OP-ED

Welcome to our new Intern, Godfreyd Tuazon, an honors student at Crafton Hills College.  He works three days a week as well as attending classes in the IT field and we are delighted that he is helping us get the website working even better in his “spare time.”  We have had four college interns thus far, and they have helped us a lot.  MM is sorry we haven’t been able to post anything for months after starting the website because of a lack of help and feels very bad that we couldn’t upload the posters advertising the wonderful events we have in Mentone in the summer and fall.  Hopefully, it won’t take long to be able to do so.  We are also going to be able to notify everyone whose e-mail addresses we have of news so they can check out the site.  We also need to put up permanent signs around town, advertising MentoneMatters.org., so everyone will know what’s going on in town.  Without a local newspaper since 1943, and some of us not wanting to read about Redlands, it is hard to “get the word out” as to what is going on.  The Reynolds’ (see “Interested in Mentone History?” elsewhere) have copies of Grandfather Reynolds’ newspapers and share tidbits with MM, which hopes to have more of them on the site in the future, once this editor/publisher learns how to upload photo-type items.  MM is also wondering: If State Senators can term out why can’t we have U.S. Senators and Representatives time out, too?  One feels that sometimes they do not have their constituents’ best interests at heart, but just politics.        

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