{"id":31182,"date":"2014-07-03T05:03:52","date_gmt":"2014-07-03T12:03:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/idyllwildtowncrier.com\/?p=31182"},"modified":"2014-09-02T14:40:43","modified_gmt":"2014-09-02T21:40:43","slug":"past-tense-july-3-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idyllwildtowncrier.com\/2014\/07\/03\/past-tense-july-3-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Past tense: July 3, 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_31185\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-31185\" style=\"width: 240px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-31185\" src=\"http:\/\/idyllwildtowncrier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/past-tense-e1404338909857.jpg\" alt=\"Bill Butler carved this totem pole on Highway 243 in 1948. In this photo, taken in 1972, the pole is located in front of Pine Cove Realty, no longer in existence. The pole, however, has lasted 66 years. File photo\" width=\"240\" height=\"348\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-31185\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bill Butler carved this totem pole on Highway 243 in 1948. In this photo, taken in 1972, the pole is located in front of Pine Cove Realty, no longer in existence. The pole, however, has lasted 66 years.<br \/>File photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_31187\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-31187\" style=\"width: 240px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-31187\" src=\"http:\/\/idyllwildtowncrier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/totem-e1404338931573.jpg\" alt=\"TOTEM RETOUCHED: Antonio, the painter, repaints Shane Stewart\u2019s totem pole on the east side of Highway 243 in Pine Cove on Monday. Bill Butler carved the pole in 1948 and it still stands today. (See past tense for an older photo.)                   Photo by Jay Pentrack \" width=\"240\" height=\"426\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-31187\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">TOTEM RETOUCHED: Antonio, the painter, repaints Shane Stewart\u2019s totem pole on the east side of Highway 243 in Pine Cove on Monday. Bill Butler carved the pole in 1948 and it still stands today. (See past tense for an older photo.) Photo by Jay Pentrack<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><b>65 years ago - 1949<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Everyone was invited to the dedication ceremonies for the Atwater Kent Bowl on the grounds of the Idyllwild Arts Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>60 years ago - 1954<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The Jerry Johnson family was happily welcoming Air Force man Jim Johnson home to the mountains on furlough.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>55 years ago - 1959<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The District Court of Appeals denied a liquor license for the Idyllwild Inn. The Idyllwild Protective League had spearheaded opposition to the inn\u2019s cocktail bar.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>50 years ago - 1964<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The Chamber of Commerce was making final preparations for an \u201cold-fashioned pit barbecue\u201d at the Town Hall campfire site. Tickets were $2.50 for adults and $1 for kids under 12.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>45 years ago - 1969<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Wearing a \u201cTry Harder, Charlie Brown\u201d sweatshirt, Paul McNally, 4, of Glendale was found unharmed by Riverside Mountain Rescue Unit searchers after being lost near Stone Creek for nine hours. The rescue was just one of three RMRU searchers made within a 23-hour period.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>40 years ago - 1974<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Idyllwild\u2019s Soroptimist Club celebrated its first birthday.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>35 years ago - 1979<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Summer jobs for economically disadvantaged youth ages 14 to 18 were being offered at the county parks, Idyllwild Park Visitor Center, Town Hall and Anza Co-op. Pay was $2.90 an hour.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>30 years ago - 1984<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The Hemet Unified School District was moving forward on studies for a secondary school at the Jim Burn site in Garner Valley, but the plans were not without opposition.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>25 years ago - 1989<\/b><\/p>\n<p>About 800 people attended the Patriots Feast picnic and concert at the Robert E. Holmes Amphitheatre at ISOMATA. The concert was performed by the Idyllwild Master Chorale.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>20 years ago - 1994<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The Town Crier was purchased by Tindle Newspapers Ltd., an English company that owned about 70 newspapers in the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n<p><b>15 years ago - 1999<\/b><\/p>\n<p>History came alive at Idyllwild\u2019s fourth-annual Historical Encampment held at Idyllwild Pines Camp. The five-day event featured re-enactments of Revolutionary and Civil War battles.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>10 years ago - 2004<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The Forest Service\u2019s firefighting team on the Hill got bigger and faster with the addition of a Bell 407 helicopter stationed at Keenwild Guard Station in Mountain Center.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>5 years ago - 2009<\/b><\/p>\n<p>A major district-wide reduction would eliminate funding for middle-school sports for the coming school year. Saving $60,000, money for coaches, referees and travel had been completely cut.<\/p>\n<p><b>1 year ago - 2013<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Idyllwild House Publishing Co., Ltd., owned by Jack and Becky Clark of Idyllwild, purchased the Idyllwild Town Crier from Tindle Newspapers Ltd. of England. Becky had been publisher-editor from 1996 to 2009, and had worked at the newspaper for many years prior.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>65 years ago &#8211; 1949 Everyone was invited to the dedication ceremonies for the Atwater Kent Bowl on the grounds of the Idyllwild Arts Foundation. &nbsp; 60 years ago &#8211; 1954 The Jerry Johnson family was happily welcoming Air Force man Jim Johnson home to the mountains on furlough. &nbsp; 55 years ago &#8211; 1959 [&hellip;]<\/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":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v15.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Past tense: July 3, 2014 &bull; Idyllwild Town Crier<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/idyllwildtowncrier.com\/2014\/07\/03\/past-tense-july-3-2014\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\">\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"2 minutes\">\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/idyllwildtowncrier.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/idyllwildtowncrier.com\/\",\"name\":\"Idyllwild Town Crier\",\"description\":\"Almost All the News \\u2014\\u00a0Part of the Time\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":\"https:\/\/idyllwildtowncrier.com\/?s={search_term_string}\",\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/idyllwildtowncrier.com\/2014\/07\/03\/past-tense-july-3-2014\/#primaryimage\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"url\":\"http:\/\/idyllwildtowncrier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/past-tense-e1404338909857.jpg\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/idyllwildtowncrier.com\/2014\/07\/03\/past-tense-july-3-2014\/#webpage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/idyllwildtowncrier.com\/2014\/07\/03\/past-tense-july-3-2014\/\",\"name\":\"Past tense: July 3, 2014 &bull; Idyllwild Town Crier\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/idyllwildtowncrier.com\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/idyllwildtowncrier.com\/2014\/07\/03\/past-tense-july-3-2014\/#primaryimage\"},\"datePublished\":\"2014-07-03T12:03:52+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2014-09-02T21:40:43+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/idyllwildtowncrier.com\/#\/schema\/person\/9f11c07fc08c358f6b7b114a6b6a732b\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/idyllwildtowncrier.com\/2014\/07\/03\/past-tense-july-3-2014\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/idyllwildtowncrier.com\/#\/schema\/person\/9f11c07fc08c358f6b7b114a6b6a732b\",\"name\":\"Idyllwild Town Crier\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/idyllwildtowncrier.com\/#personlogo\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/b0d83f0a50f2d74710cedd69f59edaeb?s=96&d=retro&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Idyllwild Town Crier\"}}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/idyllwildtowncrier.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31182"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/idyllwildtowncrier.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/idyllwildtowncrier.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idyllwildtowncrier.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1112"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idyllwildtowncrier.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31182"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/idyllwildtowncrier.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31188,"href":"https:\/\/idyllwildtowncrier.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31182\/revisions\/31188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idyllwildtowncrier.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idyllwildtowncrier.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idyllwildtowncrier.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}