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  • Former resident publishes Rainbow Valley Adventures

    Updated Feb 7, 2008

    FREDERICK, MD — PublishAmerica is proud to present “Rainbow Valley: Adventures of Jimmy and Lee” by James B. Rice of Surprise, AZ. James Boren Rice was born in Fallbrook. During the early years of the Great Depression, his father died and he, his mother and siblings moved to her father’s ranch in Rainbow Valley. James completed grammar school in a one-room schoolhouse there. In his golden years, James started writing about his adventures of growing up during the Depression in Rainbow Valley. His stories tell of his boyhood...

  • Federal aid nears $140 million after wildfires

    Updated Feb 7, 2008

    PASADENA — Three months after wildfires raged through Southern California, state and federal disaster assistance has reached nearly $140 million to help pay for firefighting, debris removal and other response and recovery efforts. Here is a summary of funding since the October 24 presidential disaster declaration: • SBA: $78.6 million. The bulk of the disaster assistance funding has come from the US Small Business Administration (SBA) in the form of long-term, low-interest loans to business and home owners for repair or rep... Full story

  • Fallbrook Library special offerings

    Updated Feb 7, 2008

    Programs for adults How-To Help with Computerized Information: Individual Internet tutoring by appointment. Thursdays, 9-10 a.m. Adult Writing Group: Irene Hendricks facilitates creative writing exercises. Sign up at the reference desk. Thursdays, February 7 and 21, 6-6:45 p.m. Family programs – all ages Family Crafts Night: Bring the whole family to make a seasonal craft. Sign up at the Reference Desk. Thursday, February 14, 6:30-7:30 p.m. Irish Dancing with the Bracken School of Irish Dance. Saturday, March 1, 2-3 p.m. C...

  • Thurlow, Almaria win at San Diego Art Institute show

    Updated Feb 7, 2008

    Fallbrook first-grader Cameron Thurlow won second place and second-grader Gianeen Almaria won honorable mention in the kindergarten through second grade category at this year’s California Art Education Association (CAEA) Youth Art Month (YAM) Show at the San Diego Art Institute (SDAI) in Balboa Park. In addition, first-grader Brandon Rodriguez, third-grader Kyle Murray and fifth-grader Colton Dapper were selected by a jury from the SDAI for the Spiazzi Achievement Award. The e...

  • Ragland receives Paint America Award

    Updated Feb 7, 2008

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  • Watercolor art show now in Fallbrook

    Updated Feb 7, 2008

    The Art Center at Fallbrook is proud to present, in The Janice Griffiths Gallery, two of the country’s most prestigious watercolor societies together for the first time. The National Watercolor Society’s 87th annual travel exhibition and the Watercolor Honor Society’s selected members exhibition opened February 3 and will continue through March 16 at the Art Center. The show is open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Saturday and 12 to 3 p.m. Sunday. General admission is $5; Art Center members and children are free. A ser...

  • Water media artist to visit art assoc.

    Updated Feb 7, 2008

    The Fallbrook Art Association’s next general meeting will feature award-winning water media artist Phyllis Doyon at 7 p.m. February 11 at the Hilltop Center, 331 East Elder. Preceding the meeting, there will be an informal “Eat ’n Critique” session from 5:30 until 6:30. Participants in the critique are encouraged to bring one or two “paintings in progress” plus a snack or box dinner to eat during the session. Refreshments will be served following the meeting. The meeting and critique session are open to the public at n...

  • Hamilton "Bill" Temple III, J. Barbara Temple

    Updated Feb 7, 2008

    Hamilton “Bill” Temple III, 82, passed away January 19, 2008, his hand held by his granddaughter as he peacefully slipped away. Born May 2, 1925, in Covina, CA, to Anna Scofield Temple and Hamilton Temple II, Bill was a veteran of the Army and served his country well. He was a private pilot who flew for years enjoying the open sky. He lived on the family ranch in Fallbrook, CA, since 1947. Bill is survived by wife Barbara, granddaughter Lisa and great-granddaughters Tay... Full story

  • Marie (Maja) Olson Eddy

    Updated Feb 7, 2008

    Marie (Maja) Olson Eddy passed away January 31, 2008. The daughter of Swedish parents Hildegard and Manfred Olson, Marie was born May 12, 1917, in Portland, OR, where she first met her future husband, Henry Delmar Eddy. Often, she happily remembered pushing Henry around in a buggy at the tender age of 2. Marie grew up in San Francisco, where she attended Lowell High School. She was an avid scholar and began college at the University of California, Berkeley at the age of 16....

