Pala Today News – 3/21/25
Written by John Fox on March 21, 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
As a result of the National Transportation Safety Board’s investigation following the deadly collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Maryland, the NTSB has identified seven California bridges also at risk of collapse if hit by a ship. They include the Golden Gate Bridge and the Coronado Bay Bridge. A total of 68 bridges were identified nationwide by the NTSB report. Responsible local agencies must now produce annual risk assessment reports for the listed bridges. https://patch.com/california/across-ca/risk-collapse-evaluation-ordered-7-california-bridges
A small helicopter crashed near French Valley Airport yesterday afternoon, landing on its side and leaving its pilot with minor injuries. It happened around 1p near Auld and Briggs Roads. About ten gallons of aviation fuel spilled from the 26-gallon fuel tank. The FAA was dispatched for a preliminary investigation. The NTSB will take over the probe in a few days. https://www.pressenterprise.com/2025/03/20/helicopter-crashes-near-french-valley-airport/
San Diego Sheriff’s deputies are investigating an unreported death with the body allegedly buried on property in the 29000 block of Paso Robles Road in Valley Center. Responding deputies found what appeared to be a fresh grave just before 6p last evening. https://www.10news.com/news/local-news/san-diego-county-sheriffs-detectives-investigate-death-of-person-buried-on-valley-center-property
A Fallbrook couple and an Oceanside man were arrested Wednesday for their part in a drug trafficking conspiracy that allegedly used 9 and 11-year-old children to grow and distribute psilocybin mushrooms at locations in Fallbrook and Bonsall. Prosecutors say the three attempted to destroy evidence by deleting texts and taking down websites used to sell the drugs, which were also allegedly marketed to children. The couple, 42-year old Randal Vance and 41-year old Rebecca Vance are being held without bail. 33-year old Keir Ceballos-Rivera is due in court for a detention hearing next week. https://www.10news.com/news/local-news/3-north-county-residents-accused-of-using-kids-to-help-grow-and-sell-drugs
A 22-year old Texas man was struck and killed while walking along Ynez Road just south of Overland Drive in Temecula Wednesday evening just after 9p. It’s unclear whether Gavin Ladue was walking in traffic, crossing the street or walking along one of the wide shoulders when he was hit. The unidentified driver of the vehicle involved stopped, cooperated with investigators and was not arrested. Ladue died 45 minutes later at Inland Valley Medical Center. https://patch.com/california/temecula/coroner-ids-victim-temecula-pedestrian-struck-overland-ynez
Services for Pala’s Donna Dominguez are tomorrow at 9a at Kish Hati Wenet on Pala Mission Road just east of Highway 76. Burial to follow at Pala Cemetery with lunch at Pala Admin building.
Antonio Garra Day is tomorrow in Old Town San Diego State Historic Park. Rez Radio will broadcast live from the event from noon to 4p. Bird song groups scheduled to perform include the Pal Atingva Singers, led by Rez Radio’s Elijah Duro.
Pala will have high temperatures around 80 through the weekend, climbing into the 90s on Monday. Not to worry. Spring, which only officially began yesterday isn’t over yet. Highs will be back in the mid-70s by the end of next week. 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 NBA – The visiting Bucks embarrassed the Lakers 118-89. Bronny James had a season-high 17 points for LA. Charlotte over the Knicks 115-98. Golden Stated topped the visiting Raptors 117-114. Bulls over the Kings in Sacramento 128-116. And the Pacers over the Nets 105-99 in overtime. Ten games tonight including the Clippers hosting Memphis.
In college hoops – 12th seeded UCSD ended their first-ever appearance in the NCAA tournament with a first-round loss to 5th seeded Michigan 68-65. Other first-round winners were Houston, Auburn, Tennessee, St. John’s, Wisconsin, Texas Tech, Purdue, Texas A&M, McNeese, BYU, Arkansas, UCLA, Creighton, Gonzaga, and in the biggest upset of the day, 11th seeded Drake over 6th seed Missouri 67-57.
