL E R K , E X CE P T, AS P R O VI DE D I N b T , I T E X P I R E S 40 DAY S AF TE R ANY CH ANGE I N TH E F ACTS SE T F O R TH I N TH E STATE M E NT P U R SU ANT TO SE CTI O N 179 13 O TH E R TH AN A CH ANGE I N TH E R E SI DE NCE ADDR E SS O F T .

TT B U SI NE SS NAM E STATE M E NT M U ST B E F I L E D B E F O R E TH E E X P I R ATI O N. TH E F I L I NG O F TH I S STATE M E NT DO 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 F I 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 , ( SE E SE CTI O N 14411 E T SE Q ., B U SI NE SS AND P R O F E SSI O NS CO DE ) . I H E R E B Y CE R TI F Y 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 F I L E I N M Y O F F I CE .

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F I CTI TI O U S B U SI NE SS NAM E STATE M E NT F ile Number: R -202012508 The following person s is are doing business as 1 . CH ERIE AMOUR COMP AN Y 2 . ROOTS H OME AN D B ODY 3 . ROOTS B AB Y 4 . SUG AR AN D G LITTER 269 1 O range Street, R iversid e, CA 9 2501 M ailing ad d ress: 389 0 O range Street, R iversid e, CA 9 2502 County: R iversid e Cherie Amour R obinson, 269 1 O range Street, R iversid e, CA 9 2501 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 d ollars ( $ 1,000) .)

R egistrant: Cherie Amour R obinson tatement was filed with the ounty ler of R iversid e County on 12/07/2020 T T ( a) O F SE CTI O N 179 20, A F I CTI TI O U S NAM E STATE M E NT GE NE R AL L Y E X P I R E S AT TH E E ND O F F I VE Y E AR S F R O M TH E DATE O N T T T CO U NTY CL E R K , E X CE P T, AS P R O VI DE D I N b T , I T E X P I R E S 40 DAY S AF TE R ANY CH ANGE I N TH E F ACTS SE T F O R TH I N TH E STATE M E NT P U R SU ANT TO SE CTI O N 179 13 O TH E R TH AN A CH ANGE I N TH E R E SI DE NCE ADDR E SS O F T .

TT B U SI NE SS NAM E STATE M E NT M U ST B E F I L E D B E F O R E TH E E X P I R ATI O N. TH E F I L I NG O F TH I S STATE M E NT DO 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 F I 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 , ( SE E SE CTI O N 14411 E T SE Q ., B U SI NE SS AND P R O F E SSI O NS CO DE ) . I H E R E B Y CE R TI F Y 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 F I L E I N M Y O F F I CE .

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AB AN DON MEN T B USIN ESS N AME STATEMEN T OF AB AN DON MEN T OF USE OF F ICTITIOUS B USIN ESS N AME F ile Number: R -2019 15042 iled iverside ounty ler s ce P eter Ald ana The following fictitious business name s has been abandoned by the following person s SLEEP IN G P RETTY 10311 H ole Ave., R iversid e, CA 9 2505 County: R iversid e Cory Ann M inyard , 5209 E clipse Ave., Ju rupa Valley, CA 9 1752 This business is cond ucted by an I nd ivid ual The fictitious business name referred to above was filed in iverside ounty on Signed by: Cory Ann M inyard T T T T T T R E CO R DE R /CO U NTY CL E R K O F R I VE R SI DE CO U NTY O N 11/20/2020 LEG AL: 3 2 6 6 P UB LISH ED: De c e m b e r 4 , 1 1 , 1 8 , 2 5 , 2 0 2 0

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