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CANYON LAKE’S NEWSPAPER • NOVEMBER 23, 2018
The Friday Flyer celebrates 28th
anniversary Pg. A3
After 10 years of
public service, Nancy
Horton is looking
forward to retirement
and spending more
time with her family.
Parade of Lights boat City to host Tree
parade is just two Lighting Ceremony on
weeks away! Pg. A7 Saturday Pg. A9
Horton retires from
public service
BY DONNA RITCHIE cided not to seek reelection this year sor, contributed $10,000 as a match-
EDITOR, THE FRIDAY FLYER and instead retire from public service. ing grant. We had the $20,000 in a
Nancy Horton was an As Nancy comes to the end of 10 couple of months. Then Jack Walms-
educator for 42 years, years of public service, she reflects on ley was unleashed on corporate do-
retiring in 2006. After her milestones. nors and raised many thousands for
retiring, Nancy thought “When I first began to think about the landscaping. He received gifts in
she would get to relax running for city council, I was fighting kind, such as irrigation supplies, plants
on the deck in a swing a company that planned a mine in the and trees and a stone for the base of
and read books she al- middle of our city on Goat Hill. I knew the monument. Rod Gill, a mason,
ways wanted to read. I had to assure that the mining project donated his time for 10 years to set
Retirement failed her went through all the required steps and the bricks which residents donated in
and she ended up giv- that it was clear to everyone what this honor of loved ones who served. Our
ing 10 years to the plan would mean in terms of noise wonderful volunteers assured that each
community as a pub- from blasting, traffic from 600 truck annual celebration was better than the
lic servant. trips a day on Railroad Canyon Rd. air last. What other city delivers a flag and
Nancy moved quality issues and the actual timetable a thank you to every registered vet in
to Canyon Lake in it would take to mine 3.15 million cu- the city?
2000. Her service bic yards of decomposed granite. “In April 2009, Lori convened the
to the city began in “The mine never went through be- first meeting of what would become
2008 when she was cause of a small group of dedicated the Quail Valley Environmental Coali-
elected to the city individuals who exposed the scheme tion (QVEC). Besides myself, other
council. In 2010, even when some POA and city elected founding members were Ben Wicke,
she was appointed officials wanted to ram it through. An then an Elsinore Valley Municipal Wa-
to serve as mayor. advisory vote of citizens showed that ter District board member, Ron Sulli-
While on the city 75 percent were against the mine. van, an Eastern Municipal Water Dis-
council, Nancy was a “Our next challenge was develop- trict board member and Scott Mann,
member of the board ing a ridgeline and hillside ordinance then a Menifee city councilman. With
of directors of the to protect our city from endless houses the help of the Santa Ana Water Proj-
Lake Elsinore San along the crest of our beautiful hills. ect Authority, we built the coalition to
Jacinto Watershed Au- Barry Talbot took the initiative on that help the disadvantaged community of
thority including a year project and the ordinances were passed. Quail Valley end the 2006 moratorium
PHOTO BY DONNA RITCHIE the board of directors of the had a dynamic and creative city man- environmental justice by advocating
as president, a member of During these years on the council, we on building, achieve public health and
San Jacinto River Watershed ager, Lori Moss, who took suggestions for a sewer system in Quail Valley, and
assure freedom from bacterial con-
Council and a member of the from the council and ran with them.
tamination in Canyon Lake, a drinking
Total Maximum Daily Load
“Bert Barbay approached me the
Task Force. She is a found-
“Slowly, the QVEC built trust with
ing member of the Quail Val- day after I was elected to start a Vet- water reservoir.
erans Day Celebration. Bert, Lori and
ley Environmental Coalition and I worked with a great committee to es- residents and supported the efforts of
served as secretary-treasurer. tablish the first Veterans Day Celebra- EMWD to get funding for the project.
Nancy co-founded the Canyon tion on Nov. 11, 2009. More than 100 Through tough years during the reces-
Lake Veterans Day Committee in 2009 residents and guests came. The com- sion, frustration grew. But EMWD
and has served as chair of the team re- mittee then set out to raise the funds got a planning grant, then a design
sponsible for installing the Veterans for a memorial in the pocket park in grant, then a construction grant, and
Memorial Monument in the Towne the Towne Center. The Merchants and finally the sewer system is now in the
Center. Six years ago, Nancy found- Owners Association were on board and final stages of being built. By Febru-
ed the Canyon Lake National Day of if the committee could raise $20,000 ary 2019, Phase One of Area 9 will be
Prayer, an annual community-wide for the monument, the city and the complete and 160 houses and 50 va-
event held at the lodge on the first Merchants and Owners Association cant lots will be connected to EMWD’s
Thursday in May. would share the cost of landscaping sewer system. The old septic tanks
In November 2014, voters elect- the park. are being abandoned. In the winter of
ed her to represent Division One “The golf community raised thou- 2018-2019, a reduction in bacterial
on the board of the Elsinore Valley sands of dollars overnight. Senator contamination in Canyon Lake will
Municipal Water District. She de- Jeff Stone, then our county supervi- uuCONTINUED PAGE A5