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Pala Today News – 10/29/25

Written by John Fox on October 29, 2025

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LOCAL AND REGIONAL NEWS

San Diego County’s annual crop report was released today. The top ten crops were once again led by the category of bedding plants, color, perennials, cacti & succulents – basically, outdoor nursery plants, which have held the top spot on the list since 2021 when it traded places with ornamental trees and shrubs –also considered a nursery crop. In third place for the sixth straight year was indoor flowering and foliage plants. Those three categories – all involving nurseries accounted for over $1b of the $1.67b total for 2024. Remarkably, that 65% of the crop total was raised on just 3.4% of the total acreage devoted to agriculture in San Diego County. “Vegetables and other” increased by 31% and jumped over lemons into 5^th place, just behind avocados, which had a crop value of just under $100m. 2024’s 12% increase in the value of 7^th place livestock & poultry was mostly due to the increased price of milk, eggs and chicken. https://www.countynewscenter.com/vegetables-sprout-in-new-1-67-billion-county-crop-report/

Traffic backed up slightly for about an hour on northbound I-15 at Clinton Keith Road this morning around 7:30a due to a number of trash bags containing what were said to be “pretty solid items” having fallen in the #3 lane. Drivers had to navigate around them as Caltrans crews responded for cleanup. https://patch.com/california/murrieta/i-15-road-hazards-disrupt-morning-traffic-across-inland-empire

North County Transit today suspended Coaster rail service between the Poinsettia and Encinitas stations due to a broken water line. The announcement came at about 7:20a this morning. Service was expected to resume within a couple of hours. https://gonctd.com/maps-schedules/service-alerts/

The Escondido City Council voted this month to extend an emergency ordinance prohibiting new commercial battery energy storage systems within the city limits. There is currently a proposal to build a 50-megawatt lithium-ion storage facility on Don Lee Place near Palomar Medical Center. They also approved expenditures of about $1m each for construction of pickleball courts at Mountain View Park and the purchase of 19 new police and fire Interceptors. https://www.times-advocate.com/articles/city-council-extends-battery-storage-ban/

Organizers for San Diego Fleet Week say all public events for this year’s celebration at the Broadway Pier have been cancelled – another victim of the ongoing government shutdown. That includes the cancellation of planned tours of Navy and Coast Guard vessels. The Marine Corps normally also has a presence at the Pier. Last year’s Fleet Week hosted 4,200 students. 5k had signed up for this year. The Navy has also cancelled events at the even-larger San Francisco Fleet Week by order of the Defense Department due to lapse in appropriations brought on by the government shutdown. https://www.kpbs.org/news/military/2025/10/29/navy-cancels-on-san-diego-fleet-week-citing-the-government-shutdown

Pala’s IT department reports that as of 10:30a there is a major internet/cloud service outage affecting many major websites. For the second time in a week, it’s being attributed to Amazon’s web cloud platform. Affected services include Microsoft 365, Amazon, Ring, Snapchat, Zoom, WhatsApp, Slack, McDonald’s, and many gaming and communications platforms.

The peak of the heatwave will be today. Back to at least a week of highs in the 80s in Pala beginning Friday. 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

In Major League Baseball – home field doesn’t seem to be much of an advantage in this year’s World Series. The Dodgers and Blue Jays have now each won one home and one away game. Toronto topped the Dodgers in LA last night 6-2 in a normal-length game of nine innings in just under 3 hours. Sheldon fun fact: Brad Paisley sang the national anthem at both Monday’s 18-inning marathon and at the only other 18-inning World Series game seven years ago. Shohei Ohtani took the loss last night for his six-plus innings pitched with six strikeouts, but giving up four runs. And unlike Game Three when he got on base nine times, last night Ohtani went 0 for 3 with a walk and two strike outs. The entire team had just six hits with only one of them for extra bases. Game Five is tonight at Dodger Stadium. Game Six will be Friday in Toronto. https://www.espn.com/mlb/recap/_/gameId/401809300

