Pala Today News – 10/21/25
Written by John Fox on October 21, 2025
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LOCAL AND REGIONAL NEWS
After saying Thursday that live fire demonstrations on Camp Pendleton Saturday would not affect the 5 freeway through the base, CHP changed their mind and closed 17 miles of freeway from 11a to 3p Saturday out of an abundance of caution. In spite of the gigantic traffic jam the closure created, it turned out to be a good idea. Shrapnel from an ordinance that prematurely detonated over the roadway struck a CHP vehicle that was part of Vice President JD Vance’s detail near Las Pulgas Road. There were no injuries and only minor damage reported. Additional firings over the freeway were cancelled and the area swept for further evaluation. Saturday’s celebration was to honor the 250th birthday of the Marine Corp coming up November 10. The U.S. Navy turned 250 yesterday. https://www.10news.com/news/local-news/shrapnel-strikes-damages-chp-vehicle-during-camp-pendletons-marine-corp-celebration
An RV fire on Highway 76 near Magee Road blocked the eastbound lane of the highway just after 4p Saturday. Hillside brush caught fire, causing the dispatch of air support to drop water on the area. CHP fully closed 76 between Lilac Road and Adams Street for well over an hour. No one was injured. https://www.villagenews.com/story/2025/10/16/news/rv-fire-shuts-down-highway-76-near-magee-road/80187.html
Multiple law enforcement agencies assisted in the recovery of a San Diego Fire Engine stolen from a parking lot in Chula Vista around 4:30p Saturday. Pursuit of the engine ended around 5:10p near Loch Ness Drive in Fallbrook. San Diego Sheriff’s deputies recovered the truck and arrested a suspect in the nearby area. No information on that person’s identity or any other information on how the engine was stolen was immediately available. https://fox5sandiego.com/news/local-news/stolen-fire-truck-pursuit-ends-in-fallbrook-arrest/
Oceanside Police shut down two massage parlors following a year-long investigation into allegations of prostitution and other illicit activity. Detectives began operations at Nirvana Spa on Mission Avenue and Seaside Acupressure on Greenbrier Drive in September of last year. Both business licenses have been revoked and the owners are no longer allowed to operate within the city. https://www.10news.com/news/local-news/north-county-news/oceanside-police-shut-down-2-massage-parlors-for-alleged-prostitution
Koin announced yesterday it has reached an agreement to begin its cashless payment system at Casino Pauma. Koin Pay will be integrated with Konami’s Synkros casino management system for digital efficiency and better loyalty integration. Casino Pauma opened in 2001 and now has 800 slot machines and 12 table games. https://cdcgaming.com/koin-reaches-agreement-with-casino-pauma-for-cashless-payment-services/
The Fallbrook Chamber of Commerce held its 12th annual Harvest Faire over the weekend. The fall celebration featured local artisans, food vendors, tractors, a beer and wine garden, pie and costume contests and children’s activities. This year’s event had 114 booths. The Faire took over and expanded the previous October Scarecrow Days in which business and shops displayed unique scarecrows throughout the month. https://thecoastnews.com/fallbrook-showcases-small-town-autumn-charm-with-harvest-faire/
One more warm day in Pala, then seasonable fall weather for the 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. Due to lack of staffing, mass will not be broadcast this Sunday, October 19.
SPORTS
In Major League Baseball league championships – It took seven games, but the Toronto Blue Jays, pulled off a come-from-behind win of the American League pennant, beating Seattle 6-2 on Sunday. A bottom of the 7th inning 3-run homer by George Springer did the trick. The Jays had done the same thing to Seattle in 1993 with a 4-3 Game 7 win for the AL pennant that year as well. Sunday’s win sets up a World Series between the Blue Jays and Dodgers beginning this Friday in Toronto with the Dodgers heavily favored to win. Game One will be 5p on Fox.
The Angels have hired Kurt Suzuki to be their new manager. The 42-year old longtime major league catcher has no professional coaching experience. He was with five franchises in his 16-year playing career including the 2019 World Series winning Washington Nationals. He replaces Ron Washington, who missed almost half of the 2025 season following quadruple bypass surgery. https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/46672864/sources-angels-hire-ex-catcher-kurt-suzuki-manager
In the NFL – Last night’s winners were Atlanta 24-14 over the visiting Buffalo Bills and Da Behrs 25-24 over the Commanders in Washington. Chicago’s victory came on a 38-yard field goal with no time left.
