Frozen Green Thumb
Garden Club
It takes a hearty soul to be a mountain gardener, but our intrepid garden club members tease the best from our rocky soils and make our canyon bloom. They also share their earth-tending secrets with their members and interested gardeners. Whether it's spring planting, summer tending, autumn harvest, or decorating our carved bear at the post office in holiday finery in December, the garden club always has fun and something wonderful to show for it.
Fallsvale Historic Schoolhouse, Inc.
Honoring the Past. Inspiring the Future.
The Fallsvale Old Stone Schoolhouse has stood in Forest Falls since 1932 and remains one of the most recognizable historic landmarks in the mountain communities.
For generations it served as a place of learning, gathering, and shared responsibility. Today, Fallsvale Historic Schoolhouse Inc. provides the dedicated nonprofit stewardship needed to preserve and restore this historic structure for future generations.
As the schoolhouse approaches its centennial in 2032, our work focuses on preservation planning, historical documentation, community engagement, educational interpretation, and long-term restoration efforts that honor the building's unique place in local history.
Preserving the schoolhouse is not simply about protecting a building. It is about preserving a story that belongs to the community.
Our Centennial Timeline
• 1931 Construction Begins
• 1932 School Opens
• 1979 Final School Year
• 2016 Community Preservation Efforts Begin
• 2025 Fallsvale Historic Schoolhouse Inc. Formed
• 2032 Centennial Celebration Goal
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Fallsvale Historic Schoolhouse Inc.
P.O. Box 635
Forest Falls, CA 92339
Forest Falls
Fire Association
The Forest Falls Firefighters Association (FFFA) has been supporting our community and its firefighters since 1955.
40847 Valley of the Falls Dr., Forest Falls, CA 92339
EIN#41-4617382
FireSafe38.org
The Community Program of the Mill Creek Canyon Fire Safe Council
Neighbors working together for practical wildfire readiness
FireSafe38.org is the community wildfire-preparedness program of the Mill Creek Canyon Fire Safe Council, a nonprofit organization governed by a local board of directors. Through FireSafe38.org, the council helps residents and property owners throughout the Highway 38 communities find practical information and resources for reducing wildfire risk.
Whether you are just getting started or looking for current information, FireSafe38.org brings trusted guidance, practical tools, community events, and local resources together in one place, with an emphasis on defensible space, home hardening, and community preparedness.
The Mill Creek Canyon Fire Safe Council is also part of the Inland Empire Fire Safe Alliance (IEFSA), a regional coalition of local Fire Safe Councils, public agencies, and organizations working together to strengthen wildfire preparedness throughout the Inland Empire.
The relative isolation of our communities makes it critical that residents learn how to take care of themselves and their neighbors in an emergency when first responders may not be able to reach us. The Mill Creek Canyon Community Emergency Response Team trains residents on disaster preparedness, such as Home Evacuation Plans, Shelter-in-Place kits, and Response backpacks. The training includes hands-on Fire Suppression knowledge with fire extinguisher practice. The 21-hour training covers basic disaster medical and triage strategies as well as disaster psychology and light search and rescue techniques.
Graduates from the basic training can opt to register with the state as Disaster Service Workers (DSWs) and be available to assist first responders in disasters when activated by official authorities. Team members maintain local disaster supply bins, Emergency Alert Communications equipment and distribute informational literature on public safety, fire resistance strategies, and disaster preparedness awareness.
C.E.R.T. training is held periodically throughout the year. If you are a resident, please consider registering. In the event of an emergency, you'll be glad you did.
Frank Sexton - Program Manager
909-553-5483 fyermannn@yahoo.com
Paul Tetreault - Deputy Program Manager
909-794-0077 - MillCreekCanyon.CERT@gmail.com
Mountain C.A.R.E. is a community-based non-profit. We originated in the early 1990’s while planning an Earth Day event. Comprised of Volunteers from Forest Falls, Angelus Oaks, and Mt Home Village. Our Mission is to Encourage the communities to commit to the 3 R’s. Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle. While enhancing knowledge and love of the mountain by keeping community areas and personal properties clean and beautiful. Our goal is to educate the general public about environmental concerns and the need to restore and preserve the environment for future generations. How we achieve this mission is by hosting the annual Canyon Clean Up, which our Earth Day event morphed into modern day. In addition to Canyon Clean UP, we host and maintain via www.mtncare.net multiple live stream webcams in all three communities in addition to several other cameras where it makes sense in the community. We also provide and distribute the quarterly newsletter Bear Facts, in addition to that we host Forest Falls Chili Cook-off, a very special get-together on the last Sunday in May near Memorial Day. Lastly, we provide welcome packets both online on the mtncare.net website and in person at Gillmore Real Estate.
Fallsvale School Booster Club
Fallsvale School originated in 1932 as a one-room stone schoolhouse. When the old stone building was closed in 1979, canyon residents raised funds, some mortgaging their homes, to build the present campus. Now a Bear Valley Unified School District charter school, Fallsvale educates grades K-8 in three classrooms. Parents and boosters for the school make more things possible for this small, rural mountain school. Each year they sponsor Breakfast with Santa during the holidays and once-per-month movie nights.
Students who attend Moore Middle School and Redlands East Valley High School have daily bus transportation to Redlands. For information about transportation and bus schedules call 909.307.5370.
Fallsvale School 909.794.8630
Southpaw Rescue is a 501 (c) (3) Southern California animal rescue, focused on San Bernardino and its Mountain Communities, dedicated to partnering with other likeminded organizations and individuals to rescue animals in need; providing foster homes and medical care before ultimately finding them the right forever home.
With the hope of one day seeing a world where animal cruelty no longer exists and all animals have a safe home, Southpaw Rescue seeks to work with shelters, individual rescuers and law enforcement to magnify our impact on rescuing animals from abusive and neglectful circumstances.
