Pala Today News – 4/19/24

Written by John Fox on April 19, 2024

The following items are part of the award-winning “Pala Today” newscast heard this day at noon on PALA REZ RADIO™ 91.3 FM in Pala.

In any emergency, knowledge is power. Use our resources to leverage your family’s safety. Email 91.3@palatribe.com to subscribe to our daily M-F e-newsletter. Follow us at www.facebook.com/rezradio and www.twitter.com/rezradioFM . Additional resources at Palatribe.com

LOCAL AND REGIONAL NEWS

North County Fire Protection District dedicated its new advanced life-support ambulance April 10 at Fallbrook Fire Station #1. Fallbrook has had only had three ambulances for decades. In spite of mutual aid from adjacent communities, a fourth was needed to cut long transport times over the 90-square miles served locally, including the increasingly-crowded I-15. Add to that, since the cut in services and eventual closure of Fallbrook Hospital, the nearest hospitals are now Temecula Valley, Tri-City in Vista, and Palomar in Escondido. The advanced ambulance has a long list of specialized tools and supplies beyond that of a regular ambulance. https://www.villagenews.com/story/2024/04/18/news/new-ambulance-now-in-service/75898.html

As reported in the Valley Roadrunner – The Valley Center Fire Protection District board has voted 3-2 to seek a 20-year $3 million loan to pay for installing the temporary fire Station 3 on Cole Grade Road. There was heated discussion before the split vote, with outgoing director Michael O’Connor—in his last meeting as a director due to his early retirement— saying it was fiscally irresponsible to seek such a loan, which will have an annual payment of $250,000, https://www.valleycenter.com/articles/divided-fire-board-votes-to-borrow-3m-to-fund-station-3/

At Wednesday’s Temecula Planning Commission meeting, plans were unanimously approved to demolish the vacant Claim Jumper Restaurant on Rancho California Road across from the Duck Pond and replace it with two buildings – an Ono Hawaiian BBQ restaurant and a Better Buzz Coffee Roasters. The project includes drive-through lanes for both businesses. Only one person spoke in opposition, by letter requesting something more upscale for the high-visibility location. https://patch.com/california/temecula/plans-approved-prime-spot-rancho-california-ynez-roads

An accident on southbound I-15 at French Valley Parkway yesterday afternoon at 3:14p involving two vehicles snarled early rush hour traffic. All lanes were blocked for a time with traffic backed up to between Murrieta Hot Springs and California Oaks Roads. All lanes were reopened by 4:30p. No word on injuries to occupants of the two vehicles. https://patch.com/california/temecula/plans-approved-prime-spot-rancho-california-ynez-roads

About 500 SDG&E customers in Escondido lost power at 4:41 this morning. It’s expected to be restored by 3p this afternoon. https://www.sdge.com/residential/customer-service/outage-center/outage-map

Lots of activities this weekend. Among them, the annual Cupa Gathering at Warner’s Ranch on San Felipe Road is tomorrow at 10a to offer a prayer to ancestors.

The Fallbrook Avocado Festival is Sunday from 9a to 5p all over downtown Fallbrook with traditional contests and activities, hundreds of vendors, free entertainment, a beer and wine garden. Details at the Fallbrook Chamber of Commerce website. www.FallbrookChamberOfCommerce.org

The 101^st staging of the Ramona Pageant opens this weekend and continues the next two weekends at Ramona Bowl in Hemet. California’s official outdoor play based on Helen Hunt Jackson’s novel telling the fictional story of two Native American lovers in late-1800s Southern California weaves in references to real conflicts between Natives and settlers 150 years ago. The website for more information is www.TheRamonaBowl.com . Tickets are available online from eTix.

The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival wraps up this weekend at the Indio Polo Grounds.

