Since moving to Hesperia we’ve been actively looking for opportunities to get involved in the community and participate in local events. The Christmas tree lighting, the weekend farmers’ market, the museum, the astronomy club star parties, and so on.
Today the “Monday Municipal Mile” events start for the spring. The same Civic Center park (next to City Hall, the library, the police station…) where the Christmas event was, a lap around the park is a quarter mile, four laps gets you your easy, flat, paved mile with benches and rest stops all over the place if needed. We got our T-shirts, and they also had water, Gatorade, snacks, and first aid (not that I saw anyone needing it).
We heard from the mayor, a couple of City Council members, a bit of blah blah blah about how healthy this all is, and then we were off!
I did two of my four laps with our local City Council representative and had a great conversation about what brought us to Hesperia, what we like (a LOT of things, like this event!), what we don’t (a short list, mainly some key streets that need some maintenance, which they’re aware of and working on), and what we’ve got to look forward to (multiple HUGE warehouse & distribution centers, lots of shopping growth, the high-speed LA-to-Las Vegas rail project). It was great!
We’ll be out there every Monday. Easy exercise, nice folks, a little bit of community involvement. Small town America! Cue the country music!
We Love The Stars Too Fondly 