Chamber of Commerce for the city of
San Dimas, CA. "San Marino is located in Southern California,
adjacent to the City of Pasadena at the foot of the San Gabriel Mountains.
3.75 square miles in size, the population was reported to be 12,988 in
1990.
The climate is temperate with temperatures ranging from an average of 40 F
during the winter months to an average of 90o F in the summer. Average
relative humidity is 15% with a total average precipitation of 19 inches.
Frost and snowfall are negligible."
San Marino Unified School
District. "The mission of SMUSD is to create and maintain a
learning environment that fosters in students the ability to make choices
based upon well reasoned strategies; to develop the capacity to respond
and adapt to changing circumstances and environments; to gain an
appreciation for learning as a lifelong process and to gain the skills and
knowledge necessary for a diverse, ever changing world.
The fundamental purpose of the SMUSD is to encourage each student to
develop his/her intellectual, social, and personal qualities in order to
participate fully in an interconnected community—be it local or global..."
San Dimas
Community History. "San Dimas, a city of about 35,000 people, is
located approximately thirty miles east of downtown Los Angeles, in the
foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains and straddling the San Gabriel and
Pomona valleys. The community started out in the early 1800s being called
Mud Springs, named for the adjacent Mud Springs marsh whose wet and swampy
terrain characterized the region. Though Gabrielino Indians occupied the
area as early as 1000 B.C. and other tribes as much as 7,000 years ago, it
was not until 1774 that white men first ventured into the region, when
Spanish frontier soldier Juan Baptista DeAnza and his partyen route from
Mexico to Montereypassed through the area that later became Mud
Springs..."
San Dimas Public
Library.
"Founded in 1913 as the second County of Los Angeles Public Library, the
San Dimas Library was orginally located in the back of Fairbank's Drug
Store. Subsequently, it moved to a storefront location on Bonita Avenue.
The present building, located in the San Dimas Civic Center, was dedicated
in 1971.
VolunteerMatch.org.
"Where volunteering begins...VolunteerMatch is a leader in the nonprofit
world dedicated to helping everyone find a great place to volunteer. The
organization offers a variety of online services to support a community of
nonprofit, volunteer and business leaders committed to civic engagement.
Our popular service welcomes millions of visitors a year and has become
the preferred internet recruiting tool for more than 30,000 nonprofit
organizations. Read more in our latest annual report." Comment: If you want to volunteer, go to http://www.volunteermatch.org and click on Search, key in your ZIP Code, and you will instantly see the
organizations in your area needing volunteers. This is a brilliant
concept that makes great use of the Internet.
