Pala Today News – 7/225

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LOCAL AND REGIONAL NEWS

A commercial building fire involving hazardous materials broke out at a metal plating facility on Jason Court near Oceanside Boulevard last evening at about 9:45p.  Everyone in the multi-business building got out safely.  Two firefighters and one employee were evaluated and released for minor chemical exposure. https://patch.com/california/oceanside-camppendleton/hazardous-chemicals-released-during-fire-metal-plating-facility

At least one of the major fires burning in the Inland Empire is still far from controlled.  The Wolf Fire is the largest at 2,400 acres with 40% containment.  All of the burn area is west of Highway 243.  There are extensive evacuation areas on both sides of the highway.  The evacuation shelter is Hemet High School.   Almost 1,100 personnel are assigned to the fire.  Three firefighters were reported injured.  Cooler temperatures and higher humidity are expected to help firefighting efforts today. https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/2025/6/29/wolf-fire

The Juniper fire, east of Lake Matthews is reportedly 95% contained at 755 acres.  https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/2025/6/30/juniper-fire

The Lake Fire, northwest of Crestline is 70% contained at 489 acres.  https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/2025/6/28/lake-fire

It’s been a relatively mild summer so far.  But Southern California rainfall of 70% less the normal this year has set us up for a bad peak fire season.  The year began with horrendous fires in Alta Dena and Pacific Palisades, driven by unseasonable Santa Ana winds.  As the coastal and marine layers get weaker, higher temperatures and lower humidity are leading Cal Fire officials to predict an above-average level of large fires this month and in August.  https://www.pressenterprise.com/2025/07/01/southern-californias-recent-weather-sets-up-for-a-dangerous-fire-season/

President Trump has reassigned 150 National Guardsmen back to state command, taking them out of street duty in Los Angeles and back to firefighting work.  Thousands more are still under federal control.  www.NYTimes.com

The Valley Roadrunner reports what appear to be license plate reading cameras have been installed at the intersection of Valley Center and Lilac Roads.  The communicate with law enforcement databases to aid investigations and identify wanted vehicles.  They’ve allegedly been used illegally to assist ICE and other federal law enforcement. https://www.valleycenter.com/articles/license-plate-recognition-cameras-arrive-in-valley-center/

Progress is being made with development of Native Oaks Village shopping center in Valley Center.  Construction of a new Albertsons on the parcel owned by the San Pasqual tribe fronting Valley Center Road adjacent to Native Oaks golf course is expected to begin in November or December.  The shopping center will also include a second Horizon fuel center and a car wash.  www.valleycenter.com

The night and morning clouds and fog are back.  High temperatures in Pala will gradually warm from the mid-80s today to the low 90s early 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 Major League Baseball – The Padres game in Philadelphia was postponed due to weather along with three other MLB games yesterday.  They lost the first game of the series Monday 4-0.  The Dodgers opened a series hosting the White Sox with a 6-1 win yesterday that included Shohei Ohtani’s 30^th home run of the season.  That ties a franchise record set by Cody Bellilnger in 2019 for most homers before the All-Star break.  The Giants lost 8-2 in Phoenix.  The Angels shut out the Braves in Atlanta 4-0.  All of those series continue today.

Clayton Kershaw is expected to get at least the three strikeouts he needs when he starts tonight’s game against the White Sox to achieve 3k in his career.  It’s a milestone that’s becoming increasingly difficult to achieve with pitchers lasting fewer innings per game and pitching careers often ending at an age in the mid-30s. www.apnews.com

In the NFL – Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine has signed a two-year $60b budget that includes $600m for a new Cleveland Browns stadium.  The team’s owner, Haslam Sports Group had requested state help to build a new $2.4b domed stadium in the Cleveland suburb of Brook Park.  https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45632687/ohio-governor-signs-budget-includes-funds-browns-stadium

In the NBA – The Knicks are expected to hire Mike Brown as their next head coach.  Brown is a four-time champion as top assistant at Golden State and San Antonio and worked with top NBA superstars at five teams across three decades.  He was fired by Sacramento after a 13 and 18 start to last season in spite of leading the team to its first playoffs in 16 years the previous season, breaking the longest postseason drought in league history. https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/45646243/sources-knicks-expected-hire-mike-brown-next-head-coach

In the NHL – The league, the players’ union and international officials today finalized a deal to allow NHL players to compete in the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan-Cortina.  It’s the first time NHL players will have competed at the Olympics since 2014.  The hockey tournament at the 2026 games is scheduled for February 11 through 22.  https://www.espn.com/nhl/story/_/id/45644362/nhl-players-get-green-light-participate-2026-olympics

In Major League Soccer playoffs – The Galaxy host Vancouver this Friday.

