Images of Pomona: May 2020

Well kind of, with grey skies in the background, it adds color to the sky.

It sure does.

Moving along, looking good.

We are sad to share news of old homes slated for demolition. These four are in south Pomona off of Phillips. If you are interested in salvage for your home projects here is the information. Hopefully some part of these houses can live on.

Great news, #Pomona! June's Yard Sale weekend is BACK ON due to recent updates in County of Los Angeles's guidelines for COVID-19 response. If you have questions about this or future authorized yard sale weekends in our City, please visit bit.ly/pomonayardsale or call Code Enforcement at (909) 620-2374.

US Naval Hospital Corona (in Norco) - Most folks don't know that Norco was once home to the fourth largest WWII Naval Hospital in the Nation. It was established on December 9, 1941, its first patients were from Pearl Harbor, grew to a complex of three standalone hospitals and became the Navy's designated West Coast Tuberculosis, Paraplegia, Polio and and National Rheumatic Fever Center. At it's peak in 1945, there were over 5000 patients at any given time and 2500 staff. The hospital operated between 1942 and 1957. What should never be forgotten are the medical folks who fought to save lives of men and women maimed by war, sick from Tropical diseases and suffered terrible mental trauma. Thousands died in that facility and thousands more lived because of the pioneering breakthroughs of the physicians, nurses, WAVES, Corpsmen and the hundreds of Norco and Corona residents who volunteered to help. While others who should be ashamed of themselves seek to bury this history, Norco seeks to never forget and has placed an anchor at the George Ingalls Memorial as a reminder of the homefront Navy heroism that took place in Norco California.

Because schools are closed due to COVID-19 some children may be eligible for food benefits these food benefits are called pandemic EBT or P-EBT. http://ow.ly/2ma450zMPpn
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Las escuelas están cerradas debido al COVID-19 y algunos niños pueden ser elegibles para beneficios de comida, este beneficio se llama Pandémica EBT o P-EBT. http://ow.ly/IRDp50zMPtm
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Mr. Puddingstone and His Lake

According to Mrs. Harry Walker, our first Historian, its name was suggested when a group of friends walked from Grand Ave. (now Damien) to the Falls about 1888 for a picnic. Some of the (conglomerate) rocks in the area seemed to them to resemble raisins in a pudding, so they decided to call the place Puddingstone Falls. (You can still see these rocks in places near the Lake - notably on the hill just to the SW of Brackett Field and near the present Hot Tubs.)

In 1890, when surveying the meadow where Saturnino Carrion had grazed his cattle, William Mount identified this as an ideal site for a natural reservoir. (He called the place �Pudding Hole.) J. H. Adams of Covina, claimed that God almighty has built this reservoir for the people, that this valley may become luxuriant and match the glory of the sunshine. However, it was not until 1928 that Puddingstone Dam was dedicated and the Lake filled from the stream that ran down from San Dimas Canyon.

The Park surrounding the Lake was also known as Puddingstone until County Supervisor Frank Bonelli retired, when the name was changed in his honor to its present identification as �Bonelli Park.

February 13,1986 reads, "Workers in a box suspended by crane prepare to free plane hung up in power lines." Pilot, Dean Plath, and his passenger, Clarence Washburn, were trapped for four hours in the Cessna 172 that got tangled in power lines 90 feet above the ground near the Ontario International Airport. Both Plath and Washburn were unharmed.

Attend a free #turfremoval and California native plants landscaping TWO-part class, now online! When asked who your water 💦 provider is, type “City of Pomona”. Register at: https://greengardensgroup.com/turf-transformation/ #pomonaconserves #waterwise — in Pomona, California.

Introducing Two New Horsehill Vineyards Wines

2017 Zinfandel Red $20/bottle

2019 Zinfandel Rose $14/bottle

Cal Poly Pomona's newest wines have just hit the shelves in time for the graduation season and Father's Day. The 2017 Zinfandel Red will sell for $20/bottle and $240/case while the 2019 Zinfandel Rose will sell for $14/bottle and $168/case.

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And the work goes on to paint the bell tower.

Scraping and chipping all that old paint.

OK like always, Ptown and I, will keep you all updated.

Yeah like the title says, it was built in 1901.

Glad to see it being worked on, it's been vacant for years and years.

And the two houses on both side of this one. Those go back to 1902, great to see them being taken care of. Back in the day, there use to be houses like these, on the other side of the street. But those got torn down for a parking lot, what a shame.