Pala Today News – 8/19/25

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LOCAL AND REGIONAL NEWS

Oceanside Police Department announced yesterday it has begun its promised Drone as First Responder program.  The 13-month pilot program dispatches a drone to reported incidents to provide video and other information to officers before they arrive on-scene.  It’s intended to improve response time and increase officer safety.  The city’s new Real Time Crime Center will receive the video from drones, which will operate mainly in the downtown area.  The program is funded by a state grant and is staffed by fully trained and certified drone pilots.  There’s a transparency portal where the public can view flight activity and other details at this link.  https://www.10news.com/news/local-news/oceanside-police-department-begins-drone-response-pilot-program

One person was badly injured in a solo vehicle crash in San Marcos yesterday morning.  The driver was trapped inside a vehicle that veered off the 78 freeway near Twin Oaks Valley Road around 2:20a.  It crashed through a guardrail and landed on E. Carmel Street.  The driver is in critical condition at Palomar hospital.  The cause of the accident is unclear. https://www.newsbreak.com/times-of-san-diego-555715/4181713004524-early-morning-crash-in-san-marcos-sends-driver-to-hospital

An arrest was made in connection with the fatal stabbing around 8a Saturday at Escondido Transit Center.  33-year old Kandilaria Freeman of San Diego was detained by police later Saturday morning and after investigation, was charged with murder and booked into Vista jail.  She was unable to post bail due to a probation violation.  https://hoodline.com/2025/08/san-diego-woman-arrested-and-charged-with-murder-following-fatal-incident-at-escondido-transit-center/?utm=newsbreak

Riverside Sheriff’s investigators say a Menifee police officer accused of eight felony counts “abused his position” in sexually assaulting several women.  32-year old Juan Jose Pesina Jr. was arrested one week ago and charged with the crimes last Thursday.  It’s alleged he attempted to cover up his actions by failing to turn on his body-cam and possibly disengaging his patrol car’s GPS tracker.  The statements by investigators were part of an affidavit asking a judge to hold Pesina without bail.  He’s due to enter pleas on charges of sodomy, rape, forced oral copulation, sexual assault and battery on September 2.  Pesina is currently on administrative leave and being held in Banning jail. https://www.pressenterprise.com/2025/08/18/menifee-police-officer-abused-his-position-sexually-assaulted-women-investigator-says/

High temperatures in Pala will be at least 90 for the next week with an Extreme Heat Watch for near 100 Thursday and Friday along with our first chance of monsoon thunderstorms this season.  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 losing streak is now at four after the visiting Giants got out in front with four runs in the top of the first.  A Padres rally in the 7^th fell short and the Giants won it 4-3.  The Dodgers, coming off their sweep of the Padres, lost 4-3 to the last-place Rockies who are beginning to turn things around, and are no longer on track to end the season with the worst record ever in Major League Baseball.  The visiting Reds beat the Angels 4-1.  All series continue today.

The Little League World Series continues today in Williamsport with two international and two U.S. team games.  All four are elimination games. https://www.espn.com/little-league-world-series/scoreboard

In the NFL – Last night in Washington, the Bengals beat the Commanders 31-17 to finish off preseason Week 2. 

In college football – Week 1 begins this Saturday.

In the NBA – The sale of the Boston Celtics to private equity mogul Bill Chisholm was finalized today.  The sale comes at a team valuation of $6.1b – a record price for any American sports franchise – although a portion of the Lakers changed hands over the summer at a price that would value the entire franchise at $10b.  The deal was approved by the NBA last week.  Chisholm – a Massachusetts native now has majority control, with full control coming by 2028 at which point the total value of the Celtics could rise to $7.3b.  https://apnews.com/article/boston-celtics-sale-chisholm-grousbeck-ef45cc1c8cd15685c54af5ef4a523e58 

In the WNBA – Five games tonight.  The LA Sparks’ next game is tomorrow hosting Dallas. 

In Major League Soccer – This Saturday, San Diego FC hopes to extend its win streak hosting Portland.  The Galaxy hosts Colorado.  And LAFC is at Dallas.

In tennis – Carlos Alcaraz won the Cincinnati Open yesterday after Jannik Sinner retired 20 minutes into the first set due to illness. https://apnews.com/article/tennis-score-alcaraz-sinner-949498d279a8b9710a63320ffc719dee

The US Open is gearing up for Round 1 beginning this weekend.

