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To the harried, unobservant mind, the Japanese Friendship Garden in Balboa Park is only a minor detour off the main road.
The small garden, planted on the edge of a canyon, is easy to miss. Its delicately constructed wooden teahouse and gate are ove...
June 12th 2009  Read Full Story |
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In 2008, as part of the 85th jubilee celebration, the Ramona Bowl Amphitheatre’s general manager thought it would be fun to gather the cast and crew in the upper part of the stands to create a giant “85” to commemorate reaching this milest...
April 24th 2009 Read Full Story |
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With a long, hot summer drawing near, we at the Valley News know you are in search of a sweet escape. Don’t let a tight budget be the reason you stay home.
Each column, we’ll feature a SoCal destination within a few hours’ drive, no hotel...
April 17th 2009 Read Full Story |
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A tiny white tornado puffed and swirled inside a tall chamber as 6-year-old Jacob Fernandes climbed on his knees halfway inside to hover his hand through the middle of the fabricated twister.
His brother Aiden’s dark brown eyes momentarily forgot ho...
April 10th 2009 Read Full Story () |
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Going to see wildflowers can be inexpensive.
Carpets of brittlebush, California poppies, arroyo lupine and many other blooms began popping up after it rained earlier this year.
These flowers are on the side of roads, in the mountains and deserts an...
April 3rd 2009 Read Full Story () |
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Around five o’clock on the second Thursday of every month, a change takes place in the streets of Downtown Los Angeles. It starts with a trickle of people draped in flowing skirts, decorated with intricate tattoos and sporting dreadlocks or black-dye...
March 27th 2009 Read Full Story |
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Some people only get to choose their optometrist by picking a name from a list given by a health care provider.
Dr. Haleh Guilak in Temecula would like this choice to be more informative and personal.
Patients can stop in to meet her or her staff w...
March 20th 2009 Read Full Story |
A Verizon Wireless retailer has recently opened a new location in Corona and by the end of the month will be in Murrieta as well.
With the success of their store in Wildomar, Wireless King has expanded its business in order to save even more local p...
March 13th 2009 Read Full Story () |
Frugal families know and like inexpensive (or even free!) places to spend quality time together and maybe even throw in a little education as well.
Riverside and San Diego counties have some great places to spend an afternoon with the kids without b...
March 6th 2009 Read Full Story |
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Beginning seamstresses walk into the fabric store to learn how to sew, and they can save money too.
At Jo-Ann Fabrics in Temecula, Connie Hobbs teaches these women in her beginning sewing class, starting with the basics.
They come away knowing how ...
February 27th 2009 Read Full Story |
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Nestled at the bottom of the Ortega Mountains is a peaceful place where many people are known to stay a day or stay forever.
Once a Jewish boys’ camp in the 1940s, Lake Park RV Resort and Motel in Lake Elsinore is now temporary or permanent housing ...
February 20th 2009 Read Full Story |
Meg Paz has a sincere passion for her profession, as it has brought such a positive outcome to both herself and her clientele.
What started out as being an independent distributor for Herbalife eight years ago has truly become an important part of P...
February 13th 2009 Read Full Story |
Families with household incomes of less than $45,000 are invited to receive free tax preparation services being provided by Community Action Partnership of Riverside County.
IRS-certified tax preparers will prepare and file tax returns for low-incom...
February 6th 2009 Read Full Story |
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More than 150 dresses hung from the ceiling in Paloma Valley High School’s dance room.
Principal Brian Morris shuffled through the outfits. “We have a lot of dresses, but not very many of some sizes,” he said.
He parted them like drapes, revealing ...
January 30th 2009 Read Full Story () |
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Swap meets have been around for a long time. People used to come from miles around by horseback or wagon into town and spend all day buying, selling and trading everything from hogs to hay and sunbonnets to corn on the cob.
“A lot of people depend o...
January 23rd 2009 Read Full Story |
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Expenses including doctor visits, prescription medication, counseling and so much more can eventually add up.
For free, Healthy Management Diabetes Education (HMDE) strives to help people learn about diabetes by teaching them, through science-based ...
January 16th 2009 Read Full Story |
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Caregivers are responsible for teaching their children many things, one of which is responsibility with money.
In fact, one of the most important things parents can do is teach their children good money-management skills.
Money lessons are not rese...
January 9th 2009 Read Full Story |
Local Errand Girl
Hope Davidson runs a “green” business called Local Errand Girl (LEG), in which her main goal is to provide families with the healthiest, freshest dairy and produce from Southwest Riverside County.
For her clients, LEG focuses o...
January 2nd 2009 Read Full Story |
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Earning a few bucks or even saving money can be an incentive for some people to go green.
People don’t have to go dumpster-diving to collect aluminum for extra cash. At home or in the office they can set up recycling boxes to collect cans to take to...
December 26th 2008 Read Full Story |
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Five-dollar sunglasses, marked-down furniture, inexpensive houseplants, reasonably priced local fruits and vegetables and much more are being sold at The Diamond stadium in Lake Elsinore.
The Marketplace at The Diamond had its grand opening last Sun...
December 19th 2008 Read Full Story () |
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