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Pala Today News – 7/7/25

Written by John Fox on July 7, 2025

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LOCAL AND REGIONAL NEWS

A brush fire Saturday near Oceanside Airport burned about three acres. It was first reported at 1:46p. The fire was contained within 90 minutes during which the airport was shut down. There was no structural damage. https://www.10news.com/news/local-news/north-county-news/brush-fire-burns-three-acres-near-oceanside-airport

A man was arrested Sunday morning after allegedly attacking his brother with a samurai sword. Officers with the Oceanside Police Department responded around 6:35 a.m. to the 800 block of Arthur Avenue following a report of an assault with a deadly weapon. Police said they found a man suffering from serious but non-life-threatening injuries. He told officers he had been attacked by his brother, identified as 30-year-old Esteban Rivas. The victim was transported to a local hospital for treatment. https://www.newsbreak.com/abc-10-news-kgtv-563645/4092251727765-oceanside-man-arrested-after-samurai-sword-attack-on-brother

A vehicle fire temporarily blocked all northbound lanes of Interstate 15 near Rainbow Valley on Friday afternoon. At about 1:38p, 9-1-1 callers reported a vehicle traveling on rims without a front tire, emitting flames from the driver-side fender well and trying to get back into traffic. The vehicle eventually caught fire along the right-hand shoulder just south of Rainbow Valley Boulevard. Three occupants were able to safely get out of the gold-color SUV and retrieve belongings before the fire fully engulfed the front end. https://www.villagenews.com/story/2025/07/03/news/car-fire-halts-northbound-traffic-on-i-15-near-rainbow-valley-on-fourth-of-july/79239.html

This year’s San Diego County Fair ended yesterday at the Del Mar Fairgrounds. Here are some statistics from this year’s event:

60 dogs took part in the first-ever “Pet-tacular Pooch Fun Run”
547 tattoos were done at Bay Ink in the San Diego Marketplace
682 items turned into the Fair’s Lost & Found
1,268 temporary employees hired for the duration of the Fair
Chicken Charlie sold an estimated 5,000 Meatball Mozzarella Sticks
10,330 gallons of lemonade were served
There were a total of 18,222 performers on various stages and other venues at this year’s Fair
30,321 turkey legs sold
On its single-busiest day, 58,520 people attended the Fair. The daily average was around 43,500
Total attendance of 874,263 at the 2025 San Diego County Fair
The 2025 Fair had a $293 million economic impact on the region (organizers said the number is inflation-adjusted from a 2019 SDSU economic impact study that showed a $237 million impact)

https://www.10news.com/news/local-news/thousands-enjoy-last-day-of-san-diego-county-fair

An application to build 100 apartments in a five-story structure with 40 parking spaces has been submitted to the city for a 1-acre parcel along Mission Avenue south of the airport in Oceanside’s San Luis Rey Valley. The site at the northwest corner of Mission and Roymar Road currently has a single-story building with a thrift shop, a children’s daycare and a preschool learning center that would be demolished. An outdoor shopping mall and several multi-story residential buildings are nearby on Mission. https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2025/07/07/five-story-affordable-housing-project-proposed-in-oceansides-san-luis-rey-valley/

A minor heat wave is building that will bring Pala highs in the mid-90s for the middle of this week. Back to the upper 80s this 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 Major League Baseball – The Padres took two out of three games from the visiting Rangers, beginning with a ten-inning 3-2 win on Friday thanks to a walk-off RBI single by Jake Cronenworth. Meanwhile, the Dodgers and Giants were on the losing end of blowouts. The Dodgers fell to the visiting Astros 18-1. And the Giants lost to the A’s in Sacramento 11-2. The Giants won the next two. But the Dodgers got swept by the Astros. They’re still in first place by 7 games over both San Diego and San Francisco. The Angels got swept by the Blue Jays in Toronto. Today, the Padres host the Diamondbacks with right-handed starting pitcher Yu Darvish set to make his return from rehab, the Giants host the Phillies, the Angels host Texas and the Dodgers are in Milwaukee.

