'Entertainment' Category
Get Your Tickets to the Twilight Concert on the Green at the Bernardo Winery-Tickets from $25
September 2nd, 2009 Categories: 4S Ranch, Community Events, Del Sur, Dining, Entertainment, Escondido, Poway, Rancho Bernardo, Santa Fe Valley
Join Windermere Exclusive Properties at the Bernardo Winery on September 12th as we sponsor this year’s Twilight Concert on the Green. Proceeds will benefit the Rancho Bernardo Historical Society and the Poway High School Music Boosters.
A historical event, the Twilight Concerts are reminiscent of the Concerts held on the greens decades ago. Celebrities like Bob Hope and many more entertained crowds of Rancho Bernardians. In 2006, the Rancho Bernardo Historical Society decided to resurrect the bygone Concerts at the Bernardo Winery in beautiful Uncle Vito’s Park. With over 600 attendees the Concert was a success. Now in its third year, September’s Concert will be a guaranteed success.
Portion of proceeds will benefit the Rancho Bernardo Historical Society and the Poway High School Music Boosters
Ticket Information:
General Admission Tickets – $25 per person
Grass or Chair Seating – First come, first serve on seating location.
Guests, if planning on sitting on the lawn, are encouraged to bring lawn chairs, blankets. No umbrellas or shade implements are allowed. Coolers are NOT allowed. No alcohol, food or beverages may be brought onto the property. Bottled water OK.
The “Amici” Package $1500, 1 available
- Seating for 10 in the largest private gazebo
- Plated 4 course meal with an appetizer, soup or salad, entrée and dessert
- Bottomless wine, of your choice from the Bernardo Winery Wine List
- VIP Parking
Private Gazebo Packages for 8 $500.00, 2 available
- Includes seating for 8 in private gazebo
- Cheese & crackers for 8
- Boxed lunches for 8
- One bottle of White wine
- One bottle of Red Wine
- 8 Complimentary BW logo glasses
VIP Tables for 8 $400.00, 20 available
- Includes seating for 8 at round table on lawn with linen
- Cheese & cracker tray
- Boxed lunches for 8
- One bottle of White wine
- One bottle of Red Wine
Private Golf Cart Drive-In $75, 4 available.
- Admits 2 guests and their golf cart for VIP Drive-In.
Corporate or Private Party Bundles – $175 (Bundle discount of $25.00)
- Bundle includes package of 8 tickets for a reduced price of $175
- Chair or grass seating only
Tickets can be purchased at Bernardo Winery as well as the Rancho Bernardo Windermere Exclusive Properties Office Located at 16890 Bernardo Center Drive. San Diego, CA 92128
Contact Sean Zanganeh @ (858) 229-6063 for more information on how you can get attend this special evening!
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AMGEN Tour of California is Coming to San Diego County
February 21st, 2009 Categories: Brookside Escondido, Del Sur, Entertainment, Escondido, Rancho Bernardo, Valley Center
We’re excited about the AMGEN Tour of California coming to Escondido. The City of Escondido is projecting there will be over 25,000+ people in attendance. For those of you who do not know what the AMGEN Tour of California is, please read the article below.
About the Tour
The largest cycling event in America, the 2009 Amgen Tour of California is a Tour de France-style cycling road race presented by AEG that challenges the world’s top professional cycling teams to compete along a demanding, recently expanded, 800-mile course from Sacramento to Escondido from February 14-22, 2009.
The final leg of the race will run from Rancho Bernardo to Escondido on Sunday, February 22, 2009. The race finish line will be located in Downtown Escondido at the intersection of Grand Avenue and Broadway.
AMGEN Lifestyle Festival
The Lifestyle Festival will be located near the finish line in Municipal Parking Lot #1 (on Valley Parkway between Broadway and Escondido Boulevard) on Sunday, February 22, from Noon-6:00 p.m., in Downtown Escondido.
There is no better place to experience the spectacle of race day than at the Lifestyle Festival. The festival will feature a health & fitness expo, cancer awareness education, cycling gear, family activities, bike safety, food, entertainment and more! There will be plenty to see and do for everyone in your family!
