Conservation Chronicle
February, 2011
Index:
Executive Director's Report
Chairman's Report
Red Mountain Property
Board Changes
Save Our Forest Report
Native Plant Team Report
Conservation Bank Fact Sheet
Thank You Connie Freese
Trails Council Report
Stage Coach Sunday
Memory Walk in Palomares Park
Thank you Volunteers
FLC Meetings and Work Parties
Memorials and Dedications
Executive Director's Report
Just Another Senior Moment
by Mike Peters
While sifting through a box of framed photos and paintings, one caught my attention and I pulled it out of the dusty box and placed it on the shelf above my desk. Some days later I took another look at the framed photo — I’ve reached a time in my life when I look back on special memories and feelings as if they happened just yesterday.
The framed photo was taken of my best friend and me sitting under the Minarets in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. This photo opened memories that have been closed and stored away for some time, in another time and place, refreshing my memory of where I am today. The back of the photo said 1981 and it seems like yesterday that I was hiking the trails around the country. Time slips away from all of us in one way or another and all the accomplishments and hardships that we have experienced over the years of our lifetime only stay with the owner of the memories, they are only available to you, in a distant memory sparked by an unforeseen moment in time. You want to expose others to your experiences and passion on how you see the world after you can no longer walk the trails; you want to share that dusty photo with the next generation and tell them the history behind it.
I don’t have many photos of my past adventures living in Oregon and riding the rails or transporting a race car through Alabama, but since I’ve been working for the Conservancy I’ve taken thousands of photos. Some will be remembered and placed in files for perpetuity and some will be just regarded as photos of something or someone I met along the trail.
One such photo is of a rattlesnake I met the other day while climbing around some rock outcroppings high on the hillside on another beautiful day in Fallbrook. The rattlesnake was in his senior years of life, slower but still deadly, cautious but threatening, and working his way across the yellow dry grasses and stretching five feet plus in length… I was impressed!
He was on his way to the coastal sage and scrub across the path, probably looking for his next meal or a day in the sunshine. I sat there in awe, thinking to myself, how could a red diamond rattlesnake live to be this big in habitat that continues to be developed and fragmented?
I’ve seen red diamonds three to four feet in size mostly red and some more tan in color blending into the environment that they occupy. But this guy was “supersized”, no pattern on his back but a diamond pattern on his belly sides. Reddish brown color with protruding eyes that followed every move I made while taking his photo and creating a memory for him and me.
Has he survived by staying close to his small patch of habitat, by not venturing across freeways or exploring avocado groves? Has he survived by not showing up in someone’s back yard to be confronted by the 911 call to the Fire Department? I guess survival is just luck, or you deal with what you have in your environment. You just stay out of sight and not stand out in your surroundings. I most likely will never see my friend the snake again, but I will stand firm on my vision of the future and protect the very environment that the snake relies on for existence and survival of every day life.
Whenever you sit around with family and friends, why not think about leaving a bequest to one of our ten preserves or future FLC acquisitions? All of the Conservancy Staff, Board of Directors and members are partners in this Land Trust to save these special places and its special wildlife that lives there. And when that dusty photo is picked up by some future relative from a box of stored memorabilia — that photo of you and your family standing on a preserve that you helped create thereby saving the special flora and endangered or threatened species — they’ll stop… and they’ll recognize the photo of you and your family on that day,…. That favorite hiking trail… or a place to escape to... they’ll remember it was protected with your help to save for future generations, relatives and snakes.
A bequest to the FLC, or a donation in memory of a loved
one, such as this Palomares Park sculpture dedicated to Jack and Lila Sandschulte's daughter, is a guaranteed way of protecting the FLC's open spaces.
Chairman's Report
Crawford, Swanson and Co-founder Ross Rotate Off Board of
Directors
by Wallace Tucker
FLC Chairman Wallace Tucker (right) thanks John Crawford,
Tom Swanson, and Vince Ross for their many years of service
on the Board of Directors. Each one received a commemorative
tile that will be placed in the Palomares Park.
In accordance with our revised bylaws, three members of the FLC Board of Directors rotated off the board on December 31: Tom Swanson, John Crawford, and Vince Ross.
Tom’s skill and experience as a bank CEO has been extremely valuable to the FLC as our financial operations have become increasingly complex over the 11-year period he served on the board and the finance committee. He was instrumental in re -designing our financial reporting to give us a more accurate picture of our finances, and was an effective liaison with the local banking community.
