It is true we opened our doors July 6, 2009 after a long and stressful adventure with the county of San Bernardino we finally got our day on June 18th and had our public hearing to rally the community together with letters,emails,faxes and actually showing up to support us in getting the road paving requirement waived.  For those of you that were not aware of the requirement left on us after we received the great blessing of having Extreme Makeover and our communtiy come and give us the greatest gift anyone can dream of we were told by the County of San Bernardino that we could not use the Learning Center and Sanctuary for public access for tours because we needed to pave the road 1.3 miles.  The orginal estimate from a paving company was about 1 million dollars a mile and then when the company found out we had a dip in the road which was in a waterway the price tag went up to 5 million dollars.  This was a highly unreachable request and we were still considered to be a home based business and live in a community where almost all roads are unpaved.  So with the help of the community again we were able to state our plea and have over a dozen or so people talk with us on our behave to succeed in getting the road paving requirement waived.  Followed by a call from the county to give us the green light to open our doors.  We are so very excited to have opened this past Monday and have a people showing up to show there excitment, gratitude for our work and financial support to supply a wonderful future to all our wonderful animals.  With improvement still happening as we speak we are glad that everyone that has passed through these doors so far has been nothing but impressed.  We have gotten much posititive feedback and we are so happy that all the hard work that was put into making this happen paid off trifold.  If you would like to know more about how you can book a tour they are by appt a small price to pay for not paving a 5 million dollar road please call us at 760-868-2755.  We will be open for business Mon-Sat 10-5 and Sun 12-5 and flashlight tours on Wed in summertime only 8:30 to 9:30 provided with a goodie bag.  We have different tours available from general tour, guided tour with staff member and VIP tour with a founder a picture and souviner.  We hope to hear from you all very soon.  Spread the exciting word. God has given us many blessing to share, today is a great day.  Take care.

Chemaine Almquist, President and Founder