SAN JACINTO: Homes for pets, new traffic signals : San Jacinto

Posted on | October 21, 2012 | Comments

What?s this? It?s at State Street and De Anza Drive. Find out what?s going on at the end of this blog.

What?s this? GAIL WESSON/STAFF PHOTO

But first? I stopped by Ramona Humane Society?s Oktoberfest on Saturday, Oct. 20. From Chihuahua mixes to larger dogs, I could see that shelter dogs found new homes. Children sported temporary tatoos ? from spiders on webs to caterpillars ? on face and arms to remind them what fun they had at the event.

Shelter President Jeff Sheppard called the 12^th annual event ?one of the best ever? with about 4,000 people in attendance, 179 animal adoptions and 690 spay/neuter vouchers issued to residents of the cities of San Jacinto and Hemet for pet surgeries.

For the one-day event, all adoptions were $25. Through the month of October, dog adoptions are $50. Dog adoptions normally range from $97.50 to $150, including primary vaccines and spay or neuter surgery.

Lori Neddermann, the animal services manager, took me on a tour of the dog kennels ? many of them now vacant because of adoptions and others with pink cards clipped on the enclosures to indicate dogs were awaiting spay/neuter surgeries this week before going to their new homes.

Lola, one of the Menifee 19 court case dogs, who found a home Saturday, Oct. 20, during Ramona Humane Society?s Oktoberfest. RAMONA HUMANE SOCIETY/CONTRIBUTED IMAGE

I saw some of the Menifee 19 dogs finally got new homes, including Lola, the poster dog. I?ll update how many of these court case dogs, at the shelter for almost 16 months now, have found homes in my blog early this week.

?I?ll never see it like this again,? Needermann said as she looked at the empty dog runs.

She said people started lining up at 3:30 a.m. for the spay/neuter vouchers and by 7 a.m. the line snaked from the shelter entrance on Humane Way more than a block away to Grand Avenue! Some 28 puppies found new homes in less than two hours after the event start at 9 a.m.

The shelter had up to 2,000 spay/neuter certificates to give away and those remaining will be saved for another special event during the year, Sheppard said. The shelter?s clinic operates six days a week.

The ?What?s this?? answer is?traffic signals for intersection of State Street and De Anza Drive near local San Jacinto schools. GAIL WESSON/STAFF PHOTO

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The answer to the ?what?s this?? question is?work started last week at the intersection of State Street and De Anza Drive for traffic signal installation and some drainage improvements at the corner.

Last July17, the San Jacinto City Council awarded a $373,908 contract to California Professional Engineering of La Puente for construction and installation of the signals. City Engineer Habib Motlagh has said the work is expected to be completed in December.

With other related expenses, the total project cost is $454,908, from the city?s capital improvement program, including money from the Measure A gas tax.

The intersection is within walking distance of De Anza Elementary School, and Mountain View and San Jacinto high schools.

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