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Christmas cheer for a Wounded Warrior C-1
Sullivan football champs D-1
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Sports at Fallbrook High have change ahead
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Volume 19, Issue 51
Christmas wishes in earnest
Joe Naiman Village News Correspondent
Although boys rugby is no longer an official club at Fallbrook High School, there is still a rugby club at the high school and the boys as well as the Fallbrook girls rugby team will likely be playing indirectly under that Associated Student Body (ASB) sanction. “Rugby is still a club,” said ASB advisor Mike Lilly. Fallbrook Union High School District administrators informed boys rugby players that the boys rugby club would no longer be sanctioned as a school club. “I was not involved in any of that,” Lilly said.
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FUHSD opens bargaining with teachers Andrea Verdin Special to The Village News
Representatives from the Fallbrook Union High School District (FUHSD) and the Fallbrook Union High School Teachers Association (FUHSTA) have met and have jointly listed articles to “sunshine” them, allowing for contract negotiations to open between the two parties. According to a FUHSD board meeting agenda release, articles include teaching hours, employee benefits, salaries, and the school calendars. In addition, obsolete language in the contract needs to be updated, including language on sabbatical leave, catastrophic leave bank, and salary and benefits.
Trenton Claunch, 5, recites his Christmas wish list to Santa at the Fallbrook Historical Society’s “Old-Fashioned Christmas” event on Dec. 6. See more photos of this event on page A-10.
Shane Gibson photo
Whoa! Christmas Parade joyful in its variety
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A group representing Hoof Haven Farms in Fallbrook lines up with their mini horses as the Christmas Parade is about to begin on Dec. 5.
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“Santa” and “Mrs. Claus” wave to everyone and wish them a Merry Christmas at the end of the Fallbrook Christmas Parade. The merry couple always ride on the Masonic Lodge float. See more photos of this event on page B-1.
Christine Rinaldi photos