10/23/03
Fire treated the area.

10/26/03
The school was evacuated as the sheriff came and advised us to evacuate. Arrangements were made with Comfort Suites in Murrieta to house the students and staff.

10/26-10/30/03
Stayed at Comfort Suites, Murrieta.

10/29/03
We received notification that school had burned down. 

It was up until this point that we thought we might be able to move back to school. Our hope was to stay at the hotel for a short amount of time then return to the JYA campus.

10/30/03
Checked out of Comfort Suites, and checked into the Hotel La Costa Resort, in Carlsbad. The hotel donated all rooms.

In the meantime, we were checking into options for more long term temporary housing and location where we could relocate. 

The options were:
Salem Christian Homes (group home facility in Ontario, CA)
A rehab facility in Vista, CA
A camp in Idyllwild, CA 

All of these facilities were either inadequate or not available. 

We received a call from the president of Hume Lake Christian Camps, in Hume CA, offering to have us relocate to their facilities. They could house us only until summer when their larger camps would take place. Their desire was for us to stay permanently?we would see.

10/31/03
Phil Ludwig, Ron and Nardina Light went up to Hume to evaluate the possibility of moving there. The setting was perfect for our needs and they could take us right away. To move this big of an operation that quickly was amazing.

We moved 30+ students, 14 staff and went from being a burned out program to being back in business in 7 days. Computers were up and running, the school was fully operational as if nothing had happened?all totaling 13days from the day we left Southern California, amazing!

11/01/03
Shopped for appropriate clothing for staff and students. Hume is at 5200 ft elevation and could potentially receive a fair amount of snow.

We needed boots, coats and other clothes for both staff and students as they lost 100% of what they had in the fire, except for what they had on their backs.

11/02/03
Loaded up the vans with students and staff?made a 10 hour, 400 mile trek and moved into Hume Lake Christian Camps.

11/02/03-5/31/04
Our lease with the Hume Christian Camps was from the time we arrived to June 1, 2004.  We needed to be out by May 31, 2004 to make room for their summer camp season.  

11/02/03
Research began on finding a more permanent facility. We began receiving bids on tree removal (225 trees) and demolition of old facility. Tree bids accepted. 

San Diego County gave the go ahead for demolition and tree removal, without permits. 

Awaited county approval to rebuild based on our ?non-conforming use? status.

11/03
Met with FEMA, in where guidelines of support were talked about.

12/03
Tree service vendor had been on the job for approx a month stating it would take 5 to 6 weeks. He walked off the job, because he had under bid the job and wanted more money. We paid more money to have the job completed, but he walked off the job again.  Delay of removal followed.  Came back, then subcontracted the job out to another vendor, who also walked off job, due to money not being paid by 1st contractor. This held up the demolition contractor who had to reschedule his commitments and was delayed in starting his end of the work.

Holidays further delayed tree removal.

2004 - A New Year

01/04
Claus Construction started demolition, debris removal, and stump grinding/chipping. We decided to go with Claus due to the fact that he was the lowest of 3 bids. Estimated time to demo 8 buildings, 4 basements, and standing fireplaces was 4-5 weeks. Tree chipper was delayed due to other work he was behind on. He was also delayed with permits to travel necessary access roads ? the chipper machine is very large. Once on site and working his machine broke down and he had a death in the family. He stopped working. There were further delays due to equipment failure (2 weeks).

01/01/04
Pat Brown (engineer) was hired to survey land and work on design to new septic.

Took bids for draftsman/architects for plans on building. Peggy Steadman is a designer and could start the plans before it went to an architect saving thousands of dollars. We also had been putting feelers out for a contractor and had several viable bids.

Took bids for designing our new septic.  Pat Brown was hired as most cost effective, local with a better understanding of the community and had a very good relationship with the county.

02/03/04
Began research on modular trailers taking bids from 3 companies:  Scottsman, Hume, Pacific Modulars and Mobile Modulars. Also investigating Mobile Kitchens, for a possible temporary kitchen setup upon returning to Julian.  Two companies were researched, with Mobile Kitchen being the most cost effective, due to the other company building their kitchens on the east coast. These are the only ones we could find that do this type of design and work.

03/04
Plans were completed and submitted to the county for approval and we received permits for septic.

04/04
Purchased bunk beds and washer/dryers for school.

Pumped out old septic tanks to begin using them.

04/26/04
Moved water tank to future location on other side of property.

04/27/04
Started with new water lines from pump to tank at new location. The well pump was intact but all the wiring and piping needed to be replaced and this was started at this point.

05/01/04
Hired Dan Wycinsky to grade pads for the Modulars. Target date for temporary Modulars to be ready on placed on site. Started trenching for water, power and septic for Modulars.

05/04
County changed their minds and required us to remove old septic. 

Began the digging for the new septic.  Also obtained permits and installing temporary power poles through San Diego Gas & Electric. 

Talked with county about difficult situation we were in due to change of direction and they agreed to allow us to pump every other day the septic tank while the leech lines were being installed.

Ron and Phil began digging trenches for piping to further the process, as we were concerned about everything being done before the students arrived in just 25 days.

Contracted with local electrician to run lines for power for modulars. There was only one contractor available.

Purchased office furniture, classroom furniture, kitchen furniture, supplies and equipment. 

Purchased 2 storage sheds and had them installed on the campus.

Delivered mattresses, water heaters, washer/dryers to the campus. Volunteers helped to install and make ready the water heater, washers and dryers. Some labor was expensed out.

Began to install 6 water heaters.

05/15/04
Temporary power was designed and installation began. San Diego County gave go head.

05/22/04
Sod was delivered and laid; volunteers and staff assembled bunk beds.

05/25/04
San Diego County inspector stopped project, as he wanted each modular to have permits. He would not allow power to be turned on until permitted. We contacted the County Building Department that worked with us to correct their error. In the meantime, we priced out generators in case we needed them. As it turned out, we did need the generators for temporary power while the permit process completed. The county expedited the process for us knowing it was costing a great deal to have the generators.

05/29/04
School was moved back to Julian.

06/04
Received power through SDG&E and went off generators. Permits were completed and approved.

We had been pumping out the septic tank every other day at $500.00 each time. The county had requested 2500 feet of leech line but the property could not handle this. The engineer stated to the county that we could fit 1450 feet and that it would be sufficient. The county agreed and approved the design. We had completed 150 feet of the 1450 feet required and asked the county if we could discontinue pumping out the tank and use the existing 150 until the full 1450 was complete. They approved this and we no longer had to pump the tank.

Permits for modulars were approved; power was installed and generators were terminated and returned.

06/09/04
Additional 10,000-gallon water tank was installed next to existing tank per County fire requirement.

07/03/04
All leach lines were completed and the county inspector signed off as completed.

08/01/04
Meetings and phone calls with FEMA, OES and SBA as funding issues had changed.

Continued landscaping of the campus and clean up from tree chipping.

09/01/04
Design continues proof completed and changes made to design.

10/01/04
Spread out mulch and installed a fence for erosion control per county requirement.  

The above dates may not be exact. We have made an attempt to record all events as close to the actual dates as possible. Please contact our office if you have any questions about this timeline of events.