November 25, 2009By -Articles From Everywhere About Chino Hills and Chino
CQ Press releases its annual City Crime Rankings Report
Chino Hill's city website reported today that the City of Chino Hills was ranked as the 13th safest city according to CQ Press' annual City Crime Rankings 2009-2010: Crime in Metropolitan America.
The crime rate rankings of the cities and metropolitan areas are calculated using six crime categories: murder, rape, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, and motor vehicle theft. These categories have been used for determining city crime rate rat >>
November 18, 2009By -Articles From Everywhere About Chino Hills and Chino
"Edison... puts an element of danger in the community where those towers go..." - Councilman Bill Kruger.
Chino Hills officials will argue against a Southern California Edison plan to expand a high voltage power line through the city Friday during a hearing with state public utility commissioners in San Francisco.
A five-mile swath of the proposed path through Chino Hills would double the size of existing though inactive Edison power lines to about 200 feet. About 1,000 residents would live within 500 feet of the power lines, city officials said.
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November 11, 2009By -Articles From Everywhere About Chino Hills and Chino
By Sen. Bob Huff and Assemblyman Curt Hagman
The priorities of a particular community may vary by population density, location, business prospects, etc., but no matter where you reside, your local firefighters know that their chief duty within the community is to protect life first, property second, and then defend other resources. Unfortunately, it seems that Southern California Edison has a different notion of what is important to their customers.
In 2007, SCE proposed its $1.72 billio >>
October 23, 2009By -Articles From Everywhere About Chino Hills and Chino
Solar panels on the roof of an industrial building in California are providing one million watts of solar power Solar panels on the roof of an industrial building in California are providing one million watts of solar power.
The roof of a 458,000-square-foot industrial building in Chino, Calif. is now providing as much as one million watts of solar power to Southern California's Inland Empire. This is the second installation in Southern California Edison's (SCE's) plan to place advanced solar panels on hundreds of otherwise unused commercial rooftops across Southern California. The Chino site is owned by the Multi-Employer Property Trust (MEPT) whose exclusive invest >>
October 15, 2009By -Articles From Everywhere About Chino Hills and Chino
The Chino Police Department was recently awarded a $146,000 traffic safety grant which will be used to fund a year-long anti-DUI program aimed at preventing deaths and injuries on Chino roadways.
The special DUI Enforcement and Awareness grant funded by the California Office of Traffic Safety will help to reduce the number of persons killed and injured in alcohol and drug related collisions through increased enforcement and education.
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October 15, 2009By -Articles From Everywhere About Chino Hills and Chino
From the Chino Valley Fire District
The Chino Valley Fire District issued the following Halloween Safety Tips...
Tips for Choosing the right costume:
- Purchase costumes made of flame retardant material (check the label)
- Keep hemlines short enough to prevent tripping and avoid loose, baggy sleeves, or billowing skirts
- Secure emergency identification (name, address, phone number) discreetly within Halloween attire or on a bracelet
- To be seen easily, costumes sh >>
October 14, 2009By -Articles From Everywhere About Chino Hills and Chino
An editorial from Curt Hagman and Bob Huff
The priorities of a particular community may vary by population density, location, business prospects, etc., but no matter where you reside, your local firefighters know that their chief duty within the community is to protect life first, property second, and then defend other resources. Unfortunately, it seems that Southern California Edison has a different notion of what is important to their customers.
In 2007, Southern California Edison (S >>
October 8, 2009By -Articles From Everywhere About Chino Hills and Chino
Several factors are contributing to the health of Chino Basin - some natural, some planned while others unintended.
While households throughout the state are embracing the water-conservation methods, economic downturn, basin's geographical location and good management are helping it from depleting its supplies.
Covering 235 square miles of land from Chino to the San Gabriel Mountains and Upland to Fontana, the groundwater basin is considere >>
October 3, 2009By -Articles From Everywhere About Chino Hills and Chino
Suit Seeks Lunch Money Refund for Downer Beef
One of the nastiest chapters in unsafe food is still unfinished business due to an ongoing federal lawsuit that is focused on fraud in the school lunch program.
The lawsuit was originally brought in February 2009 by the Humane Society of the United States against Hallmark and Westland, the meat packing companies that were using forklifts to force "downer" cows into slaughter.
But last spring, the U.S. Department of Justice interv >>
September 24, 2009By -Articles From Everywhere About Chino Hills and Chino
The Chino Valley Fire District has suspended all burn permits in Chino Valley until further notice due to the triple-digit temperatures and dry conditions forecasted in the region. Chino Valley Fire declared the suspension in cooperation with similar burn permit restrictions that the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CAL FIRE) instituted for state responsibility lands within county areas.
"During certain times of the >>
September 24, 2009By -Articles From Everywhere About Chino Hills and Chino
Event to be held this Saturday (tomorrow)
We received the following email from Hills for Everyone Executive Director, Claire Schlotterbeck...
In March 2009, Hills For Everyone began talks with the City of Chino Hills to see if an agreement could be reached so that we could advocate for the Edison 500 kV lines to be placed through the State Park. We hoped to find an alignment and mitigation package that would both bring benefit to the Park and to the residents of Chino Hills. As you kn >>
September 18, 2009By Joe A
The now-vacant buildings that served as Chino Hills City Hall for 17 years will come to life one last time as firefighters from the Chino Valley Fire District get set for a firefighter survival training exercise over a three-day period. The training will take place on September 20th, 21st and 23rd from 5 p.m. to midnight.
