More than 450 people attended the annual benefit breakfast for the Riverside Mountain Rescue Unit in 1983. Shown here, members of the unit explained how to use equipment designed for rescue purposes. File photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\n65 years ago - 1948<\/strong>
\nThe PTA raised $150 at its first Hill social event.<\/p>\n60 years ago - 1953<\/strong>
\nThe thunderstorm that drenched Idyllwild proceeded northward, leaving 300 lightning strikes in the Six Rivers National Forest.<\/p>\n55 years ago - 1958<\/strong>
\nCharlotte Gorzny, an eager youthful reader, read 47 books to top all other participants in the library\u2019s summer reading program.<\/p>\n50 years ago - 1963<\/strong>
\nGround was broken for the new California Electric Power Company office to be located west of the post office.<\/p>\n45 years ago - 1968<\/strong>
\nThe thermometer dipped to 27 degrees. Ice decorated Eleanor Johnson\u2019s yard after plants and trees were watered during the night. <\/p>\n40 years ago - 1973<\/strong>
\nIt was announced that Riverside County would buy a 137-acre addition to Idyllwild County Park.<\/p>\n35 years ago - 1978<\/strong>
\nShoppers for Labor Day barbecues could stop at Village Market where ground beef was 79 cents per pound and turkey franks were 59 cents per pound.<\/p>\n30 years ago - 1983<\/strong>
\nThe Riverside Planning Commission\u2019s conditional use permit to Royal Pines Trailer Park for additional spaces was pulled by the Riverside County Board of Supervisors, which set another public hearing on the matter.<\/p>\n25 years ago - 1988<\/strong>
\n The $500 fund-raising goal set for a new marker for the Speed of Light Monument on Pine Cove Road was reached. The original marker, denoting the speed of light experiments conducted in 1926, had been stolen.<\/p>\n20 years ago - 1993<\/strong>
\nThe Pine Cove Water District Board of Directors pursued annexing the Alhatti Christian Resort in Alandale into the district. <\/p>\n15 years ago - 1998<\/strong>
\nDr. Norman Mellor of Idyllwild, who had donated his time and skills to Camp Emerson for 69 years, had one of the facility\u2019s camping areas named for him. \t<\/p>\n10 years ago - 2003<\/strong>
\nThe Idyllwild Fire Protection District was truck shopping after Third District Supervisor Jim Venable got the Riverside County Board of Supervisors to approve up to $500,000 to buy a new hook and ladder truck.<\/p>\n5 years ago - 2008<\/strong>
\nA record crowd attended the 15th-annual Jazz in the Pines festival held at Idyllwild Arts Academy. <\/p>\n1 year ago - 2012<\/strong>
\nThe Riverside County Sheriff\u2019s Department conducted an intensive week of raids and interrogations in Idyllwild that resulted in 12 arrests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"65 years ago – 1948 The PTA raised $150 at its first Hill social event. 60 years ago – 1953 The thunderstorm that drenched Idyllwild proceeded northward, leaving 300 lightning strikes in the Six Rivers National Forest. 55 years ago – 1958 Charlotte Gorzny, an eager youthful reader, read 47 books to top all other […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1112,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"amp_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n
Past Tense - August 29, 2013 • Idyllwild Town Crier<\/title>\n\n\n\n\t\n