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Volume 16, Issue 48
Food for the Faithful makes Thanksgiving brighter for Anza Valley residents
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Fall is here and Anza-Borrego is ready for another exciting desert season of hiking, camping and exploring in the beauty of AnzaBorrego Desert State Park. see page A-3
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Riverside County reaches milestone in housing homeless veterans RIVERSIDE – Riverside County has become the nation’s first large county to meet “functional zero,” a federal benchmark for making permanent housing available for all homeless veterans who seek assistance from the county. see page A-4
Richard Jimenez gives Katherine Dubreuil a bag of food during Food For the Faithful’s annual Thanksgiving food giveaway. “It feels great helping out,” he said as he handed the bag to Dubreuil who has been coming to the event for years. GeriLyn Mellin photo
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New foster care rules a ‘Sea Change’ for county RIVERSIDE – The board of supervisors today approved a Riverside County Department of Public Social Services request to allocate $3.25 million over the next five years to broaden foster care training programs.
Morongo Band of Mission Indians, for the fifth year, donated turkeys to the Anza Food for the Faithful food bank Tuesday, Nov. 15. The turkeys were handed out
during the annual Food for the Faithful Thanksgiving food giveaway event held at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Anza. As people began to line up out side of the church at 8 a.m. those inside prepared the Thanksgiving boxes to be given away. More than
100 people were expected to pick up the boxes that day. Sadly, Food for the Faithful had to turn away more than 100 people, due to receiving a lower number of turkeys from their main sponsor, the Morongo Band of Mission Indians who donated 125 turkeys,
GeriLyn Mellin VALLEYSTAFF@REEDERMEDIA.COM
For Allen and JoAnn Martin, mission work was a calling. Allen was only 15-years-old and living in a non-Christian home when he came to know the Lord. Less than a year later, at the age of 16 he had a vision that called him to mission work. Joann had come to the Lord when she was only 9-years-old, but received the call to missionary work, much later at 19 after hearing a missionary speak for the first time. After graduating from college, Allen from Vanguard University, with a BA in Missions/Theology and JoAnn with a business degree from College of the Sequoias, the couple became associate/youth pastors at Gardena Valley Assemblies of God and two years later in
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Missionaries Allen and JoAnn Martin fill the house at Valley Gospel Chapel
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all which were given away the day of the event. Esther Barragan has been volunteering with Food For The Faithful for the past eight years and said she has never had to turn away so
Missionary Allen Martin addresses those in attendance during a recent presentation at Valley Gospel Chapel in Anza. GeriLyn Mellin photo
see MARTINS, page A-4
Cahuilla Casino entrance undergoing remodel Tony Ault TAULT@REEDERMEDIA.COM
The familiar Cahuilla Casino entranceway, designed like the entrance to a mineshaft, is undergoing a major change that soon will be seen by visitors and motorists along Highway 371 in Anza. Bruce McClure, Cahuilla Casino general manager, said it will be “awesome” and look much better when completed. He said most of the entrance will be supported by decorated steel pillars, but said he had no artist’s rendering. The front entrance restructuring
see ENTRANCE, page A-5
Workmen are in the process of remodeling the entrance to the Cahuilla Casino on Highway 371 in Anza. Until its completion guests are using the side entrance. Tony Ault photo