Volunteers honored at Save Our Forest picnic

FALLBROOK — Fallbrook’s Save Our Forest (SOF) organization, a division of the Fallbrook Land Conservancy, recognized devoted volunteers at their annual picnic August 31 at Palomares House.

Howard Sansom was named Volunteer of the Year and was honored along with fellow volunteers Sherry Lamont, Gerry Davidson, Gary Beeler, Greg MacDonald, Marie Kinnaman and Beverly Jones.

Sansom started a small non-commercial nursery of trees several years ago; today, the nursery maintains a running stock of 4,000 trees and plants. These are used in a wide variety of ways throughout the community: for land cons...