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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FALLBROOK – Several college scholarships will be offered this year to local high school graduates as well as continuing college students, announced Cheryle Clinite, philanthropy chair of the Angel Society of Fallbrook. Founded in 1978, the Angel Society is dedicated to assisting local youth and education. For decades, the organization has awarded multiple scholarships to local graduating seniors who are chosen on the basis of academic merit, community service and financial n...
SAN DIEGO – Twenty San Diegans impacted by the COVID-19 health and economic crisis donned hard hats and picked up construction tools to embark on a paid, four-week hands-on training program preparing them for high-paying and rewarding careers in the region's growing energy, construction and utilities sector. To date, 19 of the 20 graduates have received full-time job offers. The program, designed to build a diverse and qualified talent pipeline, aims to meet San Diego emplo...
VISTA – North County Aviculturists, a club for pet bird owners and breeders, presents “Bird Calling Tales” with Nicole Perretta. A welcome guest on “The Tonight Show” with Jay Leno, Perretta is a favorite with the bird club, too. The meeting will be held via Zoom Saturday, March 6. The business meeting is at 4 p.m. and regular meeting at 4:30 p.m. This meeting is available to members at no cost; nonmembers who would like to attend can visit http://www.ncabirdclub.com for instructions. Submitted by North County Avicultur...
North County Fire Protection District Fire Chief Steve Abbott will be retiring this summer. Abbott plans to retire at the end of July. He will turn 55 on Aug. 2, although he is not required to retire at the age of 55. Abbott was hired by the North County Fire Protection District in March 1990, and he reached his maximum pension eligibility last year. "I'm just sticking around an extra seven months just to help with the transition of the next leadership team," Abbott said. The...
The Fallbrook Community Planning Group docketed a proposed letter to the county on the planned revision of the marijuana dispensary ordinance which urged county staff to consider planning group input. Jack Wood, planning group chair, learned from county staff, however, that the views of the community planning groups and community sponsor groups would be considered. The item was withdrawn from the Feb. 15 agenda, and an ad hoc committee was created. The letter, which was not discussed, read: “The Fallbrook Community P...
FALLBROOK – World of Watercolor & Beyond, the 12th annual Signature American Watermedia International Exhibition and Sale opened Saturday, Feb. 13, and runs through Sunday, April 11, at The Doris E. de Haan Fallbrook Art Center in The Janice Griffiths Gallery. The show presents 114 original works in all forms of watermedia in a wide range of subject matter, technique and style, from experimental to traditional. This show was developed by the Fallbrook Art Center and is a o...
A large number of our U.S. military troops are deployed internationally during wartime to protect America's interests. Little did many know that after stepping up to serve their country, they would have another battle to fight. This battle unfortunately can be more difficult to win. Dr. Nancy Klimas, who is the director of Clinical Immunology Research at Miami Veterans Affairs Medical Center, works routinely with veterans who have been exposed to dangerous toxins which have...
HENDERSONVILLE, Tenn. – Did you know that survey data by the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention depicted a trend among young people since the onset of the nationwide lockdowns? Between March and June, suicide risk rose sharply for Americans across the board. The rise in suicide cases, though, was most pronounced among the nation’s youth. While 11% of respondents to the CDC survey had seriously considered suicide, the same figure jumps to 25% for people aged 18-24. According to a report from the CDC, from March to Octob...
FALLBROOK – When in need of a beverage to warm them up, billions of people across the globe routinely look to tea. That choice has been made since ancient times, as various historians trace the habitual consumption of tea to ancient China. According to Penn Medicine, various types of tea each provide their own unique health benefits, some of which may surprise even the most devoted tea drinkers. White tea A 2010 study published in the Journal of Food Science found that a...
I had my first injection of the Moderna vaccine, Jan. 22. Naturally, I was anxious wondering what the side effects might be. As it turns out with most worrying – I had fewer complications than I did after my flu shot last spring. The vaccination cycle is still in phase 1A. Therefore, when I finally found an open appointment, I grabbed it. Most locations were booked solid. Out of hundreds of possibilities, there was only this one option at the SuperStation in Chula Vista. If y...
Recognizing that the COVID-19 pandemic would prove to challenge the San Diego emergency response community in an unprecedented way, local producer Dave Meyer set about documenting individual experiences. Along with his co-collaborator and wife, Karen, Meyer began filming in spring 2020, chronicling in highly personal interviews, the toll, responsibilities, and hopes of a wide variety of first responders. "These people wanted to help their community, they had become part of...
COVID-19 has challenged families in different ways, and many had to cancel or reschedule trips during the pandemic due to travel restrictions, which meant missing out on quality time with loved ones and the mental health and self-care benefits of going on vacation. Although 61% of families had a trip canceled due to the pandemic in 2020, travel is still top of mind as 82% of families already have travel plans in mind for 2021, according to the 2021 VRBO Trend Report. The...
Coronavirus hospitalizations are continuing their steep decline locally, according to data released by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Feb. 14. COVID-19-positive individuals are making up an increasingly small share of patients at local hospitals as the weeks go by – those with coronavirus now make up about a quarter of all hospitalizations at Southwest Riverside County health facilities, down from about a third in the data reported Feb. 7 and a significant drop from as many as two-thirds of all patients a...