In the NFL – Dallas All-Pro kick returner KaVontae Turpin was arrested in Allen, Texas Saturday on misdemeanor marijuana and weapons charges. He was released yesterday on $1,500 bond. He’d been stopped for doing nearly 100 miles an hour in a 70-mph speed zone. Turpin singed a 3-year $18m contract extension with the Cowboys in March. https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45684009/cowboys-kavontae-turpin-arrested-two-misdemeanor-charges

In the NBA – The Clippers, Jazz and Heat have agreed to a trade, sending Norman Powell to Miami, John Collins to LA, and Kevin Love, Kyle Anderson and a 2027 second round pick to Utah. https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/45688419/sources-powell-heat-collins-clips-three-team-trade

A trade back on June 22 that sent Kevin Durant to the Houston Rockets has now become the first-ever seven-team trade and six players. In total, it involves the Rockets, the Atlanta Hawks, Brooklyn Nets, Golden State Warriors, LA Lakers, Minnesota Timberwolves and Phoenix Suns. The deal wasn’t eligible to be completed until yesterday. https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/45683702/keven-durant-rockets-part-complex-seven-team-trade

In Major League Soccer playoffs – On Friday, the LA Galaxy shut out the visiting Vancouver Whitecaps, 3-0. San Diego FC lost to the visiting Houston Dynamo 4-3. LAFC at Austin FC was postponed due to weather. LAFC hosts Colorado on Wednesday.

In golf – At the John Deere Classic in Silvis, Illinois, Brian Campbell and Emiliano Grillo tied after 72 holes at 18 under par 266. Campbell won on the first hole of sudden death. https://www.espn.com/golf/leaderboard

In racing – Yesterday on the downtown Chicago street course, Shane van Gisbergen won his first NASCAR race. And at the Grand Prix of Mid-Ohio, Scott Dixon was the winner of the IndyCar event. https://www.espn.com/racing/results/_/series/indycar

In tennis – At Wimbledon today, Carlos Alcaraz, Novak Djokovic, and American Taylor Fritz all won their fourth-round matches. Top-seeded Jannik Sinner was behind in the second set of his round-four match. https://www.espn.com/tennis/wimbledon/bracket/_/season/2025

BUSINE$$

As of midday trading on Wall Street, stocks were down sharply. The Dow fell 1.2%. The S&P 500 was off by 9 tenths. And the Nasdaq was down a full percent. Gold gained 70 cents on the Comex, trading at $3,343.60 an ounce. Oil futures were up 47 cents with West Texas Intermediate Crude trading at $67.47 a barrel.

As reported last week, the Big Beautiful Bill of tax and spending cuts passed, was signed by the President and is now law. The tax cuts go into effect immediately. Many of them are extensions of cuts from 2017 that were set to expire. The new law drastically raises the state and local tax deduction limit and increases the estate tax exemption, all of which benefit upper income people. According to Penn Wharton school at the University of Pennsylvania, the top 20% of earners will have a yearly net income increase of $13k. The richest of the rich – the top 0.1% will gain $290k per year. There will be new deductions for workers who rely on tips or overtime. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office says that because of the tax cuts, the national debt will increase by over $3 trillion in the next ten years and that about 7.8m people will lose health insurance by then. Cuts in SNAP, formerly known as food stamps, could affect 40m people. EV tax credits will be eliminated, but not until the fall. Auto dealers will be giving a backlog of inventory an extra push before the incentives expire. www.morningbrew.com

Letters posted this weekend on Truth Social say Japan and South Korea will face 25% tariffs on August 1 if new trade agreements aren’t reached by then. Those rates are close to what President Trump had threatened on his so-called “Liberation Day”. https://www.marketwatch.com/livecoverage/stock-market-today-dow-s-p-500-and-nasdaq-set-to-slip-as-soft-tariff-deadline-approaches?mod=home_lead

The U.S. dollar just posted its worst first half of a year since 1973 – down 10%. Investors are concerned it is a sign that America is losing its standing as the world’ financial leader. It was 1973 when President Nixon separated the dollar from being based on the value of gold. The current decline is linked to political chaos, tariffs, and the country’s ballooning debt, which will now get a mega-boost from this weekend’s signing of the Big Beautiful Bill. For two decades, fund managers have preferred U.S. stocks over international stocks. This year, only 23% favor U.S. stocks. https://www.npr.org/2025/07/07/nx-s1-5455867/trump-dollar-value-debt-currency

LIFESTYLE / GREEN LIVING

Over the weekend at the movie box office, “Jurassic World: Rebirth” opened big, selling $91.5m in tickets on 4,300 screens, totally eclipsing last week’s #1, “F1: The Movie” which took in another $26m, making it Apple’s highest-grossing theatrical film so far. The were followed by “How to Train Your Dragon”, “Elio”, and “28 Years Later” rounding out the top 5. The 41^st anniversary re-release of “This is Spinal Tap” placed 10^th with just under $1m on 1k screens. The total of the top ten for the four-day holiday weekend was below the average so far this year and less than half that of the four-day Memorial Day weekend. https://www.boxofficemojo.com/weekend/2025W27/

