Also serving the communities of De Luz, Rainbow, Camp Pendleton, Pala and Pauma
Also serving the communities of De Luz, Rainbow, Camp Pendleton, Pala and Pauma
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The Fallbrook Village Association has announced the dates for the 2018 Fallbrook Summer Nights events. They are: Friday, July 20; Friday, Aug. 3, and Friday, Aug. 17. A favorite among locals, Fallbrook Summer Nights offer live musical entertainment, a beer and wine garden, classic cars, and food and merchandise vendors. The festive street parties are held downtown along Main Avenue and run 5-9 p.m. Although the theme for the July 20 Fallbrook Summer Night has yet to be determined, “National Sheriff’s Night Out” will be recog...
Fallbrook craft beer fans held a four-day wake last week, mourning the loss of the Fallbrook Brewing Company, which closed for good the night of April 15. Opened in 2013 by owner and operator Chuck McLaughlin, Fallbrook Brewing Company produced tasty beverages downtown at the corner of Main Ave. and Hawthorne St. Its slogan was: "Be Social. Drink Local." Although Fallbrook Brewing Company had a loyal group of customers, there simply weren't enough of them, according to McLaughlin. "It's a business decision," said McLaughlin...
Belvoir Bay, who collected one win in six starts last year, matched her 2017 win total in her first race of 2018 when she captured the $81,725 Mizdirection Stakes at Santa Anita March 25. A 5-year-old mare, Belvoir Bay had been based at the San Luis Rey Training Center in Bonsall throughout her career. Things changed, of course, when the Dec. 7 Lilac fire ravaged a portion of San Luis Rey and closed the facility, which is scheduled to reopen this month. Belvoir Bay and most...
The 90-pound tortoise that was severely injured when he took a fall in Fallbrook April 15 is recovering nicely, according to Dan DeSousa, director of the Department of Animal Services for the County of San Diego. "He's actually doing very well," said DeSousa of the African spurred tortoise who – when apparently pursued by a dog – fell off a 10-foot wall in the 2200 block of Aqua Hill Road and landed on his back, breaking his shell in three places. "He's moving around and eat...
Junior pitcher Harrison Brown threw a one-hitter and his Fallbrook High teammates played great defense behind him as the Warriors shut out San Pasqual 3-0 in a Valley League contest Saturday, April 21. Senior Michael Gross doubled and scored a run on a wild pitch and senior Collin Hoff lined a two-run single to provide the scoring for Fallbrook, which plated all of its runs in the third inning. Brown kept the San Pasqual batters off balance with an effective slider, striking o...
When approximately 100,000 people show up for an event, law enforcement is ready for anything. The Avocado Festival in downtown Fallbrook has traditionally been a safe and fun family event and this year's edition followed the script, according to detective sergeant Patrick Yates of the San Diego County Sheriff's Department. "It was a most excellent event," said Yates of the April 15 Avocado Festival. "We had very few problems." Yates works out of the Fallbrook Sheriff's...
Eight months a year, longtime community leaders Bob Leonard and George McManigle invite representatives of politicians as well as officials from different organizations to Bonsall for the Unincorporated Communities Governmental Affairs Meeting. The meetings are held in the La Sala room at the River Village Plaza and are open to the public. The next meeting will be held Thursday, May 17, at 9 a.m. "We represent all the unincorporated communities of the area – Fallbrook, Rainbow, De Luz, San Luis Rey River Valley and B...
The San Luis Rey Training Center in Bonsall is once again looking like, well, a training center. Thoroughbreds with exercise riders aboard head to the racetrack for morning workouts. Trainers monitor their runners as they stride around the one-mile oval while grooms scurry around the barns, mucking stalls, bathing and feeding the horses in their care. "It's back to normal," said trainer Michele Dollase. "It's excellent to be back." The more than 400 horses displaced by the...
Belvoir Bay, who collected one win in six starts last year, matched her 2017 win total in her first race of 2018 when she captured the $81,725 Mizdirection Stakes at Santa Anita March 25. A 5-year-old mare, Belvoir Bay had been based at the San Luis Rey Training Center in Bonsall throughout her career. Things changed, of course, when the Dec. 7 Lilac fire ravaged a portion of San Luis Rey and closed the facility, which is scheduled to reopen this month. Belvoir Bay and most...
Faro Trupiano owns and operates three restaurants in Fallbrook, so it's no surprise that he is a big fan of the annual Avocado Festival. "It definitely is the busiest day of the year," said Trupiano, adding that it is also his best day financially. "There's a lot of foot traffic that we don't normally see in Fallbrook. So, yeah, we definitely welcome the Avocado Festival with open arms, for sure." Although there is plenty of county fair-type food available at the Avocado...
Four talented individuals – a mathematics wizard, a tremendous giver, a quiet scholar and a potential pro golfer – were honored as the Students of the Month for April at a special recognition breakfast, April 5, at North Coast Church. Nathan Carner, Esmeralda Gutierrez and Juliza Mendoza of Fallbrook Union High School and Sebastian Winfield of Oasis High School were celebrated for their achievements in and out of the classroom. Carner was the first student to be saluted, and...
Close to 100,000 people are expected to visit downtown Fallbrook Sunday, April 15, for the annual Avocado Festival, an event that showcases the "Friendly Village" and its people. Lila MacDonald, CEO of the Fallbrook Chamber of Commerce, said more than 150 volunteers from the community help out with the Avocado Festival, some hitting the downtown streets in the wee hours of the morning so the event that features more than 450 vendors can begin promptly 9 a.m. The Avocado...