In the NHL – A full schedule last night. The winners were Colorado, Calgary, Toronto, Washington, Anaheim, Tampa Bay, LA, Utah, Vegas, San Jose, and in four overtime games, Florida, St. Louis, Winnipeg and the New York Islanders. Joining the Sharks earlier this week, the Blackhawks have been eliminated from playoff contention. And the Washington Capitals became the first team to clinch the playoffs. They lead the Metropolitan division with 100 points. https://www.espn.com/nhl/standings
In minor league hockey – the San Diego Gulls next game is tonight for the first of two games at Henderson.
In Major League Baseball – exhibition games, the Padres beat the Rangers 5-3. The White Sox edged the Angels 2-1. The Padres play the Cubs today at 1p. The Angels-Rangers game is already underway. Another Angels squad plays the Rockies at 1p. The Dodgers don’t play again until the traditional freeway series with the Angels.
In Major League Soccer – The Galaxy are at Minnesota Untied, and LAFC is at Sporting Kansas City tomorrow. San Diego is at Austin on Sunday.
In Lacrosse – The San Diego Seals play at Calgary tomorrow.
In Rugby – The San Diego Legion’s next game is tomorrow hosting Miami at USD’s Torero Stadium. https://stats.majorleague.rugby/fixtures/
In the NFL – Free agent quarterback Aaron Rodgers is meeting with Steelers’ coaches in Pittsburgh today. https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/44344702/free-agent-qb-aaron-rodgers-visits-steelers-sources-say
In golf – At the Valspar Championship teed in Palm Harbor, Florida, midway through the second round, Ryo Hisatune and Viktor Hovland were in the clubhouse at 5 under par. Jacob Bridgeman and Nico Echavarria were still on the front nine at 5-under. https://www.espn.com/golf/leaderboard
In racing – NASCAR Cup racing at Homestead-Miami Speedway this Sunday.
In local high school sports:
Bonsall – softball at La Jolla at 4p
Great Oak – boys’ JV tennis at Murrieta Valley at 3:15p; softball and freshman and JV baseball against Temecula Valley at 3:30p, JV softball hosting, the rest away; Tomorrow – baseball against Fountain Valley at 11a, JV and freshmen hosting, varsity away
Fallbrook – swimming & diving hosting Mission Hills at 3:30p; JV softball hosting Hilltop at 3:30p; track & field at Orange Glen at 3:45p; varsity softball at San Dieguito Academy at 4p; boys’ volleyball at Ramona at 4p; girls’ JV lacrosse at Chaparral at 4p; boys’ varsity lacrosse at University City at 7p; Tomorrow – swimming & diving hosting the Fallbrook Invitational at 9a; JV softball hosting San Ysidro at 10a
Valley Center – girls’ varsity lacrosse at Tri-City Christian at 3:30p; boys’ varsity tennis at Santa Fe Christian at 3:30p; swimming at Escondido at 3:45p; varsity baseball at Kearny at 4p; softball at El Camino at 4p; Tomorrow – track & field at the Falcon Invitational at Torrey Pines at 10a; baseball hosting Fallbrook at 10:30a; boys’ lacrosse at Francis Parker at 7p
BUSINE$$
As of midday trading on Wall Street, stocks were mixed and will probably finish the week with a slight gain. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down a tenth of a percent. The S&P 500 was off by two tenths. And the Nasdaq was up a small fraction. Gold traded $24.80 lower on the Comex at $3,020. West Texas Intermediate Crude oil futures were up 15 cents to $68.22 a barrel.