John Crawford was present at the meeting in 1987 at the Old Time Café in the Cultural Village when the idea of forming a land conservancy in Fallbrook was first floated to a group of community leaders and prospective board members.
Four years later he joined the board and became our legal counsel, a position he still holds. During that time, he has played a key role in drafting or reviewing the documents required for the acquisition of ten preserves and four conservation easements, and has given legal advice on countless other issues.
Fortunately, John will continue to serve as legal counsel, and as Secretary of the FLC.
Vince has been involved in the FLC since before the beginning when a lunchtime discussion between Vince, Joy, Karen and me led to an offer for Vince and Joy to visit us that summer in Lincoln, Massachusetts and see first-hand how a small community land conservancy had protected 30% of its land as open space.
Vince was sold on the idea and in the fall of 1987 we began formulating plans for a land conservancy in Fallbrook. It is safe to say that without Vince’s extensive contacts in the community, the FLC would not have achieved liftoff. Although that achievement alone would have been enough, it was only the beginning.
Vince and Joy, along with Otis and Linda Heald, and Al and Flo Pinamonti donated the Palomares House and Park to the FLC, and led the restoration of the Palomares House and the development of Palomares Park.
He also played a lead role in the Heights of Pala Mesa partnership that established a 325-acre mitigation bank that became the Monserate Mountain Preserve. And, he served as Vice Chairman for 20 of the 22-year lifetime of the FLC.
This is only a partial list, but it gives an idea of Vince’s importance to the FLC. He currently serves as chairman of the Fundraising and Long-Range Planning committee, and will continue in that capacity.
Thanks Tom & John, and a special thanks to Vince – it would not have happened without you!
Years of Service
John Crawford, 1992 to 2010
Vince Ross, 1988 to 2010
Tom Swanson, 1999 to 2010
Land Protected by FLC Now Tops 2,500 Acres with Easement on Red Mountain Property
On January 18, 2011, the 566-acre Red Mountain Conservation Bank was established in Fallbrook through the cooperative efforts of Jim Chaffin, the property owner, the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, the Fallbrook Land Conservancy, TRS consultants, and Piro Engineering.
FLC will hold the conservation easement on the conservation bank, which will preserve a prime tract of open space with high habitat value and a critical location near the entrance to Fallbrook. FLC now holds conservation easements on a total of 666 acres and fee title on 1848 acres, bringing the total acreage of land protected by the FLC to 2,514 acres.
“The Fish and Wildlife Service strongly supports the development of conservation banks, like Red Mountain, because such banks provide landowners with an economic return on their property while helping conserve our native wildlife and their associated habitats,” said Jim Bartel, Field Supervisor of the Service’s Carlsbad Office.
The conservation bank places a permanent conservation easement on the land to aid in conserving the federally threatened coastal California gnatcatcher as well as its coastal sage scrub, chaparral, native and nonnative grassland, oak woodland and riparian habitats. FLC will hold the conservation easement on the bank, which will preserve a prime tract of open space with high habitat value and a critical location near the northeast entrance to Fallbrook on East Mission Road. The agreement creating the bank does not allow public access.
“The Red Mountain Conservation Bank supports an extremely rich diversity of native species, including hundreds of native plant and animal species. The vast majority of the property is in a natural, undisturbed state, making its biological resource value very high,” said Vince Scheidt, Project Biologist, who has worked on the property since 2001.
As a longtime resident of the Fallbrook community, property owner Jim Chaffin added, “At one point, our plan was to develop this property into residential lots, but we realized the many benefits a conservation bank would offer the surrounding community.”
See the Conservation Bank Fact Sheet below for more information.
Board Changes
Beeler and Borsch Join FLC Board
Newly elected FLC Board members Kent Borsch (left) and
Gary Beeler enjoyed meeting long-time members and guests at the Conservancy's annual holiday party at the
Palomares House.
At the October 27, 2010 meeting of FLC’s Board of Directors, Gary Beeler and Kent Borsch were elected to the board.
Gary Beeler
Gary is a retired firefighter who has done extensive volunteer work for The Nature Conservancy and the Seranno Creek Conservancy in Orange County.
Since moving to Fallbrook in 2006, he and his wife Jan have been active with the Native Plant & Wildflower team and the Save Our Forest branch.
In April, they received the Volunteers of the Year award at the Emerald Grove Recognition Dinner for restoration work on Los Jilgueros Preserve.
