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"Our Yucaipa" © Submission Policy We're looking for fun, interesting and heart- warming stories about life in Yucaipa. If you've been here for generations or are fairly new, we invite everyone to share. We're accepting photos and articles about events from 100 years ago to events from last week. And if you have something planned for next month, let us know. We'd love to help you promote it. Yucaipa really is a great place to live and this is one way to acknowledge that. This is our publication about our town… Our Yucaipa. If you have any questions, or would like more information about advertising in "Our Yucaipa," please call Courtney Taylor at 909-797-3647 or e-mail YucaipaNews@yahoo.com. And be sure to go to imageup.uberflip.com to see all the issues on line. "Our Yucaipa" Invites You… 2 OUR YUCAIPA | APRIL 2014 OUR YUCAIPA | APRIL 2014 3 Contents El Dorado Park. Photo by Ellen Benefiel, Yucaipa resident. YUCAIPA PHOTOS WANTED! If you have a photo you'd like to submit for consideration for a future cover, please send high-res digital photos to YucaipaNews@yahoo. com. If we select your photo for the cover, you will receive a $25 gift card for a local restaurant. Editor/Publisher Courtney Fox Taylor Assistant Editor Emily Isaak Contributing Writers Jaelin Palmer Michele Peters Randy Peters Yucaipa Chamber of Commerce Account Executive Stacey Parr Staff Photographer Hilary Peters If you have suggestions or would like to submit an article to Our Yucaipa, call Image Up at 909-797-3647. Our Yucaipa Magazine 4-7 Chamber Of Commerce News Business news around town 8-9 Roller Derby Madness Yuc-Town Bombshells seek members 10-11 Crafton Building Boom Local college expansion plans 12 April Fool's Day Fun at the expense of our loved ones 13 New High School Built This Summer Yucaipa High School/Movie Theater 14 Middle of the Road Questions anyone? My name's Courtney and I'm a recovering slobaholic. It's been 14 years since my home was a giant pig sty. The only reason I'm no longer a slob is because my husband is a giant neat freak. It was either I drag him to my dark, smelly side or clean up my act and join him. I have to admit, it's nice having things put away. It's nice not being afraid that someone will drop by and want to come in. I remember seeing a friend pull up outside my house and, instead of greeting him and showing him into my home where I had several days of dishes in the sink, I fell to the floor and crawled out of "peeping in the window range" so he wouldn't spot me. It was rather silly. My car was in the driveway, the windows of my house were open, the television was on… I wasn't fooling anyone. I still have some secret messes. I have a junk drawer in the kitchen that I've forbidden my husband to clean - or even look at. I can barely open it myself and, once a year when I go through it, am pleasantly surprised to find a long- forgotten lip gloss, $5 chip from a casino, or pair of sunglasses. My make up drawers are packed with jars of concealer that I tried once and decided were the wrong shade of nude, powders that are almost completely gone but not quite, a dozen different combinations of eye shadow selections which will probably last me the rest of my life considering that I wear eye shadow twice a year, and 2,546 bobby pins which I use exactly never. Then there's the drawer of lotion, the basket of hotel shampoo and conditioner bottles, the hundreds of hair gels and creams that promise to straighten, curl, wave, bounce and/or shine. (Despite all that, my hair has looked the same since college, which was a "few" years ago.) One of my worst dirty little secrets was my sock drawer. In order to avoid having to ever match socks, I have always bought three or four dozen of the same sock brand and size. My system was to throw all my socks in one happy drawer, a jumbled mess that worked for me. Then, for Christmas this year, I asked for socks. I got all sorts of different brands, colors, patterns… and when I threw them all in the drawer, it was not a happy mess. It was just a mess. Finding matching socks became the bane of my existence and I was grateful for lovely So Cal flip-flop weather. But in the back of my mind, I knew they were there, writhing around unmatched. It became my tell-tale sock drawer. Finally I decided to sort it out. After months of worry, the task took all of 10 minutes. Now, it's not crazy-psycho-killer-neat like my husband's (who rolls each pair then carefully secures with a rubber band like the socks might decide to escape in the middle of the night and go dancing), but it works for me. My point? If you have a secret slob in you, tackle whatever you've been avoiding. It's probably not as big a nightmare as you've made it out to be. Clean out the garage, throw away the stash of nearly empty lotion bottles, get rid of pens that don't work, trash the box of phone bills from 1997. But keep the junk drawer just the way it is. A little bit of madness is a healthy thing. Normal, healthy person's sock drawer (mine) On the brink of insanity (his) Spring Cleaning for Good Mental Health

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