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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The Fallbrook Union High School District (FUHSD) board of trustees discussed drafts of a potential Proposition 39 bond resolution that could be put on the November ballot for San Diego County voters to consider. The board has been considering a bond for facilities infrastructure and modernization, in addition to new construction. Instead of asking for a tax increase, the board began considering continuing the current tax rate put into place by a 1994 tax bond that was set for...
San Diego County's Local Agency Formation Commission (LAFCO) approved the annexation of Chandler Ranch into the North County Fire Protection District (NCFPD). The 7-0 LAFCO board vote Aug. 1, with Bill Horn absent, annexed approximately 77 1/2 acres into the NCFPD boundaries while detaching that area from the San Diego County Regional Fire Authority (SDCRFA) territory. The land is adjacent to what had already been part of NCFPD, including some of the Chandler Ranch land itself. "The North County Fire Protection District can...
In 2009, San Diego Gas & Electric brought a helicopter to San Diego County which was capable of fighting fires as well as for SDG&E construction use, and SDG&E made the helicopter available to the County of San Diego for regional fire protection purposes. The San Diego County Board of Supervisors approved an agreement with SDG&E in 2009, and in 2010 the agreement was extended through the end of 2015. SDG&E recently leased a Sikorsky S-64 Helitanker from Erickson, Inc., and on July 19 the Board of Supervisors voted 5-0 to...
FALLBROOK – The Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ), San Diego Pro Chapter, presented 10 awards to Reeder Media/Village News Inc. at a recognition dinner held July 21 at the Kona Kai Resort Spa & Marina in San Diego. The annual event recognizes outstanding work by writers, photographers, videographers, and graphic artists published in both San Diego and Riverside counties. Village News staff earned five awards with four of them in the All Media Design, Photography & H...
Mary Rose entered two stones in the San Diego County Fair's gems, minerals, and jewelry exhibition and won special awards for both of them. "I was quite happy," Rose said. Rose's amethyst quartz crystal won the A. Leo Horensky Cup for the best single mineral worldwide as well as first place in the One Mineral, Not From San Diego, Beginner category. Her elbaite tourmaline was given the Jim and Mary Fong Walker Award for the best single gemstone mineral worldwide and also won second place in the South American Minerals: One...
Fallbrook craftsman Jeffrey Comulada received the Fair Theme award in the San Diego County Fair's Design in Wood contest. Comulada was given the award for the work he called "Time Machine Desk" and entered in the Art Furniture category. The desk made of recycled pine and recycled plywood includes a chair on a platform, a steampunk wheel on the back of the chair, and a train cow catcher and smokestack in the front of the desk. This year's fair theme was "Mad About the Fair"...
The Fallbrook Public Utility District will no longer be awarding paving contracts for specific individual projects but instead will use a primary and backup asphalt paving contractor and one concrete paving contractor for paving work throughout Fiscal Year 2016-17. A 5-0 FPUD board vote June 27 designated George W. Weir Asphalt Construction of Escondido as FPUD's primary asphalt contractor, Peters Paving and Grading of Rainbow as the secondary asphalt contractor, and Medina Construction of Riverside as the concrete paving...
According to the North County Fire Protection District (NCFPD) board agenda for June 28, the recommendations to pursue a joint powers agreement with the Fallbrook Healthcare District, to implement resources from a SAFER grant on a trial basis, and to approve a sole-source purchase of medical equipment were three separate items. According to NCFPD fire chief Steve Abbott, those three items which were all approved on 5-0 board votes are complementary with each other. "It's really all the same thing. It's putting our folks...
FALLBROOK – Two historical preservation groups have joined forces in identifying one of Fallbrook’s hidden jewels. The nonprofit groups – the Fallbrook Historical Society and the Questers Sleeping Indian Chapter – have completed the first phase of a push to finally identify a one-room schoolhouse that dates back to 1886. The historic schoolhouse anchors a rustic parcel at 1319 South Live Oak Park Road. But until recently, the property was identified as a members-only club ra...
Three Peter Miller-trained horses based at the San Luis Rey Training Center in Bonsall recorded victories at Del Mar during the racing week of July 27-31. Miller scored with the following runners: Kennedie Sky, who captured the sixth race on July 27; Stand by for News, who won the sixth race on July 29; and Big League, who took the third race on July 30. Kennedie Sky, a 4-year-old filly who joined Miller's barn in late June, rallied from last in a field of nine to win a 1 1/16-mile starter allowance race on the turf by a...
BONSALL – Bonsall High School world studies students partnered with HP engineers in a project-based learning opportunity. Teacher Danny Costa said “the final project, which is a working Rube Goldberg machine, is integrated with representation of events of World War II based upon the students’ country of choice.” Rube Goldberg was an American cartoonist and inventor made famous by his illustrations of overcomplicated devices that perform simple tasks. Students were mentore...
FALLBROOK – This year is the 100th anniversary of the creation of the National Park Service (NPS), and the national organization Daughters of the American Revolution (NSDAR) is sponsoring an essay contest for fourth through eighth graders to celebrate this centennial. "Celebrating a Century of America's National Parks" is the American History Essay Topic. The NPS was established by Congress in 1916 – the official date is Aug. 25, and the NPS manages about 85 million acres of national parks. They are national treasures, and...
