March 19, 2026

The Barn in Newberry Springs: A Gathering Place to Celebrate History and Community Spirit

Welcome back to the Outdoor Adventure Series! In this special episode, we're visiting the iconic Barn in Newberry Springs, California, for a heartfelt conversation with Renee Kaminski, owner of The Barn and president of the Newberry Springs Chamber of Commerce. Known for her infectious energy and deep-rooted love for her community, Renee shares her personal journey from Brooklyn to California, how she fell in love with the Mojave Desert lifestyle, and why she’s committed to keeping the ...

Known for her infectious energy and deep-rooted love for her community, Renee shares her personal journey from Brooklyn to California, how she fell in love with the Mojave Desert lifestyle, and why she’s committed to keeping the spirit of Route 66 alive.

Renee shares the history and unique culture of Newberry Springs—from the surprising man-made lakes to the lasting legacy of roadside establishments along Route 66. Renee reveals highlights of the upcoming Route 66 centennial celebrations, community events, and the importance of preserving The Barn as a civic hub and gathering place for residents and travelers alike.

Whether you’re a road trip enthusiast, a lover of community stories, or just craving tales of resilience and adventure, you’ll love this episode spotlighting the magic and hospitality of Newberry Springs. So grab your favorite snack, settle in, and join us as we get our kicks on Route 66!

DISCUSSION

00:00 "Discovering Newberry Springs Lakes"

03:13 "Building a Dream in Newberry"

08:46 Route 66 Barn Restoration Grant

10:11 Horse Rescue Fundraiser Highlights

15:37 "Newberry Springs: A Desert Haven"

16:41 "Newberry's Family-Friendly Appeal"

20:25 "The Barn in Newberry Springs"

LEARN MORE

To learn about Newberry Springs, CA, the Route 66 Big Birthday Bash, the Pistachio Festival, and much more, visit the Newberry Springs Chamber of Commerce at https://newberryspringschamber.com/ or on these social sites:

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NewberrySpringsChamber
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nbsp_chamberofcommerce/

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Hello everybody.

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This is Howard and I am back for another podcast episode in beautiful, uh, Newberry Springs, California.

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It is the evening time the sun has set, and now I am in a location, it's called The Barn, which is a very well-known establishment here in Newbury Springs.

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and I have the pleasure.

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I don't know if she knows this, but I've actually seen her before.

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I know she's a YouTube star.

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her name is Renee Kaminski.

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She is the owner of the barn.

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she's a resident of California.

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She has a couple homes, but she loves spending time here.

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Yeah.

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in Newbury Springs, she's also, the Chamber of Commerce, uh, president.

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Yes.

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I'm the president of the Chamber for Newbury Springs as well.

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Yes, I

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am.

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Excellent.

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So, uh, folks, uh, I have the pleasure of, again, introducing you to Renee Kaminski.

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Oh, thank you so much for chatting with us this evening.

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Oh, Howard, it's, no, it's my pleasure.

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I'm so happy to have you with us here in Newbury Spring, so it's our pleasure.

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It's my pleasure that you're here, so thank you actually.

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you're making me, uh, blush and thank God this is a podcast.

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It's audio.

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Yes.

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And the video photographer can't see me blush, so that's a good thing all kidding aside, I had the pleasure of seeing you, uh, and Carla with Wonder Hussy.

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Yeah.

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That

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was such a fun

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day.

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And the impromptu wedding.

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I was thinking, you know, something, I've never been married.

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Maybe I could have an impromptu marriage here today And I can tell all my friends I got married.

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Yes.

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On Route 66.

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On Route 66 in,

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in the barn.

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In the barn.

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Yeah.

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That would be so much fun.

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I think that would be very cool.

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Yeah.

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So first off.

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Give us a little bit of your backstory.

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you're a resident of California, you've got a home farther, uh, west towards the ocean.

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you, you love.

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Newbury Springs, but tell us a little bit about your background.

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Well, I, I came to Newbury Springs 37 years ago when my husband and, um, he's actually Italian.

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Mm-hmm.

