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WEATHER: like clockwork, the weather typical of summer in southern California is about the same every day. Today is no exception, according to forecasts from the National Weather Service. Expect sunny skies and a high of 93 degrees today. During the night will be a comfortable 61 degrees. Sundown is 7:57 pm today

MEMORIAL SERVICE: family, colleagues and friends say goodbye to Colton Mayor David Zamora at a memorial service at 11 am today. The mayor died last week after apparently had a heart attack and crashed his car on the way home from the town hall. The memorial will be at Colton First Assembly of God Church, 450 W. Citrus St., at the corner of Pennsylvania Avenue and Citrus Street. For information about memorial gifts, see our previous coverage .

CURTAIN RISES: The Junior University production of "Cinderella" will debut at 8:15 tonight at Perris Hill Park in San Bernardino. The group, which brings in youths to learn all levels of working a production, is in its 49th season. There will be performances every night but Mondays through Aug. 6. Tickets are $20 for a family (two adults and children under 18), $10 for general admission and $5 for children 12 and younger. For information, or to buy advance tickets, go to the Junior University website .

CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS: Micah House of Redlands is seeking people to help stuff backpacks for children who are part of their program. The program is an after-school ministry for youth enrolled in first through 12th grades in North Redlands. There will be three backpack stuffing sessions on Aug. 4: from 9 a.m. to noon, 1 to 4 p.m. and 5 to 8 p.m. The backpacks will be given out to the children during a block party on Aug. 6. For more information, check the Micah House website .

LITTLE LEAGUE INVASION: Al Houghton Stadium is adding a tournament this year, as the Little League Softball Western Regional gets underway Saturday in San Bernardino. The 10-team tournament features squads from Washington, Idaho, Hawaii, Oregon, Utah, Montana, Arizona, Alaska and California. Admission is free to all games at Al Houghton Stadium. And if you're a golfer, and want to help the Western Region, you can sign-up to play in the 16th annual tournament. It will be at 7 a.m. Aug. 11 at San Bernardino Golf Club. Cost is $70 per player, which includes prizes, a barbecue buffet lunch, green fees and four mulligans. Deadline to register is July 30. For information, or to get the registration form, go to the Western Region website .

9/11 Memorial Free Timed Tickets Available Online Monday Morning ...

NEW YORK”In preparation for its opening on the tenth anniversary of the terrorist attacks, free timed tickets to go to the 9/11 Memorial at the site of the World Trade Center will be accessible online starting Monday .

The eight-acre memorial, which consists of two deep pools replicating the footprint of the twin towers, will be dedicated on Sept. 11 and open to the public the following day. Names of the nearly 3,000 individuals killed in the attacks will be inscribed on bronze panels around the pools.

Signup for the timed-entry passes will be via the memorial’s website, 911memorial.org, at 9 am on Monday. The site will allow opportunities to be booked up to six months in advance.

"The idea is that when people are planning their visits to New York City, we believe that this will be a place everyone will want to come down and pay their respects," Joe Daniels, president of the National Memorial of September 11 and the Museum said Thursday. "This is a place to sit and contemplate a public space has not set foot in ten years."

As the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, DC, there will be information on locating person names on the panels surrounding the two pools. Similarly, guests will be allowed to leave flowers or other remembrances. “This is a ritual of this country and we’re going to observe it,” Daniels stated.

Access to the memorial will be limited simply because it is surrounded by construction on the remainder of the 16-acre trade center site: 4 workplace towers, such as the 1,776-foot-tall creating initially known as the Freedom Tower , a transit hub and the 9/11 Museum. Guests will line up at a plaza becoming constructed at the southeast corner of the site, then walk to an orientation and security screening center and into the memorial at the southwest corner. Access is expected to stay limited for 3 years, Daniels stated.

The entry plaza and pathway to the screening center and memorial entrance are currently under construction. “We’re racing, in a very secure way, but racing to get this carried out for 9/12,” Daniels stated. Security screening will be similar to that at other public sites, such as the Statue of Liberty , he stated."During this period he was a construction site, he is forced to access, it is a place that was attacked twice, the feeling was that we need to do some selection.

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