East County News Service

Paul Kruze contributed to this report

September 20, 2018 (Rancho San Diego) – Damage to a gas pipeline in Rancho San Diego on September 17th was caused by a third-party contractor, Orion Construction, according to a statement issued by Helix Water District.

East County News Service

September 20, 2018 (El Cajon) -- The 7^th Annual “HauntFest on Main” is back on Friday, October 19 from 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. in the 200 block of East Main Street in Downtown El Cajon.

This fun, family-friendly Halloween-themed community event features live music, costume contests, carnival rides & games, candy challenge activities, Monster’s, Inc. & Monster’s University outdoor movies, face painting, craft booths, inflatables and more! Admission is free, but some of the rides will charge a nominal fee.

For more information, visit www.Hauntfest.org or call (619) 441-1754.

September 20, 2018 (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

• Group aims to change school board (La Mesa Courier)
• Farewell to a professional love: Don Bauder retires (San Diego Reader)
• San Diego's Catholic diocese adds eight priests to list of sexual predators (San Diego Union-Tribune)
• Grossmont School District Paid Worker Who Made Lewd Comments $80K to Leave (Voice of San Diego)
• Our Immigrant Story (San Diego Union-Tribune)
• SR-52 Coalition Discusses Traffic Relief at Inaugural Meeting (NBC 7)
• Independent voters overtake Republicans in San Diego County (San Diego Union-Tribune)
• Planner’s warned about contact with developer’s agent (San Diego Union-Tribune)
• The County's Climate Plan Promises a New Land Use Battle (Voice of San Diego)

STATE

• By announcing California's first satellite launch, Gov. Jerry Brown ends climate summit with a cosmic boom (Los Angeles Times)
• California voters will be able to fix sloppy signatures and track their ballots under new election laws (Los Angeles Times)
• California’s gender-wage gap is now the narrowest in the country (SCPR)
• Firefighter’s death caused by retardant drop from 747 (Sacramento Bee)
• Anger in California's carpool lanes as more than 200,000 drivers are set to lose decals (San Diego Union-Tribune)
• The Number of Youth in Juvenile Detention in California Has Quietly Plummeted (Voice of San Diego)

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September 19, 2018 (El Cajon) - ECM Sports is taking a break from football for a bit (don’t worry; it’ll be back on Friday live from West Hills!) and covering some lady sports, starting with field hockey.  Tonight, we traveled to El Cajon Valley, where the Lady Braves are struggling so far at 0-3.  They hosted Chaparral High from Temecula tonight in a home-at-home contest.

Salute and Cheers To Firefighters!

By Fire Chief Sam DiGiovanna

September 19, 2018 (San Diego) - September is National Wine Awareness Month and wine has become so vital to California that it deserves a whole month. “Last year we saw the devastation from wildfires in Sonoma and Napa and fires are still burning dangerously close in many areas throughout the state, reminds Fire Chief Sam DiGiovanna. We are far from being out of the woods as we have yet to experience our Santa Ana’s, Sundowners and Diablo winds.”

By Miriam Raftery

September 18, 2018 (Lakeside) – Five candidates are running for the Lakeside Fire Protection District Board.  Three are incumbents:   Robert Robeson, a retired Cal Fire assistant chief, Mike Haworth, a retired fire division chief, Peter Liebig, a retired firefighter/paramedic. Two are challengers:  fire captain Tim Robles and volunteer emergency responder Ron Kasper.

East County Magazine sent questionnaires to all five, and three responded (Robeson, Haworth and Kasper).   Below are their responses (published in the order received), plus links to their ballot statements.

By Dave Patterson, Ramona

September 19, 2018 (Ramona) -- The US war spending, now approaching $1 Trillion annually, (1) directly impacts how we pay for schools, Medicare, Medicaid, social services and our poor and elderly (7).  We at the San Diego Veterans For Peace take the position that the resultant $22 Trillion national debt (2) created by lavish spending on war making is pitched as a good thing at the Miramar Air Show.  War made palatable with glorious pageantry and emotional thrills that can’t be topped.  This is why we ask the public to just stay home.

September 19, 2018 (San Diego's East County) -- Our Health and Science Highlights provide cutting edge news that could impact your health and our future.

HEALTH

• Cancers ‘rising around the world’ (BBC)
• Americans eating less meat: Johns Hopkins survey (NBC 7)
• Why 'BPA Free' May Not Mean a Plastic Product Is Safe (National Geographic)
• Seniors and low-dose aspirin (Jewish World Review)
• Whole Fat Dairy: It Does a Body Good* (Reason)

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

• The Moon Is Electric—Especially When It's Full (National Geographic)
• Record Breaking Magnetic Field 50 Million Times Stronger Than Earth’s Created by Scientists (Newsweek)
• R.I.P. Beetle: After 70 years, VW’s iconic car will officially die in 2019  (CNET)

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East County News Service

“Myself, I’m one of the generations.  My mother is one of the generations, wandering out there in alcoholism, and death, and murder and domestic violence, and thinking there’s no way out…like I tell my grandchildren, ‘You don’t have to walk the road of alchcolism and addiction. I walked that road. I took all those beatings for you guys. You don’t have to walk that road.’” -Verna Bartlett, Ph.D. Native American Elder and sexual abuse survivor.

September 17, 2018 (Alpine) -- For American Indian people interested in healing addictions, social and family relations, as well as other physical and emotional illness that infect native communities, and are resistant to Western healing programs, a conference entitled, “Calling upon the Warrior Spirit, inspired by our Creator, to Heal Historical Trauma among Native America through Indigenous Wisdom,” will offer presentations and ceremonies from the indigenous perspective.

Council grapples with rental bicycle problems, commends volunteer Kathy Pillman for founding group that has cleaned up 6 tons of trash

By Paul Kruze, Contributing Editor

September 14, 2018 (El Cajon) – Citizens who attended Tuesday’s El Cajon City Council meeting once again saw a circus-like performance in which the public spoke out over the clownish antics of Councilmember Ben Kalasho.

This development "should make President Donald Trump very nervous indeed."

By John Queally, staff writer, Common Dreams

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September 15, 2018 (Washington D.C.) -- Considered a major development regarding President Donald Trump's former campaign manager Paul Manafort, his lawyers on Friday confirmed that prior to pleading guilty to charges at a court hearing Friday he has entered a cooperating agreement with the Department of Justice.

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September 16, 2018 (San Diego) - ECM Sports got our first look at SDSU women’s soccer tonight.  Contrary to the men’s side, the lady Aztecs are struggling so far, sitting at 2-5.  Tonight would be no different as the Aztecs faced an always-tough opponent in the Bruins of No. 8 UCLA.

Second annual event to finish on SDCCU Stadium field

Source: goaztecs.com

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September 18, 2018 (San Diego) - The Kaiser Permanente Aztec for Life 5K is scheduled for Saturday, Sept. 22 at SDCCU Stadium. The second annual event will finish on the 50-yard line inside the stadium.