AN ORIGINAL IDEA SPREADS FROM HEMET THROUGHOUT SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
It never ceases to amaze me how one story can lead to another. A few weeks ago, I wrote about a local coffee shop that changed its name to The Destination Smokehouse and Eatery, expecting that to be the whole story. But it wasn’t. A previous meeting in a barbershop with the owner led to a more widespread story.
German watchdog bans Facebook from processing WhatsApp data
LONDON (AP) — A German privacy watchdog banned Facebook on Tuesday from gathering data on users of its WhatsApp chat app, citing an update to its privacy policy that it said breaches stringent European data protection rules.
WRESTLING COMES TO HEMET
With the Westcoast Wrestling Company bringing the sport to The Wheelhouse, the Florida/Sanderson area is beginning to look like the entertainment center of Hemet and the San Jacinto Valley. The AMF Bowling Lanes and Derby Wheelhouse seem to provide the most of it. Upscale restaurants abound from Appleby’s to Steer and Stein and those in between. I will always go where the action is, east, west, north or south.
MURALS OF MEMORIES AT HHT
Music blares from a boom box, as Dan Melendez works in the lobby of Historic Hemet Theater (HHT) to finish the work that consumed his last year. Finding himself a man alone with his art through the Covid-19 lockdowns, his art deco details and large murals speak of his talent.
On social media, memories pop up from a pandemic still going
When the pandemic passed the one-year mark, Lisa Phillips wasn't exactly eager to walk down memory lane. She had developed symptoms and quarantined with a suspected case of COVID-19 last spring, lost her mother to the disease in July and been hospitalized in November from what she describes as a nervous breakdown fueled by grief and isolation.
