Pala Today News – 6/11/25
Written by John Fox on June 11, 2025
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LOCAL AND REGIONAL NEWS
It’ll be up to voters whether coastal North County’s main hospital, Tri-City Medical Center on the border between Vista and Oceanside begins a long-term lease with Sharp HealthCare. But that item may not appear on a ballot for another year unless Tri-City wants to schedule a special election at its own expense. Even that wouldn’t be until November. And Sharp has yet to complete its due diligence in taking over Tri-City. A previous partnership with UC San Diego Health bogged down during that phase last year, leading to their agreement with the hospital falling apart in July. Two weeks ago, the hospital’s board of directors chose Sharp to take over all of Tri-City’s assets and liabilities on a lease similar to the one it has with Grossmont Hospital in La Mesa – probably for 30 years. A new 15-member board with a majority appointed by Sharp would oversee the new venture. In exchange, Sharp would invest $100m in Tri-City in the first five years and take over or retire all existing loans. https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2025/06/09/it-could-be-a-year-before-tri-city-voters-decide-sharp-partnership/
Violence and vandalism in the wake of immigration roundup protests in Los Angeles led Mayor Karen Bass to declare an 8p to 6a curfew yesterday with violators subject to arrest and prosecution. https://www.pressenterprise.com/2025/06/10/after-overnight-vandalism-la-officials-brace-for-more-protests-struggles-over-military-deployment/
A former government employee who pleaded guilty to defrauding the Department of Veterans Affairs out of more than $130,000 by claiming he was unemployed and required full-time caregiving from his wife has been sentenced to four months in prison. Rafael Castro and his wife Miriam Castro from Oceanside pleaded guilty to wire fraud charges earlier this year for claiming Rafael needed his wife’s full-time assistance with routine activities such as dressing himself and taking care of his personal hygiene. As it turned out, he was still holding down a job. https://www.10news.com/news/local-news/ex-government-employee-sentenced-for-defrauding-department-of-veterans-affairs
The San Diego County Fair opens today. This year’s theme is Summer Pet-Tacular. In spite of this year’s theme, you can’t bring your pets with you to the fair. It’s open five days a week, Wednesdays through Sundays. Wednesday and Thursday, general admission is $16 in advance, $20 the day of the event. Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays are $20 in advance, $25 that day. Children 5 and under are free. Ages 6 to 12 get a $3 discount and are free on Fridays, except 4th of July. Season passes good for all 20 days start at $65. You can buy admission and parking online at www.SDFair.com . As always, Albertson’s is offering discount tickets and both North County Transit and San Diego’s MTS are offering packages including train fare and general admission beginning at $20 for adults, $17 for youth and military with $5 off either on June 19 only. Grandstand concerts and shows at The Sound are an additional charge. This year’s Grandstand lineup includes Ziggy Marley, Foreigner, Lil John, Band MS, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Third Eye Blind, and Elijah’s favorite, Los Tigres del Norte. Shows at most other stages are included with general admission. Rez Radio is planning a live broadcast the afternoon of Saturday, June 21 to coincide with Native American Heritage Day. www.sdfair.com
Pala weather … same old same old. 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 championship series – Game 3 is tonight in Indianapolis. It’ll be on ABC at 5:30p. The Pacers and the Thunder each have one win.
In the NHL Stanley Cup series – Game 4 between the Panthers and Oilers is tomorrow in Sunrise, Florida. The Panthers lead two games to one. https://www.espn.com/nhl/story/_/id/45483446/oilers-unravel-penalty-chaos-reigns-game-3-stanley-cup-final-loss-panthers
In Major League Baseball – The Padres bounced back from its one-run loss to the Dodgers Monday with an 11-1 rout of the visitors from the north last night. Dylan Cease pitched seven innings, allowing three hits and no runs with 11 strikeouts. The only home run of the night was a solo shot by catcher Martin Maldonado. The rubber game of the series is this afternoon at Petco Park. The Padres and Dodgers meet again next week in LA. The Giants beat the Rockies in Denver 6-5. That moves them to within a half game of first-place LA. The Padres are still in third place by a half game. The Angels beat the visiting A’s 2-1 thanks to walk-off RBI single by Nolan Schanuel in the bottom of the 10th inning. It was the first walk-off hit of his career. https://www.espn.com/mlb/recap/_/gameId/401695911
In Major League Soccer – This Saturday, San Diego FC is in St. Paul to play Minnesota Untied and the Galaxy are in St. Louis.
