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Pala Today News – 3/10/25

Written by John Fox on March 10, 2025

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LOCAL AND REGIONAL NEWS

There was a fatal pedestrian accident in Escondido Saturday. It happened just before midnight in the 1100 block of East Washington Avenue. The unidentified victim died at Palomar Hospital. The driver of the vehicle involved remained at the scene, cooperated with police and was not arrested or cited. https://www.10news.com/news/local-news/escondido-police-pedestrian-hit-by-vehicle-on-east-washington-ave-killed

A pedestrian died in Encinitas Sunday evening after being struck by a vehicle at about 6p. The collision was on Jupiter Street near North Coast Highway. No further details available. https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2025/03/09/pedestrian-dies-after-being-struck-by-vehicle-in-encinitas/

Sheriff’s deputies are searching for a vehicle involved in a hit-and-run collision that seriously injured a motorcyclist Saturday night in San Marcos. The crash occurred near the intersection of South Rancho Santa Fe Road and Lake San Marcos Drive about 10:30p. Paramedics transported the rider, who was found “down in the roadway,” to a hospital with serious injuries. https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2025/03/09/investigators-seeking-sedan-involved-in-serious-san-marcos-collision/

The city of Carlsbad has approved the installation of five traffic circles at intersections in the downtown area to help control traffic and reduce speeding. The circles will be at the intersections of Pine and Madison, Pine and Harding, Chestnut and Roosevelt, Chestnut and Madison, and Oak and Jefferson. Construction is expected to begin next year. Aging water and sewer infrastructure will be relocated and improved before the traffic circles go in. https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2025/03/10/carlsbad-approves-5-traffic-circles-for-downtown-barrio-neighborhood/

Four local water districts signed a mutual services agreement last month. They are the Fallbrook Public Utility District, the Rainbow Municipal Water District, the Yuima Municipal Water District in Pauma Valley, and the Valley Center Municipal Water District. All four are traditionally predominantly agricultural districts now transitioning into a higher percentage of residential and industrial use. The aim is to reduce costs by combining resources and tasks. Cooperation between the four has been under discussion for about 15 years, and was held up by the proposed merger of Fallbrook and Rainbow districts and their detachment from the San Diego Water Authority, which was completed last year. https://www.villagenews.com/story/2025/03/06/news/water-districts-approve-four-agency-mutual-services-agreement/78285.html

One more nice weather day, then rain the rest of the week in Pala, ending just in time for the weekend. The full forecast is coming up. (below)

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SPORTS

In the NBA – The Clippers had a pair of wins over the weekend, beating the visiting Knicks 105-95 Friday and the Kings 111-110 in overtime yesterday thanks to a hook shot by Kawhi Leonard at the buzzer. The Lakers lost 111-101 in Boston Saturday. The second-place Lakers now fall to 12 games behind first place Oklahoma City, who’ve now won 7 in a row including a 127-103 rout at Denver yesterday. The Clippers are still in 8^th place, but now have a 1 ½ game lead over 9^th-place Sacramento. Yesterday’s other winners were Phoenix, Memphis, Philadelphia, Cleveland, Minnesota and Detroit.

Free agent Mo Bamba has agreed to a ten-day contract with New Orleans. The 26-year old center spent time with Orlando, the Lakers and the 76ers in his first seven years in the NBA since being drafted #6 in 2018. He signed a one-year deal with the Clippers before this season and appeared in 28 games before being traded to Utah along with P.J. Tucker. The Jazz waived Bamba and he played three games for New Orleans’ G League affiliate where he averaged 20 points and 13.3 rebounds per game. https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/44193603/7-foot-center-mo-bamba-signs-10-day-contract-pelicans

In college hoops – #7 Alabama pulled off a huge upset of #1 Auburn 93-91 in overtime Saturday. All the rest of the top-ranked teams down through #11 Clemson won. Unranked Penn State beat #12 Wisconsin 86-75. #19 Kentucky upset #15 Missouri 91-83. UCLA routed USC 90-63. San Diego State topped Nevada 80-61, putting the Aztecs in post season play. Their first bracket game will be against Xavier. UCSD beat UC Davis 68-57. https://www.espn.com/espn/feature/story/_/page/bracketology/ncaa-bracketology-2025-march-madness-men-field-predictions

In the NHL – The Kings topped the visiting Blues 2-1 in overtime Saturday, then edged the Golden Knights in Vegas yesterday 6-5. The Ducks routed the Islanders in New York 4-1. Yesterday’s other winners were New Jersey, Washington, Pittsburgh, Carolina, Columbus, and Dallas.

In minor league hockey – the San Diego Gulls outlasted the Reign in Ontario Friday 3-2 in overtime and beat them again at Pechanga Arena Saturday 5-3. The Gulls next game is Friday hosting Colorado.

