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Also serving the communities of De Luz, Rainbow, Camp Pendleton, Pala and Pauma
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OCEANSIDE (CNS) - A man in his 50s was found dead by Oceanside police in a canoe in the riverbed inlet between the beach and Interstate 5, authorities said today. Police responded to a radio call of a possible body in a canoe at about 6 p.m. Friday, according to spokesman Tom Bussey of the Oceanside Police Department. The department's Investigations Division and the Medical Examiner's Office responded to the scene, Bussey said. The cause of death was undetermined as of Saturday and the medical examiner will conduct an...
LOS ANGELES (CNS) - Loyola Marymount University professor Cheryl Grills and attorney Lisa Holder of Los Angeles were among the five people appointed by Gov. Gavin Newsom today to the newly formed Task Force to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans. The task force will inform Californians about slavery and explore ways the state might provide reparations. Its members will meet over the next year and conclude their work with a written report on their findings, along with recommendations which will be...
PALA, CA – Pala Casino Spa Resort announced today an active search for candidates to fill over 100 full and part-time positions across various departments. As part of the search, Pala Casino now offers a $1000 sign-on bonus program for new hires. Open positions include, but are not limited to, Greeter, Rewards Card Attendant, Cashier / Food Attendant, Pool Attendant, Dishwasher, Security, Hotel Front Desk, and Housekeeper. “At Pala Casino, we take great pride in creating an excellent place to work with competitive wages and b... Full story
SAN DIEGO (CNS) – San Diego County Supervisor Nathan Fletcher is “not optimistic” the county will graduate into the least-restrictive of the state's Blueprint for a Safer Economy tiers before June 15, the date Gov. Gavin Newsom has set to lift remaining restrictions set up to prevent the spread of COVID-19. The county is in the orange tier of the color-coded system due to an adjusted case rate of five new daily cases per 100,000 people. That is a significant improvement over the week before, when that adjusted case rate...
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - San Diego County's Chief Administrative Officer Helen Robbins-Meyer recommended spending $7.03 billion in fiscal year 2021-22 for the running of the county government Thursday, May 6, a 7.3% increase from this year. The recommended budget represents a net increase of 660 additional staff years, excluding staff from the Air Pollution Control District which became an independent agency March 1. ”I have fought since 2019 for our budgets to reflect the needs of our community and year-after-year we have s...
SAN DIEGO (CNS) – The alleged captain of a boat that crashed in coastal waters near Point Loma during an apparent human smuggling operation, killing three people and injuring more than two dozen others, made his initial court appearance Thursday, May 6. According to a complaint filed in San Diego federal court, 39-year-old Antonio Hurtado, a U.S. citizen, was steering the vessel that crashed about 50 yards from the shore around 10 a.m. Sunday. He is charged with attempted bringing in of aliens at other than a port of entry a...
FALLBROOK – Deputies of the Fallbrook Crime Suppression Team were assisting area detectives with an unrelated investigation when they discovered an illegal marijuana cultivation operation near the 9100 block of Huntley Road in Rainbow. A search warrant was obtained for the property which contained approximately 15 large green houses and two residential buildings. Members of the Sheriff's Special Enforcement Detail served the search warrant at the property May 5 and detained s... Full story
People gather at the 46th Cupa Days event presented by the Pala Band of Mission Indians and the Cupa Cultural Center in Pala, May 1....
FALLBROOK – Entries in the 15th Art of the Avocado competition were on display at the Fallbrook Chamber of Commerce April 1-23. Visitors voted for their favorites resulting in first, second and third awards in each of the three categories. There were also five special awards. The winners were announced at a reception April 17. In the two dimensional category, the third place prize went to Cherrie Burris from Redlands for her piece "Ready for Harvest." The second place prize w...
FALLBROOK – Fallbrook Youth Rugby registration is open for the 2021 season. The league has been granted use of the fields at Potter Jr. High, so FYR will begin practices the first week of May on Mondays and Wednesdays from 4:30-6 pm. FYR League President Allen Day said "We are so excited to get kids back on the fields exercising, honing their skills and getting ready for a season of Summer 7's. We have missed the athletes and their families and look forward to seeing them a...
FALLBROOK – Foundation for Senior Care is sponsoring a Road Rally May 22, a scavenger hunt that takes participants through Fallbrook, Bonsall and Rainbow by solving problems and clues and puzzles to collect goodies and raffle tickets for chances to win great prizes. The proceeds will go directly to support seniors and disabled adults in the greater Fallbrook area served by the foundation. The rally will begin and end at the Foundation for Senior Care, 135 South Mission Road (...
FALLBROOK – The Fallbrook Gem and Mineral Museum is now open to the public on Fridays and Saturdays from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. The Fallbrook Gem and Mineral Society, FGMS for short, was founded in 1957. FGMS is a group of individuals who share common interests in gems, minerals, jewelry, geology, paleontology, and the related earth sciences and lapidary arts. Fallbrook is just a "stone's throw" from some of the most productive gem mining areas in the United States. The museum i...
