Inland Empire

The annual Soboba Gives Back! Toy Drive took a little more planning to implement this year but with the help of many dedicated volunteers, including members of the Soboba Youth Council, lots of children throughout the San Jacinto Valley will have a great new toy this Christmas. Soboba Foundation members worked closely with employees at the Soboba Casino Resort to allow toy donations to be dropped off at the Event Center on six consecutive Tuesdays from Nov. 10 through Dec. 15.

Hospitals across California have all but run out of intensive care beds for COVID-19 patients, ambulances are backing up outside emergency rooms, and tents for triaging the sick are going up as the nation’s most populous state emerges as the latest epicenter of the U.S. outbreak.

Governor Gavin Newsom today announced the selection of California Secretary of State Alex Padilla to be California’s next United States Senator, filling the term being vacated by Vice President-elect Kamala Harris. Padilla, who previously served as a Los Angeles City Councilman and State Senator, and is a national leader in the fight to expand voting rights, will become the first Latino to represent California in the United States Senate and the first Southern Californian in nearly three decades.

The Mt. San Jacinto Community College District on Thursday welcomed two new trustees and a re-elected trustee during its December Board of Trustees meeting.

San Jacinto Unified School District has two high school seniors headed to college next fall to play football or softball. These students attend San Jacinto High School, where Kajiya Hollawayne signed his “National Letter of Intent” on Wednesday, December 16, 2020, and Lea Iribe signed her “National Letter of Intent” back on November 11, 2020, in front of immediate families and the camera.