Friday, June 12, 2009

Memorials, Movies, Music and More

June 12, 2009

The Fontana Historical Society will be dedicating a veterans memorial rose garden and flagpole on Sunday, June 14 during a Flag Day ceremony at a park near City Hall. The park is located at 16830 Spring Street in Fontana. The 2 p.m. ceremony, society members will dedicate a section of the park as a veterans memorial and will be selling plaques to be inscribed with names of Fontana veterans. The city's planned 350 rose bush garden has already planted 51 roses bushes that make up the veterans garden. The garden is a great tribute to veterans and it is fitting for it to be dedicated on Flag Day.

This evening, Friday, June 12, the Recreation Department will kick off the 2009 summer season of "Movies in the Park", a hugely successful and free event. The movies are shown on Friday evenings at Brookside Park in Redlands. The showings begin at dusk and are targeted to a family audience.

On Saturday and Sunday, the final performances of "Peter Pan, the Musical" will be held at the Lifehouse Theater at 1135 N. Church Street in Redlands. For information regarding availability of seating call 909-335-3037

Saturday evening at 8 p.m. at the California Theatre of Performing Arts, 542 W. Fourth Street in San Bernardino, You can experience a bit of nostalgia with The Temptations Review with Dennis Edwards and the Spinners. Tickets are $45-$99 with information available at http://www.ticketmaster.com/

And for the "More" you can go to the Highland Springs Resort for the fifth annual Lavender Festival. You do not have to go to Italy or France to see a brilliant array of lavender plants in bloom. The event runs from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday and Sunday (next weekend as well).
The resort is located at 10600 Highland Springs Avenue off the 10 freeway in Banning. For more information call 951-845-1151.

This is just a sampling of what is happening in the Inland Empire of Southern California. Never, never say that there is nothing to do!

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