Pala Today News – 8/11/25

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

Family are asking for help in finding 14-year old Lily Bennett who reportedly disappeared from her grandmother’s home on the La Jolla Reservation sometime after 9p last evening.  Phone tracking located her at a smoke shop in San Diego before the phone was disabled or turned off.  She was last seen wearing a Pro Club style dark grey sweat suit.  She’s light-skinned with blue eyes and long brown hair and has a scar under her left eyebrow.  Anyone with information is asked to call the family or notify police. https://www.facebook.com/search/top/?q=la%20jolla%20reservation https://www.villagenews.com/story/2025/08/07/news/span-classbrnwsbreaking-news-spanfamily-seeks-publics-help-in-locating-missing-14-year-old-lily-bennett/79539.html

An Oceanside restaurant caught fire about an hour and a half before opening for what would normally be a busy Sunday morning.  The pre-dawn fire at Fresh Start Café on Coast Highway just north of Oceanside Boulevard was confined to the kitchen area thanks to quick response from firefighters.  Business was expected to resume after cleanup. https://www.newsbreak.com/fox-5-san-diego-1589916/4167357772505-fire-breaks-out-at-popular-breakfast-spot-in-oceanside

Oceanside Fire also quickly extinguished a small vegetation fire along a walking trail at Guajome Lake yesterday just before 1p.  Eastbound lanes of Highway 76 were closed at North Santa Fe Road briefly for firefighting efforts.  https://patch.com/california/oceanside-camppendleton/crews-extinguish-vegetation-fire-near-guajome-lake-oceanside

A three-vehicle accident closed both directions of East Mission Road near Vine Street in Fallbrook yesterday afternoon.  Two people received minor injuries.  One was taken to a hospital.  It happened about 4:45p. https://www.villagenews.com/story/2025/08/07/news/two-injuries-reported-after-three-vehicle-collision-on-e-mission/79537.html

A pedestrian was transported to a hospital with minor injuries after being struck by a car at the intersection of South Mission and Ammunition Road in Fallbrook Friday afternoon. https://www.villagenews.com/story/2025/08/07/news/pedestrian-hit-on-s-mission-rd/79536.html

Westbound Highway 78 in Vista will be closed nightly from 10p to 5a between Sycamore Avenue and Mar Vista Drive tonight through Thursday morning for bridge demolition.  There will be a surface street detour. https://fox5sandiego.com/news/highway-78-closure-vista/?fbclid=IwY2xjawMHF6FleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHsLbgpzqj-6tXM_Ic2V-uZW4uRyPC7r41LKM0WY0y7Uhpus-vz8-RlhxUfsK_aem_cMoFHz7X_H0PUSpbNcf4Eg

Not quite as hot in Pala this week.  Temperatures will moderate further to the mid-80s for the 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 – After losing badly on Friday, the Padres beat the visiting Red Sox 5-4 in ten innings Saturday on a walk-off RBI single by Ramon Laureano.  They won yesterday’s rubber game of the match 6-2. Dylan Cease pitched 6 scoreless innings for the win. The Dodgers took two out of three from the visiting AL East first-place Blue Jays.  The Giants lost two out of three to the visiting Nationals.  The Padres remain two games behind the first-place Dodgers.  But the third-place Giants have now fallen to nine games back.  Detroit took two out of three from the visiting Angels, who are now ten games behind the Astros and in fourth place in the AL West.  The Padres open a series in San Francisco today.  The Dodgers are in Anaheim to play the Angels.

Over the weekend, Jen Pawol became the first woman to officiate at a Major League Baseball regular season game.  She was base umpire Saturday and worked behind the plate yesterday at the Marlins-Braves game in Atlanta.  According to Ump Scorecards, her ball and strike calls yesterday were 93% accurate.  Pawol has worked in the minor leagues since 2016 – most recently in Triple A.  The 48-year old was called up as a rover umpire this weekend.  Her next Major League assignment has yet to be announced. https://apnews.com/article/pawol-female-umpire-braves-marlins-22cc31b1cd991168243aef8a251ad64d 

The Little League World Series begins Wednesday in Williamsport.  The championship game will be Sunday, August 24.  Games will be televised on ESPN, ESPN 2, or ABC. https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/sports/little-league-world-series-2025-teams-bracket-schedule/3882773/?fbclid=IwY2xjawMHFxFleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHmLulBbrIzfAJqpuqvNZhxkKdz3T42p1rlQf83dPp0CPMQTo9bI1gEXL_smT_aem_vyBA0VIp1LSars1-xFo9vA

