Tony Suraci’s ‘The Highwayman Show’ rocks Temecula City Hall, B-1
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Entertainment Klezmer Music to perform at Holocaust Remembrance fundraiser event
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Volume 24, Issue 29
Music fans enjoy 19th annual Temecula Wine & Music Festival
TEMECULA – The Holocaust Remembrance Foundation of the Valley invited its supporters and friends to a special concert in the Murrieta/Temecula area Sunday, July 21, at 5 p.m. Featuring the Golden Medina Klezmer Band, known for their music reminiscent of “Fiddler on the Roof,” this event promises an evening of fun and music. see page B-3
Health TMI and Rancho Springs Hospital team up to empower individuals MURRIETA – Toward Maximum Independence announced a new partnership with Rancho Springs Hospital in Murrieta to provide opportunities for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities to play a role in the hospital’s daily operations. see page B-5
Education Kiwanis Club of Temecula Valley awards scholarships to three local students TEMECULA – The Kiwanis Club of Temecula Valley recently awarded three college scholarships to local graduates. The Kiwanis Scholarship committee members presented the $1,000 scholarship certificates to Abigale Minsch and Dezirae Gines, graduates from Murrieta Mesa High School, and Natalie Noguera, a graduate of Chaparral High School. see page B-7
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Michael Paulo mingles with the Temecula Wine & Music Festival patrons in the lawn area at Monteleone Meadows. Saturday, July 13. The festival raised money to benefit Michelle’s Place Cancer Resource Center and the National Association of Music Angels, a nonprofit that supports music education programs and provides free musical instruments to disadvantaged children. See more photos on page A-5. Valley News/Andrez Imaging photo
TVGS honors charter members and unveils updated Genealogy Room
TEMECULA – Temecula Valley Genealogical Society recognized TVGS Charter Members and unveiled the updated Genealogy Room Monday, July 8. TVGS said it was grateful to the charter members who conceived the organization back in 1998. These individuals were part of the foundation and history of the society, and some of them remain members to this day. The certificate listing all of the original members is framed and hanging in the updated Genealogy Room at the library. Invitations were sent to the charter members who were located, and those present received a Charter Member Certificate. The recognition of those charter members included a ribbon-cutting ceremony to unveil the updated Genealogy Room at the Ronald H. Roberts Temecula Public Library. Some of the updates include newly installed microfilm/fiche equipment and scanner, which individuals will be able to use for see TVGS, page A-6
Temecula Valley Genealogical Society Charter members in attendance pose for a photo at the refreshment table, including from left, Gordon Summers, Dolores Luna, Dotye Summers, John Hunneman and Bernadine Anderson. Valley News/Courtesy photo
Soboba Tribe issued Secretarial Procedures by Secretary of the Interior Soboba Band of Luiseño Indians Special to Valley News
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The Soboba Casino offers a variety of Class III gaming, such as slot machines. Valley News/Soboba Band of Luiseño Indians photo
The Soboba Band of Luiseño Indians has prevailed in its effort to overcome the state of California’s failure to negotiate in good faith for a new gaming compact. Nearly 10 years after it first requested the state of California to negotiate a new Class III gaming compact to replace its original compact with the state, and after the U.S. District Court entered an order finding that the state had failed to negotiate in good faith, the Secretary of the Interior has
issued Procedures in lieu of a compact under which the Soboba Band of Luiseño Indians may operate Class III gaming on its tribal lands. The Indian Gaming Regulatory Act authorized the issuance of the Soboba Band’s Secretarial Procedures. The Secretarial Procedures are a set of regulations that allow a Native American Tribe that has obtained a court order determining that a state has failed to negotiate in good faith about a Class III gaming compact to operate Class see SOBOBA, page A-4