
Ella Fors, 3, is fascinated Friday by the G-scale railroad running high inside Jo’An’s restaurant. She, her parents and her brother, Nathan, visited from San Clemente.
Photo by Jack Clark
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Ella Fors, 3, is fascinated Friday by the G-scale railroad running high inside Jo’An’s restaurant. She, her parents and her brother, Nathan, visited from San Clemente.
Photo by Jack Clark
At the Sunday, Aug. 7 annual meeting of the Idyllwild Area Historical Society (IAHS), the featured speaker, aviation archeologist Gary “Pat” Macha, spoke of crash sites in local mountains. Prior to Macha’s talk, Treasurer Bob Smith reported that IAHS was flying high financially on a strong course with good instrument ratings. “We feel fortunate to…
Family members of Jo and the late Don Shinkle, long-time Idyllwild residents, have opened a new nursery in the location of The Green Trees nursery on Highway 243. John and Lisa Shinkle, landscapers in Lake Arrowhead and part-time residents, opened Four Seasons Nursery in April. Lisa said, “We always wanted a nursery.” John grew up…
The Mount San Jacinto College Foundation will host its fourth annual gala “An Evening With Our Stars” 6 p.m. on Feb. 11 at Pechanga Resort & Casino in Temecula. This year’s event features the artwork of MSJC students, spanning from digital photography to sculpture. The evening is a fundraiser to provide student scholarships, faculty grants…
At the July 25 Riverside County Board of Supervisors meeting, 3rd District Supervisor Chuck Washington asked his colleagues to approve a $2,500 grant to the Idyllwild Arts Foundation. The funds are for the 2017 Jazz in Pines. For the third consecutive year, Washington is making this donation to what he calls “an enriching weekend of…
Images captured on canvas by renowned Idyllwild artist Darcy Gerdes are, quite simply, breathtaking. Her talent expresses itself in an array of vivid wildlife scenes conveyed in acrylic, rivaling in scope the perennial beauty of nature herself. They somehow appear both magnified and distant. Visionary wisdom inspires her soft brushstrokes and richly layered dimensional color,…