Pala Today News – 3/31/25

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

The San Diego County Coroner has released information about a nine-year-old girl who died hours after undergoing a procedure at a Vista dental office.  She’d been under general anesthesia March 18, spent time in a recovery room and was later discharged and taken home by her mother.  She slept during the drive home and was carried to bed where family checked on her throughout the day.  She was found unresponsive during a check.  A 9-1-1 call resulted in her transport to Rady Children’s Hospital where she was pronounced dead.  The dental office is cooperating with the county medical examiner’s investigation. https://www.10news.com/news/local-news/medical-examiners-office-girl-9-dies-after-procedure-at-vista-dental-office

A helicopter experiencing engine problems made an emergency landing Sunday afternoon just north of Escondido.  Both people on board the private aircraft were uninjured after it touched down a little before 2:20p on North Centre City Parkway near Jesmond Dene Road.  The helicopter landed in an area where North Centre City Parkway runs next to and parallel to Interstate 15.  The response caused traffic issues on the freeway for several hours.  https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2025/03/30/helicopter-makes-emergency-landing-on-roadway-near-escondido/

A proposal to designate Oceanside’s Ivey Ranch Park as a state or national historic site has divided park users and local Native Americans who see the property as part of their heritage.  More than 50 people addressed the Oceanside City Council when it considered the proposal last Wednesday.  Most of the speakers were employees, clients and volunteers at the park’s equestrian center who fear the designation could end the center’s therapeutic riding programs for people with disabilities. https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2025/03/31/at-tribes-urging-oceanside-to-consider-historic-designation-for-ivey-ranch-park/

President Trump and Governor Newsom don’t agree on much.  But the two are united in efforts to make sure the power California Coastal Commission doesn’t get in the way of rebuilding after the recent LA wildfires.  The commission consists of 12 voting commissioners and three non-voting members. The governor, Senate Rules Committee and the Assembly speaker each appoint four voting commissioners.

Bottom of Form  The New York Times reported the Trump administration threatened to withhold wildfire rebuilding aid unless the state defunds the commission.  And Democrats in the Legislature are trying to reduce the commission’s “authority over housing redevelopment.”  Newsom even defended Trump ally Elon Musk, when the commission denied a SpaceX request to launch more rockets from Vandenberg Air Force Base, which actually is federal property.  https://www.pressenterprise.com/2025/03/30/trump-and-newsom-unite-over-coastal-commission/

 

There were a couple of small SDG&E power outages locally this morning.  One in north Vista caused by a traffic accident at about 7a affected a couple hundred customers.  That one was expected to have been fixed by now.  Another in Pala at 8a may have just affected just one or two homes.  https://www.sdge.com/residential/customer-service/outage-center/outage-map

Only a few areas including La Jolla, Palomar Mountain, Ramona and Lake Wohlford had more than a tenth of an inch of rain last night and this morning.  Mesa Grande and Santa Ysabel had the most at just over a quarter inch each.  Just 3 hundredths of an inch in Pala and a trace or less in Temecula.  It’ll be cool and windy the next three days with a couple of chances of light rain before a clear and warmer weekend.  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 Clippers won a pair of games over the weekend, demolishing the Nets in Brooklyn Friday 132-100 and topping the Cavaliers in Cleveland 127-122 yesterday.  The Lakers won on Saturday 134-127 at Memphis.  Friday’s loss eliminated the Nets.  The 76ers are also out.  Yesterday’s other winners were New York, Atlanta, Minnesota, New Orleans (who are already out of contention for the playoffs), Golden State, Toronto, and Houston.

Five players and two coaches were ejected in the second quarter of the Minnesota – Detroit game last night.  The Pistons were up by nine at the time.  Center Isaiah Stewart had just received a technical foul when things got out of hand. https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/44472040/5-players-2-coaches-ejected-pistons-wolves-skirmish

In college hoops – Friday’s Sweet 16 winners were Auburn, Houston, Michigan State and Tennessee – all #1 and 2 seeds.  The favorites continued to win on Saturday and Sunday with Florida and Duke winning the two Elite 8 games Saturday.  Houston topped Tennessee 69-50 and Auburn beat Michigan State 70-64 yesterday.  The Final Four play this Saturday on Fox.  Tonight, it’s the College Basketball Crown tournament first round including Nebraska at Arizona State.

In the NHL – Yesterday’s winners included Montreal, Buffalo, Winnipeg, Utah, Pittsburgh, Carolina, Toronto, and the LA Kings in an 8-1 rout of the visiting Sharks.  It was LA’s 27^th home win of the season – a franchise record. https://www.espn.com/nhl/game/_/gameId/401688776/sharks-kings

In minor league hockey – The San Diego Gulls whupped the visiting Tucson Roadrunners Friday 5-1 and then beat Calgary 3-1 on Saturday at Pechanga Arena.  Their next game is Wednesday hosting Abbotsford.

In Major League Baseball – After a lackluster record in the preseason, the Padres are off to their strongest regular season start in years, sweeping the Atlanta Braves four straight games over the weekend including a 5-0 shutout yesterday afternoon at Petco Park.  Meanwhile, the Dodgers swept their three games in Detroit and the Angels took three out of four in Chicago against the White Sox.  Today, the Padres host Cleveland, the Dodgers host Atlanta, and the Angels open a series in St. Louis.