In Major League Baseball – exhibition games, the Giants beat the Padres 7-4, the Angels topped Cincinnati, and the Dodgers lost to the A’s 7-5 yesterday. Today, the Padres host the Reds, the Angels host Colorado, and the Dodgers hot the Diamondbacks.

In Major League Soccer – LAFC lost 5-2 to Seattle and San Diego FC beat Real Salt Lake 3-1 Saturday. The LA Galaxy was shut out 3-0 by St. Louis City SC yesterday.

In Lacrosse – The San Diego Seals beat Vancouver 13-11 Friday at Pechanga Arena. Their next game is Sunday hosting Las Vegas with a Native American Heritage tribute.

In Rugby – The San Diego Legion beat RFCLA in the season opener Saturday. Their next game is hosting Miami, Saturday, March 22 at USD’s Torero Stadium. https://stats.majorleague.rugby/fixtures/

In the NFL – All-Pro rusher Myles Garrett is getting a record four-year contract extension with Cleveland, making him the highest-paid non-quarterback ever at $40m per year. https://apnews.com/article/browns-myles-garrett-909c0fe9163342e21c06b0d65c3fa0d3

In golf – At the Arnold Palmer Invitational in Orlando, Russell Henley was the winner at 11 under par 277. https://www.espn.com/golf/leaderboard

In racing – Christopher Bell won the NASCAR Cup race Sunday at Phoenix. That’s a three-peat for Bell. Three NASCAR Cup races this season – three wins for Bell. https://www.espn.com/golf/leaderboard

In local high school sports:

Bonsall – boys’ volleyball hosting Fallbrook at 5:15p

Great Oak – boys’ golf at Martin Luther King at 3p

Fallbrook – JV baseball at Clairemont at 3p; boys’ golf hosting Mission Vista at Golf Club of America at 4:10p; boys’ lacrosse hosting Del Lago Academy at 7p

Valley Center – varsity baseball hosting Fallbrook at 3:30p; boys’ tennis at Orange Glen at 3:30p

BUSINE$$

As of midday trading on Wall Street, stocks were down sharply. The Dow fell 1 ½%. The S&P 500 was down 2 ½%. And the Nasdaq was off by 3.9%, putting it in correction territory. Comex gold fell $13.90 an ounce to $2,900.20. West Texas Intermediate Crude oil futures were down 67 cents to $66.27 a barrel.

Beijing imposed retaliatory tariffs against US imports to China today. In Canada, the province of Ontario has raised the price of electricity exported to Minnesota, Michigan, and New York by 25% with a threat to shut off power exports to the US completely if the trade war escalates. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-03-10/ontario-raises-electricity-price-by-25-for-minnesota-michigan-and-new-york?srnd=homepage-americas

Results of a study released today by Simplify LLC show that California is the most expensive state in which to start a business, followed by New York and Hawaii. Wages here are the fourth highest. Electricity is the second highest. And there are more business regulations needing compliance in California than any other state. Rent and corporate income tax are also in the highest one third of states. 25.6m Americans started their own businesses over the past five years, according to the Census Bureau. About 20% of new businesses fail within the first year. The least expensive state in which to start a business is Utah, followed by South Dakota, and Colorado. All of the top ten least expensive states are in the mountain, prairie and upper Midwest states. https://www.simplifyllc.com/most-and-least-expensive-states-to-start-a-business-2025/

Former Canadian Central banker Mark Carney has won nearly 86% of the Liberal party vote to become its leader and possible next Prime Minister of Canada, replacing Justin Trudeau. Carney also steered the Bank of England through Brexit. But he’s never held political office before. The Canadian national election is in October. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-03-10/carney-gets-to-work-in-ottawa-as-election-drumbeat-grows-louder?srnd=homepage-americas

After doubling in value from the November election through December, stock in Tesla has now fallen to almost where it was immediately after the election. Yet it’s still far above the market cap of the world’s other big automotive and tech companies. According to Reuters, Tesla’s EV business accounts for almost all of its revenue, but less than a quarter of its market value. The rest of its worth is based on hopes for autonomous vehicles and claims by CEO Elon Musk that Tesla is actually and more importantly an artificial intelligence pioneer. Both of which have yet to happen for Tesla, while other companies have pushed ahead in those areas. https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/teslas-stock-defied-gravity-years-is-elon-musks-ev-party-over-2025-03-10/

CVS plans to open 12 new mini-stores, each with a full-service pharmacy and healthcare products, but no broader consumer goods like groceries, makeup and gift items. Most of CVS’s sales last year were from its pharmacy departments. https://www.entrepreneur.com/business-news/cvs-is-opening-12-mini-stores-focused-on-pharmacy-health/488240

