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The city of Temecula was forced to do some budget wrangling amid the coronavirus pandemic and now the 2020-2021 fiscal year budget, which the Temecula city council approved June 9, is very different from the one that had been planned out at the beginning of the year. see page A-2

Local Southwest RivCo cities see surge in COVID-19 cases Jeff Pack STAFF WRITER

Many cities and communities in southwest Riverside County experienced double-digit percentage increases in new cases of COVID-19, according to data released by the Riverside County health officials Monday evening, June 22. see page A-4

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About 75 people attended a vigil held at the Temecula Duck Pond Saturday, June 20, in honor of Matthew Tucker, an 18-year-old man who was shot and killed by Riverside County Sheriff’s deputies responding to a call from his house indicating that he wanted to kill himself in 2016.

The vigil was organized by the leaders of Temecula Protest, a group of concerned citizens that formed in response to the killing of George Floyd in Minnesota in late May. In addition to residents, Tucker’s mother and brother, Jenny and Marcus, along with Jenny’s significant other, Randy Carr, came out from Arizona to attend the event.

“You want to be able to make Matthew out to be not just a number, you want them to know who he is – he was a human being,” Jenny Tucker said. “He was

People place candles at a picture of Matthew Tucker during a vigil in honor of his life and an effort to raise awareness about his life lost during a response by Riverside County sheriff’s deputies in 2016.

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Chief Pat Walsh discusses extensive training before Menifee’s new police department opening July 1 Lexington Howe STAFF WRITER

Menifee’s new police Chief Pat Walsh is helping to lead the team as they open up their own police force July 1.

“Who gets to start a police department? It just doesn’t happen,” Walsh said. “When I got the job, I really had to think. The most important thing you’re going to build is culture.”

Walsh said that to build the desired culture, he needed the right people, did extensive backgrounds and trained them.

“The city manager and the city council agreed to allow me to hire my supervisors and my command staff three months before go live, and then all the rest of the employees two months before go

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City of Temecula revenue drops due to coronavirus, but budget balanced with cuts Will Fritz ASSOCIATE EDITOR

The city of Temecula was forced to do some budget wrangling amid the coronavirus pandemic, but the city’s operating budget is now balanced for the coming fiscal years, staff told the city council at a meeting earlier in June.

The city’s budget for the 20202021 fiscal year, which the Temecula city council approved June 9, is very different from the one that had been planned out at the beginning of the year.

“In January, we set out creating a very healthy budget … but this all changed in mid-March as the world began to report the devastation of COVID-19,” Temecula city manager Aaron Adams said.

Operating revenues, including from the general fund, Measure S sales tax and Temecula Community Services District funding, were originally projected to be about $110 million, according to a report from Jennifer Hennessy, director of finance for Temecula.

But the coronavirus pandemic has drastically affected the city’s revenue even in the current fiscal year.

“Several of the city’s major revenue sources will be significantly impacted by the business closures and the stay at home orders with sales tax and Measure S (revenue from the sales tax increase in 2016) being hit the hardest,” Hennessy said. “Within a four-month period, the city will experience a 13% decline or nearly $15 million in lost revenue for the current fiscal year. We are anticipating an additional 8.8 million decline next year as compared to the original or pre-COVID-19 projections.”

Hennessy broke down the revenue declines between March and June 2020 in more detail: regular sales tax revenue dropped by $6 million and Measure S revenue dropped by another $5 million.

Program revenue from the Temecula Community Services Dis-

trict and revenue from the city’s Transient Occupancy Tax each dropped by around $800,000. Other miscellaneous revenue sources, including gas tax revenue, were affected by amounts in the low hundreds of thousands of dollars.

For 2020-2021, revenue is expected to drop by another $8 million, including a decline of about $5.6 million in regular sales tax revenue, $346,000 in Measure S revenue, $570,000 in Transient Occupancy Tax revenue, $521,000 in gas tax revenue, $428,000 in Measure A tax revenue, $656,000 in property tax revenue and a handful of other sources.

Furthermore, Hennessy said the city was projecting its revenue base over the next five years will be roughly $5 million lower each year compared to the city’s preliminary budget forecast.

Those drops in revenue by themselves, without any corresponding budget cuts, were projected to deplete the city’s available reserves by the end of the year and cause its balance to go negative by the end of the 2022-2023 fiscal year, Hennessy said.

So the city undertook multiple budget reduction measures. Some of those measures include releasing 137 part-time or seasonal employees, the majority of which are under the Temecula Community Services District, and reducing contributions to reserves.

The city is also deferring hiring for three currently vacant fulltime positions, as well as deferring some capital improvement projects, including deferring the planned Ynez Road widening project from 2021-2022 to 20242025.

The city is projected to have to dip into its reserves by about $830,000 and $255,000 in 20212022 and 2022-2023, respectively, but will not have to do so this year, Hennessy said.

In total, cuts are most severe in the coming fiscal year, at about $12 million, and range from $9

Jennifer Hennessy, director of finance for Temecula, presents the city’s revised 2020-2021 budget to the Temecula City Council, June 9.

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million in 2021-2022 to $4 million in 2023-2024.

She cautioned that the budget adjustments were largely built on unknown factors and projections.

“With 57% of our total operating revenues coming from sales tax and Measure S, we spent a great deal of time analyzing the impact of the pandemic on each business

Menifee City Hall reopens MENIFEE – Menifee City Hall reopened to the public Monday, June 22, after closing in March and operating as a virtual City Hall to help slow the spread of the coronavirus pandemic.

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Pride festivals across the United States have opted to postpone or go virtual due to the coronavirus pandemic and social distancing stan-

dards. While difficult for many, going virtual allows people from all over the country to attend pride anywhere from their own homes.

Hemet hosted their third annual pride event online to celebrate the 50-year anniversary of the first gay

liberation march, June 20, 1969 – the year following the Stonewall riots in New York.

Hemet pride took place via Zoom Friday, June 19, from 4-8 p.m. Attendees were required to register before receiving a Zoom link for the event that consisted of two live panels with audience engagement, prerecorded entertainment and educational films.

Among the films shown during the event was “It Got Better” by Heather Ross. This film went into depth on the life of Laverne Cox, who is a transgender actor known for her role in “Orange is the New Black.”

Cox talked about her childhood as someone who was bullied for who she was.

“I was very feminine from like, my whole life,” Cox said. “I was called sissy. I was called the fword. I was called names.”

Cox is well-known as an LGBTQ activist who consistently advocates for rights in America, because she doesn’t want others to be treated the way she was at an early age. Meeting with others who were transgender allowed Cox to accept herself and inspired her to be an inspiration for others.

Hemet pride also featured the “Why Care” campaign created by the National Alliance on Mental Illness to bring awareness to the mental health struggle that many LGBTQ go through.

NAMI said, “one in three gay, lesbian or bisexual adults experience a mental health condition in a given year – compared to one in six prevalence in heterosexual adults.”

The “Why Care” campaign aims to share the importance of mental health and to promote treatment, support and other services to the

millions of people affected by mental illness. NAMI hopes to shed light on the social and systemic barriers that prevent many from access to treatment across the United States.

Although Hemet pride is over, there are still ways to show support to the community. Pride is being offered virtually around the world, and there are still many events to attend. Those interested in attending a virtual pride event can go to https://virtualpride2020.com to view events online. NAMI is also continuing their “Why Care” campaign with many ways to get involved. People who would like to take part in the campaign can go to https://nami.org/Get-Involved/ Awareness-Events/Why-Care to learn more about how to help.

Samantha Cox can be reached by email at valleystaff@reedermedia.com.

Mt. San Jacinto College partners with TODEC to provide immigration legal services SAN JACINTO – Mt. San Jacinto College has partnered with the Perris-based Training Occupational Development Educating Communities Legal Center to provide free legal support services to faculty, staff and undocumented students at the college.

The TODEC Legal Center provides assistance with Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program renewals and immigration screenings and consultations. The

U.S. Supreme Court Thursday, June 18, upheld the DACA program, which allows undocumented individuals who were brought here as infants or minors to attend colleges and universities and work in this country in order to contribute to their communities. Mt. San Jacinto College is fully committed to serving its DACA students and will continue to support their educational goals.

The TODEC partnership will

provide students, their families, and the college community with information related to resources specifically for DACA, Assembly Bill 540 and Dreamers. Mt. San Jacinto College and TODEC Legal Center will not violate the HIPAA privacy rule, FERPA or California state regulations.

TODEC’s mission is to empower disenfranchised immigrant communities to become economically, socially, educationally and civically

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self-sufficient while enhancing individual self-esteem and community health. The overall purpose of TODEC is to ensure equitable access to information, immigration legal services, community education, advocacy, and civic engagement for limited and non-English speaking people, including immigrants and migrant workers throughout the Inland Empire and Imperial and Inyo counties.

The collaboration between Mt. San Jacinto College and TODEC is part of a pilot project led by the California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office, the California

Department of Social Services and the Foundation for California Community Colleges. Following a competitive process, Mt. San Jacinto College was selected as one of 65 California community colleges to receive grant funding to host legal immigration services during this pilot phase. While not every college is a host, students from nonhost colleges will be able to access services from host colleges such as Mt. San Jacinto College.

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Merilyn Delores Ault, 75 of Hemet was called by the Lord and passed away Friday, June 12, 2020.

She was born Tuesday, Sept. 26, 1944, in West Virginia, to her late father and late mother Kenneth and Nellie Witten. She was married to her husband, Anthony Ault, for 49 wonderful years.

Merilyn studied to be a dietician at the University of Virginia. She moved to Utah to work as a dietician at St. Mark’s Hospital in Salt Lake City, Utah, where she and her husband, Anthony, met and got married.

After their marriage, they moved to California. They lived in Montclair, Upland, Rancho Cucamonga, Sunnymead, Moreno Valley, Banning and Winchester before settling in the Hemet area for more than 25 years. In Hemet, Merilyn went to work with Walmart as a cashier and a greeter for 18 years.

Merilyn was a fantastic wife and

a wonderful cook, and she enjoyed dressing up to attend special occasions. She enjoyed listening to bluegrass music, going camping, RVing and being outdoors.

She was a 13-year colon cancer survivor. She was a deaconess for the Valle Vista Assembly of God Church and dedicated many years to helping other people in times of severe hardship, shut-ins, those with serious medical problems and others in their grieving times.

As a devoted Christian, she taught Sunday school and was a preschool teacher at the Brethren In Christ Church in Moreno Valley. She helped her husband as co-owner of their own shopping newspaper for several years and was a strong supporter in his photojournalism and teaching career. She loved her cats and dogs throughout the years.

She is survived by her husband, Anthony Ault, son, Michael Ault and grandson Gavin in Aurora, CO; sister, Julieann Richardson and her nephews Ryan and Andy in Virginia.

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Southwest RivCo cities see surge in new COVID-19 cases over last week Jeff Pack STAFF WRITER

Many cities and communities in southwest Riverside County experienced double-digit percentage increases in new cases of COVID-19, according to data released by the Riverside County health officials Monday evening, June 22.

The community of French Valley, which the week before had recorded 51 cases of the coronavirus, checked in with 67 total cases and no deaths Monday, a jump of 16 new cases and a 23% increase.

Four people from Wildomar have died and the city has a total of 93 cases, an increase of 20 new cases, meaning the number of new cases increased by 21.5% in the city.

Murrieta added 35 new cases, an increase of more than 18.5% in the past week, with a total of 188 and eight deaths among its residents.

Menifee saw an increase of 40 new cases and San Jacinto recorded 38 in the course of the week, both indicate a more than 16.5% increase week over week.

Six residents of Menifee (245 cases) and San Jacinto (225 cases) have died due to the disease.

Temecula experienced a 12.5% increase in new cases, jumping from 173 to 198, by adding 25 new cases. Hemet has had the highest number of cases in southwest Riverside County for some time but recorded 40 new cases since last week for a total of 356. That indicates an 11.24% increase over the week before as well as two more deaths for a total of 23.

Lake Elsinore recorded 233 new cases, a slight increase from last week (221), with eight deaths and Canyon Lake stayed steady at 13 total cases and zero deaths.

The county reported number totals for unincorporated areas including Anza at six, Winchester at two, Valle Vista held steady at 35, Lakeland Village at 51 and East Hemet with 53 cases.

Lakeland Village and East Hemet each reported one death.

Riverside County as a whole is averaging more than 300 new COVID-19 cases every day for the past two weeks, according to Riverside County health officials’ data.

If that average trend continues, Riverside County will clock nearly 8,500 new cases during the month of June, more than the total number of cases recorded since Feb. 25, the date the county reported

its first case.

The recent surge in new cases meant the California Department of Public Health placed Riverside County on its coronavirus watchlist late last week, saying the county was experiencing “elevated disease transmission.”

On Monday evening, the county reported a startling 1,022 new coronavirus infections and 13,800 recorded cases overall from Saturday through Monday night, the largest number of new cases recorded by the county over any single weekend.

Broken down day by day, there were 276 cases reported Saturday, June 20, 466 Sunday, June Sharde Hairston, LVN, works at a free 21, and 280 Monday. COVID-19 testing site at the Grace The number of new cases Mellman Community Library in Temecula.

Saturday through Mon- No symptoms need to be exhibited to have day represented an 8% a test taken. The testing location takes increase. walk-ins and appointments by calling 888It means several cit- 634-1123. V a l l e y N e w s/ S h a n e G i b so n p h o t o ies and communities in southwest Riverside County are corded. There were 61 active cases outpacing the growth percentage reported at area jails. of new cases countywide.

District 1, which also includes Since Feb. 25, 424 people have Lake Elsinore, Canyon Lake, Wildied from complications related domar, Riverside, as well as other to COVID-19 since the county cities and communities, reported a announced it had suffered its first seven-day average doubling time death March 15. From Saturday to of 40.9, 12 new hospitalizations Monday, the county said 14 more and seven new patients admitted people had died from the virus. into the intensive care unit.

While that is a big number, new On Monday, county health ofdeaths from coronavirus have been ficials said that 3,500 randomly steady countywide, averaging just selected residents will be asked more than four per day since the to take part in antibody studies to beginning of the month. determine whether they’ve been The county also said Monday exposed and have already recovthat 189,162 residents had been ered from the virus. tested for the virus and 298 people “It’s important to know the exwere currently hospitalized with tent of the spread of the virus (and 87 in intensive care units. That’s those who) have developed antian increase of more than 11% over bodies,” Kim Saruwatari, director last week. of county Department of Public A total of 6,895 people have re- Health, said. “That information is covered from the virus – that is an vital as we move forward.’’ increase of 795 reported recoveries Residents cannot volunteer for since June 15. the antibody research and those In the most recent District 3 who agree to participate after weekly COVID-19 report, which random sampling will have their consists of the cities and commu- blood drawn at one of nine sites nities such as Temecula, Murrieta, countywide.

Hemet, French Valley, Idyllwild, More information is available Anza and others, the county re- at http://www.rivcoph.org/antiported a seven-day average dou- bodystudy. bling time of 51.9 from June 15 Will Fritz and City News Service to June 21. Of the 1,311 total contributed to this report. cases, the area saw 81 new weekly Jeff Pack can be reached by cases and an increase of four new email at jpack@reedermedia.com. hospitalizations during that time span. One new death was also re-

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TUCKER f r om p ag e A - 1 a good-hearted soul, and you want people to know who your son is.

Who he was as a person and not what some people have chosen to try to make him out to be.”

A petition established recently has garnered more than 800,000 signatures on Change.org asking for justice for Matthew and get the “attention of Mayor Maryann Edwards and (Riverside County district attorney) Michael Hestrin to beg to have the officer involved in this disgusting situation fired as well as the policies to be implemented immediately.”

The petition is directed at Riverside County supervisor Chuck Washington and Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco.

On June 12, the Riverside Sheriff’s Association issued a statement about the petition, denying the allegations made within the text of the petition.

“It’s important that factual information is provided so that actual facts are known. After a thorough investigation into the deputyinvolved shooting, the Riverside district attorney’s office conducted a complete review of the entire case for criminal culpability of the involved deputies. Upon completion of that independent review, the DA’s office declined to file criminal charges on any of the involved deputies.

“The use of force by the deputies in the 2016 incident was found to be reasonable, and the tactics used before the shooting were appropriate. The claims in the online petition have been thoroughly aired in court before a jury and were rejected. In 2018, following a six-day civil trial in federal court, a unanimous jury found the deputies used reasonable force and that there was no negligence in the tactics used by the deputies. In rendering a unanimous verdict in favor of the deputies, the jury rejected all claims that the deputies had violated Mr. Tucker’s civil rights, used excessive force or were negligent,” according to the association’s statement.

The 2016 case filed by Jenny Tucker and Shawn Tucker alleged wrongful death and other violations and was filed against the county and the deputies involved over the death of their son. They asked for $5 million in damages.

Jenny Tucker, the mother of Matthew Tucker, an 18-year-old Temecula resident who was suicidal and ultimately fatally shot by sheriff’s deputies during their response to the young man in 2016, attends a vigil for her son at the Temecula Duck Pond organized by members of the community, June 20.

Now, almost two years later, attendees at the vigil Saturday night vowed to continue to fight for justice for Tucker.

“This is personal to me,” Meesha Moghaddam, one of the organizers, told the crowd. “It should be personal to everyone here. We live here.”

Then Jenny Tucker spoke.

“For the last four years, we’ve just suffered in silence,” Jenny Tucker said. “We didn’t have a voice. They shut our voices up.

There are now over 800,000 people that know my son’s name.

“Know my son’s story. Know the struggle. I can tell you every single one of those 800,000 people has thought, ‘I’ve been there before.’

“My life will never be the same.

It’s our job as this family to stop this. They don’t care about the suffering that they caused. Not one person has ever asked, ‘Are you OK? And I’m sorry and it’s frustrating.

But you guys, as a community, you have our backs and which has made us stronger to keep the fight going for other families,” Tucker said.

Tucker’s brother, Marcus, also addressed the crowd.

“He was just living in a moment in life, and no one deserves to be done the way he was done,” he said.

“That’s not respect.

Members of the community and local “Black Lives Matter” protesters gather at the Temecula Duck Pond to hold a candlelight vigil to honor the life of Matthew Tucker who was fatally shot by sheriff’s deputies in 2016.

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“He’s my boy. This is my best friend. I remember I was sitting on the couch, watching this (expletive) on the TV. We were watching it together and three months later, they came through the door and that happened to me. My life’s never been the same. I hit rock bottom officially.

“One person’s actions. It wiped all of our lives away. And we’re still doing what’s consistent. But what’s normal? Who do you trust? Who do we call? We pay these people, do we not? I pay taxes every week, for what? That’s what I just don’t understand.

“We have to come as a community and figure it out because we’re really in pain and it can happen to anyone. Anyone, it doesn’t matter, Black, white. It doesn’t matter. It’s happening just too much.

“They didn’t have to go that far.

They escalated the situation and they know what they did and it was wrong. And that’s all I have to say – it was wrong,” Tucker said.

Other members of the crowd spoke as well.

“Temecula is known to be one of the nicest areas to move anywhere in California,” Amir-Hassan Gates said. “I heard this story, and it kind of broke my heart. To know that no matter where you are, anything can

happen to you at any point in time.

Suicide and murder are two different things. Two different things.”

Gates talked about his own battles with depression.

“Matt’s situation was different and they took his life away,” he said. “What’s the reason that you had to take this man’s life?”

Several members of the audience got up to speak about the need for changes in how law enforcement and emergency services deal with mental health issues, specifically about de-escalation tactics and policies.

Before the vigil started, Jenny Tucker talked to Valley News about her son.

“I’ve been able to separate my son and how my son died, and it’s two different emotions,” she said.

“When you’re able to separate them, you can find the joy in life again as a family and laugh and know that he’s OK with that. You find peace over the years, but you don’t have to like how, and you don’t have to agree and you can still speak up about it and fight for what’s right. I won’t give them the power to live in a darker place in my life. My son wouldn’t want me to do that and I won’t give them that.

So, we’ve worked hard as a family to remember him in a good way. It

doesn’t mean you’re not sad, and it doesn’t mean you don’t have ugly mama moments. I have a lot of them, but we still, as a family can sit back and laugh every day.”

She also talked about the issues that groups like Temecula Protest are fighting for.

“I’ll tell you that after Matthew died, as his mom being a white woman, I felt like who am I to speak up?” Jenny Tucker said. “I had to realize that I’m exactly that one that needs to speak up about it. It happened to my son. It happened to my son in Temecula, which is the second safest city in the nation. It was supposed to be a great place to raise a family and I couldn’t keep him safe. That is what’s frustrating more than anything. I thought that what I was doing was right. But it happens here. It’s happening in Temecula, it’s happening all over the world, all over the United States. It’s happening in these upper-middle-class neighborhoods that are in our area.

“And it gets pushed down and nobody knows about it. There are so many different levels to that.

It’s not just to keep Temecula the second safest city in the nation. It’s not only about that,” Tucker said.

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Butterfield Stage road widening complete Will Fritz ASSOCIATE EDITOR

It may have taken a tad longer than what had initially been planned, but Butterfield Stage Road is officially four lanes through its entire length through Temecula.

The long-awaited widening of the roadway north of Rancho California Road – which has been a major bottleneck on Temecula’s east side for years – opened to traffic at the end of May, Pat Thomas, director of Temecula Public Works, said. Though crews are still working on some minor improvements to the road, Thomas said, all lanes are open.

Construction began in July 2019 to widen Butterfield Stage Road to four lanes through the area, which was by that time the only part of the road that had only two lanes.

In a video released on the city’s website earlier in June, Thomas

thanked all of the contractors involved in the project: engineering services company Stantec, general contractor Alabbasi Construction and consulting project managers MB5 Consulting.

Thomas also said the project was made possible by funding from the community facilities district for the planned Sommers Bend community, located off Butterfield Stage Road to the north and east of the road widening project.

Chuck Washington, District 3 supervisor of Riverside County, who was mayor of Temecula in 2012 when construction began on another portion of Butterfield Stage Road that connected it all the way through between Murrieta Hot Springs and Rancho California roads, also spoke in the video released by the city.

“So much has been accomplished to get to completion, and though many will not appreciate all of what

was done, everyone will appreciate the final product,” Washington said.

Zak Schwank, city councilmember of Temecula, highlighted the fact that the expanded road will not only alleviate vehicle traffic congestion but also means dedicated bicycle lanes are now available between north and south Temecula.

“What this also does is it creates a nice north-south connector for people riding bikes,” Schwank said.

The old two-lane stretch of Butterfield Stage through the area was long a hazard for cyclists.

“This has always been a pinch point for folks through here for many, many years, and now we’re gonna have these buffered bike lanes connect to the south side of town and Temecula Creek path, and then eventually up to Sommers Bend and then on into (the) Santa Gertrudis Creek path to eventually connect on into Old Town,” Schwank said.

Butterfield Stage Road has four lanes north of Rancho California Road after the completion of an approximately $6 million widening project.

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Thomas said in an email that while the original construction contract for the project was for a total of a little more than $6 million, the city is expecting the final cost to be higher when change orders are taken into account, though those numbers are not available yet.

Also included in the project is an expansion of Rancho California Road to four lanes, two in each

direction, just east of its intersection with Butterfield Stage Road, which should provide traffic relief for motorists leaving wine country in the evenings. That portion of the project is in Riverside County, but construction was funded by the city of Temecula, a city official said in January.

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

CR&R moves forward to raise rates for San Jacinto businesses and residents Lexington Howe STAFF WRITER

“The people that we have up in Sacramento don’t care about us folks down here,” Mayor Pro Tem Crystal Ruiz said at the San Jacinto City Council meeting Tuesday, June 16, regarding CR&R Environmental Service’s raising of prices to families and local businesses. “The decisions that they’re making are not decisions that we can afford to have them make.”

This statement came after 12 protest letters from residents refusing to pay an increase in rates to reflect current market conditions were received by the council after a public notice on the item had been released.

For businesses, the pricing would depend on the level of service. For businesses that have a 3-yard bin with pickup one time a week, it would be a $6 increase each week, which would result in a $24 increase per month, according to Alex Braicovich, senior regional vice president of CR&R, who called in to answer questions during the council meeting. For residents, the increase

would be 93 cents per month, which would be about 21 cents per week.

“When you think about the businesses and they didn’t consider coming down to city council or to file a letter surprises me, I’m absolutely stunned with that,” Ruiz said.

She said that they needed real people to represent their citizens, because it is “so corrupt, it’s just not right.”

“The state of California has implemented a set of regulations that is impacting the commercial business sector significantly,” Braicovich said. “There are a couple of bills, AB 341 and AB 1826 that require certain programs to be implemented, and these are unfunded mandates that fall on the city and the hauler.”

To mitigate the extra cost, they’re distributing it across the customer base.

Comments by staff were made regarding the influence of legislation impacting citizens.

“The problem that I have is you’re being forced to, basically, eat the dollar amount that they’re forcing down on you and there’s more legislation coming,” Ruiz said of

bills coming that could potentially impact citizens.

This change has been implemented in 12 cities so far.

“Every city is going through these types of increases,” Braicovich said.

“And as you said earlier, trust me, I would not be here asking for this if it wasn’t something that we have no control over.”

San Jacinto Mayor Andrew Kotyuk asked Braicovich what happens if they don’t meet these mandates.

“There’s a couple things,” Braicovich said. “They (the city) could be put on a compliance order, if they don’t meet the requirements of the legislation.

“The newest legislation that’s coming down, cities can be fined $10,000 per day if they don’t meet the regulations,” he said.

