Pala Today News – 10/7/25
Written by John Fox on October 7, 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
There was a two-vehicle crash with minor injuries this morning at 6a just outside the Fallbrook gate to Camp Pendleton on Ammunition Road. It involved a Volkswagen Jetta and a blue Kia. Morning commute traffic was slow for about an hour. https://www.villagenews.com/story/2025/10/02/news/span-classbrnwsbreaking-news-spantraffic-collision-briefly-slows-morning-commute-near-camp-pendleton-gate/80061.html
Traffic was backed up for miles on Highway 76 in Pauma Valley Friday afternoon following a fatal collision at 76 and Cole Grade Road around 12:30p. 76 was closed in both directions for several hours for investigation with eastbound traffic backed up into Pala. https://www.villagenews.com/story/2025/10/02/news/span-classbrnwsbreaking-news-spanfatal-crash-shuts-down-sr-76-and-cole-grade-road-in-pauma-valley/80046.html
CHP reports two children were involved in Friday evening’s crash on Camino Del Rey near Old River Road in Bonsall. Two vehicles were involved at about 8p prompting a request for medical aid. No further details were released. https://www.villagenews.com/story/2025/10/02/news/two-children-involved-in-crash-near-old-river-road-and-camino-del-rey/80064.html
Just an hour earlier, a multi-vehicle crash closed lanes on Highway 76 near North River Road. It involved a pickup truck, a Prius and a motorcycle. https://www.villagenews.com/story/2025/10/02/news/crash-blocks-state-route-76-in-oceanside/80056.html
Last Thursday, the Energy Subcommittee of the Valley Center Community Planning Group hosted a public meeting at the Valley Center Public Library to review San Diego County and SDG&E’s plans for completing the road widening and strategic undergrounding of utilities projects along Cole Grade Road. Focus was on the portion of both projects that affect the stretch of Cole Grade Road between Cool Valley Road and Hilldale Road. This was the site of SDG&E’s previous effort to underground high-voltage lines across Keys Creek. The County’s project is slated to begin the middle of next year. https://www.valleycenter.com/articles/cole-grade-widening-and-undergrounding-projects-subject-of-oct-2-meeting/
Southern California Edison reports nearly 1,500 homes and businesses in Menifee were without power this morning. The outage began shortly after 8a in the area of Encanto Drive, Rouse Way, South of Ethanac Road, and east of Mathews Road. No time estimate given for restoration of service. https://patch.com/california/murrieta/nearly-1-500-menifee-residents-without-power-what-know
Today is National Taco Day. Among the deals today, Taco Bell has $1 Cantina Chicken soft tacos today. El Pollo Loco is offering three chicken tacos for $5. Baja Fresh is offering $5 off $10 online orders with the code TACO. That last one’s good today, tomorrow and Thursday. https://www.cbs8.com/article/news/nation-world/national-taco-day-deals-freebies/507-d40e7945-c2c0-4922-b28a-6bae0e70c3a9
Pala will have high temperatures in the low 80s with a chance of just a little rain beginning tomorrow, then mid-to upper 70s 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. Mass will not be broadcast on 9/21 due to staffing limitations.
SPORTS
In Major League Baseball divisional playoffs– The Dodgers outlasted a rally by the Phillies to win 4-3 yesterday in Philadelphia and take a two-games to none lead back to LA for Game 3 tomorrow. Milwaukee beat Chicago 7-3, good for a two-games to none lead.
In the NFL – in spite of Patrick Mahomes’ 318 yards passing and 60 yards of rushing, Jacksonville beat Kansas City 31-28 last night, thanks to the Jaguars’ Trevor Lawrence stumbling one-yard rush for a touchdown with 23 seconds left in the game.
The Bengals have acquired quarterback Joe Flacco from division rivals, the Cleveland Browns, who get a fifth-round draft pick in the trade. This comes two days after Cincinnati lost its third game in a row. https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46521189/browns-trade-joe-flacco-qb-needy-bengals-sources-say
Week 6 begins Thursday with Philadelphia at the New York Giants Thursday on Prime Video.
In college football – Ohio State remain the overwhelming favorite at #1 on the AP Top 25. Undefeated Miami and Oregon have traded places as the new #2 and #3. Texas A&M and Oklahoma traded as the new #5 and #6. The next dozen teams on the list all moved up one to five places as Vanderbilt dropped four to #20 and Iowa State dropped 8 to #22, while former #7 Penn State and #9 Texas got dropped from the Top 25. https://www.espn.com/college-football/rankings
In the NBA – preseason – last night’s winners were Milwaukee, Houston, Detroit, Dallas, Denver and San Antonio.
In the WNBA championship series – Game three is tomorrow in Phoenix. Las Vegas leads the series two games to none.
In hockey – The NHL regular season begins tonight with three games – all of them televised on ESPN. Chicago at Florida at 2p, Pittsburgh at New York at 5p, and Colorado at Los Angeles at 7:30p.