Though it’s setting ratings records in Canada and Japan, overall viewership of this year’s first two World Series games is down 14% compared with last year’s Dodgers-Yankees matchup. https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/46763863/world-series-viewers-drop-14-us-first-two-games

In the NFL – The league is nearing the midpoint of a season marked by many high-profile season-ending injuries. They include the Dolphins’ Tyreek Hill, the 49ers Fred Warner, five-time Pro-Bowler Nick Bosa, the Giants’ Malik Nabers, and rookie running back Cam Skattebo. Yet a new poll by Quinnipiac says more than half of NFL fans say the league is doing enough to protect players from serious injuries, and 60% would like to see the season expanded with more games. Most believe the move, which would mean a salary increase for players is worth the added risk of injury. https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46768402/poll-shows-many-nfl-fans-want-more-games-injury-risks

Week 9 begins tomorrow with Baltimore at Miami.

In the NBA – Five games last night. Golden State beat a listless Clippers team 98-79. Oklahoma City over the visiting Sacramento Kings 107-101. Milwaukee topped New York 121-111. Miami routed the visiting Hornets 144-117. And Philadelphia over Washington 139-134 in overtime with Tyrese Maxey the high scorer in the league yesterday at 39 points. Ten games tonight including the Lakers at Minnesota.

In college basketball – With the season beginning in just five days, the NCAA is delaying a rule change that will allow athletes and athletic department staff to bet on professional sports. It was supposed to be in effect this Saturday. Now it’s being pushed back to November 22. A rarely used rule allows 30 days for each Division I school to vote to rescind any proposal if adopted by less than 75% of the Division I cabinet. The original vote earlier this month to approve betting was under than threshold. And the NCAA has emphasized it does not endorse betting on sports – particularly for student athletes. https://www.espn.com/college-sports/story/_/id/46762598/ncaa-delays-rule-change-permitting-college-athletes-bet-professional-sports

In hockey – Sixteen games last night. The Kings edged the Sharks in San Jose 4-3. The Ducks beat the Panthers 3-2 in a shootout in Sunrise, Florida. Other winners were Philadelphia, Toronto, Vegas, Columbus, Boston, Tampa Bay, Winnipeg, Detroit, Chicago, Dallas, Colorado, Edmonton, Montreal and the New York Rangers.

In the minors – The San Diego Gulls next game is tonight at San Jose.

In Major League Soccer – San Diego FC meets the Timbers for playoff Game Two Saturday in Portland.

In racing – Sunday at Phoenix will be the season finale for this year’s NASCAR Cup series.

Climate change is having an effect on how athletes train for winter sports with just 100 days left before the next Winter Olympics. With the Earth warming at a record rate, winters are shorter and milder with less snow falling globally. Athletes are saying they’re worried for the future of winter. From the Swiss and Austrian Alps to the mountains of Colorado, manmade snow is becoming the rule rather than the exception. Ironically, athletes chasing around the world after snow when their local slopes don’t have enough is making the problem worse, since burning jet fuel releases carbon dioxide, which traps heat in the atmosphere, contributing to additional global warming. Some are training more often in slushy conditions because that’s what they’ve encountered at recent world championship events. Milan and Cortina, where the Olympics will be held in February is one of the fastest-warming regions. Other competitions are being held at increasingly higher elevations to compensate for lack of snow. That requires special training for athletes to acclimate. https://apnews.com/article/climate-change-olympics-skiing-snow-ski-mountaineering-winter-ab8d7eb676fbf96e7732a82c76e94a2d

In local high school sports:

Bonsall – no scheduled games

Great Oak – freshman and JV football hosting Martin Luther King at 4:15p

Fallbrook – girls’ CIF tennis playoffs today and tomorrow

Valley Center – no scheduled games

BUSINE$$

As of midday trading on Wall Street, stocks were up again. The Dow gained a half percent. The S&P 500 was up a quarter percent. And the Nasdaq rose a little less than 6 tenths of a percent. Gold traded $25.20 higher on the Comex at $4,008.30 an ounce. The benchmark West Texas Intermediate Crude oil futures were up 40 cents at $60.55 a barrel.

