Eighty high school students from Riverside, San Bernardino and Orange counties attended Red Cross training at Idyllwild Pines Camp this past week. Their primary focus was in learning about and assisting with the Red Cross Home Fire Prevention Campaign. The five-year national initiative, begun in October 2014, aims to reduce residential fires through installing smoke…
September may free up grant money to help fund a proposed Safety Corridor on highways 74 and 243, according to California Highway Patrol Public Information Officer Darren Meyer. CHP sought grant money to fund enforcement and education measures to help reduce traffic fatalities on Hill highways. CHP will partner with Caltrans once funds are approved…
Living Free, founded in 1980, is a sanctuary for abandoned cats and dogs. Currently it is home to nearly 100 cats and 45 to 50 dogs. Mustangs are another species, surprisingly, who are abandoned or whom humans find too numerous. The federal government rounds up wild mustangs annually and keeps them penned in corrals with…
Editor: There are 60 nonprofit organizations/districts on this mountain. Most have an agenda serving a target audience. It might be businesses, homeowners, artists or children. It’s offensive when they step to the plate claiming a hill-wide service model and in fact have allegiance to just a few. It’s even more offensive when they manipulate funding…
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Editor: The IWD forum held last week was extremely informative and it was disappointing to see a very low attendance of our IWD customers present. How can people knowledgeably vote for our Board of Directors if they don’t know who they’re voting for in our upcoming election? Without a doubt, our current board is doing…
Editor’s note: This letter is re-running because of an error in the last statement. Again, rambling on and saying things that are not true. I worked for water districts for 20 years. I started at Rancho Water District then moved to Eastern Municipal Water District for a better job and that year the plant I…
The Forest Folk, a local nonprofit, are planning to turn a 12-passenger shuttle bus, donated in the past to the now-defunct Idyllwild Chamber of Commerce, into transportation for Hill residents. Forest Folk is now seeking drivers. Through funds obtained from a grant written by Forest Folk key organizer Reba Coulter, assisted by Sue Harper, the…
Editor: I was puzzled when I learned how many employees Idyllwild Water District currently employs and started to think about it. I thought about how many employees they have had at any one time in the past, what was accomplished with those numbers and also, how many employees the other two water districts on the…
Editor: Steve Kunkle, a former water district employee, is running for the water district board. I’ve read a couple of his letters, and I feel he is misrepresenting issues. Steve was a disgruntled wastewater employee and I understand the district wasn’t happy with his performance. It seems now that he wants revenge. He has made…
