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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A bicyclist traveling along Highway 76 in Bonsall was killed after the rider was struck by a Freightliner truck tractor on Tuesday, Dec. 15. After an investigation by the California Highway Patrol, the driver of the big rig was arrested for suspicion of being under the influence of a drug. The incident, first reported at 10:24 a.m., occurred just west of North River Road as both the cyclist, a 58-year-old Oceanside man, and the driver of the Freightliner were heading eastbound, according to North County Fire Capt. John Choi....
North County Fire reported at 7:44 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 12 they were at the scene of a residential fire in the 800 block of Hillpark Lane in Fallbrook. A short time later, firefighters reported they had contained the fire. There were no reports of injuries, estimates of damage, or what caused the fire....
A 60-year-old Fallbrook woman died Thursday, Dec. 10 after authorities said the driver of a pickup truck veered onto the shoulder of Gird Road, struck her and drove off in Fallbrook Thursday, Dec. 10 as her husband watched. The collision, reported at 4:58 p.m., happened on the northbound side of Gird Road with the nearest cross street being Laketree Drive. "A middle-aged woman was struck and succumbed to her injuries," North County Fire Capt. John Choi said. Capt. Choi...
Dec. 12 was expected to be a big day for high school athletes all over San Diego County, but that big day is going to have to wait according to the California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) – San Diego County. The section on Thursday, Dec. 3, issued a memo regarding communication that the organization had days earlier with member schools regarding the postponement of Season 1 Sports in the county. "As of today, the Official Start Date for Season 1 Sports is on hold (TBD) u...
A fire that broke out in the home of well-known horse rescue center owners Friday, Dec. 4, and also spread to surrounding vegetation, was contained and extinguished by firefighters, but not in time to save the home. By the end of the day Friday, friends had established a GoFundMe account to help the family recover from the devastation that insurance may not cover. The residents, Ron and Crystal Wylie, and their daughter Kiersti, who operate the Sandia Creek Ranch Auxiliary Foundation (scraf.org) for horse rescue, escaped unha...
According to Jeremy Sauvao, the delivery of Christmas gifts for foster children to Rose Again Foundation is the culmination of a bigger purpose. Roughly 20 members of Los Angeles area motorcycle groups with their families driving moving vans and cars rumbled into a Temecula neighborhood Sunday, Nov. 29, to deliver the gifts to the home of the nonprofit's CEO. "It's two different cultures – Samoan and Tongan. So we're trying to push a positive vibe between the two cultures a...
Dec. 12 was expected to be a big day for high school athletes all over San Diego County, but that big day is going to have to wait according to the California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) - San Diego County. The section on Thursday, Dec. 3 issued a memo regarding earlier communication that the organization had days earlier with member schools regarding the postponement of Season 1 Sports in the county. "As of today, the Official Start Date for Season 1 Sports is on hold...
For Fallbrook Union High School Girls Varsity Soccer Head Coach Sergio Garcia, the spring season that awaits his program still feels up in the air and putting that into words isn't exactly easy. "I'm looking forward to hopefully there is some type of competition or at least some type of recreational or being out there and kicking the ball with the right precautions," he said in a phone interview. "That's kind of where we're at." Talking about a season that will be played in a...
A week ahead of Thanksgiving, the Fallbrook Union High School District's Food Services Department provided thousands of area children and their families with a Thanksgiving box as part of its meal distribution program on Thursday, Nov. 19. The program, which on average serves more than 900 children every Tuesday and Thursday for the duration of most of the COVID-19 pandemic, wanted to do something special for the holiday. But first, they had to figure out the logistics. "We...
It’s getting blurry, isn’t it? The most marketed to society in the history of the planet is getting a steady dose so murky and laced with spin and rhetoric that it’s hard to tell right from down, left from right and where we even started? Where is it that America stands and what do we stand for? I believe I know, in fact, I think most Americans know. The idea of America is clear as day – it’s right there in the Preamble to the U.S. Constitution. “We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, esta...
Kicking off the meeting of the Bonsall Unified School District's Board of Trustees on Thursday, Nov. 17, Superintendent David Jones gave a short update on the departure of Sullivan Middle School Principal Dr. Shaunte' Knox. "(I) particularly want to say goodbye and thank you and wish Dr. Knox the best in her next steps in her career and in her personal life," He said. "We're very thankful that Mr. Ramirez is here. He was helping as the assistant principal interim at (Bonsall...
Here’s the problem I have with conspiracists. First, it’s a lazy grasp at intelligence. Second, personal accountability doesn’t exist for the conspiracist. Accountability. There’s that word again. I keep using it in my description of what ails our society in many ways – from student accountability to parental accountability, and now to societal accountability. Remember that wild-talking community member who always had something to say about someone being out to get them? The FBI, the CIA or the government. There were joke...
The Fallbrook Union High School District Board of Trustees Monday, Nov. 9 had further public comment and staff discussion about an advisory course offered by Fallbrook High before ultimately approving the course for the spring semester with a 3-2 vote. The discussion came after several residents expressed concerns about the course as well as the continuation of distance learning through the end of the first semester of the school year. “I just wanted to share from a p...
