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 – Fallbrook Garden Club's youth group "Fallbrook Future Gardeners" held a free seed workshop for the local community youths at the local Grangetto's. Christine Benton, an FGC member, and 2x award-winning garden blogger, instructed the group on seed planting and growing a garden from seed. With an attendance of more than 20 youths, each received supplies donated by Grangetto's and seeds donated by San Diego Seed Company. The youths learned how deep to plant each s...
Joe Naiman Village News Reporter The May 17 meeting of the Bonsall Unified School District board included approval of a contract for Alvand Construction, Inc., to construct a security fence around the campus shared by Bonsall High School and Sullivan Middle School. The board’s 3-0 vote, with Larissa Anderson and Pascal Lapoirie absent, authorized a public works contract with Alvand Construction. The Poway company will be paid $311,850. “We make students feeling safe and welcome a priority at all times and continue to implemen...
Joe Naiman Village News Reporter The North County Fire Protection District has updated its District Facilities Replacement Plan. The NCFPD board voted 5-0 May 23 to approve the revised plan. The District Facilities Replacement Plan will be a guideline for decisions on future capital facility projects and includes timeframes for capital facility renovation or replacement projects. The previous District Facilities Replacement Plan was approved by the board in October 2020. “A lot has changed in the way of funding in the last f...
Frank Brines ARS Master Rosarian It's been a wetter than "normal" winter, but there's a better than even chance that the developing El Niño will bring warmer than average temperatures to Southern California. So, as always, gardeners must be watchful and learn how to efficiently manage the amount of water they apply in their gardens. With summer and the warmer temperatures to come it will help diminish heat damage and stress to the plants. The strategies I will discuss here...
SAN DIEGO – While we're in the middle of May, gray hotter days are just around the corner. San Diego Humane Society is sharing important reminders for pet owners about how to keep their animals safe when it is hot outside. Too often the organization witnesses animals who are without shelter from the sun, exercised too hard in the heat, or left in cars that can become fatally hot in minutes. In 2022 alone, San Diego Humane Society's Humane Law Enforcement responded to more t...
The results of a Memorial Day Cleanup along State Route 76 by the Support Bonsall & Fallbrook Team sits on the side of the road ready for pickup, Sunday, May 28. Village News/Joe Beyer photo... Full story
Joe Naiman Village News Reporter North County Fire Protection District staff will be working with the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection on a lease agreement to house a CalFire dozer barn at NCFPD Station 3 in Rainbow. A 5-0 NCFPD board vote May 23 directed staff to explore the possibility of a dozer barn facility lease agreement. If such an agreement is reached at the staff level, it will be brought to the NCFPD board for approval. “We are in discussions,” said NCFPD Fire Chief Keith McReynolds. “Th...
FALLBROOK – Fallbrook Gardens Club’s “Spring Flower Faire Extraordinaire” was held May 13 at the Fallbrook Historical Society. Funds received from this sale support community projects, club activities, and scholarships. There were over 700 plants, almost 200 unique planted containers, and 65 garden art items. Almost all the plants, containers and garden art were propagated or made by members. In addition, there was an exhibit of exocytic, special plants owned by members. Submitted by the Fallbrook Garden Club....
SAN DIEGO COUNTY – San Diego County is scheduled to conduct its next routine aerial larvicide drop of the year June 7 and 8 on up to 51 local waterways, including Lake Rancho Viejo, to help stop mosquitoes from potentially spreading diseases like West Nile virus. The county uses helicopters to drop solid, granular larvicide on hard-to-reach areas of standing water in rivers, streams, ponds and other waterways where mosquitoes can breed. The county conducts the aerial larvicide drops roughly once a month from April through O...
Shauni Lyles County of San Diego Communications Office San Diego County Library was among this year’s winners of the Little Free Library nonprofit organization Todd H. Bol Awards for Outstanding Achievement. The award announcement came during the celebration of Little Free Library Week, which ran from May 14-20. Little libraries are mailbox-like structures put up in communities to create neighborhood book exchanges where people can freely borrow or leave books for others to read. They can be found all around San Diego C...
FALLBROOK – Fifty-five members of the Fallbrook community, along with several friends from Vista and Bonsall, showed up at 9 a.m. and worked to make Fallbrook cleaner and more beautiful on the Community Cleanup Day, May 13 A total of 250 pounds of trash, 31 pounds of recyclables and a huge number of cigarette butts to be recycled were collected and sorted from the trash. Members of the Fallbrook Woman's Club cleaned the area around their clubhouse at the corner of East M... Full story
SAN DIEGO – I Love A Clean San Diego's Clean Beach Coalition will place 200 temporary waste and recycling bins on San Diego's busiest beaches and bays over long holiday weekends to handle the expected excess litter. Now in its 16th year, these temporary bins placed by the Clean Beach Coalition have helped keep 3.5 million pounds of litter off of San Diego beaches and out of the ocean. Over the busy holiday weekends, San Diego beaches see a spike in visitors, both locals and t...
Joe Naiman Village News Reporter The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California will be replacing air release/vacuum valves on Pipeline 3 and Pipeline 5 of the San Diego Aqueduct, and the MWD board meeting Tuesday, May 9, approved a procurement contract for new valves. B&K Valves & Equipment Inc., which is based in Carlsbad, was awarded $1,466,665 to provide 72 valves. MWD staff will replace the valves once they are delivered. Six MWD pipelines carry water along the San Diego Aqueduct from MWD’s Robert A. Skinner W...
