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Volume 29 - Issue 36

Wednesday April 16, 2014 Julian, CA.

www.JulianNews.com

ISSN 1937-8416

March Madness Ends As 2014 Youth Basketball Season Wrap-ups

(46¢ + tax included)

Preventing Underage Drinking: Julian’s Town Hall Forum, April 23rd

Spring Sports Track

Saturday, March 22 @Elemer Runge Classic Saturday, March 29 @Mt Carmel Invitational Saturday, April 5 Arnie Robinson Invitational @San Diego Mesa College Saturday, April 19 @Jaguar Morning Session

by Jennifer Wylie and Theresa Gregor

Egg Hunt Saturday On Saturday, April 19, the Miss Julian & Teen Miss Julian Scholarship Pageant and the Julian Lions Club will hold their annual Easter Egg Hunt at Frank Lane Park. To ensure that everybunny gets a chance to find some eggs, hunting times will be arranged as follows: Age 0-3 10:30 a.m. start Age 4-6 10:50 a.m. start Age 7-10 11:15 a.m. start Age 11-12 11:30 a.m. start Sponsored by the Lions Club, this will be the fourth year that the two community service groups have worked together to host the event. Don’t forget, if you find the “Royal” eggs you will be awarded with special prizes! Happy Hunting!

Julian Arts & Crafts Fair

by Cathy Ozbun, Julian Fire Plugs

On Saturday, April 19th, the Julian Fire Plugs will be hosting the Julian Arts & Crafts Fair. The Fair will be held in the Rabobank parking lot from 10:00 am until 4:00 pm, and will showcase work by many local artists, crafters and artisans from Julian and other nearby communities. As an added bonus, the fair will feature a beer garden. Several varieties of Nickel Beer, a high quality craft beer, will be on sale. The Nickel Beer brewery recently opened a location in Julian at 1485 Hollow Glen Road, and are pleased to be able to introduce visitors to their exceptional product. Other vendors will be exhibiting handmade jewelry, garden decor, yard art, wood crafts, skincare products and much, much more! This event is being sponsored by the Julian Cuyamaca Fire Protection District (JCFPD), and organized by the Julian Fire Plugs, a non-profit organization of community volunteers working to support the JCFPD. We hope you'll plan to come and join us for what promises to be a great fair!

Pathways And Susi Jones Honored By County Fifteen San Diego County individuals and organizations were honored for their contributions to improving the health and well-being of area residents and communities. The 13th annual Live Well San Diego Public Health Champion Awards were presented Friday by the County Health and Human Services Agency (HHSA) at the County Administration Center in San Diego. “These award winners are true community heroes and they have worked so hard to improve the health and safety of San Diego County residents,” said Chairwoman Dianne Jacob, County Board of Supervisors. “Much of their work is done without fanfare, but their contributions—large or small— are vital to the welfare of our residents and our region.” This year’s awards recognize achievements related to the 2014 National Public Health Week theme—Public Health: Start Here! The Live Well San Diego Public Health Champion Awards were created to recognize public and private partnerships and the ongoing collaboration to improve overall health and wellness of the county’s diverse populations. “These public health professionals are guiding individuals and communities through the many changes of the public health system,” said Wilma Wooten, M.D., M.P.H., County public health officer. “Their work exemplifies exceptional achievements, longstanding excellence and outstanding leadership to improve and protect the health of San Diego County residents.” The awards have been presented every year and are part of Live Well San Diego, the County’s ongoing initiative to improve the health and wellbeing of area residents. “These awards showcase the work of our public health partners and the collaboration taking place with local governments, businesses and the overall community,” said HHSA Director Nick Macchione. “These individuals and organizations dedicate their time and talent to advance public health and create healthy, safe and thriving individuals and communities.” Included in the 15 recipients was Susi Jones, For the past 15 years, Jones has served as the Executive Director of Julian Pathways Center for Family, Schools and Community Partnerships, which works to improve the health and academic success of Julian’s students and families. Ms. Jones is also a founding member of the Backcountry Collaborative, which aims to improve the wellbeing of the Julian community.

Bright colored jerseys, parents cheering in the crowds, and kids with smiles bouncing basketballs up and down the court filled the Julian High School gymnasium on March 22 as the 2014 Julian Youth Basketball Association wrapped up its season. This year’s basketball season was successful because of the generosity of local sponsors, community involvement, dedicated parents, and the committed athletes that allowed for a great and fun season. Our 2014 season broke our previous record enrollment high with 103 kids form K-8th grade from Warner Elementary and Jr. High, Spencer Valley, Borrego Elementary and Middle School, and Julian Elementary and Jr. High playing in the League. A special thank you goes out to Mr. Rex Harrison, resident of Warner Springs and coach for the DII youth players from Warner’s, who donated over $1000 in scholarships for sixteen kids to play basketball! Because we are a 501-C-3 nonprofit, we rely on local volunteerism and donations to provide our children with affordable, safe, and fun extracurricular activities. Once again, community members and local businesses stepped up to contribute to this effort. Please join the JYB Board in giving a heartfelt thanks to the following individuals who also contributed continued on page 7

