June 2016

Welcome to the World Little Colt!

I N S I D E T H I S I S S U E :

Composting… 2

Just Fooling! 3

Looking Back in Time 4

A Tale of a Father… 5

The Folk Years Flyer 7

Your New Board… 8

Ice Cream Social Flyer 8

Play Day Flyer 9

Reminder: July… 10

Mark Your Calendars 10

Shari Walls, the colt's owner and Pathfinder Ranch Wrangler, has been raising horses all her life, mostly in Florida, Kentucky, and Maryland. She chose to undertake breeding her Quarter Horse, Risk with a Quarter Horse in Anza.

Ms. Walls named her colt Torrent because it fits his personality, and he was born the day before a storm on April 27. His official name, pending approval by the Breeders' Association, will be Lena's Torrential Risk. The name covers parts of both his mother's and father's names, along with his name. The other horses at the ranch were well aware that a new horse had joined their herd and were reported all standing outside the barn facing the newborn colt, trying to get a peek. It is a horse's way of protecting the baby and welcoming it into their herd.

Everyone who passes by the ranch is filled with delight watching Torrent romp and stomp and then lay down in the sunshine and take a nice nap. He is a typical baby, eat, play, and get lots of sleep. Torrent is still nursing, but is starting to get his teeth, so he is attempting to eat some of Mom's food. Mom is on a special diet of King's Mare and Foal Blend. His mama is very protective of him and will even chase away the chickens when they wander into the corral.

One day last week, after all the students were in and the ranch was quiet, Ms. Walls took her mare, Risk for a ride in

the forest, with little Torrent following. The pair share their corral during the day with the ranch rescue donkey and a retired riding horse named Onyx. When mom and baby left, he cried for them to return. What a precious sight that must have been!

When Torrent gets a bit older, he will be part of the ranch's horsemanship program, where the campers learn to care for and work with the horses. Currently the students line up along the fence and Torrent walks up to each one and greets them. What a special experience for the campers.

When Torrent is about a year old he will go to live in North Carolina with Ms. Walls' niece, for whom he was bred. When asked if there will be any more horses bred in the future, Ms. Walls said, "No, not likely, because it takes a lot of time and work, which the ranch is not equipped for." She appreciates the staff's support in her personal venture. Staff members often come and sit on the benches to eat their lunch and watch Torrent and Risk at play. The birth of this little colt has touched many lives in a very special way.

Composting… (Submitted by Carole Winch)

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When I was a child, there was a bucket under the kitchen sink – into that bucket went egg shells, coffee grounds, orange rinds, potato peels...you get the idea. But, we didn't have a garden, my Grandmother did and all this “stuff” went to her. She composted. I didn't know what that was, just that we weren't supposed to throw away certain things. My Grandmother grew up on a farm in South Dakota, she lived to be 102, so maybe there is something to this “composting” and having a garden. Basically composting is taking organic material, piling it in a special container with a lid (which you can either purchase or build yourself) and allowing it to break down. The pile will need to be turned with a large garden or manure fork about once a week to aerate and mix. These materials become very rich supplements which can be added back into soil to feed your garden. There is a bit of a technique; if you compost too much wet material, it will become slimy and stink, so you have to add a rough bulky material, such as straw, leaves, wood shavings, grass clippings, woody yard clippings, even cardboard. Do not use any diseased yard clippings. Sprinkle the mixture with a bit of water on occasion so it doesn't completely dry out. This whole process may take as long as a year or as little as 2 months from start to finish, it all depends on how often you turn it and how hot it gets, as temperature is a factor. Many serious gardeners have 3 compost bins going at once in various stages. When your compost is ready for use, it will be very rich, dark brown, crumbly and have a pleasant earthy smell.

Materials to compost: Fruit Scraps Vegetable Scraps Crushed Egg Shells Coffee Grounds Grass and plant clippings Bulky Material: Dry leaves Straw Wood/Bark Chips Shredded Newspaper Chopped up Cardboard What about composting horse manure? If you have horses, then you have a never-ending supply! Horse manure can be composted very simply with no special container necessary – you just need room and hopefully a tractor! When you clean up the manure from your horses corral, take it over to your composting area, pile it up in one spot and let it sit. Use your tractor every three to four weeks to aerate the manure by scooping it up and dumping it back into the pile. Always put the fresh manure only on one side of the pile leaving the older manure on the other side, you may have 4 to 5 sections going at once. The farthest area away from the fresh manure will be the most composted. Simply move 4 to 5 tractor buckets of material from one area to the next more composted section. After you finish moving and aerating, put a sprinkler on the end of a hose and sprinkle the new material two times for one hour each time. The older material just sprinkle to keep damp. After two weeks sprinkle the new material again for one hour. If earthworms don't come naturally, you can go to a fishing supply and purchase them to add to your pile! The fully

Trivia: Garner Valley enjoys four distinct seasons, unlike most of Southern California. Spring is a joy to behold with lilacs, daffodils, and dogwood blooming in abundance. Summer brings warm temperatures and spectacular cloud formations that frequently bring afternoon thunderstorms. In autumn there is a nip in the air and the cottonwood leaves start to change color. There is the unmistakable aroma of wood smoke as people start up their fireplaces to ward off the nighttime chill. Winter usually brings just enough snow to create some excitement and to cap the surrounding peaks in a glistening blanket of white.

