New board members for Idyllwild Community Fund
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President Dave Pelham (center right) introduced Jim Taylor (center left), vice president; Diane Suechika, (left) recoding secretary; and Ed Hansen, (right) corresponding secretary.
The Idyllwild Community Fund (ICF) Executive Board began its January 2012 meeting with a new slate of officers.
ICF grant applications will be available online and donors may make contributions to the endowment fund that benefits so many in Idyllwild online, also. The ICF website can be found at www.idyllwildcommunityfund.org.
Thursday evening, about 6 p.m., a semi-truck carrying three passenger vehicles tipped on Highway 74 near mile post 89 (above Banning). The passenger vehicles being transported came off the truck and rolled over the side of the highway. Because of a fuel leak, Cal Fire/ Riverside county Fire Department sent a hazardous material support unit…
Non-water revenue up The directors of the Pine Cove Water District held a busy meeting Wednesday, June 14. Besides adopting a new budget, they addressed issues ranging from tenants at the Rocky Point radio site to work with Riverside County and monthly water loss. The fiscal year 2017-18 budget, which begins July 1, was…
On July 9, Gov. Gavin Newsom held a press conference at McClellan Air Force Base in Sacramento about the state’s wildfire preparedness efforts. According to Newsom, there were 628 fires the first week of July in the state of California and 4,112 wildfires from July of last year to July of this year, as of…
California’s drought conditions show no sign of abating. The water year that ended Sept. 30 was the second driest on record. All of California’s 58 counties are under a drought emergency proclamation. January, February and March 2022 were the driest on record dating back over 100 years. Just 6 inches of precipitation were recorded in…
The city of San Jacinto placed the proposed Joint Powers Agreement with the Idyllwild Fire Protection District on its June 7 agenda. City Manager Tim Hults, in a memorandum to the council, said they had two basic options. The first was to continue to contract with Riverside County for fire and emergency services. This might…
Spring brings transformation and it will be apparent at the local U.S. Forest Service ranger district when Fire Management Officer Dan Felix retires at the end of the month and Battalion Chief Fred Espinoza steps up to replace him. Felix is a badger, from Milwaukee and Madison, Wisconsin, before coming to Southern California. Along the…