It was also added that once a city is on a compliance order, CalRecycle will come down and the city will be at the “scrutiny of the state,” according to Braicovich.

In other words, it could become a very expensive problem.

The motion to pass the resolution passed unanimously, though

the main basis for approving from several of the council members was due to not wanting the city to be penalized.

Phase two of the San Jacinto Library Parking Improvement Project was discussed in retrospect to Phase one, which awarded the construction contract to Adame Landscape Inc. in summer 2019, and they finished up on the parking lot this spring.

Phase two includes landscaping, irrigation and lighting and putting the finishing touches on the parking lot. Bids were reviewed June 1.

Adame Landscape Inc. submitted a bid for $122,063; however, Adame Landscape Inc.’s bid was not submitted properly and was voided.

The second bidder, Millsten Enterprises Inc., is now the lowest bid at $129,405.12. Additional funds for soft costs or contingencies have been requested. Staff recommended Millsten Enterprises Inc. to be awarded the construction contract for Phase two.

A variety of plants will be added to the landscaping, along with boulders and some vines that cover up the existing block wall, among

others.

One of the concerns from staff was on how measures would be implemented to prevent graffiti in the new area, especially to the new San Jacinto seal that will be at the site.

It was mentioned that hopefully the police department across the street from the site would deter graffiti, as well as the vines on the walls as an extra protection against it. It was also suggested by the mayor to consider implementing a “blue light,” a way to notify public safety during night hours for citizens if needed. City council approved the motion for Phase two.

For more information on the San Jacinto Arts in Public Places Program which was discussed at the June 16 city council meeting, contact Travis Randel, director of Community Development, at https:// www.sanjacintoca.gov/city_departments/community-development.

For information on agenda items, visit https://www.sanjacintoca.gov.

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MENIFEE f r om p ag e A - 1 live,” Walsh said.

Menifee District 2 councilmember Matt Liesemeyer has been one of the leading advocates on the city council to push forward the idea of Menifee’s own police department since 2014.

Liesemeyer said that while he helped, it wouldn’t have been possible without a team effort from the council and others who also believed in the project.

“From a council standpoint, we really didn’t start getting momentum in this until 2018 when we brought in our new city manager and he brought the idea forward to the council, and we went forward with the feasibility study,” Liesemeyer said.

The feasibility study was, according to Liesemeyer, “a good launchpad for the city staff to go from to continue the process.”

Several individuals alongside police officers and other agencies looked at the template of what having a police department might look like from Riverside County.

“The study was a starting point but I’ve created a completely different looking police department from what that study said,” Walsh said. “But you always have to start somewhere. There’s no playbook on how to do this.”

Part of creating a new police department meant going through an extensive training program.

“We had a doctor of psychology come in; he’s a combat vet,” Walsh said. “He did several tours of duty, has severe PTSD and moral injury, and he came and talked to us about moral injury.

“You know we talk about PTSD in America, but we don’t talk about the moral injury piece of it,” he said.

Walsh said it’s important to talk about it, to identify signs.

“Police officers kill themselves at an alarming rate, twice the amount of police officers kill themselves as are killed in line of duty every year,” Walsh said. “I just thought it was super important to be able to identify the symptoms and signs and to be able to see them in the people we contact in the street, because a lot of people out on the street are having that kind of trauma. We have that kind of trauma, and we can help each other. We can help our partners; we can help our community with that.”

They also had a full day of how to survive their career, including emotional survival with a renowned doctor, according to Walsh.

“Then we had a wellness day where a couple docs came in and talked about how to mentally, physically maintain yourself in the business,” Walsh said. “We’re doing a wellness program where we all had our blood taken and we’re being screened for everything, and then we’re going to have a doc sit down with each of us individually and say where we are healthwise and what our diets should be like and what our workout regimen should look like.”

Walsh said that they’ll be having a workout-on-duty program.

“It’s pretty unheard of; this is the second police department I’ve ever heard of doing it,” he said.

With all of that being said, Walsh is trying to take care of them physically, mentally and spiritually.

“You see what’s going on in the world, and we don’t want that to happen here,” he said.

Walsh is ready to open and move forward.

“I spent the bulk of my career in Portland, Oregon, and when I see what’s going on in Portland, it just breaks my heart, when I see what’s going on in Seattle I’m disgusted and when I see all these police officers shot and killed in these riots and run over by people on purpose, it’s just sad,” Walsh said. “Nobody is more angry about what happened to George Floyd than the police officers because we don’t do that, we don’t train like that.”

One of the trainings they had came from a retired officer who owns her own fitness and defensive tactics company.

“She came out and taught each of us, myself included, all the command staff on team tactics in defense. You see all the horrible force, and force never looks good,” Walsh said. “When you see officers striking somebody 10, 15, 20 times; well, if it didn’t work the first couple times, why keep hitting them?

“If you don’t have other tools you’re going to stay there and do that, so she gave us all kinds of pressure points and control holds and methods to get somebody pinned and wait for your backup, and so our force is going to look a little different and it’s going to look a lot less invasive, and hopefully

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we will never be on the 11 o’clock news,” Walsh said.

Walsh has also taken his team out to the range to get them qualified with their new guns and to teach them how to use the new computers they’ve purchased that the Murrieta Police Department is going to dispatch them.

“We’re down to 10 days before we go live and it’s just completely frantic over here, but we’re going to make it happen,” Walsh said.

Walsh and the team have already gained a lot of support. Liesemeyer had also put it out on his Facebook wall, encouraging people of Menifee to send in emails or letters to the council for the department.

“People are bringing in flowers and balloons and cards, enough food to feed an army, and a lot of support,” Walsh said. “I get emails all day long of support, and you know it’s helpful.

“We’re in solidarity with people protesting, but it seems like we’re the focal point of the protests.

We’re getting lumped into one big category which is unfortunate because that’s just not the case, and so the support is really helpful,” he said.

The new police department has authorized 60 people on the force, including the police chief and his captain, lieutenants and sergeants.

“For police officers, there’s 44 of them, but right now we have 30 and we have 14 in background,” he said.

Liesemeyer encouraged people to help boost morale.

Menifee Police Department’s new police cars display “Serving Menifee since 2020.”

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“We’re trying to upright a police department when everyone else is talking about defunding them and shutting them down,” Liesemeyer said.

Walsh said they are thinking about doing a grand opening in mid-September when life hopefully begins to return to normal.

On June 30, however, since the community can’t come out, they plan to go to them.

“We’re going to take every one of our police cars; we’re going to

create six different parades, and we’re just going to go out into the community the night before,” Walsh said. “We start from about 7-8 p.m., and we’re just going to go through the entire city to say, ‘Hey, here we are; we’re your police.’”

Walsh plans on releasing maps and times for the community this week. Walsh and his team are excited.

“It’s just really amazing what we’re doing,” Liesemeyer said.

“It’s unfortunate that what’s hap-

pening in our world today is happening at the same time we’re trying to open a police department.

“We’re really excited about going forward and creating something new in our city, and really setting a new tone,” he said.

For more information on Menifee’s new police department, visit https://menifeepolice.org.

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

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Murrieta continues to develop future plan for adding thousands of homes and jobs to the area

An existing map of Area 4 in the general plan is under further discussion at the special Murrieta City Council meeting Tuesday, June 16, in Murrieta.

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Lexington Howe STAFF WRITER

An updated general plan presented at the special Murrieta City Council meeting Tuesday, June 16, could potentially bring thousands of homes and jobs to families in the area.

Senior planner Carl Stiebl and Brian F. Mooney, fellow of American Institute of Certified Planners, presented a general plan for the council’s consideration.

The general plan and general plan environmental impact report were last updated in July 2011, as reported by presenting staff.

This focused update included land use changes in certain areas with zoning changes, updates to specific general plan elements, a supplemental and final EIR, an updated Climate Action Plan and implementation of vehicle miles traveled.

The updates address new state legislation since 2011, economic development opportunities for the city, project streamlining and improving the overall quality of life for residents, as reported by staff.

The Base Project (also known as the draft project) There are six planning areas where there are land use changes as part of the project. Areas 1, 2 and 3 are in the southern portion of the city, and Areas 4, 5 and 6 are located in the northern and eastern portions of the city.

Area 1 This area is located south of I-15 between Madison Avenue, Monroe Avenue, Guava Street and Elm Street. This area currently has the U.S. Customs and Border Protection facility, two churches and various residences. There is also a hotel currently in process in this area.

Proposed land use map for Area 1 A proposed land use map for Area 1 includes a change to innovation, which works well, according to staff, in close proximity to the existing business park, commercial and just south of the transit-oriented development area to the north.

Area 2 For Area 2, the existing land use map is located on the east side of

I-15 south of the freeway split to the city border of Temecula along Jackson Avenue. The existing land use designations include small areas of single-family residential, multi-family residential, commercial, as well as a large area of Office Research Park with office zoning, which is a more limited zone.

This area covers The Springs Healthcare Center, Temecula Valley RV and the Murrieta Palms Mobile Home Park.

Proposed land use map for Area 2 The majority here would change to innovation, according to staff, with open space along the city owned parcels and the Warm Springs Creek, with multi-family residential for the mobile home park and commercial for the one parcel down at the border of the city of Temecula.

Area 3 Area 3 is located along Murrieta Hot Springs Road, and this site is developed with a strip commercial center and buildings that include a bank, restaurants, stores and offices.

Proposed land use map for Area 3 This is a cleanup item to change to commercial and match the way this area has developed over time.

Area 4 This area is a large area in the northern part of the city along Whitewood Road and Clinton Keith Road. The area is developed with some industrial and storagetype uses, rural residential and large lot land use designated areas.

The majority of this area, other than what’s near the freeway is located within the Eastern Municipal Water District. The area that has ORP has an encompassed health facility and grading for future medical office development that’s currently in process along the I-215.

Proposed land use map for Area 4 This area would significantly remove the existing ORP from the area, an innovation area south of Baxter Road on both sides of Whitewood Road, with adjacent workforce housing, both multi-family housing and singlefamily located in close proximity.

It would also change the RCA owned parcels in the southern area to open space.

There are also two alternatives in the project that provide options for how the land use in this area can be changed.

Area 5 This section is a smaller area than the adjacent area four across the I-215. This area is located north of Linnel Lane and along McElwain Road, just north of the existing Target. It’s currently completely designated ORP, it contains a few existing residences with very steep terrain to the west and north.

A hotel was also recently approved in Area 5.

Proposed land use map for Area 5 This area would remove the ORP, replace it with innovation along the freeway, also add multifamily residential for worker hous-

ing at the intersection of Linnel Lane and McElwain Road and single-family residential at the parcels with the steepest terrain to the north and west.

Area 6 Located within the Murrieta Springs Specific Plan in the eastern part of the city, this section is east of the Los Alamos area. The parcels are undeveloped land that have been acquired by RCA for conservation. Locations are adjacent to the existing open space in the Murrieta Springs Plan.

Proposed land use map for Area 6 This section is a cleanup to the area to make all the parcels open space. This helps with conservation and open space goals, including those in the general plan, and an addition matching RCA’s intended use for the properties. A subsequent amendment to clean up the Murrieta Springs Specific Plan is necessary and will be completed separately, according to staff.

Alternatives to the project Alternatives to the project are considered in the draft EIR. In consideration of alternatives as part of this process provides options to adopt a project that achieves the overall goals.

The city may choose to adopt the draft project as presented, or an alternative or parts of alternatives, given that they’ve been fully analyzed.

The alternatives primarily look at different potential considerations of land use designations in two areas.

Alternative 2 Alternative 2 offers a different arrangement of land uses in Area 4.

It would further reduce the amount of proposed innovation in area four from the draft plan, with more multi-family residential instead.

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Local Murrieta’s improved ISO ratings lead to savings for businesses and residents Kim Harris MANAGING EDITOR

The city of Murrieta recently announced its improved Insurance Services Office’s rating, moving up from a Class 4 to a Class 3 on the group’s Public Protection Classification Scale. For most, it appears that the ratings reflect only how well a fire department performs its job, but an improved Public Protection Classification, also referred to as an ISO rating, can actually save businesses and residents money in insurance premiums.

“ISO ratings are a reflection of your department’s ability to prevent and suppress fires,” Murrieta Fire & Rescue Chief David Lantzer said. “It’s another measuring stick, not as comprehensive as accreditation, but a measuring stick that is still specific to your department’s suppression and prevention capabilities. It’s something for the public to see how well the department is performing.”

Murrieta’s move from a Class 4 to a Class 3 will likely translate to lower insurance premiums for many, but businesses will see the biggest savings, Lantzer said.

“Many insurance companies utilize ISO ratings as a risk assessment tool to determine insurance rates,” he said. “They use that in their calculations for insurance for business and residential property owners, but the commercial property owners should see the

most benefits from the lower ISO rating.”

According to the Insurance Services Office website, to determine the PPC, the Fire Suppression Rating Schedule is utilized to “grade” each fire department and its performance before issuing the classification.

The FSRS looks primarily at three areas, emergency communications, fire department – including operational considerations – and water supply. In addition, the FSRS also includes a Community Risk Reduction section that recognizes community efforts to reduce losses through fire prevention, public fire safety education and fire investigation.

Murrieta Fire & Rescue is one of only two internationally accredited fire departments in Riverside County. The accreditation was helpful for the department which had to meet certain criteria to receive that accreditation by The Commission on Fire Accreditation International, Lantzer said.

“It was that process that actually helped us with that ISO rating,” he said. “We used that accreditation process where they look at every aspect of a fire department and so our focus was getting that accreditation which we obtained in 2018.”

Lantzer said it was during the accreditation process that the department, then under the leadership of former city Fire Chief Scott Ferguson, discovered some shortcomings that were corrected.

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Those corrections not only assisted the department to obtain the international accreditation, but also assisted in raising the ISO rating.

“It was that process that drove all the improvements we made because part of that process is a thorough and in-depth selfassessment of the organization,” he said. “That model helps you to ask the right questions and to highlight areas where you may be falling a little short.”

Lantzer said it was expected that ISO rating would improve since the department focused on the areas where there were shortcomings in the self-assessment portion of the accreditation process.

One of the main improvements made by the city that helped to improve the department’s ISO rating was in regard to training, Lantzer said.

“The biggest things that pushed us over the hump into Class 3 were our training and community risk reduction,” he said. “Both the training program and our community risk reduction programs were either non-staffed or staffed inadequately as we were still trying to get out of the recession since those were underfunded.

To mitigate those issues, Lantzer said that the department assigned a training captain in the training division who created a training program from scratch, totally revamping what Murrieta Fire & Rescue had been doing.

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marshal who has done the same thing for community risk reduction,” he said, adding that the city now has five fire inspector positions, something it was lacking in before the self-assessment.

“To say that we were not getting out to do annual inspections or state mandated inspections is not the issue,” he said. “We were not getting out at all. So now we have a staff for community risk reduction, we still have a couple of positions that we will fill later this year.”

Lantzer said those improvements made all the difference in moving from a Class 4 to a Class 3 ISO rating.

“It was really that simple, we were just under resourced,” he said.

According to Lantzer, while the department has improved its ISO rating, there is still work to be done.

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The process of improving Murrieta Fire & Rescue’s ISO rating was really a team effort, Lantzer said, as he gave credit to Ferguson.

“This doesn’t just happen out of the blue; it takes a team and we have a great team here,” he said.

“I also want to give credit to Chief Scott Ferguson who I worked under. We began talking to ISO years ago and began working together on the accreditation piece that helped us with ISO, so he deserves credit as well.”

Bottom line for Lantzer is that the community understands how Murrieta Fire & Rescue strives to provide the city it serves with the best fire protection and prevention it possibly can.

“I hope that this brings some comfort to the public, that they see we are working hard toward providing them the best service, but we are still working hard to do even better,” Lantzer said.

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

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Local Local restaurants close shortly after reopening

some staff members tested positive for COVID-19. The decision was made, they said, to keep their staff and guests safe.

Before reopening earlier this month, 1909 Temecula put new procedures in place to keep both staff and guests safe during the pandemic. Unfortunately, one of their staff members contracted the virus shortly after. The restaurant has continued to update their guests on social media in regards to who may

be at risk and what will be implemented before opening to the public.

“Maintaining a safe, enjoyable establishment is our top priority and we’ll be focusing on this situation over the next couple of days by immediately bringing in a professional sanitation crew to disinfect our building, and providing all of our staff members with rapid-result COVID tests to ensure they are healthy,” 1909 Temecula said. “Any staff members who test positive

will be given paid leave while they quarantine.”

1909 Temecula made the decision to temporarily close Thursday, June 18.

Shortly after 1909 Temecula closed, Luke’s on Front made the decision to temporarily close to ensure safety of their staff members and customers. While they are allowed to reopen their dining area, they are taking precautionary measures to follow Centers of Disease Control and Prevention guidelines.

“We have personally taken all of our staff to be tested to continue our efforts in COVID safety,” Luke’s on Front said on their website. “Out of abundance of caution for our valued guests and staff members we will be temporarily closing.”

Both guests and staff members appreciate their efforts to keep them safe.

“I feel so safe working for a company like this,” Savannah Shaffer, an employee at Luke’s on Front, said.

Luke’s on Front made the decision to close temporarily Friday, June 19, to better prepare for a dine-in experience after months of offering strictly takeout.

On Saturday, June 20, The Shamrock Irish Pub & Eatery was informed that one of their

Alternative 3 There are different arrangements for land uses in Area 2 and Area 4. Alternative 3 replaces the proposed innovation in Area 2 with commercial.

In Area 4, this alternative replaces innovation southwest of Baxter Road and west of Whitewood Road with multi-family, creating more of an L-shaped, smaller innovation area.

This alternative also adds two small areas of commercial at the northeast and southeast corner of Clinton Keith Road and Whitewood Road. Comments were also received in support of the alternative from public review.

The council can choose between the draft land use map or these alternatives. Alternatives 2 and 3 then are changes to the base project.

The project also includes a water study. It also included public work-

shops and public review. Twenty-six comments were received during the time period for public review, in which many supported Alternative 2.

Some comments from staff came with concern about losing innovation to make room for more housing.

Before a motion was made, Mayor Gene Wunderlich gave one final comment.

“I very much want to thank the city for an excellent job of updating this and providing a very comprehensive plan,” Wunderlich said. “The concept of innovation districts didn’t even really exist the last time we did a general plan update, so this is all new, it’s spreading like wildfire across the country because it is so flexible and allows so many different uses.

“The focus really is very friendly, integrated communities that incorporate a mix of housing and the office

design and these and so forth with sufficient landscaping and hopefully an attraction for what we focus on here as a city, new business startups, business incubators as well as some well-known anchors in some of these tenant buildings,” Wunderlich said.

A motion was made to adopt the recommendation by staff for the resolutions that were outlined in their report, for the first reading of the ordinance as outlined in staff recommendation, and that council adopts the map that is Alternative 2 with the addition of the multi-family in the corner at Baxter Road and Whitewood Road.

The motion made by Councilmember Kelly Seyarto included the innovation in Area 2, with concern for the direction that commercial property is going in.

“The innovation area is able to cap-

The patio at 1909 Temecula in Old Town sits empty as the restaurant closed its doors indefinitely due to an Valley News/Shane Gibson photo employee being diagnosed with COVID-19.

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After a brief reopening, The Shamrock Irish Pub & Eatery on Winchester Road in Murrieta closed its doors, shortly after two popular Temecula eateries did the same, all due to staff members testing positive for COVID-19.

1909 Temecula and Luke’s on Front in Old Town also made the decision to close after learning that MURRIETA from page A-8 and south of Baxter Road, except for the innovation area around the recently developed encompassed health facility along Whitewood Road.

The parcel at the southeast corner of Clinton Keith Road and Whitewood Road in this alternative also changes from single-family to multifamily. According to staff, this creates more of a corridor running north to south of multi-family along the east side of Whitewood Road, but still provides a large innovation area.

Staff reported that they received a number of comments during public review in support of this alternative.

The planning commission’s recommendation was to adopt this alternative based on their deliberations and the public comment.

staff members tested positive for COVID-19. Since receiving news, Shamrock owners has been working closely with the Riverside County Health Department to ensure everyone’s safety.

“Our small team of staff are the backbone of The Shamrock and we want to make sure that they are all tested and fit and healthy before we open our doors again,” The Shamrock Irish Pub & Eatery said in a Facebook post. “After the forced closure during lock-down this is the last thing we wanted to do but we feel that we must act responsibly as a business to all our staff and customers.”

The Shamrock Irish Pub & Eatery made the decision to close Saturday, June 19, immediately after receiving the news of a staff member contracting COVID-19. They are continuing to monitor the situation.

While life is beginning to get back to normal, it is important to practice safety measures recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Social distancing, frequent handwashing and wearing face coverings are some ways to prevent the spread, according to the CDC. Samantha Cox can be reached by email at valleystaff@reedermedia. com. ture a lot of what would normally be, maybe commercial, retail,” Seyarto said. “I think it provides the flexibility we needed for that particular parcel.

There’s so much competition and dwindling demand for commercial, and I want to make sure that, at least in the next few years because I look forward to seeing how this plays out for our community, so for that area I’m still fine with the innovation.”

The motion passed unanimously.

To see the maps of each area, learn more about the Innovation Land Use, updates in state legislation affecting the general plan proposed project, or the agenda items of the June 16 meeting, visit http://onbase.murrietaca. gov/onbaseagendaonline and click on the 2 p.m. ‘City Council Special Meeting’ link for June 16.

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

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California Ranch Company hosts private Outback Cutting event

Riders descend upon the California Ranch Company in Temecula for the Outback Cuttings competition, June 18-21.

Valley News/Shane Gibson photos

Horse cutting riders compete at the California Ranch Company in Temecula during a cutting event hosted by Outback Cuttings. The objective of the cutting horse consists of separating a single cow from a herd while the rider and horse continue to prevent the cow from getting back to the herd in a period of time.

A rider begins working her horse during a horse cutting competition at the California Ranch Company in Temecula.

Riders warm up their horses before entering the pens to compete in the Outback Cutting competition at the California Ranch Company in Temecula.

A rider and cutting horse works at preventing a cow from getting back to the herd during the Outback Cuttings competition at the California Ranch Company in Temecula.

A rider attempts to separate a cow from the herd during a horse cutting event at the California Ranch Company in Temecula.

Dozens of horse cutting riders from all skill levels gather for the Outback Cuttings competition at the California Ranch Company in Temecula.

Jeff Pack STAFF WRITER

Bob Brown, the new owner of California Ranch Company in Temecula, sat in the bleachers Saturday, June 20, to watch the competition happening in front of him for the first time in several days.

Before Saturday, Brown was running around the sprawling ranch making sure the sold-out Outback Cuttings event which began two days earlier and ran through Sunday was running smoothly and the participants were happy.

Brown was thrilled to see it all coming together nicely and to see the animals competing.

“It’s a livestock exhibition show, and in a sense, horses can’t exercise themselves, they can’t care for or feed themselves,” Brown said.

“These are performance horses, so they have to be worked. What we’re here to do is make sure that they stay, like athletes, in the best shape that they possibly can. And that’s what we’re about – taking care of the animals.”

The event was not open to the public for spectating, but competitors from all around came out to the ranch for the cutting event.

“We’re blessed in a lot of ways and we had a good turnout,” Brown said. “People want to get their horses out. When you have 53 acres you have an ability to social distance and do the things that horses need to do – get out and get exercise. We have cattle that have to get moved and worked. It was kind of a perfect world. There’s nothing better than being here in Temecula to do that. Everything has gone well so far. Everyone’s good. And practicing all those things that we’re supposed to do.

“We’re in different times, you just have to be

cautious about all those things. (COVID-19) is real,” he said.

Brown said that hosting events like this on his property is important to him and important to the area.

“You’ve got the wine country and we’ve got, I think 47, 48 wineries out here,” he said.

“And none of it would be here, but for cattle, ranchers and horses from cowboys. What we want to do, and it’s really important to us, is to keep that heritage alive.

“Rancho Temecula, the original ranch down here, had some of the old wagons and some equipment and things that we were able to keep and have here on the ranch. We have Heritage Park and we have a 53-acre ranch, and it’s a community equestrian ranch. That’s what it’s for. It’s for the wine country, equestrians zoning and everything that we were about.

What we want to represent is the lifestyle to keep it alive. Western heritage and Western culture and horses and cattle,” he said.

During the four days, there were classes and workshops, live music on an outdoor stage as well as wines and beers by Chapin Family Winery and catering by Johnson Catering and Events.

“That’s very important to my wife and me and my family to embrace and host these events,” Brown said. “We hope as time goes on that we can do more and be more open and public. We want to invite all the wineries and all the people and everybody around and have them come here and enjoy and see a piece of history, living history with cattle and livestock and horses and cowboys. That’s what the California Ranch Company is all about.”

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

[Left] A rider successfully prevents a cow from getting back to the herd during the horse cutting event at the California Ranch Company in Temecula.

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Entertainment this week: masks now required, Fourth of July and live music lineup Lexington Howe STAFF WRITER

As a reminder, Fourth of July fireworks have been canceled for both Temecula and Murrieta due to the coronavirus pandemic; however, Menifee will host an Independence Day Celebration with fireworks while maintaining social distancing at 9 p.m. Saturday, June 27. The parking lot at Mt. San Jacinto College, 28237 La Piedra Road, in Menifee will open at 7 p.m. and spaces are first come, first serve. Parking is free – the event will be hosted in drive-in style.

For more information, visit http://www.cityofmenifee.us.

