🌱 Spring Garden Tour​ + COVID-19 Boosters + Become A Pet Foster

Welcome back, Rancho Bernardo-4s Ranch! Here's everything you need to know to get this weekend started off right.

First, your weekend weather:

• Saturday: Mostly sunny and pleasant. High: 75, Low: 37.
• Sunday: Partly sunny and pleasant. High: 70, Low: 49.
• Monday: Cooler with sprinkles. High: 60, Low: 47.

Here are three of the top stories today in Rancho Bernardo-4s Ranch:

1. Walk through a “fairy tale secret garden” in Westwood. Stroll the winding paths to find colorful succulents, water-wise plants, and a gazebo in Bernardo Heights. Visit the vendor booths for handmade crafts, nature-themed jewelry, garden art, plants, and plant arrangements. The self-guided tour features six gardens in Poway and Rancho Bernardo and is set for April. Master Gardener experts will be on hand to answer gardening questions. Tickets are now on sale for the self-guided Spring Garden Tour hosted by the Bernardo Gardeners Club. To learn more: Click into parenthesis, then click the link. (The San Diego Union-Tribune)
2. San Diego County health officials have urged residents to get all the recommended COVID-19 doses, including the additional dose and booster shot. "COVID-19 vaccine additional doses and boosters offer protection against the omicron variant, prevent serious illness in most people and keep people out of the hospital," said Wilma J. Wooten, M.D., M.P.H., county public health officer. "San Diegans should get all the recommended vaccine doses as soon as they are eligible." To learn more: Click into parenthesis, then click the link. (Patch Press Release Desk)
3. Want to become a cat or dog foster parent? The Helen Woodward Animal Center offers an opportunity to join their team as a foster. By opening your home to animals for short periods of time, foster families enable the Center to take in more animals and save more lives. "Thanks to the tireless dedication of our incredible foster families, Helen Woodward Animal Center was able to place more than 3,300 orphaned animals into loving forever homes in the last year!" Open your home and heart to orphaned pets. To learn more: Click into parenthesis, then click the link. (Helen Woodard Animal Center)

This weekend in Rancho Bernardo-4s Ranch:

Saturday, Feb. 19

• Watercolor — Ed Brown Center. (9 a.m.)
• Collecting Children's Outerwear — Rancho Bernardo Community Presbyterian Church. (9 a.m.)
• Gardening Exchange — front patio of the Rancho Peñasquitos Branch Library. (10 a.m.)

Sunday, Feb. 20

• LOVE LOCAL LIVES Silent Auction (nonprofit) — The R.I.S.E. Concept. (3 p.m.)

Monday, Feb. 21

• Presidents' Day — Poway Unified School District is closed. (All Day)
• Legal Assistance (By Appointment) — Rancho Bernardo Senior Center. (Noon)
• Hand & Foot Cards — Ed Brown Center. (1 p.m.)
• Beginning Tap — Ed Brown Center. (3:15 p.m.)
• Yoga — Ed Brown Center. (6 p.m.)

From my notebook:

• Rancho Bernardo Branch Library: "Paws to Read Storytime! (Facebook)
• Rancho Bernardo Little League: "⚾️We are so excited for Opening Day! Mark your calendars for Saturday, March 5. This event is such a fun way to kick off our season! Let’s Go RBLL.⚾️" (Facebook)
• 4S Ranch Library: "Jason Reynolds is an American author who writes novels and poetry for young adult and middle-grade audiences. Reynolds won the Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe Award for New Talent for this first work of prose – 'When I was Great.' In the next four years, he wrote seven more novels, including 'Ghost.'" (Facebook)
• Rancho Bernardo Branch Library: "San Diego Public Library's signature lecture series with the University of San Diego Copley Library is back for Black History Month! We're proud to present notable author and thinker Heather McGhee for our Feb. 28 virtual event." (Facebook)
• North San Diego Business Chamber: "Thank you to NOVA Home Loans for its generous donation to Operation Connect. With this, we will be able to further help transitioning veterans in San Diego. Know a transitioning service member? Invite them to attend the free Operation Connect Workshop on April 1." (Facebook)
• North San Diego Business Chamber: "Celebrate North San Diego Business Chamber's 32nd Annual RB Alive! Expo with a full day of entertainment and enjoyment. Visitors can partake in tasty treats and browse over 200 booths." (Facebook)

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Events:

• San Diego Symphony Music Connects Cardiff — Free Concert in Encinitas/Cardiff. (Feb. 20)
• LOVE LOCAL LIVES Silent Auction (nonprofit). (Feb. 20)
• Taxes in Retirement Webinar. (Feb. 21)
• Taxes in Retirement Seminar. (Feb. 23)
• Learn How To Reduce Your Risk For Heart Disease During American Heart Month. (Feb. 28)
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You're officially in the loop for today. See you all next week for another update!

— Bettyann Pernice