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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Among California’s lowest funding per student, Bonsall schools have to be fiscally conservative to perform among the highest. Since 2008, operations such as after school day care, nutrition services, and transportation were restructured to move them from red into the black. These moves, the solar projects, and refinancing debt bring hundreds of thousands of dollars in savings annually toward increasing student learning. Why does Bonsall need DD? Our community voted for district unification in 2012, requiring grades 9-12. N... Full story
Sharon Koehler is my choice for Fallbrook High School District Board of Trustees. She brings experience, knowledge and a genuine love for students to the job. A life-long teacher, she is dedicated to helping students get a quality education so they can go on to good employment or further education. As an incumbent she has served as president of the board for six years, leading it through a difficult recession that saw promised funds cut by the state. She was instrumental in bringing in a new superintendent, the JROTC...
On Election Day, November 8, area voters will determine the following: - Which candidates will take possession of the contested open seats (Division 1 and Division 4) on the Fallbrook Public Utilities District board - Which candidates will seize the contested open seats (Division 2 and Division 5) on the Rainbow Municipal Water District board - Which candidates will occupy the two open seats on the Fallbrook Union High School District board - Which candidates will commandeer...
The San Diego County Fair included a Junior Livestock Auction Scholarship for 2016 Fallbrook High School graduate Taryn Sehnert. "I was just really excited about it," said Sehnert. The Junior Livestock Auction Scholarship program works with the San Diego County Fair but is a separate organization with 501(c)(3) non-profit status. Most of the money for the scholarships is from livestock auction buyers who then donate their animals back to the fair for resale with those... Full story
Edward Allen Blank, cherished husband, beloved father and grandfather, passed away peacefully at his home on August 28, 2016. He was born March 1, 1932, in Ravenna, Ohio, to Carl Kenneth Blank and Mildred Swartout Blank. He graduated from Ravenna High School in 1950, a four year letterman, earning a football scholarship to Kent State University. He loved and excelled at all sports, especially baseball, and in his later years, at golf. After serving in the Navy Reserves, he... Full story
This week we were notified by concerned parents that a nine-year-old boy walked into the boys' bathroom at his Clovis Unified School District elementary school [school name omitted for privacy reasons] and upon entering found a girl squatting/hovering over the urinal. This young boy was both disturbed and confused. Why was a girl in the boys' bathroom? Why was she using a urinal? Why was a biological girl exposing herself to a boy in this intimate facility? We ask ourselves the same questions. A group of parents in Clovis...
There's nothing like a good pre-game meal, and that's exactly what the Fallbrook High School FFA serves up before every Warriors home football game. For just $10, fans are treated to a dinner featuring wonderfully-smoked tri-tip, tasty ranch style beans, green salad with choice of dressing, a roll with butter, and refreshing lemonade or water. When the evenings get cooler later in the season, coffee will also be offered. The barbecue dinner is served from 5 to 6:30 p.m. at the...
Ivy High School photography instructor Bodhi Smith has found the San Diego County Fair's Student Showcase to be a popular activity for his students, and this year he also taught a Saturday class at Fallbrook High School which allowed Fallbrook High School photographers to join their Ivy counterparts in the Student Showcase. The Ivy participation for the 2016 fair consisted of 40 students with 65 photographs, while Fallbrook had 27 students with 50 photographs displayed. Fallbr...
Sullivan Middle School's 2015-16 art students had 35 entries in the San Diego County Fair's youth exhibitions. Two of the sixth-graders in Melissa Ledri's advanced art class were entered in the Creative Youth competition for grades K-6 while the 33 seventh- and eighth-grade students had entries in the fair's Student Showcase. "They did the best they could," Ledri said. Ledri did not assign a particular subject or theme for her students. "I gave them a lot of choice," said Ledri. "It was probably a difficult assignment... Full story
BONSALL – Bonsall High School world studies students partnered with HP engineers in a project-based learning opportunity. Teacher Danny Costa said “the final project, which is a working Rube Goldberg machine, is integrated with representation of events of World War II based upon the students’ country of choice.” Rube Goldberg was an American cartoonist and inventor made famous by his illustrations of overcomplicated devices that perform simple tasks. Students were mentore... Full story
Senator Joel Anderson District 38 (R) As a legislator, I swore an oath to uphold the Constitutions of the United States and the State of California, to protect all citizens against discrimination and every person’s liberty to go to the school of their choice. Under current law, students are free to use their financial aid wherever they choose and private colleges, in full compliance with federal law, may be granted appropriate exemptions to preserve their religious t...
Beverly Sinclair Thordarson, born December 30, 1939, in Santa Monica, passed away July 23 at home after fighting a courageous battle against stage four breast cancer for the last four and a half years. She was raised and attended public schools in Burbank. In the early 70s, Beverly traveled for 18 months through Tahiti, Fiji, New Caledonia, Australia, and Southeast Asia including Afghanistan, Burma and Nepal. During her travel through Australia, she paused to teach at an all... Full story
This spring, seven Fallbrook High School student athletes signed letters of intent with the colleges of their choice. Athletic director Patrick Walker said that the high school averages between five and 10 students signing letters each year, so this was a normal number. Two of the students signed to play football, two to play field hockey, two to play rugby and one to play baseball. Both Collin Dowling and Parker Martin were named first team all league, with Dowling on the...
