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The Woman's Improvement Club of Corona was founded in 1899 [3] as the "Town Improvement Association". [2] The name was changed to the "Woman’s Improvement Club" in 1902. [ 2 ] The club is a member of the California Federation of Women's Clubs and the General Federation of Women's Clubs and remains active.
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Corona is Spanish for crown or wreath.Originally called South Riverside, citizens wanted to distinguish their city from the larger city of Riverside to the north. When it came time to incorporate the city a number of different names were considered, but the name Corona was chosen to play upon a unique feature of the city, the one-mile diameter drive that circled the center of the town.
A former California prison guard who pleaded no contest to solicitation of murder after hiring a hit man to kill his lover’s husband was sentenced Wednesday in Fresno County to six years in prison.
El Cerrito is located southeast of downtown Corona and about 15 miles (25 km) southwest of the city of Riverside. According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 2.8 square miles (7.3 km 2), of which, 2.6 square miles (6.7 km 2) of it is land and 0.2 square miles (0.52 km 2) of it (8.09%) is water.
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It is unusual for being perfectly circular. The street was designed by Hiram Clay Kellogg (In memory of him, there is a street in Corona named Kellogg Street). Grand Boulevard was home to international races in 1913, 1914 and 1916. Grand is easily accessible from the Main Street exit on California State Route 91.
The brush fire, dubbed the Serrano fire, broke out around 2:42 p.m. in the 600 block of Corona Avenue, not far from Serrano Drive, according to Corona fire spokesman Daniel Yonan.