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🌱 Hemet Film Festival brings screenings and an acting workshop

Hemet, California Patch AM: a 4 min read

Good morning Hemet! Your connection to what's happening around town is here. Take a sip of coffee and read on. ☕️️

In today's newsletter:

  • Hemet Film Festival brings screenings and an acting workshop
  • More patrols are coming to Hemet shopping areas
  • Hemet tire shop burglary investigation leads to weapons and drugs

Also on today's calendar: Community Fall Health Fair and 9 more events.

Today's riddle: did you know 10+10 = 11+11? 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

  • Friday: Cooler with a few showers, with a high of 66 and low of 56 degrees.
  • Saturday: A couple of showers, temps: high: 66, low: 46.
  • Sunday: Mostly sunny and pleasant, with a high of 71 and low of 49 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

1. Phillip E. Walker's California November Takes Him to Hemet, LA, San Jose plus Trivandrum, India (prlog.org) — Hemet's Historic Hemet Theater will host two screenings featuring Phillip E. Walker's work during the Hemet Film Festival: an acting promo at noon November 14 and a world premiere at 6 p.m. November 15. Free screening tickets are available online, with a separate acting-jobs workshop scheduled downtown November 16.
   

2. 'Operation Holiday Shield' In Hemet, Proactive Policing Through January (patch.com) — Hemet shoppers will see more police near businesses and in parking areas starting next week as Operation Holiday Shield gets an earlier start than usual. Marked cars, bicycle officers and foot patrols will concentrate on Fridays and weekends, with the chief describing the effort as prevention rather than a response to a crime crisis.
   

3. Boxes Of Psychedelic Mushrooms, 445 Rounds Of Ammo Seized After RivCo Tire Shop Burglary: Police (patch.com) — A Hemet tire store burglary investigation led to an arrest and the recovery of stolen property, five firearms and drugs, police said. Investigators used surveillance footage and license plate cameras to identify a suspected getaway vehicle after the October 23 break-in on West Florida Avenue. Police have not released the suspect's name or charges.
   

4. Mt. San Jacinto College food pantries receive major boost from Stater Bros. Charities (canyonlakeinsider.com) — A $50,000 donation from Stater Bros. Charities will help Mt. San Jacinto College expand food assistance at its San Jacinto and Menifee Valley campuses. The pantries record hundreds of student visits monthly, and student worker Jonah Velasquez, who grew up in the Hemet-San Jacinto Valley, says serving his community has been meaningful.
   

5. Von Wilpert calls freshman Congressional orientation in D.C. ‘overwhelming, exciting' (timesofsandiego.com) — Marni von Wilpert, elected to represent a redrawn congressional district that includes Hemet, is getting her introduction to Washington before taking office Jan. 3. After defeating Republican Jim Desmond, she is learning House procedures and assembling staff while finishing her work as a San Diego City Council member.
   

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💬 Chatter

What your neighbors are talking about on social media

  • Happy Veterans Day!
    Thank you to all those who are or have served. Your sacrifice and that of your families is appreciated more than you know. (Nextdoor Harmony Park)
  • Hi, neighbors!
    Just wanted to introduce ourselves and say hello! We’re a family of five with two female English Bulldogs, and we’ve been living in the neighborhood… (Nextdoor Valle Vista Park)
  • Del Taco posted a job opening for Team Member in Hemet. Apply here.
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Ok Hemet! So now you're in the loop about what's happening today. Thanks for reading, and see you in your inbox next time! Oh -- and if you like what you're reading, invite a friend to Patch AM!

-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: "did you know 10+10 = 11+11?" — 10+10=20...11+11=20 too (Thank you Martin C. for sending it in!)
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