Hemet City Council Member Linda Krupa has been working for decades to serve her community. As a Southern California resident for more than 50 years, she has seen the area grow and change, and has played a role in the progress.

She grew up on a farm in North Dakota and lived in Connecticut for a number of years. She then journeyed out West to San Diego for a short time before settling in Hemet in 1976. When she got there, the City was a small, senior-retirement, agricultural community. Now there are about 175,000 people in the Valley.

On April 15, WattEV celebrated the grand opening of its new heavy-duty electric truck charging depot in the City of San Bernardino, its second facility in Southern California. Thanks to a unique partnership between the Mobile Source Air Pollution Reduction Review Committee (MSRC) and the Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG), WattEV received nearly $3 million through SCAG’s Last Mile Freight Program to purchase 20 Class 8 electric trucks – 10 of which will be based at the San Bernardino site. SCAG’s Last Mile Program is designed to support “last mile” technologies to help those in the goods movement industry invest in cleaner trucks and infrastructure.

May 8 was a beautiful, sunny afternoon at the ballpark for the annual MSRC/Metro Day to celebrate the Dodger Stadium Express. For more than a decade, the MSRC has partnered with LA Metro and the Los Angeles Dodgers to fund the Express to get fans out of their cars and onto public transportation as a more environmentally friendly way to get to Dodger Stadium.