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Ramona Kmart employees enter the store with sheriff's deputies to search for a reported bomb in the store.
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Sheriff's Ramona Substation officers evacuated the Kmart store at 1855 Main St. in Ramona this afternoon after store officials received a call that there was a bomb in the store. A sheriff's deputy said the threat is being taken seriously and the sheriff's Bomb and Arson Unit has been called. Ramona Fire Department has stationed engines at both ends of the parking lot to block entry, and officials and Kmart employees are searching the store, reports Sentinel Photographer Timothy Jay Hall.
A 35-year-old Ramona
woman was killed Sunday
afternoon when a pickup
driven by a 17-year-old
Ramona boy crossed the
center lines and hit the
truck she was driving.
The head-on collision
occurred about 2:30 p.m.
on state Highway 67
about one-half mile north
of Mina De Oro Road in
Poway, reported Sgt.
Lloyd Muenzer with the
sheriff’s Poway
Station.
Melissa
Jean “Missy” Day was
driving a white 1994 Ford
Ranger pickup
truck
southbound on Highway 67
when her vehicle was hit.
She was killed
on
impact. Despite efforts
to resuscitate her, death
was pronounced at
the
scene, the San Diego
County Medical Examiner’s
Office reported.
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One Postal Service vehicle, followed by a train of others, turns into the Hay driveway to deliver gifts to Taylor Hay and her parents on Christmas Eve.
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Employees at Ramona
Post Office provided a
special kind of delivery
for Christmas this year
to a Ramona family.
The Hay
family — mom Debbie, dad
Mark and daughter Taylor
— came out of
the house
on Christmas Eve morning
to the sound of a police
siren. As
a parade
of mail trucks came up
the drive with a police
escort,
10-year-old
Taylor waited in
wonder.
Last month marked the
term’s end for two Ramona
Unified School District
Board members. Bob
Hailey, who served for 12
years, and Dr.
Christopher
Smith, who
served for four, both
completed their service
to the
community via the
school board.
Hailey, a semi-retired
engineer, originally
joined the board to have
more control at the local
level. At the time, he
had students in the
school system.
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Debra Ray, Mountain Valley Academy English teacher, discusses an assignment days after the school is on the Bronze Medal list in a national newsmagazine survey for the second consecutive year.
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U.S. News and World Report’s recently released second annual survey of America’s Best High Schools shows Ramona Unified School District’s Mountain Valley Academy (MVA) did it again. For the second year, MVA earned bronze medal honors for the education students receive in the alternative school.
The owner of a Ramona
house where marijuana was
cultivated was
sentenced
last week to 63 months in
federal prison. A
caretaker at the
house
was sentenced to two
years in prison.
Thomas Vernon Swift, 48,
was allowed to remain
free on a $600,000
property bond until he
surrenders by Jan. 30 to
a federal prison to
start his sentence. It is
not uncommon for a
defendant to be allowed
to
celebrate Christmas
before starting a prison
term.
Swift has
forfeited the Ramona
house at 16201 Swartz
Canyon Road and
another
house to the federal
government. He and seven
others pleaded
guilty in
June to conspiracy to
manufacture marijuana
plants at various
locations including
Ramona, Fallbrook, Vista,
and Valley Center.
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Ramona students line up for review at Navy Junior Reserve Officers Training Corps competition at UCLA.
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The first semester has
very busy and productive
for the Ramona High
School Navy Junior
Reserve Officers Training
Corps (NJROTC).
Students in the school’s
NJROTC completed their
Area Manager Inspection
on Dec. 3. The unit is
inspected by the Navy
during the annual event
and the results are
forwarded to NJROTC
Headquarters at
Pensacola, Fl.

Every year the same thing takes place right around Jan. 1. New Year’s
resolutions are made and the gym is packed for about four weeks and
then suddenly the numbers begin to dwindle and as January turns to
February many of those “fitness resolutions” have been broken.
I know many of you have already decided that “getting in shape” is your
goal for 2009. But have you really taken the time to reflect on what
that means to you? Deciding to “get in shape” is a great idea, but
without specifics, then the goal is often blurry.