Need some chipping done? When this came to my Inbox, I gave Morgan a call. Yes, it is from the San Diego Fire Safe Council and yes, they do service Palomar Mountain. Their flyer and more info is below. The catch? They are booked out about 6 weeks. Be sure to sign up soon!
From: Morgan Graves <morgan.graves@rcdsandiego.org> Subject: No-Cost Chipping in Palomar
Hi there,
Fire season is almost here! Have you done your part by preparing defensible space around your home? Let the Fire Safe Council of San Diego County help you maintain defensible space around your home.
The Fire Safe Council of San Diego County’s No-Cost Chipping Program can help you chip the hazardous debris you’ve already cleared. Sign up here or call our office at (619) 562-0096 for support signing up.
Stay safe!
Morgan Graves – Administrative Assistant
Resource Conservation District of Greater San Diego County
In Partnership with the Fire Safe Council of San Diego County
Happy Fourth from Palomar Mountain! Our flag still stands for the freedom we’re so thankful for.
One of the long-standing traditions in the USA are fireworks. There are a lot of locations planned this year in the ‘flatlands’. We love watching from the mountain-top. Often you’ll see folks gathered at the turn-outs. When the weather is clear, we’ve counted 17 to 20 locations – just a little ‘poof’ from perched up here, but fun to see. One of the longest shows has been out on Catalina Island. See below for a list to maybe visit or help to identify if you’re at the rim of the world up here. Wherever you celebrate, enjoy your time with family and friends.
Even living on top of the Mountain, we haven’t been able to escape the spam/robo calls. Thanks to a friend of Palomar, Robert Gonsett for sending the following link. This might help reduce those annoying calls to your cell phone and also the old-fashioned, plug-into-the-wall phones that some of us still rely on.
From: Robert Gonsett
Subject: Call Blocking Tools and Resources | Federal Communications Commission
The FCC announces that many call blocking tools are available to reduce spam (robo) telephone calls.
The construction at the fire station is really coming along. I saw they are doing a lot of dirt work and thought they might appreciate finding a home for their extra dirt here locally. Call Gabe and they are glad to deliver by the truckload to the top of the mountain. It saves them from hauling down to the flatlands. Gabe said it it clean Palomar native soil. No broken concrete. Might have a few small branches or stones.
First call, first served. Gabe with Anton’s Construction 760-522-1390
California Association of Real Estate posted about a new state law regards to having your property fire safe. ‘Defensible space’ is the term for a buffer zone that homeowners create between a structure on the property and any flammable grass, trees, shrubs, or wildland area that surround it.
Beginning July 1st, 2021, anyone selling their property will need to provide documentation that their property is in compliance with defensible space laws, or buyers will be required to agree to obtain such documentation of compliance in the future.
CAL FIRE is our local authority that provides the inspections with documentation. Palomar has guidelines to follow within 30 feet of structures and lesser clearing to a total of 100 feet from structures. Please see links below and www.readyforwilfire.org
Of course this is something we all work toward in keeping our properties fire safe.
HARDENING OUR HOMES – The California Association of Realtor flyer is below. Flying embers can destroy homes up to a mile ahead of a wildfire. We’re encouraged to prepare (harden) our homes by using fire resistant materials and work on other priorities to make our homes more firesafe.
Click for the Fire Hardening and Defensible Space new Real Estate Form FHDA:
Jim Hamerly – CSUSM dean of the College of Business Administration
grows sequoias on his property on Palomar Mountain.
Did you know the largest Sequoia Grove in Southern California is on Palomar? Planted by one of the busiest neighbors on the mountain, he is about to have lots of extra time on his hands so it will be fun to see his next projects develop! Thank you, Don and Mindy Grant for heading this great story our way! All the best to Jim and Peggy on their new adventures! Bonnie Phelps
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Jim Hamerly thought the first time he retired from Cal State San Marcos would be the last.
Hamerly was the director of business community relations, responsible for leading the College of Business Administration’s Senior Experience program, for nearly seven years when he decided to retire in 2013 to spend time working with alumni start-up businesses.
It turned out to be a short-lived departure. About a year later, Hamerly was coaxed out of retirement to serve as CoBA’s interim dean.
“When they initially asked me, I think I turned down the provost three times,” Hamerly said.
Encouragement from Ron Gerevas, a member of the CSUSM Foundation Board and the CoBA Advisory Board, helped change Hamerly’s mind. And it wasn’t long before that interim title was removed for a more permanent one.
“I fell in love with the place again,” Hamerly said.
After nearly seven years as dean, Hamerly has decided it’s time to retire from CSUSM for a second time. He will step down at the end of June, with longtime professor of management and entrepreneurship Bennett Cherry stepping into the role of interim dean beginning July 1.
“We have great faculty and staff, and the best thing you can leave on is full confidence that they will carry the college strongly forward,” Hamerly said.
Hamerly has always had a wide array of interests, which kept him moving throughout his career. A glance at his résumé shows that he rarely remains in a position more than five years. Notably, both of his CSUSM stints lasted longer than that.
But Hamerly said the time was right this time around because the college achieved two important goals:
Receiving accreditation from the prestigious global organization Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB); and
Improving the college culture.
