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Pala Today News – 7/16/25

Written by John Fox on July 16, 2025

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.

LOCAL AND REGIONAL NEWS

Four fires continue to burn across Riverside County yesterday. The largest at 2,387 acres – the Wolf Fire was finally fully contained after 17 days. The Fobes Fire was first reported yesterday around 1p in a remote area near Highway 74 and Morris Ranch Road. It’s burned about 30 acres with no structures threatened. Highway 74 remains open. There was a two-acre fire in the La Quinta/Thermal area. https://patch.com/california/temecula/brush-fires-send-smoke-across-riverside-county-see-where-they-are

A man accused of robbing and sexually assaulting a woman in her home in San Marcos was arrested yesterday. The burglary and assault happened July 8 at a home in the 1400 block of Grand Avenue in San Marcos. 41-year old Adolfo Brito allegedly forced his way in armed with a box cutter, demanding the victim remove several items of jewelry. Members of the Sheriff’s Fugitive Task Force located Brito on Park Center Drive in Vista yesterday and booked him into San Diego Central Jail. https://patch.com/california/carlsbad/man-accused-breaking-north-county-home-sexually-assaulting-woman

North County Fire received a call this morning for a medical emergency on Santa Margarita Trail in DeLuz. A woman, possibly with a leg injurey, was carried out with a Stokes Basket and transported to an area hospital. https://www.villagenews.com/story/2025/07/10/news/ncfpd-rescues-woman-from-santa-margarita-trail/79315.html

A traffic accident knocked out power to about 100 SDG&E customers in northern Vista around 8:30a this morning. The utility says power will be restored by 3p. https://www.sdge.com/residential/customer-service/outage-center/outage-map

High temperatures in Pala will be in the mid-80s for at least the next week with good chance of thunderstorms in the Inland Empire mountains tomorrow. 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 – Yesterday’s All-Star Game made history. The nine-inning game ended in a 6-6 tie after the National League gave up six unanswered runs. Until 2022, All-Star Games could go to extra innings, the same as regular season and spring training games. The latest collective bargaining agreement from 2022 created the “swing-off” which was used for the first time to decide the winner of yesterday’s game. A combination home run derby and hockey shootout, three players are selected from the American and National league team lineups and alternate with each getting three swings. Whichever team gets the most home runs wins. Philadelphia’s Kyle Schwarber had been 0 for 2 with a walk in the regular game. He batted second for the National League in the swing-off, hitting three home runs with his three swings and giving the National League a 4-3 edge. The American’ league’s final batter failed to homer, giving the NL with win and earning Schwarber the game’s MVP award. https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/45750275/kyle-schwarber-leads-national-league-win-2025-mlb-all-star-game-first-tiebreak-home-run-swing-off

A highlight of last night’s game in Atlanta was a multimedia recreation of Hank Aaron’s record-breaking 715^th home run at the old Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium in 1974. Aaron’s widow, Billye Aaron was among the 41,702 cheering from the stands last night as a fireball shot from home plate to the left-center fence signified home run #715, breaking Babe Ruth’s nearly 40-year old home run record. https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/45749982/mlb-honors-hank-aaron-re-creating-homer-all-star-game

The regular season resumes tomorrow with the Padres playing the Nationals in Washington, the Giants taking on the Blue Jays in Toronto, the Angels against the Phillies in Philadelphia, and the Dodgers hosting the Brewers.

In the NBA – Bradley Beal has agreed to a contract buyout with the Phoenix Suns, paving the way for him to join the Clippers on a two-year $11m deal with a player option after he clears waivers. That would make the 32-year old, three-time All-Star one of the top available free agents next summer. https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/45755171/bradley-beal-agrees-buyout-suns-join-clippers

In the NHL – The league has released the full season schedule for 2025-26. 32 teams will play a combined 1,312 games between October 7 and April 16 with the playoffs beginning the following weekend, lasting through June. Among highlights, Alex Ovechkin will begin his 21^st NHL season when he and the Washington Capitals host Boston on October 8. Ovechkin is at 897 career goals after breaking Wayne Gretzky’s record of 894 at the end of last season. https://www.espn.com/nhl/story/_/id/45755121/nhl-releases-2025-26-schedule-last-82-game-season-new-cba

In Major League Soccer – Tonight, San Diego hosts Toronto, the Galaxy host Austin, and LAFC plays Minnesota United in St. Paul.