BONSALL – The San Diego County School Beautification Day is scheduled on Saturday, Aug. 13 for Bonsall High School and Sullivan Middle School, which are collocated on the same campus in Bonsall. This landscape maintenance/cleaning event is being coordinated by Youth Vision America and Riverview church. The venue provides an opportunity for the local community to show their support and gratitude for the important work done by the school administrators, teachers, staff and communicate to the students that they love them. A...
Gig Conaughton,County of San Diego Communications Office SAN DIEGO – Unless they’re a pet and you’ve given them a name, nobody wants rats or rodents skittering around their homes, scaring them at night, creeping them out by day and maybe even making them sick. But it can happen easier than you think. A rat can squeeze through a hole as small as a quarter to get into a home, garage, cabin or workshop. Mice can squeeze through a hole no bigger than a dime. Private pest companies provide rat-control services. But the Count...
Water Authority Energy Initiatives The Water Authority is operating and developing several projects to lower energy costs related to water use in the region. Active Facilities - Lake Hodges Pumped Storage Facility – Provides 40 megawatts of hydroelectric energy capacity, enough to sustain nearly 26,000 homes per year - Rancho Peñasquitos Hydroelectric Facility – Provides 4.5 megawatts of renewable energy capacity, enough to serve approximately 5,000 homes - Solar Panels – Generate about 2.7 million kilowatt-hours annual...
If you live in Southern California, you’d have to be living under a rock to not be familiar with the wide array of Mexican food options available. However, there is a wide range of food beyond Mexican food that is available to Southern California − Latin food, and it is quickly transforming the way that diners and chefs alike approach the way they cook. Strolling into a taco shop isn’t going to suffice to try new Latin flavors, but guests are left questioning where they can g...
The Fallbrook Public Utility District will be replacing four of its fleet vehicles. FPUD's board voted 5-0 June 27 to approve the purchase of two Ford F150 4x2s and two Ford F150 4x4s from Fritts Ford Fleet Center in Riverside for a total of $108,332.44. The price for the 4x2s was $25,317.31 apiece while each 4x4 cost FPUD $28,848.91. "This is based upon a fleet replacement master plan that we developed two years ago, so this replacement recommendation is in accordance with that plan," said FPUD general manager Brian Brady....
FALLBROOK – Financial services provider HilltopSecurities (HTS) is a new firm with a long history and a revitalized wealth management business line. The full-service financial services firm and registered investment adviser was created through the 2016 merger of FirstSouthwest and Southwest Securities, two of the nation’s largest, most well-established regional broker-dealers headquartered in the southwest. HilltopSecurities’ legacy companies have more than 100 years of combi...
The San Diego County Sheriff's Senior Volunteer Patrol has more than 500 participants, and Bob Cebulski of Fallbrook was recently named the program's Volunteer of the Year for 2016 Cynthia S. Roark, assistant administrator for the Fallbrook Sheriff Senior Volunteer Patrol, nominated Cebulski for the award, which is given by the San Diego Crime Commission. A committee consisting of members of the San Diego County Sheriff's Department votes on the award and it selected...
FALLBROOK – Fallbrook resident Eileen Delaney and her granddaughter, Maddie Reese, attended Comic-Con International. A yearly event, Comic-Con attracts more than 130,000 people from all over the world to San Diego. This year's event was held July 20-24. According to Delaney, Reese was invited by 20th Century Fox/Dreamworks to report on its upcoming movies "Trolls", starring Justin Timberlake and Anna Kendrick, and "The Boss Baby", starring Alec Baldwin. Reese and Delaney w...
The August 2014 closure of the San Luis Rey Downs golf club meant that the 50th anniversary of the first Mickey Wright Invitational at the Bonsall course wouldn't be celebrated there. The Mickey Wright Invitational was held at the San Luis Rey Golf Club (the word "Downs" was added later) from 1964 through 1967. The first tournament took place October 16-18, 1964. Mickey Wright graduated from Hoover High School in San Diego and joined the Ladies Professional Golf Association in 1955. In 1963 she won 13 LPGA tournaments, a...
The CIF individual boys tennis tournament held in May at the Barnes Tennis Center included three Fallbrook doubles tandems and one Warriors singles player. The Fallbrook doubles team of juniors Declan Harrison and Riley Lenaway reached the third round of the CIF tournament. The other two Fallbrook duos, one consisting of juniors Max Alperstein and Casey Eich, and the other comprised of senior John David Lopez and junior Erik Garcia, both lost in the first round. The only Fallbrook player in the singles portion of the...
FALLBROOK – Eric Gates and his crew ran at the Firecracker Nationals in Albuquerque over the July 4 weekend and won. They qualified first with a 6.69 207 which he said "was remarkable because the track is a mile high and the corrected elevation was over 8000' the whole weekend." They beat Lyle Byrum in the first round, Ed Middlebrook in the semis with a 6.70 205 and in the final they beat Mitch Bowen from Flagstaff with a 6.72 205. It was a great weekend for the team from F...
