Rose Of Sharon

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Rose Of Sharon

Address:

134 E 4Th St

City:

Perris

State:

California

Zip Code:

92570

Phone number:

(951) 657-1524

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Limits on hours and graveside memorials at San Jacinto cemetery has upset some families

Summit Cemetery District, which operates three cemeteries in the San Gorgonio Pass, and the Perris Valley Cemetery. The lone public cemetery in the San Jacinto Valley dates back to the mid-1800s. According to the district’s website, there are about 24,000 buried across 45 acres. San Jacinto Valley Cemetery became a district in 1917 and the Riverside County Board of Supervisors appoints the board members to oversee the management. The district receives some property taxes, but operates primarily on payments for its services. Editor’s note: This story has been updated. The original version included the wrong word for "interment." ...

Concern is expressed over arrest of Fontana woman who was selling flowers

Some members of the Hispanic community in the region are demanding answers from the Riverside County Sheriff's Department, which oversees the City of Perris, after a video of an officer forcefully arresting a Fontana woman recently surfaced on social media.The video shows an unidentified officer quarreling with Juanita Mendez-Medrano over a citation for allegedly selling flowers without a permit on June 6 during the Perris High School graduation ceremony.At one point, the officer grabs Mendez-Medrano’s hair, places his hand forcefully on her mouth and throws her violently to the ground as he tries to arrest her for allegedly failing to cooperate.Once on the floor and with the officer’s knee on top of her body, Mendez-Medrano is heard saying, “Why don’t you arrest the gang members? Why me? Someone who is trying to make an honest living? You are hurting me!"At that point, a second officer arrives to aid the first officer, even though Mendez-Medrano was already subdued.According to Emilio Garcia, executive director of the San Bernardino Community Resource Center, the “excessive” force used by the officer cannot be justified.“The woman w... (Fontana Herald-News)

'Flowers don't kill': Dozens protest in support of woman taken down by Riverside County sheriff's deputy

About 40 people gathered outside the Riverside County Sheriff’s station in Perris on Saturday, July 22, to protest a deputy who in a video is shown taking down a woman selling flowers outside the Perris High School graduation in June.The protesters held bouquets of flowers and signs reading, “Justice for Joaquina” and “Stop racial profiling.” They chanted, “Flowers don’t Kill!” and in Otomí — a language spoken in the Mexican states of Veracruz and Querétaro — they shouted, “We are all Joaquina!”The woman in the video has been referred to as Joaquina by her family and friends. However, the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department identified her as Juanita Mendez-Medrano of Fontana. She did not attend the protest.Demonstrators were peaceful and did not impede with traffic. A number of drivers honked in support. One woman drove by and shouted, “Go back to Mexico!”The woman’s brother Manuel Valencia, 48, attended the demonstration and spoke against the action taken against his sister. He said she was traumatized and depressed over the incident“I physically felt what... (Press-Enterprise)

'The racism has to stop.' Woman who was selling flowers when she was taken down by Riverside County Sheriff's ...

The woman who was taken down by a Riverside County Sheriff’s deputy as she was selling flowers outside Perris High School said her experience is not an isolated one.“My case is not unique, but it is now enough,” she said in a video posted on Facebook just before midnight July 17.“This racism has to stop,” she added. “Please don’t stay quiet. Raise your voice. We have to defend our rights.”People are expected to protest the arrest beginning at noon Saturday, July 22, at the Riverside County sheriff’s station in Perris.Social media websites are referring to the flower seller as Joaquina. The Riverside County Sheriff’s Department identified her as Juanita Mendez-Medrano of Fontana.The Sheriff’s Department found her to be vending without a permit on June 7, but the video of her arrest didn’t go viral across social media until Monday, July 17.The video shows her trying to get away from the deputy, who grabs her hair and forces her to the ground. He covers her mouth with one hand and then twists and places her arm behind her back.“Why don’t you get the gang members!” she screams in Spanish. “... (Press-Enterprise)

