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PHOTOS: Beer for a cause
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More than 100 people affiliated with the Desert Sun School (later the Elliott-Pope Preparatory School) in Idyllwild from the year 1942 to the school’s closure in 1990 held a reunion last Saturday. The reunion was on the school campus, now the site of Astrocamp. Some Idyllwild notables who attended were Marshall Hawkins, who taught sports…
A local man, Bill Niedzwiecki, discovered that the rescue dog he adopted two years ago has a strange and terrible back story. The black Labrador, now known as Abby, was rescued by animal rights activists from an illegal South Korean dog meat slaughterhouse along with a number of other dogs. Members of that rescue team…
The Associates of the Idyllwild Arts Foundation will present the theatrical performance of “The Guys,” a play by Anne Nelson. “The Guys” stars Wendie Malick and Dan Lauria, both leading actors of television, stage and film. The play tells the story of a NYFD fire captain who lost eight men in the collapse of the…
Millions of free books were hand-delivered to unsuspecting individuals on Monday, April 23, around the U.S., U.K. and Ireland as part of World Book Night 2012 — “Spreading the love of reading, person to person” — including in Idyllwild. These happy Café Aroma customers were visited by “Book Fairies,” representing INK Book Gathering in Idyllwild, who gave them a few titles from a list of 30. A discussion of World Book Night followed on Tuesday at INK.
Anne Kellogg, Expressive Art Therapist (second from left), offered a day of meditation, movement, writing and art on Saturday at Spirit Mountain Retreat Center.
According to Idyllwild Community Center (ICC) Board President Stephanie Yost, an Agricultural and Standards Investigator with the County of Riverside was in town this past Sunday and stopped by the Farmers Market after seeing the sign advertising the market. He offered some information to Yost that ICC was unaware of and is now working to…