For the Kids

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 nearly 25 years the "people of Thoroughbred Lane" (Near Hillside and Sapphire north of the 210 Freeway) in Rancho Cucamonga have been putting on some of the best Christmas lights displays in the Inland Empire. The light displays are usually on beginning just after Thanksgiving and stay up only until Christmas day. They light up around dark and to keep the neighborhood sane, are usually turned off by 11pm.

Now in it's 15th year, the Metrolink Holiday Toy Express Train will be traveling from city to city throughout Southern California to entertain children and to collect toys for the less fortunate.

In 2011 the Metrolink Christmas train will be visiting 32 cities in the counties of San Bernardino, Riverside, Ventura, Orange County, Los Angeles and San Diego beginning November 18 2011 and ending December 18 2011.

Schedule for the 2011 Metrolink Holiday Toy Express Christmas Train:

Friday November 18, 2011
Preview Night
L.A. Union Station - 5:45PM

does anybody know or have the schedule for the 2011 Metrolink Christmas train or even know if there will be a Christmas train this year? Last year they cut down the number of stop the train made and it was disappointing and i wonder if they will even have a Christmas train at all this year.

When I was a kid we used to go to what is now Raging Waters and what is now called Bonelli Park. Back then Frank Bonelli Park was called either Puddistone or PuddINGstone lake, and Raging Waters (without all the slides) was simply either "Puddistone" or Puddingstone.

We always called it Puddingstone, but lately I've heard it called Puddistone (without the ING in the middle). Does anybody know which name is right or why they called it this?