The Athletics took three out of four in Seattle and will have their home opener in Sacramento tonight.  Just don’t call them the Sacramento A’s.  Until their new stadium in Las Vegas is ready in 2028, they will simply be known as the Athletics … or A’s.  Through the 2027 season, the A’s will play all home games at 14k-seat Sutter Health Park, the home of the Sacramento River Cats – the Triple-A affiliate of the Giants.

 

In Major League Soccer – San Diego topped LAFC 3-2 Saturday at Snapdragon Stadium.  The Galaxy lost 2-1 at Orlando.

 

In Lacrosse – The San Diego Seals lost 14-13 Saturday at Rochester. Their next game is this Saturday in Halifax.

In Rugby – The San Diego Legion lost 34-14 Saturday at Houston.  Their next game is this Saturday hosting Chicago.

In golf – At the Houston Open, Min Woo Lee was the winner at 20 under par 260 – one stroke ahead of Gary Woodland and Scottie Scheffler.  https://www.espn.com/golf/leaderboard

In racing – Denny Hamlin was the NASCAR Cup race winner at Martinsville.

In local high school sports:  

Bonsall – no scheduled games today

Great Oak – no scheduled games today

Fallbrook – boys’ tennis at Oceanside at 3:30p; baseball hosting Foothill Nevada at 4p; softball against Classical Academy at 4p, varsity hosting, JV away

Valley Center – JV softball at Orange Glen at 3:30p; JV boys’ golf hosting Escondido at Native Oaks at 3:45p; varsity baseball hosting Palo Verde at 4p; varsity softball at Francis Parker at 4:30p; boys’ volleyball hosting Fallbrook at 4:30p

 

BUSINE$$

As of midday trading on Wall Street, stocks were mixed.  The Dow was up two tenths of a percent.  The S&P 500 was down a third of a percent.  The Nasdaq was off by 1.1%.  Gold traded $38.80 higher on the Comex at $3,153.10 an ounce – another new high.  And the benchmark West Texas Intermediate Crude oil futures shot up $2.35 a barrel to $71.71. 

Today is the end of 2025’s first quarter and things have not gone well on Wall Street.  The S&P 500 just finished its fifth down week in the past six and the tech-heavy Nasdaq exchange is officially in correction territory – down more than 10% this year.  Stocks are off to their worst start of a year since 2020.  Meanwhile, stocks in Europe and China are surging.  The European Stoxx 600 is outperforming the S&P by over 16% – the biggest gap ever, and the MSCI China Index is up more than 30% since August.  With major tariffs expected to be announced by the White House on Wednesday, the second quarter isn’t looking any better so far.  www.morningbrew.com

Economists at Goldman Sachs have raised the likelihood of a recession to 35% as a result of the tax-like impact of higher tariffs.  Wall Street’s best-known investment bank raised its prediction for the next two quarters from the 20% likelihood it had advised clients as recently as last week and for the second time in less than a month, saying investors underestimate the risk higher import duties will have on the economy. https://fortune.com/2025/03/31/goldman-sachs-economy-shrinking-trump-tariffs-recession/

Volvo is getting back to basics with a surprise switch in CEOs.  Hakan Samuelsson is back in charge.  He’d led the Swedish auto maker from 2012 to 2022 during which he revitalized the brand and took the company public in 2021.  He also built a Volvo assembly plant in South Carolina.  A move that could prove crucial to the automaker when promised tariffs take effect.  Samuelsson replaces Jim Rowan, who joined the company in 2022 with no car industry experience.  He’d previously been head of Dyson.  74-year-old Samuelsson has been appointed for a two-year term while the company searches for a long-term successor. https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/volvo-goes-back-car-industry-basics-with-surprise-ceo-switch-2025-03-31/

 

LIFESTYLE / GREEN LIVING

Over the weekend at the movie box office, “A Working Man” debuted in first place, selling $15.2m worth of tickets – just a million more than “Snow White” in its second weekend.  Snow White dropped an unusually-high 66% from its debut last weekend.  Four other new films filled the #3 through 6 places; “The Chosen: Last Supper” with $11.5m, “The Woman in the Yard” with $9.4m, “Death of a Unicorn” with $5.8m, and the 4k restoration of “Princess Mononoke” with $4m on just 330 screens, for the highest per-screen average of the weekend.  Total attendance for this weekend’s top ten movies was just slightly more than the week before, which is close to average for the year so far. https://www.boxofficemojo.com/weekend/2025W13/

Actor Richard Chamberlain, who came to prominence in the 1960’s as TV’s “Dr. Kildare” and then became the king of TV miniseries with ratings giants “Shogun” and “The Thorn Birds” died Saturday in Hawai’i at the age of 90.  He made some movies, including “The Three Musketeers”, but his real success was on television and on Broadway, including a 1993 revival of “My Fair Lady”.  Chamberlain died of complications following a stroke. https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/richard-chamberlain-dead-dies-shogun-thorn-birds-1236351970/

