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Printed on 40% minimum recycled POSTMASTER: Dated material, please deliver Aug. 21-24, 2013 newsprint. News bites Idyllwild Station fundraiser Local volunteer reaches out to help Idyllwild Fire Station. See page 3. TowIdyllwild’s n Only NewspaperCrıer Healthcare options Almost all the News — Part of the Time Explaining how the act VOL. 68 NO. 34 75¢ (Tax Included) IDYLLWILD, CA THURS., AUGUST 22, 2013 affects individuals and businesses. See page 7. New film fest head 20th jazz fest Scott Foster taking over the 2014 Idyllwild CinemaFest. a big success See page 15. By J.P. Crumrine getting to Idyllwild for the mer Co News Editor two days of virtually non- llwild Sum ncert Seri stop music. Idy es lear skies, warm days Cornelius Reffegee and Needs Your Help! and good music were his wife, Patrica, were first Needed $23,774 the right medication in line on both Saturday As of $22,218 C Sunday, to help the Hill recover and Sunday. This year was August 18, from the recent fire siege their fourth trip to the Hill 2013 — Mountain, Strong and to hear jazz in the open. Silver fires. “A lot of jazz festivals are Many attendees from having fewer and fewer jazz previous jazz fests returned performers,” Reffegee said. for the 2013 20th-annual “R&B and rock performers Jazz in the Pines. Caltrans are being billed as jazz. This Thirteen-year-old blues prodigy Ray Goren returned to the Jazz in the Pines Festival opened Highway 243 and festival is true jazz.” for the third consecutive year. Photo by J.P. Crumrine visitors had little difficulty See Jazz, page 20 Send Donations to: Idyllwild Summer Concerts Inc. P.O. Box 1542, Idyllwild, CA 92549-1542 Fundraiser set for After the fires, Inside Mountain Fire victims what next? A&E .................................12 Calendar ...................8 By Jay Pentrack Organics. make contact with three of By J.P. Crumrine resents a new trend,” said Churches ...................8 Staff Reporter Christina Nordella of the the seven families who lost News Editor Richard Minnich, a pro- Classifieds .............. 23 foundation said, “My friend, their homes in the Moun- fessor in the Earth Science Crossword ............... 25 t 3:30 p.m. Saturday, Ginger Dagnall, was trying tain Fire. “I am personally eaction to the long- Department at the Univer- Horoscope ............... 25 Aug 24, the Earth- to raise some money for going to track them [the term consequences of sity of California, Riverside. Lodging ......................8 Witness Foundation her friend and I said ‘let’s remaining families] down. the recent Mountain Invasive grasses are taking Masthead ..................6 A R will host a fundraiser at go bigger than that. We Because I know; I can re- and Silver fires has varied. over the San Jacinto foothills On the Town ............12 the Rainbow Inn, 54420 S. can probably do it through late. I’ll track them down as While all were uniformly just south of Banning. This Public notices ........ 27 Circle Dr., to benefit victims my foundation.’” Nordella best I can from a place of glad that no lives were lost fire burned flash fuels and Real estate ..............20 of the Mountain Center Fire. went back to her board understanding. If not, we’ll and the property damage could every year as opposed Services .................... 28 Tickets are $15 at the door. for approval and secured a hold the funds for a certain limited, how the burnt areas to a shrub fire, which burns Sudoku ..................... 25 Comedian Cary Odes unanimous vote. period of time. will affect future fire threats less frequently, he explained. Weather .....................2 will perform. Musical guests Silver Fire victims who lost “I’m hoping the families and how those threats can The land was covered with include the Greg Jones Band, homes will receive 20 percent from both fires might come be lessened is still being the European grasses and the Carlos Reynosa and Friends, of the proceeds. Nordella together and be a support debated. fire was accelerated with the In an Pentagrams and Daisies, and explained, “It was originally group for each other. It The Mountain Fire was western winds. the Pete and Sue Band. It for the Mountain Fire victims. would be really healing. substantially larger than the “Most people thought EMERGENCY includes a silent auction and While we were in the process I would hope that they Silver Fire, but the latter the fire in 2006 would mean go to hors d‘oeuvres. of planning the fundraiser, get counseling, which is a destroyed more property. there wasn’t much danger Most of the proceeds the Silver Fire happened so part of the services offered While the Silver Fire did in that area for years,” said idyllwild from the fundraiser will go we decided, ‘Let’s just do this