High temperatures in Pala will warm from the mid-70s today to the mid-80s Sunday, then drop about 20 degrees by Thursday. The full forecast is coming up. (below)

COVID-19 BULLETIN BOARD AND RESOURCE LISTINGS – has moved to the end of this newsletter

Mass at Pala Mission Church is broadcast live on Rez Radio 91.3 and streamed live on the Rez Radio App every Sunday at 8a.

SPORTS

In the NBA – No games yesterday. The play-ins conclude tonight with Chicago at Miami at 4p on ESPN and Sacramento at New Orleans at 6:30p on TNT. The winners become the 8^th seeds for the East and West conferences in the playoffs, which begin tomorrow. Among tomorrow’s four games, the Lakers are at Denver at 5:30p on ABC. On Sunday, the Clippers host Dallas at 12:30p, also on ABC.

Iowa basketball star Caitlin Clark is about to sign an eight-figure contract … but not to play basketball. It’s an endorsement deal with Nike. Of course, it’s because she plays basketball. But for that she’s only going to get paid a base rookie salary of $76k a year with the Indiana Fever. That’s in the WNBA’s collective bargaining agreement. Other women players are equally underpaid compared to men playing for the NBA. Women get 50% of league revenue, the same as the NBA. But the women’s league doesn’t make nearly as much as the men’s and it’s “incremental revenue” whose targets grow by 20% annually. With WNBA revenue failing to hit those targets in 2022, player salaries were only 9.3% of league revenue, according to Bloomberg News. The players’ union is expected to opt out of the current bargaining agreement next year just as new TV contracts are being negotiated, which is where Caitlin Clark comes in. She brought record-setting ratings to college basketball and to this year’s draft. Thanks at least in part to her presence in the WNBA, the current $60m television deal is expected to at least double. As the saying goes, rising waters lift all ships. www.morningbrew.com

In Major League Baseball – Only four games played yesterday. Tampa Bay edged the Angels 2-1. Texas over Detroit 9-7. Cleveland took Boston 5-4. And San Francisco shut out Arizona 5-0. The Marlins against the Cubs in Chicago was rained out. Today, the Angels open a weekend series in Cincinnati, the Dodgers host the Yankees. And the Padres host Toronto.

In the minors – The Lake Elsinore Storm won 7-6 last night over Visalia. Game 4 of 6 is tonight in Lake Elsinore.

In the NHL – The regular season ended last night. The Kings won their final game 5-4 in overtime against the visiting Blackhawks. Anaheim topped Vegas 4-1. Other winners were Seattle, Winnipeg, Calgary, and Colorado. The playoffs begin tomorrow with the New York Islanders at Carolina and Toronto at Boston. Four more first-round opening games on Sunday. Vegas and LA’s first games aren’t until Monday.

The minor league San Diego Gulls next game is tomorrow at Coachella Valley.

In Soccer – LAFC’s next game is tomorrow hosting the New York Red Bulls. The Galaxy hosts San Jose on Sunday.

In the minors – The San Diego Sockers begin a 2-game playoff series against Chihuahua on the road tonight.

In the NFL – This year’s draft begins one week from today. The Chargers, with the #5 overall pick are calling themselves the team with the top pick, since the four teams ahead of them – Chicago, Washington, New England, and whoever Arizona trades with, if they trade away their pick, are all expected to go for quarterbacks. At #5, the Chargers will be going for the best-player-available. LA general manager Joe Hortiz and coach Jim Harbaugh both say, it will take an incredible offer for them to trade away that #5 pick. https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/39970897/chargers-gm-need-attractive-offer-trade-no-5-pick

In Lacrosse – The San Diego Seals next game is tonight hosting Vancouver.

In Rugby – The San Diego Legion’s next game is Sunday hosting the Utah Warriors.

In Golf – At the RBC Heritage Tournament in Hilton Head, South Carolina, with half the field still on the course, four golfers were tied at 11-under par, with yesterday’s leader, J.T. Poston still on the back nine. The others, Tom Hoge, Sepp Straka, and Collin Morikawa had all finished their round 2. https://www.espn.com/golf/leaderboard

In racing – The Grand Prix of Long Beach is Sunday. NASCAR Cup at Talladega, also on Sunday.

