Congressman Bilbray Town Hall on ‘Health Care for Seniors’ at La Costa Glen Retirement Community
Congressman Brian Bilbray, CA-50, who represents part of Valley Center, will hold a Town Hall Meeting with residents of La Costa Glen Retirement Community, 1950 Silverleaf Circle, this Monday, Sept. 28, starting promptly at 4:30 p.m.
Congressman Bilbray will discuss the status of health care reform, especially as it affects seniors and those on Medicare/Medicaid or Medicare Advantage.
Friday, September 25, 2009
Thursday, September 24, 2009
IF YOU NEED TO EVACUATE YOUR HORSES . . .
Because San Diego County is currently under a high alert for fire danger, the Del Mar Fairgrounds has placed evacuation instructions and the intake form for large animals on its Web site. Should an emergency occur, horse owners and trainers can quickly check the Web site for instructions and the form. The Fairgrounds recommends that during times of high fire danger, horse owners download the form (one for each horse) and have them ready.
The Del Mar Fairgrounds was the main evacuation center for large animals during the 2007 wildfires, safely sheltering more than 2,200 horses and other animals.
The 22nd District Agricultural Association is a State of California agency that owns and operates the Del Mar Fairgrounds, Surfside Race Place, Horsepark Equestrian Center and the Del Mar Golf Center. The 22nd DAA produces five events each year: The San Diego County Fair, the Del Mar National Horse Show, Professional Bull Riding (PBR), The Scream Zone and Holiday of Lights. The Fairgrounds hosts more than 350 events annually, the largest of which is the live horse racing meet each summer, which is operated by the Del Mar Thoroughbred Club for the 22nd DAA and the State of California. For more information, visit www.sdfair.com
The Del Mar Fairgrounds was the main evacuation center for large animals during the 2007 wildfires, safely sheltering more than 2,200 horses and other animals.
The 22nd District Agricultural Association is a State of California agency that owns and operates the Del Mar Fairgrounds, Surfside Race Place, Horsepark Equestrian Center and the Del Mar Golf Center. The 22nd DAA produces five events each year: The San Diego County Fair, the Del Mar National Horse Show, Professional Bull Riding (PBR), The Scream Zone and Holiday of Lights. The Fairgrounds hosts more than 350 events annually, the largest of which is the live horse racing meet each summer, which is operated by the Del Mar Thoroughbred Club for the 22nd DAA and the State of California. For more information, visit www.sdfair.com
Monday, September 7, 2009
WRITING WORKSHOPS
The Write Stuff, an ongoing series of workshops for writers, sponsored by the Friends of the Valley Center Library, will offer its fourth session on Saturday, Sept. 12, 10 a.m.–noon. Published author and attorney HelenKay Dimon will be discussing “The Business of Writing: Behind every book there is a plan” with a limited number of participants. Visit the library for a flyer, register at the library book store, or for more information, e-mail writer.workshop@yahoo.com
No on-site registration will be taken the day of the event. There is a $10 fee and refreshments will be provided. VC Library is located at 29200 Cole Grade.
No on-site registration will be taken the day of the event. There is a $10 fee and refreshments will be provided. VC Library is located at 29200 Cole Grade.
Thursday, September 3, 2009
A Man Who Likes His Work!
On the first day of school Valley Center High School Principal Ron McCowan dressed up kind of like Tarzan and swung out onto the gym floor to wild applause from the students. The athletic McCowan, who frequently pumps iron with the athletic students in the weight room in the early morning, obviously enjoys his work and enjoys getting the students pumped up for the new year. Thanks to yearbook adviser Robert Conrad for the photos!
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
Apple Pie Pizza!
Frank McCarron, chef at Portino's was heading to Bates Nut Farm this morning to get caramel sauce for the new Apple Pie Pizzas that he is introducing on the menu at lunch today.They will, of course, be built on top of crusts made with the pizza beer, which he uses for all of his pizzas now. Perfect dessert nosh with autumn just around the corner!
Saturday, August 15, 2009
YOU MAY SEE SMOKE
Residents of Palomar Mountain and some parts of Pauma Valley have been puzzling over smoke that they are seeing and smelling. Obviously this time of year they worry about fires. However, apparently what they are seeing is smoke from further north in the state.
According to Palomar Mountain Volunteer Fire Dept. Chief George Lucia, "Palomar mountain volunteer fire department has responded to numerous call reporting smoke in many areas of the mountain this morning. Each concerned resident was contacted and updated to the "drift smoke" from fires upstate."
He encourages residents to report smoke anytime they see it.
According to Palomar Mountain Volunteer Fire Dept. Chief George Lucia, "Palomar mountain volunteer fire department has responded to numerous call reporting smoke in many areas of the mountain this morning. Each concerned resident was contacted and updated to the "drift smoke" from fires upstate."
