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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Fallbrook High School's girls water polo team improved its season record to 8-2 by finishing second in the Winter Classic tournament. The Warriors' loss in the championship match followed four wins in the Dec. 14-19 tournament hosted by Valhalla High School. Fallbrook also reached the championship final of the season-opening Bronco Tournament. "They've been doing well," said Fallbrook coach Sean Redmond. All five of Fallbrook's Winter Classic games were in the Granite Hills High School pool. The two Dec. 14 games were both...
The Bonsall Teachers Association now has an agreement with the Bonsall Unified School District. A 4-0 BUSD board vote Dec. 8, with Sylvia Tucker absent, approved an agreement retroactive to July 1, 2015, and effective through June 30, 2016. "We were pleased that the board did approve the tentative agreement with the Bonsall Teachers Association, and we'll be looking forward to working with our classified union as well," said BUSD superintendent Justin Cunningham. The agreement includes a 4.5 percent pay increase for... Full story
On Oct. 7, Governor Brown signed Assembly Bill 949, which requires the California Interscholastic Federation to develop guidelines, procedures, and safety standards which will add competition cheerleading as an interscholastic sport. Assembly Bill 949 gave the CIF a deadline of July 1, 2017, and the CIF will implement cheer for one of the 2017-18 seasons. "We're just in the preliminary stages statewide of developing what the sport will actually be and what season it will be in and how competition will take place," said CIF...
The Bonsall Unified School District will be purchasing a new bus and is seeking buyers for five buses which no longer meet clean air standards. One 5-0 board vote Sept. 15 approved the declaration of five inactive buses as surplus; another 5-0 vote Sept. 15 approved the purchase of a new school bus from A2Z Bus Sales, Inc., and a 5-0 vote Oct. 13 approved the purchase of the new bus using a "piggyback" clause with the Waterford Unified School District in Stanislaus County. The value of all five of the surplus buses was...
On Tuesdays and Thursdays, aromatic scents drift from Fallbrook High where students serve dinner to the public from 4:45 to 6 p.m. The school’s restaurant classes are part of the Regional Occupational Program (ROP), and are taught by instructor/chef Larry Koch who has a background in restaurant management with Aloha Restaurants. The program provides valuable training in all aspects of the restaurant business, and is open to Ivy High and Oasis High students, as well as F... Full story
BONSALL – The Bonsall Woman’s Club invites one and all to its annual Christmas Luncheon to be held at the Golf Club of California on Thursday, Dec. 10 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. The theme this year is "The Wonder of Christmas." The luncheon and entertainment offer an exceptional way to bring in the holiday season. This is the Bonsall Woman’s Club primary fundraiser of the year. All proceeds will benefit local charities and scholarships for local high school graduates. The entra... Full story
Winners have been announced for this year's scarecrow design contest – the artistic element and heart of the fourth annual Fallbrook Scarecrow Days that took place in the month of October. According to founder Jackie Heyneman, entries in the contest "continue to grow little by little each year." "There were 130 scarecrows listed on the ballot this year," she said. "A few did not show, but it is still an increase. The quality and unique ideas continue to improve and amaze." H...
Friends of the Fallbrook Community Air Park (FCAP) held its 10th annual spaghetti dinner Aug. 8 at Ed Murray's hangar. FCAP served approximately 90 people, which is believed to be a record. "We had a good turnout," said FCAP secretary Tom Wilson. Last year's spaghetti dinner, which commemorated the 50th anniversary of the first flight at Fallbrook Community Air Park, drew 81 people. Wilson believes that the highest attendance at any FCAP spaghetti dinner was 84 people. "One...
Stephen Abbott has been selected to be the new North County Fire Protection District fire chief when current NCFPD fire chief Bill Metcalf retires at the end of the year. "I'm honored. I'm excited. It's something that I've been working for with a lot of support from my family and a lot of mentors here," Abbott said. The NCFPD board of directors held a special meeting Sept. 8 which included the unanimous decision to name Abbott as Metcalf's replacement. "I think he's an... Full story
SAN DIEGO COUNTY – Everyone can play a role in fighting childhood obesity. On Sept. Sept. 4, the San Diego County Childhood Obesity Initiative released its updated Call to Action: Childhood Obesity Action Plan, highlighting what everyone can do to make sure children’s waistlines shrink. In its plan, the initiative, a public-private partnership that aims to promote healthy choices through policy, systems and environmental change, outlines more than 100 strategies for the reg... Full story
A 4-3 vote September 11 by the county's Planning Commission recommended the approval of Accretive Investments' proposed Lilac Hills Ranch development. Leon Brooks, Doug Barnhart, David Pallinger, and Bryan Woods voted to recommend with conditions the general plan amendment, specific plan, rezone, tentative map, major use permit, and habitat loss plan for 608 acres on the Bonsall/Valley Center/Escondido border. Michael Beck, Peder Norby, and Michael Seiler voted to recommend denial. Because a general plan amendment, specific...
San Diego County's Local Agency Formation Commission voted 5-3 September 14 to reject the proposed consolidation of the Fallbrook Public Utility District and the Rainbow Municipal Water District. County Supervisor Bill Horn, County Supervisor Dianne Jacob, Carlsbad City Council member Lorraine Wood, San Diego City Council member Lorie Zapf, and Vista Irrigation District board member Jo MacKenzie cast votes in favor of the motion to reject the merger. Escondido mayor Sam Abed, Olivenhain Municipal Water District board member...
