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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Five 2017-2018 students taught by Fallbrook High School industrial arts teacher Jacob Bagnell won Best in Class recognition at the San Diego County Fair Student Showcase including Dylan Myers, who took home both Best in Class and Best of Show honors in the General Technology – Special Needs division. Fallbrook swept the General Technology – Special Needs division with Dylan Livingston also receiving Best in Class honors. The projects of Jacob Hizel, Zach Jones and Dustin Bryan...
FALLBROOK – Fallbrook Union High School District announces its policy to serve nutritious meals every school day under the National School Lunch Program, School Breakfast Program and Afterschool Snack Program. Effective July 1, 2018, through June 30, 2019, children are eligible for free or reduced-price meals if the household income is less than or equal to the federal guidelines. Applications will be sent to the household with a letter about the free and reduced-price meal program. The household must let school officials k...
AUSTIN, Texas – The Ambassadors for Community Health – Auxiliary at St. David’s Medical Center, which was formerly known as St. David’s Medical Center Healthcare Volunteers, has recognized 20 university students across the country with $122,000 in scholarships, funded by proceeds from the nonprofit Atrium Gift Shop at St. David’s Medical Center in central Austin, Texas. Fallbrook’s Sai-Han Yu, who is studying nursing, is one of the students recognized. All of the recipients are working toward a degree in the field of he...
FALLBROOK – Continuing its successful "Classical Sundays" format, Fallbrook Music Society begins its 41st annual concert season Sunday, Aug. 26, with one-of-a-kind ensemble, Quarteto Nuevo. Winners of the Beverly Hills national auditions competition, Quarteto Nuevo merges western classical, eastern European folk, Latin and jazz with razor-sharp precision. Headlined by Fallbrook favorite Damon Zick on soprano saxophone, the ensemble melds the music of ancient worlds, c...
FALLBROOK – Imagine the Oscars with no politics, no acceptance speeches and no commercials. That image is precisely what guests will see and hear if they attend the second annual Fallbrook Family Film Festival faux awards night, 4:08 p.m. to 6:03 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 22, at SonRise Christian Fellowship, 463 S. Stage Coach Lane, in Fallbrook. Each winning movie short is six minute or less. The evening will also feature a hand-picked selection of entertaining movie songs p...
FALLBROOK – The Fallbrook Senior Center is offering several tours in the upcoming months. Sightseeing highlights for the Utah Canyon Royale motor coach trip begin at the Valley of Fire State Park in the Mojave Desert. They will also visit Zion National Park with its stunning scenery and Cedar Breaks National Monument, which has a half-mile deep amphitheater, in Utah. Day four includes a stop in Las Vegas, Nevada, with time for gambling, shopping, shows and fine dining. The price includes a professional tour escort, three n...
FALLBROOK – Mission Resource Conservation District and the San Diego County Water Authority have secured funding from the California Department of Water Resources’ Proposition 84 grant to provide growers with cost sharing – up to $5,000 for the purchase of soil moisture sensors. It will allow growers to make more precise irrigation management decisions. The Precision Agricultural program begins with the creation of a soil map for the property, which is created using electrical conductivity mapping, a precision agriculture pra...
A change order for the design and replacement of the Rainbow Municipal Water District’s Lift Station No. 1 was approved by the Rainbow board. The 5-0 board vote, June 26, changes the design of the lift station while increasing the total design contract amount from $1,146,854 to $1,439,965. “These design changes will produce a product that’s going to be more cost-effective,” Rainbow general manager Tom Kennedy said. The current Lift Station No. 1 is off Old River Road and delivers sewage effluent to Oceanside, which has an...
The half-cent TransNet sales tax for transportation includes an environmental mitigation program, and this year’s grant awards include $379,500 to the Mission Resource Conservation District for the district’s arundo eradication program. The San Diego Association of Governments approved the environmental mitigation program grants, July 27, in an 18-0 vote; the representative of El Cajon was absent. A total of 19 projects received a combined $2,000,000 of grant funding. The environmental mitigation program has two com...
Work on the San Diego County Water Authority’s Moosa Canyon Erosion Control project began in June, but groundwater was encountered at a higher level than expected and the SDCWA approved a change in its contract with Granite Construction to allow the installation of a dewatering system. The CWA’s unanimous board vote, July 26, approves the change order covering the additional scope of work along with an additional $200,000 funding authorization. The Moosa Canyon erosion control project will protect the CWA’s Second Aqueduct by...
“Lowering Your Blood Pressure Could Stave Off Dementia,” heralded the headline from Bloomberg, which was not alone in delivering the “good” news. Time advised, “There May Finally Be Something You Can Do to Lower Your Risk of Dementia.” Reuters’ headline was even more definitive. “Lowering Blood Pressure Cuts Risk of Memory Decline: US Study.” Readers can be forgiven if they rushed to their doctors to discuss more aggressive blood pressure treatment. Who wouldn’t want to escape the scourge of dementia? But alas, most of the n...
TEMECULA – Temecula Valley Hospital has received the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association’s Get With The Guidelines® - Stroke Gold Plus Quality Achievement Award. The award recognizes the hospital’s commitment to ensuring stroke patients receive the most appropriate treatment according to nationally recognized, research-based guidelines based on the latest scientific evidence. This is the second year in a row the hospital has achieved this honor. Temecula Valley Hospital earned the award by meeting specif...
FALLBROOK – Stress affects people from all walks of life, and the causes of stress are as varied as the people it afflicts. In its 2017 Stress in America survey, the American Psychological Association found that the three most common sources of stress were the future of the nation at 63 percent, money at 62 percent and work at 61 percent. According to the National Institute of Mental Health, routine stress that becomes chronic can result in a host of negative side effects. Such stress can suppress the immune system, d...
