Valley Center 4-Hrs garnered some of the top prizes at the Del Mar Fair this year.
Kyle Tribble’s lamb won him a champion’s ribbon. Rachel Hochstetler’s veal won her a reserve grand championship. Kadie Calac won the top award, 2003 Grand Champion, for her steer project. Kylie Last won the 2003 grand championship for her swine project. Mark Brashear won a champion’s ribbon for his market goat.
Other 4-Hrs and their projects are listed below:
Lamb - Kyle Tribble, Valley Center FFA, 132 lbs.; Michelle McCarley, Valley Center Country 4H, 114 lbs.; Alan J. Boomell, Valley Center 4H, 121 lbs.; William Riggs, Valley Center FFA, 102 lbs.; Spencer S. Turner, Valley Center 4H, 146 lbs.; Connor Fox, Valley Center 4H, 173 lbs.; Justin DeTellem, Valley Center FFA, 125 lbs.; Jennifer Wood, Homesteaders 4H, 120 lbs.; Mike Broomell, Valley Center FFA, 124 lbs.; Tori Overton, Valley Center 4H, 115 lbs..
Andrew Clifford, Valley Center 4H, 153 lbs.; Chris Jones, Valley Center FFA, 104 lbs.; Rashell Rendon, Valley Center 4H, 122 lbs.; Samantha Broomell, Valley Center 4H, 131 lbs.; Danyelle O’Brien, Valley Center 4H, 119 lbs.; Matt McMann, Valley Center FFA, 128 lbs.; Raul Urquieta, Valley Center FFA, 138 lbs.; Austin Clifford, Valley Center 4H, 138 lbs.; Stephanie McMann, Valley Center FFA, 109 lbs.; Sarah Restivo, Valley Center 4H, 114 lbs.; Amanda Pugh, Valley Center 4H, 129 lbs.; Jared Brown, Valley Center Country 4H, 103 lbs.; Alexis Blankenship, Pauma Valley 4H, 118 lbs.; Chelsie Biller, Valley Center Country 4H, 130 lbs..
Veal - Rachel K. Hochstetler, Valley Center 4H, 332 lbs.; Deondra Hofer, Valley Center 4H, 421 lbs.; Nathan D. Hochstetler, Valley Center 4H, 310 lbs.
Beef - Kadie Calac, Valley Center Country 4H, 1,223 lbs.; David P. Last, Valley Center Country 4H, 1,112 lbs.; Alyssa M. Brashear, Valley Center FFA, 1,119 lbs.; Dalton Maxfeldt, Valley Center Country 4H, 1,328 lbs.; Kelsey J. Schott, Valley Center FFA, 1,224 lbs.; Amy L. Hart, Homesteaders 4H, 1262 lbs.; Stanton R. Upson, Valley Center Country 4H, 1,349 lbs.; Nicole Sherman, Valley Center FFA, 1,068 lbs.; Adam Schober, Pauma Valley 4H, 1,056 lbs.; Dustin W. Bowland, Valley Center FFA, 1,180 lbs.
Matthew Van Wyk, Valley Center Country 4H, 1,232 lbs.; Erica Maxfeldt, Valley Center Country 4H, 1,329 lbs.; Kaitlin Gates, Pauma Valley 4H, 1,374 lbs.; Deanna M. Thomas, Valley Center Country 4H, 1,208 lbs.; Lindsey Duckworth, Pauma Valley 4H, 1,318 lbs.; Joshua Schober, Pauma Valley 4H, 1,236 lbs.; Juan De La Cruz, Valley Center FFA, 1,120 lbs.; Lynn Marie Crumley, Pauma Valley 4H, 1,191 lbs.; Daniel Hofer, Valley Center 4H, 1,280 lbs.; Mark Hagadorn, Valley Center Country 4H, 1,304.
Jessica Hutchings, Valley Center Country 4H, 1,340 lbs.; John Zeugschmidt, Valley Center 4H, 1,209 lbs.; Desirae L. Hutchings, Valley Center Country 4H, 1,253 lbs.; John Brown, Valley Center Country 4H, 1,328 lbs.; Garrett D. Baker, Valley Center Country 4H, 1,316.
Market Goats - Mark Brashear, Valley Center 4H, 65 lbs.; Benjamin J. Schober, Pauma Valley 4H, 66 lbs..
