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Disaster Preparedness Group updates directory Michael Machado Special to Anza Valley Outlook
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Section Volume 15, Issue 38
Alpacas of Anza Valley to host annual Open Ranch Days and breast cancer fundraiser
Anza Disaster Preparedness Group is updating its 2015 emergency resources directory, including all or portions of Anza, Terwilliger, Garner Valley, Aguanga and Sage not already covered by other disaster preparedness organizations. The purpose of the update is to insure a state of readiness should these territories be impacted by the predicted El Niño. see page A-3
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Anza ‘Dump’ sale to CR&R under negotiation Tony Ault Writer A Waste Management of the Inland Empire official at the Sept. 9 Anza Valley Municipal Advisory Council meeting confirmed that the private waste disposal company is now negotiating with CR&R Waste for the sale of the Anza Transfer Station on Terwilliger Road. see page A-5
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Julie Roy and her alpaca Benjamin, show off a pair of American made alpaca yarn socks called “My Comfy Survivor Slipper Socks” inspired and designed by a cancer survivor. Benjamin won first place and then Reserve Color Champion at a show in Norco in March. Don Roy photo
Jodi Thomas Area Manager Open Ranch Days will be Sept. 26-27 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Julie and Don Roy’s Alpacas of Anza Valley Ranch, in Anza. Admission
Looking at a ghost Mallard Fudd Columnist Years ago in Anza, I had the occasion of making the acquaintance of a wild man I will call Bear. Back in those days men were tough and not just a little bit crazy. Men stood up and claimed responsibility for their actions, good or bad.
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see page A-3
is free. Eleven years ago, when the Roys decided to retire from corporate America, alpacas and Anza were not even a thought. They were searching San Diego County for a piece of land large enough and flat
enough to start an Empress Tree nursery. When they called on an ad for a piece of property showing a San Diego zip code, they were surprised to learn it was in Anza, a place they had never heard of. Through their entrepreneurial
journey, the Roys have been carried from dreams of a tree nursery into owning a successful alpaca ranch. To date over 100 crias (baby alpacas) have been born on their ranch.
see ALPACAS, page A-7
AVMAC meeting heralds good reports on High Country Boys & Girls Club’s plans, pot eradication Tony Ault Writer High Country Boys & Girls Club spokespersons reported fundraising gains and planning advancements to residents attending the Sept. 9 Anza Valley Municipal Advisory Council meeting at the Anza Community Hall. The meeting brought out almost 100 residents to hear the latest reports from the AVMAC speak-
ers including High Country Boys & Girls Club representatives, a Waste Management official and Capt. Lyndon “Ray” Wood from the Riverside County Sheriff’s Office in Hemet. First on the agenda was Robyn Garrison, a Boys & Girls Club supporter, who gave residents a presentation on the planned $3.3 million facility. Land has been given the club on Derry Lane off of Mitchell Road in Anza near
Hamilton High School. Efforts to raise money for the facility have been ongoing since 2008. “We are in a heavy mode to get this project going,” Garrison said showing a blueprint of the new facility. The blueprint showed the facility would include an equestrian center, a swimming pool for children and adults, soccer and baseball fields and other amenities. Garrison said $480,000 has been raised for the facility and the club
recently presented plans to the county for approval. “Most of all we need your support,” she said. “Money is always good but let the county know how much we need this for our kids. Tell them. Show your support. “We are blessed,” she said reporting the club is working with AYSO and its soccer program. “We have 120 kids already signed up.”
see AVMAC, page A-4
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Anza’s LDS Church welcomes new President Homes Jodi Thomas Area Manager This summer the Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints Anza Branch welcomed new President Glen Homes, who is a Hemet resident. He grew up in Aguanga, attended Cottonwood School and has a lot of family history here. His grandfather, a mechanic by trade, moved to the Terwilliger area in 1932 after he sold a bean field. The bean field’s old address is now where two freeways meet, the 10 and the 405. Homes’ dad grew up in Anza and his mother in Chihuahua Valley. His mother’s dad was a Hemet policeman and friends with Ramona of book fame. Homes sat on the LDS Hemet Stake High Counsel and was appointed to the area’s branch because he’s moving to his grandfather’s house in Aguanga. A builder by trade, Homes is in the process of remodeling the older home. Among Homes duties as president is to watch over the temporal and spiritual well-being of the people in the Anza branch. “We are like a big family we try to help each other out and make sure everyone is doing well,” he said. The LDS Church encourages its people to be prepared and have enough food for
see HOMES, page A-3 New LDS Church President Glen Homes, right, invited Riverside County Sheriff’s Capt. Lyndon “Ray” Wood to show a K-9 unit demonstration to the community. Jodi Thomas photo