EASY - AD SCHOOL LIFE POLITICAL OPINION THE WEEKLY BEAT TECHNOLOGY St Th T HU H A6 B1 B2 C1 D1 Thursday, August 16, 2018 VOL XVII EDITION 33 75X cents (Free this week) BACK TO SCHOOL Idyllwild plans big music fundraiser MSJC enjoys new amenities as classes begin for fall this weekend New classrooms and more introduced to students for first day of school Some 60 bands to en- ■ BY MSJC tertain inside 12 venues CONTRIBUTED during free festival Students filed into new classrooms, ■ BY CHRIS SMITH purchased textbooks and met in ADVISORY EDITOR new study areas as Mt. San Jacinto College opened on Monday, Aug. Idyllwild is planning a big mu- 13 for the first day of the fall 2018 sic festival this weekend to raise semester. money for fire victims and help Thanks to Measure AA, the $295 struggling local businesses. It’s million facilities bond passed by free and open to all ages. voters in 2014, students enjoyed Dubbed the Cranston Fire several new features and improve- Benefit Festival, the event will ments at MSJC. run from Friday - Sunday, Aug. At the Menifee Valley Campus, 17-19, at 12 different venues improvements include new study from city hall to the American areas and the new Science Village Legion post and numerous bars at MVC. Moani Ceseña of Menifee and restaurants in between. is a second year student who plans More than 60 music bands and on attending the nursing program. artists will perform. There is no She took Anatomy 101 during the charge for admission, but there summer in the science village. She will be donation stations at the is now taking Anatomy 102 in the 12 participating venues plus raf- village. Photo courtesy of MSJC fles and silent auctions for more “I really like (the classes). I like Mt. San Jacinto College students attend the first day of the fall 2018 semester in the new Science Village @ MVC. The than 100 items of value that have new series of classrooms was funded by Measure AA and offers more classes, like chemistry and anatomy, that students been donated to help the cause. 4SEE MSJC ON A-4 need to complete their education at MSJC. Festival hours are Friday, 3-10 p.m.; Saturday, noon-10 p.m.; and Sunday, noon-8 p.m. Familiarly called Idyllwild Community supports Hemet musician entertains Strong, the 501c3 event is pre- sented by Young Idyllwild and at Jazz in the Pines Soroptimist International of families affected by fire Idyllwild. All monies raised will be dispersed among the fire vic- Collaborative efforts Local youth strikes a note of pride tims, some of whom lost their help Hemet Unified homes and everything in them. in San Jacinto Valley All donations made will be tax families displaced from deductible. “It should be amazing,” says Cranston fire ■ BY CHRIS SMITH raged only a few days before. organizer Brian Parnell, who ADVISORY EDITOR Zorn played Sunday afternoon managed to help put the event ■ HEMET UNIFIED in what is known as Stephens together on a moment’s notice. SCHOOL DISTRICT Jazz isn’t for everyone, but ev- Hall, a small building on the 200- “Bands, donors, and people are CONTRIBUTED eryone is in awe of one of their acre campus of the Arts Acade- coming together faster than own who becomes a celebrated my, with a group he’s calling the anyone would have believed Hemet Unified School District jazz artist. Hemet’s Owen Zorn Howl, an ensemble made up of possible.” He urged anyone who (HUSD) is beginning another has risen to the top of his field Zorn on bass, Avery Scanlon on plans to spend the night in the school year welcoming nearly and has made his valley breth- guitar, Randy Plummer on sax, town to make reservations as 22,000 students for 2018-2019. ren proud. and Skylar Allingham on drums. soon as possible. This is in the wake of the Cran- Zorn, who started playing the The Cranston Fire burned ston fire that affected families in violin when he was 2 and is now Three-day event more than 13,000 acres in and Idyllwild, Anza, and Aguanga. an accomplished bassist, was a Their gig was one of the last around Idyllwild including res- During this chaotic time, com- featured artist last weekend at performances in the three-day idents’ houses and all property munity members throughout the Idyllwild Arts Academy Jazz event whose goal was to raise within, much of which was com- the area worked together to Photo courtesy of HUSD in the Pines Festival that drew $100,000 for student scholarships pletely destroyed. The fire was support their fellow neighbors Community members unload a truck of some 2,000 music lovers to the to the academy. The festival was set by an arsonist on July 25. groceries and supplies in an effort to help fringe of the San Bernardino 4SEE HUSD ON A-4 those families affected by the Cranston fire. National Forest