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SAN DIEGO FIRE RESCUE 5K

September 12, 2016 by Laura Lohr Leave a Comment

 

firemen5k_largeThis is a non-profit event, put on by the San Diego Fire Rescue Foundation. I was given complimentary entry in the race, in exchange for sharing the event with my readers. It’s my opinion that this is a great cause and I support the foundation! 100% of profits and proceeds for this event go into equipment, training, and community education.”

On October 8th, my family and I will be participating in the San Diego Fire Rescue 5k and Kids’ Run. I’d love to see you out there for this amazing cause and I’d like to share a discount code with you! For being a reader of LauraLohr.com, you can receive $5 off your entry by using the code: SDFIRE5K.

The San Diego Fire Rescue 5k and Kids’ Run kicks off fire prevention week. Participants will run with San Diego firefighters and everyone will receive a finisher’s medal. There will be a safety expo with plenty of fun things to do and see with the kiddos, including firefighter demonstrations, the SDG&E Fire Safety House, and meet Sparky the Fire Dog. This event will raise money for equipment, training, and community outreach and education. For the adults, all participants will have access to the beer gardens. The event will also feature San Diego Project Heart Beat, CERT San Diego, San Diego Lifeguards, SDG&E Fire Safety House, in addition to others.

The race will take place along the San Diego Embarcadero Marina Park South and around Seaport Village. It’s an absolutely beautiful place to run and is sure to be a wonderful day for the whole family!

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Entrants may sign up online at http://sdfirerescue5k.org/ and don’t forget to use the code: SDFIRE5K to get $5 off your entry!

$35 – 5K (All ages) Now through June 30

$40 – July 1 through September 11

$45 – September 12 through October 1

$50 – October 2 through October 7

$25 – 1 Mile (Kids ages 6 – 12)

$10 – Sparky Sprint (Kids ages 3 – 5)

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Filed Under: Community, Running/Marathon

Taste of Temecula Valley Giveaway 5 Pairs of Tickets!

April 15, 2016 by Laura Lohr 10 Comments

TASTE OF TEMECULA VALLEY FUN FOR ALL AGES: The Bungee Tramp is an example of one of many attractions provided by TOTV sponsor Jolly Jumps to keep kids busy at the 6th annual Taste of Temecula Valley. Saturday is known as the family-friendly tasting day, with live entertainment, activities, and fun for all ages. Photo credit: The Photography Specialist, John Tobin
TASTE OF TEMECULA VALLEY FUN FOR ALL AGES: The Bungee Tramp is an example of one of many attractions provided by TOTV sponsor Jolly Jumps to keep kids busy at the 6th annual Taste of Temecula Valley. Saturday is known as the family-friendly tasting day, with live entertainment, activities, and fun for all ages. Photo credit: The Photography Specialist, John Tobin

I’ve got a really great opportunity to share with you! The 6th annual Taste of Temecula Valley event is coming to Old Town Temecula this month and I have FIVE pairs of tickets to give away to FIVE lucky winners! This year is the 6th annual Taste of Temecula Valley and you really won’t want to miss the food, the entertainment, and the fun! There’s plenty of food and libations for Taste of Temecula Valley patrons. We are, after all, well-situated in wine country and Temecula boasts many microbreweries and top-notch restaurants. You can take part in two days of music, entertainment, nosh, and thirst quenching, in this fun, local community event. The best part? This event supports the local schools in Temecula Valley, as it is put on by the ***Temecula Education Foundation, and all proceeds go back to our schools.

We have been in Temecula for about 9 months now and I have to brag about this little city! It took no time for me to get involved in the Temecula Valley community. It’s a really fantastic place to live! It’s family-oriented, there are so many sports the kiddos can get involved in, it is a safe place to live, it’s more affordable than many places in California, and we have enjoyed every moment! There is a small town feel here and there’s always fun and exciting things to do. Old Town Temecula has grown over the years and there are fantastic places to eat and great shopping, and it continues to improve every day, it seems. We’re going to attend the Taste of Temecula Valley on Saturday, with the kiddo and we cannot wait!

A Little Bit About the Event

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Pechanga Chefs: The 6th annual Taste of Temecula Valley is April 29-30. Among the festivities is a Friday-only VIP Concert & Dinner catered by chefs from Pechanga Resort & Casino, who are back for their second year. Sponsored by the nonprofit Temecula Education Foundation, the event raises funds for enrichment activities in local schools. Photo credit: The Photography Specialist, John Tobin

On Friday, April 29, from 6:00-10:00 p.m., a special VIP-only event, featuring a concert and dinner is available for a cost of $60 per person. The evening will include access to all 70+ booths, spotlighting Temecula’s best restaurants, wineries, and microbreweries. Additionally, entertainment will be provided by Golden Crown Productions. The evening line-up includes acoustic singer/songwriter Katelyn Marie and producer and Grammy Award- nominee Billy Alexander, as well as a Journey tribute band from Las Vegas, Another Journey. It’s sure to be a lively and entertaining evening!

