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Jenni Haire, 5, was one of seemingly hundreds of Idyllwild School children who enjoyed a play day at Idyllwild County Park in June 1976. According to Principal Nels Carlson, play day was an \u201corganized chaos\u201d permitted at the end of the term.
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65 years ago - 1950
\n<\/b>Census counted 604\u00a0 permanent residents in\u00a0 Idyllwild, Mountain Center and Pine Cove.<\/p>\n

60 years ago - 1955
\n<\/b>Chamber of Commerce trustees met with California Telephone Co. officials regarding complaints by local business people that they were unable to make off-the-Hill calls. A request was made for more trunk lines.<\/p>\n

55 years ago - 1960
\n<\/b>Eighteen citations were issued by the Forest Service and Sheriff\u2019s officers to 10 Navy men from Chula Vista. The men were cited for an illegal campfire, shooting fireworks and providing alcoholic beverages to minors.<\/p>\n

50 years ago - 1965
\n<\/b>Don Frandsen was elected head of the Playhouse in the Pines community theater group.<\/p>\n

45 years ago - 1970
\n<\/b>A Riverside Mountain Rescue Unit helicopter plunged into tree tops while attempting to rescue an injured Boy Scout in Little Round Valley, a camping area near Mt. San Jacinto.<\/p>\n

40 years ago - 1975
\n<\/b>The Woodland Park Manor Motel on South Circle Drive was sold by Mr. and Mrs. Ken Gooding to Mr. and Mrs. Jim Wyllie.<\/p>\n

35 years ago - 1980
\n<\/b>Thousand Trails Inc. purchased the 190-acre Wilderness Pines recreational facility in Pine Cove.<\/p>\n

30 years ago - 1985
\n<\/b>The Community Recycling Center was reopened\u00a0 on Highway 243.<\/p>\n

25 years ago - 1990
\n<\/b>The California Highway Patrol began 24-hour coverage of the Hill with a 90-day test period that would help determine the extent of future coverage, according to Norval Stacy, public affairs officer for the CHP Banning office.<\/p>\n

20 years ago - 1995
\n<\/b>In the Making America Safe Essay Contest, Sean Townsend, 15, of Idyllwild, was chosen as one of the five national grand prize winners in the 15- to 18-year-old category.<\/p>\n

15 years ago - 2000
\n<\/b>Another cellular company opened shop on the Hill. Verizon Wireless, formerly Airtouch Cellular,\u00a0 completed construction of its transmission equipment on Pine Cove Water District property, and officially began service.<\/p>\n

10 years ago - 2005
\n<\/b>Idyllwild and Pine Cove water districts raised their water rates \u2014 IWD by 15 percent and PCWD by 10 percent. Both agencies took the action to\u00a0 help offset property tax revenue lost from the state budget negotiations from the previous summer.<\/p>\n

5 years ago - 2010
\n<\/b>Twenty-one Idyllwild young people became paid interns through the federally funded Summer Work Experience. They worked for local businesses that had applied to host and mentor the interns.<\/p>\n

1 year ago - 2014
\n<\/b>Another local pet fell victim to a rattlesnake bite in Idyllwild. Nancy and Steve Carter contacted the Town Crier to advise that a rattlesnake had bitten their 7-and-a-half-year-old Red Boston terrier, Rosie, in the eye.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

65 years ago – 1950 Census counted 604\u00a0 permanent residents in\u00a0 Idyllwild, Mountain Center and Pine Cove. 60 years ago – 1955 Chamber of Commerce trustees met with California Telephone Co. officials regarding complaints by local business people that they were unable to make off-the-Hill calls. A request was made for more trunk lines. 55 […]<\/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":[39,50],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nPast Tense: July 2, 2015 • 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\/2015\/07\/02\/past-tense-july-2-2015\/\" \/>\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\/2015\/07\/02\/past-tense-july-2-2015\/#primaryimage\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"url\":\"http:\/\/idyllwildtowncrier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/past-tense.jpg\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/idyllwildtowncrier.com\/2015\/07\/02\/past-tense-july-2-2015\/#webpage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/idyllwildtowncrier.com\/2015\/07\/02\/past-tense-july-2-2015\/\",\"name\":\"Past Tense: July 2, 2015 • Idyllwild Town Crier\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/idyllwildtowncrier.com\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/idyllwildtowncrier.com\/2015\/07\/02\/past-tense-july-2-2015\/#primaryimage\"},\"datePublished\":\"2015-07-02T22:10:17+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2016-01-23T19:36:54+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/idyllwildtowncrier.com\/#\/schema\/person\/9f11c07fc08c358f6b7b114a6b6a732b\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/idyllwildtowncrier.com\/2015\/07\/02\/past-tense-july-2-2015\/\"]}]},{\"@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\/38860"}],"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=38860"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/idyllwildtowncrier.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38866,"href":"https:\/\/idyllwildtowncrier.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38860\/revisions\/38866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idyllwildtowncrier.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idyllwildtowncrier.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idyllwildtowncrier.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}