Palomar Mountain News

Apple ice cream, apple cake, apple carvings, dried apples, apple juice, apple sachets, and of course apple crisp, cobbler, and apple pie!  Huge thanks to Ranger Jessica and all the volunteers who came together to provide such a fun afternoon for all.  Click for an album and let’s hope we can Save the State Park!

Two Yard Sales happening on Crestline Road tomorrow and next weekend.  Several families have joined together and are having fun meeting neighbors swaping great deals.  Drive up Crestline and follow the signs.

From: David Drake  

Patty’s Yard Sale Multi-Family this Sunday all day and next weekend all day Pickers Welcome

Great news for you music lovers!  James Rust and Eileen Apfel will be entertaining us at the Apple Festival.  YOU are also invited to bring your guitar, mandolin, banjo, harmonica, auto harp or whatever your heart desires!

Might also want to bring some chairs.

See you in the Palomar Mountain State Park tomorrow 11 to 4

Here are more details: https://palomarmountainnews.wordpress.com/2011/10/17/apple-festival-sunday-wear-costumes-and-bring-apple-goodies/

Great article to update you on the status of the State Park:

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2011/oct/15/palomar-mountain-state-park-chins-up-powering-on/

Thanks Rick!

Here is a lovely poem for you about the pleasures of being on Palomar in the Summer.  The author Cathy is a part-timer on the Mountain with her husband and has a Fall poem headed our way too!   She said she is, “3/4 through my year of a poem-a-day!  Next year I am going back to my usual New Year’s Resolution to lose ten pounds”.    Thanks Kathy!  Enjoy!

Palomar Summer

On Palomar the summer day

Is splashed with gold and green

The sky above is azure

The air is crisp and clean.

The bees are making honey

The squirrels and chipmunks play

Wildflowers scent the gentle breeze

Which cools the hottest day.

We gather at the general store

Or plan to take a hike

We bring a picnic to the park

There’s plenty here to like.

Still later, when the sun goes down

We sit outside and gaze

While countless stars and constant moon

Keep their appointed ways.

You may come for our bar-b-que

Or just to get away

You only plan a visit…

I predict you’ll want to stay!

Kathy Derengowski

From: David Ross [mailto:editor@valleycenter.com]

DEPUTIES NEAR TO ARRESTING SUSPECT IN PALOMAR MOUNTAIN BURGLARIES

VC Sheriff’s detectives are close to arresting a subject in the series of July 4 burglaries of vacation homes on Palomar Mountain. “We have him positively identified,” Sgt. Bob Bishop told The Roadrunner this week. “He’s an East County guy with no connection to North County.” This is of some interest since many residents on the Mountain had their own theories as to who was behind the series of burglaries. None of their suspicions turned out to hold water upon investigation, said Bishop. People who had been under suspicion turned out to have ironclad alibis and each one was eliminated as a possible suspect.

 “He found an area that was ripe for the picking. We also believe that the suspect is involved in a series of burglaries in East County,” he said. DNA identification greatly helped in positively identifying the suspect, although a lot of the credit goes to many long hours of detective work by deputy Dwane DiBene of the VC station.

According to Bishop, the first thing DiBene did was isolate when the burglaries occurred. The one thing they had in common was vacation homes on the Mountain’s East Grade, near Conifer Road, all within two miles of each other. The homes were all isolated and not visible from the road. “You could walk on the property and no one would see you,” he said.

Items taken were things you would find in a vacation cabin, such as hunting clothing, guns and cameras. “DiBene worked the case like a dog,” Sgt. Bishop declared. He talked to everyone he could. “Finally word got out to enough cops that someone passed on a tidbit.” Information from a “source of information” (commonly known as a “snitch”) led to a suspect whose DNA is on file with the system from previous arrests.

That same DNA was left behind at some of the crime scenes. The analysis of DNA samples for lower priority cases such as burglaries is now becoming more common because it is less expensive-they just don’t have the same priority as a homicide case. During their investigations the detectives took a series of DNA swabs at the crime scenes. Several weeks later reports on those swabs came in and matched the information from the informant. Sheriff’s deputies hope to make an arrest within days, said Bishop.

 — Regards, David Ross Editor Valley Roadrunner 760-749-1112

“I can handle big news and little news. And if there’s no news, I’ll go out and bite a dog.”

From: joluc84@aol.com

We had such a success with our mufti-family yard sale that we are going to repeat the sale this coming weekend. 

Oct. 22n and 23rd. We are going to have a repeat for two days this time!

Anyone interested to sell can call us at 760-742-2423

John Lucia

 Our Apple Festival Sunday afternoon will be soooooo fun!  Your home-made apple goodies are welcomed to share, and some of us will be dressed in 1900 century homestead attire!  Don’t forget your  camera!

Also, you might want to bring your own picnic lunch as no other food will be available in the park.  Here are all the details:  http://www.palomarsp.org/festival/index.htm including a link where you can register.

See you Sunday in the Park!

Bonnie and Don