🗞️ Riverside News- October 29, 2025

Wednesday Gazette: October 29, 2025

Hello Riverside, and Happy Wednesday! As we approach Halloween, Southern California's fall weather is doing its typical flip-flop routine. One day you're grabbing a sweater, the next you're back in shorts as temperatures spike.

Just in case you haven't noticed (or checked your weather app lately), we're heading into another one of those classic October heat waves. The forecast shows temps climbing into the 90s this week, we're reminded once again why "layered" costumes are always the smart choice in Riverside.

Stay cool out there, neighbors!

PUBLIC SAFETY

RPD Targets Trucks Using Central Avenue as Cut-Through

Checkpoint follows committee recommendation to increase truck route violation fines from $100 to $1,000.

Riverside police conducted a commercial vehicle enforcement checkpoint on Central Avenue Tuesday morning, less than two weeks after a City Council committee unanimously recommended increasing fines for truck route violations from $100 to $1,000.

The Riverside Police Department announced the operation on its Facebook page Tuesday morning, saying officers from the Traffic Bureau were conducting inspections on Central Avenue until noon.

The checkpoint targeted a section of Central Avenue where commercial vehicles exceeding three axles are prohibited except for deliveries—a restriction codified in Section 10.56.050 of the Riverside Municipal Code.

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GOVERNMENT

Riverside's Plan to Reconnect Residents With Their River

Council reviewed feasibility study for River District transformation Tuesday, but questions remain about how the ambitious vision will be funded.

City Council received an update Tuesday on a two-year feasibility study proposing to transform 250 acres of underutilized parkland along the Santa Ana River into a "vibrant public realm"—building on a vision first conceived more than 20 years ago to "put the river back in Riverside."

The River District aims to reconnect residents to the city's namesake waterway through a four-pillar framework: Engagement, Enforcement, Environment and Economics. The California State Coastal Conservancy supported the feasibility study, conducted by Economic Consultants Oregon, Ltd. under a $199,335 contract Council approved in October 2023. The draft study is now available online for public comment before finalization.

"Many people in the community didn't even know we had a river. They did not know how to access the river and they did not feel safe on the river," Parks and Recreation Director Pamela Galera told Council, framing the problem the district aims to solve.

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Noteworthy

UC Riverside researchers discovered that methylglyoxal proves more toxic than acetaldehyde to human lung cells when propylene glycol in e-cigarette fluids is heated, with lower-powered devices potentially producing higher toxin levels.

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What's Happening in Riverside

Today

• Riverside East Rotary Club at Civil Rights Institute of Inland Southern
• Stretch & Dance Class at Janet Goeske Senior Center
• Riverside Mission Belles at Victoria Presbyterian Church
• Riverside Open Mic Music Series at Back to the Grind
• Jason Mraz at Fox Performing Arts Center

Tomorrow

• History on the Rocks! Presented by The Mission Inn Foundation at The Mission Inn Foundation ($49.87)
• Women's Soccer vs. UC Davis at UCR Soccer Stadium
• In The Heights at Riverside City College
• Paint n' Sip Event!! Halloween!! at Riverside Food Lab
• Halloween Paint and Sip Night at Tacos Al Fuego
• Kitty's Halloween Rave (18+) at Riverside Municipal Auditorium- Garden Room
• Halloween Costume Speed Dating! at Killer Queens Social House
• Nightmare On Main St: Pre-Halloween Party at Mezcal Ultra Lounge

Save the Date

• November 2: Free Christian Art Exhibit: Icons in Transformation at Immanuel Lutheran Church
• November 5: Medicare EXPO at Janet Goeske Foundation
• November 12: Exclusive Commercial Real Estate Networking & Strategies at Victoria Country Club
• November 15: NORA's 44th Annual Dinner & Auction Gala at Victoria Club ($175)
• November 15: Olivewood Memorial Park Historical Cemetery Tour at Olivewood Memorial Park ($20)
• November 16: "On Peace & Friendship" - Opening Exhibit Reception at Mission Inn Foundation/Museum
• December 6: Home and Story: Growing Up with the Museum at Riverside City College | Salvatore G. Rotella Digital Library and Learning Resource Center ($35- $50)
• December 13: Wreaths Across America at Evergreen Memorial Historic Cemetery

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