James Wallace grew up in Laguna Hills and San Clemente and was attending Saddleback College when 9/11 happened. Not long after that, he enlisted in the United States Army. "I was in for three and a half years," he said. "I was (working with) Patriot missiles. I spent two of those years in Korea and I ended up getting hurt over there." He explained that his injury was like falling off a moving semi trailer truck on the highway. "I ended up getting nerve damage from that," he...
It's not ideal, but Fallbrook Union High School Head Football Coach Troy Everhart will take what he can get these days with the team meeting for short workouts during the week. "We've been very fortunate, Ingold (Sports Park) has been very gracious," Everhart said. "Josh (Guerrettaz) over there has just been incredibly receptive and hospitable to us. And we're very thankful for that." Due to COVID-19 restrictions handed down from the county and state, you wouldn't call what...
The Fallbrook Union High School District board of trustees bid farewell Monday, Nov. 9, to board members Lee De Meo and Sharon Koehler. Superintendent Ilsa Garza-Gonzalez conducted the recognition ceremony for De Meo and Koehler. "First is trustee Lee De Meo who has served on the Fallbrook Union High School District board of education for six years," she said. "During his time on the board, trustee De Meo has been an advocate for civics education. He was supportive of bringing...
When Matt Capelouto spoke up for the first time when he took to the podium back in February to plead with the Temecula City Council to pay attention to the fentanyl problem, he couldn't have known how far his fight would take him. But after months of organizing, rallies and connecting with fellow parents who lost children when they unknowingly ingested fentanyl – a synthetic opioid that is 80-100 times stronger than morphine – he and his wife made their way to Ohio on Oct...
When the Fallbrook Union High School Boys Lacrosse team opens its season in the spring, head coach Mike Zinniger isn't quite sure what's going to happen or if it's going to happen. "It's a weird year, yeah," he said in a phone interview. "You know, if we have a season and I haven't even started scheduling games yet and none of the coaches are, we don't know what's going to happen." In addition, according to Zinneger, because a lot of the players he expects to play lacrosse...
Gerry Wilson, the always-smiling patriarch of the Wilson family and Wilson Creek Winery and Vineyard, died Thursday, Nov. 4. He was 90 years old. "His sparkling blue eyes and contagious smile warmed the hearts of thousands," the winery shared on its Facebook page Thursday, Nov. 5. "It is with a heavy heart, we share the loss of this incredible man. Gerry was widely known for his kindness, compassion, love and graciousness. He left four generations of immediate family and...
Veteran Vista fire captain David Kennedy held a large lead over challenger Lee J. De Meo in the race to represent District 1 on the North County Fire Protection District Board of Directors as of 6 p.m. Friday, Nov. 6. Kennedy had garnered 89.79% of the vote in the district, outdistancing De Meo by a total of 1,723 votes to 196. San Diego County reported Friday that 305,000 ballots had yet to be processed throughout the county and planned to certify the election on Dec. 3....
Incumbent 75th District Assemblywoman Marie Waldron, R-Escondido, was holding a strong lead in her reelection bid against behavioral health care provider Karen "Kate'' Schwartz as of Saturday, Nov. 7. While the race started neck-and-neck, results tallied by Friday night showed Waldron holding a 53.4% to 46.6% lead over Schwartz. Waldron received 97,134 votes to Schwartz' 84,712. Waldron took about 56% of the vote during the March primary, versus Schwartz, who earned nearly...
During its Wednesday, Nov. 4 meeting, the City of Canyon Lake City Council voted unanimously to terminate the city's contact with CalFire Riverside County Fire Department, effective January 2022. Canyon Lake would become only the second Southwest Riverside County city to form its own fire department. Murrieta was the first. City Manager Chris Mann laid out the proposal for the resolution. "The city has been looking at options for many years, but in the last year and a half,...
Fallbrook Union High School boys soccer head coach Jorge Rojas admits everything is a little out of whack and the upcoming season with the Warriors starting in February will be a different one. "Definitely extremely non-traditional," Rojas said. "COVID has presented a lot of uncertainty in a lot more areas that we anticipated and I know high school sports is one of them. "We are being pushed back. We're sort of on the back burner to start somewhere in mid-February and it's...
To kick off the meeting of the North County Fire Protection District on Tuesday, Oct. 27, Chief Stephen Abbott began by speaking about and recognizing each of the retiring board members, directors Ruth Harris, Bob Hoffman and Fred Luevano. Harris was elected to the board in 2004 and finished her 16th year as a director. Hoffman and Luevano were elected to their position in 2016 and are finishing their fourth year. “Know that your service is appreciated, it doesn’t go unknown,” Abbott said. The board then approved the Conse...
The Fallbrook Union High School District Board of Trustees voted Monday, Oct. 26 to extend distance learning through the remainder of the first semester and the final grading period, which means students would return to campus in a hybrid model on Jan. 4, 2021. Prior to the meeting, at least one parent spoke in favor of opening the school to students immediately. Superintendent Ilsa Garza-Gonzalez gave the presentation on the proposal, which asked the board to approve as it...
