Friday and Saturday night the local band Change Required rocked the crowd at Jo’An’s Restaurant. Visitors and locals filled the dance floor keeping the band on stage for an encore. Band members (from left) are Vince Day, bass guitar, Steve Zaccardi, drums, Elaine Balkman Latimer, keyboard, and John King, lead guitar. Photo by Careena Chase Beautiful music filled Café Aroma on Memorial Day. Barnaby Finch (left) on the keyboard, Lily McCabe (center) violin, and Bill Saitta (right) electric stand up bass, entertained many visitors. Photos by Careena Chase Memorial Day weekend was full of yard sales around town, bringing people up from all over to find new treasures. Photo by Jenny Kirchner The Volunteer Idyllwild Fire Fighters held a yard sale at Idyllwild Fire Station 621 over the weekend. They also sold hot dogs and sodas to keep the customers happy. Photo by Jenny Kirchner Idyllwild Fire Station 621 had a large yard sale, despite the weather on Saturday, many came out looking for special finds. Photo by Jenny Kirchner Danny Davis of Riverside looks through what Animal Rescue Friends (ARF) had for sale over Memorial Day weekend. Photo by Jenny Kirchner Some good and unique pieces were out in front of Sara Oats home on South Circle Saturday. Photo by Jenny Kirchner Strawberry Creek Inn held a sale off Highway 243 over the weekend. Idyllwild Earth Fair also was selling shirts and tote bags from this year and previous years to benefit the annual event. Photo by Jenny Kirchner There was lots of furniture for all your needs at this home on Saunders Meadow Saturday afternoon. Photo by Jenny Kirchner David Salk had some of his ceramic pieces for sale at drastically reduced prices over the weekend. Photo by Jenny Kirchner Sunday morning a large crowd waited in line for the Rotary’s famous apple pancakes, a Memorial Day weekend tradition. The annual event was held at Town Hall. Photo by Barbara Reese Jerome Robinson, of the Second Generation Platters, performs at Jo ‘An’s on Saturday afternoon, providing some of the entertainment around town for Memorial Day weekend. Photo by Barb Reese Joe Baldino played at the Gazebo on Sunday afternoon entertaining all the folks visiting local shops or sitting outside drinking their coffee. Photo by Barb Reese
“It will be fabulous,” said author Cherry Vanilla of her upcoming interview with Eduardo Santiago. She will be talking about her life with rock and roll royalty as recounted in her memoir, “Lick Me, How I Became Cherry Vanilla (by way of the Copacabana, Madison Avenue, the Fillmore East, Andy Warhol, David Bowie and the…
Poet Terrance Hayes recently spent a week at Idyllwild Arts Academy as a guest poet, just prior to being named The New York Times Magazine’s new poetry editor. Author of six distinguished collections, Hayes’ gift for process distills language into its combustible form, garnering his voice a host of distinguished accolades including an NAACP Image…
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…
The Idyllwild Community Fund Advisory Committee honored its 2016 grant recipients at its annual reception on Thursday, Sept. 29, at the Rainbow Inn. A capacity audience was on hand to hear ICF officers discuss the fund’s mission and to honor the local nonprofits to which ICF awarded grants this year. The Idyllwild Community Fund was…