In college football – The AP Top 25 preseason poll was released this morning.  For the first time, Texas will open a college season ranked #1.  The Longhorns got just two more first-place votes than #2 Penn State.  But they’ve been on an upward trajectory since Steve Sarkisian became coach, winning 25 of their past 30 games and reaching to straight CFP semi-finals.  The rest of the top ten on this list beginning with #3 are Ohio State, Clemson, Georgia, Notre Dame, Oregon, Alabama, LSU and Miami.  https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/45944406/texas-ranked-no-1-preseason-ap-top-25-first

In the NBA – Portions of the upcoming season’s schedule have been released.  Opening night, October 21 will feature Houston at the defending champion Oklahoma City Thunder, and the Lakers hosting the Golden State Warriors.  Christmas Day will feature five games – Cleveland at New York, San Antonio at OKC, the Lakers hosting Houston, Dallas at Golden State, and Minnesota at Denver. https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/45927979/rockets-thunder-warriors-lakers-open-season

In the WNBA – The LA Sparks fell to Golden State 72-59 Saturday, then rebounded to beat the visiting Seattle Storm 94-91 yesterday.  They’re currently a game below .500.  Yesterday’s other winners were first-place Minnesota, Washington, Atlanta, and Las Vegas.

In Major League Soccer – LAFC tied Chicago Fire FC at 2 apiece and San Diego shut out Sporting Kansas City 2-0 on Saturday.  The Galaxy got routed by the visiting Seattle Sounders 4-0 yesterday.  All three SoCal teams’ next games are this weekend. https://www.espn.com/soccer/schedule/_/date/20250811/league/usa.1

In golf – At the St. Jude Championship in Memphis, Justin Rose and J.J. Spaun finished regulation play tied at 16 under-par.  Rose won the tournament in the third hole of sudden death. https://www.espn.com/golf/leaderboard

In racing – Shane van Gisbergen won the NASCAR Cup race at Watkins Glen yesterday – his third win in the past six NASCAR Cup races.  At yesterday’s Grand Prix of Portland, Will Power was the winner.  But the big celebration was for Alex Palou clinching his fourth Indycar crown.  His third-place finish earned enough points that no one will catch him in the remaining two races this season. It’s Palou’s third consecutive title and fourth in five years.  https://www.autoweek.com/racing/indycar/a65648141/alex-palou-captures-fourth-indycar-championship-winner-will-power-portland/

 

BUSINE$$

As of midday trading on Wall Street, stocks were mixed.  The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down more than a tenth of a percent.  The S&P 500 was up by a similar amount.  The Nasdaq gained a third of a percent.  Gold plunged $85, or 2 ½% on the Comex, trading at $3,406.30 an ounce.  West Texas Intermediate Crude oil futures were up 15 cents at $64.03 a barrel.

President Trump this morning announced a deal with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang to pay the U.S. 15% on sales to China of the company’s H2O microchip.  Though used in the development of AI, the chip is less than cutting-edge and something China already has in a different form and name.  It is assumed similar chips from competitor AMD will pay a similar 15% of its sales.  Huang had asked for restrictions placed on technology exports earlier this year to be eased. https://www.npr.org/2025/08/11/nx-s1-5498689/trump-nvidia-h20-chip-sales-china

After less than two months on the job, the Trump administration is replacing Billy Long as Commissioner of the IRS.  No explanation was given and the move took IRS staff by surprise.  Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent will serve as acting commissioner.  There had been four different acting commissioners earlier this year before Long was confirmed to the post in mid-June.  Long had little tax administration experience.  He’s expected to receive an appointment as U.S. Ambassador to Iceland.  The IRS has recently laid off a third of its auditors and struck a controversial deal to share confidential taxpayer information with immigration officials. https://www.npr.org/2025/08/08/nx-s1-5496549/irs-billy-long-trump

With inflation and jobs numbers due from Washington this week, an unofficial broad economic indicator is already raising warning flags.  For the sixth consecutive month, Las Vegas has had a year-over-year decline in visitors.  June was down more than 11% from a year ago.  The summer months are traditionally slow in Sin City due to the hot weather.  But the dip this year comes amid growing concerns over the global trade war, immigration policies and an increasing reluctance by those from foreign countries to visit the U.S.  Meanwhile, Americans are reassessing how they spend their money in the face of rising prices. https://www.npr.org/2025/08/08/nx-s1-5492413/las-vegas-trump-summer-travel-decline

Tomorrow is the deadline for the U.S. and China to extend their tariff truce.

