SANTEE LAKES PRESENTS SANTA AT THE LAKES DEC. 11
Source: Santee Lakes November 30, 2016 (Santee) – Santa and snow are in the forecast on Sunday, December 11th from 11:00 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the 16th annual Santa at the Lakes event at Santee Lakes Recreation Preserve. Kids of all ages can enjoy a variety of activities including Snow Hill, photos with Santa, pony rides, a petting zoo, face painting, carnival rides, holiday crafts, and hay rides. New this year is Storybook Island where boys and girls can enjoy a meet and greet and photo opportunities with Ariel and Prince Eric, Anna and Elsa and many other characters, all set in an enchanting holiday setting. Food is available for purchase at the snack bar and a ‘Snacklebox’ food cart. Admission is $10 per carload; activity and ride tickets are only $1 per ticket with most rides requiring 1-4 tickets. For more information visit the Facebook events page or www.santeelakes.com, or call 619-596-3141.
SANTA ANA WINDS FORECAST THURSDAY THROUGH SATURDAY
East County Wildfire and Emergency Alerts November 30, 2016 (San Diego’s East County) – A potentially strong Santa Ana weather pattern will develop Thursday evening, bringing strong Santa Ana winds Thursday night through Saturday. Sustained winds of 20-30 miles per hour and gusts over 65 mph are possible in the windiest locations, including Highway 8 in San Diego County from Alpine to the Imperial County border. The National Weather Service predicts gusty northeast winds will surface in the mountains Thursday night, and funnel through the mountain passes into the foothills and valleys. Strongest winds will be Friday and Saturday. This will create hazardous travel for motorists Thursday night through Saturday, especially those with high-profile vehicles. Winds reaching the coastal waters may be hazardous to small craft at times Areas in Southern California with the strongest winds forecast include: Interstate 15 through the Cajon Pass Santa Ana Mountains and Foothills Interstate 10 through the San Gorgonio Pass Highway 74 through the Riverside County Mountains Highway 8 in San Diego County from Alpine to the Imperial County border Coastal Waters: northeast winds 15-25 mph may reach portions of the inner waters off of Orange County and northern San Diego County Sign up to receive free East County Wildfire & Emergency Alerts via e-mail at the top right side of our homepage. You can also follow EastCountyAlert on Twitter for brief alerts on your mobile phone. We recommend all of the above, since you don’t know what form of communication will be working in a major regional emergency.
ECM WORLD WATCH: NATIONAL AND GLOBAL NEWS
November 30, 2016 (San Diego’s East County) – East County Magazine’s World Watch helps you be an informed citizen about important issues globally and nationally. As part of our commitment to reflect all voices and views, we include links to a wide variety of news sources representing a broad spectrum of political, religious, and social views. Top world and U.S. headlines include: U.S. General news Students have ‘dismaying’ inability to tell fake news from real, study finds (NPR) Great Smoky Mountains fires leaves scenes of great destruction(Reuters) Largest bank in Norway sells its assets in Dakota Access pipeline (Eco Watch) Oklahoma town sues energy companies over earthquakes (CS Monitor) Blue Feed, Red Feed (Wall Street Journal) Politics U.S. government officially accuses Russia of hacking campaign to interfere with election (Washington Post) Libertarian Party Breaks Half a Million Registered Voters (Reason) Will Trump go after marijuana laws? (Healthline – Jamie Reno) Sanctuary city mayors prepare for clash with Trump administration over immigration (Fox) Trump supporter: Japanese internment `precedent’ for Muslim registry to ‘protect America’(NBC) Senate Democrats just went nuclear and changed the filibuster. Here’s why. (Mother Jones) Trump will not pursue Clinton investigation, campaign manager says(SD Union-Tribune) Donald Trump’s potential conflicts of interest continue to mount (Huffington Post) WORLD Fidel Castro, Cuban Revolutionary Who Defied U.S, Dies at 90 (New York Times) Fukushima nuclear decommission, compensation costs to almost double: media (Reuters) Wildfire roars through Israeli city, forcing thousands to evacuate (AP) Mexico mass grave: Severed heads and 32 bodies found (BBC) Thwarted French attack was slated for December 1 at key Paris sites(Reuters) New quake tests resilience and faith in Japan’s nuclear facilities(New York Times) Russia Withdraws Support For International Criminal Court (NPR) Prosecutors To Investigate South Korean President In Corruption Scandal(NPR) Virtual reality to aid Auschwitz war trials of concentration camp guards(BBC) Gigantic Shield Moves Into Place To Cover Exploded Chernobyl Reactor(NPR) For excerpts and links to full stories, click “read more”and scroll down. U.S. General news Students have ‘dismaying’ inability to tell fake news from real, study finds (NPR) Stanford