Julian Eagles Athletics

Softball

Members of EPIC (Education and Prevention In our Community) Youth Coalition Teen alcohol use kills about 6,000 people each year, more than all illegal drugs combined. Underage drinking costs the nation a conservatively estimated $53 billion annually. In Julian, 38% of our 11th graders report that they have drank alcohol in the past month and 20% report binge drinking (5 or more drinks in a row) according to the California Healthy Kids Survey (2013). Underage drinking is dangerous and creates a major public health problem. Youth who drink alcohol are more likely to experience: problems in school, unwanted, unplanned, and unprotected sex, memory problems, higher risk for suicide and homicide, car crashes, violence, property damage, legal problems, physical and mental abuse, and abuse of other drugs. Youth who begin drinking before age 15 are 4 times more likely to become dependent on alcohol than those who wait until age 21, the legal drinking age. So what can we do? First, we must stop enabling and ignoring youth drinking. All of us, not just parents, but all members of the community must work together in partnership to change the environmental influences surrounding our young people. We must reduce youth access to alcohol through both retail and social sources, and change the norm in our community that underage drinking is okay or even expected. Underage drinking is NOT a “rite of passage.” On Tuesday, April 23rdth from 5pm to 7pm, you are invited to Julian’s Town Hall Forum to Prevent Underage Drinking. This important community discussion will be hosted by EPIC (Education and Prevention In our Community) Youth Coalition and Drug Free Julian Community Coalition. If you have any questions about this event, please contact Jean Duffy, Drug Free Julian Coordinator, jean.duffy@eccasa.org, (760)765-2228. Coalition meetings are at 5pm on the 2nd Thursday of every month at the Julian Library.

Shelter Valley Fire BBQ And Chile Cook Off/Open House

Winds Can't Blow Away Opening Day

by Jom Kaltenthaler

On Saturday, April 5, Shelter Valley Volunteer Fire Department hosted an Open House and Chili Cook Off. Not only was there great food, a tasty bake-sale (courtesy of Janet Jones and the generous donations of Julian Pie Company, Mom's Pie Shop and Apple Alley), firefighter skills demonstrations, bucket brigade races, a Bounce House for the kids and Awesome local music with Blake Rogers and Ike Cogden. A good time was had by all. Our 1st Place Chili Winner was Ed Genest, 2nd Place Kathy Cochran and 3rd place Chrissy Lopez. Our Best Cornbread was made by Kathy Cochran also!. We shared a bit of history, as we recognized the originator of the Chili Cook-Off in the early 1990's, being Al Cates, former Volunteer, who simply thought it would be a fun get together and easy fundraiser! It has definitely grown and changed over the years, but one thing remains, Shelter Valley Fire cares for its neighbors! It is always a great day for our community to be able to see and talk to our reserves and volunteers (some of our crew come from as far away as South Bay and Orange County). The best part of the day was the "Pie an Officer" auction. Chief Bennett enjoyed a nice layer of whip cream, courtesy of the highest bidder, Scott Binder, paying a whopping $30!!! BC Crow and Captain Gerstenberg also got a "piece of the pie-in the face" (and Jennifer "Mama Chief" Bennett even got smashed by one of the firefighters) If you didn't make it, you really missed an awesome day! Hope to see ya next time!

On a day that dawned with low clouds, cool temperatures, and strong winds, Julian's Little League ball players stepped on to their respective fields this past Saturday and answered the calls of "Play Ball" for the first time in 2014. With four divisions of teams playing ball this year, from Rookies to Juniors, over 70 kids from Julian threw, hit, and ran all over the fields at Jess Martin Park and at the Julian High School varsity field. First games started at 10 a.m at Jess Martin. While no information has trickled in to the newscenter yet about results of the days games, you can be sure that the Rookies (formerly the T-Ball division) all enjoyed their games. Many of these young players were playing not only their first games of the year, but the first games of their organized sports lives. It can be said with all confidence that the final scores of these games were of no consequence to any of them. For them the ultimate payoff was possibly hitting the ball for the first time, or perhaps executing their first defensive gem in the field. Bravo to all of the young Rookies! In the minors division the Padres played the Padres. Thanks to some hard work from continued on page 7

Julian Day At The Fair: June 18 - reserve your space

Thursday, March 6 W 6 - 5 Classical Academy Friday, March 14 W - Lutheran Wednesday, March 19 W 17 - 7 @Warner Friday, March 21 L 28-7 Calipatria Monday, March 24 L 9-8 Baptist (Hemet) Tuesday, March 25 Classical Academy Wednesday, March 26 Rescheduled* - Borrego Thursday, March 27 L 22-6 @Vincent Memorial Wednesday, April 9 L 20-7 - Mountain Empire Thursday, April 10 Rescheduled* - Warner Friday, April 11 3:30 - Warner Tuesday, April 15 4:00 @Holtville Wednesday, April 30 3:30 @Calipatria Friday, May 2

Baseball

Thursday, March 6 W 3- 0 San Diego Jewish Academy Saturday, March 8 W9-4 San Jacinto W 7 - 4 Valley Academy Tuesday, March 11 L 9-3 @Calvin Christian Friday, March 14 W 6-0 @Lutheran Wednesday, March 19 W 12 - 2 Calipatria Thursday, March 20 W 17 - 8 Ocean View Monday, March 24 W 16-3 @ Baptist (Hemet) Friday, March 28 W21-0 @Vincent Memorial Tuesday, April 8 W 10-2 @Liberty Charter Wednesday, April 9 L 9-4 - Mountain Empire Tuesday, April 15 3:30 @Holtville Thursday, April 24 4:00 - Ocean View Friday, April 25 4:00 Foothills Christian Wednesday, April 30 3:15 @Calipatria Friday, May 2 3:30 @Borrego

Golf

Tuesday, March 25 vs Calvary Christian Thursday, March 27 @Calvary Christian Thursday, April 3 @Escondido Adventist Tuesday, April 9 Classical Academy Thursday, April 10 @St. Joseph Academy Thursday, April 24 @Guajome Park Tuesday, April 29 @Borrego Springs Thursday, May 1 @Calvary Christian Tuesday, May 6 Vincent Memorial Thursday, May 8 Guajome Park

• Networking Breakfast •

Wednesday, April 16

Fiddling Returns to Town Hall May 31st CSOTFA District 7 ~ Fiddle and Picking Contest

Poncho Villas 8 All Are Welcome AM


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