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🚧 Watch for westbound 91 Main St. on- and off- ramp daytime closures in City of Corona - City Government, Feb. 21-25. Closures start as early as 9 a.m. and end by 3 p.m. Please follow detour signs.

Caltrans District 8 / City of Eastvale, CA / City of Norco - Government

Okay all our FFA alumni and members.

We all know someone who wears their boots all day, every day.

Yep.

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From Jon Coupal

New Assembly bills are the latest attacks on Prop. 13 New Assembly bills are the latest attacks on Prop. 13

For those Norco folks that did not hear or know.

Chuck Chastain steps down as Norco football coach, heading to Roosevelt Chastain stepped down after nine seasons in charge at his alma mater to take the coaching position a few miles down the road.

There goes the neighborhood!

Inland Empire to grow twice as fast as rest of Southern California in next 25 years By 2048, the Inland Empire is expected to be home to more people than all of LA County.

Yuk!

In 25 years, housing will look different in Inland Empire Homes will be more dense, more vertical and more energy efficient – but some fear there won’t be enough homes for everyone.

Cold, wet and windy forecast.

Wild weather on the way: Whipping winds, rain, low-level snow, extreme cold “It’s going to be pretty unpleasant for a couple days here.”

In observance of Presidents' Day, City Hall and satellite facilities will be closed today, Monday, February 20, and will reopen on Tuesday, February 21.

If you're experiencing an emergency (e.g., water leak, animal rescue, etc.), call (951) 371-1143. If you're experiencing a life-threatening emergency, call 9-1-1.

Proud of our Norco High FFA program, students, teachers and alumni.

National FFA Week | National FFA Organization Each year, FFA chapters around the country celebrate National FFA Week. It’s a time to share what FFA is and the impact it has on members every day.

Construction activity requires lane, ramp, and connector closures Feb. 21-25 in the City of Corona - City Government for the 91 Refresh Project. Please note that some closures will occur during daytime hours and on Saturday night.

Learn more: https://www.rctc.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/91-Refresh-Weekly-Alert-2.17.23.pdf

Stay updated by texting 91REFRESH to 77222.

Caltrans District 8 / City of Eastvale, CA / City of Norco - Government / CHP - Inland Division

Weather change. "Wind" in the forecast for Tuesday evening and Wednesday

WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 10 PM TUESDAY TO 6 PM PST WEDNESDAY
West winds 20 to 30 mph with gusts to 45 mph expected.
In San Bernardino and Riverside County Valleys-The Inland Empire, San Diego County Valleys and Orange County Inland Areas.
From 10 PM Tuesday to 6 PM PST Wednesday.
Impacts: Gusty winds could blow around unsecured objects. Tree limbs could be blown down.

Attention:
Even though today, Monday, February 20th is a Federal holiday, Presidents Day, there still will be regular trash and manure pickup in Norco.

Today is Presidents' Day
Presidents' Day for the year 2023 is celebrated/ observed on Monday, February 20th. President's Day, also known as Washington's Birthday, is on the third Monday of February each year and is a federal holiday in the United States.

You got to laugh!

Today, February 20th in history - US Space Flight

1962: First American orbits the earth
The Friendship 7 spacecraft and its pilot, Major John Glenn, make three orbits around the Earth and travel 65,763 nautical miles in just under five hours. Glenn's flight, called the Mercury-Atlas 6, comes just months after Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin's successful orbit of Earth on April 12, 1961.
Mercury-Atlas 6 (MA-6) was the first crewed American orbital spaceflight, which took place on February 20, 1962. Piloted by astronaut John Glenn and operated by NASA as part of Project Mercury, it was the fifth human spaceflight, preceded by Soviet orbital flights Vostok 1 and 2 and American sub-orbital flights Mercury-Redstone 3 and 4.
The Mercury spacecraft, named Friendship 7, was carried to orbit by an Atlas LV-3B launch vehicle lifting off from Launch Complex 14 at Cape Canaveral, Florida. After three orbits, the spacecraft re-entered the Earth's atmosphere, splashed down in the North Atlantic Ocean, and was safely taken aboard USS Noa. Total mission flight time was four hours 55 minutes and 23 seconds.

