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Brendan Steele will be carrying a slew of new sticks when he opens his main 2015 PGA Tour at the Humana Challenge in partnership with the Clinton Foundation in La Quinta this week. The native Idyllwilder will be pounding a TaylorMade driver for the first time, a model SLDR, and his 3-wood will be one…
Brendan Steele came back from a two-week rest and scored his fourth top-20 and fifth top-25 finish of this 2013-14 season last week. On the Bay Hill course in Orlando, Fla., he shot a 4-under-par 68-74-70-72 — 284 to earn more than $67,000 and 48.5 FedExCup points. The local native, who still lists as playing…
Breanna Lewis, below, represented Idyllwild in the NFL Punt, Pass and Kick at San Diego Chargers Stadium on Sunday, Dec. 2. She competed against 12- and 13-year-old girls. Breanna won the Idyllwild and the Banning sectional competion to get to San Diego and earned third place in her division.Above they are shown running through the…
Idyllwild School principal Matt Kraemer organizes the annual Super Kids Bowl, left, held at Tahquitz High School in Hemet. From left: cheerleaders Kinsey Boatman, Sarah Conley, Katrina Zavala, Janessa Rerucha, Daniella Morales, Delana Cutter, participant Christopher Ortiz, Essi Nukarineo, Dout Jimenez, Kiaya Mathes and Alicia Guerrero. Photo by John Drake
For Mark Dean there were two Boston Marathons, the one that he trained for and the one he ran. Although he ran qualifying marathons in the flatlands, he trained in the mountains. The low atmospheric pressure and the highs he experienced running in the mountains sustained him well during the first 20 miles of the…
Local real estate agent Gary Agner wanted to do something big, something that would help others. On Sunday, June 2, along with 2,500 other cyclists and 500 support staff, Agner begins a seven-day, 545-mile bike ride from San Francisco to Los Angeles, the AIDS LifeCycle. “I’ve never really done anything like this before,” Agner said,…