Residents Eligible for Mental Health Treatment, Medical Expenses, Funeral and Burial and More

 The California Victim Compensation Board (CalVCB) is encouraging residents impacted by the mass shooting at the Route 91 Harvest Music Festival on Sunday, October 1 in Las Vegas to contact them at 1-800-777- 9229 for assistance, guidance and aid.  

The massacre killed 58 people and injured over 500 victims.  San Diego attorney Jennifer Irvine was among those killed; several other San Diego County residents were injured, NBC 7 reports.

Help is available for survivors of those who were killed, anyone who was injured and those in attendance at the concert, as well as their immediate family members.

October 4, 2017 (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

• Home from Vegas, San Diegans Bear Witness to Horror (Times of San Diego)
• San Diego victims in Las Vegas shooting (KNSD)
• Local San Diegan recognized for courage during deadly Las Vegas mass shooting (KUSI)
• Rep. Duncan Hunter says he’d support declaration of war on N. Korea (10 News)
• SANDAG Staff Says 2004 Promises Can Only be Met with Two More Gas Tax Hikes (Voice of San Diego)
• 3 Sexually Spread Diseases Rise in SD County Amid Nationwide Spike (KNSD)
• Sempra Services Video Leaves Out Key Facts on Community Choice (KPBS)
• These Are the Incredibly Narrow Circumstances in Which You Can View Police Body Camera Footage (Voice of San Diego)
• Malware Attacks San Ysidro School District, Demands $19K Ransom (KPBS)
• As Hepatitis A outbreak grows, county refuses to release zip codes where cases reported (NBC)

STATE

• Yosemite hit by ‘substantially bigger’ rock fall one day after deadly slide (CBS)
• Feds Ease Rules Clearing Way for More Water to Be Drawn from Delta (KPBS)
• Cities Facing Fiscal Mess Plead with CalPERS as Pensions Consume Budgets (Reason)
• California strengthens law against audit interference after UCOP dispute (Daily Bruin)

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

October 4, 2017 (San Diego's East County) -- Our Health and Science Highlights provide cutting edge news that could impact your health and our future.

HEALTH

• First global pledge to end cholera by 2030 (BBC)
• 2017 Nobel Prize in medicine goes to three Americans for body clock studies (New York Times)
• Zika was a mild bug. A new discovery shows how it became monstrous. (Washington Post)
• FDA Not Doing Enough to Fix Serious Food Safety Violations, Report Finds (NPR)
• Anthem Says No to Many Scans Done by Hospital-Owned Clinics (NPR)
• 'Hypoallergenic' and 'Fragrance-Free' Moisturizer Claims Are Often False (NPR)
• Brain's Link to Immune System Might Help Explain Alzheimer's (NPR)

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

• App helps you find ATM skimmers so you don’t get scammed (CNET)
• Security firm finds some Macs vulnerable to 'firmware' attacks (Reuters)
• Facebook says 10 million U.S. users saw Russia-linked ads (Reuters)
• Equifax failed to patch security vulnerability in March: former CEO (Reuters)
• Facebook, Google Spread Misinformation About Las Vegas Shooting. What Went Wrong? (NPR)
• Global corn surplus stems from rapid scientific advancements (CS Monitor)
• Tsunami drives species 'army' across Pacific to US coast (BBC)
• Happy 350,000th birthday: Study pushes back Homo sapiens origins (Reuters)
• AncestryDNA angers privacy campaigners (BBC)

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

By Miriam Raftery

October 4, 2017 (La Mesa) -- The FBI has classified the San Diego area as a high intensity child prostitution area. San Diego ranks among the worst 13 cities for child prostitution, an 810-million-dollar criminal enterprise locally.

East County News Service

October 4, 2017 (San Diego’s East County) -- Agriculture values in San Diego County returned to their growing ways in the latest annual County Crop Report, increasing by 2.63 percent to nearly 1.75 billion dollars last year.  That’s a big shift, after two years of decline during the drought.

