Mentors needed for GANAS Mentoring Program's ninth season

FALLBROOK – Mentoring brings lasting benefits to the volunteers and their community. Recognized and valued nationwide by many law enforcement agencies and community organizers as an effective crime prevention tool, mentoring helps steer children away from gangs, drugs, and crime.

These negative influences do exist in the Fallbrook area. Residents can overcome them and turn crime around, one child at a time, if enough people get involved and volunteer. Helping children by mentoring, seeing them redirected and blossom, can enrich one’s own personal life.

In 2005, the Fallbrook Citizens’ Cr...