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Photos: Last Week in Idyllwild: September 24, 2015
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While monitoring of all well sites drilled to observe migrating hydrocarbon from the old leak of underground gasoline storage at Village Food and Fuel (the Shell station) continues, Riverside County Department of Environmental Health has reduced the effort and begun work to restore the site. Last month, RM Environmental Inc., the contractor, removed the soil…
The Fern Valley Water District directors were encouraged to join efforts to build greater cooperation and collaboration among the three Hill water districts at the board’s meeting Friday. Representatives of Idyllwild Water District’s new Committee to Improve Cooperation among the water districts of the Hill and the San Jacinto Watershed Watchdogs attended the meeting. Although…
The Idyllwild HELP Center has been busily expanding its resources. Last Wednesday, members of the Hemet Salvation Army unit brought food to the Hill. They will be returning with food every two months, according to Colleen Meyer, the HELP Center’s client services administrator. The next visit will be in June, she said. “It’s enough food…
Living Free, founded in 1980, is a sanctuary for abandoned cats and dogs. Currently it is home to nearly 100 cats and 45 to 50 dogs. Mustangs are another species, surprisingly, who are abandoned or whom humans find too numerous. The federal government rounds up wild mustangs annually and keeps them penned in corrals with…
Two students from Idyllwild School, Rory Lovette Jensen (third place) and his older sister Natalie Lovette Jensen (fourth place), placed in the top four at the Hemet Unified School District annual spelling bee on Jan. 24. In total, 46 students participated ranging from grades four to eight. For students to get into the district spelling…