SAN MARCOS–The City of San Marcos Community Services will launch the Fall Discover San Marcos Hikes series with a visit to Leo Carrillo Ranch on Saturday, October 2. This free, four-mile hike will explore the trails that connect San Marcos to Carlsbad in the Rancho Carrillo and Rancho Dorado areas. A more challenging hike with [...]

EL CAJON–The El Cajon Valley Kiwanis Club and the Warrior Foundation are co-sponsoring a motorcycle, car and truck show and poker run September 25 that starts and ends in the eastern portion of the parking lot of Viejas Casino at 5000 Willows Road in Alpine. Proceeds from the event will benefit wounded veterans and their [...]

JULIAN–Local residents have a new way to work off calories gained from eating the town’s famous apple pie: with new fitness equipment and recreation areas at Jess Martin Park. County Supervisor Dianne Jacob, the County of San Diego Department of Parks and Recreation and the community of Julian officially opened an array of healthy new [...]

Small debris-free plateau glacier with glacier lakes at Gangrinchemzoe Pass at 5,200 m, south of the main Himalayan divide, Bhutan. Image courtesy of Shuji Iwata, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan. Many of Asia’s glaciers are retreating as a result of climate change.   This retreat impacts water supplies to millions of people, increases the likelihood of [...]

SAN MARCOS–The City of San Marcos Community Services will sponsor an interpretive event about birds September 11 at Jack’s Pond Park in San Marcos. From 9 a.m. to noon, participants will explore hands-on displays of feathers, nests and can make a bird feeder to take home. In addition, from 10 to 10:30 am, a speaker [...]

SAN DIEGO–To help remember and honor the lives affected by September 11 and to honor all veterans, Operation Homefront Southern California will host Freedom Walk 2010. This year, more than 20 Freedom Walks will be held across the country by Operation Homefront chapters. The walk begins at 9 a.m. with a special ceremony. Registration begins [...]

CARLSBAD–More than 140 artists from the San Diego county area displayed their fine art at the 12th annual Art in the Village show in Carlsbad. The annual event, which attracts more than 15,000 visitors, included arts and crafts classes, storytellers, yoga instructions, a magician, free lessons in painting, drawing, and sculpture, a “Magic of Art” program, [...]

SAN DIEGO–The San Diego Audubon’s Field Trip Committee is seeking volunteers to lead and co-lead upcoming field trips. Knowledge and experience about birds and habitats is important, but willingness and enthusiasm to share with others are very desirable qualities too. Field trips are typically offered several times per month, in various locations and habitats throughout [...]

Statistics show that drowning is the leading cause of accidental death in toddlers from 1 to 4 years of age in California. Watch your young children, especially around swimming pools. It just takes a few seconds for tragedy to strike. Once the drowning has occurred, it takes only a few minutes for irreversible brain death [...]