Passerelle LLC, which owns the land where the Campus Park development is planned, will be undergoing the process to convert some land designated as office professional into residential lots. The Fallbrook Community Planning Group provided guidance to Chris Brown, representative of Passerelle, during the Feb. 15 planning group meeting. Because Brown sought guidance and the final project is still to be developed, the planning group did not take a vote on the Passerelle plans but rather provided the individual members’ d...
FALLBROOK – Fallbrook Music Society continues its 43rd annual concert season in partnership with San Diego Amateur Pianists, showcasing nine musicians performing a wide range of repertoire from the Romantic era. The concert is free and "on demand" beginning Feb. 28 on http://FallbrookMusicSociety.org. "San Diego has a wealth of artistic talent and we are excited to work with Amateur Pianists, another nonprofit arts organization whose members share our passion for classical m...
Spring is just around the corner. Plants and flowers are budding, and gardens will begin to bear fruits and vegetables for the family to enjoy. Gardeners aren't alone in their plans to feast on the outcome of their hard work, however. Pests, such as aphids, ants, squirrels and snails are as commonplace as weeds in a garden and can destroy the plans a gardener may have to enjoy the fruits of their hard labor. For agriculturists who want to fight their gardens' saboteurs, it is...
NORTHFIELD, Vt. – Saber Youman of Fallbrook has been recognized on the dean’s list at Norwich University for the fall 2020 semester. Full-time undergraduate students, who earned a semester GPA of at least 3.40 and had no failures in the previous fall or spring semester are awarded dean’s list honors. These students cannot have any pending incomplete grades. Dean’s list honors are noted on the official transcript each term earned. In addition to the above criteria, students in the fall 2020 semester had to meet the followi...
FALLBROOK – Fallbrook Propane Gas Company, sponsor of the Art of the Avocado Art Competition is calling for entries. This year the contest celebrates its 15th anniversary. In celebration of this milestone, organizers couldn't let any more time go by. It was canceled in 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic. Any artistic medium may be submitted – the only restriction is that an avocado must be easily identifiable in all pieces. There are three categories including 2-d...
Newsroom Newswire Now that it’s tax season and tax forms are arriving in the mail, many people are beginning to find a surprise in their mailbox: an IRS form 1099-G reporting unemployment benefit income that they did not actually apply for or receive. If you receive a form 1099-G but did not file for unemployment, someone may have stolen your identity to commit unemployment fraud. Los Angeles attorney David Fleck, who has experience in fraud cases, said it is one of the easiest frauds to perpetrate and has become common d...
ROCHESTER, N.Y. – Amanda Brown of Fallbrook was named to the dean’s list at Rochester Institute of Technology for the 2020 fall semester. Brown is in the liberal arts exploration program. Undergraduate students are eligible for dean’s list if their GPA is greater than or equal to 3.40 for nine credits of traditionally graded coursework; they do not have any grades of “Incomplete,” NE, D or F; and they have registered for, and completed, at least 12 credit hours. Rochester Institute of Technology is home to leading creators,...
RAINBOW – The Vallecitos School District teamed up with Lokket Inc. to extend its Universal Basic Internet network directly into student homes. The network consists of community internet transmission points, including the North County Fire Department, Somerville Market, houses and schools, so students can use the service at home instead of sitting in car parks or walking for miles to hot spot zones. “All of our classrooms, including preschool, are equipped with one-to-one devices,” Maritza Koeppen, superintendent of Valle...
In the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, nonprofit organizations and companies across the country are banning together to present Read Across America Day Tuesday, March 2. The National Education Association's Read Across America Day is the nation's largest celebration of reading, and the organization expected more than 45 million readers, both young and old, will be picking up a book to read that day. How the pandemic affected the learning gap Everywhere people look, the...
BONSALL – On Sunday, Feb. 28, Wild Wonders will host a small gathering at their wild animal refuge in Bonsall to honor the passing of Victor, its senior cheetah. Many long-time friends and supporters of Wild Wonders recall when Victor arrived in July 2006 from South Africa. He had been raised to be an ambassador animal and, over his lifetime, he inspired hundreds of people to care about the plight of his wild cousins and raised thousands of dollars for cheetah conservation o...
A new director of the Office of Equity and Racial Justice has been named after a thorough national recruitment and selection process. Andrew Strong will head the office and brings 15 years of experience in local government leadership and community engagement. "Andrew is a respected member of the community in San Diego County. Hiring Andrew to be leader of our new Office of Equity and Racial Justice was a decision made after a thorough process that involved the community in...
SAN FRANCISCO – Singer Jim Croce longed to put time in a bottle. Retirees aren’t always certain what it is they long to do with time, but one day they stop working and find they have a barrelful of it. “People often are so focused on making sure they are financially ready to retire that they forget to plan for what they want to do in retirement,” Patti Hart, co-author with her husband, Milledge, of “The Resolutionist: Welcome to the Anti-Retirement Movement,” said. “And they may have more time to fill than they realize. Life...
