Chino Valley Champion

"[6] On the Champion's tenth birthday, its second owner and publisher, Edwin Rhodes, wrote: "It is a veritable fact that in the case of Chino a newspaper was started and the town built around it.

"[7] In 1891 Wasson was listed as publisher of the newspaper,[8] but in that year also he left the paper, having bought a half interest in the Pomona Times.

He dropped the word Valley from the newspaper's masthead and renamed it Chino Champion, effective May 4.

Less than a year later two-thirds of the building was gutted by fire, started by a Molotov cocktail thrown during a period of ethnic strife.

The Champion continued publication from temporary quarters until a fast-working local contractor had the building repaired four months later.

The disappearance of the hometown weekly from the Southern California scene led the Champion to strengthen its position.

This delivery was changed to Saturday in 1999 to accommodate a new classified ad linkup with the Press Enterprise of San Bernardino and Riverside counties, which was now printing the Champion.