Day 13 - Corona City Council, Quality West Wing, Uncle Buds and Fender Guitars

The team started their day off with breakfast with the Mayor of Corona, Eugene Montanez and some of his fellow city councilors. A tour of the Cities infrastructure such as the council chambers and offices followed. The team then visited the Corona Police Station where they had a tour of the police facility.


Thank goodness we were Aussies or they might have kept us locked up longer.

We then travelled over to the City Councils Emergency Operations Centre where we met Fire Chief Mike Warren who gave us an overview of Emergency Management arrangements in Corona. Mike is pre-eminent in this are having headed up the California Fire Chiefs Association as well as sitting on Governor Swarzenegger's Emergency Management Committee for the State of California.

The team visited the Quality West Wing (which is a replica of the Oval Office). A very informative tour which outlined the US system of Government. The team got a surprise when they had their photo taken with a well known leader of the free world. When we get a chance we will scan the photo and post it on the blog.

We then toured Uncle Buds Car Museum which gave us a walk down the memory lane of the automobile in US history. Model T and Model A Fords along with Packards and Mustangs. A great bit of motoring history

Fender Guitar Factory followed. We were able to see how the famous Stradercaster guitar was made. Thanks to Vice President Steve Grom for his time and a real enthusiastic presentation. The team toured the main factory and also got to see where the custom made guitars for people like Eric Clapton get made. We then headed off to the fender Museum and Music school.

A great day.