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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I am adding my voice to those who have already spoken and written against the proposed rate increases by the FPUD Board of Directors. In reviewing their proposal, it is obvious that setting annual increases relieves the board as well as the staff from tightening their financial belt as the rest of us have to do. In addition to rate increases, the fees to the agencies who provide water add additional costs and if you check your property taxes, you will note fees to MWD are there as well. As evidence of this, I noted an article...
Within the past month, five scouts from Manhattan Beach, Calif. launched a high altitude balloon. This balloon goes up into the atmosphere at least 100,000 meters and expands to about 25 feet across. Attached to the balloon is a payload containing many experiments such as what would happen to popcorn in a high altitude. Sadly, there was a miscommunication and the satellite tracker had not been turned on. The predicted landing area was within 10 miles of Fallbrook. We ask that you keep a look out for it. The payload is big...
Here we go again… another leadership failure within an important Fallbrook community group. Yes, another Fallbrook community organization, originated so many years ago for the good of Fallbrook and nurtured by hard work and financial support of its citizens and businesses, has become an anathema to the citizens it is supposed to serve. Wake-up Fallbrook! Your community is being taken away from you brick by brick by yet another group of self-serving community activists somehow put in charge of one of our valued i...
The donated items from generous Fallbrook residents to help hurricane hit Rockport, Texas, were delivered last Monday to be distributed to people in need there. New chain saws, food, cleaning supplies, bedding, clothing, books and games for children, kitchen tools, and garden tools were loaded last Thursday at Crop Production Services in Fallbrook and unloaded in Rockport at the First Baptist Church where the main distribution center for the city operates. The only items that could not be loaded were the 64 new trash cans...
Assemblymember Marie Waldron AD-75 (R) More than 14 percent of the nation’s agricultural exports come from California. The state produces over one-third of the country’s vegetables and two-thirds of the fruits and nuts. Contrary to what many in Northern California may think, much of California’s abundance originates in Southern California. The farms and farmers here are unique in many ways. First of all, San Diego has the second highest number of farms in the entire Unite...
The Los Angeles Metropolitan Water District is in trouble for charging customers more than the cost to deliver, along with fraud, personal enrichment, and misappropriating public funds. That kind of news puts doubt in the minds of FPUD ratepayers as they are presented with higher and more unaffordable water bills next year, even after California had record-setting rain that threatened dams. There are unanswered questions: Have we looked at the salaries and benefits for managers and employees at FPUD? If so, where can the...
Assemblymember Marie Waldron AD-75 (R) California is a great state with a rich diversity of native wildlife. In the mid-1980's, I took Project Wildlife training as a native songbird rehabilitator, and have rescued many orphaned baby birds or injured adults through the decades. This session my AB 1031, signed into law, creates the Native California Wildlife Rehabilitation Fund setting up voluntary tax return check offs providing resources to non-profits who rehab injured, orphaned or sick native wildlife. So who do you call if...
I wonder why an organization with a $220,000 executive at the head can't put the date issued, author and organization represented on either the eight-page or 10-page documents recently sent to us? I wonder why FPUD doesn't tell us what they are paying for water from San Diego County Water Authority last year, this year, and what the SDCWA future water rates might be? I wonder what the $220,000 FPUD executive did for us to deserve a 10 percent increase in annual pay in this economy? I wonder what cost savings consulting...
This is just plain outright robbery/stealing, whatever you want to call it, from everyone in Fallbrook. These proposed rate hikes will cause a domino effect to the entire town; people will stop spending, eating out and buying in general. Fallbrook has a large population of young working families, seniors and military families on fixed incomes and new people who have retired here. With that said, this will also affect every business in Fallbrook, from restaurants, beauty shops, small mom and pop stores who are already paying h...
The $300 million contract awarded to a two-employee firm called Whitefish from Ryan Zinke's hometown does not pass the smell test. Zinke says he had nothing to do with it. I would believe the Winter Olympics are coming to Fallbrook before I would believe that load of crap. Jack Acomb...
The Fallbrook Garden Club would like to publicly thank Mike Knox of Concepts in Landscaping for his continued support of the Fallbrook Senior Center landscaping, one of the Garden Club’s civic projects. He generously donated his time and efforts for design and implementation for the initial project. Recently, several plants needed to be replaced because they were interfering with use of the handrail at the entrance. Mike again donated his time and the cost of the replacement plants. Everyone now entering the center can s...
Assemblymember Marie Waldron AD-75 (R) Last week I participated in a prescription drug abuse forum at Valley Center High School. Representatives from North County Mental Health, the Sheriff’s Department, the federal Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) and the F.B.I. discussed this growing problem. My initial experience with this issue was during my involvement with the San Diego County Opioid Task force as a Escondido City Councilmember earlier this decade. As a parent, I was s...
Assemblymember Marie Waldron AD-75 (R) This session ending Sept. 15, 977 bills were submitted to Governor Brown for approval. He signed 859 bills, and I am pleased that seven bills that I authored were included in this total. My legislation includes AB 4, sponsored by Riverside County District Attorney Michael Hestrin, to deter online voter fraud by requiring notification via email or text when a voter’s registration is altered online, and AB 1361, sponsored by the Rincon Band of Luiseño Indians and jointly authored with As...
