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Idyllwild Elementary School in 1948. File photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

65 years ago - 1950<\/b><\/p>\n

Angling in the area had never been so good. More than 9,000 catchable-sized trout had been planted in lakes Hemet and Fulmor.<\/p>\n

60 years ago - 1955<\/b><\/p>\n

The Idyllwild Fire Protection District\u2019s educational program was very effective. This year, the number of fire losses on the Hill was fewer than the year before.<\/p>\n

55 years ago - 1960<\/b><\/p>\n

At a press conference, writer Robert Balzer announced plans for an elaborate Buddhist meditation center in Fern Valley. The 13-acre site off Glen Road was to be the only one of its kind in the nation.<\/p>\n

50 years ago - 1965<\/b><\/p>\n

The fourth-annual Music Festival at the USC-ISOMATA (now Idyllwild Arts Academy) featured Randall Thompson\u2019s new work and Robert Frost\u2019s poems in a tribute to the late President John F. Kennedy.<\/p>\n

45 years ago - 1970<\/b><\/p>\n

The Department of Fish and Game reported that the heavy winter of 1968-69 and the moist but mild winter of 1969-70 had produced an improvement in most deer ranges.<\/p>\n

40 years ago - 1975<\/b><\/p>\n

Led by two County Park naturalists, a funeral parade of 26 cars proceeded slowly from Hurkey Creek to Garner Valley to inspect the Lake Hemet Fire\u2019s burned area. About 130 people responded to the published invitation to take part in the tour.<\/p>\n

35 years ago - 1980<\/b><\/p>\n

Idyllwild Arts Director Robert Holmes announced an anonymous donor had offered to help construct an amphitheater on campus for crowds larger than the Bowman Theatre could accommodate.<\/p>\n

30 years ago - 1985<\/b><\/p>\n

In the Idyllwild area, the Riverside Mountain Rescue Unit was busy rescuing lost and injured hikers in four separate cases.<\/p>\n

25 years ago - 1990<\/b><\/p>\n

An amendment to the Environmental Protection Agency\u2019s Safe Drinking Water Act required that water companies nationwide begin filtering water obtained from running streams. The Fern Valley Water District Board of Directors, faced with having to buy a filtration system, had no choice but to raise its rates.<\/p>\n

20 years ago - 1995<\/b><\/p>\n

A Laguna Hills man navigating a hang glider over the San Jacinto Mountains died after crashing his aircraft in Mountain Center.<\/p>\n

15 years ago - 2000<\/b><\/p>\n

The Army Corps of Engineers was conducting a detailed reconnaissance study of the entire 730-square-mile stretch of the San Jacinto River, hoping to find sufficient evidence of flood control and water management programs<\/p>\n

10 years ago - 2005<\/b><\/p>\n

The Riverside County Department of Health Services proposed that all retailers who sell tobacco products have a county license as well as a state license.<\/p>\n

5 years ago - 2010<\/b><\/p>\n

The Riverside County Board of Supervisors approved an initial $1 million funding for the Idyllwild Library project.<\/p>\n

1 year ago - 2014<\/b><\/p>\n

Under new legislation, the California Legislature passed a law that was expected to be signed by the governor. Thin plastic carry-out bags appeared headed for oblivion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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