A fire at an electrical substation supplying power to Heathrow Airport in London forced its closure today. More than 1,300 flights are expected to be impacted, involving “upwards of 145k passengers.” Air travel worldwide could be chaotic for the next week as the industry copes with the closure of the world’s fourth-largest airport. Some flights at Heathrow could resume later today. https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/21/business/heathrow-airport-closure-disruption-losses-hnk-intl/index.html
Boeing stock has been turning around lately as the aircraft company edged out Lockheed for a $20b jet fighter contract. But its troubles from recent years aren’t over. The family of a former Boeing quality control manager who killed himself just over a year ago after lawyers grilled him for days about his whistleblowing on alleged jumbo jet defects has sued the company for his wrongful death. The suit seeks unspecified amounts for emotional distress and mental anguish, back pay, ten years of lost future earnings and bonuses, health expenses and lost life insurance benefits. www.marketwatch.com https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/21/business/boeing-whistleblower-family-lawsuit-death-intl/index.html
DoorDash is partnering with financial company, Klarna to allow customers to buy now and pay later (BNPL). It’s a growing trend in the retail sector for smaller and smaller purchases as people try to match spending to paycheck schedules. The DoorDash plan launches soon and will allow four interest-free or deferred payments. BNPL providers make their money by charging merchants between 1 ½% and 7% of the transaction price. Economists and consumer advocates say the widespread use of BNPL services with little transparency or regulatory oversight leaves questions over just how much additional debt Americans are getting themselves into. https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/21/business/doordash-klarna-buy-now-pay-later-partnership/index.html
Retail gasoline prices have fallen slowly over the past month, but haven’t changed much this week. The average price for a gallon of regular in San Diego County today is $4.63. In Riverside County, it’s $4.48. Nationwide, the average price is $3.10. Today’s lowest local price is $3.83 at La Jolla Trading Post. In Riverside County, it’s $4.29 at Temecula and Murrieta Costcos and at Murrieta Sam’s Club. https://www.movieinsider.com/movies/march/2025?view=list
LIFESTYLE / GREEN LIVING
This weekend in movie theaters, there are five new wide releases. The combination live-action and CGI remake of “Snow White” stars Gal Gadot. The gangster drama “The Alto Knights” stars Robert DiNiro. There’s a comedy-drama called “Bob Trevino Likes It”, a drama about an amateur body builder – “Magazine Dreams”, and a sci-fi-horror-thriller “Ash”. https://www.movieinsider.com/movies/march/2025?view=list
About 1k fired National Park Service employees are getting their jobs back under court orders. They include rangers, law enforcement officers, firefighters, and other critical positions. All had been fired on February 14 as part of DOGE waste-cutting. All were permanent workers who had yet to finish their probationary employment period. https://www.latimes.com/lifestyle/story/2025-03-20/park-rangers-who-lost-job-doge-cuts-reinstated?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=topic/politics
Is everybody happy? That depends on where you live. The annual World Happiness Report for 2025 dropped yesterday. It ranks 140 countries for quality of life and contentment. Finland is the perennial #1, with all Scandinavian countries scoring high. Denmark was #2, followed by Iceland, Sweden, Netherlands, Costa Rica, Norway and Israel. Mexico was #10. The US dropped to its lowest spot ever on the list at #24. We peaked at #11 in 2012. Afghanistan is once again at the bottom of the list, just below Sierra Leone and Lebannon. One of the big takeaways from this year’s report is that people are kinder and more generous that is widely believed and much of it is because of the pandemic. https://apnews.com/article/world-happiness-report-ranking-finland-afghanistan-us-b41c1712448762d98fe9e4f80233c15f
On this day in music history – March 21
- In 1956, Elvis Presley played a concert at the 4k seat YMCA Gym in Lexington, North Carolina. Also on the bill, Mother Maybelle and the Carter Sisters. Tickets were $1.
- In 1961, The Beatles played their first-ever evening show at The Cavern Club in Liverpool as the opening act for The Swinging Bluegenes (spelling later changed to Blue Jeans) who went on to have just one Top 40 hit in the U.S. – “Hippy Hippy Shake” peaked at #24.
- Exactly three years later, in 1964, The Beatles’ “I Want to Hold Your Hand” was just finishing seven weeks at #1 as their next hit, “She Loves You” was beginning the first of two weeks at #1.
