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Rancho Cucamonga Mayor and Council Members Endorse
Bob Dutton for Congress

Small businessman and citizen legislator Bob Dutton announced today the endorsement of Rancho Cucamonga Mayor Dennis Michael, Mayor Pro Tem Sam Spagnolo, and Council Members Diane Williams and Chuck Buquet for his candidacy for the 31st Congressional District.
 

Farrell's Ice Cream, the all-time best Ice Cream Parlour is coming to Rancho!

The new Farrell's will be located on Foothill in what was previously Macaroni Grill at 10742 Foothill Blvd. There is no firm opening date for the new Farrell's yet, but it is slated to open sometime in 2012.

Banyan Elementary School in Alta Loma is running a toy drive for Steven's Hope until December 7 2011.

If you donate a toy you will get a free kid's meal at the Old Spaghetti Factory and you will get a Bulldog Buck! You can donate a toy by leaving it in one of the donation boxes in the school office and in every pod.

All toys go to Steven's hope which is a great charity helping families with hospitalized children.

For anyone interested in the history of the Soboba Road Estudillo property, I have been researching hard copy stuff, newspapers, government records, pictures, etc. I am still putting my notes together and filling in blanks

The land was Luisueno land before it belonged to Estudillo or the mission (San Luis Rey) There was a village very close to the property.

Jose A Estudillo died while fighting a forest fire in the mountains as a forest ranger, on 1901. His wife died in Riverside in 1926

In years past Fontana was often called Fontucky. The nickname Fontucky was given (and is still used today) because of the number of poor white people and rednecks living there (much like the back woods of Kentucky).

Most of this story is from memory because I was pretty young when it all happened. My mother, in an attempt to scare me into not talking to strangers or going anywhere near the orange groves and other dangerous places must have told me the story in all of it's gory details hundreds of times from the time I was about 6 years old up until I was a young adult.