Pala Today News – 10/24/25
Written by John Fox on October 24, 2025
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LOCAL AND REGIONAL NEWS
Hundreds of Alaska Airlines flights have been canceled, causing headaches for customers in California and across the country, as the airline continues to work to resolve technical issues that first arose yesterday. The carrier says it experienced what it called “an IT outage” at its primary data center beginning at 3:30p yesterday. According to Reuters News Service, Alaska Airlines requested that the Federal Aviation Administration ground all of its flights, including those on its subsidiary Horizon Air, last evening. https://patch.com/california/los-angeles/hundreds-flights-grounded-airline-it-outage-snarls-travel-ca-airports
A 45-year-old motorist from Corona was killed when his pickup truck slammed into a hillside alongside Interstate 15 near Murrieta. The crash happened shortly after 9p Wednesday on northbound I-15 just south of Clinton Keith Road. According to the California Highway Patrol, the driver was alone in the vehicle and not wearing a seat belt. No other vehicles were involved. https://mynewsla.com/crime/2025/10/23/chp-motorist-fatally-injured-in-crash-alongside-i-15-near-murrieta/
Vote Centers open tomorrow countywide for the November 4 special election. Locations for the three dozen centers in San Diego County can be found at www.SDVote.com . For Riverside County, website is www.VoteInfo.net . Daily hours now through the Election Day are 8a to 5p, with hours 7a to 8p, same as at the Registrar’s office on Election Day. Vote Centers near Pala include the Bonsall Community Center on Old River Road, the Fallbrook Community Center on Heald Lane, and Valley Center Community Hall on Lilac Road. You can also drop off a mail-in ballot at dozens of official drop boxes or mail them it no later than Election Day. https://www.sdvote.com/content/rov/en/elections/vote-center-locations.html
There was a 3.3 magnitude earthquake at 8:12p last evening 2 ½ miles north of Yucaipa. It was lightly felt as far south as Murrieta. https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/ci41113519/executive
Tomorrow is National Prescription Drug Take Back Day. From 10a to 2p, the San Diego County Sheriff’s Office will collect and dispose of unwanted medicines. Local Take Back sites include the Fallbrook Sheriff’s Substation at 388 East Alvarado Street, and the Valley Center Sheriff’s Substation at 28201 N Lake Wohlford Road, Valley Center. This service is free and anonymous. https://www.villagenews.com/story/2025/10/23/news/span-classbrnwsbreaking-news-spanprescription-drug-take-back-day-is-saturday-oct-25/80240.html
Clear skies with high temperatures mostly in the 80s in Pala 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.
SPORTS
Pala wrapped up its three-day annual Senior Chair Volleyball Tournament at the casino’s Events Center yesterday. Event coordinator, Eric Varela reports 50 teams, representing 16 tribes signed up for this year’s event. The furthest-traveled came from Washington state, about an hour and a half south of Canada. The team from Wilton Rancheria in Elk Grove, north of the Bay Area was a first-time attendee. Defending champions, the Pala Turtles were defeated in the championship round by the Firebirds from Arizona. Mens’ MVP was Levi. Women’s MVP was Lela. The Silver and Bronze championship games also went to teams from Arizona. The Unknowns beat the La Jolla Gems for the Silver, and Salt River topped Cocopa Classics for the Bronze. Unknowns MVPs were Tommy and Sally. Salt River MVPs were Mr. Bradford and Miss Serena. Pala Turtles hand beaded the MVP awards for all three top teams. A big thanks to all the locals who volunteered to help run the tournament – some of them literally at the last minute. (story by Eric Ortega)
In Major League Baseball – The World Series begins tonight with the Dodgers in Toronto. Blake Snell will be the starting pitcher for Los Angeles. Rookie Trey Yesavage will start for the Blue Jays.
Dodgers manager Dave Roberts is regretting a public comment he made following last week’s National League pennant win over Milwaukee. He worries that what he said could make him appear to be a villain in the debate over whether teams should be allowed to spend whatever they can afford to assemble a top-notch team. Baseball is the only major professional sport without a salary cap. The Dodgers payroll this season is $350m – just slightly more than the Mets. That’s almost twice the league average and five times what the Miami Marlins spent, with all other franchises falling in between. Roberts’ quote: “They said the Dodgers are ruining baseball. Let’s get four more wins and really ruin baseball!” https://sports.betmgm.com/en/blog/mlb/mlb-teams-highest-payrolls-2023-bm15/
In the NFL – Last night at SoFi Stadium, the Chargers routed the visiting Vikings 37-10. Justin Herbert passed for 227 yards including three touchdowns. The Chargers held the ball for almost two thirds of the game, converting third downs twice as often as Minnesota. Eleven games this Sunday. The Rams have a bye this week. https://www.espn.com/nfl/game/_/gameId/401772942/vikings-chargers
In college football – Tomorrow’s Week 9 schedule begins with #2 Indiana hosting unranked UCLA at 9a on Fox. #8 Ole Miss is at #13 Oklahoma at 9a on ABC. The noon game is #4 Alabama at South Carolina. San Diego State is at Fresno State at 12:30 on FS1.
