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From the Idyllwild Town Crier weekly newspaper, July 2, 2009
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Notice:
The IFPD meeting
scheduled for Thursday, July 7 has been rescheduled to July 14, 2009.
Top 3 stories of
the week
Tall,
dark, hairy, shy, likes music
By
Marshall Smith, Staff Reporter
David Jerome is obsessed. He has beast on the
mind. Idyllbeast, to be precise. He is hoping that the reported
98th-annual Idyllbeast Festival, to be held at Café Aroma from 9
a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, July 4, may lure the curious, but famously
shy, hairy, apelike bipedal hominoid to the bistro environs. More to
the point, he is hoping the holiday music and wafting garlic aromas
prove irresistible to a creature that hikers have reported smells of
garlic and cinnamon, and has been heard doing a mean Aretha Franklin
imitation — or so they claim, Jerome said.
Jerome said backcountry hikers occasionally report encounters with
things they can’t explain. Of course, Jerome acknowledges, that is also
true in town, but that’s a different story. Jerome recounts that Hill
Native Americans have a long oral history recounting a Bigfoot-like
creature in the high San Jacintos. To local tribes, said Jerome, the 7-
to 9-foot-tall ape/man creature was just another spirit brother who
liked to join in at any tribal ceremony that featured dancing.
Tribal lore recounts the creature kept to himself and seldom entered
the settlement except when ceremonial drums and chanting started. Then
the beast came running, or more precisely, loping, in a characteristic
gait shared with cousins Bigfoot (native in more northerly U.S.
latitudes) and Yeti (found usually in the Himalayas). The beast
reportedly never spoke or chanted, but native tradition recounts he was
an enthusiastic dancer and was always welcomed by his hosts.
Local woman
hurt in crash
By Beth
Nottley, News Assistant
Theresa Ann Venable, 42, of Idyllwild, who was
severely injured in a head-on collision at 8:55 p.m. Thursday, June 25,
is still hospitalized at Desert Regional Medical Center while being
treated for injuries that include a shattered kneecap, 10 broken ribs
and a fractured pelvis. Venable is the daughter of former Riverside
County 3rd District Supervisor Jim Venable.
Venable was attending a barbecue at the
Pine Cove home of her boss, Steve DeRoss of Camp Buckhorn. She borrowed
his pickup truck, a 1989 Ford Ranger, to go get cheese for the burgers.
When she didn’t return in a timely fashion, DeRoss decided to go
looking for her and came upon a horrific scene on Highway 243 south of
Point of Rocks Drive.
The front end of his truck was mangled,
the entire chassis buckled. The windshield was shattered and the
steering column bent at a nearly 45-degree angle. California Highway
Patrol (CHP) Officer M.J. Murawski told him that Venable had been badly
injured and had just been taken by ambulance to a local helicopter site
to be airlifted by Mercy Air to the hospital.
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School
budget pares athletics
By J.P. Crumrine, News Editor
A
major district-wide reduction will eliminate funding for middle school
sports for the coming school year. Saving $60,000, money for coaches,
referees, and travel has been completely cut, both Hemet Unified School
District (HUSD) President Glenn Figgins and Idyllwild School Principal
Matt Kraemer confirmed.
Kraemer expressed some hope that he and Idyllwild physical education
teacher Holly Guntermann may be able to mitigate this problem. Since
the Idyllwild teams predominantly play a schedule of private schools
such as Noli, Kraemer will try to find a means to keep some teams
active.
But coaches’ wages and travel expenses will still have to be found
somewhere.
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Also
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Classifieds
for $5: All through the month of July! Click on the button
above, left-hand side.
July 4th Parade: Parade
starts at 10 a.m. Saturday at Fern Valley Corners and continues down
North Circle Drive to Park Lane.
No fireworks! All
fireworks, including sparklers, are illegal tp possess and to use in
the mountains. Riverside County has a zero-tolerance policy regarding
fireworks.
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up your free copy of "Idyllwild Magazine & Visitor's Guide" in
front of the Town Crier or at stores throughout town.
Click
here for 2009 Idyllwild 5K & 10K Run & Fitness Walk results.
Riverside
County Department of Environmental Health "Third Quarter 2008
Groundwater Monitoring and Sampling Report"
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Grand Jury
Report: Idyllwild Fire
Protection District
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Grand Jury
Report: Pine Cove Fire Incident
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Idyllwild
Open
Meeting Law seminar video, click here.
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