Over the weekend, more than 2k exhibitors showed off specialty food and drink at the Summer Fancy Food Show in New York City. It’s where people go to see the new gastronomic trends. Recent years have given us new uses for vinegar, oil-based hot sauce, and lavender as a flavor. This year’s trends include new infusion flavors for olive oil, high-end gourmet mustard, plant-based vegetarian substitutions for dairy products like cheese and butter, chef-branded products, and things that are “swicy” – meaning both sweet and spicy. https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/04/2025-food-trends-beef-tallow-mustard-flavored-olive-oil.html

On this day in music history – July 7,

1963, the Rolling Stones made their British television debut on the program, “Thank Your Lucky Stars”. They appeared on the show a total of 13 times over the next three years.
In 1966, The Kinks topped the charts with “Sunny Afternoon”. Like “Taxman”, released by The Beatles the same year, the song riffs on high taxation by the British government under the leadership of the Labour Party and Prime Minister Harold Wilson.
In 1969, George Harrison recorded his new song, “Here Comes the Sun” at EMI’s Abbey Road studios with Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr. John Lennon was absent, recovering from his recent car crash in Scotland.
In 1971, one half of ABBA – Bjorn Ulvaeus and Agnetha Faltskog were married in Sweden. 3k fans created chaos during which a police horse stepped on the bride’s foot, injuring her slightly.
In 1973, Billy Preston began the first of two weeks at #1 with “Will It Go Round in Circles”.
In 1978, Talking Heads released their second album, “More Songs About Buildings and Food”. It included their first Top 30 single, a remake of Al Green’s “Take Me to the River”.
In 1980, Led Zeppelin played their last-ever concert with John Bonham on drums in West Berlin – the final stop on their European tour that year. The show finished with a 17-minute version of “Whole Lotta Love”.
In 1984, Prince began a five-week run at #1 on the singles chart with “When Doves Cry” – his first chart-topper.
In 1989, it was announced that CDs were now, for the first time, outselling vinyl albums.
In 2000, Emimen’s wife, Kimberly Mathers was hospitalized after slitting her wrists following her husband’s show at Joe Louis Arena in Detroit. His single, “The Real Slim Shady” had just peaked at #4 on the charts.
In 2006, Pink Floyd founding member Syd Barret died of complications from diabetes. He left the band after one album and released two solo ones before going into self-imposed seclusion for the next 30 years.
In 2007, The Live Earth concerts took place sequentially around the world all that day to “heal the planet” from climate change. They’d been organized by former Vice-President, Al Gore. Major acts played cities including Washington, Rio de Janeiro, London, Hamburg, Tokyo, Sydney and others. The Police played in New Jersey closing out the day’s events.
In 2009, memorial services were held for Michael Jackson with his coffin placed in front of the stage at Staples Center in LA.
In 2010, Paul McCartney joined Ringo Starr on stage at Radio City Music Hall in New York to celebrate the drummer’s 70^th
In 2015, climate scientists from five major universities found that 163 of Bob Dylan’s 542 published songs referred to the climate – the most of any songwriter. The Beatles came in second with 48 of their 308 songs mentioning the weather.

Born on this day …

In 1925, singer Mary Ford who teamed with husband, guitarist Les Paul. They had 16 top-ten hits together.
In 1927, Doc Severinsen, trumpeter and leader of the Tonight Show orchestra during Johnny Carson’s years hosting.
In 1932, pianist Joe Zawind from Miles Davis’ band and Weather Report.
In 1940, Ringo Starr
In 1944, Warren Entner from The Grass Roots
In 1945, founding member of Argent, Jim Rodford. He later became the bass player for The Kinks in 1978.
In 1948, guitarist Larry Reinhardt from Iron Butterfly and Captain Beyond
In 1950, David Hodo from The Village People
In 1956, radio disc jockey and novelty song maker, Bob Rivers
In 1962, Mark White, bass player with The Spin Doctors.

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

Other celebrity anniversaries today …

Actress and comedienne Mo Collins is 60
Comedian and actor Jim Gaffigan is 59
Among those who’ve passed, actress Shelly Duvall from “The Shining”, “Popeye” and numerous Robert Altman films was born in 1949.

http://www.davesfunstuff.com/a-mb/2080-date0707.htm

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WEATHER

Pala Weather – sunny with a high of 87 this afternoon … patchy night and morning low clouds and fog, clearing to sunny and 92 tomorrow … 94 Wednesday … 96 Thursday … 90 Friday … 89 Saturday … 88 Sunday … overnight lows, 58 tonight … 62 tomorrow night … 64 Wednesday night … 61 Thursday night … 59 Friday and Saturday night

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