In Local High School sports …

Bonsall – baseball at Bayfront Charter at 4p

Great Oak – varsity track & field at the Mt. SAC Relays all day today and tomorrow; boys’ varsity tennis in the league finals at Murrieta Tennis Club at 10:30a today

Fallbrook – swimming & diving at Ramona at 3:30p; gymnastics at Westview at 3:30p; track & field at Escondido at 3:45p; baseball against Westview at 4p, JV hosting, varsity away; boys’ volleyball at Clairmont at 4:30; girls’ lacrosse hosting Westview at 5:30p; boys’ lacrosse at Rancho Bernardo at 7p; Tomorrow – boys’ volleyball at Del Lago at 9a; swimming at the Iron Man Relays at Coggan Family Aquatic Center at 9a

Valley Center – track & field at Escondido at 3:30p; swimming hosting Pacific Ridge at 4p; boys’ lacrosse hosting Mt. Carmel at 7p; girls’ lacrosse at Sage Creek at 7p; Tomorrow – baseball against El Camino at 10:30a, JV hosting, varsity away; varsity softball against Mira Mesa at Rancho Bernardo at 11a

BUSINE$$

As of midday trading on Wall Street, stocks were very mixed. The Dow was up 2 tenths of a percent. The S&P 500 was down 8 tenths. The broader NASDAQ was down 1 ¾%. Gold gained $9 on the Comex to $2,407 an ounce. Oil futures were up 21 cents to $82.94 for the benchmark West Texas Intermediate Crude.

Unemployment in San Diego County decreased last month to 4.4%. It was 4.8% in February. March’s numbers compare to the unadjusted rate of 5.3% for California and 3.9% nationwide for last month. https://patch.com/california/san-diego/unemployment-decreases-4-4-san-diego-county

Hyundai has become the latest company to pause advertising on X. The move came one day after an ad for the automaker appeared on the social media platform next to an anti-Semitic and pro-Hitler post. X claims to have suspended the account that made the post. But as of this morning, the account was still up with the user writing in its bio, “Twitter forced me to delete my bio because it stated: END JEWISH SUPREMACY” (the quote included all-caps). The account is under review. According to X, Hyundai failed to activate Brand Safety settings which would have made sure its ads didn’t run alongside posts that a company might find distasteful. https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/18/business/hyundai-pause-advertising-x-antisemitism/index.html

Commercial real estate foreclosures are on the rise – more than double the number at this time last year. There were 625 of them in March. 187 of those were in California. That California figure is a 400% jump from the previous year. Well over $900b worth of commercial real estate loans will mature this year. About $1.5 trillion in commercial mortgage debt is due by the end of 2025. But the market is struggling with higher interest rates and declining demand for office space as more companies allow employees to work from home. Another complication is that most commercial real estate credit comes from small and regional banks, who’ve drastically restricted their lending practices following the recent failures of Silicon Valley Bank and others. https://www.foxbusiness.com/economy/commercial-real-estate-foreclosures-jumped-march-trouble-looms

LIFESTYLE / GREEN LIVING

New this weekend at the movies, six wide releases. None of them are expected to do huge business. One is the suspense/horror/thriller “Abigail”. “The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare” is a historical World War II drama starring Guy Ritchie and Cary Elwes. The are a couple of comedies – “Villains Inc.” and “Sasquatch Sunset”. “Hard Miles” is a coming of age sports film about a coach at a medium security correctional school. And “Wildfire: The Legend of the Cherokee Ghost Horse” is a family drama made about two years ago starring the late Anne Heche. https://www.movieinsider.com/movies/april/2024?view=list