Fire Captain Scott Atkinson organized the training. "Training opportunities in vacant buildings provide our firefight >>
September 14, 2009By -Articles From Everywhere About Chino Hills and Chino
Residents can receive a $300 to $2,000 automatic water softener removal rebate.
The Inland Empire Utility Agency (IEUA) has launched an automatic water softener rebate program. If you have an automatic water softener, you can get a rebate for the reasonable value of the unit - from $300 up to $2,000 - and free removal by a pre-qualified licensed plumber.
To apply for the rebate, residents must submit a one page rebate application to the IEUA. The IEUA will reply with an offer containing the rebate amount and your authori >>
September 14, 2009By -Articles From Everywhere About Chino Hills and Chino
American Asphalt South of Fontana started the first phase of work on the annual street improvement project in Chino Hills on Thursday, September 10th. Workers began the process to seal cracks and make pavement repairs. A complete list of affected streets and schedules are being developed and will be posted on the City's website at www.chinohills.org.
The schedules will take into account school traffic and commute routes. Some work may be sche >>
September 3, 2009By -Articles From Everywhere About Chino Hills and Chino
In Chino Hills, They're Good News
Expect to see more antennas mounted in church steeples and clock towers, and antennas disguised as trees as wireless carriers seek to expand their range.
Fueled by public demand for service and shaped by changes in technology and local cites' zoning, wireless carriers have dotted the Inland Empire with antennas in hundreds of hidden and not-so-hidden locations.
The traditional cell tower perched on high ground is "not as attractive now >>
August 21, 2009By -Articles From Everywhere About Chino Hills and Chino
Work on the next phase of the City's Project to improve Peyton Drive is expected to begin in the fall. Peyton Drive will be expanded to six lanes between English Road and Eucalyptus Avenue. The project will include installation of storm drains, medians, curbs, gutters, and sidewalks as the major corridor is built to its ultimate width.
Impacts of the project are expected to be less significant than the project between English Road and Grand A >>
August 21, 2009By -Articles From Everywhere About Chino Hills and Chino
Delivery of communications infrastructure to occur
Public Safety officials in Chino Hills are one step closer to achieving improved emergency communications in the Carbon Canyon area of Chino Hills. San Bernardino County has already installed a 70-foot tall communications monopole at the top of Canon Lane in Carbon Canyon. The pole will be disguised as a pine tree.
Emergency communication in the Canyon has been hampered by the topography. The location was chosen because it provided the best e >>
August 21, 2009By -Articles From Everywhere About Chino Hills and Chino
Cities of Pomona, Glendora, Laverne, and Upland affected.
There are two separate quarantines in place in nearby LA and San Bernardino county areas. Oriental and White-Striped Fruit Flies were detected in the city of Laverne so a quarantine was set which includes Glendora, Pomona, and Upland. The quarantined areas cover approximately 80+ square miles. This is the first time ever that a White-Striped Fruit Fly has been found in the Western Hemisphere.
Residents within those boundaries are being as >>
August 13, 2009By -Articles From Everywhere About Chino Hills and Chino
Southern California Edison will be moving its fleet of six maintenance helicopters to the Chino Airport according to an agreement approved by the San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors. The helicopter fleet is presently located at the Ontario International Airport and executives at SCE hope to improve accessability to remote areas and to reduce congestion in the move.
They are developing a 46,000 square foot facility which is expected to >>
August 7, 2009By -Articles From Everywhere About Chino Hills and Chino
CHINO -- Local authorities have come up with an alternate way to use more recycled water to reduce the region's dependency on imported water. Inland Empire Utilities Agency and Chino Basin Watermaster have asked a state board to allow them to change the formula allowing more recycled water to be saved in western San Bernardino County.
"It will provide us with greater flexibility with water resources that we have control over, such a >>
August 7, 2009By Joe A
Work Begins August 12th
The City has issued a $121,000 contract to Hardy and Harper, Inc., of Santa Ana to resurface Olympic View Drive on the west side of Peyton Drive to Running Springs Drive. Other streets that will be resurfaced include Meadowcrest Drive, Royal Court, Royal Ridge Drive, and Moonshadow Place.
Work will start Wednesday, August 12th with selective removal of pavement and grinding of the edges of the existing road surface.
Two directions of traf >>
July 15, 2009By Joe A
California prison officials, facing severe overcrowding and a financial crisis, have been releasing inmates who were serving time for parole violations before they finished their scheduled terms.
State officials said the dozens of prisoners set free from the California Institution for Men in Chino and from lockups in San Diego and Shasta counties had 60 days or less left on their terms, or had been accused of violations and were awaiting heari >>
June 20, 2009By Joe A
Staying Safe During the Summer Months
With the official start of summer right around the corner, Chino Valley Fire District Fire Chief Paul Benson wants to take this opportunity to remind residents about the importance of staying cool and hydrated and about the importance of taking precautions when participating in summer related activities.
Most heat related disorders occur when a patient has been overexposed to heat or has over exercise >>
June 18, 2009By Joe A
Plan A "National Night Out" Event In Your Neighborhood
Get your neighborhood involved and plan an activity in support of the 26th annual National Night Out (NNO) on August 4th.
A kick-off meeting will be held at 7:00 p.m. on Thursday, June 18th at the James S. Thalman Chino Hills Library Community Room, 14020 City Center Drive. NNO coordinator, Bonnie Michaels can help you with ideas and activities to plan your own neighborhood event.
