Monday Gazette: September 28, 2026
Hello Riverside, and Happy Monday! If you had 'Gage Canal' typed before you caught yourself, you weren't alone. Good instinct — and it turns out the two really are tangled up, just not the way you'd guess.
The answer is the Tequesquite Arroyo, a natural stream running from the eastern side of the city down toward the Santa Ana River. The golf course in our clue is the Victoria Club, incorporated in 1903, which sits right inside the arroyo. Follow the water downstream and you reach Ryan Bonaminio Park, named for the young Riverside police officer killed in the line of duty in 2010.
As for the Gage Canal: it doesn't run through this stretch — but between 1885 and 1889, Matthew Gage's canal company had to cross this very arroyo, building an elevated flume near where Andulka Park sits today to carry irrigation water clean over it. A few years later, Gage's own Victoria Bridge (1891) crossed the same arroyo again, this time to link the new Arlington Heights neighborhood to downtown. So the canal and the arroyo really have crossed paths, twice — just never merged into one.
Thanks for playing along!
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GOVERNMENT
This Week in City Hall: September 28, 2026
Riverside officials consider a residential program for teen parents, review how the utility spent pollution allowance revenue and discuss new powers for the Board of Ethics.
Welcome to our weekly digest of public meetings and agenda items worth your attention for this coming week. This guide is part of our mission to provide everyday Riversiders like you with the information to speak up on the issues you care about.
Housing and Homelessness Committee
The Housing and Homelessness Committee meets on Monday, Sept. 28, at 3:30 p.m. (agenda) to consider a proposal from Leap for Joy Foundation to use $1.28 million in City homelessness grant funds to buy and renovate a home at 775 Huston Street for a 24-hour supervised residential treatment program for pregnant and parenting teens (item 2), and to discuss potential changes to the city's mobile home park rent stabilization rules that could limit rent increases when a home passes to a family member (item 3).
Board of Public Utilities
The Board of Public Utilities meets on Monday, Sept. 28, at 6:30 p.m. (agenda) to review a report on how the utility spent money from selling state pollution allowances, including a $50 million reserve that staff now say cannot easily be returned to customers as bill credits because of City Charter limits (item 12), and considering a $2.13 million no-bid agreement to replace all 600 filter membrane modules at the John W. North Water Treatment Plant in spring 2027 (item 14).
Board of Ethics
The Board of Ethics meets on Thursday, Oct. 1, at 6 p.m. (agenda) to discuss a board member’s proposals to ask voters to add the Board of Ethics to the City Charter — meaning the City Council could no longer change or dissolve it without voter approval — and to let the board request investigations and audits from the Inspector General (item 5).
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MUSEUM MONDAYS
Focus on Fire
What Riverside residents should know about wildfires and fire prevention.
Southern California is just about synonymous with wildfire. Hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of acres have burned in our region over the decades. Drought and climate extremes driven by human-induced climate change have dramatically escalated the risk of fire.
Fortunately, there are things residents can do to reduce the threat from potential blazes and comply with state fire-prevention measures.
Wildfires are a natural process in the Southern California landscape, as in many other locales. Low, fast-moving brush fires clear understory vegetation, that is, the layer of plants growing at the lowest level of a wooded area that can include moss, ferns and shrubs. When this happens, new trees can sprout and grow. In fact, some tree species in the region, such as Monterey and knobcone pines, require heat from a fire for their cones to open. This adaptation is called "serotiny."
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This Week in Riverside
Today
- Volunteer Interest Hour at Riverside Meals on Wheels
- Housing and Homelessness Committee at Riverside City Hall
- Board of Public Utilities at Riverside City Hall
- FREE YOGA - Moody Mondays with Cherie Amour at Community Yoga Center
- Adult Ballet Class at Riverside Ballet Arts LLC
- Goeske Bingo at Janet Goeske Center ($20- $100)
Tomorrow
- ScotSurplus Sale at ScotSurplus Store
- FREE YOGA - Mandala Yoga with Alejandro at Community Yoga Center
- Until Help Arrives Emergency Preparedness Training at Community Room Riverside Main Library
- Karaoke Tuesday Competition at The Hideaway
Save the Date
- Sep 30: FREE YOGA - Seated Yoga with Kristin Varner at All Saints Episcopal Church
- Oct 2: FREE YOGA - The Evolution of Ashtanga with Kristin Varner at Community Yoga Center
- Oct 2: Riverside Sunrise Rotary Club Meeting at Zacatecas Café
- Oct 3: Aquamotion Aquathon at Shamel Pool
- Oct 3: FREE YOGA - The Art of Vinyasa with Catherine Murray at Community Yoga Center
- Oct 3: FREE YOGA - Yin Yoga with Kristin Varner at Community Yoga Center
- Oct 4: Riverside Historical Society Local History Book Fair at Villegas Community Center
- Oct 5: FREE YOGA - Moody Mondays with Cherie Amour at Community Yoga Center
- Oct 7: Fifty & Better Health Fair at Janet Goeske Center
- Oct 17: Spooky Music Organ Concert at First Congregational Church of Riverside ($30.00)
- Oct 22: Experience RUSD, Riverside Unified State of the District at Riverside Municipal Airport
- Oct 24: Vintage Car and Warbird Show at Riverside Airport - Commemorative Air Force Hanger and Museum
- Nov 14: Riverside Veterans Parade - Downtown Riverside/Market St.
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