Palomar Mountain News

Apple pressing fun and lots more at the Festival yesterday! Thanks to all who made the day another great Mountain memory!

Pascal set up a very inviting display at the General Store for the new order of shirts.

$15.00 for shirts and $20.00 for the hats – tax included.

Next week there are two events that would be great for showing up in yellow!

Stay tuned for the details!

Palomar friends sold their cabin a few years ago. Recently the mountain was calling and they just had to join us again. They have been working on having their Valley Center home ready for inside photos but the word got out. The listing went up, buyers slipped in and escrow opened today! It is contingent on the buyers selling their home so we are available for showings and back-up offers, just in case. Click to see why this is the absolute best home at “The Porches”.

We have quite a few new Palomar Mountain listings headed your way that don’t have buyers – yet – so stay tuned!

Bonnie Phelps, Realtor-on-the-run!

760-533-1742

San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E) has agreed to an in-person Q&A session with Palomar Mountain residents:

• When: Tuesday, September 22 at 1:00 PM • Where: Palomar Mountain Fire Station (21610 Crestline Road)

This is not a PR presentation—it is our opportunity to demand direct answers and hold utility representatives accountable. The Save Palomar Mountain Task Force will open the meeting with key, targeted questions, followed by an open floor for community members to voice concerns and ask questions. Please wear your yellow shirts if you have one – there are a few left at the General Store! Your presence matters. Please attend and stand with your neighbors to defend our mountain.

Your Save Palomar Mountain Task Force

There was a big rush bright and early but you are invited to head on over and top that dumpster off! Robert and Drew are waiting for you to load up and show up! Closes at noon… be there!

While the rest of us had a weekend off for Labor Day, staff and volunteers were ‘Laboring’ big time! They hosted such a fun weekend at Palomar Christian Conference Center 75th Anniversary Celebration. You haven’t lived until you’ve seen Cecelia with NO HANDS on that zip line! I don’t know if my arrow was on it’s way to one of the stacks of hay or not. One thing for sure, it didn’t quite make a bulls-eye, well, not even close. I popped in and out a couple of times so missed seeing some of the other locals that were treated to great meals, horseback riding, swimming, archery, the zip line, rifle range, chapel times and then s’mores ’round the campfire. This is to be an annual event so plan ahead for next year.

Save the date for another opportunity October 24 for ‘Serve Day’. The camp will post options for projects where they could your your help, lunch will be served and all activities will be available to experience in the afternoon.

Oh, and the Apple Festival will be Saturday, October 17!

More great times ahead on the Mountain!

Catalina Island sure stood out in Monday night’s beautiful sunset. Palomar Mountain and down through Pauma Valley is an alternate site for the 500 kV, 200 foot towers that would clear-cut 250 foot wide scars to take power to service only Orange County. The good news is the LA Basin portion of that project was just cancelled!!! Click to read how they realized they can get their power for less money by expanding existing easements and running the lines on poles they already have.

We are doing everything possible to encourage CPUC, Sempra Utilities and SDG&E to apply the same common sense to our portion of this multi-billion project. No more fires started by their power towers and let’s preserve our land and views for future generations.

Would you like to keep up on the latest? Simply follow our interactive Facebook page and invite your friends to do the same: Save Palomar Mountain – Stop the Powerlink and Pauma Valley just launched their action group, too: Save Pauma Valley.

See also: Will YOU write a letter to Stop the Powerlink?