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Also serving the communities of De Luz, Rainbow, Camp Pendleton, Pala and Pauma
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San Diego County’s 2021-2022 Community Development Block Grant plan includes funding for East Alvarado Street sidewalks and for Fallbrook Local Park. A 5-0 San Diego County Board of Supervisors vote Tuesday, March 16, approved the county’s 2021-2022 annual funding plan for Community Development Block Grants, HOME Investment Partnerships, Emergency Shelter Grant and Housing Opportunities for Persons with AIDS programs. The allocations include $589,632 for the design and construction of the East Alvarado Street sidewalks and...
San Diego County public health officials reported 205 new infections and seven additional deaths on Sunday, March 28, for a total of 1,752 new cases and 53 deaths in the preceding week. In the Fallbrook area, the 92028 ZIP code was showing a coronavirus case rate of 3.8 per 100,000 as of the week of March 7-13, the most recent week for which information is available. That’s of course lower than the 6.7 per 100,000 case rate during Feb. 28 – March 6. The county combines Bonsall’s 92003 ZIP code with Vista; the combined area...
FALLBROOK – Fallbrook Encore Club members look forward to resuming some in-person events soon now that many have been vaccinated against the coronavirus. Encore club is a social club, but activities were necessarily limited during much of the last year. A new executive board is currently being chosen for the coming 2021-2022 season. They are looking forward to serving with a fun-filled calendar. Club memberships are now being accepted for both new members and those renewing th...
Easter is one of the reasons April is such a joyful time of the year. It is a special time when Christians around the world, whether Protestant, Roman Catholic or Orthodox, pause to celebrate Easter and the resurrection of Jesus. The Friday before the resurrection is often referred to as “Good” Friday because Christians believe that through his death, Jesus on that Friday paid the penalty for their sins. Good Friday was also a day when five astonishing miracles occurred. Dar...
Firefighters rescued a teenager who fell over the side of a trail in Fallbrook Wednesday afternoon, March 24. Dispatchers were told around 3:50 p.m. that someone – possibly a hiker – needed to be pulled off a slope or cliff in the area of Sleeping Indian and Conejo roads on the southwestern edge of Fallbrook near Oceanside, according to information from Capt. John Choi of North County Fire Protection District. Fire crews from North County Fire, the Oceanside Fire Dep...
SAN DIEGO COUNTY – The San Diego County Sheriff's Department recognizes the negative impact unlicensed marijuana dispensaries have on neighborhoods and businesses. Unregulated pot shops attract criminals involved with other illicit drugs and are often the catalyst for violent crime, property crime and financial crime that affect us all. Products sold at unlicensed cannabis facilities are cultivated and manufactured using processes which may be harmful to consumers and are o...
PALA – Rep. Darrell Issa introduced the Pala Band of Mission Indians Land Transfer Act, House Resolution 1975, a bill that will transfer approximately 721 acres of land adjacent to the Pala Reservation into federal trust status, Wednesday, March 17. This land was purchased by the Pala Band of Mission Indians in 2016 to prevent the construction of a landfill on sacred Chokla, Gregory Mountain, a site of tremendous cultural significance to Pala’s people. The Pala Band said in a news release that the tribe is grateful to Issa fo...
A Fallbrook woman is upset about the way she says her family was treated when Rainbow Municipal Water District replaced their property's water meter. Nancy Zucker said she and her husband were never notified that the water district would be replacing her meter, and that the district's actions resulted in her Morro Hills home being left without running water for days and forced the couple to call a plumber – though the water district maintains it has notified all ratepayers w...
Each member of the California Legislature selects a Woman of the Year for their state Senate or state Assembly district, and state Sen. Brian Jones selected Julie Reeder as the Woman of the Year for the 38th State Senate District. "I just appreciate it," Reeder said. "It's an honor for me to get that, and I appreciate our legislators for recognizing Fallbrook." Fallbrook is in the 75th State Assembly District as well as the 38th State Senate District. Assemblymember Marie...
The Bottom Shelf's book fundraiser brings residents to the parking lot below the library to check out the books that have been filling up the nonprofit's storage units, March 20. As patrons walked away with boxes and bags full of books to restock their own shelves, more books were brought out to take their place....
The CIF San Diego Section allowed girls' volleyball matches to begin in the second week of March, and the Fallbrook High School girls split their first two matches. The Warriors lost in five games March 12 at home against Mount Carmel High School but defeated Vista High School in five sets at home March 15. "It's been interesting and fun," Fallbrook coach Jason Dale said of the consecutive five-game matches. Normally, girls' volleyball is a fall sport. Coronavirus precautions...
Scott Anders, owner of Cafe des Artistes, went into escrow three days before everything was shut down last March. "We took over (the cafe) at the beginning of last year," Anders said. "We're proud of what we do and I think our name is getting out there, business is picking up." When the pandemic caused businesses to close, many struggled. "I have to give credit to the art center who we lease the space from, because they really worked with us and helped us out a lot in many...
Max Martin, 28, was always a high achiever while he attended local schools. As a junior at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, he landed an internship at Space X, then worked there a couple of years after graduating. Martin has continued his success as an award-winning systems engineer with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, including work on the Mars 2020 Mission. Yes, he's a "brain on a stick" but there's much more to his story. He shared his journey and about what it...