A count of the homeless conducted throughout San Diego County Jan. 26 revealed that Fallbrook had at least 25 people living on – or under – the streets or in vehicles. "There may be some problems with the count in the sense that we did a 6 a.m. to 8 a.m. count and by that time they're up and moving," said Brad Fox, a 30-year Fallbrook resident who has taken up the cause of helping the homeless in the Friendly Village. "In other parts of the county they do a 4 a.m. to 6 a.m... Full story
Bogus bomb threats sent via email to personnel at Bonsall and Fallbrook High Schools late March 22 resulted in a long night for school administrators and San Diego County Sheriff's deputies. The bomb threats, which came from the email address of a student, were believed to be part of a "swatting" hoax as deputies determined that the student had nothing to do with the sent emails. "Swatting, as I understand it, is a hoax message or bogus message to get law enforcement personnel to a place and to watch the action take place,"... Full story
Girls soccer player Audrey Petersen, with a GPA of 4.30, heads a roster of 33 student-athletes from Fallbrook High School that made the San Diego Union-Tribune's winter sports All-Academic Team, which was announced March 21. The All-Academic Team honors juniors and seniors who participate in a California Interscholastic Federation-approved varsity sport and maintain a cumulative, weighted grade-point average of 3.0 or better. All San Diego Section schools were invited to...
Avid sports fan Scott Little always wanted to own and operate a sports bar. Last summer the Fallbrook resident achieved his dream when he opened Harry's Sports Bar & Grill at 125 South Main Avenue. Little, whose successful career with Monterey Financial Services afforded him the luxury of retiring in October 2014 at age 47, found out relatively quickly that retirement life at an early age wasn't the life for him. "I traveled around a lot for a year to a year-and-a-half," said...
Students at Fallbrook Union High School and Bonsall High School joined fellow students across the county in walking out of their classrooms at 10 a.m. March 14 in a call for increased gun control and/or to remember the 17 people shot dead Feb. 14 at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla. "A lot of people went just for the victims but then a lot of people went for gun control, but I think that something we could all agree on was that something – regardless of wh... Full story
San Diego County Sheriff's Deputy Robert Harrell from the Fallbrook substation was one of 12 deputies honored March 14 for their work in recovering stolen vehicles in San Diego County last year. The deputies were recognized at a special awards breakfast held at The Prado at Balboa Park. Combined, the deputies arrested 62 people and recovered 215 stolen cars worth more than $2 million in 2017. Harrell, 29, has been with the Sheriff's Department for nearly six years and has work...
Bonsall West Elementary officials hosted a festive morning assembly March 7 in celebration of the school winning a five-year $250,000 grant from the Department of Defense Education Activity. The event was held in the school's multi-purpose room and attended by teachers and staff and the school's 555 students – from transitional kindergarteners to sixth graders. Also in attendance were representatives from Camp Pendleton (U.S. Marine Corps Col. Chris Richie), the Bonsall U...
Marco Antonio Pastor, who has already been convicted of gross vehicular manslaughter in the 2015 death of Fallbrook resident Joseph Howard Crews, will be retried for second-degree murder, according to Deputy District Attorney Bob Bruce of the San Diego District Attorney's Office. A North County jury Feb. 20 found Pastor, who had two prior convictions for driving under the influence, guilty of gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated but hung on the second-degree murder charge. According to Fallbrook resident Wayne...
Joel Calhoun, who as a sophomore emerged as the floor leader of the Fallbrook High varsity boys basketball team, was rewarded for a fine season by being named to the All Valley-league second team. Calhoun, a guard, had per-game averages of 18 points, six rebounds and three assists. "He did a little bit of everything for us," said Fallbrook head basketball coach Ryan Smith. "He carried the load in scoring – usually had to guard the best player on the other team – and pla...
The Fallbrook High varsity girls’ softball team played its home opener March 8 and recorded its first victory of the season, defeating La Jolla Country Day 13-9 behind the explosive bats of sophomore Vanisa Ivie, and juniors Blanca Favela, Jaylyn Leeman, and Randie Bueno. Ivie went 3-for-4 at the plate with a home run and five runs batted in. Favela went 4-for-4 and knocked in two runs, Leeman went 3-for-4 with two RBI, and Bueno went 3-for-4 and scored four runs. Sophomore Amy Pierson belted a two-run homer for Fallbrook, w...
The individuals honored as the Students of the Month for March included a cadet who was lauded as a natural leader, standout student-athletes credited with helping struggling classmates, and a teen mom who has overcome the odds to put herself in position to graduate. Emma Christopherson, Luke Gilchrist and Collin Hoff of Fallbrook Union High School and Elizabeth Macias of Ivy High School were saluted at the Student of the Month Awards breakfast March 1 at North Coast Church....
A couple of days a week Diana Smith sits in a lawn chair on a empty lot, a piece of property that until Dec. 7, 2017, was adorned with her family's two-story, four-bedroom, 2 1/2 bath, 2,400-square-foot home and two freestanding barns. "Honestly, when I'm here it still feels like home to me," said Smith. "I guess home's not a building, it's the memories. It's a great place and I love being here. I'm so thankful my kids got to be raised here." The house that veterinarian Dr. Ge...
The Monterey Pine that stood in front of the Fallbrook Community Center for 36 years and served as Fallbrook's Christmas tree for the festive holiday tree lighting celebration was cut down by county workers Feb. 20 after it was deemed too sick to save. "The tree was dying and was too sick to trim," said Jessica Geiszler, marketing manager for County of San Diego Department of Parks and Recreation. "We found from experts that any additional trauma to its branches or its trunk...