  • Espie Davis

    Updated Feb 7, 2008

    Espie Davis passed away on February 3, 2008, in Fallbrook, CA, after a long battle with brain cancer. She was born on June 11, 1943. After graduation from UCLA, she moved to Virginia. After living in Virginia, she moved back to California and worked at TRW before moving to Oregon with her husband, Jim. After his death, she moved to Fallbrook. She was a member of Christ The King Lutheran Church. In lieu of flowers, donations are suggested to Christ The King Lutheran Preschool...

  • Mary Helen Gorey Goedike

    Updated Feb 7, 2008

    Mary Helen Gorey Goedike, born August 3, 1916, in Montgomery, AL, passed away January 31, 2008. She leaves her devoted husband, Shirl Goedike, Fallbrook, CA, and was predeceased by their dear son Tripp in 1997. Mary is survived by sisters Kathryn Mills, Ann Caffey (Michael) and Gerry Nigg; brother Ed Gorey; 26 nieces and nephews; and 28 great-nieces and -nephews. In 1937, with her widowed mother and six brothers and sisters, Mary moved to Hollywood, CA. She and Shirl were married for 51 years. They traveled the world...

  • Shogo Yamaguchi

    Updated Feb 7, 2008

    Shogo Yamaguchi, 91, left his earthly body, ravaged by Parkinson’s disease, at home on the Hughes ranch Saturday evening, February 2, 2008. He is now in the place of eternal happiness, gardening for the Lord. He was born on his parents’ farm in Gresham, OR, the second of six siblings, four boys and two girls. His parents were Tokuji Yamaguchi and Shina Watanabe, immigrants from Tottori Prefecture on the western seacoast of Japan. When Shogo was 11, the family went to Jap... Full story

  • The Energy Drink Revolution : Energy Drinks 103: Through the looking glass into your community

    Updated Feb 7, 2008

    This story contributed by : John Lopez, North Inland Community Prevention Program and Vi Dupre, Fallbrook Healthcare District The University of California’s official motto is “Let there be light.” Our prestigious university system prides itself on illuminating its students on all aspects of life, thus equipping them with knowledge to make the best decisions for themselves and their community. In that respect, we have chosen to follow that philosophy with our awareness campa...

  • Strait Nutrition : Detox time, part III

    Updated Feb 7, 2008

    There are essentially six Phase II detoxification pathways: glutathione conjugation, amino acid conjugation, methylation, sulfation, acetylation and glucuronidation. This union or conjugation reaction either neutralizes the toxin or makes the toxin more easily excreted through the urine or bile. As we spoke before, glutathione is an important antioxidant. Our bodies can make it or we can ingest it in our diet. Fresh fruits, vegetables, cooked fish and meats are absorbed well by the digestive processes. Note: Vitamin C raises... Full story

  • Obsessive-compulsive behaviors worsen under stress

    Updated Feb 7, 2008

    It is estimated that anywhere between two and seven million Americans have obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). OCD has two parts: unreasonable obsessions plus the compulsive acting out of mental or physical rituals to reduce the stress of the thoughts or to supposedly ward off negative events. Compulsive thoughts that plague OCD sufferers are commonly a fear of getting a disease like AIDS or cancer, of being poisoned, of inadvertently causing harm to someone, of having forgotten to do something like lock the door before bed...

  • With loh, it's

    Updated Feb 7, 2008

    Audio slideshowlink Catching up with Vic Loh isn’t easy and I seriously doubt if it ever has been – in person or in a car. I was lucky to connect with Loh, a former professional race car driver turned busy investment advisor, who jets back and forth to the East Coast. Fortunately for me, last week he had to cool his heels in Boston’s Logan Airport for a few minutes. A blip appeared on the radar when Loh moved to Fallbrook last May and joined the Fallbrook Vintage Car Club....

  • The Bonsall Chamber Newsletter for Febuary 7th.

    Updated Feb 7, 2008

    Click here for a pdf of the Bonsall Chamber...

