Category Archives: Social Responsibility
Do you have old and even broken appliances taking up valuable space in your house or garage? No need to leave them collecting dust any longer! There is a Free Appliance Disposal service available to Corona. With just a simple phone call you can have your working or non-working appliances hauled away for free at your convenience.
Kitchen appliances are often thrown out onto the curb for the garbage collectors to pick up. From there they are taken to landfills where they take up space, rust, and can expel harmful waste including certain substances that if let into the environment and can contribute to destroying the protective ozone layer. Continue reading…
As kids, my grandfather used to always tell my siblings and I to always keep a $2 bill in our wallet, so we’d never come down to our last dollar. I’ve kept that mindset and whenever I do come across a $2 bill in tender exchange and I have a habit of folding it up nicely and slipping into a back pocket of my wallet remembering that small lesson from my grandfather.
Lately, we’ve noticed the infiltration of $2 bills in the Corona marketplace and there’s a fine explanation. The Greater Corona Valley Chamber of Commerce has initiated their $2 Tuesday initiative in which Chamber and community members are encouraged to use $2 bills when purchasing items on Tuesdays. Continue reading…
The Corona Relay for Life is hosting its 14th year and the coordinators for this year’s event are making it the biggest and best one yet. The Relay will be held May 18-19 starting at 9 a.m. at Santana Park [MAP] in Corona.
The Relay for Life is an organized, overnight community fundraising walk to help find the cure for cancer. Teams of people camp out around a track and cheer each other on as they take their turn walking. Individuals can also participate. There is food, games, activities and entertainment for 24 hours of fun and celebration. Continue reading…
Once again the Corona firefighters have gathered a team and will be participating in the Annual Inland Empire Arthritis Walk, which is being held at Dos Lagos on Saturday June 1, 2013. This will be the third continuous year the Arthritis Foundation has held the walk in Corona in large part because of local support given by businesses and citizens of Corona.
Arthritis affects nearly 1 in 5 people including more than 300,000 children in the United States that have been diagnosed with Juvenile Arthritis. One example is John Brown; a Corona Fire Fighter who was diagnosed with Rheumatoid Arthritis in 2008. Continue reading…
For 17 years, Trauma Intervention Program volunteers have been working in partnership with Corona’s Emergency Responders and Corona Regional Medical Center providing support to emotionally traumatized citizens immediately after tragedy strikes.
TIP Corona is an all-volunteer, non-profit, public benefit corporation serving the citizens of Corona and surrounding communities. TIP volunteers are specially trained citizens who are available 24/7/365 to be called upon by emergency responders (police officers, firefighters, paramedics and hospital personnel) to assist family members, witnesses, and other bystanders in the first few hours following a traumatic event wherein victims and survivors often feel hopeless, confused, and in emotional shock. Continue reading…
Sponsored by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s WaterSense Program, Fix a Leak Week is March 18th through March 24th. Fix a Leak Week is a time to encourage Corona residents to improve the water efficiency of their homes and business by checking for and fixing leaks. Fix a Leak Week reminds us of the easy steps we can take to help save water in the community now and for future generations.
In an average home every year, leaks can account for more than 10,000 gallons of water – the amount of water it takes to wash 270 loads of laundry! Continue reading…
Far too often we think of human trafficking as a crime that occurs across the world in other countries, but it’s actually happening here, in our own backyard. In California, many vulnerable women and children are held against their will and forced to sell their bodies. The victims are often girls as young as 12 who are sexually exploited for the financial gain of human traffickers. They are afraid for their lives and abused – sexually, physically, and mentally.
Human trafficking is a modern form of slavery. It involves controlling a person through force, fraud, or coercion to exploit the victim for forced labor, sexual exploitation, or both. Continue reading…
As our drive to collect Gloves 4 Troops ended this past week, the City of Corona along with your help and the help of all our friends at Corona Cages, we were able to collect a total of 44 gloves and approximately 75 balls for the Gloves 4 Troops drive.
As Vance Albitz, a minor league shortstop in the St. Louis Cardinals’ organization, continues on his strive to collect 1000 gloves before spring training, we were glad to be a part of it! The gloves, balls, and letters from Corona residents will be sent out to our troops all around the world giving them a taste of home. Continue reading…
Corona- Corona’s Citrus Hills Intermediate School students and staff, with the help of a generous additional 10 percent assist from Corona’s Foothill Ave. Albertsons, raised over $10,000 in just two weeks of fund raising. Citrus Hills, partnering with Foothill Ave. Albertsons delivered several bags of groceries to 58 struggling Corona families on Saturday, December 15, 2012.
Students, staff, and parents met at the Foothill Ave. Albertsons at 7 a.m. on December 15. With grocery lists in hand 75 volunteer students filled up 58 grocery carts with groceries and then lined up at the checkout stands. After being checked out the student volunteers then took the grocery laden carts out in front to meet 20 volunteer drivers, CHIS teachers and parents who then delivered the groceries. Continue reading…
Will Rogers once said, “No man can be condemned for owning a dog. As long as he has a dog, he has a friend; and the poorer he gets, the better friend he has”. While dogs may be man’s best friend, as pet owners and residents we have a responsibility to our environment and each other to clean up after our pets when they defecate.
Residents take pride in the City we call home. Unfortunately, pet waste along our walk-ways and parks is a disgusting reality which many of us encounter while enjoying our neighborhoods on a regular basis. Left by irresponsible pet owners, these “unexpected surprises” diminish that pride we have in our community and hamper the quality of life in Corona. Continue reading…
