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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Julie Reeder Publisher Some consider Julian Assange a traitor, while others support him as a hero for his aid to government corruption whistleblowers worldwide. His years-long hiding out in an Ecuadorian embassy and then the UK to evade extradition to the U.S. for exposing CIA and military secrets could be justice or a blow to the free press, depending on your point of view. The U.S. would like to lock him up for 175 years. It's one of the most controversial cases of our time and very important to journalism with possible far... Full story
As a subscriber and dedicated reader of the Village News, I want to encourage our residents to support the excellent and superior reporting that we are so fortunate to enjoy! Julie's editorials are a credit to her integrity and attention to truth. She is fair and balanced in the opinion page in allowing diverse views. Please help us keep our "hometown" paper. It is such an important part of our community. The real estate section is complete and informative, as is the entertainment portion and human interest stories – just a... Full story
Supervisor Jim Desmond 5th District Last week, a group called Let's Go San Diego submitted signatures with hopes of getting a half-cent sales tax on the November 2022 ballot. This would help fund SANDAG's $160 billion transit plan. The group that brought this forward is primarily made up by the unions, which have been promised all the jobs for SANDAG’s plan. With inflation at record highs, this is not the time for more taxes. San Diegans are struggling to pay electricity bills, groceries, gas, and now SANDAG and the unions wa... Full story
Supervisor Jim Desmond 5th District Last year, I introduced an effort at the Board of Supervisors to waive youth sports fees in San Diego County. Kids have suffered greatly over the last two years, from virtual learning to not being able to play the sports they love. Youth sports participation is down in San Diego County, and I don’t want money to be the reason. Through the action, the board made the decision to allocate $2 million towards a grant program for youth sports and youth camp tuitions. Managed by the County of S... Full story
Elizabeth Youngman-Westphal Special to The Village News The tell is in the arch of the swing. It signifies the lightning quick lift off of a majestic Hooded Oriole male as he springs from the hummingbird feeder into flight back to his mate. We are blessed to enjoy two, yes, two breeding pairs of Hooded Orioles in our garden. They have returned faithfully to nest and raise their young for about eight years. The males fly in first to scout locations usually in mid-March. They are followed by the dainty ladies a few weeks... Full story
Julie Reeder Publisher Now that Big Pharma is firmly in bed with the Food and Drug Administration, children’s COVID vaccines don't need to hit even the low 50% efficacy targets anymore. The FDA’s de facto regulator-in-chief Peter Marks suggested this when he spoke to Congress in a May 6 briefing. Marks told Congress they would probably authorize the vaccines anyway, despite the fact that in pediatric vaccine trials, both Pfizer and Moderna appear not to have cleared even the 50% bar which is the FDA’s minimum efficacy stand... Full story
I attended the Joint Town Hall Meeting hosted by Fallbrook Public Utilities District and Rainbow Municipal Water District May 2. The purpose of the meeting was for district staff to meet with residents to explain and garner support for a proposal whereby both districts would sever their membership with San Diego County Water Authority and join Eastern Municipal Water District in Riverside County as water purveyor for Fallbrook and surrounding areas. I appreciate that our county Supervisor, Jim Desmond, was in attendance to... Full story
Mr. Parmenter, as an acknowledged young person, should be encouraged to participate in public discussions, but in a civil manner. I hope that he appreciates how fortunate he is to have the Village News print his letter. My objective here is to offer some thoughts to Mr. Parmenter on how not to respond to a person that you don't know, who has a differing opinion about a subject. In particular, it is your personal attack on Ms. Benson's character, over 'transgender rights.' In time, you'll come to see that the... Full story
Rarely do things stay the same. They either get better or they get worse. The reliability of our water supply is getting worse and something needs to be done, something other than telling us to use less and less. There is no good end game for that approach. The idea that we are again facing more draconian water restrictions is a result of politicians refusing to focus on the problem. A reliable water supply is directly related to the health, safety, and welfare of the constituents they have pledged to serve. Billions of gallo... Full story
Assemblymember Marie Waldron District 75 California has 12% of the nation’s population, yet we have 30% of the nation’s homeless. This administration has spent $17 billion on the problem, but the homeless population has surged. Californians are fed up. There are solutions available, but current leadership won’t consider them. One thing is certain – throwing money at homelessness hasn’t worked. Take a look at San Francisco’s program to provide permanent supportive housing for the homeless. The city spent $160 million, bu... Full story
American Field Service has been a leader in the field of student exchange for more than 60 years. Each year we like to place one or more students in Fallbrook, who will attend Fallbrook High. We are receiving applications now for students, who will be arriving in mid-August for the either fall semester or for the next school year. We have some outstanding candidates with varied interests and many countries of origin. I would like to talk to any families that might be interested in hosting. We also are interested in talking... Full story
To Mr. Zajic, please re-read my letter April 21 addressed to you and Mr. Terrell. So when I am addressing Mr. Terrell you have mistaken it for you. I believe I asked why we can't live with all the resources God has given us including fossil fuels. The far left wants to eliminate it completely. While I agree with renewable energy, common sense tells me we can incorporate it into our way of life. However, I am not for eliminating what resources we already have and use to appease the left's claims we only have 8-12 years left he... Full story
