

Idyllwild Pines opens camp for ‘Community Activity Day’
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Friday afternoon at Idyllwild Pines Camp was a perfect day for a water slide and lots of local kids took advantage of it to cool off and just have some fun during IPCC Community Activity Day at the camp, a day of opening up the camp to locals for outdoor summer adventure. Photo by Barbara Reese

Thursday night, Aug. 18, the Idyllwild Summer Concert Series will bring Aretha Franklin and Friends featuring Gino Walker to the Butterfield Amphitheater. The music starts at 6:15 p.m. with Idyllwild’s Miles Thomas and friends Jac Jacaruso and Eric Lindgreen. The concerts are free to all, a gift to the community funded by donations from the…
In a new tradition, there will be a Children’s Tree Lighting Ceremony at 4:45 p.m. Friday, Dec. 9, on the south side of the Fort, near Robin Oates Real Estate office. Idyllwild Town Hall children will decorate the tree. Town Hall is looking for pie tins to use as decorations. The children will sing carols…
Last week in The Days of Our Nine Lives, a new ARF dog joined the ranks, and two kittens left to become forever family members. Traveler: (aside) Hey, Girlie. Come here. Girlie Girl: What is it? Traveler: Just when we canines were building a presence here at ARF, it happened. Kayla got adopted! Girlie Girl:…
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…