- In 1971, Led Zeppelin were in the middle of their “Back to the Clubs” tour of smaller venues. This was the first tour in which they performed “Stairway to Heaven”, “Black Dog” and “Going to California”. Shows generally opened with “Immigrant Song” and “Heartbreaker”.
- In 1973, the BBC banned all teenybopper acts from the TV show, “Top of the Pops” after a riot broke out following an appearance by David Cassidy from American TV’s “The Partridge Family”.
- In 1976, David Bowie and Iggy Pop were busted for possession of a little over 6 ounces of pot in one of their hotel rooms following a Bowie concert in Rochester, New York. They spent the night in jail and were released on $2k bail each the next morning.
- In 1981, REO Speedwagon was at #1 with “Keep On Loving You”.
- In 1984, it was the official opening of the part of New York’s Central Park named Strawberry Fields in honor of John Lennon.
- In 1991, Leo Fender, creator of the Telecaster and Stratocaster guitars died from Parkinson’s disease. He began mass-producing solid body electric guitars in the late 1940s. By the time he sold the company in 1965, sales were over $40m per year.
- In 1994, Bruce Springsteen won an Oscar for the song “Streets of Philadelphia”.
- In 2001, Michael Jackson’s interior decorator told The Times newspaper the singer kept 17 life-size dolls, adult and child sizes, all fully dressed in his bedroom for “company”.
- In 2006, three South African women whose father wrote “The Lion Sleeps Tonight” won a six-year court battle to get 25% of all past and future royalties for the song. Solomon Linda wrote the song in 1939, received almost nothing for it and died in 1962 with $25 in the bank. His song had earned others $15m for its use in the Disney film “The Lion King” alone.
- In 2016, a rare 10-inch acetate disc recording by The Beatles of “Till There Was You”, backed with “Hello Little Girl” sold at auction for about $100k. It’s the oldest known disc recording by the group. It had been found in the attic of Les Maguire, keyboardist for fellow Liverpool group, Gerry & The Pacemakers.
Born on this day …
- In 1940, songwriter Chip Taylor, best known for writing “Angel of the Morning” and “Wild Thing” which became a huge hit for The Troggs. His songs have been covered by Janis Joplin, Anne Murray, Jimmy Hendrix, Chrissie Hynde, Linda Ronstadt and others.
- Also in 1940, preacher and singer Solomon Burke who had a #1 R&B hit in 1965 with “Got To Get You Off My Mind”.
- In 1945, Rosemary Stone, singer and pianist for Sly and The Family Stone.
- In 1946, Ray Dorset, singer, songwriter and founder of Mungo Jerry, who had the 1970 hit, “In the Summertime”
- In 1949, Eddie Money
- In 1950, Roger Hodgson, singer/songwriter for Supertramp. He wrote and sang lead on most of their biggest hits including “Dreamer”, “Give a Little Bit”, “Logical Song”, and “Breakfast in America”.
- In 1951, Russell Thompkins from the Philadelphia soul group, The Stylistics who had a #2 hit in 1974 with “You Make Me Feel Brand New”.
- Also in 1951, Conrad Lozano, bass player with Los Lobos.
- In 1967, Jonas Berggren, guitar and keyboardist with Ace of Bass who had hits in the 90s with “All That She Wants” and “The Sign”.
https://www.thisdayinmusic.com/
Other celebrity anniversaries today …
- Actor Timothy Dalton, the fourth James Bond, who replaced Roger Moore is 79
- Actor Gary Oldman is 67
- Ferris Buehler himself – actor Matthew Broderick is 63
- So is comedienne Rosie O’Donnell
- Among those who’ve passed, actor James Coco was born in 1930
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WEATHER
Pala Weather – sunny with a high of 80 this afternoon … 78 tomorrow … 80 again Sunday … 91.3 degrees Monday … 85 Tuesday … patchy fog clearing to mostly sunny and 80 Wednesday … 77 Thursday … overnight lows, about 47 tonight and tomorrow night … 50 Sunday night … 52 Monday night … about 50 Tuesday and Wednesday night
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