The league has suspended Tampa Bay forward Scott Sabourin four games and defenseman J.J. Moser two games for misconduct in the preseason finale against Florida Saturday night. Also, the Lightning organization was fined $100k and coach Jon Cooper was fined $25k. The Lightning had called up six players from their minor league affiliate. Those six combined for 77 penalty minutes and five of the six drew either a match penalty, misconduct or game misconduct on Saturday. www.espn.com
In Major League Soccer – LAFC hosts Toronto FC tomorrow and play in Austin Sunday. The Galaxy host FC Dallas Saturday.
In local high school sports:
Bonsall – no scheduled games
Great Oak – girls’ golf hosting Chaparral at 3p; girls’ tennis against Vista Murrieta at 3:30p, JV hosting, varsity away; girls’ volleyball at Temecula Valley at 5p; boys’ water polo at Murrieta Valley at 5p; girls’ volleyball at Temecula Valley at 5p
Fallbrook – no schedule published
Valley Center – boys’ water polo hosting Pacific Ridge at 3:30p; girls’ tennis against Vista at 3:30, varsity hosting, JV away; girls’ golf hosting Fallbrook at Native Oaks at 3:30p; girls’ volleyball at Ramona at 4:30p
BUSINE$$
As of midday trading on Wall Street, stocks were down. The Dow fell a quarter percent. The S&P 500 was off by a third of a percent. And the Nasdaq declined 6 tenths. Gold gained another $29.10 an ounce and is now trading above $4k for the first time ever. West Texas Intermediate Crude oil futures were down 23 cents at $61.64 a barrel.
Just hours after Transportation Secretary, Sean Duffy warned of flight disruptions due to the federal shutdown, they began happening. Nationwide, almost 6k flights were delayed in the U.S. yesterday, including 42% of those leaving Chicago’s O’Hare International and 23% from Hollywood Burbank. There were no air traffic controllers on duty at Hollywood Burbank Airport last evening, resulting in flight delays averaging 2 ½ hours, according to the FAA. A San Diego-based company known as TRACON takes over in such situations for flight communications and departure clearance. But the FAA reduces the number of takeoffs and landings for safety when nobody is controlling traffic on-site. The air traffic controllers union has instructed members to keep working during the government shutdown. They are classified as essential workers, so they’re expected to work without pay, but collect that back pay when the shutdown ends. The nation is short-staffed on air traffic controllers and there has been in increase in the number of them calling in sick since the shutdown began, according to the TSA. There were widespread flight delays towards the end of the last government shutdown in 2018 and early 2019. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/flight-delays-air-traffic-controllers-government-shutdown-sean-duffy-burbank/
ChatGPT-maker Opoen AI has announced a huge purchase of chips from AMD – enough for six-gigawatts of computing capacity for ChatGPT. That equals enough energy to power 5m U.S. households for a year or operate several time-travelling DeLoreans. The deal is expected to generate tens of billions of dollars in revenue for AMD over the next five years. But it’s unclear how OpenAI will pay for it. OpenAI is getting the rights buy about 10% of AMD for a penny a share if OpenAI hits certain milestones and AMD’s stock price rises. But OpenAI only made $4.3b the first half of this year and lost $2.5b during the same period. Just a few weeks ago, OpenAI also pledged to buy 4.5 gigawatts of cloud computing power from Oracle. They’ve also signed a mulit-billion dollar agreement with Nvidia for that chipmaker to invest $100b in OpenAI over the next decade, which OpenAI will turn right around and spend on Nvidia chips. Industry analysts smell an AI bubble brewing. www.morningbrew.com
LIFESTYLE / GREEN LIVING
The US Agriculture Department yesterday warned people not to eat certain Hello Fresh subscription meal kits containing spinach that may be contaminated with listeria. The meals are manufactured by San Clemente-based FreshRealm, a company linked to an expanding listeria outbreak tied to heat-and-eat pasta meals. There have already been recalls of Hello Fresh products sold at Walmart, Kroger, and Albertsons. A list of products included in yesterday’s warning is at this link. The USDA says there have been no reports of any adverse reactions from consuming these products. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hello-fresh-listeria-spinach-usda/
Illegal crossings along the U.S./Mexico border are at their lowest level since 1970 amid the Trump administration’s sweeping clampdown. U.S. Border Patrol agents recorded nearly 238k apprehensions during the fiscal year that ended last week. 60% of them were during the last three months under President Biden. Three years ago, during the humanitarian crisis, apprehensions were as much as ten times the numbers from the past 12 months. A record was set in 2022, when Border Patrol made 2.2m apprehensions. A spokesman for the Migration Policy Institute – a non-partisan Washington think tank noted that illegal crossings began to fall sharply just over a year ago when the Biden administration enacted strict limits on asylum. Asylum has since been cut off and the border sealed and militarized under Trump’s second administration. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/illegal-crossings-immigration-us-mexico-southern-border-lowest-level-1970-trump-dhs/
According to the Surfrider Foundation, 70% of California’s sandy beaches will be gone by 2100 due to climate-driven sea level rise. Beach erosion is a natural process, but climate change is accelerating and compounding its impacts. At the same time, coastal development is squeezing beaches from the other side. Beaches would normally migrate further inland, but can’t due to buildings, roads and sea walls. Surfrider’s latest report cites nine case studies including San Clemente and San Onofre. The Foundations was created in 1984 by a group of Malibu Surfers dedicated to protecting the world’s oceans and beaches. https://www.10news.com/news/local-news/surfrider-foundation-70-of-californias-sandy-beaches-to-vanish-by-2100
On this day in music history – October 7,
- In 1967, The Beatles rejected an offer of $1m from promoter Sid Bernstein to make another appearance at Shea Stadium. He’d brought them there the first time in 1965 for a fraction of that. But the group was firm about their retirement from touring that began after their 1966 concert at San Francisco’s Candlestick Park.