In tennis – At Wimbledon, defending champion Carlos Alcaraz sailed into the third round with his 20^th straight match win.  On the women’s side, Coco Gauff became just the third woman to lose in the first round at Wimbledon after winning the French Open.  She was eliminated last night in straight sets by unseeded Dayana Yastremska of Ukraine.  #3 seed, Jessica Pegula also bowed out on Day 2.  This is the first time two of the three top seeded women have lost their opening matches at Wimbledon. https://www.espn.com/tennis/story/_/id/45634161/no-2-gauff-upset-first-round-wimbledon-yastremska

 

BUSINE$$

As of midday trading on Wall Street, stocks were mixed.  The Dow fell a tenth of a percent.  The S&P 500 was up three tenths.  The Nasdaq gained ¾ of a percent.  Gold gained $9.30 on the Comex, trading at $3,359.20 an ounce.  The benchmark West Texas Intermediate Crude oil futures were up $1.52 to $66.97 a barrel.

President Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” narrowly passed the Senate yesterday with modifications.  It was voted on 49 times during a 27-hour marathon session.  Vice President JD Vance cast the final tie-breaking vote.  The 887-page document is a collection of tax breaks, spending cuts and other partisan priorities.  Existing tax rates and brackets enacted during the first Trump administration and set to expire this year would become permanent.  $1.1 trillion would be cut from health care programs – mainly Medicare, which experts say will cause 12m Americans to lose coverage.  Temporary new tax breaks that were part of Trump’s 2024 campaign would go into effect.  According to an analysis of the House version of the bill by the Congressional Budget Office, middle-income taxpayers would get a tax break of between $500 and $1,500.  The Senate almost unanimously voted to remove a moratorium on states regulating artificial intelligence.  It also removed $50b over five years that would help fund rural hospitals.  And it removed a new tax on wind and solar projects that use a certain percentage of components made in China.  The bill now goes back to the House for approval or further changes.  Any delays would mean Congress will miss July 4^th deadline for passage set by the President.   www.apnews.com

President Trump today announced a preliminary trade pact with Vietnam.  It includes a 20% tariff on Vietnamese goods coming into the US and a 40% “transshipping” tariff.  That would apply to goods made elsewhere and transferred to Vietnam for final shipment to the US.  The US will have tariff-free access to the Vietnamese market.  During negotiations, the tariff rate on Vietnamese goods was temporarily 10%.  So, that will now double.  Under the original protectionist tariff scheme by the President, the blanket tariff on shipments from Vietnam was 46%.  Last year, Vietnam was the 6^th largest supplier of goods to the U.S.  https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/02/trump-trade-vietnam-deal.html

Microsoft plans to lay off about 9k workers – its largest cuts since 2023. www.cnn.com

Vehicle sales at Ford jumped 14.2% in the second quarter as compared to the same time last year.  At GM, sales went up 7.3%.  Kia and Hyundai reported their best-ever first half sales – up 8 and 10% respectively.  The sales gains speak to a relatively strong consumer economy, but also a rush to purchase new vehicles before tariffs caused prices to increase. https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/01/ford-sales-jump-14percent-in-second-quarter-exceeding-forecast.html

Del Monte Foods, the 138-year old company best known for canned fruits and vegetables has filed for bankruptcy.  115 years ago, Del Monte operated the largest fruit and vegetable cannery in the world in San Francisco.  The company cited declining consumer demand for preservative-laden canned foods. The company listed liabilities of between $1b and $10b.  It has secured $912m in new funding to allow it to operate as it seeks to sell all of its assets.  https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/02/food/del-monte-foods-bankruptcy

 

LIFESTYLE / GREEN LIVING

Paramount has agreed to pay $16m to settle a lawsuit by President Trump over the editing of a CBS “60 Minutes” interview with then-Vice President Kamala Harris last October.  The suit was viewed by many as a challenge to free-speech.  The network’s lawyers called the case “completely without merit” and tried to have it dismissed.  But settling was seen by Paramount as prudent considering the high cost and unpredictability of a trial.  A full, unedited version of the interview was released in February.  The money will go to Trump’s future presidential library, not to Trump himself.  The settlement did not include an apology.  https://apnews.com/article/trump-media-harris-minutes-paramount-6415042fe910ae60b432dd8c73ef61b2