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And so when we were dating his friend, when he came from Italy, one of his very good friends from high school had a home out here on Lake Jodi.

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Mm-hmm.

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And so anyway, so when we started dating my, a very outdoorsy person mm-hmm.

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Very.

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Yeah, I, yeah, I'm very outdoorsy.

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So anyway, my husband said, I wanna take you place someplace super cool.

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And I was like, where are we going?

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And he is like, it's a place called Newberry Springs.

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And I was like, okay So we drove up here and I was like, where are we going?

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But anyway, we arrived at Lake Jody and no one really knows us, but Newberry Springs has seven now.

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There's seven manmade, um, lakes that you can water ski, fish, wakeboard, Pot, it's potable water.

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They do put dye in it to keep the algae down and everything.

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But anyway, so I, once he took me up here and just the sunsets and the sunrises was just absolutely amazing.

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I just loved everything about it.

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So I wanted to come up here all the time.

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And so when we eventually got married, um, and I grew up in Brooklyn too, and I, we had a home, well, it was a shack actually covered in calamine lotion and mosquito bites.

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Out in, in, uh, the Hamptons.

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Before it was the Hamptons.

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Right, right.

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And I grew up like that.

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I don't even remember my parents, our parents being there.

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It was just feral kids running everywhere.

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All my cousins.

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So I, you know, I, those, and those were the best days of my life really.

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I was like being in Disneyland when you were a kid.

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So, sure.

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When I came up to New Perry, we came to Lake Jody.

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I just, and we got married and we decided that we wanted to have kids too.

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I wanted to recreate that lifestyle that, and have those experiences for our own kids.

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Mm-hmm.

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So.

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As we, as we grew through our careers, because I'm actually a registered nurse as well.

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Okay.

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I became an administrator and so, but I always just love Newbury Springs so much.

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And so when we started developing our retirement plan, our plan was four months in, in Newbury, four months in, um, orange County.

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'cause we have, we live in Fullerton as well.

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And then, uh, four months, wherever our kids are.

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Right.

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Okay.

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And so that was our plan that we've worked.

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We, we've been working on for the last 20, 25 years.

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Okay So anywho, I would come up every weekend to work on the lake house and I just became, we just grew to love this place more and more.

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And then, um.

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I started spending a lot more time up here, and then my husband and I were at the lake.

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The kids have kind of grown up, right?

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And so I just thought, I told my husband I like, I wish there was a place that we could go just have a beer and listen to some music and just kind of play some pool and just kind of chill out like we sometimes do at home, right?

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Mm-hmm.

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And so my husband was like, let's go to the barn.

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And he's like, no, it's always closed.

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I'm like, no.

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It's gonna be open today.

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Let's go.

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Oh,

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really?

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So we came down here and I walked in and you know, this place is so cool.

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It's, it's that it's the typical roadside dive bar essentially.

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But, um, when I walked in.

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I saw that the platters had played here.

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There's a, there was a marquee, the platters had actually played here.

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They stayed at one of the lake houses, got dressed up in their tuxedos and drove in limousines over here to the barn and actually played here at the barn.

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Oh, wow.

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And it just, I don't know, something I guess touched my soul then, because when I was a little girl, we grew up in Brooklyn and my mom and dad would tell us stories when we were little girls about how they would go to the Copa Cabana.

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And they would dance there.

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Right.

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And my, there's pictures of my mom and dad there with my grandmother and Dr.

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And drink Manhattans, and they listened to the platters at the Copa Cabana.

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So even right now telling you this story, it gives me chills.

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Getting chills.

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Yeah.

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So when I saw that, I was like, oh my God, this place is so.

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that's a sign.

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It was, yeah.

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And then the thing, I was an administrator and the barn actually sits on five acres.

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So you can camp here for free at, you know, the one sign.

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We've got like three and a half acres of wide open space, you know, I own next to the, to the gas station.

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Right.

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So I let people.

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Come and stay here, but, um, for free.

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So when I was, I was a, when we, before I, we've owned the barn now about six years.

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But the thing is, what's super cool, I said, you know, you can have the Red Cross come here.

