Pala Today News – 10/22/25

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.  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

An older man was transported to a hospital with moderate injuries after crashing his gray SUV into the corner of the Ace Hardware building at Main and Fallbrook Street yesterday just after 5p. https://www.villagenews.com/story/2025/10/16/news/man-transported-after-suv-crashes-into-wall-at-ace-hardware/80192.html 

A 46-year-old motorcyclist remains in critical condition after a colliding with a truck in Menifee Monday night.  Just after 11p, Menifee Police responded to a two-vehicle collision at the intersection of Scott Road and Daily Road.  They found a BMW motorcycle and Toyota pickup involved.  The truck had apparently turned left in front of the oncoming motorcycle.  The driver, a 65-year-old Menifee resident, was not injured and waited at the scene for law enforcement to arrive.  The motorcyclist was wearing a helmet but sustained “severe” injuries. https://patch.com/california/murrieta/menifee-motorcyclist-severely-injured-crash-truck

Camp Pendleton documents show no approved artillery firing west of I-5 during Saturday’s military demonstrations.  A CHP cruiser was struck with what is claimed to be shrapnel from ordinance that exploded prematurely over the freeway near Las Pulgas Road.  https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2025/10/21/key-camp-pendleton-document-has-no-approved-artillery-firing-locations-west-of-i-5/

North County Transit District announced today that they will temporarily suspend all coastal rail service this weekend for routine railroad maintenance and major infrastructure work.  Coaster Rail Service from San Diego to Oceanside will be suspended Saturday and Sunday during the maintenance at four separate locations, with regular scheduled service resuming on Monday. https://www.10news.com/news/local-news/coaster-service-suspended-from-san-diego-to-oceanside-this-weekend-for-maintenance-102225

Utility work on Highway 76 west of Pala near Bonnie Plants Nursery caused traffic delays this morning.  It should be done well before the evening commute.

An Archaeology Day celebrating the cultural heritage of Native Americans who lived in the Anza-Borrego Desert for thousands of years is scheduled for November 8 at the Anza-Borrego Desert State Park Visitor Center and nearby Begole Archaeology Research Center.  The event includes performances by Cahuilla Bird Singers and Dancers at noon along with basket weaving demonstrations and storytelling.  There will also be guided field trips of cultural sites.  The event is run by the California State Parks and the Colorado Desert Archaeology Society to preserve the park’s history and raise awareness about the area’s cultural resources. https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2025/10/20/community-to-celebrate-cultural-heritage-of-anza-borrego-desert-at-archaeology-day-next-month/

A call went out yesterday for additional volunteers to help with the seniors’ chair volleyball tournament that began yesterday and continues today and tomorrow at the Events Center at Pala Casino.  If you’re available this afternoon and would like to offer your services, stop by the tournament and see Shannon or Samantha from Pala Senior Services, or Eric Varela from Pala Fitness Center.  If your services are not needed, stick around to watch some fun competition … that Pala usually wins.

Traces of rain snuck in to a few local areas last evening.  Only Vista, Ranchita and San Felipe had anything measurable with between 1 and 2 hundredths each.  High temperatures in Pala will see-saw between the mid-70s and mid-80s 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 – The World Series begins Friday with the Dodgers in Toronto.  Blake Snell will be the starting pitcher for Los Angeles.  Yoshinobu Yamamoto will start for Toronto.

In the NFL – In spite of President Trump’s objections, public outcry and petitions, the league says it will not consider dropping Bad Bunny as its Super Bowl headliner for February 8^th’s big game.  NFL commissioner Roger Goodell addressed the controversy over the Grammy-winning Puerto Rican artist following the league’s fall meeting today.  The 31-year old performer, whose real name is Benito Antonio Martinez Ocasio has been vocal in his opposition to Trump and his policies.  He performs mostly in Spanish and is expected to do so at the Super Bowl.  https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46684916/roger-goodell-nfl-reconsider-bad-bunny-sb-half-show

In college football – Last night’s Western Kentucky / Louisiana Tech game was an overtime thriller, won by Western Kentucky 28-27 thanks to a touchdown and two-point conversion after Louisiana Tech scored on its first overtime possession.

In the NBA – The regular season began last night.  Oklahoma City edged the visiting Houston Rockets 125-124 in double overtime.  And Golden State topped the Lakers in Los Angeles 119-109.  Twelve games tonight including the season debut for the Clippers at Utah.

