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Volume 14, Issue 43
Cottonwood School Fall Festival a great success!
AVCC 2014 Fall Business Expo will be held Nov. 8. Anza Valley Chamber of Commerce (AVCC) invites all citizens and businesses to attend the 2014 Business Expo on Saturday Nov. 8 from 9 am. to 2 p.m. at the Anza Valley Community Hall on Hwy 371 in Anza. see page A-8
Opinion
Made in the USA – At what cost? Monique Warren Local Contributor February 10, 2012 was the day a very sad realization occurred to me. One of the large contributing factors to our economic decline is jobs that are outsourced to other countries; white and blue collar. see page A-3
Rattlesnakes: you and your pet avoiding the bite Jodi Thomas AVO Area Manager Around the Valley it seems everyone knows someone with a rattlesnake story. Living Free, a nonprofit animal rescue organization located in the Mountain Center area, found two different giant rattlesnakes. The second one they found had 40 babies inside. see page A-6
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Manning the Pumpkin Ring Toss was Painter Hildahl, Donna Fiehler and daughter Paige.
Sacha Hope Special to the AVO Cottonwood School held its Fall Festival from 4 p.m. until 7 p.m. on Friday, October 17. There were games for all, a fun cake walk and plenty of vendors
selling their wares. Principal John Wilder was “arrested” many times and taken to the “Jail House,” each at a donation fee of $5.The school children were thrilled to be able to cart the headmaster off. Music, dancing and a chili cook-
off were center stage. The chili was judged by our local firefighters from the Sage firehouse. We thank them for their support in our community. “It is a lot of hard work putting this event together, but those
Sacha Hope photo
smiles on the kids’ faces make it all worth it,” PTO President Donna Fiehler said. This fall festival raises money
see FESTIVAL, page A-4
Local girl accomplishes goals at SoCal Perris Fair Jodi Thomas AVO Area Manager Each year young people gather to show their prize animals at the Perris Fair the first week of October. This year 13-year-old Myla Laguna, a Hamilton High eighth grader, took her prize-winning goose Jo Jo and a variety of other foul she raises to the fair. This is Myla’s fourth time showing at this fair. Her chickens in the Meat Pen category consisted of one fryer and two roosters, which won the blue ribbon and brought in $200 at auction. Her goose Jo Jo, a young male African Goose, won the Champion of Breed category. Debra Belisle, Myla’s grandmother and biggest fan, said she enjoys the event, but wishes it would get more attention than it
see LAGUNA, page A-4
Eighth grader Myla Laguna shows her prize-winning poultry at the fair in Perris.
Debra Belisle photo
Local rattlesnakes have been found to have a cobra-like toxin to their bite Jodi Thomas AVO Area Manager
The Southern Pacific Rattler, Crotalus Oreganus Helleri, comes in many shades and various color combinations to blend into its environment, but the outlining of the pattern is distinctly similar in all cases.
“The SurfinHerp Jeff” photo
In the Idyllwild area the Southern Pacific Rattlesnake, Crotalus Oreganus Helleri, has been studied and found to carry different venom than their brethren elsewhere in the state. In the past before 2003 it was noted that snake bites rarely ended in death. As time progresses more bites have shown neurotoxic effect (effects nervous system and muscles) instead of haemotoxic (which keeps blood from coagulating and destroys blood vessels) and thus has launched several studies. While both types of toxin exist in all rattlesnakes, haemotoxic has been the most dominate component
see RATTLESNAKES, page A-7