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You can have mobile mental health.

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Come here, you can have mobile primary care, uh, services come here.

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Mm-hmm.

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So I told the owner all of these things,'cause I was managing health clinics at the time.

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Right, right.

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And she's like, oh, she thought the place is for sale.

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Why don't you buy it?

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And I was like.

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What a great idea.

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Don't even think about it.

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Seriously.

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And I, but I thought about it honestly, Howard, for two years, every day and every time I'd come up here, it was just like, call my name.

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Mm-hmm.

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Because it didn't look like this when I bought it.

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Mm-hmm.

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Well, we bought when we bought it, but it's kind of, my husband's kinda like he lets me run, which is really great.

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But, um, so I just, I bought it and then I just came in here.

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Started cleaning it up and make, trying to honor it.

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Mm-hmm.

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For what?

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I think it's, I think it's, these places matter.

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Mm-hmm.

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I think the barn is one of the, uh, longest running, fully operational bar restaurants on Route 66 in California.

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Mm-hmm.

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You know, it was pretty dilapidated when I bought it, just, and so I just wanted to.

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Preserve it.

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I knew we weren't gonna make millions of dollars here.

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Mm-hmm.

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But I think these places actually really matter.

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And what's so cool about the barn, there's so much positive energy here too.

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And I think it's because it sits at the bottom of the Newberry Mountains right here.

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Right.

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And that's where all the indigenous people would come and worship, you know?

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A thousand years ago, right?

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Mm-hmm.

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And I always loved, every time I drive through the Mojave, I think, how did these people survive How did these pioneers make it through here?

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Mm-hmm.

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It's such, such a harsh environment.

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I, I don't know, I just thought it was fascinating to me.

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So anyway.

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And I, I, there is a lot of really positive energy here, and I think it's because of the mountains.

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There's petroglyphs, you know, at right at our doorstep.

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And I think because the whole, we, we sit on aquifer, you know, Newberry Springs used to be called water.

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Mm-hmm.

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Because there's so much water here.

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Um, not so much anymore, but that's for another.

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Another obsession, I guess another conversation.

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Yes, yes.

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But, um, you know, what's, what's super cool too about the barn and where we're at is that the, the original, um, route 66 hugged the bottom of the Newberry Mountain.

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Right.

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Because this whole area used to be all Marsh.

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Right.

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Right.

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So, I don't know.

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I just find the whole thing just fascinating and positive and, and I will share everyone that I've met, um, in Newbury Springs are all I.

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Just amazing people, survivors.

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There's, they will give you the shirt off your back if you're at the side of the road.

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Everyone here really helps each other, and, and so the barn, I just wanted to create the barn to be like a, a civic hub that I, I hope eventually everyone knows they'll never, there.

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Never even when we're closed.

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We will take you.

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We will take you in, we'll feed you, water you, and make sure that you're safe.

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Okay.

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So that's kind of, yeah.

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So that's what, yeah, that's what the Barn's all about.

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I love that.

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How are you preparing now for the.

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The celebration of the hundred hundredth anniversary of Route 66.

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Oh, so many things.

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I, so many things we're, we're so busy right now.

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Imagine it.

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Like my hair's on fire.

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Yeah.

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Um, one, I feel so blessed and I wanna say thank you so much, but the, um, historic.

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Preservation Society gave them, and with the help of the California Route 66 Historic Association in California, I was able to get a grant.

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I applied for a grant and they were actually the Route 66 Historical Association was really instrumental to, in helping me get this grant to actually paint.

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And, uh, uh, replaced a lot of the wood on the outside of the barn.

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Everything that faces Route 66.

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Mm-hmm.

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So we're in the process of that right now Okay.

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So, and the, the main water line was from, we're over 72 years old too.

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So we're doing some infrastructure and then we're doing some exterior work, right.

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For the, in preparation for the, um, centennial.

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Mm-hmm.

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We also, the county of San Bernardino was so gracious to give us also half of, um, they, they are, uh, paying for half of the sign.

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We're having a big LED Route 66 sign installed here at the barn.

