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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While meandering and enjoying the sights and activities during Fallbrook’s Avocado Festival, you will also be able to enjoy the “Sounds of Music.” There will be three live bands performing during the day at convenient rest stop locations. While enjoying a beverage or snack, stop by and listen to: • The Blue Zone, a North San Diego County band that plays classic rock & roll and blues. This year will be their tenth consecutive year of playing at the Avocado Festival. You can find them on the corner of Hawthorne and Main. The gr... Full story
The Bonsall Rotary Club’s 10th annual Wine & Food Festival will be held on Friday evening, May 20, at the California Center for the Arts in Escondido. The event is the largest of its kind in San Diego County. It will feature more than 150 wineries offering fine and premier wine tasting and complementary dishes and hors d’oeuvres prepared by several local restaurants and food concessions. The evening will include music and dancing. Aunt Kizzy’s Boyz will be the featured blues band. The Bonsall Rotary Club will also condu...
FALLBROOK — Come celebrate nature on Sunday, April 24, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Hidden Forest Art Gallery and Nature Center. Nature-oriented wares will be offered in addition to conservation and awareness programs. We will also have an educational animal show by Wild Wonders from 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. Admission is free — bring the whole family! For more information call (760) 723-9256. Hidden Forest Art Gallery and Nature Center is located next to The Collector at 936 S. Live Oak Park Rd., Fallbrook....
The Art Center at Fallbrook will have an outstanding lineup of notable shows over the next few months. A venue proud of its range and versatility, the Art Center showcases local, national and international talent. Come to the center, located at 103 S. Main (At Alvarado St.), and enjoy the experience! The Art of the Flower Festival Now through April 30 Show hours are Monday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Sunday 1 to 4 p.m. Celebrating the beauty and influence of flowers in our lives through painting, sculpture,...
The Ninth Annual International Gourd Art Festival, happening June 25 and 26 at the Welburn Gourd Farm in north San Diego County, is bringing in master gourd art teachers from around the world to teach gourd art classes June 23 and 24, the two days preceding the big annual festival. “We’ve seen a huge increase in the demand for gourd art classes,” says Phoebe Welburn, assistant festival director and marketing manager for the event. “What amazes festival visitors the most is seeing raw gourds in the bins selling from $1 to $...
FALLBROOK — Two exhibits of children’s art will be featured during the month of May in Fallbrook. The children, recipients of Fallbrook Art Association’s “Mary La Hue Art Assist Program,” attend Mary Fay Pendleton Elementary School on the Marine base and La Paloma and Live Oak elementary schools in Fallbrook. Forty-two pieces will be selected for the FAA’s Spring Member Show at the Art Center at Fallbrook, 103 S. Main, from May 13 through May 22. Hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. daily, with a reception from 5 to 7 p.m. on ope...
SAN DIEGO — ArtWalk 2005 will take place April 23 & 24 from noon to 6 p.m. in San Diego’s historic Little Italy. This is ArtWalk’s 21st year, where hundreds of artists show and sell their work. This year will also feature five stages with ongoing performers, fine eateries and art projects for kids. Roland Crump lives in Fallbrook and is one of the featured artists. Artist, art director and Imagineer, Crump lent his talents to Walt Disney Productions for 30 years and has influenced our fondest childhood memories for five...
Members of The North County Printmakers, newly headquartered at The Art Studios of Fallbrook, 310 E. Alvarado St., will be exhibiting their work at the San Diego Central Library, located at 820 E Street, downtown San Diego, May 7 through August 7. Those exhibiting will be Meg Elliott-Behle, Caroline Shine Benkendorf, Nick Capaci, Ellen Davis, Freda Fairchild, Dixon Fish, Amber George, Pat Heusner, Bill Kelly, Neill Ketchum, Igor Koutsenko, Loretta Kramer, Rita Miller, Jonde Northcutt, Marie Parsai, Pat Pfeffer, J. Mc Neill... Full story
Lynn Sheffer’s positive attitude and enthusiasm for her job securing residential mortgage loans for homebuyers is as fresh today as it was 25 years ago when she left the world of retail to explore real estate finance. Sheffer now applies her skills as a Senior Loan Consultant at Washington Mutual Home Loans. The vivacious petite woman whose customers are both homebuyers and Realtors claims she doesn’t do it for the money. “If I haven’t done my job, I haven’t earned the money,” she says with conviction. “Doing my job well,...
