Sunday Gazette: September 6, 2026
Hello Riverside, and Happy Sunday! This week's riddle comes with a basket of something warm.
I opened my doors in November of 1989, and I've been feeding celebrations ever since — birthdays, anniversaries, graduations, you name it. My signature isn't on the menu so much as on the table: a never-ending basket of something served hot with butter on the side. Ask around and you'll find plenty of Riversiders who say I was THE place everyone went when there was something worth celebrating.
What do Riversiders call me?
Send us your guesses — we'll share the answer tomorrow morning.
Advertisement (Become an advertiser)
HISTORY
Captain Charles T. Rice, Father of Terracing Orange Groves
A Civil War Veteran's Innovation Still Bears His Name on Rice Hill
Early Riverside had many colorful entrepreneurs among the pioneer settlers. One such pioneer was Charles T. Rice, born on December 2, 1843, in Kennebec, Maine. He served in the Union Army during the Civil War and mustered out as a corporal. He returned to Maine after the war but later relocated to Indianapolis, Indiana, where he married Emma Noland on August 11, 1877. There in Indianapolis, on March 9, 1878, their daughter, Anna Alden Rice, was born.
The Rice family arrived in Riverside in 1880. He was an experienced carpenter and contractor and in early 1881 went to work for Augustus W. Boggs, an architect who had recently moved to Riverside from Los Angeles. Charles helped build Boggs' first home located at the northeast corner of Market and Ninth Streets.
Some of the other building projects in Riverside in which Charles Rice participated were the John Jarvis House at 4492 Twelfth Street (City Landmark #78), the Stephen Magee House at 4529 Sunnyside Drive, the Samuel Ames House at 4811 Brockton (City Landmark #108), the Lorenzo Scranton House at 4595 University, and the Charles Low House at 6963 Palm (moved in 1959 to 7121 Magnolia Avenue).
In 1888, Rice was the contractor at the Glenwood Cottage, adding a ladies' parlor, a large office, and doubling the size of the dining room. The renovations cost $3,000.
Read and share the complete story...
Advertisement (Become an advertiser)
CREATIVE PROMPTS
Chances Are
A prompt to encourage your practice of creativity this week from Riversider and local author Larry Burns.
This week chance has rolled a glass bottle in our direction. Pick it up carefully. It’s this week’s creative nudge! Picture those old-fashioned Coca-Cola bottles many of us feel nostalgic enough about to pay extra for. The soda might taste better pouring from cold glass. It might be the pure cane sugar. It might be the shape of the bottle and the cheerful clink it makes against another bottle. Nostalgia has several ingredients, and apparently one of them is packaging.
Long before plastic became our default container, glass performed many of the same jobs. It could be molded into countless shapes, made clear or colored, cleaned and reused. Glass is an amorphous solid, meaning its atoms aren’t arranged in the orderly structure of a crystal. This helped produce the tantalizing myth that glass is always slowly flowing. It isn’t—not at any meaningful rate while sitting on your shelf—but it still feels like a material caught between states: made from heat, hard as stone and transparent like water.
Read and share the complete prompt...
Advertisement (Become an advertiser)
This Week in Riverside
Sunday, September 6
- Volunteer Orientation at UCR Botanic Gardens
- Gardening for Butterflies at UCR Botanic Gardens
- Learn Origami at UCR Botanic Gardens
- Storytime in the Gardens at UCR Botanic Gardens
- Prayers and Public Information Meeting at Riverside Baha'i Center
- Men's Soccer vs UNLV at UCR Soccer Stadium
- Women's Soccer vs. North Dakota at UCR Soccer Stadium
- Sunday Experiment After Dark at Downtown Experiment
Monday, September 7
- FREE YOGA - Moody Mondays with Cherie Amour at Community Yoga Center
Tuesday, September 8
- Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) Basic Training Course at Riverside City EOC
- ScotSurplus Sale at ScotSurplus Store
- Karaoke Tuesday Competition at the Hideaway at The Hideaway
Wednesday, September 9
- Riverside East Rotary Club at Civil Rights Institute of Inland Southern
- Stretch & Dance Class at Janet Goeske Senior Center
- Wild California: Stories of Science, Water & Life at University of California, Riverside
- FREE Beginning Square Dance Lessons with Line Dancing at Cowtown Square Dance Center
- FREE YOGA - Seated Yoga with Kristin Varner at All Saints Episcopal Church
- History on the Rocks - Round Two! Presented by The Mission Inn Foundation at Mission Inn Foundation ($71.21)
- BRICKTOYAFACE PRESENTS: 909DAY at Riverside Municipal Auditorium- Garden Room
- Riverside Jams at Carbon Nation Brewery
Thursday, September 10
- Budget Engagement Commission at Riverside City Hall
- History on the Rocks! Presented by The Mission Inn Foundation at Mission Inn Foundation ($71.21)
Friday, September 11
- Led Zeppelin 2 at Riverside Municipal Auditorium
Saturday, September 12
- Day of Service at Arlington Park
- FREE Disaster & Flood Preparedness Workshop at Riverside City Emergency Operations Center and Training Grounds
- StoryTime with Tn : The Album Experience at The Box Theatre ($25- $45)
- ElectricFeels: Indie Rock + Indie Dance Party(18+) at Riverside Municipal Auditorium
- Paint Your Sign, Astrology Comedy Paint and Sip at BACK TO THE GRIND ($23.18)
Save the Date
- Sep 13: FREE YOGA - The Evolution of Ashtanga with Kristin Varner at Community Yoga Center
- Sep 13: Welcome Back Party! at First Congregational Church of Riverside
- Sep 14: FREE YOGA - Moody Mondays with Cherie Amour at Community Yoga Center
- Sep 16: FREE Beginning Square Dance Lessons with Line Dancing at Cowtown Square Dance Center
- Sep 16: FREE YOGA - Seated Yoga with Kristin Varner at All Saints Episcopal Church
- Sep 18: Open Mic Night at Riverside Baha'i Center
- Sep 18: Riverside Sunrise Rotary Club Meeting at Zacatecas Café
- Sep 19: FREE YOGA - The Art of Vinyasa with Catherine Murray at Community Yoga Center
- Sep 19: FREE YOGA - Yin Yoga with Kristin Varner at Community Yoga Center
- Sep 25: Moon Festival at Heritage House
- Oct 3: Aquamotion Aquathon at Shamel Pool
- Oct 7: Fifty & Better Health Fair at Janet Goeske Center
- Nov 14: Riverside Veterans Parade - Downtown Riverside/Market St.
🗓️ See More Events 📝 Submit Your Event
📸 Submit a photo to be featured in our newsletters and social media accounts.
🏆 Nominate a remarkable Riversider as Neighbor of the Week.