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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SAN DIEGO - Helicopter crews from a San Diego-based ship and Marines from Camp Pendleton today joined a flood relief effort in monsoon- struck Pakistan. Nineteen cargo-carrying helicopters are aboard the amphibious assault ship Peleliu and other ships in a strike group in international waters off Pakistan, according to the Pentagon. Marines from the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit are aboard the same ships. The Navy and Marine Corps helicopter crews will relieve a half-dozen Army helicopter crews that have been bringing...
SAN DIEGO - The Pentagon released the name today of a 30-year-old Camp Pendleton-based Marine killed in combat this week in Afghanistan. Sgt. Jose L. Saenz III of Pleasanton, Texas, died in Helmand Province on Monday, according to the Department of Defense. Saenz, who enlisted in the Marine Corps in June 2003, was a motor- transport maintenance technician with the 1st Battalion, 11th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, I Marine Expeditionary Force. In 2008, he deployed to the Western Pacific with the 15th Marine...
SAN DIEGO – The state of California is suing federal mortgage lending giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac for blocking implementation of a program that helps property owners to install solar energy systems, it was announced at a San Diego news conference. State Attorney General Jerry Brown also announced that he sent a letter to President Barack Obama, asking the nation’s chief executive to intervene so that the problem might be solved without litigation. Brown said o...
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FALLBROOK – This year Girl Scout Troop 4358 chose the Fallbrook Animal Sanctuary to receive all funds raised from the their annual sale of homemade lemonade, baked goods and snow cones. In spite of the cool temperature on the Tuesday evening when they set up their lemonade stand in front of Major Market, the girls were able to raise $167.75 from their sales. On July 31, the Girl Scouts presented a check to Fallbrook Animal Sanctuary founder Janet LuCore in front of...
Monday, August 30, 2010. For students and parents of students, this date should have significant meaning. It is the first day of the 2010-2011 school year. While there are approximately 25 calendar days between now and the first day of school, this time will fly by rapidly. Are you ready? Will you be ready? What does being ready mean? Students’ success this school year will be significantly influenced by their emotional readiness for school. This summer, they should have had numerous opportunities to engage in social and recr...
FALLBROOK – Four Fallbrook Union High School graduates were awarded $3,000 each by the Angel Society of Fallbrook, a local philanthropy. This year’s scholarship winners were Chelsea Carpenter, Jordan Rowley, Emily Turner and Kelli Wiley. The students were chosen from a group of 18 applicants based on criteria that included their grade point average, school-related extracurricular activities, financial need and the submission of a signed essay describing their future p...
Visitors to downtown Fallbrook on Saturday, August 7 said they enjoyed the great music, fast cars, and unbelievable variety of motorcycles (antiques to choppers) at the first Fallbrook Motor Fest hosted by the Historic Downtown Merchants Association (HDMA) and the Fallbrook Chamber of Commerce. The Andre J Band played Rhythm and Blues, Motown and funk in the Village Square for the crowd. “They were awesome and amazing — very danceable and people really enjoyed t...
FALLBROOK – The rambling 49 square mile rural community of Chacraseca, Nicaragua, doesn’t have much. The average family’s dollar a day income barely covers rice and beans, leaving many without clean water, electricity, schoolbooks, accessible roads, and all but the most basic of material possessions. However, the people have big hearts and dreams, with one of their biggest dreams being to have music in their schools. Happily, that dream is a reality thanks to the mis...
Recycling is a key component of modern waste reduction, and Camp Pendleton has a robust recycling program. However, it is important to recycle correctly in order for its benefits to be effective. Currently, the man-hours that are used to extract trash from recycled products are excessive. Base’s Recycling Center spends approximately $78,000 each year sorting out contaminated recyclables. “Contaminating the recyclables with trash hurts everyone,” said Charles P. Brads...
LOS ANGELES – Attorney General Edmund G. Brown Jr. released an “encouraging” 2009 annual report last week showing that hate crimes in California fell by more than 20 percent last year, but he warned that, “we are still a long way from ending bigotry and prejudice.” “While the drop in these crimes is encouraging,” Brown said, “hate has certainly not been banished from California. The sheer total of incidents motivated by hate is a reminder of how much harder we need to work to overcome prejudice, bigotry and ignorance...
FALLBROOK – With school about to begin next month, the GANAS Group Mentor Program is looking for adults interested in mentoring students, once a week at apartment complexes or meeting locations in Fallbrook. The mentor commits to meeting once a week for 90 minutes for 12 weeks per mentoring cycle with a group of 10 mentees ages 9 to 14 years old. Mentors are positive and supportive and try to develop relationships of trust and respect. The mentor will complete an...
FALLBROOK – Fallbrook Film Factory, in partnership with the Fallbrook School of the Arts, presents the first of a series of filmmaking classes. Long on the request list of their membership, the group is now kicking off their series with two seasoned instructors. Milena M. Phillips, a 20-year TV and film actress will teach Beginning On-Camera Acting on Saturdays from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m., September 18 to Nov. 13. Adrienne Armstrong-Adler, a veteran Hollywood screenplay writer, will teach Writing a Screenplay That Sells on...