As expected, the Federal Reserve today announced a quarter percent cut in its benchmark overnight borrowing rate to a range of 3 ¾% to 4%. The vote for the cut was 10-2. In today’s announcement, the Fed also said it would be ending the reduction of its asset purchases, known as quantitative tightening on December 1. Though about two more rate cuts had been expected in the coming months, the ongoing federal shutdown could delay or cancel them. https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/29/fed-rate-decision-october-2025.html

Just a day after Apple joined the exclusive $4 trillion-dollar club, Nvidia exceeded $5 trillion in market capitalization today. Fueled largely by the Artificial Intelligence boom, the company that began as a maker of video games is now the first corporation to surpass the $5 trillion market value threshold. Its stock has risen more than 50% this year. https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/29/nvidia-on-track-to-hit-historic-5-trillion-valuation-amid-ai-rally.html

Electric vehicle maker, Lucid said yesterday it plans to incorporate Nvidia’s “Drive AV” platform and multisensory suite including cameras, radar and lidar to produce the world’s first advanced self-driving car. They declined to say when, other than it won’t be in 2026. Pending that feature on a new mid-sized vehicle now being developed, Lucid is also increasing the automated technologies on its current vehicles, the Air sedan and Gravity SUV in partnership with Nvidia. https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/28/lucid-nvidia-self-driving-car.html

Nvidia is also partnering with drug maker Eli Lilly to build the pharmaceutical industry’s most powerful supercomputer and AI-run factory to help accelerate drug development. It’s expected to shorten the time it takes to discover and develop new drugs while saving costs at every step of the process. https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/28/eli-lilly-nvidia-supercomputer-ai-factory-drug-discovery.html

Now that their merger is complete, Paramount Skydance today began laying off about another 1k employees. There had been multiple rounds of layoffs prior to the close of the deal in August, and there could be as many as 1k more cut before management is done. Today’s memo to staff says the cuts will address “redundancies that have emerged across the organization.” The media industry in general is dealing with the decline of traditional pay-TV bundles and other factors that have led to a decrease in ad revenue. https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/29/paramount-to-lay-off-1000-employees-with-more-cuts-expected.html

LIFESTYLE / GREEN LIVING

OK, so it’s a little warm for October this week here in Southern California. At least we’re not getting the kind of weather hitting Jamaica and Cuba this week. Hurricane Melissa hit Jamaica yesterday as a category 5 – the strongest ever to hit that country with winds of 185 miles an hour. There has been so much infrastructure damage, it’s difficult to immediately know the extent of damage and loss of life. Officials there say many Jamaicans ignored evacuation orders and that less than half of the country’s shelters were occupied when the storm arrived. Melissa fell to a category 3 before heading back out to sea and re-strengthening to a 4 as it approached Cuba. That country planned to evacuate about a half million people before the storm made landfall last night. www.morningbrew.com

Elon Musk’s AI company, xAI has launched the beta version of its Wikipedia challenger, called Grokipedia. The online encyclopedia which reflects the political views of Musk and other conservatives has accused the original of left-wing bias. While Wikipedia’s articles are written and edited by humans, Grokipedia’s are fact-checked by Grok, which is xAI’s chatbot. Some entries are near-carbon copies of those on Wikipedia. But there are big differences on some more polarizing topics. Regarding the January 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol that Wikipedia describes as an “attempted self-coup” by “a mob” to prevent formalizing President-elect Joe Biden’s victory, Grokipedia says it was not a protesting the certification of election results and cites sources saying it doesn’t qualify as an insurrection. Traffic at Wikipedia is down 8% from last year, which management says is due to people relying on AI search summaries instead. www.morningbrew.com