researchers assessed students from middle school to college and found they struggled to distinguish ads from articles, neutral sources from biased ones and fake accounts from real ones. Great Smoky Mountains fires leaves scenes of great destruction(Reuters) Officials said on Tuesday that “the worst is over” for two small Tennessee resort towns in the Great Smoky Mountains where wildfires destroyed or damaged some 150 homes and other structures, forced thousands to flee and threatened country music star Dolly Parton’s theme park, Dollywood. Largest bank in Norway sells its assets in Dakota Access pipeline (Eco Watch) The largest bank in Norway, DNB, has announced that it has sold its assets in the Dakota Access Pipeline, accounting for 10 percent of the total funding for the project. Earlier this month, Reuters reported that DNB was “reconsidering its participation” in the financing of the pipeline if “concerns raised by Native American tribes against its construction are not addressed.” Oklahoma town sues energy companies over earthquakes (CS Monitor) The town of Pawnee, Okla., is bringing a class action lawsuit against oil and gas companies, saying the companies caused more than 50 earthquakes by injecting wastewater into the ground. Blue Feed, Red Feed (Wall Street Journal) … as over six out of 10 American adults now turn to their algorithm-driven social media feeds to get news, according to Pew Research, conservatives and liberals often have radically conflicting sources of information, as a Wall Street Journal side-by-side graphic analysis of blue feeds and red feeds recently showed. Politics U.S. government officially accuses Russia of hacking campaign to interfere with election (Washington Post) … “The U.S. Intelligence Community is confident that the Russian Government directed the recent compromises of e-mails from U.S. persons and institutions, including from U.S. political organizations,” said a joint statement from the two agencies. “. . . These thefts and disclosures are intended to interfere with the U.S. election process.” The public finger-pointing was welcomed by senior Democratic and Republican lawmakers, who also said they now expect the administration to move to punish the Kremlin as part of an effort to deter further acts by its hackers. Libertarian Party Breaks Half a Million Registered Voters (Reason) Libertarians are now the first nationally-organized Party in American history besides the Republicans and Democrats to break a half-million registered voters. Will Trump go after marijuana laws? (Healthline – Jamie Reno) The president-elect has sent mixed signals on his views on legalizing marijuana. His choice of attorney general may determine what his administration does. Sanctuary city mayors prepare for clash with Trump administration over immigration (Fox) Democratic mayors in so-called “sanctuary cities” are poised for a major clash with President-elect Donald Trump as city officials from Los Angeles to Washington vow not to cooperate with his administration on deportation orders for illegal immigrants. Trump’s election has spurred mayors and police chiefs in nearly a dozen major cities to re-affirm their “sanctuary” status, putting them in direct conflict with Trump’s immigration enforcement push — and effectively daring him to slash sanctuary-city funding as he promised during the campaign. Trump supporter: Japanese internment `precedent’ for Muslim registry to ‘protect America’(NBC) A former Navy SEAL and supporter of President-elect Donald Trump cited World War II internment camps as a precedent for Trump’s proposed Muslim registry during an interview Wednesday night on Fox News. Senate Democrats just went nuclear and changed the filibuster. Here’s why. (Mother Jones) Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and his fellow Democrats changed the Senate’s rules Thursday, freeing President Barack Obama to staff his administration with the people he wants and fill the federal bench with judges of his choosing… Trump will not pursue Clinton investigation, campaign manager says(San Diego Union-Tribune) President-elect Donald Trump has decided that his administration will not pursue criminal investigations related to former rival Hillary Clinton‘s private email server or her family foundation, his campaign manager said Tuesday. Donald Trump’s potential conflicts of interest continue to mount (Huffington Post) When Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe became the first foreign head
EAST COUNTY ROUNDUP: LOCAL AND STATEWIDE NEWS
