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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SAN DIEGO - Authorities asked the public today for help in identifying whoever has broken into and looted four North County farm- and garden-supply businesses in recent weeks. Between Sept. 20 and Oct. 17, an undetermined number of thieves forced entry to the stores after hours and stole thousands of dollars worth of chain saws, tree trimmers, leaf blowers and other gasoline-powered tools, according to sheriff's officials. The victimized businesses were L&M Fertilizer in Fallbrook, Powerland Equipment in Valley Center and... Full story
MaGee’s Tavern may look and sound like an Irish pub – but it’s a restaurant as well. Of course they serve beer and ale – 20 taps worth – including Smithwicks (Since 1710) and the ever popular Guinness. However, it’s the food that brings many of the patrons back. Sit in the cushy row seats, which encourage friendly chatter, as you enjoy a meal served by the attentive wait staff. Lunch is always a great value with a half salad and cup of soup accom... Full story
PERRIS - More than 6,000 Southern California Girl Scouts will descend on Lake Perris this weekend to celebrate the scouts' 100th anniversary. Beginning tomorrow night, members of all ages from the Greater Los Angeles area are expected to turn out for a ''Camporee,'' featuring singing, dancing and other entertainment. Performers from Radio Disney, the Pasadena Civic Ballet, the all-girl band SledgeGrits and award-winning Broadway actress Leilani Jones Wilmore are all slated to take the stage, according to organizers. Along...
The County of San Diego’s Transportation Impact Fee (TIF) rates are a second reading and adoption away from being revised. On Oct. 10, the San Diego County Board of Supervisors voted 5-0 to approve the introduction and first reading of the revised TIF rates. The second reading and adoption is scheduled for Oct. 31. “After seven years this is what the board and the stakeholders are looking for,” said Rich Crompton, the director of the county’s Department of Public Works (... Full story
FALLBROOK – While the nation gears up for another presidential election, students at Live Oak Elementary geared up for their own elections. This year, instead of the typical voting method in which students cast their votes in their own classrooms, students took their votes to the polls - a specially designated classroom where they filled in their voting forms in individual cubicles. Each voter received an “I Voted” sticker before leaving the voting site. Campaigning beg... Full story
FALLBROOK – The Fallbrook Union Elementary School District (FUESD) will be honored in the 33rd Annual Golden Bell Awards program of the California School Boards Association in San Francisco on Dec. 1. The award was won in the Parental/Community Involvement category for Fallbrook A Leer, under the direction of Leticia Maldonado Stamos. The Fallbrook A Leer program is a community service project that encourages families to establish and maintain a routine of reading in the home as an ongoing tradition. The event is held...
FALLBROOK – Second graders at Live Oak Elementary kicked-off Fire Prevention Week, which began Oct. 8, with help from Sparky the Dog’s Hazard House – a classroom instructional prop that provides students with an opportunity for hands-on safety practice. Using the Hazard House as a model, teacher Elva Hawkins taught her students about the hazards in their own homes and demonstrated ways to make things safer. Hawkins shared many fire safety tips with students, i... Full story
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FALLBROOK – The Fallbrook Quilt Guild recently completed a unique banner quilt as part of a national project to honor the fallen military from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the National Iraq and Afghanistan Memorial Quilt Project. The banner will be on display in the Fallbrook library community room during the Harvest Festival on Saturday, Oct. 27, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. All are invited to stop by and see it. All banners are constructed as replicas of quilts made...
FALLBROOK – Boy Scout Crew 718 is pleased to announce that Aram Anderson of Fallbrook has completed all the requirements to earn his Eagle rank. Anderson and his volunteers donated 142 hours to the Fallbrook Beautification Alliance by doing trail improvements on the Pico Promenade Trail. Dallen Friebe, 18, a student at Palomar College and a member of Fallbrook Boy Scout Crew 725, has also completed the requirements to earn the Eagle rank. Friebe and his volunteers...
FALLBROOK – Due to recent water damage at the Fallbrook Art Center, the Fallbrook Art Association must cancel its Fall Show, which was scheduled to run from Nov. 2 to 11. The next FAA art show will be a month-long Plein Air Show in Studio 105 at Brandon Gallery in March, 2013....
Nine-year-old Dara Denton of Fallbrook finished fifth in the Oceanside Harbor Days children’s fishing derby September 29, but she had the distinction of having the first catch of the derby and also had the most fish at one point. Places in the derby for children 13 and under are determined by the weight of the largest fish caught rather than the number of fish caught. Denton caught three one-ounce sardines to put her in the lead before catches later in the day gave four other fishermen larger catches. Denton was one of t... Full story
FALLBROOK – On Nov. 1 at 6:30 p.m., the Fallbrook Quilt Guild will present a combination talk and trunk show featuring Terry Waldron at the Fallbrook Community Center, 341 Heald Lane. “She will explore how everyone can be an artist,” said organizers. “This talk will open the doors of the lost creativity we were all born with.” A workshop on cloth and crayon scraffitos will be offered on Saturday, Nov. 3 at the Fallbrook Senior Center, 399 Heald Lane. For workshop fee and time, email Ruby Hoffman at quiltin...
