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 – The Friends of the Fallbrook Library is hosting a new art exhibition titled “Sanctuary,” which will be on display through Nov. 2. The exhibition artists address the issue of finding a safe place – a sanctuary – in these times when violence and fear threatens people in many parts of the world. Artists from around Los Angeles are featured in the show. The organizers for “Sanctuary,” which was shown in Pasadena and Pomona, are Jimmy O’Balles, Mario A. Hernandez and Maria Swett. Daniel Marquez curated the Fallbrook L...
"The piano's hot!" at the opening night of "Chicago, The Musical" presented by Moonlight Stage Productions. Broadway's second longest running musical is the closing show for the 38th summer season of the Vista amphitheater. Loosely based on incidents of 1920's Chicago murders...the writers of the book for the play, Fred Ebb and Bob Fosse, finally were able to buy the story rights from the estate by the original playwright. True to Fosse's legendary sophisticated choreography,...
FALLBROOK – What if there was an awards night and no awards were presented? What if it was a faux awards night designed solely to entertain? Those who attend this year's SonRise Christian Fellowship Fallbrook Family Film Festival (of shorts) will be able to testify that it is indeed possible for such a friendly event to exist. Instead of seeing clips or listening to a drone of acceptance speeches, people attending SonRise's film festival will see winning short videos (...
PALA – Pala Casino Spa & Resort will host a Paint and Sip art event Saturday, Oct. 6, from 1 to 3:30 p.m. in the underground wine cave, The ticket price includes all art materials including paint, brushes and a canvas so participants can duplicate the featured painting, “Desert Dream.” Art instruction will be provided by the Paint and Sip Temecula Studio in Temecula. Selected wines will be available at the happy hour price of $5 per glass. Happy hour drinks also will be available, including domestic beer, $3; imported beer,...
The infant mortality rate in San Diego County has declined in the last 16 years and is now lower than it is in the state and the nation. In 2016 – the most recent year for which data is available in San Diego County – the rate of infant deaths in the region was 3.7 deaths for every 1,000 live births, well below the Healthy People 2010 national target of 6.0. In comparison, the infant mortality rate in California was 4.5 and 5.6 in the United States. The current San Diego rat...
FALLBROOK – The Fallbrook Regional Health District announced that this year’s free prostate cancer screening is scheduled for Saturday, Sept. 29, 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. at Fallbrook Family Health Center, 1328 S. Mission Road. Prostate cancer is the most common cancer among men in the United States after skin cancer. It competes with lung cancer as the leading cause of death among men. A screening is an indicator that additional medical attention may be warranted; this free screening includes a blood test and an exam. Dr. Philip Bro...
ESCONDIDO – When people attend music festivals like the recent Kaboo Festival at Del Mar, many show up prepared to protect themselves against skin cancer but neglect to protect their eardrums from what the American Medical Association calls American’s fastest growing medical epidemic, permanent nerve hearing loss. Permanent nerve hearing loss and tinnitus has increased 30 percent in young adults under age 25 since 1990. Nearly 20 percent of 12- to 19-year-olds now show evidence of noise-induced hearing loss. The good new...
After three years of holding steady, the number and rate of people who killed themselves in San Diego County went up in 2017. According to the San Diego County Suicide Prevention Council’s 2018 Report to the Community released Sept. 13, there were 458 deaths by suicide last year, 27 more than in 2016. “Suicide continues to be a serious concern in our region,” said Dr. Michael Krelstein, clinical director of Behavioral Health Services for the County Health and Human Services Agency. “We must do all we can to prevent people...
Before the last Woman of Wellness presentation at Fallbrook Library Sept. 6, Fallbrook Regional Health District board member Barbara Mroz presented Fallbrook Library branch manager Kris Jorgensen with a basket of succulents as a thank you to the library for hosting WOW the last three and a half years. Sponsored by FRHD, the event will be moving to the Fallbrook Wellness Center starting Oct. 4. For the September event, local insurance agent Marc Sigmon talked about long-term...
FALLBROOK – Throughout the school year, the Rotary Club of Fallbrook is recognizing students of the month at a different school in the Fallbrook Elementary School District. For the month of September 2018, students from Mary Fay Pendleton School were recognized. Mary Fay Pendleton School assistant principal Megan Shinner presented Quinn Soucie and Amelie Hatfield as the Students of the Month to the Rotary Club of Fallbrook at a recent weekly luncheon. Soucie is a second g...
NORTH COUNTY – The number of full-time equivalent students enrolled at Palomar College in the current semester rose by approximately 2 percent, compared with fall 2017, district officials announced Sept. 14. Overall, the district's head count – the total number of individuals enrolled – also grew by about 1 percent year over year. Accounting for some of the growth, the two new Palomar College Education Centers in Rancho Bernardo and Fallbrook delivered impressive numbe...
SACRAMENTO – The California Board of Education recently approved a comprehensive set of kindergarten to 12th grade computer science standards for California’s teachers, students, parents and communities. These standards give clarity to teachers and administrators about how they should think about K-12 computer science education and provide guidance to districts and schools about what subjects schools should offer. There are more than 74,000 open computing jobs in California and less than half of its schools offer the subject....