As of Thursday, June 18, face masks are now mandatory in all public places. Don’t forget to wear a mask while out and about this week. Here’s the weekly entertainment roundup for June 28 to July 5: Lake Elsinore Storm is hosting a Father’s Day experience.

On Sunday, June 28, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Lake Elsinore Storm is hosting a one-of-a-kind family experience. “Reserve Dad a Spot on the Storm Roster” is

an open event with limited availability which will include batting practice on the field, lunch for the family, a Storm hat, a hair trim and beard shave provided by Major League Barbers, a locker-room experience and a coupon for a free round of golf at The Links at Summerly and more. Tickets are $195.

For more information, visit https://www.diamondtaproom. com/collections/fathers-day.

Lake Elsinore Storm’s Fourth of July Barbecue Bash Lake Elsinore Storm has partnered with California Highway Patrol to create a dinner, fireworks and movie event for the Fourth of July. Dinner is included: barbecue chicken and beef brisket, served with coleslaw, macaroni and cheese, corn and a roll. Fireworks will be launched from the T-Peninsula at the Levy, behind the dining area. They’ll also be showing Marvel’s “Captain America: The First Avenger.” Local live music is to be announced. Tickets start at $125 per table.

For more information, visit http://diamondtaproom.com.

Old Town Blues Club Live entertainment: Come out and see Casey Hensley live at the Old Town Blues Club in Temecula Old Town.

Show starts at 1:30 p.m., Sunday, June 28.

The 44s live at 7:30 p.m., Thursday, July 2.

Tralaine Roslyn debuts at OTBC at 4:30 p.m., Friday, July 3.

JD Priest live at 9 p.m., Friday, July 3.

Travis Daggett live at 4:30 p.m., Saturday, July 4.

Len Rainey and The Midnight Players live at 9 p.m., Saturday, July 4.

“Wake up Maggie,” a “Rod Stewart” Tribute Show live at 1:30 p.m., Sunday, July 5.

For tickets and more information, visit http://www.oldtownbluesclub.com.

Karaoke nights at Old Town Pub in Temecula Starting June 18, join in karaoke nights every Sunday through Thursday night starting at 7 p.m. until closing time. Old Town Pub is located at 28677 Old Town Front Street, in Temecula.

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https://www.facebook.com/OldTownPubandGrub.

Bel Vino Winery Live entertainment: Monty Seward live at Bel Vino Sunday, June 28, from noon to 4 p.m.

Pro City DJ is featured July 4 from noon to 4 p.m.

The Get Down Party performs July 5 from noon to 4 p.m.

Europa Village Live entertainment: Dustin Jake will perform at C’est La Vie Sunday, June 28, at 1 p.m., and his music is a mix of pop, jazz, acoustic-soul and hip-hop.

Spanish guitarist Vadim Brunell will be performing in La Plaza at Bolero, Sunday, June 28, at 1 p.m.

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

Peltzer Family Movie Night On July 3, come visit Peltzer Winery in Temecula’s Wine Country for a night out from 6-9 p.m.

Watch Disney’s “Zootopia” and kick off the Fourth of July weekend. They will also have a painting

booth by Pretty Paints available from 6-8 p.m. Popcorn and snacks will be available for purchase, and food trucks are to be announced.

To keep up to date on the event, visit https://www.facebook.com/ events/902535446870856.

Virtual event for Fourth of July – City of Temecula While Temecula has canceled their annual in-person fireworks show due to the coronavirus pandemic, the Community Service Department will host an online concert by the Mighty Untouchables at 8 p.m. on their Facebook page, TemeculaParksAndRec. Following the concert, they’ll have a virtual firework show at 9 p.m., and will also have a list of activities, recipes and playlists to take part in at home.

For more information, visit https://temeculaca.gov/1087/4thof-July-Extravaganza.

For more information on the band, visit http://mightyuntouchablesband.com.

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

Soboba hotel welcomes guests once again Mike Hiles SPECIAL TO VALLEY NEWS

Michelle Woodfin from Soboba Casino Resort hotel services shows one of the wellness kits that each guest receives upon check-in. It contains hand sanitizer and face masks.

Valley News/Soboba Band of Luiseño Indians photo

The 200-room hotel at the Soboba Casino Resort is open once again with some adjustments to its previous practices. Staff is developing a timeline to gradually increase the occupancy levels as things change in the guidance procedures they are closely following. Reservations are steady as the hotel operates at 50% capacity for now with a full reopening anticipated for the nottoo-distant future.

The casino has seen a steady stream of guests since it reopened May 27, and hotel director Grant Hirata said many were asking when the hotel would be open again. Soboba Springs Golf Course was given the go-ahead to reopen April 25 and has experienced sold-out tee times every day since.

Michelle Woodfin, who has been the front office manager since the hotel was built, said that due to the coronavirus pandemic, there have been some necessary changes to the hotel experience, but she expected guests will still enjoy the lush accommodations and great customer service that are offered.

“We have temporarily discontin-

ued services that require our staff to enter a guest’s room after the guest has checked in; these include stayover/turndown services from housekeeping,” she said. “Maintenance will only do room repairs after guests have departed and inroom dining and bell attendants will not be entering the rooms to make deliveries.”

Additional precautions being taken include the removal of certain amenities from the room and making them available upon request only, keeping rooms vacant for 24 hours after departure before disinfecting the rooms, and rooms being sealed after they have been disinfected to reassure the guest that no one has entered the room since the disinfection was completed.

Front desk attendants are disinfecting the counters and credit card readers between each guest. They also disinfect all returned keys. All guests are having their temperature checked upon arrival, as is the case at the casino entrances. Anyone who exhibits a fever of 100.4 degrees or higher can cool off and try again, but if their temperature does not fall within the allowed variance at that time, they will be asked to leave.

In the weeks leading up to the

hotel’s reopening, much was done to deep clean all the rooms and common areas of the resort. During the closure all rooms were treated with an electrostatic treatment, thoroughly sanitizing all rooms and public areas of the resort. All rooms had their amenities removed and either translated into a digital version or sanitized and individually bagged. Once sanitized, all rooms were sealed with a tamper evident seal showing the room has been sanitized and the date of sanitization.

The hotel employed approximately 250 workers before the shutdown, and Woodfin said all employees have been contacted to return to their previous positions.

“We are looking to hire more team members as the COVID-19 changes we have made provide new opportunities for additional roles to be filled,” Woodfin said. “We are still hospitality focused, just with extra precautions to ensure the safety of our guests and our team.”

For more information or to make reservations to “Stay and Play,” visit http://www.soboba.com or call 951665-1000 or 866-476-2622. The Soboba Casino Resort is at 22777 Soboba Road in San Jacinto.

searching @ValleyWideRec. For more information, visit https://www.gorecreation.org.

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

Local fireworks shows go on Kim Harris MANAGING EDITOR

With the outbreak of COVID-19 many local fireworks shows have been canceled, but for those who cannot or who do not want to watch fireworks among throngs of people, Menifee, Lake Elsinore and Valley-Wide Recreation and Park District might have the perfect solutions.

In Menifee, a drive-in style fireworks show will be held at Mt. San Jacinto College, 28237 La Piedra Road, Saturday, June 27, and will offer the opportunity of live fireworks viewing from the college parking lot.

Parking is first come, first served with the lot opening at 6 p.m. for loading and will close at 8:30 p.m. Only standard-sized vehicles will be allowed, no RVs, trailers or buses. Staff will be on hand to direct parking so those who are going in more than one vehicle should arrive together as spaces cannot be held for others.

Once inside the parking lot, exiting will not be allowed and for those who do exit, they will not be guaranteed a space upon their return.

Those in attendance will be allowed to utilize the empty parking space next to their vehicles for chairs, blankets and tables but should remain in their designated space and only leave to utilize restrooms, according to a city of Menifee news release.

Folding chairs, coolers and outside food and beverages are allowed at the event. Tents and canopies, alcohol, grills and open flames, pets – aside from service animals – glass bottles, weapons or items that can be used as weap-

ons, smoking or vaping of any kind of product, illegal substances or drug paraphernalia and laser pointers or focused light devices, are all banned.

Walk-ups and bicycles will not be allowed at the show, and all parking spaces will be Americans with Disabilities Act compliant and available throughout the event.

For more information on the Menifee Fireworks show, call Menifee Community Services at 951-723-3880.

Lake Elsinore will hold its annual Fireworks Spectacular on the city’s namesake lake July 4, at 9 p.m. and is offering a night boating pass for those wishing to watch the fireworks from the lake. A $100 package offered by the city includes launching, day lake use and the night lake pass. To obtain a pass, visit Launch Pointe at 32040 Riverside Drive in Lake Elsinore, call 951-471-1212 from 7 a.m. to dusk or visit http://www. lake-elsinore.org.

The Fireworks Spectacular will be paired with a sky concert on KOLA-FM 99.9. Free viewing areas include Lakepoint Park, Summerly Park, Whiskers Fishing Beach, Swick & Matich Park and a portion of the levee. Those watching from any of these locations should follow all local social distancing requirements and wear a mask as mandated by the Gov. Gavin Newsom.

For more information on Lake Elsinore’s Fireworks Spectacular, visit http://www.lake-elsinore.org.

For those looking to enjoy fireworks from the comfort of their own home, Valley-Wide Recreation and Park District will livestream its annual fireworks show.

Scheduled for July 4 at 8:30 p.m. viewers can visit Valley-Wide’s Facebook or Instagram page by

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Entertainment Ramona Bowl sets fundraising goal Diane A. Rhodes WRITER

The mandatory cancellation of the “Ramona” Outdoor Play at Hemet’s historic Ramona Bowl Amphitheater in March did more than disappoint fans and volunteers who were looking forward to the 97th season of the perennial play and all the pageantry that comes with it.

“The revenue we receive from those six performances fund the rest of the year’s programs at the Bowl,” Past President Lori VanArsdale said. “We use the funding to support our Summer Concert Series, Summer Youth Theater, four high school graduation ceremonies, our Halloween Boo at the Bowl program and more. So basically, how goes ‘Ramona’ is how goes the Bowl.”

Once the coronavirus pandemic forced people to stay at home and all public gatherings had to be halted, it became evident that businesses, nonprofits, schools and entertainment venues would have to resort to Plan B or even Plans C and D to stay afloat during the shutdown.

“We are fortunate that the legacy gift bestowed upon the Ramona Bowl last fall has gone a long way in helping us make capital improvements to the venue but our funds for general operations are seriously hurting,” VanArsdale said. “We recently found out that because of our unexpected loss of revenue, funds from the James and Marilyn Latham Trust have been extended to include the matching of any donations we receive right now. Every single dollar raised will be doubled, which will help us survive and be ready for next year’s play.”

She said that raising $60,000 to $75,000 in pure donations now will help fund general operations such as maintenance and utilities which are costly for 160 acres that are home to 97-year-old structures.

“We are fortunate we do not have a mortgage or rent, but there

An artist’s rendering shows the proposed courtyard at the Ramona Bowl Amphitheater that is currently being renovated through use of allocated capital improvement funds.

is always something that needs to be done,” VanArsdale said. “And at this point we still don’t know when we can get started planning future events.”

Many capital improvement projects were implemented to be completed by spring whereas others were to be done after graduations were held at the bowl. The timeline was altered when those events were shut down. The board of directors said they were thankful that construction was not interrupted during this period.

Ramona Bowl president Stacey Bailey said the museum has been updated and a new gift shop has been built. The courtyard and south end of the parking lot are getting a facelift and the offices have been completely redone.

“We created a special room for brides or the young lady having her quinceañera,” Bailey said.

“As soon as we are allowed to, we are going to be having some really fun and creative activities.”

Restoration of a fresco that was created by renowned Southern California watercolorist Milford Zornes was recently completed, also thanks to funds from the James and Marilyn Latham Trust.

“Ironically, Zornes finished the fresco in 1942, which is the last time we couldn’t have the play because of World War II,

and now that it has been fully restored, we had to cancel the play again,” VanArsdale said.

“We look forward to reopening and having a celebration of this amazing work of art which is such a beautiful tribute to the artistry and pageantry that is ‘Ramona.’”

Located in the south hills of Hemet, the Ramona Bowl Amphitheater is home to “Ramona,” America’s longest-running outdoor play. According to its website, the amphitheater, with its acoustical attributes and beautiful mountain views, was discovered in 1922 by playwright Garnet Holme. He found the perfect location to produce his work and in 1923 people came from miles around to see the first production of “Ramona” in what is now known as the Ramona Bowl Amphitheater.

The purpose of the community nonprofit organization is to ensure the annual presentation of California’s Official Outdoor Play, contribute to tourism and continuing educational programs that promote the arts, California history, national humanity efforts and Native American history with quality outdoor theater entertainment.

For more information, visit http://www.ramonabowl.com or call 951-658-3111 or 800-645-

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Protesters clean graffiti from vandalized Black Angus restaurant Will Fritz ASSOCIATE EDITOR

Erin Meader had just driven by her restaurant the night before when she got the message.

Meader, the manager of the Black Angus at Rancho California and Ynez roads in Temecula, said she still drives by the restaurant regularly even though it remains closed amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

When she went by Saturday, June 13, everything was fine, she said.

On Sunday morning, one of her employees messaged her with pictures of graffiti scrawled on the side of the building. And not just any side – the two walls with graffiti were on the side of the restaurant most visible to thousands of drivers passing by each day through one of Temecula’s busiest intersections.

And it wasn’t just any graffiti, either. One of the vandalized walls spelled out “RIP Floyd BLM!” – phrasing that immediately cast

suspicion toward Black Lives Matter protesters who had been out at the corner of Rancho California and Ynez roads almost every day, since May 30.

“I immediately drove out there to ensure there was no other damage to the building,” Meader said.

“I contacted my facilities and my boss … The police were already there when I got there; they just took an incident report. Then the Temecula Code Enforcement called me and told me we had 36 hours to have the graffiti removed, and so we were planning on having it painted.”

Meader said she was at first very upset to find the graffiti.

“Even if it’s not my personal property, I work 50 hours a week and that’s my baby, and I’m a single mom and Black Angus have been amazing employers,” she said. “I started as a food server and now I’m a general manager, so I have a lot of love – I love this company, and I just have a lot of gratitude. I do take my job very seriously, so just seeing (the res-

taurant) hurt like that, and on that major intersection, just how bad it was, and in Temecula, it’s such a great community…”

Meader wasn’t the only one who was upset. Images of the graffiti from various passing motorists were shared to local Facebook groups, and many commenters decried the vandalism.

But after Meader left, something happened that she didn’t expect, she said.

“I got a phone call from one of the managers at Chili’s across the street, and she told me the Black Lives Matter group found out what happened to the building, and there was about 20 people out there cleaning the building,” Meader said.

An organizer of the Black Lives Matter demonstrations in Temecula said his group had nothing to do with the graffiti, but helped clean it up anyway.

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

Erin Meader, second from right, general manager of Black Angus’ Temecula restaurant, poses with members of the group that organized anti-police brutality protests in Temecula who cleaned walls of her restaurant that were vandalized.

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The Temecula Valley Chamber of Commerce has been offering the Chamber Catalyst Webinar Series – Resources for Businesses Navigating COVID-19 to help member businesses continue to grow during the coronavirus pandemic.

The series, presented with Inland Empire Small Business Development Center, Small Business Administration, IECE, city of Temecula and California State University San Bernardino, consisted of four sessions touching on a variety of topics in the digital space during the month of June.

Topics included: “Importance of Establishing a Digital Footprint,” “Selecting your own E-Commerce platform and building it” and another on selling with social media channels.

The final session in the series will take place Wednesday, July 1. All of the webinars are free for chamber members.

Session 4, from 11 a.m. to noon, July 1, is titled, “Choosing the best platform for your business.”

In the session, they will discuss e-commerce platforms such as Etsy, eBay, Amazon and Facebook Marketplaces and which is the best fit for each individual business.

To register for the event, visit

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According to Brooke Nunn, events director for the chamber of commerce, it was important to collaborate with other entities to give chamber members information with which they can grow their businesses.

“The Temecula Valley Chamber of Commerce hosts educational classes to equip the business community with tools to succeed,” Nunn said. “We have customized the content with small businesses in mind who need the knowledge and ideas to innovate their business during these challenging times. The TVCC is determined to be a constant source of support, information and connection for our valley’s businesses.

“The content and topic of these webinars were thoughtfully selected through the needs of our businesses. The SBDC reviewed our training outline to provide experienced speakers to present,” she said.

Nunn said the webinars have been well attended so far.

“These webinars have been attended by 60-80 people,” Nunn said. “Some of the feedback we have received is about the wellinformed speakers and how the useful content is presented in an easy to understand manner. The presenters have done an excellent job of answering all questions during the webinar and we provide their contact information for further questions.”

Given the current climate of local business, Nunn was asked whether these types of webinar offerings will continue in the future.

“In the last few months, many things have changed,” she said.

“We are adapting to our members’ needs and want to do so in a safe manner. It’s very likely that we will continue to produce virtual events for those who aren’t able to attend in-person trainings, once they resume.”

For more information on the Temecula Valley Chamber of Commerce, visit http://www. temecula.org.

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

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The program awards eligible businesses $1,500 to $5,000 in grants to assist with the impacts of the coronavirus pandemic.

The city is utilizing the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Community Development Block Grant – Coronavirus funding to establish the grant program. Menifee City Council approved the allocation of funds at the June 17 regular scheduled meeting. This program has been created in partnership with city’s Economic Development and the Community Development Departments in a collaborative effort to assist local Menifee businesses with working capital to support jobs, keep businesses open, maintain lease payments and purchase personal protective equipment as required by state guidelines.

Applications will be accepted until July 2 at 4 p.m. Grants will be made available for a maximum of $5,000 and a minimum of $1,500 for eligible expenses through a lottery process. Menifee encouraged eligible businesses to apply, see the list of eligibility, eligible expenses and required documentation that are provided in the Menifee Cares Grant Guide at https://www.menifeebusiness. com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/ Menifee_GrantProgram_8.5x11_ Flyer_Final_Web.pdf.

Visit https://www.menifeebusiness.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Menifee-SBP-App. pdf for an application.

For more information about the Menifee Cares Grant Program, or Menifee CARES Initiative for businesses, visit https://www. menifeebusiness.com/menifeecares-2/benefits-for- businesses or contact the Economic Development at 951-723-3711 or email econdev@cityofmenifee.us.

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EMWD approves new equipment replacements Sustainability Agency for highpriority and medium-priority basins

by June 2017 and to develop plans to achieve long-term groundwater sustainability by January 2022.

In 2017, the Eastern Municipal Water District became the GSA for the West San Jacinto Groundwater Basin. As the GSA for the West San Jacinto Groundwater Basin, EMWD is responsible for managing groundwater quality. The Perris II Reverse Osmosis Treatment Facility is being implemented to reduce concentrations of total dissolved solids, nitrate and perchlorate in portions of the Perris South and Lakeview groundwater management zones. The treatment facility will also increase groundwater production in the Perris South Zone, which will reduce dependence on imported water and provide a more drought-resistant supply.

The reverse osmosis treatment facility monitoring and reporting plan includes the use of testing devices for physical conditions along with analytical sampling for water quality profiling. The monitoring equipment will establish 2020 baseline conditions and will continue to be utilized for the 20-year expected service life of the treatment facility.

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Joe Naiman WRITER

The June 17 meeting of the Eastern Municipal Water District included approving the purchase of groundwater monitoring equipment for the West San Jacinto Basin, approving a consultant contract for the final design of the Hemet Water Filtration Plant sodium hypochlorite tank replacement and awarding Pacific Hydrotech Corporation a contract to replace the booster engines at the Pat Road facility.

The votes to purchase the groundwater monitoring equipment and to approve the consultant contract with Kleinfelder Inc. for the tank replacement design were 5-0. Due to a professional conflict of interest Stephen Corona recused himself on the vote for the Pacific Hydrotech contract, so that margin of passage was 4-0.

Former Gov. Jerry Brown signed the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act into law in September 2014; the purpose of the SGMA is to promote sustainable management of the state’s groundwater basins. The state’s Department of Water Resources designated basins throughout California as high, medium, low or very low priority and the SGMA required local agencies to form a Groundwater

match of $390,000, and $328,600 of that state grant was allocated solely to purchase monitoring equipment.

The June 17 action covers the purchase of the sampling equipment and appropriated $153,000 of that grant funding for the purchase.

The Hemet Water Filtration Plant at Kirby Street and Commonwealth Avenue was built in 2006 and utilizes ultrafiltration to treat raw water. The plant has a capacity of 12 million gallons per day of potable water. The filtration plant includes two 7,000-gallon fiberglass reinforced plastic tanks which store sodium hypochlorite.

EMWD staff noticed a leak in one of the tanks in 2017 and the district solicited repairs, but approximately six months after that repair work leaks reappeared. The contractor repaired those leaks, but after the one-year warranty period expired the leaks reoccurred and the other tank has also begun to leak. Both tanks were taken offline and a temporary third tank was installed to store the sodium hypochlorite.

In June 2019, EMWD approved an agreement with Kleinfelder to investigate options for access to replace the tanks, and after reviewing the report district staff proposed installing the new tanks without making structure modifications.

The final design contract with

Kleinfelder, which will be a $76,263 expense for EMWD, will include design, installation method specifications and the removal and reinstallation of existing conduits, plumbing and ducting. The total $104,300 appropriation approved June 17 also covers in-house labor and materials for the design and the construction contract bid process.

The Pat Road booster station near the French Valley intersection of Pat Road and Leon Road conveys water north to the 1627 pressure zone. It was built in 1992 and has a capacity of 40,000 gallons per minute. The facility has four large pumps.

Two of those pumps currently utilize gas engines while the other two have electric engines. The gas engines are now obsolete and are no longer supported by the manufacturer. In July 2017 the district approved a hydraulic study contract with West Yost Consultants to address operating scenarios, and in January 2018 a contract with Krieger and Stewart to assist with project planning and preliminary design was approved. An April 2018 agreement with Krieger and Stewart evaluated how the noise generated by the facility would impact planned residential development nearby, and a December 2018 contract amendment added a lifecycle cost analysis to evaluate whether

gas or electric motors should be used. The existing 900 horsepower lean burn natural gas engines will be replaced with 814 horsepower rich burn natural gas engines. A final design agreement with Krieger and Stewart to prepare bid documents for the engine replacement, a new emergency generator and noise mitigation measures was approved in June 2019.

Four bids were received by the June 3 deadline. Pacific Hydrotech, which is headquartered in Perris, had the low bid of $4,487,032.75.

GSE Construction Company of Livermore had the second-lowest bid at $4,499,000.00. All four bids were below the engineer’s estimate of $5,169,000.

The approved appropriation June 17 was $5,985,700, which covers a $627,000 engineering support contract with Krieger and Stewart, internal labor expenses, soils work, an asbestos survey and a contingency amount as well as the $4,487,032.75 construction contract.

Completion of the engine replacement is expected to begin in mid-July and be complete in October 2021.

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

Most of us should fear death and probate, not death and taxes pockets of lawyers.

There is a misnomer that the government stands in the loot line as well, ready to pillage the decedent’s estate by way of what is commonly known as the death tax. In truth and fact, it’s not death and taxes most of us should be worrying about but death and probate. In large part this is due to a very friendly and favorable federal exemption which shields most estates from taxation.

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The result was so harsh and unfair that President George Bush orchestrated the passage of a massive tax reform relief package in 2001 which dramatically raised the federal exemption over time, to levels exceeding five million dollars per individual. The Tax Cuts & Jobs Act of 2017 went even further and

doubled the federal exemption to over ten million dollars per individual. California at the present time remains in line with the federal exemption.

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Whew That was close. othing gets your attention like a brush with death. refer, of co rse, to the ongoing coronavir s pandemic, which changed the world and contin es to threaten lives even as people are told the worst is behind them. s an attorne speciali ing in family trusts and wills, I can see how the coronavir s has motivated man people to think abo t their own mortalit . f there is a bright side to this mess, it’s that people are now focused on their safety, staying out of harm’s way and their famil s f t re.

I’m reminded of a day many years ago when I was in an auto dealership s waiting room, an ious to sign the closing papers on

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a new car. glanced aro nd the room and saw Randy Jones, the Hall of Fame pitcher who won man a game for the an iego adres in the s. He was there b ing a new car st like me, onl his car was wa more e pensive. ones proved to be a great person with whom to share a waiting room. He was ver cordial, ver f nn and modest to a fa lt.

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To implement the , revised its first a check rotection rogram interim final r le, which was posted pril . n anno ncement ne , e plained the new r le pdates provisions relating to loan mat rity, deferral of loan payments and

forgiveness provisions. n addition, as an e ercise of s polic discretion in f rtherance of Trump’s leadership and bipartisan s pport on criminal stice reform, the eligibility threshold for those with felony criminal histories has been changed. The look-back period has been reduced from five ears to one ear to determine eligibility for applicants, or owners of applicants, who, for non-financial felonies, have been convicted, pleaded g ilt , pleaded nolo contendere or been placed on any form of parole or probation, incl ding probation before dgment. The period remains five ears for felonies involving fra d, bribery, embez z lement or a false statement in a loan application or

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Collegiate baseball summer league gives local players big opportunities on the field JP Raineri SPORTS EDITOR

A handful of local college baseball players returned to the field recently for practices and games through the San Diego League.

The eight-team SDL includes 248 players, with a waiting list for 100 more, who have been nothing short of eager to get back to baseball.

The college baseball season was canceled March 12, along with all other NCAA spring sports, so to these players, three months seems like three years at this point.

