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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PALA – Pala Casino Spa & Resort will host a Paint and Sip art event from 1 to 3:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 3 in the underground wine cave. Tickets, $40 per person, are available at the Pala box office, by calling 1-877-946-7252 or by visiting www.startickets.com. To charge by phone, call 1-800-585-3737. The ticket price includes all art materials including paint, brushes and a canvas so participants can duplicate the featured painting, “Walking in the Woods.” Selected wines will be available at the happy hour price of $5 per g...
SAN DIEGO – Reba Lemmons, owner of The Art of Design of Fallbrook, has been elected president of the San Diego chapter of the American Society of Interior Designers for a one-year term. A Fallbrook resident, Lemmons specializes in residential interior design throughout San Diego County. She has been involved with ASID since 2001, holding many leadership roles, including president-elect and director of professional development. Before starting her own firm in 2004, she was c...
Supervisor Kristin Gaspar was unanimously voted chairwoman of the San Diego County Board of Supervisors for 2018 on Jan. 9. The board also named Supervisor Dianne Jacob to serve as vice chairwoman and Supervisor Greg Cox as chairman pro tem. Gaspar accepted the gavel from Jacob, who served as chairwoman in 2017. This was the sixth time Jacob served as chair of the board of supervisors. She outlined several accomplishments in the past year, including adding muscle to rural...
Gordon Hopkins Rural Health News Service When people think about health issues, they often don’t think about their teeth. Dental health is rarely considered a priority, especially among those in rural areas where dental health care providers are not always easily accessible. Even when there is a dentist in town, people often wait until the pain of a toothache crops up before seeking an appointment. Whether it is for reasons of money, time or just the fear of the dentist’s implements, preventative care often is ignored. But...
FALLBROOK – Silvergate has been selected as a 2018 “Best of Assisted Living” award winner by SeniorAdvisor.com, the largest ratings and reviews site for senior care and services in North America. The exclusive designation honors the top 1 percent of senior care providers in North America. The annual “Best of Senior Living” award tabulates over 150,000 family-created reviews to find the highest quality care providers for this award. With nearly 45,000 communities currently listed on the review site, recognition as the best is...
FALLBROOK – On Thursday, Jan. 4, a bench was dedicated in the memory of Merrill Everett, the late president of the Fallbrook Propane Gas Company. Everett died from a sudden and unexpected heart complication March 20, 2017. Everett was known for his generous heart in the community for "which he loved." His avid love for the arts showed throughout the community – he created the "Galaxy of Glass" and founded the Fallbrook School of the Art; he was also one of the founding mem...
USA Rugby placed four former Fallbrook High School players on the 2017 women's collegiate All-American teams. Kayla Canett, who is now a sophomore at Penn State, was selected to the first team. The second team included Michel Navarro, who is now a Central Washington University sophomore, and Richelle Stephens, who is currently a sophomore at Lindenwood University in Missouri. Emma Workman, who is now a Brigham Young University junior, received honorable mention recognition....
This inspiring and edgy recount of the infamous John Paul Getty, and his grandson, is spun masterfully – combining precious family moments with heartless ones. Christopher Plummer and Michelle Williams ('Manchester by the Sea') mesmerize the audience with cat and mouse-like performances (or should I say lion and seemingly far weaker prey) – the audience feeling the claw marks and scratches of desperation from one side, while witnessing the clever roar and thunder of power from the opposition, it being subtly wielded with “ap...
BONSALL – Volunteers with Team Rubicon, a veteran-led disaster response organization, supported residents of northern San Diego County following the Lilac fire that spread across the region, Dec. 7-11. Team Rubicon worked with San Diego County officials and fire response teams to identify sites in the Bonsall area that sustained substantial damage from the Lilac fire. Beginning Dec. 14, Team Rubicon provided sifting, sorting and debris removal services at no cost to a...
Dr. Maritza Koeppen, a bilingual educator with vast experience in overseeing Title I schools and English learner programs, is settling into her new position as superintendent/principal of the Vallecitos School District. Koeppen started at Vallecitos Jan. 2 after having served the San Marcos School District for more than eight years. Koeppen coordinated English learner services, was a summer school principal and spent nearly seven years as director of special programs for San...
Although we are now in the winter months, last month’s Lilac fire demonstrated that fire season is year-round in Southern California and such devastating winter fires are not uncommon. Sixteen years ago in February 2002 we experienced the Gavilan fire, which destroyed 46 homes and burned 10,000 acres under very similar circumstances. In surveying the Lilac fire’s path of destruction it was fairly evident that most residences that survived – as was the case in the Gavilan fire – had sufficient defensible space and were we...
A 37-year-old transient who did some shoplifting Tuesday, Jan. 9 and stole a truck early Wednesday, Jan 10 was in jail in Vista by nightfall Jan. 10, according to San Diego County Sheriff's Department detective Joel Couch. Nasim Johnson stole a purse and clothing from 100 Main in downtown Fallbrook at 12:30 p.m. Tuesday, reported store employee Ally Mulroy. The store's security cameras caught Johnson in the act according to Mulroy, who posted a portion of the surveillance footage on Friends of Fallbrook. Johnson visited...
