The Johnson Valley Cinco de Mayo Fiesta happens on Saturday afternoon, May 7, and you are invited!
Admission is $10 per person. You get a free frozen margarita, the taco grill dinner, and the dessert bar! If you go for another margarita, it’s $3.
Doors open at 2:30, and the event lasts from 3 to 6 p.m. Enjoy chips and dips with your margaritas.
The taco grill will be working from 4 to 5:30. Choose carne asada, chicken or pork tacos, add your choice of salsas, plus rice and beans, and lots of choices on the dessert bar.
Eat indoors or under the shade pergola at the front entry, or outdoors on the back patio or in the Paul Van Hook Desert Dreams Garden next to the parking area.
To come to the JV community center, from scenic Highway 247, between mile markers 21 and 22, turn at the red Johnson Valley sign onto Larrea Road (paved). Go 1¾ miles up to the Quailbush Road crossing; the center is on your left.
There’s lots to hear about as the Homestead Valley Community Council meets at 3 p.m. Monday at the Yucca Mesa Community Center at 3133 Balsa Ave., just off Aberdeen Drive.
One hot topic on the agenda is the unpopular “glamping” (glamorous camping) project proposed on a large parcel south of Flamingo Heights. Its entry would be from Old Woman Springs Road just after it climbs out of Pipes Wash and makes a quick curve to head north. Developers plan for permanent facilities with amenities for up to 300 guests!
HVCC will present their comments, and provide information on how you can send your own comments, due Thursday. Time is getting short.
Another topic of interest: If you are a property owner in an unincorporated area in this county, it’s probably in Fire Protection District 5. You probably pay your FP-5 parcel tax with a lot of grumbling. Of course, any parcel tax by its nature has to be deemed unfair. No matter the assessed value, the most valuable property is taxed the same as the least, even an undeveloped, unoccupied plot out in the boonies, with little or no likelihood of calling for any county fire services.
The parcel tax pays for firefighting and emergency rescue services in Fire Protection Service Zone 5, which was expanded to most county areas in 2018. That includes everyone in the Morongo Basin except for Morongo Valley, which has its own fire department. It also covers the entire budget for county firefighting and rescue services in Twentynine Palms. Last year, the parcel tax brought in a reported $41.5 million countywide.
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A speaker at Monday’s HVCC meeting, Tom Murphy from the Red Brennan Group, will do a presentation on the repeal of the FP-5 fire tax their group promotes. (In the May HVCC meeting, Fire Chief Dan Munsey will come to present on the financial state of the SB County Fire Dept. Fair and balanced.)
The sheriff’s gangs/narcotics division has posted more big numbers in their advisory on Operation Hammer Strike, weeks 31 and 32 of their battle against the illegal pot farms all over the Southern California Hi-Desert.
There were 53 search warrants garnered; 54 suspects arrested; 82,116 cannabis plants seized with 7,496 pounds of processed marijuana; 4,421 grams of concentrated cannabis; 2,268 grams of psilocybin mushrooms; 16 grams of methamphetamine; 29 firearms seized; and an estimated $204,000 in cash seized.
They logged 321 greenhouses eradicated; one electrical bypass mitigated (a severe fire hazard); three THC extraction labs. They estimate the total wholesale product value of the cannabis seized is $53,409,400 (a low-ball estimate). That averages $3,814,957 per day!
No wonder we were overrun with this scourge of the desert.
Don’t remember noticing mushrooms or meth in the roundup lists before. Maybe they were for the growers’ recreation after a hard day’s watching the grass grow.
If you have information regarding this investigation please send word to the sheriff’s gangs/narcotics division at (909) 387-8400 or narc-met@sbcsd.org. Or report anonymously on the We-tip Hotline at (800) 782-7463, or you may leave the information online at the We-Tip Hotline at wetip.com.
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