VOL. 126, ISSUE 16
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THURSDAY, JUNE 7, 2012
Inside All Palomar League RHS softball’s Kailey Hill was selected Palomar League Player of the Year. Ten other ball players were picked for all-league................23
Home burglaries Deputies warn residents to lock their doors. Burglaries continue to occur while occupants are asleep....4
Index Our Town.....................7 Opinion.............8 Worship Directory......10 Featured Businesses...17 Classifieds.................26 Obituaries................35 Wine Guide...............37
Stellar athlete, West Point cadet dies in crash By BILL TAMBURRINO Ryan Morgan, considered one of the best student/athletes that Ramona High School has produced, died in Palomar Medical Center Sunday as a result of injuries suffered in a motorcycle accident on Pamo Road in Ramona. He was 21. Morgan, a 2010 graduate of Ramona High School and a West Point Cadet, was northbound on Pamo Road north of Burma Road when he was unable to negotiate a curve, California Highway
Patrol Officer Brian Kattke reported. Morgan was the sole person on the motorcycle, a 2012 Yamaha R6, said Kattke, noting that Morgan was traveling at an unsafe speed for the descending roadway. “The motorcycle went down the roadway and the driver was ejected from the motorcycle,” Kattke stated in his report. Morgan, who was wearing a helmet, suffered major injuries and was transported by Mercy Air to Palomar Medical Center in Escondido. He died in the operating room at 7:41
p.m., the medical examiner reported. The accident occurred at 5:50 p.m., according to the CHP report. Morgan is survived by his parents, Rheynard and Mary Morgan, his mother Julie Morgan, brothers Nathan Morgan and Kyle Snyder, and sister Kassondra Snyder. In Bulldog football, he earned three varsity letters and was the varsity MVP and Offensive Player of the Year his senior season. During his senior year he also was first team all See MORGAN, page 20
Memorial Service, honorary football game planned at high school stadium Saturday A Memorial Service for Ryan Morgan will be held at Ramona High School Stadium at 6:30 p.m. on Saturday, June 9. All are welcome. “The whole community’s invited,”
said retired U.S. Navy Lt. Cmdr. Mike Ernst, RHS senior naval science instructor and junior varsity football and baseball coach. “He touched so See MEMORIAL, page 20
Photo courtesy of Morgan family
As a star football player at Ramona High School, Ryan Morgan wears his Bulldog football uniform. Morgan, 21, died in a motorcycle accident in Ramona Sunday.
Palomar Health ready to break ground for clinic
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By KAREN BRAINARD Palomar Health will break ground on the long-awaited Ramona satellite clinic on Wednesday, June 20. The event will be held from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the clinic site, 211 13th St., across from Ramona Library. The groundbreaking program will begin at 12:15 p.m. Palomar Health’s satellite clinic will be called the Ramona Ambulatory Care Center, incorporating
the common term used for outpatient clinics, said Dr. Marcelo Rivera, chair of the Palomar Health Facilities and Grounds Committee and a Ramona resident. With the June groundbreaking, the public health agency is looking at completing the project around April 2013, said Michael Shanahan, director of Palomar Health facilities planning. Shanahan told members of the Palomar Health Facilities and Grounds Committee at its June 4
meeting that San Diego County Department of Public Works had just approved the grading for the site. “We’re looking forward to the groundbreaking,” he said. The one-story, 7,600- squarefoot building designed by Mascari Warner Architects will occupy about one acre of Palomar Health-owned property north of Main Street between 13th and 14th streets. Palomar Health and its affiliated physician organiza-
tion, Arch Health Partners, will provide primary care, urgent care, and some specialty services such as radiology. Plans call for the urgent care to be open in the evenings during the week and part time on Saturdays, said Cindy Villalobos, a clinical supervisor with Arch Health in Ramona. As the need for urgent care increases, so will the hours, she said, which could include SunSee CLINIC, page 11