🐮🍁Your Fall social lineup

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Today I found out that Pumpkin Spiced Latte is back at Starbucks. I know it’s silly, but every year when they bring PSL back I feel like I have full permission to paint my nails brown and become a moody lady in a trench coat.

We are still in 100F+ weather, but that can’t hide the fall feelings I have in me.

This fall, we’re amping up the social connections that Chew can offer. As you saw last week, we’re bringing Dinner Club back. Here’s what Enrique said last time:

Also, as an added bonus: If you come to Dinner Club, I’m thinking of creating an exclusive online community for Chew superfans.

It’s like Nextdoor but less sucky (I personally hate Nextdoor), or the Chino Connects Facebook group with less clutter.

The Chew Insider community would get invites to exclusive perks to keep the fun going (hellooo impromptu pickleball 🎾🥎? Secret coupons?! 🎫).

What do you think?

Anyways, without further ado.

Let’s get into it.

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Okay, we’ve been waiting to say this one: The Chino Chew Dinner Club is officially back!!!!

After seeing strangers turn into tablemates (and, in some cases, actual friends) at our last dinner, we knew we had to do it again. So on September 17, we’re bringing another group of Chino Valley locals together for a night of good food, new faces, and hopefully some really good conversation.

Here’s how it works: You’ll take a quick personality quiz, and we’ll use your interests, age range, budget, and preferences to match you with a table we think you’ll click with. Come solo or bring a plus one, either way, the whole point is meeting people you probably wouldn’t have crossed paths with otherwise.

Seats are $12.99 per person, with food and drinks purchased separately at the restaurant. And if dinner goes a little too well to end there, there’s an optional after-dinner hangout too.

We seriously can’t wait to do this again. See you at the table.

History Corner is back — we're going through Chino's General Plan together, so we know where the City is trying to go. As a newer resident, this is the chapter I got weirdly invested in, because it's the one you actually feel day to day — in the air, the heat, the water bill.

We're in the Environmental Quality chapter: The Stuff You Breathe, Drink, and Sweat Through.

Let's start with air. Chino sits in one of the worst air basins for ozone and particulate pollution. That's not the city's fault, it's geography (the mountains trap everything) plus being surrounded by freeways and warehouses. The General Plan can't fix regional smog alone, but it does push for things like buffering homes from truck routes, requiring cleaner-operating warehouses, and expanding tree canopy. If you've ever wondered why new developments near industrial zones have those landscaped setbacks, that's partly why.

On water: Chino sits over the Chino Groundwater Basin, which is a genuinely big deal — a lot of our water is local, not piped in from hundreds of miles away. The catch is that basin has a history of contamination from decades of dairy and industrial use, so the plan leans hard on groundwater cleanup and conservation standards.

Then finally, heat: the plan flags extreme heat as a growing risk and calls for more shade, cool-roof and cool-pavement standards, and tree planting. I mean, I feel this so much to my core; it’s hard to take my toddler out anywhere after 10am. But Chino is aware, and is focused on bringing in landscapes with more mature trees.

Next time, we’ll look at how you as a resident can weigh in before decisions get made.