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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Kathie Morris-Mathieu and her husband James Mathieu, owners of The Jewelry Connection, have been in Fallbrook for over 30 years. "My husband's parents started the shop," Morris-Mathieu said. "They were into antiques, and then it just kind of morphed slowly into jewelry, mostly estate." A lot of the items that come into the shop are from people trading it in, trading it out, from family members after a death, dealers or people who have a piece they just don't like and they...
Considering the sheer amount of information that is literally at our fingertips at a moment’s notice — denying the fact that Black Americans have been disproportionately discriminated against continually and systematically for the last several hundred years is willfully ignorant to a staggering level. For that, there is no excuse. There shouldn't be a need to break it all down for the people denying the movement is valid and appropriate, simply because they choose to live with their heads in the sand, surrounded by the inf...
FALLBROOK – Peter Moussally, a new resident at the senior living community of Silvergate Fallbrook, said he reexamined his life last year after a traumatic health scare in his own home. The seriousness of the event brought his family to its knees for nearly three months after Mousally's collapse and subsequent stay in the hospital to recover. "It was unlike my dad to not pick up the phone when I called," Kim Sarmiento, Moussally's daughter, said, who lives in town and d...
We all hear and understand the cry for social distancing given the COVID-19 public health pandemic we have been dealing with for the past several months. The primary goal is to prevent transmission of the infection to high-risk people, such as older adults. Social distancing, however, can be helpful or harmful depending on the motivations of those who practice it. Acting out of fear and anxiety, some people engage in bunker-style mentality, hoarding supplies (i.e., toilet paper depletion) and shutting themselves off from...
By Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Chairman, Children’s Health Defense New documents obtained by Axios and Public Citizen suggest that the National Institute of Health (NIH) owns half the key patent for Moderna’s controversial COVID vaccine and could collect half the royalties. In addition, four NIH scientists have filed their own provisional patent application as co-inventors. Little known NIH regulations let agency scientists collect up to $150,000.00 annually in royalties from vaccines upon which they worked. These rules are rec...
Rite Aid is expanding its COVID-19 testing capacity with 161 new drive-thru testing locations which opened July 16, including five in San Diego County. Testing is available by appointment for people 18 years of age or older, regardless of whether the person is experiencing symptoms, according to Rite Aid. Results are expected in three to five days, a company representative said. County locations providing testing are 1331 South Mission Road in Fallbrook; 1201 South Coast Highway in Oceanside; 28535 Cole Grade Road in Valley...
LOMA LINDA – Loma Linda University Cancer Center has appointed three cancer researchers to lead the center's commitment to premium cancer care through development of new methods of discovery and treatment. Dr. Frankis Almaguel, Ph.D., M.D., will serve as director of the Molecular Imaging and Therapeutics Research Program; Kim Payne, Ph.D., will serve as director of the Pediatric Leukemia Research Program and Dr. Pramil Singh, Pharm. D., will serve as director of the Tobacco C...
Most schools closed in mid-spring. Playgrounds in many areas are taped off. Sports programs from baseball to swim meets are being canceled. The current COVID-19 crisis and its quarantining measures are directly affecting children every day in a variety of ways. Many parents worry what the long-term effects may be on their children. It’s a question for which there aren’t a lot of ready answers but the consensus from numerous experts is that most children will be all right. It is especially true for younger children. While the...
For some time now my husband and I have longed to drive historic Highway 395. Not realizing it went from Fallbrook all the way through California, Oregon and Washington up to the Canadian border until AAA mapped the trip for me, we decided to start small. Although Lake Tahoe's south shore was magnificent, it does a body good to get out of this state to see how real people live. And so, we did. We arrived at the B Street House Bed and Breakfast in Virginia City, Nevada, in...
The National Fire Protection Association released its annual “U.S. Firefighter Fatalities in the United States” report, which showed fewer than 50 U.S. firefighter fatalities while on duty in 2019, reflecting the lowest number of deaths reported since NFPA began conducting this study in 1977. In addition, there were no multiple-fatality incidents, which also represents a first for the report. Other important achievements include the lowest number of deaths of volunteer firefighters, deaths in road vehicle crashes and car...
Madison Causey was notified June 24, that she would be receiving a Junior Livestock Auction Scholarship from the San Diego County Fair, and the 2020 Fallbrook High School graduate was also notified that day that she would be one of the final four exhibitors for the market goat supreme grand champion and supreme reserve champion honors. "It was a perfect day for a really good ending of the year for me," Causey said. Causey, who is now 18, was 9 when she joined Fallbrook 4-H....
Jonathan Vespa U.S. Census Bureau It should come as no surprise that older Americans overwhelmingly want to stay in their home as they age. But are their homes ready for them to stay? For millions of older Americans, home is where they raised a family, hosted holidays and told bedtime stories to their children and grandchildren. It is often their nest egg as well as an anchor to their community. But older homes don't always meet the needs of older Americans, according to a...
CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - The nation got another dose of bad economic news Thursday as the number of laid-off workers seeking jobless benefits rose for the first time since late March, intensifying concerns the resurgent coronavirus is stalling or even reversing the economic recovery. And an extra $600 in weekly unemployment benefits, provided by the federal government on top of whatever assistance states provide, is set to expire July 31,...