Baseball has returned in some states – Iowa, Missouri, Oklahoma and Texas – but nearly 90% of the nation’s collegiate summer leagues were canceled this year. The SDL is uniquely positioned to play because, among other things, its games are limited to one location.

Other leagues have teams located in different cities and the cityto-city travel made things more problematic.

Also, most of the SDL’s players are San Diego natives who can live at home during the summer. Other leagues house their players with host families who may have been reluctant to bring players into their homes during the pandemic.

The San Diego League was created in 2019 and was based at California State University San Marcos to provide college baseball players a summer league option that not just utilizes but emphasizes analytics to assist in player development. It planned to return there, but the campus remains closed to activities.

Talented players from all over the country come to America’s Finest City to start, or continue, building their individual analytical profile with Blast Motion and/or Rapsodo technologies. Ultimately, and most importantly, the players learn what the numbers actually mean and how to implement them in their training. After several options around the county were considered, the SDL settled on Christian High School in El Cajon, where league officials and coaches have spent last few weeks preparing for the season to start.

As for the precautions to battle the COVID-19 pandemic?

“Players will be wearing masks where needed and a blue taped “X” every 6 feet designates where to sit inside the dugouts and down the foul lines,” Connor Little, chief operating officer of the San Diego

League, said. “We tried to talk to everybody we could for direction.

We have a list of guidelines and restrictions on our website and we will be following those guidelines to the best of our abilities as to what the government has asked us to do, so we’re doing everything they’ve asked.”

Safety protocols were sent out to all of the league’s players and coaches and are posted at the entrance to the ballpark. Thermal temperatures are taken before anyone can step on the field. Players, coaches, umpires and staff are the only people allowed at the facility tucked in a back corner of the private school’s campus and games will be played without fans.

“It’s about these kids getting back out and playing baseball again,” Little said. “The practices are good to ramp them back up correctly and keep them on the right track.”

The SDL is planning a twomonth, 30-game season, highlighted by an all-star game scheduled July 10 at Petco Park. At the end of the summer season, an individualized analytical report with the captured data is compiled for the players and their college coaches in order to review the progress made.

The focus of the SDL is improving athletically, overall development and comprehending and applying the analytics. It is not traditional summer ball where the focus is only about getting reps on the field. The front-office staff and coaches expect the athletes to immerse themselves in the entire program by going to the scheduled workout sessions, learning about Blast Motion and Rapsodo technologies and being ready to work for the entire summer season.

“This is great,” Gavin Johns, Tennessee Tech University third baseman, said. “We were all so used to just hitting in the cage and fielding where you could find dirt, so this feels normal again.”

Johns, who grew up in Temecula, played and graduated from Chaparral High School and who will be finishing up his college career with Tennessee Tech over the next year, is among about 10 local collegiate players that will be playing in the SDL through the summer months.

As rosters get updated, other local players include Peyton Maple (Great Oak; Monmouth University, 2022) and Drew Rico (Paloma

Niko Diaz, former Chaparral High School Puma and current member of the California State University San Marcos baseball team, is seen here last season playing in a San Diego League game with the Jets.

Players and coaches work together at a recent practice for collegiate athletes held by the San Diego League.

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Valley; Shoreline CC, 2023) on Team Hooks; Gavin Johns (Chaparral; Tennessee Tech, 2021) and Jonah Sebring (Great Oak; Grossmont College, 2023) on Team Jets; Stephen Rausa (Vista Murrieta, Eastern New Mexico University, 2022) and Tyler Weiner (Murrieta Valley; UC San Diego, 2023) on Team Long Boarders; Niko Diaz (Chaparral, Cal State San Marcos, 2022) and Brandon Ross (Vista Murrieta; University of Hawaii, 2022) on Team Sharks and Aiden Bruce (Chaparral, Mt. San Jacinto, 2023) on Team Wild.

With so many other leagues canceled, the SDL has seen an influx of talent. For instance, a dozen players headed for the Cape Cod League will be playing in San Diego now instead. Last year’s rosters included players from two Division I schools. More than 40 Division I schools – including San Diego State University, University of San Diego and University of California San Diego – are represented this year.

The rosters also include six players listed by D1 Baseball among the top 150 college prospects for the 2021 Major League Baseball Draft: No. 10 – Boston College pitcher Mason Pelio (Rancho Bernardo High), No. 46 – University of San Diego catcher/first baseman Caleb Ricketts, No. 106 – University of California Berkeley pitcher Grant Holman (Eastlake High), No. 116 – University of San Diego pitcher Conner Thurman, No. 126 – University of Arizona first baseman Dayton Dooney (Poway High) and No. 129 – Stanford University infielder/pitcher Brandon Dieter.

For more information on the San Diego League visit http://www. thesandiegoleague.com. If there are any players not listed here, email sports@reedermedia.com so we can update the list.

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

Thermal temperatures are part of the guidelines set by the San Diego League for college baseball players as they get underway with their summer season.

Gavin Johns, Temecula resident and Tennessee Tech University third baseman, joins a short list of local college baseball players returning to the field for practices and games through the San Diego League.

D-Bat in Temecula to host upcoming youth catchers’ camps JP Raineri SPORTS EDITOR

With youth sports on the verge of hopefully starting back up in the wake of Phase 3 of Gov. Gavin Newsom’s reopening strategy, it’s a good time to start thinking about shaking the rust off for many of those youth baseball and softball players out there. D-Bat in Temecula reopened their doors about two weeks and have restructured their operating procedures as a means to help slow the spread of COVID-19, while still giving families’ children the chance to swing a

bat and throw a ball.

“It’s exciting to be able to give the community something extracurricular to do, especially for the young softball and baseball players,” Matt Hinds, general manager of D-Bat in Temecula, said. “We are taking every step necessary to ensure the safety of our customers while they are in our facility.”

The D-Bat staff has been finding unique ways to hold camps, minimizing the number of players in groups, utilizing masks and allowing for social distancing, while still getting work in. During the month of July, every Thursday, from 4-5

p.m., the facility will be hosting catcher’s camps at $35 per player.

For those who sign up for all four sessions – July 2, 9, 16 and 23 – the price is only $100 per player.

“The camps will cover all aspects of catching,” Hinds said.

For more information on the Temecula D-Bat location, 26201 Ynez Road, Suite 103, or to sign up for camps, visit http://www. dbattemecula.com. Customers can also call (951) 386-3228 or email Matt Hinds at matthinds@dbattemecula.com.

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

D-Bat in Temecula will offer catchers’ camps during the month of July, every Thursday, from 4-5 p.m.

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CIF Southern Section fall sports divisional playoff groupings

Four Southwestern League cross-country teams find themselves in the Division 1 playoff groupings this fall.

Both Temecula Valley and Chaparral high schools will join three other Southwestern League schools in the Division 1/Division 2 girls’ volleyball playoff groupings for the 2020-2021 school year.

JP Raineri SPORTS EDITOR

The CIF-Southern Section offices recently announced the playoff division pairings for the 2020-2021 high school fall sports season, which includes football, girls’ volleyball, boys’ and girls’ cross-country, girls’ tennis and boys’ water polo. Despite there still being no start date to the fall sports season, and with a recent spike in coronavirus cases nationwide, sports families in the area are anxiously awaiting a decision by CIF State officials. It was announced recently that a decision would be made by July 20 whether the fall sports should begin as scheduled.

Since mid-March, all high school sports activities in the state have been shut down because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

As the fall season does indeed approach quickly, here is the breakdown for the proposed playoff division pairings for the 2020-2021 high school fall sports seasons, not including football, which has yet to be released. These are for the high school’s that are inside the Valley

News coverage area as of June 12: Divisional Playoff groupings Girls’ Volleyball Division 1/Division 2: Chaparral, Great Oak, Murrieta Valley, Paloma Valley, Temecula Valley, Vista Murrieta Division 3: Murrieta Mesa Division 4: Hemet, Linfield Christian Division 5: Elsinore, Heritage, Rancho Christian Division 6: San Jacinto, Temescal Canyon, West Valley Division 7: Orange Vista, Rancho Verde Division 8: California Lutheran, Cornerstone Christian, Perris, Temecula Prep Division 9: Hamilton, River Springs (Hemet), River Springs (Temecula), San Jacinto Valley TBD: St. Jeanne de Lestonnac Boys’ and Girls’ Cross-Country Division 1: Chaparral, Great Oak, Hemet, Heritage, Paloma Valley, San Jacinto, Temecula Valley, Vista Murrieta Division 2: Elsinore, Murrieta Mesa, Murrieta Valley, Orange Vista, Perris, Temescal Canyon

The Linfield Christian High School girls’ tennis team will join seven other local high school teams in Division 5 of the fall sports CIF Southern Section playoff groupings.

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Division 3: Citrus Hill, Lakeside, Rancho Verde, Tahquitz, West Valley Division 4: No local schools Division 5: California Lutheran, Cornerstone Christian, Hamilton, Linfield Christian, Rancho Christian, River Springs (Hemet), River Springs (Temecula), San Jacinto Valley, Santa Rosa Academy, St. Jeanne de Lestonnac, Temecula Prep ** The CIF-SS Cross-Country divisions are based on CBED information from the 2019-2020 year. When the CBED information for 2020-2021 has been submitted to CIF-SS and the State Department of Education, any school that incurs a gain/loss in enrollment of a minimum of 15% in the current

year will utilize the new CBED data for placement into division.

Reporting of the information to the State Department of Education occurs in October of each year school year. Final divisional placement for each school will be determined once this information has been received and compiled.

REMINDER: By action of the CIF-SS Council at the March 23, 2000, meeting, no schools will be allowed to compete outside of their enrollment-based division.

Girls’ Tennis Division 1: Great Oak, Murrieta Valley Division 2: Temecula Valley Division 3: Chaparral, Elsinore, Hemet Division 4: Heritage, Murrieta

Mesa, Paloma Valley, Vista Murrieta, Vista Murrieta Division 5: Citrus Hill, Lakeside, Linfield Christian, Orange Vista, San Jacinto, Rancho Verde, Tahquitz, West Valley Boys’ Water Polo Division 1/Division 2: No local teams Division 3: Murrieta Valley Division 4: Great Oak, Temescal Canyon Division 5: Chaparral, Elsinore, Temecula Valley, Vista Murrieta Division 6: Hemet, Murrieta Mesa Division 7: Heritage, Lakeside, Paloma Valley, Perris, Tahquitz JP Raineri can be reached by email at sports@reedermedia.com.

TVUSD ‘takes action’ on obscene coaches’ photo, mum on actions taken Jeff Pack STAFF WRITER

Not long after Temecula Valley High School football players received their championship rings in early May for bringing home the school’s first CIF Southern Section football championship in 28 years, a photo surfaced on Twitter.

In the photo, posted to the @ LeagueTruths account, several Temecula Valley High School coaches appear to stick up their middle finger toward the camera.

The post was accompanied by the

statement, “Hey parents. Go play for this stand-up crew.”

The photo appears to be a screen shot grabbed from another account, though it is unclear where the photo originated or who took it.

On that same day, photos were also taken and posted to Twitter on another account claiming to show a TVHS football coach holding training sessions at Los Alamos Park in Murrieta.

The park was officially closed to the public at the time the photos were taken because of the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak.

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The individual who posted the photos alleged that multiple TVHS athletes were participating in the workout and criticized the action.

Valley News learned in late May that TVHS and Temecula Valley Unified School District was investigating the matter.

On Tuesday, June 16, Laura Boss, public information officer for TVUSD issued a statement regarding the results of the investigation.

“The Temecula Valley Unified School District is aware of photos circulating on social media of Temecula Valley High School football coaches hosting activities, displaying their middle fingers, and players practicing during closures related to COVID-19,” Boss said in the statement. “Coaches convened these activities without knowledge or approval of site administration.

“TVHS and district administrators worked together during the last few weeks to investigate the complaints and the parties involved. TVUSD maintains the highest expectations of professionalism for all staff, including

coaches. In addition, TVUSD implements the CIF Victory with Honor Program with all of its coaching staff,” Boss said.

Boss provided an excerpt from the program: “First and foremost, teachers have a duty to assure that their sports programs promote important life skills and the development of good character. The essential elements of character-building are embodied in the concept of sportsmanship and six core ethical values: trustworthiness, respect, responsibility, fairness, caring and good citizenship. The highest potential of sports is achieved when teacher-coaches consciously Teach, Enforce, Advocate and Model (T.E.A.M.) these values and are committed to the ideal of pursuing victory with honor.”

Valley News has reached out to people associated with the team to find out if any coaches, including head coach Bert Esposito who was pictured in the photo using his middle finger, have been let go.

Again, the district would not elaborate on whether any action was taken, explaining that the

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district would not be releasing the results of actions taken, if any, due to restrictions on divulging information on personnel matters.

“We have followed our established administrative procedures, fully investigated this matter, and taken appropriate action to address the concerns raised during the investigation,” Boss said.

“We consider these matters fully resolved. Because these are personnel matters, neither TVHS nor the district is at liberty to share the details of the actions.”

Last fall, the Golden Bears won the Southwestern League title before winning the CIF-SS Division 7 title and moving on to the CIF Division 3AA State Regional championship bowl game before losing to El Camino High School.

“This team exceeded more expectations and won more than any team in program history,” Esposito said after the loss. “The experience of this season I am sure has been life-changing. It has been for me.

I know the memories will be with them all forever.”

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

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7-year-old comes up with the idea for a popular indoor playground in Murrieta Lexington Howe STAFF WRITER

The Little Red Barn, an indoor playground at 33050 Antelope Road, Suite 210, in Murrieta, reopened its doors Monday, June 22, after a long stint of being closed due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Brandee Green and her husband first conceived the idea of opening their own indoor playground when their 7-year-old son mentioned it to them in the car one day.

“We were planning on opening an organic coffee shop, and we were a little stressed out about all the competition with Starbucks and the fact that people aren’t really hanging out at coffee shops like they used to,” Green said.

Her son suggested the idea for a playground instead; Green said she liked the idea and went with it. They’ve been open since September 2017.

“We created a wooden indoor playground based on the Montessori method, which is kind of a blend of children just leading play on their own. It’s all imaginative play so our toys are not interactive,” Green said. “It leaves it open for their imagination.”

Children from age 0-6 are welcome to play, and The Little Red Barn offers memberships. While normally memberships include unlimited play, due to social distancing guidelines, The Little Red Barn will have limited play times only as it reopens. This change will allow staff to sanitize in between sessions and to limit how many children come through during the day.

“We’re going to do 90 minutes of play,” Green said. “We’re going to have four sessions of play per day.”

While they’ve been closed since

Children play at The Little Red Barn, an indoor playground in Murrieta.

The Little Red Barn reopens in Murrieta for children all over the valley.

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March 14 due to COVID-19, their overhead has remained the same, she said.

“It’s actually bigger because we had taxes coming in and we had renewals for insurances; we haven’t had any rent relief as far as we have heard from our landlords,” Green said. “Anything that hasn’t been paid will be expected to be paid in the next year.”

It has caused some financial struggle for the Green family.

“We’re not even getting a fifth of what we were before, so that’s a huge challenge,” she said. “We did apply for the SBA loan, which is the disaster relief loan, and we were initially approved.

“My husband lost his wallet,” she said. “He is from England so he carries a green card so he lost all of that and he’s since applied for everything, but everything’s taking a long time so because he didn’t have his ID, his green card, so we were denied at the very last stage.

“We were expecting a chunk of money to come in so that we could pay all of that overhead

and suddenly we didn’t have it,” Green said.

Tessa Jansen, a friend of Green, started a GoFundMe for The Little Red Barn to help pay for costs that have accumulated since being closed.

“They have a little toy store in there and they expanded that to try and make more money, and then their rent, I think it’s like over $4,000,” Jansen said. “People canceled their parties, stuff that was already prepaid so they’re refunding parties and memberships.”

So far, the GoFundMe fundraiser has raised $2,145 of its $5,000 goal.

Jansen’s daughter was 2 when she had started to worry about her social development.

“She was an only child and raised by my husband who’s kind of an introvert, so she didn’t have a lot of socialization,” Jansen said.

Jansen added that they had been to other indoor playgrounds in the valley but hadn’t found one that fit her daughter’s needs.

“I’m a speech therapist, so child

development is really important to me,” Jansen said. “When we went there was a whole other world, it took her a while to warm up, but she was able to warm up to some of the kids there and there’s so many regulars she got to know people.

“I just really watched her grow through imaginary play and playing with the other kids, and it’s a calmer environment than a lot of the other indoor playgrounds, and the other big thing was she never got sick,” Jansen said.

Christine Moreno, a Canyon Hills resident in Lake Elsinore, chose The Little Red Barn as well due to cleanliness.

“They wipe every tiny little thing down,” Moreno said. “If they see a child move on to something else, they’re there and they’re wiping it down. That counts for so much.”

Moreno and her granddaughter started going almost a year to the date in March when everything began closing down.

“We still have our membership; we have not given up our member-

ship,” Moreno said. “It was so kind of Brandee and Brian to give the members three days a week, but I do want others to come and play and experience that and I don’t want to take away from their time until we can hopefully not too long in the distant future open back up to where we don’t have to worry about how many people, other than reaching capacity per code.”

Moreno asked for a standing Monday reservation.

“I always try to give them a little extra for all that they do and for the cleaning supplies; I don’t want them to close,” she said. “From the moment I stepped in there with my granddaughter, it’s just professional, clean, courteous, fun.”

To support the GoFundMe campaign, visit https://gf.me/u/ x8xa6x. Find The Little Red Barn on Facebook or call 951-679-1119 for more information.

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

Local students recognized by RivCo Office of Education Kim Harris MANAGING EDITOR

Five students from local school district have been recognized as Riverside County All-County Academic Scholars, the Riverside County Office of Education announced.

The 2020 Riverside County AllCounty Academic Scholars are Sara Oike from Western Center Academy in the Hemet Unified School District, Paul Irvine from Elsinore High School in the Lake Elsinore Unified School District, Kimiko Walker from Paloma Valley High School in the Perris Union High School District, Catherine Moua from San Jacinto High School in the San Jacinto Unified School District and Emika Saito from Great Oak High School in the

Temecula Valley Unified School District.

The students named as AllCounty Academic Scholars were recognized with a plaque.

The list of student academic award honorees from Hemet Unified School District are Ashley Sanchez from Hamilton High School; Heather Richards from Helen Hunt Jackson College Prep High School; Marco Baeza, Justin Laskowski and Jason Ng from Hemet High School; Edgar Gutierrez and Katrina Isabelle Pagdayunan from Tahquitz High School; Dalton Feldhut and William Hora from West Valley High School and Sara Oike from Western Center Academy.

Lake Elsinore Unified School District student academic award honorees are Katrina Galero, Paul Irvine and Yadira Morales, El-

sinore High School; George Fields and Katrina Zentgraf from Lakeside High School; Joseph Chiaro, Amanda Martilla and Breanna Martilla from Temescal Canyon High School.

Murrieta Valley Unified School District student academic award honorees are Vanessa Franco, Davin Ko and Anna Yang from Murrieta Mesa High School; Marcos Britsch, Hans Chen and Victoria Ringer from Murrieta Valley High School and Nolan Clanton, Robert Cline and Ashton Heckermann from Vista Murrieta High School.

Perris Union High School District student academic award honorees are Leona Marie Dohig Ombina from California Military Institute; Karen Macias and Oanh Nguyen from Heritage High School; Kamarin Mann, Roberto Nicholas

and Kimiko Walker from Paloma Valley High School and Viridiana Martinez, Jorge Mateo Mendoza Martin and Lorena Prieto from Perris High School.

San Jacinto Unified School District student academic award honorees are Mohammad Taha Amjad, Jason Millhiser and Catherine Moua from San Jacinto High School.

Temecula Valley Unified School District student academic award honorees are Lucas Beyer, Anish Gopalan and Charlene Miciano from Chaparral High School; Raymond Lee, Emika Saito and Madeline Young from Great Oak High School and Wyatt Braden, Max Slagle-Skalka and Taryn Ustoy from Temecula Valley High School.

Based on their enrollments, each high school was asked to select be-

tween one and three students taking into consideration their GPA, class rank, extracurricular activities and community service.

“I continue to be impressed with the accomplishments of each student nominated to be recognized for the Student Academic Award.

These scholars have reached milestones and achievements as students, engineers, scientists, athletes, musicians, actors and artists,” Judy D White, Ph.D., Riverside County Superintendent of Schools, said. “It is evident by these accomplishments and what we see each and every day from these young people that our future is in very good hands.”

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

A boy’s promise to help other children facing tough situations turns into a man’s success partnered with longtime friend and well-loved standup comedian, Russ T. Nailz to make accompanying CDs which narrate his books and also help children get up and dance, teach them good oral care, the importance of eating their vegetables, etc.

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FALLBROOK – Tim “Dr. Hope” Anders fulfilled a promise to himself, after he had been shuttled between state run orphanages, foster homes and other tough environments as a young boy, to turn his experience into a series of children’s picture books.

Most little boys who are taken away from their mothers and shuttled from foster care to boys homes to other unpleasant environments might have been miserable and stressed displaying disruptive, aggressive and violent behavior, but not Anders. Because his mother instilled in him an incredible sense of humor along with a positive attitude, Anders said he turned the harshest of situations into positive

ones as he was always looking for the bright side of life.

“It was my dream as an adolescent to help young children in need,” Anders said. “Now that I look back, I would never want any child to go through what I did without the coping tools my mother gave me. Because I had such a good positive attitude taught to me by my mother, I viewed it as a learning opportunity.”

When he grew up, he promised he would write children’s books to help other children get a head start in life. He created the Dr. Hope “Life Lessons Series.”

Anders is also an accomplished jazz musician. Capturing his sense of humor and his musicality, he

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Soboba families receive fresh produce from Farmers to Families Food Box program Mike Hiles SPECIAL TO VALLEY NEWS

tem – Public Health’s Nutrition and Health Promotion Branch, said.

The joint venture of the Soboba Tribal Council, tribal administrator Michael Castello and the Soboba Foundation has run smoothly since it began. After many of the foundation’s signature fundraising events were postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic, president Dondi Silvas said she was happy to be able to do something for her community and tribal members once again.

“We are grateful that the tribe took the time to fill out all the paperwork to get this program started,” she said. “These items are all locally grown with no pesticides, and the white peaches are amazing.”

Soboba Foundation board members serve at the check-in table from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. each Wednesday. So far, they have not run out of product before the end of the day, and when they had about 60 boxes left over June 3, the boxes were shared with tribal employees and residents of the Santa Rosa Band of Cahuilla Indians and the Cahuilla Band of Indians reservations.

Scott Berndt of the Riverside Unified School District and its Riverside Food Hub program said there are currently three local farmers providing produce and 10 more who are undergoing food safety training and food safety certification, which is required by the USDA to participate in the Farmers to Families program.

Although the Riverside Food

The Soboba Foundation, a nonprofit arm of the Soboba Band of Luiseño Indians, was chosen as a distributor for the Farmers to Families Food Box program. The U.S. Department of Agriculture grant was awarded to the Riverside Food Hub who partnered with Riverside University Health System – Public Health to find suitable nonprofit distribution sites where boxes of fresh produce could be delivered and put to good use by grateful families.

Each week in June, 320 boxes of fresh produce – with a total value of about $5,000 – are delivered to the Soboba Reservation where it is stored in a refrigerator truck that was already being utilized for the tribe’s pop-up market that was created amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Contents of the boxes change each week based on the seasonal fruit and vegetable harvests from local farms, and the variety provides opportunities for families to incorporate healthy, fresh produce into their meal recipes as well as offering nutrient-rich snacks throughout the week.

“We deeply honor our relationship with Soboba and knew that this food box program opportunity needed to be shared with a diverse segment of residents, including tribal organizations,” Andrea Morey, program coordinator for Riverside University Health Sys-

Soboba Foundation president Dondi Silvas and sponsorship coordinator Andrew Vallejos staff the check-in table for produce box pickups Wednesday, June 10, at the Soboba Sports Complex.

Contents of the produce boxes vary to include seasonal fruits and vegetables from local farms. Soboba serves as the designated distribution center during the month of June.

Nathaniel Arviso, left, and Andy Silvas deliver U.S. Department of Agriculture Farmers to Families Food Box Program produce to vehicles of tribal members.

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Hub has been in operation for about three years, Morey said the USDA Farmers to Families Food Box program was an immediate response to COVID-19’s effect on agricultural production, restaurant closures and grocery shortages.

Many agencies applied for community distribution and staff at the public health department helped to coordinate a network of partners

for the free produce boxes.

“This program helps the farmers because we are purchasing the produce for the boxes from them at fair prices,” Berndt said. “The program has been a godsend because our sales dropped 90% because of the COVID-19 shutdown. This program has allowed me to keep workers busy from the increase of activity to support the food boxes.”

Riverside County creates ‘mobile testing team’ to serve targeted communities RIVERSIDE COUNTY – As Riverside County continues to expand its coronavirus testing capabilities, health officials have formed a “mobile testing team” to serve targeted populations or communities.

The team, made up of nurses, emergency medical technicians and paramedics, set up testing locations for one or two days as needed then quickly move on to another site, Kim Saruwatari, director of Riverside County Public Health, said, as opposed to current testing sites which have been set up with the idea they would be based there for weeks or months.

“The mobile testing team gives us the flexibility to complete testing at different locations where there is a targeted need, such as hard-to-reach communities,” Saruwatari said.

