Contributed

My husband and I just celebrated our 48th wedding anniversary this past week. When first married, we had a weekly grocery budget of twenty-five dollars. For that monumental amount we filled our cart. No more! Those days, unfortunately, are long gone! And not only are we all spending more today, but a sneaky little tactic called shrinkflation is cleverly being used by companies to shrink the package size instead of popping up costs. So we are getting fewer paper towels, smaller candy bars, less chips and cereal, fewer trash bags - and sadly, even my beloved ice cream has been noticeably melted down.

All my life, I’ve heard the phrase: “America the Beautiful.” America has wonderful landscapes, beautiful and majestic mountains, and amazing and diverse metropolitan areas. As the famous poem goes, “From sea to shining sea,” America embodies the true definition of beauty. It has been the number one answer on the Family Feud game show, when they asked 100 people which country is the most beautiful. The answer was a resounding yes to the USA. By the way, the number one answer for the most beautiful people was California. Go figure!

On Saturday August 14th, Debby Holiday returns to the Historic Hemet Theatre with her stunning tribute to the Queen of Rock 'n' Roll, Tina Turner.

On Saturday, August 7, 2021, at 4:10 PM, Gang Task Force Officers from Region 2 responded to the 900 block of Elm Avenue in the City of Beaumont, in an attempt to locate Gregory Earl Hamil, a thirty-two year old resident of the City of Beaumont, who had a felony warrant for his arrest for a prole violation.

On August 9, 2021 around 7:40 p.m., deputies from the Major Crimes Unit and Jurupa Valley Special Enforcement Team detained the second suspect in this case, at 42nd St. and Riverview Dr., Jurupa Valley. The second suspect, Allan Melgham Ramirez, 40 years of Jurupa Valley, was arrested and booked into jail for murder.