In racing – The summer horse racing season in Del Mar opens this Friday.

BUSINE$$

As of midday trading on Wall Street, stocks had modest gains. The Dow was up a quarter percent. The S&P 500 and Nasdaq each gained about a tenth. Gold traded up $22 on the Comexa at $3,358.70 an ounce. The benchmark West Texas Intermediate Crude oil futures were down 22 cents at $66.30 a barrel.

President Trump has ended his threats to fire politically independent Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell, whom he’d appointed to the position in his first administration. Powell, as head of an independent agency has resisted demands from the President that interest rates be lowered – something that’s looking increasingly unlikely anytime soon due to a recent rise in inflation. Constitutional experts say the President doesn’t have the power to remove Powell, whose term as chairman is up next May. The President said yesterday that he won’t fire Powell for anything but fraud, which he suggests the head of the Fed has committed by spending $2.5b renovating Fed headquarters in Washington DC. That renovation has been going on for seven years, but is only now being questioned by the White House. Trump reportedly favors the head of the National Economic Council, Kevin Hassett to be Powell’s replacement. Kevin Warsh, a former member of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors from 2006 to 2011 is another possibility. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/how-trump-could-use-an-expensive-fed-building-renovation-to-oust-powell

Even as it’s expanding its battery development, General Motors is increasing production of gas-powered SUVs and pickup trucks by starting production of them in Michigan. GM currently makes Cadillac Escalades in Arlington, Texas and Silverado and Sierra pickups in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Those models will now also be manufactured at the Orion plant in Michigan. It’s part of GM’s June commitment to invest $4b in U.S. manufacturing facilities. GM CEO Mary Barra had said four years ago that GM would exclusively offer EVs by 2035. But the biggest U.S. automaker has had to pivot in the face of soft demand for EVs. https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/15/gm-escalade-silverado-sierra-michigan-orion-assembly.html

British aerospace and defense company Rolls-Royce says it will spend $75m to expand its manufacturing facility in Aiken, South Carolina. The investment will boost the output of diesel engines used as backup power for data centers and other critical infrastructure. Production will begin in 2027. https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/15/rolls-royce-south-carolina.html

Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol is telling employees that beginning in October, they need to be in the office four days a week or face a pay cut. But he is offering a cash payment for voluntary exit by those who don’t want to spend an extra day per week at their desk. Last October, two months after his arrival as CEO, Niccols mandated a three-day in-office work week for corporate employees. Though Niccol himself maintains an office in Newport Beach, he’s lately been spending his non-travel time at headquarters in Seattle. He’s been trying to turn around a slump at Starbucks – so far without measurable success, causing Starbucks stock to decline 2% in today’s trading. Starbucks has about 16k employees working outside of store locations. https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/14/starbucks-to-require-employees-in-office-four-days-a-week-offer-payouts.html

LIFESTYLE / GREEN LIVING

Trying to boost listenership, SiriusXM yesterday launched a cheaper, ad-supported plan called SiriusXM Play. The option is currently available on a limited basis. It’ll be less than $7 per month for in-car and streaming with further package pricing and other details yet to be announced. Live sports play-by-play, certain artist-led music channels and Howard Stern are not part of the new package. They will remain part of the commercial-free plans at between $10 and $25 per month. https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/15/sirius-bets-on-advertising-to-capture-new-listeners.html

The Senate voted with Vice President Vance as the tie breaker to advance debate on the package of funding cuts proposed by the President, including taking back $1.1b allocated to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, along with $7.9b earmarked for international efforts to quell famine and disease. National Public Radio, which media experts say has been targeted for revenge by President Trump says it receives only about 1% of its funding from federal grants, and that the cuts will primarily affect local public radio and television stations who rely much more heavily on those grants. Part of yesterday’s debate was a plan to continue directly funding 28 public radio stations serving Native American communities in nine states. Those funds would continue through the Department of the Interior. Full disclosure – Rez Radio does not receive any direct federal funding. It is 100% supported by the Pala Band of Mission Indians and private donations.