I am writing in opposition to the outlandish proposed rate hike by Fallbrook Public Utility District. I own 1.27 acres off Camino De Nog. In order to conserve water, I have replaced all of my turf with 6000 sf of artificial turf and put my remaining trees and shrubs on drip systems. We use commercial car washes, and purchase drought tolerant shrubs and ground cover. I feel as if I have done my part to conserve water, yet my current monthly bill seems to be as high as the former bi-monthly bill a few years ago. My reward for a...
I intended to write earlier to provide feedback to the huge water price increases by FPUD, but was so shocked at the proposed increases of from 99 percent to 124 percent over five years, that I needed more time for research. The northern California water reservoirs are completely full from the record setting rainfall last year. It is projected that 2018 may be another year of La Nina weather conditions that bring massive rainfall. The current FPUD water prices have forced more agricultural farmers out of business in 2016/17...
I am shocked to see many residents of our town speeding down our streets ever morning on their way to work. It’s amazing they even make it to work. Don’t they respect anything or anybody. I learned a long time ago that crime, including breaking the law, does not pay. I prefer to obey the speed limit, drive carefully and keep myself and others alive. Lorie Kuhn...
Fellow Fallbrook Public Utility District customers, hopefully you have read the eight page FPUD rate proposal letter by now. Their letter indicates that by the beginning of 2022 our water bills will be at least 50 percent higher than current rates. At the end of the eighth page of their letter, it is stated that unless a majority of all rate payers submit a written letter of protest “the Board of Directors will be authorized to impose the rate increases.” This implies that the public hearing scheduled for Nov. 15, 2017 wil...
The name of the writer of the letter "Be careful when using Pyrex" [Village News, 10/5/17] was inadvertently left off her submission. Margie Haugh is the writer and Village News apologizes for the error....
Assemblymember Marie Waldron AD-75 (R) Indian Tribes in our arid region need access to reliable water to continue to live on reservation lands. This session, I jointly authored Assembly bill 1361 with Assemblymember Eduardo Garcia (D – Coachella) , to streamline water deliveries to Indian reservations throughout California. The bill allows water districts to enter into voluntary agreements with sovereign Indian tribal governments with reservations that lie outside water d...
Assemblywoman Marie Waldron AD-75 (R) Getting help or information from government agencies can be time consuming and frustrating. Figuring out what agency to call and suffering through busy signals and multilayered automated phone directories can make callers forget the reason they called in the first place. But now people can get help by simply downloading an app through App Store on their smartphone. Yes, the state of California is trying to enter the 21st century. Downloadable apps include Caltrans, the Department of...
Remember "All the King’s Men", from 1949? It starred Broderick Crawford as Willie Stark, an ignorant but cunning and charismatic politician from the backwoods of northern Louisiana. This is patterned after the populist Huey P Long. He named himself the “Kingfish”, was immensely popular with rural voters and in his speeches referred to the wealthy and their political servants as like the black water spiders that dart across the pond’s surface, never getting their feet wet. He disdained the privileged, calling them skimmer...
I really enjoyed the article about the creation of the walkway and the community involvement bringing it to life. I wish that there were some police presence on occasion. It seems to be a hangout for illegals, homeless, and druggies that makes it uncomfortable to walk there. I was shocked to see that people have thrown beach chairs and other large trash into the creek spoiling the lovely view. Let's take Fallbrook back from the spoilers. Susan Nikkel Editor's Note: The deputies are visiting the walkway more often; on Sept....
Duncan Hunter, the militaristic gasbag who represents Fallbrook’s 50th Congressional District, called for a “pre-emptive strike” on North Korea in a TV interview last week. If a guy punches you in a bar, it’s not a pre-emptive strike – it’s an attack, so Hunter is proposing that we start a war. This is the same Hunter who said in 2015 that if the U.S. is going to attack Iran, our country should use tactical nuclear weapons. Even the San Diego Union-Tribune, hardly a hotbed of wimpy liberals, called Hunter’s recent commen...
At 1:24 a.m. a loud crash came from the kitchen area. Nothing was evident – nothing dropped or fell to the floor – a mystery. Later that day, I opened a lower kitchen cupboard and glass fell everywhere, shards and small splinters. My Pyrex 9” x 13” glass baking dish had exploded on the shelf. It was by itself and hadn’t been used in weeks. A more confusing mystery to solve. If you Google “exploding Pyrex dishes” you will read many frightening reports of this occurrence. Consumer Reports also has a list of stories. Pyre...
As tensions escalate between North Korean and the United States, now is the time for cooler heads to prevail. Now more than ever we need members of congress to use our system of checks and balances to stop this dangerous game of chicken between Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un. Yet, Duncan Hunter, our Congressman, the man our community voted to represent us, is calling for a pre-emptive strike against North Korea. Quoting from his appearance on KUSI television on Thursday, Sept. 21, Hunter further stated, “You can call it d...
