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 – Warrior Foundation Freedom Station, a San Diego-based nonprofit organization serving injured servicemen and women, has named retired U.S. Marine Corps Col. Greg Martin as president of the foundation. Martin is a highly decorated veteran who served the nation for 29 years in numerous high-profile assignments, including a deployment to Baghdad, Iraq, as the director of operations at Combined Joint Forces Land Component Command – Operation Inherent Resolve. In his...
Christine Eastman Special to the Village News Varsity swim captain, President’s Service Award, American Sign Language Biliteracy Seal, Most Improved Swimmer, Principal’s Honor Roll, Prom Queen, Warrior Head Pin Award, San Diego Union-Tribune All-Academic Team, National High School Honor Society. And the list goes on… Fallbrook’s top three scholars are all girls and they are unapologetically rockin’ the STEM scene – biology, physics, science, biochemistry, math, engineering... Full story
BONSALL – Bonsall High School’s College Signing and Senior Scholarships and Awards Ceremony took place May 16. Many students were recognized for various achievements and honors before those headed for college in the fall ceremonially committed to their choice destinations. Over two-thirds of BHS graduates will immediately continue with higher learning, 11% higher than the California state average, according to www.higheredinfo.org. The University of California-bound include Calvin Hamilton at University of California Los Ang...
FALLBROOK – The Fallbrook Art Association will host the "We are Fallbrook" art show at The Gallery, 127 N. Main Street, in Fallbrook. The show runs through June 16 and was judged by Richard Stergulz. This show includes a special photo competition of "Life in Fallbrook" judged by the public. Residents can stop by the gallery to place their vote. The show judge, Richard Stergulz, is an Illinois native who by age of eight knew he wanted to be an artist. He graduated from the A... Full story
BERKELEY – Kevin Quintero of Fallbrook graduated with a bachelor's degree from University of California Berkeley in December 2018 with a double major in political science with a concentration on American politics and American studies with a concentration in education. His senior thesis titled, "Shopping for Students: The Marketization of the Public Education System" focused on the educational policy No Child Left Behind and the neoliberalism discourse between nontraditional p...
FALLBROOK – Zion Christian School announced its expansion into a center for blended and project-based learning. Zion Christian School and Learning Center will serve students from preschool through grade 12 in the 2019-2020 school year. The preschool will continue to serve young students and their families with classes for 2- to 4-year-old children, as well as a transitional kindergarten three days a week, and a weekly half-day kindergarten. The new Learning Center will serve students in grades 1-12, the blended learning m...
The North County Fire Protection District board approved election zones for future board elections which will now be by zone rather than for at-large seats. Three NCFPD board votes, April 16, finalized the process. A public hearing was followed by a 5-0 vote not to modify any of the proposed boundary maps. Three options had been developed, and a 4-1 vote with Ruth Harris opposed adopted one of those maps. The election voting sequence for the zone seats was approved on a 4-1 vote with John Van Doorn opposed. “It’s a good cha...
Born and raised in Fallbrook, William Atkins of All Star Physical Therapy has served the community for more than 30 years as a physical therapist, not to mention successfully growing his business to include 26 offices across Southern California. The All Star Physical Therapy clinic in Fallbrook is located at 577 E. Elder St., Suite 1. With five therapists at the office, the clinic sees between 60 and 100 patients a day. As a physical therapist and orthopedic certified... Full story
Nine members of Fallbrook High School’s girls soccer team were given all-league honors by the Valley League coaches including league player of the year Audrey Petersen. “That was really exciting for me,” Petersen said. “That was something I had dreamed about getting. For me, it was really an honor when I found out that was me.” Petersen was joined on the Valley League first team by Karina Bulli and Hannah Diverde. The second team included Jade Kennedy, Galilea Medina and Judith Urbina. Valerie Juarez, Delia Tapia and Nikel...
The consequences of drinking and driving was the focus of a two-day program called “Every 15 Minutes,” held at Fallbrook High School, April 3-4. Made possible through a grant from the California Highway Patrol, the program’s goal is to reduce alcohol-related deaths among youth. Presented only to junior and senior students, the program began in the 1990s when every 15 minutes a life was lost from a DUI-related crash. That number has since improved to every 50 minutes, Calif...
Jim Fisher is now Fallbrook High School’s head football coach. Fisher was offered the position March 12 and began with the spring practice and recruiting Fallbrook students March 18. “It’s a big hire,” Fallbrook athletic director Patrick Walker said. “This is up there with the best.” Although the Fallbrook tenure will be Fisher’s first high school coaching experience, he has 12 years of assistant coaching including recruiting specialization at the college level. “He is highly qualified,” Walker said. “For me it’s his leaders...
While there wasn't a huge turn out at the Fallbrook Regional Health District's public forum Wednesday, March 6, the board's directors gained input from those who did show up. The forum was held for the public to bring their own maps and opinions on how the health district should go about dividing its election system into five new zones. Fallbrook Regional Health District is voluntarily moving away from an at-large election system for the 2020 election to avoid potential... Full story
The North County Fire Protection District has begun the process of transitioning the election of NCFPD directors from at-large voting to election by zones. “I think that it’s a necessary and welcome transition with the times to make sure that we’re accurately representing and meeting the needs of our community,” Steve Abbott, the NCFPD fire chief, said. City councils and school districts have changed from at-large elections to elections by territorial area. The procedure is relatively new for San Diego County’s fire prot...
