Also serving the communities of De Luz, Rainbow, Camp Pendleton, Pala and Pauma
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FALLBROOK – The Don Dornon Games is a long-standing tradition in the Fallbrook Union Elementary School District. The Dornon Games were originally sponsored by the Fallbrook Street PTA and student council, under the leadership of Don Dornon, a teacher at that school. After Mr. Dornon's death in 1976, a memorial fund was established to ensure the continuation of the track meet. The name of the meet was changed from the Fallbrook Invitational Track Meet to the Dornon Games in 1...
Rick Monroe Special to the Village News There were five students – instead of the usual four selections – at the April 13 breakfast meeting to recognize the Fallbrook Students of the Month. The students are Antonia Magana from Ivy High School, and Annie Riley, Kimberly Rodriguez Bautista, Joseph Tygart and Lily VanHaeren from Fallbrook High School. The monthly awards program was hosted by North Coast Church in Fallbrook. Each student had a table where family, friends and...
FALLBROOK – Rally for Children will be holding its 28th year of "Arts in the Park" on Sunday, April 30, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Live Oak Park. Admission to this event is free. There will be 34 booths sponsored by many local organizations and schools. Besides having many wonderful returning participants that have been so popular with the kids, there will be some new participants. The Fallbrook Union Elementary School District will have new STEM activities: Lunar Landers, P...
FALLBROOK – The Rotary Club of Fallbrook sponsored four Fallbrook High School students' participation in this year's Model United Nations program. The program is a partnership between the Rotary District 5340 Pathways to Peace Committee and students from San Diego County and Baja California. As Model United Nations delegates, students engage in major world issues and learn how to peacefully resolve conflicts and reach consensus. The students develop their leadership skills a...
Randall (Randy) Jones passed away on March 5, 2023 at the age of 77 after a long battle with cancer. Randy was born on October 20, 1945, in Los Angeles, California to Frank and Laurel Jones. He grew up in Covina Highlands where he enjoyed being active with 4-H, swimming, diving and horseback riding with his sister Candy. The family eventually moved to Washington State during his high school years where he was involved in tennis, gymnastics and choir. He went to Northern Arizon...
FALLBROOK – Fallbrook Arts held a fundraising dinner at the Fallbrook Art Center on Feb. 8 to honor Vince Ross for his 47 years of volunteer service to the Fallbrook community. Jerri Patchett, president of the Fallbrook Arts Board, opened the program by saying that “The quality of life we enjoy in this Village is directly attributable to Vince's vision and the numerous projects he initiated that make Fallbrook a special place.” Ross founded and was president of the Fallbrook Advisory Council, later to become known as the F...
FALLBROOK – The Rotary Club of Fallbrook Village initiates several humanitarian and intercultural projects in Fallbrook every year. One of these services, the Fallbrook Village Literacy Project, is a volunteer-driven project that addresses the root causes of illiteracy. Illiteracy rates in Fallbrook are at a critical high-point – especially in the underserved and economically disadvantaged families. Being illiterate involves much more than just not being able to read and wri...
It's with great sadness that the Hopkins family announces the passing of Franklin L. Hopkins (Frank) and Margaret Edith Hopkins (Margie). Together they championed a home for all seven children brought together in their union of marriage in 1977, Frank with his four children and Margie with her three children. This creation of family may have come in the middle of their lives, but soon became forever in life. After the years of setting their adult children on their independent...
It is with tremendous sadness we announce the unexpected passing of Richard Francis Levering on Saturday Jan. 14, 2023. Richard was born to Francis (Frank) and Marjory Levering on June 29, 1946. Richard attended Fallbrook schools and graduated Fallbrook Union High School in 1964. He went on to graduate in 1968 from Arizona State University where he majored in accounting. He became a Certified Public Accountant and joined his father Frank in what became Levering and Levering...
FALLBROOK – Every month the Fallbrook Land Conservancy posts on its homepage, https://www.fallbrooklandconservancy.org/, volunteer opportunities designed to enhance the quality of life in the community. Susan Liebes, board chair for the local conservation organization, explained that the five active parts of the FLC volunteer effort are Native Plant Restoration Team, Save Our Forest, Wildlife Sculpture Garden Committee, Trails Committee and Old Highway 395 Cleanup Group. A...
FALLBROOK – Members of the Rotary Club of Fallbrook volunteered their time to support the Salvation Army during the holiday season. Rita Burke, the club's Community Service Director, worked with the Salvation Army, and club member Tom Buscemi coordinated with the volunteers. Club members signed up to ring bells alongside the familiar red collection kettles located at Major Market and Grocery Outlet on the two weekends before Christmas. Over the two weekends, the club raised a...
FALLBROOK – The Fallbrook Beautification Alliance maintains and beautifies the community by initiating and maintaining projects to enhance Fallbrook's outdoor spaces. This year FBA continued to support various projects and initiated a new project. The FBA continues to maintain the Mission Road medians, having now 20 yearly donors who help defray the costs of plants, planting, soil and the gardeners who perform the work. Additionally, this area has been plagued by h...
FALLBROOK – Members of the Fallbrook Village Rotary contributed new unwrapped toys to the Christmas Toy Drive, headed up by their president, Allison Abbott, to support military youth of all ages. Contributions were also made to Adopt a Family, headed up by Community Service Coordinator Cindy Gobrecht, whereby club members provided gifts to a Fallbrook family in need to help the family celebrate Christmas. Anyone who would like to contribute to this cause can drop off a new, u...
