CLUBS: Soroptimists
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Soroptimist club honors local women, gets new member
The County Service Area Advisory Committee conducted business at its monthly meeting on Thursday, Oct. 27. Key agenda items included review of the public survey regarding the future of Town Hall and what agency would manage CSA 36 recreation starting in 2017. Mike Franklin, CSA project manager for the county’s Economic Development Agency, facilitated the…
The Idyllwild Arts Academy Visual Arts Department held an opening for the first of the winter semester’s three senior shows last Friday. The theme, “Solitude,” drew varied and surprising responses from the artists. Works expressed the positive and negative aspects of solitude; peace and freedom to dream, but also mortality, vulnerability and disability. Eight seniors…
The Art Alliance of Idyllwild held a “Winter Solstice” Art Show last Saturday with judged, themed art and 150 pieces of artwork by 48 artists. A winter wonderland gallery was set up in the Town Hall all within a matter of a few hours. Christine Dodd, judge for the event, commented “I had a hard…
The Idyllwild Town Crier has been serving the San Jacinto Mountains (“the Hill”) continuously for 75 years — since its first issue was published on Nov. 1, 1946. Ernie and Betty Maxwell founded the paper in the attic of their home, using a typewriter and a table-top mimeograph machine. The first issue, pictured here, was…
When 2022 begins Jan.1, Jeremy Potter will assume the role of interim general manager (GM) of the Pine Cove Water District. Potter, the current field foreman, was asked to assume the GM’s role at the board of director’s November meeting. The need for an interim GM occurred with the announced retirement of current GM Jerry…
This year marks the 108th anniversary of probably the most famous Christmas newspaper editorial of all time. It was written by Francis P. Church in response to a letter from 8-year-old Virginia O’Hanlon. It was published on Sept. 21, 1897, in the New York Sun. We reprint it each year for the enjoyment of our…
