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2013 | livability.com/victorville ® victor valley, california reach for the stars The Lewis Center takes education to new heights flourish here The High Desert is ideal for businesses, families here’s to your health The Victor Valley’s residents have access to many wellness options sponsored by the victorville chamber of commerce hotel luxury at an apartment budget. • Full kitchens with refrigerators, microwave ovens and dishwashers • tempur-pedic ® mattress beds • Free daily housekeeping service • Free daily breakfast • Free high-speed Internet access • LOW weekly and monthly rates 14786 Monarch St. • Victorville, CA 92392 760.843.3800 • www.hotelextendedstudio.com hotel extended studio Top 10 Summer Fairs VANCOUVER, WA Clark County Fair ROCK SPRINGS, WY Sweetwater County Fair MT. JULIET, TN Wilson County Fair SHREVEPORT, LA The State Fair of Louisiana VICTORVILLE, CA San Bernardino County Fair Victorville CROWN POINT, IN Lake County Fair made the list. LOUISVILLE, KY Top 10 Summer Fairs Kentucky State Fair See more Top 10 lists at Livability.com. PUYALLUP, WA The Puyallup Fair WEST DES MOINES, IA Iowa State Fair SYRACUSE, NY New York State Fair Introducing the Livability.com Top 10 Lists New lists every month | Not your average lists | Not your average website LiVab i LiT y.Co m/ Vi cto rVi lle 3 th anniversary5 2013 edition | volume 5 issue ® victor valley, california contents Features 8 Here’s to your health The Victor Valley’s residents have 14 access to many wellness options 12 Reach for the stars The Lewis Center takes education to new heights 14 flourish here The High Desert is ideal for businesses, families dePartments 6 Almanac 16 Chamber report 17 Biz briefs 18 Economic profile 19 Health & Wellness 21 Education 23 Local flavor 24 Arts & culture 27 Sports & recreation 29 Community profile on the cover The Victor Valley Bicycle Club meets to hit the trails surrounding Bell Mountain in the desert of Apple Valley. Photo by Michael Conti all or part of this magazine is printed with soy ink on recycled paper containing 10% post-consumer waste. 12 Please recycle this magazine LiVab i LiT y.Co m/ Vi cto rVi lle 3 ® ® victor valley, ca editorial project manager Mitch KLine content director LisA battles proofreading manager Raven PeTTy content coordinator Jessica WalkeR staff Writer KeVin LiTWin contributing Writers BARBARA BieHLeR, JoHn FuLLeR, Joe MoRRis, JessiCA Mozo senior graphic designers stacey ALLis, LAuRA GallagheR, KRis sexTon, JAKe sHoRes, ViKKi WiLLiAMs Digital Edition graphic designers eRiCA LAMPLey, kara LeiBy, Kacey PAssMoRe senior photographers JeFF ADKins, BRiAn McCoRD staff photographers ToDD BenneTT, martin B. CHeRRy, MiCHAeL ConTi color imaging technician ALison HunTeR integrated media manager GRAHAM Leach ad production manager Katie MiDDenDoRF ad traffic assistants KRysTin LeMMon, PatriCiA MoisAn Here’s chairman GReG THuRMAn president/publisher BoB SchwartzMAn to Your executive vice president RAy LAnGen senior v.p./sales ToDD PoTTeR senior v.p./operations CAsey HesTeR Health senior v.p./client development JeFF HeeFneR RESIDENTS HAVE ACCESS TO senior v.p./agribusiness publishing KiM HoLMBeRG MANY WELLNESS OPTIONS v.p./business development clay Perry v.p./external communications TeRee CARuTHeRs v.p./visual content MARK FoResTeR STORY BY KEVIN LITWIN | PHOTOGRAPHY BY MICHAEL CONTI taying healthy has become “Our hospital obviously helps v.p./content operations NatasHA LoRens easier in the Victor Valley, patients who are sick or injured, where communities have plus many of our efforts these days v.p./travel publishing susAn CHAPPeLL Sdeveloped programs, involve getting into the community athletic events and farmers markets and focusing on wellness initiatives,” that make it easy for residents to Christensen says. “I work with v.p./sales RHonda GRAHAM, find nourishing foods and ways several organizations throughout to burn calories. the High Desert that want to The communities of Adelanto, promote health and wellness in HeRB HARPeR, JareK SweKosKy Apple Valley, Hesperia and Victorville their communities.” are all participating in the Healthy controller CHRis DuDLey High Desert initiative, which Farm Fresh establishes individual wellness Christensen says several programs for residents. One of farmers markets have been senior accountant LisA Owens the many people keeping