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Save Money at ChinoHills.com - Announcing our Thrift Alert Online Coupons
On March 16th, we began our first series of Thrift Alert Online Coupons. If you'd like to save money on food, products, and services near home, subscribe to our Money Saving Thrift Alerts. Examples are 15% off Fed-ex and UPS shipments at Postal Annex, A Free Smoothie or Sandwich (with some paid ones at The Tropical Smoothie Cafe or Quiznos), unbelievable Insurance savings at the new Fuller Insurance Agency in Chino Hills and even big savings on Assisted Living at Chancellor Place (Hey we're all getting older). Two of my favorites are the free specialty drink at the aJava Cafe in the Circle K on Butterfield (for every 5 purchased drinks) and $1.00 Taco Tuesdays at The Gem. There is more. Check out all of our Online Coupons. We appreciate our new advertisers and will be expanding this over the next quarter.
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About Chino Hills - A Personal Perspective
Chino Hills is a group of communities nestled in the beautiful hills that carry the same name. It’s a town with a lot of history. It’s a town where people and the government work together to solve problems and improve the standard of living. It’s a community, where people know each other and care about each other.
When I brought my wife and two boys from Chicago to Southern California in 1986, one of my goals was to find a place where I could raise my kids and give them roots. The same kind of roots I still value today from my childhood. I loved growing up in a town where I knew people and people knew me and where I can still go back after 40 years and say hi to old friends. I found that place in Chino Hills.
GOVERNMENT
We bought our home here in 1989, before the town became officially incorporated. It was still known as Chino Hills but only had an estimated population of 15,000 to 20,000 people at that time. Since incorporating in 1991, it has grown to well over 70,000 in population. We kind of grew up with the city. I still remember when Ed Graham, whose son was a friend of our sons, knocked on our door and asked for our support as he was to run for the city’s first city council. That was in 1991 and he still serves today. Ed is typical of the type of government we have here. We have a town where the government is approachable and where they listen to the community. Ed and Council member Gwynn Norton-Perry are original members from that first sitting council in 1991. They serve today with Mayor Kurt Hagman and Council members Bill Kruger and Peter Rogers. Chino Hills rotates the duty of Mayor amongst the five City Council Members each year to spread out the work and responsibility and to save the city money.
The government in Chino Hills has operated out of Spartan headquarters located near Grand Avenue and Chino Hills Parkway since incorporation, but this year, will be moving to a modern new facility that is being built on Peyton Avenue, south of Grand Avenue and near the new Shoppes at Chino Hills which is to be completed in June, 2008. The city employs about 190 people, most of whom work in administrative, planning, finance, recreation, and public works. Chino Hills contracts with the San Bernardino Sheriff’s Department for Police services and with the Chino Valley Independent Fire District for emergency services. The city is also served by the Chino Valley Unified School District (CVUSD). More
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