Market Swine - Kylie E. Last, Valley Center Country 4H, 266 lbs.; Katie J. Brown, Valley Center Country 4H, 246 lbs.; Adam Schrader, Valley Center 4H, 279 lbs.; Emily A. Richardson, Valley Center FFA, 246 lbs.; Darcy R. Gray, Valley Center 4H, 207 lbs.; Cecelia D. Shannon, Homesteaders 4H, 229 lbs.; Daniel Wert, Homesteaders 4H, 236 lbs.; Brooke Kratz, Valley Center Country 4H, 278 lbs.; Eric J. Martineau, Valley Center 4H, 232 lbs.; Kelly Hagadorn, Valley Center Country 4H, 255 lbs..
Kyle Vexler, Valley Center Country 4H, 270 lbs.; Elle A. Karno-Palcic, Homesteaders 4H, 208 lbs.; Kelley Bourgeois, Pauma Valley 4H, 216 lbs.; Melynda S. Biller, Valley Center Country 4H, 246 lbs.; Jaclyn S. Regan, Homesteaders 4H, 258 lbs.; Colton D. Baker, Valley Center Country 4H, 272 lbs.; Kortney Westerlund, Valley Center Country 4H, 229 lbs.; Michael Gratzl, Homesteaders 4H, 224 lbs.; Ryan J. Nowak, Valley Center Country 4H, 232 lbs.; Greg Ziehl, Homesteaders 4H, 247 lbs..
Brian D. McCain, Valley Center Country 4H, 205 lbs.; Wesley McCain, Valley Center Country 4H, 252 lbs.; Jason Dawalt, Valley Center 4H, 271 lbs.; Adam W. Hochstetler, Valley Center 4H, 302 lbs.; Erik Nagorski, Valley Center 4H, 210 lbs.; Ryan A. Martineau, Valley Center 4H, 225 lbs.., Alexandra Norton, Valley Center 4H, 228 lbs.; Hunter Olney, Valley Center Country 4H, 253 lbs.; Heather R. Marshall, Valley Center Country 4H, 248 lbs.; Chelsea Dyer, Pauma Valley 4H, 210.
Heather A. Mason, Pauma Valley 4H, 206 lbs.; Jack Armstrong, Valley Center 4H, 243 lbs.; Dan Gonzalez, Pauma Valley 4H, 263 lbs.; Hunter Sheffield, Pauma Valley 4H, 283 lbs.; Lauren K. Furnner-Morace, Pauma Valley 4H, 229 lbs.; Stephanie Sorge, Homesteaders 4H, 240 lbs.; Bree Anne D. Munnich, Valley Center FFA, 217 lbs.; Kalyn D. Peirce, Valley Center 4H, 220 lbs.; Kevin M. Bishop, Homesteaders 4H, 236 lbs.; Jeremy W. Dozier, Valley Center Country 4H, 252 lbs..
Jayda Davis, Valley Center Country 4H, 265 lbs.; John Campbell, Valley Center FFA, 250 lbs.; Toni Sorensen, Pauma Valley 4H, 249 lbs.; Brittany M. Creamer, Pauma Valley 4H, 271 lbs.; Kelly Cully, Valley Center 4H, 248 lbs.; Eric Nagorski, Valley Center 4H, 210 lbs.; Steve J. Hoff, Valley Center 4H, 272 lbs.; Danyelle Sorensen, Pauma Valley 4H, 245 lbs.; Ben MacPhee, Valley Center 4H, 258 lbs.; Melissa Tuomi, Valley Center 4H, 254 lbs.
By DAVID ROSS
Businessman Lynn Lackey was mad, or at least peeved, and he wasn’t going to take it any more!
When the owner of Lescoe Electric read in The Roadrunner that Fire Chief Kevin O’Leary had complained that business owners were often uncooperative with business inspections, forcing inspectors to reschedule inspections, taking up staff time, Lackey decided to show up at the June fire board meeting and speak his mind.
“I’m here to tell you right now that that’s baloney!” the plain-spoken Lackey told the board.
He explained that he had set up two appointments with fire department inspectors “and they never showed!”
A week later, said Lackey, the fire inspectors showed up at a commercial building next to him, so he asked if they would come by and inspect his office when they were done.
“They told me, ‘I’m sorry, he’s on the list and you’re not.’ I was less than 50 feet away from them! I’ve tried on three separate occasions to get inspected!”
Lackey, who 20 years ago was on a volunteer fire department in another community, asked, “Why do we send inspectors out on fire engines instead of in pick-ups? Twenty years ago when we did inspections, we used pick-ups. I’m kind of wondering why VC can’t have a pickup, why have two people do inspections?”
Chief O’Leary explained that “firefighters are assigned certain inspections and they need to accomplish them in a certain amount of time. So, the ones on the list were the ones they needed to accomplish. If they don’t, then I have some issues.”
He added that the reason that firefighters aren’t sent out in pick-ups is because then the department would have to reduce staffing on the fire engines.
