{"id":508308,"date":"2026-10-26T10:56:20","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T10:56:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/508308\/"},"modified":"2026-10-26T10:56:20","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T10:56:20","slug":"river-valley-fest-2026-celebrates-conservancys-40th-anniversary-san-diego-union-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/508308\/","title":{"rendered":"River Valley Fest 2026 celebrates Conservancy\u2019s 40th anniversary \u2013 San Diego Union-Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"

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River Valley Fest 2026 was held at La Valle Coastal Club in Rancho Santa Fe
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The San Dieguito River Valley Conservancy held a 40th anniversary celebration during River Valley Fest 2026 on Oct. 11 at Valle Coastal Club in Rancho Santa Fe.The gala included cocktails, a sit-down dinner, live and silent auctions, live music, and more.<\/p>\n

The San Dieguito River Valley Conservancy \u201cpreserves, protects, and shares the natural and cultural resources of the San Dieguito River Valley through collaborative efforts to acquire lands, complete trails, restore habitats, establish educational programs, create interpretive centers, encourage recreation, and mobilize public support,\u201d its website mission states. Visit www.sdrvc.org to learn more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Noriko and Mark Lawless, Ken Inman (Jon Clark) Candy and Roger Bowman (Jon Clark) Jill MacDonald (deputy mayor,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":508309,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[310,311,74,76,75],"class_list":["post-508308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-del-mar-times","tag-del-mar-times-news","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=508308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508308\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/508309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}