Photos: Last week in Idyllwild: November 12, 2015

Linda Allen captured this photograph of an Idyllwild fall sunset Wednesday, Nov. 4. “In 35 years, I have never seen a sunset like this,” she said. Photo by Linda Allen

Trinity Kellner snapped this shot of the sign coming off the Interstate 10 ramp at Hargrave in Banning recently. Idyllwild is hard to spell for many off-Hill people, even Caltrans workers.
Photo by Trinity Kellner

At about 1 a.m. Tuesday, Nov. 10, a male occupant of a silver BMW 530i lost control of his vehicle, flipping it onto its roof, blocking Highway 243 near mile marker 6.4 (Dead Man’s Curve). Riverside County Fire, American Medical Response and Idyllwild Fire Department responded to extract the patient with moderate injuries. AMR transported him to a nearby hospital. As of 2:30 a.m., the cause of the crash was unknown.
Photo by Jenny Kirchner

Jim Bassler, a textile artist, spoke to students, faculty and the public about craft art in America Friday, Nov. 6. Accompanying Bassler was Carol Sauvion, the executive director of Craft in America, the current exhibit at the Parks Exhibition Center on the Idyllwild Arts campus.
Photo by Cheryl Basye

Students from the Idyllwild Arts Academy, Zema Bagirova and Sumi Onoe, playing jazz, entertained patrons at Cafe Aroma Monday night, Nov. 9. Photo by Jenny Kirchner

Katie Holldber (left) holds a basketful of tickets from which Dolores Sizer (right) pulled Elizabeth Vargas’ name. She is the wife of a Vista Grande Hot Shot. Sue Draper of Pine Cove sewed the quilt, and Holldber raised $1,700 through raffle tickets. The funds will go the Wildland Firefighter Foundation in Boise, Idaho.
Photo by JP Crumrine

On Friday, Nov. 6, Jerry Baccaiare (shown) proudly hosted the grand opening of Jerry Art, his new gallery in Oakwood Village. Photo by Cheryl Basye

On Monday, Nov. 2, Jerry Baccaire, owner of Jerry Art, cuts the Rotary ribbon in anticipation of the grand opening later that week. Rotary members participating in the ribbon cutting are Charlie Wix, next to Baccaire, and (in the first row, from left) Chuck Weisbart, Dennis Dunbare, John Graham, Craig Coopersmith, Ric Foster, Christopher Scott, Earl Parker, Kathy Duncan, Jefrey Cohen and Steve Espinosa. (Back row, from left) are Roland Gaebert, Eric Gaebert, Chuck Streeter (behind Scott), Thom Wallace and Terry Kurr. Photo by JP Crumrine

Last Thursday, Raven Bindara, Idyllwild School fifth-grader, practiced her violin outside of the Mile High Cafe.
Photo by Ginger Dagnall

In an expansion of their range, local artists Neil Jenkins (right) and Donna Elliot (left) of Peakdancers Art traveled on Nov. 7 to Century Books, Pasadena, to launch their book “Three Perspectives.” The book signing and art exhibition, held with their co-author and lifelong friend Donna Gale (center), was the culmination of more than three years work in which the artists each reproduced the same scene in different media. Gale’s intricate ink drawings, Jenkins’ watercolor washes and Elliot’s digital images each captured the same subject, all taken from the world famous Huntington Botanical Gardens. The book is an example of how different views and perspectives show that beauty really is in the eye of the beholder. Both their book and their artwork will be on exhibition and for sale at Century Books until Nov. 21. Photo courtesy Donna Elliot

In Saturday’s rain, Jayden Emmerson (no. 280), running his first 10-kilometer race of the year, helped California Baptist University to eighth place in the West Regional of the NCAA Division II Championship Saturday. His mother, Jessica, said, “This was the first time I’ve ever seen Jayden run in weather like this … I am so sad to see cross country end, but we are very proud of how far he went his freshman year.”
Photo by Jessica Priefer

Janet Reynolds of Idyllwild displaying the Town Crier along with the Scotland Times in the Edinburgh airport before departing home to the U.S. after a tour of the seven cathedrals in Europe built on pre-neolithic sites. These included St. James in Compostela, Spain; Notre-Dame de la Dalbade, Orleans Cathedral, Chartres Cathedral, Notre-Dame de Paris, Åmiens Cathedral, all in France; and Rosslyn Chapel in Scotland.
Photo courtesy Janet Reynolds