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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Research Report: CUPES-007 February 20, 2021 Research Question This is the seventh report from the Civil Unrest and Presidential Election Study. In this report, we investigate a complex and defining issue of 2020 (and, no doubt, many years ahead): race and policing. Amidst calls to "defund" and reform police agencies, informed understandings of police-citizen interactions are crucial. So, here we ask the question: across the political spectrum, how knowledgeable are people when it comes to the available data on fatal police...
I became an American citizen in 1960 on St. Patrick’s Day. The present-day racial divisions in our country seem so alien to that day when I raised my hand to voluntarily become a member of my adopted country. It is impossible to compose a short letter to focus on many of the important issues, such as race in America today. I must admit that many of the letters to our local paper are long on verbiage but short on understanding and compassion. I would like to focus on one incident that happened to me in Bonsall Sunday, March 1...
Just throwing out an idea, looking at the regional big picture regarding the Sandia Gate. Instead of all of us disagreeing, maybe, we should try working together. The more we fight, the more the county and lawyers make. Maybe, the gates could start at the Fallbrook entrance and the Rancho California Road/ Riverside County entrance. Let's think of the greater De Luz region, all of us, together We don't need to gate up each individual community. That would ruin the ambiance of our little bit of heaven. Benefitting some...
The past week was a major step forward in our fight against COVID-19. First, on March 16, a new vaccination site opened in North County, specifically in the 92058 zip code in Oceanside. This walk-in clinic, located at 1701 Mission Ave., will play a vital role in distributing vaccines to one of the communities hardest hit by COVID-19. The clinic will provide over 700 daily vaccines and will replace the current Oceanside vaccine center at the North Coastal Live Well Center. As...
I was moved when I read Julie’s article about our current culture of fear because it gets at the heart of the issue that is plaguing us right now. To those who expressed offense or felt she was insinuating they suffered from cowardice if they do fear COVID-19, that was not the message being conveyed. The objectionable thing that has occurred over this past year is the exploitation of scientific language to deliberately inject fear into society and exert control over the masses. The unsubstantiated claim that underlies the fea...
After all I said, that is what you came away with? I shake my head when you say “standard ballot containers and nothing happening.” What was taken out of context? You dismissed the whole “context” of what was going on that led up to the stolen ballot counting. Numerous affidavits said they were told “they were shutting down for the night and told to go home.” They were videotaped pulling these suitcases out from under tables and wheeled over to voter counting machines. These suitcases are not standard ballot containers....
Pedro "Pete" Meza, 89, died Wednesday, March 17, 2021. He was an amazing husband, father, grandfather, great-grandfather and beloved friend. He is survived by his three children, Billy Meza, Denny Meza and Darlene Meza as well as 10 grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren. Pedro moved to Fallbrook, California when he was 8 years old and ended up marrying his high school sweetheart, Betty Jo Meza, in 1948. He worked in masonry for 40 years. He loved spending time with his... Full story
Denver Paul Bates II, resident of Fallbrook for 48 years, passed away Sunday, March 7, 2021. He was born in Clarksburg, West Virginia, to Denver Paul Bates and Mildred Radcliffe Bates on Sept. 12, 1942. As a child of a career Marine, he grew up all over the United States – Quantico, Parris Island, Camp Pendleton, and Oahu. When Denver was in the eighth grade, after his father was transferred to the Mojave Marine Corps Air Base, he met Kathleen, the girl he knew he would m... Full story
Top U.S. and Chinese officials wrapped up two days of contentious talks in Alaska Friday, March 19, after trading sharp and unusually public barbs over vastly different views of each other and the world in their first face-to-face meeting since President Joe Biden took office. The two sides finished the meetings after an opening session in which they attacked each other in an unusually public way. The U.S. accused the Chinese delegation of “grandstanding” and Beijing fired back, saying there was a “strong smell of gunpo...
President Joe Biden's administration has tried for weeks to keep the public from seeing images like those that emerged Monday, March 22, showing immigrant children in U.S. custody at the border sleeping on mats under foil blankets, separated in groups by plastic partitions. Administration officials have steadfastly refused to call the detention of more than 15,000 children in U.S. custody, or the conditions they're living under, a crisis. But they have stymied most efforts by...
A White gunman was charged Wednesday, March 17, with killing eight people at three Atlanta-area massage parlors. A day after the shootings, investigators were trying to unravel what might have compelled 21-year-old Robert Aaron Long to commit the worst mass killing in the U.S. in almost two years. Long told police that the attack Tuesday, March 16, was not racially motivated. He claimed to have a “sex addiction,” and authorities said he apparently lashed out at what he saw as sources of temptation. But those statements spurre...
A group of 21 Republican state attorneys general filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday, March 17, against President Joe Biden's administration over its decision to nix the Keystone XL Pipeline. The states, led by Montana and Texas, accused President Joe Biden of overstepping his constitutional authority when he revoked the Keystone XL Pipeline's federal permit, Jan. 20, hours after entering office, in the lawsuit filed Wednesday afternoon in the U.S. District Court for the...
SACRAMENTO –Assemblymember Marie Waldron, R-Escondido, honored Fallbrook Chamber of Commerce CEO Lila MacDonald as the 2021 Woman of the Year for the 75th Assembly District, March 16. "Lila MacDonald lives and breathes the Fallbrook community," said Waldron. "From Honorary Mayor to CEO of the Fallbrook Chamber of Commerce, Lila MacDonald embodies the spirit of Fallbrook." For decades, MacDonald has been active in the community. Her service includes local PTA boards, the F...