Cherry, who has been at CSUSM since 2000, can attest to the importance of both of those achievements.
“Jim’s leadership as dean came at a critical time in the life of our College of Business Administration. For decades, the college had been discussing and taking small steps toward AACSB accreditation, but Jim and Mohammad really launched us into a coordinated and strategic multiyear plan to actually achieve it,” said Cherry, also noting the vital contributions of associate dean Mohammad Oskoorouchi. “It is one of Jim’s greatest achievements as dean.
“For many staff and faculty, Jim’s focus on improving the culture of CoBA will be regarded as one of the most significant touchstones of his legacy.”
CoBA received word of its AACSB accreditation in April, putting the college among the top 5% of business schools in the world.
“The AACSB accreditation team commended us for three or four major areas where we were out in front,” Hamerly said. “These are deans who come in to evaluate us and said, ‘Not only are you guys doing a great job, we’re going to copy what you’re doing.’ So that’s an affirmation that we’re on the right path.”
Changing the culture in CoBA was something that Hamerly knew was necessary when he accepted the position as interim dean. It’s something he has done at every company he has run or started. It’s never a quick fix, but it’s one he knew was necessary to put the college on a strong path forward.
CoBA has implemented training on communication and behavioral styles while utilizing tools such as CliftonStrengths assessments and 360-degree reviews, among others, to improve collegiality throughout the college.
“The cooperation among faculty, between faculty and staff, and our community engagement is amazing,” Hamerly said. “It’s astounding to see how our team comes together and how they help each other out. It’s an awesome environment to work in.”
Hamerly also is proud of CoBA’s focus on student personal and professional success. He noted that the college has recruited more than three dozen professionals who volunteer as Executives in Residence, helping to guide students through the Business Professional Development program and develop the professional skills they’ll need in their careers. That external community engagement has been a boon to the college and its students.
And though Hamerly is retiring as dean, he will be staying busy. He serves on advisory boards of four alumni startups and he has dozens of hobbies, including participating in triathlons, hiking and growing the largest sequoia grove in Southern California.
As Hamerly prepares for the next chapter, he does so knowing that CoBA is in position to continue to thrive.
“We have people who know how to do it and they’re good at it,” Hamerly said. “They might need me as a cheerleader, but I’ve contributed the best of what I can and they’re ready to move forward, which is great.”
Eric Breier, Public Affairs Specialist ebreier@csusm.edu | Office: 760-750-7314
Folks in the city deal with ‘May Grey and June Gloom’. Palomar is usually above those clouds. Here is an 8 second peek from the mountain top. It is even more special looking through Eddy’s lens from their home perched on the rim off the South Grade. He used DJI Air 2s. Thank you for sharing Eddy and Julia!
It’s Friday night and getting close to dinner time! And, what do you know!? Bruce and Dutch are tuning up their guitars to entertain us tonight. Order off the great menu at the Bistro, come on out and enjoy the music.
From: Denise <smithmountainboys@gmail.com>
Friday, June 4 , 2021 5 – 8pm Wynola Pizza and Bistro Julian, CA 760-765-1004
CD update:
After a year in production, The Smith Mountain Boys have completed our first album, Cover Stories. Twelve of your favorite cover songs have been professionally mixed and recorded on CD’s. We will have the CD’s available at each gig for purchase or via our website, www.smithmountainboys.com. If you are local, just give us a call if you want a cd or two, 760-207-5569.
Ok Cecelia! Your mountain neighbors will be filling up that dumpster Saturday! (Thanks for all you and the Firesafe Council do for the Mountain!)
From: Cecelia Borland:
IT’S DUMPSTER TIME!! This may be the last dumpster as we are out of money until the next grant comes from the Neighborhood Reinvestment Program June 5th, 8 am to noon at the Fire Station and during the week following by appt.
Please call Cecelia @ 760-742-8741.
If there is space left on Saturday, June 12th, the dumpster will be open 8 am to noon.
2 pickups full per household until noon Saturday, then all you want.
NO TIRES, PAINT, HAZMAT, ELECTRONICS, CHEMICALS, or LARGE APPLIANCES DONATIONS GREATLY APPRECIATED Come early; bring your combustibles, trash, small appliances, and other rubbish that litters your yards. We don’t know how long this grant offering will last so “make hay while sun shines”
Also get in line for FREE CHIPPING Call Robert Carlyle for Appointments 769-742-1891
This little newspaper clipping from the late 1950’s was a fun find. It was glued inside a book of minutes telling of the Palomar Mountain Club.
They said they resented the misuse of the name of San Diego County’s most famous mountain. So, they decided to write newspapers and other media with a gentle warning of what is right and what is wrong.
‘Palomar Mountain’ has dignity and character which ‘Mount Palomar’ lacks, the club said. And besides, ‘Mount Palomar’ is incorrect.
So, there you have it! According to those who came before us in the good old days, it is ‘Palomar Mountain’ forever.
Burrr, it is COLD up here this weekend in the Merry month of May! If there was more moisture in those clouds today, we could have had snow! Better put another log on the fire!
Enjoy,
Bonnie Phelps, with a cup of hot tea on Palomar Mountain…
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