Pala Today News – 1/8/25
Written by John Fox on January 8, 2025
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.
LOCAL AND REGIONAL NEWS
SDG&E has activated Public Safety Power Shutoffs affecting about 7k customers. About half of them are in Valley Center, Pauma Valley, Rincon and Warner Springs. Most of the rest are in Julian, Alpine and Campo. Tens of thousands of other have been warned of impending PSPS outages including all of Pala anytime now through Friday. https://www.sdge.com/residential/customer-service/outage-center/outage-map
Southern California Edison currently has 107 outages with almost 70k affected customers. There are active shutoffs in the DeLuz and La Cresta areas. Parts of Menifee bordered roughly by Briggs Road, Scott Road, Domenigoni Parkway and Diamond Valley Lake are also off. Parts of southern Temecula and areas east of the city are being warned of potential shutoffs. https://www.sce.com/outage-center/check-outage-status
San Diego and Riverside County have been spared any serious fires so far. But LA County has three major fires burning totaling more than 23k acres. Two people are dead and more than a thousand homes destroyed. 13k more are threatened. The most devastating are the Palisades and Eaton Fires in Pacific Palisades and Altadena/Sierra Madre. 30k people are under mandatory evacuation orders. Well over 10k more are under warnings. Bulldozers had to be brought in to clear cars locked and abandoned by evacuees on Palisades Drive to make way for fire equipment. Other smaller fires have started from blowing embers including one in Brentwood just before noon. Part of the reason there’s been so much damage is that it’s been too windy for firefighting aircraft to fly. https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents
There was a 3 ½ acre fire near Wynola Road in Julian around noon yesterday. No structures were threatened and it was knocked down in about an hour. Investigators say it was started by a spark from a mower. Fire were also quickly put out west of I-15 and south of Miramar Road and along northbound I-15 near Adams Avenue in Kensington yesterday afternoon. Each burned less than an acre. https://www.10news.com/news/local-news/fire-crews-quickly-contain-small-brush-fires-in-kensington-miramar
22-year old Micah Chazz Harris of Temecula was charged yesterday for the murder of Aaron Bowers early Saturday at a home on Josheroo Court. He’s the one who called authorities to report the shooting. Harris is being held in French Valley jail pending $1m bail. https://patch.com/california/temecula/temecula-suspect-answer-felony-charges-josheroo-court-shooting
A reminder that tomorrow is a Presidentially declared National Day of Mourning as we take time to honor President Jimmy Carter. The Post Office, US Federal Courts and the stock market will be closed. There will be no mail delivery. Though all federal employees will have the day off, because it is not a national holiday, banks are not required to close. UPS and FedEx are expected to be doing business as usual. US flags will continue to be flown at half mast for 30 days following President Carter’s death at the age of 100 on December 29.
Warnings currently in effect from the National Weather Service include a High Wind Warning through this evening and a Red Flag Warning for heightened fire danger through tomorrow evening. The full forecast is coming up. (below)
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 NFL – The league is monitoring the major wildfires in LA to see if they’ll need to alter plans for Monday’s wild card playoff game between the Rams and Vikings at SoFi Stadium. https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/43336438/nfl-monitoring-los-angeles-wildfires-ahead-vikings-rams
In college football –The Orange Bowl College Football Playoff Semifinal is tomorrow with #7 Notre Dame at #6 Penn State. The other semifinal is Friday – #8 Ohio State is at #5 Texas. The winners of those games meet Monday, January 20 in the championship game.
In the NBA – The Mavericks beat the Lakers 118-97 in Dallas. Other winners last night included Charlotte, Houston, Minnesota, Atlanta, Boston and Miami.
Clippers star Kawhi Leonard flew to LA last night to be with family evacuated ahead of wildfires. The Clippers play at Denver tonight. https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/43337396/sources-clippers-kawhi-leonard-joins-evacuated-family-la
In college hoops – #8 Florida pulled off a major upset, routing undefeated #1 Tennessee 73-43 last night. #2 Auburn beat Texas 87-82. Other Top ranked teams including Iowa State, Marquette and Mississippi State all won against unranked opponents. But unranked Georgia knocked off #6 Kentucky 82-69. #22 UCLA fell to #24 Michigan 94-75.
In the NHL – A full schedule last night. Calgary edged the Ducks in overtime in Anaheim 3-2. Two other overtime games – Detroit over Ottawa 3-2 and Dallas beat the Rangers in New York 5-4. Other winners were Columbus, Tampa Bay, Toronto, Minnesota, Winnipeg, Vegas, and Edmonton over Boston in a 40 shutout.
