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Also serving the communities of De Luz, Rainbow, Camp Pendleton, Pala and Pauma
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More than 30 Bonsall Unified School District students spent July 15‑19 in San Diego for a career exploration summer camp. What was formally called Future Me Summer Adventure was held at the Linda Vista Innovation Center, which is owned and operated by the San Diego County Office of Education but is not part of the SDCOE administrative complex on Linda Vista Road. The students were housed at the University of San Diego and also visited USD facilities along with other nearby p...
Four players on the Oceanside Chiefs Rugby Club which reached the USA Club Rugby national championship match graduated from Fallbrook High School. Sierra Arteaga, who graduated from Fallbrook High School in 2015, was the primary captain of the Oceanside Chiefs in 2024. Oscar Ruvalcaba, who was one of Arteaga’s Fallbrook High School rugby club teammates and also graduated from the school in 2015, was a member of this year’s Oceanside Chiefs team. The Chiefs players also included 2015 Fallbrook High School graduate Jack Jon...
The theme of the 2024 San Diego County Fair was "Let's Go Retro," and Pala Rez Radio was able to take advantage of the theme during the radio station's two days at this year's county fair. "It worked well for us," said Pala Rez Radio Station Manager John Fox. Pala Rez Radio was at the county fair June 12 and June 19. "It was all right. We were a little understaffed. We had to cancel the third day," Fox said. The station initially also planned to broadcast from the county fair...
San Diego County’s Local Agency Formation Commission approved an updated five-year plan for municipal service review and sphere of influence studies of the county’s cities and special districts. “These are the priorities,” said LAFCO analyst Priscilla Mumpower. Only one of the two county supervisors on the LAFCO board was present Aug. 5 when the 7-0 vote approved the update. A municipal service review evaluates services and anticipated needs. A sphere of influence study determines the boundaries best served by a particu...
Clayton Critz raised the reserve champion steer of the Ramona Junior Fair. Critz showed Tornado, a Charolais cross who weighed 1,145 pounds when he was placed on the scales July 22. Critz and Tornado also won the senior showmanship competition for beef. "It was a good way to end the summer," Critz said. Critz, who will be a Fallbrook High School senior when school resumes, showed two steers at the San Diego County Fair. Tornado weighed 1,086 pounds at the time and placed...
A rezone, general plan amendment, and Conditional Use Permit for Temecula Creek Cottages was approved during the July 30 Riverside County Board of Supervisors meeting. The 5-0 vote changed the zoning from Rural Residential (R-R) to Scenic Highway Commercial (C‑P‑S) and the land use designation from Rural: Rural Mountainous (R:RM) to Community Development: Commercial Retail (CD:CR). The Conditional Use Permit allows the existing Temecula Creek Cottages as a temporary lodging rental for six cottages and allows for a spe...
The San Diego County Fair has showmanship competitions for junior livestock exhibitors. The winner or alternate of the showmanship competition for each animal competes in the master showmanship competition for all large animals, and this year Morgan Michalke won the master showmanship for Future Farmers of America members. "I was really proud that I won. I had no idea that was going to happen," Michalke said. The dairy goat, market goat, market livestock beef, dairy cattle,...
The non-voting items at the July 23 North County Fire Protection District included recognition of Rainbow Municipal Water District technician Justin Demary. The fire district’s Station 5 in Bonsall was without water on the morning of Saturday, June 22, after the water main which provides service to the fire station was struck by a vehicle. The valve was destroyed and water service to the station was fully interrupted. Demary responded, prepared a repair plan, and had water r...
The 2024 San Diego County Fair included a day's featured local winemaker, and Estate d'Iacobelli was the featured local winery June 19. "Everybody was very nice, and it was a beautiful day," said Estate d'Iacobelli manager Christy Taylor. Ronei and Lisa Iacobelli purchased 15 acres in Fallbrook in 2013 and began cultivating Italian grapes and wine varietals. Seven different types of grapes are planted at Estate d'Iacobelli, and 16 different dry white, sweet white, and dry red...
Lianna Arnold had been a lifelong Fallbrook resident, but after graduating as the Fallbrook High School valedictorian for the class of 2021, she attended the Georgia Institute of Technology. She graduated from Georgia Tech in three years, and in April 2024, she was given the Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award for the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering. Arnold also studied nuclear and radiological engineering at Georgia Tech. "The professors were all... Full story
San Luis Rey Training Center filly Ag Bullet won the Osunitas Stakes race July 21 at the Del Mar Thoroughbred Club. Ag Bullet, who is trained by Richard Baltas, won the one-mile turf race with a time of 1:34.73. She led for nearly all of the race and finished 3 1/2 lengths ahead of second-place Hang the Moon. "I'm pretty happy with her," Baltas said. "She's undefeated on the grass in California." Ag Bullet was foaled in Kentucky on April 13, 2020. She was sired by Twirling...
The San Diego County Water Authority approved a 14% increase in rates SDCWA member agencies will pay in Calendar Year 2025. The July 25 CWA board vote chose an option which will utilize $9 million of CWA reserves and which will allocate a $19.4 million U.S. Bureau of Reclamation grant for permanent upgrades to the seawater intake and discharge facilities at the Carlsbad seawater desalination plant for 2025 even though some of the work will occur in subsequent years. The CWA approval of the 2025 rates also included allocating...
