Norco Pony Express (Newspaper) - August 14, 1975, Norco, California 13. No. 31 August 14,1975 734 0210 2429 Hamner A finishes a 19'year detour has just been by Roland Ray of the Olive Tree Ranch on Arroyo He his 19 years of working with Hughes Aircraft a between times doing what he on an Arkansas he moved at an early age with his family to where he grew up on another It was hi Missouri that he took another a shortcut to feed the that turned out to be a two-year stint with doctors and He fdl a dam that was I fM a shonent and broke his I up with one leg shorter than the other and a permanent now he's done with all content on his ranch in two years Though only 47, he retired from Hughes in June so he could to make the ranch as self-sufficient as on his shady patio with a late breeze cooling the he gestured to the west where sheep graze and worm beds Voice accompanied by the of the omnipresent he said the worms were what his latest land purchase That addition brought the ranch up to its present eight ranch is L-shaped with the house Arroyo and the land extending then turning east with other older facing On the lawn bn Valley View is a huge old pepper its trunk so large and gnarled it take three or four men with arms extended to reach around it. The buildings acquired in the later purchase are also quite old with % chicken coop that could well have been one of the built in when chicken ranching became big in There's also a bamboo thicket that looks as if it's been there a very long time and would probably take many to income source for the Rays is He buys calves and raises them to about 300 then sells He keeps the youngest in individual graduating them to larger pens in the old chicken coop and then pastures has enough land now to support pasture and large sprinklers chuck out water to keep it are a few pigs waiting for a new concrete pen to be built that will ' give them the water their skins need without the mud that makes them so has a modest of some ducks and like many others these he and his have a kitchen garden to provide fresh vegetables for their long hike from the house over to the area where the calves are has prompted him to order a small motorized to make the he eight acres isn't a farm to a it is in an area that sells half-acre lots as he and lie thinks the time may come when he'll add on even gradually becoming used to not going to work every he and there's of work to be done on the developing enough to make a person plenty tired at there's fatigue and then there's good fatigue and when you're following a that's I sleep well EVELYN recalls the day SHE got handed a takes a lot of and a lot of hard work to put on the Valley Fair each Done by people you see every day and others you rarely of are members of the Chamber of Commerce if they aren't working on it every day of the are about it months in And the chamber Lynne is probably into it more than any other there are the clubs which each year set up their booths and get the to run The 4-H clubs whose members on animals for in order to show The who make items for And the persons who manage special of the latter is Mary Evelyn Smith who has managed the baby contest for the last five years or so - she isn't quite sure sorting the entries is a lot of she just trying to make out some of those Can't read or they leave things out or get things the biggest problem is always the There are unhappy parents after it's One for i mother who's didn't win came up to me while I was still on the stage and presented me with a Tickle finger of She earlier at some time a came up before hand and said his granddaughter heitar win I keep telling them I Jutt run the The do tte And the judges are always Crom out of don't know anyone in smith said she got into contest by helping Phyllis quit J just kept and her have two Reva and Mary now boQi grown and The Smiths have lived in Norco yeart were in Arlington 12 years Mm that and in Norco before used to raiae and aell now they raise just a few ife held at 3 p.m. on tlie Sunday of the fair i It ii into four for four for W and All ha aUa to walk on Entry blanks are RAY STANDS BY PASTURE GATE AT REAR OF in split on trail planning commissioners Monday night voted 3-2 not to delete the trail in front of Norco Junior High and then voted to add a trail along Third Street to connect and Corona 3-2 vote goes against a city council request to have the trail between Third and Fourth streets on Avenue council had wanted to remove the traU since it was paved to the curb by mistake and also it was felt there is some danger to riders there because of traffic around the was by the council that the trail system could still be linked by adding the stretch of Third Street and the commissioners did Jerry Riley noted that the planners had originally yw UUnk cities should pay chambers of commerce for promotion of Uie cities - advertising and so commercial because is necessary and PAT nurse's I don't think it would hurt the city If it would JOAN registered I each should pay for its own parte maintenance have always that was so I think the city should the brochures such as where to eat and where to stay in then each listed should ttum the SHARON 8IMONEl4,IOra think eadi should pay if the are advertising their not the to put the trail in front of the Commissioner Clements asked what the council's objection to the trail there Chairman Jim Meador said he would have to make assumptions in order to answer I'd Vaughan said that the street there is fronted by an R-1 zone horses are not allowed because tA lot who move here have said were established many moons and I see no reason to alter argued that the trail can cause problems because of parking the school at times when the school's own tot is filled but he later voted not to delete councilman Louis de Bottari came forward to say he agreed with another comment of Riley's that are going to ride there He said it is a trail now but it has asphalt over it that's councilman Melvin King also during the public saying there are a lot of schools in town if you eliminate a in front of you may in front of many I can't accept any trail only Kids and adults will ride there so Just make it as Safe as man who lives that Pat said he is against a trail because he's had to order ridos off his property some get quite He said they ride in the middle of the street at and also sometimes force pedestrians up into in said zone and I wish to note that we do have trails in froot of but this is the only one in an R-1 I think it ever should have been put We aren't Just adding Rudy Lagmay said he didn't fed the traU there was mistake that he feels it is ideal for a street is leas Reservoir Drive or Corona Avenue at the peak of the I think for safety is better once the development the is can hardly get the money for trail upkeep even on safe trails like in the where there's no Meador made the motion against deleting the trail and Meador and Vaughan voted against the was no argument against adding the Third Street and the vote came quickly to do by a trail there costly It is chance to discuss Parks and Recreation Commission didn't have a chance to discuss a possible Joint use of a building proposed by the Norco Church of the Nazarene because Rev. Jim Hamilton didn't show up planned the had been offered to the city for its use if the city would pay half the costs of in the absence of that the commission talked about another to be built with city funds at the Community The not received the even the city has approved the facility and appropriated a total of which includes in the current The rest is from two earlier decided to ask the council again for the