According to Associated Press, this year’s NBA rosters include a record number of foreign-born players – 135. They hail from 43 countries including 23 from Canada, 19 from France, and 13 from Australia.  The Atlanta Hawks have tied the league record with 10 international players on their roster.  The last seven MVPs have all been players born outside the U.S.  This international surge comes just as the NBA is in talks to start a new league in Europe as soon as 2027. www.morningbrew.com

In hockey – Ten games last night.  The winners were New Jersey, Edmonton, Pittsburgh, Washington, Florida, Los Angeles, Anaheim, Columbus, Utah and the New York Islanders. 

In Major League Soccer – Portland hosts Real Salt Lake and Chicago Fire FC hosts Orlando City as the playoffs begin.  San Diego’s first-ever post season game is Sunday.

In local high school sports: 

Bonsall – no scheduled games today

Great Oak – girls volleyball hosting CIF prelims today; girls’ tennis against Temecula Valley at 3:15p, JV hosting, varsity away; freshman football at Temecula Valley at 4:15p

Fallbrook – varsity girls’ tennis at the Valley League Tournament in Escondido today and tomorrow;

Valley Center – varsity girls’ tennis at the Valley League Tournament today and tomorrow; boys’ water polo at Monte Vista at 5p; field hockey at Canyon Crest at 6:30p

 

BUSINE$$

As of midday trading on Wall Street, stocks were down and gold retreating as well.  The Dow fell almost a full percent.  The S&P 500 was down 1.1%.  And the Nasdaq was off by 1.8%.  Gold futures traded down another $40.40 on the Comex at $4,068.60 an ounce.  The recent gold rally has now ended with the largest sell-off in over a decade over the last two days.  West Texas Intermediate Crude oil futures gained 72 cents to $58.54 a barrel.

OpenAI announced yesterday that it is starting its own web browser, called ChatGPT Atlas which incorporates the company’s AI chatbot, allowing users to travel anywhere in the web without copying and pasting and without leaving the page.  It’s currently only available for Mac, but is “coming soon” to iOS, Windows and Android.  www.morningbrew.com

Amazon is hoping robots will help it avoid hiring humans as it ultimately automates about 75% of its operations.  Robot-run warehouses are not too far off.  The online retail giant will forego taking on 160k humans in the next two years, which it says will save it 30 cents per item shipped.  That’s about $12.6b.  It plans to double deliveries by 2033 and in the process, avoid hiring 600k workers. www.morningbrew.com

Walmart is pausing the hiring of job candidates who need H-1B visas after President Trump raised the fees for those working visas to $100k each.  Walmart is one of the largest U.S. employers of those with H-1B visas, which were created by Congress in 1990 to help recruit skilled workers from other countries when U.S. companies can’t find enough qualified applicants domestically.  They’ve been used frequently in the areas of science, technology, engineering and math.  The program had an annual cap of 65k visas with an extra 20k for foreign professionals with a master’s degree or doctorate from a U.S. institution.  Microsoft is the largest employer of people with H-1B visas – over 5k currently.  Meta is close behind.  Walmart has about 2,400.  https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/22/walmart-h-1b-visa-job-offers-trump-fee.html

As set by Congress in 2001, the President of the United States is paid $400k a year in salary, plus $169k in perks, most of which are non-taxable.  But President Trump is now looking for big bucks from the government.  He’s demanding that the Justice Department, led by an Attorney General he appointed pay him $230m to compensate for its previous criminal investigations into his affairs.  But it’s not like the rest of us aren’t getting a little sugar too.  Coca-Cola made with cane sugar is beginning to roll out in the U.S. after the President called on the company to use it instead of the high fructose corn syrup it’s been using since 1980 following government subsidies that made corn syrup much cheaper than cane sugar.  www.morningbrew.com

 

