Water drawn from the San Bernardino Mountains for Arrowhead Spring Water is returning in bottle form to the San Bernardino National Forest Association (SBNFA) to hydrate its volunteers. Over 1,000 volunteers work on the Forest Association's year-round environmental stewardship-based programming and its Urban Conservation Corps (UCC) program. The SBNFA UCC is a workforce … [Read more...] about Arrowhead Donates 42,000 Bottles of Water to Forest Association
‘350 Climate Rally and Walk’ Supports International Call To Action
On October 24, 2009, the Mountains Group of the Sierra Club will join people around the world calling for significant reduction in the atmospheric carbon dioxide causing global warming. The 350 Climate Rally and Walk will offer educational material about climate change and the need to reduce our global carbon amount to 350 parts per million in order to keep a balanced … [Read more...] about ‘350 Climate Rally and Walk’ Supports International Call To Action
Cheerleaders Clean Up After Lakeside Slackers
The Big Bear Municipal Water District would like to give special thanks to the Big Bear High School Cheerleaders for their involvement with the Adopt-A-Shoreline program. The program runs through October, and it works like this: you adopt an area along the 22 miles of shoreline, place trash into bags, then call the MWD to pick the bags up. Thousands of pounds of trash are … [Read more...] about Cheerleaders Clean Up After Lakeside Slackers
No Wildfires Currently Threaten Big Bear
Smoke had already been drifting into the valley for several days from wildfires throughout California when a fire broke out at approximately 1:45pm today south of Oak Glen. By 4pm, the blaze had covered at least several dozen acres in the Pisgah Peak area north of Wildwood Canyon and south of Potato Canyon Road The aircraft known as the Hawaii mars carrying 7200 gallons of … [Read more...] about No Wildfires Currently Threaten Big Bear
Big Bear City Airport “Air Fair” Saturday
Tomorrow, Saturday, August 29th, the Big Bear City Airport hosts the 2009 “Wings Over Big Bear” Air Fair. This year’s theme is “Serving Our Community” highlighting the value and benefits that our airport provides to Big Bear’s residents and visitors. Gates open at 7am with a pancake breakfast prepared by the Big Bear Kiwanis Club. The air show starts at 9am to 4pm beginning … [Read more...] about Big Bear City Airport “Air Fair” Saturday