TOTV 2015: The area’s best restaurants, wineries, breweries and specialty vendors will gather for the 6th annual Taste of Temecula Valley, April 29-30, in Old Town Temecula. The event is a fundraiser for the Temecula Education Foundation, a local nonprofit that raises funds to support student enrichment in the Temecula school district. Photo credit: The Photography Specialist, John Tobin
TOTV 2015: The area’s best restaurants, wineries, breweries and specialty vendors will gather for the 6th annual Taste of Temecula Valley, April 29-30, in Old Town Temecula. The event is a fundraiser for the Temecula Education Foundation, a local nonprofit that raises funds to support student enrichment in the Temecula school district. Photo credit: The Photography Specialist, John Tobin

From 11 a.m.-7 p.m. on Saturday, the fun continues for the entire family! It’s $10 admission for adults and children under 12 are FREE! Tickets for a taste and for additional activities will be sold at the gate for $2 a piece. It’s a great opportunity try something new and support the community! There will be fun activities available for kids of all ages—it’s fun for the whole family!

Some of this year’s booths will be hosted by Wiens Winery, Karl Strauss Brewery, Nothing Bundt Cakes, Blue Water Grill, Mt. Palomar Winery, PF Changs, Pechanga Casino and Resort, Devilicious, Ballast Point, Bushfire Grill, among many, many others!

Vendors interested in being involved in this year’s event can register online at http://tasteoftemeculavalley.com/. Vendors can contact Katan at markk8ten@aol.com, or 951-551-5352.

Community volunteers, including high school students, are needed.  Volunteers must register at http://tasteoftemeculavalley.com/.  Mandatory training sessions will be held Thursday, April 21, 6:30 -7:30 PM, or Saturday, April 23, 10 AM – 11 AM. One training session per volunteer is required.

Taste of Temecula Valley tickets will be available at www.temeculaeducationfoundation.org  or in person, at the gate.

***About Temecula Education Foundation (TEF):  An all-volunteer, 501(c) 3 nonprofit corporation, the Temecula Education Foundation, formerly the Temecula Valley Foundation for Excellence in Education, seeks to assist TVUSD schools by improving and enhancing educational opportunities for students in Grades K-12. The overall goal of the foundation is to support curriculum-enhancement and enrichment programs in the visual and performing arts and sciences.  TEF sponsors summer acceleration and enrichment programs and annual grants for educators. Since 2011, the Foundation has awarded over $100,000 in grants to TVUSD schools to support curriculum enrichment. Website: www.temeculaeducationfoundation.org.

Taste of Temecula Valley Give Away

Filed Under: Community, Temecula Tagged With: Community, Entertainment, family, local, Taste of Temecula Valley, Temecula

Living La Vida Loaf-A #Tillamook #LoafLove

March 10, 2013 by Laura Lohr Leave a Comment

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In November, we were invited to join the Loaf Love Tour at the World Famous San Diego Zoo, hosted by Food Network’s own Chef Keegan of D Bar, right here in our neighborhood.  Tillamook Cheese, The Zoo, a great chef feeding us?  Yes, please!  We had an incredible experience, while being treating like VIP’s for the day.  Loaf Love? Yea, we got it!

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We were part of the private party at the beautiful San Diego Zoo, while Chef Keegan taught us how to make the best grill cheese sandwich.  After, we were given all the ingredients to make our own grill cheese, while competing with other San Diego bloggers.  We didn’t win, but I assure you that our grill cheese?  THE best EVA! 

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Filed Under: Allison Weekly, Community, Entertainment, Events, Family, Reviews Tagged With: Community, Events, family, Loaf Love Tour, Reviews, San Diego, San Diego Zoo, Tillamook, Tillamook Cheese

Grand Opening of Whole Foods Del Mar Wednesday February 27th

February 28, 2013 by Laura Lohr Leave a Comment

Whole Foods Store Front

Monday night, the brand new Whole Foods store in Del Mar opened its doors for a media event and private peek for at their latest supermarket. Mr. Bear, Allie and I were lucky enough to get an invitation to this exciting event. There was music, food and drink (wine and beer tasting, yes please!), in addition to a well-orchestrated tour of the store.

Whole Foods Allie

Allie enjoyed the sushi the best. She wasn’t excited about going to the grocery store at first. It didn’t take long for her to change her mind with all the wonderful foods they offered.

And as far as coal cooking goes, an electric smoker ain’t all that much difference from grill to grill. It basically all comes down to three factors: size, ventilation, and ease of operation.

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Filed Under: Community, Mutterings, Reviews, Whole Foods Tagged With: Community, Del Mar, Grand Opening, San Diego, Trifecta Tavern, Whole Foods, Whole Foods Market Del Mar

Sticks and Stones—Disarming Evil

December 15, 2012 by Laura Lohr 1 Comment

Watching the events unfold in the news over the past 24 hours has left me raw with emotion. How in the hell can something so evil be happening so often in our schools? Much like the vivid details of the morning of September 11th that is freshly imprinted my brain, in all likelihood, these images won’t soon leave my consciousness.