Get involved

📣 Attention Local Artists! On May 13, 1923, Rex Clark officially unveiled his new community called “Norco” and put the first properties up for sale, marking this year (2023) as the 100th Anniversary of the creation of the Norco Township! To commemorate this significant anniversary, local graphic designers, illustrators and artists are invited to enter the City of Norco’s 100th Anniversary Logo Design Contest. Tag a talented Norconian in the comments and join us as we celebrate a century rooted in rural living!

Contest Guidelines:

▪️ The contest is open to Norco residents, students and businesses. The winning artist will receive public recognition and will be paid $250 for the City of Norco to retain full rights to the design.

▪️ The design must showcase the number “100,” highlight Norco’s agrarian heritage, and include the anniversary slogan, “A Century Rooted in Rural Living.”

▪️ Contestants are asked to submit a unique design that is also simple enough to be easily replicated in black and white, seen from a distance and translated into more complicated formats, such as embroidery and engraving, for various merchandise.

▪️ Entries must be submitted as a one-color vector file (EPS or Ai) and emailed to [email protected] by February 28, 2023.

For more information, visit www.norco.ca.us/100Logo or contact the Communications Division at [email protected].

Looks like Norco is going to get cold and wet this week.
FEBRUARY 19 - 26

SUN 2/19 68° /41° Increasing clouds

MON 2/20 71° /42° Mostly sunny

TUE 2/21 66° /41° Times of clouds and sun, 20% chance of rain

WED 2/22 55° /38° Cooler with a stray shower around 40%

THU 2/23 52° /40° Mostly cloudy, 82% chance of a shower; cool

FRI 2/24 51° /42° Cool with periods of rain at 62% chance

SAT 2/25 56° /36° Cloudy, 69% chance of brief showers; cool

SUN 2/26 57° /41° Mostly cloudy with a 67% chance of showers

Sharing this opinion article written by Bill Young of the Riverside Sheriff's Association.

FAILED JUSTICE SYSTEM
Officers are paying with their lives
A disturbing and ugly trend has been happening with tragic frequency over the past several months: law enforcement
officers are being murdered in the line of duty by career felons who should have been in custody but were instead let loose
on society by a failing criminal justice system.
On December 29, 2022, Riverside County Sheriff Deputy Isaac Cordero was murdered by a lifelong felon, William Shae
McKay. McKay has an extensive criminal history dating back to before 2000, with charges that included: kidnapping,
robbery and multiple assaults with deadly weapons. He was on the streets only because San Bernardino County Judge Cara
D. Hutson inexplicably allowed him to be free on bail following his most recent conviction at trial for a violent felony,
which was also his third strike. That felon naturally failed to appear for sentencing and killed Deputy Cordero during a
traffic stop.
On January 31, 2023, Selma, California Police Officer Gonzalo Carrasco, Jr. was ambushed and murdered by a career
criminal, Nathaniel Dixon. After a woman flagged down Officer Carrasco and told him there was a suspicious person on
her property, Officer Carrasco began to approach the location on foot and was immediately shot. The criminal had been
sentenced to five years and two months in a California prison in 2022 for charges involving robbery, weapons and drugs
but was released to the streets on “community supervision” only five months after arriving in prison.
On February 7, 2023, Milwaukee, Wisconsin Police Officer Peter Jerving was murdered in the line of duty while chasing a
robbery suspect Terrell Thompson on foot. The day before, Thompson had been in court on two separate hit-and-run cases
and was allowed to plead to one while the other was dismissed. After imposing a 120-day jail sentence, the Judge stayed the
sentence and freed the suspect on one year of probation.
On February 11, 2023, Fountain, Colorado Police Officer Julian Becerra died ten days after he fell off a bridge while in a
foot chase of a man who had fled from a stolen vehicle and was in the midst of a crime spree that included an attempted
carjacking. That suspect, a career criminal, was free on the streets after walking away from a local community “inmate
transition” program he had been placed into after serving only six months in prison on an 18-month prison sentence.
Following the murder of Officer Carrasco, Fresno County District Attorney List Smittcamp said his death shone a bright
light on the reality of a political agenda that puts “closing prisons and freedom of felons over the safety of all Californians.”
Similarly, Mayor Sharon Thompson of the city of Fountain decried the leniency of our criminal justice system, which led to
the death of Officer Becerra, stating the suspect in his case, “should never have been out on the street in the first place, but
due to a lack of accountability in our justice system…… (was) allowed to prey on our citizens and create the circumstances
that put Officer Becerra on the bridge that night.”
Their comments apply to not only the death of Officer Becerra but that of Deputy Cordero, Officer Carrasco, and Officer
Jerving. These four law enforcement deaths are half of the eight law enforcement deaths since December 29, 2022, which
are not the result of an accident or illness.
In each of these four cases, the criminal justice system deliberately failed to hold a career criminal accountable, and a law
enforcement officer paid with their lives for that failure.
Bill Young is president of the Riverside Sheriffs’ Association

