When it comes to planning for future medical care, two documents often create confusion: the Advance Health Care Directive (AHCD) and the POLST (Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment). While both are important, they serve different purposes. Understanding how...
Those Were The Days: Camping trip to Little Bear Valley – Part 2
By RHEA-FRANCES TETLEY Historian Several families are traveling together in heavily laden wagons to take a multi-week camping trip to Kuffel Canyon near Little Bear Valley to escape the sizzling late-summer, early-fall days of 1905. The horse-drawn wagons are...
Mountain Musings with Uncle Mott: Monster Mash
Back in the day – don’t recall exactly which day it was – my dear friend Helen of Leeds used to visit us here at Motley Manor several times a year. By the way, Leeds is a town in northern England where The Who recorded their “Live at Leeds” album. On her last visit,...
Upcoming Events
BLUE JAY Craft Fair: Every Saturday, 9 a.m.-2 p.m., weather permitting, in the US Bank parking lot on North Bay Road at Hwy 189, next to Grocery Outlet. Interested new vendors should talk with Chuck at the event. CEDAR GLEN First Fridays at The Lake House: Nov....
Sheriff’s Log
Editor’s note: As the sheriff’s department is no longer providing their log of calls, the Alpine Mountaineer is compiling Nixle press releases for our readers. Driver and passenger in speeding vehicle die in traffic collision On Wednesday, Oct. 15, at 1:45...
Night of the Living Dead at the Tudor House
By RHEA-FRANCES TETLEY Staff Writer Attending live theater, whether in costume or not, is an excellent way to get into the mood for Halloween. This Oct. 24, 25, 31 and Nov. 1, the Heisler Theater Company will again be performing Night of the Living Dead on the...
Celebrate California First Responder Day
Senator Rosalicie Ochoa Bogh was successful in getting a state resolution adopted in late August establishing Oct. 28 as First Responder Day in the state of California. A first responder is an employee of an emergency service who is likely to be among the first people...
Grant funds portable telemetry packs
Mountains Community Hospital Foundation is thrilled to announce a generous $18,625 grant from the Shanahan Family Charitable Foundation. This gift has allowed us to purchase 12 portable telemetry monitors for our Emergency and Medical/Surgical Departments – an...
