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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Lucette Moramarco Associate Editor Legacy Endowment held its annual Grant Awards Dinner Wednesday, Nov. 10 at Pala Mesa Resort. Now 26 years old, Legacy continues to manage funds and endowments which local residents have set up to provide funding for the specific causes they have chosen to support. Award recipients were invited to the dinner to receive the funds they had applied for, and three of them were chosen to talk about their nonprofits. The grants committee reviews...
Julie Reeder Publisher The family of Elena Roy and Rena Salomon organized and led another search Saturday, Nov. 20, for Roy who turned 84 last week and possibly suffers from dementia. She reportedly walked away from her home Wednesday, Nov. 3. Organizers met at Estrella's restaurant at 3757 S. Mission Road at 9 a.m. Their community flyer message was, "We need volunteers to help us search for Elena. Fallbrook has many heavily wooded areas and we need more manpower to find her."...
Chloe Shaver Writer Sarah Jimenez, first-year special education teacher at Potter Jr. High School, is raising funds to purchase a class set of ukuleles for her students to use. The instruments will allow her to reinforce critical skills that her students are learning: social and emotional responses, basic math, spelling and English, and fine motor skills. Jimenez has been teaching special education for eight years and currently teaches a class of 11 moderate to severely...
José A. Álvarez County of San Diego Communications Office The County Health and Human Services Agency has received a state grant to educate parents and caregivers on how to properly secure children in a safety seat. The $249,999 grant from the California Office of Traffic Safety will pay for a variety of community outreach events, education classes and training on the installation and use of child safety seats. The car seat safety program includes: * Child safety seat inspecti...
Rick Monroe Special to the Village News Meetings of the Fallbrook Union Elementary School District will remain virtual after trustees voted unanimously at a special board meeting Friday morning, Nov. 19, to continue virtual sessions only. The board and staff meet in person, but the public is restricted to their online teleconference. An assessment and data workshop took most of the meeting time, but a letter was read by parent Brittney Tiemer prior to the board taking the virtual meeting vote. Tiemer urged the board to go...
Jane Kepley Special to Village News Down payments can be a challenge to navigate, even for experienced homebuyers. How much do you need to put down? Do current market conditions change anything for you? Even the most basic questions aren't always easy to answer. Whether you're thinking of buying soon or planning ahead for a purchase in 2022, now is a good time to clear up any uncertainties and come up with the right strategy for your household. Take a look at these frequently... Full story
Joe Naiman Village News Reporter The County of San Diego approved the bid and award process to resurface 111.16 centerline miles of county-maintained road throughout unincorporated San Diego County including ten Fallbrook streets, three Bonsall roads, three Rainbow streets, and one Pauma Valley road. The San Diego County Board of Supervisors voted 5-0 Nov. 17 to authorize the director of the county’s Department of Purchasing and Contracting to take the necessary actions to advertise the project for bid and award multiple c...
Joe Naiman Village News Reporter The weighted vote at 2022 San Diego County Water Authority board meetings will increase slightly for the Rainbow Municipal Water District while decreasing slightly for the Fallbrook Public Utility District and Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton. The Nov. 18 SDCWA board meeting approved the 2022 weighted vote allocations for the CWA member agencies. RMWD will have 3.926% of the weighted vote, FPUD will have a weighted vote of 2.238%, and the Camp Pendleton weighted vote will be 0.081%. For the...
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Brent Wakefield Special to the Village News The holidays are only weeks away, and the CDC has shared safer ways to celebrate as COVID-19 and its variants still impact the public. From vaccinations and masks to being outdoors, the country continues to bubble back to life daily, but not everyone will – or can – join in. Seniors are one such group. The past two years have delivered far less than holiday cheer as they struggled with social isolation, loneliness, and hunger more than ever. Luckily, local senior nonprofit org...
SAN DIEGO – Feeding San Diego’s Give Hope, Share Joy fundraising campaign started Nov. 16. Funds raised will help sustain large scale drive-through food distributions, cover rising food and transportation costs, increase food supply to mobile pantries in rural areas of Eastern San Diego County and provide meals for children and families in partnership with school districts and other youth-based programs. Last year’s campaign raised more than 10.1 million meals and the goal is to surpass that this year. While the COVID-1...
Yvette Urrea Moe County of San Diego Communications Office The county is expanding homeless outreach services by forming a North Region team to address the needs of people experiencing homelessness in North San Diego County. This is part of the county’s newly adopted Framework to End Homelessness. Under the new approach, the county will focus on creating a person-centered system, one that uses a housing-first approach, maximizes social services interactions and follows evidence-based and data-driven solutions. This will be d...
