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September 21, 2017
Supervisors authorize construction contracts for Reche Road improvements
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Volume 21, Issue 37
Care-Rite clients clean things up downtown
Joe Naiman Village News Correspondent
A pair of 5-0 San Diego County Board of Supervisors votes Sept. 13 authorized the advertisement for bid and subsequent award of construction contracts for improvements to Reche Road. One contract will construct improvements at the intersection of Stage Coach Lane and Reche Road. The other contract will provide improvements near Live Oak Elementary School and Potter Junior High School. The work at the intersection of Reche Road and Stage Coach Lane will widen Stage Coach Lane to create a dedicated left turn lane for southbound traffic and to create both a dedicated right turn lane and a dedicated left turn lane to complement the through lane for northbound traffic. Pedestrian ramps and a traffic signal will be installed at all four corners of the intersection. “This will enhance the movement of traffic,” said Supervisor Bill Horn. The $1,000,000 estimated cost of the project had been included in the county’s 2017-18 budget
The Care-Rite crew crosses Main Avenue on their way to cleaning the west side of the street on Sept. 14. Tom Ferrall Staff Writer Clients of Care-Rite Vocational Services are helping to clean up downtown Fallbrook. Every Tuesday and Thursday morning, from 9 to 10 a.m., crews wearing brightly-colored vests can been seen sweeping sidewalks on Main Avenue from Fig Street to Hawthorne Street. The cleanup team members share a common bond in that they have some sort of intellectual disability. They also share a common bond
in that they are friendly folks who don’t let their disability keep them from being productive community members. Care-Rite clients can be found helping out businesses throughout Fallbrook, whether it be a grocery store like Major Market, a restaurant like Firehouse Que & Brew, or an automotive business like Fallbrook Tire. Care-Rite clients are at the new Grocery Outlet, assisting store staff in multiple ways. “One of our groups was hired to work there, and they went through
the full orientation with the nondisabled employees that were hired,” said Care-Rite director Brad Gilpin. Gilpin was one of the founders of Care-Rite, which started in Fallbrook in 1996 and expanded to Temecula only eight months later. Care-Rite is state-funded through the Department of Developmental Services and receives all of its clients by referral from the San Diego regional center. According to its mission statement, Care-Rite’s goal is to “accurately assess each individual’s
Lucette Moramarco photo capabilities, potential and needs by pursuing a challenging plan of action that will help each individual increase their level of independence. We believe that all individuals should be treated with respect, positive interaction and individuality.” “What we’re trying to do is create more self sufficiency within the client,” said Gilpin. “We get them pay jobs and we get them to volunteer sites and try to teach them all the skills that are involved.”
see CLEAN, page A-11
see RECHE, page A-11
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FHS band for new uniforms
Tom Ferrall Staff Writer
dropped because I graduated in 1998 and these uniforms are from 1997,” said Phipps. The band wanted to publicly thank and recognize the Angel Society for its donation and it did just that at Fallbrook High’s first home football game Sept. 8. Wood and Nancy Knox of the Angel Society were saluted by the band, band boosters, Lee, and FHS principal Larry Boone. Band uniforms cost $300 to $400 each and Phipps said the goal is to buy 80 uniforms. Phipps said the Angel Society’s donation would cover 25 to 30 uniforms. Phipps said parents of a sophomore band member recently stepped forward with a $1,500 donation, and that the band is currently conducting an on-line fundraising campaign through the donation site Snap Raise! “It’s going awesome,” said Lee of the fundraising efforts, noting that the Snap Raise! campaign had raised about $4,500 through Sept.
The Fallbrook Community Planning Group will advise the County of San Diego to deny California Highlands’ request for a major use permit that would allow up to 16 patients – or “guests” – to be treated for their drug and alcohol problems in a single family residence in Fallbrook. The two-story, 6,300-square foot residence located at 3875 Peony Drive in an upscale neighborhood in southeast Fallbrook is already housing six patients. Group care homes that treat six or less guests don’t have to apply for permits under California laws relating to residential recovery facilities. Residents of the neighborhood, already dismayed that the rehab facility was able to open recently without any challenges, came out in force at the Sept. 18 meeting of the Fallbrook Community Planning Group to voice their opposition to the granting of a major use permit. The meeting began with Charles Heincy speaking on behalf of California Highlands, the addiction treatment business that is leasing the home from owners Nancy and Thomas Rabuchin. During his presentation to the planning group, Heincy worked to downplay any potential negative impacts the increase in patients would have on the neighborhood. Heincy said traffic would increase minimally on Peony – a private road serviced off Wilt Road at the northwest end and Citrus Drive at the southeast end – since patients would not have their vehicles (they would be shuttled to the residence) and that staff members would park onsite within the confines of the property behind
see UNIFORMS, page A-10
see REHAB, page A-10
Courtesy photo Nancy Knox, second from left, and Joyce Wood, third from left, of the Angel Society are saluted at Fallbrook Stadium Sept. 8 in recognition of the Angel Society’s $10,000 donation to the Fallbrook High School (FHS) band. Knox and Wood are joined by, from left, FHS principal Larry Boone, FHS band director Derek Lee, and FHS band booster president Erika Phipps.
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The Angel Society of Fallbrook recently made a generous donation of $10,000 to the Fallbrook High School (FHS) band after learning that the Marching Warriors were marching in uniforms that were 20 years old. “The Angel Society saw the article,” said FHS band booster president Erika Phipps, referring to a story (“New FHS band director seeks help in replacing band’s 20-year-old uniforms”) that ran in the Aug. 17 issue of the Village News. The article introduced Derek Lee as the new band director at FHS and explained that his first goal was to raise money to replace 20-year-old uniforms that he said “had a pretty strong, wretched smell to them, like 20 years of sweat and blood and tears that went into them.” “They (the Angel Society) had several people that had been in band so they really had some
heartstrings pulled when they saw the article and found out our uniforms were so old,” said Phipps. “So they voted on it. We didn’t even have to contact them and they gave us that huge donation.” Joyce Wood, second vice president/philanthropy for the Angel Society, contacted Phipps about making a donation and the two set up a time when Wood could stop by band practice and present a check. “She (Wood) wanted to keep it a secret and surprise the band kids and Mr. Lee,” said Phipps. “We got all the kids together and she presented them with a check. There were tears and it was so great. She didn’t tell me how much it was – she just said a donation – so when she pulled out a $10,000 check I started crying. I was so happy.” Phipps admitted she had no idea how old the uniforms were. “This is my first year as a band booster and when I found out they were 20 years old my mouth just