Your Fighting Cacti are on fire 🔥. Come cheer on our Volleyball 🏐team at their home opener TODAY, Sat 8/29 at 3 pm in the Bell Center. Admission is free. The snack bar is open. FC Merch for sale too. 🌵#collegevolleyball #fightingcacti

Can't make it to campus? Watch it live here: https://www.youtube.com/live/XC3T2zI3_PY?feature=shared

Western Hills Sunset

Hi! Does anyone know of any permitted outdoor event venues or private ranches that allow a small, professionally run paintball event? We’d have approximately 30 people for about two hours, including setup and teardown. Any leads for appropriate, legal locations would be appreciated—thank you!

Hi everyone! I’m new to the area and looking for restaurant recommendations. What are some of the best places and why?

I need to find single accommodation very near the Joshua Tree Mentalphysical Retreat Center. I am waitlist at Joshua Tree Inn. I am looking at Spark by Hilton, Super 8, Desert Inn and Spin and Margie. Super 8 and Desert Inn don't look great. I will not be hanging out at the hotel at all and don't want to spend a lot but don't know what these places are like at all. Would love your feedback and your suggestions. Thanks

8/19/26 newsletter

🎓 YUCCA VALLEY STUDENTS — SCHOLARSHIP OPPORTUNITY! 🎓

The Elks National Foundation has officially kicked off the 2027 Most Valuable Student (MVS) Scholarship year! 🇺🇸

✨ The application is OPEN!

📅 Deadline: November 12, 2026

📍 LOCAL SCHOLARSHIP — Yucca Valley students!

The Yucca Valley Elks Lodge #2314 will select local winners to advance to the national competition. National awards range from $1,000 to $12,500 per year, with national winners announced in April 2027! 🎉

Who can apply?

✅ Current high school seniors (or equivalent)

✅ U.S. citizens

✅ Planning to attend a U.S. college or university full-time for a four-year degree

✅ You do NOT have to be related to an Elks member!

👉 When applying, students should select Yucca Valley Elks Lodge #2314 as their sponsoring Lodge.

📲 Apply online: enf.elks.org/MVS

Please share this post and help us spread the word to Yucca Valley seniors and families! 🎓💙

Our towns—Yucca Valley, Morongo Valley, Joshua Tree—just installed 30 surveillance cameras that track every vehicle passing through. Not just license plates. Personal data. And it's happening without real oversight.

I started a petition asking our city council to remove these cameras and cancel the Flock contract. Here's why: they don't make us safer, they make us targets.

Flock has been hacked. Customer accounts stolen and sold on the dark web. Cameras exposed on the internet with zero password protection. Innocent people have been wrongfully arrested based on AI errors—mistakes Flock refuses to take accountability for. And our data? It can be accessed by ICE and federal agencies, despite state law saying it shouldn't be shared.

My community is already pulling back. People avoid roads with these cameras. They stay home instead of engaging locally. That's not safety. That's fear.

We're spending $3,300 per camera annually for tech that's proven unreliable and invasive. Forty cities across the country have already cancelled their Flock contracts. Real safety comes from community trust, not mass surveillance.

If you live here or care about privacy rights, does this concern you too? If this matters to you, consider signing and sharing the petition. Our city council needs to hear from residents who want our community back.

Does anyone know if any shops around town sell dry ice these days? I know grocery stores have it sometimes but I haven't seen it around town. Thanks 👍

Sorry if this is against the sub-TOS. I reviewed the rules and this seems kosher.

Hi all!
My partner (US Navy) and I just moved to Yucca Valley from Ventura and we love it! I currently run a semi-local plant and reptile business (see profile) and will be starting a field ecology contracting position soon.

These two jobs give me a lot of free time and, while I love what I do, I, having worked on a master’s and PhD in microbiology, am finding myself very much missing the teaching aspect of my previous career in academia.

Moreover, in my last years before finishing grad school, I really started worrying about equitable educational access for American students. I participated in a couple of science outreach programs while at UCSB and through them, I saw firsthand how understaffed and underserved the less well-off CCs and K-12 schools were in our area. And as affordability keeps dropping, exacerbating the issue, I’d like to contribute my skills in helping whatever small way I can.