“Once the need is served, then we can quickly move them to the next location.”

Recently, the mobile team set up a one-day testing site at the Ben Clark Training Center, Idyllwild Library in the San Jacinto Mountains and screened about 162 residents. Other future locations include the Morongo Casino, Edgemont Women’s Club in Moreno Valley and the foothill community of Anza south of Hemet.

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“According to data, the pandemic is impacting vulnerable communities and people of color the most.

Whether that be seniors in skilled nursing facilities, agricultural workers in the fields, or the homeless in encampments, we need to do all we can to meet the moment and suppress the pandemic,” Chair V. Manuel Perez, 4th District supervisor, said. “Expanding sites and deploying mobile testing is a responsible and creative way to flatten the curve.”

The creation of the mobile team was one of several changes to the county’s testing program. Others include the closing of the Blythe

testing site and the Corona testing site; the adding of a test site at Bagdouma Park Community Center, 51251 Douma St., in Coachella – for appointments, call 888-634-1123 or visit https://lhi.care/covidtesting – and the adding of a site at Moreno Valley Senior Center, 25075 Fir Ave., in Moreno Valley – for appointments, call 888-634-1123 or visit https://lhi.care/covidtesting.

Testing at the county-run sites is open to anyone, whether they have symptoms or not, and there are no out-of-pocket costs to individuals.

Participants will be asked to provide information about their health insurance, but they will not be charged

any share of costs or copay and will be allowed to get tested even if they do not provide the insurance information. Participants must have an appointment to get tested.

So far, more than 160,000 Riverside County residents have been tested at the 16 total community test sites, along with screenings at clinics, hospitals, private labs and other locations.

For a complete list of all testing locations and instructions on how to make an appointment, visit www. rivcoph.org/coronavirus/testing.

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Online support classes offered for families dealing with Alzheimer’s disease and chronic illnesses in July RIVERSIDE – The physical and emotional toll on people who take care of their older family members, especially caring for those living with chronic health conditions like Alzheimer’s disease and Parkinson’s disease, are great. A new series of virtual classes in July will give caregivers information on how chronic conditions can affect personality and decision-making, additional coping skills and community resources.

The Office on Aging’s Care Pathways classes are free and designed for family members who care for older adults with Alzheimer’s disease, dementia, stroke, Parkinson’s disease and other chronic conditions. The program will begin

virtually the week of July 6.

The weekly workshops focus on information and support to family caregivers who face challenges managing caregiving responsibilities for a family member who is 60 years of age or older. This series of weekly workshops will cover topics, including living with dementia, preventing caregiver burnout, talking to the doctor and understanding legal issues.

The workshops are led by experienced facilitators who understand the challenges that family caregivers face and also provide powerful tools to manage tasks with confidence and increase self-care.

Registration is required and is open to all Riverside County resi-

dents. The classes will be held on Zoom, a free online video meeting service. Technical assistance will be provided for those unfamiliar with the online meeting tool.

To register for this series of free workshops, call the Riverside County Office on Aging at (951) 867-3800. Home care assistance can be arranged to attend the class by requesting respite at the time of registration.

The Care Pathways program is funded through Riverside University Health System-Behavioral Health, through the California Mental Health Service Act. Submitted by Riverside County Office on Aging.

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Health The inner mind can provide a shield of protection against COVID-19 Dr. Pamela Winkler PRESIDENT OF ST. JOHN’S UNIVERSITY

If people are told they may have to live with the coronavirus pandemic for months or even years until there is a successful vaccine, what can they do to be more proactive and better protect themselves?

According to Dr. Pamela Winkler, president of St. John’s University, educational psychologist and co-author of “Mind Medicine,” there is a lot people can do. “An important clue to being more proactive with COVID-19 may explain so many people infected with COVID-19 experienced only slight symptoms or no symptoms at all. Those individuals had a strong enough immune system that provided a natural kind of immunity.”

Winkler has worked successfully with thousands of private clients during the past 40 years to help them harness the power of their inner mind and improve all areas of their lives.

Winkler said, “I believe the inner mind is nature’s perfect medicine.

We just need to learn how to apply it.”

People have known for a long time that stress weakens their immune system. Most people admit they worry several times

a day about being infected by more safely navigate through these COVID-19, or worry that a loved challenging times.

Winkler explained that it is one will be infected. Those who because the know someone mind-body who was sick“Every day in every way, connection is ened or who died from CO- my immune system is getting so well inteVID-19, worry stronger and stronger!” Dr. grated, that even more that Pamela Winkler, president of a c a r e f u l l y worded sugthey also will St. John’s University, said. gestion can get it. The conguide the intinuous stress and worry can severely weaken the ner mind to produce amazing selfhealing in the body. An affirmation immune system.

Certain populations have a high that Winkler believed can help is, rate of underlying health factors. “Every day in every way, my imThe Kaiser Foundation estimates mune system is getting stronger that about 40% of the U.S. popu- and stronger.” For maximum eflation have underlying risk factors fectiveness, she recommended that that puts them at increased risk for it be repeated a dozen times a day for at least 30 days in a row.

COVID-19 infection.

Millions of people are now free According to Winkler, “The thoughts we think and the words from the smoking habit, manage we say to others and to ourselves their weight, excel in sales or have a real impact on our health. sports, overcome insomnia and In fact, our thoughts and words eliminate migraine headaches with help from their inner mind. Appareventually create our reality.”

As people wait impatiently for ently, there is no limit to what the a safe and effective vaccine to be power of the inner mind can do developed, manufactured and dis- when it is properly guided. Let’s tributed to 8 billion people world- hope it is also possible to harness wide, healthy lifestyle choices at the inner mind to strengthen the this time are critical to their well- immune system and provide a being. Winkler encouraged people protective shield of armor against to be open to using the power of the coronavirus.

According to Dr. Anthony Fauci, their own inner mind to help them

director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, “COVID-19 is not my first epidemic, but it is my worst nightmare. In four months, it has devastated the world, and it’s not over yet.”

Dr. Michael Osterholm, director of the Minnesota Center for Infectious Disease Research Policy and author of “Deadliest Enemy,” said, “We are in a war with this damn thing. This virus is now the No. 1 cause of death in the U.S., even more than heart disease or cancer, but it has only infected about 5% of our population. It is not slowing down until it has infected 60-70% of our population and we have ‘herd immunity.’ So it will be around for some time yet.”

It is estimated that without a successful vaccine, approximately 800,000 to 1.6 million deaths will occur within the U.S. in the next 12 to 18 months. Have the states reopened their economies too soon? Are people getting tired of wearing face coverings and respecting physical distancing? It is alarming that over 20 states are once again experiencing a rising spike in hospital admissions with COVID-19 patients.

Much of focus has naturally been on the alarming rate of COVID-19 infection in the country, as well

as the coronavirus being 10 times more lethal than the flu. But could there be a clue to a possible silver lining in this health crisis? Why do 50% of those infected with COVID-19 experience only slight or no symptoms at all. It is only when they test positive for COVID-19, they are shocked to learn they had been infected but did not even know it.

Winkler suggested, “When our thoughts turn to worry about COVID-19, we can replace that thought with our powerful affirmation instead, as we add layer after layer of protective armor all around us.”

St. John’s University, located in Murrieta, has offered accredited distance learning certification and graduate degree programs in clinical hypnotherapy since 1970.

For more information, visit http:// www.sjunow.org.

Pamela Winkler, Ph.D., is an educational psychologist, clinical hypnotherapist and co-author of “Mind Medicine – the 40 Most Unusual Cases Out of 40,000 With Hypnosis.” She was inducted into the International Hypnosis Hall of Fame in 1992 and has served as president of St. John’s University since 1995.

Local wellness center creates an alcove for healing and relaxation

Serenity Cove, a health and wellness retreat in Temecula, offers guests an Airbnb mobile trailer on-site for relaxing getaways. Valley News/Lexington Howe photo

Lexington Howe STAFF WRITER

Wind chimes slowly sway in the breeze while the air feels light and the people relax.

Serenity Cove, a health and wellness retreat in Temecula, was started by flight nurse Elena “Lena” Servin and her husband.

The retreat sits on 5 acres of land at 39700 Vía De Oro in Temecula, surrounded by trees, wildlife and nature.

“We offer yoga classes, reiki treatments and massage treatments,” Servin said.

They also have an Airbnb mobile trailer on-site.

It will be two years in July since Servin and her husband bought the property.

“The lady who lived here before was – she was just this amazing woman. She was in her 40s when she bought it, and she lived here for 16 years,” Servin said. “She was just this free-spirited, kind of cool lady.”

Servin added that the woman who owned it previously was also a massage therapist and gave massages to the nuns at the Vina de Lestonnac retreat center nearby.

“She spent so much time just planting things, making little walk-ways and stuff like that, and her dad got ill so she had to sell the property and so we found it,” Servin said.

Servin said it was synchronicity finding the property.

“I remember when I first came, I was having the worst day,” Servin said. “I had worked a 24-hour shift. I was really tired, and my husband’s like ‘You’ve gotta see this property.’

“Anything I look at I’m going to think is terrible because I’m so negative right now,” Servin said in reflection, due to being tired that day. “I came and I was like – I immediately, my attitude changed.”

Servin works as a full-time nurse.

“We realized we should just have people come here and just feel the healing energy of the space because it just feels good,” Servin said. “It just feels like you’re surrounded by trees, nature, all you hear is birds and wind chimes and

animals, so whatever’s going on – so that’s why we wanted to come out here.”

Servin has been doing yoga for 10 years and offers space for yoga and reiki at Serenity Cove.

“I did my yoga teacher training certification this past year,” she said. “I was always interested in energy healing so I pursued certification in reiki training and things like that, so that’s something I offer as well. I also have other people that come that are reiki practitioners that use the space too.”

Servin said she found that with everything going on, people have been contacting her more to come and have classes at the site.

“Because it’s outdoors, it feels a little safer and the restrictions are different,” Servin said.

Servin has some goals in mind for the future of the site.

“Day retreats or weekend retreats and have people be able to come out and camp or just stay for the day and just do classes and get reiki and all health and wellness,” Servin said.

Servin invited anyone who wants to promote health and wellness to use the grounds.

“I try to be very cognizant of them being able to come in and make money and be able to get people in but not risk so much on; well, what’s the space rental going to be,” Servin said. “Normally I do about 20, 25% of the ticket price, so that way whoever you have come you only have to pay me for what you got paid for, so it’s less risky. It’s my way of letting people maybe who are new to it or have something going but not sure how to use the space in order to promote their own business.”

Servin started yoga as a way of relaxing, she said.

“I was going through a really dark period of feeling depressed, and I think yoga for me was the way to get out of my head,” she said. “It became something very therapeutic, and then as time went on I realized that I’ve worked emergency. I’ve always worked critical care, ER, now I do flight nursing, which is all critical care or trauma, and I needed balance because it’s high stress, so yoga was a way to bring those things

The wooden sculpture is a focal point of Serenity Cove, which was made by an artist in Lake Elsinore, who collected wood from old homes being torn down and created one piece of art, which he called “unity.”

Valley News/Lexington Howe photos

more into alignment.”

Serenity Cove has a creek that runs through it when it rains, as well as hiking trails.

“We just added the pool because we’re going to do poolside yoga retreats there,” Servin said. “We added the Airbnb probably in August of last year and didn’t realize how well that was going to be received and how it fit so perfectly with what we were already trying to do.”

Servin also wants to do goat yoga and currently has four pigmy goats.

“They pretty much will jump on anything, so if you just lay down long enough, they’ll just jump on you,” she said.

Local yoga teacher Christina Perez first met Servin during yoga a little more than two years ago.

“I was teaching, so when I left that studio she came to me and told me she had found this property and she was moving out there and was planning to open it up and build decks and we could do yoga and trainings out there,” Perez said.

Perez was excited about the idea, she said.

“I love Lena’s energy. I love everything about her. I could just

Serenity Cove is home to four baby pygmy goats, which retreat center owner Elena Servin hopes to use for goat yoga classes on the property.

imagine what the property would be like, how she would create this beautiful space. I was so excited to see it come together,” she said.

They ran two 8-week yoga training sessions at Serenity Cove together, though the second session lasted longer due to the coronavirus pandemic.

“I think people are amazed at the feeling of being out there,” Perez said. “That this place exists out

here where you can go and it feels like nothing else in this area, like serenity. It takes you away from all the other things that are life, it gives you this peaceful feeling.”

For more information on Serenity Cove, visit https://www. serenitycovetemecula.com.

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

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Pacific Gas and Electric was fined $4 million Thursday, June 18, for the deaths of 84 people killed in a nightmarish Northern California wildfire ignited by the its long-neglected electrical grid.

The sentencing comes as the nation’s largest utility prepares to end a 17-month bankruptcy proceeding triggered by the catastrophe.

The maximum penalty assessed by Butte County Superior Court Judge Michael Deems was a mere formality, given that PG&E reached a plea agreement three months ago to resolve manslaughter and other charges.

They stemmed from a November 2018 inferno that wiped out Paradise, a town located 170 miles (275 kilometers) northeast of San Francisco.

Deems rebuked PG&E for its “callous disregard” for human life and pointed out that if an individual had confessed to the same crimes as the company did, he would have been able to order a sentence of 90 years in state prison.

But as a corporation, PG&E cannot be imprisoned, forcing the judge to issue the maximum fine allowed under California law.

Although PG&E has been in bank-

ruptcy since early last year, the penalty won’t leave a big financial dent, given that it brought in $17 billion in revenue last year.

PG&E’s harshest punishment came in the form of a public shaming that laid bare the horrific toll of its reckless behavior. The company’s dereliction also was detailed in a summary of a scathing grand jury report.

The sentencing came after two days of courtroom drama that included PG&E’s outgoing CEO, Bill Johnson, solemnly pleading guilty on behalf of the San Francisco company for 84 felony counts of involuntary manslaughter while staring at pictures of each victim. The families of the dead spent an emotionally draining day in court telling the heartbreaking stories of their anguish and venting their anger.

PG&E used the proceedings to express its regret for the lethal decisions that caused the fire and has promised to overhaul a corporate culture that long emphasized boosting profits for investors over protecting the safety of the 16 million people who rely on the utility for power.

“On behalf of everyone at PG&E, I am truly sorry for the terrible loss of life and the physical and emotional damage resulting from the fire,” Bill Smith, a PG&E

board member who will replace Johnson as the company’s interim CEO June 30, said. “Ï recognize no apology, no plea, no sentencing can undo that damage,” Smith continued in his statement of contrition to Deems. “And no passage of time can lessen the anguish that we heard expressed in this courtroom.

“All of us know actions speak louder than words. We have taken action and we will continue to take action to combat the growing threat of wildfires and to keep our customers and our communities safe,” Smith said.

PG&E is about to be given a new financial life with the imminent approval of its $58 billion plan for getting out of bankruptcy. U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Dennis Montali said Wednesday that he intends to approve PG&E’s plan Friday after some minor details are worked out.

The complex plan includes $13.5 billion earmarked for the survivors of the fire, as well as tens of thousands of other people who lost family, homes and businesses in other catastrophic wildfires caused by PG&E’s crumbling equipment during 2017 and 2018.

Before that happens, PG&E had to endure one more day of castigation in a bucolic community that is still struggling to recover from the devastation left behind

Bill Smith, interim CEO and president of PG&E Corp., listens as Butte County Superior Court Judge Michael Deems announces the penalties for its role in the 2018 Camp Fire, during the criminal sentencing hearing in the trial of Pacific Gas and Electric Corp. in AP photo/ R ich P ed r once l l i photo Chico, Thursday, June 18.

by the 2018 fire, which burned through 153,000 acres. Nearly 19,000 buildings were destroyed, including about 14,000 homes.

Prosecutors said 85 people died in the blaze but could not find the company culpable for one of the deaths.

Before Deems sentenced PG&E, district attorney Mike Ramsey delivered one last impassioned statement calling out the company for “criminally reckless and grossly negligent behavior” that

turned the date of the fire – Nov. 8, 2018 – into a “day of infamy.”

He compared how the survivors now remember that nightmarish day to the way many other people recall the dates of Japan’s attacks on Pearl Harbor in 1941, President John F. Kennedy’s assassination in 1963 and the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in 2011.

“They evoke immediate and unspeakable, unshakable and unforgettable memories,” Ramsey said.

No fireworks for Fourth of July, except in desert areas City News Service SPECIAL TO VALLEY NEWS

Riverside County Fire Chief Shawn Newman reminded residents that lighting fireworks during the Fourth of July or any other occasion is illegal – except in a few Coachella Valley locations – and violating the law could result in steep fines.

“We have experienced early drying of annual grasses due to unseasonably warm temperatures, which dry out vegetation quickly, creating a fire hazard,” Newman

said. “I urge residents to refrain from using illegal fireworks and take advantage of local events that celebrate our nation’s Independence during the Fourth of July weekend.”

Pyrotechnics were illegally used in downtown Riverside during a recent protest against police brutality, but no fires have been attributed to them anywhere during the current wildfire season, which officially started in early May. County residents are prohibited from using any type of pyrotechnic devices except in Blythe, Cathe-

zero tolerance for illegal fireworks,” according to a county fire department statement. “They will be confiscated, and persons caught with illegal fireworks will be subject to arrest, citation and/ or fines. In addition, anyone who causes a fire using fireworks may be held financially responsible for all fire suppression costs.”

The cities of Corona and Riverside announced in May that their traditional pyrotechnics shows will not go forward this year because of ongoing coronavirus concerns.

Other cities are expected to follow

dral City, Coachella, Desert Hot Springs and Indio, where so-called “safe and sane” fireworks can be sold to the public.

The devices, which must meet state fire marshal certification, generally do not explode or fly and include ground spinners, fountains, snappers and caps. Municipalities can authorize fireworks demonstrations, and the county grants permits for fireworks shows in unincorporated communities.

“Cal Fire law enforcement and partnering agencies throughout Riverside County are enforcing

suit. However, it was unknown whether some special districts and Indian tribes may host extravaganzas.

Under county Ordinance 858, penalties for illegally storing, transporting or setting off fireworks can range from $500 to $1,000. A repeat offender can be charged with a misdemeanor and sentenced up to one year in jail.

Anyone aware of illegal use of fireworks was asked to contact the sheriff’s department at 951776-1099.

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The government’s top infectious disease expert said Tuesday, June 23, he is cautiously optimistic that there will be a COVID-19 vaccine by the end of the year or early 2021 and warned that the next few weeks will be critical to tamping down the coronavirus hot spots around the country.

Dr. Anthony Fauci and other top health officials also said they have not been asked to slow down testing for the coronavirus, an issue that became controversial after President Donald Trump said recently that he had asked them to do just that because it was uncovering too many infections. Trump said Wednesday, June 17, that he wasn’t kidding when he said that.

“We will be doing more testing,” Fauci told a House committee.

The U.S. has tested more than 27 million people, with about 2.3 million – or 8.4% – testing positive.

The health officials returned to Capitol Hill at a fraught moment in the nation’s pandemic response, with coronavirus cases rising in about half the states and political polarization competing for attention with public health recommendations.

“We’ve been hit badly,” Fauci, infectious diseases chief at the National Institutes of Health, said.

He said he was “really quite concerned” about rising community spread in some states.

“The next couple of weeks are going to be critical in our ability to address those surges,” he said.

Fauci was testifying along with the heads of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and

Food and Drug Administration and a Health and Human Services official.

Since Fauci’s last appearance at a high-profile hearing more than a month ago, the U.S. has begun emerging from weeks of stay-athome orders and business shutdowns. But it’s being done in an uneven way, with some states far less cautious than others. A trio of states with Republican governors who are bullish on reopening – Arizona, Florida and Texas – are among those seeing worrisome increases in cases.

Vice President Mike Pence published an opinion article in The Wall Street Journal recently, saying the administration’s efforts have strengthened the nation’s ability to counter the virus and should be “a cause for celebration.”

Then at Trump’s weekend rally in Tulsa, many of his supporters didn’t wear masks, which for some was an act of defiance against what they see as government intrusion.

White House officials later tried to walk back Trump’s comment there on slowing down testing, suggesting it wasn’t meant to be taken literally.

New Jersey Rep. Frank Pallone, chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, said during Tuesday’s hearing that Trump’s testing comment at the rally “was an extremely reckless action, and unfortunately it continues the president’s pattern of ignoring the advice of his own public health experts.”

Trump, who departed the White House for a visit to Arizona Tuesday, played down those comments, saying under his administration the U.S. is doing more testing than

any other country. Trump’s trip included a rally at a megachurch.

Fauci recently warned that the U.S. is still in the first wave of the pandemic and continued to urge the American public to practice social distancing. And, in a recent ABC News interview, he said political demonstrations such as protests against racial injustice are “risky” to all involved. Asked if that applied to Trump rallies, he said it did. Fauci continues to recognize widespread testing as critical for catching clusters of COVID-19 cases before they turn into full outbreaks in a given community.

About 2.3 million Americans have been sickened in the pandemic, and some 120,000 have died, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.

Fauci, who heads the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, was joined by CDC director Dr. Robert Redfield, FDA chief Dr. Stephen Hahn and the head of the U.S. Public Health Service, Adm. Brett Giroir.

Giroir was tapped by the White House to oversee the expansion of coronavirus testing. But he gained notoriety after a whistleblower complaint flagged him for trying to push a malaria drug touted by Trump to treat COVID-19 without conclusive scientific evidence.

The FDA has since withdrawn its emergency use authorization for hydroxychloroquine.

“There have been a lot of unfortunate missteps in the Trump administration’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic,” Pallone said. “As communities across the country ease social distancing guidance and reopen their economies, it is critically important that

Dr. Robert Redfield, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, left, listens as Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, testifies before a House Committee on Energy and Commerce on the Trump administration’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic on Capitol Hill in Washington Tuesday, June 23.

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both the administration and Congress remain focused on containing the spread of the coronavirus and providing the resources and support Americans need during this time of crisis.”

There is still no vaccine for COVID-19, and there are no treatments specifically developed for the disease, although the antiviral drug remdesivir has been shown to help some patients, as well as a steroid called dexamethasone and plasma from patients who have recovered.

Since Fauci last testified, hospital physicians have become more skilled in treating coronavirus patients with the techniques and medications at their disposal.

The U.S. continues to ramp up testing, with some 27.5 million Americans, or more than 8% of

the population, tested thus far.

But most communities still lack enough health workers trained in doing contact tracing, the work of identifying people who have had interactions with an infected person. That could make it more difficult to tamp down emerging outbreaks.

The Energy and Commerce Committee has oversight over drugs and vaccines, among other facets of the U.S. health care system. Committee Democrats have been harshly critical of the administration. However, not all Republicans have lined up to defend the White House. Some Republican members were growing concerned early in the year that the administration wasn’t doing enough to prepare.

A side-by-side look at police reform bills in Congress Michael Balsamo THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

As congressional lawmakers work toward one of the most ambitious policing overhauls in decades, there is increasing division between Republicans and Democrats about how to accomplish a common goal.

Top Democratic leaders in the Senate said Tuesday, June 23, that a Republican policing proposal is “not salvageable” and demanded new negotiations on a bipartisan legislative package after protests over racial inequality and the death of George Floyd and others at the hands of police.

They want something similar to a far-reaching proposal from House Democrats – the Justice in Policing Act – that would create a national database of excessiveforce encounters, limit legal protections for police and ban police chokeholds. The bill was expected to pass the House later in the week.

The Republican proposal in the Senate calls for an enhanced useof-force database, restrictions on chokeholds and new commissions to study law enforcement and race.

Senate Republicans said it would limit the federal government’s role while still making significant changes in policing.

It remains to be seen whether the parties can bridge their differences.

Here’s a look at the two competing proposals: Police misconduct and use-offorce databases Many officers who wind up involved in fatal incidents have a history of misconduct, including Derek Chauvin, the Minneapolis officer charged with murder in Floyd’s death. He had at least a dozen complaints made against

him, according to records.

But those records are often not made public, making it difficult to know if officers have such a record.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order earlier in June requiring the attorney general to create a database tracking terminations, criminal convictions and civil judgments against law enforcement officers for excessive use of force. It encourages participation by providing certain grants only to those agencies that submit the required information.

The Democrats’ bill calls for a national registry including complaints, disciplinary records and termination records. It also would require states to report to the Justice Department any incident in which force is used against a civilian or law enforcement officer.

The proposal would require the agencies to report the reason force was used and the national origin, sex, race, ethnicity, age, disability, English language proficiency and housing status of each civilian against whom a law enforcement officer used force.

The Republicans’ bill would require state and local governments to report all use-of-force incidents that result in serious injuries or death to the FBI on an annual basis. Municipalities that fail to comply could see a reduction in federal funding.

Chokeholds There’s a notable difference.

The Democrats’ bill would specifically ban the use of chokeholds and carotid holds at the federal level, while the Republican bill incentivizes police departments to ban the practice through grant funding. Trump’s executive order also encourages such bans through

In this June 16, 2020, photo, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington.

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financial incentives.

The Democrats’ bill would ban chokeholds and carotid holds and would condition law enforcement funding for state and local law enforcement agencies on establishing a law to prohibit the use of chokeholds and carotid holds.

The Republicans’ bill would condition certain Justice Department funds on a police department having specific policies restricting the use of chokeholds, except in situations in which deadly force is authorized.

