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Pala Today News – 5/19/25

Written by John Fox on May 19, 2025

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LOCAL AND REGIONAL NEWS

The Academy Fire off the 17700 block of San Pasqual Valley Road burned about 50 acres before its progress was stopped Friday. The fire of unknown origin began around 2:30p just south of San Pasqual Academy near Highway 78. There were structures threatened. None burned and there were no injuries. https://www.10news.com/news/local-news/vegetation-fire-near-san-pasqual-academy

A hit-and-run suspect was arrested Saturday after two adults and a child were struck by a vehicle near the intersection of South Coast Highway and Wisconsin Avenue in Oceanside. The vehicle took off and a bystander followed it until police could arrive to arrest the driver. All three victims sustained non-life-threatening injuries. https://www.newsbreak.com/fox-5-san-diego-1589916/4012585073568-suspect-arrested-after-hitting-three-pedestrians-in-oceanside

One woman was injured when her vehicle went over the side on Green Canyon Road near Winter Haven in Fallbrook late Saturday night. It’s not clear if anyone else was in the vehicle. https://www.villagenews.com/story/2025/05/15/news/woman-injured-in-green-canyon-road-collision/78857.html

Two people were hospitalized with major injuries from a traffic accident Friday night at Camino Del Rey and Via Maria Elena in Bonsall. It happened just before 10p. A single vehicle lost control after engaging the emergency brake. https://www.villagenews.com/story/2025/05/15/news/major-injury-collision-reported-on-via-maria-elena-and-camino-del-rey/78851.html

The California Training Facility in Vista announced Friday it was permanently closing for skateboarding. It was created in 2018 by California Skateparks to train amateurs all the up to Olympic skateboarders. https://www.instagram.com/p/DJu-Le1y4Dq/?utm_source=ig_embed&ig_rid=1c89d244-0310-42a5-8fd9-0b3d069dc8bd

Get ready for our second heat wave of this Spring. This one won’t be as hot as the one a couple of weeks ago. 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 playoffs – The conference championships lineup is set. The Knicks eliminated the Celtics with a 119-81 win in Game 6 in New York. Oklahoma City won its Game 7 with a 125-93 rout of the visiting Denver Nuggets yesterday. The Western finals begin tomorrow with Minnesota at Oklahoma City at 5:30p on ESPN. The Eastern finals begin Wednesday with Indiana at New York at 5p on TNT.

Heritage Auctions announced that a Chicago Bulls jersey worn by Michael Jordan in 17 games during the 1992-93 season sold for $2.623m over the weekend. It’s the one he was wearing when his picture was on the cover of Sports Illustrated October 18, 1993. That’s still far short of the $10m paid for the 1998 NVA Finals “Last Dance” Michael Jordan jersey, which set a record for sports memorabilia in 2022. https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/45212317/michael-jordan-bulls-jersey-92-93-season-sells-26m

In the NHL playoffs – This year’s final four has a familiar feel. Dallas got there by winning Game 7 against Winnipeg 2-1 in overtime Saturday. Florida beat the Maple Leafs in Toronto yesterday 6-1 to win that Game 7. They’ll be in Carolina for the start of the Eastern Finals tomorrow at 5p on TNT. The Western finals feature the Oilers and Stars in Dallas beginning Wednesday.

Referee Chris Rooney, one of the top officials in the league, had to leave yesterday’s game after taking an inadvertent stick to the face a few seconds in the second period. The cut above his right eye required stiches. https://www.espn.com/nhl/story/_/id/45215751/referee-exits-panthers-maple-leafs-game-7-stick-face

In Major League Baseball – The Padres had a rough weekend, getting swept by the visiting Mariners. But amazingly, the Dodgers got swept as well, losing three gamesto the last-place Angels. That left things wide open for the Giants, who took advantage of the visiting A’s, winning three to pull themselves into a near tie with second place San Diego, who remain one game behind the Dodgers. Meanwhile, elsewhere in the MLB, the Tigers and Mets are proving to be at least the equals of what had been the hot, hot Dodgers and Padres. The NL East first-place Mets have the same 29 and 18 record as the Dodgers. And the Tigers are now the best team in baseball with a 31 and 16 record. https://www.espn.com/mlb/standings

Today, The Dodgers host Arizona, The Giants host Kansas City, the Angels play the A’s in Sacramento, and the Padres have the day off. They open a series in Toronto tomorrow.