Several movie theater stocks are doing well lately. Among them, Cinemark, which got an upgrade last week by Wells Fargo to “buy” status. AMC stock isn’t as popular due to its significant debt and negative equity. But even it is on the rise and doing much better than last year. Its net rating from 8 analysts is minus-1. https://www.thestreet.com/memestocks/amc/why-cinemark-stock-got-a-double-upgrade-from-wall-street-but-not-amc-stock

Taylor Swift’s 11^th studio album, “The Tortured Poets Department” has been released. Dedicated fans were up all night downloading the 31 tracks on the new double album. https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/18/business/economic-sales-new-album-taylor-swift/index.html

On this day in music history – April 19,

1965, The “T.A.M.I. Show” film opened in theaters. The initials stand for Teen-Age Music International. It featured The Rolling Stones, Supremes, Four Tops, James Brown, Beach Boys and Smokey Robinson & The Miracles.
On the same day, The Beatles’ latest single, “Ticket to Ride” was released by Capitol Records. The label stated that it was from the upcoming movie “Eight Arms to Hold You”. The movie’s title had yet to be changed to the name under which it would eventually be released, “Help!”
In 1968, John Lennon, George Harrison and their wives left the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi’s ashram in India two weeks ahead of schedule. Ringo and Paul had already left. It turned out not to be everything they thought it would be on several levels.
In 1969, a group called Smile played at the Revolution Club in London. Later that year, they changed their name to Queen.
In 1974, Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band appeared at an unadvertised gig at the State Theater in New Brunswick, New Jersey. The promoter thought word of mouth would be good enough. The 550-seat theater was only half full. One year later, they’d have been turning away thousands of fans.
Lots of things happened on this day in 1980. R.E.M played their first show under that name at a small club in Athens, Georgia.
On the same day, Blondie went to #1 with “Call Me”, featured in the Richard Gere movie, “American Gigolo”.
32-year old English singer Brian Johnson joined Australian group AC/DC to replace lead singer Bon Scott who died after a drinking binge two months earlier.
And also in 1980, for the first time ever, the top five songs on the country music chart were all by women – Crystal Gayle at #1, followed by Dottie West, Debbie Boone, Emmylou Harris, and Tammy Wynette.
In 1985, Bryan Adams became the first Canadian artist to have a million-selling album in Canada. Six singles were released from the album, “Reckless”, “Run to You”, “Somebody”, “Heaven”, “Summer of ‘69”, “One Night Love Affair”, and “It’s Only Love”. All six made the Top 15 on the US singles chart.
In 1986, Prince began the first of two weeks at #1 with “Kiss”. The #2 song that week was “Manic Monday” by The Bangles, which was also written by Prince.
In 2012, drummer, singer and multi-instrumentalist with The Band, Levon Helm died of throat cancer at the age of 71.
In 2014, The White House refused to comment on a campaign to get Justin Bieber deported. About 275k people had signed an online petition calling for the 20-year old Canadian citizen to be 86’d after being arrested for DUI and illegal street racing.

Born on this day …

In 1934, novelty songwriter Dickie Goodman who had the 1970’s hit, “Mr. Jaws”
In 1942, keyboardist with The Animals, Alan Price, and South African music producer and engineer Eddie Kramer
In 1943, Scottish singer Eve Graham from The New Seekers
In 1944, Bernie Worrell, composer and keyboardist with Parliament-Funkadelic
In 1947, Mark Volman from The Turtles. He was also Flo in Flo & Eddie.
In 1956, singer Tony Martin, who was lead singer for Black Sabbath after Ozzy Osbourne
In 1966, producer and executive with Death Row Records, Marion “Suge” Knight

