Pala Today News – 10/17/24
Written by John Fox on October 17, 2024
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
This morning at 10:17a was this year’s Great American Shakeout. People in government offices, businesses, and schools throughout California stopped what they were doing for a minute to “drop, cover, and hold on” during a statewide earthquake preparedness drill now in its 16th year. The event organizers want residents to know what to expect in their area in case of a massive quake—namely, prepare to shelter for 72 hours with each resident having enough medicine, food, and water for their family members until help arrives. www.shakeout.org
Orange County’s Violent Crime Task Force announced the end of a string of armed robberies at pharmacies across Southern California following one at Apollo Pharmacy on Rancho California Road in Temecula Monday. A woman, identified as Kamaria Kendrick, 25, of Menifee, was seen wearing a medical mask and hat and walking around the pharmacy building while on her phone, and then driving around several more times. While she waited in the vehicle, three men later identified as Aaron Carter, 39, of Fontana; Diamond Lucious, 25, of Victorville; and Isaac Penaldoza, 35, of San Bernardino entered the pharmacy wearing hoods, gloves and masks. The three ran back to the vehicle and attempted to flee, while the task force attempted to arrest the group. Kendrick at the wheel, allegedly struck one of the unmarked law enforcement vehicles. A 9 mm pistol was thrown as the task force personnel stopped the car. All four were arrested without further incident. They’re believed responsible for four pharmacy robberies in three counties over a six-week period. https://www.pressenterprise.com/2024/10/16/alleged-members-of-armed-robbery-crew-arrested-in-temecula/
Officials in San Marcos celebrated the near-completion of its transformative San Marcos Creek project yesterday. The city’s official description call it a 214-acre project adjacent to the San Marcos Creek, generally bounded by West San Marcos Boulevard on the north, Grand Avenue to the east,Via Vera Cruz to the west, andDiscovery Avenue on the south. The project with its two bridges, a levee and more than a mile of storm drains adds needed infrastructure to reduce long-standing flooding issues and improve traffic circulation while revitalizing and preserving the San Marcos Creek. It took five years and $100m along with lengthy road closures and weather delays. But the end is in sight. https://www.10news.com/news/local-news/san-marcos-leaders-mark-near-completion-of-san-marcos-creek-project
About 1k SDG&E customers in Northern Vista lost power this morning at 9:22a. It’s expected to be back on by 12:30p. https://www.sdge.com/residential/customer-service/outage-center/outage-map
A moderate chance of less than a tenth of an inch of rain tonight in Pala, then slow warming into the upper 80s by the middle of next week. 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. It may not be possible to broadcast mass some weeks between now and November due to staffing issues.
SPORTS
In Major League Baseball – The Dodgers have the upper hand in the NLCS after shutting out the Mets 8-0 in New York. Almost all of LA’s playoff wins have been by shutout. They now lead the series 2 games to one heading into today’s Game Four in New York. Also today, the other New York team is in Cleveland to play Game Three of the ALCS. They lead that series two games to none.
Major League Baseball reports that Friday’s decisive fifth game of the National League Division Series between the Los Angeles Dodgers and San Diego Padres was the most-watched Major League Baseball postseason game on record in Japan, averaging an estimated 12.9 million viewers. It was one of those Dodger shutouts – 2-0. https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/41848483/dodgers-win-vs-padres-nlds-g5-set-mlb-viewership-mark-japan
In the NFL – Week 7 begins tomorrow with Denver at New Orleans at 5p on Prime Video
In the NBA preseason – last night’s winners were Detroit, Philadelphia, Miami, Chicago and Portland. Seven games tonight including the Lakers at Phoenix and the Clippers hosting Sacramento.
In the NHL – Four games last night including the Ducks beating Utah 5-4 in overtime and the Kings losing at Toronto 6-2. The other winners were Pittsburgh and Boston.
In Soccer – LAFC hosts San Jose and the Galaxy are at Houston to play the Dynamo this Saturday.
In golf – The Shriners Children’s Open teed off in Las Vegas this morning. The defending champion is Tom Kim. As of noon, our time, most of the field had yet to tee off. https://www.espn.com/golf/leaderboard
In local high school sports:
Bonsall – girls’ volleyball hosting Calvin Christian at 5p
Great Oak – girls’ golf hosting Murrieta Mesa at 3p; girls’ tennis against Temecula Valley at 3:15p, varsity hosting, JV away; football hosting Santiago at 4:15p
Fallbrook – girls’ golf hosting Mt. Carmel at 3:30p; girls’ tennis against Valley Center at 3:30p, varsity hosting JV away; girls volleyball hosting Rancho Buena Vista at 4:30p
Valley Center – girls’ tennis against Fallbrook at 3:30p; girls’ volleyball against El Camino at 4:30p; field hockey against Canyon Crest at 4:30p
BUSINE$$
As of midday trading on Wall Street, stocks were up modestly. The Dow gained a third of a percent. The S&P 500 was up less than a tenth. The Nasdaq was up just over a tenth. Comex gold traded up $15.90 an ounce at $2,707.20. West Texas Intermediate Crude oil futures were up 33 cents to $70.72 a barrel.
