Ashlee Strunk of Idyllwild has been selected for a 2014 Don Bethune Memorial Scholarship for $1,000. Dayco Corporation funded the scholarship.
She plans to attend Universal Technical Institute in Rancho Cucamonga to study automotive technology.
Mountain Folk: Scholarship
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Ashlee Strunk of Idyllwild has been selected for a 2014 Don Bethune Memorial Scholarship for $1,000. Dayco Corporation funded the scholarship.
She plans to attend Universal Technical Institute in Rancho Cucamonga to study automotive technology.
Mary Lehman, 53, of Idyllwild, has been reappointed to the California State Athletic Commission, where she has served since 2013. Lehman has been a civil appeals attorney at the Law Offices of Mary A. Lehman since 2002 and was a civil appeals attorney at Gray Cary Ware and Freidenrich LLP from 1991 to 2002. She…
Two Idyllwild violin students of Anna Ancheta will be playing and learning Saturday, Jan. 28. Joana Chukleva, a freshman, will play Prokofiev’s Concerto no. 1 and Elena Minkova will perform Bruch’s Concerto no. 1 for the renowned violinist, Elena Urioste. The performances are part of a master class which Urioste leads and to which the…
A photo of singer Marja Kay of Idyllwild made it into the Dec. 15 issue of The New Yorker magazine. The photo represented a multi-cast performance “Hopscotch” in Los Angeles earlier this year and made the top list of “Notable Performances and Recordings of 2015” by Alex Ross.
On Friday, Feb. 24, Idyllwild resident Maureen Jones entered a lottery to win tickets to Oprah Winfrey’s Lifeclass in celebration of her 68th birthday. On Sunday, Feb. 26, Jones received an email she thought was spam. Instead, it was notification that she’d won a ticket for herself and a guest to attend that class at…
James and Michelle Wiesen of Idyllwild are holding a four-man scramble golf tournament as a cancer fundraiser for Idyllwild School Office Manager Beth Swanson and former Idyllwild School student Emma Salter. Participants are asked to create their own teams. Prizes, raffles and lunch are included in the $40-per-player cost. The event begins at 8 a.m….
Kelsey Sanborn, a senior at the University of Hawaii at Hilo, is an intern at the Pacific Aquaculture Research Center this fall. Here, she is displaying one of her projects.