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Composting - Continued composted manure will be ready for your garden in a couple of months. It takes 28 days to fully compost organic material, that is IF the pile is turned every couple of days. Most folks don't want to be that attached to their manure pile, but spend as much time as you see fit. Some seeds will survive the heat but most will expire. You'll know your compost is decomposing properly when it snows and the snow on the freshest piles melts! Composting generates

heat as it breaks down. The oldest pile will no longer be warm once it's ready to use and will be dark, rich and crumbly.

Just Fooling! While searching for summer fruit recipes, we discovered fools! A Fruit Fool is an old-fashioned English treat whose name derives from the French word fouler, to crush. This versatile dessert can be spooned into dessert bowls or wineglasses and served immediately.

Raspberry Fool is a traditional English dessert made by folding pureed fruit into sweet custard. Modern fool recipes skip the traditional custard and use whipped cream. A Fool is basically just berries and cream; what makes it special is the presentation. You can use any berry you want for Fool, for example raspberries, blackberries, strawberries, blueberries, and you can soak the berries in liquor if desired.

Original fruit fools call for a topping of crushed ladyfingers, but vanilla wafers work too, or any other cookie or wafer in your pantry. Another approach is to add the cream mixture and crumbs in alternating layers. For a fancy presentation, layer the Fool in tall wineglasses, alternating it with layers of mixed berries.

While it may have originated in England, when layered parfait style

with streaks of red and blue, it looks pretty American! Here is an easy Raspberry Fool recipe:

Ingredients 3 cups raspberries, plus a few more for serving ¼ cup sugar 3 tablespoons Raspberry Liqueur (or orange liqueur, or rum, or just use water) 2 cups cold heavy cream ½ cup powdered sugar 8 whole Vanilla Wafers Fresh mint sprigs (optional garnish) Instructions In a bowl, stir together the raspberries, sugar, and liqueur (or water) and let it sit for 10-15 minutes. Whip the cream with the powdered sugar until soft peaks form. Mash the raspberries with a fork until all the liquid and fruit are mashed together. Spoon half the fruit into the cream and fold once or twice with a rubber spatula. Do not overmix! Add half of the remaining fruit and fold once or twice. If you want more fruit, add the rest. If not, use the remaining fruit puree as a garnish. Serve immediately in pretty glasses with crumbed cookies on top!

Quotes: "A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawn mower is broken"

~ James Dent

“If a June night could talk, it would probably boast it invented romance.”

~ Bern Williams

“June, the month of weddings, graduations, Flag Day, Father's Day and the start of the lazy days of Summer!”

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Looking Back in Time

The Editors recently took a trip to the Hamilton Museum in Anza, which is open to the public on Wednesdays and Saturdays from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. The museum has a variety of exhibits, photos and stories about the development of the Aguanga, Anza, Garner Valley, Lake Riverside, Pinyon, and Terwilliger areas. There is no charge to see the museum and donations are always welcome.

There are lots of areas to explore at the Hamilton Museum. The Contreras House was built in 1924/25. In 1928, John and Fanny added a third bedroom, kitchen and bathroom. Visitors lined up at the door to see the first bathroom in Anza with running water and all of the fixtures including a wonderful large claw foot tub! The Hamilton House was built in 1964, and holds many exhibits depicting history to around 1950. The barn contains antique farm and ranch equipment and an antique buggy. In the native garden, you will see plants used by the Cahuilla people for food as well as a brush house called a kish (pronounced Quiche).

During the 1800's, prospectors and others looking for gold were often quite successful, especially in the

hills on the south east end of our valley. Lured by the promise of rich gold ore in the nearby Tahquitz Mining District, Englishman Harold Kenworthy arrived in Hemet Valley (now Garner Valley) in 1896 to establish the mining town he called Kenworthy. It was a thriving community with a store, hotel, school, and Post Office, and supported a population of 200 for a few short years. A sawmill, assay office, and stamp mill were located above the town. Sadly, the mines produced only a fraction of their promised riches, and soon expenses greatly exceeded income. Harold Kenworthy had been a victim of fraud. Old timers claimed that the ore had been "salted" (altered); this was sometimes accomplished by using a shotgun to shoot gold dust onto mine walls! He sold his interest in his Corona Mining and Milling Company, for which he had paid over $50,000, for only ten dollars. By 1901, all but a few of the residents had moved on.

Members of the Garner Valley Gals enjoyed lunch at Russo’s in Banning before visiting the Edward-Dean Museum and Gardens in Cherry Valley on Thursday, May 12th.

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Looking Back in Time The abandoned town of Kenworthy soon vanished when all the buildings were torn down and hauled away by those building homes, barns, or schools. The wood from the Corona Hotel was used for the Keen Camp resort and also to build the homestead house of newlyweds John and Fanny Contreras, which is the site of the current Hamilton Museum. They paid $11.00 for the

recycled wood! The abandoned town of Kenworthy disappeared without even the dubious reputation of being called a "Ghost Town." It is known as "the city that disappeared." After this time, the valley became known as Thomas Valley and eventually became the Garner Valley we know today.