Director Dan Thornton, who is the chairman of the district’s finance subcommittee, said, “Mr. Lackey, we appreciate you coming with your concerns and I want you to know that we are currently working on a solution to the very problem that you brought up tonight.”
Lackey also criticized the district’s handling of the fires that claimed two of the town’s most prominent buildings: Fat Ivor’s and Corral Liquor.
“Just in the last year we’ve had two historical buildings burned to the ground and most of the community believes that the fire department didn’t know where the hydrants were for those fires.”
Fire Board Pres. Patrick Garcia told Lackey that he wouldn’t let him continue commenting in this vein because whether or not the firefighters knew where the hydrants were was “hearsay.”
Chief O’Leary did comment on Lackey’s criticisms, noting that people are often impatient when waiting for the fire engines to arrive and that, “every minute seems like 20 minutes.”
He added, “Both structures were pre-1930s buildings. There is only one hydrant at that location and there was no difficulty finding it. The difficulty was the people who were there. We had a lot of difficulty with citizens.”
At one time during the Corral Liquor blaze, someone turned a hydrant off, he said.
“The buildings were very old. On the Fat Ivor's fire we tried an interior attack, but the fire came down behind them. Corral liquor we had already identified and determined that if the attic was involved in fire the building would be los. It took us four minutes to get to Corral Liquor. When we arrived the battalion chief agreed not to send anyone inside.”
Chief’s Report
“We’re continuing to grow and we’re going to start having multi-story buildings,” O’Leary told directors during his monthly report.
“That will affect the kind of apparatus for future purchases. We’ll need to have telescoping apparatus to have an elevated stream.”
Under current planning, the town will soon have a major grocery store, with two malls, two separate store buildings and two separate office buildings of a maximum height of 35 feet. The same center will also have 70 condos.
There are also two church buildings planned and four major subdivisions with over 75 homes in each planned, he said.
Mutual Aid
The board accepted several mutual aid proposals with neighboring fire districts.
The agreements, between neighboring districts, such as San Pasqual Indian Reservation and Yuima Municipal Water District, call for fire crews to come to each other’s aid during emergency situations.
Such agreements between neighboring agencies help them to meet OSHA (Occupational Safety & Health Administration) standards that require that crews of no less than four firefighters respond to a fire. Two go inside while the other two stay outside to rescue them if they get into trouble. This is known as the “two in, two out” rule.
The mutual aid agreements approved, “streamlines the ability to get the resources where they need to go,” said O’Leary.
Gate Policy
The board also approved a new gate policy that requires that new gates for gated communities have devices that allow fire crews to open them using strobe lights from their engines.
The policy does not call for retrofitting older existing gates, but does require that newer electronic gates be retrofitted with the devices.
By JOE NAIMAN
The Board of Supervisors recently authorized the advertisement for bid and subsequent award of a contract to install traffic signals at the intersection of Cole Grade Road and Valley Center School Road.
Construction is due to begin in August and be completed by December.
The 4-0 vote, with Supervisor Ron Roberts absent, authorizes the necessary contracting actions to install signals at Cole Grade and Valley Center School Road as well as at the intersection of Reche Road and Green Canyon Road in Fallbrook.
In September 2002 the supervisors placed the intersection of Cole Grade Road and Valley Center School Road on the county's Traffic Signal Priority List. New traffic signals are funded by gas tax revenues and fair share contributions from developers, and the signal was budgeted in the County's Fiscal Year 2002-03 Detailed Work Program.
The Valley Center signal is ready for construction, as the County's Department of Public Works has prepared design and specifications for the two locations.
The Valley Center signal has no outstanding right-of-way issues, but right-of-way is formally needed from one homeowners’ association for the Fallbrook signal.
The estimated cost for the two traffic signals is $375,000.
By DAVID ROSS
If it ain’t broke, fix it! might be the motto for the VC water district board’s decision Monday to switch auditing firms after 23 years.
The district’s staff was pleased with the job that Gilchrist, Steen, Stanfield and Newquist had done for 23 years. The district’s financial department had received the Certificate of Achievement in Financial Reporting every year since 1992.
Staff also reported that hiring a new auditing firm would probably cause some extra staff time to be spent by the finance department in meshing its financial records with that of the new firm, although the director of finance, Bill Jeffrey, said that was a minimal concern.
But the board has been wrangling with this issue each year because some directors, Merle Aleshire being the most adamant, feel strongly that changing audit firms from time to time leads to increased independence and a fresh look at the systems and books.
Board Pres. Gary Broomell doesn’t share that philosophy and prefers the slogan “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” He has resisted changing auditing firms each year. But on Monday he told his board colleagues that he was willing to go along with the recommendations of the audit selection committee set up to review the process. That committee had recommended hiring another firm to do the auditing.
