HelloMenifee.com is an online community calendar that I had been wanting to create since 2006.
I remember wanting to become really involved in my new community, upon moving here in 2005, and I still clearly remember my VERY FIRST Menifee Event. It was Menifee’s American Cancern Society Relay for Life in 2006. I was SO excited to serve my community, and even though I only found out about the event three days before it was scheduled to take place, I jumped right in trying to help. (I think it was my friend Mike Castilleos who told me about it. Wow – what a community hero Mike was – but that’s a different story.) Anyway, I knew it was going to be hot, so I searched and found a company who sold and rented out big portable Misting Fans for large events. BIGFOGG in Temecula. The owner was so nice and donated the use of FOUR of his big portable misting fans. I showed up with tons of snacks and water and drinks to give away the morning of the event. I had never been to a Relay for Life before, so I knew nothing about the event’s structure, and I kept expecting gangs of people to show up. After all was said and done, a total of THREE Relay Teams showed up that day. 3. Yes, that’s right, I said “three”. AND I CAN STILL CLEARLY VISUALIZE, going to the track, around midnight, and seeing only one Relayer. A young black man (who was a Teller at the Bank of America on Antelope/Newport) ASLEEP in the middle of the MSJC Track. (Read Menifee 24/7 update on Menifee’s 2012 Relay for Life here: http://www.menifee247.com/2012/04/menifee-relay-for-life-24-hours-of-fun.html
Being such a new blossoming area, comprised of Menifee, Sun City, Quail Valley and parts of Romoland, it was obvious that our local citizens were not connected. No one really knew about the things that were happening, until after they happened. THAT is when my idea for an online Community Calendar for Menifee was born. A few years after my Relay for Life experience, I exchanged my real estate listing services to client who developed my HelloMenifee.com website. And then it was several more years before I was able to find someone dedicated to keeping it updated. (Thank you SO MUCH to my daughter, Robin Tuala, who now keeps www.HelloMenifee.com updated, as much as humanly possible.)
HelloMenifee.com is your online destination for all events and happenings in the City of Menifee, in an easy to follow, chronological order. See what’s happening today, this week… this month. I LOVE MENIFEE, and I am grateful for this opportunity for me to be able to “give back” to a community and a city that I love.
My family truly loves living here in Menifee, and we are always wanting to know what’s happening in our city. Too many times we would find out about an event “after the fact” and then feel we’ve missed out on something special. I’m sure many of you have experienced the same. Well, we’ve changed all that, but we need YOUR HELP to SPREAD THE WORD about Menifee’s Online Community Calendar. Please help us, help our community. Help us stay connected to each other. www.HelloMenifee.com
