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The Bonsall Unified School District held a Jan. 4 workshop focusing on an offer from Ocean Breeze Ranch, LLC, to sell the district a portion of the Ocean Breeze Ranch property near Sullivan Middle School. The workshop did not include any voting items, but the school board requested that BUSD superintendent Justin Cunningham investigate issues related to the acquisition which could also include the sale of the district’s Gird Road property currently being considered for a high school. “What they wanted me to do is look at a couple of things,” Cunningham said. In September 2015, the Vessels family sold the 1,400-acre Vessels Ranch property which was renamed Ocean Breeze Ranch. The ownership of Ocean Breeze Ranch plans development of up to 400 single-family residences and some of the property will remain as an equestrian facility. The property is adjacent to the Bonsall Unified School District campus which currently includes both Sullivan Middle School and Bonsall High School. Prior to the sale of the Vessels property the school district had an agreement with the Vessels family to allow
see BUSD, page A-11
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The Students of the Month for January are, left to right, Kirk Kuran, Maria Tomas, Alicia Sasseen, and Steve Raymundo. Tom Ferrall Staff Writer The January awards breakfast for the Students of the Month featured inspiring stories of young women and men overcoming adversity and self doubt to achieve success in high school and position themselves for more triumphs in the future. The Students of the Month for January – Maria Tomas of Ivy High School, and Kirk Kuran, Steve Raymundo and Alicia Sasseen of Fallbrook Union High
School – were honored Jan. 5 at the Fallbrook Community Center. Greg Coppock – in his usual upbeat and energetic style – emceed the ceremony, which began with the honorees receiving Lamp of Knowledge medals presented to them by active duty military representatives Cpl Jasmin L. Sever, LCpl Casey E. Reynolds and LCpl Matt R. Wunderlich. Ivy High School teacher Kelly Walker nominated Tomas and informed the audience about how her candidate ran away from home – and subsequently school – for a
few months in the fall of 2015 but rebounded to rejoin her family and – with encouragement from Ivy’s Melissa Marovich – eventually her school. “Maria is a wonderful example of perseverance and resilience and overcoming odds,” said Walker. “Maria was not intending to come back to school but she stopped by one day to return books, because that’s what responsible people do. Miss Marovich was on campus and pulled her into the office and convinced her to re-enroll, and she left with a schedule and showed
New Year’s Day gunfire results in bullet whizzing through apartments
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up the next day. And I’m really proud of her.” “I’m so, so proud of her and the young woman that she’s become,” said Marovich of Tomas. Tomas, who will graduate in February, plans to attend college and has goals of becoming a wildlife biologist or a zoologist. “Ivy High School has been one of the best things that has ever happened to me,” said Tomas. “Beginning high school I had a lot of negativity, a lot of doubts,
see STUDENTS, page A-6
CWA requests extension on Campus Park West annexation Joe Naiman Village News Correspondent
window and through a common wall in the apartment units. The bullet emerged from the wall in the kitchen/dining area in Hauxhurst’s unit and missed her television by a inch while going through the Étagère and into the window frame. Upon hearing the noise, Hauxhurst’s first thought was that the large Christmas tree she had near the window in the living
The San Diego County Water Authority (SDCWA) has requested an extension in the annexation process for the Campus Park West development. The SDCWA approved a request to the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California (MWD) for the extension at the Dec. 8 CWA board meeting. MWD’s conditional approval provided in December 2014 stipulated that all necessary documents for the annexation must be filed by Dec. 31, 2016, but the lack of state and federal permits led to the request to extend the completion prerequisites to Dec. 31, 2017. The Rainbow Municipal Water District had requested that the CWA seek the extension from MWD. “They just need an extension to finish up their permitting, which they expect to get done in the next couple of months,” said Rainbow general manager Tom Kennedy. “They’re asking for an extension of time to make their final payments until they get their full permits to build.” The San Diego County Board of Supervisors approved the 116.5acre Campus Park West project in June 2014. Campus Park West will consist of 283 multi-family dwelling units, 513,000 square feet
see GUNFIRE, page A-4
see CWA, page A-8
A bullet hole can be seen in this window at the De Luz Apartments, just above the hole in the blinds. Tom Ferrall Staff Writer Diane Hauxhurst’s 2017 got off to a scary start when a bullet – presumably fired by a not-so-smart New Year’s Eve/New Year’s Day reveler – zipped through her unit in the De Luz Apartments on the 400 block of Pico Avenue in Fallbrook shortly after 2 a.m. Jan. 1. “I was sleeping and what woke me was the noise coming through the wall,” said Hauxhurst, a nine-
year resident at the complex for people age 55 and older. “I didn’t know what it was. It (the bullet) hit my Étagère (a piece of furniture in which she has her television) and then hit the window frame, which shook the wall and I heard tinkling.” The tinkling was the sound of glass breaking from the force of the bullet hitting the window frame, which finally stopped the projectile that had traveled through Hauxhurst’s neighbor’s
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