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Also serving the communities of De Luz, Rainbow, Camp Pendleton, Pala and Pauma
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ESCONDIDO – Shifting from property dweller to property investor is a huge step. The reasons are oftentimes due to certain life changes like relocation or wanting financial freedom. Usually, first-time landlords decide to rent out their own home. We prepared below a list of things you will need to do to make a successful transition from being a homeowner to landlord. Rethink your relationship to the property. The first step in making the shift from homeowner to landlord is t...
California’s small businesses employ over 7 million people and make up 95% of all businesses in this region. Most employ less than 100 workers, and businesses with four employees or less comprise 65% of the total, like our neighborhood grocery or restaurant. The problems I encountered running my small retail business are what first led me to run for public office. Before the pandemic, business in California was booming. Now small businesses are suffering. Many have shut d...
It is an absolute disgrace that San Diego County is not supporting the Ingold Sports Park. This facility was started by local heroes and friends of Fallbrook, and cost over $4 million to begin operations in May 2000. Through a tremendous amount of hard work, their dream became a reality. Ingold Sports Park has been serving a large part of North County ever since – not for profit – but for the betterment of the community. Today it serves over 3,500 people a week. The county cannot put overly restrictive conditions on the par...
Hey Jeff, I always suspected you. Thanks for the heads up. I always thought it was a story from The Associated Press, but no it was from Jeff [Pack]. You have to give the mean, nasty Trump credit. He magically makes socialists out themselves like a crucifix from Dracula. Joe Schembri...
The increase of national news in the Village News is concerning to me. Particularly the inclusion of articles from the Epoch Times. The front page of section B last week was dominated with an article about Hunter Biden. Why is this so important to be in the Village News? The Epoch Times has a mixed reputation among other media outlets. In an analysis of The Epoch Times by The New York Times Oct. 24, 2020, it quotes “Embracing Mr. Trump and Facebook has made The Epoch Times a partisan powerhouse. But it has also created a g...
Thanks Maggie, We will miss you. The problem is you can’t trust just the NYT. I am a subscriber to NYT too, as well as Epoch Times. We used to be able to depend on the daily news for our national news, and it was an industry standard to be unbiased and provide both sides for the reader to make their decision, but not anymore. The problem is that the world and its issues are increasingly local issues, whether they are economic, COVID-19, climate change, etc. Last month, The N...
I am writing because I read all Julie Reeder's letters and have thoroughly enjoyed them. Her last letter, “Are you tired of being lied to? The price of liberty is eternal vigilance,” really got to me because I think we are in for a very rough ride on this election no matter who wins. If you reread my letter in the August 2019 Village News opinion section, it covers what I gathered from all my listening to my news sources of which I have very little time to spend with news as I have a very busy life. It is as if people do not...
In response to Elizabeth Youngman-Westphal's opinion piece this week, I didn't know that The Left "saw to it that his (Trump's) personal assistant was exposed to the COVID virus." There are thousands of pictures of Trump (maskless) in rallies and crowded events where he just may have exposed himself and others to COVID. And, despite how many times he says it, I don't think high record days of 83,000 new infections is "rounding the corner." Elizabeth also tells us that "She likes The Donald." I'm trying to recall who I like...
Every COVID-19 death is a tragedy and while we continue to fight this virus, we may never know the real number of deaths when it comes to this disease. According to the U.S. Census Bureau as of July, more than 44% of Californians reported levels of anxiety and depression. Over 71% of Californians between the age of 18 and 29 reported feeling down, depressed or hopeless. The reality is a significant portion of the population is suffering, not from coronavirus, but from the...
On Friday, Oct. 16, 2020, Michael Emeric Mociler, loving husband and father of two daughters passed away at the age of 74. Michael passed away in his Fallbrook, California, home with his wife by his side. Michael was born Oct. 16, 1946, in California to George and Vivian (Lane) Mociler. He grew up in Long Beach, California where he graduated from Robert A. Millikan High School in 1965, later joining the Navy and becoming a Vietnam veteran. After the Navy, he became a woodworking carpenter for 40 years before retiring from... Full story
Emily Holzer, 30, passed away Oct. 21, 2020, in Tarzana, California. She was born Nov. 24, 1989, in Lawndale, California. In March 1990 Emily and her family moved to Fallbrook, California. Emily grew up in Fallbrook attending Live Oak Elementary School, Potter Junior High School, and Fallbrook High School. All four high school years, Emily played in the percussion section of the FHS Marching Warriors, an activity she loved. She graduated from FHS in 2007. Emily earned a... Full story
The COVID-19 shutdown left so many people in despair. It impacted businesses in the community, children and their parents, churches, older adults and a long list of others. Everyone sympathizes with those who have suffered serious physical, financial and emotional hurts. That being said, the shutdown has in a strange twist given many people a large amount of unexpected free time. How have you been using the unexpected free time? Have you used it to pursue opportunities that...
If the number of candidates for a special district or community planning group board does not exceed the number of positions to be filled in an election state law allows the county Board of Supervisors to appoint the candidates who filed for those seats in lieu of holding an election. On Oct. 27 the San Diego County Board of Supervisors formally appointed those candidates to new terms. The supervisors' 5-0 vote also appointed candidates to new terms if an insufficient number of candidates filed for the number of seats...