The start of the 2026 World Cup is exactly one year away. It begins June 11, 2026 in Mexico City at Azteca Stadium. It ends July 19 with the championship game at MetLife Stadium, which will have to be referred to as the New York New Jersey Stadium for that game. This is the 23rd edition of the World Cup, which happens every four years. It’ll be the biggest one yet with 48 teams competing in 15 North American cities including games at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood. Sixteen teams from Europe will qualify – the most of any region. There will be 12 groups of four teams each. Each group plays other teams in its group until two are left. They go to the knockout round along with the eight best third-place teams. The knockout round drills down from 32 teams to the championship game July 19. Argentina is the defending champion. They’ve won three times. Brazil holds the record, having won five times. Germany and Italy have each won four World Cups. https://apnews.com/article/2026-world-cup-united-states-fifa-722ae98d2e06fafd3d81cfb2690a82b4
In Rugby – The San Diego Legion are the Western Conference number one seed for this year’s Major League Rugby playoffs. They will host the conference final on July 2. They are waiting to see who wins the eliminator round between Houston and Seattle this weekend.
The Lexus-sponsored Pro surfing event continues at Trestles Beach in San Clemente. The Round of 16 began this morning. Brazil’s Italo Ferreira had the lead as of noon. https://www.worldsurfleague.com/posts/538099/its-on-day-2-of-the-trestles-pro
BUSINE$$
As of midday trading on Wall Street, stocks were mixed. The Dow gained four tenths of a percent. The S&P 500 was just barely positive. The Nasdaq was down a tenth. Gold fell $2.40 on the Comex to $3,341 an ounce. West Texas Intermediate Crude oil futures were up almost $2 to $66.93 a barrel.
U.S. inflation rose less than expected in May. Yesterday’s Consumer Price Index figure for May was 2.4% – a tenth of a point less than analysts predicted. It’s also a tenth higher than April. Without the food and energy components, core CPI remained flat at 2.8%. That indicates that although tariffs are having an effect, it isn’t as much as expected. The U.S. currently adds a 10% fee to most imports as well as much higher levies on goods from China. The Federal Reserve is expected to hold interest rates steady at its meeting next week. The market has already priced-in two rate cuts by the Fed this year with the first one happening in September or October. President Trump and now, also Vice President Vance continue to criticize Fed chairman Jerome Powell for not following the lead of the European Central Bank and the Bank of England in cutting borrowing costs. https://www.ft.com/content/f75e5fab-431f-4a5a-aaed-883c3c0640e1
GM plans to invest $4b in several U.S. plants amid stalled trade talks between the Trump administration and Mexican leaders. The GM plants will begin producing two popular Chevrolet models currently built in Mexico. Tariffs took effect for imported vehicles in April and many auto parts in May. This appears to be a win for Trump’s tariffs, which were designed to bring jobs back to the U.S. https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/10/gm-to-invest-4-billion-in-us-manufacturing-plants-amid-tariffs.html
Boeing booked orders for 303 new planes in May, the most of any month since December 2023. It delivered 45 last month. That’s almost double the number one year ago. And it’s increased production of 737 Max jets to 38 a month – the most allowed under FAA limits. https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/10/boeing-airplane-orders-deliveries-paris-air-show.html
LIFESTYLE / GREEN LIVING
The heart and soul of The Beach Boys has died. Brian Wilson had been suffering from dementia and had been living under a conservatorship since early last year, following the death of his wife, Linda. From 1962 to 1966, the Beach Boys had ten Top-10 hits and seven more in the Top 40 – most of them written or co-written and produced by Wilson. The group’s sound revolved around vocal harmonies and increasingly lush and innovative melodies and production. Their popularity at the time was only exceeded by The Beatles, whom Wilson came to view as his artistic rivals. At least partially due to a strained relationship with his domineering father, Brian had a series of mental breakdowns, struggles with drugs and alcohol, a string of lawsuits and a falling out with the rest of the band which included two brothers, a cousin and a close family friend. He announced in 1964 that he would no longer perform live concerts with the band and was briefly replaced by Glen Campbell, and later, Bruce Johnston, who stayed with the band for decades. After years of recording, but no longer performing with the group, he was officially fired in 1982. He eventually pulled himself together and on the 50th anniversary of the group, once again reunited with them for a road tour. His bandmates and brothers, Carl and Dennis have both passed. Brian is survived by daughters Wendy and Carnie, who made up two-thirds of the 1990s pop group Wilson Philips. Brian Wilson was 82. https://variety.com/2025/music/news/brian-wilson-dead-beach-boys-1236428336/
On this day in music history – June 11,
- 1960 early Beatles drummer Tommy Moore made the fateful decision to quit the group and go back to his job driving a forklift. Seemed like the better choice at the time. He was briefly replaced by a guy who only played three gigs before being called into the National Service. The group had no drummer for several weeks until Pete Best joined the day before they left for Hamburg to begin their first string of German club dates. As we all know, even Best eventually washed out in favor of Ringo Starr when the group got its big break in 1962.
