Second annual Arbor Day celebration at St. Hugh’s

St Hugh Episcopal Church will present its second annual Arbor Day Celebration on Saturday, April 26th. The event will offer live music, craft activities for kids, a silent auction, a raffle, and food and drink. There will also be “nature-inspired education” at a booth from the Idyllwild Nature Center.

Music will be provided by wandering minstrels Morgan Brown and Carlos Reynosa, and two bands; Kaitlin and Patrick, and In the Pocket. Mary Knab, Bishop’s Warden at St Hugh’s, says that In the Pocket, is geared towards dancing, and the “labyrinth” makes a great dance floor. She added that “dancing is encouraged anytime at St Hughs.”

The silent auction will feature five nights in Puerto Vallarta, and artwork f’ Day and Fathers’ Day baskets, a kid’s basket, an “at the-beach-basket”, and a garden basket. It’s worth coming just for the raffle!” Proceeds will benefit St Hughs outreach programs.

Knab shared the story that inspired St Hugh’s Arbor Day Celebrations. “Many years ago, there was a gentleman who came up to Idyllwild, an artist who lived in Inglewood named Paul Duval. He fell in love with Idyllwild’s oldest tree, which grows on the grounds of St Hugh’s. He was worried about the paving of the parking lot, that it might harm the tree. He came up to paint a portrait of the tree in June of 2017, in case anything happened to it. He had not painted much for some time, but he wanted to do this. The painting was on display at Middle Ridge. Parishioners of St Hugh’s decided to buy it and donate it to the church. When Paul found out he wept. Paul has since passed, we have reached out to his family to invite them but have not been able to contact them. All of this is memorialized on the wall of the fellowship Hall.”

Arbor Day Celebration, Saturday April 26, from noon to 7 p.m., St Hugh of Lincoln Episcopal Church, 25525 Tahquitz Drive.