He encourages residents to report smoke anytime they see it.
Friday, August 14, 2009
Richard Chase Exhibit at Library in September
On Saturday September 5th County residents, especially in Valley Center, will have the opportunity to see the art work of prolithic artist Richard Gabriel Chase at the local library. Richard Chase painted for over seventy years, mostly in San Diego County. As one might expect his style was diverse and subjects unlimited. His early precise historical painting ability actually launched Mr. Chase into commercial and organizational fame for his skill. Through this art California’s history was brought to life on books and publications such as San Diego Historical Society’s Journals in the 1970’s.
Places and people, nature or battlefields, flowers or animals; no subject was without Mr. Chase’s interest and efforts. His portraiture work ranged from children to prominent citizens; from migrant workers to the famous American aviators, a collection which hangs today in San Diego’s Air and Space Museum.
Richard Chase excelled in another profound area of painting - the mural. This exacting strenuous pursuit is not seen among many artists, yet Mr. Chase adorned the walls and ceilings of the region with his work in restaurants, hotels, offices and even branch buildings of banking chains. One example from the mural series was that which portrayed the battle of San Pasqual, displayed in the Escondido branch in California, now viewable at the main library of Escondido on Kalmia Street. This mural dramatically illustrated the second phase of the battle, which took place the morning of December 6, 1846 just east of the I-15 crossover of Lake Hodges. The Mexican War of 1846 had many battles but this rainy morning was among the bloodiest. Another mural depicts Rancho San Dieguito with Mexican rancheros and Indian workers during the 1830’s, as they irrigated and harvested beans, corn, peppers and other field crops on bottomland along the San Dieguito River. This area is just south of present day Rancho Santa Fe. Today the mural can actually be seen at The San Dieguito Heritage Museum on Quail Gardens Drive in Encinitas, California. Mr. Chase also decorated many hospitals and churches as well as the James S. Copley Library in La Jolla, California. Copley was a major patron and contractor of Mr. Chase’s work in the sixties and the seventies. The publishing magnate had him illustrating many books on California history. Mr. Chase rendered a painting of the first San Diego Union Tribune office building, a modest structure indeed for Mr. Copley’s soon to be huge publishing enterprise.
History and nature were typically depicted however people and celebrities were portrayed in magnificent detail and grand scope. The most notable project can still be seen in the lobby and interiors of San Diego’s Grand Hyatt Hotel .Contracted work for the Hyatt’s 1992 opening was grand indeed especially for an artist in his early 70’s. The Hyatt paid Mr. Chase almost a half a million dollars, eighty five cents a square inch for paintings in the Harbor Tower. In August 2003 the San Diego Grand Hyatt unveiled its massive expansion at that location in San Diego Harbor. The 33 story Seaport Tower and 1625 rooms greet guests with Chase’s huge magnificent paintings in the lobby. Mr. Chase was now working again- but in his 80’s.
Mr. Chase did a rare exhibition of his paintings in 1985 at the United States International University, now Alliant University in Scripps Ranch, San Diego. In 1971 James S. Copely, who had bought the resort La Casa del Zorro in 1960 in Borrego Springs, California called on Richard for his refurbishment project. Originally an adobe house in 1937, it was turned into a resort. First known as the Desert Lodge it became a desert retreat for many of California’s and Europe’s prominent businessmen and entrepreneurial class. The area had been visited some centuries earlier by the Spanish missionaries. Guests who enjoyed the art of Marjorie Reed and the native American murals of John Duarte could also see and chuckle at the comic new paintings in the bar created by Mr. Chase; another delightful “genre” of his art. Today it is the Borrego Ranch Resort and Spa and one can still enjoy the original paintings.
This 20th century painter appears to have first gained his public notoriety depicting 19th century California scenes, which included the “Rancho” culture and geography of the 1830’s. His explorer and adventurer depictions and views of buildings and people gives
us our clear visualizations of history.
Born February 11, 1919 in Massachusetts, Richard “Chasey” Chase graduated from the Worcester High School of Commerce in 1937. He went on to study at the Massachusetts School of Art in Boston (now known as the Massachusetts College of Art). Richard’s “thesis mural” was prominently displayed at the Department of Education Building at the old location on Marlboro Street, Boston.
Upon graduation in 1941 Richard Gabriel Chase, as did most of those young budding American artists of “the greatest generation”, joined the United States Army. Many would never live to paint.
An earliest 1937 painting by Mr. Chase, typifies a younger man’s whims. A rendering of an auto salvage yard with superb accuracy gives us an early glimpse of American culture and perhaps a preview of the style of the abstract-expressionist movement of 1938 to 1942 in American art popularized by Clyfford Still, a contemporary. Mr. Chase is as much at home in the world of the impressionist and abstract painter as he is in that of the Renaissance masters.