No-knock warrants There has been a growing call to ban no-knock warrants since 26-year-old Breonna Taylor was killed in her Louisville, Kentucky, home by officers in March. Democrats have proposed a ban on the practice, typically executed in some of the most dangerous investigations conducted by police departments. A no-knock warrant, as its name implies, is an order from a judge that allows police to enter a home without ringing a doorbell or

banging on the door. Critics have said the use has increased dramatically, and some departments use them routinely in cases that don’t merit such an exception.

The Democrats’ bill would specifically ban no-knock warrants for all federal drug cases and would require local and state law enforcement agencies to prohibit their use to qualify for some federal funding. Oregon and Florida are the only states that have outlawed such warrants.

Republican senators argue there is no conclusive data on how, why and how often no-knock search warrants are used and have proposed requiring state and local law enforcement agencies to report specific data to the Department of Justice each year. The department would be required to make a public report.

Federal civil rights law The Democrats’ bill would amend the federal civil rights law that governs police misconduct to no longer require prosecutors to

prove that an officer’s actions were willful, a high burden of proof. The law would allow an officer to be charged for acting with reckless disregard for someone’s life, causing that person’s death.

The Republicans’ bill would not amend that section of the law.

Qualified immunity Police officers are generally not held personally liable for anything that happens on the job, including when someone dies. The concept of qualified immunity has long been a way to protect police from unnecessary lawsuits and to give them the freedom to police without fear of unnecessary retribution.

The Democrats’ bill would amend federal misconduct statutes to make it easier for courts to find officers personally liable for the violation of civil rights. Officers might think twice before abusing their power, but it could make it more difficult to recruit police nationwide. It could also potentially lead to officers being held financially liable.

The Republicans’ bill said this change is a step too far. As an alternative, the lead senator on the bill, Tim Scott of South Carolina, has suggested a “decertification” process for officers involved in misconduct.

The president’s executive order instructs the Justice Department to push local police departments to be certified. Under the order, Justice would ensure a department could only be credentialed if its use-offorce policies adhered to federal, state and local laws.

White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany has said the qualified immunity provision in the House Democrats’ bill “is a total and complete nonstarter.”

Trump: No autonomous zone in DC, while I’m president Zachary Stieber THE EPOCH TIMES

An autonomous zone won’t be allowed in the nation’s capital, President Donald Trump said Tuesday, June 23.

“There will never be an ‘Autonomous Zone’ in Washington D.C., as long as I’m your president,” the Republican said in a social media statement. “If they try, they will be met with serious force!”

Protesters tried using fencing and other barriers to create a cordoned off area they described as the “Black House Autonomous Zone” late Monday, June 22.

The zone was located in Lafayette Park, near the White House.

As demonstrators tried sealing off the area, others used chains and ropes to attempt to tear down a statue of former President Andrew Jackson.

Police officers dispersed both groups, saving the statue from being toppled and dismantling the so-called autonomous zone.

Two people were arrested by U.S. Park Police during the attempt to topple the Jackson statue, Alexandra Picavet, a National Park representative, told The Epoch Times. Officials were still gathering information about the charges planned or pressed against the people.

An autonomous zone was established in Seattle earlier in June.

City and state leaders allowed occupiers, including far-left activists, to occupy city streets, eject some who tried to enter and enforce rules with a private security force including personnel from the John Brown Gun Club.

Two shootings took place over the weekend, leaving one dead and several wounded.

Mayor Jenny Durkan, a Democrat who previously said the zone was full of peaceful protesters, announced late Monday the police would return to a precinct inside the zone that was abandoned and city streets would open back up.

“While we believe community and demonstrators can and should continue gathering peacefully on

Capitol Hill, the disorder, violence and impacts on businesses and residents threatens to derail the CHOP’s critical message calling for justice, equality and systemic reform,” she said in a statement.

Trump repeatedly threatened to send federal troops in to enforce laws in Seattle, but Durkan and Washington Gov. Jay Inslee, a Democrat, said they didn’t want the assistance.

The Republican president, who is running for reelection, said he’s authorized the federal government to arrest any person who vandalizes or destroys any monument or other federal property.

People convicted of vandal-

izing or destroying monuments face up to 10 years in prison, the president said.

Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt said the group behind the attempting toppling of the Jackson statue were anarchists and criminals.

“I just left Lafayette Square where another so-called ‘peaceful protest’ led to destruction tonight,” he said in a statement.

“Let me be clear: we will not bow to anarchists. Law and order will prevail, and justice will be served.”

Reprinted with permission of The Epoch Times.

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Is widespread racial bias evident?

Julie Reeder PUBLISHER

I feel like I always have to start by saying racism is evil. Any bias based on innate traits is inherently wrong, and I look forward to a post racial society where we can love and respect each other and treasure our differences.

I also understand police aren’t perfect, and there is a lot of discussion around training, cameras, immunity, etc. I believe we will come out in a better place, but we have to be honest about some of these issues and data and not just believe emotional narratives that we are continually fed through social media and national news. We have to continue to question and be courageous enough to stand up to people who would distort facts to make things worse than they are.

Did you know that police have 375 million contacts a year with civilians? While it is widely believed right now that there is a disproportionate amount of white on black racism-fueled police arrests and shootings, the data doesn’t support it.

According to author Heather Mac Donald, “In 2019, police officers fatally shot 1,004 people, most of whom were armed or otherwise dangerous. African Americans were about a quarter

of those killed by cops last year (235), a ratio that has remained stable since 2015.

“That share of black victims is less than what the black crime rate would predict, since police shootings are a function of how often officers encounter armed and violent suspects. In 2018, the latest year for which such data have been published, African Americans made up 53% of known homicide offenders in the U.S. and committed about 60% of robberies, though they are 13% of the population.

“The police fatally shot nine unarmed blacks and 19 unarmed whites in 2019, according to a Washington Post database, down from 38 and 32, respectively, in 2015 (and closer to 100 in the 70s). The Washington Post defines ‘unarmed’ broadly to include such cases as a suspect in Newark, New Jersey, who had a loaded handgun in his car during a police chase.

“In 2018, there were 7,407 black homicide victims. Assuming a comparable number of victims last year, those nine unarmed black victims of police shootings represent 0.1% of all African Americans killed in 2019. By contrast, a police officer is 18 1/2 times more likely to be killed by a black male than an unarmed black male is to be killed by a police officer,” Mac Donald said.

Any killing is devastating, especially if it’s caught on video as with George Floyd or Rayshard Brooks. The beating of white people by black protesters is horrible as well, but I don’t see that video looped over and over on the nightly news.

Part of the reason it seems the police are racist and aggressive is because of media and technology.

When the police kill an unarmed white man, like Tony Timpa in 2016 in Dallas, it typically doesn’t go past local news. There are no

Hollywood star memorials. It doesn’t fit the popular narrative.

No one knows Tony’s name.

When Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was leading the civil rights movement, they were fighting for their right to sit where they wanted in a theater or in the front of the bus.

But they weren’t hurting people or burning and looting businesses.

I believe we have a perfect storm right now with young people who have been taught by culture or maybe from their university to become social justice warriors. Partly because they are young, they don’t have an expansive knowledge of history or a good understanding of where we’ve come. Because they are young, they don’t have as much wisdom as some of the older generations who have actually lived through the civil rights era or helped free the world of communism or socialism when a hundred million people died under Mao Zedong, Stalin, Lenin, Hitler or Pol Pot. These young people have lived in privilege, yet they believe the U.S. is evil. They have had the privilege of growing up in one of the freest countries in the world and in history for that matter.

No matter what their race, they have been the product of some sort of privilege. Is race the most important one? By what standard?

How important is the privilege of wealth, family structure, intelligence, geography, youth, education, attractiveness or health?

Statistically, many of those are far more important.

The greatest, I believe, is their privilege of growing up in this time in history and in America. While it’s not perfect, the U.S. is where a lot of immigrants still desire to make their home so that they too can live in a country where the rule of law is respected and they have the freedom, no matter what

color their skin, hair or eyes are, to achieve whatever they dream for their family. They don’t have to fear their local government officials.

It’s a far cry from how hard our ancestors had it hundreds of years ago, and I hope, before they destroy our country that they are able to get an understanding that violence is not the answer.

I keep referring to the book that I published in 1996 by Mason Weaver, entitled “It’s OK to Leave the Plantation” because it was so pivotal for me in so many ways. Weaver, a black man and a Berkeley grad in political science and black history, recounted his growing up years, the strength and integrity of his family and the tragic racism he encountered.

Ultimately, he found his strength in forgiveness and that gave him the freedom to achieve anything he wanted to do. He is a blessed man. He also has a soft spot for Fallbrook, Bonsall and Temecula where he started his career speaking to Republican groups. He was called all kinds of names by other black people, and he didn’t care.

He is not angry. He doesn’t believe anyone has held him back or has the power to hold him back. Now maybe he comes from a stronger family. I don’t know.

I do know that for those who may be refugees, immigrants, poor or for any reason still disenfranchised in our county, there are amazing organizations like Mission Driven Finance who provide funding for businesses who may typically not be fundable, and they concentrate on businesses who are good for the community.

They are a group that funded Village News when we needed a boost, and they did it because they believed in us and what we were doing and our impact on the community. They are an example

of the best this country has to offer: competent people working with generous funders to provide opportunity to grateful benefactors who wouldn’t have the opportunity otherwise.

Also, here locally, we do our best for at risk and food insecure families through the food pantry, all our nonprofits and health care facilities. Other than the occasional deportation issue, we live in a place where we all feel pretty safe and respectful of each other, and I really cherish that. It’s definitely a privilege we all value.

If we can keep the looters from destroying more neighborhoods, my hope is that the opportunity zones, school choice, the historic funding for historically black colleges and universities will help, and we will return to the lowest unemployment rate for the black community and the highest wage increases that were being enjoyed before the coronavirus pandemic.

That’s a great start anyway.

My guess is that the rioters weren’t aware that these historic things had happened in the last couple of years. If they had the perspective of history and the media was talking about them, people wouldn’t be quite so angry.

They might have hope that while our systems aren’t perfect, they’re pretty darn good.

We don’t need to destroy everything and start over. We need to continue to build from what we’ve started and recognize that we’ve come a long way with civil rights and that lowering the police shootings of 100 per year down to nine is not perfect, but it is a 91% improvement. Can we agree on that?

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

Minerva Scholarship: Helping young women achieve their goals Assemblymember Marie Waldron SPECIAL TO VALLEY NEWS

One of my passions in public service is encouraging young women to fulfill their life’s potential by taking full advantage of available educational opportunities. As Minority Leader and a member of the Legislative Women’s Caucus, I am happy to spread the word about the Minerva Scholarship program, established by the Women in California Leadership Foundation to educate, support and empower young women and girls. The foundation is committed to providing select

young women of good character and demonstrated accomplishments with scholarships to help them

achieve their objectives.

Applications for the Minerva Scholarships for the 2020-2021 academic year are now available.

Up to 80 one-time $2,500 scholarships will be awarded, along with one $10,000 scholarship. All female California residents may apply for consideration. Applicants, either graduate or undergraduate, must be enrolled full-time in an accredited college for the 2020-2021 academic year, with a minimum GPA of 2.5.

While the program is aimed at fulltime students, part-time students may apply if extenuating circumstances have resulted in less than a

full class load, but an explanation must accompany the application.

The scholarship program is also open to previous Minerva Scholarship winners.

The application process is simple. Just fill out the application cover sheet, along with a 250-word personal statement and include your resume, transcripts, two letters of recommendation and a copy of your college acceptance letter or enrollment verification letter. All applications and supporting documentation must be received by July 15. Late applications will not be accepted.

For more information, visit my

website at https://ad75.asmrc.org.

All Californians should be able to reach their full potential. I am proud to help ensure that our outstanding young women can take their places among the future leaders of this great state.

Assembly Republican Leader Marie Waldron, R-Escondido, represents the 75th Assembly District in the California Legislature, which includes the communities of Bonsall, Escondido, Fallbrook, Hidden Meadows, Pala, Palomar Mountain, Pauma Valley, Rainbow, San Marcos, Temecula, Valley Center and Vista.

friends and family.

Interestingly enough, I almost feel like, “Mother Hen” right now, even though I’ve never had children, and most of my friends and family are more than 10 years older than myself.

I find myself calling everyone who has been in my life for a long time, more frequently, texting, sending photos and when I can squeeze a visit in, I do it!

When I visit now, it seems as though there is almost a screening that goes on before either one of us takes a step, making sure that both parties are comfortable with face-to-face contact. We are all at

an age where we are all being as careful as possible, following the safety measures provided by the state, and then some.

We’ve made it this far, let’s not blow everything into the wind!

The first time I experienced someone putting an elbow up to me, I thought they had lost their mind...what on earth...

Anyway, I can touch elbows with anyone now, wear a mask, communicate through more head nods and hand gestures, knowing that people cannot see my smile.

My friends and family still get a big hug after we are in the door, the depth behind each hug seems to

have a greater meaning to me than ever before.

There are many more virtual meetings and Facetime conversations, where we can see each others faces, sometimes the person is up so close that we can count the wrinkles on those beautiful faces.

Enjoy the moment, enjoy your friends and family, today and always. Stay in close contact and most of all, show that you really care.

Value friends and family It’s hard to put a value on friends, until you’ve had them for a while.

I’ve heard people say that if you can count your friends on one hand, consider yourself lucky!

It’s important to have friends, just as it is important to have family.

In fact, if you can have both friends and family, I think you have it made.

With all of the recent events going on in the world, I find myself checking in with my friends and family a little more frequently than usual.

Although I am not one to worry usually, I feel more concerned about what everyone is doing, Answers for puzzle on B-2

where they are and that they are aware of their surroundings.

Something as small as having lunch in a restaurant has turned into a pretty big deal.

Now having to sit at least 6 feet away from the next table, sometimes having to wear a mask until you get to the table and giving your order to a waitress who is wearing a mask is an unusual circumstance.

I suppose if we had grown up having to take all of these precautions, it wouldn’t be such a big deal.

Not to mention people who are having peaceful protests that in fact don’t seem so peaceful to me .... it’s all a bit unsettling.

Back to checking in with my

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MSJC applauds Supreme Court’s decision to uphold DACA program SAN JACINTO – Mt. San Jacinto College commends the U.S. Supreme Court’s June 18 decision to uphold the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.

It’s been a long time coming for the roughly 700,000 Dreamers the ruling personally affects nationwide.

“We at Mt. San Jacinto College applaud the decision. This is a long-overdue victory, not only for Dreamers, but for all of us. The diversity on our campuses and in our communities enriches all of us and we will continue to stand by all of our students to ensure they succeed,” Roger Schultz, Ph.D., superintendent and president of MSJC, said.

MSJC was selected to partner with the Perris-based TODEC Legal Center to provide free legal support services to faculty, staff

and undocumented students at the college. Learn more at http://www. msjc.edu/dreamers.

“We know that education is the path to building a strong community and improving livelihoods. We’re glad this issue has been resolved and that our DACA students can focus on achieving their educational dreams without concern of their status,” Schultz said.

The DACA program allowed undocumented individuals who were brought to the United States as infants or minors to attend colleges and universities and get jobs so they can contribute to this country and help our communities. Many of the individuals in the DACA program have no memory of a home outside of the U.S. and consider this country their home.

MSJC reaffirms that it fully supports all of its students, regardless

of immigration status, race, religion, age, gender, sexual orientation or any other demographic. The college protects student privacy, which under federal law requires the college to keep student information confidential.

MSJC will continue to uphold its mission and values that call for providing “quality, accessible, equitable and innovative educational programs” to all of our diverse populations.

Mt. San Jacinto College serves about 27,000 students in a district covering 1,700 square miles from the San Gorgonio Pass to Temecula, with campuses in San Jacinto, Menifee, Banning and Temecula. In May 2020, MSJC awarded a recordbreaking 3,554 degrees and certificates to 1,958 graduates.

Submitted by Mt. San Jacinto College.

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AFV receives Rachael Ray Save Them All COVID-19 Relief Grant from Best Friends Animal Society to help save homeless pets coming part of the solution right here in our community,” Wylie said. “And community is more important than ever right now.”

The Rachael Ray Save Them All COVID-19 Relief Program, administered by Best Friends and funded by The Rachael Ray Foundation, provides COVID-19 relief grants to shelters and rescue groups across the country. The Rachael Ray Foundation helps animals in need and is funded by a portion of proceeds from each sale of Ray’s pet food, Nutrish.

Animal Friends of the Valleys is dedicated to promoting humane care of animals through education and proactive animal service programs. They are committed to preventing the suffering of animals and to help end pet overpopulation in the communities they serve.

Through community education and involvement AFV will reach its vision of finding a loving and forever home for all adoptable pets. For more information, visit http://www.animalfriendsofthevalleys.com.

Best Friends Animal Society is a leading national animal welfare

organization dedicated to ending the killing of dogs and cats in America’s shelters. In addition to running lifesaving programs in partnership with more than 2,800 animal welfare groups across the country, Best Friends has regional centers in New York City, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Salt Lake City and Houston and operates the nation’s largest no-kill sanctuary for companion animals.

Founded in 1984, Best Friends is a pioneer in the no-kill movement and has helped reduce the number of animals killed in shelters nationwide from an estimated 17 million per year to around 733,000. It means there are still about 2,000 dogs and cats killed every day in shelters, just because they don’t have safe places to call home.

They are determined to bring the country to no-kill by the year 2025.

Working collaboratively with shelters, rescue groups and other organizations, they will work to end the killing and Save Them All. For more information, visit http:// bestfriends.org.

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Prevent lost pets with these 5 tips TEMECULA – Despite the sadness, uncertainty and disruption to millions of people’s lives, the novel coronavirus has provided some silver linings. One such positive side effect of people being asked to spend more time at home is the opportunity for individuals and families to open their abodes to needy animals.

Pet adoptions have increased as people have found more personal time to devote to companion animals. The Pet Health Network said that people experiencing loneliness from being apart from others often turn to pets to help them feel better. Lucky Dog Animal Rescue in Virginia brought in 149 animals from high-kill shelters in March 2020 and adopted 134 in a single week, matching the agency’s monthly average. Data on New York City animal shelters indicates that, as of early May 2020, 43.5% of shelters were experiencing an increased demand for adoption since the COVID-19 outbreak.

As pet adoptions increase, new pet parents are urged to remember to take every precaution to keep their companions safe and secure. The summer months can be a prime time for pets to become lost. Increased thunderstorms as well as fireworks displays can

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WILDOMAR – Animal Friends of the Valleys received a Rachael Ray Save Them All COVID-19 Relief Grant from Best Friends Animal Society to ensure that Save the Pets continues to help save the lives of homeless pets living in southwest Riverside County.

“This grant allows us to continue our lifesaving work by helping us Save the Pets program, which is central to our organization’s mission as we serve our community” Monica Wylie, executive director of AFV, said. “In this uncertain time, our goal will be to save as many dogs and cats as we were on track to save before the pandemic.

We are grateful to our community for their support and appreciate the help from Best Friends Animal Society in making Save the Pets possible.”

Animal Friends of the Valleys is an active partner in the Best Friends Network, which offers resources and support to fellow shelters, rescue groups and animal welfare organizations across the country.

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ID and collar Pets should wear collars with attached identification at all times.

It should include an up-to-date contact number. ID tags can be made at pet supply stores or are available at the Animal Humane Society facilities.

Microchip Microchips are small devices that are implanted under the pet’s skin. About the size of a grain of rice, microchips emit a low radio frequency that can be read by a handheld scanner. Virtually all vet offices and animal shelters are equipped with scanners. Microchips are designed to last the pet’s lifetime, according to HomeAgain, a microchip company. Once the pet is registered, the chip will link to a record of owner information that can be updated easily online.

Sterilization Animal Humane Society said studies show that pets that have been spayed or neutered are less likely to roam for mates and potentially get lost.

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Faith

Learn from Congregation B’nai Chaim

Question: Where do we get ‘hell’ from?

Roger Cohen SPECIAL TO VALLEY NEWS

I can’t try to fully explain how a doctrine of heaven and hell was created in a short article. I want to focus on what happens when people are not in a relationship with God though.

For people who worship the God

of heaven and earth, they want to be in a relationship with the One who created the world. Not being in a relationship – this absence of God’s relationship – can be a world without hope.

In this week’s Torah portion, examine Numbers 16:1-18:32.

This story covers Korah, Dathan and Abiram and how they wanted to change the relationship of the priests and partake of the economic tithing afforded to the priestly line as well as usurp the role of Aaron, the high priest. Korah challenged Moses and Aaron for priestly leadership; however, as the story goes, he failed and his entire family is wiped out by a giant earthquake. The story does not end well for Korah in death

and Sheol.

People have different views on hell, Hades and Sheol. In Numbers 16:33, there is a story of Sheol, which has been translated in various Bible translations as Hades, hell, the pit and Sheol.

The Hebrew Bible in Numbers 16:33 said, “They went down alive into Sheol, with all that belonged to them; the earth closed over them and they vanished from the midst of the congregation.”

I want to focus on the word Sheol. The name “Sheol” in Hebrew means pit, underworld or is a place without praise of God. When Sheol was used by King David in the book of Psalms, he did not have a view of life after death. However, when the Greek

Septuagint was completed by 132 B.C. as a translation of the Hebrew texts, the Greek understanding of Hades, the god of the underworld, was used in the translation. This understanding is commonly seen in many New Testament translations for Luke 16:23.

So, what happened to Korah?

The Torah is clear about his story in a straightforward verse. Korah made a choice to question Moses and Aaron and died as a result of this choice. Interestingly enough, he was buried in the ground and the Bible said he was not known anymore. Sadly, Korah ceased to be in a relationship with the God of heaven and earth.

I don’t know about you. I want to be in a relationship with God

and follow His Torah. Sheol does not sound like a place for me – a place devoid of God’s presence.

I think I will conclude by affirming what Joshua 25:15 said, “As for me and my household, we will serve the Lord” and invite you to do the same.

Roger Cohen is a military veteran and a university lecturer in Southern California, specializing in ethics, religious studies and political science. Follow him at http://www.facebook.com/ProfessorRoger.

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are achieving for us something that far outweighs them all, something eternal.

That’s why 2 Corinthians 4:16-18 said, “Do not lose heart.

Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So, we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.”

This verse teaches three action steps on how to move forward.

Don’t lose heart.

If your heart fails, you fail. Keep your heart in the fight and take one step at a time. Remember, it’s a marathon, not a sprint.

Ask the Holy Spirit to renew you.

He is the energy drink of Christianity. If you’re down in the

dumps, pray David’s prayer when he said, “Restore to me the joy of your salvation and grant me a willing spirit, to sustain me,” in Psalm 51:12.

Fix your eyes on eternity.

As sad as it sounds, everything in your life is temporary, except your relationship with Jesus. God’s goal for you is to spend eternity with Him in heaven. There is no more excellent outcome for your life than that. That’s the prize.

As you face the changes of time, some of them being good and some bad, don’t lose sight of the big picture as you move forward.

Jesus is the big picture, and in light of eternity, nothing else matters.

Zachary Elliott is the lead pastor of Fusion Christian Church in Temecula. For more information, visit https://www.fusionchristianchurch.com, https://fourminutefaithbuilder.com or find them on Instagram.

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Although every time I walked into the room where she had all the pictures sorted, I immediately got nostalgic. Seeing the pictures of my children when they were younger and the times when I didn’t have a belly or gray hair, remembering a special event in our lives and seeing how time has flown by made me a bit sad.

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Sheriff’s deputies arrested a woman after a standoff with a barricaded suspect at an Anza residence, a Riverside County sheriff’s representative said Friday, June 19. see page AVO-2

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Mylar balloons and electrical wires make for a dangerous combination Diane Sieker STAFF WRITER

Everyone loves to celebrate a graduation, birthday, baby shower, anniversary or wish someone well by purchasing a bouquet of silvery, sparkling helium-filled balloons but when those mylar balloons come in contact with powerlines, it could cause a great deal of trouble. see page AVO-3

A marker is affixed to a boulder at the site where two Border Patrol agents were murdered in 1967, the destination of the Remembrance Hike: End of Watch 2020, Wednesday, June 17.

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Anza resident Ben Cruz organized a tribute hike to honor two U.S. Border Patrol agents

murdered by marijuana smugglers in Anza in 1967. He led hikers to the location where agents Ted Newtown and George Azrak were killed.

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Watch 2020, was held Wednesday, June 17, beginning at the Veterans of Foreign War Post 1873 on Bailey Road in Anza. Participants drove into the hills above Terwilliger and continued on foot on a

well-marked trail.

Several members of the public, Border Patrol agents Tim Tucciarone, Roman Gulley and see MEMORIAL, page AVO-4

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Elderberry shrubs flourish in the Anza Valley Diane Sieker STAFF WRITER

Blue elderberry bushes are in full bloom throughout the Anza Valley showing lush clusters of dainty white flowers droop from healthy green shrubs as berries begin to ripen.

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Anza swap meet vendor showcase: John Yarrow is a familiar face Diane Sieker STAFF WRITER

Musician, computer technician, carpet cleaner and window screen repairman, Anza resident John Yarrow is a man of many talents. He can be seen most days at the Anza swap meet, hosting an informational booth inside the Community Hall and explaining his services.

Lately, he has been seen outside with other vendors, taking advantage of decluttering his home and making a few extra dollars. His company, Yarrow’s Cleaning and Screening Solutions, provides high quality cleaning services. From carpet and upholstery to mattresses and draperies, handling most fabrics is routine for him. Tile and grout cleaning for floors, walls,

John Yarrow displays his wares at the swap meet Saturday, June 13, at the Anza Community Hall.

