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Fender, Wolk honored by chamber
Joe Naiman Village News Correspondent
Fallbrook Center for the Arts, the Boys and Girls Club of North County, the Fallbrook Historical Society, the Fallbrook Baseball Club, and Riding Emphasizing Individual Needs and Strengths (REINS) were awarded District Five Neighborhood Reinvestment Program grants by the San Diego County Board of Supervisors. The supervisors’ 5-0 vote April 25 allocated $35,000 to Fallbrook Center for the Arts for the purchase of the Fallbrook Art Center building, $30,000 for the Boys of Girls Club of Fallbrook Foundation to purchase a school bus, $10,000 for the Fallbrook Historical Society to help restore the Reche School House interior and exterior and modify the restroom facilities for disabled access, $10,000 for the Fallbrook Baseball Club to purchase various equipment, and $10,000 to REINS for a solar energy system. The Neighborhood Reinvestment Program is intended to provide grants to non-profit organizations for the furtherance of public purposes at the regional and community levels. In addition to non-profit organizations, county supervisors can also fund schools and fire departments, and supervisors can also use money from their budgets to supplement
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Fallbrook Chamber of Commerce award winners Citizen of the Year Shirley Fender, left, and Lifetime Achievement recipient Charley Wolk receive their plaques and certificates at the chamber office, May 24. Lucette Moramarco Staff Writer When the Fallbrook Chamber of Commerce handed out its annual awards at a special luncheon May 12, two of the honorees were unable to attend. So, on May 24, a small group of chamber members and staff held a ceremony to present those two awards at the chamber office. A t t h e 2 0 1 7 Aw a r d s a n d Installation Luncheon, Citizen of
the Year winner Shirley Fender was described as having moved to Fallbrook about 15 years ago. She joined the Newcomers, then Encore, club, and the Fallbrook Beautification Alliance. She also partnered with Fallbrook Rotary, among other groups, in anti-graffiti efforts. “She can be seen up at all hours cleaning up Fallbrook with a smile,” said chamber CEO Lila MacDonald. Fender is also a founder of Fallbrook’s
Besides serving on the chamber board, Wolk is also a member of the Fallbrook Public Utility District board. He has also held positions with the San Diego Farm Bureau, the California Avocado Commission and the Hass Avocado Board. Fender and Wolk were also presented with certificates of recognition from Assemblymember Marie Waldron and State Senator Joel Anderson.
CWA sets June San Diego Two arrested during massage parlor prostitution 22 hearing for Blood Bank proposed rate wants more out stings in Fallbrook increase
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illegal activity “at massage parlors located within Fallbrook,” according to Blumenthal. Detectives from the San Diego Human Trafficking Task Force, San Diego Sheriff’s Licensing Unit, United States Criminal Investigative Service and the San Diego Sheriff’s Fallbrook substation’s Crime Suppression Unit conducted the prostitution sting. During the sting operation authorities arrested 61-year-old Lu Qiuying at Jasmine Massage and 48-year-old Xzhang Ling at Coco Massage. Both women were booked into the Vista Detention Facility on suspicion of prostitution. Bail for both was set at $2,000 and both posted bail in timely fashion. It was not immediately known exactly what role the two women played in the alleged prostitution business and neither of the women were cooperating with the investigation, according to Blumenthal. Officials are still
San Diego County Water Authority (CWA) staff proposed what would equate to a 3.7 percent rate increase for CWA water rates, and on May 25 the CWA board set a June 22 hearing date for the proposed 2018 rates. The cost per acre-foot on a countywide basis will increase from $1,546 to $1,603 for treated water and from $1,256 to $1,303 for untreated supply. The proposed rate changes also include replacing a per-acre annexation cost with a single annexation application fee. The CWA’s rates are based on a melded rate which melds the cost of water delivered from the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California (MWD), water purchased from the Imperial Irrigation District under the Quanitification Settlement Agreement (QSA), and water produced by the Claude “Bud” Lewis Carlsbad Desalination Plant. The CWA also has transportation, storage, and customer service charges along with fees and charges for fixed expenditures which are incurred even when water use is reduced. Debt coverage targets are also incorporated into the CWA rate structure; the CWA has a target debt coverage ratio, or ratio of cash available to debt obligation, of 1.5:1 for senior lien debt (debt secured by collateral in the event of default) and 1.4:1 for overall debt. The QSA included scheduled rate increases over the multidecade agreement period; the price of Imperial Irrigation District
San Diego Blood Bank (SDBB) wants you – or more specifically, your blood. Donations from Fallbrook residents has dropped substantially the past two years, prompting SDBB staff to pay a visit to the Friendly Village to sound the alarm about the need for more donors. Jennifer Bradley and Ginny Thomas, account marketing managers for SDBB, attended the Fallbrook Revitalization Committee meeting June 1 in an attempt to get help in revitalizing blood donations in Fallbrook.
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Joe Naiman Village News Correspondent
Jasmine Massage, located at 412 S. Main Ave., Lucette Moramarco photo is closed the morning of June 6 after law enforcement officials conducted a sting operation June 2 which resulted in a woman being arrested on suspicion of prostitution. Trevor Montgomery Breaking News Writer Part 1 of a 3-part series
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Parkinson’s Support Group. She had the flu the day of the luncheon. The Lifetime Achievement Award winner, Charley Wolk, was out of town on May 12 “cheerleading for avocados”, MacDonald said. He has donated his time and talent while living in Fallbrook for more than 40 years having retired here after a military career. “And he is not finished; he keeps on giving,” MacDonald added.
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Two women from two different Fallbrook massage businesses were arrested after a multiagency coordinated prostitution sting Friday, June 2. The arrests followed complaints from the community regarding several local massage parlors, said Lt. Patrick Gardner of the Fallbrook Sheriff’s substation. The women were arrested at Jasmine Massage at 412 S. Main Ave. and Coco Massage at 1075 S. Mission Rd. (suite E) after allegedly soliciting undercover officers for sex while performing a massage, according to Sgt. Matthew Blumenthal, who lead the sting operation. Blumenthal is with the San Diego Sheriff’s Sex Trafficking Unit. Authorities made the arrests after officials from several area law enforcement agencies worked together to locate and identify businesses that were conducting
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“We need a huge turnout” Jennifer Bradley “ We ’ v e b e e n c o m i n g t o Fallbrook for the last 14 years, hosting blood drives at the Fallbrook Community Center,” said Bradley. “The community center blood drive was sponsored by the women’s auxiliary (the Fallbrook Hospital Auxiliary). When the hospital closed, that group dissolved. Since then the blood drive has taken a dramatic drop.” Fallbrook Hospital closed in December 2014 and the Fallbrook Hospital Auxiliary disbanded in mid-2015. SDBB conducts four blood drives a year at the community center and, according to blood bank statistics, from 2006-2014