
PHOTO BY JOEL FEINGOLD
Fuelbreak nearing completion
By Idyllwild Town Crier


Idyllwild Arts (IA) National Honor Society members are staging a fundraising drive, replete with performances by IA students, to obtain school supplies for an elementary school in Honduras. From noon to 3 p.m. on three consecutive Saturdays, Oct. 29, Nov. 5 and Nov. 12, IA students will be in front of Mountain Harvest Market in Strawberry Creek Plaza to entertain and entreat. Part of the Honor Society’s mission is to perform service. The beneficiary of this year’s IA’s honor service project is a 630-student school in Punta Gorda, Honduras.
Riverside Mountain Rescue Unit volunteer and Idyllwild local Lee Arnson remembers many very difficult missions, but the Sunday night rescue of a 17-year-old hiker stranded on Tahquitz ranks near the top, both in dangerous conditions and satisfaction at the end. “I think we may have saved a life,” said Arnson, recounting the ice-encrusted chute in…
The Idyllwild Shuttle Bus has arrived. Funded from a Riverside County Transportation grant and Supervisor Chuck Washington, the local shuttle makes three round-trip runs between Pine Cove and Mountain Center four days a week. Beginning Sept. 29, the bus will operate five days a week, Monday through Friday, for six weeks, then the usage and…
Fire and Sheriff’s logs
The Garden Club’s 2013 board includes Toni Berthelotte, president; Erin O’Neill, 1st vice president; Antje Banks, Lilac Tea and parade chair;Wendy Read, Jr. Garden; David Pekrol, co-hospitality chair; Harold Voorheis, co-beautification; Ginny Millard, co-secretary; Edith Brix, membership; Eliz. Miller, 2nd vice president; Neill Bell, co-beautification; Patti Morgan, co-hospitality,; and presenter Mary Loeser. (Not shown are Dianne Johnson, co-secretary, Michael Feyder, co-beautification, Chic Fojtik and Ann Castillo, co-publicity chairs, and Patricia Schnetzer, treasurer.)
The Cranston Fire Incident Management Team has issued its Initial Damage Report: Twelve buildings were destroyed — seven single-residence structures and five other minor structures. An additional single-residence structure sustained minor damage, and an additional minor structure was not destroyed, but sustained major damage. Three more single-residence structures were affected by the blaze without being considered…