The Oscar Ledesma Memorial Scholarship is named after the Fallbrook 4-H Club and Fallbrook High School FFA member who died in February 2022. The scholarship is offered to San Diego County high school seniors pursuing higher education and actively involved in 4‑H Club, FFA or Grange livestock activities. The awards are based on a combination of scholastic achievement, leadership potential, best demonstrated involvement in agricultural projects or other activities, a sense of pe...
Fallbrook 4-H Club member Alan Morris raised the supreme grand champion market lamb at this year's San Diego County Fair. The June 25-30 market livestock show also included breeding animals as well as market animals, and exhibitors could also enter an animal as a progress animal which is designated for a future show rather than for market at the county fair. Morris raised both the champion crossbreed ewe and the reserve champion crossbreed ewe in the breed sheep competition,...
Two properties totaling four legal parcels currently owned by the Fallbrook Public Utility District have been declared surplus property. The FPUD board voted 3-0 July 22, with Jennifer DeMeo and Don McDougal absent, to declare the two properties as surplus. FPUD will retain easements over the parcels once they are sold. One of the properties is a 4.45-acre parcel on DeLuz Murrieta Road while three adjacent 0.93-acre legal parcels are on Dickey Street which is just west of Green Canyon Road. FPUD and the DeLuz Heights...
The San Diego County Fair’s market livestock show has awards for a pen of three pigs together from the same organization, and Fallbrook High School’s Future Farmers of America chapter took both first and third in the pen of three competition. In addition to the Fallbrook FFA success with the pen of three, four pigs raised by Fallbrook FFA members won their weight class while four others placed second in their weight class. “As a group we were really competitive this year,” said Fallbrook High School agriculture teacher...
The donated awards at the San Diego County Fair's gems, minerals and jewelry exhibition included the Gregory & Eve Anderson Award for Best and Most Eclectic Exhibit, and this year's award was given for a display which honored former Fallbrook collector Jim Walker. Walker died Dec. 27, 2023. His widow, Mary Fong Walker, put together the display. "That's neat that I got their award," Walker said. "Greg was an old friend of ours." Greg Anderson was Schafer's predecessor as the...
The lamb raised by Molly Schmierer of Fallbrook High School's Future Farmers of America chapter was chosen as the FFA reserve champion for the 2024 San Diego County Fair's market livestock show. Schmierer raised a 111-pound wether (male) called Wooly Wonka. The Hampshire cross won his weight class before receiving FFA reserve champion designation. "I'm grateful for everyone who helped," Schmierer said. Other Fallbrook FFA members, the Fallbrook High School agriculture teachers...
A memorandum of understanding between the Fallbrook Public Utility District and the Mission Resource Conservation District to maintain the medians along South Mission Road has been approved by the boards of both districts. The 3-0 FPUD board vote Monday, July 22, with Jennifer DeMeo and Don McDougal absent, approved the MOU. The Mission RCD board approved the agreement Monday, July 15. The MOU incorporates FPUD’s new Community Benefit Program which will provide funding for the oversight and execution of the landscape and irri...
Mallory Sehnert will actually conclude her Future Farmers of America career, at least as a member of FFA, Oct. 23-26 at the national FFA convention in Indianapolis. Her final FFA event as an exhibitor was the 2024 San Diego County Fair, and one of the steers she raised was selected as the supreme grand champion. "It was an amazing way to end my FFA career," Sehnert said. This year Sehnert showed two steers and a pig at the county fair's market livestock show. All three of the...
Rainbow resident Meg Berry won five awards including two first-place ribbons at the San Diego County Fair’s gems, minerals and jewelry exhibition. Berry received first place in the mixed display class involving a full case with a variety of minerals and all lapidary or jewelry work done by the exhibitor. In the carving – professional class she swept first, second and third place. The awards were given during Berry’s 50th year faceting, or cutting, gemstones. “I’ve dug for the stuff, and I’d much rather sit and let someone...
Kostadina Angelopoulos was a Fallbrook High School freshman during the 2023-2024 academic year, so she had no previous National FFA Organization experience nor had she previously shown an animal at a fair. The students in Doug Sehnert's agriculture class who desired to raise and show goats for the San Diego County Fair had a lottery to determine who would obtain goats and in which order they would choose their goat. Angelopoulos was the final student to pick a goat, and at...
San Diego Gas & Electric is planning to replace some ancillary pipes around SDG&E’s Rainbow pressure limiting station. An easement to use land owned by the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California was necessary, and the MWD board approved the granting of a permanent easement to SDG&E Tuesday, July 9. The easement area encompasses 1,685 square feet. SDG&E will pay MWD $13,100, which covers $5,100 for the fair market value of the easement and $8,000 for MWD processing of the action. The facility is where the n...
When Anthony Wilson began ninth grade as a Fallbrook High School student in 2020, he set a goal to graduate as the class of 2024 valedictorian. And in June 2024, he gave the valedictorian address at the graduation ceremony. "I'm glad that I was able to keep that plan," Wilson said. "I am extremely grateful. It takes hard work, but it paid off." Wilson received an "A" grade in every class he took at Fallbrook High School. Extra grade points are given for advanced classes...
Maya Khoury graduated from Fallbrook High School as the class of 2024 salutatorian. "It was really cool and it was an honor, and it was fun giving the speech," Khoury said. The valedictorian and salutatorian selections utilize weighted GPA. Advanced classes including advanced placement courses provide an extra grade point. Khoury received an "A" grade in all of her high school courses. The Advanced Placement chemistry class taught by Marin Pinnell was the hardest course for...