https://www.thisdayinmusic.com/search/?keyword=&date=19&month=4

Other celebrities with birthdays or birthday anniversaries today …

Elinor Donahue, best known as older daughter, Betty on TV’s “Father Knows Best” is 87
Tim Curry, best-known as the Sweet Transvestite, Dr. Frank-n-Furter in “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” is 78. He also had a minor hit record with “I Do The Rock” in 1979. It peaked at #91.
Actress Ashley Judd is 56
Actor Hayden Christensen, who played Anakin Skywalker in “Star Wars” episodes II and III is 43
Comedienne and actress Ali Wong is 42
Among those who’ve passed, movie actress Constance Talmadge was born in 1900
Singer and comedian Frank Fontaine, who played Crazy Guggenheim on The Jackie Gleason Show was born in 1920
Actor Dick Sargent – the second Darrin on TV’s “Bewitched” was born in 1933
Actor Dudley Moore was born in 1935

http://www.davesfunstuff.com/a-mb/2080-date0419.htm

Programming on Rez Radio 91.3 is made possible in part by the Pala Band of Mission Indians and donations from listeners like you. Call 760 742 4200 or email 91.3@palatribe.com for details on contributing to community radio in Pala.

Call the Pala Fire Department at 760 742 1632 before starting any open fires to get the day’s Cal Fire and APCD recommendations. Fire Department permits are required for any burning on Pala tribal land.

Pala seniors’ lunch menu for Monday (4/22) – country fried steak, red potatoes, vegetables and dessert

The Pala Band of Mission Indians has employment opportunities including full time and part time. For a list, go to http://www.palatribe.com/community/jobs/

Friend/like us on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/RezRadio for the lighter side. Follow us on Twitter http://twitter.com/RezRadioFM for news updates.

Listen to Rez Radio just about anywhere and access all Rez Radio assets with the free Rez Radio App, available at Google Play and the Apple Store.

A transcript of this newscast will be available at our website, www.RezRadio.FM and on the Rez Radio App an hour or two after broadcast.

WEATHER

Pala Weather – mostly sunny with a high of 73 and winds gusting up to 20 miles an hour this afternoon … cloudy mornings with gradual clearing and a high of 77 tomorrow … sunny and 85 Sunday … patchy night and morning fog, clearing to sunny and 79 Monday … partly sunny and 72 Tuesday … 70 Wednesday … 66 Thursday … overnight lows, 48 tonight … 51 tomorrow night … 53 Sunday night … 51 Monday night … 48 Tuesday and Wednesday nights

(click HERE for current conditions in Pala)

LISTEN TO REZ RADIO

Rez Radio Website – Listen to Rez Radio 91.3 through your browser at RezRadio.fm.

iHeartRadio Website – Listen to Rez Radio 91.3 through your browser at iHeart.com.

iHeartRadio Apps – Download the free iHeartRadio music app for iOS, Android, Windows, and participating car, home, and portable devices. Once the app has been downloaded, search for “Rez Radio” and save us as your favorite.

TuneIn Website – Listen to Rez Radio 91.3 through your browser at Tunein.com.

TuneIn Apps – Download the free TuneIn music app for iOS, Android, Windows, and participating car, home, and portable devices. Once the app has been downloaded, search for “Rez Radio” and save us as your favorite.

AudioNow – Provided by AudioNow, listen to Rez Radio 91.3 anywhere there is phone service by dialing (712) 775-5748. There is no cost for the service, but calls will use mobile plan minutes. If you’re calling from a landline, normal long distance charges will apply.

The Community Events and Casino Corner portions of this newsletter can be heard three times daily Mon-Sun on Rez Radio, at 7:25a, 12:25p (in Pala Today M-F), and at 5:25p as the “Pala Community Calendar”. Submit items for the calendar to 91.3@palatribe.com at least a week before the event.

You can view the events on the Calendar page.

SHOWS

You can find a wide-range of Pala Rez Radio programming at www.RezRadio.FM

RESOURCES

The Pala Band of Mission Indians and Rez Radio gathered this list of resources as a courtesy and offers no guarantee of accuracy. Please contact us if you find an error or if any link needs to be updated.

Check out the list of information on our Resources page.