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SPORTS
Drew named softball league player of year Five Warriors on allleague squads
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Joe Naiman Village News Correspondent Fallbrook High School senior Hailey Drew was selected by the Avocado West League’s softball coaches as the league’s player of the year for the 2014 season. “I’m really honored for that. That’s what I’ve been working for my whole high school career,” Drew said. The coaches’ meeting gave allleague honors to a total of five Fallbrook players. Drew was joined on the all-league first team by juniors Dani DeVera and Brooke Koran.
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REAL ESTATE
Real estate market softens in June FALLBROOK – Home prices in the Fallbrook/Bonsall area market softened in June despite an increase of those placed in escrow, Jerry Kalman, a Realtor® with HomeSmart Real Estate, reported. Comparing June real estate activity in Bonsall and Fallbrook with prior periods, the average selling price of $505,000 was five percent lower than May and barely three percent better than June 2013. Sales volume was off 44 percent from June of the prior year and 33 percent lower than May 2014. In June of the current year, 18 percent of the homes sold at or above the original asking price. The selling price was
Shane Gibson photos Fallbrook High School cheerleaders lend their spirit to Summer Nights in Fallbrook on June 27. The series of summer events continue July 25, Aug. 8, and Aug. 22 and are sponsored by the Fallbrook Village Association. (More information at www.fallbrookvillage.org)
Man arrested after breaking into Rainbow home during night
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A 33-year-old Fallbrook man was arrested at shortly after midnight on July 9, after he had broken into a couple’s home in Rainbow and subsequently became engaged in a fight with one of the victims.
“During the struggle the suspect yelled he was armed with a handgun and high on PCP...”
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Madison Trout, 4, is named the award winner for Best 80s Costume in the youth category during the June 27 Summer Nights event sponsored by the Fallbrook Village Association.
A member of the bluegrass band High Mountain Road picks the banjo strings in downtown Fallbrook on June 27 during Summer Nights. see SPIRIT, page A-6
Suspect arrested in murder of local man Debbie Ramsey Managing Editor Authorities with the Los Angeles Police Dept. arrested a man on July 11 who was wanted for questioning in the July 4 homicide of a Vista man. Officers arrested Alexander Michael Wyman that evening at about 9:20 p.m. San Diego Sheriff’s Homicide and Fugitive
Task Force detectives took custody of him on July 12 and booked him into the Vista Detention Facility for the murder of 54-year-old Robert Joseph Evasick, who lived on a property on Gopher Canyon Road in unincorporated Vista. A c c o r d i n g t o S h e r i f f ’s Homicide Lt. Glenn Giannantonio, about 3:40 p.m. July 4, “Deputies responded to the 3600 block of Gopher Canyon Road to assist the
fire department with a man down. When they arrived they found a man on the ground with traumatic injuries.” Giannantonio said paramedics “attempted to revive the man but were unsuccessful and he was pronounced dead at the scene.” The victim was identified as Evasick. Authorities said Wyman also lived at the property.
Sgt. David Pocklington said deputies from the Fallbrook Sheriff’s substation received a call at about 12:26 a.m. and responded to the 5100 block of First Street in Rainbow concerning a residential burglary. Upon arrival, a female victim said that an unknown male “had jumped through their bedroom window.” She reported that her husband had engaged in a fight with the suspect. “During the struggle the suspect yelled he was armed with a handgun and high on PCP,” said Plockington. “When deputies arrived they could hear screams coming from inside the residence. As they approached, deputies could see the male resident in a struggle with the suspect.” Plockington said during the struggle the male victim was struck several times with a flashlight.
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