Football players, band members and cheerleaders from Tahquitz High School participated in this year’s Super Kids Bowl. Started by Idyllwild School Principlal Matt Kraemer (on right side of photo behind Titan mascot, with fist raised), the event gives every severely disabled student from the Hemet Unified School District a chance to score a touchdown and become the star of the game.
Basketball Robert Lewis, Town Hall recreation director, gave this report on Town Hall Youth Basketball. Division 1 (ages 6-9) On Tuesday, Jan. 23, the Cafe Aroma Lakers hosted the American Legion Warriors. Triston Bilecky of the Warriors handled the ball very well with some good passes. The Lakers got a good game out of Ota…
Since 1998, the Human Relations Council of the Greater Hemet, San Jacinto and Menifee regions has engaged in a range of activities designed to nurture harmonious relations among the increasingly diverse elements of our community, and to contribute to a peaceful process of local change and growth. HRC holds a firm belief that prejudice can…
Drop into a Starbucks and there’s a pretty good chance you’ll run across something invented by Clay Alexander, who graduated from Idyllwild Arts Academy in 1994. Nearly 4,600 Starbucks stores carry the temperature-controlled Ember Ceramic Mug (named by Time magazine as one of the best inventions of 2017), and about a thousand stores carry the Ember Travel Mug.
“… I leave this stage tonight even more optimistic about this country than I was when we started… This generation coming up – unselfish, altruistic, creative, patriotic – I’ve seen you in every corner of the country… You’ll soon outnumber any of us, and I believe as a result that the future is in good…
The ninth-annual Idyllwild International Festival of Cinema is from March 6 to 11 this year, with more than 130 films scheduled to be shown during the six-day festival. “This is the most we’ve ever screened. 2018 could be the best year yet for quality feature films,” said IIFC chair and founder Stephen Savage. And Andrea…
The Idyllwild Fire Department’s effort to refute a reader’s opinion printed in the Idyllwild Town Crier about the adequacy of fire hydrants in the Idyllwild and Fern Valley water districts created a small snafu itself. In December, Pine Cove resident Jeff Smith wrote an opinion piece in which he argued that three fire hydrants did…
The Community Service Area 36 (Idyllwild and Fern Valley) Advisory Committee met last week and heard about the first year of the San Jacinto Mountain Community Center’s management of the recreation activities. SJMCC Board President Janice Lyle spoke about the overall effort to assume this responsibility and Bob Lewis, director, Idyllwild Community Center Recreation Program,…
For several years, Riverside County’s budget problems have continued, if not worsened. In the fall of 2016, the County contracted with KPMG, an international consulting firm, to help find ways to save money, work more efficiently and instill new management processes. The Sheriff’s Department was an important focus of KPMG’s work, since this is the…
On a Saturday moving day that saw the leaders gain little ground on the field, Brendan Steele leaped into a tie for 17th place, five shots off the lead with one round to play The Idyllwild native notched five birdies against a single bogey on his way to a 4-under-par 68. He drained putts of…