where fires had 4SEE JAZZ ON A-8 4SEE MUSIC FESTIVAL ON A-4 Sheriff seeks public’s help in Hemet case Man arrested may have been impersonating a police officer ■ RIVERSIDE SHERIFF’S commonly found on police vehi- OFFICE cles. Police believe Landeros may CONTRIBUTED have used this equipment to stop unsuspecting citizens for unknown Riverside County Sheriff’s investi- but nefarious purposes. gators are seeking the public’s help “Investigators believe Lander- in identifying incidents in which a os may have used these items to 24-year-old Hemet man may have commit other crimes or contact posed as a police officer as a ruse to unsuspecting victims posing as a commit additional unknown crimes. law enforcement officer,” said sher- Officers are investigating past in- iff’s deputies in statement, adding cidents that may have involved Jeo- Photo by Riverside Sheriff’s Office that “these crimes may have gone vanny Landeros who was arrested Jeovanny Landeros unnoticed by a potential victim.” Saturday, Aug. 11, for investigation The Riverside sheriff is asking for of possessing an assault rifle, pos- sion of a law enforcement badge the public’s help in coming forward session of ammunition, and child and other equipment used by law if anyone believes he or she was endangerment. enforcement. Landeros even had contacted by Landeros. Anyone In the course of investigating his 2015 white Mercedes-Benz with information is encouraged to these charges, deputies found that equipped with red and blue flash- call Investigators Alfaro or Marti- Laneros allegedly was in posses- ing LED lights simulating those nez at 951-955-1700. A2 NEWS August 16 - 22, 2018 www.thevalleychronicle.com Homicide families clash with cemetery management Police are called in dispute over nontraditional graveside grieving ■ ROBIN UNDERWOOD manager to a number of plot ground near the plot, a couple REPORTER owners visiting loved ones on of small solar lights stuck in the the grounds. These new rules ground, and holiday-themed The families of some of the reportedly are due to some decorations at the appropriate valley’s numerous homicide visitors exhibiting threatening season, just as she has done victims have clashed with demeanors that have resulted frequently since 2016. the management of San Ja- in the police being called for Chairs are also now banned cinto Valley Cemetery over alleged acts violating the fa- from the gravesite unless whether the families’ grave- cilities’ rules of conduct. provided by the cemetery side behaviors are appropriate Commenters on these in- during burials. Personal chairs for the revered resting place cidents categorize the new brought when spending time of the area’s departed. regulations as harassment with buried loved ones have The social-media-driven and range from intolerance of been restricted, allowed only victims group even got ding- decorations and gravestones on the grave itself and can ed recently by Facebook after to interrupting family mem- not extend one inch outside calling for a collective meeting bers in the middle of group that area. Photos by Robin Underwood with cemetery officials. prayers, to the amount of time Friends and loved ones line up outside of the cemetery office to have their turn to speak the management at the San Pebbles Moreno, the moth- allowed to place flowers by How we deal with loss Jacinto Valley Cemetery. er of young man violently loved ones, and “insensitiv- When speaking of her gunned down in late 2016 ity” towards visitation time. grieving process that helped ty of meeting at the office, as walls by the court’s. Yet the according to the statement. but not notified by officials Throughout the week, her mourn her son, Moreno she knew others would need pain she experienced at the “Families will be able to for an entire week, recently friends and relatives of loved says, “You know, I would answers, much like herself. cemetery, when mourning have their fresh or artifi- got a notice from Facebook ones lost, ranging from young come here every day and However, but states she wasn’t the loss of her daughter, was cial flowers on the grave 24 informing her that she had and old, with differing re- sit with my son for hours. I expecting such a large large worse. hours a day, 7 days a week as been banned from the site for ligious, cultural and ethnic would decorate his gravesite turnout. Cemetery office staff said long as they are in one of the 24 hours. The ban occurred backgrounds had similar with flowers and solar lights As she entered the cem- little during the meeting, of- three approved containers,” it right after she created a post experiences dealing with surrounding the plot because I etery, following behind her tentimes not allowing speak- continued.