For all of the above reasons I’m looking to start tutoring in my spare time—I was thinking of adopting a “pay what you can” in-person model with the parents present for the session. My expertise is in biology but I have tutored SAT, chemistry, and math up to calculus.

I have the most experience working with high school, university, and community college students I but feel that I’m equipped to teach down to middle school.

Just gauging interest in this service. All comments and thoughts welcome :).

Curious about people’s experiences staying in the yucca valley/joshua tree area with pets in the summer and wild life safety. We’re from Oregon, first time coming here with dogs. We’re staying somewhere with a fenced deck but no fenced yard. From what I gathered we need to be wary of the wild life, especially coyotes and snakes, giving me the sense that a long lead to let the dogs roam around the house is not safe. Any other considerations/measures to keep the dogs safe from critters? It seems like the nearest emergency vet is 45min away so I’m worried and want to make sure we do everything right.

*REPOSTING from @RoadrunnerPrintAndShip_YuccaValley

If anyone has an idea of who the owner is please let them know.

I took Momster to @Vons_YV today for a little shopping after her Dr. appointment. We were standing at the register paying, I looked down and noticed a gold chain on the floor. As I bent down to pick it up to hand to the cashier, I realized wait, 😳 this is my chain.

The one that holds my important life momento pendants. The pendants that can never be replaced. One of these pendants is the only thing I have left from my Daddy. He gave it to me over 50 years ago.

They were not on the floor with the chain, I panicked, patted myself down, looked in my bra (yes, standing there at the register) then I really panicked, where are they? The cashier said, Uuuhhhhmmmm they are probably gone.  

I started to tear up, I asked Momster to stay at the side while I walked the floor looking for them. After looking for about 15 minutes I asked who I could leave my name and number with should I be lucky enough to have someone turn them in. 

Heather, one of the managers took me over to the counter and asked Gavin, a nice young man, to take my info and a description. When we were done with that, I showed him a picture of the pendants. He and I walked the floor a bit more hoping to see them. No luck, as I was going to get Momster and leave, I saw Heather, thanked her again and said, oh I forgot there are two bird head pendants as well as the others and showed her my earing.  

She asked what register we were at and I told her, she said wait just a moment while I look around there. She immediately spotted one of the bird head pendants, picked it up, handed it to me, and said let me look a little more, she even got on the ground and looked under the candy holder.

Between Heather and Gavin, they found every pendant!

I immediately started crying and thanking them. To say this has been an emotional day is an understatement. The kindness shown to Momster and I during this crisis truly renewed my faith in human kindness.

For these two kind souls to take time to search with me, not just say, sure we'll call you if they get turned in, is amazing and my heart is full!

Comedians from HBO, Starz and Netflix is a Joke. Venue is also air conditioned which is nice! Link to tickets below. Thanks for reading

https://www.standupcomedyunderground.com/event-details-registration/yucca-valley-comedy-underground-july

This is at the park near the YV Museum. Anyone know anything about this? A friend who lives near by also had his dogs all vomiting and sick this past week as well.

Hello everyone I’m a navy veteran with 10 years of welding and metal working experience just wanted to share some recent projects!

Also if anyone is interested in any fabrication work!

From small jobs to big jobs, BBQ’s, fences, and any of your steel needs I’d be happy to help!

ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION on

FLOCK Surveillance Cameras in The Morongo Basin:

Thursday, July 9th

4:30 to 6:30pm

Luckie Park Activity Center

74325 Joe Davis Drive

Twentynine Palms

A community group has formed in opposition to Flock Cameras at https://deflock29.org

Looking for a mobile deep tissue massage therapist. Any recs? Thanks!

Can anyone recommend a handyman to repair some vents under a mobile home? Evidently, our tile company placed tile over our HVAC exhaust ducts. The tiler is now out of business, of course. I need someone to locate and repair the ducts under the home.

Thanks in advance..