For about a dozen years, Rez Radio has offered a free phone listen line to hear our live broadcast over any telephone. The company that made that free service available has been taken over and the service is no longer free. The phone number 712 774 5748 is still active, but no longer connects to our stream. We’d like to know from you if that service is of value before we go spending limited budget to reactivate it. Let us know at 91.3@palatribe.com. Note that our live stream is still available with the free Rez Radio App, at our website, on smart speakers, and through streaming aggregators including iHeartRadio, TuneIn, and Radio.Garden. We’re just looking for your opinion on whether we should spend money to keep the phone listen line, possibly at the expense of other things.

On this day in music history – July 16,

1955, Elvis Presley had his first charted hit when “Baby, Let’s Play House” entered the Cash Box country chart at #15.
In 1962, The Beach Boys signed with Capitol Records, releasing their first hit that September. It had been recorded in February at World Pacific Studios and was only the band’s second recording session ever.
In 1966, Jack Bruce, Eric Clapton and Ginger Baker formed Cream. One of the most influential groups of the late 60’s, Cream only lasted two years.
In 1967, Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen, Judy Collins, Janis Ian, and Tom Paxton were among the artists appearing at the Newport Folk Festival.
In 1969, The Beatles worked on the two George Harrison songs to be included on the “Abbey Road” album – “Something” and “Here Comes the Sun”. Harrison was inspired to write the latter after taking a day off and walking around the garden at Eric Clapton’s house.
In 1977, Shaun Cassidy was at #1 with a remake of “Da Doo Ron Ron”. Shaun is the half-brother of Partridge Family lead singer David Cassidy.
In 1981, singer-songwriter Harry Chapin died in an auto accident on the New York expressway when he suffered a heart attack and his car was hit from behind by a big rig.
In 1995, Queen Latifah was the victim of a carjacking that left her bodyguard with a gunshot wound
In 2007, The White Stripes played their “shortest live show ever” in St. John’s, Canada. Jack White played a single C# note accompanied by a bass drum shot and cymbal crash from Meg White on drums after which Jack announced, “We have now officially played in every province and territory in Canada”. They then left the stage, returning later that night to perform a full show.
In 2012, Jon Lord, keyboardist for Deep Purple died of cancer at the age of 71.
In 2014, Johnny Winter died at the age of 70 in Zurich, Switzerland just days after playing at a music festival in Austria.

Born on this day …

In 1941, Desmond Dekker, Jamaican singer and leader of The Aces who had the 1969 Top 40 hit “Israelites”.
In 1947, Thomas Boggs, drummer for The Box Tops
In 1952, Stewart Copeland, composer and drummer for The Police

https://www.thisdayinmusic.com/search/?keyword=&date=16&month=7

Other celebrity anniversaries today …

Actress Phoebe Cates is 62
Actor and comedian Will Ferrell is 58
Actress and daughter of Richard Pryor, Rain Pryor is 62
Actor Corey Feldman is 54
Among those who’ve passed, popcorn magnate Orville Redenbacher was born on this day in 1907
Actor Barnard Hughes was born in 1915
In 1980, The California Supreme Court sided with Ted Giannoulas and said that Ted, the man inside the San Diego Chicken suit could continue to appear in his suit similar to the one that first brought him fame when he was on the payroll at KGB FM. The radio station had fired him for making appearances in their suit without permission and claimed it had all rights to the costume which had been in use since 1975.

http://www.davesfunstuff.com/a-dd/2080-date0716.htm

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Pala seniors’ lunch menu for tomorrow (7/17) – fried chicken, steak fries, vegetables and dessert

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WEATHER

Pala Weather – sunny with a high of 83 this afternoon … patchy morning low clouds and fog, clearing to mostly sunny and 82 tomorrow with monsoon moisture from the south making it humid with thunderstorms in the Inland Empire mountains … 82 Friday … 85 Saturday and Sunday … 84 Monday and Tuesday … overnight lows, about 57 all week

PROGRAMMING

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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.

PALA

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