Jacob, Joshua and Noah Epperson of La Mesa completed three local community projects

East County News Service

Photo:  pictured with Senator Brian Jones are Jacob, Noah and Joshua Epperson during a ceremony in Senator Jones' El Cajon District office.

November 27, 2019 (El Cajon) - Senator Brian Jones (R-Santee) yesterday met with and presented official Senate Certificates of Recognition to three local brothers who all earned their National Eagle Scout awards on the same day last month.

East County News Service

November 26, 2019 (San Diego’s East County) – A winter storm watch has been issued for the National Weather Service from Wednesday at 4 a.m. through Friday at 10 p.m. for all mountain areas in San Diego County. There is also a flash flood watch for areas west of the mountains from Wed. at 4 a.m. through Thursday at 10 p.m.

Heavy mountain snow will bring hazardous travel conditions Wednesday through Friday, with accumulating snow down to 3,000 feet by Thanksgiving night.  Up to three feet could accumulate above 5,000 feet including Mt. Laguna and Palomar, with several inches at lower elevations.

November 26, 2019 (San Diego's East County) -- Our Health and Science Highlights provide cutting edge news that could impact your health and our future.

HEALTH

• ‘There’s something terribly wrong’: Americans are dying young at alarming rates (Washington Post)
• Study: Almost half of new cancer patients lose their entire life savings (Insider)
• Google to Store and Analyze Millions of Health Records (New York Times)
• Stents no better than drugs for many heart patients: U.S. study (Reuters) 
• Dozens of infant deaths have been tied to a popular baby product. But regulators are too paralyzed to act (Washington Post)
• Supreme Court rejects 'Pharma Bro' Martin Shkreli's final appeal (USA Today)
• Trump Has a Terrifying New Plan to Poison the Air, Water, Humans (Vanity Fair)
• Samoa Measles Outbreak: Government Closes Schools, Requires Vaccinations (NPR)

SCIENCE AND TECH

• More Monarch Butterflies Than Usual Appear to Be Migrating This Fall (Better Homes & Gardens)
• Police can keep Ring camera video forever, and share with whomever they'd like, company tells senator (Stars and Stripes)
• Jeff Bezos in San Diego: To Save Planet, ‘Move All Heavy Industry into Space’ (Times of San Diego)
• How climate change could kill the red apple (BBC)

For excerpts and links to full stories, click “read more” and scroll down.

November 26, 2019 (San Diego) -- East County Roundup highlights top stories of interest to East County and San Diego's inland regions, published in other media.  This week's round-up stories include:  

LOCAL

• Padre Dam board members vote to give themselves pay raises (San Diego Union-Tribune)
• Lemon Grove School Board appoints its fifth member (San Diego Union-Tribune)
• 3 firefighters suffer minor injuries while battling house fire in Julian (Fox 5)
• San Diego's tourism also attracts the sex trade, pop-up brothels (10 News)
• 5 dead, including 3 children, in Paradise Hills shooting (San Diego Union-Tribune)
• Teen uses remote-controlled car to smuggle meth: Border Patrol (San Diego Union-Tribune)
• Navy wants to eject Chief Eddie Gallagher, who was cleared by Trump, from SEALS (KUSI)

STATE

• California attorney general sues Juul, alleging vape ads reached youths (Sacramento Bee)
• California Supreme Court rejects law requiring Trump to release tax returns to get on ballot   (Fox News)
• Biden, Warren absence at California gathering irks top Dems (Associated Press)

For excerpts and full stories, click “read more” and scroll down.

By Miriam Raftery

November 26, 2019 (Ramona) – An argument between two men, ages 24 and 26, escalated into a fight today in the 400 block of Pala Street in Ramona.  “One of the men produced a gun, firing one round and hitting the other person in the left leg,” says Lt. Ken Jones with the Sheriff’s department.

Sheriff’s deputies and Cal Fire paramedics arrived on scene. Paramedics stabilized the wounded party and transported him to a hospital by helicopter. The wounded man is expected to survive.

Video by Paul Kruze

November 26, 2019 (El Cajon) -- El Cajon Mayor Bill Wells played saxophone and sang at the East County Transitional Living Center's fundraising dinner on November 14, 2019 at the Shadow Hills Community Church Center, accompanied by Jonni Glaser on saxophone.

Source: Alpine Fire Dept.

By Rebecca Jefferis Williamson

Nov. 26, 2019 (Alpine) The Alpine Fire Protection District (AFPD) has announced the retirement of fire chief, Bill F. Paskle, effective Dec. 30.

At their meeting, held on Nov. 19, Paskle submitted a letter to the board of directors that board president Jim Easterling read aloud during the meeting and thanked the fire chief for his years of service to the district.

East County News Center

November 26, 2019 (El Cajon) -- Downtown El Cajon invites you to “Holiday Lights on Main” this Saturday, November 25th from 12 noon to 7 p.m.  This festive event includes ice skating, Santa’s Village, carnival rides, live music, and at 6 p.m. the annual tree lighting at Main and Magnolia.

Shops will light up to brighten your holidays and invite you to support small businesses in the community as part of Small Business Saturday.

By Miriam Raftery

November 25, 2019 (Santa Barbara) – The fast-moving #CaveFire that started shortly after 4  p.m. along Highway 154 in the Los Padres National Forest near Painted Cave has scorched over 3,100 acres, forcing evacutions. Homes are threatened and the fire is encroaching northern portions of the city of Santa Barbara and Goleta tonight, while many are without power due to a proactive utility shut-off.

View a map of the evacuation zone here:  https://sbcoem.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=ff627ef192de40b6b19c7c2718f59028

East County News Service

November 25, 2019 (Lakeside) - The Lakeside Chamber of Commerce invites you to celebrate at its 21st annual Spirit of Christmas on Maine Avenue on Saturday, December 7th from 3:30 to 8:30 p.m.

Santa and his elves are hard at work creating an atmosphere of an old-fashioned hometown Christmas featuring local school performances of holiday favorites, photos with Santa, food and drinks, children’s activities, jumpy jumps, crafters booths, and lighting of the community Christmas tree.

 Find details at https://lakesidechamber.org/.

By Gig Conaughton, County of San Diego Communications Office

Nov. 25, 2019 (San Diego) Thanksgiving and Black Friday, one of the biggest shopping events of the year, are here again.

That means this is the perfect time to remind shoppers: remember to double-check your receipts so you don’t get accidentally overcharged by faulty cash register price scanners.

By Jake Zawlacki

Photo Credit Fern Bowen, 1947

November 25, 2019 (Jamul) -- “Mountain child” is a term I first heard when looking at a class photo of my grandfather. In the small Lyons Valley elementary school of 1947, he stood amongst two of his sisters, he and the youngest with a particularly stern face.

“Look at them. They’re like wild mountain children,” my Dad said, smiling at the black and white photo. It was true; they looked more like children of the corn than civilization standing in the dirt, some with bare feet. But most looked happy.