Mr. Chase relocated to California after WWII. His San Diego start was as an advertising artist, art director and manager. Rising in his career at the Walker Scott department store chain in San Diego, it is told that the intuitive George Scott “let him go” in 1955 with a years salary to enable him to pursue his great destiny in art. Scott had to replace Richard with three men.
His reputation grew steadily and he became highly demanded by the rich and famous for portraiture. A notable list of portrait commissions included: Ruben H. Fleet, Igor Sikorsky and General Billy Mitchell. He painted for organizations, businesses and families. In 1963 John Alessio’s Hotel Del Coronado sent Mr. Chase to the Louvre in Paris, to paint a copy of the Mona Lisa for display at the notable Mr. A’s restaurant, downtown San Diego .The project was featured in San Diego Magazine’s Mona and Me. .Mr. Chase’s fame grew. He was also now working as a staff artist for Walter Broderick and Associates Interiors in La Mesa, California; all the while getting more and more calls for murals and portraits. This contract work, however, kept much of his art from public view. His murals would appear in the beautiful homes section again in San Diego’s June 1979 issue illuminating his popularity through the 70s.
Richard married Sara Martin, an interior decorator in the early 50’s. They lived and worked well together, offering fine art, decorating and mural work from their business in La Mesa, California and also at Walter Broderick Interiors. They were married over 22 years, until Sara’s untimely death from leukemia, in 1973
Richard Gabriel Chase was indeed a deeply spiritual man and a diligent student of the Bible and Christianity. He read volumes of scriptures and spiritual writings from many sources particularly turn of the century leaders of Christianity.
Richard Gabriel Chase later married Ruth C. Wootton of Escondido on August 2, 1975 at the Point Loma Presbyterian Church. They lived and worked in Hidden Meadows for thirty years. Many of his paintings depicted his views east to Valley Center from his home.
Ruth helped to restore his well being and breathed new life into his career. Richard’ health began failing in the new millennium. By 2006 he suffered from cervical compression and was experiencing pain and also losing sensation in his hands and legs. His balance was poor and he was falling often. A surgery proved unsuccessful. But Richard still had a client, and a new friend. He painted his last oil painting in 2006 for “Dr. Jim’’ at the age of 87. Only family could keep him from starting another project.
Richard Gabriel Chase died December 11, 2007 at the age of 88. Ruth died one month later.
On September 5 the art of Richard Gabriel Chase will be exhibited at The Valley Center Library on Cole Grade Road, with a reception at noon... Hundreds of sketches, drawings, work boards and paintings will be available. The exhibition is only the second since 1985. The paintings which are from the Chase estate will remain on display through September.
Additional information is available through the Valley Center Library or contact Michael Richman at magicmike49@dslextreme.com or 760-749-2325.
Places and people, nature or battlefields, flowers or animals; no subject was without Mr. Chase’s interest and efforts. His portraiture work ranged from children to prominent citizens; from migrant workers to the famous American aviators, a collection which hangs today in San Diego’s Air and Space Museum.
Richard Chase excelled in another profound area of painting - the mural. This exacting strenuous pursuit is not seen among many artists, yet Mr. Chase adorned the walls and ceilings of the region with his work in restaurants, hotels, offices and even branch buildings of banking chains. One example from the mural series was that which portrayed the battle of San Pasqual, displayed in the Escondido branch in California, now viewable at the main library of Escondido on Kalmia Street. This mural dramatically illustrated the second phase of the battle, which took place the morning of December 6, 1846 just east of the I-15 crossover of Lake Hodges. The Mexican War of 1846 had many battles but this rainy morning was among the bloodiest. Another mural depicts Rancho San Dieguito with Mexican rancheros and Indian workers during the 1830’s, as they irrigated and harvested beans, corn, peppers and other field crops on bottomland along the San Dieguito River. This area is just south of present day Rancho Santa Fe. Today the mural can actually be seen at The San Dieguito Heritage Museum on Quail Gardens Drive in Encinitas, California. Mr. Chase also decorated many hospitals and churches as well as the James S. Copley Library in La Jolla, California. Copley was a major patron and contractor of Mr. Chase’s work in the sixties and the seventies. The publishing magnate had him illustrating many books on California history. Mr. Chase rendered a painting of the first San Diego Union Tribune office building, a modest structure indeed for Mr. Copley’s soon to be huge publishing enterprise.
History and nature were typically depicted however people and celebrities were portrayed in magnificent detail and grand scope. The most notable project can still be seen in the lobby and interiors of San Diego’s Grand Hyatt Hotel .Contracted work for the Hyatt’s 1992 opening was grand indeed especially for an artist in his early 70’s. The Hyatt paid Mr. Chase almost a half a million dollars, eighty five cents a square inch for paintings in the Harbor Tower. In August 2003 the San Diego Grand Hyatt unveiled its massive expansion at that location in San Diego Harbor. The 33 story Seaport Tower and 1625 rooms greet guests with Chase’s huge magnificent paintings in the lobby. Mr. Chase was now working again- but in his 80’s.