Artificial Intelligence is proving to be a boon at the Internal Revenue Service. Machine learning AI helped the Treasury Department root through massive amounts of data and recover $1b worth of check fraud in fiscal 2024. That’s triple the amount recovered the previous year. It gets better. AI is credited with helping the Treasury Department prevent and recover more than $4b in overall fraud in fiscal 2024. That’s six times the previous year. To be clear, the department is not using generative AI – the kind that’s been making headlines for creating images and text and answering complex questions. This is machine learning AI that analyzes data, and makes decisions and predictions based on what it’s learned – all in a fraction of the time it takes humans. Suspicious transactions can be sniffed out in milliseconds. Financial fraud against taxpayer money is something that soared during the pandemic as the government scrambled to disburse emergency aid to consumers and businesses. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/ai-helped-feds-catch-1-100052865.html
LIFESTYLE / GREEN LIVING
The Federal Trade Commission finalized a new rule yesterday that will make subscription-based services as easy to cancel as they are to sign up for. It’s called the “click to cancel” rule and is aimed at eliminating your having to jump through hoops and give up your firstborn to get out of that enticing free-trial that you forgot to cancel. Under the FTC’s new rule, online subscriptions and memberships should take the same number of clicks to cancel as they do to initiate. You also need to be able to cancel using the same methods you signed up, except that in-person sign-ups should also have remote cancellation options. To start a free trial, companies need to be clear about their auto-renewal policies and can’t start charging customers without “informed consent” – even it’s only another box to check at sign-up. The rule will ake effect in six months and make it easier for regulators to sue companies like Planet Fitness and Hello Fresh, who are often mentioned in complaints to the FTC. The Commission is already in subscription-related lawsuits against Amazon and Adobe. www.morningbrew.com
Speaking of Amazon, its Kindle division launched a new lineup of e-readers yesterday, including the first model offered with a color screen. The new Colorsoft and Paperwhite models are essentially the same except for the full color screen which also lets you highlight text in yellow, orange, blue or pink. It’ll sell for $280 beginning October 30.
On this day in music history – October 17,
- 1962, The Beatles made their television debut on Granada TV in Manchester performing “Some Other Guy” and “Love Me Do”.
- In 1964, Manfred Mann began the first of two weeks at #1 with “Do Wah Diddy Diddy”. It was the first #1 hit with a nonsense title.
- In 1970, the Jackson Five began the first of five weeks at #1 with “I’ll Be There” … which, speaking of nonsense, includes the mis-sung lyric “Just look over your shoulders honey” which should have been the singular shoulder.
- In 1981, Christopher Cross began the first of three weeks at #1 with “Arthur’s Theme” from the Dudley Moore movie soundtrack.
- In 1991, singer and TV host Tennessee Ernie Ford died of liver failure. His most well-known song was 1955’s “Sixteen Tons”.
- In 1995, Sting’s former accountant was sentenced to six years in jail for embezzling about $9m from the singer’s 108 bank accounts.
- In 2005, Freddie Mercury’s 1974 Rolls Royce Silver Shadow failed to meet its reserve price in an eBay auction. Top bid was about $93k.
- In 2008, Four Tops singer Levi Stubbs died at age 72. He’d been in ill health since a 1995 cancer diagnosis followed by a stroke and other health problems.
- In 2008, Madonna and her husband of seven years, Guy Ritchie split. According to the pre-nuptial agreement, Ritchie was entitled to about one sixth of Madonna’s $400m fortune.
Born on this day …
- in 1923, jazz guitarist Barney Kessel, a member of the Wrecking Crew who’d played on records by Billie Holiday, Sam Cooke and on the Beach Boys “Pet Sounds” album among hundreds of others.
- In 1941, Jim Seals from Seals & Crofts and Alan Howard from The Tremeloes.
- In 1942, Gary Puckett, lead singer for the Union Gap
- In 1946, Jim Tucker, guitarist with The Turtles.
- In 1958, country star Alan Jackson.
- In 1968, Ziggy Marley. His father, Bob Marley had his last haircut the year Ziggy was born.
- In 1972, US rapper Eminem – real name, Marshall Mathers and Haitian rapper Wyclef Jean.
https://www.thisdayinmusic.com/search/?keyword=&date=17&month=10
Other celebrity anniversaries today …
- Actor Michael McKean is 77
- Actor George Wendt, best known as Norm from TV’s “Cheers” is 76
- Actor Grant Shaud, who played Miles on TV’s “Murphy Brown” is 64
- Animator Mike Judge, creator of “King of the Hill” and “Beavis and Butthead” is 62
- Among those who’ve passed, actress Rita Hayworth was born in 1918
- Actor Montgomery Clift was born in 1920
- Stuntman and promoter, Evel Knieval was born in 1938
- Comedian Norm McDonald was born in 1959
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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 seniors’ lunch menu for tomorrow (10/18) – roast beef sandwich, lettuce & tomato and potato salad
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WEATHER
Pala Weather – mostly sunny with a high of 67 this afternoon … a 30% chance of less than a tenth of an inch of rain tonight … cloudy tomorrow morning, clearing to mostly sunny and 74 with winds gusting up to 25 miles an hour … sunny and 78 Saturday … 82 Sunday … 83 Monday … 84 Tuesday … 86 Wednesday … overnight lows, 51 tonight … 47 tomorrow night … about 46 Saturday and Sunday night … about 48 Monday and Tuesday night
PROGRAMMING
Programming on Rez Radio 91.3 is made possible in part by the Pala Band of Mission Indians and donations from listeners like you. Call (760) 742-4200 or email 91.3@palatribe.com for details on contributing to community radio in Pala.
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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COMMUNITY CALENDAR
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