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Monthly meeting of the Anza Community Building, Inc. set for May 21
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5th annual Ride on the Rez fundraiser to benefit AVC kids
Donna Barnhouse Special to the Anza Valley Outlook The Anza Community Building, Inc.’s 67th Board of Directors will hold its regular monthly meeting at 7 p.m. on Thursday, May 21 at the Anza Community Hall. see page A-4
Local Wireless Internet providers say claims made by AEC are untrue Jodi Thomas Area Manager
Though AEC speaks of fiber optics only on the ballot mailed to customers and in ads where it asks members to “Vote Yes” for AnzaConnect, the words fiber optic are the only ones used in reference to the planned Internet system which would affect both Anza Wireless and Wireless Internet Pro. see page A-6
Motor Vintage racer Chavez began with drag strip in 1953 Joe Naiman Writer When the Western Racing Association vintage midget cars conduct an exhibition race on the Perris Auto Speedway track May 23, one of the drivers will be Fred Chavez, whose oval track experience began with midget cars at Balboa Stadium in 1958 and whose racing career began at the Paradise Mesa drag strip in 1953.
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Riders come back from a long ride.
Jodi Thomas Area Manager Each year, one of the highlights of the spring Season is the Anza Valley Christian’s annual Ride on the Rez fundraiser on May 23. People far and wide bring their horses and go on a guided ride
Courtesy photo
through the Cahuilla Reservation. A lunch is served half way and upon return the group, as well as others, can look forward to a tri-tip and chicken barbecue with all the fixings. The event is staged at the Costo Ranch where C.L. Stone and his bride Diana live. Entire church groups support
the kids by preparing side dishes and desserts for the dinner guests. Musician Michael Thomas will serenade guests as they dine. There will then be a pie and cake auction and special raffle opportunities. In other iterations of the event, cowboy art created by Tom Parr has been offered; possibly he
will create art again this year. The barbecue dinner is offered separately for those who do not ride. Please RSVP by May 18. Ride on the Rez schedule: *The ride will leave from the
see RIDE, page A-6
Rust and Shine Car Show and Sock Hop Dinner/ Dance will kick off the summer season with fun Jodi Thomas Area Manager Anza’s first annual Rust and Shine Car Show Fundraiser and Sock Hop will kick off the summer season with old fashioned fun on May 30 at the Anza Community Hall. The car show will be held in the parking lot at the hall and after there will be an Old Fashion Sock Hop and barbecue dinner. The dance will host a DJ and be visited by live and local musical talent, too. Guests will be afforded the opportunity to be on their feet hopping throughout the night. “Bring the love of your life and your wife,” said classic car enthu-
siast Roland Vellanoweth, one of the event’s coordinators. The following nine car classes will be featured at the show according to the Anza Community website: 1 - Street/Hot Rod (Defined by National Street Rod Association): An automobile of 1948 or earlier which has undergone some type of modernization, to include any of the following; engine, transmission, interior refinements, and any other modifications the builder
see SHOW, page A-7
Rust or Shine auto classics will be at Anza’s first annual Rust and Shine Car Show Fundraiser and Sock Hop on May 30. Courtesy photo
Anza Valley Outlook
‘Know Your Neighbor’ Wireless Internet pioneers
Wireless Internet pioneers Mike Hansen of Wireless Internet Pro and Phil Canaday of Anza Wireless Jodi Thomas photo
Jodi Thomas Area Manager In this issue of ‘Know Your Neighbor’ Anza Valley Outlook will introduce readers to two men who pioneered wireless Internet to the area, Phil Canaday of Anza Wireless and Mike Hansen of Wireless Internet Pro. Phil Canaday of Anza Wireless It was nearly dusk and a light
snow was falling. Driven by the wind, it looked like the start of a Star Trek movie; traveling in warp speed aboard the Starship Enterprise. That is the imagery that met Phil Canaday the first time he entered the Anza Valley back in 1989. In that year he purchase his first home, met his wife Paola, got married and transferred his job from the Post Office in San Juan Capistrano to Anza. He said all those things were miracles in his life.
Phil, a single dad had been commuting from LA to his job in Mission Viejo, a two hour drive one way for some time. He said he wanted to live closer to work, something that wasn’t possible on his postal salary. One day after work, Phil took off on a trip of exploration up over the Ortega Highway to the valley below into Temecula when the populous was a fraction of what it is today, back when Highway 79 had no traffic lights. He ended up in Anza and fell in love with the area and the rest, as they say, was history. According to Phil, all of his friends were said that he was crazy, that his plan would not work. After all, the Post Office in Anza was small and had only two employees (The Post Office at the time was in the Variety Store next to the Anza Valley Hardware). Marie Turner was the Post Master at the time and she kept in touch with Phil and when one of her people moved to Oregon about a year after he moved to Anza, she called him. That phone call was a new beginning for Phil, his new wife Paola and his son Sean. Phil said he was one of those lads that lived outside of the box growing up in the city of Orange. He skipped ahead a grade in high school and spent his off time from school and summers out to sea on
his dad’s 136 foot boat – the sister ship to John Wayne’s ship “Wild Goose.” When he graduated from high school he bought his own boat and lived in it at the Newport Harbor while attending college. During this time he started several entrepreneurial marine related businesses – laying phone cable under water for the phone companies, raising sunken boats and boat salvage and repair. He took ships to dry-dock and worked on them there, rebuilding their engines and more. Phil even procured his pilot’s license. He would transport people from their sailboats in Mexico to the doctors and back. He was adventurous too, parachuting became a passion. He was also a medic and drove an ambulance for a time and became a licensed Ham Radio Operator which was a door that opened him up to the understanding of the systems he would later use in the wireless business. Life was rich and full here in the Anza Valley for the Canaday family. Phil enjoyed his postal job until one day a drunk driver hit him while driving in Temecula. The back injury that he suffered in the accident ended his postal career. For the next few years Phil had the privilege of raising his new
see NEIGHBOR, page A-7