Pala Today News – 6/27/25

by John Fox – 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 and worldwide online … click here to listen live  or call 712 775 5748.  Listen on a smart speaker by asking it to “play KPRI”.  Some portions of today’s newscast are only available in the live broadcast and not included in this transcript which is also available an hour or two after broadcast at www.RezRadio.FM . In any emergency, knowledge is power.  Use our resources to leverage your family’s safety.  Email 91.3@palatribe.com to subscribe to our daily M-F e-newsletter.  Follow us at www.facebook.com/rezradio and www.twitter.com/rezradioFM .  Additional resources at Palatribe.com

 

LOCAL AND REGIONAL NEWS

A proposal to redevelop the Oceanside Transit Center with 547 apartments, a six-story, 170-room hotel, offices, retail shops and other amenities was endorsed this week by the city’s Planning Commission on a 4-1 vote with Commissioner Grace Redgate opposed.  The plan calls for five separate buildings including a stand-alone parking garage, with Irving Gill-style architecture to match the Oceanside City Hall and other downtown civic structures.  Public spaces would include art displays, retail shops and a multi-story office building to replace the North County Transit District headquarters on Mission Avenue.  Commissioner Redgate wanted to see more recreation space for residents.  The plan will go to the city council for consideration sometime later this year. https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2025/06/27/plan-advances-for-homes-hotel-offices-and-retail-at-oceanside-transit-center/

A state appeals court panel yesterday revived a lawsuit brought against San Diego County by the family of a man who died in San Marcos shortly after sheriff’s deputies restrained him.  34-year-old Kristopher Birtcher was shot with a stun gun and subdued by responding deputies outside the San Marcos Hobby Lobby store in October of 2017.  Deputies and a psychiatric emergency response team had responded to reports of a disoriented man who was possibly on drugs near the front entrance of the store.  The ruling from a three-justice panel of the 4th District Court of Appeal states the deputies handcuffed Birtcher, placed him on the ground on his stomach and “applied bodyweight pressure to his back while he was lying face down on the pavement. While restrained in this prone position, Birtcher gasped, ‘Can’t breathe,’ and called out for help.”  Believing that Birtcher might be suffering a drug overdose, naloxone was administered.  He died a short time later. https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2025/06/27/appeals-court-revives-lawsuit-in-mans-restraint-death-outside-san-marcos-hobby-lobby/

At Tuesday’s regular meeting, the Temecula Valley Unified School District board voted 4-1 to pass a revised parent notification policy similar to one passed in the Chino Valley Unified district.  The policy requires the district to send an automated email to parents within three days after a student makes a change in their record, which includes a change to their preferred name or pronouns. The email would be sent automatically through Infinite Campus, an online portal for parents and students to access records and other district information, when the change in record occurs. https://www.pressenterprise.com/2025/06/26/temecula-school-board-approves-revised-parent-notification-policy/

Tomorrow night is the annual Pala Fireworks show.  It’ll be launched from the parking lot of the San Juan Diego Center on Pala Mission Road.  Best viewing is from Henderson Road and the Pala Admin Center.  Rez Radio will provide music to accompany the fireworks at 9p on 91.3FM and on PA speakers at the ball fields.

High temperatures in Pala will warm to about 90 this weekend and be mostly in the mid-80s 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 had the day off.  The Dodgers completed their sweep in Denver beating the Rockies 3-1.  The Giants lost to the visiting Marlins 12-5.  That puts them a half-game behind the second-place Padres and 6 ½ games behind the Dodgers.  Weekend series begin today with the Padres in Cincinnati, the Giants in Chicago to play the White Sox, the Dodgers in Kansas City, and the Angels hosting the Nationals.

The Dodgers’ Shohei Ohtani and the Yankees’ Aaron Judge are the first two players elected to this year’s All-Star Game on July 15.  Judge led the voting with 4,012,983 first-round votes.  This will be his seventh time in the starting lineup and eighth All-Star Game overall.  He missed 2023 due to a sprained toe.  Ohtani was only about 50k votes behind Judge.  He is now the first designated hitter to start in five consecutive All-Star Games. https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/45592549/judge-ohtani-elected-all-star-game-top-vote-getters

In the NFL – Former Ravens kicker Justin Tucker got a ten-week ban from the NFL which will apply to the first ten weeks of the upcoming regular season.  He can serve it as a free agent and is free to sign with an NFL team when he can attend training camp and play in preseason games.  The suspension is for violation of league personal conduct policy related to sexual misconduct with 16 massage therapists from multiple high-end spas and wellness centers in the Baltimore area.  The Ravens cut Tucker during the league’s investigation of the misconduct. https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45591537/ex-ravens-kicker-justin-tucker-gets-10-week-ban-nfl

In the NBA – Last night was the second round of the NBA draft.