MLB has suspended Phillies relief pitcher Jose Alvarado for 80 games without pay for violating the league’s drug policy. Phillies management says yesterday’s positive test was caused by a weight-loss drug Alvarado took during the off-season. They also said Alvarado accepts the suspension and will not appeal. https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/45208600/phillies-reliever-jose-alvarado-suspended-80-games-mlb

In Major League Soccer – San Diego and Sporting Kansas City played to a scoreless tie at Snapdragon Stadium on Saturday. The Galaxy and LAFC tied at 2 in Carson yesterday.

In the NFL – The Philadelphia Eagles today announced they’ve given head coach Nick Sirianni a multi-year contract extension. The terms were not disclosed. The 43-year old is entering the final year of a five-year contract. His 48 and 20 record and .706 winning percentage over his time leading the Eagles is third-best in the Super Bowl era … a place to which he’s guided the team twice already, including last year’s big win over the Kansas City Chiefs, preventing their three-peat.

https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45225040/eagles-reward-coach-nick-sirianni-multiyear-extension

Also, former Jets general manager Joe Douglas is returning to the Eagles as a senior scout. He’d been their vice president of player personnel from 2016-2019, building the team that gave Philadelphia its first Super Bowl championship. https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45224261/source-ex-jets-gm-joe-douglas-returns-eagles-scouting-role

In Rugby – The San Diego Legion lost at Seattle Saturday, 29-25. Their next game is Friday in Miami.

In golf – At the PGA Championship in Charlotte, it was Scottie Scheffler’s tournament to lose … and he tried, only managing par in yesterday’s final round. But he still won by five strokes with a four-round eleven under par 273. It was his third career major tournament win and 15^th PGA Tour victory. Scheffler, Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods are the only golfers to do that before age 29. He and Seve Ballesteros are the only golfers in the past 100 years to win each of their first three majors by more than three strokes. https://www.espn.com/golf/leaderboard

In racing – After finishing second in the Kentucky Derby, Journalism came from behind to win yesterday’s Preakness at Pimlico race track in Baltimore. Umberto Rispoli became the first Italian jockey win any Triple Crown race. https://www.espn.com/horse-racing/story/_/id/45198711/journalism-wins-preakness-runner-derby-finish

Christopher Bell won yesterday’s NASCAR Cup race at North Wilkesboro. It was his first win since winning on three consecutive weekends in February and March. https://www.espn.com/racing/results

In local high school sports:

Bonsall – no scheduled games

Great Oak – no scheduled games

Fallbrook – no scheduled games

Valley Center – boys’ golf in CIF individuals championship at Steele Canyon

BUSINE$$

As of midday trading on Wall Street, stocks were mixed. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up a third of a percent. The S&P 500 gained a tenth of a percent. And the Nasdaq was down a small fraction. Gold shot up $44.50 on the Comex to $3,231.70 an ounce. West Texas Intermediate Crude oil futures were up 34 cents to $62.83 a barrel.

President Trump’s “big beautiful bill” for tax cuts and other priorities got voted down when Republicans on the House Budget Committee crossed party lines and joined with Democrats on Friday. The GOP dissidents don’t think it cuts enough spending. They want deeper cuts in Medicaid and a quicker removal of Biden administration clean energy tax credits. It’s unusual for a bill to get blocked at this early stage. It could still advance to the House floor with changes. But with the slim Republican majority in Congress, it’ll need party unity for passage. www.morningbrew.com

Moody’s downgraded credit for the United States on Friday to double-A1. That’s one notch below the highest rating of Triple-A. It was the last major credit rating agency to downgrade the country’s credit rating, making it mostly symbolic. But it was enough to cause interest rates to rise above 7% and send US treasury yields higher. The US had a Triple-A rating from Moody’s since 1949. https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/19/us-treasury-yields-moodys-downgrades-us-credit-rating.html

Nvidia today announced it will sell a technology to tie chips together to speed up the chip-to-chip communication required for AI tools. It’ll be called NVLink Fusion. The company also announced plans to build a new Taiwan headquarters in Taipei. https://www.reuters.com/

More than 2k Starbucks workers at 120 US stores walked off the job as the result of a new dress code that requires baristas to wear a simple black shirt with either khaki, black or blue denim pants. That left 99% of Starbucks locations operating as normal. But it was the final straw for Starbucks Workers United, who’ve been striking on and off for two years over higher wages and better staffing since they’re expected to pay to meet the dress code out of their own pockets. www.morningbrew.com

LIFESTYLE / GREEN LIVING

Over the weekend at the movie box office, “Final Destination: Bloodlines” opened in first place, selling $51m worth of tickets on 3,500 screens. That easily topped last week’s top film, “Thunderbolts” whose attendance dropped by about half to $16.5m. Last week’s second, third and fourth-place films each dropped one place. The weekend’s other new entry, “Hurry Up Tomorrow” debuted in 6^th place with just $3.3m in sales on 2k screens. Total attendance for the weekend’s top ten films grew by about 25% over last weekend to better-than-average for the year so far, with the summer season yet to begin next week. https://www.boxofficemojo.com/weekend/2025W20/