The Fallbrook Food Pantry was one of 100 nonprofit organizations in California honored as a nonprofit organization of the year for 2020 and, during the proclamations session of the Oct. 27 San Diego County Board of Supervisors meeting, the county supervisors honored the Fallbrook Food Pantry. "I want to thank everybody in San Diego County for this proclamation," said Fallbrook Food Pantry Executive Director Shae Gawlak. Each state legislator honors a nonprofit of the year organization from his or her district. State Senator...
San Diego County was a stronghold of the Republican Party for a significant chunk of the last century, with the Republican candidate for president carrying the county in all but one election from 1948 through 2004, when George W. Bush beat John Kerry in San Diego County by a healthy margin of about 52% to 46% (Bill Clinton eked out a narrow plurality over George H.W. Bush in 1992 with Ross Perot in the mix). But just four years after the junior Bush carried San Diego County...
A wild pig is seen on a "No pets allowed" trail in Rancho Monserate Country Club. The pig had made its way east down the San Luis Rey River bed and ran wild on the golf course and up the hillside....
A pedestrian was struck and killed by a car just after midnight Sunday, Nov. 1, in Fallbrook. The deadly crash happened at about 12:15 a.m. on South Mission Road near Peppertree Lane. According to California Highway Patrol Officer Mark Latulippe, a 53-year-old Fallbrook man was crossing South Mission from the east side of the roadway when he ran into the path of a northbound Toyota Camry driven by a 58-year-old man, also from Fallbrook. The Camry struck the pedestrian, who was then taken to Temecula Valley Hospital in...
To kick off the meeting of the North County Fire Protection District on Tuesday, Oct. 27, Chief Stephen Abbott began by speaking about and recognizing each of the retiring board members, directors Ruth Harris, Bob Hoffman and Fred Luevano. Harris was elected to the board in 2004 and finished her 16th year as a director. Hoffman and Luevano were elected to their position in 2016 and are finishing their fourth year. “Know that your service is appreciated, it doesn’t go unknown,” Abbott said. The board then approved the Conse...
SAN DIEGO – Freelance writer Nathalie Taylor, a Village News and Sourcebook magazine affiliate since 2003, won seven awards from the San Diego Press Club Tuesday, Oct. 27. Due to COVID-19, the 47th Annual Excellence in Journalism Award ceremony was held online, broadcast from the San Diego Automotive Museum. Since 2004, Taylor has won 87 writing awards. She has also taken many of the photographs that accompany her articles. Taylor received four first-place awards, two s...
FALLBROOK (CNS) – Homicide detectives are investigating the death of an 18-year-old boy in Fallbrook, authorities said Saturday, Oct. 31. Deputies responded to the 440 block of Ammunition Road at about 10:40 p.m. Friday, Oct. 30 to help the North County Fire Department with an injured boy, according to Lt. Chad Boudreau of the San Diego County Sheriff's Department. "When deputies arrived, they found Nicolas Ramirez suffering from an unknown traumatic injury,'' Boudreau said. "Ramirez was transported to Palomar Hospital w...
The Fallbrook Union High School District Board of Trustees voted Monday, Oct. 26 to extend distance learning through the remainder of the first semester and the final grading period, which means students would return to campus in a hybrid model on Jan. 4, 2021. Prior to the meeting, at least one parent spoke in favor of opening the school to students immediately. Superintendent Ilsa Garza-Gonzalez gave the presentation on the proposal, which asked the board to approve as it...
A presentation at the Oct. 26 Fallbrook Public Utility District board meeting outlined the process of setting calendar year 2021 rates. The presentation was a nonvoting item, but the FPUD board members expressed no objection to the schedule. In November 1996, the state's voters passed Proposition 218, which requires a public vote on benefit assessments. Proposition 218 exempts water and sewer rate increases if a cost of service study shows a relationship between the rates and the agency's cost to provide water or sewer...
Everyone knows what it feels like to be tired. But what if you seem to always be tired, extremely tired, day after day, even after a good night's sleep? Could it be that you have chronic fatigue syndrome? Dr. Nancy Klimas, the director of the Institute for Neuro-Immune Medicine at Nova Southeastern University, specializes in myalgic encephalomyelitis – chronic fatigue syndrome. She explained the debilitating condition, which commonly results in migraines, "brain fog" and o...
Dr. Richard Shuldiner has seen over 10,000 patients in his lifetime for low vision care. "I started practicing back in the 1970s in Poughkeepsie, New York," Shuldiner said. "(I) went to a lecture somewhere about low vision and discovered there were no low vision doctors in my area, and I thought that people needed the service so I would learn how to do it." Shuldiner was trained and found there were few services available to the blind in the area, so he contacted New York...
Having a healthy appetite, one that says, "I'm hungry," then "I'm full," is part of a cat and mouse game we play daily. The majority of us have no problem wanting to eat but stopping is a whole other event. The hunger hormones in the body are called leptin and ghrelin. Both play a role in body weight. Leptin is in charge of decreasing one's appetite while ghrelin increases appetite. They have a tug of war relationship; one that we fully sense and feel. Leptin is made by our...
