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  • Junior Pee-Wee team tops Vista in season opener

    Updated Sep 12, 2013

    FALLBROOK – Fallbrook’s Pop Warner Junior Pee-Wee football team started off the season with success on Aug. 31, taking on the Vista Longhorns at Warrior Stadium, located at Fallbrook High School. In the 90+ degree heat, the 9-, 10- and 11-year old Warriors struck first with the offensive line opening a hole for a short yardage run up the middle to put six points on the board for Fallbrook. Vista answered back in the second quarter by breaking several tackles and r...

  • Adults over 50 invited to play senior softball

    Updated Sep 12, 2013

    FALLLBROOK – The Fallbrook Senior Softball League is now accepting new players (age 50 and better) for the fall season which will begin on Sept. 30. Games are played at 4 p.m. Monday through Friday, with each team having two games per week, at Ingold Sports Park, 2551 Olive Hill Rd., in Fallbrook. League fee of $65/person includes shirt and hat. For more information, registration forms, etc. visit www.fallbrookseniorsoftball.org or call Chuck Mattes at (760) 751-8389....

  • Thomas earns bronze medal in diving

    Updated Sep 12, 2013

    FALLBROOK – Eva Thomas, 7, of Fallbrook, a member of the Fallbrook Associated Swim and Dive Team (FAST) earned a bronze medal in the AAU 1-meter national diving competition held at the La Mirada Aquatics Center Aug. 23 through 25. Thomas competed in the age 9 and under category. She earned high scores on the one-and-a-half somersault and inward dive, high degree of difficulty dives, helping her win the bronze. She finished only a few points from the gold. Thomas also...

  • Fallbrook cribbage team posts three straight wins

    Updated Sep 12, 2013

    FALLBROOK – After losing the first five matches of 2013, the Fallbrook Senior Center Cribbage Team has come roaring back with another win at the Aug. 22, 39-player Senior Challenge. Fallbrook won 75 games to 65 games against Oceanside and had the top three winners. Mitzi Potwora turned is a beautiful card winning all seven games with one skunk. In second place was Ed Wozniak with six wins and a skunk. Richard Leigh took third with five wins and three skunks. Rounding out the top seven were Obie Weeks, Carol Williams,...

  • Golf scores September 12, 2012

    Updated Sep 12, 2013

    San Diego County Inter-club Seniors At Riverwalk Golf Course Low Net Aug. 21, 2013 Fallbrook Golf Club 10 Torrey Pines Golf Club 8 Fallbrook Tom Koszowski 70 Larry Sheldrup 73 Ross Bergantine 75 Torrey Pines Steve Locke 69 Gary Newman 75 Stephen Shushan 77 Pala Mesa Women’s Golf Three Blind Mice Aug. 22, 2013 First flight First low gross Teri Callahan 67 First low net Iris Delaney 63 Second low gross Kathy Callagy 75* Second low net Irene Fedeli 65 Second flight First low gross Nancy Korchick 85 First low net Rose Bolton 7...

  • Warrior sticksters victorious in season opener, Waite's return

    Updated Sep 12, 2013

    Fallbrook High School’s field hockey team lost six senior starters and one 2012 junior from last year’s team. The Warriors are also without 2011 and 2012 coach Kirstin Mueller, who gave birth to Trinity Eden Mueller on July 18 and has taken a year of absence from the field hockey team. Kathy Waite, who coached Fallbrook’s varsity from 1982 to 2010 and was the team’s volunteer manager after retiring, agreed to come out of retirement to coach the Warriors in 2013. The Warriors o...

  • Junior Pee Wee team wins again

    Updated Sep 12, 2013

    FALLBROOK – Fallbrook Pop Warner’s Junior Pee-Wee football team continued its success at home on Sept. 7 by defeating Carlsbad’s Thundering Lancers. Defensive Coordinator Shawn Brown’s defense kept the Lancers at bay for the entire game by not allowing any points scored by Carlsbad. In addition to the defense’s two forced fumbles, one stripped ball and one interception, Carlsbad never got into the red zone. Carlsbad’s accurate throwing game kept Fallbrook’s defense bus...

  • Extend the harvest this season with fall and winter produce

    Updated Sep 12, 2013

    Didn’t get enough gardening in this season? Don’t worry there is still time to grow garden-fresh vegetables and herbs this fall and winter. Purchase transplants and seeds that will grow and flourish in the cooler fall and winter temperatures. Lettuce, spinach, Swiss chard, root vegetables, edible pansies and calendula, as well as cole crops, like broccoli, are a few to consider. Those gardening in colder regions need to select short season crops like lettuce, spinach and radishes that will mature before extremely cold win...

  • Spider mites latch onto roses in warm weather

    Updated Sep 12, 2013

    Well, the summer heat finally arrived. The forecast for the next few weeks shows temperatures in the mid to high 80s. If you are participating in my prescribed practice of allowing a summer of rest for your roses, you still have several weeks to take it easy before a mid-season pruning. As a wise man once said, “Predicting things is difficult, especially in the future,” but one can only assume it will look a little like the past, especially with the weather. So I’ll give...

  • CWA/MWD meter at delivery point rescaled

    Updated Sep 12, 2013

    The meter at the delivery point where the San Diego County Water Authority takes over distribution from the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California was rescaled May 16. The meter is for MWD’s San Diego 7 connection within the Fallbrook Public Utility District boundaries and approximately six miles south of the border of San Diego County and Riverside County. The Venturi meter, which was activated in October 1971, has a length of 34 feet, a throat diameter of 45 inches, and a pipe diameter of 88 inches. The r...