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Menifee Valley Students of the Month honored, B-2
Murrieta Valley Nighthawks make history with first CIF Southern Section girls’ volleyball title, C-1
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SERVING TEMECULA , MURRIETA , L AKE E LSINOR E , M ENIFEE , WILDOMAR , H EMET, SAN JACINTO AND THE SURROUNDING COMMUNITIES November 15 – 21, 2024
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Volume 24, Issue 46
San Jacinto Valley community Proposed Menifee warehouse project turns out to support veterans approval appealed
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by the City of Perris is continued Tony Ault Staf f Writer
The Menifee City Council reviewed another request by the City of Perris to appeal a decision by the Menifee Planning Commission to approve a proposed 700,000 square foot warehouse project in the northwest portion of the city. The council, after a detailed explanation of the appeal and the staff’s response, continued the public hearing until Nov. 20. see page A-2
Local Hemet State of City provides a picture of growth and prosperity by Mayor Joe Males Tony Ault Staf f Writer Hemet Mayor Joe Males promoted his city as “Building a Prosperous Tomorrow, Today” in the annual State of the City Address on Thursday, Nov. 7 at the Hemet Public Library. More than 200 guests were in attendance to hear of the city’s accomplishments in the past few years with the newest city council in attendance. see page A-5
American Legion Post 53 members, from left, Aree Williams Jr., Hemet Mayor Joe Males and Robert Farris lend a hand with the Flags of Freedom project in Hemet. Valley News/Diane A. Rhodes photo Diane A. Rhodes Special to Valley News Volunteers from throughout the San Jacinto Valley converged on Gibbel Park in the early morn-
ing hours of Saturday, Nov. 9 to “plant” 1,776 flags in advance of the City of Hemet’s annual Veteran’s Day Ceremony the following Monday. What started as a Hemet-San
Jacinto Exchange Club the Flags of Freedom project in 2012 has grown into a community-wide show of support for veterans and their families. Lakshman Koka, who heads the
Volbrecht Rotary Chalk Walk artwork celebrates Veterans Day in Murrieta
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A patriotic street painting by Shawndell Smith is displayed at the Vollbrecht Rotary Chalk Walk during the Field of Honor at Town Square Park in Murrieta Nov. 9-10. Valley News/Shane Gibson photos
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INDEX Anza Valley Outlook ......... D-1 Business ............................B-7 Business Directory .............B-7 Calendar of Events .............B-4 Classifieds .........................B-6 Education ..........................B-1 Entertainment ...................B-5 Faith..................................B-6 Health ...............................B-6 Home & Garden ................C-4 Legal Notices .................... D-6 Local ................................A-1 Opinion............................ D-6 Regional News ...................C-5 Sports ................................C-1
see FLAGS, page A-4
Election results include some upsets but many re-elected incumbents
Caltrans changing some ‘Airspace’ uses under, over and beside highways for fire reasons Several fires on properties under, over and next to freeway and highway bridges earlier this year that temporarily closed the busy highways above have brought some changes to the California Department of Transportation’s “Airspace Lease” program.
flag committee for the Exchange Club, said, “For me, it’s an honor to serve our community. I was not born here so I did not have the
A portrait by Meg Beverly Canilang is displayed at the Vollbrecht Rotary Chalk Walk during the Field of Honor at Town Square Park in Murrieta. See more photos on page A-6.
Below is a summary of the winners of local races from the November 5, 2024 General Election in the Southwest Riverside County Valley News coverage area. The biggest upsets locally were in school board races. Former TVUSD School Board President Dr. Komrosky was re-elected in Trustee Area 4, after being recalled by One Temecula PAC in June. Dr. Joseph Komrosky ran both times on a conservative platform of back to basics in education, restricting Critical Race Theory (CRT)in the classroom, supporting parental notification, removing sexually explicit age-inappropriate books from the classrooms, and removing political flags from the classroom while providing American flags. In the same TVUSD district, incumbent Allison Barclay was unseated by Melinda Anderson in Trustee Area 1, Emil Roger Barham was elected to TVUSD Trustee Area 2, and incumbent Steven Schwartz was re-elected and held his seat in Trustee Area 5. In the Murrieta School District, conservative Eleanor Cruz Briggs won in Trustee Area 4, while Christine Schmidt won in Trustee Area 5, and Julie Vandegrift won in Trustee Area 3 by only 11 votes. In Murrieta City Council, see ELECTION, page A-6