The board then voted to hire the firm of Leaf & Cole, an auditing company that has as its clients about a dozen other water districts.
Jeffrey said that his department expected that Leaf & Cole would do a good job and that staff would have a minimum of friction introducing the firm to the district’s books.
District Gen. Mgr Gary Arant emphasized that the district was not changing auditing firms because of any inadequacy on the part of Gilchrist etc. and that the firm had done a very good job each of the 11 times it did the district’s books.
By RIK ESPINOSA
This is part II of the story of how the Pala Indians were driven off their land in Warner Springs 100 years ago and the land given to a man who had the courts, if not right, on his side.
Governor John G. Downey
In the now San Gabriel Valley in eastern Los Angeles County, a group of vigilantes known as the El Monte Rangers was formed in the 1850s and included local druggist John G. Downey.
Downey came to California from his native Ireland in the gold rush of 1849 but really made his fortune as a pharmacist in the Pueblo of Los Angeles.
Downey, elevated to the governor’s office after the five-day term of Milton Latham (who wanted California split in half with the southern part a slave state), served from 1860 to 1862 and, despite his pro-slavery views, is credited with keeping California in the Union during the Civil War.
About 1875 Downey began buying parcels in the hot springs area.
Downey sued Allejandro Barker, Baleriana Barker, Angela Barker and other Kupa living on “his” land on Aug. 11, 1892. The complaint – case R3.39, No. 6898, was filed in the court of San Diego County Superior Court Judge George Puterbaugh by a heavyweight and politically connected attorney.
Stephen Mallory White and his law partner Charles Monroe represented Downey and the Anglo titleholders. White was a former L.A. County district attorney and was the California Senate president pro tempore when the suit was filed. White went on to serve as the Lieutenant Governor of California and was a U.S. Senator from California by the time the suit progressed into the U.S. Supreme Court nine years later.
Puterbaugh traveled to the Kupa village in July 1893 and took depositions in the case but illness by Downey forced the judge to shelve the matter.
A wealthy San Francisco banker, J. Downey Harvey, was executor of the estate when Downy died March 1, 1894: Harvey continued appealing the suits until they won in the U.S. Supreme Court and pushed to evict the Kupa.
On April 21, the lawsuit against the Barkers was refiled and on August 3, this time naming Kupa chief Jesus Quevas (aka Jesus Cuevas) and every Kupa living on the land, demanding they leave.
Harvey’s Merchants' Exchange Bank of San Francisco held the mortgages on the hot springs valley and became party to the suit along with Harvey.
Judge W. L. Pierce took over the Kupa’s case Nov. 5, 1895 when Puterbaugh recused himself.
With the financial help of the Indian Rights Association, the Mohonk Committee on “Legal Defense of the Mission Indians” and the “Women's National Indian Association,” the Kupa hired Los Angeles attorney Shirley C. Ward to defend them.
It took more than a year from the refiling of the suits before depositions in the now combined cases were taken with by Judge Pierce.
The hopes of the Kupa were dashed when the judge ruled Dec. 29, 1896 that those in charge of Downey’s estate of could remove the Indians because testimony in the case introduced by the plaintiffs said that the Kupa had squatted in the hot springs valley after 1815, which was the time the hot springs valley came under the domain of the newly-completed San Luis Rey Mission.
The fact that the Kupa spoke a language significantly different from the Luiseños and the Kumeyaay/Diegueños and closer to the Indians of the Imperial Valley and Yuma area was held against their claim to the land they had called home for centuries.
Pierce upheld an objection to the introduction of oral testimony and depositions by the Kupa that they had always lived in the valley of the hot springs. Without that testimony, the judge ruled that the Kupa were actually Yuma Indians and were trespassers and they had no legal standing to claim the land under the legal right of continuous possession.
Within days, on Jan. 8, 1897, the Kupa appealed judge’s ruling based on Judge Pierce’s throwing out the depositions and testimony showing the Kupa had always lived near the hot springs.
When Judge Elisha Swift Torrance denied the new trial on May 1, the Kupa appealed to the state supreme court.
Arguments were heard in front of the California Supreme Court, en banc, on Oct. 4, 1899 with Shirley C. Ward and Frank D. Lewis arguing for the Kupa and White and Monroe representing the Anglos.
The Supreme Court was sharply divided with the justices splitting five to four in favor of denying a new trial.
Justice Walter Van Dyke wrote in the majority opinion.
The justices took note of correspondence possessed by Warner that showed he got title to “vacant” land in 1844.
