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Pomegranates - a super food - grows at Bradford Ranch, A-6

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June 26 – July 2, 2015

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Trees suffer during prolonged drought

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Section Volume 15, Issue 26

ConnectAnza crews prepare for installation on Highway 371

Tree Care Industry Association Drier than normal conditions are stifling much of the nation this summer, especially California, and the U.S. Seasonal Drought Outlook predicts there is little chance for improvement. What can homeowners do to keep their trees healthy during hotter, drier summer months? see page A-3

Local Budget deal fails to address state’s most pressing issues SACRAMENTO – Assemblyman Brian Jones (R-Santee) today (June 19, 2015) responded to the vote on the budget deal between Governor Jerry Brown and the majority party, saying the plan failed to address the important priorities like speeding up the construction of new water storage. He applauded the Governor for insisting on fiscal discipline in the final budget deal, but warns that high spending will lead to fiscal uncertainly in the future. see page A-4

Home & Garden

Objects and ornamentation can embellish your garden Linda McDonald-Cash Special to the Valley News Hello neighbors and fellow gardeners. I hope you’re managing to survive this early heat wave, along with your garden, of course. Just remember, what goes for you, hydration and shade, works for the garden too.

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Anza Electric Cooperative General Manager Kevin Short inspects some of the equipment to be used to construct the fiber optics for the new ConnectAnza Internet service. Tony Ault photo

Tony Ault Writer ConnectAnza lift trucks and wire spoolers with their crews will be on the job putting up new fiberoptic internet lines along Highway 371 in Anza within weeks. “This will be our first test to connect high speed fiber optic internet to our customers,” said

Kevin Short, general manager of Anza Electric Cooperative sorting through new Internet components at his desk. The AEC linemen, and a few new hires, will bring a new reliable Internet service down Highway 371 to Fire Station 29, the Community Building, Anza Community Park and Radio Station KOYT. “It will be our first test run to see

how well it works,” Short said. The ultimate goal is for AEC to service more than 5,000 customers who now have electric meters with the newest broadband Internet. AEC’s members recently overwhelming voted to change its bylaws approving the creation of a Internet Service Provider with AEC at its helm. Short said that other electric companies have

established successful Internet services and AEC will be joining them. The new bylaws concerning the $6.4 million project, will allow Internet service not only to its 4,000 members but to other homeowners and businesses who do not have AEC electric service. “We recognized for so long that

see INTERNET, page A-3

Fire fee recipients told to pay, but petition for refund Tony Ault Writer Over 100 Anza area residents agreeing the annual California Fire Prevention fee is “illegal”, appeared Friday at the Anza Community Center at a town meeting called by Senator Jeff Stone (R28th Dist.) and Board of Equalization representatives. This month California landowners with habitable structures were sent the annual averaged $150 per parcel Fire Prevention Fee imposed by the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CAL FIRE) and ordered to pay it within 30 days or face the threat of a property lien. The Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association is fighting the fee with a lawsuit nearing a state court hearing and possible decision. The HJTA has enlisted the support of many state legislators like Stone, California Board of Equalization, rural property and business

see FEE, page A-4

see SHOW, page A-6 Board of Equalization District Director Taxation and Regulatory Jordan Marks, right, hands Sage resident Bill Donahue a Petition for Redetermination to send to the state protesting the Fire Protection Fee.

Tony Ault photo

Community Hall to host barbeque dinner dance on July 3 and 4 Jodi Thomas Area Manager The Anza Community Hall group will host the Anza Days kick off Barbeque Dinner Dance on Friday July 3rd at 7p.m. The group is stepping up and taking the reins from the Lion’s after they pulled out of their traditional Friday night barbeque before the Anza Day Parade due to lack of man power. The board, led by president Noel Donahue, decided to step in for the traditional Friday night event kicking off Anza Days and have added a new one to the schedule, a Satur-

day Night Barbeque Dinner Dance on July 4th. Both nights will have music, dancing, food and drinks. “We have been scrambling a little trying to organize these events after 6:30 p.m. being told at a very late date that the original organizers were not following through. Some of the details are still being worked out,” said Donahue. “The goal is to make Anza Days a bigger event and increase the Hall’s involvement.” The Hall is partnering with the F.U.N. Group on a food booth and putting up a dunk-tank at the park, too. “Our hope is to have a signifi-

cant portion of the crowd come for breakfast at the Hall, move out to the parade route, then to the park and finally back to the Hall when the park activities wind down,” Donahue said. The price of admission for both events is $5. Dinner plates are $5 and drinks will be under $5. Saturday night’s musical band will be the Barn Yard Boyz, an area favorite. Both events will be at the Anza

Community Hall in the Township of Anza across from the Circle K on Hwy. 371. To learn more about the Anza Community Hall visit the website at www.anzacommunityhall.org. Become a member and help support the Anza Community Hall, the hub of the Valley community activities. For this and more information go to the Upcoming Events section of the Anza Valley Outlook.


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