Walgreens announced last week that it will end nearly a century of being a publicly-traded company and be acquired by the private equity firm, Sycamore Partners. https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/10/business/walgreens-private-equity-risky/index.html

LIFESTYLE / GREEN LIVING

Over the weekend at the movies, the sci-fi thriller, “Mickey 17” debuted in first place, selling $19.1m worth of tickets – about twice as many as “Captain America: Brave New World”, which has finally dropped to second place after four weeks. “Last Breath” sold $4.2m in its sophomore weekend, good for third place. Limited releases “Rule Breakers”, “Night of the Zoopocalypse”, and “In the Lost Lands” opened in 9^th through 11^th place. The total for this weekend’s Top Ten movies was up a little from last weekend, which was the slowest weekend for movies so far this year. https://www.boxofficemojo.com/weekend/2025W10/

On this day in music history – March 10,

1958, Big Records released “Our Song” by Tom and Jerry, a teenage singing duo from Queens. In the 60s the two changed their stage names to their real names, Simon & Garfunkel.
In 1962, Bruce Channel began the first of three weeks at #1 with “Hey! Baby” which included a harmonica riff by Delbert McClinton. During their tour of the UK that year, McClinton met John Lennon and gave him some harmonica tips, which he immediately put to good use on The Beatles’ first single, “Love Me Do”.
In 1964, exactly six years to the day since the release of Tom & Jerry’s “Our Song”, Paul Simon & Art Garfunkel recorded an acoustic version of “The Sounds of Silence”. When the record company, without Paul and Art’s knowledge re-released it over a year later with electric guitar, bass, and drums it became a hit in late 1965.
In 1977, at the offices of A&M Records, the Sex Pistols celebrated their signing by trashing the label’s posh London offices, insulting and threatening executives and having their way with female fans in the loo. Their contract was cancelled six days later.
In 1979, Gloria Gaynor began the first of three weeks at #1 with “I Will Survive”. It was originally the B-side of her cover of The Righteous Brothers song, “Substitute”.
In 1988, The Bee Gees’ younger brother Andy Gibb died of heart complications following a long battle with cocaine addiction.
In 1996, at the 25^th Juno Awards in Canada, native daughter Alanis Morissette won Best Album for “Jagged Little Pill”, Best Female Singer, Best Rock Album, Best Songwriter, and Best Single.
In 2000, leader of The Pretenders, Chrissie Hynde was arrested for leading an animal rights protest against The Gap in Manhattan for selling leather goods from cattle allegedly slaughtered “illegally and cruelly”.
In 2003, Dixie Chicks lead singer Natalie Maines told a concert audience in London that the band was ashamed that President Bush hailed from her hometown of Lubbock, Texas. The comment led to outrage among many Americans and a backlash by country music fans against the Dixie Chicks.
In 2010, Pink Floyd won a court battle to prevent EMI Records from selling single download ringtones of the band’s music.

Born on this day …

In 1940, Dean Torrance from Jan & Dean, pioneers of the California Sound and vocal surf music.
In 1947, Tom Scholz, guitar and keyboardist for Boston.
In 1963, Jeff Ament, bass player for Pearl Jam
In 1964, singer and songwriter Neneh Cherry who had the 1988 hit “Buffalo Stance”.
In 1966, singer with the New Bohemians, Edie Brickell
In 1977, singer-songwriter Robin Thicke who had a #1 hit for 12 weeks with “Blurred Lines”. His parents are actors Gloria Loring and Alan Thicke.
In 1983, 4^th season American Idol winner and now, country music star Carrie Underwood.

https://www.thisdayinmusic.com/search/?keyword=&date=10&month=3

Other celebrity anniversaries today …

Actor Chuck Norris is 85
Actress Katherine Houghton, who played the daughter of her real-life aunt, Katherine Hepburn in “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner?” is 80
Actress Sharon Stone is 67
Actor Jon Hamm, best known as Don Draper in “Mad Men” is 54
Actress Olivia Wilde is 41
Comedienne Ego Nwodim from SNL is 37

http://www.davesfunstuff.com/a-mb/2080-date0310.htm

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WEATHER

Pala Weather – sunny with a high of 75 this afternoon … 30% chance of rain beginning tonight … 62 for the high with an 80% chance of up to a quarter inch of rain tomorrow … 65 with winds gusting up to 25 miles an hour and a 50% chance of up to a tenth of an inch of rain Wednesday … 57 with rain Thursday … partly sunny and 59 with a chance of showers Friday afternoon … partly sunny and 64 Saturday … 69 Sunday … overnight lows, about 44 tonight through Wednesday night … 35 Thursday night … 40 Friday night … 42 Saturday night

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