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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FALLBROOK – Camarada returns to Fallbrook 3 p.m., Sunday, Oct. 28, for a performance featuring Elena Mashkovtseva on harp, Beth Ross Buckley on flute and Travis Maril on viola. The performance will be held in the community room of the Fallbrook Library and is free to the public. "Fallbrook Music Society is working hard to stretch the scope of classical music concerts we bring to our community and this concert has a wow factor of 10," executive director Ann Murray said. Mashkov...
California’s housing market has faltered for the fourth straight month in September. Home sales in San Diego County declined by 10.4 percent in August in a year over year comparison. In Fallbrook, only 38 detached homes closed escrow this September compared to 55 in September 2017. These numbers projected over an annualized number would put total sales in the state at under 400,000 units. So, what is going on? Active listings, in comparison, have risen for five consecutive m...
FALLBROOK – The Friends of the Fallbrook Library is currently hosting an exhibition titled “Sanctuary,” which will be on display through Nov. 2. The exhibition artists address the issue of finding a safe place – a sanctuary – in these times when violence and fear threatens people in many parts of the world. Artists from around Los Angeles are featured in the show. The library will host a reception Friday, Oct. 19, from 6-9 p.m., providing an opportunity to meet the artists. Musica Sin Fronteras will perform Latin American...
FALLBROOK – North San Diego County real estate continues an expected slowdown in number of homes sold and homes are taking longer to sell heading into fall. The average price per square foot has increased year over year continuing to make Real Estate a great investment tool, Jean Esop, a Realtor with Coldwell Banker Village Properties in Bonsall, reported last week. Some economists state that 2018 might be the final period in a long string of happy years for the housing industry. Although residential real estate should contin...
Amelia Smith Amelia Smith & Associates According the National Association of Realtors, it takes online home shoppers three seconds to view the initial photo of your home and decide whether to "click through" to the entire presentation. How important is the primary photo an agent selects? It is critical. Personally, I call it the "money shot." When I collaborate with my photographer to shoot a property, it is the one we agonize over. That photo must be captivating, of the...
SAN DIEGO – A reasonable modification to a rental home is defined as a structural change made to existing premises, occupied or to be occupied by a person with a disability, in order to afford such person full enjoyment of the premises. Reasonable modifications can include structural changes to interiors and exteriors of dwellings and to common and public use areas, according to Joint Statement of the Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Department of Justice, Reasonable Modifications Under the Fair Housing Act...
SAN DIEGO – A newly built solar plant is providing clean, renewable energy to customers signed up for San Diego Gas & Electric’s EcoChoice and EcoShare programs. The new solar plant and two more that are in development will deliver a combined 42.4 megawatts of additional renewable energy to the San Diego region, enough to power about 31,800 homes. “SDG&E is committed to providing our customers with renewable, community-based energy choices,” Kendall Helm, vice president of energy supply for SDG&E, said. “These new solar pla...
Four Fallbrook areas and two Bonsall areas are slated for dwelling unit density increases. The San Diego County Board of Supervisors heard property-specific requests for general plan amendments and rezones Sept. 12 and directed county staff to prepare the necessary documentation for the actual rezones and general plan amendments. “We do have to consider increased units in some places,” board of supervisors’ chair Kristin Gaspar, whose 3rd District had a request for increased density only in unincorporated Escondido. In some...
ESCONDIDO – For Sarah DeSimone, the memorable patients come to mind quickly and vividly. There was the gentleman who was having a heart attack, flatlined in the ambulance and was brought back by DeSimone and her colleagues en route to the hospital. She remembers him saying "thank you" when they arrived. Later, as a Mercy Air medic, she saved a 12-year-old girl who was choking and about to go into cardiac arrest but was talking by the time they landed. These are the kinds of m...
FALLBROOK – Fallbrook Regional Health District recently offered free prostate screenings to any man wanting the exam, drawing 71 participants. Of those screenings, 13 percent returned abnormal results requiring subsequent medical analysis. "Early intervention is key in fighting cancer," Bobbi Palmer, CEO of Fallbrook Regional Health District, said. "We offer these prostate screenings annually because knowledge is power and making it free might just offers the push folks n...
SACRAMENTO – The California Highway Patrol and the California Office of Traffic Safety are working together to focus on child safety through the California Restraint Safety Education and Training, which is also called the CARSEAT II campaign. Reducing the number of children killed in collisions because they were not properly restrained is the goal of the yearlong CARSEAT II campaign. The CHP will host educational seminars, classes and child safety seat inspections throughout California to help meet the goal. “Making sure eve...
Making decisions about Medicare coverage has never been easy. Over the years the task has become more complicated as congress has moved to privatize the system. Open enrollment, the time for evaluating coverage and making changes, opens Oct. 15 and runs through Dec. 7 this year. This is the first of two columns that address decisions people about to become eligible for Medicare and those already on the program will have to make. While some 57 million people are still in traditional Medicare, which remains a social insurance p...