LIFESTYLE / GREEN LIVING

More Americans are falling behind on their car loans, according to a recent study by VantageScore.  Delinquencies have increased by more than 50% over the past 15 years.  Meanwhile, delinquencies in other credit categories including credit cards, personal loans and home equity loans are down.  Among car loans the delinquencies among prime borrowers have risen faster than with subprime borrowers.  That indicates that the payment amounts, which have risen on average by 57% over the past 15 years have become a problem.  Other factors include inflation and an unsteady employment picture.  According to Edmunds, one in five new car loans now have monthly payments of over $1k.  That’s being driven by new car prices that now average more than $50k, according to Cox Automotive’s September data.  That, in turn causes more people to finance what is traditionally the second-largest purchase of their lives and to do so for longer loan terms, which increases total interest paid and raises the risk of borrowers becoming underwater as their new vehicle depreciates faster than it’s being paid off. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/auto-loan-payments-deliquencies-vanatagescore-study/

Meanwhile, General Motors is planning on adding new features that will undoubtedly increase the price of some new vehicles even more.  GM says it will roll out the conversational Google Gemini AI in vehicles it produces next year.  Within three years, the automaker plans to launch a hands-free, eyes-off-the-road system that still lets drivers take control whenever they want to.  The announcement came this morning as part of a “GM Forward” software event.  It was only a few years ago that GM killed its proposed “Ultra Cruise” system that was supposed to be able to drive autonomously in 95% of circumstances beginning in 2023, and ended its Cruise robotaxi business. https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/22/gm-tech-google-ai.html


On this day in music history – October 22,

• 1966, The Supremes became the first female group to have a #1 album with “The Supremes a Go Go”, which replaced The Beatles’ “Revolver” in the #1 spot. 
• On the same day, The Beach Boys’ “Good Vibrations” entered the charts.  It would reach #1 two months later.  Recorded at four different studios over six months at a cost of over $16k, the recording engineer would later say that the last take sounded exactly like the first. 
• In 1969, Paul McCartney publicly denied the rumors that he was dead.  The most recent clue in the death hoax was that he was the only barefoot Beatle on the “Abbey Road” album cover.  The story that began the rumor was a prank by a writer for The Daily Michigan student paper at The University of Michigan. 
• Also in 1969, “Led Zeppelin II” was released.  It peaked at #1 in the US and Britain and went on to sell about 22m copies.  Critics now say it was one the greatest and most influential rock albums ever recorded. 
• In 1986, musician, actress and New York traffic reporter Jane Dornacker died in crash of WNBC radio’s traffic helicopter.  The pilot survived with serious injuries.  Listeners heard the whole thing live on the air.  Dornacker had survived a similar crash a couple of months earlier. 
• In 1988, Phil Collins began the first of two weeks at #1 with the remake of the Mindbenders 1965 hit “Groovy Kind of Love”.
• In 1990 Pearl Jam played their first ever concert at The Off-Ramp in Seattle. 
• In 1996 it was announced that The Beatles were now bigger than The Beatles – meaning sales of their back catalog and the new Anthology 1, 2 and upcoming 3 albums would result in sales that year of 20m.  That’s more than the group ever sold in any one year when they were still a group.  And 40% of those sales were to people born after The Beatles broke up in 1970. 
• In 2000, George Michael paid about $2m for the Steinway piano on which John Lennon wrote “Imagine”.

Born this day …

• In 1942, Bobby Fuller, whose biggest hit was “I Fought the Law”, a song written by Sonny Curtis, of Buddy Holly’s Crickets.  Fuller died under mysterious circumstances in 1966. 
• In 1945, Leslie West, guitarist and leader of Mountain, whose biggest hit was “Mississippi Queen” in 1970. 
• In 1946, Eddie Brigati from The Rascals. 

https://www.thisdayinmusic.com/search/?keyword=&date=22&month=10

 

Other celebrity anniversaries today …

• Actor Christopher Lloyd is 87
• Actress Catherine Deneuve is 82
• Actor Jeff Goldblum is 73
• Actor Jesse Tyler Fergusson, best-known as Mitch on TV’s “Modern Family” is 50.
• Among those who’ve passed, former Mouseketeer and actress Annette Funicello was born in 1942. 

https://www.famousbirthdays.com/october22.html

 

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WEATHER

Pala Weather – sunny with a high of 73 and winds gusting up to 20 miles an hour this afternoon … 76 tomorrow … 85 Friday … patchy morning low clouds and fog, clearing to sunny and 81 Saturday … 76 Sunday … 79 Monday … 87 Tuesday … overnight lows, 50 tonight … 52 tomorrow night … 54 Friday night … about 52 Saturday and Sunday night … 54 Monday night.

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