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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SAN DIEGO – Two years after becoming the first battery of its kind to be connected to the California grid to help support reliability and maximize the use of clean energy, the vanadium redox flow battery based at a San Diego Gas & Electric substation is again breaking new ground. This time, the emerging battery technology is being tested as a means to help achieve zero-emission microgrids – a tool to keep communities and critical facilities powered with clean energy during adv...
Area residents and firefighters turned out Sunday morning, Jan. 24, to honor 54-year-old Temecula resident and Rancho Santa Fe Fire Capt. Chris Mertz, who died Jan. 20, from complications related to COVID-19. Mertz's family and Rancho Santa Fe Fire Protection District personnel were present at Temecula Valley Hospital as his body was transferred to a waiting hearse, which they followed in a procession escorted by the California Highway Patrol to Miller-Jones Mortuary in...
For the first time in history, all 50 states were declared federal disaster areas due to COVID-19. At the same time, hurricanes, floods, wildfires and winter storms continued to hit communities already dealing with the pandemic. Communities were overwhelmed and so was the U.S. Census Bureau's award-winning OnTheMap for Emergency Management data tool, https://onthemap.ces.census.gov/em/. As each state becomes a disaster or emergency declaration area, real-time data on hurricane...
Coldwell Banker Village Properties announces Erica Williams as its top listing agent for the month of December in 2020....
This was a post I saw on a fellow patriot's page: Why is broken glass on Capitol Hill more appalling to you than the broken glass that shattered the dreams of minority (including black-owned businesses burned and looted by blacks) business owners all over the Country? Why is a five hour protest on Capitol Hill more appalling to you than the seven month long destructive siege of our Country? Why is some minor cosmetic damage to the Capitol building more appalling to you than 150 federal buildings damaged, and thousands of...
California’s high cost of living, crumbling infrastructure, rising crime and constant threat of natural disasters always present challenges. The COVID-19 pandemic has made matters worse by stressing ICU capacity, causing tragic loss of life, damaging our economy and robbing many students of a year’s education. During the upcoming budget discussions, I am urging the Governor to follow a path relying on science to best respond to the pandemic. More than 2.6 million people los...
“On Wednesday [Jan. 6], the Washington Times published a story that claimed XRVision ‘used its software to do facial recognition of protesters and matched two Philadelphia Antifa members to two men inside the Senate’” (BuzzFeed.News) XRVision issued an immediate “cease and desist” order because that claim was utterly false. (RawStory.com) The FBI, which is actively pursuing the perpetrators, confirms there’s no evidence of Antifa involvement. (Forbes) Five people are known dead as a direct result of the assault on our nation...
With that said, I’m going to need some help from my Democratic Liberal friends: 1. Can I borrow the #NotMyPresident hashtag, or is that reserved for you? 2. Who do I contact to see if Republicans are boycotting the Inauguration (like the Democrats did for President Trump)? 3. Do I have to accept the election results, or can I claim election interference for the next four years? 4. Am I entitled to see Biden’s tax returns to learn how his income jumped dramatically in one year? (we all know how and why… but it would be nice...
I would like to start by reminding you that Rep. Darrell Issa was elected by a majority of voters in this district who just happen to be Republicans. By voting to object to the results of “certified” votes in several states, he was doing exactly what we, his constituents, elected him to do and that was to support former President Donald Trump. The level of fraud in this election is absolutely astounding, and if any of you actually did some honest research, you would find that information. Even Democratic Sens. Elizabeth War...
Mr. Egkan, this is a lot of ground to cover, but I want to give you the respect you deserve with answers. Your attempt to equate me or our news with QAnon or Alex Jones is just ridiculous on its face. As ridiculous as me equating you with postal employees who have gone "postal" just because you were a postal employee. I know very little about QAnon or Jones. Alternative facts You are right about "alternative facts," Both positions were not true. As I've outlined previously,...
I didn't write this, but wish I had. This is exactly my thoughts as the curtain starts to fall on the last act of our great country. God Bless America, and thanks to all of the great American service men and women that picked up the tab, for the freedom we once had. Before I fade away, there is something important I need to say. It may not be important to anyone else; but it's important to me. Win, lose or fraud...President Trump, I just want to say thank you for the last four years. Thank you for making it cool to be an...
It has been 50 years since my husband Russ and I settled in Fallbrook after too many moves during almost 30 years of military life. We found that Fallbrook was a great place to live and its residents are wonderful people. But I didn’t know the extent of that wise decision until my 90th birthday party which was to be a drive by organized by my family to help celebrate that achievement with friends and family during COVID-19. As it happened, I sat in my cart waving to lots of wonderful Fallbrookians while wearing a neck b...
Just under four years ago we were introduced to the term “alternative facts” by the Trump Administration. Alternative facts, as if there exists a parallel universe in which two contradictory propositions can both be true. What is the harm in repeating these alternative facts, even if they have been disproven over and over? We can ask the parents of the tragic Sandy Hook shooting, who were forced to sue InfoWars’ Alex Jones, who maliciously claimed that the massacre was a hoax. We can ask the families of the five peopl...
