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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PASADENA – Local flower farms Kendall Farms, Resendiz Brothers Protea Growers, Mellano & Company, and Dramm & Echter generously donated protea, pincushions, wax flowers, roses, and snapdragons that were proudly featured on the Cal Poly Rose Parade float. The Cal Poly Universities' float along with those of Miracle-Gro®, FTD and Real California Milk demonstrated continued support of California Grown flowers at the Tournament of Roses® Parade. California Secretary of the Dep...
FALLBROOK – Painting is one of the easiest and least expensive ways to transform the look of a space. The colors homeowners choose for their walls can give rooms their own unique feel and even affect the moods of the people within them. Finding the right shade for a bedroom or kitchen involves more than just selecting the first color that catches your eye. Design experts and psychologists alike say it may be worthwhile to choose a color that helps you feel good rather than jus...
FALLBROOK – Members and friends of the Fallbrook Alumni Association gathered Dec. 11 for a Farmhouse Christmas Potluck at the home of Jan Owen, president. Arriving with a favorite dish to share, and toys for girls and boys tucked in a bag, they celebrated a wonderful year of accomplishments – a year filled with lots of fun and hard work while helping students at Fallbrook High School. With holiday enthusiasm, each brought new unwrapped toys for the Marine Corps' Toys for Tot...
FALLBROOK – The College of Adaptive Education (CAE), a non-accredited "college experience" for adults of all abilities in Fallbrook, will be offering Introduction to American Sign Language at the CAE campus, 911 E. Elder. The eight-week class will begin on Thursday, Jan. 12, from 6:30 to 8 p.m. and be offered weekly at the same time. This class is for parents, caregivers, and anyone who wants to learn to communicate with those who are hearing impaired. The class will teach students 100 common signs and will be taught by J...
Nathaniel Sillin Special to the Village News Children and teenagers who received monetary gifts for the holidays are often excited to choose what to buy. While they should be allowed to spend some of the money or gift cards, as a parent, you could also use these windfall gains as an opportunity to teach and practice important personal finance lessons. Here are a few ideas to start with, although you can alter the message or subject matter to match your child’s experience a...
Lt. David Gilmore of the San Diego County Sheriff's Department is serving his final day as commander of the Fallbrook substation today (Jan. 5). Beginning tomorrow (Jan. 6), Gilmore will report to duty at the Office of the Sheriff in San Diego and begin his new assignment as a standards and compliance manager. "The [standards and compliance] unit works under the direction of the Sheriff (William Gore) to basically be an extension of his eyes," said Gilmore. "We inspect and...
Nancy Schrimpf Coldwell Banker Village Properties Special to the Village News Despite what HGTV would like you to believe, it is rarely wise to make major improvements when preparing to sell your home. Sure, if a celebrity greets you in the aisle of your local home improvement store and offers a free remodel in return for some elbow grease on your part, do it. But if you are paying retail for the improvements and you are doing them to your taste, you are inflating the cost of...
Nine roads in greater Fallbrook – and 10 roads if funding permits – will undergo slurry seal resurfacing during 2017. The San Diego County Board of Supervisors voted 4-0 Dec. 14, with Dianne Jacob recusing herself since her property is along a Jamul road which will benefit from the resurfacing, to authorize the advertisement for bid and subsequent award of a contract to provide slurry seal resurfacing. The contract is structured to include a base bid consisting of the minimum number of locations and four additive alt...
The controversy over a general plan amendment for lands whose density had been regulated under the Forest Conservation Initiative (FCI) focused on allowing increased density in the area near Alpine, but the San Diego County Board of Supervisors hearing Dec. 14 did not prevent the reclassification of two De Luz parcels and an amendment to the North Mountain Subregional Plan to allow for zoning and building type changes for five Palomar Mountain parcels. "When considering changes to the general plan, it is important to me that...
Patrick McStay intentionally had his book published Nov. 11, 2016, the third anniversary of the discovery of the remains of his son and his son's family in the Mojave Desert. The book, "McStays Taken Too Soon, A True Story," is his way of "setting the record straight," he said. Joseph and Summer McStay and their sons Gianni and Joey went missing from their home in Lake Rancho Viejo (the housing tract east of I-15 and south of SR-76) on Feb. 4, 2010. There were few clues and a...
Complications in the transition from in-house graphic design for San Diego County's annual crop report to utilizing a contractor delayed the release of the county's 2015 crop report until December 2016. The 6.4 percent decline in overall crop value compared to 2014 and the 6.5 percent decrease in acreage were due to actual declines rather than to a change in reporting methods. "We haven't changed the way that we collect the data or analyze the data," said county Department of Agriculture, Weights and Measures assistant direct...
The approval of County of San Diego mid-year budget adjustments included funding for fencing along the future San Luis Rey River Park trail and contracting for additional career firefighters for the Palomar Mountain and two other San Diego County Regional Fire Authority stations. The budget adjustments were approved on a 5-0 San Diego County Board of Supervisors vote Dec. 13. The $127,508.60 for the San Luis Rey River Park trail will fund the development of plans, specifications, and construction estimates to obtain an...
Beaver Creek Lane will be given a fog seal repaving rather than capping of a trench created when the Fallbrook Public Utility District (FPUD) disturbed the road's pavement to construct the Beaver Creek Pipeline, off of East Alvarado Street, just west of Tumble Creek Lane. FPUD's board voted 5-0 Nov. 21 to give the private road the same treatment the district would give county-maintained roads under similar circumstances. "That was to do some additional rehabilitation of a private road connected with putting the pipeline in,"...
