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SAN DIEGO – The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and U.S. Marine Corps Installations West - Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, have developed a Recovery Crediting System for the federally threatened coastal California gnatcatcher (Polioptila californica californica) on non-federal lands in Southern California. The Service listed the gnatcatcher as threatened in 1993, primarily due to habitat loss and fragmentation resulting from urban and agricultural development and other associated factors. The Gnatcatcher RCS will e...
Joe Naiman Village News Reporter The San Diego County Board of Supervisors has requested that county staff develop an ordinance covering microenterprise home kitchen operations.\ A 3-0 vote Sept. 15, with Joel Anderson ill and Nathan Fletcher addressing a family medical situation, directed the county's chief administrative officer to return to the board within 120 days with an ordinance authorizing MEHKO operations in San Diego County, to conduct community outreach including to local municipalities and to provide public...
FALLBROOK – Estancia Senior Living announces that it granted its first wish, as part of the Wishes Come True program, Saturday, Sept. 18, to a special resident, Tom Caton. Wishes Come True is a program that Soon-Gill Schnellinger, life enrichment director at Estancia Senior Living, created for residents at Estancia who have a wish to do something grand. With support from local businesses, Estancia plans, organizes and implements the granting of the resident's wish. Each Estanc...
By Rick Monroe Village News Writer Fallbrook resident Chris Ingraham and his service dog Mattis are being recognized in the national Veterans of Foreign Wars #StillServing campaign honoring veterans who continue to serve after the military. In conjunction with National Service Dog Month, the campaign focuses on veterans who #StillServe alongside their canine companions. Ingraham is a U.S. Marine veteran who served in Bosnia, Iraq and Afghanistan. To deal with his post-combat...
Joe Naiman Village News Reporter Eileen Delaney was selected as the Fallbrook Community Planning Group chair for the rest of 2021. Delaney had been the acting chair since Jack Wood resigned effective Aug. 1. Wood and his wife, Joyce, moved to the Meadowbrook Retirement Village in north Escondido and community planning group members must live within the boundaries of the community planning area. The planning group bylaws state that if the chair dies, resigns, or is incapacitated the first vice-chair becomes chair for up to 60...
Joe Naiman Village News Reporter The county's Department of Planning and Development Services hosted a Sept. 22 virtual workshop on the revitalization plan for the Fallbrook Village area. The meeting facilitator, Andy Pendoley, is the director of planning and community engagement for the community planning company MIG. Department of Planning and Development Services (PDS) land use and environmental planner Tim Bertino provided information on the county's behalf. The community members providing input included Fallbrook...
Joe Naiman Village News Reporter Future meetings of the Fallbrook Community Planning Group will be posted on YouTube. The Sept. 20 planning group meeting included a 13-0 vote to establish a YouTube channel account to store meeting recordings, to establish a [email protected] general email account for the YouTube account, and to designate the planning group chair, vice-chair and secretary as co-administrators of the account and to change the password when any of those officers change. The motion also included a...
By Rick Monroe The effort to recall Diane Summers, president of the Board of Trustees of the Fallbrook Union High School District has fallen short, likely lacking the needed number of signatures, according to a spokesperson for Reclaim Fallbrook Schools. Petitions were returned to the county Registrar of Voters on the Sept. 23 deadline, but the signature requirement of 5,652 registered voters in the district was likely short, Sherry Weishaar, spokesperson for Reclaim Fallbrook Schools said. “We probably didn’t get enough bec...
By José A. Álvarez County of San Diego Communications Office Substance abuse continues to take a toll on San Diego County residents and communities. A total of 722 San Diegans died with meth in their system and another 576 people died due to prescription drugs in the region last year, the Methamphetamine Strike Force and Prescription Drug Abuse Task Force announced last week. The Meth Report Card shows the new figure far exceeds the previous record set in 2019 when 546 d...
There is smoke visible from a vegetation fire located in Range 409 on Camp Pendleton. Smoke is visible but there is no fire threat to Fallbrook, DeLuz or Bonsall at this time, according to North County Fire Protection District....
FALLBROOK – Retirement may be seen as a time to slow down and enjoy some well-earned rest and relaxation, but today's seniors clearly did not get the memo. Modern seniors look and act a lot different from traditional depictions of retirees. The shift in attitudes regarding aging is noticeable in the growth of active retirement communities, which are designed for aging men and women who want to engage in activities where no chairs are required. Active seniors may not fit o...
As the routine of a school year settles in, families may direct their focus to factors that have nothing to do with school supplies or enrolling youngsters in extracurricular activities. For example, the weeks after families settle into a new school year routine can be a great time to have students' vision checked. According to Prevent Blindness, the oldest eye health and safety nonprofit organization in the United States, common vision problems in children include amblyopia...
TEMECULA – Temecula Valley Hospital has received the American College of Cardiology’s NCDR Chest Pain ̶ MI Registry Silver Performance Achievement Award for 2021. Temecula Valley Hospital is one of only 132 hospitals nationwide to receive the honor. The award recognizes Temecula Valley Hospital’s commitment and success in implementing a higher standard of care for heart attack patients and signifies that Temecula Valley Hospital has reached an aggressive goal of treating these patients to standard levels of care as outlin...
