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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Dr. Gary Weitzman Special to the Village News A little peace of mind goes a long way, and that's why San Diego Humane Society wants to remind pet owners that May is Microchip Your Pet Month. It's the perfect time to take stock of all the ways they can protect their pet and increase their chances of reuniting with them if they ever become lost. Losing a pet is a stressful, scary and sometimes a costly experience. One in three pets will become lost during their lifetime. Those...
Regency Fallbrook Assisted Living hosts the Fallbrook High School Varsity Baseball Team for a team dinner. The team enjoyed an amazing Lasagna Dinner prepared by Chef Hugo Madrigal and got to interact and chat with the residents. Marketing director Jimmy Roberson said, “It was a great night for our community as a whole. Go Warriors!” Village News/Courtesy photo...
FALLBROOK – Members of Fallbrook American Association of University Women enjoyed lunch at La Cucina Restaurant where they met to elect their 2023 officers. Committee chairs were also announced. Guest speaker Ann Hoiberg, an AAUW member and the San Diego Women's Hall of Fame Activist spoke about Refugee Women and the stories from her book: "Tears of War – Stories of Refugee Women." Hoiberg's book shares the harrowing stories of 37 refugee women who fled their war-impacted cou...
Lucette Moramarco Associate Editor The last Student of the Month breakfast for the school year happened May 4 at North Coast Church. All four students honored this month – Kaleb Collings, Juan Martin Lopez, Sandra Ordonez Tovar and Krysta Rhoads – are from Fallbrook Union High School and all had inspirational stories told about them. FUHSD Superintendent Ilsa Garza-Gonzalez started out by talking about all of the celebrations that occur in May, including Military App...
Julie Reeder and Tony Campbell Village News and AC Investigations Sheriff deputies asked a new group of panhandlers who returned to the intersection of South Mission and Ammunition roads on Saturday, May 13, to leave. They were soliciting, supposedly, for a young girl with brain cancer again. Last week, Village News reported that different groups of panhandlers have used these same types of signs with the same red border, same lettering, same cash app link, but different...
Ruth Haferkamp Special to the Village News Betsy Phillips turned 106 on the 13th of May, celebrating with close family members in La Jolla, California. This is the fourth article written about our now well-known personality in Fallbrook. The first edition being on the occasion of her 100th and, subsequently, 104th, 105th and now 106th birthday. Wherever she goes, people give her a wave to acknowledge her presence or stop to have a chat. Remembering the first time I visited...
Julie Reeder Publisher A special meeting was called for the Fallbrook Union High School District Board of Trustees on May 11, to consider whether to withdraw its Application waiver submitted to the California State Board of Education to provide the District with additional time to seek a qualified applicant to fill the vacant seat in Trustee Area 2. This move by the board allowed the district to coordinate a special election related to Trustee Area 2 with the special election for Trustee Area 1 simultaneously. The vote was...
Joe Naiman Village News Reporter An all-way stop control at Fifth Street and Huffstatler Street was approved by the San Diego County Board of Supervisors. A 3-0 county board of supervisors vote Wednesday, April 5, with Terra Lawson‑Remer and Nathan Fletcher absent, approved the first reading and introduction of the ordinance. A 4-0 vote Wednesday, May 3, with Fletcher absent, approved the second reading and adoption. The ordinance will be enforceable Friday, June 2, although the county’s Department of Public Works may ins...
Ellen Fusco Special to the Village News T. Jefferson Parker, a Fallbrook resident, is a New York Times bestselling author, whose novels have been translated into 13 languages. He writes novels and short stories and formerly was an award-winning reporter. He has won a Los Angeles Book Prize for Best Mystery and is a 3-time recipient of the Edgar Award for the best in mystery, presented every year by the Mystery Writers of America. Parker conducted a talk on his new book, "The...
Julie Reeder Publisher During a FUESD board special meeting held May 11, the board of trustees voted to create a review panel to interview potential superintendents for the district. This panel will serve in addition to the professional search firm, Leadership Associates, which was hired after a March 13, 2023 meeting. The district is looking to fill the superintendent position left vacant by Candace Singh, who left the district in November 2022. The board is planning to complete their search and hire a new superintendent by...
SACRAMENTO – The California Tribal Business Alliance (CTBA) joined other tribal leaders at the California State Assembly to support the first annual Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons (MMIP) Awareness Week from May 1 to May 5. “The Members of the California Tribal Business Alliance are proud to have partnered with Assemblymember James Ramos, the California Commission on the Status of Women, and other California Tribes to co-sponsor the Inaugural Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons (MMIP) Awareness Week in the Sta...
Judith Bell Food Editor Our family will be forever indebted to our friend Pat Seitz who shared this recipe with us many years ago. I tasted the real authentic New York-style cheesecake when I took a trip to NYC to visit my fiancé. We drove to NYC on the way to Boston to spend Thanksgiving with my sister Carol and her husband Fred at their home in that wonderful history-filled city. From that time on, I tried 11 cheesecake recipes trying to replicate what I’d tasted. When I tasted Pat’s cheesecake, I knew it was what I want...