FALLBROOK – The Fallbrook Beautification Alliance (FBA) introduces cigarette butt recycling to Fallbrook with the installation of its first TerraCycle cigarette receptacle. The test unit has been installed near a bench along the beautiful Pico Promenade, where discarded cigarette butts were littering the path and potentially washing into the watershed. Every year, billions of cigarette butts end up in dumpsters and landfills, or get tossed as litter on shorelines, parks, a...
If you’re eligible for Medicare or will be in the coming year, there are a few changes you should know about for 2017. An increase in the Department of Labor’s Consumer Price Index (CPI) means there’ll be an increase in Social Security benefits and Medicare Part B premiums. For most recipients the increases almost offset each other, but those who aren’t covered by the “hold harmless” provision (about 30 percent of recipients) face a larger Part B premium increase. These changes, along with several others, will go into effect...
The County of San Diego's revised catering ordinance will become effective Jan. 13. The first reading and introduction of the ordinance was approved by the San Diego County Board of Supervisors on a 4-0 vote Nov. 16 with Greg Cox at a National Association of Counties meeting. A 5-0 vote Dec. 14 approved the second reading and adoption of the ordinance. "This item will allow more flexibility for local business owners while protecting the public's health," said Dave Roberts, who was a member of the Board of Supervisors in...
LA JOLLA – A physician at Scripps Health’s Prebys Cardiovascular Institute has become the first in the Western United States to treat heart attack patients with a new supersaturated oxygen (SSO2) system in an attempt to reduce permanent damage to their heart muscle. The recent treatments of two San Diego men were part of an ongoing clinical trial examining the effectiveness of the experimental SSO2 system and technique in combination with angioplasty, stenting and med...
Fallbrook High School girls basketball coach Tony Morrow isn't attributing the Warriors' early-season record to his players or to his own lack of previous experience as the head coach. Morrow believes that a relatively young team which has played a tough pre-league schedule has performed to his expectations despite taking a 3-8 record into calendar year 2017. "The girls are doing very, very well, so I'm pleased at this point," said Morrow. "We've been tied or in the lead of about every game we've played." The Warriors opened...
FALLBROOK – Janelle Lunsford emerged victorious from a field of 16 to earn the Fallbrook Women Golfers 2016 President's Cup. The President’s Cup consisted of 16 players in match play competition over five weeks. The final round competitors included: Lunsford (winner) versus Sandi Simpson, runner-up in the President’s flight; Diane O’Hara (winner) versus Nancy Wright, runner-up in the Vice President’s flight; Dawn Flannery (winner) versus Sue Reed, runner-up in the Treasurer...
FALLBROOK – The guest artist for the Fallbrook Art Association's Jan. 21 meeting will be Mike Ishikawa, an architect by profession who in semi-retirement in 2009 discovered his love for pastel paintings. Ishikawa really enjoyed learning to apply pastels with its variety of vibrant colors to his landscape paintings. Ishikawa paints around Palos Verdes, old fishing boats, the High Sierras, the desert, and night images of buildings. He paints quickly, giving his paintings a p...
BONSALL – The Bonsall Education Foundation (BEF) held its annual Jingle Rock Holiday Festival on Dec. 10 at Pala Mesa Resort. Student performers from Bonsall High School, Sullivan Middle School, Bonsall West Elementary School, Bonsall Elementary School and Vivian Banks Charter School were present to sing, dance and play instruments for the enjoyment of the community and their families. In addition to six hours of free concert programming, there were numerous activities and e...
Morton J. Grabel, Esq. Special to The Village News There are circumstances when a nursing home, assisted care or other form of a healthcare facility should be sued for their negligence, carelessness and/or abusive conduct. Q. What Kind Of Actions and/or Failures To Act Should Lead To the Filing Of A Lawsuit? A. There are numerous accidents, willful and intentional acts and failures to act that may leave a health care facility legally responsible. This is so and based on the conduct of an employee or on a policy, procedure or...
WASHINGTON ― The Internal Revenue Service announced in December that the nation’s tax season will begin Monday, Jan. 23, 2017 and reminded taxpayers claiming certain tax credits to expect a longer wait for refunds. The IRS will begin accepting electronic tax returns that day, with more than 153 million individual tax returns expected to be filed in 2017. The IRS again expects more than four out of five tax returns will be prepared electronically using tax return preparation software. Many software companies and tax pro...
The fees for County Airports have been revised. The San Diego County Board of Supervisors approved the first reading and introduction of the ordinance amending the fees on a 4-0 vote Nov. 16 with Greg Cox at a National Association of Counties meeting and voted 5-0 Dec. 14 to approve the second reading and adoption. The new fee structure will be effective Jan. 13 and is expected to increase County Airports revenue by $373,000. "We're just updating it," said County Airports...
Sergio Garcia was the Fallbrook High School girls junior varsity soccer coach for the 2014-15 and 2015-16 seasons, so he has some familiarity with the 2016-17 team which is providing him with his debut as a high school head coach. "I'm excited about the season," said Garcia. "A lot of talent on the team. We're looking forward to the 2016-17 season." Garcia took over the program after Miguel Trejo, who had coached Fallbrook's girls varsity team for the past four seasons, moved...
