

Blue heron lunch
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This blue heron is having lunch in a Mountain Center backyard. Photo by Bethany Pulliam

The Cleveland, Los Padres and San Bernardino National Forests are participating in a one-year visitor survey called the National Visitor Use Monitoring. The survey will be conducted from Oct. 1, 2013 to Sept. 30, 2014. Interviewers will be stationed at key forest roads or exits from recreation areas. They will ask national forest visitors what…
The Angel Tree at the BBVA Compass bank contains gift tags each listing a child’s Christmas wishes.
Pipestem Clematis or Chaparral Clematis,(Clematis lasiantha), is one of the two native clematis in California (the other being C. ligusticifolia or Western Virgin’s Bower). Pipestem clematis is a beautiful deciduous vine that can be as long as 20 feet. This native vine can be found growing on hillsides, chaparral, and open woodlands in southern and central California. It blooms April to May, displaying many small, creamy white and fragrant flowers. This vine prefers shade for its roots, and sun for its top, and is completely drought-tolerant when established.
AND THE
WINNERS ARE…
From left to right
Top row:
Isis Theatre Company Board President Suzanne Avalon; Friends of San Jacinto Mountains County Parks representative Jan Jaspers Fayer; Idyllwild School smArts Program representatives Mallory Cremin and Christina Nordella.
Middle row:
Mountain Disaster Preparedness President Mike Feyder; Idyllwild Youth Grantmakers Adrian Hernandez and Chance Vladika; Human Rights Counsel of Greater Hemet Valley, San Jacinto, and Menifee Regions Patty Caratello and Mary Morse.
Bottom row:
Idyllwild Scholarship Fund representative Jayne Davis; Idyllwild Arts Foundation representatie Mallory Cremin; Gary Kuscher, Art Alliance of Idyllwild president.
Photos by Jay Pentrack