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DATE-:2008-10-06.12:40:23. CRYSTAL POOL NOW CLOSED  ************************************
Date-:2008-09-26.Time-:09:07:02. Red Robin Opened Today
by Steve
9/24/2008 01:40:00 PM
 The Red Robin restaurant in the Countryside Marketplace, opened for the first time today, as a soft-opening,
serving only invited guests. The soft opening continues through Sunday, with the grand opening on Monday.
The company
sent invitations out to various folks in Menifee. I'm not sure how they chose whom to send invitations to, but mine was
addressed to my corporate name "Clear Digital Media".
The place was pretty packed in. Looking at the
kitchen area, they must have had 15-20 people working back there. The restaurant has 60 servers hired, broken out into 14
teams, including a bevy of trainers.
As part of the soft opening, food was free. The purpose of the invitations
was to give their staff five days of live training. In exchange, customers were advised that there could be delays while trainers
gave out instructions, along with the expected mistakes and glitches. But I found that our service went along just fine. And
the food was pretty much on par with what I've found at the Red Robin in Temecula. And you still get the bottomless-fries.************************************************************
A NEW CLUB IS FORMED
Date-:2008-09-15. Time-:11:05:34. The Sun City Model Railroad Club allows members to continue
their childhood love of model trains. Ralph Stenlake, president of the group,
said he still has the 1937 Lionel 1750 - 249E train set given to him when he was 9 months old. "My dad played with the train set before it was given to me," Stenlake said. Story continues below  Special to The Press-Enterprise Members of the newly formed Sun City Model Railroad Club include, from left, President Ralph Stenlake, Chuck Reutter,
Bill Hammond, John Hutchins and Allen Perry. The
club was the idea of Chuck Reutter, who approached the board of the Sun City Civic Association in June. Members who want to join must live in what is called the core area of Sun City, but guests are welcome anytime. "The purpose of the club is to promote model railroading, and I think the club has a good future here. It is
good for the community," Reutter said. "We just wanted to get the club
off the ground and five to six persons responded to the notice" in the Sun City Civic Association newsletter, Reutter
said. "Once we get established, we will have train shows at the local mall
or here in the association's clubhouse," Stenlake said. Model railroaders
will tell you that it is a family-oriented hobby usually started in childhood but continuing on through a lifetime. Basic train sets average from $150 to $200 and can be purchased at hobby stores, from mail order houses or on the
Internet. But the hobby can become time consuming and expensive. Vice President
Allen Perry said he is interested in live steam trains. He is building one that he expects to finish next summer. "I build every part and it will have taken me four years to build at a cost of $25,000," he said. Treasurer Reutter recalls receiving a train as a Christmas present from his parents in 1948. Interest in trains runs
in his family, he said. "My niece is a train engineer for Amtrak in Connecticut,"
Reutter said. Bill Hammond, secretary of the club, builds garden model railroads.
"My goal will be to have members and guests come to my home and run the trains," he said. The club meets the first Tuesday of the month at 10 a.m. in the West room of Del Webb Hall, 26850 Sun City Blvd.,
Sun City. Information: 951-679-3191. Reach Hope Pierson at 951-375-3732 or hpierson@PE.com
Date-:2008-09-15.Time-:11:02:03 Top StoryAs the countdown to Menifee's incorporation day grows short, city leaders and citizens
alike are busily finalizing food, decorations and other details for the new city's first birthday party.
"Celebrating
our history and creating our future" will be the theme of the celebration scheduled for the evening of Oct.1, Menifee's
first official day as a city. Full Story...
Community News
The Sunshine Club needs more
VOLUNTEERS!
The
Sunshine Club is always looking for volunteers who want to put a smile on a lonely senior's face. Sunshine Club volunteers
make at least one weekly visit to an identified senior who needs some human contact and tender attention. There are many seniors
living alone or in a care facility who have no local family and need to "make regular contact with the outside world".
Interested in being a Sunshine Club volunteer? Want to refer a lonely relative, neighbor or friend?
Contact the
Kay Ceniceros Senior Center in
Sun City.
(951) 672-9673
Date-:2008-09-07 From-: A Member I see in the FOCUS newsletter that our Facilities are now OPEN to The General PUBLIC,
When did we Vote on this! If this is so please let the members know when this Rule was changed.
Joe Daugherty, who chaired the Menifee Valley Incorporation Committee, passed around
a handout at the city council meeting last night showing statistics of how people voted on the cityhood issue.
He
obtained data from the Riverside County Registrar of Voters which broke down the vote tallies by region...
Sun
City
3,647 for "yes"
2,891 for "no"
55.78% for yes
57% of total voters
Menifee
2,831 for "yes"
1,218 for "no"
69.92% for yes
35% of total voters
Romoland
414 for "yes"
151 for "no"
73.27% for yes
5% of total voters
Quail Valley
268 for "yes"
136 for "no"
66.34% for yes
3% of total voters
 Stop Means Stop by Menifee Tina
9/05/2008 03:26:00 PM
On my travels in and around Menifee, I pass through the intersection at Menifee Road and Holland Road quite often.
As a strange phenomenon, I have noticed that many motorists seem to be unaware that this is a 4-way stop, even though it is
clearly marked. What I mean is, that many, many of them just glide on through without stopping.
I have been at this intersection
at all different times of day to witness this. But to be certain that it wasn’t just something I see, I talked with
some of the sign twirlers who work on this corner. They have conveyed to me that 1 out of every 5 cars stop, at best. And
most of those “stops” are the infamous “California Rolling Stop”.
This intersection is right
in between 2 elementary schools and one middle school. I see children here quite often. How is it that these motorists can
be in such a hurry, and be so careless?
The day that frustrated me most was the day that I saw a school bus stopped not
far from the corner, with it’s stop sign blinking and red lights flashing. I watched car after car breeze through the
intersection, and then continue on to pass the school bus! The stop sign that extends out from the side of the bus was flashing,
and yet one motorist after another ignored this, and went right on by.
C’mon folks. Where are you going that you
cannot stop at a 4-way stop? Or better yet, for a school bus with children disembarking? There must be other intersections
in Menifee where this is happening, I am certain. Now, I know you, the reader, would never do this, so please, to your neighbor,
pass it on. . . STOP MEANS STOP!
Sun City Disaster Services has installed a community
emergency phone line at the Kay Ceniceros Center. In the event of a local emergency, it will provide updated recorded
informational messages. It will be another way for you to get local disaster/emergency information. The Disaster
Non-Emergency Information Line number is 1-866-719-9770 (toll-free). Remember, this phone line provides taped messages
only. It does NOT allow you to talk to a live person or to leave a message.
Sun City: Library to stay open at temporary site during expansionCheck
this out. The county has leased temporary library quarters just across the parking lot from the Sun City Library, securing a spot for bibliophiles while the site undergoes a major expansion, officials ...
Which Came First: Sun City or Menifee?
Another worry voiced at the meeting was that Sun City could lose
its identity and history once cloaked with the name Menifee or Menifee Valley.
"Sun City was started in the
'60s," Pica said. "They want to destroy that. They say, 'Oh you'll remember who you are,' but my
grandkids and my great-grandkids won't." The truth is that
it was all named "Menifee" long before there was a Sun City.
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