National Night Out will be held on Tuesday, August 4th acr >>
June 7, 2009By Joe A
CHINO - The City Council has approved a increase in its water and sewer rates, raising the average home's costs by about $4.38 a month starting July 1.
It will increase $5.18 more per month in the 2009-10 fiscal year, according to a city finance report.
This year's rate increases include $1.08 for every 748 gallons of water and $1.17 the next year. The current rate is $0.9863 for every 748 gallons.
The rates being proposed are largely th >>
May 29, 2009By Joe A
Hills For Everyone Informs Community
That was the title of Claire Schlotterbeck's message to her mailing list which is duplicated at the end of this article...
On May 29, 2009, the California State Parks website posted a news release that stated the State of California is faced with a dire fiscal situation. To help meet the state's budget deficit, there is a budget proposal to eliminate the General Fund support of California State Parks.
California State Parks has identified >>
May 29, 2009By Joe A
Planned blackout through Sunday Night
The City of Chino Hills was notified this week of a planned outage by Southern California Edison and posted the following notice on the City web site.
Southern California Edison (SCE) has scheduled a planned outage in the Butterfield Ranch area from 10:00 p.m. Sunday night, May 31st through 7:00 a.m. Monday morning, June 1st. The outage is needed as part of SCE's ongoing improvements to SCE infrastructure.
The following areas are affected:
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May 29, 2009By Joe A
The Tehachapi Renewable Transmission Project
The City of Chino Hills has developed an efficient and viable alternative route for the Southern California Edison (SCE) Tehachapi Renewable Transmission Project (TRTP) Segment 8A that has been proposed to run right through the City.
The City is working hard to convince the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) that its alternate route is better than the route that SCE proposes. The many advantages of the City's plan include avoiding >>
May 23, 2009By -Articles From Everywhere About Chino Hills and Chino
CHINO - Inmate Nancy Nunez didn't know when they would come for her baby.
But three days after giving birth, the inevitable happened.
"They told me they have to take the baby to the nursery to check on her, and they never brought her back," Nunez said.
Alone in her cell at the California Institution for Women, Nunez fell in the dark pits of postpartum depression and separation anxiety.
"I cried, I just wanted to hold he >>
May 8, 2009By -Articles From Everywhere About Chino Hills and Chino
Chino Beef Recall
WASHINGTON - The head of the Humane Society lauded the federal government's decision to join in a $150 million lawsuit against the Chino meat plant involved in the largest beef recall in U.S. history.
The Department of Justice late Friday announced it would pursue the lawsuit against the now defunct Westland/Hallmark Meat. Co. Once the second largest supplier of beef to the National School Lunch Program, Westland/Hallmark knowingly and falsely >>
April 24, 2009By The Editor
Yesterday there were at least two earthquakes that were close enough to Chino Hills to be felt pretty strongly. The U.S. Geological Survey stated that they were centered closer to Orange County but that was no comfort for me. I feel all the earthquakes nowadays as I work on the second floor of my home and it seems to be more sensitive to them. One occured at around at around 3:30 PM and then another happened about an hour later. I yelled do >>
April 23, 2009By The Editor
CHINO - The City Council has enacted stronger codes for tighter water usage in light of the governor's call for conservation in a time of drought.
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger announced a "State of Emergency" regarding the water situation in February and requested all urban water users increase conservation activities.
In response, the city revised the Municipal Code to make it consistent with conservation measures adopted by local >>
April 18, 2009By Joe A
Purple Pipes To Be Installed Starting April 20Th
April 20th marks the start of the City of Chino Hills' most recent project to expand the City's recycled water system. Purple pipes will be installed in a section of Pipeline Avenue between Soquel Canyon Parkway and Woodview Road, on the west side of the street, from April 20th through early June.
Purple pipes indicate that the system carries recycled water. The project will include periods of time when one of two lanes on Pipeline Avenue wil >>
April 17, 2009By -Articles From Everywhere About Chino Hills and Chino
10 percent cuts requested.
CHINO - Richard Atwater is walking the talk. The General manager of Inland Empire Utilities Agency has pulled all the grass from his backyard and replaced it with native California plants.
"I cut my water bill in half and I don't have to mow my lawn every week," he said.
On Thursday, Atwater and his colleagues from IEUA asked members of the public to do their share too, and reduce water consumption by at least 10 percent. The ag >>
April 16, 2009By -Articles From Everywhere About Chino Hills and Chino
The City of Chino Hills is looking to frame and display scanned copies of photographs of the Sleepy Hollow neighborhood at both the Sleepy Hollow Community Center on Rosemary Lane, just off Carbon Canyon Road, and at the new City Hall off Peyton Drive near Grand Avenue.
There will be a community photo collection day at the Community Center on Saturday, 25 April from 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. At this event, city staff will be scanning photographs >>
April 11, 2009By Joe A
Tehachapi Renewable Transmission Project Southern California Edison Served With A Lawsuit
The City of Chino Hills continues its efforts on several fronts to seek a win-win solution for a segment of the Tehachapi Renewable Transmission Project (TRTP) that cuts through the City. Chino Hills City Manager Mike Fleager went to Sacramento last Wednesday for a series of face-to-face meetings with key Sacramento legislators.
On another front, the City served Southern California Edison with a lawsuit to prevent use of the Edison-proposed r >>
April 10, 2009By -Articles From Everywhere About Chino Hills and Chino
Italy quake reawakening awareness...
