Check the AMA website for flying clubs. They will probably list all of CA but you can pick the town nearest you. The site will probably list a phone number for the contact person. For your own sake travel a little distance for instruction. As to electrics think about the GWS Slow Stick. They are sold in the US by Horizon Hobbies. I got one with a Hitec single stick 3 channel FM, an ESC, and two batteries for a total of $188.00 and it will fly very well in a field the size of yours.
It is a pretty sturdy model and if it is absolutley impossible to find a club and an instructor you could conceivably teach your self how to fly it. If you destroy it the whole kit only costs $34.99.