The 1844 letter from Father Olivas was given great weight by Justice Walter Van Dyke and the other justices.
The Kupa’s argument that the Indians had rights under Mexican law “is entirely irrelevant in this case,” the decision said.
Justices Ralph Harrison, C.H. Garoutte and F. W. Henshaw agreed with Van Dyke; Chief Justice W. H. Beatty, T. B. McFarland and C. Jackson Temple dissented.
Justice McFarland, with Justice Temple concurring, said “I do not think that they (the Kupa) were required to present their claims to the land commission, or that they are even to be charged with knowing that there was such a commission, or with a knowledge of the law generally.”
On Oct. 26, 1889, the appeal of the state Supreme Court defeat to the U.S. Supreme Court was made by the U.S. Attorney General.
Ward and federal assistant U.S. Attorney Hoyt appeared for the Kupa at the oral arguments before the Supreme Court on March 20 and 21, 1901 and, joining White and Monroe, were San Diego law partners David L. Withington and Cassius Carter.
Withington was a state senator and Carter became district attorney of San Diego County from 1903 to 1906 but is best known because he was a Shakespearean scholar. The Cassius Carter Centre Stage Theater in at the Old Globe Theater in Balboa Park is named for Carter.
The argument in the U.S. Supreme Court centered on whether or not the Kupa had continuously occupied the valley of the hot springs but the unanimous decision (Justice Edward White was absent), written by Justice David J. Brewer, focused on the Kupa not submitting claims to the land to the California Land Commission.
“As between the United States and the Indians, their failure to present their claims to the land commission within the time named made the land, within the language of the statute, ‘part of the public domain of the United States.,’ ” Brewer wrote.
Brewer also said that the Kupa had no rights of easement onto the land or of occupancy of the land because, "A claim of a right to permanent occupancy of land is one of far reaching effect, and it could not well be said that lands which were burdened with a right of permanent occupancy were a part of the public domain and subject to the full disposal of the United States."
On May 13, 1901 the Kupa learned they had lost the valley of the hot springs when the Supreme Court decision favoring the “landowners” was announced.
The Trail of Tears
On the morning of May 12, 1903 – two years after the U.S. Supreme Court decision -- the Kupa Indians were forced by the U.S. Government to move from their 30 adobe homes at the hot springs and abandon their scared lands belonging to them from time immemorial.
Just 98 Kupa traveled on their “Trail of Wails.” Hundreds of others slipped into the woods, traveling to neighboring villages and other family.
Some rode in their own buggies, some on the wagons – many of the young men were on their horses driving some four-dozen ponies and cattle.
The caravan made scant progress the first day crossing the valley, traveling across an area now submerged under Lake Henshaw. The wagon train stopped for the night at Oak Grove where the present-day community of Lake Henshaw is located — still in sight of their homes at the other edge of the Valley of the Hot Springs.
“They drew the first rations ever issued to the Cupeños by the government — some at first refused to accept them, saying they were not objects of charity,” San Francisco Bulletin reporter Grant Wallace wrote.
Generally following the course of the San Luis Rey River and present-day Hwy 76, the Kupa traveled on Wednesday May 13 through the La Jolla Reservation, past the present junction of Hwy 76 and South Grade Road – leading to the top of Palomar Mountain – and into the Pauma Valley where they stopped at the Rancho Pauma, still a working ranch then, ten years after it had been acquired for the Pauma Reservation.
“At Pauba (Pauma) cattle ranch the next night, where was a vast herd of cattle, a large number of rough-riding cowboys conducting an old time ‘round-up,’ roped and shot a steer, and, with the assistance of the Indians, soon had it ready for broiling over the exiles’ campfires,” Wallace reported.
Thursday, May 14 found the Kupa traveling the last seven miles to their new home at Pala.
A condescending Wallace wrote, “The first disappointment on their arrival at Pala, due to the absence of any visible provision for their housing, soon gave way to a better feeling, with the erection of a tent village along the well-wooded banks of the San Luis Rey River.”
On Sunday, May 17 the Kupa – many of which were Catholic – refused to attend church at the Pala chapel.
“What kind of a God is this you ask us to worship, who deserts us when we need him most?,” said Wallace -- quoting what some Kupa said to the priest.
The Pala Indians
The main body of the Kupa and the Pala Luiseños have long merged into the Pala Band of Mission Indians. Other Kupa never followed their brethren to Pala and assimilated into other nearby tribes.
Indians with Kupa blood became members of the La Jolla, San Pasqual, Pauma and Yuima Los Coyotes, Capitan Grande, Santa Ysabel, Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians, Morongo and other bands, tribes and nations in Southern California.
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