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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December 16, 2020, was an important day for Fallbrook resident Patty Sargent because it was her first day as the Foundation for Senior Care Executive Director. As an employee of Palomar Health for 26 years, and a consultant for two years, she was searching for a smaller company where she could "make more of a difference." When the position at FFSC became available, her husband, Allen, was the first person to make her aware of the opportunity, suggesting that she take a tour...
ELK GROVE, Calif. – The majority of California's 6.1 million public school students could be back in the classroom by April under new legislation announced Monday, March 1, by Gov. Gavin Newsom and legislative leaders. Critics panned the plan as inadequate. Most students in the nation's most populous state have been learning from home for the past year during the pandemic. But with new coronavirus cases falling rapidly throughout the state, Newsom and lawmakers have been under...
SAN DIEGO (AP) – San Diego Comic-Con will remain virtual for the July event, but organizers are planning for a smaller-scale gathering later this year. Comic-Con announced Monday, March 1, that the annual confab will return to virtual for a second-straight year between July 23-25. The in-person experience was canceled again due to coronavirus-related cautions around large gatherings. Organizers said postponements and other challenges caused by the pandemic left them with “limited financial resources.” As a result, the virtu...
SAN DIEGO (AP) – California is freeing up as much as $28 million to help immigrants arriving from Mexico and being released in the U.S. until their court dates, a sharp contrast from other border states that have emerged as foes of President Joe Biden's immigration policies. The funding, expected to last through June, comes as Biden unwinds former President Donald Trump's policy to make asylum-seekers wait in Mexico until their court hearings. It will pay for hotel rooms for i...
SAN DIEGO – Fire has always been a natural occurrence in California. The hills and canyons burned periodically long before people built their homes. Many homes have been built and landscaped without fully understanding what a fire can do, and few families are adequately prepared for a quick evacuation. San Diego fire officials said that most homes that burn during a wildfire aren't ignited by dry brush, but instead by embers landing on the roof, through vents or on decks a...
Henry Portner has been practicing law for 49 years and, after being in the field for so long, he was inspired to follow a new career path in real estate. He has been a Realtor in other states for seven years, but last year he earned his California Realtor license. He is now working at Coldwell Banker Village Properties in Fallbrook. Portner was born and raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, earning his degrees from Temple University. Three years ago, he decided to move to...
Starting March 2, renters throughout the San Diego region could apply for additional rental and utility assistance grants. San Diego County’s Emergency Rental Assistance Program will help lessen housing cost burdens and maintain housing stability for low-income renters who have experienced COVID-19-related loss of income. The program, funded by over $100 million in state and federal monies, will primarily aid eligible people who are behind on rent and/or utility payments, covering the period from April 2020 to March 2021. U...
Last week I supported bi-partisan legislation signed by the Governor to mitigate the economic and social damage done by the long, state-imposed COVID-19 shutdowns. This legislative package, funded without new taxes from existing General Fund revenues, included a bill I co-authored to provide assistance for small businesses and nonprofits, many right here in our region. Thousands of businesses throughout California have seen their revenues plummet, with many forced into bankrup...
Are we living in a culture of fear? What has happened to our American exceptionalism, our attitudes built on the wild west, rugged individualism, the culture of “we can do anything we put our minds to?” The society that courageously fought Communism, fascism and created a prosperous freedom-loving country to which people clammer to enter and bring their families? According to psychiatrist and medical-legal expert Dr. Mark McDonald, MD, we have become victims of a “de...
Some say Rush Limbaugh was a radio talk show host extraordinaire, a champion of conservative ideals, an ardent protector of our founding documents, and a passionate advocate for the men who wrote them. Rush was all these things and more. He was a defender of our traditions, a political storyteller, a purveyor of our uniquely American values, and a self-appointed arbiter of truth. No one enunciated the societal threats of liberalism better than Rush. With unmatched wit, laced with humor, he exposed the hypocrisy of the Democra...
Last week, I wrote a letter to our governor asking him to allow fans into Petco Park for Opening Day. My argument for this is based on science and data. Numerous professional and collegiate sporting events have been taking place across our nation for many months. College football and the National Football League both had successful seasons without any major COVID-19 incidents. The Superbowl was able to allow 22,000 fans into the stadium and cases continue to drop since the...
When I opened my emails this morning, what did I find that almost blew me out of my chair? A list of new, increased sales tax rates, averaging a bit more than an additional, full 1%, bringing the rate to over 10% in many districts! I’m wondering what these voters were promised in the run-up to the election? First and foremost is anything that can be charged as being “for the children,” of course. The county officials (or other silver tongue devils) that sold these tax increases to the suckers that will now have to dig even...
I think John Terrell should re-read Julie Reeder's article, "An overview of last week's post-election court cases, hearings, affidavits, testimony, press conferences and rallies" on Dec. 10, 2020. Then do your research. Like I said, a mountain of evidence. Did your news channels even show the videos of suitcases full of ballots? This is just a sample of the fraud committed and the theft of our Presidential election. If you've got state and federal courts that won't even look at the evidence then where the heck do we go from h...