a finger established in the different cities on the pulse of healthy living in the and towns to offer fresh produce Victory Valley is Allen Christensen, to the Victor Valley’s residents, accounts payable coordinator MARiA McFARLAnD community benefit analyst and and even St. Joseph Health, healthy cities coordinator at St. Mary sets up a farmers market accounts receivable coordinator DiAnA GuzMAn St. Joseph Health, St. Mary. on its hospital campus every Friday. The Victor Valley Bicycle Club rides down Apple Valley Road. sales support coordinator ALex MARKs 8 THETHE VICTORVICTOR VALLEYVALLEY LIVABILITY.COM/VICTORVILLELIVABILITY.COM/VICTORVILLE 9 sales support project manager sARA quinT system administrator danieL CAnTReLL Web creative director ALLison davis Web content manager JoHn HooD Web designer ii RiCHARD sTeVens Web development lead YameL HALL photography director JeFFRey s. 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Member The Association of Magazine Media Member Custom Content Council livability.com/victorville Member Victorville Chamber of Commerce 4 TH e Vi cto r Valle y livability.com/victorvilleWhat’s online PhOtOS See more great photos of the The Victor Valley in our online photo galleries. 2013 | livability.com/victorville ® victor valley, california reach for the stars The Lewis Center takes education to new heights flourish here The High Desert is ideal for businesses, families here’s to your health The Victor Valley’s residents have access to many wellness options sponsored by the victorville chamber of commerce diGitaL MaGazine Flip through the pages of this magazine and easily share articles using Facebook, Twitter or email. factS VideO LiVinG here Get the most up-to-date info on cost Watch quick videos Learn the basics about local of living, top employers, schools, of local attractions. neighborhoods, schools and population demographics and more. health-care providers. 4 TH e Vi cto r Valle y Almanac Welcome to The Victor Valley an inTroDuction To the area’s peopLe, pLaCes anD eVenTs energizing sliding Through Treetops san bernardino navitat Canopy Adventures shows visitors a new side of Wrightwood’s forests by carrying them aloft on zipline shocking developments are taking place in tours. Located in the san Gabriel Mountains, navitat’s san bernardino County as alternative energy Wrightwood location is the West Coast counterpart developer abengoa begins construction on of navitat’s first zipline park in Asheville, n.C. The the mojave solar project. Funded by a $1.2 Wrightwood location features rappelling obstacles, billion loan from the Department of energy’s suspended sky bridges and 10 ziplines that range from recovery act loan program, the project will 200 feet to 1,500 feet in length and vary between 200 feet ease the crunch on fossil fuel usage by and 300 feet above the ground. John Walker, a zipline harnessing the sun’s power. This solar panel course developer, designed the Wrightwood course to array will use abengoa’s proprietary last about four hours and have the smallest possible parabolic trough technology to generate environmental footprint. Visit www.navitat.com for more. 250 megawatts for 75,000 to 187,500 homes. Construction is expected to create 830 temporary jobs and 60 permanent jobs. The Preserving the Kicks project is scheduled for completion by 2014. Find out more at www.abengoasolar.com. Victorville is home to the Route 66 Museum, a refuge for artifacts left behind from the renowned highway. The museum entertains about 10,000 visitors each year, and includes among its exhibits folk art from the Hula Ville roadside attraction. Victorville offered fans of the Mother Road a special treat in 2012 by hosting the international Route 66 Festival. The festival included a classic car poker run, a screening of American Graffiti at the skyline Drive-in in Barstow, and a food and wine festival at the san Bernardino County Fairgrounds. 6 TH e Vi cto r Valle y LiVab i LiT y.Co m/ Vi cto rVi lle 7 new Life in Fast Facts n open road and the Desert clear skies create The Mojave River Fish Hatchery is a perfect conditions major sanctuary for trout breeding in for motorcyclists, Victorville. The hatchery has benefited from and the Victor Valley years of improvements since construction is home to a Harley- began in 1947. Today, the hatchery contains Davidson owners 40 ponds and supplies about two-thirds Group.