The Friends of the San Jacinto Mountain County Parks held their annualLemon Lily Festival at the Nature Center on Saturday, July 13. Thismonth’s record-breaking heat wave meant an early blooming season, andfewer human visitors to the event. Those who made it enjoyed crafts andgames for kids, a story walk, free face painting and “bounce house,”…
Sammy Busby offers acting classes at Hilltop Music and Acting Studio foradults and teens. He is calling his enterprise SHB Acting Studio, usinghis initials and making a nod to his training at New York City’s HBStudio with Uta Hagan, whose book A Challenge for the Actor will be thetext for the classes. The classes will…
The Directors of Pine Cove Water met on Wednesday, June 26, as there hadbeen no quorum on their usual date. With board members Vicki Jacubac andLou Padulla absent, three directors were present to make a quorum,President Robert Hewitt, Becky Smith, and Rose Venard. The board heardgood news about water loss figures, began discussions about replacingtheir…
With its 30th anniversary, the Jazz in the Pines Festival is ending. Thefestival has brought mainstream jazz and crossover artists, as well asregional jazz greats, to audiences who came up the hill for the day orweekend and has been the major fundraiser for scholarships to theIdyllwild Arts Academy. The festival has, in recent years, turned…
On Wednesday night, June 19, the Rustic Theater hosted a meet and greeton for Will Rollins, Democratic challenger to incumbent Ken Calvert. This will be Rollins second effort to unseat Calvert in 2022 and he camewithin 11,100 votes. Rollins invoked the future of republic, saying that because of all theissues on the ballot in November…
Idyllwild’s free Summer Concert Series kicks off its 25th year ThursdayJuly 4 with the classic rock and roll vocal quartet, The Diamonds.Opening for them will be local jazz favorites, 3Skinz. Series founder Ken Dahleen has dubbed this year the series’ “SilverAnniversary” and promised “lots of surprises” in addition to bringingback audience favorites from among the…
Idyllwild Water District spread their regular meeting over two evenings,gaveling in briefly on Wednesday June 19, a holiday, then adjourning andreconvening Thursday. The sole item on the agenda was the theconsideration and approval of the employment agreement for a new GeneralManager, but the Thursday session was also.a standing room only send offfor interim GM Curt…
The Crier sat down with Chris Perreault to hear about the new VisitorsCenter in the center of town, next to the public restrooms and cappingthe Mile High Plaza shops. Shane Stewart built the space after therestrooms were installed by the county, demonstrating just how quicklyand inexpensively things can be done when locals do it themselves.Stewart…
The Crier spoke with Bella Gioeli, proprietor of Mountain Poppy Florals,as she approaches her one year anniversary at the Collective. “June 15thI opened. We are going to be having a special event for our one yearanniversary, I’m hoping to start an annual flower festival. This yearmight be the start of it.” Gioeli says there will…
The Board of Directors of Idyllwild Water District met on Wednesday,June 12. For a second week they discussed the budget and capitalimprovement plans for the coming financial year before approving them.They also revealed that they are very close to hiring a permanentGeneral Manager, one who seems “exceptionally qualified.” Last week the board was presented with…
