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![The Idyllwild HELP Center re-stocked its food pantry last week. The pantry was almost bare at the time. “We went shopping for our food pantry with money donated from the Idyllwild [Association] of Realtors, 3rd District Supervisor Chuck Washington, Idyllwild HELP Center Board of Directors, and St. Margaret’s Bob Kimble, Ron Green and Chet Hecht. We spent a little over $2,700 to fill our pantry,” wrote Colleen Meyer, executive director of the Idyllwild HELP Center. Assisting in the actual shopping were (from left) Emily Pearson, Skye Zambrana, Wal-Mart Associate Veronica, Meyer, Emily Hill and Peyton Manchee. Photo by Ben Killingsworth](https://idyllwildtowncrier.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/help.jpg)
Photo by Ben Killingsworth

Photo by Jenny Kirchner
![Idyllwild Heating & Cooling was awarded second place in the 2015 YETI coolers Dealer Display contest — second in the nation and first in California. More than 2,000 entries were submitted from throughout the country, according to Steve Holldber, owner of Idyllwild Heating and Cooling. “This was a huge deal,” he said proudly. He only began selling YETI coolers two years ago. “I sell a lot of YETI merchandise,” he added, including four coolers this past weekend. The contest judges said the display had a “[t]houghtful attention to detail and best-in-class merchandising.” Photo courtesy Amanda Allen, park interpreter](https://idyllwildtowncrier.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/heating.jpg)
Photo courtesy Amanda Allen, park interpreter


Photo by Phil Weber

Photo by Doris Lombard
PHOTOS: Last Week in Idyllwild July 30, 2015 …
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![The Idyllwild HELP Center re-stocked its food pantry last week. The pantry was almost bare at the time. “We went shopping for our food pantry with money donated from the Idyllwild [Association] of Realtors, 3rd District Supervisor Chuck Washington, Idyllwild HELP Center Board of Directors, and St. Margaret’s Bob Kimble, Ron Green and Chet Hecht. We spent a little over $2,700 to fill our pantry,” wrote Colleen Meyer, executive director of the Idyllwild HELP Center. Assisting in the actual shopping were (from left) Emily Pearson, Skye Zambrana, Wal-Mart Associate Veronica, Meyer, Emily Hill and Peyton Manchee. Photo by Ben Killingsworth](https://idyllwildtowncrier.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/help.jpg)

![Idyllwild Heating & Cooling was awarded second place in the 2015 YETI coolers Dealer Display contest — second in the nation and first in California. More than 2,000 entries were submitted from throughout the country, according to Steve Holldber, owner of Idyllwild Heating and Cooling. “This was a huge deal,” he said proudly. He only began selling YETI coolers two years ago. “I sell a lot of YETI merchandise,” he added, including four coolers this past weekend. The contest judges said the display had a “[t]houghtful attention to detail and best-in-class merchandising.” Photo courtesy Amanda Allen, park interpreter](https://idyllwildtowncrier.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/heating.jpg)



On a foggy evening, with the side of the William B. Lowman Concert Hall lit by a giant spotlight, a standing-room-only audience listened to some of the best jazz many said they had ever heard. The evening was a tribute to Marshall Hawkins, who for more than 30 years, has been Idyllwild Arts’ director of…
Bob Norman, water quality specialist at Lake Hemet Municipal Water District, is interested in water and history. He brings that passion to the Idyllwild Community Recreation Council’s Speaker Series …
Idyllwild local and Idyllwild Arts Academy senior Ben Cruz was one of eight visual artists nationally to be awarded the highest honor by the Alliance for Young Artists and Writers — the Gold Medal Portfolio for his work in painting. Now in its 94th year, the Scholastic Arts and Writing Awards is the longest-running and…
Ticket sales and attendance held steady Straight-ahead and cutting-edge jazz held center stage at the Idyllwild 2017 Jazz in the Pines festival. Each of the three venues offered new acts and interesting arrangements and sounds. And, according to John Newman, Idyllwild Arts Foundation director of business operations, ticket sales and attendance were remarkably consistent with…
With the initial formation of Idyllwild Indivisibles’ environmental committee, Melanie Lamaga, Dr. Joan McCullough, Karen Johnston and Mallory Cremin became community leaders for climate change. However, it didn’t take long to realize the overwhelming nature of their call to action. Lamaga began researching. “I picked CCL because of their bi-partisan support in Congress, their market-friendly,…