As the LAFCO vote regarding the merger of Fallbrook Public Utility District and Rainbow Municipal Water District approaches on Monday, Sept. 14, both proponents and opponents of the merger between the two districts agree that consolidation would provide some economic savings, although the specific amount is in dispute and opponents note that functional rather than jurisdictional consolidation might also achieve those savings. There is also a consensus that some customer service benefits might be compromised if the governance...
FALLBROOK – The Reche Community Club will sponsor a chicken pot pie dinner on Sept. 26 to raise funds to preserve and maintain the historic schoolhouse at 1319 S. Live Oak Park Road in Fallbrook. The schoolhouse is one of the oldest and most historically-significant buildings in the community. The dinner will be held at the school from 4 p.m. until 6:30 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 26. Dinners will be served at 4, 5 and 6 p.m. and take-out dinners will be available. Besides c... Full story
Students at Fallbrook Union High School (FUHS) will have the opportunity to meet their new principal at the beginning of the school year. Larry Boone, formerly of Lompoc Valley Middle School, was hired by the Fallbrook Union High School District board of trustees to take the helm at Fallbrook High. Superintendent Dr. Hugo Pedroza stated that between 40 to 50 applicants applied for the position. While Pedroza and Boone have worked together previously in Santa Monica and... Full story
The revelation that two of the five plaintiffs in the suit alleging that the Fallbrook Public Utility District violates the California Voting Rights Act have names matching those of Rainbow Municipal Water District employees has led to the discovery that neither FPUD nor Rainbow prohibit employees from engaging in appropriate off-hours political activities. It has also been established that both districts provide training to comply with state law only to the extent of the functions of employees' jobs. On June 24, the Mexican...
The San Diego County Fair includes a Fine Art Show, and this year the artists who won first place in their class included Fallbrook's Ray Fedorchak and Rainbow's Jack Ragland. Fedorchak won two first-place awards. The highest award in the Pastel, People and Animals competition was for "Ginger" while "Pond and Pines" took first place in the Pastel, Land/Cityscapes, Still Life and Florals category. Ragland's "Autumn Ambrosia" won first place in the Acrylic, Representational, Still Life and Florals class. "It's always a... Full story
The word homeless has many connotations, but the first thing that jumps to mind is not generally a retired couple using their homelessness to promote a business, a book, and travel the world. However, that is exactly the scenario Bill and Susie Davidson have found themselves in. The couple moved to Fallbrook originally in 1989 and later launched themselves into early retirement and their self-titled "great adventure." Bill, who was a Southern California Edison employee for 32...
David Albert Dering passed away early Tuesday morning April 28, 2015 at the young age of 90 years old. He is survived by his wife of more than 40 years, Opal C. Dering of Fallbrook; his two children, Kit and Tom; four grandchildren and five great-grandchildren. Dave was born July 13, 1924 in Beverly Hills, Calif., the only child of Tom and Margerett Dering. He graduated from BH High School in 1941 and joined the Navy in 1942, training as a pilot until 1947, with an honorable d...
The 50th annual Fallbrook Vintage Car Show was indeed pure gold. Breaking all attendance records and number of classic car entries, the spectacular event, held Sunday, May 24, on the grass at Pala Mesa Resort was a sight to behold. Live music, multiple food booths, a beer and wine garden, raffles and an outstanding children's play area, made the event sponsored by the Fallbrook Vintage Car Club perfect for the entire family. It appears from early estimates that over 10,000... Full story
“Academically, the step up from high school to college isn’t as steep as previous transitions may have been. Unless a student takes on an unusually heavy course load, the demands aren’t markedly different from before” (The Transition from High School to College Par. 1). After leaving high school, many students are told to go to the next level of education to achieve their degrees. While various high school graduates do attend the first semester, first time freshman students start at a high peak number but slowly go down ov...
Although Ryan Welfle's first racing night ended with a blown motor during the Demo Cross heat race April 25 at Perris Auto Speedway, the Fallbrook driver also completed the Figure 8 heat race earlier that night. "It was fun," Welfle said of his racing debut. Welfle competed in demolition derbies when he was in high school in The Dalles, Oregon, but had not raced until the April 25 Night of Destruction at Perris Auto Speedway. He moved from The Dalles to Fallbrook in 2004 due to his Marine Corps activity at Camp Pendleton,... Full story
SAN DIEGO COUNTY – The measles outbreak that started in Disneyland wound up sickening nearly 150 people in seven states, including 14 in San Diego County. Some children who got sick were too young to be immunized, but most of the people infected were unvaccinated by choice. This outbreak could likely have been prevented if people who were exposed to the highly contagious respiratory disease had been immunized. So, the County Health and Human Services Agency is urging p...
The Bonsall Unified School District board approved a consultant agreement with Dale Scott & Company for financial advisory services which will include potential refinancing of the district's general obligation bonds and issuance of certificates of participation to finance the two-story building planned for the Sullivan Middle School campus which also currently includes Bonsall High School. A 3-0 BUSD board vote March 10, with Timothy Coen and Sylvia Tucker absent, approved the agreement. Dale Scott & Company will be...
The Bonsall Education Foundation proved that Bonsall does indeed have talent by sponsoring its 2015 '60 Seconds to Fame' talent show featuring district students. The event was held March 19 at Sullivan Middle School. The following are the winners in the various categories: Group Singing First Place 'The Chicklettes' Danielle Prince Madison Prince Payton Prince Second Place Perla and Mina' Mina Kuhn Perla Hernandez Third Place Sing Out Loud' Joana Suarez Twila Garcia Michelle...