In Major League Baseball – Last month, John Seidler, son of late Padres owner Peter Seidler was said to be the organization’s choice to take over as new control person pending league approval. Over the weekend, Seidler’s widow and mother of three with him, Sheel Seidler filed suit, accusing Seidler’s siblings, Matt and Robert of “fiduciary breaches of trust, fraud, conversion and egregious acts of self-dealing” as trustees and executors of Peter’s estate. She also claims her late husband wanted to make her the Padres’ control person and that John may be part of efforts to sell and possibly relocate the team. Matt Seidler yesterday called the claims, especially about moving the team, laughable. https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/43329598/brother-late-padres-owner-pushes-back-widow-lawsuit-allegations
In Lacrosse – The San Diego Seals next game is this Friday in Vancouver.
In local high school sports:
Bonsall – girls’ basketball hosting San Ysidro at 5p; boys’ basketball hosting Chula Vista Learning Community Charter at 6p
Great Oak –basketball and soccer against Murrieta Valley at 4p – girls’ hosting, boys’ away; girls’ water polo at Vista Murrieta at 5p;
Fallbrook – no schedule available
Valley Center – girls’ soccer hosting Classical Academy at 4p
BUSINE$$
As of midday trading on Wall Street, stocks were mixed. The Dow was up a tenth of a percent. The S&P 500 was up a small fraction. The Nasdaq was down more than a tenth. Gold gained $10.60 on the Comex, trading at $2,676 an ounce. West Texas Intermediate Crude oil futures are down 80 cents at $73.45 a barrel.
Children’s Hospital of Orange County and Rady Children’s Hospital in Kearny Mesa today announced a merger. The new combined health care system will go under the Rady Children’s Health name. The merger has been in the works for just over a year. https://patch.com/california/san-diego/rady-childrens-childrens-hospital-orange-county-finalize-merger
Mark Zuckerberg’s bombshell announcement that Meta will do away with fact-checking partnerships, calling them “too politically biased” is getting heated response from those fact-checkers including companies like Lead Stories and Check Your Fact. They object to Zuckerberg’s assertion that their work was biased. They’re saying that even if the system which downranked posts deemed false or missing context was flawed, it at least had professional input. Lead Stories’ CEO said that, “Without fact checking on Meta, disinfo spreaders will be partying like it’s 2016.” Meta’s new Community Notes system, modeled on X’s program, relies on unpaid users with differing viewpoints to agree on corrective notes for misleading content, regardless of the facts. https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/08/media/fact-checkers-meta-zuckerberg-facebook-bias/index.html
President-elect Donald Trump said in a media conference yesterday that he will change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to “the Gulf of America”. Since you never know how serious Trump is when he says something, we’ll have to see how this one pans out. But watch out, New Mexico. He also wants to buy Greenland and didn’t rule out using military force in Panama. https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump-promises-to-rename-gulf-of-mexico-in-bonkers-rant/
The former head of failed movie-ticket subscription service, MoviePass has pleaded guilty to security fraud and conspiracy charges. Theodore Farnsworth now faces up to 25 years in prison. MoviePass offered customers a $9.95 per month subscription that allowed them to see unlimited movies in theaters. Farnsworth and former MoviePass CEO J. Mitchell Lowe are accused of knowing their business model was unsustainable, but used the pitch to inflate the company’s stock price. Lowe pleaded guilty in September and will be sentenced in March. He faces a maximum of five years in prison. https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/08/business/moviepass-former-ceo-guilty-theodore-farnsworth/index.html
LIFESTYLE / GREEN LIVING
41% of employers expect to downsize their workforce by 2030 as a result of artificial intelligence, according to a World Economic Forum survey. 77% said they plan to reskill and upskill current workers over the next five years to better work with AI. Unlike previous jobs reports, this one did not say that most sectors are expecting “a net positive” for jobs numbers. Postal service clerks, executive secretaries and payroll clerks are among jobs employers expect to experience the sharpest declines. https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/08/business/ai-job-losses-by-2030-intl/index.html
On this day in music history – January 8,
- 2016, American R&B and soul singer Otis Clay died aged 73.
- Also in 2016, David Bowie released his twenty-fifth and final studio album Blackstar, coinciding with his 69th birthday and two days before his death. It became his first and only album to reach No.1 on the Billboard 200 album chart in the US. At the 59th Annual Grammy Awards, the album won awards for Best Alternative Music Album; Best Engineered Album; Best Recording Package, and the title single won Best Rock Performance, and Best Rock Song. The album was also awarded the British Album of the Year award at the 2017 Brit Awards.
- In 2014 It was reported that vinyl record sales had increased 32% in 2013, while CD sales declined 14.5% in the last last year, vinyl sales grew 32% from 4.5 million units sold in 2012 to 6 million sold in 2013, according to Nielsen SoundScan.
