Talk:Lake Elsinore, California

Lake Elsinore/Orange County
I live in Corona & have been involved in San Juan Capistrano and Elsinore. The claim for Highway 74 as a teleportation conduit is, IMO, amusing.

Yes, Hwy 74, aka the Ortega Highway, will get you to Orange County just as easily as whatever was stated--if you don't tend to get carsick on winding mountain roads or don't mind following slow-moving hay trucks for miles between passing lanes. Not too many folks have that problem on 241, where all you have to worry about is tolls.

Diamond Bar has a rural mindset and would actively resist being associated with Orange County. As for Corona, it's a bedroom community, and probably as dependent on O.C. for jobs etc. as anywhere in O.C. itself.

Distance in miles is one thing; distance on the ground is another. Mental distance is a different thing entirely.

I'm not even sure Elsinore considers itself to be in the "Inland Empire."

Terry J. Carter (talk) 03:38, 22 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Of course it is part of the "Inland Empire". I live here.DavidPickett (talk) 02:18, 17 September 2010 (UTC)

Motorcross
In 1971 the documentary movie On Any Sunday by Bruce Brown was filmed, considered by many to be the greatest motorcycle film ever made.[9]

Am I missing something here? How does this relate to Lake Elsinore? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Benpurge (talk • contribs) 09:33, 20 November 2009 (UTC)


 * Unless the edit failed to mention the movie was set in the city of Lake Elsinore. 71.102.21.238 (talk) 12:02, 15 April 2012 (UTC)

Birds on Lake Elsinore
Photo at the top of the page shows many types of birds none of which are cranes, hence I recaptioned it. The birds (thought to be cranes) in the forground are egrets or herons. In the background pelicans are seen. Asiaticus (talk) 19:50, 29 August 2010 (UTC)

The Lake
I find it somewhat odd that the lake itself has a separate article, when many of the details about the lake are mentioned in geography here. Is a separate article really needed? Lvi56 (talk) 00:43, 17 September 2010 (UTC)
 * I think that the lake is a destination like Havasu Lake. Persons may look up the lake because they are interested in using it for boating or fishing, separate from the City.DavidPickett (talk) 02:13, 17 September 2010 (UTC)

Miscellaneous (from view history function in the article)
On a 1992 Sightings'' segment, a local citizen group of ten members from Lake Elsinore claimed to share or knew each other in past lives in 1863 Clarksburg, West Virginia. The paranormal television series claimed the small group of locals experienced a rare phenomena called mass reincarnation. The story was covered on a hard-cover novel From Clarksburg to Lake Elsinore: A Profile on Reincarnation published in 1988, but since was out-of-print.

''Lake Elsinore is said the habitat of a lake monster sighted on numerous occassions since the 1850s, but the "Lake Elsinore Monster" had similarities to Nessie of Loch Ness, Scotland, and Champ of Lake Champlain, Vermont. The city developed a recent reputation as a "hot spot" for the paranormal: UFOs or flying "orbs", haunted sites (homes or vacant lots) for ghost activity, and repeated incidents of satanism or vampire cults in the mountains near the city.''

There's a reputation of Lake Elsinore with the paranormal and controversy. The city along with much of 1800's Southern California, Lake Elsinore was a historic retirement haven for seniors wanting to live in a healthy place during the warm winter months, including veterans of the U.S. Civil War mainly happen to be ex-officers and soldiers of the Confederacy retired there in the late 19th cnetury and it's probably no coincidence for the mass group of LE residents claimed to be reincarnations in the 1990's.

In the past two decades: Neo-Nazi, KKK (the California Golden Knights chapter of the Ku Klux Klan) and white supremacist activity is a huge problem in the Lake Elsinore area, a huge contrary to the city proudly elected/had a Black Mayor during the racially heated 1960's (the Civil Rights Movement) and a large Jewish American population per capita for any California city, but centered in the retirement community of Sun City near Menifee with many seniors have survived the Holocaust. 71.102.21.238 (talk) 12:11, 15 April 2012 (UTC)


 * Addition: In the Temescal Valley to the north of Lake Elsinore, a small population in the hundreds of mixed-race Chinese/African-Americans exist for over a century, the descendants of relocated Black and Chinese immigrant workers in the mines, railroads and ranching industries lived in close proximity to mixed outside their respective other racial groups. The population of Chinese Americans in southwest Riverside county has risen in the 1990s and 2000s, along with the African-American community has grown, to further explain how can a city with some racial tension is a harmonious diverse town. 71.102.21.238 (talk) 19:13, 2 August 2012 (UTC)

Geo location template suggestion
The parameters for this template: say you can use italics to designate geographic features in the different directions. So with the Temescal Canyon being northwest of the city, the link should be changed the correct geographic feature (instead of the CDP) and italicize. --S. Rich (talk) 00:34, 26 April 2012 (UTC)

Content removed
Last month, a section of this article was POV-tagged. While most of the content doesn't seem too POV to me (other than the title "The History of Our Schools", since the first person is clearly inappropriate for an encyclopedia), it does seem misplaced to me. Most information about education in the city should be under an education section, as indeed it is. Also, the content that was provided seems to me to be a bit excessive for an article about a city which certainly isn't a global city. I tend to think the information in the education section now is probably sufficient, but I'm reproducing the content I removed from the article below in case someone wants to salvage it and put it in the education section. Heimstern Läufer (talk) 14:57, 9 April 2016 (UTC)

Education was important to the City of Lake Elsinore founders, all college graduates themselves. On July 1, 1884, a petition was granted by the San Diego supervisors for the Elsinore School District. Elsinore Elementary, originally called Elsinore Grammar, was the first school opened, in 1884 fours years before the City of Lake Elsinore was incorporated. Its curriculum served students in the first through eighth grades. When the time arrived to begin a high school in the 1890s, a petition was sent by 100 leading citizens to Sacramento requesting the establishment of just such an institution. California legislature decreed that a high school union could consist of Elsinore, Lucerne, Lake, and Grand schools’ student bodies.

In 1988, a unification vote was approved to combine the Elsinore Elementary District (kindergarten to eighth grade) and the Elsinore Union High School District into one with a single governance body.

In 1991, the new Temescal Canyon opened to serve students from the valley, including those from the recently formed city of Canyon Lake. The newly opened state-of-the-art Lakeside on the Northwest side of the lake began serving students in September 2005 and will have its first graduating class in the 2008 centennial year. At the start of the 21st century, each comprehensive high school was graduating more than 500 yearly.

Today the Lake Elsinore Unified School District has one continuation and three comprehensive high schools; Lakeside, Elsinore and Temescal Canyon. Elsinore and Temescal Canyon were both named Distinguished High Schools for 2006-2007 and are the only two in the state to be in the same district. Ortega Continuation (named a Model Continuation High School in 2007-2008) is an alternative school, the first ever constructed in the state to serve students who cannot function in regular classroom settings. Additionally, the district includes 5 middle schools and 15 elementary schools. Lusieno Elementary School was named a Distinguished Elementary School in 2005-2006, and just recently been announced, Tuscany Hills Elementary School was nominated as a Distinguished Elementary School in 2007-2008.

In 2008, these educational institutions, along with Tri-Valley Community Day, Gordon Kiefer Independent, and home to schooling programs, served close to 21,846 students aged 5 to 18. The school district employs more than 3,000 adults, who are involved in operations ranging from teaching to building and maintenance. The schools operating budget is in excess of $165 million.

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