FALLBROOK – The Fallbrook Parkinson Support group will hold their monthly meeting, Friday, Aug. 24, 10 a.m. to noon, in the fellowship hall of Christ the King Lutheran Church, 1620 S. Stage Coach Lane, in Fallbrook. The meetings are held the fourth Friday of each month. This month, Gina Camardo of Abbott Medical Devices will speak on “Deep Brain Stimulus and New Technologies for Parkinson’s disease.” “When you first hear the term ‘neuromodulation,’ it may sound like a something from an episode of Star Trek. But there’s no sc...
I’ve been a Realtor since 1997. During that time, much has changed. It seems that every year the process of purchasing or selling a home gets more complicated. Sellers are required to disclose everything they know about their home. Inspections on homes are more arduous and requests for repairs frequently reach far beyond just items that are mechanical or safety related. These stressors begin immediately after an offer has been accepted, so the sellers and buyers never s... Full story
FALLBROOK – Albertsons will host a mobile blood drive in partnership with the nonprofit San Diego Blood Bank, 1-6 p.m., Monday, Aug. 27, in the parking lot at 1133 S. Mission Road in Fallbrook. About 1 in 7 people entering a hospital need blood. One pint of blood, which is the amount volunteers give when they donate blood, can save up to three lives. Since blood is always needed, volunteers are asked to give blood for patients, such as those going through cancer or trauma. Donors must meet the eligibility requirements, be a...
SAN DIEGO – Sales of previously owned single-family homes in San Diego County dropped 10.5 percent in July compared to June, according to data released, Aug. 8, by the Greater San Diego Association of Realtors. Month-over-month single-family home sales fell from 2,221 in June to 1,989 in July. Condominium and townhome sales fell from 1,162 to 994, a 14.5 percent drop, according to the association. Single-family home sales and sales of condominiums and townhomes saw smaller decreases when compared to July 2017. The former d...
DEL MAR - A bluff failure alongside a stretch of ocean-front train tracks south of Seagrove Park led to delays in rail service in coastal San Diego County today. The collapse of a roughly 50-foot-wide section of sandstone cliff onto the beach near the western terminus of 11th Street in Del Mar was reported shortly before 3 p.m., a city lifeguard said. No injuries were reported. All train service was suspended between Solana Beach and Sorrento Valley while maintenance crews inspected the stability of the rails near the site... Full story
FALLBROOK - A day after he and his wife were indicted on charges of using more than $250,000 in campaign funds for personal expenses, such as family vacations and dental work, Rep. Duncan Hunter, whose district includes the Temecula area, said today the case against him is politically motivated and he will fight to clear his name. "I believe in our American system of justice. I support our system of justice,'' Hunter, R-Alpine, said in a statement released by his campaign. "I cannot say the same, however, for those within our...
BURBANK - There's sad news today for fans of Leonard, Sheldon, Howard, Raj, and Penny, with Warner Bros. Television announcing that the upcoming season of "The Big Bang Theory'' will be the comedy hit's last. "We are forever grateful to our fans for their support of `The Big Bang Theory' during the past 12 seasons,'' according to a statement from Warner Bros., CBS and Chuck Lorre Productions. "We, along with the cast, writers, and crew, are extremely appreciative of the show's success and aim to deliver a final season, and... Full story
Sheriff's department officials said today said a 28-year-old man who appeared to suffer some type of medical emergency and passed out after fighting with deputies at the Circle K/Mobil gas station on Highway 76 on Aug. 16, has died. Marco Napoles Rosales of El Monte was pronounced brain-dead Tuesday, six days after his violent encounter with law enforcement personnel, according to sheriff's officials. A ruling on his cause of death remains on hold pending an autopsy. In the... Full story
SAN DIEGO - Researchers at the UC San Diego School of Medicine today announced their success in determining that a type of DNA-repairing enzyme is neutralized by DNA lesions caused by exposure to ultraviolet light. RNA polymerases are enzymes that monitor, detect and repair damaged sections of DNA to maintain genetic integrity. The researchers found that the processes of a specific polymerase, called Pol 1, stalled when it attempted to repair a lesion caused by UV light damage in a DNA strand. Pol 1 is responsible for up to... Full story
SAN DIEGO - San Diego State University announced today that head men's basketball coach Brian Dutcher has been given a contract extension through the 2022-23 season. The 2017-18 season was Dutcher's first as head coach and he became the school's first rookie coach to guide the team to a Mountain West Conference title and 22 wins, breaking the previous record of 14 wins set by Tim Vezie during the 1974-75 season. The Aztecs also reached the NCAA March Madness tournament for... Full story
SAN DIEGO - Orchard Supply Hardware, which has locations in San Diego and San Marcos, will be closing by early next year, with parent company Lowe's announcing today it wants to "focus on its core home improvement business.'' Lowe's owns all 99 locations of OSH throughout California, Oregon, and Florida. There are at least two dozen locations in the Southland. "While it was a necessary business decision to exit Orchard Supply Hardware, decisions that impact our people are never easy,'' Lowe's President/CEO Marvin Ellison... Full story
DEHESA - An 80-year-old motorist was found dead today inside her crashed car at the bottom of an embankment alongside a dirt road near the Sycuan Casino. A hiker came upon the crumpled gold Lexus ES300 roughly a half-mile from the southern terminus of Sycuan Road in the rural Dehesa area about 8 a.m., according to the California Highway Patrol. The driver's name was withheld pending family notification. Her car apparently veered off an unpaved rural byway on the grounds of Sycuan Indian Reservation, careened down the... Full story
