The Magic of Newberry Springs: The Senior & Family Center, and the Drifting Sands Cafe

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Hello everybody, this is Howard Fox from the Outdoor Adventure Cherries Podcast, and I am here in beautiful Newberry Springs, California.

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It's a beautiful Saturday working with the community leaders of Newberry Springs to get to know the community.

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The big thing out here is you can't miss it.

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You shouldn't miss it.

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You don't want to miss it, is Route 66.

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And this is the centennial anniversary of Route 66.

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And Newberry Springs is an important stop along that wonderful mother road.

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And I've had the pleasure of being escorted around, being introduced to a lot of the leaders in the community, the folks that are really passionate about Newberry Springs.

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Now I get to take a little rest right now.

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My host, Carla Claus, who is Mrs.

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Centennial Route 66, the Mrs.

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Princess Route 66.

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And so Carla has been my guide and really helping to set up these wonderful interviews, but she does allow me to take a rest every once in a while.

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And I am now sitting in the Newberry Springs Family Center and the Drifting Sands Cafe.

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I have a wonderful glass of iced tea, and it's homemade iced tea, so I am really a happy camper right now.

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And in front of me, I have a lovely young lady.

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Her name is Kim Gregory.

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And Kim is just going to have a little conversation with me and share a little bit about herself.

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So, Kim, thank you so much for being on the podcast.

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Oh, my pleasure.

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Thank you for having me.

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Fantastic, though.

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Kim, how long have you been in Newberry Springs?

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I have been in here since 2022.

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You're a newbie?

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I am a newbie.

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What where did you move from?

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Minnefee.

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Okay, now I have never heard of Minnefee.

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Where is that?

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It's near Marietta and Temecula.

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I've heard of Temecula.

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I bought a bottle of wine in Temecula.

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Oh, there you go.

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Yes.

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There I go.

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What brought you to Newberry Springs?

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I had lost my fiance.

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Oh.

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So I came out here to live on my mom's property.

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Okay.

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Yeah.

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And you're just enjoying I love it out here.

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Oh, the time you're like I love it.

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Now, what is keeping you busy here in Newberry Springs besides you taking care of the property?

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Being here at the community center and at the Drifting Sands Cafe, helping our customers and helping our community.

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Okay.

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Now what what is a day in the life of first the the community center?

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Well, here at the community center we have a lot of activities.

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Um we have book club, we have our book club, we have Bunko, we have the Radio Club, we have the historical society.

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Bingo.

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Bingo.

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Oh yes, bingo.

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And we're getting a lot of other activities coming our way.

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Excellent, excellent.

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Now, how many days a week do you spend here?

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I probably spend about four days a week here.

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Four days a week.

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And what are the hours here at the community center?

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It is Wednesday through Saturday.

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It's from seven to two.

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And then on Sundays we're open from seven to three.

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Seven to three.

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Now the Drifting Sands Cafe, do you participate in the running of that?

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Or yes, I do.

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Um I'm also a volunteer waitress here.

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Volunteer waitress.ish kind of uniform with the big badge that says Kim on it.

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Yeah, we're we're gonna be working on new t-shirts.

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Okay.

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And I know if you're working with Carla, she's all into this planning stuff.

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Oh, absolutely.

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Absolutely.

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So what is it like to, I mean, uh everybody that I'd met so far said, have you been to the Drifting Sands Cafe?

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And so finally I'm here, I'm gonna have breakfast.

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What is what is the most popular meal here at the cafe?

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Oh, that's a good one.

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Probably our hamsteak special on Saturdays.

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Okay, very nice.

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Now, as I noticed as I look around the room, you've got in the community center, there's a lot of bookshelves.

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Do people just come here and donate their books?

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Donate their books, their their clothing.

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We have a thrift store out on the side of us, and we also have a rummage room in the back.

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Okay.

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So they're knickknack paddywax and give your dog a bone.

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Okay.

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Yes.

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It's really funny when you talked about this I mentioned thrift store.

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When I was growing up in Oak Park, Michigan, my mom, may she rest in peace, when my dad passed away, she ran the local, there was a local Benabreth thrift store in town.

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Nice.

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And she managed that.

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So whenever I hear the word thrift store, I immediately think back to my mom.

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Oh, nice.

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Now, there's another room here, and I took a picture of it before.

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Oh, yes, that's our and that's our chambers uh com of commerce.

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All right.

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Yes.

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Now I love chambers of commerce.

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So do I.

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I get to work with a lot of them, and uh it's what's really important for me in the chamber is you're bringing visitors in, you're bringing families in, helping to start businesses.

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And they're always there for us too.

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Excellent.

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So i is Newbury Springs, is this this is it?

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You're staying here?

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I have no intentions of moving.

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Okay, because I'm always looking for my next place to live.

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And I'm thinking in the two days I've been here, I gotta find a place to live.

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Yeah, yeah.

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You got a lot of properties out here for sale.

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There you go.

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So if you had to share with our listeners, why should you visit Newberry Springs?

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Why should you make it a stop on your Because the people here are so so warm and welcoming and it's just a beautiful, beautiful, beautiful little town.

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Okay.

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Now, I don't want to put you on the spot.

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This is a lobball question here.

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Does the community center, does the Drifting Sands Cafe, are do you have a website?

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Are you on in in like Facebook, Instagram?

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We are on Facebook and we're also on Instagram.

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Okay, and how would I find that?

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Just look up Drifting Sands Cafe or Newberry Springs Senior Family Center.

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Okay, and we will make sure in our show notes we have those links there, as well as some photos of the cafe and the community center.

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And we'll also have a link back to the the chamber offices.

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So okay.

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See, Kim, I told you this is like it's like having a beverage with a friend you haven't seen in 15 years.

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You did great.

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Thank you so much for spending time.

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Thank you so much.

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All right, take care.

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All right.

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Okay, everyone.

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We hope you enjoyed today's episode with Kim Gregory.

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She is a volunteer here in Newberry Springs at the Family Center and the Drifting Sands Cafe.

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We'll have some photos up on our show notes and links back to the center and cafe as well as to the Chamber of Commerce, whose office is also here.

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As for us, you can find this episode up on our webpage, outdooradventures.com.

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You can also find the episode up on Facebook and LinkedIn on our Outdoor Adventure Series pages.

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A YouTube video of this episode will be up on our YouTube channel, Outdoor Adventure Series.

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And of course, you can listen to this podcast wherever you get your podcast from.

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All right, folks, wherever you are, whatever you're doing, go out there and have a fantastic day.

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And we look forward to having you join us on a future episode of the Outdoor Adventure Series podcast.

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Take care now.