With federal help, states could manage risks and make policies more affordable for homeowners.
The earthquake that killed more than 270 people and left 28,000 homeless in central Italy reminded Californians this week how fortunate they have been in the 15 years since the disaster in Northridge. There have been some moderately strong temblors, such as the one in Chino Hills in July that measured 5.4 on the Richter scale, but none as powerful as >>
April 10, 2009By -Articles From Everywhere About Chino Hills and Chino
Stater Bros. supermarkets, Coca-Cola and California State Parks today began a campaign to raise funds for reforestation and fire prevention at state parks hit by wildfires in the last six years. The goal: Plant 1 million native trees.
Shoppers at Stater Bros. will have the opportunity to make a $1 tax-deductible donation to reforestation efforts at checkout or online.
Cuyamaca Rancho and Chino Hills state parks, two areas badly damaged by t >>
April 10, 2009By Joe A
Site Approved by San Bernardino County; Tower to benefit police and fire in Carbon Canyon
According to an Action Summary of the San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors, an 800 MHz radio tower has been approved and construction contract awarded. The tower will be placed strategically in Carbon Canyon to help police, fire, and emergency personnel communicate better. The lease on a previous location has been terminated and this new site location has been determined to be the best location to maximize public safety rad >>
April 5, 2009By The Editor
Earth Day Events - Saturday, April 18th
Rumba (Re-Used Materials Becoming Art) Art Contest
The City of Chino Hills is having its 2nd annual RUMBA (Re-Used Materials Becoming Art) contest. RUMBA entries are made by taking scraps, broken toys, items beyond repair, and materials likely to be thrown away and using them to create a unique display. Residents of all ages are invited to participate in this exciting art contest. Prizes will be awarded in various age categories. Winning entri >>
March 31, 2009By -Articles From Everywhere About Chino Hills and Chino
CHINO: Visitors and new inmates are being barred at the Chino women's prison because of a suspected gastrointestinal illness sweeping the San Bernardino County facility.
Eighteen people at the California Institution for Women had come down Friday with symptoms of the contagious intestinal illness, including diarrhea and vomiting.
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March 31, 2009By -Articles From Everywhere About Chino Hills and Chino
Chino Hills concerned about traffic
The proposed NFL stadium in the city of Industry has been stalled after Walnut officials filed a lawsuit asking for another environmental assessment on the project.
Meanwhile, Chino Hills officials are still pressing for funds from the project to help the city handle the additional traffic game days at the stadium will produce on its streets.
Chino Hills officials believe the city will be impacted by such traffic, though they haven't voiced >>
March 27, 2009By -Articles From Everywhere About Chino Hills and Chino
Long term effects of Freeway Complex Fire
The rolling green hills of Chino Hills State Park seem, at first glance, well on the way to recovering from the autumn fire that stripped 95 percent of the park's 14,000 acres.
Yellow, white and purple flowers accent the bright-green grass on hills that were once charred, and hummingbirds visit the blossoms to gather nectar. Live oak, sycamore and elderberry tree trunks remain stark and bare, but that didn't seem to bother a California towhee >>
March 27, 2009By -Articles From Everywhere About Chino Hills and Chino
Warehouse roofs to create new energy source
On Energy, Let A Thousand Filaments Bloom. There is no single way to wean the U.S. from fossil fuels.
The Environmental Protection Agency's announcement this week that it has taken a first step toward regulating carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels marks another milestone in reshaping the way America uses energy. Although regulations are not imminent, the decision reinforces the sense that the United States is starting a generation-long >>
March 20, 2009By -Articles From Everywhere About Chino Hills and Chino
My Fox LA Video
Chino Hills (myFOXla.com) - A high voltage situation in the Inland Empire... Edison has a plan to string a line of high tension wires through Chino Hills.
Locals say no way and made their voices loud and clear at a public hearing.
Read the story... | Source: MyFoxLA | Posted: 3/20/09
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March 17, 2009By Joe A
A public hearing will be held at Chino Hills City Hall on March 19. An open public workshop is at 5 p.m. and the hearing is at 6:30 p.m.
It's painful to watch how the CPUC is leaning in favor of Edison to follow the same path that they originally planned, ignoring the pleas of our citizens and public officials who are unanimously opposed to their plans to send 700 Megawatt, high powered electrical lines, literally through our resident's back yards. (See note 1.). I'm very happy that the City of Chino Hills is filing a lawsuit.
Then we have a federal receiver planning to make Ch >>
March 17, 2009By Joe A
Hopefully they are relieving pressure
The series of earthquakes that have been occurring in and around the Western Hills Golf and Country Club in the Chino Hills area, on the northeast edge of Yorba Linda, continued today with a 2.3 quake at 5:13 p.m., following by a 2.5 quake in nearly the same spot at 6.34 p.m. and a 1.9 quake at 6:53 p.m., says the U.S. Geological Survey.
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February 26, 2009By -Articles From Everywhere About Chino Hills and Chino
Edison wants to place 200-foot Transmission Towers Near Homes and Schools
City Files Complaint Citing Safety Hazards of Edison's Proposed Transmission Line Route through Neighborhoods
CHINO HILLS --- The residents of Chino Hills today rallied against Southern California Edison's proposal to double in height the towers that carry power lines that have been active for 30 years or longer. The proposal would build new towers and power lines that will carry double circuit 500 kV transmission lines and place them through densely populated neighborhoods and near schools. This rally took place just after the city filed a lawsuit again >>
February 24, 2009By -Articles From Everywhere About Chino Hills and Chino
Risks to health and safety of public if transmission towers are placed close to homes and schools
Senator Bob Huff (R - Diamond Bar) today expressed his displeasure with the Draft Environmental Impact Report (DEIR) released by the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) which lists Southern California Edison's proposed route as the preferred route for the Tehachapi Renewable Trans mission Project.
