TEMECULA – Occupational therapy may sound like something exclusive to people who are injured on the job. Though occupational therapy helps people in the workplace every day, it also helps men and women, including those with arthritis, perform everyday activities that may or may not be work-related.Arthritis can take both a physical and financial toll. The Arthritis Foundation said...

TEMECULA – No man or woman, regardless of their age, wants to consider that a day may come when they need to rely on loved ones to help them perform everyday activities. But every day tens of millions of people serve as unpaid caregivers for their aging friends or family members.A 2015 survey from the National Alliance for Caregiving...

The hottest day so far in 2019 coincided with the second and final day of the Temecula Art and Street Painting Festival, Saturday and Sunday, June 8-9, in front of Temecula City Hall.Considering the artists participating in the chalk mural competition spend the majority of their time on their hands and knees adding intricate details to the temporary murals...

The Ramona Bowl in Hemet was filled with hundreds of proud parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles with armfuls of flowers and gifts Friday, May 31, as the Hemet High School graduates took their seats wearing bright red caps and gowns.The long processional, bordered by the 2019 Daisy Chain Escorts and the Hemet High School Symphonic and Concert Band playing...

The Skyline Conference announced their all-league selections and Alexis Buchanan, rookie shortstop from St. Joseph’s College in Brooklyn, New York, and a 2018 graduate from Murrieta Valley High School, landed on the second team.The St. Joseph’s Bears finished their season at 16-20 overall and earned a program-best fifth place finish with an 8-8 league record to secure the program’s second-straight...

LOS ALAMITOS – CIF Southern Section Commissioner of Athletics Rob Wigod announced last week that Citrus Hill High School Athletic Director Rich Shearer has accepted a position as an assistant commissioner of athletics for the CIF-SS, effective July 1.“I am very pleased to welcome Rich Shearer to the Southern Section team,” Wigod said. “For many years, Rich has been...

With the conclusion of the high school baseball season wrapping up two weeks earlier this year, all eyes were set on the first-year player draft last week. Also known as the amateur draft, it is Major League Baseball’s primary mechanism for assigning unsigned baseball players, from high schools, colleges and other amateur baseball clubs, to its teams. The draft...

The U.S. Women’s National Volleyball Team returns to Murrieta Mesa High School Saturday, June 15, as the American team takes on Team Canada in an exhibition match. Doors open at 6 p.m., and the game begins at 7 p.m.Forza1 Volleyball, which is a top performing volleyball club in Temecula that operates out of the 40,000-square-foot Forza One Performance Center...

Thanks in part to a selfie taken by Mayor Pro Tem James Stewart at the ribbon-cutting ceremony for the Naval Branch Health Clinic Temecula, four men, and one woman, veterans and a first-responder California highway patrolman will participate in American Patriot Music Project’s STEM Guitar Building Project, June 27-30, at Doffo Winery.The five participants will build their own electric...