Gary’s work has involved every phase of the restoration, from tending the trees in the Save Our Forest nursery to writing grants, and organizing and carrying out community planting events in which hundreds of volunteers have planted thousands of plants on FLC preserves.
Kent Borsch
Kent, a financial advisor for Edward Jones, has lived in Fallbrook for 19 years. In addition to his financial expertise, Kent brings a working knowledge of local non-profit governance acquired from serving as president of the Boys and Girls Club in 2008, and on the board of directors of that organization for seven years, as well as the board of the Chamber of Commerce.
At the January 26, 2010 board meeting, Kent was elected to serve as FLC’s Chief Financial Officer (CFO), replacing Wicker Gamble, who as president and more recently as CFO has played a crucial role in overseeing FLC’s financial operations since 1993.
Kent is also on the FLC’s Fundraising and Long-Range Planning Committee, and is leading FLC’s program to encourage estate planning gifts for conservation purposes.
Welcome to the board, Gary and Kent!
Save Our Forest Teaches Lessons of the Land
by Jackie Heyneman
Winter is planting and pruning time. Crews have been working on structural pruning of the trees that were planted in the last grant program. These included a large number of trees at Mike Choate Early Childhood Development Center and other locations in town. We’ve included an estimate for additional professional pruning in our 2011 budget. Each year trees in the immediate downtown area are evaluated to meet road standards. Since most trees are now beyond the ability of volunteers because of height, this becomes a very vital need.
Save Our Forest (SOF) has been working with the Village Association at the intersection of East Mission Rd. and North Main Street to enhance that main entrance into downtown Fallbrook. We have begun to plant trees there and will be planting more in the near future. Other elements of the Village Association’s plan include painting, new signage, and flower pots.
Plans to plant more native plants on the Pico Promenade are in the works. Providing native plants for this linear park which began in 1997 with the planting of 100 trees seems to be an ongoing project. This is a perfect project for Cub Scouts, in fact, Scouts of all ages. Our nursery continues to supply natives for the Pico Promenade and FLC preserves. Volunteers Howard Sansom, Gary Beeler, and Jody Williams can be found at the “Patch” three days each week.
Our volunteer force has had some cuts lately and new volunteers are needed and encouraged to contact Jackie to find out more about what the main volunteer groups do. Telephone (760) 728-5395.
La Paloma Students Complete Planting Project
On January 13, 2011, fifth grade students from La Paloma Elementary School enjoyed a field trip to Hellers Bend preserve to replant sage seedlings that they had placed in pots last May.
Now it was time to retrieve these seedlings from the SOF nursery, and under supervision of SOF and the Fallbrook Garden Club (who provided funds for bus transportation to and from the preserve), the students returned the young plants to the preserve.
The main objective of this two-year program is to educate the students about the importance of native plants and trees to cope with dwindling water supplies.
For many of these students, this was the first opportunity to work together learning and providing a community service at the same time. They also really enjoy these outdoor projects that they can observe indefinitely.
Another Native Planting Event Planned
On Saturday, February 12 at 8:30 a.m., the Native Plant & Wildflower group are hosting a planting party at Los Jilgueros as party of an ongoing native plant reintroduction.
In 2010, volunteers planted over 3,000 San Diego native plants. This year, volunteers are being asked to come early before everything is planted, and to bring a shovel, gloves, hat, water, sunscreen. FLC plans to provide water, coffee and donuts.
Native Plant and Wildflower Team Always Busy Planting at Los Jilgueros
by Diane Kennedy
If you stroll through Los Jilgueros on Wednesday mornings, no doubt you’ve seen the Native Plant & Wildflower Team in action.
Planting, weeding and watering are a gardener’s endless cycle, and so it is at the preserve. Fall is the main planting time in Southern California, and the team has been taking advantage of the softened soils from the early rains.
Mugwort, deer grass, giant rye grass, Coast sunflower and Mountain Mahogany are a few of the varieties recently planted. The rains have also lessened the need to water the young plants recently set out by a “Webelos” Boy Scout troop, as well as other young plantings. In fact, the cooler summer has allowed the thousands of young native plants set out during last spring’s well-attended planting day to flourish.
As you walk the first part of the preserve, you’ll see swathes of California sagebrush, black sage, white sage, Coast sunflower, penstemon, mimulus and prickly pear cactus. All of these natives are important food and habitat sources for the animals and insects that call the preserve their home. If you enjoyed that last public planting, we hope you plan to join us on February 12th, because that will be our next open planting gala.