- On the same day in London, Mama Cass Elliott spent the night in jail after being accused of stealing from a hotel. A TV and concert appearance by the Mamas & the Papas had to be cancelled as a result.
- In 1968, Jose Feliciano performed a slow, bluesy version of The Star-Spangled Banner before the 5th game of the World Series between Detroit and St. Louis. The backlash caused many radio stations to refuse to play his songs, damaging his career.
- In 1976, John Lennon was awarded his “green card” and permanent residency status at a hearing in New York which overturned previous efforts by the federal government to deport him. The three judge Court of Appeals decided the 1968 bust in Britain for possession of marijuana was “Contrary to US ideas of due process and was invalid as a means of banishing the former Beatle from America.”
- In 1978, the soundtrack to the film “Grease” began a 13-week run at #1.
- In 1989, Paul Abdul was at #1 on the album chart with “Forever Your Girl”. It had been on the charts for 64 weeks, making it the longest climb ever to reach #1.
- In 1995, Alanis Morissette hit #1 with her third album, “Jagged Little Pill” which produced six successful singles and went on to become the biggest selling album ever by a female artist with sales of 30m copies.
- In 2002, Mick Jagger donated 100k Pounds Sterling to his former grammar school to pay for a music director and buy instruments. A new music center there was named for him.
- In 2005, Boy George was arrested when police found traces of cocaine on a computer table in his New York apartment. He’d called the police there thinking someone was breaking in.
- In 2009, Barbra Streisand topped the album chart for the 9th time with her latest CD, “Love Is the Answer”. She’s had more chart toppers on the Billboard Hot 200 than any other female artist.
- In 2013, Annie Lennox whose group, Eurythmics was an early music video favorite on MTV told BBC Radio 5 that modern pop videos were “dark” and “pornographic”, and said they should be rated the same was as films.
- In 2016, The Rolling Stones headlined the first night of Desert Trip at the Empire Polo Club in Indio. The two-weekend event also featuring Bob Dylan, Paul McCartney, Neil Young, Roger Waters, and The Who. It earned $160m, making it the most financially successful music festival to date.
Born on this day …
- In 1927, singer Al Martino, who also played the character Johnny Fontaine in “The Godfather”.
- In 1939, Colin Cooper from Climax Blues Band
- In 1941, Tony Silvester from The Main Ingredient, best known for their 1972 hit, “Everybody Plays the Fool”.
- In 1945, Kevin Godley from 10cc
- In 1949, David Hope from Kansas
- In 1951, John Mellencamp
- In 1953, Tico Torres, drummer for Bon Jovi
- In 1955, cellist Yo-Yo Ma
- In 1967, Toni Braxton
- In 1968, Thom Yorke from Radiohead
https://www.thisdayinmusic.com/search/?keyword=&date=7&month=10
Other celebrity anniversaries today …
- Comedienne and TV host Joy Behar is 84
- Actress Mary Badham, best known for her role as Scout in “To Kill a Mockingbird” is 73
- Actor James Van Patten is 69
- Simon Cowell, producer and judge on “American Idol” is 66
- Actress Judy Landers is 64
- Among those who’ve passed, religious leader and black separatist, Elijah Muhammad was born in 1897.
- Character actor Andy Devine was born in 1905
- Actress June Allyson was born in 1917
- South African Archbishop and Nobel Peace Prize winner, Desmond Tutu was born in 1931
http://www.davesfunstuff.com/a-dd/2080-date1007.htm
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Pala seniors’ lunch menu for tomorrow (10/8) – Hawaiian baked chicken, rice, vegetables and dessert
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WEATHER
Pala Weather – sunny with a high of 82 this afternoon and tomorrow after morning low clouds and fog burn off … mostly sunny and 83 with a 30% chance of less than a tenth of an inch of rain Thursday … partly sunny and 83 with a continued slight chance of rain Friday … mostly sunny and 77 Saturday … 78 Sunday … 76 Monday … overnight lows, about 54 tonight and tomorrow night … 59 Thursday night … 57 Friday night … about 51 Saturday and Sunday night
PROGRAMMING
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FIRE PERMITS
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