 

On this day in music history – March 31,

• 1949, RCA Victor introduced the 45-rpm single record.  In development for nine years, the format was intended to compete with the 33 1/3 rpm long-play record introduced by Columbia a year earlier.  Both new formats offered better fidelity and longer playing time than the 78 rpm discs then in use. 
• In 1958, Chuck Berry’s “Johnny B. Goode” was released.  It entered the charts six weeks later and peaked at #8.  The song’s original lyrics referred to Johnny as a “colored boy”.  Berry changed it to “country boy” to ensure it would get played on white radio stations.  The prevalent color barrier at the time probably explains why it only made #8 on the charts, even though it has become an early rock & roll classic.
• In 1962, The Beatles played their first show in the South of England at The Subscription Room.  Tickets cost about 70 cents.
• In 1967, Jimi Hendrix set fire to a guitar on stage for the first time at The Astoria in London.  That same burned guitar sold at auction for 280k pounds Sterling in 2008
• In 1972, The Beatles Official Fan Club closed, two years after the group disbanded and three years after The Beatles Monthly magazine ceased production.
• In 1984, Kenny Loggins began the first of three weeks at #1 with the theme from the movie, “Footloose”.
• In 1987, Prince released his 9^th studio album, “Sign o’ the Times” which produced three hit singles, “If I Was Your Girlfriend”, “U Got the Look” (with Sheena Easton) and the title track.
• In 1994, Madonna appeared on “The Late Show with David Letterman”.  The network had to delete 13 offending words before the show could air.  On the show, she handed Dave a pair of her panties and told him to sniff them.  He declined and put them in a desk drawer.
• In 1995 Jimmy Page avoided being stabbed by a fan who later told police he wanted to kill Page because of the Satanic music he played. 
• In 2010, Cher’s first child, Chaz Bono, who’d been born Chastity Bono asked a judge to formally change his name and gender following sex change surgery he’d had the previous year. 
• In 2019, rapper Nipsye Hussle died after being shot multiple times outside his clothing store in South LA.

Born on this day …

• In 1934, actress and singer Shirley Jones, who appeared in well-known 50’s movie musicals including “Oklahoma!” and “Carousel”.  On TV in the early 1970s she played the mother in the pop music sitcom “The Partridge Family” along with her real-life stepson David Cassidy.  The group had a #1 hit in 1970 with “I Think I Love You”.
• In 1937, jazz trumpeter Herb Alpert who had several 60’s hits with The Tijuana Brass.  He went on to co-found A&M Records.  He’s the A.  Jerry Moss is the M.
• In 1942, session guitarist Hugh McCracken who appeared on recordings by Steely Dan, Billy Joel, Roberta Flack, The Monkees, Paul Simon, Bob Dylan, Carly Simon, Aretha Franklin and dozens more.  He declined an invitation by Paul McCartney to join Wings because he was too busy with session work.
• In 1946, Al Nichol from The Turtles.
• In 1948, This Van Leer, leader of the Dutch band Focus who had a 1973 top ten hit with “Hocus Pocus”.
• In 1953, Sean Hopper, keyboardist for Huey Lewis & The News
• In 1954, Tony Brock, drummer for The Babys.
• In 1955, Angus Young from AC/DC.  He’s the guitarist in the schoolboy uniform

https://www.thisdayinmusic.com/search/?keyword=&date=31&month=3

 

Other celebrity anniversaries today …

• Actor William Daniels from TV’s “St. Elsewhere” and “Knight Rider” and movies including “The Granduate” is 98
• Actor Christopher Walken is 82
• Comedian, actor and radio talk show host Gabe Kaplan is 80.  He’s best known for his title role in the TV sitcom “Welcome Back Kotter”.
• Actress Rhea Perlman is 77.  She’s best known as Carla on the TV sitcom “Cheers”.  She’s also married to actor Danny DeVito
• Actor Ed Marinaro from TV’s “Hill Street Blues” is 75.  He was also a 1971 runner up for college football’s Heisman Trophy when he played for Cornell.  He went on to play five seasons in the NFL with Minnesota, the New York Jets and the Seattle Seahawks before turning to acting.
• Actor Ewan McGregor from Star Wars episodes I, II, and III is 54
• Actress and comedienne Kate Miccucci from TV’s “Garfunkel and Oates” and the 2013 season of “The Big Bang Theory” is 45
• Among those who’ve passed, actor, comedian and TV show panelist Henry Morgan was born in 1915

http://www.davesfunstuff.com/a-mb/2080-date0331.htm

 

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WEATHER

Pala Weather – This morning’s rain could continue into this afternoon with a high temperature of 64 and winds gusting up to 20 miles an hour … partly sunny and 61 tomorrow with winds up to 25 miles an hour … mostly sunny and 64 with continued gusty winds Wednesday … 61 with a 30% chance of rain in the afternoon Thursday … sunny and 69 Friday … 75 Saturday … 79 Sunday … overnight lows, 42 tonight and 40 tomorrow night with a 20% chance of light rain both nights … 40 Wednesday night … 38 Thursday night … 41 Friday night … 44 Saturday night

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