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November 19, 2015
ACTIVATING LATENT POWERS?
FPUD looks into parks and rec powers
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Inspiring examples shine on Veterans Day
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The Fallbrook Public Utility District will hold a December 14 workshop about the possibility of FPUD activating latent powers for park and recreation facility ownership and operation. The meeting will begin at 2 p.m. and is not expected to have any action items on the agenda. “The workshop is exploratory to see if taking on those responsibilities makes sense from an economic and effectiveness point of view,” said FPUD general manager Brian Brady. “The idea is exploratory at this point.” FPUD currently has water provision, wastewater collection and treatment, and water reclamation latent powers. The California Public Utilities Code also gives a public utility district the potential powers of acquiring, constructing, owning, operating, controlling, or using works to supply its residents and businesses with light, water, power, heat, transportation, telephone service
see FPUD, page A-7
FUESD reorganizes homeschool program Andrea Verdin Special to The Village News
In recent meetings, parents of students in the Fallbrook Union Elementary School District (FUESD) homeschool program raised concerns because they felt that the Fallbrook Homeschool Academy was being restructured in a way that did not meet their students’ needs. In addition, parents were concerned that the number of teachers teaching the students was not sufficient for the needs of the 40 students attending the program. According to district superintendent Candy Singh, the homeschool program had four teachers assigned to the academy in the 2014-2015 school year. At the end of the year, the district began planning a CORE program for the current 2015-2016 academic year based on 120 Intent to Return forms that were signed by parents in spring 2015. This information was then used to give teacher assignments within the school. However, at the beginning of the school year, only 89 students returned to the homeschool program. As a result, the district reduced one teaching position,
Christine Rinaldi photos Guest speaker Brad Fite, a Purple Heart awardee, shares his experiences in the United States Marine Corps at the Veterans Day commemorative ceremony, sponsored by Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) Post 1924 in Fallbrook on Nov. 11. Fite sustained catastrophic injuries from a roadside bomb in Afghanistan and battled back from physical wounds and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder to become a successful entrepreneur, motivational speaker, music recording artist, and author.
see FUESD, page A-7
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Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) Post 1924 Commander Ken Etherton welcomes attendees of the Veterans Day Parade and ceremony at the Vince Ross Village Square in Fallbrook on Wednesday, Nov. 11. The VFW sponsors the annual commemorative event.
World War II veteran Elizabeth Gilby, 96 years young, leaves the parade route to enter the Veterans Day ceremony at the Vince Ross Village Square. Gilby served in North Africa and Italy at an evacuation hospital. See more photos on page A-4