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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DEL MAR – The Don Diego Scholarship Foundation is excited to offer $69,000 in 2020 college scholarships – including two new opportunities – to 24 outstanding and deserving students who reside in the San Diego area and have participated in the San Diego County Fair and/or other activities associated with the Del Mar Fairgrounds. The deadline to apply is March 23. Finalist interviews will be held in May. Recipients will be honored at the 2020 Don Diego Gala at the San Diego...
Fallbrook elementary school board officials voted Monday, Feb. 3, to approve funding for an administrator and a board member to attend a conference for an organization that represents what are known as “federally impacted” schools. The Fallbrook Union Elementary School District will pay about $3,500 each for Associate Superintendent Raymond Proctor and board President Siegrid Stillman to attend the National Association of Federally Impacted Schools’ spring 2020 conference in March. That organization, also known as NAFIS...
FALLBROOK – National Charity League Ticktocker daughters are caring for Fallbrook's downtown Community Forest. The Perko family is giving up their year of commitment as both girls, Gabriella and Leila Perko, are moving on to their future, broadening their education. Gabriella Perko is a graduating senior and is awaiting responses from her university applications. She has earned 1,710 community service hours with her six-year involvement in the NCL Inc. Leila Perko, a j...
BOSTON – Amanda Smith, a native of Fallbrook, has been named to the Emerson College dean’s list for the fall 2019 semester. Smith is studying writing, literature and publishing and is a member of the class of 2022. The requirement to make Emerson’s dean’s list is a GPA of 3.7 or higher. The college has 3,780 undergraduates and 670 graduate students from across the United States and 50 countries. Emerson is known for its experiential learning programs in Los Angeles, Washington, the Netherlands, London, China and the Czech R...
BETHLEHEM, Penn. – Dean’s list status, which is awarded to students who earned a scholastic average of 3.6 or better while carrying at least 12 hours of regularly graded courses, has been granted to James Johnson of Fallbrook for the fall 2019 semester at Lehigh University. For more than 150 years, Lehigh University has combined outstanding academic and learning opportunities with leadership in fostering innovative research. The institution is among the nation's most selective, highly ranked private research uni... Full story
As parents we may often ignore what is probably the most important influence in our teenager’s life -- peer pressure. While parental opinions may be given some consideration, if only because of the consequences of ignoring them, it’s more often the comments and actions of peers that help many teens decide virtually everything from hairstyles to clothing choices to academic efforts. Peer pressure can be a good thing, encouraging participation in sports, religious activities and working for good grades. But peer pressure can...
HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. – Donia Firooz of Fallbrook excelled during the fall 2019 semester, achieving a GPA of at least 3.5 to earn recognition on Hofstra University’s dean’s list. Hofstra University is a nationally ranked and recognized private university in Hempstead, New York, that is the only school to ever host three consecutive presidential debates in 2008, 2012 and 2016. Students can choose from more than 160 undergraduate program options and 165 graduate program options in the liberal arts and sciences, education, healt...
TikTok’s #outletchallenge presents significant electrical hazards QUINCY, Mass. – According to local news reports, high school students in Massachusetts have been imitating a dangerous viral video circulating on the social media app TikTok. Along with Massachusetts fire officials who have issued fire alerts about the dangers of this activity, the National Fire Protection Association is urging the public not to participate in this challenge. “Electricity is ubiquitous in our lives, so much so that we often take for grant...
America Counts Staff A freshman living on campus in student housing. A junior varsity athlete sharing an off-campus house with teammates. A senior living solo in an off-campus apartment. Even though many residents of a typical American college town might move away after they graduate, they have to be counted while they live there. College towns across the country depend on students' responses to the census. The reason is census results help determine how much federal funding c...
FALLBROOK – The Fallbrook Quilt Guild is delighted to offer a scholarship of $1,500 to a graduating high school senior living in this geographic area. Applicants must be planning on attending an accredited university or college during the 2020-2021 school year. Disbursement of the funds will be made directly to the college or university after proof of enrollment has been submitted to the guild representative. The short application can be found on the guild’s website: http://www.fallbrookquiltguild.com and by clicking on the...
Bonsall High School students Allie Stahlheber and Clowie Garcia were honored Thursday, Jan. 16, during the Bonsall Rotary Club's Student of the Month Breakfast at Pala Mesa Resort. The breakfast recognizes the distinguished students for their scholastic achievement, citizenship and community involvement during the school year. While Stahlheber was in attendance and addressed the rotary club members in attendance, Garcia was unable to attend. The event takes place monthly and... Full story
A longtime Fallbrook resident is using her artistic and musical talents to educate children about diversity and acceptance from a young age. Arlene Yates lived in Fallbrook for close to 30 years before she recently moved to Temecula to be closer to her grandchildren. Yates is a professional musician, songwriter and recording artist, with more than four decades of performing experience. In recent years, she's taken her skills and put them to use teaching children to be...