SACRAMENTO –Assemblymember Marie Waldron, R-Escondido, honored Fallbrook Chamber of Commerce CEO Lila MacDonald as the 2021 Woman of the Year for the 75th Assembly District, March 16. "Lila MacDonald lives and breathes the Fallbrook community," said Waldron. "From Honorary Mayor to CEO of the Fallbrook Chamber of Commerce, Lila MacDonald embodies the spirit of Fallbrook." For decades, MacDonald has been active in the community. Her service includes local PTA boards, the F...
The Fallbrook Regional Health District scheduled its second vaccination event for Wednesday, March 24 – after Village News’ press time but before publication. The event, which was to be held at the district’s Wellness Center on Mission Road, had a total of 150 appointments available to receive the first dose of the Pfizer vaccine. The second shot appointment will be available within 21-25 days after the March 24 event, according to the health district. The event comes a little less than two weeks after FRHD’s first vaccina...
One unanimous vote of the county's Traffic Advisory Committee March 12 recommended an all-way stop control for the intersection of Potter Street and Elder Street and another unanimous TAC vote that morning recommended that the speed limit for all of Gum Tree Lane be 35 mph. The March 12 unanimous TAC votes also included recommending recertification of the 40 mph speed limit on Hutchison Street in Bonsall between East Vista Way and 1,000 feet west of Harris Drive. The San Diego County Board of Supervisors members are...
TEMECULA – The Sierra Club’s Santa Margarita Group will be celebrating Earth Day with a virtual fair Thursday, April 22 and photo contest. The deadline to enter has been changed from April 1 to April 22. The photo submissions will be divided by age group/grade bracket with elementary school submissions for kindergarten through fifth grade, middle/high school submissions for grades 6-12 and the adult category for people 18 or older. Categories include “Landscape” with mountain ranges, sunsets and more; “Creatures of the Wilde...
How many of you have heard the term “home hardening?” It has nothing to do with making the structure harder. Afterall, how would we do that? Pour concrete over the structure? Or overlay it with brick and mortar? No. Home hardening refers to preparing your home against potential wildfires. In the case of home hardening, it means, prepare. It took some searching to find why this term was chosen. I found it within the framework of computing systems. Read below and I think you’ll... Full story
FALLBROOK – The "Fat Happies" sculpture has been reinstalled at its home on the corner of South Mission Road and Fallbrook Street after being repaired. This sculpture is one of over 30 works of art displayed throughout the community by Art in Public Places. The sculpture had rusted over the years and needed to be sandblasted down to the metal and then repainted. North County Powder Coating did this repair work with a donation from Pat and Tom Peterson. A new addition to the A...
With San Diego County now in the red tier of the state’s coronavirus reopening plan, businesses including restaurants, gyms and movie theaters have been able to resume indoor operations, albeit with capacity limits and masking requirements. Beginning Wednesday, March 17, restaurants and movie theaters were allowed to operate indoors at 25% capacity or 100 people – whichever is fewer – according to the county. Gyms were allowed to reopen at 10% capacity, while museums, zoos and aquariums were allowed to reopen at 25% capac...
The March 16 actions of the San Diego County Board of Supervisors included an $80,000 Neighborhood Reinvestment Program grant to the Fallbrook Food Pantry. The supervisors' 5-0 vote allocated the funding to the Fallbrook Food Pantry to help finance closing costs and relocation expenses and a reduction of loan principal for the Fallbrook Food Pantry's new facility at 140 North Brandon Street. "The Fallbrook Food Pantry is an amazing group that I am happy to support," said Supervisor Jim Desmond. "After such a difficult year...
San Diego County was looking likely to drop down into the second-highest “red” tier of the state’s coronavirus reopening framework as of press time Monday, March 15. California's Department of Public Health modified the Blueprint for a Safer Economy to lead with opening activities when vaccines have been deployed to the hardest-hit communities – the floor for the purple tier will drop to 10 daily cases per 100,000 population once the state delivers a minimum 2 million doses to what it considers the hardest-hit Califor...
Three downtown Fallbrook businesses were met with an unwelcome surprise one Friday morning a few weeks ago – a burst pipe left all three with varying amounts of flood damage. Jamie Mathieu, owner of Jewelry Connection at 101 N. Main Ave, said he arrived at the store the morning of Friday, Feb. 26, to find quite the commotion. "We came in and we noticed a bunch of debris in the parking lot," he said. Mathieu noticed a Fallbrook Public Utility District crew was in the area, a...
Bonsall Unified School District Superintendent David Jones has announced that he will be leaving the school district at the end of the school year. Jones initially notified the BUSD board at the Feb. 10 board meeting, and additional remarks about approaching the end of his BUSD career were made at the March 10 board meeting. Jones has been hired elsewhere, although that entity will not be disclosed until a contract is finalized. "It just means a lot to me that the staff and the board have been supportive of my decision,"...
Guest house has a new name: Accessory Dwelling Unit. I don’t know if this new name has anything to do with the “woke” community or if it was a broader term created to define more uses, but either way, the ADU is a great way to add value to your property and perhaps more harmony to your extended family. California’s Accessory Dwelling Unit Law, Assembly Bill 68, took effect on Jan. 1, 2020. Under this law, homeowners can add an accessory dwelling unit to their property – even... Full story