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Anza welcomes new poultry after quarantine lifted Diane Sieker STAFF WRITER

Local poultry enthusiasts are firing up their incubators and selling off excess stock to keep up with demand for birds this summer.

The California Department of Food and Agriculture and the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced the end to the virulent Newcastle disease quarantine in Southern California Monday, June 1.

Restrictions during the quarantine period prevented the movement and sale of eggs and birds for over two years, requiring newcomers to the area to wait to stock their empty coops.

Chicks, keets, goslings, ducklings Colorful eggs for incubating stand at the ready at Tien Truong’s home.

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June 26-27 – Riverside County Public Health will perform COVID-19 testing during regular Community Hall business hours.

ONGOING – Anza Electric Cooperative and F.I.N.D. Food Bank offers free mobile food pantry the second Saturday of every month at the AEC office, 58470 Highway 371, from 10:30-11:30 a.m. All are welcome. Cal-Fresh application assistance and free community health services are also available. Bring your own reusable bags to take food home. Volunteers welcome. For more information, contact the AEC office at 951763-4333.

Regular Happenings Hamilton High School – Find out what is happening using Hamilton’s online calendar at http:// www.hamiltonbobcats.net/apps/ events/calendar/.

Hamilton Museum – 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Open Wednesdays and Saturdays at 39991 Contreras Road in Anza. For more information, call 951-763-1350 or visit http://www. hamiltonmuseum.org. Check out group 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.

ALANON – 6:30-8 p.m. Tuesday evenings at Shepherd of the Valley Lutheran Church, 56095 Pena Road, in Anza. For more information, call Carol at 951763-1022.

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.

Bereaved Parents of the USA – 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.

Fit after 50 – Free “Fit after 50” exercise class takes place every Tuesday and Friday, 10:30-11:30 a.m., at Anza Community Hall.

Chair aerobics helps with coordination, balance and increased muscle tone. No jumping required; wear gym shoes and bring water.

For more information, call leader Teresa Hoehn at 951-751-1462.

Free Mobile Health Clinic – Open every third Wednesday of the month from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.

No appointment is needed. Uninsured may only be seen in the Anza Community Hall’s parking lot or inside the hall.

Medication Assistance and Treatment for Opioid Dependence – Get treatment for heroin addiction. Transportation to the clinic is provided. For more information, contact Borrego Health’s Anza Community Health Center, 58581 Route 371, in Anza. For more information, call 951-7634759.

Food ministries F.U.N. Group weekly food ministry – Deliveries arrive noon Thursdays at the Anza Community Hall. To order a paid box and help feed those who can’t afford to pay, drop off payment and cash donations by Thursday at 1:30 p.m., to ERA Excel Realty, 56070 Highway 371, in Anza. Pay inside or drop off during the day in the red box outside. To drop it off, put name and request on an envelope with payment inside. A $30 box has about $100 worth of food and feeds six people. Half boxes are available for $15. Food is delivered once a week to those who cannot find a ride. For more information, call Bill Donahue at 951-288-0903.

Living Hope Christian Fellowship Community Dinner – 1 p.m.

Dinners are held the last Sunday of the month at the Anza Community Hall. All are welcome. Donations of time, money, etc. are always welcome.

Food for the Faithful – 8 a.m.

The food bank hands out food the last Friday of the month until the food is gone. The clothes closet will be open too. Emergency food handed out as needed at Sacred Heart Catholic Church. FFF is a non-denominational nonprofit. All in need are welcome; call Esther Barragan at 951-763-5636.

Bible Studies The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Anza – Sunday Sacrament is held 10 a.m.; Sunday School is 11 a.m.

Priesthood/Relief Society meets noon; Wednesday Boy Scouts

gathers 6 p.m. and Youth Night is 7 p.m. For more information, call Ruiz at 951-445-7180 or Nathan at 760-399-0727. The Wednesday Genealogy/Family History Class, 5-8 p.m., is open to the public at 39075 Contreras Road in Anza.

Native Lighthouse Fellowship – 10 a.m. The group meets the first Saturday of the month, and breakfast is served. All are welcome to fellowship together at the “Tribal Hall” below the casino in Anza.

For more information, call Nella Heredia at 951-763-0856.

Living Hope Bible Study – 8-10 a.m. Tuesdays at Living Hope Christian Fellowship, 58050 Highway 371, in Anza. All are welcome. For more information, call Pastor Kevin at 951-763-1111.

Anza RV Clubhouse – 7 p.m., the second Wednesday of the Month, Pastor Kevin officiates at 41560 Terwilliger Road in Anza.

Monthly Christian Men’s Breakfast – 9 a.m. Breakfast takes place the fourth Saturday of each month and rotates to different locations. Contact Jeff Crawley at 951763-1257 for more information.

Shepherd of the Valley Lutheran Church – 10 a.m. Weekly Wednesday Bible study takes place at 56095 Pena Road in Anza. Call 951-763-4226 for more information.

Valley Gospel Chapel – 7 a.m. Saturday Men’s Study meets weekly with breakfast usually served at 43275 Chapman Road in the Terwilliger area of Anza.

For more information, call 951763-4622 Anza First Southern Baptist Church – 9 a.m. The church offers Sunday school for all ages with a 10:30 a.m. worship service and 6 p.m. for prayer and Bible study. Youth ministry meets Mondays from 6-8 p.m. The women’s Bible study meets Thursdays at 10 a.m., but it is on hiatus through the summer. Celebrate Recovery meets Fridays; doors open at 5:30 p.m. with large group meeting, 6-7 p.m.; small group share, 7-8 p.m. and Cross Talk Cafe, 8-8:30 p.m.

Church is located at 39200 Rolling Hills Road in Anza. For more information, contact at 951-7634937, anzabptistchurch@gmail. com or http://www.anzabaptistchurch.com.

Clubs TOPS Meeting – Take Off Pounds Sensibly support group meets Wednesdays weekly. Weigh in at 8:30 a.m., meeting at 8:45 a.m. at Thompson Hall at the Anza Baptist Church, 39200 Rolling Hills Road, in Anza. For more information, call Marilyn at 951967-9324.

High Country Recreation – Second Monday of the month attend committee meetings at ERA Excel Realty in Anza. For more information, call Albert Rodriguez at 951-492-1624 or Robyn Garrison at 805-312-0369.

HCR Bingo fundraisers – 6:30-9:30 p.m. second and fourth Fridays at Anza Community Hall.

HCR free ATV rider course

– Offered by http://Coach2Ride. com. Class is free for riders 17 and younger. Well-paced, handson training session teaches local off-road regulations, places to ride and environmental concerns.

California requires all ATV riders under 18 years of age to be safety certified. Loaner ATV’s and apparel are available for a small fee.

Call to reserve, 858-382-1515.

Anza Valley VFW Post 1873 – Capt. John Francis Drivick III Post, the Ladies’ and Men’s Auxiliaries are located at 59011 Bailey Road in Anza. Mail P.O. Box 390433. Request monthly newsletter and or weekly menu by email at vfw1873anzaca@ gmail.com. For more information, call 951-763-4439 or visit http:// vfw1873.org.

High Country 4-H Club – 6:30 p.m. Meetings are on the third Wednesday of the month, except February, at Anza Community Hall. 4-H Club is for youth 5 to 19 years old offering a variety of projects. High Country 4-H Club is open to children living in the Anza, Aguanga and surrounding areas. For more information, call Allison Renck at 951-663-5452.

Anza Valley Artists Meetings – 1 p.m. Meetings are 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/.

Anza Quilter’s Club – 9:30 a.m. to noon. Meets the first and third Tuesday of each month at the Shepherd of the Valley Lutheran Church, 56095 Pena Road, in Anza.

Anza Valley Lions Club – The Anza Valley Lions Club is open to all men and women who want to work together for the betterment of the community. Guest meetings with dinner are held 7 p.m. on the first Monday of each month at Anza Valley VFW Post 1873, 59011 Bailey Road, in Anza.

Meetings and events are posted on the Anza Lions Club website, http://www.anzalionsclub.org. For more information, call president Michele Brown at 760-637-9173.

Boy Scouts Troop 319 – Cub Scouts meet 6 p.m. every Tuesday, and Boy Scouts meet 7 p.m. every Wednesday at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on Contreras Road, south of state Route 371, in Anza. For more information, call Richard Hotchkiss at 951-551-3154.

Boys Scouts Troop 371 – Boy Scouts meet at Lake Riverside Estates. For more information, call Ginny Kinser at 909-702-7902.

Civil Air Patrol – Squadron 59 is looking for new members of all ages. For more information, call squadron commander Maj. Dennis Sheehan from the Anza area at 951-403-4940. To learn more and see the club’s meeting schedule, visit http://www.squadron59.org.

Fire Explorer Program – 6 p.m. The program meets every

second, third and fourth Tuesday of the month at Fire Station 29 on state Route 371 in Anza. Call 951763-5611 for information.

Redshank Riders – 7 p.m.

Backcountry horsemen meet at the Little Red Schoolhouse in Anza, the second Thursday of each month. Visit http://www. redshankriders.com or call Carol Schmuhl for membership information at 951-663-6763.

Anza Thimble Club – The club meets the first Thursday of the month at Valley Gospel Chapel, 43275 Chapman Road in Anza. The social hour is 11:30 a.m., and lunch is served at noon.

Contact Carol Wright at (951) 7632884 for more information.

Organizations Terwilliger Community Association – 6 p.m. Second Monday of the month at VFW Post 1873, 59011 Bailey Road, in Anza. Potluck dinner open to all. For more information, call Tonie Ford at 951-763-4560.

From the Heart Christian Women’s Ministries – Noon.

Monthly luncheon and guest speaker are held the second Saturday of each month. The $5 charge covers lunch at Shepherd of the Valley Lutheran Church, 56095 Pena Road, in Anza. From the Heart helps the area’s neediest children and invites all women and men to join in their mission.

Donate or help with the rummage sales twice a year to raise funds for the cause or other events. For more information, call president Christi James at 951-595-2400.

Anza Community Hall – 7 p.m.

General membership meetings are held the fourth Thursday of the month. Memberships cost $20 per person or $35 per business, and both get one vote. No government funds are allocated for the Hall, which pays its bills through memberships and swap meets. Voting members receive discounts off hall rentals, swap meet booths and save on propane gas from 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.

Anza Valley Municipal 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.

Anza Civic Improvement League – 9 a.m. meets the first Saturday of each month at the Little Red Schoolhouse. The league maintains Minor Park and Little Red School House, which are both available to rent for events. No government funds are allowed; the membership pays the bills – $10 a person, $18 family or $35 business membership.

For more information, visit http:// www.anzacivic.org.

Motorcyclist killed in crash near Sage

Sheriff’s deputies arrest suspect after Anza standoff

Will Fritz ASSOCIATE EDITOR

Will Fritz ASSOCIATE EDITOR

A motorcyclist was killed Saturday, June 20, in a collision with a pickup truck pulling a trailer through a rural intersection several miles southeast of Hemet, a California Highway Patrol representative said.

According to CHP Officer Mike Lassig, around 7:40 a.m., an 84-year-old man was driving a 2001 Dodge Ram with a utility trailer north on Red Mountain Road and beginning to turn left onto Cougar Road, a dirt road near the community of Sage, at a speed of about 5 mph.

While the man was making the turn, a 32-year-old man on a 2020 KTM Adventurer motorcycle was heading the opposite direction on Red Mountain Road and came around a curve just as the Ram and trailer pulled into his path.

Lassig said due to the motorcyclist’s speed, he was unable to stop in time and suffered major injuries when he was ejected from his bike.

The motorcyclist, later identified as Scott Burtness of Menifee, was pronounced dead at the scene.

CHP officers are investigating, Lassig said.

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Sheriff’s deputies have arrested a woman after a standoff with a barricaded suspect at an Anza residence, a Riverside County sheriff’s representative said Friday afternoon.

Just before 8:15 a.m. Friday, June 19, deputies from the sheriff’s department’s Hemet station were

dispatched to the 57000 block of Mitchell Road regarding a reported assault, according to sheriff’s Sgt. Deanna Pecoraro.

Deputies arriving at the scene “found a possible armed suspect to be barricaded inside a home,” Pecoraro said.

SWAT as well as patrol deputies were still at the scene around 11 a.m. Friday. Pecoraro said the

public was advised to stay away from the area.

By about 2:30 p.m., Pecoraro said a female suspect had been arrested. No information on her identity was immediately available.

No one was injured during the standoff.

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Child airlifted to hospital after being bitten by rattlesnake City News Service SPECIAL TO ANZA VALLEY OUTLOOK

A child was recovering Monday, June 22, from a rattlesnake bite at a campground in the San Jacinto Mountains.

The snakebite was reported at 3:25 p.m. Sunday at the Fuller

Mill Creek Campground near Pine Cove, according to the Riverside County Fire Department.

The child was taken by Mercy Air to a hospital with stable vital signs, fire officials said.

The incidence of rattlesnake bites is highest in spring and early summer months and mostly in the

afternoon, according to the Western Journal of Medicine website.

Ninety-five percent of bites are on the hands and feet and can be avoided by covering them and using caution in the snakes’ habitat, the Journal said.

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Mylar balloons and electrical wires make for a dangerous combination

Mylar balloon bouquets can drift great distances and right into power lines, causing dangerous conditions. Anz a V alley Outlook/ D iane Sieker photo

Diane Sieker STAFF WRITER

Everyone loves to celebrate a graduation, birthday, baby shower, anniversary or wish someone well by purchasing a bouquet of silvery, sparkling helium-filled balloons. With colorful messages printed on their surfaces, these balloons represent fun and good times.

However, if the balloon bunch accidently gets away and floats into electrical lines, it could cause a great deal of trouble and create hazardous conditions.

Mylar balloons are extremely dangerous around power lines.

The shiny metallic coating conducts electricity. They can short out transformers, cause power outages, melt wires and cause them to fall to the ground. They can spark a power surge that could potentially ruin electronics and appliances. A fire, power outage or electrocution of people on the ground can be the result.

“Because mylar is a metallized plastic, which is electrically conductive, balloons can cause serious problems when they contact overhead power lines,”

Kevin Short, general manager of the Anza Electric Cooperative Inc., said. “I strongly urge our members to exercise caution with these products and to not release them outdoors.”

California law prohibits the release of these balloons. According to Penal Code 653.1, effective Jan. 1, 2019, no person or group shall release, outdoors, balloons made of electrically conductive material and filled with a gas lighter than air, as part of a public or civic event, promotional activity or product advertisement.

Fines of $100 may be levied as a punishment. This law does not apply to governmental or scientific research or manned hot air balloons.

California law requires all mylar balloons to be anchored with a weight to prevent them floating up into power lines. The law also prohibits metallic ribbon from being attached to heliumfilled balloons. Florists and other merchants should always make certain that these balloons are properly weighted.

One of the most common causes of power outages in Los Angeles is mylar balloons coming into contact with power lines. It results in more than 150 electrical service interruptions a year for the utility and can potentially cause injury to customers and to employees working on equipment.

Anyone who sees a mylar balloon come in contact with a power line should keep themselves, their equipment and all other items and people at least 10 feet away. Don’t try to climb the pole or try to retrieve the balloon. Call the Anza Electric Cooperative immediately at 951-763-4333. Always assume the power lines are energized and dangerous.

Southern California Edison recommended some additional safety tips for handling metallic balloons.

Never tie a mylar balloon to a child’s wrist. If the balloon contacts electricity, it can travel through the balloon and into the child, causing serious injury or death.

When finished with balloons, puncture them several times or cut the knot and throw them in the garbage to prevent them from floating away. Keep these bal-

loons indoors and far away from power lines.

Resident can feel free to celebrate with the pretty metallic balloons but know the safety precautions involved and keep the community – and themselves and their family – safe.

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A marker is affixed to boulders at the site where two Border Patrol agents were murdered in 1967, the destination of the Remembrance Hike: End of Watch 2020.

Border Patrol agent Tim Tucciarone says a few words at the Remembrance Hike: End of Watch 2020.

Nicole Renee Arana and Ben Cruz place hands over hearts during the national anthem played at the Remembrance Hike: End of Watch 2020.

Border Patrol agent Justin J. Castrejon says a few words at the Remembrance Hike: End of Watch 2020, June 17.

Nicole Renee Arana places flowers beside the plaque commemorating the two Border Patrol agents who were murdered in 1967, the destination of the Remembrance Hike: End of Watch 2020.

MEMORIAL from page AVO-1 Justin J. Castrejon were in attendance for the trek into the scenic chaparral.

“The event was a tremendous success, and it was a moving experience,” Cruz said. “Prior to our event, my fiance Nicole Renee Arana and I arrived early to set up a (5-inch by 8-inch) flag and prepared the site.”

Participants hiked up the steady grade to the exact location, where June 17, 1967, Newton, 25, and Azrak, 22, who when assigned to a rural checkpoint in northern San Diego County, were kidnapped and murdered.

As the tribute began, the flag was waving in the breeze as the national anthem was played via Bluetooth speaker. A simple and emotional ceremony ensued.

“It was a chilling moment, as we all saluted our nation’s flag on this sacred ground. It truly felt like agents Newton and Azrak were standing alongside us as the colors flew,” Cruz said.

He proceeded with his memorial

speech, followed by a moment of silence. After his presentation, the group shared words about the occasion. The ceremony ended as Arana laid two bouquets of flowers at the marker. “Amazing Grace,” performed by Scottish bagpipes, echoed throughout the valley.

“I am thankful for the efforts put forth by the community members in Anza, California in remembering fallen patrol inspectors Theodore Newton and George Azrak, who made the ultimate sacrifice in service to this country,” Aaron M. Heitke, senior chief patrol agent for the San Diego Sector, said. “We will never forget their sacrifice and honor their memory.”

The event will be an annual pilgrimage, according to Cruz.

“We vowed to return next year to once more honor these men,” he said.

To contact the U.S. Border Patrol San Diego Sector, follow them on Twitter, Instagram or Facebook.

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The flowers are placed below the plaque commemorating the 2 Border Patrol agents who were murdered in 1967.

Border Patrol agent Roman Gulley helps fold the flag at the conclusion of the Remembrance Hike: End of Watch 2020.

Participants hike back to the road at the Remembrance Hike: End of Watch 2020.

Border Patrol agent Justin J. Castrejon; Nicole Renee Arana; organizer Ben Cruz, third from left, and Border Patrol agents Tim Tucciarone and Roman Gulley gather for a photo at the Remembrance Hike: End of Watch 2020.

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Anza Local Elderberry shrubs flourish in the Anza Valley Diane Sieker STAFF WRITER

Lush clusters of dainty white flowers droop from healthy green shrubs throughout the Anza Valley. Blue elderberry bushes are in full bloom, and berries are starting to ripen, providing tasty food for people, birds, mammals and insects.

The blue elderberry, Sambucus nigra, subspecies caerulea syn. Sambucus mexicana, is also known as the Mexican elderberry and is common in the region.

It grows as a deciduous shrub, ranging from Oregon to Baja California, Mexico. It’s close relative, the red elderberry, can be found in more coastal habitats.

The blue elderberry is a fast growing, multi-trunked large shrub or small tree that can grow to a maximum height of about 30 feet. The leaves are divided into one to six long, toothed leaflets.

Large clusters of pretty white flowers develop in the spring and summer, followed by dense clusters of blue to black berries.

The flowers and berries attract insects, birds, rodents and people.

The lowly shrub is one of the most important food sources for birds, bees and butterflies in California. It also provides dense, low cover for many small mammals, birds and bugs.

The blue elderberry is the host plant for the valley elderberry longhorn beetle. The beetle’s current California Fish & Wildlife Service status is “threatened” because of habitat loss and competition from invasive species.

The adult beetles feed on the plant’s leaves and flowers, and the developing larvae eat the insides of the stems. Since the blue elderberry shrub is its host plant, it is protected from being disturbed, removed, destroyed and trimmed if the branches are larger than 1 inch in diameter.

Indigenous Californians used blue elderberries as a main food source and as a natural remedy to benefit the immune system.

The Diegueño, Coast Miwok, Kashaya, Cahuilla and Yuki tribes used elderberry blossoms as a tea to treat fevers, colds and chest congestion. The Maidu Indians used the branches of the Sambucus species to make arrow shafts, fire drills, atlatl spear shafts and salmon spear toggles.

The entire elderberry plant is mildly toxic, and some people get an unpleasant reaction to eating the fresh berries. Most people find the blossoms and berries edible in small amounts. The tiny fruits are commonly used in jellies, syrups and wine. Cooking or drying the flowers and berries destroys the toxins, making them safer to eat, but elderberry stems and the fruit of the coastal red elderberry is always toxic.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has recorded a poisoning from elderberry juice in California.

In 1983, 11 people attending a small religious and philosophical event in Monterey County were hospitalized after drinking juice made from local, wild elderberries. Bunches of berries were crushed with their leaves and branches in a stainless-steel press.

Apple juice, water and sugar were added, and the mixture served the following day.

Victims reported nausea, vomiting, abdominal cramps, weakness and some complained of dizziness and numbness. One patient was in a stupor upon arrival at the hospital. The severity of symptoms was found to be directly related to the quantity of elderberry juice consumed. Those who drank only tea remained unaffected.

No other reports of elderberry juice poisoning have been documented in the past 20 years.

While elderberries are safe to consume, especially when they are cooked, leaves and stems should not be crushed with the berries when making juice.

The fresh leaves, flowers, bark, young buds and roots contain a bitter alkaloid and a glucoside

Tiny clusters of white elderberry flowers quickly develop into small, blue to black edible fruits.

Elderberry shrubs grow well all throughout the Anza Valley.

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drogen cyanide in water. The safest method is to enjoy cooked or dried berries and blossoms only.

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and poults can be heard peeping on most ranches and farms. Owners watch the little fuzzies grow and flourish.

Virulent Newcastle disease is a virus that affects birds with particularly lethal effects on poultry, affecting the digestive, nervous and respiratory systems. It spreads quickly between birds but is not considered a human health threat.

Its presence can be so detrimental to poultry health and the food supply that it triggered state, federal and international regulatory responses.

Virulent Newcastle disease was first discovered in May 2018 in Los Angeles County. By December 2018, the virus had spread extensively in small flocks in the Los Angeles Basin and also infected

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After prolonged disease control efforts, the last confirmed positive case was detected in February 2020. Testing continued throughout the area since that time to gain assurance that the disease was eradicated.

The ability to now legally move and sell fertile eggs, hatchlings, young birds and grown poultry is celebrated by enthusiasts, collectors and breeders alike. Outof-state hatcheries can ship eggs and chicks to buyers in Southern California.

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Candace Owens: ‘George Floyd is not my martyr. He may be yours’

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also for the way that he died. But, “George Floyd is not my martyr. He may be yours,” Candace Owens, a black defender of liberty in a recent YouTube video, said.

As noted by honest observers, Bid Tech has turned radically left, blocking and removing anything outside the Democrat Party narrative. As private corporations, they have a legal right to do it, but as a monopoly of information in the public square, they do not. Before YouTube censors this video, from which the following originates and as they have done with some of her other videos, LibertyUnderFire defends Owen’s right to the public square.

Owens continued, “But I also am not going to accept the narrative that this is the best the black community has to offer. For whatever reason, it has become fashionable and despicable, for us, the last few years, to turn criminals into hero’s overnight.” And “I’m not going to play a part in it, no matter how much pressure comes from black liberals and black conservatives.”

Officer Derek Chauvin is portrayed by the media “as the devil that he is” and is not uplifted or defended by white Americans, “but George Floyd is being uplifted as an amazing human being,” which he is not. At the time of his arrest, he was high on fentanyl and methamphetamine, according to both autopsy reports. The 911 police call transcript calling for help “described somebody who was out of their mind high,” and that they were fearful of his behavior both during his attempt to use “a fake bill to purchase something” and thereafter until police arrived.

A clip of him placed in handcuffs and against the wall showed a white baggie falling from his body.

“The media is refusing to cir-

culate it,” Owens said. “You can find it on Twitter if you use DuckDuckGo and look up, ‘George Floyd baggie.’ You can watch the clip yourself with your own eyes.

He had drugs on him at the time of his arrest.”

So what else has the media not shared about Floyd. Apparently, he has been a felon for some time – at least five times, beginning in 1998 with “theft with a firearm.”

For that he served 10 months.

And again, eight months in 2004, “for a cocaine offense.” And again for cocaine, he served another 10 months in 2005. Another 10 months for cocaine in 2007.

But the event that convinced Owens most that Floyd was not a good person, most certainly not the outstanding citizen to have T-shirts made and distributed in his name as a pillar of society representing the black community was when he and five others forced entry into a black pregnant woman’s home to rob her.

“George Floyd took out a gun and pressed it to her stomach. She was screaming, begging for her life and he put her inside of her living room and instructed one of his criminal friends that was with him to watch her, and to make sure she didn’t leave the living room…while they ransacked your (her) home looking for drugs and money,” Owens said.

Finding neither, they ended up taking her wallet and cellphone.

A neighbor, viewing some of the above, called in the license plate of the vehicle driven by Floyd, and he served a five-year sentence, his sixth, being released in 2014.

Owen’s was quick to note that even with a record people may deserve another chance. People make mistakes.

“But I do draw the line when it comes to second, third, fourth, fifth,

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hunt blacks disproportionately because they are black, she said, that it is, “complete smoke and mirrors!

It’s all made up! It’s just election fodder! It’s white versus black, because it’s an election year.”

We are allowing this myth “to inspire riots, riots in which black people are dying, in which actual upstanding black citizens are dying,” she said.