Dr. Frederick Kuo Special to the Village News It’s no secret. Men simply don’t like to go to the doctor. They either believe they can take care of their health better on their own and don’t want to bother the doctor or have a hard time sharing their personal health information even with their doctor. Studies show women are 33% more likely to see their doctor than men. Yet, compared to women, men's lack of seeking routine medical care is one of the reasons women live longer than men. There really shouldn’t be an excuse...
Joe Naiman Village News Reporter Bonsall High School senior Ethan McFarland will be closing out his high school cross country career at the CIF state meet Nov. 27 at Woodward Park in Fresno. McFarland finished ninth among Division V boys at the CIF San Diego Section meet Nov. 20 at Morley Field in San Diego. The three teams with the best finish qualified for the state meet as teams, as did the five fastest runners whose team did not qualify. McFarland was the fourth finisher...
Joe Naiman Village News Reporter The seven small K-8 elementary schools and middle schools in northern San Diego County and southern Riverside County which participate in athletic tournaments each month converged upon Rainbow for the Nov. 4 Vallecitos Soccer Tournament, and the Vallecitos girls placed third. Vallecitos defeated Cottonwood Elementary School of Aguanga in the third-place match. The Vallecitos boys lost two of the Vikings' three games in pool play and did not...
Joe Naiman Village News Reporter The three Division II girls cross country teams with the highest team scores at the CIF San Diego Section meet Nov. 20 at Morley Field in San Diego qualified for the state meet as a team, and the five fastest individual runners not affiliated with a school which qualified as a team also qualified for the state meet Nov. 27 at Woodward Park in Fresno. Fallbrook High School's girls finished fifth, but Fallbrook sophomore Abby Petersen placed...
FALLBROOK – Fallbrook Encore Club is a social club and encourages other neighbors from Fallbrook, Bonsall, DeLuz, and Rainbow to join the club and enjoy all of its many activities. The club is welcoming, growing and a happy place for singles or couples to meet new friends and reconnect with old friends. Anyone interested in joining can contact Ardis Duhachek, membership chair at 612-309-0099 or just go to www.fallbrookencoreclub.com. The many activities enjoyed include d...
FALLBROOK – Acclaimed pianist Kyle Orth along with his wife, gifted violinist Rachel Arcega Orth, will perform as featured artists on Sunday, Nov. 28 at 3 p.m. as part of Fallbrook Music Society's 44th season. Fallbrook Music Society President Bob Freaney remarked, "Kyle and Rachel are both extraordinary musicians. Together they represent one of the most talented couples in classical music circles. We're delighted to have them in an encore Fallbrook concert with their new r...
Elizabeth Youngman-Westphal Special to The Village News A holiday treat is ahead. For a limited time only, "Miracle on 34th Street, A Radio Play" will be performed by Curtain Call Company at Christ the King Church, 1620 S, Stage Coach Lane. Reenacting the original Lux Radio Show script from the Dec. 20, 1948 broadcast, this dual cast will bring to life the story of the little girl that didn't believe in Santa Claus. The movie was released the year before which included the all...
Rick Monroe Special to the Village News Two young women from Palmdale were arrested Saturday, Nov. 13, for stealing merchandise from three stores, according to Det. Steve Ashkar. An off-duty employee of the Sheriff's Department observed irregular activity at one of the stores and called deputies, Ashkar said. The suspects apparently placed items in tote bags they brought into the stores, then transferred them to trash bags in their vehicle before heading to another store. Ashk...
Rick Monroe Special to the Village News The Fallbrook Freedom Fighters' second monthly anti-mandate rally on Friday afternoon, Nov. 19, attracted about half the crowd that attended the first event Oct. 15, but organizers say they were not disappointed. Courtney Stevens said the crowd of about 100 people was smaller because the location changed, darkness comes earlier each evening, and the start-time of 3:30 p.m. is when many people were still at work. In addition, there was a...
Tracy DeFore County of San Diego Communications Office Volunteers who go above and beyond when donating their free time were recognized for their efforts recently during the County Parks and Recreation Department's fifth Champion Awards ceremony at Heritage Park. Nominations are made by the public. To qualify, the nominees must volunteer their time without pay, and the work must take place in San Diego. Honorees are acknowledged for their work in parks or recreation, and for...
SACRAMENTO – As part of the transition to the State Capitol Swing Space, the bronze bear statue in front of the Governor's Office was relocated Nov. 19 to the reception area of the new, temporary Governor's Office in the swing space. The statue had been at the front entrance to the Governor's Office in the State Capitol since it was purchased by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger in 2009. "For many Californians making a trip to the State Capitol, one of the more memorable stops i...