Mr. Chase did a rare exhibition of his paintings in 1985 at the United States International University, now Alliant University in Scripps Ranch, San Diego. In 1971 James S. Copely, who had bought the resort La Casa del Zorro in 1960 in Borrego Springs, California called on Richard for his refurbishment project. Originally an adobe house in 1937, it was turned into a resort. First known as the Desert Lodge it became a desert retreat for many of California’s and Europe’s prominent businessmen and entrepreneurial class. The area had been visited some centuries earlier by the Spanish missionaries. Guests who enjoyed the art of Marjorie Reed and the native American murals of John Duarte could also see and chuckle at the comic new paintings in the bar created by Mr. Chase; another delightful “genre” of his art. Today it is the Borrego Ranch Resort and Spa and one can still enjoy the original paintings.
This 20th century painter appears to have first gained his public notoriety depicting 19th century California scenes, which included the “Rancho” culture and geography of the 1830’s. His explorer and adventurer depictions and views of buildings and people gives
us our clear visualizations of history.
Born February 11, 1919 in Massachusetts, Richard “Chasey” Chase graduated from the Worcester High School of Commerce in 1937. He went on to study at the Massachusetts School of Art in Boston (now known as the Massachusetts College of Art). Richard’s “thesis mural” was prominently displayed at the Department of Education Building at the old location on Marlboro Street, Boston.
Upon graduation in 1941 Richard Gabriel Chase, as did most of those young budding American artists of “the greatest generation”, joined the United States Army. Many would never live to paint.
An earliest 1937 painting by Mr. Chase, typifies a younger man’s whims. A rendering of an auto salvage yard with superb accuracy gives us an early glimpse of American culture and perhaps a preview of the style of the abstract-expressionist movement of 1938 to 1942 in American art popularized by Clyfford Still, a contemporary. Mr. Chase is as much at home in the world of the impressionist and abstract painter as he is in that of the Renaissance masters.
Mr. Chase relocated to California after WWII. His San Diego start was as an advertising artist, art director and manager. Rising in his career at the Walker Scott department store chain in San Diego, it is told that the intuitive George Scott “let him go” in 1955 with a years salary to enable him to pursue his great destiny in art. Scott had to replace Richard with three men.
His reputation grew steadily and he became highly demanded by the rich and famous for portraiture. A notable list of portrait commissions included: Ruben H. Fleet, Igor Sikorsky and General Billy Mitchell. He painted for organizations, businesses and families. In 1963 John Alessio’s Hotel Del Coronado sent Mr. Chase to the Louvre in Paris, to paint a copy of the Mona Lisa for display at the notable Mr. A’s restaurant, downtown San Diego .The project was featured in San Diego Magazine’s Mona and Me. .Mr. Chase’s fame grew. He was also now working as a staff artist for Walter Broderick and Associates Interiors in La Mesa, California; all the while getting more and more calls for murals and portraits. This contract work, however, kept much of his art from public view. His murals would appear in the beautiful homes section again in San Diego’s June 1979 issue illuminating his popularity through the 70s.
Richard married Sara Martin, an interior decorator in the early 50’s. They lived and worked well together, offering fine art, decorating and mural work from their business in La Mesa, California and also at Walter Broderick Interiors. They were married over 22 years, until Sara’s untimely death from leukemia, in 1973
Richard Gabriel Chase was indeed a deeply spiritual man and a diligent student of the Bible and Christianity. He read volumes of scriptures and spiritual writings from many sources particularly turn of the century leaders of Christianity.
Richard Gabriel Chase later married Ruth C. Wootton of Escondido on August 2, 1975 at the Point Loma Presbyterian Church. They lived and worked in Hidden Meadows for thirty years. Many of his paintings depicted his views east to Valley Center from his home.
Ruth helped to restore his well being and breathed new life into his career. Richard’ health began failing in the new millennium. By 2006 he suffered from cervical compression and was experiencing pain and also losing sensation in his hands and legs. His balance was poor and he was falling often. A surgery proved unsuccessful. But Richard still had a client, and a new friend. He painted his last oil painting in 2006 for “Dr. Jim’’ at the age of 87. Only family could keep him from starting another project.
Richard Gabriel Chase died December 11, 2007 at the age of 88. Ruth died one month later.
On September 5 the art of Richard Gabriel Chase will be exhibited at The Valley Center Library on Cole Grade Road, with a reception at noon... Hundreds of sketches, drawings, work boards and paintings will be available. The exhibition is only the second since 1985. The paintings which are from the Chase estate will remain on display through September.
Additional information is available through the Valley Center Library or contact Michael Richman at magicmike49@dslextreme.com or 760-749-2325.
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