The Champions Volunteer Foundation Select Angel View As Charity Of Choice
Angel View, a sixty-year-old local nonprofit that operates 19-care homes, as well as community outreach and day programs, received the coveted 2012 Julie Copeland Award from the Champions Volunteer Foundation on March 17 during the BNP Paribas Open at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden. Julie Copeland, who passed away in 1996, was a former tournament [...]
Indian Wells Tennis Gardens breaking ground
The Indian Wells Tennis Gardens has already started breaking ground for the new addition to the facility with a new 8000 seat stadium 2 and 2000 new parking spaces. There was a ground breaking ceremony on March 6th with the promise that the new addition would be started as the BNP Barabas Open ended. On [...]
The BNP Parabas Open Winner Circle
The BNP Parabas Open has a couple new repeat winners for 2013. These world class tennis players have thrilled fans with their extraordinarily fine exciting play on the courts. This two weeks of tennis at the Indian Wells Tennis Gardens is always looked forward to by tennis fans. The event started on March 4th and [...]
Top Seeds in the Women’s Tennis Tournament at Indian Wells Tennis Gardens
The Top Seeds in the Women’s Tennis Tournament at Indian Wells Tennis Gardens held an interview for the press on March 6th in the Interview Room upstairs off the media press area. These top women athletes gave interviews to TV crews on the roof over looking the parking area with the mountains in the back [...]
2013 Indian Wells Arts Festival Commemorative Poster Artwork Unveiled At City Council Meeting
Indian Wells, CA – The 2013 Indian Wells Arts Festival commemorative poster has been exclusively created by the renowned mother/son artists, Linda Lee Kinman and Dusty Kinman of Kinman Studios located in Dexter, Oregon. This talented duo specializes in painting Southwest deserts during the springtime in order to capture the fleeting beauty of wildflowers in oils [...]
Big Brothers and Big Sisters Hall of Fame Golf Tournament and Gala
The 14th Annual Hall of Fame Golf Tournament and Gala for Big Brothers and Big Sisters was held on January 28th. The golf and the dinner was held at Indian Wells Country Club. Randy Jones, who is in the San Diego Padre Hall of Fame and was the 1976 Cy Young Award Winner, was this [...]
Indian Wells Rotary Club honors Monty Hall
The Indian Wells Rotary Club held its annual fundraiser and honored singer, actor, emcee and sports announcer, Monty Hall. Hall is best know for being the emcee on the TV show, Lets Make a Deal that started in 1963. They recently celebrated 50 years on the air. The event was held at the Miramonte Resort [...]
11th Annual Indian Wells Arts Festival
Fine artists and crafts-persons interested in showing and selling their work at the Eleventh Annual Indian Wells Arts Festival – where Art is a Happening! are invited to apply online to participate. Primary jury deadline is October 13, 2012; and 60 spaces are held for the secondary jury’s January 5, 2013 deadline. In total 200 [...]
BNP Parabas Tournaments broke attendance records
The Indian Wells Tennis Tournaments broke attendance records again this year. over 370,000 people attended with another record breaking day Sunday with over 24,000 people filling the stadium for the finals. The tournament was held on March 5th thru the 18th at the Indian Wells Tennis Gardens. The 5th and 6th were free to the [...]
Salute to our Heroes
The BNP Paribas Tennis Tournaments held its annual Salute to our Heroes on Friday, March 9th on the main court at Indian Wells Tennis Gardens. The event is to acknowledge our troops, past and present. Local Mayor, Tennis leaders and members of our police and firefighters were honored. The Palm Springs High School Band marched [...]