In the NHL – The league and the players union have agreed to a four-year extension of the current collective bargaining agreement.  It still needs to be ratified and not all details have been made public.   But there will be two more games added to the regular season schedule beginning in 2026-27 with a preseason shortened by two games.  There will also no longer be a dress code on game day, shorter maximum length for contracts, and standardization of draft rights expiring when a player turns 22.  https://www.espn.com/nhl/story/_/id/45597447/nhl-nhlpa-agree-four-year-extension-cba

In Soccer – Wednesday night in Vancouver, San Diego FC beat the Whitecaps 5-3 and are now in first place in the MSL Western Conference.   And the Galaxy lost 2-0 to the Rapids in Colorado.  Tomorrow, the LA Galaxy play the San Jose Earthquakes at Stanford.  Sunday, the playoffs begin with LAFC hosting Vancouver.

In Rugby – The Major League Rugby championship game between New England and Houston is this tomorrow at 11a at Pawtucket, Rhone Island.

In golf – At the Rocket Classic in Detroit, midway through today’s round 2, Philip Knowles and Chris Kirk were tied for the lead into the clubhouse at 14-under par. https://www.espn.com/golf/leaderboard

In racing – NASCAR Cup tomorrow at Atlanta Motor Speedway.

 

BUSINE$$

As of midday trading on Wall Street, stocks were on the rise again today.  The Dow was up 1.1%.  The S&P 500 gained 6 tenths.  The Nasdaq was up a half percent.  Comex gold fell sharply … down $54.50 to $3,288.50 an ounce.  West Texas Intermediate Crude oil futures were up three cents to $65.27 a barrel.

The U.S. economy sputtered in May with consumer spending declining for the first time since January.  Commerce Department data released today shows spending down 0.1% last month after rising 2 tenths of a percent in April.  New vehicle sales fell by nearly 50% because consumers rushed to beat tariff-based price increases and bought up existing inventory in March and April.  Today’s numbers showed a pull-back in restaurant and hotel spending as well. Consumer spending is responsible for more than two thirds of all U.S. economic activity.  https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/27/economy/us-pce-consumer-spending-inflation-may#:~:text=The%20US%20economic%20engine%20sputtered,after%20rising%200.2%25%20in%20April.

According to a post by President Trump on Truth Social today, trade talks with Canada have ceased and he will soon announce a new tariff rate on goods and services from our neighbor to the north.  Talks with Canada have been going on for several months, during which Canada announced a digital service tax that Trump called “a direct and blatant attack on our Country.”  He cited it as the reason for ending talks with Canada.  Canada’s DST is set to take effect Monday and will be retroactive to 2022. https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/27/business/trump-breaks-off-canada-trade-talks

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said today he thinks all trade negotiations could be “wrapped up” by Labor Day.  Deadlines had previously been set for July 9.  Bessent says the U.S. has 18 “important trading partners” and that signed deals with ten or 12 of them by September would constitute success.  So far, the Trump administration has only announced one trade deal with the United Kingdom and a truce in its trade war with China.  China announced earlier today that it would approve the export of rare earth minerals to the U.S., allowing critical tech manufacturing to increase in this country.  Bessent characterized trade negotiations with the U.K. and China as “behind us for now.” https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/27/business/trade-deals-bessent-deadline

 

LIFESTYLE / GREEN LIVING

New this weekend at the movies … the AI robotics horror-suspense sequel, “M3gan 2.0” …  the Brad Pitt sports adventure drama “F1” – a realistic deep dive into the world of Formula One racing … and the R-rated drama, “Sorry, Baby”, starring Eva Victor.   https://www.movieinsider.com/movies/june/2025?view=list

Last weekend, Pixar animation studio had its worst opening weekend ever with the feature, “Elio”, the story of a young boy who is mistaken as Earth’s ambassador to the universe.  It sold just $21m worth of tickets in its debut weekend.  Compare that with “Inside Out 2” which opened last year with $145m in ticket sales.  That was a sequel.  And sequels have been driving business in Hollywood for a number of years now in both animated and live-action films.  Following the pandemic, studios have worked to deliver films that audiences are already familiar with, including sequels and stories based on well-known books or comics.  Elio, however was an original film script.  It may still find “legs” if it has a long theater run and later, in paid streaming.  Animation originator, Disney was at a low point when acquired Pixar in 2006, which boosted the animation segment of movie-making with films like “Frozen”, “Wreck-It Ralph” and “Coco.”  But the pandemic made audiences want familiar stories and competition for that audience has become fierce.  Of the Top 20 films last year, none of them were new intellectual properties.  It seems to be getting increasingly more difficult for new stories and characters to break through with audiences.  Elio, for example opened very shortly after live-action remakes of Disney’s “Lilo and Stitch” and Universal’s “How to Train Your Dragon,” both of which have done much better at the box office.  https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/26/pixars-elio-is-emblematic-of-a-bigger-headwind-for-hollywood.html