PALA – The Spa at Pala Casino Spa & Resort has been named the No. 1 spa in the casino industry and the No. 2 spa in North America for 2017 by Spas of America in its annual rating of the Top 100 Spas in North America. The ranking is the highest ever achieved by Pala Spa and marks the second consecutive year it has been named No. 1 in the casino industry and the twelfth consecutive year that Pala Spa has been ranked in the Top 100 in North America and in the Top 10 in California and the casino industry. “The Pala Spa is our...
The North County Fire Protection District will be replacing one of its ambulances in 2018. The NCFPD board voted 5-0, Dec. 12, to approve the purchase of a new 2018 Life Line ambulance. “We should see that here by July 1 if not sooner,” NCFPD Fire Chief Steve Abbott said. The closure of Fallbrook Hospital in December 2014 has forced NCFPD ambulances to transport patients to hospitals in other towns and has increased ambulance travel. “We’ve tripled the amount of mileage the ambulances take for calls,” Abbott said. The Feder...
The Bonsall Unified School District's Superintendent's Advisory Committee has deemed locations on Gird Road and Old River Road to be the two most preferable sites to build the new Bonsall High School campus. A non-voting presentation was given to the BUSD board Jan. 11. BUSD superintendent David Jones gave the first part of the presentation and Eric Nordeen, who represents the Gird area on the advisory committee, provided the second part of the presentation. The 50-acre Gird Road site which is already owned by the school...
SAN DIEGO COUNTY – During National Blood Donor Month in January, the American Red Cross has an urgent need for blood and platelet donors of all blood types to make an appointment to give now and help address a winter blood donation shortage. An upcoming blood donation opportunity is available in Fallbrook, 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., Jan. 23, at the Fallbrook Library, 124 South Mission Road. Severe winter weather has had a tremendous impact on blood donations already this year, with more than 150 blood drives forced to cancel c...
The Rainbow Municipal Water District has approved a six-month time extension of the agreement with Beazer Homes for sewer service connection to the future Pala Mesa Highlands development. The Rainbow board voted 5-0, Dec. 5, to extended the sewer service agreement to June 14. “The former agreement was expiring. We needed to extend it,” Rainbow general manager Tom Kennedy said. In March 2007, the San Diego County Board of Supervisors approved a tentative map which allowed Beazer Homes to subdivide 84.6 acres into 124 sin...
The San Diego Board of Supervisors approved the advertisement for bid and subsequent award of a construction contract to provide sidewalks along Ammunition Road between Alturas Road and South Mission Road. The supervisors voted 4-0, with Greg Cox at a National Association of Counties meeting, Jan. 10, to authorize the director of the county’s Department of Purchasing and Contracting to take the necessary actions to award a contract, to designate the director of the county’s Department of Public Works as the county off...
District enters into escrow on property connecting the vision of ‘Health Under One Roof’ FALLBROOK – The Fallbrook Regional Health District (FRHD) officially entered into escrow Dec. 22 to purchase land for a wellness center on East Mission Road near Stage Coach Lane. The district board held a special meeting to discuss the purchase of land in the district on Dec. 1. “We’re excited at the prospect to once again provide direct health services, screenings and preventative health care under one roof,” said Bobbi Palmer, chi...
The San Diego County Board of Supervisors gave their support to a 30 mph speed limit on Rice Canyon Road and an all-way stop control at Rice Canyon Road and Rainbow Heights Road. The first reading and introduction of the ordinance was approved on a 4-0 vote, Jan. 10, with Greg Cox at a National Association of Counties meeting. The second reading and adoption is scheduled for Jan. 24, and approval on that day would make the speed limit and stop requirement enforceable Feb. 23,...
Sheriff's Log for Fallbrook from January 6 through 15....
FALLBROOK – La Paloma Elementary School Principal Julie Schlueter presented two Student of the Month awards at a Rotary Club of Fallbrook luncheon in December to fourth-grade students Isabella Mowry and Roco Burley. Mowry shared how she serves her school as a Safe School Ambassador, encouraging and supporting fellow students to work together and to have fun during recess and lunch breaks. She said she used the one of the school's seven habits "to synergize" by going up to a b...
FALLBROOK/RAINBOW – Anne Atkins is having an open house Jan. 20 at 1 p.m. to show her straw bale house 4113 N. Mission Road. Atkins and her husband, Bob, had their house built after the Rice Fire in 2007. They live east of I-15, off of Old Highway 395, the closest cross street is Mission Ridge. A licensed contractor will be present at the open house to answer questions about building with straw, including how and why bales are a good idea. He will also show the benefits of this kind of build for surviving fires. A loan o...
The San Diego County Board of Supervisors authorized the advertisement for bid and subsequent issuance of contracts to plant new trees at county parks. The supervisors voted 4-0, Jan. 10, with Greg Cox at a National Association of Counties meeting, to implement a proposed Comprehensive Tree Program. The program will remove and replaced dead and weakened trees and will install direct watering systems in parks which have had significant tree canopy loss. “Years of drought and invasive insects have taken a toll on our local t...
Yes, on a chilly winter day it can feel really good to curl up with a good book or binge on that favorite TV series. While such activities are enjoyable, they may leave you feeling worse if not balanced with other, more active parts of your life. The "winter blahs," or "winter blues," are feelings of being depressed about the shorter days, colder weather, gray skies and fewer opportunities to be outdoors for fresh air and exercise. In most parts of the country winter means we have to make a real effort to go outside. And so...
