Fire log Hill fire stations responded to the following calls, Monday to Monday, Feb. 11 to 18, 2013: Idyllwild Fire Department and Ambulance Feb. 11 — Medical aid, Baldy Road. Feb. 11 —Medical aid, Saunders Meadow Road. Feb. 12 — Walk-in medical aid. Feb. 12 — Water problem, North Circle Drive, Idyllwild. Feb. 13 —…
Paws up. All four paws and snouts and noses front and center. Have you heard the news? Winston, our American Staffordshire, has found a new forever home. Originally found in a snow storm, thin and cold, and obviously abandoned, this guy has wiggled and wagged through to prove that he was all about the love….
The Idyllwild Chamber of Commerce offices were ransacked on Saturday night, Feb. 16. Vandals gained entrance through a back sliding door. File drawers were opened and files were scattered throughout the office. One particular file in a file drawer that normally contains the Chamber cash box was the only one with papers jutting out of…
The Idyllwild Fire Department responded to two small fires last week. The first occurred on Wednesday evening, Feb. 13, and the second was Saturday night, Feb. 16. Both were chimney fires. On Wednesday, the department responded to a call from the 26300 block of Delano Drive, the Royal Pines Trailer Park. The crew found sparks…
These are from Bryan Reeves, a LA resident, visiting town during the snow storm.
Betty Louise Webley passed away peacefully Dec. 31, 2012, in Beaumont, Calif., at the home of her daughter, Jo Ellen Champion, after a brief decline. Her daughter Jane Louise Heth of Fayetteville, Ark., was also at her side. Born in Eagle Grove, Iowa, on April 22, 1927, to Richard Kenneth Albee and Edith Dayberry Albee,…
Laura-Eloise Ray entered the presence of her Lord peacefully on Saturday, Feb. 9, 2013. She was 101 years old. Born Laura Eloise Lillie on July 5, 1911, in South Orange, N.J., she was orphaned in 1917 upon her mother’s death, and was then raised by her godly grandmother Laura B. Anderson. Laura-Eloise grew up in…
Richard Lewis “Wayne” Parker, musician, singer, songwriter, arranger, music producer, Idyllwild Arts van driver and 10-year Town Crier employee, died Sunday night, Feb. 17, after a three-month struggle with lymphoma. He was 81. Music-producing partner Ron Combes, who has known and worked with Parker for more than 30 years, said of him, “There was not…
The Idyllwild Fire Protection District Commission focused mostly on house-cleaning business during its latest session last week. At the request of Commissioner Jerry Buchanan, the commission added the issue of a standing committee for labor negotiations to the Feb. 12 agenda. For third time, the commission had to establish a committee for negotiations and labor…
Idyllwild Fire Protection District Auxiliary is coming together. The third meeting occurred Monday evening, Feb. 18. The primary purpose of these first meetings is to get the program up and running. There was also a tour of the fire station, highlighting some of the improvements that the auxiliary may be part of in the coming…
