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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FALLBROOK – Fallbrook Encore Club welcomed graduates from Newcomers Club at the annual Flyup Luncheon, May 24. The party was held at Eastridge Clubhouse and featured a delicious meal prepared by Louis Molnar. Membership in Newcomers Club is over after two to three years, and at that time those members moving on are welcome to join Encore Club. Seven of the Newcomers joining Encore Club attended the luncheon, and they were welcomed by the 50 encore members in attendance. B...
FALLBROOK – The Boys & Girls Clubs of North County held their annual Rising Star Award ceremony May 24. Staff from all eight club sites, board members, community partners and family and friends of the recipients gathered to celebrate this year's winners. "This is a special night for our club," said Allison Barclay, chief executive officer for the Boys & Girls of North County. "Our staff does a great job of recognizing club members on a daily basis but this event gives us a c...
In a local emergency, people who don’t speak English or Spanish may not understand urgent information put out by government agencies and media. This challenge is faced by public health departments and local emergency managers throughout the country, but San Diego County is trying out a solution by partnering with a broad network of trusted community organizations. It works like this: the county provides critical information for the public on the Partner Relay Network web page, an online communication platform which is u...
FALLBROOK – Jo Ann Eagle, Fallbrook Senior Center Thrift Shop manager, donated 150 pounds of clothing for the "Stand Down San Diego" event taking place on June 26. This event benefits homeless veterans in the community....
FALLBROOK – June, July and August will see the artwork of Jim Bates, Gabriele Bitter and Neill Ketchum on display at the Z Cafe and Gallery. The community is invited to celebrate their art at a reception, 3-5 p.m., Saturday, June 23, at the Z Gallery in River Village, in Bonsall. Bates is a native Californian who began his professional career after studying art and graphic design at the Art Center College of Design in Los Angeles. "My watercolor paintings, using only three p...
FALLBROOK – Fallbrook is well represented in the Fine Art Exhibition at the San Diego County Fair in Del Mar. There were 1,800 works submitted, and 750 were juried in to be displayed. Among winners from the Fallbrook area who were recognized at the awards presentation, May 31, were Jack Ragland and his daughter,Natasha Ragland. Jack Ragland won second place in "Acrylic Still Life" with a large painting entitled "Barcarolle." He had four works juried in and received a d...
County health officials are urging pet owners who let their animals outside to remember to protect their pets – and themselves – from fleas after a county resident has recovered from a relatively rare but potentially deadly form of typhus. County public health officials said a North Park woman was hospitalized in May but has fully recovered after contracting murine typhus, a bacterial disease. It is most commonly spread by fleas that feed on infected rats, opossums, cats, rac...
If a friend or loved one were contemplating suicide, would you know it? If you knew it, would you know what to do? The great majority of people who die by suicide show warning signs. Knowing how to spot them and what you can do may help save a life. On average, suicide claims the life of more than one San Diegan every day. Mental health experts believe that for every suicide, six other people who were close to the victim suffer lasting emotional trauma. “Suicide can be prevented,” said Alfredo Aguirre, director of Beh...
Recent studies about health care in America show troubling trends, especially in states with large rural and relatively low-income populations. While the United States continues to spend far more than any other developed country on health care on a per capita basis and as a percentage of gross domestic product, many states, especially in the south and Midwest, are losing ground in key areas that pertain to life expectancy. The Commonwealth Fund’s just-released 2018 Scorecard on State Health System Performance, w...
FALLBROOK – Fallbrook athletes, ages seven to 18, converged at Fallbrook Stadium May 26 for the first football combine held in town. Fallbrook Pop Warner athletes from the youth program (ages five to 13) were given the opportunity to take the field with junior varsity and varsity football players from Fallbrook High. Together, the players worked with tackling dummies, ran speed drills and had fun getting some conditioning. The Fallbrook High coaching staff hosted the event w...
Junior Audrey Peterson, sporting a 4.63 GPA, tops a list of 90 student-athletes from Fallbrook High making the San Diego Union-Tribune's spring sports All-Academic Team. In order to make this All-Academic Team, which is for juniors and seniors, student-athletes must compete in a California Interscholastic Federation-approved varsity sport and maintain a cumulative, weighted GPA of 3.0 or better. According to the Union-Tribune, there were approximately 180,000 high school...
For the past 16 years the CIF San Diego Section has had a prohibition against teams attending camps, clinics, and tournaments supervised by the school coach or coaching staff members and within two weeks of the start of fall practices. That will no longer be the case. A unanimous CIF Board of Managers voice vote May 23 eliminated the article in the CIF bylaws which prohibited such activities. The change does not eliminate the two-week "no-contact" period in which a coach cannot have contact with his or her student-athletes....
