Palomar Mountain News

Snow on the way again?  Click for details and here are the Snow Tips for you with weather links.

From: Susie Kellogg

Subject: BBQ Committee Meeting DATE AND TIME CHANGE!! to be SUNDAY, APRIL 10 AT 12:00 NOON – PMVFD VOLUNTEERS ROCKIN’ THE MOUNTAIN!

Hello BBQ Committee,

Date and time for the next meeting is changed from Sat. April 9 to SUNDAY, APRIL 10, AT 12:00 NOON  AT THE COMMUNITY CENTER.

Hope you all can make it and we look forward to putting the best ideas forward. Let’s get it organized and make it HAPPEN!  (And have fun doing it!)

Please invite anyone you think would like to contribute to this year’s BBQ.

Susie Kellogg

Owners just reduced the prices on two Palomar Cabins!  Click to see these and more, then come on up above the clouds for a tour!

Bonnie Phelps

888 718-5358

 Like to eat healthy, delicious food?  Try Rimel’s!  Homegrown Meats, mountain raised, grass-fed beef, local line caught fish, range free chicken, fresh vegtables…all adds up to a great meal!  Many of you know Matt and Jackie Rimel who are often on Palomar and own restaurants on the coast.  Matt is up a couple of times a week cutting oak for their grill. You’ll enjoy seeing furniture they made of mountain oak at Rimel’s too.    Click for their new video that will air on Cox/Time Warner’s this weekend (but you saw it first on the Palomar Mountain News)! 

Now, go out and treat yourself to some fine dining!  You’ll be glad you did, that’s a promise! 

From: wendy.schlater@lajolla-nsn.gov;

Click for the flyer for our annual Walk.  Highway 76 will be closed between the South Grade S-6 and the East Grade S-7, from 8:30am to 11:30am on April 10th. Traffic will be diverted through other road ways, including S-6.  Please call me at the numbers below if you have any questions or comments.

Blessings to you and yours,

Wendy Schlater, Program Director

La Jolla Band of Luiseno Indians

Avellaka Program

Safety for Native Women

phone 760-742-8628

phone 760-742-3863

760-685-4736 cell

760-742-3708 fax

Roll up your sleeves and help beautify our Palomar Mountain State Park!

Saturday, April 16   8:30 to 1:00

Click for more details on the Earth Day Flyer from Ranger Jessica!

Jessica Murany

State Park Ranger

Palomar Mtn. State Park

P.O. Box 175

Palomar Mtn., CA 92060

Office: 760.742.3462

Fax: 760.742.1092

jmurany@parks.ca.gov

I remember hearing stories about people buying paintings that Robert Asher painted of Palomar.  Guessing they were painted 8 to 9 decades ago.  Robert Asher homesteaded the property that he then gave to the Baptist Church in San Diego.  It is now the Christian Conference Center.  Thinking many of us recognize some of these views from that area of the Mountain.

Thanks to Peter, here are photos of the absolutely beautiful paintings the family has in storage.

FROM: Peter Brueggeman

Robert Asher paintings are in a storage unit in Mission Valley, in custody of descendents of Josephine Asher, Robert Asher’s sister. They are selling the family house in El Cajon, from which all these materials were housed. 

The paintings look pretty good even with decades of dirt from storage; when cleaned, I’m sure they will look even better.

Asher took a painting class from Maurice Braun in Mesa Grande… here’s some of Braun’s paintings whose style I imagine influenced Asher http://www.bauerart.com/Braun.html

Peter

Peter has invested untold hours for all of us who have a love for this Mountain and it’s history.  Books, photos, brochures and more are beautifully archived for us on his website.  He promises to send us a note as he has new additions.  THANKS PETER FROM ALL 🙂 

From: Peter Brueggeman

Awhile ago, I resumed working on materials and have been adding items to my Palomar Mountain history website. If you haven’t looked there in awhile, you will see quite a bit more.  http://peterbrueggeman.com/palomarhistory/index.htm

Peter

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This Robert Asher photo is the Palomar Hotel, ran by Smith & Douglass, located at the Silvercrest picnic area in the State Park. The Palomar Hotel is mentioned in Asher’s memoir “My Palomar” available at the General Store. 

 Peter

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 Many thanks to former cabin owner, Peter Brueggeman  for the endless hours he has spent sourcing out and organizing wonderful historical information on Palomar.  The   book that Robert Asher wrote is available at the Palomar Mountain General Store. THANKS Peter!

Heads up to fellow Palomar Mtn history enthusiasts. 

I spent the afternoon with a descendent of the sister of Robert Asher, author of the historical book, My Palomar.  I was located by that person through the Robert Asher materials on my website. 

Robert Asher left Palomar to live out his remaining years with his sister in El Cajon area.

This is a photo of where Asher pitched his tent on her land, with the modest ‘house’ Asher then built on her land in which to live out his years.

I also received some of his Asher’s diaries from his Palomar Mtn years, many Asher photos and postcards, and I shot photos of Asher paintings of Palomar Mtn landscapes.  

Good stuff! 

 Peter

Peter Brueggeman

La Jolla California USA

4peebee(at)peterbrueggeman.com