A Tale of a Father and a Son A man came home from work late again, tired and irritated. He found his 5-year-old son waiting for him at the door. "Daddy may I ask you a question?"

The dad replied, "Yeah, sure, what is it?"

"Daddy how much money do you make an hour?"

The dad just wanted to sit down and relax, but he replied, "If you must know, $20 an hour."

The little boy sighed and bowed his his head. Looking up, he asked, "Daddy, may I borrow $10 please?"

The father flew off the handle at that and sent the boy to his room

Realizing that maybe he should not

have reacted so strongly to the boy’s request, he went to the boy’s room and apologized, saying he was just very tired. Reaching into his pocket, he said, "Here's the ten bucks you asked for."

The little boy sat up straight beaming. "Oh, thank you, Daddy!" he exclaimed. Then he pulled out a wad of crumpled up bills from under his pillow.

The dad, seeing that the boy had some money, started to get angry again. "Why did you want more money if you already had some?"

The little boy replied. "Because I didn't have enough, but now I do. Daddy, I have $20 now...and I'd like to buy an hour of your time."

Poem:

Summer

Hair gets lighter.

Skin gets darker.

Water gets warmer.

Drinks get colder.

Music gets louder.

Nights get longer.

Life gets better.

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The Garner Valley Women’s Group was pleased to present a college scholarship in the amount of $500 to Austin Matula. Austin graduated from Hamilton High School with an overall GPA of 3.5 and participated in both football and basketball.

Austin is currently volunteering at Pathfinder Ranch several days a week. He will be starting college at California State University San Marcos in August, majoring in Biology.

Excellent job, Austin!

5 Things You’ll Never Hear A Dad Say: 5. "Well, how about that? I'm lost! Looks like we'll have to stop and ask for directions."

4. "Here's a credit card and the keys to my new car. Go crazy!!"

3. "Your mother and I are going away for the weekend. You might want to consider throwing a party."

2. "Whaddya wanna go and get a job for? I make plenty of money for you to spend."

1. "What do I want for Father's Day? Aahh-don't worry about that. It's no big deal." (Actually they might say that, but they don't mean it.)

The Garner Valley Women’s Group welcomed Garner Valley’s youngest resident, Olivia Geane Zavas, with a giant basket of goodies. The proud parents, Bria and Louis could not be more proud.

Baby Olivia was born on April 9, 2016 at 5:32 p.m.

7 lbs. 12 oz.

In March, the Garner Valley Gals enjoyed an outing to the Grand Tea Room in Escondido. They looked pretty good in something other than baseball or cowboy hats.

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Your New Board of Directors Congratulations to new Board members Dean Holdridge, our new Vice President, and Jim Merson, Director at Large. Dean has volunteered tirelessly on the Common Committee and on many community events for the past several years. Jim has owned property in Garner Valley for about 20 years. Now that he is a full-time resident, he wishes to serve the community which has been a very important part of his family.

The 2016 Board of Directors, from left to right: Leslie Ingham, President; Dean Holdridge, Vice President; Jim Merson, Director at Large; Susan Gonzalez, Secretary; and Chip Hurn, Treasurer.

Jokes of the Month: Science Teacher:

When is the boiling point reached?

Student:

When my father sees my report card!

Bugs:

“Dad, are bugs good to eat?” asked the boy.

“Let’s not talk about such things at the dinner table, son,” his father replied.

After dinner the father inquired, “Now, son, what did you want to ask me?”

“Oh, nothing,” the boy said. “There was a bug in your soup, but now it’s gone.”

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Those members who elected to pay the second half of their annual assessment in July will be receiving a statement from FirstService Residential, our new management company, in the next few weeks. The statement will list your balance due and will include a detachable coupon with your new customer ID and the remittance envelope to send your payment.

The 2016 assessment invoices were mailed to you in December 2015 by Whittle Business Service. The charge date of 2/29/16 on the statement was the ending date with Whittle Business Service. Therefore, any unpaid balances due are described as a “balance forward” on

Reminder: July Assessment Payment Coming Due

the new system with FirstService Residential. This would include regular assessments, late charges, and enforcement assessments.

As noted on the statement, their Customer Care Center is available to assist you with questions, account balances, etc. during regular business hours at (800) 428-5588 or email CustomerCare.ca@fsresidential.com. Or, you may always contact Deanna Casillas at 951-973-7522 or email Deanna.casillas@fsresidential.com.

Please be on the lookout for mail from FirstService Residential!

Mark Your Calendars for Upcoming Events! July 4th Ice Cream Social at the Common, 3 p.m. Contact: Pam Potter, 951-659-6440 July 16th GV Trail Committee Equestrian Play Day at the GV Arena, 9 a.m. BBQ Lunch for participants, 12 p.m. R.S.V.P. by July 11th Contact: Leslie Ingham, 909-631-3685 or email inghamleslie@gmail.com

July 17th Folk Rock Concert at the Common, 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Contact: Leslie Ingham, 909-631-3685 or email inghamleslie@gmail.com

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