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Doug Austin, familiar to Idyllwild audiences for his performance as Charles Dickens, will bring an insight into Dickens’ opinions and views on important social issues at the next Idyllwild Community Recreation Council’s (ICRC) Speaker Series event. In a talk called “Discover Charles Dickens Through his Personal Correspondence,” Austin as Dickens will focus on the British…
The public is invited to join the Idyllwild Garden Club for a presentation by noted arborist Deborah Geisinger. She will discuss how to care for your trees, and how to identify and prevent problems, therefore ensuring that we are good stewards to one of our mountain’s most valuable gifts. There will be time allowed for…
Planning for the third annual Idyllwild Lemon Lily Festival is underway. With its tripartite mission of fostering appreciation for this once abundant local flower, as well as providing public education and restoration, festival planners are in the process of organizing festival events, locations, schedules and monetary allocations to best accomplish festival goals. They have decided…
In a private ceremony recently at Naval Air Station North Island, Chief Aviation Electronics Technician (Aviation Warfare) Zachary Johnson (far left), son of Town Crier owners Becky and Jack Clark, was awarded the Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal for meritorious service while serving as maintenance control supervisor at Fleet Logistics Multi-Mission Squadron Five Zero…
Idyllwild CinemaFest 2013 Chairman Phil Calderone announced festival selections on Dec. 17. A record 98 films — 22 features, 24 featurettes (lengths from 16 to 39 minutes), 29 shorts (up to 15 minutes), 17 documentary features, four documentary shorts (from 2 to 29 minutes) and two web series, including ICF 2013 Featured Filmmaker Ignatius Fischer’s “Freelancers” — will screen in four venues.