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1. The nation's first three-phase alternating current power plant was built in 1893 on Mill Creek.  
2. A young Lyndon B. Johnson ran an elevator in downtown San Bernardino.  
3. The nation's first solar-thermal power plant was built in Daggett.  
4. The town of Amboy is adjacent to the now deserted town of Amgirl, both named after the children of an illiterate miner.  
5. Silver sparked a mining boom in Red Mountain while tungsten brightened the fortunes of Randsburg.  
6. Old Dad Mountain is not in the Old Dad Mountains.  
7. San Bernardino County is the largest county in the contiguous states.  
8. San Bernardino County is home to the world's largest Joshua tree and was home to the largest lodge pole pine tree until the Forest Service blew it up it up with dynamite.  
9. Zzyzx is a real place.  
10. The Mojave River flows underground for most of its 100 mile length yet surfaces less than 20 miles from its end at Soda Lake.  

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August 4, 2008
TAX SALE
Bids will be accepted beginning August 2nd, 2008
August 9, 2008
Regional Parks, JDRF, LMG and IE ‘66ers partner to present Hot August Days event.
Cucamonga-Guasti Regional Park, 800 N. Archibald, Ontario 10am-5pm
August 16, 2008
2nd Annual Dragon Boat Races at Lake Gregory Regional Park, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
August 23, 2008
Fourth Annual Hispanic Employees Alliance golf tournament scheduled for August 23, 2008. Proceeds go to support HEA Scholarship Fund. Click here for details.
                                                 
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