Dr. Daman Jamarai Chief Medical Officer, UnitedHealthcare, Southern California As we age, we begin to learn – sometimes firsthand – how devastating a fall can be. It isn’t quite as easy as it once was to hop back up and continue on our way. September is National Falls Prevention Month, a great time for older adults to learn about the dangers falls pose to quality of life and independence and tips to reduce risk factors. Each year millions of older adults experience falls and fall-related injuries. California ranked 20thth in...
Joe Naiman Village News Reporter The Fallbrook Community Planning Group recommended that the county's Department of Public Works review potential improvements to Clemmens Lane. A 14-0 planning group vote Sept. 20, with Tom Harrington absent, recommended that DPW consider completing the gaps between sidewalk portions on Clemmens Lane, consider painting the speed limit on the street, review and reassess the location of red curbs which prohibit parking, review the disabled...
Whether you’re looking into it now or thinking about investments in the future, you might be wondering which league you want to play in the real estate investing game — the low end or high end? Much like any investment, you must know your numbers. We share the things you need to know before choosing between low-end and luxury real estate investing. But first, we need to know what these two mean. Low-end real estate targets the lower to middle class market. This means investing in standard starter homes, which are located in...
As you pay off your mortgage, your equity – or the stake in the home you actually own – increases. And the more equity you build, the more you stand to gain when you sell. But even if you aren’t planning to sell your property, equity can be used in a few different ways. Consider these four possibilities if you’d like to make the most of what you have. Make Renovations With a home equity loan or line of credit, you can turn your stake in your home into money that you can use for renovations, repairs or any other cost you mig...
Associated Press REDDING, Calif. (AP) – Firefighters were gaining the upper hand Sunday on a forest fire that displaced thousands of people and destroyed more than 100 buildings near Shasta Lake in Northern California. Lighter winds and cooler temperatures slowed the Fawn Fire as it moved toward the shores of California's largest human-made lake and away from populated areas north of the city of Redding, allowing crews to increase containment to 35%, the California Department...
City News Service Special to Valley News A 40-year-old San Diego woman and her 2-year-old son died in a fall from Petco Park’s third floor onto the sidewalk below, and police described the deaths as “suspicious.” “We are deeply saddened by the loss of life at Petco Park last evening,” the Padres said in a statement Sunday. “Our thoughts and prayers are with the family of those involved. We will continue to refrain from commenting on the nature of the incident as it is an ongoing investigation by the San Diego Police Depa...
Olga R. Rodriguez SAN FRANCISCO (AP) – Pacific Gas & Electric was charged Friday, Sept. 24, with involuntary manslaughter and other crimes after its equipment sparked a Northern California wildfire that killed four people and destroyed hundreds of homes last year, prosecutors said. It is the latest legal action against the nation's largest utility, which pleaded guilty last year to 84 counts of involuntary manslaughter in a 2018 blaze ignited by its long-neglected e...
The Associated Press HUNTINGTON BEACH (AP) – Police officers shot and killed an armed man in the sand in front of dozens of terrified witnesses, many who had gathered at Huntington Beach for the U.S. Open of Surfing. Officers responding to reports of a man with a gun made contact with him Saturday, Sept. 25, and when he refused to comply with numerous commands they opened fire, the city’s police spokeswoman Jennifer Carey said in a statement. The man was taken to a hospital where he was pronounced dead. He has not been ide...
Christine Eastman Special to Village News So, what do you do when you have a typical corporate job that keeps you indoors most working hours but you've got the bloodlines of runners? You say, "I've got to get out of here after work and sign up for an ultra-marathon." While that might not be true for most of us, that's exactly what local resident Roy Quinn did. Of course, he'd dabbled in smaller races and such leading up to that, but an ultra - 100+ miles in distance - isn't ev...
Joe Naiman Village News Reporter Michelle Verdugo is now the Bonsall High School cross country coach. Verdugo takes over for Tamara Miller, who is now an assistant coach at Fallbrook High School. "They needed a coach and I was invited to do the job," Verdugo said. "It's just an awesome opportunity I hope impacts our young adult students in hopefully a life-changing way." Verdugo was raised in Montebello and attended St. Paul High School in Santa Fe Springs where she ran cross country and track and was also a cheerleader. She...
Joe Naiman Village News Reporter Brawley High School won the Wildcats' Sept. 24 home football game against Fallbrook High School in overtime. The score was 14-14 at the end of regulation, triggering the overtime in which each team was given a possession starting 25 yards from the end zone. Fallbrook was unsuccessful on the Warriors' possession, and Brawley scored on a three-yard run to finalize the score at 20-14. "It was a competitive game," said Fallbrook head coach Troy Everhart. "They put one more in than we did." The...
FALLBROOK - Once again on the third Sunday in October, following a 16-year tradition, the Fallbrook Alumni Association will host its annual "Picnic in the Park." On Sunday, Oct. 17, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Fallbrook Alumni from all over the world will gather to celebrate years spent at Fallbrook High School and lasting friendships. FUHS' Ag department students will offer their delicious tri-tip lunch, which has been an all time favorite among the crowd for years. Reservations are necessary and must be received by Oct. 9,...