  • Hollywood Outdoor Movies is bringing back the drive-in

    Updated Feb 7, 2008

    If you grew up anytime before about 1980 chances are you experienced what it was like to see a drive-in movie. John Snyder of Fallbrook said that he has done some research and discovered that, since the early 1980s, the majority of California’s drive-ins have closed. However, if you enjoyed the drive-in experience or viewing a movie outdoors with friends and family, read on. Snyder’s business, Hollywood Outdoor Movies, will set up an inflatable screen in various venues, inc... Full story

  • Rockola at Burton Center Feb. 23

    Updated Feb 7, 2008

    FALLBROOK — Rockola, the award-winning, San Diego-based America’s Classic Rock Experience, will perform a benefit concert at the Bob Burton Center for the Performing Arts on Saturday, February 23, from 7 to 10 p.m. Rockola is a four-piece classic rock band that performs music from the late 1950s to the early 1970s. All four members are vocalists and also play instruments such as guitar, bass, drums, keyboard and sometimes sitar, flute, harmonica, ukulele and mandolin. Tickets are on sale at the ASB window at Fallbrook Hig...

  • Rocky Patel to visit Zarka Cigar Lounge

    Updated Feb 7, 2008

    On February 7 from 2 to 10 p.m. Temecula’s most prestigious cigar lounge will be hosting its monthly event, featuring Rocky Patel. Patel flew up from Honduras to meet Temecula’s finest cigar connoisseurs and is said to be quite impressed at the fact that Zarka Cigar Lounge features the largest walk-in humidor on the west coast at approximately 750 square feet. Zarka’s humidor is stacked from wall to wall, floor to ceiling. Patel will be inside the enormous humidor meeting and greeting his customers and will be raffling off c...

  • Swing West in concert Feb. 16

    Updated Feb 7, 2008

    Swing West, an acoustic trio doing vintage and western swing, will be playing Saturday, February 16, at 7:30 p.m. at the Fallbrook Woman’s Club, 238 West Mission (corner of East Mission and South Mission). David Dekker on lead guitar and vocals, Bruce Huntington on bass and Bob Sandstrom on violin comprise Swing West. They say “violin” rather than “fiddle” because Sandstrom does the sweeping credenzas, amazing arpeggios and impossible fingerwork of classic styles all taste...

  • Tribute to Glenn Miller, Fabulous Dorsey Brothers

    Updated Feb 7, 2008

    Some of the greatest music of all time will be recreated by an all-star cast in a tribute to Glenn Miller and the Fabulous Dorsey Brothers on Saturday, February 23, at 7:30 p.m. at the California Center for the Arts in Escondido. The show features Debby Boone, The Pied Pipers, String of Pearls, Dorsey Brother alumni and the Tex Beneke Orchestra. The 15-piece Tex Beneke Orchestra, under the direction of saxophone player Jim Snodgrass, will play the best of the Glenn Miller and...

  • Senior Center plans trip to poppy fields

    Updated Feb 7, 2008

    On April 17 a bus will leave the Fallbrook Senior Center at 8:30 a.m. and head for the Antelope Valley Poppy Fields. There, trip-goers will see poppies, other wildflowers, fruit trees and “wild cats” on 60 acres with sparkling desert views. The bus will return to Fallbrook at approximately 5 p.m. Lunch at Red Lobster and transportation are included for a price of $52. Seating is limited. For more information and to sign up, call the Fallbrook Senior Center at (760) 728-4498 or Miyo at (760) 728-6537.... Full story

  • 'Vince Vaughn's Wild West Comedy Show' more documentary than movie

    Updated Feb 7, 2008

    aughn led a group of comics who performed on a 30-day, 30-show tour throughout America. The performances, travel and other aspects became the basis for the movie “Vince Vaughn’s Wild West Comedy Show: 30 Days and 30 Nights – Hollywood to the Heartland.” Since it was released as a movie in theaters, it became subject to the recommendations of movie reviewers. One of the factors the movie reviewer must consider is whether audiences who don’t get invitations to free previews should pay to watch the movie in a theater. This revi...

  • Xeriscaping your landscape, part III : Seven fundamentals

    Updated Feb 7, 2008

    To the trained eye, a dry landscape can be just as lovely – perhaps more so – than a landscape splashed with frequent irrigations to maintain that everlasting verdant green look. While attending Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo and the University of Davis I had some professors who were very avant-garde in those days and talked about the need to preserve, conserve and plan for upcoming global water shortages with the growing statistics of the global populations and that was bac... Full story

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