BONSALL – Continuing his commitment to foster better communication throughout the community, Bonsall Unified School District Superintendent David Jones will be hosting a series of community collaborative discussion meetings for residents of the Bonsall Unified School District. “The purpose of these meetings is to share the current realities, needs and vision of the district with residents, to seek and listen to community feedback, and to collaborate in the interests of educating the children served by the Bonsall Unified Sch...
There's likely no better person to write a book about pairing food with Temecula wines than Martha Culbertson. And there's nobody more qualified to write about the history of the wineries than Rebecca Farnbach. Fortunately, Culbertson and Farnbach are teaming up to do just that. The duo is currently working on "Flavors of the Temecula Wineries," to be published by Pechanga's Great Oak Press, sometime in late 2019. "The Temecula Valley Wine Society came to me and asked if I...
OCEANSIDE – North County Fire Protection District's Battalion Chief Greg Wilson presented a Stryker gurney to the Oceanside High School Health Academy, Sept. 11. "As we remember the tragic events of 9/11, it is fitting that we honor the first responders by doing something like this," John Choi, captain paramedic for North County Fire, said. The academy enables students to investigate and prepare for a career as a healthcare professional by blending the academic challenges o...
Poll workers, especially those who are bilingual in any one of six specific languages, are needed for the Nov. 6 general election. The Registrar's office is required by federal law to provide bilingual speakers and voting materials to voters who speak Spanish, Filipino, Vietnamese and Chinese. In addition, a survey conducted by the University of California, Berkeley showed a need for speakers of Arabic and Korean at just under 90 precincts across the county so the Registrar's...
SAN DIEGO – San Diego County Solid Waste Division is seeking 5,000 square feet of vacant land in Fallbrook to use as a short term collection site for hazardous waste. It must have space for a trailer or two with good ingress and egress. Rent must be minimal. The county plans to staff it with one or two people a month on a Saturday and move the waste off-site later in the week. At this time, the closest hazardous waste collection site to north county is in Ramona. For more information, contact Melissa Porter at (858) 6...
PAUMA VALLEY - A man was killed on Monday, Sept. 24 in a single-vehicle crash in the Pauma Valley area. Officers were sent shortly after 7:20 a.m. to the 32200 block of the unincorporated North County community, California Highway Patrol Officer Jim Bettencourt said. Security personnel from the Pauma Valley Country Club, located on Pauma Valley Drive, found a man inside a Nissan pickup truck that had gone off the roadway, he said. The driver was pronounced dead at the scene, Bettencourt said. His name was withheld pending... Full story
Fallbrook High School lost all three pool play matches in the Sept. 14-15 Firebird Classic girls volleyball tournament hosted by Pacific Ridge High School, but the Warriors then won all four bracket matches to take the tournament championship. Four Fallbrook players were selected to the all-tournament team, including most valuable player Skyler Traut. "I was extremely happy that we came back, we turned it around," said Fallbrook head coach Chip Patterson. Pool play took place Sept. 14 and Fallbrook opened with a 25-19, 25-21...
Although the Fallbrook High School girls tennis team began the 2018 season with a 12-6 loss Aug. 28 at Rancho Buena Vista, the Warriors won their next three matches. Fallbrook's first victory of the year, as well as the Warriors' first home match of the season, was an 11-7 triumph against Orange Glen Aug. 30. The Warriors followed up that victory with wins Sept. 4 at El Camino and Sept. 6 against Oceanside at the Fallbrook Tennis Club. "That's a pretty good start," said Fallbrook coach Bill Lenaway. In the match against...
Lauren Suppe finished eighth in the girls Division 2 freshman race at the Laguna Hills Cross Country Invitational meet Sept. 8. Suppe's debut as a Fallbrook High School cross-country runner resulted in a time of 20:57 on the 3.0-mile course. "That's a great start," said Fallbrook head coach Troy Hamlin. Suppe is not truly a newcomer to Fallbrook High School's cross-country program. Her brother, Tristan, is currently a Fallbrook High School junior and ran cross-country in 2017. Another member of the Suppe family has also...
Fallbrook High School's boys placed third in the junior race of the Laguna Hills Cross Country Invitational meet Sept. 8 and Warrior runner Josh Hernandez was the third individual finisher in that race. "It's just a real positive start to the season," said Fallbrook head coach Marco Arias. Cross country team scores are derived by adding the position of a school's first five finishers. The sixth and seventh runners are not scored but can add points to other teams' totals. Poway High School won the Division 2 junior boys race...
The San Diego County Board of Supervisors ordered an impact report for an initiative which will be placed on the March 2020 ballot and would require a public vote for general plan amendments which increase density on parcels with semi-rural or rural land use designations. The county supervisors voted 5-0, Sept. 11, to order the impact report while also accepting the certification from the county's Registrar of Voters that the initiative petition has sufficient valid signatures to be placed on the ballot. "The study is...
Roy Moosa, the new owner of the historic Mission Theater, hopes to have the downtown venue hopping once all the paper work is in place. "The goal is to have something happening all the time," said Moosa, who is in the process of getting permits for live performances, wine and beer and food. "I'm working on getting permits so we can do anything we want." Although Moosa plans to start his new endeavor by showing classic films, the theater will by no means be relegated to just...
