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 — As part of Potter Junior High School’s “Celebrating Culture Week,” a large, colorful mural depicting the students’ commitment to promoting cooperation and collaboration was unveiled on campus on June 8. The special commemorative project was originally inspired by two Potter Junior High students, 12-year-old Samuel Paz and 14-year-old Alfonso Huerta, two best friends and former Potter students who were killed in a tragic automobile accident in February (2006). Both boys’ silhouettes are featured in the mural. Loca...
Fallbrook Street kindergarteners celebrate the coming summer vacation with a Beach Day recess during the hot last days of school....
From the time Jim Sollenbarger first encountered band in elementary school he was hooked. “I just wanted to make noise,” he says. Later, he admits his love of music replaced “making noise” and the lure of the brass; French horn, Baritone and lastly the Trumpet served him well into high school. When he marched with the Mira Costa High School Band in Manhattan Beach during the ’70s, it wasn’t so “cool” to be in band, he recalls. “No one I hung out with knew about it my freshman and sophomore years, until one when day my hat f...
SAN LUIS OBISPO — Natalie Olsen of Fallbrook graduated from California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo on June 10, 2006. She received a Bachelor of Science degree in recreation parks and tourism administration with a concentration in commercial tourism/special events management. Natalie plans to relocate to Southern California and work at a top hotel in their event planning department, but first she will tour Europe this summer before starting her career. Natalie is a 2002 graduate of Fallbrook Union High S...
Pamela Rouzer, Fallbrook High School Class of 2002, recently received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in illustration. She graduated magna cum laude from Laguna College of Art and Design. She is currently working in an art studio in Newport Beach, CA....
Gutierrez Vasquez, Sandra UCSB AAUW AVD Ambriz Cruz, Jessica CSU SM AAUW AVID Castenada, Brenda Holy Cross AAUW AVID Lopez, Blanca CSU Dom Hills AAUW AVID Santillan, Paloma CSU Dom Hills AAUW AVID Sebastian, Nancy UCSB AAUW AVID Woods, Ashley Boston College AAUW AVID Bartch, Asher Harvard Academic Scholarship Cook, Nicole Stephens College Academic Scholarship Leake, Michael Arizona State U Academic Scholarship Tudor, Jason U of Oregon Academic Scholarship Dean’s Scholarship Day, Eric Chapman U Academic Scholarship Provost S...
UNIVERSITY CITY — The Fallbrook Girls Softball League All Star team took first place at the University City Silver & Gold All Star Tournament. With 10 teams in the division, the 10U girls played six games over the Father’s Day weekend. Saturday games were against La Jolla, Escondido and Menifee. With only one win and two losses at the end of day one, Fallbrook just made the cutoffs to continue to compete. Then Sunday, they played three back to back to back games, defeating University City 4-2, then La Jolla 4-3 in extra inn...
The Bonsall Chamber of Commerce and eight Fallbrook groups will receive Community Enhancement funds from the County of San Diego during Fiscal Year 2006-07. The Board of Supervisors approved the county’s 2006-07 budget on June 20, including the Community Enhancement allocations. Each county supervisor received $600,000 of Community Enhancement funds for his or her district and made recommendations for the allocations which were approved by the entire board during the budget process. Community Enhancement funds, which are d...
Two Fallbrook High School seniors were named academic All-Americans by the national governing body of lacrosse. US Lacrosse named Angie Scoma and Nicole Cook as academic All-Americans. Scoma was an attacker on the Fallbrook High School lacrosse team and Cook was a midfielder. “This is the whole entire US,” Fallbrook girls lacrosse coach Linda Cook said. “To have both Nicole and Angie selected is, I think, the biggest honor of all.” Players are nominated by their coach. The nominations are submitted to US Lacrosse and selecti...
`An informational presentation for a potential Walgreens was continued from the June 19 meeting of the Fallbrook Community Planning Group (FCPG). The contact person, Brandon Jones of Evergreen Development Co., would like to wait until they have an approval from Walgreens, expected in mid-July, said Harry Christianson, vice chairman of FCPG. Christianson assumes the item will reappear on the August agenda of the planning group. It was a non-voting, informational item “to take our pulse,” said Christianson, who confirmed the...
FALLBROOK — The Fallbrook Sheriff’s Substation has reported they recovered a collection of stolen sheet music (from the 1930s-1940s, approximately) in a recent seize of property. The music appears to have been originally from a Methodist church in Southern California. To identify and recover, contact Detective Theresa Adams-Hydar at (760) 451-3100....
FALLBROOK — Y’all come down June 30 for the Connections Networking celebration of Fallbrook’s western roots at Hot Summer Nights! Hot Summer Nights starts at 5:30 p.m. and concludes at 8 p.m. on Main Avenue in downtown Fallbrook. Admission is free. On the menu is finger-lickin’ western barbecue, corn on the cob sold by the Rainbow Girls plus award-winning cold brews from Stone Brewery and a selection of smooth reds and white from the Australian Palandri Winery poured by their west coast representative, Bill Oakley. Foot-st...
Bob and Saranda Miller celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary on June 23, 2006. Bob, born in California, met Saranda from Pennsylvania while attending the University of Pennsylvania veterinary school. They were married in Brodbecks, PA, on June 23, 1946. They came to Fallbrook in 1948 and established the first veterinary practice in the small rural town. Saranda worked as Bob’s veterinary assistant and secretary for over 25 years, taking a 15-year period off to raise and nurture their family. They have three children, M...