The Native Plant & Wildflower Team want to thank all of you who stop to give us your kind words of encouragement, who support the Fallbrook Land Conservancy, and who keep your dogs leashed so their romping doesn’t break off young plants the Team is caring for and threaten the inhabitants of the preserve. The Preserve is beautiful at all seasons, and if you haven’t strolled its pathways recently, then make time to do so.
Conservation Bank Fact Sheet
A conservation bank is privately- or publicly-owned land that contains endangered, threatened or sensitive species and is managed for its natural resource values. The goal of a bank is to restore, create, enhance or preserve a wetland, stream or habitat conservation area to offset expected adverse impacts to similar nearby natural resources.
In exchange for permanently protecting the land, the bank owner is allowed to sell habitat credits to developers who need to satisfy legal requirements for compensating environmental impacts of development projects. Credits are the units of exchange, and usually amount to one credit for one acre of a particular type of vegetation, for example coastal sage scrub, or chaparral.
Traditionally, project developers have been asked to preserve part of the area they are developing. Sometimes this is a good policy. But many times, it is better to have larger areas protected in conservation banks. It is also more efficient and cost effective to manage a bank instead of small, isolated properties.
With proper implementation, conservation or mitigation banking has the potential to increase ecological benefits, save money for project applicants and improve efficiencies in application and permitting processes.
Conservation banks, if properly established and managed, serve several useful functions:
· Provide for the conservation of important habitats and/or habitat linkages.
· Provide a viable alternative to the current practice of requiring piecemeal mitigation for individual project impacts. Individualized mitigation projects which have little connection with their surrounding ecosystem are often much more prone to failure than a mitigation project which is incorporated into a larger, ecosystem-based conservation bank or regional conservation plan.
· Can take advantage of economies of scale that are often not available to individualized mitigation projects.
· Provide significant incentives for private landowner participation and represent one of the best examples of private/public partnerships in an era of shrinking budget resources.
· Can be a major funding component for the creation of an ecosystem preserve under a regional conservation plan.
· Simplify the regulatory compliance process while achieving greater conservation goals.
Conservation banks can be a win-win for the landowner, developer, environment and public. By having the regulatory certainty of pre-approved compensation lands, a developer who has a project with adverse environmental impacts can save time and money.
Landowners benefit from selling habitat or species credits to a conservation bank in return for managing land for listed and at-risk species and their habitat. Landowners can generate income, keep large parcels intact, and, in some instances, reduce taxes for conserving their land.
A landowner participating in a conservation bank is required to enter into an agreement with the Fish and Wildlife Service, provide funding for the perpetual management and monitoring of the bank’s land, and grant a conservation easement to an eligible third party. The easement precludes future development of the property and restricts certain land uses.
The environment benefits because conservation banks can protect large, intact blocks of habitat that can retain ecosystem functions, foster biodiversity, and provide for wildlife corridors and linkages, all of which aid in the recovery of listed species. Per acre, a larger reserve area is less costly to manage. The public benefits from a healthier environment and stretching limited public funds for conservation through public-private partnerships.
Friends of Los Jilgueros Preserve Founder Moves On
by Wallace Tucker
Connie Freese, founder of the Friends of Los Jilgueros (FOLJ) and organizer of the highly successful Tails & Trails event, has resigned from her volunteer position as chairman of the FOLJ committee to focus on her real estate business. Involvement with the FLC brings two great rewards: one is the feeling of participating in something larger that ourselves, in this case the conservation and enhancement of the rural character and natural beauty of our community for the benefit of future generations; the other is the opportunity to meet bright, energetic people like Connie. She formed FOLJ in 2002 to raise awareness among regular users of the preserve of the need to help care for the preserve.
As a result of Connie’s efforts, there has been a dramatic reduction in the amount of trash, litter and dog droppings on the preserve. She created the “Preserve Users’ Responsibilities” pamphlet that emphasizes that the preserve is “a preserve and not a park,” and urges dog walkers, walkers, runners and bikers to treat the preserve with respect.
She also conceived and organized the Tails & Trails event, which became a welcome sign that Spring had arrived each year as a hundred or more dog owners came out to take a walk with their dogs, see demonstrations by such groups as Canine Companions and the Sheriff’s K-9 unit and donate generously to the upkeep of the preserve.
