Participants in the Community Food Pantry operated by the Crestline Seventh-day Adventist Church recently remembered their opening in June 2023. That first week six people were served. A year later the pantry serves an average of 70 people weekly, including 225 family...
By Mary-Justine Lanyon President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on Jan. 1, 1863, declaring “that all persons held as slaves” within the rebellious states (during the Civil War) “are and henceforward shall be free.” But it wasn’t until June 19,...
By DOUGLAS W. MOTLEY Senior Writer An ongoing construction project to replace a damaged electrical vault beneath the pavement adjacent to Snyder’s Tire Works at 23952 Lake Drive in Crestline is nearing an end. The concrete vault reportedly suffered damage from...
By RHEA-FRANCES TETLEY Staff Writer Last weekend the Henck family gathered at their family cabin in Skyforest to memorialize their recently departed uncle, Ted Thomas, who was married to Kaki (Catherine) Henck Lovell. “He was the last of that generation of Hencks and...
Virgil Stowe was a teacher, a contractor and, above all, a kind and compassionate friend. He was a member of the First Baptist Church of Crestline, where he taught Sunday school, and was a member of the Crestline-Lake Gregory Rotary Club for 38 years until his death...
By RHEA-FRANCES TETLEY Staff Writer It is “all about the kids.” That was the common thread throughout the Rim of the World Education Foundation’s gala held on May 19 at the Lake Arrowhead Resort and Spa. It was a fun afternoon and evening with a Caribbean theme,...