Jon and Anna Monday of Fallbrook are proud to announce the engagement of their daughter Rachel Andrea Monday to Willard Steitz Yankus, son of Wayne and Pat Yankus of Ridgewood, NJ. Miss Monday is a graduate of Los Gatos High School and the University of California Santa Barbara. She is an artist. Mr. Yankus graduated from the Ponfret School in Ponfret, CT. He attended Skidmore College in upstate New York and is employed as the director of business development of Hitwise, Inc. in San Francisco. A July wedding is...
Vince’s Spaghetti Dinner Fundraiser to benefit the Fallbrook Animal Sanctuary will be held Saturday, July 15, at 6 p.m. at the VFW, 1175 Old Stage Road. Advance ticket sales are ongoing at the following locations: Vince’s Pizza, 855 South Main Avenue, Suite A; North County Times Fallbrook office, 232 South Main Avenue; and Phyllis Sweeny’s Encouragement Factor, 425 East Alvarado Street, Suite B. For more information call (760) 685-3533....
North County Aviculturists (Bird Club) meet on Saturday, July 1, at 7 p.m. at the Elks Lodge, 1947 East Vista Way, Vista. Speaker will be Dr. Gundula Dunne, San Diego County Health Veterinarian. Topic will be bird flu. The meeting is open to the public. For information call (760) 728-2378....
The special feature for the Fallbrook Women’s Connection on July 21 from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. at the Grand Tradition, 1602 S. Mission Rd., will be Arbonne International. Consultant Jaime Eakle will give us tips on skin care. Heather Nail will entertain us with her “Musical Melodies.” The speaker will be Barbara Brown of Fallbrook, who is a published author, motivational speaker and former trauma intervention volunteer. She will talk on “The Life Saver.” Enjoy a gourmet brunch and door prizes. For reservations and ticket pr...
FALLBROOK — Movie makeup artist Christine Friel will appear at the Fallbrook Library, 124 South Mission Road, on Thursday afternoon, June 29, at 3 p.m. She will present a makeup demonstration showing how professional makeup artists create special effects faces for characters in fantasy and horror movies. The program is part of the annual summer reading program at the library. Upcoming programs will include a class in making balloon animals with magician Tony Bradley on Thursday, July 27, at 3 p.m. For further information a...
Are you ready for this one? Strip poker at the Quilt Guild meeting! “What is strip poker doing at our Guild?” you ask? It is not what you think. This month each member or guest is asked to bring 40 two-and-a-half-inch strips of assorted fabric prints of reds and blues. They may be a combination of all. The focus is not patriotic prints. The fabrics will used for making quilts that will be donated in December to the wounded Marines on Camp Pendleton. For those of us who do not know how the game is played, it will be exp...
FALLBROOK — The Historic Downtown Merchants Association (HDMA) will feature “Hustlin’ Haas,” an avocado-themed character, in one of the shops located in Historic Downtown Fallbrook on Friday, June 30, for Hot Summer Nights. Visitors to Hot Summer Nights can obtain a ticket at the entrance to the Village Square for a prize drawing donated by the retailer hosting the character. Visitors must locate Hustlin’ Haas during Hot Summer Nights in one of the stores downtown. They can then place their ticket into the receptacl...
FALLBROOK — Soroptimist International of Fallbrook recently met to distribute funds to local organizations. Donations were given to the Fallbrook Women’s Resource Center, Fallbrook Historical Society, Fallbrook Community Pantry, People to People, the Encouragement Factor, Student of the Month, Friends of the Fallbrook Library, the Fallbrook Animal Sanctuary, the Child Development Center, REINS and the Camp Pendleton Armed Forces YMCA. Soroptimist International of Fallbrook is a nonprofit service organization. For more inf...
Sean Berry, a 23-year-old Fallbrook resident and fourth degree black belt in Taekwondo, will be one of the martial arts contestants on ABC’s new “Master of Champions” reality TV show airing this Thursday at 8 p.m. Sean started Taekwondo here in Fallbrook when he was 5 years old with the American Taekwondo Association, the largest martial arts organization in the US. Later he became a member of their World Demo team and was one of a dozen team members who traveled to North Korea in 1999 to train with their Olympic Taekw...
LEO WESLEY ZOLLER, male, born on June 6, 2006, at 10:23 a.m. weighing 10 lbs, 2 oz. Parents Eme & Tim Zoller, Lake Elsinore, CA. Maternal grandparents Ted & Reggie Kramer; paternal grandparents Lenny & Helen Zoller. KEVIN GASPAR MONTEJO, male, born on June 7, 2006, at 6:41 p.m. weighing 7 lbs, 13 oz. Parents Felipa Antonio & Gaspar Montejo, Fallbrook, CA. RONALDO ANTONIO ORTIZ, male, born on June 7, 2006, at 9:23 a.m. weighing 7 lbs, 5 oz. Parents Erika & Luis Ortiz, Fallbrook, CA. DANIEL ISAAC HILL, male, born on June 14,...
This Fourth of July, 2006 we celebrate 230 years of this great experiment called Freedom. Freedom is still haunted by those who feel it is an impossible dream. This nation has lost thousands of her finest defending the concepts of freedom. During the initial birth pains of freedom, wise men were inspired by God to lay down the philosophy that guides us. These thoughts and ideas did not originate with those brave leaders; they were inspired by faith in the giver of freedom. The leaders acted as Midwives and wet-nurses as this...
I came upon this article after searching the web for information on incorporating Fallbrook as a city. I agree with the author that Fallbrook should incorporate. Cityhood is the only way that actual planning decisions can be made by local residents and not professional politicians 50 miles away. If I knew of an organization dedicated to incorporating Fallbrook, I would join it immediately....
