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ahuilla Casino is kicking off Spring with a fresh new look and more rewards! Coming into its 20th year, Cahuilla Casino is overhauling their Winners Club and revamping the overall look of the Casino, both inside and out. The casino has been remodeled- adding new carpet, a state of the art air ventilation system, and new games. The all new Winners Club will have a dedicated staff to give the best possible customer service, and Club Cards will now be tiered. Best of all, the casino will only give away FreePlay rewards- no more MatchPlay as it had in previous years. “We have tried our best to listen to what our guests want. With these renovations, and new reward programs, we feel our patrons will experience a difference immediately,” say Marketing Manager Holly Halvatgis. “For new members, I feel we are offering one of the best new member dealsreceive $20 in FreePlay your first day signing up.” Cahuilla Casino is known for its small size, laid back atmosphere, and extremely friendly staff. As opposed to bigger casino properties, players come to Cahuilla because it is an easy casino to navigate with convenient parking, a wide variety of slot machines, and it’s a place where staff and players alike know your name and greet you with a smile. Day trippers can take the scenic drive up from valley cities to play, dine, shop and refuel on site. Roadrunner’s Bar and Grill serves lunch and dinner daily with brunch on weekends. Menu highlights include the popular burger, New York strip steak, turkey club sandwich and Cobb salad. Mountain Sky Fresh & Fast features a tasty pizza and fried chicken menu for diners on the go. Cahuilla Casino at Mountain Sky Travel Center is located in Anza with easy access via Highways 74 or 79. The casino carries over 350 slot machines and is open 24 hours, 365 days a year, for players 21 and older. More information online at: cahuillacasino.com. Address: 52702 Highway 371, Anza, CA 92539. Phone (951) 763-1200.
Cahuilla Casino 52702 Highway 371 | Anza, CA 92539 (951) 763-1200 www.cahuillacasino.com 40
Around 1850 the Americans built huge traps, large and strong enough to hold a Grizzly bear. Several old, log bear traps were seen in the hills ear Tomas Mountain and Cahuilla Valley of the San Jacinto Mountains area. A few Grizzlies of this area became known by name because of a distinctive feature or because of their exploits. In 1875 there was a bear in the Santa Ana Mountains known as Old White Face. In general, the Grizzly Bear’s last stronghold was in the Santa Ana Mountains, from Fallbrook to Santa Ana Canyon. One was shot in January of 1908 in the Trabuco Canyon area where Orange and San Diego Counties meet. One was killed in Riverside County near Tenaja in 1895. It has been reported that there was one killed in downtown Fallbrook in the middle 1800s near the Ridgley Martin General Store located on Main Street near Hawthorne Street. During the year 1900, Henry Steward, a farmer of San Juan Capistrano, shot and killed a Grizzly at Los Vallecitos in the north part of what is now Camp Pendleton. That place is now called Case Springs, and that was the last Grizzly killed in San Diego County. Measurements of that 1900 specimen from the San Onofre Canyon area included the sole without claws—12 inches long and eight inches wide.
Joseph Smith, the American pioneer who left his name on Palomar Mountain, had so much trouble with Grizzlies getting his stock that he had to get help from the Indians to get the bears under control. In Catherine M. Woods’ book about Palomar Mountain Teepees to Telescopes, Grizzly bears were referred to as “common as pigs, and herds of hem could be found on the mountain.” Bear Valley near Escondido was where the market hunters shot most of their bears for the restaurants in San Diego. The San Diego Union in 1871 reported a huge Grizzly Bear, weighing around 1200 pounds, was killed near Bonsall. Retired Fire Chief William Thurber Jr. of the Fallbrook Fire Dept. told of an old Grizzly Bear that lived on what was the Yackey Ranch. No one would kill the bear because he never bothered anyone. This place is now called the Bear Creek Ranch, which is in Sandia Canyon, north of Fallbrook. According to a story told by Videl C. Reche of Fallbrook, he personally knew six men who were killed in the Fallbrook area by Grizzly Bears in a 10-year period. In the early 1930s, I had the privilege of listening to Grizzly stories told by Mr. Wilmot, who homesteaded a section of land in the DeLuz Canyon before the turn of the century. He told of several Grizzly Bears that roamed in the DeLuz Canyon, killing livestock and bothering homesteaders. Before the Grizzly passed from the Grizzly scene, Charles Howard Shinn wrote an article suggesting that, although the great bear was doomed, it might live on in the minds of men – like the Lion of England and the Winged Bull of Assyria. www.my-sourcebook.com