Planting flowers, shrubs and trees this spring? Here's where they were born

It also grows roses, flowering tropical and other drought-tolerant plants.The company has multiple growing grounds, including one at Lake Mathews in Perris.Greenhouses help with what can be challenging climates, particularly with hot summer days. The company recently was recognized for its recycling efforts by the Metropolitan Water District.“On a big summer day, we recycle and reuse a million gallons [of water] with a system designed to be completely sustainable,” said Jim Hessler, director of West Coast operations in California and Colorado.The Lake Mathews growing site presents its own set of challenges, but ones the company has mastered. Its succulent collection thrives in the heat, and row after row of greenhouses help protect container plants sensitive to cold and heat. And the company is even using some of its plants — cannas, for example — to help naturally pull nitrates from irrigation waters.Altman Plants is in its busiest season of the year, since spring is when many people want to garden, he said. Having several growing grounds helps with supply but also allows for experimentation and to get plants to stores quickly.“We’re very fortunate in Southern California,” Hessler said. “We can grow huge assortments of plants. The company started out as a backyard operation and has grown, but it’s still family owned, and we’re still passionate about plants.” The Lake Matthews facility covers 670 acres and includes 2 million square feet of greenhouses, 18 acres of shade houses and more than 4 acres of dock space. The company maintains more than 30 miles of roads and more than 100 miles of irrigation systems. Its water-recycling system stores more than 37 acre feet of water while recycling and reusing more than 100 million gallons of water each year.Workers are currently shipping roses, hibiscus, bougainvillea, petunias, impatiens and marigolds.“There’s so much color everywhere. When you’re in the loading docks, you have to wear sunglasses because there’s so much color,” Hessler said with a laugh.Add to that the fragrances produced by so many of the plants and, well, it’s not a bad job.“This will be my 47th spring that I’ve done this. I started when I was 13 years old, and I still like getting my hands dirty,” he said. “Every day when I go home I feel like we’ve done a good job in ultimately helping to make our communities a little bit more beautiful.”Online resourcesAltman Plants:altmanplants.com.Color Spot Nurseries: colorspot.com.Monrovia:www.monrovia.com.Open to the publicWhat: The Flower Fields at Carlsbad Ranch.When: 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily through May 10.Where: 5704 Paseo Del Norte, Carlsbad.Information: 760-431-0352, www.theflowerfields.com. (LA Daily News)

Native flowers aren't the only plants in 'super-bloom' this spring — nasty weeds have also flourished

ALSO: Exploring the magic and mystery of mushrooms with the L.A. Mycological Society »The Lake Perris Recreation Area, between the cities of Perris and Moreno Valley in Riverside County, has been taken over by stink net, a highly aggressive weed that first popped up there in 1982.“The trouble with stink net is that it produces tiny sticky seeds that launch new populations every time it rains,” said Ken Kietzer, a conservationist at Lake Perris. “It’s hard to come up with an effective treatment when there are six to eight generations spreading simultaneously across the grasslands, sage scrub, slopes, valleys, shoreline and campgrounds.”“And a recent survey suggested that our federally endangered Stephens’ kangaroo rats are underweight,” he added, “because they’ve been eating the seeds that stink net puts out.”Further east in the Mojave Desert, patchy rainfall combined with nitrogen-laden smog wafting in from Los Angeles has nurtured expanses of Mediterranean split grass. The low nutritional quality of those invasives may be linked to reports of malnourished desert tortoises, scientists say.“Tortoises, which thrive on wildflowers, lose weight when they eat nonnative grasses,” said Kristin Berry, a biologist and expert on the lumbering reptiles. “That’s because exotic grasses are fibrous and don’t offer much nutrition.”Some of the same grasses, the seeds of which arrived on the hoofs of European cattle in the 1800s, have bristling tips called foxtails, which scientists say can blind and ultimately kill raptors that get them in their eyes diving into fields after small rodents.At Ballona Wetlands, a 600-acre preserve near Culver City and just north of Los Angeles International Airport, native buckwheat plants that sustain a colony of federally endangered El Segundo blue butterflies have been overwhelmed by tall, lush stands of terracina spurge and garland chrysanthemum.Friends of Ballona Wetlands, a nonprofit dedicated to protecting and restoring the preserve nourished by natural tidal action and periodic infusions of urban runoff, sounded the alarm in an urgent letter to volunteers.It read, in part: “Heavy winter rains were a blessing for California flowers, but the nonnative weeds loved them too! Help us pull them out of Ballona before they seed and spread.”On Monday, Patrick Tyrell, chief botanist for the preserve, took stock of the challenge.“State permit requirements prohibit the use of mechanical tools for weed control here,” he said. “So our crews will be pulling weeds by hand until the El Segundo blues return to the buckwheat for nectar in June.”Sandra DeSimone, a plant ecologist and director of research and education at Orange County’s Audubon Starr Ranch Sanctuary, a land of rugged mountains and rolling coastal bluffs, grasslands and riparian canyons, isn’t so sure that some weeds are all that bad.She has been raising eyebrows in the environmental community by promoting “hybrid ecosystems” that tolerate some nonnative grasses as a means of coping with the botanical fluctuations wrought by wetter winters, hotter summers and periods of drought due to global climate change.“Want to s... (Los Angeles Times)