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Articles from the January 2, 2013 edition


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  • Public encouraged to participate in bone marrow screening event to help save lives

    Updated Jan 2, 2013

    Cal Fire/Riverside County Fire Department, along with LifeStream, will host a bone marrow screening drive on Friday, January 4 from 1 to 5 p.m. in the parking lot of the Sun City Fire Station #7, 27860 Bradley Road, Sun city, CA 92586. This event is in support and recognition of Riverside County Sheriff’s Deputy Salvador Aguirre. Unfortunately, this past May, Deputy Aguirre was diagnosed with Acute Monocytic Leukemia (AML) and is in desperate need of a bone marrow transplant. The goal of this drive is to raise awareness, i...

  • Officers arrest 754 suspected drunk drivers in end-of-year crackdown in Riverside County

    Updated Jan 2, 2013

    RIVERSIDE (Wire Service) - A roughly two-week holiday crackdown on drunken and drug-impaired drivers netted more than 750 arrests in Riverside County, authorities said today, January 2. The Riverside County Avoid the 30 task force -- named for the number of participating law enforcement agencies -- began its end-of-year anti-DUI campaign on Dec. 14 and wrapped it up shortly before midnight Tuesday night, January 1. During that time, 754 people were arrested on suspicion of drunken or drug-impaired driving, officials said....

  • Volunteers needed to help count homeless individuals in Riverside County for state and federal funding purposes

    Updated Jan 2, 2013

    RIVERSIDE (Wire Service) - Riverside County officials put out a call today, Jan. 2, for volunteers to help count homeless people on Jan. 23. The biennial homeless count is key in securing state and federal funding for programs meant to benefit the homeless. "The more volunteers we have, the more likely we are to thoroughly identify who is homeless in our county,'' said Susan Loew, the director of the Department of Social Services. The count is mandated by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to gauge the amoun... Full story

  • Jeanne Eyer passes away; service to be Sat., Jan. 5 in Fallbrook

    Updated Jan 2, 2013

    Jeanne Elizabeth Eyer, 72, passed away holding her family members' hands early Saturday morning, December 29, 2012 at Palomar Hospital. Jeanne was born in Los Angeles, July 19, 1940, and grew up in Whittier, Calif. She graduated from California High School in 1958. She remained close to her high school friends to this day. She graduated from Fullerton Junior College two years later. Delos and Jeanne met in 1960 and were married in 1961. The Eyer family moved to Fallbrook and...

  • Funnel cloud spins through Fallbrook over New Years weekend

    Updated Jan 2, 2013

    FALLBROOK – When a funnel cloud spun through Fallbrook and Bonsall on Sunday, December 30, numerous residents ran for their cameras. "Don't this beat all," said Tom Chester, in an email to the Village News. The funnel was visible shortly after 1 p.m. and was rotating noticeably. Shortly after the appearance of the cloud, rain began to fall, thunder and lightening could be heard and then it began to hail. At the time, the National Weather Service said hail the size of...