 

On this day in music history – June 27,

• 1964 was one of only a few days that year that the #1 single wasn’t by The Beatles.  Peter and Gordon topped the charts that week with “A World Without Love” – which was at least written by The Beatles’ Lennon and McCartney. 
• In 1966, Frank Zappa’s group, Mothers of Invention released their first album, “Freak Out!”  It was one of rock music’s first concept albums and also one of the earliest rock double albums which was almost unheard of for a debut act. 
• In 1968, Elvis Presley starred in an NBC TV special billed as his “comeback special”.  Dressed in black leather, he performed a set of his early hits. 
• In 1970, it was a very busy day.  Newly formed group, Queen played their first gig in Cornwall, England.  The booking was made under the band’s previous name, Smile.  Their set included an early version of “Stone Cold Crazy”. 
• The Jackson Five began the first of two weeks at #1 with “(Stop) The Love You Save”.
• The 3-day Bath Festival of Blues and Progressive Music took place.  The English version of Woodstock featured many of the same bands plus Led Zeppelin as the headliner and Pink Floyd premiering their “Atom Heart Mother” suite. 
• And in Canada, the Festival Express kicked off.  The traveling pop festival traveled on a chartered train stopping for shows in Toronto, Winnipeg, Saskatoon, and Calgary.  Artists included the Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, The Band, The Flying Burrito Brothers, and Buddy Guy. 
• In 1980, during a show in Nuremberg, Led Zeppelin drummer John Bonham collapsed on stage during the third song of the set, causing the rest of the concert to be cancelled.  He died three months later after a night of binge drinking.
• In 1987, Whitney Houston became the first woman in history to enter the album chart at #1 with her album, “Whitney”.  Also that day, she became the first woman to top the singles chart with four consecutive single releases as “I Wanna Dance With Somebody” from the new album hit #1. 
• In 1994, Aerosmith became the first major band to let fans download a new full song track for free over the Internet. 
• In 2002, one day before the start of their US concert tour, The Who’s bass player John Entwistle died in a Las Vegas hotel room from a heart attack induced by ingestion of an undetermined amount of cocaine.  
• In 2009, Black Eyed Peas’ fifth studio album, “The E.N.D” topped the US album chart.  It’s first single, “Boom Boom Pow” topped the Hot 100 for 12 weeks and was replaced by “I Gotta Feeling” which spent 14 weeks at #1, giving the group 26 consecutive weeks at #1. 
• In 2015, bass player and co-founder of Yes, Chris Squire died from leukemia at the age of 67. 

Born on this day …

• in 1944, Bruce Johnston, who joined the Beach Boys in 1965 for live performances as fill-in for Brian Wilson.  He’s the one who wrote Barry Manilow’s hit “I Write the Songs”. 
• In 1945, drummer Joey Covington from Jefferson Airplane, Hot Tuna and Jefferson Starship. 
• In 1976, Leigh Nash, lead singer for Sixpence None The Richer. 

https://www.thisdayinmusic.com/search/?keyword=&date=27&month=6

Other celebrity anniversaries today …

• Comedian Murray Langston, who played The Unknown Comic on TV’s “The Gong Show” is 79
• Actress Julia Duffy from TV’s “Newhart”, “Designing Women”, and “Reba” is 73
• Writer, producer, director J.J. Abrams is 58
• Actor Toby Maguire, whose movies include “Spider-Man”, “Cider House Rules”, and “Seabiscuit” is 49
• Actress Madylin Sweeten who played Ray’s oldest daughter on TV’s “Everybody Loves Raymond” is 33
• Among those who’ve passed, Bob Keeshan, best remembered as TV’s Captain Kangaroo was born in 1927. 
• Politician, businessman and philanthropist Henry “Ross” Perot was born in 1930

http://www.davesfunstuff.com/a-mb/2080-date0627.htm

 

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WEATHER

Pala Weather – sunny with a high of 86 this afternoon … patchy morning low clouds and fog for at least another week, clearing to sunny and 90 tomorrow … 89 Sunday … 86 Monday … 85 Tuesday and Wednesday … 84 Thursday … overnight lows in the upper 50s all week

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