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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This past week, the Lilac fire in north San Diego County touched many people, many homes, animals, land and nurseries on 4,100 acres of land. The Rainforest Flora nursery, located on West Lilac road in Bonsall, was heavily damaged by this fast moving and staggering wild fire. My heart also mourns the horses that perished in Lilac fire and the heroic work of all the folks down at the San Luis Rey Downs Training Center The nursery is the world’s largest growers of tillandsia o...
FALLBROOK – Roxanne Greene is planning a fundraising event for fire victims at Pala Mesa Resort on Monday, Jan. 8 from 4 to 8 p.m. The event will include music by The Pompatus of Love featuring Greg Douglass, James East and Hector Toro, a cash bar and a silent auction as well as food from local restaurants. More details will be announced next week... Full story
FALLBROOK – The Fallbrook Senior Softball League is now accepting new and returning players for the first season of 2018. New players who are interested in tryouts and practice sessions should call the number below for information. Registration fees for all players are due by Jan. 2, and the draft is scheduled for Jan. 3. After the draft, players will be contacted by the team managers. The Fallbrook Senior Softball League is for adults age 50 and above. Games will be played 4 p.m. Monday through Thursday, with each team p... Full story
The county of San Diego opened a new center in Bonsall Friday, Dec. 15, to help all the people living in and around the areas burned by the Lilac fire by giving out free sandbags, fiber rolls and items to stabilize properties before winter rains arrive. The center will be located at the county's Bonsall Road Station at 2370 Pala Road. The center will run 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Mondays through Saturdays and 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sundays. In addition to the free sandbags, fiber rolls,...
POWAY – Anyone who speaks English can make a difference in someone else’s life by working with the Laubach Literacy Council of San Diego County, which provides tutors for learners of English as a second language with tutoring locations countywide. A two-day tutor training workshop is scheduled 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturdays, Jan. 20 and 27, in the Community Room at the Poway Library, 13137 Poway Road, in Poway. No prior experience as a tutor is required. Laubach Literacy Council has been providing free English tutors sin... Full story
FALLBROOK - A 45-year-old Oceanside man was killed when his car went off a winding road in Fallbrook, struck a boulder and rolled into a tree, the California Highway Patrol said today. The victim, whose name was withheld pending family notification, was the lone occupant of the 2017 Nissan Sentra that crashed just after 11:50 p.m. Wednesday on northbound Olive Hill Road just west of state Route 76 in the Bonsall area, CHP Officer Mark Latulippe said. The driver apparently lost control of the sedan on a left-leaning curve on...
A spate of sunny and summer-like holiday season conditions in the San Diego area brought about record high temperatures in several local communities today, according to the National Weather Service. This afternoon, the unseasonably warm spell led to maximum mercury readings of 88 degrees in Ramona, beating the old record of 81, set in 1980; 86 in El Cajon (81, 2016); and 82 in Alpine (79, 1963). The maximum temperature in Vista, meanwhile, matched the city's prior Dec. 28 record of 80 degrees, set in 1975. The pleasant...
Burglars used a sledge hammer to smash the glass doors of five Fallbrook businesses between 3 and 4 a.m. Dec. 26 and attempted to break into store cash registers. "It seems to be a pretty average commercial burglary spree," said San Diego County Sheriff's Department detective Steve Ashkar. "Somebody smashed their glass doors and went in and played with their cash registers." Yama Sushi Restaurant, Thai Thai Restaurant and Little Caesars Pizza, all located in the shopping...
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base shortly after 5:30 this evening has social media buzzing. Thousands took to Facebook, Twitter and other social media platforms to discuss the launch. Most people were unaware it was happening leading to plenty of questions and comments from posters. According to Spaceflightnow.com, Hawthorne-based SpaceX launched 10 communications satellites into "low-earth" orbit aboard the Falcon 9 on its final launch of the...
SAN DIEGO – Elizabeth "Betty" Bulen, founder of San Diego County's longest-running nonprofit hospice program, died Dec. 2 at age 98. It was especially fitting that the compassionate, expert care Bulen helped to provide to thousands of terminally ill San Diegans for nearly 40 years was provided to her at the end of her life through The Elizabeth Hospice. "Betty was the catalyst for a long tradition of caring for those facing a serious illness," said Jan Jones, president and C...
PALA – The Pala Band of Mission Indians in Southern California joins education programs in 10 states funded by the U.S. Department of Education selected to provide training programs to recruit and graduate American Indian teachers and administrators. “This project aligns with tribal initiatives supporting youth. By training our own educators using native ways of knowing, the curriculum is more relevant and more likely to be successful,” tribal Chairman Robert Smith said. “The data show that the ratio of American Indian-...
FALLBROOK – History, an account of what came before, is truly amazing. However, often what has happened before may leave no visual trace today. Alex Holdo of Boy Scout Troop 739 has attained the rank of Eagle Scout through his design and construction of a kiosk to display the story of the role the railroad played in the growth of Fallbrook. Holdo first began his project develop this point of interest by repainting and repairing the display design at an original kiosk at B...
FALLBROOK – The Fallbrook Union Elementary School District is recommending the approval of digital instructional materials in seventh and eighth grade in science. Fallbrook Union is making the Next Generation Science Standards Units of Study available for public review, Jan. 2 through Jan. 12, at the district’s Educational Services Department, 321 N. Iowa Street, in Fallbrook. The recommended digital materials have been developed, reviewed and approved by grade level curriculum teams, which were comprised of teachers of sev...