In the NBA – Last night’s winners were Oklahoma City in double overtime over the Pacers in Indianapolis. Golden State topped Denver 137-131 in overtime in spite of Aaron Gordon’s 50 points for the Nuggets. Steph Curry had 42 for the Warriors.
Details of yesterday’s NBA gambling busts are coming out. Some of it sounds straight out of an “Oceans” movie. In the second of the two cases – the one involving rigged card games, Trail Blazers head coach Chauncey Billups and former player and coach Damon Jones acted as celebrity players in a mafia-linked poker game that swindled players by using table X-rays, secret cameras hidden in card trays, and a card shuffler that fed info to someone behind the scenes. Players in on the scheme allegedly wore contact lenses and glasses that enabled them to read marked cards. More than 30 people were arrested in 11 states yesterday in connection with this, and a scheme that provided insider information for placing prop bets. www.morningbrew.com
In hockey – Last night’s winners were Anaheim, LA, Chicago, Ottawa, Pittsburgh, San Jose, Utah, Nashville, Seattle, Carolina, Edmonton and the New York Islanders.
In Major League Soccer – San Diego FC’s first-ever post-season game is Sunday hosting Portland, whom they beat to make it straight to the first round of the playoffs.
In golf – At the Bank of Utah Championship at Black Desert Resort in Ivins, Utah, halfway through round 2, the leader was Matt McCarty at 6 under par. https://www.espn.com/golf/leaderboard
In racing – NASCAR this Sunday at Martinsville.
In local high school sports:
Bonsall – girls’ volleyball finished the season yesterday with a fourth consecutive win – this time 3-1 over River Valley.
Great Oak – No scheduled games today; Tomorrow, varsity girls’ volleyball hosting CIF preliminaries
Fallbrook – cross country at the Kit Carson Invitational at Kit Carson Park in Escondido at 2p; football hosting Vista at 4:30p; boys’ water polo at a tournament at Mar Vista at 4:50p today and all day tomorrow
Valley Center – cross country at Kit Carson Park at 2p; field hockey hosting Torrey Pines at 4:30p
BUSINE$$
As of midday trading on Wall Street, stocks were up again on all three major U.S. indexes. The Dow gained 1.1%. The S&P 500 was up almost a full percent. And the Nasdaq rose 1.3%. After two days of gains, gold retreated $7.40 to $4,138.20 an ounce this morning. West Texas Intermediate Crude oil futures fell 5 cents to $61.74 a barrel.
Today’s Consumer Price Index numbers show annual inflation rising at the fastest pace so far this year … 3.1% annually in September – up from 2.9% in August. This is the first and only official economic data being released during the federal government shutdown. https://www.cnn.com/business/live-news/us-cpi-markets
Apple is reportedly cutting production of its iPhone Air due to low demand. The model has only been on the market for a few weeks. It’s been criticized for relatively low battery life and having just a single camera, though people like its light weight. Other models, including the iPhone 17 are reportedly selling well. www.morningbrew.com
Proctor & Gamble beat earnings expectations for the third quarter, but noted that some of its products are seeing weakening demand as the economy goes into a so-called “K-shape” where consumers shop based on their incomes. That usually means middle income consumers joining lower income consumers in foregoing higher-priced name brands. CEO Jon Moeller calls it a “challenging consumer and geopolitical environment.” https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/24/procter-gamble-pg-q1-2026-earnings.html
With just two months until Christmas, retail experts say consumers are hunting for deals like never before, while companies are rolling out holiday campaigns earlier and tweaking how they offer discounts. Kohls’ strategy is to hit shoppers early and often. Their chief marketing officer says last year, shoppers made 15+ trips to its stores between November and January, but checked out with smaller baskets than the year before. https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/24/christmas-shopping-holiday-season-retail-expectations.html
LIFESTYLE / GREEN LIVING
New this weekend at the movies, the personal relationship drama “Regretting You” starring McKenna Grace, who you may remember as the smart girl/friend of TV’s “Young Sheldon”. Also, the drama bio “Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere”. The true adventure “Last Days”. And Rose Byrne in the family drama “If I Had Legs I’d Kick You”. https://www.movieinsider.com/movies/october/2025?view=list
According to a new survey by Lombardo Homes, people are spending an average of 49% less this year on Halloween candy and decorations due to high prices, with California being one of the least decorated states. We were #46 out of the 50 states. The most Halloween-obsessed state for decorating is Utah, followed by Vermont and Wyoming. The least decorated is Arizona, followed by Florida and New York. The survey proclaims Portland, Oregon as the most Halloween-decoration-happy city, followed closely by Baltimore. Pumpkins are the most popular decoration, followed by ghosts, bats and witches. 55% of those surveyed say they’ll carve a pumpkin this year. Those surveyed spend an average of four hours decorating for Halloween at an average cost of $99. https://lombardohomes.com/most-popular-halloween-decorations-by-state-2025/
On this day in music history – October 24,
- 1962, James Brown recorded his “Live at the Apollo” album, which Rolling Stone magazine listed as #24 on its list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.