"Over 1,000 adjacent property owners are within 500 feet and closer of the towers being proposed by Edison," Senator Bob Huff >>
February 19, 2009By -Articles From Everywhere About Chino Hills and Chino
Environmental Report On Power Lines Released
City officials are outraged over an environmental assessment's rejection of their plan to reroute a proposed power transmission line through Chino Hills State Park in order to avoid its passing through the city.
The state Public Utility Commission's environmental assessment released on Friday identifies Southern California Edison's originally proposed route, which cuts through the city, as the preferred wind-energy transmission line route with >>
February 3, 2009By -Articles From Everywhere About Chino Hills and Chino
Family hires attorneys
An attorney representing the family of a Rubidoux man killed by Chino police Sunday says he was not caught in crossfire but was intentionally shot.
Police say the investigation is continuing but have called Daniel Balandran's death during a shootout between police and armed robbery suspects a "tragic event."
Attorneys Mark S. Algorri, of Pasadena, and James Bergener, of Santa Ana, announced Thursday that the Balandran family had r >>
February 2, 2009By -Articles From Everywhere About Chino Hills and Chino
Some trails / bridges remain closed.
Chino Hills State Park Re-Opens
A press release was issued at the end of last week announcing that Chino Hills State Park was officially reopening yesterday after being closed two-and-a-half months since 90-95% of the park burned in November's Triangle Complex Fire.
Actually, judging from the cars parked at Olinda Ranch and along Carbon Canyon Road over that period, there was plenty of (free) use of the park...
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January 30, 2009By -Articles From Everywhere About Chino Hills and Chino
Abandoned pools cause mosquito problems
Like a couple of generals in a war, Terri Williams and Min-Lee Cheng have called in the air force in their battle to control West Nile Virus and other mosquito-borne diseases in San Bernardino County.
They use helicopter reconnaissance and geo-positioned satellites to spot abandoned swimming pools that have gone green and become mosquito breeding havens.
Then they attack with chemical and biological weapons to wipe out the enemy before it c >>
January 30, 2009By -Articles From Everywhere About Chino Hills and Chino
CHINO - The city's move to build a new industrial park has caused one landowner to consider a lawsuit against the city, according to the man's attorney.
The dispute is over the pollution and traffic that could impact Peter Kavanos' business on the northwest corner of Euclid and Pine avenues, from a proposed industrial park, said Kavanos' lawyer Joseph Cardella.
Council approved an environmental assessment of the project after City Planner B >>
January 23, 2009By Joe A
Agencies await environmental assessment
CHINO HILLS - They won't have it in their backyard. But maybe at the park.
The city is pushing forward with its alternative plan to reroute a proposed wind energy transmission line through the Chino Hills State Park, instead of a Southern California Edison proposal that would bring the line through the city.
Edison's wind-energy project proposes the activation and expansion of power lines near at least 1,500 homes in Chino Hills.
Towers >>
January 21, 2009By Joe A
Can you eat your lawn? Not if it's grass.
But you can replace that grass with edible groundcover, which means you'll be able to consume a large portion of your yard.
Claremont Food Not Lawns supporters want to tell you how easy it is to grow food, save water, preserve the planet and still have a lovely expanse of groundcover to gaze at.
Eliminating large patches of green doesn't mean your yard will look barren, the group says. On the contrary. Choosing the right plants means your l >>
January 14, 2009By -Articles From Everywhere About Chino Hills and Chino
New leader of watershed association focused on public education
After 10 years in the Army, Lee Reeder said he was asked why he didn't stay for 20 and make a career out of it.
"It would take 10 more years," Reeder grinned.
Instead, the journalist, author and photographer has been working to make our local mountains, valleys and rivers a better place for native plants and endangered species by wiping out non-native intruders.
Reeder is the new executive director of the Santa Ana Watershed As >>
January 8, 2009By -Articles From Everywhere About Chino Hills and Chino
CHINO HILLS - A woman who marked up fence posts, park tables and walls here apparently did it all in the name of love.
Amy Melda Raya, 32, of Ontario, was arrested Wednesday and cited and released on suspicion of felony vandalism.
The graffiti consisted of small blurbs in which Raya declared her love for her boyfriend, authorities said.
Read the story...>>
January 8, 2009By -Articles From Everywhere About Chino Hills and Chino
CHINO HILLS--After five months of research, seismologists have concluded that last summer's Chino Hills earthquake occurred on an extended branch of the Lake Elsinore Fault known as the Yorba Linda Trend.
Its epicenter was 3-miles southwest of the city of Chino Hills.
Read the story... | Source: Inland News Today | Posted: 1/8/09
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December 31, 2008By -Articles From Everywhere About Chino Hills and Chino
Someone recently started a blog about the unique setting of Carbon Canyon. They offer plenty of pictures, links, and information about the canyon's history, beauty, communities and issues that threaten to affect its character and special qualities. There are some interesting "after the fire" pictures there. We thought we'd add a link.
