"Loma Linda"
Loma Linda .
City of Loma Linda A view of Loma Linda University Medical Center, with the town/city surrounding it A view of Loma Linda University Medical Center, with the town/city surrounding it City of Loma Linda is positioned in the US City of Loma Linda - City of Loma Linda Loma Linda (Spanish for "beautiful hill") is a town/city in San Bernardino County, California, United States, that was incorporated in 1970. The populace was 23,261 at the 2010 census, up from 18,681 at the 2000 census. The central region of the town/city was originally known as Mound City; its easterly half was originally the unincorporated improve of Bryn Mawr. In the late 1800s, Loma Linda began as a evolution of tourist halls called Mound City, as encouraged by barns companies.
They called it Loma Linda, meaning "pretty hill" in Spanish.[better origin needed] The town/city was incorporated in 1970. In 1969, San Timoteo Creek overflowed its banks, inundating two-thirds of Loma Linda.
Many of the bridges over the creek washed away, and Loma Linda Academy was completely flooded. In 2010, the creek again flooded parts of Loma Linda. Loma Linda is twinned with Manipal, India, and Libertador San Martin, Argentina, as its sister cities. Loma Linda is positioned in southwestern San Bernardino County and is part of the Inland Empire. It is bordered on the north by San Bernardino, on the east by Redlands, on the west by Colton, and on the south by Riverside County.
An region of unincorporated territory in Riverside County separates Loma Linda from the town/city of Moreno Valley to the south.
The remnants of Bryn Mawr, an unincorporated improve formerly positioned between Loma Linda and Redlands, were took in by the City in 2008.
The southern third of the town/city is known as the South Hills; this rugged and hilly region at the northwestern end of The Badlands is a city-owned open space reserve protected by a small-town initiative. San Timoteo Creek flows from southeast to northwest through the city.
Ground water near Loma Linda is contaminated by a plume of the chemical perchlorate which was used in the manufacture of solid rocket fuel.
A close-by plant directed by Lockheed Aerospace has been implicated in the improper disposal of the rocket fuel ingredient, which leached into the ground water northeast of Loma Linda.
Loma Linda's municipal waterworks, nevertheless, has been unaffected by the plume, primarily because Lockheed Martin installed a $19 million treatment plant in 2010 to remove both perchlorate and trichloroethylene from water after pumping it from the aquifer. The 2010 United States Enumeration reported that Loma Linda had a populace of 23,261.
The ethnic makeup of Loma Linda was 47.8% White 11,122 persons (37.0% Non-Hispanic White); 8.7% African American 2,032 persons ; 0.4% Native American 97 persons ; 28.3% Asian 6,589 persons ; 0.7% Pacific Islander 154 persons ; 8.7% from other competitions 2,022 persons ; and 5.4% from two or more competitions 1,245 persons .
There were 8,764 homeholds, out of which 2,650 (30.2%) had kids under the age of 18 living in them, 3,832 (43.7%) were opposite-sex married couples living together, 1,190 (13.6%) had a female homeholder with no husband present, 461 (5.3%) had a male homeholder with no wife present.
The populace was spread out with 4,859 citizens (20.9%) under the age of 18, 2,642 citizens (11.4%) aged 18 to 24, 7,463 citizens (32.1%) aged 25 to 44, 5,056 citizens (21.7%) aged 45 to 64, and 3,241 citizens (13.9%) who were 65 years of age or older.
9,496 citizens (40.8% of the population) lived in owner-occupied housing units and 12,961 citizens (55.7%) lived in rental housing units.
In the city, the populace was spread out with 21.9% under the age of 18, 10.2% from 18 to 24, 33.2% from 25 to 44, 19.2% from 45 to 64, and 15.4% who were 65 years of age or older.
A shopping center at Loma Linda University pictured in the early 1950s.
Loma Linda uses the council-manager form of government, and the City Council is composed of Mayor Rhodes Rigsby, Mayor pro tempore Phill Dupper, Ovidiu Popescu, Ron Dailey, and John Lenart. In the California State Legislature, Loma Linda is in the 23rd Senate District, represented by Republican Mike Morrell, and in the 40th Assembly District, represented by Republican Marc Steinorth. In the United States House of Representatives, Loma Linda is in California's 31st congressional district, represented by Democrat Pete Aguilar. The town/city of Loma Linda is part of the Redlands Unified School District, with Bryn Mawr Elementary School being situated inside Loma Linda town/city limits.
Also positioned in the town/city are Loma Linda Academy, a K-12 school, and Loma Linda University (LLU), a community sciences higher learning institution, both of which are run by the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Notable firsts at Loma Linda University's medical center include first baboon-to-human heart transplant and first split-brain surgery. Nichol Hall on the ground of Loma Linda University.
Loma Linda University Church.
Loma Linda "is home to one of the biggest concentrations of Seventh-day Adventists in the world." The Loma Linda University Church of Seventh-day Adventists, on the LLU campus, has one of the biggest Adventist congregations in the world. Due to the large number of Loma Linda inhabitants who are Seventh-day Adventists, the town/city was one of the several which had weekend mail bringy service on Sunday freshwater Saturday. However, this distinct ion ended on April 23, 2011, when Saturday bringy resumed as part of a Post Office cost-cutting accomplishment.
Since a prominent practice of Seventh-day Adventists is vegetarianism, most restaurants in Loma Linda feature a vegetarian menu in addition to regular menu items. The Loma Linda Baker's Drive-Thru was the first in that fast-food chain to feature the "Loma Linda Kitchen" vegetarian menu. The chain has since dropped the Loma Linda name for the menu and period its vegetarian choices. Adventists in Loma Linda have one of the highest rates of longevity in the country; researcher Dan Buettner has labeled Loma Linda as a Blue Zone, an region where the longevity is appreciably higher than the nationwide average and a substantial proportion of humans live past 100 years.
Buettner's book, The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who've Lived the Longest, attributes Loma Linda's longevity rate to Adventist cultural community and diet practices.
See also: Loma Linda University Notable alumni Loma Linda University Medical Center is featured in Venom ER, an Animal Planet program focusing on snakebite treatment at the hospital. Loma Linda, California: City of Loma Linda, California.
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"Loma Linda University Medical Center jubilates 100 years".
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