- In 1966, the Rolling Stones began the first of two weeks at #1 with “Paint It Black”. It was the first chart-topping song to feature a sitar.
- On the same day, European radio stations erroneously reported that The Who’s lead singer, Roger Daltry was dead. Actually, it was Pete Townsend who’d only been injured in a car crash a few days earlier.
- In 1967, an ad in Melody Maker sought a “Freaky lead guitarist, bass and drummer” for Mark Bolan’s new group, which became Tyrannosaurus Rex, later shortened to T. Rex.
- In 1977, Joe Strummer and Topper Headon from The Clash were detained overnight in British jail for failure to appear before a Magistrate three weeks earlier. The charge was theft of a Holiday Inn pillowcase. They were fined $170.
- Also in 1977, KC and the Sunshine Band became only the second group since the Jackson Five to have four #1 hits when “I’m Your Boogie Man” hit the top of the chart.
- In 2000, Aaliyah’s “Try Again” became the first song ever to reach #1 through airplay-only. It had not yet been released for sale.
- In 2002, Paul McCartney married Heather Mills. The two had met three years earlier at an animal rights awards ceremony. They divorced four years later with Mills getting a settlement and assets somewhere along the lines of $30m.
- In 2011, Pink Floyd’s 1973 album “Dark Side of the Moon” re-entered the charts at #47 and reached the milestone of having been on the charts 1,000 weeks including reaching #1 on multiple occasions.
- In 2019, the Ninth US Circuit Court of Appeals decided to review its 2016 decision that Led Zeppelin had not plagiarized “Stairway to Heaven” from the opening riff of Spirit’s 1968 song, “Taurus”. The two bands had toured together before Stairway was written.
Born on this day …
- In 1946, John Lawton from Uriah Heep
- In 1947, Glenn Leonard who was with The Temptations from 1975 to 1983.
- In 1949, Frank Beard, drummer for ZZ Top. Ironically, he’s the only member of the band who doesn’t have a beard.
- In 1952 Donnie Van Zant, vocalist and guitarist with 38 Special. He’s the younger brother of Ronnie Van Zant from Lynyrd Skynyrd, who died in a 1977 plane crash.
https://www.thisdayinmusic.com/search/?keyword=&date=11&month=6
Other celebrity anniversaries today …
- Actress Adrienne Barbeau is 80
- Actor Hugh Laurie from “House MD” is 66
- Actor Peter Dinklage from “Game of Thrones” is 56
- Among those who’ve passed, Gene Wilder from “Blazing Saddles”, “Young Frankenstein”, “The Producers” and many other movies was born in 1933
- Actor and comedian Johnny Brown from Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In, and Good Times was born in 1937
http://www.dementeddatebook.com/2080-date0611.htm
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WEATHER
Pala Weather – sunny with a high of 84 this afternoon … patchy morning low clouds and fog for at least the next week, clearing to mostly sunny and 85 tomorrow … 86 Friday … 88 Saturday … 92 Sunday … 91.3 degrees Monday … 89 Tuesday … overnight lows, about 58 tonight through Friday night … about 61 Saturday through Monday night
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