By Mary-Justine Lanyon For 25 years members of the Mountain Sunrise Rotary Club have been impressing upon students in the Rim of the World Unified School District the importance of the choices they make as young people. “This program,” Rotarian Geoff Hopper told...
Lifestyle
Lifestyle
LET’S GO HIKING – Will Abell Memorial Trail
By TIM WILCOX Special to the Alpine Mountaineer Where: Lake Arrowhead Length: 5.2 miles Elevation gain: 483 feet Challenge: moderate to semi-difficult One of the most hikable and likable routes in our area has been expanded. Thanks to the visionary management of the...
Helping young reporters do their jobs
Four members of the Rim of the World Educational Foundation board – Priscilla Williams, Carol Kinzel, Sara Green and Mary-Justine Lanyon – presented Terry Gomes, principal of Mary Putnam Henck Intermediate School, with a check for $5,000. The funds will be used by the...
How to prevent cardiovascular disease
The fourth Health and Wellness presentation – Hearts & Smarts – by Soroptimist International of Rim of the World will feature family nurse practitioner Kim Walker. Walker will draw from her extensive experience as a registered nurse in critical care, emergency and...
LET’S GO HIKING – Arrowbear Lake
By TIM WILCOX Special to the Alpine Mountaineer Where: East of Running Springs Length: 2 miles Elevation gain: 114 feet Challenge: easy to moderate Small Is Beautiful was a popular and influential book published in 1973. Its title could apply to Arrowbear Lake, so...
Vandals damage Mountain Skies telescope
By DOUGLAS W. MOTLEY Senior Writer Mountain Skies Astrological Society’s $1.3 million research grade telescope sustained major damage when three high school age vandals broke into the society’s observatory in the dead of night in late April, causing several hundred...