In local high school sports: 

Bonsall – no scheduled games today

Great Oak – no scheduled games today

Fallbrook – field hockey at La Costa Canyon at 4p; girls’ volleyball at Temecula Valley at 4p

Valley Center – girls’ volleyball hosting Mountain Empire at 4:30p

 

 

BUSINE$$

As of midday trading on Wall Street, stocks were mixed.  The Dow Jones Industrial Average was just slightly positive.  The S&P 500 was down a half percent.  And the Nasdaq was off by 1.3%.  Gold fell $16.70 on the Comex to $3,361.30 an ounce.  West Texas Intermediate Crude oil futures were down $1.10 to $62.30 a barrel. 

Air Canada has reached a tentative deal to end its flight attendants’ strike.  Union workers walked out in spite of orders from the Canadian government to stay on the job.  Thousands of flights have been cancelled affecting up to a half million passengers and it’s estimated it’ll take ten days or more to untangle the mess. www.NYTimes.com

Home Depot today became the latest U.S. company to warn of upcoming price increases due to tariffs.  The word came along with today’s quarterly report.  Just under half of Home Depot’s stock is acquired from companies outside the U.S. and tariffs on those goods are increasing beyond where Home Depot can absorb them.  The company had previously said it would seek to diversify so that no one foreign country is responsible for more than 10% of its goods.  Today’s report said price increases will be targeted on those items most affected by tariffs and will not be broad-based across the home improvement chain’s offerings. https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/home-depot-price-rise-trump-tariffs-b2810438.html

The MSNBC network is getting new name.  It’ll also drop the iconic NBC peacock logo.  The new name is MS NOW, an acronym for “My Source for News, Opinion, and the World”.  The rebrand is an attempt to create distance between the liberal news network and NBC Universal, which owns the NBC television network.  MS NOW is part of the package including the Golf Channel, E!, and CNBC that began being spun off into a new company called Versant last November.  The original MSNBC name came from a long-gone partnership between NBC and Microsoft.  The changes also make MS NOW self-sufficient with no connections to corporate cousin, NBC.  MSNBC’s evening news ratings place it between first-place Fox News and third-place CNN, according to Nielsen.  www.morningbrew.com

Earlier this month, Six Flags reported a third straight quarterly loss, and that park attendance for the chain in the second quarter was down 9% from last year.  Part of the problem is competition.  Disney park revenue is up 10% year over year.  United Parks, which owns Sea World and Busch Gardens saw attendance increase 1% last quarter.  And Universal just debuted its $7b Epic Universe.  Meanwhile, Six Flags has announced plans to close its park in Maryland and sell off the land, and recently laid off hundreds of full-time staff following its acquisition last year of Cedar Fair which includes Knotts Berry Farm.  So far this year, shares in Six Flags Entertainment Corporation are down 47%. https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20250804828767/en/Six-Flags-Entertainment-Corporation-Reports-2025-Second-Quarter-Results-Provides-July-Performance-Update-and-Updates-Full-Year-Guidance

Beginning today, Best Buy is adding a third-party marketplace to its website and app to increase the variety of merchandise it sells and try to reverse a trend of declining sales.  The move mimics the success of others including Amazon and Walmart, who rely on third-party sellers to stock, sell and ship inventory and then take a cut of the sales in the form of a commission.  It also gives small and start-up vendors with innovative products a chance to sell under the Best Buy name when they’re not yet big enough to make or distribute the volume needed for Best Buy stores.  Annual sales at Best Buy have been declining for the past three years. https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/19/best-buy-launches-third-party-marketplace.html

 

LIFESTYLE / GREEN LIVING

For the first time in four years, debit card spending has grown more quickly than credit card spending.  Citing data from Visa and Mastercard, it’s been happening since late last year.  There are several factors.  Among them, people are not as inclined to spend as they were during the pandemic, and credit cards are becoming harder to get as issuing banks become more selective with their offerings.  www.morningbrew.com

Lightspeed Commerce, a company that provides payment systems to the hospitality industry says 44% of U.S. diners have ordered children’s meals for themselves.  Market research firm, Circana reports the trend has increased 30% over the past five years, even as overall restaurant traffic declined.  Diners surveyed say the reasons for adults ordering kids meals are smaller portions, followed by more budget-friendly prices, and simpler choices.  Experts say that with many people on GLP-1 medications, it’s natural to want to order less food.  For the industry, although they’ll need to sell more of them to equal the same bottom line, kids’ meals are profitable.  McDonald’s sells 3.2m Happy Meals every day and they are a money-maker.  The fast food giant is addressing the trend of adults ordering kids meals with what might be considered an adult version of the Happy Meal capitalizing on its nostalgia, called the McDonaldland Meal – a Quarter Pounder with Cheese or 10-pieces of Chicken McNuggets with fries and a Mt. McDonaldland shake.  Like a Happy Meal, it comes with a toy, which McDonald’s refers to as a “first-of-its-kind collectable souvenir.”  https://www.morningstar.com/news/marketwatch/2025081964/nearly-50-of-adults-are-now-ordering-kids-meals-its-economical-and-its-filling

