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Julian News
PO Box 639 Julian, CA 92036
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November 27, 2019 Volume 35 — Issue 17 ISSN 1937-8416
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House Fire In Pine Hills
Julian, CA.
Sparkling Clear December Nights Ahead
by Bill Carter
I begin by repeating what I have said many times in prior years, December is one of the finest months for amateur astronomers to observe deep sky objects. I will highlight just two of the spectacular deep sky objects you can see in binoculars or in a small telescope this month. The Alpha Persei Cluster, a star cluster in the constellation Perseus, contains approximately fifty dazzling blue-white stars (types O and B stars are giant blue-white stars) only 600 light-years from Earth. This explains why this cluster is roughly the size of three full Moons. To find this cluster we must start at the dominant constellation in the autumn skies, the Great Square of Pegasus. This square appears nearly overhead in December (just slightly west of the zenith) and looks much more like a baseball diamond to a contemporary observer than the “Flying Horse” it is named for. The Alpha Persei Cluster lies 2/3 of the way along an imaginary line from the northeast corner of the Great Square of Pegasus to the brightest star in the northeast -- the star Capella in the constellation Auriga. The brightest star in the Cluster is Mirfak, which is only slightly less bright than Capella.
Community Thanksgiving At The Legion
American Legion Post 468 is going to host a community Thanksgiving dinner this year. There is no charge however they are asking for donations to help pay for the food. They will start service at 2 pm and would like a head count by Wednesday to prepare, reserve tickets are available or call the Post at 760 765-0126. Games, prizes, football and friendship! Come join us! Even just for pie!
Annual Tree Lighting Saturday
Program for the Day
* All Times Approximate
1:30 - 2:00 pm: Payton Howie 2:15 - 2:45 pm: Jake’s Mountain 3:00 - 3:30 pm: Full Circle Additionally - 3 pm in the Town Hall, the Ramona/Julian Dance Academy performs a 30 minute show. 3:45 - 4:15 pm: Sandé Lollis 4:30 - 4:45 pm: Julian Chorale 5:00 - 5:35 pm: Joe Rathburn Between 5:30 and 6pm: Santa’s Arrival Tree Lighting Christmas comes to Julian every year in an old-fashioned way that will make you picture sleigh rides, chestnuts roasting on open fires, and Jack Frost painting the whole town white. That may be a bit of a dream. But due to its Cuyamaca Mountains location, the holiday time in Julian gets closer to that dream than most spots in Southern California. You’ll feel a nip in the air, sniff wood fires, and maybe catch a glimpse of snow capped mountains surrounding town. The holiday season in Julian also offers an opportunity to shop at small boutiques and craft shows, without crowds or lines, for one-of-a-kind gifts. Julian's Country Christmas Tree Lighing, 2019 will be Nov. 30th Julian kicks off the holiday season with the annual lighting of the town’s huge living Christmas tree, presented by the Julian Merchants Association. This is a popular event, drawing hundreds of visitors who gather at Pioneer Park to watch the lighting and visit with Santa. Be in Pioneer Park By 5:30 in order to be sure you do not miss the tree lighting.
Living Nativity At Cider Mill
A living Nativity where shepherds and kings pay homage to the Christ child silently recalls the first Christmas on a different hillside, on the other side of the world, centuries ago. Local churches take turns putting it on! Free! Please attend to see an old fashioned living nativity! After Tree Lighting: 6:30 pm to 08:00 pm Also on Saturdays - December 7, 14, 21 after 5pm
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Fall Sports Schedules Cross Country
Thursday, November 14 Frontier Conference Finals @ NTC Park (San Diego) Saturday, November 23 CIFSDS Championships @ Morley Field (Balboa Park) Saturday, November 30 CIF State Championships @Woodward Park (Fresno)
Winter Sports Schedules Boys Basketball
Monday night just after 8pm County Fire Authority and CalFIRE responced to a structure fire on the 4400 block of Pine Ridge Ave. in Pine Hills. Upon arrival the firefighters found the home completely engulfed in flames and the residents had retreated from the home. It took fire crews over an hour to extinguish the log home, whose roof was totaly burned off. Cause of the fire was under investigation, inital report was it had started in or near the kitchen. The Red Cross was notified to help the residents.