For her considerable efforts, Connie was recognized as Emerald Grove Volunteer of the Year in 2006.
Thank you, Connie for all your hard work, which has greatly benefitted Los Jilgueros Preserve and has helped to make Fallbrook a better place to live.
County Supports Trails Council's Efforts
by Donna Gebhart
San Diego County Sheriff’s Department Deputy Mark Cahill, San Diego County Fire Captain Randy Meers, and North County Fire Division Chief and Fire Marshall Sid Morel are supporting the Fallbrook Land Conservancy Trails Council’s efforts to make Santa Margarita Reserve and the Sandia Creek Trailhead safe and clean.
In response to the Trails Council’s request for assistance, the Sheriff Department has begun regular vehicular, off-road vehicle, and foot patrols of these areas and the more than 12 miles of trails throughout the 1200 acres of the Fallbrook Public Utility District property. Signs indicate that this area is open only from dawn to dusk and vehicles left parked in these areas after hours will be towed at the owner’s expense.
A Trails Council member, Bert Hayden, has recently completed mapping and posting trail markers along the entire 12-mile trail system. For the public’s safety, some fifty of these trail markers, too often the target of vandals, identify coordinate locations, and have been shared with the North County Fire Protection District’s Don Krafft, and also Cal Fire for the purpose of providing rapid response to people with an emergency on the trails. When calling 911, you need to indicate that Fallbrook’s Sheriff Sub-Station and North County Fire has the GPS coordinates for all the locations from the Santa Margarita Park to and through the 14 miles of trails managed by the Trails Council in the Santa Margarita Rivershed.
County rangers are present daily at the Santa Margarita County Park located at 37385 DeLuz Road. County staff has increased ranger patrols of its preserve and are making informational and enforcement contacts with visitors to get the word out about preserve safety rules and regulations. “Dogs must be on a leash” signs are posted at the staging area and throughout the preserve trails. County staff is working with the Trails Council, Animal Control, and the Sheriff’s Department to make sure the public is safely enjoying the preserve.
The County is also offering to train and support volunteer patrols which will provide additional trails oversight and monitoring. The volunteers, whose purpose is to be an additional source of public contact and communication about the safe and proper use of trails, will be identifiable by San Diego County Parks and Recreation shirts.
Workday Planned Soon
We are planning a workday within the next 30 days to stabilize the higher trails before the rains come again. Some new culverts will have to be installed to save one of the highly used trails. A crew led by Ted Wortman and Bert Hayden went out recently and cut five large trees that had fallen on the trails and were very dangerous to hikers and equestrians.
Last month the Trails Council partnered with the Sheriff’s Department and cleaned up a lot where there is often a lot of gang activity. It has made it a much safer neighborhood for the residents, and a safer place for our law law enforcement agents to patrol.
In order to make these green areas safe and clean for the public, the FLC Trails Council, chaired by Donna and Al Gebhart, holds regular trails work days with tasks appropriate for all levels of trail volunteer workers. Please contact Joe Comella at 760-723-9519 or email jcomella@roadrunner.com to find out more about future trails work days, or to make a tax deductible monetary contribution of any amount, which will make a big difference in the Trails Council’s ability to maintain the trails.
We appreciate so much the donations by the Angel Society, NaturVet Foundation, and our private donors that have been very gracious to us!
Stage Coach Sunday 2010
A Fallbrook Tradition for 20 Years!
Last Fall’s Stage Coach Sunday, held for the 20th year in succession at the Palomares Park, was without doubt the hottest day in the history of the event!
But for dedicated attendees, 100-degree temperatures didn’t diminish the enjoyment of the event… though the lemonade and beer booths were the biggest draw!
Everyone enjoyed rides on the Butterfield Stage, live animal shows by Pacific Animal Productions, entertainment by the Stonehouse Band, games including pumpkin decorating and apple bobbing, and the traditional Silent Auction.
First National Bank of Southern California was the main event sponsor; and SCS committee members Wicker and Megan Gamble and Linda Promack expressed their gratitude to all the other individual sponsors and local businesses who were so generous with their donations to the event.
A Memory Walk in Palomares Park
by Sue Thorne
Those words of Fallbrook Land Conservancy’s muse and co-founder echoed through my mind as I took a “memory walk” through the Palomares Park recently, pausing at each commemorative tile and tree dedication plaque to enjoy memories of good friends and FLC members whose spirits will always live here and whose inspiration will spur the next generation of Fallbrookians on to greater achievements.