Route Map
2009 Tour of California – Rancho Bernardo to Escondido – Stage 8
Find more Bike Rides in San Diego, California
Street Closures for the City of Escondido
| Street Closures Saturday, February 21-Monday, February 23, 2009 |
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| Grand Avenue from Maple to Kalmia; Maple & Kalmia between Valley Parkway & 2nd Avenue will be closed from 6 a.m. Saturday, February 21, to 5 a.m. Monday, February 23. |
| Broadway between 2nd Avenue & Valley Parkway will be closed from 8 p.m. Saturday, February 21, to 12 a.m. Monday, February 23. |
| Grand Avenue between Escondido Boulevard & Juniper; Grand Avenue cross streets between Valley Parkway to 2nd Avenue will be closed from 8 a.m. Sunday, February 22, to 5 a.m. Monday, February 23. |
| Rolling Street Closures Sunday, February 22, 2009 | |
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| Bear Valley Parkway between San Pasqual Valley Road & East Valley Parkway |
Noon-1:15 p.m. |
| East Valley Parkway between Bear Valley Parkway & Lake Wohlford Road |
12:15 p.m.-1:15 p.m. |
| North Lake Wohlford Road between Valley Center Road & El Norte Parkway |
2:30 p.m.-4:30 p.m. |
| El Norte Parkway between Washington Avenue & Escondido Boulevard |
3:00 p.m.-4:45 p.m. |
| Escondido Boulevard from El Norte to Grand Avenue | 2:30 p.m.-4:30 p.m. |
Street Closures: (760) 839-4691
Amgen Tour: www.amgentourofcalifornia.com
Detailed Event Info: www.sandiegonorth.com/amgen
Best Viewing: www.sandiegonorth.com/amgen/best_viewing.html
Shuttle Service: www.sandiegonorth.com/amgen/parking.html
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Thousands Attend Escondido Street Faire
May 19th, 2008 Categories: Entertainment, Escondido
Twice a year, the street in front of our office is filled with tens of thousands of people. Every May and October, the City of Escondido holds it’s Street Faire, the second largest in all of California!
Our office at Windermere Exclusive Properties is located at the center of it all in the heart of downtown, and our agents participate along with our sister company CW Mortgage. Braving near 100 degree temperatures, over 600 vendors, lots of live entertainment and all types of food adorn the downtown streets.
Even though the faire is supposed to start promptly at 9am, folks are arriving looking for the latest in folding tailgating chairs, herbal remedy’s, getting the spine stretched by a bevy of chiropractors and searching for Fido’s latest dog collar.
The faire looked a little less crowed this year, and I
think there were a few less vendors than in years past. I take this as a sign of the economy today…
Many of the people who display their wares of offer services may have been driven out of business or have had to confine their street faire schedule to areas closer to home. The city says they expected 60,000 people, but my guess is that we may were two thirds of that.
It’s still great fun, and we meet lots of people who never knew our office was right on one of the busiest corners of downtown Escondido.
We offer cool water, candy and snacks, and of course have the requisite contests and giveaways, all in an attempt to get noticed and meet new folks who may need to buy or sell a piece of real estate this year. We
We break up the eight our day in shifts of 3 hours and hand out hundreds of flyers. This year our flyer was focused on bank owned properties, or REO’s (Real Estate Owned) as they’re known to us. We’ve got a ton of them in Escondido…one of the hardest hit areas of North County; but there are some incredible deals here right now!
Lately, I’ve seen listings of 3 bedroom two bath homes on decent lots for under $200,000! This has been unheard of for quite some time and investors are cashing in on these deals by the dozen right now. I estimate that about 70% of our escrows open today are bank owned or short sale properties.
All in all, another great day downtown followed by relaxation. I even bought a couple of new shirts from a one of a kind surf shop. Stay tuned, as we’ll wrap up fall with another one in October!
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Superbowl Sunday In San Diego
February 3rd, 2008 Categories: Entertainment
It’s here again, that one day each year that we all get together to watch the big game. We fire up the barbecue, buy tons of chips, salsa, guacamole (all very San Diego) and beer. Yes, it’s Superbowl time again, only this year as I look out into my backyard, which I designed specifically for this type of day….It’s raining cats and dogs!
