• Rumors of a Craft Beer Festival in Wildomar Are a Brewing

Oh yeah, gotta love the cheesy headline I came up with, but if all goes well, by Autumn of 2018, Wildomar will be the host area for the Santa Rosa Plateau's fund raiser involving craft beers.

Their aspiration is to evolve this into a signature event for them and the city. Starting it off slowly, with hopes that over time it would develop into something that would bring in people from all of SoCal, and even other parts of the nation. 

I'd first heard chatter about such a thing a couple of months ago, and at the recent Parks Subcommittee meeting the details were gone over by Santa Rosa Plateau's Ginger Greaves.

At the start of her presentation she played the following video in hopes of "educating you (the committee) a little more about what we do". 

The power point presentation was interesting and filled with many possibilities. Clearly an idea with a lot of potential. Marna O'Brien Park was mentioned as the perfect site for at least the first several years as the event grows.

This may be reason to dust off plans for a hotel in town. I think I remember being told that there is a pad right next to city hall that is already designated for such a thing too. ☺

I'd love to hear more about the "future Wildomar Parks' Foundation." It wasn't elaborated on during the meeting.

"Marketing for the city of Wildomar. It would enhance your city profile to potential businesses and developers. Providing an opportunity for partners wanting to invest in Wildomar. [A]s your build-out evolves, and recognizing that you have a 40% undeveloped space, events like this can help portray the community as a vibrant and progressive city, with quality offerings for their residents."

—Ginger Greaves

As a longtime resident of Wildomar, one really has to like the sound of that. With the right groundwork and people behind it, this could be what puts the area on the map. A Signature Event for the city.

I know that for many years the Wildomar Rotary Club has hosted a yearly barbecue, but this year it didn't materialize. There is talk of having it come back next year, at least in some form, but it wasn't listed among the 2018 events I saw last night. 

As much as I love the Rotary Club —heck, I'm even a member in good standing as of this blog ☺, I'd love to see another group of people take the lead in a key event such as the one discussed here.

They still have a few more ducks to get in a row, then they plan on announcing the 2018 date later this year. They haven't settled on a specific date yet, but expect it to be anywhere from the last weekend in September up through the start of November. 

They're looking to make sure that the date isn't in conflict with any other regional events before opting for one.

Late September seems like the best time. That way the headaches of the holiday season can be avoided.

Let's hope there's more on this topic to blog about before the year's out.

This graphic was in the power point presentation.

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“Whoever drinks beer, he is quick to sleep; whoever sleeps long, does not sin; whoever does not sin, enters Heaven! Thus, let us drink beer!”
– Martin Luther

Wildomar Rap harkens back to the halcyon days of youth, and recalls the quickest path to sleep. It involved three 24 ounce cans of Steel 211. Not sure that it was all that heavenly the next day though. 

• Parks Schedule 2015

Tonight was a Wildomar Parks Subcommittee Meeting. The two members of the committee are Council Member Marsha Swanson and Mayor Pro-Tem Bridgette Moore.

Lots of good information from the agenda and the public speakers. The agenda covered special events,  park rules and policies, and signage.

Here is the proposed schedule of special events for 2015. The firm list will come after the city council votes on it.

Also mentioned were two Astronomy Nights Aug 22nd and Sept 19th. 

Last year Wildomar had many good special events; start saving the dates now. 

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The part of the meeting that dealt with park rules was fun and lively. When you get down to it, respectful people DON'T need rules, and disrespectful people couldn't care less.

Rules are here due to those that have no regard for others, and those people (to be read pejoratively) will only follow rules if there is an authority figure there forcing them to conform to community standards. If your ears are burning, then YES I'm talking to you.

The topic of flying drones was brought up. A person that lives near the park had a guy flying a camera equipped drone hovering near his backyard fence. He went over to the park and found a guy with a suitcase worth of computer equipment that controlled it.

I'm thinking that your right to fly your camera equipped drone, ends where my backyard begins.

The other rules were pretty stock and standard... though some of the wording led to some discussion.

Alcohol was discussed... can you imagine a kid's birthday with the adults kneedeep in a hops fueled bender? Glad that one got laughed out.

Also things like golfing in the park, along with archery, and "games of hazardous nature".

"Games of a hazardous nature" sure seems wide open for interpretation.

What does it take to be considered "Hazardous"?

A toddler being hit in the head with a frisbee, is that hazardous? Sure it was an accident, but seems "hazardous" at the same time... that could also apply to a baseball or a football that takes unpredictable bounces.