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Right.

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Oh,

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oh, wow.

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I know.

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Isn't that cool?

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So you'll be able to see it from the freeway.

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So we're so grateful for that and honored for that.

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And then, so then we're planning all these different events.

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So we have the, the March 22nd, I think I shared with you, and I'm not sure if we're we're on the air or recording for this, but you know, we're gonna have a.

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I'm

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checking.

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We are recording.

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Okay, cool.

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Well, well, because we talked before we started, but Yes.

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But no, there's, what's really cool about Newbury, we're also very agricultural.

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We're military based, agricultural based.

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Mm-hmm.

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Um, and so, and then history based with Route 66, but, um.

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One of our, actually she, she's one of my bartenders and she's becoming my friend.

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She has this, um, fund, a foundation that rescues horses.

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It's called Smokes, equine OA Oasis.

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Mm-hmm.

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We're gonna have a fundraiser for her on March 22nd, because this young lady, she takes in horses and she will provide for them.

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Food, water, and medical to, you know, until they pass away so they can, these horses have been abused.

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Mm-hmm.

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So that they can spend their last years in peace.

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Right?

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Mm-hmm.

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And she's in the Guinness Book of World Records because her, she does, she has one horse called Smokes that doesn't even have any eyeballs due to cancer.

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And so she's been in Guinness for barrel racing.

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This horse trusts her so much that she'll, she'll, she's in the BURG world, right.

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World records for barrel racing with her blind horse.

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So, so that's kind of cool.

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Okay, so that's March 22nd.

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Mm-hmm.

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Then every weekend though, here we have live, we have, um, karaoke and then we have live music, um, once a month.

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Mm-hmm.

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So we, we always have community events going on anyway, we do a lot of fundraisers out of the barn.

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Okay.

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cause I support the community a hundred percent sure.

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So we do a lot of fundraisers here, but so March 22nd we have an event.

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We're gonna have the big birthday bash, I think I'm gonna give you a flyer and May 2nd a bunch of information before you go, right?

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Yeah.

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So that's May 2nd.

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Everybody you wanna come?

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Yeah, because it's gonna be off the hook.

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So we're gonna try to close, we're route, we're gonna close Route 66.

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We can dance on Route 66.

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If you want to, we probably marry you back here really quick.

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You married at the barn on Route 66, but no, we're gonna have out two, we've got two outdoor stages already.

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We've.

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We're gonna have the stage in here.

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we're gonna have horseback riding, we're gonna have gunfights, we're gonna have live music, we're gonna have dancing acts, or we're gonna have a bunch of fun stuff for the kids, and we're gonna have balloon animals and magician just amazing things.

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On, on, on May 2nd.

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So that's happening in May.

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And then, um, in October, it's kind of fun.

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We're gonna have a meet and greet with one, Josie.

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We're gonna have like a, a mini music festival then.

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Mm-hmm.

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so music for two days.

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We're shooting for two days.

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It may only end up being one, but I'd love to have music for two days for that entire weekend.

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And that's in October.

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And then we're gonna have our annual Pistachio Festival that's in November.

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Right.

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And that's always super fun too.

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So, um, so the P Possession Festival is really awesome because Newbury Springs is known for our pistachios.

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Uh,

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I was learning about that.

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Yeah.

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Sorry, I'm talking really fast.

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That's okay.

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I don't wanna monopolize this conversation.

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No, I was learning about that

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actually.

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I, I learned so much that, that California is number 10 in the world for producing tree nuts.

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I did not know that.

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I know I love pistachios.

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So next time I have my pistachios, I'm gonna wonder, do they come from California?

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So that that's

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good.

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Oh, yes.

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I'll get you some.

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There you go.

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And do you like sweetss?

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Y

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Yes, but I can't,

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oh, darn it,

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darn it.

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Because we have an amazing that I, that I have one of our local girls make it's homemade and she's Mormon.

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She grinds the flour.

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This is Newberry Springs, right?

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She illustrates Newberry Springs.

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She grinds the grains to make the flour.

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She makes the, the sugar cookies with the flour.