In college football – Ohio State remains the near-unanimous choice at #1 on the AP Top 25. Indiana and Texas A&M each move up one place to #2 and #3, Alabama moves up two to #4, Georgia moves up four places to #5, Oregon moves up two to #6, and Georgia Tech leapfrogs five to #7 following upset losses by Ole Miss and Miami – who drop three and seven places to #8 and #9 respectively. Texas Tech fell seven places to #14. LSU dropped ten to #10. USC is out of the Top 25 after losing 34-24 to #12 Notre Dame on Saturday.
In the NBA – The preseason wrapped up on Friday. The regular season begins tonight with Houston at Oklahoma City at 4:30p followed by the Lakers hosting Golden State – both on NBC Peacock.
In hockey – Yesterday’s winners were Minnesota, Philadelphia, Montreal, Winnipeg and Vegas. Ten games tonight including the Ducks at Nashville and the Kings at St. Louis.
In Major League Soccer – On Saturday, LAFC and Colorado tied at 2 and the Galaxy beat visiting Minnesota United 2-1. First-year franchise San Diego FC routed the Timbers 4-0 in Portland to advance to the playoffs. They’ll host Round One Game 1 Sunday. https://www.espn.com/soccer/schedule/_/date/20251021/league/usa.1
In racing – Sunday at Talladega, Chase Briscoe won the NASCAR Cup playoff race.
In local high school sports:
Bonsall – girls’ volleyball hosting Cristo Rey at 5:30p
Great Oak – girls’ golf and boys’ water polo hosting Southwest finals today; flag football hosting CIF first round today; girls’ tennis against Murrieta Valley at 3:15p, varsity hosting, JV away
Fallbrook – no schedule published
Valley Center – girls’ varsity tennis at Escondido at 2p; girls’ volleyball at Vista at 4:30p; boys’ water polo at Sage Creek at 4:40p
BUSINE$$
As of midday trading on Wall Street, stocks were mixed. The Dow was up 6 tenths of a percent. The S&P 500 was up a small fraction. The Nasdaq was off by 2 tenths of a percent. Gold plunged 5 ½%, or $241.70 on the Comex to $4,117.70 an ounce. West Texas Intermediate Crude oil futures were stable – up eight cents at $57.60 a barrel.
Amazon’s AWS cloud computing platform experienced a global outage, limiting its IT services including computing power, storage and databases for nearly one third of its customers yesterday. AWS hosts many of the world’s online services through over 200 of its products. Bottom line, a lot of websites were offline for a good portion of the day yesterday. According to Amazon, the outage originated at the company’s Virginia data center. Critics are saying a cost-cutting “brain drain” finally caught up with Amazon. This isn’t the first major cloud glitch. AWS had one that knocked out websites two years ago. And a faulty update took down much of Microsoft’s cloud services last year. There are huge benefits to hiring the vast resources of the relatively few major cloud computing players including Amazon, Microsoft and Google. But these outages point out the fragile and vulnerable nature of the modern internet and reliance on a small group of companies. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/amazons-massive-aws-outage-points-to-a-key-weakness-in-the-modern-internet-145418180.html
Warner Bros. Discovery is for sale with several interested buyers. Netflix and Comcast are two of them. Neither of them really want WBD. They just don’t want it to go to someone else, like Paramount, whose bid had already been rejected. The announcement caused shares in the entertainment company to jump 10%. Warner Bros. Discovery is still planning to split its operations into two separate entities – one for streaming and studio business, the other for global networks. https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/21/wbd-sale-warner-bros-media.html
Stock in General Motors shot up 15% this morning after announcing it beat Wall Street earnings expectations for a third consecutive quarter. It also lowered the expected impact of tariffs and is predicting 4th quarter numbers that will also be ahead of analysts’ expectations. GM’s EV market share has improved from 8.7% at the beginning of the year to 13.8% through September, topping Hyundai. The only bad news, which had already been factored in was that it’ll take longer than previously expected for General Motors’ electric vehicles to become profitable. Its profit margin on North American sales was also off by about a third. Gain in the company’s operations in China and other international markets offset the North American decline. https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/21/general-motors-gm-earnings-q3-2025.html
