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Hemet’s ‘Ramona’ outdoor play 2017 is cast
RIVERSIDE – Riverside County supervisors recently approved a five-year contract with a Salt Lake City-based firm to provide food handler certification training online. The move will make it easier for Anza residents to become certified by allowing them to test online instead of having to drive to Hemet. see page A-3
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Supervisors OK proposed online property auction RIVERSIDE – The Board of Supervisors Tuesday, Jan. 24, approved an online auction of more than 600 tax-defaulted properties throughout Riverside County, several of which are in Anza. see page A-4
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Anza Community Helpers aims to help nonprofits overcome challenges
Ramona and Don Felipe dance at the festival.
Tony Ault TAULT@REEDERMEDIA.COM
The 95th “Ramona” outdoor play coming this spring will be featuring the same last year’s leads and
many of the returning actors and actresses that brought the Helen Hunt Jackson novel to life in 2016. The “Ramona” outdoor play, considered California’s only official outdoor play, will be presented
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the weekends of April 22-23, April 29-30 and May 6-7 at the Ramona Bowl in Hemet. It didn’t take long for the “Ramona” Pplay casting team to choose actress Kayla Contreras for the role
of “Ramona” and Joseph Valdez as “Alessandro.” It will be Contreras’s second year playing the lovelorn Ramona and Valdez portraying
see PLAY, page A-6
Untapped talents shine larger than life at the premiere of ‘Tucker’s War’ continues Jodi Thomas ANZAEDITOR@REEDERMEDIA.COM
The following is part two in a two-part series about the premiere of “Tucker’s War,” held Jan. 5 at the Idyllwild International Festival of Cinema at the Rustic Theatre in Idyllwild. “Tucker’s War,” a made for television series featured only six professionals in its making, the rest were untapped talent with most coming from the Official California Play “Ramona” which is performed outdoors each spring. You can read part one in the series in the Jan. 27 issue of the Anza Valley Outlook or online at www.anzavalleyoutlook.com.
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Most nonprofits have been working to overcome the same obstacles for years. Anza Community helpers wants to help others overcome those challenges by creating a forum of confidentiality and comradery for addressing the challenges nonprofits can face.
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Of Horses and Men- Head Wrangler Sue Foutz Ferguson Another newcomer from the Ramona Pageant experience on the “Tucker’s War” set was Head Wrangler Sue Foutz Ferguson. She was not only in charge of taking care of all the horses, and the safety Head Wrangler Sue Foutz Ferguson watches over the cast and crew during filming of “Tucker’s War.”
see FILM, page A-3
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Special speaker at From the Heart’s January luncheon was Food For the Faithful’s Esther Barragan Jodi Thomas ANZAEDITOR@REEDERMEDIA.COM
The special speaker at the From the Heart monthly luncheon in January was Esther Barragan. She is the founder and president of Food for the Faithful a local food bank in Anza. Barragan shared how it all began; how her children loved playing softball, how to keep involved and to be able to arrange life as needed she who volunteered each year to coach her children team for High Country Recreation. Life brings along many challenges and sadly one year in June 2008, one of her team’s star players, 10-year-old Sal Briseno, nicknamed Babe Ruth, was diagnosed
see FOOD, page A-5
Food, fun and fellowship From the Heart style.
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