The ‘best’ Chicken Salad Sandwich The Chicken Salad Sandwich made by Yogurt Palace (130 S. Main St.) is the best I’ve ever had! They told me they cook their chicken breasts slowly in the crockpot, shred it, and add mayonnaise, chopped celery and secret spices. It is served on the most delicious Oat Nut bread and topped with fresh, crisp lettuce. Martian Melt out of this world Killer Pizza From Mars (1125 S. Mission Rd.) had just opened their doors when I dashed in and had a Martian Melt sandwich. Thinly sliced, tender roast...
In its first year Randall Hickman and Douglas Davis’ Broadway Theater in Vista is riding high. Its most recent production of “A Day in Hollywood… A Night in the Ukraine” enjoyed a four-week sold-out run. This little-known musical was chosen along with its current fair, “The Prisoner of Second Avenue,” because owner/producer/director Randall Hickman wanted to give audiences a chance to see the shows he fell in love with as a teen. “The first three shows on our season are productions that shaped my view of theater,” sta...
VISTA — Once customers walk through the door at Aspire Furniture, they can see and feel the difference. They immediately feel at ease, surrounded by comfortable, inviting furnishings for every room in the home. The professional design staff at Aspire understands that a customer’s home is his or her oasis, the place to escape from the daily burdens and stresses of the outside world. They want customers to feel instantly comforted and secure in an environment that reflects their personal taste and lifestyle. The designers on...
FALLBROOK — “It’s a great day at DreamMaker Bath & Kitchen. How can we make your remodeling dreams come true?” That is how the office staff at DreamMaker now answers the business phone. According to Tom Jones, vice president of marketing, Imagination Builders Inc. joined one of the nation’s largest remodeling franchises and opened a DreamMaker Bath & Kitchen by Worldwide business at their present location in Fallbrook. Imagination Builders Inc. will still run operations as usual but will now be able to offer clients e...
In honor of Earth Day, April 22, Starbucks would like to share an easy tip that not only helps gardens but also reduces organic waste in the environment. Customers are invited to pick up a free bag of spent coffee grounds through Starbucks’ Grounds for Your Garden program. The program, which began in 1995, offers complimentary coffee grounds to customers year-round, helping to reduce waste and enhance gardens in parks, schools, nurseries and private gardens across North America. Coffee grounds offer a valuable source of n...