Today’s streets and highways are more crowded than ever. Drivers almost anywhere these days often encounter bad drivers, traffic jams and road construction. The stress and anger that go along with driving frustrations is a fairly common occurrence, but when they build to the point that a person become an aggressive driver themselves, it’s a real problem. “Road rage” is generally described as uncontrolled anger at the actions of another driver. In extreme cases, it’s more than simply being angry and upset. It can lead to a...
FALLBROOK – Fallbrook Regional Health District recently offered free prostate screenings to any man wanting the exam, drawing 71 participants. Of those screenings, 13 percent returned abnormal results requiring subsequent medical analysis. “Early intervention is key in fighting cancer,” Bobbi Palmer, CEO of Fallbrook Regional Health District, said. “We offer these prostate screenings annually because knowledge is power and making it free might just offer the push folks need.” The event is made possible by Dr. Philip Br...
FALLBROOK – Fallbrook Pop Warner participants are joining people across the world in recognizing October as Breast Cancer Awareness Month by wearing pink. Breast Cancer Awareness Month is an annual campaign to increase awareness of the disease and educate people about the importance of early screening and tests. Fallbrook Pop Warner is showing its support of the campaign by having its participants wear pink socks during all October football games....
The first North County Middle School Cross Country League meet of 2018 was contested Sept. 20 at Woodland Park Middle School in San Marcos, and Sullivan Middle School won the race for sixth-grade and seventh-grade girls. Cross country team scores are derived by adding the positions of a school’s first five finishers; the sixth and seventh runners are not scored but can add points to other teams' totals. Sullivan’s sixth-grade and seventh-grade girls finished with 58 team points. San Marcos Middle School, which took sec...
FALLBROOK – Local junior tennis players Ruth Herman, Sofia Echeverria and Kaedin Kluis participated in a junior tennis tournament at the Rancho Arbolitos Swim and Tennis Club in Poway last month. All three players train at the Fallbrook Tennis Club. Herman, a fifth-grader at Zion, won the Girls 10 and under. "I'm planning on playing more tournaments, so I can get ranked in Southern California," said Herman after the victory. Echeverria attends Live Oak and won the Girls 12 a...
LEXINGTON, Ky. – The National Turf Writers and Broadcasters will present Martine Bellocq, a lifelong horsewoman who rushed into a burning barn trying to save her horses when the Lilac fire swept through the San Luis Rey Training Center in Bonsall in December, with the Bill Mooney Award for displaying courage in the face of tremendous adversity. Bellocq suffered severe burns over 60 percent of her body and endured the amputation of her lower leg, multiple skin-grafting surgeries and dialysis throughout 2018. She joins two p...
LOS ANGELES - America's thirst for big screen gore soared to new heights this weekend, as Jamie Lee Curtis returned to star in a revival of "Halloween'' -- and took the movie to an estimated $77.5 million in box office receipts this weekend. Three of the five top movies this weekend in the United States were in the horror/slasher groove, and Hollywood box office receipts are nearly 55 percent ahead of last year at this point, on track to set a blistering industry record. "Hall...
A woman was struck and killed late Friday in Fallbrook, and the car that struck her drove away. It happened just before 9 p.m., when the woman was walking on East Alvarado Street near Alvarado Court, California Highway Patrol Officer Mark Latulippe said. The woman was in the eastbound lane of Alvarado Street when she was struck. The car did not stop and continued heading east after the crash, Latulippe said. Fire personnel took the woman to a hospital, where she later died. The car involved in the crash was described as...
SAN DIEGO - All southbound lanes of Interstate 5 will be closed from 9:30 p.m. to 5 a.m. starting Sunday, Oct. 21 and continuing through Oct. 25, according to the San Diego Association of Governments. The closure is the first of two five-day closures during which Caltrans crews will remove temporary wooden structures supporting a bridge over I-5 at Gilman Drive. Work crews will also finish constructing the bridge during that time. I-5 southbound will be closed from the Interstate 805 interchange to La Jolla Village Drive and...
This weekend, Fallbrook High is inviting the public and alumni from all over the country to "not forget old Fallbrook, And the dear old red and white." The school will celebrate its 125th anniversary during a homecoming weekend that's packed with activities. For the uninitiated, "little" Fallbrook Union High School is the second oldest high school in San Diego County, a fact that surprises many, even those that attended the school. But it's true, Fallbrook High was...
The Fallbrook High football team hosted its first home game in more than a month Oct. 12 and the varsity contest against Ramona lasted less than five minutes thanks to Mother Nature. Lightning prompted officials to suspend the game with 7:33 remaining in the first quarter and Ramona holding a 6-0 lead, the result of a touchdown scored immediately before play was halted (the Bulldogs never had the chance to kick the PAT). CIF rules state that if lightning can be seen within 10...
The county Board of Supervisors voted Oct. 9 to allow the Health and Human Services Agency to apply for state emergency funds to address homelessness in the region. The California 2018-2019 State Budget includes $53 million for the California Emergency Solutions and Housing Program, which provides grants to local communities to develop programs that assist people who are homeless or at risk of not having a stable place to live. Funds from this program will be distributed in two rounds, potentially bringing San Diego County...
