In just two years, the Aaron Norris Creative Fund has awarded $53,500 to support the arts locally, according to Joey Romero, who oversees the fund.

Idyllwild sits in the San Jacinto Mountains, and its population has doubled in the past 40 years to about 5,000. Murrieta and Temecula were each about 2,500 in the early 1980s and now each has a ...