The CEO of CBS News is out. Wendy McMahon announced today she is stepping down following talks with Paramount Global executives asking for her resignation over the weekend. There have been points of tension between McMahon and Paramount controlling shareholder Shari Redstone over the future of the news department recently. They include CBS’s coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and a potential settlement with the Trump administration over the editing of an October interview with then-presidential candidate, Vice President Kamala Harris. Paramount is currently trying to merge with Skydance Media – a deal that would pay Redstone $1.5b for her controlling share of Paramount. The merger is being held up by the FCC as negotiations continue over the “60 Minutes” interview. https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/19/paramount-cbs-news-ceo-wendy-mcmahon.html

On this day in music history – May 19,

1960, pioneering rock & roll radio DJ Alan Freed and seven others were indicted for accepting just over $30k in payola from six record companies. Freed was convicted two years later and given a suspended sentence and a $300 fine.
In 1973, Stevie Wonder was at #1 with “You Are the Sunshine of My Life”, his third chart-topping hit which also won a Grammy for Best Male Pop Vocal performance.
On the same day, Paul Simon released the single “Kodachrome” named after a line of Kodak camera film. It went to #2 on the charts but was never released in England where the BBC had rules against songs that mentioned product names.
In 1978, Dire Straits released their first single, “Sultans of Swing”.
In 1979, Eric Clapton held a party at his home in Surrey, England to celebrate his recent marriage to Patti Boyd. At a small stage in the garden an all-star jam session broke out with Clapton, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Mick Jagger, Ginger Baker and Patti’s ex – George Harrison.
On the same day, in this country, British group Supertramp had the #1 album with “Breakfast in America” which featured hit singles “The Logical Song”, “Goodbye Stranger”, and “Take the Long Way Home”.
In 1980, Ringo Starr and future wife Barbara Bach were involved in a car crash a half mile from the spot where T Rex’s Marc Bolan died in a crash 2 ½ years earlier. The couple were not seriously injured, but the car was totaled.
In 1990, Madonna began the first of three weeks at #1 with “Vogue”.
In 2013, a custom made 1966 Vox guitar played by both John Lennon and George Harrison sold at auction for $408k. Harrison can be seen playing it during the song “I Am the Walrus” in a scene from “Magical Mystery Tour” in 1967. Later that year, Lennon played it in a promotional film for “Hello Goodbye”. It was then given to Beatles’ roadie “Magic Alex” Mardas.
In 2016, John Berry from The Beastie Boys died at the age of 52. He was the one who came up with the group name for what was originally a four-piece hardcore punk band.

Born on this day…

In 1945, Pete Townsend from The Who. Although known as the group’s chief songwriter and for his swinging right arm windmill style of guitar playing, he also plays keyboards, banjo, accordion, harmonica, ukulele, mandolin, violin, synthesizer, bass guitar and drums.
In 1947, Jerry Hyman from Blood Sweat & Tears.
In 1948, Jamaican singer, songwriter, supermodel and actress Grace Jones
In 1949, Dusty Hill, bass player for ZZ Top
In 1952, Jeffrey Hyman, better known as Joey Ramone, lead singer for The Ramones.
In 1954, drummer for AC/DC, Phil Rudd

https://www.thisdayinmusic.com/search/?keyword=&date=19&month=5

Other celebrity anniversaries today …

Actor and talk show host David Hartman is 90
Michael Che from Saturday Night Live is 42
Among those who’ve passed, poet and humorist Ogden Nash, who was a frequent contributor to The New Yorker was born in 1902
Cartoon voice actor, Daws Butler was born on this day in 1916. He was the voice of Yogi Bear, Huckleberry Hound, Quick Draw McGraw, Elroy Jetson, Cap’n Crunch and appeared on many Stan Freberg recordings.
Alan Young, best remembered as Wilbur Post on the TV sitcom, “Mr. Ed” was born in 1919.
Peter Mayhew, who played Chewbacca in the Star Wars movies was born in 1944

http://www.dementeddatebook.com/2080-date0519.htm

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WEATHER

Pala Weather – sunny with a high of 86 this afternoon … 89 tomorrow with winds gusting up to 20 miles an hour … 92 Wednesday … patchy morning fog beginning Thursday, clearing to sunny and 90 Thursday … 85 Friday … 80 Saturday … 82 Sunday … overnight lows, 56 tonight … about 58 tomorrow and Wednesday night … 56 Thursday night … about 53 Friday and Saturday night

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