November 29, 2016 (San Diego’s East County) — East County Roundup highlights top stories of interest to East County and San Diego’s inland regions, published in other media. This week’s top “Roundup” headlines include: LOCAL El Cajon takes urgent stand on marijuana (San Diego Union-Tribune) Caught on camera: mountain lion in Lakeside neighborhood (10 News) Across the County, taxpayer-funded turf fields are falling apart while still under warranty (Voice of San Diego) Judge allows San Onofre waste lawsuit to advance (San Diego Union-Tribune) Trump should renounce Muslim registry: America is better than that (San Diego Union-Tribune editorial) Hundreds of new downtown rentals approved(San Diego Union-Tribune) STATE ‘Calexit’ movement launches (Los Angeles Times) Can your landlord just say no to marijuana now that Prop 64 passed? (San Diego Union-Tribune) Government sued over offshore fracking in Santa Barbara Channel(Pacific Coast Business Times) UC, CSU Consider Raising Tuition For The First Time In 6 Years (KPBS) Numbers of international students in U.S. is at all-time high and California is top destination (Los Angeles Times) CalSTRS calculates total fees in likely first for public pension (Reuters) For excerpts and links to full stories, click “read more” and scroll down. LOCAL El Cajon takes urgent stand on marijuana (San Diego Union-Tribune) El Cajon has joined several other cities in the county in passing an emergency ordinance that would temporarily prohibit the cultivation and sale of marijuana within its borders. Caught on camera: mountain lion in Lakeside neighborhood (10 News) A family in San Diego’s East County is growing more and more concerned as an unwanted, four-legged visitor keeps returning to their yard. Across the County, taxpayer-funded turf fields are falling apart while still under warranty (Voice of San Diego) At least 20 artificial turf fields at schools across San Diego County have deteriorated while still under warranty. Yet instead of getting a free replacement, some schools shelled out even more money for another new field. Without much pushback from public school officials, taxpayers have been left holding the bag for a private company’s admittedly defective product. Judge allows San Onofre waste lawsuit to advance (San Diego Union-Tribune) A lawsuit filed by a group that wants to see the 3.6 million pounds of nuclear waste at the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS) transferred some place else — perhaps Arizona — will proceed, a superior court judge in San Diego has ruled. The advocacy group, Citizens Oversight, in its suit claims the California Coastal Commission was wrong in October 2015 when it approved a permit to store the spent nuclear waste in dry casks at the SONGS site within sight of the Pacific Ocean Trump should renounce Muslim registry: America is better than that (San Diego Union-Tribune editorial) This week surrogates for President-elect Donald Trump astonishingly invoked one of America’s darkest moments to lay the groundwork for one of Trump’s more controversial campaign proposals, a Muslim immigrant registry. They invoked the internment of 120,000 Japanese-Americans in camps and converted horse stables following the attack on Pearl Harbor that pushed the United States into World War II. Hundreds of new downtown rentals approved(San Diego Union-Tribune) Get used to a skyline filled with construction cranes. The downtown housing boom looks like it’ll continue for the next six years. Civic San Diego, the city’s downtown development review agency, reviewed seven projects with 1,650 apartments Wednesday — possibly a one-meeting record in more than… STATE ‘Calexit’ movement launches (Los Angeles Times) Secessionists formally launch bid for California independence. Can your landlord just say no to marijuana now that Prop 64 passed? (San Diego Union-Tribune) B ette Molloy, who has rented 13 apartment units and one condominium in three different locations in the San Diego area since 1998, does not like marijuana on her premises. “It’s like cigarettes — it smells up the whole place,” Molloy said. “It stays in the apartment.” But with the passage of Proposition 64 that legalized possession of recreational use of marijuana by adults 21 and older Molloy was not sure whether she could prohibit pot among her tenants. Government sued over offshore fracking in Santa Barbara Channel(Pacific Coast Business Times) The Center for Biological Diversity sued the federal government for permitting offshore fracking in the Santa Barbara Channel and along the California Coast, alleging that it did not perform a proper environmental assessment. UC, CSU Consider Raising Tuition For The First Time In 6 Years (KPBS) Faced with record high enrollments and the need to hire more faculty, the institutions are discussing proposed annual hikes of $270 at Cal State and $280 at UC schools. Numbers of international students in U.S. is at all-time high and California is top destination (Los Angeles Times) … A record high of more than 1 million foreign students came to America for higher education last school year. Four of the top 20 institutions that welcomed them were in the Golden State, according to a new report this month. CalSTRS calculates total fees in likely first for public pension (Reuters) The California State Teachers’ Retirement System announced on Wednesday that it had calculated the total costs and fees paid to manage its entire investment portfolio, likely the first public pension fund to do so.