Author: David Jerome

Power Outage Response: Town Hall Becomes Resource Hub During High Winds

Power Outage Response: Town Hall Becomes Resource Hub During High Winds

As high winds swept the southland, a Public Safety Power Shutdown affected Hill communities starting Tuesday night, January 7. Town Hall became a warming and charging station, with two Southern California Edison employees and a security guard“prepositioned” before the power went out. Robin Willis, who works in Customer Outreach was there handing out snacks, water…

PSPS and Red Flag Warnings affect millions

Public Safety Power Shutdown outages affected tens of thousands of customers in Riverside County during the high winds that began on Tuesday, January 7. In addition to Idyllwild, Pine Cove and Mountain Center, Southern California Edison maps showed affected neighborhoods in Poppet Flats, Hemet and San Jacinto. Anza and Thomas Mountain seemed to have been…

Locals seek fix for potholes on highway 74

Motorists who travel highway 74 to Palm Desert have recently found themselves running a gauntlet of potholes and debris from attempted repairs. During the Thanksgiving holiday weekend, many motorists suffered flat tires there. Locals have noted repair work for several months, but take issue with the results, and one has started a petition to bring…

Idyllwild Community Center offers recreation and more for seniors

Johnny Wilson, who is Idyllwild Community Center’s Director of Programs and Recreation, gave a talk at the Library on December 4th about ICC’s recreation programs for seniors, in and out of Town Hall. The talk was hosted by Idy Elders and Others. Wilson gave some of his own history. His children are fourth generation Idyllwilders,…

Mo on Kilimanjaro

Mo on Kilimanjaro

Pine Cove resident Maureen “Mo” Mullins retired last year, but has certainly not slowed down. In October she joined a group that reached the summit of Mt Kilimanjaro, the tallest mountain in Africa and the highest free-standing mountain in the world. At 71, she credits her high-altitude home, and the training she did here, for…

Mountain Area Safety Taskforce invites public to learn about community fire safety and evacuation plans

The Mountain Area Safety Taskforce will meet at the Idyllwild Nature Center on Wednesday, December 11. The event brings together representatives of all the agencies, governmental and nonprofits, engaged in preventing and responding to wildfire in our community, as well as citizens seeking a better understanding of their own responsibilities. Taskforce members included CalFire and…

Thanksgiving Day fire destroys Pine Cove home

Thanksgiving Day fire destroys Pine Cove home

CalFire and Idyllwild Fire responded to a house fire in the 53000 block of Sherman Drive at 9:26 a.m. on Thanksgiving Day, November 28. CalFire Public Information Officer Tawny Castro provided the following information: The first engine to arrive found a two-story structure “well involved with fire.” The fire was contained shortly after 10:30 a.m….

Thanksgiving History

The modern celebration of Thanksgiving commemorates the first harvest festival of the Pilgrim colonists at Plymouth, Massachusetts, but that was one of many days of Thanksgiving observed by early European settlers, and only became the center of one of our foundation myths in the late 19th century. Days of Thanksgiving were decreed by the Spanish…

IWD

The November 20 meeting of the Board of Directors of Idyllwild Water District included the presentation of the audit of the financial year ending June 30, 2024, the acceptance of the environmental report for the Strawberry Creek Diversion project, and a special recognition of Office Manager Tyla Wheeler. The Board also discussed the results of…