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Following in their Parent’s Footsteps

May 05, 2006 11:07AM ● By Don Kindred

We are a society who puts aside one day a year dedicated to our mothers and our fathers. Somehow on those individual days we try to express to our parents how much they mean to us, how much they’ve taught us and influenced us, and how grateful we are for all they’ve done

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Citizens Shape San Clemente

May 05, 2006 10:08AM ● By Don Kindred

San Clemente's first schoolhouseSince the creation of the first Architectural Review Committee by City Founder Ole Hanson in 1925, groups of residents have shaped the architectural legacy of San Clemente.

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Ocean Festival Memories

May 05, 2006 09:58AM ● By Don Kindred

In the summer of 1981, I was living in Mission Viejo. My friend Fred suggested we go to the beach in San Clemente and meet up with his friend Christy. It was the weekend of the Ocean Festival so Christy had wandered away from her usual Linda Lane spot to look at sandcastles.

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30 Years of Memories - "San Clemente Ocean Festival"

May 05, 2006 09:45AM ● By Don Kindred

It’s been three decades – almost a third of a century - since a small, devoted group first created a local water-oriented event, turning it into a “…making it happen every year” celebration. And it has…

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San Clemente's Early Party Life

Feb 05, 2006 12:10PM ● By Don Kindred

‘Effie & Cowger’ celebrating 49’er days.The founder of San Clemente envisioned an active social life in the village, as well as the benefits of the outdoor life.

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"Gateway to Gold Mountain”

Feb 05, 2006 12:06PM ● By Don Kindred

Between 1910 and 1940 immigrants entering America through the Pacific came to Angel Island Immigration Station in the San Francisco Bay

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The Great Debate Comes to an End

Feb 05, 2006 11:57AM ● By Don Kindred

The west facing rendering of the new clubhouse.Over the past few years the great debate over the San Clemente golfcourse clubhouse has been remodel vs replace. Sentiment runs high on both sides as golf has seen both a decline in play and the addition of many new courses in southern California.

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U.N. World Heritage Site for Gulf

Nov 05, 2005 04:40PM ● By Greg Niemann

Playa Requeson in the Sea of Cortez.With so much of Baja California slated for progress and development, it was welcome tidings for environmentalists when the United Nations Educational, Scientific, Cultural Organization (UNESCO) selected the marine-rich Gulf of California (Sea of Cortez) as one of its newest U.N. World Heritage Sites.

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