February 19, 1945: 30,000 US Marines land on Iwo Jima
The Battle of Iwo Jima (19 February – 26 March 1945) was a major battle in which the United States Marine Corps (USMC) and United States Navy (USN) landed on and eventually captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA) during World War II.
Three Marine divisions make an amphibious landing on the beaches of a desolate, volcanic island 650 miles south of Tokyo. The ensuing battle with entrenched Japanese forces will be one of WWII's bloodiest.
The Battle of Iwo Jima was a major battle in which the United States Marine Corps and United States Navy landed on and eventually captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II. The American invasion, designated Operation Detachment, had the purpose of capturing the island with its two airfields: South Field and Central Field.

February 19, 1942, in US History - FDR orders internment of Japanese Americans
Responding to paranoia after the Pearl Harbor attack, President Roosevelt signs an order that will lead to some 110,000 people of Japanese ancestry, including American citizens, to be forced into internment camps. In 1988, the Civil Liberties Act will pay $1.6B to internees and their families for this 'grave injustice.'
During World War II, the United States forcibly relocated and incarcerated at least 125,284 people of Japanese descent in 75 identified incarceration sites. Most lived on the Pacific Coast, in concentration camps in the western interior of the country. Approximately two-thirds of the inmates were United States citizens. These actions were initiated by president Franklin D. Roosevelt via an executive order shortly after Imperial Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor.

Today, February 19th in history

1847: The Donner Party is rescued
Surviving members of the ill-fated Donner Party, a group of pioneers snowbound in a Sierra Nevada mountain pass for almost four months, are finally located by a rescue party. Harrowing tales follow, including accounts of cannibalism.
The Donner Party, sometimes called the Donner–Reed Party, was a group of American pioneers who migrated to California in a wagon train from the Midwest. Delayed by a multitude of mishaps, they spent the winter of 1846–1847 snowbound in the Sierra Nevada mountain range. Some of the migrants resorted to cannibalism to survive, eating the bodies of those who had succumbed to starvation, sickness, and extreme cold.
The Donner Party originated from Springfield, Illinois, and departed Independence, Missouri, on the Oregon Trail in the spring of 1846, behind many other pioneer families who were attempting to make the same overland trip. The journey west usually took between four and six months, but the Donner Party was slowed after electing to follow a new route called the Hastings Cutoff, which bypassed established trails and instead crossed the Rocky Mountains' Wasatch Range and the Great Salt Lake Desert in present-day Utah. The desolate and rugged terrain, and the difficulties they later encountered while traveling along the Humboldt River in present-day Nevada, resulted in the loss of many cattle and wagons, and divisions soon formed within the group.
By early November, the migrants had reached the Sierra Nevada but became trapped by an early, heavy snowfall near Truckee Lake (now Donner Lake) high in the mountains. Their food supplies ran dangerously low, and in mid-December some of the group set out on foot to obtain help. Rescuers from California attempted to reach the migrants, but the first relief party did not arrive until the middle of February 1847, almost four months after the wagon train became trapped. Of the 87 members of the party, 48 survived the ordeal. Historians have described the episode as one of the most fascinating tragedies in California history and in the entire record of American westward migration.

PROJECT PROGRESS: Crews are making progress on removing the existing Hamner Ave. bridge in preparation for crews to construct the new eastern span bridge footings.

Today in Palm Desert - CIF-SS Soccer Playoff

Norco vs Palm Desert Boys Soccer - Feb 18, 2023 View pregame, live and post-game details from the Norco vs. Palm Desert California game on Feb 18, 2023

SR-74 Daytime Lane Closures 2/22 - 2/24 Plan ahead to avoid delays, use alternate routes! SR-74 Ortega Lane Widening Project Near Lake Elsinore Daytime Lane Closures February 22 - 24, 2023 RIVERSIDE, CA – The California Department of Transp