FALLBROOK – With the season right around the corner, Fallbrook's football programs are working overtime to get players prepared for the 2023 season. Last season, the Fallbrook High School varsity Warriors went 9-4 overall, with a trip to the CIF Division IV championship game. Meanwhile Fallbrook Pop Warner had two tackle football teams win their respective divisions. To build on the continued success of both programs, a free football "Skills and Drills" clinic will take p...
Joe Naiman Village News Reporter Not only did Fallbrook High School’s softball team break a six-game losing streak Wednesday, May 3, at Vista High School, but Fallbrook sophomore Hana Winton threw a no-hitter. Winton allowed two walks and hit a batter in the Warriors’ 15-3 victory over the Panthers. All three runs were unearned, as Fallbrook fielders made four errors. The game was called by the 10-run mercy rule after six innings, and Winton struck out 15 of the 18 batters she retired while throwing out two of the other run...
Joe Naiman Village News Reporter Valley League team league track and field championships are decided based on the results of dual meets. Individual league championships are given to the winner of each event at the league meet, which this year took place May 6 at Valley Center High School. The league champions included four Fallbrook High School juniors. Shea Morgan won both the girls 100-meter dash and the girls 200-meter dash. Maya Khoury had the highest girls pole vault height while Aiden Bernier won the boys pole vault....
Joe Naiman Village News Reporter Fallbrook High School’s boys volleyball team finished the 2023 season with a 14-17 record, which was not sufficient to give the Warriors a berth in the CIF Division III playoffs. Twelve teams were selected for the Division III playoffs. Del Lago Academy, who defeated the Warriors during the season, was the No. 11 seed. Chula Vista High School had the final seed in the playoffs. “The boys just didn’t always perform at their optimum at crucial times. We gave up too many games,” Fallbro...
May 2 3500 block of Luneta Ln. Fraud - Personate to get money/property [over $400] 1200 block of N. Old Hwy 395 Burglary - Commercial 200 block of Pankey Rd. Vehicle burglary - Identification cards, money May 3 800 block of Olive Ave. Assault w/deadly weapon, not firearm 800 block E. Mission Rd. Petty theft - Motor vehicle parts 1900 block Reche Rd. Bomb threat - Actual event was misc. incident 3200 block of Via Altamira Mental Health Crisis - 5150 7300 block W. Lilac Rd. Call for hate crime - Actual event - Threatened crime...
A.C. Roberts Special to the Village News In anticipation of Memorial Day, May 29, volunteers used elbow grease on a cleanup day at Fallbrook Pioneer Odd Fellows Cemetery, 1300 Alturas Road, May 13. Weeds are gone, grave markers are sparkling clean with words now legible, dead sticks and branches are gone, and shallow trenches will prevent mud from washing over the grave markers. The service project was hosted by Gary and Elizabeth Ungricht. “We’re just community members who want to honor our veterans and show respect. The...
Yvette Urrea Moe County of San Diego Communications Office With kitten season underway, the San Diego County Department of Animal Services is reminding people not to be a "kitnapper." It means if you encounter an unattended kitten litter in your community, don't be so quick to scoop them up and bring them to a shelter. But why wouldn't you rush to comfort them and get them food and warmth? The mother cat may just be out hunting for her meal before returning to nurse her...
Sandy the dog participates in a classroom during his first day back at La Paloma Elementary School with, from left, speech therapist Alida Leonard, and first grade students, Jax and Eli....
FALLBROOK – Fallbrook native Kelly Hanlon completed the Honors Foundations program at West Virginia University and graduated May 13 with a degree in animal and nutritional sciences. Through the WVU Office of Undergraduate Research, she took part in the Research Apprenticeship Program that provided hands-on research experience in the animal science field. She is a WVU Davis College of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Design Davis-Michael Scholar, president of the P...
As a seasoned real estate broker with over 40+ years of experience, I have seen firsthand the impact a vibrant, outdoor-centric community can have on the local real estate market. Fallbrook is a prime example of this. Nestled in the heart of Southern California, Fallbrook offers many outdoor recreational activities that cater to a wide range of interests, from horseback riding and golfing to hiking and biking. These amenities draw homebuyers to the area and contribute to a...
When we are considering selling our home, the most important information we are interested in is how to make our home the most attractive to the most possible buyers. What are the main attractions to those buyers both for our area and for our individual homes? While it is true that we have seen some very special requests and desires for some buyers, the vast majority of buyers are attracted to our wonderful community seeking similar qualities in their search. The folks who...
Joe Naiman Village News Reporter The San Diego County Board of Supervisors set a Wednesday, June 14, hearing date to acquire approximately 425 acres of open space land which would be added to Mount Olympus Preserve. The supervisors voted 4-0 Wednesday, May 3, with Nathan Fletcher absent, to set the June 14 hearing date. The property would be purchased from Rancho Aruba LLC for the appraised value of $2,128,000. Mount Olympus separates Pala from Rainbow, and the draft North County Multiple Species Program includes the land as...
I came upon this information on the San Diego County Assessor/Recorder/Clerk website. Since we have a high number of veterans in our market and likely a high number with service-related disabilities, I decided this information might be valuable either to the disabled veterans and/or to spouses of disabled veterans. I copied and pasted the General Info section and the FAQs (frequently asked questions) as these seemed the most salient. People seeking additional information...