Court Backs Dissolusion County Moves Forward
by Michael Hart
The final ruling from Judge Trapp on November 15 was not unexpected - The JCFPD, County and LAFCO had followed the correct proceedures, the vote was proper and the Julian Cuyamaca Fire Protection District should be disolved and the County Fire Authority should move forward to take over Station 56. The ruling (see below) is what prompted the County to remove the equipment, which had been locked in the station since the volunteers abandoned it back in June. The ruling does not completely resolve all issues, including the district funds transfered to their attorneys trust fund and when they will be returned. A hearing on December 4 could settle most of the outstanding issues, the County is to present a judgement fo r the Court to approve. The current JCFPD board has filed an appeal on the ruling to the California Appealette Court, no date has been established for thatto be heard. The full text of Judge Trapps ruling: All parties submit(s) on the Court's tentative ruling. The Court CONFIRMS the tentative ruling as follows: MOTION TO INVALIDATE DISSOLUTION by plaintiffs JulianCuyamaca Fire Protection District and Brian Kramer is DENIED. Request for Judicial Notice is granted. Defendant's objection to the late filed brief [titled as a Trial Brief in Support of Validation Judgment] by interested parties Lori Foss, Julian Volunteer Fire Company Association and Brian Crouch is overruled. Plaintiffs seek a determination that the purported dissolution of plaintiff Julian-Cuyamaca Fire Protection District [District] is invalid because it was the product of a void that it cured prior to completion of the dissolution process. The initial decision by the District's governing board to commence dissolution proceeding violated the Brown Act, but was later rescinded. Thus defendant San Diego Local Agency Formation Commission [LAFCO] had no authority to continue with a proceeding that was started illegally and thus its final dissolution order has no effect. The court notes that it previously determined this issue against the District in a related case, Case No. 37-2018-00020015, Julian Volunteer Fire Company Association v. Julian Cuyamaca Fire Protection District, although that case is on appeal. The court has not been persuaded by any new authority or evidence to find in favor of plaintiffs on this same issue now raised in this case. On April 6, 2019, the District adopted a resolution to cure and correct the alleged Brown Act violations by rescinding actions taken on February 13, 2018, March 13, 2018 and April 10, 2018, including Resolution 2018-03 to dissolve the District. However, the District still has not shown that it complied with the Brown Act by noticing the hearing and posting the agenda for the hearing to cure and correct. (See, Gov. Code §§ 54954(a), 54952(a)(1), 54960.1(b); Boyle v. City of Redondo Beach (1999) 70 Cal.App.4th 1109, 1117) Once the District adopted the resolution to dissolve the District on April 10, 2018, the next day it submitted to LAFCO an application to dissolve the District and filed the related case to revoke the resolution on April 23, 2018, but did not name either the County of San Diego nor LAFCO. Thereafter on May 15, 2018, the County adopted a resolution to apply to LAFCO to expand the latent powers of County Service Area No. 135 to cover the territory precisely covered by continued on page 7
Alpha Persei Cluster If you return to Capella (after viewing the Alpha Persei Cluster) and sweep your binoculars or telescope directly southward until you are pointing east, you will come to the V-shaped head of the constellation Taurus the Bull. The Hyades star cluster located at this V contains over 130 stars brighter than magnitude 9 (i.e., can be seen in binoculars), but the giant red-orange star nearby, Aldebaran, is not part of the Hyades cluster. The Hyades may be the closest open star cluster to Earth (151 light-years from us), but Aldebaran is only 60 light-years from Earth. The three planets Jupiter, Venus and Saturn dominate the night skies in early December. Jupiter is only 7 degrees high in the southwest thirty minutes after sunset on December 1st. Jupiter continues to sink lower each night until it disappears during December’s second week. Venus is located only 8 degrees to the left of Jupiter on December 1st, but Venus climbs higher as December progresses. On December 1st, Saturn is located 11 degrees to the upper left of Venus. Since Saturn is sinking while Venus is rising, Venus and Saturn will pass within 1.8 degrees of each other on December 10th. There are two meteor showers in December. The Geminids (generally considered the best annual meteor shower) peaks in the early morning hours before sunrise on December 14th. However, the Full Moon arrives only two days earlier so the bright moonlight may reduce the number of meteors you observe. The Ursid meteor shower peaks in the early morning of December 23rd when the Moon will be only a thin crescent. However, the Ursid meteor shower typically only produces about 10 meteors per hour. Finally, the Winter solstice (the longest night of the year in the Northern Hemisphere) occurs on December 21st. If you are interested in learning more about what you can see in our night skies, go to the “Sky This Week” section of the website http:// www.astronomy.com/observing.