Robert Eugene Stevens, 93, of Fallbrook died Jan. 20, 2021, after a long fight with dementia and a short fight with COVID-19. Bob was born Dec. 19, 1927, in Battle Creek, Iowa, to Ida and Paul Stevens. He studied forestry at Iowa State University, and after a summer as a fire lookout in Montana, he joined the Air Force. While in the Air Force, he became a photogrammetrist. He moved to Washington where he married Janet Kleefisch Oct. 3, 1953. With the purchase of a...
WASHINGTON – The United States launched airstrikes in Syria on Thursday, Feb. 25, targeting facilities near the Iraqi border used by Iranian-backed militia groups. The Pentagon said the strikes were retaliation for a rocket attack in Iraq earlier this month that killed one civilian contractor and wounded a U.S. service member and other coalition troops. The airstrike was the first military action undertaken by the Biden administration. Biden’s decision to attack in Syria did not appear to signal an intention to widen U.S...
WASHINGTON (AP) – Four days after the chamber's parliamentarian said Senate rules forbid inclusion of a straight-out minimum wage increase in the relief measure, Democrats seemed to have exhausted their most realistic options for quickly salvaging the pay hike but chose to keep the provision in the bill. “At this moment, we may not have a path, but I hope we can find one” for pushing the federal pay floor to $15 an hour, said No. 2 Senate Democratic leader Richard Durbin of Illinois. The Congressional Budget Office has estim...
WASHINGTON (AP) – The Democratic-led House passed a bill Thursday, Feb. 25, that would enshrine LGBTQ protections in the nation's labor and civil rights laws, a top priority of President Joe Biden, though the legislation faces an uphill battle in the Senate. The bill passed by a vote of 224-206 with three Republicans joining Democrats in voting yes. The Equality Act amends existing civil rights law to explicitly include sexual orientation and gender identification as p...
The top Republican member on the House Judiciary Committee Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) on Monday, March 1, called on committee chair Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) to hold a hearing to combat the rise of “cancel culture.” The phenomenon where an individual is ostracized or “canceled” from social or professional circles for expressing certain political views is drawing significant concern among conservatives and others who have fallen outside prevailing politically correct views who see it as a dangerous move to publicly shut do...
Let me take a few minutes to share a brief answer to the question of why a loving God would allow so much suffering in the world when he says he loves us and has the power to fix things. Careless behavior So much suffering is a direct or indirect result of ill-advised or careless behavior. Examples include: *The individual that smokes despite the clear warnings that cigarette smoking is by far the leading cause of lung cancer. *The student that fails to study and loses the...
RAINBOW – Sheriff's personnel raided and shuttered an illegal marijuana shop in the far northern reaches of San Diego County Friday, Feb. 26, seizing hundreds of pounds of cannabis products and arresting three people. A SWAT team served a warrant at the illicit dispensary in the 3100 block of Rainbow Valley Boulevard in Rainbow about 7 a.m., sheriff's Sgt. Mark Knierim said. During an ensuing search of the premises, deputies impounded 117 pounds of marijuana; 528 pounds of cannabis-infused products, including edibles and v...
The North County Fire Protection District board meeting Tuesday, March 23, will include a discussion whether or not to continue the invocation at the start of board meetings. The Feb. 23 NCFPD meeting included a 5-0 board vote to replace the invocation with a moment of silence for the March 23 meeting and to discuss that day whether to discontinue the invocation. Currently, an invocation follows the call to order and roll call at NCFPD board meetings. “I am not quite sure why it needs to be an agenda item,” Jeff Egkan, NCFPD...
Beginning March 8, Fallbrook Union Elementary School District will allow the return of the remaining fourth and sixth grade students to five days a week with the latest reopening plan. FUESD encompasses nine school sites, including two schools located on the United States Marine Corps Base at Camp Pendleton. “I am grateful to share that the first three phases of our district reopening plan have been safe and successful for the students and staff of FUESD schools,” Superintendent of Schools Dr. Candace Singh said in a sta...
At a recent small church gathering, held in a parking lot, Jean Dooley was asked to say a few words about volunteering. At age 80, and despite the pandemic, her days are filled with essential tasks for a wide range of local nonprofits. In managing her busy schedule, Dooley told the group, she draws inspiration from her former career as a grade school teacher. "I simply remember the letters of the alphabet," she explained. The letter, A, for example, stands for the Angel...
San Diego County is at a four-month low in new coronavirus cases, with just 262 new cases reported on Sunday, Feb. 28. In the 92028 ZIP code, which includes Rainbow and De Luz, county data shows a case rate of 15.4 coronavirus cases per 100,000 during the week of Feb. 7-13, the most recent week for which data is available – down from 24.5 the prior week. There were 53 new reported COVID-19 cases in 92028 between Feb. 7-13, a noticeable drop from the 84 new cases Jan. 31-Feb. 6, and there have been 3,515 total reported c...
Sheriff's deputies are investigating a shooting in Fallbrook that left a man dead Sunday night, Feb. 28. The San Diego County Sheriff's Department received a report at about 8:20 .m. Sunday of a multi-vehicle car crash on Alta Vista Drive just north of Via Monserate, and deputies headed to the scene to find a man who had been shot. Medics took the man to a local hospital, where the man was pronounced dead. The victim was later identified as 62-year-old David Nathaniel Caballero, according to the sheriff's department. An...
