Breakfast is served at the Olde Church beginning at 7:00 AM. It continues to be served while the parade passes and is usually over at 11:00 a.m. In between you can be served juice, delicious scrambled eggs, ham, sausage gravy and biscuit and coffee . . . all for a most reasonable $4.00.
  We could sure use some help. I'm listing everything our breakfast chairperson, Delores Meyer, can think of.
We need:

• Flowers . . . not too tall and enough for 15-20 tables in small vases.


• On Friday men or women to set up the tables and chairs 2 people to spread tablecloths, set the tables, place the flowers, put out salt and peppers on each table, etc. Hours We can agree on a time. Should take about an hour.


• Saturday men or women:
  3 cooks
  3 waiters/waitresses
  2 servers (putting the food on the plates)


• Also Saturday around 10:30 AM:
  2 people to clear tables and remove salt, pepper, etc.
  2 people to take down tables and return chairs
  3 people to take home table cloths for laundering
  1 person to vacuum

  Our own Lakeside Historical members Olga Puhn and Marcella Williams recently received coveted awards from the Congress of History.  Olga received the Education Award for her dedication in teaching local history to third graders.  She has assembled a wonderful collection of historic slides which she takes on the road to all the elementary schools.  She also has an adult version of the historic show which she shows to various clubs and organizations throughout San Diego County.  She does this wearing her old fashioned costumes.  Olga also climbs aboard the schools buses to take the students on a "windshield tour" of historic sites in Lakeside.  These history lessons usually result in an art and essay contest for the children.

  Marcella received the Mary Ward Memorial award for her archival work.  She has faithfully lead a dedicated group of volunteers who cut and paste every photo, news article and bit of information of Lakeside's history.  Together they have produced over 300 scrap books.  Everyone knows that Wednesdays is the best day to find them piecing together tidbits of Lakeside's past.  If anyone has a question about their family, or past, she can usually go directly to the book that gives them the information they are searching for.  She does this with a quiet smile.  Both of these ladies were instrumental in the research and writing of the Legends of Lakeside History book. Congratulation ladies, they were nominated by the Maine Avenue Revitalization Association.

  The route of this rail line from San Diego was up 32nd Street to Chollas Valley, bisecting Mount Hope Cemetery, along Imperial Avenue through Encanto, Lemon Grove, La Mesa and then up the 741 foot Alta (now Grossmont) Grade. It skirted El Cajon Valley to Santee. It then went along Woodside Avenue through Riverview to Lakeside, across Moreno Valley to Foster (now part of Lakeside).
  The trains would stop any place along the route if signaled. The fare to Lakeside to San Diego was 85 cents to $1.50 a round trip, taking 1 1/2 hours for the twenty-five mile trip. That was quite an improvement over the all-day wagon trip.
  At the height of the boom days, there were eight passenger and four freight trains coming to Foster each day. After the Lakeside Inn built the racetrack, there were special excursion trains run for special events to lure the crowds.