She referenced, 77-year-old David Dorn, a black retired police officer defending a black friend’s pawn shop, who was openly murdered by a black assailant.

With respect to black on black crime, which is the major problem in black communities that is never addressed by Democrat media or politicians.

“We blame white people. Right!

We only point a camera to white people when they do something, even though we do it at a higher rate to ourselves, right!” she said.

“And it works so well for keeping my people enslaved to the Democrat Party.”

So “if you want to hang up posters of criminals on your wall and talk about them as your martyrs, do it, do it, you can do it!” But “you’re not going to catch me outside, trying to grab a TV pretending it’s because a martyr named George Floyd got killed.”

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Board OKs fast study to find number of vacant jobs that can be chopped Paul J. Young CITY NEWS SERVICE

The Riverside County Board of Supervisors Tuesday, June 16, directed the Riverside County Executive Office to prepare a list of funded but vacant positions in every county agency to determine how many can be slashed from the rolls in light of looming budget woes.

“This is something that comes back over and over again,” Supervisor Jeff Hewitt, who proposed the review, said. “We don’t really know how a department is doing by the end of the year (in reducing costs tied to vacancies). Going forward, we need to keep it down to a small factor.”

On a 5-0 vote, the board directed the Executive Office to return with

a working list by next week’s meeting. Hewitt estimated there could be as many as 5,000 such designated but unfilled jobs within county government, meaning agencies are receiving money for salaries and benefits that is actually paying for equipment or covering other expenses.

With the county facing a $100 million deficit tied to the public health shutdowns that sapped economic activity amid the coronavirus pandemic, every penny needs to be accounted for, Hewitt said.

“We have positions that are created during severe budget constraints, and no positions are being eliminated,” Supervisor Kevin Jeffries said. “It’s the wrong optics for the board and county to maintain such a large number of employee positions and not be eliminating

those positions when they’re not necessary anymore.”

Jeffries said that vacant unfunded positions, which likely outnumber the vacant funded ones, are adding to confusion when appropriations are set for each agency.

“There’s value for everybody if we can go through and identify which ones to delete,” the supervisor said. “If a position is empty for six months, let’s get rid of it and move on.”

Sheriff Chad Bianco notified the board Monday, June 15, that in the current fiscal year, he had 334 vacant positions that are funded.

But with sheriff’s academies shut down because of COVID-19, the likelihood of getting them filled in the next year appeared slim.

“We need to focus on real posi-

tions, the ones that are necessary,” Supervisor Karen Spiegel said. “If a position comes up, and we need to add it for various reasons, then it comes to the board for consideration. I’m in favor of streamlining and being better aligned.”

County CEO George Johnson said he was “in full support of eliminating as many vacant positions as possible that are not needed.”

“It’s easiest to eliminate vacant unfunded positions, and then we find out which are vacant funded positions and how many of those should remain in a department’s budget,” he said.

Johnson has requested that department heads only fill “mission critical” jobs under the present economic conditions.

Board extends local emergency tied to protests City News Service SPECIAL TO VALLEY NEWS

The Riverside County Board of Supervisors extended a local emergency declared by Riverside County’s Emergency Management Department director over civil unrest that erupted amid a June 1 demonstration sparked by the in-custody death of George Floyd in Minnesota and long-simmering anger over instances of police brutality.

In a 5-0 vote without comment, the board authorized the state of local emergency to continue for

the balance of the month. Additional votes will be required in July to keep the declaration in effect.

“Over recent days, conditions of disaster or extreme peril to the safety of persons and property have occurred throughout California,” according to the emergency proclamation. “That such conditions of extreme peril to the safety of persons and property may arise within the county ... it is ordered that a local emergency exists throughout the county.”

No major protests have occurred since the first week of the month, with the biggest involving about

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sixth, seventh, eighth and ninth chances,” she said.

But Floyd was still breaking laws, dealing with counterfeiting, using fentanyl and methamphetamine when arrested in May 25, 2020.

None of this history justifies a police officer placing his knee on the prostrated victim’s neck causing his death. Nothing.

Still, “he was an example of a violent criminal his entire life. This does not mean that he deserves to die at the hands of police but it does mean that I am not going to play a part of the broken black culture that always wants to martyr criminals.

Who wants to pretend they were these upstanding human beings,” Owens said.

Owens was noticeably disturbed with Americas rush to judgement.

Few were willing to wait for other information before taking to the streets to burn, loot and riot each other.

“I did just basic searches,” she said, implying that anyone could know the same by doing a little homework.

George Floyd is a martyr for a fake narrative.

“Racially motivated police brutality is a myth,” Owens said.

She cited 2018 figures showing that violent white criminals have a 25% higher chance of dying from police than black violent criminals. Moreover, that nine unarmed blacks verses 19 unarmed whites were killed in 2018.

“Unfortunately, the black community…commit a disproportionate amount of crimes compared to the white community…black men, 6%, of the population, count for 44% of all murders in this country according to 2018 statistics,” she said.

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6,000 people in downtown Riverside, who were part of a Black Lives Matter demonstration condemning police tactics in the wake of Floyd’s death a week earlier.

Smaller and largely peaceful gatherings have occurred in Corona, Temecula, Palm Springs and other locations countywide.

The June 1 uprising in Riverside culminated in a clash with riot squads from the sheriff’s department and Riverside Police Department after fireworks were hurled and a crowd refused orders to disperse after a curfew took effect. There were seven arrests and

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showers and countertops are also offered. Yarrow provides window screen replacement, repair and rescreens as well.

As a musician and singer, he has given performances in local bands and played for schoolchildren at the Anza Valley Library. He serves as a volunteer with the Reading to the Rhythm program.

His offerings at the swap meet include kitchenware, collectibles, clothes, tools, knick knacks, framed art and more. Yarrow said he plans to sell these items and reduce his clutter footprint at home for many weeks.

a few minor injuries, according to law enforcement officials.

Several businesses were also vandalized, sustaining graffiti damage and broken windows.

The proclamation referenced the “looting, arson and destruction of personal and real property” in neighboring Los Angeles County as validation for ongoing concern in the Inland Empire.

The local emergency status permits the county to seek federal and state aid for riot-related impacts.

The outdoor market is held at the Anza Community Hall almost every Saturday, from 7 a.m. until about 1 p.m.

Shoppers and browers can visit Yarrow’s booth each Saturday and check out his latest items. He is available to chat about music, computers and screens as well.

For more information about the Anza Swap Meet, call 951-2824267 or find the Anza Community Hall Facebook page at http://www. facebook.com/AnzaCommunityBuildingInc. Diane Sieker can be reached by email at dsieker@reedermedia. com.

June 26, 2020 • www.anzavalleyoutlook.com • Anza Valley Outlook

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT F i le N umb er : R - 202005 29 8 T h e f ollowi ng p er so n( s) i s ( ar e) d oi ng b usi ness as: PURE DENTAL BILLING AND CONSULTING 8 3 29 1 T od os S antos Ave, C oach ella, C A 9 223 6 M ai li ng ad d r ess: P .O. B ox 1 3 8 8 , C oach ella, C A 9 223 6 C ounty: R i ver si d e Karen -- Dominguez, 83291 Todos Santos Ave, C oach ella, C A 9 223 6 T h i s b usi ness i s cond ucted b y an I nd i vi d ual R eg i st r ant h as not yet b eg un to tr ansa ct b usi ness under the fictitious name listed above I d eclar e th at all i nf or mati on i n th i s s tatement i s tr ue and cor r ect. ( A r eg i st r ant wh o d eclar es as tr ue any mater i al matter p ur su ant to S ecti on 1 7 9 1 3 of th e B usi ness and P r of essi ons C od e th at th e r eg i st r ant knows to b e f alse i s g ui lty of a mi sd emeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand d ollar s ( $ 1 ,000) .)

Registrant: Karen -- Dominguez Statement was filed with the County Clerk of R i ver si d e C ounty on 05 / 27 / 2020 NOTICE—IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBDIVISION (a) OF SECTION 17920, A FICTITIOUS NAME STATEMENT GENERALLY EXPIRES AT THE END OF FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE ON WHICH IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK, EXCEPT, AS PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION (b) OF SECTION 17920, WHERE IT EXPIRES 40 DAYS AFTER ANY CHANGE IN THE FACTS SET FORTH IN THE STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 17913 OTHER THAN A CHANGE IN THE RESIDENCE ADDRESS OF A REGISTERED OWNER. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THE EXPIRATION. THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT OF ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE, OR COMMON LAW (SEE SECTION 14411 ET SEQ., BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS CODE). I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS COPY IS A CORRECT COPY OF THE OR I G I N AL S T AT E M E N T ON F I L E I N M Y OF F I C E .

PETER ALDANA RIVERSIDE COUNTY CLERK. LEGAL: 3176 PUBLISHED: June 12, 19, 26, July 3, 2020

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT F i le N umb er : R - 202004 9 26 T h e f ollowi ng p er so n( s) i s ( ar e) d oi ng b usi ness as: ADVANCE CORE 1 1 8 8 9 M ag noli a Ave, R i ver si d e, C A 9 25 03 C ounty: R i ver si d e M anuel P r eci ad o C ontr er as , 5 1 4 S an Jaci nto C i r , C or ona, C A 9 28 7 9 T h i s b usi ness i s cond ucted b y an I nd i vi d ual R eg i st r ant commenced to tr ansa ct b usi ness und er the fictitious name listed above on 04/20/20 I d eclar e th at all i nf or mati on i n th i s st atement i s tr ue and cor r ect. ( A r eg i st r ant wh o d eclar es as tr ue any mater i al matter p ur su ant to S ecti on 1 7 9 1 3 of th e B usi ness and P r of essi ons C od e th at th e r eg i st r ant knows to b e f alse i s g ui lty of a mi sd emeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand d ollar s ( $ 1 ,000) .)

R eg i st r ant: M anuel P r eci ad o C ontr er as, owner Statement was filed with the County Clerk of R i ver si d e C ounty on 05 / 1 4 / 2020 NOTICE—IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBDIVISION (a) OF SECTION 17920, A FICTITIOUS NAME STATEMENT GENERALLY EXPIRES AT THE END OF FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE ON WHICH IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK, EXCEPT, AS PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION (b) OF SECTION 17920, WHERE IT EXPIRES 40 DAYS AFTER ANY CHANGE IN THE FACTS SET FORTH IN THE STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 17913 OTHER THAN A CHANGE IN THE RESIDENCE ADDRESS OF A REGISTERED OWNER. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THE EXPIRATION. THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT OF ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE, OR COMMON LAW (SEE SECTION 14411 ET SEQ., BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS CODE). I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS COPY IS A CORRECT COPY OF THE OR I G I N AL S T AT E M E N T ON F I L E I N M Y OF F I C E .

PETER ALDANA RIVERSIDE COUNTY CLERK. LEGAL: 3177 PUBLISHED: June 12, 19, 26, July 3, 2020

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT F i le N umb er : R - 202005 61 9 T h e f ollowi ng p er so n( s) i s ( ar e) d oi ng b usi ness as: FLUFFY BY NATURE PET GROOMING LLC 67 8 8 M oonr i ver S t., E ast vale, C A 9 1 7 5 2 C ounty: R i ver si d e Fluffy By Nature Pet Grooming LLC, 6788 M oonr i ver S t., E ast vale, C A 9 1 7 5 2 T h i s b usi ness i s cond ucted b y a L i mi ted L i ab i li ty C omp any T h i s L L C i s r eg i st er ed i n th e st ate of C A R eg i st r ant h as not yet b eg un to tr ansa ct b usi ness under the fictitious name listed above I d eclar e th at all i nf or mati on i n th i s st atement i s tr ue and cor r ect. ( A r eg i st r ant wh o d eclar es as tr ue any mater i al matter p ur su ant to S ecti on 1 7 9 1 3 of th e B usi ness and P r of essi ons C od e th at th e r eg i st r ant knows to b e f alse i s g ui lty of a mi sd emeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand d ollar s ( $ 1 ,000) .)

R eg i st r ant: L aB r ee B laxo n, M anag i ng M emb er Statement was filed with the County Clerk of R i ver si d e C ounty on 06/ 04 / 2020 NOTICE—IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBDIVISION (a) OF SECTION 17920, A FICTITIOUS NAME STATEMENT GENERALLY EXPIRES AT THE END OF FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE ON WHICH IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK, EXCEPT, AS PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION (b) OF SECTION 17920, WHERE IT EXPIRES 40 DAYS AFTER ANY CHANGE IN THE FACTS SET FORTH IN THE STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 17913 OTHER THAN A CHANGE IN THE RESIDENCE ADDRESS OF A REGISTERED OWNER. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THE EXPIRATION. THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT OF ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE, OR COMMON LAW (SEE SECTION 14411 ET SEQ., BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS CODE). I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS COPY IS A CORRECT COPY OF THE OR I G I N AL S T AT E M E N T ON F I L E I N M Y OF F I C E .

PETER ALDANA RIVERSIDE COUNTY CLERK. LEGAL: 3178 PUBLISHED: June 19, 26, July 3, 10, 2020

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT F i le N umb er : R - 202005 61 3 T h e f ollowi ng p er so n( s) i s ( ar e) d oi ng b usi ness as: TEMECULA VALLEY BUSINESS SERVICES, INC. 28 9 3 4 N ewp or t R oad , T emecula, C A 9 25 9 1 C ounty: R i ver si d e T emecula Valley B usi ness S er vi ces, I nc., 28 9 3 4 N ewp or t R oad , T emecula, C A 9 25 9 1 T h i s b usi ness i s cond ucted b y a C or p or ati on T h i s C or p or ati on i s r eg i st er ed i n th e st ate of C A R eg i st r ant commenced to tr ansa ct b usi ness und er the fictitious name listed above on March 2014 I d eclar e th at all i nf or mati on i n th i s st atement i s tr ue and cor r ect. ( A r eg i st r ant wh o d eclar es as tr ue any mater i al matter p ur su ant to S ecti on 1 7 9 1 3 of th e B usi ness and P r of essi ons C od e th at th e r eg i st r ant knows to b e f alse i s g ui lty of a mi sd emeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand d ollar s ( $ 1 ,000) .)

Registrant: Jill Weissgerber, President Statement was filed with the County Clerk of R i ver si d e C ounty on 06/ 04 / 2020 NOTICE—IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBDIVISION (a) OF SECTION 17920, A FICTITIOUS NAME STATEMENT GENERALLY EXPIRES AT THE END OF FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE ON WHICH IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK, EXCEPT, AS PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION (b) OF SECTION 17920, WHERE IT EXPIRES 40 DAYS AFTER ANY CHANGE IN THE FACTS SET FORTH IN THE STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 17913 OTHER THAN A CHANGE IN THE RESIDENCE ADDRESS OF A REGISTERED OWNER. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THE EXPIRATION. THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT OF ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE, OR COMMON LAW (SEE SECTION 14411 ET SEQ., BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS CODE). I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS COPY IS A CORRECT COPY OF THE OR I G I N AL S T AT E M E N T ON F I L E I N M Y OF F I C E .

PETER ALDANA RIVERSIDE COUNTY CLERK. LEGAL: 3179 PUBLISHED: June 19, 26, July 3, 10, 2020

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT F i le N umb er : R - 202005 5 8 4 T h e f ollowi ng p er so n( s) i s ( ar e) d oi ng b usi ness as: RANKNETICS 24518 Westhaven Ct, Murrieta, 92562 Mailing address: 24518 Westhaven Ct, Murrieta, 9 25 62 C ounty: R i ver si d e Jessica -- Marquez, 24518 Westhaven Ct, M ur r i eta, 9 25 62 T h i s b usi ness i s cond ucted b y an I nd i vi d ual R eg i st r ant h as not yet b eg un to tr ansa ct b usi ness under the fictitious name listed above I d eclar e th at all i nf or mati on i n th i s st atement i s tr ue and cor r ect. ( A r eg i st r ant wh o d eclar es as tr ue any mater i al matter p ur su ant to S ecti on 1 7 9 1 3 of th e B usi ness and P r of essi ons C od e th at th e r eg i st r ant knows to b e f alse i s g ui lty of a mi sd emeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand d ollar s ( $ 1 ,000) .)

R eg i st r ant: Jessi ca - - M ar q uez Statement was filed with the County Clerk of R i ver si d e C ounty on 06/ 04 / 2020 NOTICE—IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBDIVISION (a) OF SECTION 17920, A FICTITIOUS NAME STATEMENT GENERALLY EXPIRES AT THE END OF FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE ON WHICH IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK, EXCEPT, AS PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION (b) OF SECTION 17920, WHERE IT EXPIRES 40 DAYS AFTER ANY CHANGE IN THE FACTS SET FORTH IN THE STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 17913 OTHER THAN A CHANGE IN THE RESIDENCE ADDRESS OF A REGISTERED OWNER. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THE EXPIRATION. THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT OF ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE, OR COMMON LAW (SEE SECTION 14411 ET SEQ., BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS CODE). I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS COPY IS A CORRECT COPY OF THE OR I G I N AL S T AT E M E N T ON F I L E I N M Y OF F I C E .

PETER ALDANA RIVERSIDE COUNTY CLERK. LEGAL: 3180 PUBLISHED: June 19, 26, July 3, 10, 2020

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT F i le N umb er : R - 202006008 T h e f ollowi ng p er so n( s) i s ( ar e) d oi ng b usi ness as: NEIGHBOR HOME SOLUTIONS 60603 T ab le M ountai n R d , M ountai n C enter , C A 9 25 61 C ounty: R i ver si d e Kevin Matthew Landen, 60603 Table Mountain Rd, M ountai n C enter , C A 9 25 61 T h i s b usi ness i s cond ucted b y an I nd i vi d ual R eg i st r ant h as not yet b eg un to tr ansa ct b usi ness under the fictitious name listed above I d eclar e th at all i nf or mati on i n th i s st atement i s tr ue and cor r ect. ( A r eg i st r ant wh o d eclar es as tr ue any mater i al matter p ur su ant to S ecti on 1 7 9 1 3 of th e B usi ness and P r of essi ons C od e th at th e r eg i st r ant knows to b e f alse i s g ui lty of a mi sd emeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand d ollar s ( $ 1 ,000) .)

Registrant: Kevin M Landen Statement was filed with the County Clerk of R i ver si d e C ounty on 06/ 1 5 / 2020 NOTICE—IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBDIVISION (a) OF SECTION 17920, A FICTITIOUS NAME STATEMENT GENERALLY EXPIRES AT THE END OF FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE ON WHICH IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK, EXCEPT, AS PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION (b) OF SECTION 17920, WHERE IT EXPIRES 40 DAYS AFTER ANY CHANGE IN THE FACTS SET FORTH IN THE STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 17913 OTHER THAN A CHANGE IN THE RESIDENCE ADDRESS OF A REGISTERED OWNER. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THE EXPIRATION. THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT OF ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE, OR COMMON LAW (SEE SECTION 14411 ET SEQ., BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS CODE). I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS COPY IS A CORRECT COPY OF THE OR I G I N AL S T AT E M E N T ON F I L E I N M Y OF F I C E .

PETER ALDANA RIVERSIDE COUNTY CLERK. LEGAL: 3181 PUBLISHED: June 19, 26, July 3, 10, 2020

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT F i le N umb er : R - 202003 5 5 6 T h e f ollowi ng p er so n( s) i s ( ar e) d oi ng b usi ness as: THE STINKING LEAF 29 0 S an R af ael P lace, P alm S p r i ng s, C A 9 2262 C ounty: R i ver si d e C B D T h er ap euti cs L L C , 4 4 8 0 D uckh or n D r i ve, S acr amento, C A 9 5 8 3 4 T h i s b usi ness i s cond ucted b y a L i mi ted L i ab i li ty C omp any T h i s L L C i s r eg i st er ed i n th e st ate of C A R eg i st r ant h as not yet b eg un to tr ansa ct b usi ness under the fictitious name listed above I d eclar e th at all i nf or mati on i n th i s st atement i s tr ue and cor r ect. ( A r eg i st r ant wh o d eclar es as tr ue any mater i al matter p ur su ant to S ecti on 1 7 9 1 3 of th e B usi ness and P r of essi ons C od e th at th e r eg i st r ant knows to b e f alse i s g ui lty of a mi sd emeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand d ollar s ( $ 1 ,000) .)

R eg i st r ant: M i ch ael T od d P er nod , C OO Statement was filed with the County Clerk of R i ver si d e C ounty on 03 / 06/ 2020N OT I C E — IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBDIVISION (a) OF SECTION 17920, A FICTITIOUS NAME STATEMENT GENERALLY EXPIRES AT THE END OF FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE ON WHICH IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK, EXCEPT, AS PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION (b) OF SECTION 17920, WHERE IT EXPIRES 40 DAYS AFTER ANY CHANGE IN THE FACTS SET FORTH IN THE STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 17913 OTHER THAN A CHANGE IN THE RESIDENCE ADDRESS OF A REGISTERED OWNER. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THE EXPIRATION. THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT OF ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE, OR COMMON LAW (SEE SECTION 14411 ET SEQ., BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS CODE). I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS COPY IS A CORRECT COPY OF THE OR I G I N AL S T AT E M E N T ON F I L E I N M Y OF F I C E .

PETER ALDANA RIVERSIDE COUNTY CLERK. LEGAL: 3166 PUBLISHED: March 27, April 3, 10, 17, 2020 Republished: June 19, 26, July 3, 10, 2020 Address of business was missing the full street name in the original publication.

CHANGE OF NAME ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME C ase N umb er : M C C 2000204 T O AL L I N T E R E S T E D P E R S ON S P eti ti oner : VERGEEN SHEMOIEAL MOSHI F i led a p eti ti on wi th th i s cour t f or a d ecr ee ch ang i ng names as f ollows: P r ese nt N ame: VERGEEN SHEMOIEAL MOSHI P r op ose d N ame: FERGIN MOSHI THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested i n th i s matter ap p ear b ef or e th i s cour t at th e h ear i ng i nd i cated b elow to sh ow cause , i f any, wh y th e p eti ti on f or ch ang e of name sh ould not b e g r anted . Any p er so n ob j ecti ng to th e name ch ang es described above must file a written objection that i nclud es th e r eas ons f or th e ob j ecti on at least two cour t d ays b ef or e th e matter i s sch ed uled to b e h ear d and must ap p ear at th e h ear i ng to sh ow cause wh y th e p eti ti on sh ould not b e g r anted . I f no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant th e p eti ti on wi th out a h ear i ng .

NOTICE OF HEARING D ate: 7 - 9 - 20 T i me: 9 : 3 0 D ep t: S 1 01 T h e ad d r ess of th e cour t: S outh west Just i ce C enter 3 07 5 5 - D Auld R oad , S ui te 1 226, M ur r i eta, C A 9 25 63 A cop y of th i s Or d er to S h ow C ause sh all b e p ub li sh ed at least once each week f or f our su ccessi ve weeks p r i or to th e d ate se t f or h ear i ng on th e p eti ti on i n th e f ollowi ng newsp ap er of g ener al ci r culati on, p r i nted i n th i s county: Anza Valley Outlook D ate: JAN 27 2020 S i g ned : B r ad ley O. S nell, Jud g e of th e S up er i or C our t LEGAL: 3182 PUBLISHED: June 19, 26, July 3, 10, 2020

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT F i le N umb er : R - 202005 65 1 T h e f ollowi ng p er so n( s) i s ( ar e) d oi ng b usi ness as: TVC 4 3 3 3 9 B usi ness P ar k D r i ve, S te. 1 05 , T emecula, C A 9 25 9 0 C ounty: R i ver si d e T emecula Valley C ommuni cati ons , I nc., 4 3 3 3 9 B us i nes s P ar k D r i ve, S te. 1 05 , T emecula, C A 9 25 9 0 T h i s b usi ness i s cond ucted b y a C or p or ati on T h i s C or p or ati on i s r eg i s ter ed i n th e st ate of C ali f or ni a R eg i st r ant commenced to tr ansa ct b usi ness und er the fictitious name listed above on 01/03/2003 I d eclar e th at all i nf or mati on i n th i s st atement i s tr ue and cor r ect. ( A r eg i st r ant wh o d eclar es as tr ue any mater i al matter p ur su ant to S ecti on 1 7 9 1 3 of th e B usi ness and P r of essi ons C od e th at th e r eg i st r ant knows to b e f alse i s g ui lty of a mi sd emeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand d ollar s ( $ 1 ,000) .)

Registrant: Wendy Lesovsky, President Statement was filed with the County Clerk of R i ver si d e C ounty on 06/ 04 / 2020 NOTICE—IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBDIVISION (a) OF SECTION 17920, A FICTITIOUS NAME STATEMENT GENERALLY EXPIRES AT THE END OF FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE ON WHICH IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK, EXCEPT, AS PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION (b) OF SECTION 17920, WHERE IT EXPIRES 40 DAYS AFTER ANY CHANGE IN THE FACTS SET FORTH IN THE STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 17913 OTHER THAN A CHANGE IN THE RESIDENCE ADDRESS OF A REGISTERED OWNER. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THE EXPIRATION. THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT OF ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE, OR COMMON LAW (SEE SECTION 14411 ET SEQ., BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS CODE). I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS COPY IS A CORRECT COPY OF THE OR I G I N AL S T AT E M E N T ON F I L E I N M Y OF F I C E .

PETER ALDANA RIVERSIDE COUNTY CLERK. LEGAL: 3183 PUBLISHED: June 26, July 3, 10, 17, 2020

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