East County News Service

October 3, 2017 (San Diego’s East County) --This week’s Destination East County includes Oktoberfest in El Cajon, Camels and Apples at the Oasis Camel Dairy, an art reception with international artist Padre Johnson at Heritage of the Americas Museum, a Circular Visions dance show, the Ramona Air Fair and Fly In, Summers Past Farms’ Pumpkin Patch, Scotty’s Scare Trail, and the Pumpkin Express haunted train ride in Campo.

Plus, we’ll have a preview of coming attractions, including the Laguna Mountain Rendezvous, Kids Care Fest in Lakeside, the Borrego Days celebration, El Cajon’s Haunt Fest on Main, a Haunted Elks Lodge, a Halloween Harvest Family Festival on Mt. Helix, a spooky sleepover at Lions Tigers and Bears in Alpine, and the Boulevard BOO Parade.

So scroll down for all of these events and many more!

By Robert Gehr

October 3, 2017 (El Cajon) – This beautiful sculpture, with its gracefully flowing curves, sits unassumingly yet boldly in front of the San Diego County courthouse entry area in El Cajon at 250 East Main street.

Created from stainless steel with a highly polished, reflecting surface, one can certainly be mesmerized by looking skyward as it towers 31 feet above the viewer.

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For Quest Truxton and Trey Lomax's portion of the press conference, click "read more" and scroll down

October 3, 2017 (San Diego) - San Diego State football is cruising this season; they're now 5-0 and ready to make their national TV debut for the season on Saturday night against UNLV.   This week, head coach Rocky Long and seniors Quest Truxton (WR) and Trey Lomax (S) sat down with the media at the weekly press conference.

East County News Service

Our July and August 2017 radio shows are now online. For links to listen to the shows plus a full list of topics an interviews,  click here, or click "read more" and scroll down. (Sound files may take a few moments to load).

Our newsmaker interviews included Eric Lund with the East County Homeless Task Force, 50^th Congressional district candidates Josh Butner (ex- Navy Seal) and Andrew Velt  (Sheriff sergeant), La Mesa Interfaith Council’s Nancy Ryan and Suellen Treadwell on an International Day of Peace, and Mission Trails Regional Park ranger Rebecca Smart on dog safety for local trails. Plus we covered hot issues locally and nationally that impact people in our region.

 The East County Magazine Show airs Mondays and Fridays from 5 to 6 p.m. on KNSJ, 89.1 FM.  Our shows rerun on Tuesdays at 9 a.m. and Saturdays at 8 a.m. Pacific Standard Time.  Read more and listen to our July and August shows:

Residents in La Mesa, Mount Helix, and other local neighborhoods complain of swarms biting during daylight hours

By Miriam Raftery

October 2, 2017 (Mt. Helix) – After numerous residents on the Mt. Helix Next Door forum complained of swarms of small, aggressive mosquitoes biting during daylight hours and often, indoors, East County Magazine contacted County Vector Control. We learned that the invasive Aedes mosquitoes have been found in 273 traps at 23 different locations between January 1^st and September 21^st this year.  View map.

By Miriam Raftery

October 2, 2017 (La Mesa) — Last night, La Mesa Police detectives arrested La Mesa resident Christopher Artale, 40, for attempted murder of Alfonso Prado, 35, of National City.  Artale shot Prado in the head following an altercation Sunday afternoon in front of Artale’s home.

By Miriam Raftery

October 2, 2017 (San Diego) – The countywide hepatitis outbreak that has sickened hundreds of people includes several cases contracted in San Diego County jails.

That prompted criticism from Dave Meyers, a candidate running against Sheriff Bill Gore in 2018. Meyers, in an email sent to those on his distribution list, states, “Sheriff Bill Gore has ignored basic CDC standards for sanitation and disease prevention in the county jails and has managed them as if they are a solution to homelessness.  As a result, the county jails have served as an incubator for this epidemic.”

New data reveals dramatic surge in completion rates following college’s policy transformation

East County News Service

October 2, 2017 (Rancho San Diego) -- The California Acceleration Project (CAP) today released its latest report in a series highlighting California community colleges that are successfully transforming their remediation policies. Leading the Way spotlights Cuyamaca College in Rancho San Diego, where completion of transferable, college-level math has increased almost seven-fold among students previously classified “remedial.”