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Unlike any radio station you've ever heard, NorcoRadio.com plays a mix of Horsetown USA favorites along with news and community events. Born from the roots of legandary alternative radio stations like KPPC, KSAN, KFAT, and KICE, NorcoRadio.com connects YOUR music, YOUR lifestyle, and YOUR community.
With a unique blend of classic country, alternative country, country rock, album cuts and classic rock, NorcoRadio.com enables you to be part of the Horsetown USA experience. It is why Norconians live here. What you like, what you need, and who you are, matters to us.
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updated 5/16/12
SPECTACULAR SEA HORSE RESCUE
Isolde Raftery, msnbc.com writes
As the sun set over Loon Point near Santa Barbara on Tuesday evening, waves crashed onto the sand, apparently spooking an Arabian show horse named William.
William, a 7-year-old grey stallion, had been part of a photo shoot with other horses. Frightened, he bolted into the surf.
He started to swim. And swim. And swim until he was about three miles offshore, headed for oil rigs.
On land, a team of four from the Santa Barbara Harbor Patrol, Carpenteria-Summerland Fire Water Rescue, and California State Parks set out to find the horse, whose official name is Air of Temptation. His owner, Mindy Peters, a movie producer, told Huffington Post that he had never been swimming in his life.
William, an Arabian show horse whose official name is Air of Temptation, bolted into the surf Tuesday evening, swimming three miles off shore. A team of four search and rescuers saved him, slowly swimming him back to shore.
Horses can swim, but not well,” she told HuffPo. Peters was driving when she learned about her sea horse and immediately bee-lined to the beach. She said William is worth about $100,000 to $150,000.
Ryan Kelly, a Santa Barbara Harbor Patrol Officer, was the first on site, heading out with a small motorboat. Overhead, a helicopter worked to find the horse.
As the sun set further, the team worried they were losing light. But after a half hour search, they saw a nose and part of a face peaking above the water.
“It was a real needle-in-a-haystack kind of find,” Kelly told msnbc.com. “He looked like every other bird that was just sitting on the water.”
William was drifting with the current but still heading out to sea. When he saw the search and rescue team, he appeared startled but also exhausted.
They corralled the horse and used boathook to grab his reins. They made a makeshift harness to slip under his saddle and tie to the side of the rescue boat. They wanted to keep him buoyant so he wouldn’t sink and drown from exhaustion.
The return took two hours, because the horse moved at about a mile an hour. It was also occasionally scary for the rescue team.
“Some of the grunts and noises he was making along the way -- we weren’t sure how he was doing,” Kelly said. “We weren’t sure if he had other problems. He was making noise, thrashing around and other times he’d be completely still.”
One of the firefighters held his head above water and reassured him, Kelly said.
“It’s going to be all right,” the firefighter said, according to Kelly, petting the horse's head.
Once they hit the beach, the rescue team handed William off to a crew on paddle boats.
Waiting for William was a veterinarian who guided him to a trailer. William is now recuperating.
Peters, who has owned William for a little over a year, told HuffPo that her family was “scared to death we were going to lose him, that he was going to drown.”
“He is absolutely part of our family,” she said.
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Developers already eyeing prison site
BY LESLIE PARRILLA
STAFF WRITER, Press-Enterprise
lparrilla@pe.com
Published: 07 May 2012 10:12 PM
It started out an Old Hollywood resort that became a penal facility bordering a missile test field — can it come full circle?
Closing the Norco prison is still just a proposal, but behind the scenes there has been a flurry of activity, from interested investors asking to view the property to city officials positioning themselves for a possible new stream of revenue.
Norco Mayor Kevin Bash picked up his phone Thursday, May 3, to hear yet another developer ask to survey the historic prison property the state will close and sell if a prison overhaul plan is approved as part of the new state budget.
“Since the announcement, I’ve spoken to six different people” interested in the property, Bash said. “It’s one of the most beautiful spots in Southern California, completely underutilized. It’s the last standing WWII Naval hospital.”
Some politicians have come out in support of the idea to shutter the prison. And the mayor is angling to protect the historic buildings and annex a nearby lake to boost the facility’s appeal.
The deteriorating prison that houses 3,900 inmates is a crucial part of Norco’s history.
It opened as a luxury resort more than 80 years ago, attracting Hollywood’s elite to the property of more than 100 acres that includes a 50-acre lake with a clubhouse. Today, the Navy tests missiles on neighboring property and Norco College borders another edge.
Norco Councilwoman Kathy Azevedo fielded one call from a Corona developer specializing in restoration projects.
“He just wants to get a feel for what the city would want on the property,” Azevedo said.
Many hope to restore the luxury resort and create a convention center where businesses could hold events and the community could enjoy shopping and recreational activities.
Developers and restoration experts have been interested in the prison over the years, Bash said, but the potential closure has renewed calls from local, national and international developers, investors and companies.
State prison officials, however, caution against planning for a closure that might not happen.
As part of a statewide prison overhaul plan announced in recent weeks, the state would close the California Rehabilitation Center in Norco only if the state Legislature approves it as part of Gov. Jerry Brown’s revised budget that begins July 1.
The medium-security prison is one of the oldest, most expensive and inefficient to run in the state, Corrections Secretary Matthew Cate has said. Closing it would save the state an estimated $160 million a year in operating costs.
Despite the uncertainty, prison officials — and some Norco city officials and prison employees — are treating the plan as definitive.
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Leaps and Bounds Pediatric Therapy center at Breezy Willows ranch formally opened in Norco. It was founded by physical therapist Cassandra Sanders-Holly to help the disabled children she treats through equestrian therapy.
Sanders-Holly and the owner of the 4th Street Ranch, Sharon Smith, had the same vision — to create a hippotherapy center in Horsetown USA using the animals at the ranch.
A Norco native, Sanders-Holly, is an adjunct instructor of clinical physical therapy at the University of Southern California.
Smith said horses had helped her mentally disabled daughter and it was her way to give back to the community.
Hippotherapy is a form of physical therapy, using horses to mimic the movement of people to treat children from the Inland Empire, Los Angeles and Orange counties.
The Smith’s are lending horses and use of the ranch to create the Leaps and Bounds facility.
Gari Merendino, Executive Director of the center, says doctors are providing more hippotherapy prescriptions and referrals for patients to start at the center. For more information contact www.leapsandboundspediatricpt.com
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