 

On this day in music history – August 19,

• In 1964, The Beatles kicked off a North American concert tour at the Cow Palace in San Francisco.  A crowd of 17k screaming fans saw and may have slightly heard a 12-song Beatles set after the opening acts, The Righteous Brothers, The Bill Black Combo, The Exciters, and Jackie DeShannon.
• In 1967, The Beatles scored their 14^th #1 hit in the U.S. with “All You Need is Love” which featured Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Marianne Faithfull, Graham Nash and others singing backing vocals.
• In 1969, a day after Woodstock finally wrapped up, Joni Mitchell, David Crosby, Stephen Stills, and Jefferson Airplane all appeared on ABC’s The Dick Cavett Show in New York City.
• In 1971, 17k fans at the Pacific Coliseum in Vancouver, British Columbia saw Led Zeppelin kick off a North American Tour while 3k more without tickets scuffled with police outside.
• In 1973, Rita Coolidge and Kris Kristofferson were married in Malibu.  They divorced six years later
• In 1974, The Three Degrees were at #1 with “When Will I See You Again”.
• In 1988, “Crazy” by Patsy Cline and “Hound Dog” by Elvis Presley were named the most-played songs in the first 100 years of the jukebox.  Although jukeboxes only arrived in 1906, similar pay-for-play devices had been around since 1889.
• In 1999, Lauryn Hill won New Artist of the Year and Album of the Year at the US “Source Hip Hop Music Awards” in LA.  R. Kelly won R&B Artist of the Year.
• In 2005, a life size statue of Thin Lizzy’s Phil Lynott was unveiled in Dublin.  The three other members of the band were there.  Lynott died in 1986 at the age of 36.
• In 2013, Lady Gaga asked her fans to stop sending hate email and online threats to her critics.  She said she would not condone “hateful or abusive language” directed at others.  There had been death threats made to a producer who criticized Gaga’s video collaboration with Marina Abramovic.
• In 2014, Kate Bush requested fans not take photographs or record footage of her using their mobile devices saying “I want very much to have contact with you, not with iPhones, iPads or cameras”.
• In 2019, the guitar Duane Allman played on the Derek and the Dominos song “Layla” sold at auction for $1m.  The 1957 Les Paul Goldtop was also the one Allman used for the Allman Brothers’ first two albums.

Born on this day …

• In 1939, Ginger Baker, drummer with Cream, Blind Faith and Ginger Baker’s Airforce. 
• In 1940, Johnny Nash who had a #1 hit in 1970 with “I Can See Clearly Now”
• In 1945, Ian Gillan from Deep Purple
• In 1951, bass player for Queen, John Deacon.  He also wrote several of the group’s hits including “You’re My Best Friend” and “Another One Bites the Dust”

(This Day in music dot come)

 

Other celebrity anniversaries today …

• Actress Diana Muldaur from numerous TV series including Star Trek the Next Generation is 87
• Former President Bill Clinton is 79
• Actor Jonathan Frakes, also from Star Trek the Next Generation is 73
• Actor Adam Arkin is 70
• Among those who’ve passed, aviator and inventor Orville Wright was born on this day in 1871
• Poet and humorist Ogden Nash was born in 1902
• Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry was born in 1921
• Actor Matthew Perry was born in 1969

(Dave’s Fun Stuff dot com)

 

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WEATHER

Pala Weather – sunny with a high of 90 today … patchy low clouds and fog, clearing to sunny and 95 tomorrow … it’ll be 98 Thursday with the start of a two-day Extreme Heat Watch issued by the National Weather Service … the heatwave will peak Friday at 99 with a 20% chance of thunderstorms in the afternoon … 94 Saturday and Sunday with a continued slight chance of afternoon thunderstorms both days … partly sunny and 90 Monday … overnight lows, 60 tonight … 64 tomorrow night … about 67 Thursday through Saturday night … 65 Sunday night

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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.

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