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Home My WebLink About37- Public Comment r March 21, 2011 San Bernardino City Council Mtg. Honorable Mayor; City Council, & attendees. I have returned with a year old matter which I posed to this illustrious group on April 19, 2010. That request was for the Bicentennial Historical Preservation Commission to designate the house at 2966 Park Ave, in the Del Rosa area of San Bernardino, as one of the 200 historic sites to be marked with a commorative plaque. The reason being,that it was the home where the 1St initial meeting of the CSO (Community Service Organization) was held with Cesar E. Chavez placed at the helm of 12 Chapters in our Southland. I submitted a book I authored, titled"Inland Empire Paves the Way for Cesar E Chavez" as testimony& data. The Book documents and names groups and Hispanic people of San Bernardino, & Inland Empire who were trained and worked with Chavez in grass roots voter registration, citizenship&education classes from 1954-1960. I proposed that this merited historical recognition&proof whereby we can claim that Chavez has early roots in our City. I.e. like McDonald's, Taco Bell & Bakers drive-thru restaurants. Also joining me that day was the Perez Family---Victor, Ray and Jennie whose family held meetings at their home in Sn Bdno., &whose brother Louis Perez a Hi School student&Judy Valles a student at Valley College did volunteer work in CSO also. I gifted my two books to Mayor Morris at that time, also. Last year, I posed the matter to The Bicentennial Committee,to Nick Cataldo & the San Bernardino Historical Society, to Susie Earp, Rabbi Cohen& our City Council ---NOTHING! In fact, Mr. Marc Grossman, Communications Director from the Cesar Chavez Foundation in Sacramento, & Ms Farinas, granddaughter of Chavez& representative from the Chavez Museum in Keene, CA were interested in supporting this worthy cause of our Hispanic Heritage in America. However, I did not hear from Ms Hazlett, so I could not make those arrangements for them]to come. �j ;w lG�zo�►.(a.at��f'�'�lt�'@1 /Di�.� .c.+•,- ?`�(0 72G-r.� Qoc��f'` .Yi 6 6c Now, a year has gone by& I have not heard positive word about our request. I am back with the matter again, & I would like an answer ASAP as March 31St is Cesar Chavez's birthday celebration& State Holiday. I hope you will act on this now. Thank you, Carmen Dominguez Nevarez II (909) 567 2405 Entered into ReC, at MCC/CDC Mtg: x lI Agenda item No: 7 by: ce�� City CIeiR DC Secretary City of San Bernardino r Page I of 1 ty -to G- cax- Date: Thursday, March 10, 2011 2:33 PM From: Marc Grossman <marc @lstreet.com> To: cnevarez3 @roadrunner.com Cc: Bernadette Farinas<bfarinas @cecfmail.org> Subject: Reply from the Cesar Chavez Foundation Carmen Nevarez: Bernadette Farinas with the Visitor's Center at the National Chavez Center in La Paz(and also one of Cesar's granddaughters)forwarded your message from last week about appearing before the City Council to join you in supporting placement of a historical marker at the house where Cesar Chavez conducted his first housemeeting when he was organizing the San Bernardino chapter of the Community Service Organization in the mid-1950s. It sounds like a very worthwhile endeavor and we would like to get some further information, including the status of the proposal and the date and time of the council meeting. Would you please let us know whatever you have or give us your phone number so we can speak about it? Many thanks for contacting the Cesar Chavez Foundation. We look forward to hearing from you again soon. Marc Marc Grossman Communications Director Cesar Chavez Foundation 916-708-4022(mobile) marc @lstreet.com www.chavezfoundation.org g� ` A6 THE SUN I sbsun.com x�"w ytV y 1 I 1 e Camp Cajon could make the list for historic site statusas photo part of San Bernardino's bicentennial celebration. c Historic sites needed for S bicente .al fete nni ell here we are... its,2010 and a huge yearlong bicenten- nial celebration honoring San x Bernardino is about to begin. NICK In conjunction with the event, the San Bernardino CATALDO Historic Preservation Commis- Sion and San Bernardino trolleys.And by 1961, Cars the Historical and Pioneer SocietNI once popular Big Red is developing a list called were no more. "200 Historic Sites for 200 One of the trolley lines in Years."And the best part is the San Bernardino Valley that you can help out! provided These sites can be build- between Passenger Redlands n San ings and houses, decayed Bernardino from March 3, ruins, places commemorated 1903, until July 20, 1936, and r with plaques, or even a tangible reminder of its unmarked locations that you heyday is this old bridge. believe played a historical Unfortunately, this historic role in San Bernardino or its relic is on vicinity. All submissions must Private property include descriptive informa- quarters, but if you have a tion and a photo or two, if good camera with a zoom Possible. lens you can take as many Here are a few historic photos as you want. sites that I believe have a Camp Cajon tables: 20 round, chance of making the list. heavy,concrete tables rest in Harlem Springs, northeast San Bernardino's Perris Hill j corner of Victoria Avenue Park, and at Lytle Creek Park, r and Base Line in Highland: also in town, there are 23 During the 1880s, hot under- matching tables just as old. ground mineral water in the About 5 feet in diameter, San Bernardino Valley was steel-rimmed and with a used by large numbers of 12-inch iron inscription plate invalids and convalescents in the center of each, these who believed in its therapeu- tables were at one time tic qualities. 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