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We have a great partnership.
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 Thanks for your generous contributions. Mr Les Widerynski and Ms. Deborah Gmeiner Mr. and Mrs. Red Corbett Mr. Ron Perry and Ms. Doris Lombard Ms. Jayne Davis Mr. and Mrs. Roy Mills Ms. Suzanne Avalon Ms. Veda Roubideaux Ms. Lorel Cornman and Mr. Willard Johnson Ms. Mary Ann Miller Ms. Gina MacDonald Ms. Kathleen Harmon-Luber Mr. and Mrs. Chuck Streeter Mr. and Mrs. Chic Fojtik Mr. and Mrs. Chris Kramer Mr. and Mrs. Bernard B. Brause Mr. and Mrs. Edwin S. Brown Ms. Nobuko Christensen Ms. Marsha Lytle |
The ICF wishes to express its appreciation to the participants of the Stagecoach 400 mountain bike ride, who have been encouraged to donate $20 to the ICF in lieu of entry fees. The endurance race starts in Idyllwild, traversing the Anza Borrego desert, the Lagunas and Cuyamacas, and a bit of the San Diego Bay and coastline before turning inland and climbing back to Idyllwild. It attracts riders from all over the country, including some of the biggest names in endurance mountain biking.
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Grant Appliication 2013
 The Idyllwild Community Fund is now accepting grant applications from interested community nonprofit organizations. The application form and guidelines for completing the form can be downloaded from our website and must be returned by May 3. Need help? Just send us an email.
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We have made it easy for you to think about ICF and send a donation. Simply write a check to The Community Foundation earmarked for the Idyllwild Community Fund and mail to ICF, PO Box 761, Idyllwild CA 92549.
Or just visit our website to donate by credit card or Paypal.
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ICF Funds Critical
Communication Need
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Mountain Disaster Preparedness at the Ready
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Guest Editor Marshall Smith
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This month's guest editor, Marshall Smith, discussed Idyllwild's emergency preparedness with MDP President Mike Feyder. Mr. Smith is also a CERT-trained member of MDP and commander of the DAS unit D at Town Hall.
Mountain Disaster Preparedness (MDP) is a local non-profit Hill resource that may be critically important when the sleeping San Andreas Fault erupts. Riverside County Office of Emergency Services Deputy Director Peter Lent advises outside assistance might not reach the Hill for two weeks or more when the "Big One" strikes. That isolation is what makes the work of MDP so important.
MDP volunteers work with professional responders in times of disaster to provide neighborhood damage information using MDP's radio network, register residents at MDP Disaster Aid Stations (DAS), and direct them to approved Red Cross shelters. Emergency medical treatment can be provided under the direction of MDP's Medical Officer Dr. Dick Goldberg. DAS units are kept stocked with emergency provisions kept up to date by MDP and overseen by local neighborhood commanders and captains.
Established in 1986, MDP grew in numbers of registered volunteers and those who are Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) trained. CERT volunteers go through a weekend course with hands-on training that equips them to work productively with professional emergency responders.
All Hill volunteer organizations play important community roles. MDP may be one of the few that could also save lives.
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It's All About Communication
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MDP President Mike Feyder and
Vice President Sherry Edwards
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"We're going to be no good up here unless we can talk to each other," said Mountain Disaster Preparedness President Mike Feyder.
MDP depends upon radio communication. With eight Disaster Aid and Assembly Stations spread throughout Idyllwild, Pine Cove, and Mountain Center, radio communication from those units to an incident command center as well as to MDP search and assessment teams is a vital link in reporting structure damage and reporting injuries and casualties following a disaster.
MDP plans to use the Idyllwild Community Fund grant to purchase four Kenwood TK 3160 military grade radios specifically for use by core medical personnel under the direction of Dr. Richard Goldberg. Radios will be used to communicate with MDP field personnel and incident command center to ascertain numbers of injuries, consequent medical needs, supplies needed, and treatment and/or medical transportation options. The additional radios augment current MDP equipment.
"Our ability to communicate disaster assessment information is critical," Feyder stressed. He said the ICF grant would greatly expand MDP's ability to respond to medical situations and better facilitate transmission of sensitive medical information.
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WOW!! Our kids are learning how to give back!
Can a group of sixth and seventh grade students acquire the skills necessary to organize and run a philanthropic program? You bet they can! Funded by ICF and The Community Foundation, the Youth Grantmaker Program is officially underway.
Beginning on February 28 and continuing through April 25, Karen Lampert of The Community Foundation will hold a series of workshops helping students understand the concept of philanthropy and the needs of the nonprofit community. Through guided instruction, she will help students acquire the requisite skills to write and review grant applications and ultimately to award qualifying grant applications with a check at a ceremony on May 23.
This program is funded for three grant cycles through 2015 and will be coordinated by volunteer teachers Donna Mercer and George Companiott.
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Guest Editor Marshall Smith
I came to Idyllwild in 2001 to be "Dad on the Hill," to my nephew Graham Dechter who was beginning his sophomore year at Idyllwild Arts. After his graduation, I stayed, detoxified from city life and previous hectic careers by the calm and peace of this mountain.
In 2005 I started working for the Idyllwild Town Crier as a general assignment reporter. Although I have long volunteered in the political process and conducted fundraising for causes in which I believe, Town Crier policy restricts volunteering, especially by editorial staff, if we cover community boards, meetings or news stories of the candidate organization.
I've admired the work of the Idyllwild Community Fund because of its mission to support and celebrate Hill organizations that work to better the community. I got permission to serve and am happy to bring my skill sets to this altruistic organization.
My work schedule is hectic, and I have long wanted to serve the Idyllwild community outside of my writing and editing duties. All in all, I try for balance in my life, and serving on the Idyllwild Community Fund board helps provide that balance, the "giving back" that is important to me.
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