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December 31, 2008By -Articles From Everywhere About Chino Hills and Chino
State continues to muddle prisons including Chino's
Kern Valley State Prison inmates drink tap water. Officials made filtration plans, then scrapped them.
Three years past deadline, California has no solid plan to reduce the arsenic, which has been linked to cancer. Officials spent money to design a filtration plant and then decided not to build it.
Reporting from Delano -- Beside a field of rolling tumbleweed in this remote Central Valley town, the state opened its newest prison in 2005 wit >>
December 17, 2008By Joe A
Cold storm may bring lower snow levels
A cold Pacific storm is headed into the Inland area tonight, packing roughly a foot of snow for the mountains -- and even some for the valleys.
"Snowfall of six to 14 inches is possible above 4,000 feet, mainly east of the Cajon Pass, with amounts of three to six inches below 4,000 feet," the National Weather Service says in a winter storm watch advisory. "Snow levels will lower to 2,000 to 2,500 feet, with locally lower snow le >>
December 17, 2008By -Articles From Everywhere About Chino Hills and Chino
"Charo" brings bull to Western University of Health Sciences in Pomona
POMONA - Moving from a farm in Chino to sweet new digs in Beverly Hills, Manolo's is a true ranches-to-riches story.
On Tuesday, the 14-week-old Angus bull calf was back in the 909, but just for a visit.
Charo, a flamboyant singer and classical guitar player famous for using her "cuchi-cuchi" phrase, brought the adopted bull to Western University of Health Sciences in Pomona to be examined for a heart murmur.
As news cameras i >>
December 17, 2008By -Articles From Everywhere About Chino Hills and Chino
Caused mudflows and road closures
CHINO HILLS - Rain-loosened mud and debris from soil bared by the Triangle Complex Fire last month flowed through Sleepy Hollow neighborhoods on Monday.
But no major damage was reported, and there were no evacuations.
About 2.6 inches of rain fell in Chino Hills.
There were, however, road closures.
Eucalyptus Avenue, from Peyton Drive to Pipeline Avenue, and Carbon Canyon Road at the Orange County line were closed because of concern a >>
December 10, 2008By -Articles From Everywhere About Chino Hills and Chino
Western Municipal Water Agency joins the authority
A new player is coming on board to the Chino Basin Desalter Authority, the region's water wholesaler, to help with the expansion of wells and the ability for the basin to sustain itself, officials said.
Western Municipal Water Agency joins the authority, which provides potable water to local water providers in the area. Western Municipal has pledged $46 million toward a $120million project to expand the Chino desalter within the next five year >>
December 5, 2008By -Articles From Everywhere About Chino Hills and Chino
Olinda Village Fire Shown on Video
From YouTube...
This video was taken by Logan Kock in Olinda Village in Carbon Canyon as part of the Freeway Complex Fire on Novermber 15/16/2008.
Notice when the Village is on fire and the firefighters are fighting one fire in a backyard that the wind stopped. I shudder to think what would have happened if the wind was blowing at that point in time.
Watc >>
December 5, 2008By The Editor
Disaster mitigation specialists answer questions
Californians are well aware of the dangers from wildfires. To minimize damages from future wildfires and other events like flooding and mudslides, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is providing disaster mitigation specialists at a display in Chino Hills' Lowe's hardware store beginning Thursday, December 4.
"Preparedness is the first step to disaster mitigation. Whether it's insurance, house elevation in a floodplain, or cle >>
November 29, 2008By -Articles From Everywhere About Chino Hills and Chino
State Park Superintendent surveys park damage
John Rowe, superintendent of Chino Hills State Park, gets a closer look at the devastation caused by a tidal wave of wind and fire that swept into the park Nov. 15. With flames shooting 80 feet into the sky, more than 95% of the 14,100-acre park was quickly obliterated.
Residents and park officials mourn the loss after more than 95% of the 14,100 acres burned in the Freeway Complex fire, leaving little but a blackened landscape behind.
For >>
November 18, 2008By -Articles From Everywhere About Chino Hills and Chino
Only Coal Canyon (south of the 91) survived.
A weekend wildfire scorched nearly all of the 14,102-acre Chino Hills State Park, state parks officials said Monday, turning an estimated 90 percent of the park to blackened ground, ash and denuded branches.
About 13,000 acres burned, said park superintendent John Rowe, leaving some trees, patches of ground and ravines undamaged but otherwise consuming nearly the entire park.
The only piece that didn"t burn, in fact, was Coal Canyon, a 650- >>
November 10, 2008By The Editor
It could happen here too
There is another Chino Valley in Arizona that has similar problems to us. We have coyotes; they have coyotes and foxes. When I read this story it reminded me of a fear I often encounter walking through our parks and hills so I wanted to share it with our readers here. It happened just last week...
A Chino Valley woman must undergo a series of rabies shots after battling a sick fox that bit her twice.
Thirty-year-old Michelle Felicepta sa >>
October 23, 2008By The Editor
West Nile on decline but still dangerous
Vector Control warns residents to still remain vigilant in avoiding mosquito bites. "Many of us thought the mosquito season would be winding down by now, we were wrong." said Min-Lee Cheng, Ph.D., West Valley Mosquito and Vector Control District's Manager, "Our surveillance traps are still catching large numbers of mosquitoes - the risk of West Nile virus infection is still here even this late into the year."