Supervisor Jim Desmond 5th District I wanted to give you the latest news as gas prices continue to rise across San Diego County. Last month, Supervisor Joel Anderson and I initiated action, unanimously approved by the board, to send a letter to state lawmakers for a one-year suspension of the state gas tax. We also voted to support a rebate program and encourage the state to find a mechanism to ensure the savings are passed down to the consumers, not oil companies. The state projects a budget surplus of more than $45... Full story
The bomb-shell leak of Judge Alito’s draft opinion shows SCOTUS’s true colors: flaming, far right red. It is 98 pages of assumptions, misinterpretations of U.S. history, and irrelevances. That’s just the good part; it goes downhill from there. Alito’s first sentence is true: “Abortion presents a profound moral issue in which Americans hold sharply conflicting views.” The fact that abortion is a moral issue, not a legal one, is why it should not be addressed in a court of law in the first place. John Adams put it this way: ... Full story
Julie Reeder Publisher The California Senate Judiciary Committee voted 7-0 to allow minors to be vaccinated without parental consent or knowledge on May 5. The legislation, (SB) 866 as it’s known, introduced by Democratic Senator Scott Wiener, now moves forward. After the hearing, the San Francisco Senator tweeted, “Teens should be able to protect their own health with vaccines – whether against COVID, flu, measles, or polio – even if their parents refuse or can’t take them to get the shot.” The problem is that whoever is... Full story
Come gather ‘round people, wherever you roam And admit that the waters around you have grown And accept it that soon you’ll be drenched to the bone It your time to you is worth saving Then you better start swimming’ or you’ll sink like a stone For the times, they are a-changin’ Bob Dylan, 1964 Over the past two years we have repeatedly been asked, how long will this boom last? How high will prices go? Well, there are many indications that we are starting to see the end of th... Full story
It certainly was a “grand night for singing,” while enjoying the story of Fallbrook Joe and his Magic Caboose! Congratulations to the Fallbrook Chorale and all the friends and neighbors at the SonRise church who, on Saturday May 7, presented this original story in dramatic musical fashion to a great gathering of Fallbrook dinner guests. I do hope this will not be the only presentation of this dramatic story. I know the cast practiced for more than a year and endured several Covid delays. But the real live show was pitch-and-w... Full story
Assemblymember Marie Waldron District 75 The cost of gasoline continues to spiral out of control. Gas prices rose by 38% last year, fueling overall inflation, which rose by 7.9%. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, that was the highest inflation rate in 40 years, and unfortunately, there is no end in sight. Californians need relief now. One immediate step would be suspension of the state’s 51.1 cent per gallon gas tax, the nation’s highest. There is no need to wait for future rebates; we’d all get relief every time... Full story
Our Village has been enhanced over the years by dedicated volunteers and nonprofit organizations who have beautified our community and provided new services much like an incorporated city. Fallbrook is a unique, unincorporated community lacking local funds and services available to similar incorporated cities, to help improve the community. Fundraising has become more difficult for these volunteers and there is concern over long-term sustainability of their projects such as the beautiful South Mission Road medians, the... Full story
Assemblymember Marie Waldron District 75 On April 26, due to time-consuming debates in previous sessions and untimely equipment failures, the Health Committee, which I serve as Vice Chair, dealt with 56 bills in a hearing that lasted well into the evening. Several important pieces of legislation made it through the committee. Among these were two bills that I introduced, Assembly Bills 2818 and 2768. AB 2818 will ultimately lead to the expansion of the substance use disorder treatment workforce in California to aid in... Full story
Getting straight news to the public and allowing input from various sources to allow community input, right or wrong, is the business of the Village News. With that in mind, it’s my turn to comment on the subject of the Community Benefit District. I have watched community volunteers work for projects that benefit all of the community for the past 50 years. FPUD, established as a public utility district, is allowed latent powers, the ability to add other pursuits that benefit the community. The Community Benefit District c... Full story
Elizabeth Youngman-Westphal Special to The Village News I’m up against my deadline and not one idea comes to mind to chat about this week. Nothing. Absolutely nothing comes to mind. So, like Seinfeld, let’s talk about nothing, or would it be nothingness? Today’ s column is about that. Nothing. How does one even begin to explore nothing one wonders? Well, let’s begin by breaking it down to no thing. Oh, my goodness. Here I am swirling in a vortex of nothingness without a way to exhume my thoughts in order to create something.... Full story
Supervisor Jim Desmond 5th District We are blessed to live in a region that borders the Pacific Ocean and also has many pools throughout the county. While they both can serve as wonderful activities for both adults and kids, they can also be dangerous. Swimming is a life skill that is not easily accessible to all residents throughout our communities. According to the Centers for Disease Control, 79% of children in households with incomes less than $50,000 have little-to-no swimming ability. In California, drowning is a leadin... Full story
Julie Reeder Publisher Last week, the Biden Administration’s Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas announced that DHS will form a “Disinformation Governance Board” run by Nina Jankowicz. Jankowicz is a self-described “disinformation expert.” It’s ironic because she literally aided in misinformation and the cover-up of the Hunter Biden laptop in October 2020 saying on ABC News when asked, “We should view it as a Trump campaign product.” It wasn’t just misinformation but also election tampering. She al... Full story
Wow! Looks like I kicked a lot of sacred cows. I hadn't fully realized how little California Republicans know about what’s happening in the red states or internationally. Hmm: where to begin? In no particular order, here are some hot spots. Critical Race Theory. CRT is taught only as an advanced college course: it is not, and has not been, taught in public schools. Extensive CRT data documenting racism is available. Also overt racism still exists. For example, the Ku Klux Klan is still with us, including a couple of groups i... Full story