The Palomares Park adjacent to the Land Conservancy’s office is not only a work in progress, it’s the organization’s only property that is truly a “park” where people and Nature have combined to design a wonderful sculpture garden celebrating loved ones, with plants and trees from all over the world. Just like the community of Fallbrook, it’s unique. It’s also open to everyone with its wheelchair-friendly walkways and picnic tables where friends may meet and rest, just sit and dream, or enjoy moments of solitude….
I began my meanderings by heading north from the parking lot past the landmark windmill towards the newly constructed barn. I paused to read the plaque beneath an Acacia tree dedicated to the memory of Mark Allinson, the windmill donor. “Child of the open sky, Here is your legacy,” the inscription by Ken Graydon read. “The earth shall be greener, Wherever you stand.” What more could one wish for?
Then I spied a shiny new bench, dedicated to departed members of the Fallbrook Social Club, with its motto, “Poker is our game!” How proud the four members must be to know they are so loved and will always have a winning hand in the Land Conservancy’s heritage! I raised an imaginary glass to:
Don Miller
(Aug. 24, 1927-June 29, 2010)
Bill Cullen
(Oct. 31, 1934-Jan. 30, 2000)
Herb Lewis
(Aug. 7, 1928-Jan. 8, 2005)
William
(Bill) Shea
(Jan. 10, 1933-Oct. 12, 2010)
My “memory/Nature walk” continued past
those lovely bronze creatures set in the undergrowth – proud
Crowned Prince roadrunner, prowling Tukua “Big Cat” and that
charming family gathering of quail. I paused beside “Beacon”
the red-tailed hawk, guarding the memory of a dear founding
board member, Joy Harper Ross, in May 2005.
Within the park you’ll find trees dedicated to many past and present Fallbrook community volunteers. A sweet bay/Grecian laurel, for instance, marks the 50th anniversary in 2003 of former FLC directors Milt and Mania Black, and an arbutus marina is dedicated to Richard Levering in gratitude for his years of service to the Angel Society.
A nature-lover or Fallbrook historian could spend many happy hours here. But don’t just take my word for it; check it out for yourselves, and consider this spot as a wonderful “garden of remembrance” for your own loved ones.
Volunteers Behind the Scenes
British Friends of Fallbrook and Bonsall work on newsletter
mailings: (from left), Jane reed, Nan Breining, Maggie Donovan,
Margaret Curtis, Kathleen Dafashy, Sue Thorne, Diane Ream,
Diane Frank and June Ginger.
One important source of income for Fallbrook Land Conservancy, year in and year out, is Major Market’s “Reach for the Stars” program. We appeal to all members (dedicated Major Market shoppers!) to save your grocery receipts and submit them to us whenever you have an envelope-full. Major Market then reimburses us 1% of the total of every batch of grocery receipts that we submit. In 2010, we again received checks totaling over $1,000 as a result of this great program.
Another behind-the-scenes group of volunteers is the newly formed social group, British Friends of Fallbrook & Bonsall. They meet monthly at different venues, partake of tea and refreshment, and lend their hands to many local philanthropic endeavors, such as collating and labeling the FLC newsletter.
Thank you Eloine Waltrip, for tallying
all the Major Market Receipts.
FLC Meetings and Work Parties
Trails Council
Second Monday of the month at 7:00 P.M. at the Palomares
House.
Trails
Maintenance
Third Saturday at 8:00 A.M. Meet at the Sandia Creek Trail Head.
Save Our Forest
Meetings: 4th Monday of the month, 7:00 P.M. at the
Palomares House.
Work Parties: Third Wednesday of the month at 8:30
A.M. and last Sunday of the month at 7:30 A.M. at the Village
Square.
Adopt-A-Highway: 2nd Saturday of the month at 8:00 A.M.,
at the Pala Mesa Resort entrance.
Technical
Advisory Board
First Wednesday of each quarter: April 6, July 6, October 5..
FLC Board of
Directors
Meeting
Last Wednesday of each quarter: April 27, July 27, October
26.
Memorials and Dedications
The FLC thanks the following donors for recent memorial contributions
In Memory of Nancy Allen
Anonymous, Wallace Tucker,
Mike & Nancy Peters
In Honor of Jane Gilman
Dawne Goodwin McCullough
In Memory of Jack Younie
Norman & Jeanne Marsden
In Memory of B.J. (Bernie)
Thompson
Wallace Tucker