To the right you’ll see the aforementioned “barbecue” that was created in anticiapation of having the annual “event” at my home in front of my new 55″ inch big screen TV.
San Diego in recent years has had very little rain..In fact as you probably know from last year’s San Diego Wildfires news, the lack of rain contributed greatly to the conditions that sparked and eventually caused the fires to get so overwhelmingly out of hand. This year it has been a slightly different story, with our area getting more than our usual rainfall. While most of us here welcome these days as they are so sparse, I just don’t want them to come on my Superbowl Sunday barbecue event!
I look out my front door to see if the neighborhood is brimming with cars and people coming to our friends homes for their own celebrations of the end of the football season (and hopefully the New England Patriot’s perfect season…sorry to my New Englander friends reading this article) and what do I see?
There is no one here!
To the left is my street out in front of my house, and as you can see there are no friends here yet. They say that San Diegan’s don’t know how to drive when the rain comes. Basically, we see so little of it, that when it does come down we all just freak out and start driving totally erratically and getting into lots of accidents. This must be the reason why no one is here yet. I’ve been watching the “pre-game” show on TV since 7am this morning, but now I’m checking our local affiliates for information on what surely must be huge traffic snarl-ups on our local highways. The stations have begun counting down…”only 5 hours, 19 minutes and 22 seconds till kick off of the big game”, but no traffic reports…hummm.
I think that most of my friends and I are only watching because we have some large bones to pick. The New England Patriots literally stole a win from us in last years playoff game. We got a rematch with them in week two of this season, but we were no match for them. After getting our “you know what” together as we progressed through the season, winning our last 10 straight to get the rematch in the AFC Championship Game two weeks ago, we again fell short as injuries to our top three players contributed to us losing again (wait till NEXT YEAR!).
Of course you would have to have lived in a cave not to know that the Pats have had the “Perfect Season”, going 18-0 leading into todays Superbowl. We live today to see them lose (yes, we DO NOT like the Patriots)!
Their opponent today is also another east coast team, the New York Giants. Every winter in San Diego is filled with happy New Yorkers visiting paradise to bask in our sunny weather and tell us everything that’s wonderful about New York. Only problem is that the Giants have a quarterback, Eli Manning, who wanted nothing to do with San Diego when he was drafted in 2004 by yes, the San Diego Chargers.
We subsequently traded with the G-men to get Phillip Rivers and got rid of the plague called Manning, and have never looked back. Now we’re also forced to endure the possibility of a perfect New England season (which Bostonians will never let us forget when they come here to partake in the “perfect weather) or that QB that rejected us.
I vote for the latter…go Eli!
I’m thinking now that since I cannot “fire up the grill” and also since there is no one here, maybe I should go to the local Dave & Buster’s where I might run into my local radio hosts Billy Ray Smith (a former Charger) and Scott Caplan from XX Sports Radio hanging out (see picture below right), still mourning the Chargers loss and arguing who should win this game. 
I also thought about going to Seau’s the restaurant, another popular sports hangout until I remember that Junior un-retired and went to work for the hated Pat’s. It’s still a great place to go see the game and full of Seau’s memorabilia from when he was a beloved Charger. We also have to cut Junior slack because he is a born and bred San Diegan, having grown up in Oceanside and playing high school football here before he went on to USC and later the San Diego Chargers.
After weighing my different options about what we could do today to watch the game, I decided not to take the trip to the local sports bars (all those crazy fans in San Diego who don’t know how to drive on rain slicked highways). Instead, the family and I will enjoy a day indoors, which in itself makes it a unique day here in America’s Finest City.
We’ll go to Von’s and buy a couple sawdust logs and “fire up” the fireplace which we use about 3 times a year, flip the game on and eat our chips, salsa, guacamole (all very San Diego) and, oh yeah, the beer. Then and only then will we enjoy two east coast teams battle it out on Superbowl Sunday.
Our singular satisfaction, no matter who wins…is that we live in San Diego all year round!
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