Parks aren't perfect, and there is a certain amount of shared responsibility when sharing a park with others. To paraphrase one public speaker, we don't want parks where about the only thing you can do is walk in and walk back out.

As for "Signage" it was regarding the wording that will be put on rules signs that will be at the park. Unless these kinds of signs, with rules, are new or something... I don't remember ever seeing any in any park I went to when I was growing up (though I did see those types of signs at public swimming pools). If they were there, I didn't even notice them.

Point being, signs have no real meaning to kids that have parents that don't teach them respect for others. So rules signs are basically something for kids to tag since they won't be reading them, much less being concerned about how their actions will negatively affect others. The other kids already know right from wrong and won't need to read them either.

A look at what the signs will look like. Including the non emergency number to report problems.

Also mentioned was the development of a skate park on the north side of Corydon at Lake Elsinore's Serenity Park. Construction is to begin this year, and there's talk of a bicycle area too.

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Know the rules well, so you can break them effectively.
― Dalai Lama XIV

Wildomar Rap loves wine and cheese, just not cheesy whining!

• City Meeting Double Header

Tonight there were two city meetings. First was the Parks Subcommittee meeting, which has Mayor Marsha Swanson and Council Member Bridgette Moore on it, also on the dais was City Manager Gary Nordquist.

In it was discussed many items. From the future calendar of events for the parks to improvements, like the mention of covers for the playground areas, a water fountain and bathroom at Windsong Park (that would be greatly appreciated).

Highlights of coming events over the rest of the year:

• June 21st, Movie in the Park (Marna O'Brien Park)
• July 5th, Incorporation Day (Marna O'Brien Park)
• July 19th, Movie in the Park (Windsong Park)
• July 25th, Wildomar Night at the Storm (The Diamond, Lake Elsinore)
• August 9th, Camp Out at the Park, (Marna O'Brien Park)
• August 23rd, Freedom Swing dedication (Marna O'Brien Park)
• November 1, Trunk or Treat (Marna O'Brien Park)
• December  13, Breakfast with Santa (TBD)

Another hot topic [with the audience anyway] was should there be "sing-alongs" where there are movies in the park, and which titles would be best to play. I'm guessing that inter-generational relations will be put back 50 years if such a thing is really tried, especially with The Sound of Music... but if that title isn't available why not Singing in the Rain?

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The second end of double header was a Budget Workshop hosted by City Manager Gary Nordquist. It was mostly comprised of boilerplate stuff. Facts and figures about past budgets and revenue forecasts. When we got to the part with public input a guy from City by App got up, I believe he was invited by Mayor Pro-Tem Ben Benoit.

For a total of $3560 a year, the city can participate with a mobile app that would keep people updated on all sorts of things. I'd like to be more detailed here, but I'm not a smartphone guy so I zoned out when all the gadget talk was going on. 

Grace Morabito was enthusiastic for it. She was happy to report that she'd already been using the apps for news from Murrieta and Temecula.

Sheila Urlaub went to the microphone to ask the CityByApp rep a question. She wanted to know if it could be affected by the same kinds of trolls that post outrageous things at a local site called The Patch. They made it clear that such nonsense doesn't take place on their app. If you know The Patch that counts as two tallies in the positive column.

Here's a link to the website, you decide if it's something you'd like Wildomar to get or not.  

http://citybyapp.com/

So it was asked if there were anymore thoughts from the public so I went up there and mentioned  more code enforcement. I referenced the CityByApp we'd just heard about while pulling my flip phone out from my pocket, raising it high, as I kiddingly said, "You can take this from me when you pry it from my cold dead fingers."

"As nifty as the smartphone app thing is, we could really use more code enforcement in our town. There are real things that make our city a lesser place that are allowed to become permanent." 

I find it funny that there are those out there that don't want the codes, that 95+% of us abide by, uniformly enforced. The lack of enforcement only leads to a dirtier and coarser city. Once one person decides they don't need to follow the rules of the community, others say, "If he's not gonna, then I'm not gonna either."

If you live in one of the rural sections of town, I get why you don't care one way of the other. Most of the residents in Wildomar live in neighborhoods, and I dare say that most of us would like our city to be a nice place with standards. Sure, there are some that think trying to be a "nice place" is just too fancy for our town... and they like it dirty. Sorry fellas, you're in the minority on this one.

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