A proposed subdivision under the jurisdiction of San Diego County has at least one public hearing before a tentative map is approved. A tentative map becomes a final map when all conditions of the tentative map, other than those for which a final map is required, are fulfilled. Currently the San Diego County Board of Supervisors approves final maps along with secured agreements to guarantee completion of the infrastructure. The county supervisors are willing to let that final map approval be handled administratively. A 4-0...
Submitted by Windermere Homes & Estates You may not have the biggest or the best house in the neighborhood, but if you put these design insights to good use you can be the proud owner of a super stylish abode. According to interior design experts, the work they're doing, and the industry shows they're attending, minimalism will continue to be a strong trend in 2018, cozy comfort will be combined with cold technology, and vibrant colors will be splashed across the walls. More minimalism Interior designs that pare a room to...
Marilynn Ruth Davies, age 73, passed away quietly in her home here in Fallbrook on November 25. She fought a valiant fight against breast cancer for over 10 years. Marilynn worked in a variety of occupations and most recently was a licensed marriage and family therapist and mental health professional with offices in Fallbrook, Temecula and Escondido. She is survived by her husband of 26 years, Milton Davies, and two daughters, Lauren Grimsley (grandson Shane) and Erin Dolias... Full story
I must hear once a week, “But aren’t newspapers dying?” or there’s even the person who says it authoritatively to me like they are delivering news to me that I need to hear (and have never heard before) “Well, you know newspapers are dying and digital is the future.” What’s true is that more people still pick up a newspaper Monday morning after the Super Bowl than actually watched the Super Bowl. And newspaper readers are statistically “influencers.” They are typically mor... Full story
On Dec. 11, the second meeting was held, to a packed crowd, and by now everyone knows the decision FPUD made. (They all must have read Animal Farm by George Orwell.) The truth is, if FPUD was concerned even remotely about what the citizens of Fallbrook thought, they would have let it be known well in advance before one pipe was put in the ground on Pendleton, as to the total cost of all this, but no, they waited till the 11th hour (so to speak) to say “Sorry, this is how it’s going to be, like it or not.” It wouldn’t have ma... Full story
When the new 12 cent per gallon gas tax increase went into effect Nov. 1, hardworking Californians took an immediate hit. The tax on diesel fuel also increased by 20 cents a gallon, but we have seen that increase spike to 30 cents at the pump. Vehicle registration fees are also going up by $25 to $175 after Jan. 1, based on the value of the vehicle. Consumers will pay more for groceries and goods and more to have their Christmas gifts shipped to family due to fuel surcharges,... Full story
Candelario Contreras Escobedo (Cande), reached peace and everlasting life into God's kingdom on December 15, 2017, after battling heart disease for ten years. Candelario was born February 2, 1954 in Durango, Mexico. The family moved to Tijuana, Baja California after his father passed away when he was merely a child. That's where Cande met the love of his life and married Irma Escobedo on September 27, 1973. They came to Fallbrook to join her godparents, Josefina and Max Lopez... Full story
Former North County Fire Protection District deputy fire chief Ed Sprague was selected to be the vice chair of San Diego County’s 2018 Local Agency Formation Commission. Sprague, who retired from the fire district in 2015, lives in Carlsbad and is on the board of the Olivenhain Municipal Water District as well as on the LAFCO board. An 8-0 vote, Dec. 4, selected Vista Irrigation District board member Jo MacKenzie to be LAFCO’s 2018 chairperson, and a second 8-0 vote gave the vice-chair position to Sprague. “I’m honored...
San Diego County’s annual budget hearings in June have historically included a special session for organizations to request Community Enhancement funds from the county’s Transient Occupancy Tax revenue. Now organizations will be able to submit requests electronically, but the special session will remain. The San Diego County Board of Supervisors approved the calendar for 2018 board of supervisors meetings, Dec. 5. The designated sessions for Community Enhancement requests remained after a 3-2 vote approved a modification to...
SAN DIEGO – San Diego County District Attorney Summer Stephan recently issued a warning to businesses and scammers not to take advantage of consumers by price gouging during a state of an emergency – doing so can end in prosecution. During a declared state of emergency, it is illegal for a business to increase its prices for essential goods or services by more than 10 percent, unless they can show their own costs have been increased. Gov. Edmund G. Brown declared the state of emergency, Dec. 7. “Price gouging during a state...
SACRAMENTO – The California Department of Tax and Fee Administration is offering tax relief to those impacted by the fires in Southern California. Gov. Edmund G. Brown Jr. issued emergency proclamations for Los Angeles, San Diego, Santa Barbara and Ventura counties due to the effects of the Creek, Rye, Lilac and Thomas fires. All tax and fee payers affected by these fires may request extensions to file returns and relief from penalties or interest. Tax and fee payers may request relief from penalties and interest and ask f...
A jaw dropping sight occurred over Fallbrook Friday night. Was it a missile or aliens from outer space? Turns out it was a SpaceX rocket launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base near Lompoc. From Fallbrook it looked like the spectacular air show started just over Camp Pendleton but it could be seen up and down the Pacific coast. The Falcon 9 rocket was carrying 10 satellites for Iridium Communications, a company that provides a global voice and data network. The U.S Department... Full story
