A bit of the history of CanyonLakeToday.com, 17mile.com, and Bear-Creek.org: 

www.CanyonLakeToday.com is a community oriented website experience, designed to provide a variety of entertainment and useful links for the benefit of the local residents.  The "patriarch site" of this, the current generation of Canyon Lake's original websites,  was screated and introduced in the 1990's by Ton Suttle, a local real estate broker (California Real Estate License #00672983) who originally used the site primarily to highlight new Canyon Lake real estate listing information.   It rapidly evolved into a general Canyon Lake links page, used by a large number of Canyon Lakers (most of whom were, in the mid 1990's, just beginning to experience the internet).   The name of the original site "Gate88" was chosen because it combined the word "Gate" - a reference to the gated residential portion of the community - with the year 88 (1988), which was the year Maria Suttle (California Real Estate License #00993453) first began selling property in the community.   "Gate88" turned out to be a website name with a "ring" to it that was easy to remember, as many internet users soon discovered.   Eventually "sister sites" were formed to include other upscale communities, including www.bear-creek.org (another local upscale golf community) and www.17mile.com (with its focus on the various  association communities of large estate-sized parcels surrounding the nearby Santa Rosa Plateau), and www.CanyonLake.org, a local web link and phone number indexing site.  The newest name of this site, "CasnyonLakeToday.com" was chosen to reflect the fresh, current nature of the site, which is devoted to the community of Canyon Lake.