FALLBROOK – The Fallbrook Beautification Alliance (FBA) has announced the winners of their ninth annual Fallbrook Outstanding Landscape Awards. Nominations were open to the entire Fallbrook community with numerous submissions received in each of the five award categories, making the winning selections a tough choice. The Outstanding Landscape Award program is designed to recognize the efforts of individuals and organizations that contribute to Fallbrook community pride t...
I have become a better skater this year. I learned and am still learning new tricks and techniques. I learned how to fall and get back up without complaining. I've come to realize that skating is a lot like life; when you fall down, you have to get back up. I fell many times this year, I even broke a bone or two, but I did not give up. I also learned to be more careful. One bad mistake or bad fall can take months to recover from. In life we might make one big mistake but we can't let life take us down. In our old school, we... Full story
BONSALL – Bonsall’s Sullivan Middle School wrapped up an exciting 2015-16 school year with a promotion ceremony that featured an unprecedented six valedictorians. The promotion ceremony followed an awards assembly the day before that saw SMS unfurl four new sports league championship banners. “The 2015-16 school year at Sullivan has seen our outstanding school soar to even greater heights,” commented Sullivan principal Joseph Clevenger. “The Class of 2016 includes six valed... Full story
Javier Abrajan of Ivy High School, and Madeleine Gillcrist, Aaron Gonzalez and Parker Martin of Fallbrook Union High School (FUHS) were all saluted at the Fallbrook Student of the Month breakfast on May 5 at the Fallbrook Community Center. Emcee Greg Coppock began the program by having the May Students of the Month come onto the stage, where they were presented with a Lamp of Knowledge medal by active duty military representatives Sgt. Ashley Lendorf, Sgt. Samantha Torres,...
No single community or nation can reverse global climate change alone. We are all in this together. Stalling climate change will be an incremental set of actions, small or large, and each of us must take on some piece of the problem. Nothing is guaranteed, but climate action is risk mitigation insurance that we need to assign ourselves. The county has no climate action plan but now wants to engage the public in the development of one. County contact for notifications is [email protected] and (858) 694-2216. The...
Nancy Schrimpf, Coldwell Banker Village Properties Special to the Village News Our homes hold more than just our furniture, they hold our hearts. So it is entirely understandable that sometimes we don't want to sell a property, even if we know on some level that we must. How can you tell if it is time for you to seriously consider selling? The people you love are too far away I am working with some clients who are selling their home of 30 years. That's not an easy thing to...
Parents who are interested in removing students from Fallbrook Union High School District (FUHSD) for the 2016-2017 school year have been expressing frustration by the delay in the interdistrict transfer process. According to FUHSD assistant superintendent Jose Iñiguez, Fallbrook High’s interdistrict transfer dates are guided by state law. "Educational code is pretty explicit about what the dates are," said Iniguez. "There is a difference in the amount of time a district has to reply to parents when they request a tr...
Sandra Shrader Special to the Village News When it comes to the human body, physical injury is an equal-opportunity possibility. It doesn’t matter whether you are young, middle-aged, or old, an Olympics-bound athlete or an X-Box warrior, there is a reasonable chance that you may need physical therapy at some time in your life, according to Bill Atkins of All Star Physical Therapy in Fallbrook. "The demand for physical therapy services, or rehabilitative health programs, has b...
Mark and Jennifer Landis of Fallbrook are going through a time that no parent should have to, living with the knowledge that one of their children is terminally ill. The couple learned on January 17 that five-year-old son Parker has a rare and aggressive form of brain cancer, specifically Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma (DIPG). "It's completely devastating; no child in the world deserves this," Mark Landis said in an interview with the Village News. Parker's diagnosis came... Full story
Excellent, state-of-the-art technique, combined with warm compassion and feather-soft personal touch, is what has kept Dr. Clayton Cooke at the top of his field for over 30 years. Patients in Fallbrook and throughout Southern California quickly realize Dr. Cooke is a professional comparable to none, since his distinguishing attributes are realized on a first visit. "I could not be more pleased with the dental care that I have received in the last year from the practice of...
With mitigation land banks and conservancy groups being a hot topic of late around Fallbrook, Vince Ross, chairman of the Fallbrook Community Forum, invited a panel of four knowledgeable speakers to the group's Feb. 18 session held at Fallbrook Public Utility District. Ross, who co-founded Fallbrook Land Conservancy with Wallace Tucker 27 years ago, said he felt a better understanding of the topic might help local residents who have publicly expressed concerns about the process San Luis Rey Downs golf course is undergoing to... Full story
FALLBROOK – In partnership with the Fallbrook High School Marching Warriors, Fallbrook Music Society presents the Warriors Drum Line in concert on Sunday, Feb. 28 at 3 p.m. in the Fallbrook Public Library. Free to the community and designed for young kids and families, this concert is a "show and tell" of the different types of instruments in the percussion section and features the various types of drums that are used in a band. "This concert is going to be quite smashing ...
