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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One day the Rev. Chuck Swindoll received a challenging letter from a young man who had just started to attend his church. The letter asked a probing question. “I’ve heard you say that one becomes like those with whom he spends his time,” the young man said. “I’m surrounded by mediocre people. The more I mature, the fewer people I find worth imitating. I’m not so mature, though, that God is the only model… You are a model for me. But I want to know… Are you like my other ...
While the June 26 Supreme Court of the United States decision in the National Institute of Family and Life Advocates v. Becerra case favored pro-life pregnancy care centers, Fallbrook Pregnancy Resource Center is not celebrating yet. According to Alliance Defending Freedom, a non-profit legal organization which helped represent NIFLA and two pregnancy centers, "the next step is for the attorneys to advise the trial court on how to proceed given the Supreme Court's opinion...
FALLBROOK – The Fallbrook Garden Club presented a check to the Fallbrook Senior Center July 17 for support of landscape maintenance. It was four years ago when the club was instrumental in relandscaping the property. The club's other ongoing community projects include: planting and maintaining potted plants at the Senior Center; Adopt-a-road – cleaning parts of McDonald Road and Gum Tree Lane three to four times a year; caring for the potted plants at the Fallbrook Lib...
Fallbrook resident Susan Nikkel won two ribbons at the San Diego County Fair in Home Arts. She has been entering her decorated gourds since 2002 but won her first blue ribbon this year for a gourd vase in the Gourd and Basketry, Mixed Media division. She burned a floral design into the gourd, colored it with pastels and added beaded accents, to win first place. Although she has been quilting since 1984, this was the first time Nikkel entered a quilt in the fair. Her art...
FALLBROOK – Rally for Children, a non-profit organization dedicated to the support of programs and projects for the benefit of children in the Fallbrook/Bonsall area, is now accepting written requests for funding. The deadline for requesting funds is Sept. 30. Rally for Children makes annual philanthropic donations. Last year, organizations receiving funding included Fallbrook Food Pantry, La Paloma Elementary PTA, Boys and Girls Club of Fallbrook, Fallbrook Music Society, Fallbrook Child Development Center and Fallbrook S...
FALLBROOK – This year, the Fallbrook Senior Center is partnering with Lido Favela of Ace Party Rentals in the race for honorary mayor. Thirty percent of the money Favela raises for the contest will go to the senior center for its Home-Delivered Meals Program. The center delivers meals Monday through Friday to local homebound seniors. Between 295 and 300 ready-to-eat, healthy meals are taken to those seniors each week. The Fallbrook Senior Center is a local nonprofit group, s...
This week I want you to take a journey with me. This is the journey of an escrow that includes ghosts, vampires and an iconic court jester. The scene is a neat old home, built in 1950. Back in the day, the home was modified and expanded with no permits to be found. Owned by a man who later sold it to his grandson, modifications continued to be made. The original home was 1,100-plus square feet but grew to nearly 2,000 square feet, sited on a half-acre with room for fruit...
Amanda Riggs National Association of Realtors Some homeowners opt to sell their residence without a real estate agent to get around paying a commission and make more of the profit. Forty-three percent of people (down from 48 percent last year) who sell without a real estate agent think that if they sell themselves, they’ll end up doing a little extra work in exchange for not paying a commission or closing fee. According to the research, however, what they actually get is a lot of time spent hustling to make the sale and a fin...
The San Diego County Board of Supervisors approved three projects, July 25, that could ultimately provide nearly 4,000 homes to the region. Two are housing projects in the North County near Interstate 15 and state Route 78. A third is a land use change to introduce housing in the South County east of state Route 125. Harmony Grove Village South is designed as a mixed-use community on a 111-acre site south of Harmony Grove Village and about a mile from both San Marcos and Escondido. The site will include 453 single-family and...
Scientists and environmentalists have been warning the public for years that honeybees are disappearing at alarming rates. Scientists were initially uncertain in regard to what was decimating bee populations. Even though no single cause is to blame, data has pointed to pesticide use and the mysterious colony collapse disorder, which is a name given to the dwindling colonies seen around the world. National Geographic News says bees are essential because of their roles as...
A historic achievement for the San Diego region passed almost unnoticed when the San Diego County Water Authority’s board of directors adopted new wholesale water rates in late June. The rate-setting process highlighted how the water authority’s independent water supplies from the Colorado River are now both less expensive and more reliable than supplies from the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California. It’s an accomplishment that the region’s water officials started working toward two decades ago, and one that wi...
ORANGE COUNTY – A brush fire that erupted in the Cleveland National Forest in the Holy Jim Canyon area of Orange County has grown to 75-100 acres and is spreading rapidly, sending up a large plume of smoke visible throughout the area. The blaze is northwest of Lake Elsinore. Orange County Fire Authority officials say the Holy Fire" is moving toward Riverside County. U.S. Forest Service crews are also on the scene. The Vegetation is "well-established" in current vegetation, a...
County Parks and Recreation will close several parks for the month of August, a precaution taken each year due to the season’s expected extreme heat. El Capitan Preserve near Lakeside, Mt. Gower Preserve near Ramona, Hellhole Canyon Preserve in Valley Center and Wilderness Gardens in Pala are closed Aug. 1 through Aug. 31. In addition, Agua Caliente Regional Park and Vallecito County Park in the Anza-Borrego Desert are closed all summer. They will reopen Labor Day weekend. Luckily, there are nearly 100 other County parks a...
SAN DIEGO – Thousands of people have responded to the emergency call for blood and platelet donations issued by the American Red Cross in early July. Still, there continues to be an emergency need for donors of all blood types, especially type O, to give now to address a severe blood shortage. Red Cross blood donations are being distributed to hospitals faster than they are coming in, and right now there is less than a five-day blood supply on hand. The Red Cross strives to ke...
FALLBROOK – Herbal remedies may be used to treat symptoms of many conditions and can often be a viable tool in an overall health plan. But there is a dearth of research evaluating the use of herbal medicines, particularly in clinical trial. However, The Mayo Clinic says about one-half of adults in the United States reports having used at least one dietary supplement in the previous month, though research indicates that only about 34 percent of people who take herbal supplements tell their doctors about it, even those who are...