Want to hear a great joke? I thought you would. Here it is: How do you make God laugh? Don’t know? You tell him your plans.OK, maybe it’s not that funny. But it does speak to a problem everyone has. They leave God out of their plans way too often.In fact it’s not uncommon for people to only include...
A wildfire that broke out just before 4 p.m., Wednesday, Sept. 4, was fully contained earlier this week but not before charring 1,926 acres.The Tenaja Fire ripped through the La Cresta area, burning parts of the Santa Rosa Plateau Ecological Reserve, threatening homes and causing evacuations of hundreds of homes, according to fire officials.Originally reported as 2,000 acres, the...
Vaccine bill Senate Bill 276, which narrows the guidelines of medical exemptions and continues forced vaccinations, along with its companion bill, Senate Bill 714 were both signed into law by Gov. Gavin Newsom Monday, Sept. 10, and several local mothers are not happy about it.“This has directly affected my family,” Sandra Efraimson, a former registered nurse who lives in...
A Temecula group brings deaf culture awareness and enlightenment to this year’s Burning Man Festival. The burning man event, started by Larry Harvey on a beach in San Francisco in 1986, has grown to an 80,000-person, 7-square-mile festival on a dead lake bed in Nevada. This inhospitable nine-day venue encourages self-sufficiency and creativity and draws people in globally as...
The Villages of San Jacinto, a major long-planned master planned development with homes, a commercial business park, public facility and parks on 475 acres in southwestern San Jacinto was the subject of a city council workshop Tuesday, Sept. 3.Presenting the council with an update on the project was architect Ken Ryan and principal from KTGY, an architecture and planning...
RIVERSIDE – The Riverside Transit Agency’s board of directors has unanimously chosen Wildomar City Council Member Bridgette Moore to lead the 22-member governing board through the end of 2020.As chair, Moore will be responsible for leading the RTA board in setting policy, guiding agency priorities, conducting the agency’s monthly board meetings and representing RTA during public events. Moore, who...
LAKE ELSINORE – Recycled water, which once flowed through an open channel used by Elsinore Valley Municipal Water District, is now being transported through a repurposed pipeline, improving flows into Lake Elsinore. Collectively, Elsinore Valley Municipal Water District, Riverside County Flood and Water Conservation District and the city of Lake Elsinore have transformed an abandoned agricultural pipeline that will...
As of press time, the Murrieta city clerk’s office already has 13 qualified applications from residents seeking to fill the city council vacancy left by former Councilman Randon Lane with more being accepted though Sept. 15.Lane left his post on the city council Aug. 31, to take up a new position with the U.S. Department of Transportation in Washington....
While I had just about the same number of people excited about our new national news, I appreciated the three people who actually took the time to call me or email me and let me know they were not happy that we published a couple stories from The Epoch Times as part of our rollout of state and national...
RIVERSIDE – Susan G. Komen Inland Empire is preparing for their annual community fundraising event. In May, the organization announced the new More Than Pink Walk, which is the next evolution in its signature fundraising event series. The Susan G. Komen Inland Empire More Than Pink Walk will be held Sunday, Oct. 13, at Town Square Park in Murrieta.The...