FALLBROOK – The Fallbrook Village Rotary is gearing up again for its 2022 Annual Fallbrook Thanksgiving Day Turkey Trot. It is a fun family opportunity to come together with the community Thanksgiving morning to raise money for the Fallbrook Village Rotary Club Foundation while feeling good and creating memories of a lifetime. Their goal is to raise funds for the Fallbrook Land Conservancy, Fallbrook Animal Sanctuary and the Fallbrook Community. The day of the event, registration opens at 7 a.m. at the Grand Tradition E...
FALLBROOK – St. John's Episcopal Church hosted its first ever "Fallbrook Vintners' Wine Showcase,'' a gala wine tasting and auction event Saturday, Oct. 15, to benefit the Pendleton Community Service Fund. This organization, an affiliate of Camp Pendleton Rotary, gathers and distributes "gently used" furniture and household goods free-of-charge to young, enlisted Marines and needy veterans. Linda Sundram, founder of the Fund, explained in her opening remarks that "most young M...
FALLBROOK – The Fallbrook Village Rotary is gearing up again for its 2022 Annual Fallbrook Thanksgiving Day Turkey Trot. It is a fun family Thanksgiving morning to come together with the community to raise money for the Fallbrook Village Rotary Club Foundation while feeling good and creating memories of a lifetime. Their goal is to raise funds for the Fallbrook Land Conservancy, Fallbrook Animal Sanctuary and the Fallbrook community. The day of the event, registration opens a...
Rick Monroe Special to the Village News The first monthly recognition of Student of the Month from the public high schools in Fallbrook was held Thursday, Oct. 6, with four students selected – Jose Velasquez from Ivy High School, and Liberty Benitez, Ashley Schlumpberger and Anthony Thomas from Fallbrook High School. The students in the Fallbrook Union High School District were honored at a breakfast hosted by North Coast Church. Teachers from the schools in the district n...
FALLBROOK – The Fallbrook Village Rotary is gearing up again for its 2022 Annual Fallbrook Thanksgiving Day Turkey Trot. It is a fun family Thanksgiving morning to come together with the community to raise money for the Fallbrook Village Rotary Club Foundation while feeling good and creating memories of a lifetime. Their goal is to raise funds for the Fallbrook Land Conservancy, Fallbrook Animal Sanctuary and the Fallbrook community. The day of the event, registration opens at 7 a.m. at the Grand Tradition Estate and G...
FALLBROOK – St. John’s Episcopal Church announces its first-ever “Fallbrook Vintners’ Wine Showcase,” a gala wine tasting and auction event to be held for the benefit of the Pendleton Community Service Fund. The event will take place on Saturday, Oct. 15, from 4-8 p.m. at 433 N. Orange Ave., Fallbrook. Community participation will help: 1. To provide financial support to the Pendleton Community Service Fund. An affiliate of Camp Pendleton Rotary, the fund has since 2004 provided “gently-used” furniture and household goo...
FALLBROOK – The guest speaker for the Fallbrook Village Rotary’s Sept. 6 meeting had to cancel due to a family emergency. Don Clinebell will not be coming to the meeting at the Health & Wellness Center as was published in the Aug. 25 issue of the Village News. Submitted by Fallbrook Village Rotary....
FALLBROOK – Fallbrook Village Rotary will be hosting a special guest speaker, Don Clinebell, at their Rotary meeting for fellow Rotarians and leaders in the Fallbrook community on Sept. 6 at 11:45 a.m. at the Fallbrook Regional Health District's Health and Wellness Center, 1636 E. Mission Road. Clinebell is an author and Rotarian of 30 years in which he served as club president and district governor. He is a former Deputy Attorney General for the State of California and f...
FALLBROOK – The Rotary Club of Fallbrook welcomed 187 Fallbrook Union Elementary School District teachers, support staff, and administrators back to school with a BBQ at Ingold Park on Thursday, Aug. 10. Twenty-five Rotarians and family members served hamburgers, pasta salad, chips, cookies, and condiments to staff who were both eager to eat and excited about the coming school year. A tradition for several years, the Rotary-hosted BBQ had been on hiatus since 2019 due to t...
FALLBROOK – For the last five years, the Fallbrook Village Rotary has produced and sponsored the annual Miss Fallbrook and Miss Teen Fallbrook Pageant, which was once again a resounding success this last July 9 at the Bob Burton theater at Fallbrook High. Several hundred people were in attendance to cheer on the 13 contestants. Rotarian Sherri Trombetta and Christiana Monarez devoted many hours mentoring these fine young women over several months. Preliminarily net proceeds f...
FALLBROOK – After 39 years of dental practice in Fallbrook, 42 total, Dr. Nicholas Beye, Jr. has set sail for retirement. He and his wife, Randi, are looking forward to sailing, road trips around the country in the RV, and having more time with each other, family and friends. A Bon Voyage gathering was held in the office courtyard Aug. 3 to wish Dr. Beye a happy retirement, and to welcome aboard Dr. Robin Mells who is taking over the practice. The event was also the "ribbon-cu...
The Rotary Club of Bonsall presented Keith McReynolds with the Past President's Plaque for his 21-22 service to the club, from left, Jeff Stillman, McReynolds, Jon Frandell, Randy Carlson, Mark Hvasta, Howard Salmon, Leslie Salmon, Joe Bill Carter and Joseph Clevenger (President-elect). Not pictured is their current president, Tom Kennedy. The Rotary Club of Bonsall meets every Thursday morning at 7:30 a.m. at Z South in Bonsall. Village News/Courtesy photo...
