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It’s been six months since the Fallbrook Healthcare District (FHD) board publicly announced it had Fallbrook Hospital and its annex buildings up for sale. Well, the buildings are still for sale. “A deal has not been made,” said Bobbi Palmer, executive director of FHD. “It’s still on the market. Many people have looked at the hospital over the last four months.” “These things are painfully slow,” said FHD president Gordon Tinker, who added that the board currently has “a couple offers we’re considering.” Tinker said the commercial real estate company the board hired, Cushman & Wakefield, continues to advertise the facilities nationwide. “It’s being marketed for any purpose,” said Tinker. “The area is zoned commercial. It could be anything.” Palmer said the board realizes people are very interested in news regarding the sale of the hospital, which closed in December 2014 after Community Health Systems of Tennessee ended its lease of the facility. “We know the community wants to know about it, and the community will be the first to know when someone puts down the money to buy it, because the
Fallbrook residents demand voice in cell phone tower placement A large crowd of Fallbrook residents voiced their concerns over proposed sites for wireless phone towers in the community. A Verizon Wireless Community Master Plan was presented to the Fallbrook Community Planning Group (FCPG) on Sept. 19, with six sites proposed for cell towers and two being proposed for small cell towers. According to the presentation made before the FCPG, the proposed sites will be located in or around Winterwarm, Sandia Creek, Reche, Fallbrook Golf Club, Hellers Bend, and Stewart Canyon. The small towers would be located in or around Gird and downtown Fallbrook. Ve r i z o n r e p r e s e n t a t i v e s and county representative Jarrett Ramaiya, chief of Land Development, Planning & Development County of San Diego, took the microphone to present the Verizon plan. During his presentation, Ramaiya stated he felt the plan is the way to better manage future cell site placement. Ramaiya explained that once these sites are approved each will be removed from the Zone A70 non-preferred to preferred. Several Fallbrook residents in attendance spoke their concerns to the FCPG board and the representatives for the plan. Jim Bowles, a 17-year Fallbrook resident, said the Verizon Master
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Fallbrook Honorary Mayor for 2016-17 is Tami Donnelly, who made her first appearance Shane Gibson photos at the Fallbrook Chamber of Commerce golf tournament banquet. She missed the Sept. 21 chamber dinner due to flight delays in New York. For more photos from the tournament banquet, see page B-1; for photos from the chamber dinner, see page A-6
Nunn back in Bonsall after third Olympic Games Joe Naiman Village News Correspondent
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John Nunn competed in the 50,000-meter race walking event during the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio, and the Bonsall resident placed 43rd with a time of 4:16.12. “The end result was not what I hoped for and worked for, but nevertheless pleased to be there and hoping to go again,” Nunn said. The Aug. 19 race was Nunn’s third Olympic competition. He made his Olympic debut during the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens. Nunn competed in the 20,000-meter race walk that year and placed 26th with a time of 1:27.38. “The first one in Athens is always the most memorable,” said Nunn. Nunn did not compete in the 2008 Olympics in Beijing. He returned to the Olympic Games in 2012,
see NUNN, page A-11 John Nunn competes in the 50,000-meter race walking event during the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio. Jeff Salvage/Racewalk.com photo
Murder suspect believed to have been in dispute at rehab facility prior to killing Tom Ferrall Staff Writer
The 21-year-old man charged with the murder of an 86-year-old Fallbrook resident reportedly had been involved in a dispute at a rehabilitation facility before he attacked three men outside the Hilltop Center for Spiritual Living shortly before noon on Sept. 21. Keith Vazquez, who is accused of punching two men in their 60s and punching and stomping Magnus Normand Johnson to death, pleaded not guilty Sept. 23 to charges of murder and assault with a deadly weapon. The two punching victims, age 62 and 63, said they were painting the exterior of the Fallbrook church located in the 300 block of East Elder Street when a young man approached them and – without provocation – starting hitting them with his fists. The man then ran off. In looking for the attacker, deputies from the Sheriff ’s Fallbrook substation found Johnson gravely injured in an alley at the west side of the church. Johnson was taken to Palomar Medical Center in Escondido, where he was pronounced dead from blunt force trauma to the head and chest. Deputies searching the area spotted Vazquez, who matched the description of the suspect, in the 700 block of East Fallbrook St.
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