An important issue is coming before the San Diego County Board of Supervisors, one that will have major ramifications for the entire unincorporated area. (Depending on when you’re reading this) On Wednesday, Jan. 27, the Board of Supervisors are, or will have made a decision regarding the commercialization of marijuana in San Diego County. If approved, it would legalize the sale, distribution, and growing of marijuana for recreational and medicinal purposes. Regardless of w...
Dorothy Carol Kennard passed quietly in her sleep on Friday, Jan. 15, 2021 at Golden Gardens Assisted Living Facility in Fallbrook, California. She was born in Needles, California and moved to Fallbrook in 1970 with her husband, Neil, and her four children, Melissa, David, Katherine and John. Dorothy worked as a nurse at Fallbrook Hospital until she retired. She and Neil celebrated their Golden Anniversary before he died in 2010. She is survived by her sister, brother, four...
We celebrate a life full of family and love as we mark the passing of Helen Elaine Byrd. Elaine passed away peacefully Jan. 5, 2021 surrounded by her loving family. She was born May 30, 1931 to Helen Girvin and George Gorwyn Engle and was raised in Denver, Colorado. In the fall of 1951, she met Lee Byrd on a blind date arranged by her sister. The pair were married three months later in a beautiful December wedding and began a loving and adventurous journey together. Lee's...
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Small Business Administration invites public comment on a proposed rule designed to remove regulatory provisions that exclude certain faith-based organizations from seven business loan and disaster assistance programs. These programs include the Intermediary Lending Program, Business Loan programs (7(a), Microloan and 504 programs), Economic Injury Disaster Loan program, Military Reservist Economic Injury Disaster Loan program and Immediate Disaster Assistance Program. Because these provisions exclude ot...
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Small Business Administration announced that it has approved approximately 60,000 PPP loan applications submitted by nearly 3,000 lenders, for over $5 billion, between the program’s reopening on Monday, Jan. 11, at 9 a.m. ET through to Sunday, Jan. 17. Last week, the PPP provided dedicated access to community financial institutions that specialize in serving underserved communities, including minority- women-, and veteran-owned small businesses from Monday through Thursday, joined Friday by smaller len...
More than 30 children were rescued by U.S. marshals from human trafficking in Southern California, including eight who were being sexually exploited, the FBI announced Friday, Jan. 22. The multi-day joint agency "Operation Lost Angels" involved more than two dozen partner agencies and was initiated Monday, Jan. 11. The rescue operation recently culminated in the recovery of 33 children, Kristi K. Johnson, assistant director in charge of the FBI's Los Angeles Field Office, said...
San Diego County has now administered nearly 200,000 coronavirus vaccinations, and more than 30,000 people, about 1% of the county’s population, have received both doses of the vaccine as of Jan. 21, but there are no locations to get vaccinated in the Fallbrook area as of yet. San Diego County is currently vaccinating virtually all healthcare workers, and expanded vaccinations to all residents over the age of 65 on Jan. 23. The Fallbrook Regional Health District said last week it was working with its partner, North County F...
The Fallbrook Community Planning Group meeting Monday, Jan. 18, included a vote to approve the final concept plan for what is currently called Fallbrook Local Park. The 15-0 planning group vote approved the county’s concept plan for the 6.8 acres of land on the south side of Fallbrook Street between Morro Road and Golden Road. Changes may be made after the California Environmental Quality Act review is completed, and funding considerations may cause the park to be constructed in phases. “This is going to be a good add...
SAN DIEGO – Citing improving conditions in hospitals, state health officials have lifted all regional stay-at-home orders, including in the 11-county Southern California region, but counties will still be subject to the tight regulations of the restrictive "purple" tier of economic reopening guidelines. The regional stay-at-home order was imposed in Southern California late last year when intensive-care unit capacity dropped below 15%. The regional capacity subsequently dropped to an adjusted 0%. But state officials said M...
Dawn and Nathan Ashbrook don't know where they caught COVID-19 and they thought they were doing all the right things to prevent themselves from getting it. They got it anyway and it very likely could have cost one of them their life. The Ashbrooks own and operate Whispering Oaks Terrace, a wedding and special events venue east of Rainbow. Nathan, specifically, is a tall, strapping man who does physical work in maintaining the property for guests and clients. He said he's...
SAN DIEGO – As the New Year brings the tradition of resolutions, consider helping people in need as a Red Cross volunteer in San Diego and Imperial counties. During the coronavirus pandemic, families continue to depend on local volunteers every day for emergency support, including assistance after local disasters, help for military service members and their families, providing lifesaving blood to local hospitals, and so much more. “Just knowing that someone is there to lend a helping hand during these trying times pro...
SAN DIEGO – PatientPartner, a company that aims to reinvent the patient experience by connecting current surgical patients to patients who have recently undergone the same procedure, has recently contracted four of the top bariatric surgeons in the San Diego area. More than 30% of the San Diego population is eligible for bariatric surgery, and PatientPartner hopes to highlight all the benefits of the procedure, especially when the information is coming directly from past bariatric surgery patients. Patrick Frank, one of t...
