Photos: Last Week in Idyllwild: October 15, 2015
![Windean Dahleen, owner of Idyology, holds the scissors for a Idyllwild Rotary ribbon cutting, The Idyllwild Rotary helped Dahleen celebrate the restaurant’s first anniversary.Photo by Thom Wallace](https://idyllwildtowncrier.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/idyology-500x282.jpg)
![Smokey Bear hugs Bailey Alavarez during the Idyllwild Fire Station open house for Fire Prevention Week, Saturday, Oct. 10. Photo by JP Crumrine](https://idyllwildtowncrier.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/ifpd-2.jpg)
Photo by JP Crumrine
![Jens and Kimi Hansen of Idyllwild enjoy their view from the driver’s seat of the Idyllwild Volunteer Fire truck during the open house Saturday. Photo by JP Crumrine](https://idyllwildtowncrier.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/ifpd1-500x336.jpg)
![Chance Vladika warms up with Hamilton High School teammates before Friday’s football game against Nuevo Bridge. Hamilton won 13-12 and evened their record to 3-3. Chance is a sophomore starting on Hamilton’s defensive line.Photo by Mike Vladika](https://idyllwildtowncrier.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/fb.jpg)
![Penelope and Alois Smrz visted the Santa Fe Opera House on Aug. 22 for the world premiere of a new American Opera by Jennifer Higdon called “Cold Mountain” based on the novel by Frazier and the subsequent movie. “It was a great and moving experience!” Penelope reports. Photo Courtesy Penelope and Alois Smrz](https://idyllwildtowncrier.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/vac-500x375.jpg)
Photo Courtesy Penelope and Alois Smrz
![While traveling through Mesa Verde National Park in Colorado, Dorothy Brooks of Fern Valley pulled out her Town Crier, before looking over the Anasazi cliff dwellings during a trip with Michael in September. Photo courtesy of Dorothy Brooks](https://idyllwildtowncrier.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/vaca_brooks.jpg)
Photo courtesy of Dorothy Brooks
![Bill Baker (right), longtime member of the Mile High Radio Club and advocate for disaster preparedness, was honored at the club’s Oct. 8 meeting. He is pictured here with club president Bill Tell. Baker said he is most proud of training and bringing on board over 200 club radio operators over the years. Photo by Marshall Smith](https://idyllwildtowncrier.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/bill-baker-500x354.jpg)
Photo by Marshall Smith
National Night Out is from 5 to 8 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 3. The Hemet Sheriff’s Station is hosting the event this year at the newly opened Lake Hemet Mountain Station, located at 56550 Highway 74 (near the entrance to Lake Hemet).Come out to meet fire personnel and law enforcement.
Idyllwild Arts senior Yixuan “Maisie” Luo is known to her classmates and teachers to be thoughtful, contemplative, soft-spoken and considerate of others. She is also, at the age of 17, recognized as a major artist, one not afraid to take risks and color outside the lines. Maisie, a native of Shenzhen, China, recently won two…
The Art Alliance of Idyllwild presents its 19th annual Art Walk and Wine Tasting combining the best of both wine and local art. The highly popular event, held this year on Saturday, Oct. 8, brings loyal tourists from off the Hill and Idyllwild locals together to appreciate local galleries and art hot spots, and…
Continuing its commitment to the classics, the Stratford Players presents “Will in the Woods IV,” a full immersion in some sonorous Shakespeare snippets — sonnets, and scenes from some of the bard’s most memorable, merry and moving masterpieces — “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” “Taming of the Shrew,” “Macbeth” or, for the superstitious actor, “The Scottish…
A high-volume harmonious hum vibrated while people mingled at the Art Alliance of Idyllwild’s annual Members meeting Saturday night at the Community Church. AAI President Donna Elliot discussed an expansion of the Deer Sightings exhibition, and an overview of AAI’s agenda before a notice of the winners of awards. Touching only on March for this…
Women’s History Month comes to Middle Ridge Winery the weekend of March22 to 24, as a team of Idyllwild’s well-known sisters in song presentthree special shows. They are calling the weekend “IDY LilithRock Fair,”combining a nod to Sarah McLachlan’s Lilith Fair with a reference toIdyllwild’s own Lily Rock, teasing the possibility of a new tradition….