You may have noticed the price of eggs continuing to drop.  Most grocery stores now have eggs on sale in the $3 a dozen range.  Once again, we refer to a Waffle House index.  A month ago, the Georgia-based chain of 2k diners quietly dropped its 50-cent per egg surcharge.  They only announced it yesterday.  They’d added the temporary charge in February when avian flu sent egg prices to record highs.  Denny’s dropped its own egg surcharge about the same time as Waffle House.  Surcharges were seen as a less-permanent way of absorbing the increased cost as opposed to raising menu prices. https://www.npr.org/2025/07/01/nx-s1-5453567/waffle-house-egg-prices-surcharge

 

On this day in music history – July 2,

• 1956, one day after performing it on TV, Elvis Presley recorded “Hound Dog” at RCA Studios in New York.  It was the first time the backing band, The Jordanaires worked with Elvis.  Take 31 was the one released.  It went on to become Elvis’ best-selling single at over 10m copies and topped the singles chart for 11 weeks – a record that stood for 36 years.
• In 1962, Jimi Hendrix was honorably discharged from the 101^st Airborne Paratroopers after breaking an ankle during his 26^th and final jump
• In 1966, Frank Sinatra hit #1 with “Strangers in the Night”.
• In 1969, bass player Noel Redding quit The Jimi Hendrix Experience.  Hendrix and Experience drummer Mitch Mitchell teamed with bass player Billy Cox to play Woodstock the following month
• On the same day The Beatles, minus John Lennon were at London’s EMI studios recording tracks for the Abbey Road album.  John was in the hospital recovering from the previous day’s car accident in Scotland
• In 1971, Queen played its first concert with the lineup of Freddie Mercury, Brian May, Roger Taylor and John Deacon.
• In 1979, Sony introduced the Walkman – the first truly portable audio cassette player.  Over the next three decades they sold more than 385m Walkmans in cassette, CD, mini-disc, and digital file formats until the advent of iPod and other current digital devices.
• In 1980, Bob Weir and Mickey Hart from the Grateful Dead were arrested on suspicion of starting a riot at the San Diego Sports Arena when they tried to interfere with a drug bust.
• In 1988, Michael Jackson became the first artist to have five number one singles from the same original album when “Dirty Diana” from the “Bad” album joined “I Just Can’t Stop Loving You”, “The Way You Make Me Feel”, “Man in the Mirror”, and the title track at making #1 on the Hot 100.
• In 2001, Liverpool Airport was renamed John Lennon Airport.  The new logo included the former Beatle’s famous self-portrait and the words “Above Us Only Sky” taken from the song “Imagine”.
• In 2018, Alan Longmuir from The Bay City Rollers died at the age of 70 after contracting an illness while on vacation in Mexico. 

Born on this day …

• In 1936, Tom Springfield from the British folk trio The Springfields which launched his sister, Dusty Springfield’s solo career
• In 1937, David Palmer, keyboard player for Jethro Tull until 1980.  In the 90s Palmer had a sex change operation and changed his name to Dee Palmer.
• In 1939, Paul Williams from The Temptations
• In 1949, Roy Bittan, keyboard player for Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band
• In 1952, Johnny Colla, guitarist with Huey Lewis and The News
• In 1956, Jeffrey Cooper from Midnight Star

https://www.thisdayinmusic.com/search/?keyword=&date=2&month=7

 

Other celebrity anniversaries today …

• Actress Polly Holliday from TV’s “Alice” and its spinoff “Flo” is 88
• Comedian Larry David is 78
• Actress Ashley Tisdale from “High School Musical” and “The Suite Life of Zack & Cody” is 40
• Among those who’ve passed, actor and country singer Ken Curtis, who played Matt Dillon’s sidekick Festus on the TV version of “Gunsmoke” was born in 1916
• Comedian Dan Rowan who along with Dick Martin hosted “Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In” on NBC from Beautiful Downtown Burbank was born in 1922
• In 1955, “The Lawrence Welk Show” premiered on ABC television as “The Dodge Dancing Party”.  It stayed on the network for 27 years and many more after that in syndication.  Welk’s name lives on at the time share resort and mobile home park north of Escondido.

http://www.dementeddatebook.com/2080-date0702.htm

 

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Pala seniors’ lunch menu for tomorrow (7/2) – breaded pork chops, scalloped potatoes and vegetables

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WEATHER

Pala Weather – sunny with a high of 84 this afternoon … patchy morning fog returns, clearing to sunny and 84 again tomorrow … 86 Friday … 88 Saturday … 89 Sunday … 90 Monday … 93 Tuesday … overnight lows, 55 tonight and tomorrow night … 57 Friday through Sunday night … 60 Monday night

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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.

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