FALLBROOK – Fallbrook Women's Connection has announced its return this summer with an elegant brunch and fashion show in the ballroom of the Beverly Mansion at Grand Tradition Estates and Gardens, Friday, June 18, from 10 a.m. to noon. All ladies are invited to come to this fashion show featuring the colorful and flowing fashions of Fallbrook's own haberdasher Caravan, with owner and operator Leslie Sommers announcing the models and describing their outfits. Guests will h...
The Fallbrook Public Utility District contract for the Ross Lake pressure reducing valve project was awarded to Genesis Construction. The Hemet company had the low bid for the FPUD project, and on April 26 the FPUD board voted 5-0 to approve a $51,444 contract with Genesis Construction. FPUD's capital program includes specific DeLuz Improvement District funds which are allocated for maintaining and improving the distribution system in the DeLuz area. Because rain reduces demand, FPUD has to take water deliveries from the San...
The Rainbow Municipal Water District will be acquiring two emergency generators and a solar-powered battery backup system. Rainbow's board voted 5-0 April 27 to authorize general manager Tom Kennedy to execute purchase orders for the two generators and the battery backup system equipment. The purchases will be funded by a state Office of Emergency Services grant, and Kennedy's $300,000 spending authorization matches that grant amount. Between July 2019 and October 2020, the district experienced approximately 100 hours of...
FALLBROOK – In order to modernize and upgrade Fallbrook High School, Measure AA was approved by the Fallbrook voters on Nov. 8, 2016. In accordance with Bond Measure AA, Fallbrook Union High School District was required to appoint an independent Citizens’ Oversight Committee to assure bond funds are being spent as outlined in the Measure AA Bond Measure ballot language. The COC was appointed within 60 days of the date that the board entered the election results in its minutes pursuant to Education Code 15274. The COC was app...
The Marine Corps strives to recognize those Marines who have gone above and beyond what's normally expected of them. U.S. Marine Sgt. Qihang Lin, a station captain with Aircraft Rescue Fire Fighting, Headquarters and Headquarters Squadron, Marine Corps Air Station Camp Pendleton, is one such Marine. Lin was recently recognized as the 2020 Marine Corps Firefighter of the Year. "Sgt. Lin received the firefighter of the year award due to his dedication to improving himself and...
BATON ROUGE, La. – Cody Bremer of Fallbrook was recently initiated into The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, the nation's oldest and most selective all-discipline collegiate honor society. Bremer was initiated at University of Maryland Global Campus. Bremer is among approximately 30,000 students, faculty, professional staff and alumni to be initiated into Phi Kappa Phi each year. Membership is by invitation only and requires nomination and approval by a chapter. Only the top 10% of seniors and 7.5% of juniors are eligible f...
The 2021-2022 Bonsall Unified School District calendar was approved during the April 14 BUSD board meeting. The 5-0 vote approved the calendar for the next academic year. A request to change spring break from the week after Easter to the week before Easter was approved. “I think it’s great. I’m glad that we’re making sure that we’re incorporating the needs of the community at large,” Larissa Anderson, board president of BUSD, said. The proposed 2021-2022 calendar was brought to the BUSD board March 8, but concerns ab...
Permission from the Fallbrook Union High School District board is required for any overnight field trip regardless of whether it takes place during school hours, but the request from Fallbrook High School's Future Farmers of America advisors to take FFA students to the San Diego County Fair's market livestock show had no opposition. The 5-0 vote at the April 26 board meeting allows FFA advisors Doug Sehnert and Margaret Chapman to take approximately 60 students to the San Diego County Fair from June 21 to June 28. Sehnert is...
On April 28, the Fallbrook Union Elementary School District held the second in a series of Zoom meetings in order to discuss what skills the community believes eighth grade students need to possess in order to achieve success. The meeting was led by Stephen Fuji and Erica Siddle from Battelle for Kids, a non-profit dedicated to helping school districts all over the country transform their school systems for success. Battelle for Kids has helped to identify goals for school...
FALLBROOK – The Fallbrook Art Association, an art organization serving local artists, is pleased to announce esteemed watercolorist Janice Cipriani-Willis as its guest presenter on Saturday, May 15. Beginning with a critique of member artists' works at 9:30 a.m., followed by a brief general meeting, she will demonstrate watercolor techniques. After a lunch break, starting at 1 p.m., Cipriani-Willis will conduct a paint-along watercolor workshop which ends at 4 p.m. The cost o...
FALLBROOK – On Saturday, April 10, Jack Ragland taught a Zoom painting workshop and demonstration for the Palomar Painters of Escondido. His painting, entitled "April in Paris Cafe," was based off of his last trip to Paris. He painted the people to look like they were from a different era, the 1930s or 1940s. The goal of this painting was to create a nostalgic feel and revive his memories of Paris. Submitted by Jack Ragland....
"Einstein Comes Through" is a new one-act, one-hour play written for North Coast Repertory by Marc Silver and David Ellenstein. A one-man show starring Jake Broder as Hank, the story winds through a convoluted tale about the accidental drowning of Hank's young son Tommy. Laced with hallucinogenic conversations between Hank and Albert Einstein, Hank's dialogue finally concludes when he awakens in the emergency room. The only reason to produce this show must be to provide a...