FALLBROOK – She is a storyteller of great yarns. She is an artist whose palette is composed of rich fabrics. She is a cultural documentarian who uses textiles to create her archive… and she is our neighbor. Few people sleep under Karen Cunagin’s quilts; instead Cunagin’s textile compositions have hung in exhibits around the world and locally at the Oceanside Museum of Art, the Visions Art Quilt Gallery in Point Loma and at the Fallbrook Art Center (where she curre...
FALLBROOK – The world knows Jodi Benson as the wonderful voice of Ariel in Disney’s “The Little Mermaid,” one of the best Disney animated films ever created. Benson is a rare artist whose unique voice thrills audiences not only in the movies, but also in concert halls throughout the world. She will step into the guest soloist spotlight for Fallbrook Music Society’s 25th Annual Symphony ‘Pops’ on the Green, Thursday, August 19. The concert features a special engagement...
FALLBROOK – Connections Fallbrook Networking group continues their Hot Summer Nites Series with a Giant Block Party for the whole family in downtown Fallbrook. The theme this coming Friday, August 13, is Off Road, Race Car & Open Headers. Fallbrook Vintage Cars & Bonsall Rods & Relics will be displaying their classic car collections, and special guests include the “On The Edge” 4 x 4 Club from San Diego. The Hooter Girls will also be assisting by handing out earplugs. The popular Tony Suraci Band will be playing liv...
A 25-year old black male was transported to Palomar Hospital with non-life threatening injuries after being assaulted by a Hispanic man in his early 20s on Thursday evening, July 29 at approximately 7 p.m. in the rear parking lot of a local food restaurant. Fallbrook Detective Jim Pucillo said the incident is under investigation and video surveillance tapes from the property where the McDonald’s restaurant is located have been reviewed. “The victim said he was drinking a beer when a Hispanic male approached him and sta...
Clara Pierce, 5, feels a tickle as lady bugs crawl on her after being released at her grandfather’s farm, Lavender Hill Pumpkins. In an ongoing program of biological pest control, 50,000 ladybugs are being released there each week....
One individual was injured by a .45 caliber bullet on South Vine Street Saturday night, August 7, in an apparent gang shooting. According to Sheriff’s detective Jim Pucillo, a group of individuals were walking on South Vine at approximately 10:15 p.m. when a lowered Honda with tinted windows drove up to the individuals and made a 90-degree turn. Suspects inside the vehicle began shooting at the victims, spraying the area with .45 caliber rounds and hitting another vehicle. Pucillo stated a bullet hit one individual in the l...
The San Diego County’s Department for Planning and Land Use (DPLU) has recently asked the various planning groups throughout the county’s unincorporated communities to help list suggestions of alternatives that will help the county remove some of the liability the planning groups have. According to Gig Conaughton, a representative for DPLU, the county began investigating in finding alternatives after the California Fair Political Practices Commission (FPPC) ruled in January that all community advisory figures, including those...
A 35-foot tower jump into Camp Pendleton’s 43 Area pool on July 22 completed this year’s final Devil Pups’ confidence-enhancing event of the summer. The Devil Pups program, a nonprofit organization that began in the 1950s, is modeled closely after the Marine Corps’ structure and discipline. Camp Pendleton’s chapter accepts approximately 600 kids, ages 14 to 17, and holds two 10-day sessions every summer. “We teach the kids how to march, drill and how to use manners whe...
San Diego County officials met with Fallbrook area growers on August 10 to discuss a possible federal quarantine of the light brown apple moth as well as eradication methods and strategies that will be put into place. The light brown apple moth (LBAM) is a harmful, invasive pest native to Australia, but has been distributed throughout New Zealand, the United Kingdom, Ireland, and was reported in Hawaii and parts of Central and Northern California. In early March of this year,...
Carolyn Sue McElhaney, 52, the wife of Village/Valley News publisher Scott McElhaney was fatally injured in a four-vehicle collision Monday, August 9, shortly before 6:30 a.m., on Interstate 15 in Escondido. According to the California Highway Patrol, McElhaney was traveling southbound on Interstate 15 just north of Ninth Avenue when her Mercedes sedan was struck from behind by 28-year old Jackson Redmond of Colton who was driving a Dodge Ram pickup at about 60 miles per...
Frank “Scoop” Vessels III, 58, the owner of Vessels Stallion Farm in Bonsall and a friend, Sam Cannell, 73, were killed when a small plane registered under his name crashed in eastern Oregon yesterday, August 11. Vessels was known for being one of North County’s most prominent quarter horse and thoroughbred breeders. According to the Orange County Register website, witnesses saw the plane, which was being flown by Vessels, plummet to the ground. They reported that pieces of th...
FALLBROOK – Fallbrook Newcomers Club is holding the first meeting of the 2010/2011 season on September 9. The social begins at 9:30 a.m. and the meeting starts at 10 a.m. Their first speaker will be Richard Kennedy representing the Fallbrook Chamber of Commerce. All new members of the community are welcome and can call Wendy Murphy (Membership Chairperson) at (760) 728-7524 for more information. All subsequent meetings will also be held on the second Thursday of each...
