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Welcome to the spring edition of the Valley Center Magazine, produced by the staff of the Valley Roadrunner, your hometown newspaper since 1974! We have just begun Valley Center’s Sesquicentennial year. When we first began the celebration early last year a lot of people wondered what that is—and many more wondered how to spell it! But by the time we come to the climax of the 150th anniversary celebration, during Western Days, most everyone will know how to spell it! To find out the latest in what’s happening with the Sesquicentennial, read this edition’s article, which includes an interview with the committee’s chairman, Paula Haskell. She tells us, “People call me almost every week and either have a really good idea for an event, or want to see how they can become involved.” Also of keen interest to green thumb residents will be our article on spring planting by one of the Dos Valles Garden Club’s resident experts, Marilyn Guidroz. She will tell you how to “bullet-proof” your plants for a garden that will thrive without forcing you to take out a second mortgage to pay for the water. Our sports editor, Dan Kidder, updates us on spring sports, including features on baseball, boys golf, girls and boys lacrosse, softball, swimming and boys tennis. Get some tips on decorating your country home from Susan Rose of Decorating Den. Decorating Den can help you bring all your ideas together or offer some new ideas if you are not sure what would look good. And now is the time to do it, before you host some summer entertaining. We also take this opportunity to welcome the new James Bronner branch of the Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater San Diego with an in depth look at the new facility, which was made possible by a generous donation from the Bronner family, longtime manufacturers of Dr. Bronner’s Magic Soaps. Then meet this edition’s “Mover and Shaker” Danny Sherlock, the longtime president of the Boys and Girls Clubs. Sherlock has been working with kids for all of his adult life. He says he can’t wait to get out of bed in the morning and show up for work! The children of Valley Center certainly benefit every day from that enthusiasm. Four decades ago a group of Girl Scouts took part in an archaeological dig of an Indian village at Camp Winacka, a camp they had purchased with Girl Scout cookie profits! The San Diego Archaeological Center in San Pasqual is celebrating this achievement—along with the 100th anniversary of the Girl Scouts—with an exhibit that you can view until the fall. Part of the research for the staff member who put the exhibit together, the most enjoyable part, it turns out, was reading the journals the Girl Scouts kept during their participation in the project. Check out our feature on the exhibit—and then go see it for yourself. You’ve started to do some spring cleaning at your home, now learn how to protect it from fire, and those pesky rodents and ants. Quilting is something that you may know from your grandmother. However this native art form is making a big comeback. Yes, quilting is an art form! An art form that you can hang on your wall, arrange on your bed, or drape from the back of a chair. Find out more and meet one nationally-known quilting artist who lives right here in our hometown. If you are looking for something to do with your spare time—assuming that you have any—we have an exhaustive resource in this edition: Local Spring Happenings. If it’s not there, maybe it’s not a happenin’ thing! Look for our next edition in May, when we celebrate Western Days! |
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