Trapping resul >>
October 23, 2008By The Editor
Volunteers clean up Chino and Mill Creeks area
CHINO - Local environmental agencies have targeted the illegal dumping that has plagued secluded areas near Chino Creek and Mill Creek in south Chino with two major cleanup events utilizing dozens of young people and agency employees.
The community cleanup event Friday and Saturday, organized by the Inland Empire Resource Conservation District and the Inland Empire Utilities Agency, saw the removal of about 70 tons of trash near Chino Creek an >>
October 21, 2008By The Editor
The 21st Century Green Partnership is dedicated to working with governmental agencies, utilities, cities, environmental groups, and citizen groups to ensure the development of renewable energy, while preserving the environment and protecting the quality of life for Californians.
In order to provide the public with a greater understanding of these issues, this website offers a repository for the latest information, news and studies. An interac >>
October 6, 2008By The Editor
Joint effort with the California Regional Water Quality Control Board
(09/29/08) LOS ANGELES -- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is ordering six Chino, Calif.-area dairies to comply with California Regional Water Quality Control Board permit requirements.
Through an administrative order, the EPA is ordering Brothers Three Dairy, Quality Dairy, Jorritsma and Anema Dairy, Martin Vander Laan Dairy, TLC Sonlight Dairy #2 and Goyenetche Dairy #2, to comply with permit requirements which require that dairies p >>
September 13, 2008By The Editor
Chino Beef Recall:
The Chino slaughterhouse that triggered the nation's largest-ever beef recall regularly bought sick, crippled and emaciated cows and forced them to their feet so they could be slaughtered for food, said a former employee who worked 23 years at Westland/Hallmark Meat Co. Daniel Ugarte Navarro, a pen worker who awaits sentencing on animal cruelty convictions, agreed to an interview more than six months after a Humane Society investigator's undercov >>
September 1, 2008By The Editor
The Chino Valley Fire District recently announced the program to prevent wild fires.
Annually, destructive wildland fires endanger the lives and property of California residents who live in the urban-wildland interface areas. Additionally, yards and vacant lots not properly cleared of combustible vegetation can threaten nearby homes and property within the community and steal precious Fire Department resources from other emergencies. This creates an even greater potential for a very dangerous fire season this year.
The Chin >>
August 14, 2008By The Editor
You decide.
In July, the New York Times reported on a woman in Teaneck, New Jersey, who discovered that her granite countertops were emitting radiation at levels 10 times higher than those measured elsewhere in the house. This got me thinking about homes in Chino Hills where many of us have granite counter tops so I've followed the story a bit longer. Since then I've found two stories that may ease any fears you may have, but that also could give you cause >>
August 14, 2008By The Editor
www.shakeout.org
It will take 48 seconds for mass destruction to reach San Bernardino County. Then thousands will die, buildings will crumble and roads will be uprooted. About 70 city, school and church leaders were given a crash course Wednesday in how severely a magnitude 7.8 earthquake on the San Andreas Fault would shatter life as the Inland Empire knows it.
It's all in the name of preparedness. A countdown has begun for the Great Southern California Shak >>
August 10, 2008By The Editor
Water conservation moved from voluntary to daily requirement
According to a Press Release issued, August 7, 2008, the Chino Hills City Council has declared a Stage II Water Alert in accordance with its updated Water Conservation Ordinance that was adopted in July. This moves water conservation from a voluntary effort to a daily requirement. The Stage II Water Alert does not apply to construction projects or areas where recycled water, flowing through purple pipes, is used.
"California is suffering >>
August 7, 2008By The Editor
Company violated new regulations.
A Chino company's failed attempt to ship hundreds of used computer monitors to China highlighted new controls federal authorities have placed on electronic waste such as computers and televisions
Jet Ocean Technologies Inc. faces as much as $32,500 in civil penalties for illegally shipping 441 cathode ray computer monitors in containers labeled as scrap metal, authorities said.
When the container arrived in Hong Kong this spring, it was rej >>
August 7, 2008By The Editor
How California Stays Cool About The Big One
It's been a good week for Lucy Jones. On Tuesday, the chief scientist at the US Geological Survey in Pasadena, California, got what she had been waiting for: an earthquake rumbled through Chino Hills, some 40 miles east of Los Angeles.
But this was not the fabled Big One, star of movies, protagonist of novels and mover of mountains. Rather, the Chino Hills quake registered a magnitude of just 5.4, enough to shake some sets in Hollywood, ruptur >>
August 7, 2008By The Editor
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is billing San Bernardino County...
nearly a half-million dollars to pay for removing vintage aircraft gauges adorned with radioactive-laced paint from a hangar at Chino Airport.
The county, which owns and operates the airport, and the federal agency made the agreement official last week although the cleanup was conducted in 2005, said Taly Jolish, assistant regional counsel for the EPA.
The aircraft instruments were owned by Aviation Preservation, which sold them to collecto >>
August 7, 2008By The Editor
"Faults are capable of producing some very big earthquakes"
Four major faults capable of producing a magnitude-7.5 earthquake sandwich the proposed NFL stadium and retail complex planned by developer Ed Roski.
For millions of years those faults, the Whittier, Puente Hills, San Jose and Chino Hills, have formed the landscape of the property which lies near the junction of the 57 and 60 freeways.
A minor fault, known as the Peralta, sits just a few miles south of the site, officials said.
Although >>
August 7, 2008By The Editor
Tuesday was National Night Out, a unique crime and drug prevention event that has been held now for 25 years.
