Escondido Chamber of Citizens


The Big Read
The San Diego
County Library
has selected
The Grapes of Wrath
to kick off its inaugural
"The Big Read" Program.
All San Diego County
residents are encouraged to
read the same book,
over the program period
January 30th - March 15th.
The story chronicles
migrant farmworkers
leaving the Dust Bowl
during the
Great Depression
for supposedly better
conditions in California,
by author John Steinbeck.

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Delight Your Appetite
Have You Heard?

Smaller Buses on
Horizon for NCTD
Derby Dolls
The Roller Derby Team
will debut
at banked track
Dog Park Friends
have a website
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Great Places
to Stretch
...your mind...your body...

The Gomphotherium
Borrego Springs in the
Anza Borrego Desert
Cruisin Grand
in Escondido, Ca
Escondido Children's Museum
Historic Julian California
Queen Califia's Magical Circle Garden
by acclaimed artist
Niki De Saint Phalle
San Diego National Wildlife Refuge
California Center for the Arts, Escondido
San Diego
Archaeological Center
Wild Animal Park
Old Town San Diego
Gondola Rides
at Coronado Bay Resort
San Pasqual Battlefield
State Historic Park
Mission San Luis Rey
Palomar Observatory
San Diego Chinese
Historical Museum
Asian Gardens and Koi Pond
Japanese Friendship Garden
Balboa Park
Residents Free Tuesday
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"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world."
~ Anne Frank

19 Ways to Maintain a Healthy Level of Insanity:
1. At lunchtime, sit in your parked car with sunglasses on and point a hair dryer at passing cars. See if they slow down.
2. Page yourself over the intercom. Don’t disguise your voice.
3. Every time someone asks you to do something, ask if they want fries with that.
4. Put your garbage can on your desk and label it “In”.
5. Put decaf in the coffee maker for 3 weeks once everyone has gotten over their caffeine addictions, switch to espresso.
6. In the Memo Field of all your checks, write ‘for smuggling diamonds’.
7. Finish all your sentences with ‘In Accordance With The Prophecy’.
8. Don’t use any punctuation.
9. As often as possible, skip rather than walk.
10. Order a Diet Water wherever you go out to eat, with a serious face.
11. Specify that your drive-through order is ‘To Go’.
12. Sing Along at the Opera.
13. Go to a Poetry Recital. And ask why the poems don’t rhyme.
14. Put mosquito netting around your work area and play tropical sounds all day.
15. Five days in advance, tell your friends you can’t attend their party because you’re not in the mood.
16. Have your co-workers address you by your wrestling name: Rock Bottom.
17. When the money comes out of the ATM, Scream ‘I Won! I Won!’
18. When leaving the zoo, start running towards the parking lot, yelling ‘Run For Your Lives! They’re Loose!’
19. Tell your children over dinner, ‘Due to the Economy, We are Going to have to let one of you go’.