 

LIFESTYLE / GREEN LIVING

Over the weekend at the movie box office, though the sequel, “Freakier Friday” had the bigger buzz, it finished a distant second place to the weekend’s other wide release, “Weapons” which sold $42.5m worth of tickets.  The Jamie Lee Curtis/Lindsay Lohan comedy was second with $29m on about 700 more screens.  Weapons’ per-screen average was almost twice that of Freakier. “Fantastic Four: First Steps” fell to third place with $15.5m in its third week in theaters.  The Jumanji-style fantasy “Sketch” opened in 10^th place on half as many screens as the others with $2.5m.  Total movie attendance was 8% better than last week, but well below the previous four and below average for the summer. https://www.boxofficemojo.com/weekend/2025W32/

From the “I thought you were already dead” file, AOL – short for America Online, quietly announced Friday that it’s ending its dial-up internet service.  Begun in the early 90s, by 1999, AOL had 18m subscribers and its beep-tone-static sound of the service connecting had become synonymous with internet.  With high-speed internet taking over through various other platforms, AOL dial-up fell to about 2m customers in 2015.  By 2021, that number was in the low thousands.  The plug for the handful of remaining dial-up accounts will officially be pulled September 30.  www.morningbrew.com

 

On this day in music history – August 11,

• In 1956, Elvis Presley’s double-side hit “Don’t Be Cruel / Hound Dog” was released.  It went to #1 and stayed there for 11 weeks, a record that stood for 36 years until Boyz II Men’s “End of the Road” single.
• In 1962, Neil Sedaka had his first #1 hit with “Breaking Up is Hard To Do”.
• In 1964, The Beatles recorded their fourth album, “Beatles For Sale” at EMI Studios in London.
• In 1966, at a press conference in Chicago, John Lennon commented on his Beatles were “more popular than Jesus” comment.  It was more of an explanation than an apology.  The apology was for the furor it caused, not the quote itself, which went barely noticed in other countries.
• In 1967, just days before the Monterey Pop Festival, Britain’s annual Reading Festival featured Small Faces, The Move, Marmalade, Pink Floyd, Donovan, Cream, Jeff Beck, John Mayall, Peter Green’s Fleetwood Mac, and The Crazy World of Arthur Brown among others.  Three-day advance tickets were about $5.
• In 1979, Led Zeppelin played their last show ever in their native England. 
• In 1984, Ray Parker Jr. began the first of three weeks at #1 with the theme from “Ghostbusters”. Parker had been a session guitarist for Stevie Wonder and Marvin Gaye.  He was accused of plagiarizing the melody for Ghostbusters from the Huey Lewis and the News song “I Want a New Drug.”  It was settled out of court the following year.
• In 1989, three members of LL Cool J’s crew were arrested for the rape of a 15-year old girl who’d won a backstage pass on a radio contest.
• In 1999, KISS got a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
• In 2002, Bruce Springsteen’s “The Rising” began 2 weeks at the top of the Billboard album chart.
• In 2008, steel guitarist Don Helms died at the age of 81.  He was featured on more than 100 Hank Williams recordings and dozens of other country hits including Patsy Cline’s “Walking After Midnight”.
• In 2011, The Go-Go’s received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame where The Masque – the punk club where they used to play had once stood.  In the early 1980s they were the only all-female band who wrote their own songs and played their own instruments to have topped the Billboard charts.
• In 2021, guitarist Roy Gaines died one day before his 84^th Primarily a sideman, he’d released a dozen solo albums, but was best-known for his work with Bobby Bland, Junior Parker, Big Mama Thornton and Ray Charles.  He also worked on songs by The Everly Brothers, The Supremes, Stevie Wonder and Gladys Knight, and had a small part in the movie, “The Color Purple”.

Born on this day …

• In 1942, Mike Hugg, drummer and founding member of Manfred Mann
• In 1943, Denis Payton, sax player with The Dave Clark Five and Jim Kale, bass player with the Guess Who
• In 1949, Eric Carmen, singer, songwriter, guitarist and keyboard player with The Raspberries and later in the 70s as a solo artist.  His biggest hit was in 1976 with “All By Myself”.
• In 1950, Erik Braunn, guitarist with Iron Butterfly.
• In 1952, Bob Mothersbaugh from Devo
• In 1954, Bryan Bassett with Wild Cherry who had the 1976 #1 hit “Play That Funky Music”, and British singer Joe Jackson
• In 1957, drummer Richie Reinhardt, better known as Richie Ramone from The Ramones.
• In 1976, Ben Gibbard from Death Cab for Cutie
• In 1978, Chris Kelly from the rap duo Kris Kross

https://www.thisdayinmusic.com/search/?keyword=&date=11&month=8

 

Other celebrity anniversaries today …

• Actor, comedian and TV show host Joe Rogan is 57
• Actor Chris Hemsworth is 41

http://www.davesfunstuff.com/a-dd/2080-date0811.htm

 

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WEATHER

Pala Weather – sunny with a high of 89 this afternoon … 88 tomorrow … patchy morning low clouds and fog, clearing to sunny and 89 again Wednesday … 88 Thursday … 84 Friday and Saturday … 85 Sunday … overnight lows, about 59 tonight through Wednesday night … 56 Thursday night … 53 Friday and Saturday night

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