- In 2004, the estate of George Harrison started a $10 million legal action against Dr Gilbert Lederman of Staten Island University Hospital, claiming the doctor coerced an extremely sick Harrison to sign his son’s guitar and autographs for his two daughters.
- In 2001, a woman who believed that Axl Rose communicated with her via telepathy was arrested for stalking the Guns N’ Rosessinger for a second time. Police detained Karen Jane McNeil after she was spotted loitering outside his house.
- In 2000, it was reported that police foiled a $1.7million kidnap plot to snatch Spice Girl, Victoria Beckhamand her baby son. The plot was uncovered after a tip-off to the police. The gang had planned to kidnap the pair while husband David was away playing football.
- In 1996, A Los Angeles court found Robert Hoskins guilty of five counts of stalking, assault and making terrorist threats to Madonna. Hoskins had twice scaled the walls of the singer’s estate and had threatened to slash her throat from ear to ear.
- In 1991, Steve Clark, guitarist with Def Leppard, was found dead at his Chelsea flat by his girlfriend, after a night of heavy alcohol consumption combined with prescription drugs. The autopsy revealed he had died from an overdose of codeine and had Valium, morphine and a blood alcohol level of .30, three times the British legal driving limit.
- In 1979, Canadian rock band Rush were named that country’s official Ambassadors Of Music by the Canadian government. Industry sources estimate their total worldwide album sales at over 42 million.
- In 1972, The New Seekers were at No.1 on the British singles chart with ‘I’d Like To Teach The World To Sing, (in Perfect Harmony’). The song started as a TV ad for Coca-Cola. It originally included the line, ‘I’d like to buy the world a Coke.’
- In 1969, Mick Jaggerand Keith Richards were both barred from an exclusive hotel for wearing “op art” pants and nothing else. They were both asked to leave the Hotel Crillen in Lima, Peru after refusing to change clothes.
- In 1966, The Beatles started six weeks at No.1 on the album chart with Rubber Soulthe group’s seventh US chart-topper, which went on to spend 56 weeks on the chart. Rubber Soul was the group’s first release not to feature their name on the cover. The group also started a three-week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with ‘We Can Work It Out’ the group’s 11th US No.1 single in less than two years.
- In 1958, The Everly Brothers kicked off a 17 date North American tour at the Coliseum in Charlotte, North Carolina. Also on the bill, Buddy Holly, The Rays, Royal Teens, Shepherd Sisters, Paul Anka, Margie Rayburn and Danny & The Juniors.
Born on this day …
- In 1969, American singer, writer, and producer R. Kelly
- In 1959, Australian musician and television personality Paul Hester. He was the drummer for the band Split Enz for a year, and co-founding member and drummer for the band Crowded House.
- In 1948, Paul King, from Mungo Jerry, who had the 1970 No.3 single ‘In The Summertime’
- In 1947, English singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer, painter and actor, David Bowie.
- In 1946, American guitarist and founding member of the rock band The Doors, Robbie Krieger
- In 1945, Terry Sylvester, guitar, vocals for the Swinging Blue Jeans and The Hollies, (joined in 1969).
- In 1943, Lee Jackson, bass player and vocalist from English progressive rock band The Nice
- In 1943, Marcus Hutson, singer with American group The Whispers who had the 1980 single ‘And The Beat Goes On’.
- In 1941, Anthony Gourdine from Little Anthony and the Imperials who had the 1958 million-seller #4 single ‘Tears On My Pillow’.
- In 1937, Welsh singer Shirley Bassey, known for the theme from the movie “Goldfinger” and a cover of The Beatles’ “Something”.
- In 1935, American singer, musician and actor Elvis Aaron Presley,
https://www.thisdayinmusic.com/
Other celebrity anniversaries today …
- Michelle Forbes from The Hunger Games is 60.
- Game show host and former DJ Bob Eubanks is 87
- Amber Benson from Buffy the Vampire Slayer is 48
- Childhood actress, Gaby Hoffman from Field of Dreams and Uncle Buck is 43
- Among those who’ve passed, former CBS “Sunday Morning” host and newsman Charles Osgood was born in 1933. He passed away last January.
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 tomorrow (1/9) – grilled pork chops, mashed potatoes, vegetables and dessert
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WEATHER
Pala Weather – sunny and 72 today with wind gusts up to 60 miles an hour … a National Weather Service High Wind Warning is in effect through this evening … a Red Flag Fire Warning is also in effect now through tomorrow evening … patchy blowing dust is possible both days … the high tomorrow will be 74 … sunny and 72 with calm winds Friday … 70 Saturday and Sunday … 68 Monday and Tuesday … overnight lows, about 43 tonight and tomorrow night … upper 30s the rest of the week
PROGRAMMING
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.
FIRE PERMITS
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
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