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YUCAIPA - The Iris Festival begins (today) Friday, May 15 at 5 p.m. at Yucaipa Community Park on Oak Glen Road. Activities continue through the weekend.

For more information visit the Iris Festival web site:Click Here For Iris Festival Web Site

Child Safety is one of our community's most important issues, but it is one we tend to take for granted until a tragedy happens.

News Release:
By Tricia Griffith
KlaasKids Media
(801)560-1933

Local Contact:
Carmen Brown
(760)774-0827

YUCAIPA - Yucaipa Valley Christian School District and Little Smiles Pediatric Dentistry will host a KlaasKids Print-A-Thon to promote and educate families about child safety and fingerprint and photograph children at no cost.

Each participating child will receive a comprehensive packet of child safety tools. Using state of the art computerized systems that were originally designed for a federal law enforcement agency each child will receive digitized fingerprints, an updated photograph, a DNA Collection Kit developed by the California DNA Laboratory, pro-active child safety tips and a 9-point plan on what to do if your child disappears.

Yucaipa Valley Christian School District, Little Smiles Pediatric Dentistry and
Marc Klaas (father of Polly Klaas) invite families to a FREE Child Safety Day "Print-A-Thon" Event.

The Iris's are a blooming just in time for the Iris Festival Garden Tour on Saturday and Sunday.
By Bob Otto / Staff Photographer

YUCAIPA - Love flowers? Appreciate creativity? Looking for a few ideas to enhance and beautify your garden or yard?

Then take in the Garden Tour hosted by the Yucaipa Iris Festival this weekend. Six homes with their gardens and yards open and inviting are available for the public to tour, said Wes Thatcher, a director for the Iris Festival.

"There are some very formal gardens, and some informal," he said. "Each year the tour is totally different. A yard on the tour this year has a desert type (landscape). Some have beautiful water scapes, and statues."

Tickets cost $5 (children age 10 and under are free) and can be purchased at Yucaipa City Hall from 9 a.m. until 3 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday at the Iris Festival booth. Maps will be provided, along with complimentary coffee and Danish, Thatcher said.

At 10 a.m. the tour begins and lasts until 4 p.m. on both days.

Thatcher said that the garden tour brings forth the question, "Just how creative can these gardeners get?" he said. "The garden tour is a great way to get to know our neighborhood and view the beauty here. If you love gardens, you will have a great time."

For more information visit www.irisfest.org. or call (909) 790-5033.

Click Here To Visit Iris Festival Website

Yucaipa City Hall
34272 Yucaipa Blvd.
Yucaipa, CA 92399

YUCAIPA - The Yucaipa Iris Festival draws over 20,000 visitors each year to its annual event. And this year Festival organizers again expect a large turnout, which runs from May 15-17 at Yucaipa Community Park.

The main attraction each year is the flower show located in the Yucaipa Community Center. It features the Iris - the city flower - and many other beautiful blooms. But there's also the popular Gem & Mineral Show that puts on a spectacular array of precious and semi-precious stones.

Other attractions include, live music and entertainment, concerts, craft faire, kid's zone, home and garden show, and shopping amongst the many vendor booths.

To learn more visit www.irisfest.org. Or call (909) 790-5033.

What do you like best about the Iris Festival? Where do some of the visitors come from? And for visitors who travel a great distance, why the Yucaipa Iris Festival?

Email me your comments.

Bob.otto@inlandnewspapers.com.