I have been volunteering in my second grade daughter’s classroom on Fridays since she was in kindergarten. I will never forget the first time the school practiced their monthly lockdown drill. In all honesty, it horrified me. In order to not process the reality, I pushed out into the far recesses of my mind, wiped my tears away and told myself it couldn’t happen here in our town again. Besides, these horrible things don’t happen in elementary schools. Right?

We live about two miles away from Santana High School, in the east San Diego suburbs, where in 2001, one of TWO high school shootings happened in the school district in a period of two weeks. Santana High School will be my daughter’s high school if we continue to live in the same area when she attends high school. Because I lived in San Diego when the shootings happened and later worked for the high school district where the tragedies took place, the memories of those tragic events prominently loom in the back of my mind each time I drive past the school.

This evil is something you never forget. We have chose not to share the tragic news of Newtown, Connecticut with our seven year old. I cannot bear to strip her of her innocence and belief in the power of good over evil. When it comes right down to it, these acts are not accidents—they are carefully orchestrated acts of pure evil. It is something I cannot make sense of and DAMN IT! No one should have to make sense of this madness. It should never, ever happen.

I tried to stay off of Facebook or watch the news for most of the day. For one, my heart could not take the sadness. I could not process the images or synthesize the fact that evil like this happens every damn day. I was angry. I was frustrated. I was downright pissed off that this is the world that our children are inheriting. It is overwhelming to conceive.

The fact that I have the luxury to tune out to what happened is not lost on me. The parents of Newtown, Connecticut cannot change the channel or shut down Facebook. What has been lost can never be recovered. It cannot ever be undone. I recognize all too well that this could have happened in Anytown, USA. It has happened in my town before and I don’t know what safeguards are in place to assure it won’t happen again. No, there is nothing to restore the sense of security. There is a gaping void where security once occupied. Vulnerability and fear occupy the spaces where security once lived. That´s why it´s important to always have the best security systems in your home, like this crash rated gate installation.

My heart is breaking for the 20 plus families that left their children at school—a place that should be SAFE, that did not get to tuck their little ones in bed last night. I had the luxury of hugging my family members tight, where others will never be able to wrap their arms around their loved ones again. It breaks my heart at the carnage that has been left behind after this senseless attack. I have been praying since I heard about what happened, because frankly, I don’t know what else I can do, but hold these people in my heart. I cannot imagine the ways in which this tragedy will change lives. I am angry. I am so filled with so many emotions, I cannot even begin to express. It is all so terribly wrong. It isn’t fair.

Various media and Internets almost immediately called for gun control and outright bans on guns, hardly before the news was reverberated—before most of the details have been revealed. I am burned out from the politics of November. The fighting. The Great Facebook Debates. It all sucks. It makes me absolutely disgusted.

Not even 24 hours after this event happens, people are spinning the political rhetoric. BAN ALL GUNS! Blah. How about a few moments of grieving, of embracing each other, of honoring the victims and opening our hearts?

Before we get our proverbial panties in a bunch about gun control, let us have a few moments to wrap our brains around the wicked horror that took place yesterday. What happens if we ban guns and strip ourselves of our Second Amendment rights? How are we going to stop bombs, like what happened in Oklahoma City or even more recently—our US Embassies? Remember the hijackers of 911? They didn’t have guns. They had ordinary box cutters. It’s not only guns we have to worry about. It is knives, box cutters, swords, sticks, stones, cars with Fatigued Driving Accidents | Kelly & Soto Law, clubs, batons, and 500 other benign instruments that can be turned into weapons. We need to think about stopping evil in its tracks and not focus on any one aspect.

I can’t help but think about the recent cleaver, hammer and knife attacks in schools that have harmed or killed young children in China over the past few years or the bombing in Norway that killed 77 people last July.

The Second Amendment was adopted in 1791 and yet this barrage of violence in school is a contemporary problem. Even 50 years ago, kids weren’t bringing guns to school, although the Right to Keep and Bear Arms made its prominence in the 18th century. Is it possible the the prevalence of guns has changed little, but clearly our society has changed enough that such evil exists today? Are we that naive to think that guns and not the people that senselessly attack children are the real problem?

I have to wonder—is banning guns really going to stop evil in its tracks? We see it everyday in our news. Wickedness is everywhere and is not settled on one implement to carry out its destructive and vile acts. It is terrifying. Why is this violence happening? What can we do to change it?

The real question we need to ask is, how are we going to disarm evil?

Filed Under: Community, Family, Friends, News Worthy, Senseless Violence and Tragedy Tagged With: Children, Community, Evil, family, Granite Hills High School, Gun Control, Politics, San Diego, Sandy Hook, Santana High School, Second Amendment, September 11th, Tragedy

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