The Fallbrook Regional Health District scheduled its second vaccination event for Wednesday, March 24 – after Village News’ press time but before publication. The event, which was to be held at the district’s Wellness Center on Mission Road, had a total of 150 appointments available to receive the first dose of the Pfizer vaccine. The second shot appointment will be available within 21-25 days after the March 24 event, according to the health district. The event comes a little less than two weeks after FRHD’s first vaccina...
One unanimous vote of the county's Traffic Advisory Committee March 12 recommended an all-way stop control for the intersection of Potter Street and Elder Street and another unanimous TAC vote that morning recommended that the speed limit for all of Gum Tree Lane be 35 mph. The March 12 unanimous TAC votes also included recommending recertification of the 40 mph speed limit on Hutchison Street in Bonsall between East Vista Way and 1,000 feet west of Harris Drive. The San Diego County Board of Supervisors members are...
TEMECULA – The Sierra Club’s Santa Margarita Group will be celebrating Earth Day with a virtual fair Thursday, April 22 and photo contest. The deadline to enter has been changed from April 1 to April 22. The photo submissions will be divided by age group/grade bracket with elementary school submissions for kindergarten through fifth grade, middle/high school submissions for grades 6-12 and the adult category for people 18 or older. Categories include “Landscape” with mountain ranges, sunsets and more; “Creatures of the Wilde...
How many of you have heard the term “home hardening?” It has nothing to do with making the structure harder. Afterall, how would we do that? Pour concrete over the structure? Or overlay it with brick and mortar? No. Home hardening refers to preparing your home against potential wildfires. In the case of home hardening, it means, prepare. It took some searching to find why this term was chosen. I found it within the framework of computing systems. Read below and I think you’ll... Full story
FALLBROOK – The "Fat Happies" sculpture has been reinstalled at its home on the corner of South Mission Road and Fallbrook Street after being repaired. This sculpture is one of over 30 works of art displayed throughout the community by Art in Public Places. The sculpture had rusted over the years and needed to be sandblasted down to the metal and then repainted. North County Powder Coating did this repair work with a donation from Pat and Tom Peterson. A new addition to the A...
With San Diego County now in the red tier of the state’s coronavirus reopening plan, businesses including restaurants, gyms and movie theaters have been able to resume indoor operations, albeit with capacity limits and masking requirements. Beginning Wednesday, March 17, restaurants and movie theaters were allowed to operate indoors at 25% capacity or 100 people – whichever is fewer – according to the county. Gyms were allowed to reopen at 10% capacity, while museums, zoos and aquariums were allowed to reopen at 25% capac...
The March 16 actions of the San Diego County Board of Supervisors included an $80,000 Neighborhood Reinvestment Program grant to the Fallbrook Food Pantry. The supervisors' 5-0 vote allocated the funding to the Fallbrook Food Pantry to help finance closing costs and relocation expenses and a reduction of loan principal for the Fallbrook Food Pantry's new facility at 140 North Brandon Street. "The Fallbrook Food Pantry is an amazing group that I am happy to support," said Supervisor Jim Desmond. "After such a difficult year...
MURRIETA – Elenita Tan's organs were failing, and as physicians at Loma Linda University Medical Center – Murrieta faced a true do-or-die situation, they opted to perform a transcatheter mitral valve repair procedure that ultimately saved the 83-year-old woman's life. By the time Tan arrived at the hospital, she was suffering from acute congestive heart failure, according to Dr. Harit Desai, the associate director for the cardiac catheterization lab and structural heart int...
What do we know about flirting? Well, for sure, women and men have been doing it as far back as the Neanderthals. Let’s consider, if it weren’t for steamy come hither looks, how would a fella have known which gal to snatch by the hair to drag back to his cave? And isn’t that all a fella really needed? One haunting look from a femme fatale? Nothing much has changed over the past few thousand years, except perhaps the hair dragging. I for one, feel confident the first cavew...
FALLBROOK – Fallbrook Regional Health District is hosting a community blood drive in partnership with the San Diego Blood Bank, Wednesday, March 31, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. The blood drive will take place in the parking lot at 138 S. Brandon Road in Fallbrook. The blood bank will conduct antibody testing of each donation, but it is not a diagnostic test. It will not detect active COVID-19 infections or recent exposure. For all COVID-19 blood donation restrictions related to s...
Coronavirus hospitalizations in southwestern Riverside and northern San Diego counties have now dropped to such a level that COVID-19-positive patients make up less than 10% of hospitalizations at most local medical facilities. The data, based on statistics from hospitals across the nation for the seven days preceding March 5, show individuals with COVID-19 now make up 4% of patients at Temecula Valley Hospital, 6% of those at Southwest Healthcare System, which includes Inland Valley and Rancho Springs medical centers in...
TEMECULA – No one is immune to cancer. People of all ages and from all walks of life can be diagnosed with cancer, though researchers have worked to improve survival rates for an assortment of cancers. The work of cancer researchers includes efforts to find treatments but also to learn about the disease, including its risk factors. Identifying the risk factors for certain cancers, including colorectal cancer, can help medical professionals as they advise patients on the b...
