long term. The Governor vetoed SB37 because he said it was not funded in the 2025 budget. The Leisure World Cares Fund depends on donations for funding, asks those who can afford it to join the effort to stabilize housing for those who do not and donate at www. lwcaresfund.org, email lwcares@lwcaresfund.org or call 562-2628280 to have the donation picked up. Leisure World Cares is not affiliated

Mitchel Delevie and others. With years of experience as a musician, composer, arranger, and songwriter, he also worked in TV and film for Warner Bros., Disney and Sony. Drummer Bobby Ruggiero has over 30 years of experience as a drummer, musical director and producer. He has worked with Van Morrison, Sam Butera, Beau Brummels, Natalie Cole, Tom Jones, Dean Martin & The Gold Diggers and others.

The 2025 Amphitheater summerlong music festival features an 11-show lineup, promising a crowd-pleasing mix of country, rock, pop and soul tribute performers at the 2,500-seat Amphitheater on Thursdays at 7:30 p.m. No parking is allowed in front of the Amphitheater on St. Andrews Drive along the southbound lanes. This is a tow-away zone on Thursdays during Amphitheater season. On Amphitheater

To ensure an enjoyable Amphitheater season, Leisure World residents and their guests are asked to adhere to the following rules: • There is no video- or audiotaping of performers unless announced at the start of the show. • Do not save seats. Amphitheater seating is first-come, first-served. • Do not sing along with performers unless asked to do so by the performer on stage.

“Long live Mexico!” Every year on the eve of Independence Day, the president of Mexico re-enacts the cry from the balcony of the National Palace in Mexico City while ringing the same bell Hidalgo used in 1810. During the patriotic speech, the president calls out the names of the fallen heroes who died during the War of Independence and ends the speech by shouting “¡Viva México!” three times,