LIFESTYLE / GREEN LIVING
At the movie box office over the weekend, the horror thriller “Black Phone 2” debuted in first place, selling $27.3m worth of tickets. “Tron: Ares” dropped to second place, taking in just a third of what it did last week at $11.1m. The Aziz Ansari, Seth Rogan comedy, “Good Fortune” debuted in third with a low $6.1m on 500 fewer screens than Black Phone. “Truth and Treason” opened in 6th place with $2.6m on 2,100 screens. The animated “Pets on a Train” opened with an extremely low $821k on just 1,350 screens – good for 12th place. Total attendance based on the weekend’s top ten films was one of the lowest this year. https://www.boxofficemojo.com/weekend/2025W42/
The woman who gave National Public Radio its voice for decades died Thursday. A little over 50 years ago, Susan Stamberg became the first woman to co-host a nightly network news broadcast. She had retired just a month ago after taking NPR from a set of little-known initials to a major player in network news. Stamberg had a somewhat husky voice and used a lot of inflection and a good dose of humor in her delivery. Most of all, she gave NPR News personality. Susan Stamberg was 87. https://www.npr.org/2025/10/18/nx-s1-5572394/opinion-susan-stamberg-gave-npr-its-voice
On this day in music history – October 21,
- 1958, Buddy Holly’s last recording session took place at Pythian Temple Studios in New York. Songs recorded included “Raining in My Heart”, “Moondreams” and “It Doesn’t Matter Anymore” which went to #1. Holly died in a plane crash a little over three months later.
- In 1965, Bill Black, bass player on most of Elvis Presley’s 50s hits died at age 39 after surgery to remove a brain tumor.
- Also In 1965, The Beatles, wanting to improve on a previous recording session, began from scratch on the new song, “Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)”. They nailed it in three takes and began working on “Nowhere Man”.
- In 1967, Lulu began the first of five weeks at #1 with the theme song from the movie, “To Sir With Love”.
- In 1972, Chuck Berry began the first of two weeks at #1 with the novelty song, “My Ding-A-Ling”, 17 years after his first charted hit.
- On the same day, Curtis Mayfield began the first of four weeks at #1 on the album chart with the soundtrack to “Superfly”.
- In 1976, Keith Moon played his last concert with The Who in Toronto. He died 2 ½ weeks later from an overdose of Heminevrin, a prescription given to Moon to prevent seizures from alcohol withdrawal.
- In 1997, The Guinness Book of Records certified Elton John’s “Candle in the Wind 97” the biggest selling single of all time – 31.8m sold in less than 40 days, raising 20m pounds for charity.
- In 2001 concerts at Madison Square Garden and RFK Stadium in Washington were held to raise millions for victims of 9-11. Artists performing included Michael Jackson, Tom Petty, Paul McCartney, David Bowie, Eric Clapton, and The Who.
- In 2006, Evanescence had the #1 album in the U.S. “The Open Door” was the 700th #1 album since Billboard magazine began keeping track in 1956.
Born on this day …
- In 1940, Manfred Mann.
- In 1941, guitarist and member of the MG’s and The Blues Brothers Band, Steve Cropper.
- In 1942, Elvin Bishop.
- In 1946, trumpet for Chicago, Lee Loughnane.
- In 1948, John Bundrick from Free.
- In 1953, Charlotte Caffey from The Go-Go’s.
- In 1995, Doja Cat
https://www.thisdayinmusic.com/search/?keyword=&date=21&month=10
Other celebrity anniversaries today …
- Actor Ken Watanabe is 66, He’s best known for movies including, “Letters From Iwo Jima” and “The Last Samurai” for which he was nominated for an Oscar.
- Kim Kardashian is 45
- Among those who’ve passed, actress Joyce Randolph, who played Trixie on TV’s “The Honeymooners” was born in 1924.
- Hall of Fame pitcher Whitey Ford was born in 1928.
- Comedian Jerry Lewis was born in 1934.
- Actress Carrie Fisher was born this day in 1956.
http://www.davesfunstuff.com/a-dd/2080-date1021.htm
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WEATHER
Pala Weather – mostly sunny with a high of 83 this afternoon … patchy morning low clouds and fog, clearing to mostly sunny and 72 tomorrow … 77 Thursday … 83 Friday … 79 Saturday … 76 Sunday … 79 Monday … overnight lows, 52 tonight … 49 tomorrow night … about 53 Thursday and Friday night … 51 Saturday and Sunday night
FIRE PERMITS
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PALA
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