W e e k l y COLTON COURIER
Vol 146 , NO. 38
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September 6, 2018
Guest Speaker Suzie Ear p presents “Colton - 1938 F lood” at Colton Area Museum By Dr. G (Dr. Luis Gonzalez)
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n Saturday, September 8, at 2:30 p.m., the Colton Area Museum’s (CAM) guest speaker program will feature Suzie Earp, local historian and researcher with Water Resources Institute, California State University, San Bernardino. Suzie Earp earned a B.A. in History and is completing an M.A. in Interdisciplinary Studies at California State University, San Bernardino. Her talk, which will include background information about local demographics and a brief history of floods in San Bernardino, emphasizes the human and social side of natural disasters: experiences and conse-
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Suzie Earp, local historian and researcher, will be the guest speaker at the Colton Area Museum on Saturday, September 8 at 2:30 p.m. The community is invited to hear her presentation.
Make-A-Wish Foundation granting wishes for 35 years
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he Make-A-Wish Foundation is celebrating 35 years of granting critically ill children’s wishes in Orange County, Los Angeles, and Inland Empire. Make-A-Wish is the largest wish-granting organization, fulfilling more than 300,000 wishes in the United States and its territories. The foundation has been operating since the 1980’s starting by granting the wish of Chris Greicius, a seven-year-old diagnosed with leukemia who wanted to be a police officer. Those responsible for making his wish come true wanted to grant other children’s wishes as well, thus creating the Make-A-Wish Foundation. As the foundation looks back on the wishes it has granted over the years, Amina Martinez, ten-yearold Ontario resident comes to mind. Martinez was diagnosed with leukemia in 2013, and even while going through chemotherapy she still loved dancing, playing with her dog and especially cooking. Over the months she became weak and ill due to treatment; her mother heard about the
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10-year-old Amina Martinez was diagnosed with leukemia in 2013, and her wish to become a chef for a day was granted. Make-A-Wish Foundation through another mother whose child had recently got her to wish granted. “At the time Amina didn’t really
care, she was so sick and grumpy from her treatments but I still put in the application, by the time we went through the interview process she was feeling better,”
said Anabel Martinez, Amina’s mother. To be eligible for a wish a child Wishes, cont. on pg. 2