CHRISTOPHER WEBER Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) - A California panel on Thursday recommended that Charles Manson follower Leslie Van Houten be paroled after serving nearly five decades in prison. After a hearing at the women's prison in Chino, California, commissioners of the Board of Parole Hearings found for the fourth time that Van Houten was suitable for release, according to the state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. After a 120-day review process, her ca...
JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) - A long time ago in a pre-COVID universe far, far away, blockbusters opened around the globe simultaneously or nearly so. In 1975, "Jaws" set the blueprint. Concentrate marketing. Open wide. Pack them in. Since then, Hollywood has turned opening weekends into an all-out assault. Staggered rollouts still happen, of course, but the biggest films are dropped like carpet bombs. Anything less risks losing the attention of moviegoers. Global...
BEN WALKER AP Baseball Writer Herb Vincent closes his eyes and drifts back a half-century, to his boyhood bedroom in North Little Rock, Arkansas. He's 9, trying to stay awake deep into the night, the transistor radio tuned to distant KMOX in St. Louis, listening to Cardinals baseball. Bob Gibson's shutouts, Lou Brock's stolen bases and Joe Torre's slugging made for sweet dreams. What he heard in-between pitches sounded even better. "The muffled murmur of the crowd," said...
VISTA (CNS) - A San Diego County sheriff's deputy was behind bars Thursday on suspicion of molesting three minors, authorities reported. Officers with the Chula Vista Police Department arrested Jaylen Devon Fleer, 27, on Wednesday following a nearly four-month-long investigation, CVPD Lt. Dan Peak said. Fleer, who is assigned to the sheriff's jail and court-services unit, was booked into Vista Detention Facility on suspicion of 15 felony charges, including lewd acts with a person 14 or 15 years old, luring a minor for...
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - San Diego County public health officials reported 501 new COVID-19 cases and seven deaths related to the illness Thursday, raising the region's totals to 25,608 cases and 512 deaths Four women and three men died between July 8 and July 21, and their ages ranged from 44 to 95. All had underlying medical conditions. The county reported 8,304 tests Thursday, 6% of which returned positive. The 14-day rolling average of positive tests is 6%. The target set by...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate Banking Committee on Tuesday approved President Donald Trump’s choice of Judy Shelton for the Federal Reserve board of governors on a party-line vote, overcoming widespread questions about her qualifications for the Fed. Committee Chairman Sen. Mike Crapo, Republican of Idaho, said that Shelton had reassured him and other GOP senators that she recognizes the Federal Reserve’s independence from the rest of the government and also supports insuring bank deposits — widely accepted policies that sh...
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A genealogy website used to catch one of California’s most wanted serial killers remained shut down Thursday after a security breach exposed the DNA profiles of more than a million people to law enforcement agencies. GEDmatch said in a message emailed to members and posted Wednesday on its Facebook page that on Sunday a “sophisticated attack” on their servers through an existing user account made the DNA profiles of its members available for police to search for about three hours. “We became aware of...
ALAN FRAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s outrage over a Republican lawmaker’s verbal assault broadened into an extraordinary moment on the House floor Thursday as she and other Democrats assailed a sexist culture of “accepting violence and violent language against women.” A day after rejecting an offer of contrition from Rep. Ted Yoho, R-Fla., for his language during this week’s Capitol steps confrontation, Ocasio-Cortez and more than a dozen colleagues cast the incident as all-too-common b...
In the past two months, “defund the police” has surged into the public consciousness as a rallying cry for Black Lives Matter protesters. It is a divisive phrase, and to some, it is a misleading one. Critics see it as a call to completely dismantle law enforcement, and not without reason – even Democrats who support calls to “defund the police” have suggested that the phrase is misleading. “I don’t believe that you should disband police departments,” Congressional Black Caucus chairwoman Rep. Karen Bass told Jake Tapper on...
The California Department of Motor Vehicles has extended the time for driver’s license renewals that had expired during the period of March 2020. All driver’s licenses for those under the age of 69 were extended until July 31 with expanded online renewal available. Commercial license renewals were extended until Sept. 30, 2020. Learners permits from March 2020 were also extended six months. It is good news for many. My office has been contacted by many people over age 70 with...
While many adults are coping with working from home during the coronavirus pandemic, many students and young adults are experiencing changes as their first jobs become essential businesses. Many essential workers commonly seen in grocery stores and restaurants are students and young adults. Edwyn Velez, a 16-year-old essential worker, said “Due to school closures, I had too much free time and… decided to use that time for important things like work.” Armando Peña, another young essential worker, said working “would be a gre...
DIY projects have been therapeutic for Mara Ciardullo LaFay, owner of Vintage Retail Therapy, who has been redoing furniture and putting her own touch on unique pieces for over 20 years. LaFay has been in Fallbrook for over 23 years, and lives only a few minutes away from her shop. "The store's in transition right now," LaFay said. "We have home decor and gifts in the front half of the store, but my heart's really in the back." She has a DIY studio in the back of her shop....