Eagles Basketball Season Off To A Slow Start
The Julian Eagles opened their 2019-2020 basketball season against Calvary Christian Academy on Tuesday night. After a rough start to open the game with a multitude of turnovers the Eagles were unable to keep the score close in the first half. The Eagles came out in the second half with better defensive play and limited the Royal Knights to half of the points total that they were able to accumulate in the first half. A better rebounding effort helped double their own point total losing with the final score Royal Knights 46 Eagles 17. Building on this momentum would help carry them into their opening home game versus Bonsall on Thursday night, just falling short of a win Legionnaire 54 Eagles 43 with notable performances by Dakotah Audibert 19 points, Zen Hill 12 points, and Oliver Goeders 8 points. In a time when some Julian athletic teams for the fall season have been canceled, I encourage the community to come out and support this team. A special thanks to the Audibert family for their generous donation of new uniforms for the team.
Tuesday, November 19 L 17-46 @ Calvary Christian Thurs., November 21 L 43-54 Home vs Bonsall Thursday, December 5 6:00 Home vs Guajome Park Monday, December 9 6:00 @ Bonsall Tuesday, December 10 6:00 Home vs Horizon Prep Tuesday, December 17 5:30 @ Horizon Prep Thursday, December 19 7:00 @ Guajome Park Tuesday, January 14 6:00 @ Vincent Memorial continued on page 4
Girls Basketball
Tuesday, November 19 L(f) 0-2 @ Calvary Christian Thursday., December 5 4:00 Home vs Guajome Park Tuesday, December 10 4:00 Home vs Horizon Prep Thursday, December 12 5:00 Silent Night Game Tuesday, December 17 5:00 @ Horizon Prep Thursday, December 19 5:00 @ Guajome Park Tuesday, January 14 4:00 @ Vincent Memorial Wednesday, January 15 4:00 Home vs Calvary Christian Thursday, January 17 4:00 @ Borrego Springs Tuesday, January 21 4:00 Home vs Mountain Empire continued on page 4
Girls Soccer
Wed, November 20 3:30 Home vs Foothills Christian Wed., December 11 3:30 @Foothills Christian Thursday, December 19 3:30 Home vs Borrego Springs Friday, December 20 3:30 @ Borrego Springs Thursday, January 16 3:30 Home vs Hamilton Tuesday, January 21 3:30 Home vs West Shores Thursday, January 23 3:30 Home vs Mountain Empire Tuesday, January 28 3:30 @ Vincent Memorial Thursday, January 30 3:30 Home vs Borrego Springs Tuesday, February 4 3:30 @ Hamilton Thursday, February 6 3:30 @ West Shores Tuesday, February 11 3:30 @ Mountain Empire Thursday, February 13 3:30 Home vs Vincent Memorial
Country Christmas Tree Lighting — 11/30 at Pioneer Park www.juliancountrychristmas.com