Idyllwild Nature Center all aflutter

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buter-1 — Braiden Healy, visiting from Huntington Beach, delights in feeding a butterfly watermelon. Photo: Cid Castillo

butter-2 — At the culmination of the Idyllwild Nature Center’s “Butterfly Daze,” hundreds of Monarch butterflies are set free into the forest. Residents and visitors are first allowed to view the butterflies up close inside tents. Photo: Cid Castillo

butter-3 — Nature Center staffer Jyoti Kintz holds a Monarch butterfly so one of the many visitors to the Idyllwild Nature Center can capture a close-up photograph. Photo: Cid Castillo

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Roland Gaebert, volunteer and PCT trail angel, offers support and friendship
By April 17, 2019April 17, 2019 Reading Time: 4 minutes

Roland Gaebert, retired State Park Ranger, is busy assisting Pacific Crest Trail through-hikers as an unofficial “trail angel.” He also volunteers widely throughout Idyllwild – as a Forest Service fire lookout, Mountain Disaster Preparedness Disaster Assistance Station supervisor, Idyllwild Rotary, Mile High Radio Club and for WNKI, Idyllwild’s emergency radio station. Gaebert is an avid…

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American Legion Post 800 hosts PCT Warrior Hikers: Hike gives vets an opportunity to walk off combat stress
By April 30, 2015January 15, 2016 Reading Time: 4 minutes

American Legion Post 800 hosted five service vets hiking the 2,650-mile Pacific Crest National Scenic Trail as part of the “Warrior Hike — Walk off the War” program. The Warrior Hike, now conducted on three long-distance national scenic trails and three shorter trails in Wisconsin, Florida and Arizona, offers returning combat veterans a chance to…

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Mountain Quilters stitch for VA
By March 6, 2012January 30, 2013 Reading Time: 1 minute

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Idyllwild Arts announces major management changes: IA faculty member Heather Netz to take over orchestra/Lowman Hall management
By June 17, 2015January 22, 2016 Reading Time: 3 minutes

Idyllwild Arts Foundation President Pamela Jordan announced a number of new hires for key management positions including film chair, music chair, chief development officer and director of programs. Each will be profiled in articles beginning this week. Heather Netz, current music faculty and assistant to the music chair, will take on greater responsibility as orchestra…

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Lowman Concert Hall funded, permit process begun
By January 8, 2014February 20, 2014 Reading Time: 2 minutes

Construction of the William M. Lowman Concert Hall on the Idyllwild Arts Academy and Summer Programs campus will occur in the next year or two. The Idyllwild Arts Foundation successfully completed a $6.3-million campaign to fund the project by its Dec. 31 deadline. A 298-seat, acoustically brilliant facility, the concert hall will become the centerpiece…

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Master Chorale showcases ecumenical nunsense
By July 19, 2011 Reading Time: 2 minutes

“Nunsense,” the durable musical that has spawned either four or eight sequels, depending on your math, returns to Idyllwild as “Meshuggah-Nuns!”

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