- In 1963, while on the first day of their first foreign concert tour, The Beatles recorded a live performance for a radio show in Stockholm, Sweden. Enthused about playing for an audience that didn’t just scream through the entire show, they played seven songs, finishing with “Twist and Shout”.
- In 1966, Newsweek interviewed The Monkees. When asked how their music was created, Davy Jones said, “This isn’t a rock ‘n’ roll group. It’s an act.” Within a year, at the urging of Mike Nesmith and Peter Tork, who were musicians before they were actors, the Monkees “act” became an actual group, performing live concerts.
- In 1970, Pink Floyd released its first #1 album, “Atom Heart Mother” with a picture of a cow in a pasture on the cover and no text or indication as to who or what might be on the album.
- In 1973, John Lennon sued the U.S. government, accusing them of tapping his phone.
- In 1979, Paul McCartney was awarded with a declaration that he was the most successful composer of all time. From 1962, to 1978, McCartney wrote or co-wrote 43 songs that each sold over a million copies.
- In 1987, Michael Jackson started two weeks at #1 on the singles chart with “Bad”. The music video, directed by Martin Scorsese included one of the first filmed appearances of an as-yet undiscovered Wesley Snipes.
- In 2004, Queen became the first rock group to get an official seal of approval from the government of Iran. Even though Western music was still censored and homosexuality was considered a crime there, lead singer Freddie Mercury was of Iranian descent and bootlegs of Queen’s recordings had made them one of the most popular acts in that country.
- In 2006, Taylor Swift released her self-titled debut album. The 16-year old’s first work topped the country music chart for 24 weeks.
- In 2016, early 1960s teen idol Bobby Vee died at the age of 73. He had 38 charted hits – ten of which made the Top 20. “Take Good Care of My Baby” went to #1 in the summer of ’61.
- In 2017, singer songwriter Fats Domino died at age 89 after a long illness. His first recording, “The Fat Man” was released in 1949 and by 1953, became the first rock ‘n’ roll record to sell a million copies. His biggest hit was in 1956 with “Blueberry Hill”.
- In 2018, singer songwriter Tony Joe White died of a heart attack at age 75. He’s best known for his 1969 Top Ten single, “Polk Salad Annie”. He also wrote the Brook Benton hit “Rainy Night in Georgia”.
Born on this day …
- In 1936, former Rolling Stones bass player Bill Wyman
- In 1944, Ted Templeman from Harper’s Bizarre, who later produced albums for The Doobie Brothers, Montrose, Carly Simon, Eric Clapton, Aerosmith and others
- In 1946, Jerry Edmonton from Steppenwolf
- Also in 1946, lyricist John Bettis who wrote several Carpenters hits as well as Madonna’s “Crazy for You” and Michael Jackson’s “Human Nature”.
- In 1948, Dale Griffin, drummer for Mott the Hoople
https://www.thisdayinmusic.com/search/?keyword=&date=24&month=10
Other celebrity anniversaries today …
- Actor F. Murray Abraham, best-known as Salieri in the 1984 movie, “Amadeus” and for being one of the Fruit of the Loom guys in TV commercials in the 1970s is 86
- Actor Kevin Kline is 78
- Among those who’ve passed, playwright Moss Hart was born in 1904
- Actor, director, producer, David Nelson from TV’s “Ozzie and Harriet” was born in 1936
https://www.famousbirthdays.com/october23.html
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WEATHER
Pala Weather – sunny with a high of 86 this afternoon … 81 tomorrow … 79 Sunday … 83 Monday … 89 Tuesday … 90 Wednesday … 88 Thursday … overnight lows, about 53 tonight through Sunday night … 55 Monday night … about 57 Tuesday and Wednesday night
FIRE PERMITS
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