Bonnie Michaels, of the City of Chino Hills, reported that there were 29+ events held in Chino Hills. We did one in our neighborhood and I think it was worthwhile.
A few weeks ago, I noticed an article about the National Night Out and mentioned it to my wife. I was surprised to hear that she was interested in doing the event. We d >>
August 1, 2008By The Editor
July 31, 2008By The Editor
Modern construction standards minimized damage
The latest in plywood-reinforced walls, tied-down foundations, strengthened concrete and stronger welds - if an earthquake had to hit somewhere in densely populated Southern California, this relatively new suburb of 80,000 people was about the best place possible.
Chino Hills was just a few miles from the epicenter of Tuesday's magnitude-5.4 quake, yet it withstood the shaking with almost no damage at all, even while other communities farther >>
July 22, 2008By The Editor
It's America's Night Out Against Crime!
The "25th Annual National Night Out" (NNO), a unique crime/drug prevention event sponsored by the National Association of Town Watch (NATW), has been scheduled for Tuesday, August 5, 2008 and cordially invites you and your community to be a part of our NIGHT OUT 2007 team.
Last year's National Night Out campaign involved citizens, law enforcement agencies, civic groups, businesses, neighborhood organizations and local officials from >>
June 13, 2008By The Editor
People are being urged to conserve.
In the wake of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's drought emergency declaration, water agencies and city leaders from Chino to Fontana banded together Thursday to call for increased water conservation.
Their message? Save now before it's too late.
"If next winter is dry, then we have the possibility of very serious water rationing," said Richard Atwater, CEO and general manager of the Chino-based Inland Empire Utilities Agency >>
May 11, 2008By The Editor
Aggressive behavior seems to be on the upswing
The coyote was limping as it approached a girl in a sand box at a public park - but it was still dangerous. It snapped its jaws on the girl's buttocks and her nanny had to pry the toddler from the wild animal.
Less than a week later, a coyote in a mountain resort town some 35 miles away grabbed a girl by the head and tried to drag her from a front yard until her mother scared it away.
A spate of coyote attacks in the fast-growing suburbs ea >>
May 1, 2008By The Editor
Fire District and American Red Cross to Hold Workshop
The City of Chino Hills is teaming up with representatives from the Chino Valley Fire District and the American Red Cross to help residents be prepared for a disaster or other emergencies. A FREE workshop will be held on Thursday, May 15th at 7:00 p.m. at the McCoy Equestrian & Recreation Center, 14280 Peyton Drive. Tips are also available at
www.redcross.org and at www.ready.gov . For more information, please call (909) 364-2713. (Source: >>
April 20, 2008By The Editor
Groups, Students, and Scouts Display Art
The City of Chino Hills organized a RUMBA (Re-Used Materials Becoming Art) contest. Students created RUMBA entries by using scraps, broken toys, items beyond repair, and materials likely to be thrown away in an artful display. Many schools and residents participated in the art contest.
Entries were on display at the Earth Day Learning Event held at the McCoy Equestrian & Recreation Center In addition to that The event offered informatio >>
April 17, 2008By The Editor
Fire department truck tips over precariously above homes and cars
On Thursday morning, what started out as a routine brush clearing escalated into a serious emergency involving over 12 police and fire emergency vehicles from Chino, Chino Hills, and Ontario.
City workers were clearing brush on a hillside in Butterfield Ranch off of Wildflower Avenue as a precautionary measure to prevent fires. According Ryan Dacko of the Chino Valley Independent Fire District, some of the city's equipment struck a rock and i >>
March 25, 2008By The Editor
The Editor shares his Chino Hills' experience.
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 and care about each other.
When I brought my wife and two sons from Chicago to live Southern California in 1986, one of my goals was to find a place where I coul >>
February 1, 2008By The Editor
Major regional water pipeline is being upgraded
CITY OF CHINO HILLS - Press Release - Chino Hills, CA - January 22, 2008
Residents & businesses asked to reduce water use during temporary pipeline shut down February 4th - 10th
Residents and businesses in the City of Chino Hills are being called upon to make plans to reduce outdoor watering and non-essential indoor water use while a major regional water pipeline is upgraded during a seven-day shutdown beginning Monday, February 4th. T >>
January 18, 2008By The Editor
The Whole Inland Empire Gets Large Gusts
Thursday morning started with fierce Santa Ana winds that blew through the Chino Valley. Fences and garbage cans were knocked down all around Chino Hills. In Ontario, hundreds of trees were uprooted.
Winds as high as 47 miles per hour were reported by Accuweather. >>
November 7, 2007By The Editor
Two are dead. The plane was reportedly heading to Visalia
A spokesman for the FAA reported on Wednesday morning that an 11 seat Beechcraft Airplane crashed just after taking off at around 9:15 AM. It was quite foggy and the pilot was using instruments to take off but the actual cause is still under investigation. It is reported tha the flight was headed to Visalia. The victims names were withheld until their relatives are notified.
According to a correctional officer at the gate of the Hemen Stark >>
September 10, 2007By The Editor
In its own way, the development in Chino Hills has made the city as beautiful as nature.
I recently took a trip to city hall in Chino Hills and while driving on Grand Avenue, the beauty of the surrounding community took me by surprise. It's not that I haven't noticed how beautiful our community is before. It was the realization that the people who have moved into Chino Hills have beautified, and in my opinion, greatly improved the beauty and nature of the landscape.
I'm somewhat of a conservationist. I don't like to see natural >>
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