Special to Village News Parents are naturally proud when their children are well behaved. When our kids play well with others, responsibly complete family chores, and interact politely with adults, we feel we've done a pretty reasonable job of child-rearing. But getting our kids to be well behaved is not always a simple task. Children learn behaviors through the consequences that various behaviors bring. If a child earns a reward for doing something well, he's learned it's a positive consequence. Poor behavior that brings a p...
ST. GEORGE, Utah – In a display of academic achievement, 18% of Dixie State University students earned president’s and dean’s list recognition for the fall 2019 semester. Specifically, 1,978 students were included on the university’s honor rolls, with 816 students on the president’s list and 1,162 on the dean’s list. Inclusion indicates students’ strong commitment to their academic pursuits, as they must achieve a semester GPA of 3.9 or higher to be included on the president’s list and a GPA of 3.5 to 3.89 for the dean’s...
SAN MARCOS – At the age of 31, Lynda Morales has already lived the kind of highlight reel most athletes only ever dream of, culminating in Rio de Janeiro in 2016. Now she's ready for her next act as a firefighter – with some beach volleyball on the side. "The physicality of the sport correlates well with being a firefighter – you need to be in good shape and working in the sand is really good for your joints and strengthens your legs," Morales said. "It's perfect." Moral...
FALLBROOK – Joel and Johanna Menard, the parents of Jeffrey Menard, announced his acceptance into the Peace Corps to serve in Albania. Jeffrey is a December 2019 graduate of Northern Arizona University with a bachelor's degree in biology and a minor in psychological sciences. He is also a member of the Landshark Rugby team. Jeffrey Menard graduated from Fallbrook Union High School in 2015. His duties in Albania will include serving as a health services volunteer. He will be w...
Erik Schmidt Special to Village News Despite an overall decline in school enrollment, the number of people enrolled in graduate and professional schools in the United States jumped 8.1% from 2011 to 2018. From October 2011 to October 2018, the total number of people enrolled at all levels of school declined by 2.2 million to 76.8 million people, according to recently released data from the U.S. Census Bureau's Current Population Survey School Enrollment Supplement. Over the...
FALLBROOK – Fourth-graders from Fallbrook schools put pens, crayons and watercolors to paper to color the best and brightest water-conservation posters. But of the 250 posters colored, only 14 made it into the final product: the 2020 "Be Water Smart" calendar. Twelve of those winning images appear inside the calendar – one for each of the 12 months of the year; another image is printed on the cover and the other is for January 2021. The calendars are now available for fre...
FALLBROOK – With a lofty goal of acquiring 800 gifts this holiday season, the Boys & Girls Clubs of North County asked the Fallbrook community for help. The response was something special. With large donations coming in from the Fallbrook Women Golfers, the Women's Golf Club at the Golf Club of California and Sycamore Ranch Walkers, the staff at the club were well on their way to reaching their goal. Every year the club hosts holiday parties at each of their eight sites, w...
The Fallbrook Union Elementary School District is in good financial shape, the district’s trustees were told at their Dec. 16 meeting. In a presentation on the first of two certifications of fiscal viability required by law each year, FUESD Director of Accounting Cindy Martin told the district’s governing board that the district was shown to be able to meet its financial obligation for this fiscal year and the next two. The report shows a “snapshot in time” of the district’s finances between July 1, the start of the curre...
FALLBROOK – The Jr. Wildlife/Steam Art Exhibit will be on display from Jan. 5-19, at The Fallbrook Art Center, 103 S. Main Avenue at Alvarado Street. The art center is open daily Mondays through Saturdays, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Sundays, from noon to 3 p.m. Admission is free. Local public and private schools have been invited to enter artworks from their students in the exhibition. The students in the photographs are students from Marilee Ragland's classes at The F...
OXFORD, Ohio – Fallbrook resident Stephanie Crawford has been applying the tools of science, education and conservation to become a leader in the conservation community. In mid-December, Crawford completed her master’s degree in biology from Miami University through Project Dragonfly. Since joining the Advanced Inquiry Program master’s program in 2017, Crawford has taken courses on the web from Miami University while also participating in on-site and field studies at San Diego Zoo Global. Crawford works as a trails commi...
The Bonsall Unified School District Board of Trustees will vote on whether to adopt a new mission and vision statement at its first meeting next year. Bonsall Unified Superintendent David Jones presented a newly-drafted mission and vision to the trustees at their meeting Dec. 18. Jones said making sure the district – which was officially formed in 2014 – has a coherent mission and vision has been one of his priorities since he was hired in 2017. “What is the mission of the school district?” Jones said he wondered. “Couldn...