If you own a private household water well or are thinking about getting a system for your family’s drinking water needs, it is important to have a basic understanding about the different materials that comprise the system. You might be surprised to learn that 47 percent of the US population depends on groundwater for its drinking water supply. Many in that number get their water from a private well. What follows is information about casing, well caps, well screens and pitless adapters: basic materials that combine with a p... Full story
One of Fallbrook’s most outstanding events — the AAUW Country Garden Tour — again this year will feature five of the finest and most creative garden sites anywhere. The Association of University Women’s 2005 presentation will kick off at noon from the Palomares House on Stage Coach Lane and continue until 5 p.m. Selections this year will give “inside the gates” viewing opportunities of the extensive gardens and backyards of some of the fine homes that have made Fallbrook famous. At each location there will be docents to... Full story
The Fallbrook Garden Club will present its 74th annual standard flower show “Around the World in Flowers” April 23-24 at the Fallbrook Community Center. The show will be open to the public Saturday from 2 to 6 p.m. and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Admission is free. Entries in floral design, education and youth categories are by reservation or invitation but the horticulture division is open to anyone and exhibitors need not be members of a garden club to enter. Any cut specimen, container plant, fruit, nut or vegetable is... Full story
The manager of statewide water planning for the state Department of Water Resources addressed the San Diego County Water Authority March 24 to discuss the update of the California Water Plan. Kaymar Guivetchi spoke on the 2005 update to the state water plan first published in 1957 and last updated in 1998. A public review draft of the updated plan will be available in April, and DWR will hold public hearings in June. “The California Water Plan for 2005 really will be different,” said County Water Authority general man... Full story
Close your eyes and be whisked away to a land where the Shadowdogs live and play their mellow music. You’ve heard of comfort food? Their new CD “Halfway to Someday” is comfort music. “It’s a Long Way Down” by Bruce FitzSimmons is a golden memory- evoking piece that strums its way into memories of lazy summer days where you and your friends sat on the green lawn listening to the Eagles. The Shadowdogs’ Eagles-like sound is now classified as “Americana.” Since it is hard to keep up with these “pigeonhole” terms for music I wil...
“The Hank Show” will perform two shows — at 4 and 7 p.m. on Sunday, May 22, at the Cask ’n cleaver Restaurant, 3757 S. Mission Road, Fallbrook. Admission is free! Call (760) 728-2818 for reservations. The show includes a biographic slide show, a live 1950 vintage replica band and dancing. “The Hank Show” is a tribute to the legendary country music pioneer Hank Williams, Sr. Hits include “Your Cheatin’ Heart,” “Hey, Good Lookin’” and “I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry....
OCEANSIDE — Last weekend, Waste Management was one of a number of major sponsors of Quincy Jones’ Rockin’ the Corps event, which attracted over 55,000 Marines and their families. While this looked in some ways like a traditional “good neighbor” corporate sponsorship, the reality actually goes much deeper. Waste Management is a traditional good neighbor. Both the base itself and the City of Oceanside are customers of Waste Management, so everyone at the company’s North County office spends a lot of time working with the mi... Full story
“My goal for patients is to teach them how to heal themselves,” said Dr. Dean Robinson of the Integrated Healing Arts medical practice in Fallbrook. “If I can give someone a way to be independent of me, then I think I’ve done them a real favor.” At Integrated Healing Arts the goal is not just to manage pain, but through lifestyle changes help the patients heal themselves. As a result, the patients come away with much more than just renewed health; they will come away with a solid idea on how to facilitate lifestyle changes i... Full story
VISTA — Moonlight Stage Productions celebrates 25 years of Moonlight musical magic with the announcement of an exciting 2005 summer season of musicals at its outdoor facility, the Moonlight Amphitheatre in Brengle Terrace Park. The 25th summer season will include four spectacular musicals under the stars, including “Disney’s Beauty and the Beast,” “Pirates of Penzance,” “The Will Rogers Follies, A Life in Revue” and “Big River: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.” Season packages for the 2005 summer season are now on s...
Fallbrook area bluegrass fans will be glad to hear that a special bluegrass concert is planned for Saturday, April 23, in Carlsbad at the Carlsbad Village Theatre. This concert is being presented by the San Diego Bluegrass Society, which is a 501©(3) non-profit. The SDBS sponsors a variety of activities and concerts, including a school outreach program bringing free music to the schools, a kids’ music academy at the Summergrass Festival in August at Guajome Park near Vista and concerts like this one. This concert presents on...
If I were you, I’d run, not walk, to the St. John’s Episcopal Church’s booth at the avocado festival and snap up their cookbooks at a bargain price. “We did the cookbook a few years ago and it is peppered with lots of helpful hints to make cooking each recipe a little easer,” said Beth Goodlake, who, with her husband Dick, is co-chair for the church’s booth at the festival. As with many other community organizations that participate in the Avocado Festival, the people of St. John’s see the event as multi-dimensi...