FALLBROOK – The long anticipated world-class Galaxy of Glass show, which opened to rave reviews at the Fallbrook Art Center in September, was forced to close a week early due to extensive damage to the first floor area of the Art Center caused by a broken water valve. Mary Perhacs, executive director of the center, arrived at work Oct. 15 to find the facility flooded with two inches of water wall-to-wall. The water valve coming into the building (circa 1961) broke sometime Oct. 14 causing thousands of gallons of water...
FALLBROOK – On Friday, Nov. 2, the second annual golf charity fundraiser will be held to benefit the Fallbrook Food Pantry. The event will include 18 holes of golf (including cart) and an awards dinner at San Luis Rey Downs, 31474 Golf Club Drive, in Bonsall. The event also includes a box lunch for each player and special contests including hole-in-one, putting, closest to the pin, and longest drive. An exciting raffle and silent auction will be available during the awards dinner. Cost is $95 per player or $380 per...
1/4 300 E. Elder St. Battery on person 10/10 400 Ammunition Rd. Use/under influence of controlled substance 10/14 400 Ammunition Rd. Grand theft 1600 Rice Canyon Rd. Drunk in public 100 N. Ridge Dr. Residential burglary 40700 Gavilan Mountain Rd. Suicide attempt Camino Del Rey @ Camino Del Cielo Possess concentrated cannabis 400 E. Elder St. Drunk in public 200 E. Fig St. Petty theft from vehicle 400 Ammunition Rd. Annoying phone call: obscene/threatening 300 E. Mission Rd. Exhibit firearm 1300 Tierra Roja Dr. Grand theft...
The upcoming 14th annual Galway Downs international equestrian event in Temecula, scheduled for Nov. 1 through 4, has all the makings for the most exceptional presentation ever. This year’s event will not only celebrate 14 years of international eventing at the site, but the third year of three-star international competition. Only four facilities in North America are provided that privilege. Visitors will have the opportunity to see firsthand the skills of five-time O...
Construction is set to begin in December on a project to build a new 88-seat outdoor amphitheater at Fallbrook’s Live Oak Park. The project, which also includes the planting of 25 additional young oak trees around the proposed theater, is scheduled to be completed by May of 2013. Funding for the $503,000 amphitheater will be provided mostly from donations made to the Live Oak Park Coalition, said Al Gebhart, chairman of the coalition. According to Gebhart, the amphitheater i...
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SAN DIEGO COUNTY - San Diego County Crime Stoppers and detectives from the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department are looking for leads in a series of commercial burglaries that are occurring in the North County. Detectives said that there have been four commercial burglaries between September 20, 2012 and October 17, 2012 in Encinitas, Fallbrook and Valley Center. Unknown suspects are targeting commercial farm and garden supply businesses by forcing entry after hours and stealing thousands of dollars' worth of g...
Many members of the Fallbrook Revitalization Council’s Oct. 18 meeting at Fallbrook Public Utility District appeared frustrated and dismayed when they heard the proposed community benefit district some were trying to establish to revitalize and enhance the downtown business area would be mired in significant red tape at both the state and county level before being considered for implementation. County representatives that attended the council’s meeting said lawmakers at both levels would have to establish new laws and gui...
The San Diego County Board of Supervisors authorized the advertisement for bid and subsequent award of a construction contract to install a traffic signal at the intersection of South Mission Road and Aviation Road and to provide 4,500 feet of new cabling to interconnect that signal with three existing signals. The supervisors’ 5-0 vote October 10 also appropriated $527,800 from a Highway Safety Improvement Program grant into the project’s budget. The work also includes constructing pedestrian ramps at South Mission Road and...
SAN DIEGO – Longtime Rainbow resident Fernando “Tito” Steere competed in the San Diego Senior Olympics recently and brought home three gold medals. The fitness portion of the competition took place in El Cajon on Sept. 30. Steere won gold medals in sit-ups, push-ups, and dips. He also won a silver medal in pull-ups. Steere is a member of Secure Horizons’ Silver Sneakers Program and works out at Club Paradise Fitness Center in Fallbrook. At 87 years young, Steere was t... Full story
IRVINE (Wire Service) - The California Public Utilities Commission voted today, Thurs., Oct. 25, to initiate a formal investigation into the long-term outages at the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station in northern San Diego County, a move that includes consideration of a refund to utility customers. The commission, which provides state oversight of the nuclear power plant, voted 5-0 at a meeting in Irvine to initiate the investigation. The commission will consider whether customers of Southern California Edison and San Dieg... Full story