On this day in music history – October 29,

In 1965, The Who released “My Generation”. It only reached #74 on the U.S. singles chart It hit #2 in Britain. But it was named the 11^th greatest song in Rolling Stone magazine’s 500 greatest of all time and #13 on VH1’s list of 100 greatest songs.
In 1966, ? & The Mysterians were at #1 on the singles chart with “96 Tears”. A closely guarded secret at the time, Question Mark turned out to be Rudy Martinez from Saginaw, Michigan.
In 1971, Duane Allman of The Allman Brothers Band was killed when he crashed his motorcycle while swerving to avoid a big rig truck. He was three weeks short of his 25^th
In 1983, Pink Floyd’s “Dark Side of the Moon” album set a record for longest time on the Billboard album chart at 491 weeks. It continued to remain on the Hot 200 for another 250 weeks before falling off the list in October, 1988 for the first time since its release in March of 1973.
On the same day, Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers were at #1 on the singles chart with “Islands in the Stream”, written and produced by the Bee Gee’s Barry Gibb.
In 1984, Wells Kelly, drummer for Orleans and Meat Loaf’s band died at the age of 45.
In 1987, the Rolling Stones’ Ronnie Wood opened his first-ever art exhibition in London featuring portraits of rock stars and friends from the previous 20 years.
In 1988, Enya began the first of three weeks at #1 with “Orinocco Flow”.
In 2003, researchers from the University of Cincinnati applied science to art finding that songs get stuck in our heads because they create a “brain itch” that can only be scratched by repeating the tune over and over. Songs therefore become hits by their successful ability to create that “cognitive itch”. And you thought you just liked them.
In 2005, the waxwork heads of The Beatles used on the “Sgt. Pepper” album sold at auction for about $120k. They’d been discovered in a back room at Madame Tussauds London museum nearly 40 years after their use in the album’s cover shot by Peter Blake.
In 2007, the biopic “Walk the Line” about the life of Johnny Cash, starring Joaquin Phoenix and Reese Witherspoon was named greatest music figure film in history in a poll. Witherspoon won the Best Actress Oscar for it the previous year.
In 2014, Phil Collins turned over his large collection of Alamo memorabilia to a Texas museum. It included Jim Bowie’s knife and a fringed leather pouch used by Davy Crockett.
In 2016, Bob Dylan acknowledged acceptance of the Nobel Prize in literature, ending a month-long silence since its announcement. He said the honor had left him “speechless”.

Born on this day …

In 1944, Denny Laine from The Moody Blues and Wings
In 1946, Peter Green from Fleetwood Mac and Rob Van Leeuwen from Shocking Blue
In 1948, Ricky Reynolds from Black Oak Arkansas
In 1951, Scottish bass player and singer David Paton from Pilot, Camel, Fish, and backing bands for Elton John and Rick Wakeman
In 1955, Kevin DuBrow, lead singer with Quiet Riot, whose one big hit, “Cum on Feel the Noize” was reported to have been grudgingly recorded in one take.

https://www.thisdayinmusic.com/search/?keyword=&date=29&month=10

Other celebrity anniversaries today …

Dan Castellaneta, the voice of Homer Simpson is 68
Actress Tracee Ellis Ross from TV’s “Black-ish” is 53
Producer/director Jon Abrahams is 48
Among those who’ve passed, comedienne Fanny Brice was born this day in 1873

http://www.davesfunstuff.com/a-mb/2080-date1029.htm

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WEATHER

Pala Weather – A National Weather Service Heat advisory is in effect through this evening … sunny with a high of 96 and winds gusting up to 20 miles an hour this afternoon … patchy morning low clouds and fog, clearing to sunny and 90 tomorrow … 84 Friday … 86 Saturday … 88 Sunday … 87 Monday … 84 Tuesday … overnight lows, 60 tonight … 55 tomorrow night … 53 Friday night … 55 Saturday and Sunday night … 52 Monday night

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