through the HELP Center. come close to the San Jacinto Richard Halsey, director of towncrier.com directly to the fire victims for everybody and we’ll give I cannot say enough good Wilderness area, it mostly the California Chaparral who lost seven homes in a percentage directly to the things about the HELP burned at elevations lower Institute in Escondido. “But the Mountain Center fire. HELP Center for the Silver Center.” than the Mountain Fire, the problem repeated.” Sponsors for the event are Fire victims’. They all get a Nordella has a very per- which consumed trees and And it was the winds car- Café Aroma, Idyllwild Pizza gift of money, which they sonal understanding of what vegetation at 8,000 feet and rying burning embers onto Company, Internal Balance need.” these families are going higher. rooftops that caused much Body Care and Sky Island Nordella has been able to See Fundraiser, page 2 “The Silver Fire rep- See Fires, page 5 Page 2 - Idyllwild Town Crier, August 22, 2013 Fundraiser News of record Continued from page 1 Fire log Idyllwild. through having lost her Aug. 16 — Medical aid, Hill fire stations responded Idyllwild home to a fire in Pine Cove. to the following calls, Monday, October of 2011. “A lot of Aug. 16 — Medical aid, Aug. 12, to Monday, Aug. 19: people don’t realize that you Idyllwild. have this experience and Aug. 17 — Four medical Idyllwild Fire Department aids, Idyllwild. they think it’s over in 30 and Ambulance days. ‘OK, it’s done, we’ve Aug. 17 — Motor vehicle Aug. 13 — Medical aid, collision with no injuries, Pine gotten you some immediate Idyllwild. Cove. help.’ The truth of the matter Aug. 14 — Three medical Aug. 17 — Medical aid, is it takes about a year- aids, Idyllwild. Hemet-San Jacinto. and-a-half to come out of Aug. 15 — Two medical Aug. 18 — Four medical something as devastating as aids, Idyllwild. aids, Idyllwild. losing everything you own. Aug. 15 — Rescue, Idyllwild. Aug. 18 — Motor vehi- “It’s not only the very Aug. 15 — Cover assign- cle collision with injuries, deep uprooting of your ment, Mountain Center Idyllwild. physical environment but Aug. 15 — Telephone Aug. 19 — Medical aid, mentally you’re uprooted According to CHP Officer Steve Storm, Betty Dravenstatt, 80, of Idyllwild, was driving call, malicious false alarm, Pine Cove. because you start every day westbound on Highway 74 around 6 p.m. Friday, Aug. 16, when she pulled off the highway to in your home; it is your allow a vehicle behind her to pass. When attempting to pull back onto the roadway, Dravenstatt Trivia test point of reference, so your miscalculated and drove over the edge of the turnout. Dravenstatt was uninjured and was picked mind is really uprooted as up by family at the scene. Her vehicle was towed to Idyllwild Garage. Photo by Jenny Kirchner Natural World: What color is the mineral malachite? well. People don’t really get that. The victims just don’t Green Answer: even know how to come happen. You’d be forgotten for the future, and about the Nordella. “It’s nice to get the forward; it’s really hard to about. I can’t express enough rich culture and heritage of kids outside into rocks and receive. It’s really hard to my gratitude to how the the indigenous peoples of crystals and away from video say I’m going to need some community helped me and the region. games. This is how I give help.” now it’s my turn to help “We generally do three back to my community.” Nordella credits her other people. It’s what life events a year that support For questions, to donate recovery to the Idyllwild is all about, really. ” our programs. This summer or for more information, community. “I was holding The EarthWitness Foun- we had a six-week course at Nordella can be reached at it together; my kids were dation (earthwitnessfoun- the Nature Center for kids. [email protected]. watching me. In all honesty dation.com) is a registered It was free for them to come Jay Pentrack can be I could not have rebuilt or 501(c)3. The foundation and learn. To date we have reached at jay@towncrier. $55 • $65 • $75 been as emotionally stable serves to provide both on- taught over 650 kids,” beams com. as I was had I not had the site and outreach education www.milehighcountryinn.com Idyllwild community. My programs in sustainable (951) 659-2931 • 54605 N. Circle Dr. friends, this community, ecology and Native Ameri- Strange but true they supported me and more can culture for grades kin- Originally, the best man was supposed to serve importantly, they supported dergarten through 12th in my children and this type Riverside County schools. as a sort of armed guard, in case the bride needed Idyllwild Weather of stuff doesn’t happen in From the National Weather Service The programs teach students to be kidnapped from her disapproving parents.