Dr. Gary Weitzman Special to the Village News A little peace of mind goes a long way, and that's why San Diego Humane Society wants to remind pet owners that May is Microchip Your Pet Month. It's the perfect time to take stock of all the ways they can protect their pet and increase their chances of reuniting with them if they ever become lost. Losing a pet is a stressful, scary and sometimes a costly experience. One in three pets will become lost during their lifetime. Those... Full story
A.C. Roberts Special to the Village News In anticipation of Memorial Day, May 29, volunteers used elbow grease on a cleanup day at Fallbrook Pioneer Odd Fellows Cemetery, 1300 Alturas Road, May 13. Weeds are gone, grave markers are sparkling clean with words now legible, dead sticks and branches are gone, and shallow trenches will prevent mud from washing over the grave markers. The service project was hosted by Gary and Elizabeth Ungricht. “We’re just community members who want to honor our veterans and show respect. The...
Yvette Urrea Moe County of San Diego Communications Office With kitten season underway, the San Diego County Department of Animal Services is reminding people not to be a "kitnapper." It means if you encounter an unattended kitten litter in your community, don't be so quick to scoop them up and bring them to a shelter. But why wouldn't you rush to comfort them and get them food and warmth? The mother cat may just be out hunting for her meal before returning to nurse her... Full story
Roger Boddaert Horticulturist/Arborist The fern family is a large collection of plants with native habitats from faraway places like Africa, Southeast Asia, Mexico, Australia and South America. Within the Fern family lives the platycerium, “Staghorn Fern,” clan. These are epiphytic plants which attach themselves to tree trunks and branches. Their spores, found on the underside of the leaves, disperse onto adjacent tree trunks when mature. Their unique leaves are shaped like antlers; hence they received the common name Sta... Full story
SAN DIEGO COUNTY – San Diego County is scheduled to conduct its second routine aerial larvicide drop of the year May 17 and 18 on up to 51 local waterways, including Lake Rancho Viejo, to help stop mosquitoes from potentially spreading diseases like West Nile virus. The county started using helicopters to drop solid, granular larvicide on hard-to-reach areas of standing water in rivers, streams, ponds and other waterways where mosquitoes can breed in the early 2000s after West Nile virus arrived. The County conducts the a...
SAN DIEGO COUNTY – As the spring cleaning season begins, I Love A Clean San Diego (ILACSD) and the County of San Diego remind residents of the free WasteFreeSD.org database and proper recycling practices. ILACSD encourages residents to practice reuse, reduce, donate, and repair to limit the number of items that end up in the landfill. Residents can use ILACSD’s free online database, https://wastefreesd.org/contact-us/, which provides information on thousands of centers throughout the region. The free database tells how to...
Joe Naiman Village News Reporter The Rainbow Municipal Water District will be seeking a grant from the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection to fund vegetation management. A 5-0 Rainbow board vote April 25 approved the filing of an application for a grant from the California Climate Investments Wildfire Prevention Grants Program. The board action also authorized Rainbow General Manager Tom Kennedy or his designee to conduct all negotiations and to execute all necessary documents including amendments. “That’s t...
Frank Brines ARS Master Rosarian ' This year continued the signs of climate change with below-average temperatures and above-average rain and snowfall as well as chaotic weather patterns nationwide. Rose growth and development are dependent on weather, and flower production is particularly impacted by inconsistent temperatures, sun and water. All of this has made it more difficult for me to predict what to do and when to do it. Typically, the first flush of blooms is expected...
FALLBROOK – The Fallbrook Beautification Alliance, partnering with I Love A Clean San Diego, will host a Fallbrook Community Clean Up Day, 9 a.m.-11a.m. Saturday May 13. Volunteers of all ages are invited to grab buckets, work gloves and litter grabbers to walk Fallbrook downtown streets to pick up litter and recyclables, as well as to clean up trash dumped along the Pico Promenade walking path and waterway. FBA and ILACSD will host a check-in table at the parking lot below the Fallbrook Branch Library at 124 S. Mission in d...
Joe Naiman Village News Reporter The Bonsall Unified School District will be seeking a California Schools Healthy Air, Plumbing, and Efficiency Program (CalSHAPE) grant from the California Energy Commission. The April 17 board meeting included a 4-0 vote, with Michael Gaddis absent, to adopt a resolution in support of the CalSHAPE grant application. The resolution authorizes acceptance of a grant award of up to $399,360. “We’re excited about this opportunity,” said BUSD Superintendent Joseph Clevenger. CalSHAPE includes two g...
SAN DIEGO COUNTY - As of 3 p.m., April 22, I Love A Clean San Diego (ILACSD) reported more than 5,000 registered volunteers, at 107 sites, removed over 57,000 pounds of litter and debris from streets, canyons, parks and the coastline in communities across San Diego County for the 21st Annual Creek to Bay Cleanup. “Although numbers from cleanup sites are still coming in, we can safely say we have reached our goal this year,” said Ann Marie Sack, Director of Community Engagement at ILCSD. “We are thankful for all the volun...
Gig Conaughton County of San Diego Communications Office San Diego County was scheduled to conduct its first routine aerial larvicide drop of the year this week on up to 51 local waterways to help stop mosquitoes from potentially spreading diseases like West Nile virus. County officials said helicopter larvicide drops will be done Wednesday, April 26, and Thursday, April 27, if necessary, to cover nearly 1,300 acres of hard-to-reach potential mosquito breeding areas. [In... Full story
