It is great that Fontana City is making great contributions to keeping the City's History Alive! If we didn't have our history, we would be lost, that is one thing that I certainly have learned in this life time. My Mother, lived her childhood through the second world war, and doesn't like what is going on in Iraq. However I support our Government, and feel that if there is a reason for us to get there and fight then thee is a good reason for this. I don't feel that we should go back to the ways of the Sixties and start protesting for things that the men and woman in Uniform Have to do over in Iraq today. For example. The so called Genocide that they are saying that our solders have committed, yet there is or has been little or no jury to convict or come out and say that it actually happened. You have to remember that the Enemy that they are fighting are people Men and woman that are carrying potted plants loaded with explosives and they are prepared to die. They take the children, Use the diaper Bag to fill it up with the baby's last good bye and the baby then the Baby, the Father, and Mother Explode the child, the check point, the solders and all the building surrounding the check point. Later down the road you will come upon a wall and the child, the father and mother will be painted on that wall as hero's to the battle against the war on Terror. We are fighting an Enemy that uses their children and they die and consider that a hero's death. they don't fire a shot, they explode themselves in a bomb, such as a suicide pact or a suicide all together. it is sad and how do you fight this. You get suspicious of someone and they don't speak English, you are trying to communicate with them as best you can with the check point and suddenly they are motioning to others and not doing what you want, now I am not saying this is what happened, however, I am saying what if this happened!!! Then the solders shot them killed them and asked the questions later in a search, but found nothing, that is a varies ad till, however they were not following instructions and they had some weird baggage that could have made everyone just a little stressed out, and the news is tearing you up and the solders up in the press, but the solders are going home, they are facing court Marshall, but they might be going home, they are alive after a very stressful situation where they felt that they were going to get killed!! a person yelling and spurting out a language that you are not familiar with, and then they are screaming at you not listening to the commands that you are not familiar with and it is stress and you feel that the next word out of the clowns mouth is the one that triggers the bomb that is on the car that is pulling up!! or the babies bag or the film bag that they are carrying!! Suddenly they are no more, and you feel super bad, and the anxiety is gone , and you can relax. After all you have been doing the check points for over seven months and you have seen several of your friends die from Bombs that were strapped to the bodies of the people that they were searching!!
Please be understanding to the Soldiers that are over there we don't know what they are going through, and surly it is something that we cannot just take a thought with our little perfect world over here and say well look what our solders are doing now, they are killers. because lets face it!! They are not searching and coming across School children that are looking to sell them Girl Scout Cookies now are they!!!
PLEASE PRAY FOR THE SOLDERS IN IRAQ!!
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Fontana Pacific Electric train depot now restored
By Leonor, Vivanco, Daily Bulletin, Staff Writer
FONTANA - Ninety years after it was built, city officials pried open the heavy, welded doors of one of the city's historic treasures.
When they walked into the Pacific Electric railroad freight train depot on Spring Avenue near Nuevo Avenue last fall, they realized just how dormant the building had become.
‘‘Inside, it was almost pitch black,'' said Ray Bragg, the city's director of redevelopment and special projects.
‘‘It was like walking into a Halloween haunted house with real-live cobwebs.''
Crews then began cleaning the depot, which was constructed in 1915, and put on a white coat of paint to brighten up the building, preparing it for its new life. Doors and windows were ordered to replicate the historic feel.
‘‘I can't believe how good it looks,'' Bragg said.
The refurbished depot will now house a pottery studio, art gallery and coffee shop.
The $438,000 project started in September, and the building just received its certificate of occupancy with the businesses now moving into their new digs.
The city's summer concert series is being held outside the depot from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. each Thursday through Aug. 24.
‘‘The coffee shop is going to give the people downtown, at City Hall and working people down there, a place to go and sit down and chat with friends,'' said Joan Geist, community relations representative for the Fontana Downtown Revitalization Task Force.
The depot is expected to once again be the gathering place it was during its heyday in the 1940s.
‘‘There was a lot of activity there with people going in and out. It was very active back then,'' said Geist, also a member of the Fontana Historical Society.
Rail cars hauled citrus until the depot's freight operations ceased in the 1950s. The depot later had a couple of different uses, including serving as a mercantile store before being vacated in the 1980s, Bragg said.
‘‘We're really happy we're able to reuse the building as a way to remind people of the past as well as looking forward into the future,'' Bragg said.
It is located near the Fontana Historical Society at the Hazel Putnam Historical Plaza.
‘‘The prize was where the passenger depot was,'' said society member Joe Bono.
The 1974 demolition of that structure, which featured Greek columns, sparked residents to get involved in saving the city's older buildings.
The historical society was founded by Mary Vagle when she saw old buildings being torn down and tried to save the Pacific Electric passenger depot.
‘‘We have to save what's left,'' Bono said.
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