65 years ago – 1949 An early October snowfall left 3 inches of snow on the ground. 60 years ago – 1954 There was dancing every Saturday night at the Pine Cove Lodge. 55 years ago – 1959 A free “trans-ocean telephone call” to Hawaii or Alaska would be offered to someone at…
Editor: First I want to tell you what a great job you are doing with the paper. I do still come up there several times a month, love it and hope my kids do the same as the grandkids get old enough to hike. I also watch golf with friends every Sunday and I’m pleased…
I have often been struck by the similarities between fire protection — prevention and suppression — and public health. Both fields are tasked with preventing or containing catastrophes — wildfires and epidemics — that can overwhelm the normal protections of daily life. Both deal with an enemy that is a part of the natural world…
Robin Williams’ suicide has opened the door for more of us to open up about a dark subject. California Secretary of State Debra Bowen’s revelation that she suffers from depression is admirable, though running a department that large and important from home while she deals with this challenge is not doable. As I said, I…
Editor: Dr Know It All doesn’t mind being in the middle of a controversy. He is used to people with a contradictory sense of humor. It should be clear that the Dr abhors violence. When he says avoid “maiming” tourists and resist “smacking annoying children,” he means it. What the Dr does mind is having…
The Creekstone Inn has dominated the four-way stop called Fern Valley Corners since 1947; but its current identity, as Chris Singer’s elegant, 20-year-old tourist lodging, is a recent development. Instead, for 47 years Hill dwellers associated the building strictly with food. In 1946, as the country recovered from World War II, Michael and Dorothy Michelsen…
65 years ago – 1949 With funds raised by the ladies of the Community Presbyterian Church, volunteers were preparing to shingle the roof of the manse. 60 years ago – 1954 Hemet and Idyllwild citizens joined forces to protest a proposal of the U.S. Cement Corp. to construct a $3 million plant in Diamond Valley….
Three little kittens have lost their mittens and they began to cry. “Oh, Mother dear, we sadly fear, our mittens we have lost.” Mama Lizzie, a kitten herself, replied, “Oh, do not fear, for we are at ARF, and our mittens and a home we will surely find.” Lizzie and her babies were left on…
In life, we tend to run with the crowd with whom we have most in common.That’s true from the time little kids find the same interests in Chutes ‘n’ Ladders, all the way up to old age playing bingo. Those crowds do change over time. We may lose interest in people who did not parent…
In our every day lives of texting, Twitter, Instagram and Angry Birds, we often don’t take the time to peel our eyes away from our iPhones and notice the amazing natural world around us. The modern media tends to over-dramatize being a part of your natural environment as a major effort. While Mother Nature can…