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And then, um, she makes homemade and I sell them here for, I sell them here now, um, with, um.

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Pistachio ice cream and then dark chocolate rolled in salted pistachios.

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Oh my God.

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It's delicious.

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So it's like, well, literally for me it'll be to die for it, but, uh,

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yeah,

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no.

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Oh

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no, I, I, I'm kind of joking

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then.

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You're not gonna have one.

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Sorry,

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I'm kind of

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joking.

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I'm also a registered nurse, so

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something happens.

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Yes.

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I just, I just, when you get old, you gotta watch your sugar.

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So i's like, that's the way it's, but I love the fact, number one, your energy is just in, in a way, it's intoxicating because you know you are a testament, Carla.

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A testament to the vibrancy and the importance of this community and, and seeing that it thrives.

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Yes.

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And the fact that it is on Route 66, it's a part of the, this celebration.

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And, and I love the fact of doing these interviews with folks like yourself, Carla, uh, the, the, the mayor of Route 66, just, and, and mark from the, from the, uh, the, the, um, Baghdad Cafe and.

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It is just wonderful and I'm just, it's, it's, thank you.

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It's, this could easily have been a one episode, uh oh my.

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I, but the fact that I get to come and just get to meet and be a part of this community, I think that is, that's what makes it really wonderful.

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Is there a website that folks who want to learn more,'cause this episode will be up fairly quickly.

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If they wanna learn more about Newbury Springs, the events that are taking place, where would you suggest they go?

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the best place probably would be the Chamber of Commerce website.

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Okay, so we're making that a little more splashy right now, you know?

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Good.

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I've been in the president, um, for the last year, so we really wanna engage the communities and, and families.

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Um, so, but the best place to answer your question would be the, the Chamber of Commerce website.

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There is an a link for events there.

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Okay,

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good.

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And that'll kind of take you to places to say, we have some super cute Airbnbs out here.

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Love it.

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But it's, um, I, I think it's important that, you know.

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I, so, I'm so happy you're here, Howard.

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Thank you.

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I really am know, I,

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I

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excited.

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I'll tell you why.

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Because Newbury Springs, you know, I, I'm actually, I'm 61 years old now, right?

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Okay.

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And as we make plans in California, I love California desperately.

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I, I did a lot of things for the feds and the state and the county in California and throughout my career.

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And I, and I have, like I shared, I do have a beautiful home down Orange County, but what I see here.

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In Newberry Springs is an opportunity for families to really have an alternative to leaving California.

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Mm-hmm.

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One, to raise your children here in the I you, you learn to love the desert.

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At first you think, oh my gosh.

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But no, it's absolutely gorgeous.

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It's July and August, it's tough.

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Right.

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But the rest of the year is absolutely fabulous.

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You're even here right now, right?

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The weather is so amazing.

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The weather is amazing.

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I, I literally.

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That later this evening.

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Can't wait to see the stars.

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'cause that's, that's why one of the reasons when I moved to Las Vegas.

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Is I wanted to see the stars.

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Yeah.

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And dark sky go car camping.

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So knowing that I was gonna be out here for, two nights, it's like, okay, this is cool.

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I know is cool.

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It's

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like magic.

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Yeah.

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And the wind starts blowing through the trees.

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And Newbury isn't all just dried up desert.

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I mean, there's beautiful homes here and then with the ski lakes and it's just, it's just amazing here And what to me.

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One, I think for families,'cause I'm all about, I, my biggest goal as a chamber president is to wanna entice families to come to Newbury so that you can raise your kids on two acres.

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Right.

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And have, and have animals and teach the kids all about that and mm-hmm.

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Have motorcycles and learn all about the desert, respect the desert and the environment and learn, if you're on the one of the ski lakes, learn how teach your kids how to water ski.

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I mean my, you know, my kids were on the boat all the time.

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You could teach them to drive.

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Nine, 10, you teach'em to drive the boat.

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It just gives you a whole different lifestyle versus what we're, we're trained to think that, you know, that, that.

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What we're supposed to do all the time.

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Right.

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