The Bonsall Unified School District plan to transition elections from at-large to by-trustee area needed a map of trustee areas as well as approval of the transition itself, and the BUSD board voted 5-0 Jan. 8 to approve a map option which had been presented by a demographic consultant. "I'm hoping it will be a good system for Bonsall," said BUSD superintendent David Jones. The election transition still must be approved by the San Diego County Office of Education, whose board will hold a Feb. 28 hearing at the Bonsall Communi...
San Diego County Board of Supervisors chair Dianne Jacob gave the State of the County address Feb. 6 and focused on housing, public safety, and energy. "This spot right here, 1600 Pacific Highway, is a long way from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue," Jacob said a day after the national State of the Union address. "Here it's not about red versus blue. It's about nuts and bolts governing. Here we can turn up our civic sleeves and actually do our jobs and put people before politics." The contrast between the federal government and the...
Marion Saunders delighted the world when she was born Dec. 6, 1923, in San Diego. Her parents, Lola and George Stephens, had three active boys, Milton, Warren and Bob, when their darling girl arrived. She was supposed to be dainty and quiet. Nope, Marion had her own ideas. She danced when dancing wasn’t allowed in her household, did cartwheels and handstands whenever she could, chewed gum that was not really gum, but tar which she and her friends picked up from the newly p... Full story
BONSALL – Lynn Gertenbach, Marsha Meers, Heather Delenela and Neill Ketchum have joined artistic forces for a new show at Z Cafe that is running through next February. Gertenbach's career included her studies at the Colorado Institute of Art, the Art Center of Los Angeles, University of California Los Angeles, studies with Arul Raj in India and Bernard Dunstan in England. She's had 40 one-woman shows, exhibited in Japan, taught and received multitudinous medals and awards. G... Full story
Robert Elwell Christianson – embraced life with gusto, February 20, 1920 to November 7, 2018. Bob thrived through 62 years of marriage, including 32 years of retirement in California (San Clemente, Fallbrook, Murrieta) with his love, Verne, who died early in 2018. Born in Springfield, Nebraska, he finished high school in Garwin, Iowa, and college at the University of Northern Iowa. Bob spread his wings while working summers in the tourist mecca of Pikes Peak, Colorado and s...
There will be a major overhaul of the board of directors of the Fallbrook Union High School District Board of Trustees next week as a result of the Nov. 6 general election, which saw three challengers top three incumbents for the open seats on the board. Voted off the board were president James O'Donnell, Richard Goodlake and Sherry Ludwig. Voted on the board were Diane Summers (who received the most votes), Lita Tabish and Elana Sterling. The election winners will join vice president Sharon Koehler (term: 2016-2020) and Lee...
SAN DIEGO - The San Diego Fleet has the first choice in the Alliance of American Football "Protect or Pick'' quarterback draft on Tuesday, Nov. 27 The Fleet will have the option of protecting one of the three quarterbacks on their roster -- Josh Johnson, Keith Price and Marcus McDade -- or picking an unprotected quarterback from one of the league's other seven teams. If they choose to pick a quarterback from another team, they have to wait to make their selection after all the other teams decide whether to protect a quarterba... Full story
BONSALL – The inaugural Bonsall High School Car Club Fall Car Show was held Saturday, Oct. 13, as part of the Bonsall Chamber of Commerce Fall Festival. The show was open to all makes and models, and for a $10 entry fee donation, the entrants received a custom dash plaque designed by chamber President Jack Flaherty and student club President Carter Arnold. There were 16 entrants in the show, and even with a little rain, participants came out in support of the students. All d...
Recently I talked with a BHS student about the proposed EE bond. I asked her, “How can the district afford to operate and maintain another large campus given its spending deficits and the downward trend in enrollment?” She couldn’t answer the question. so she politely pivoted and replied, “Well, what other choice do we have?” Actually, there are several good answers to her question but the best longterm solution comes from BUSD Trustee Richard Olson, and it makes total sense. First, reject the EE bond, then sell the Gird... Full story
Rockwell "Rocky" Herron, a special agent with the Drug Enforcement Administration, gets angry every time he tells the story of a baby suffering a slow, agonizing death because his mother chose to take drugs. "This mom is in Philadelphia with a 1-year-old boy and she's a heroin addict," said Herron during a presentation to Fallbrook High School seniors on the dangers of drug abuse Sept. 5. "One night she shoots up in bed and dies – an accidental overdose – in bed next to her...
ANNAPOLIS, Md. – Quinn Harrison of Fallbrook successfully completed four years of academic, physical, and professional military training, graduating with merit from the U.S. Naval Academy, May 26, with a bachelor's degree in systems engineering and a commission as a U.S. Marine Corps second lieutenant. Harrison is a graduate of Fallbrook High School where he lettered in water polo and swim. He earned his Eagle Scout rank with Troop 755. At the academy, Harrison was a member o...
Before investing in local real estate, I researched the schools and was told by multiple people, "Oh Bonsall will have its own high school by the time your children are that age.” While conjecture, it seemed a widely held belief. And it came true – my daughter will proudly graduate with the BHS class of 2019! She made the choice to trail blaze, and I am impressed with what has been accomplished so far at BHS occupying a temporary building on the Sullivan middle school campus. A permanent Bonsall High School facility needs to... Full story
