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Limelight Hotel opens in Ketchum KAREN BOSSICK
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KETCHUM — Sun Valley’s first new hotel in two decades had scarcely opened its doors when it was feted in one of the nation’s most popular magazines. The Dec. 30 issue of “Vogue” magazine touted Idaho as one of the top 10 hottest travel destinations of 2017 in a list that included Sri Lanka, Colombia, Oman and Madagascar. And, it said, the new Limelight Hotel is sure to bring youthful energy to “some of the best slopes in the United States.” But, while the Limelight Hotel is positioned to attract affluent adventure seekers, it hopes to become the living room of Wood River Valley and Magic Valley residents who call Sun Valley their backyard playground. The hotel plans to kick up the après ski scene in Ketchum with 3 to 7 p.m. happy hours featuring $10 wood-fired pizzas and Please see LIMELIGHT, Page A6
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Mini-Cassia stories to watch in 2017 LAURIE WELCH
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Clayton ‘Frog’ Cota, 14, writes notes and measurements Nov. 2 concerning sagebrush he planted a month earlier on the Duck Valley Indian Reservation. His two-year science experiment explores whether sagebrush grown in natural soil fare better than plants grown in commercial soil.
Greenhouses on the Duck Valley Indian Reservation illustrate the kind of collaboration between tribes and federally managed lands that U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell called for in October. Boosted by a major federal agreement and a champion in the Bureau of Land Management, Duck Valley’s greenhouse program is finally getting off the ground. That matters for Shoshone-Paiute tribal members, who see potential for an economic and educational boost. And it matters for Idaho, where their native sagebrush seedlings can rehabilitate burned lands and restore wildlife habitat. See the story on E1. If you do one thing: Pickleball is available for all ages, levels and beginners from
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BURLEY — A potential new regional airport and the construction of three new schools will be top stories to watch for Mini-Cassia residents in 2017. Raft River High School students will start the school year this fall in the new portion of the school, while the existing portion of the school gets an extensive overhaul, said Debbie Critchfield, s p o ke swo m a n for the Cassia County School District. The new Burley elementary school will be Dougal ready for studenst to move into this fall, and the new Declo elementary school will be ready for occupancy sometime after the start of school this fall. Remodeling at Declo Junior High School will get started this summer and is expected to be complete after school starts this fall, Critchfield said.
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St. Luke’s Magic Valley Ellie Rae Tolman, daughter of Amber Rae and Terran Vincenza Tolman of Jerome, was born Dec. 29, 2016. Gloria Bawi Rem Par, daughter of Thain Mawi and Aung Ye Lat of Twin Falls, was born Dec. 30, 2016. Zayne Walter Lloyd, son of Tasha Louise Bradshaw and Jayson Elliott Lloyd of Twin Falls, was born Dec. 30, 2016. Olivia Marie Archer, daughter of Jesica Viridiana Tello and Jacob Steven Archer of Twin Falls, was born Dec. 30, 2016. Charlotte Sarah Sindayi, daughter of Shakaryumwami Aline and Sindayihebura Charles of Twin Falls, was born Dec. 31, 2016. Brantlee Allen Wrae Truscott, son of Kimberly Marie Crowley and Tyler Wrae Truscott of Twin Falls, was born Dec. 31, 2016. Aubrey Raylynn Eamigh, daughter of Hayley Danielle Eamigh of Hagerman, was born Dec. 31, 2016. Elma Marisol Salas, daughter of Deanna Marie Miller and Arturo Salas of Twin Falls, was born Jan. 1, 2017. Giselle Eliza Guillen, daughter of Gabriela Lopez and Fernando Guillen-Hurtado of Shoshone, was born Jan. 1, 2017. Sebastian John Smith, son of Elizabeth Love Smith and Samual Jameson Smith of Buhl, was born Jan. 1, 2017. Hayden Walter McRoberts, son of Angela Francis Pratt and Auston Stacey McRoberts of
Twin Falls, was born Jan. 1, 2017. Khloe Anna Cantu, daughter of Hannah Jo Walker and David Cantu Jr. of Twin Falls, was born Jan. 2, 2017. Isabella Lee Breen, daughter of Kaylie Marie and Andrew Allen Breen of Twin Falls, was born Jan. 2, 2017. Vincent Delane Head, son of Chelsea Marie and Alex George Head of Hailey, was born Jan. 3, 2017. Avery May Rasmussen, daughter of Ashley May and Jordan Lee Rasmussen of Twin Falls, was born Jan. 3, 2017. Abigail Renee Rodriguez, daughter of Kimberly Darlene Reid and Markos Hunter Rodriguez of Twin Falls, was born Jan. 3, 2017. Lila Marie Smith, daughter of Ashley Marie and Clynton Dell Smith of Rupert, was born Jan. 3, 2017. Elizabeth Nehmor, daughter of Nga Myar and Say Reh of Twin Falls, was born Jan. 3, 2017. Judith Karen Vipperman, daughter of Rebecca Vipperman and Justin LeGrand Vipperman of Wendell, was born Jan. 4, 2017. Thayne George Suchan, son of Cheyenne Brooke and Russell Frank Suchan of Paul, was born Jan. 4, 2017. Emily Rose Gaynor, daughter of Maggie Mae and Russell Marc Gaynor of Kimberly, was born Jan. 4, 2017. Marlen Elvia Escobar Rodriguez, daughter of Marlen Rodriguez and Juan Carlos Escobar of Jerome, was born Jan. 4, 2017. Amaya May Hammond, daughter of Alissa Shanae Miller and Ceaton James Hammond of Filer, was born Jan. 4, 2017.
LDS services canceled Sunday TIMES-NEWS
WIN FALLS — All T Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints meetings in the Magic Valley are canceled Sunday because of severe weather. Elder Blake Alder, a general
authority based in Boise, sent a notice to all stake presidents in the Magic Valley Saturday canceling the meetings. “We worry about the safety of members coming and going, said Ray Parrish, area spokesman.
Twin Falls asks residents to clear snow from homes, businesses TIMES-NEWS
WIN FALLS — Officials T have asked residents to clear snow from rooftops and away from homes and businesses to avoid flooding and collapsed roofs. Snow should be removed from flat or low-pitched rooftops, basement window wells and moved at least 15 feet from homes and businesses, a city statement said. Snow should not be placed on or around storm
drains or drainage basins. “By following these steps, residents can help mitigate the likelihood of flooding in their homes and businesses, as well as the possibility of a collapsed roof, in the event of a significant snow storm or localized flooding,” the statement said. Officials also asked that residents help the elderly and others who may not be able to remove snow on their own.
SNOW PACK Today’s Median Upper Snake Basin 118% Goose Creek 122% Salmon Falls 108% As of Jan. 7
Salmon 79% Big Wood 98% Little Wood 90% Big Lost 89% Little Lost 97% Henrys Fork/Teton 96%
Today’s median peak compares water content with what is normally seen on this day.
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TWIN FALLS COUNTY FELONY SENTENCINGS Laura Anne Terril, 44, Twin Falls; possession of a controlled substance, $285.50 costs, $500 public defender, $100 DNA, five years penitentiary, three determinate, two indeterminate, 46 days credited, 365 days retained jurisdiction. Omar Jimenez-Garcia, 36, Buhl; possession of a controlled substance, $285.50 costs, $100 DNA, seven years penitentiary, two determinate, five indeterminate, 188 days credited, sentence suspended, seven years unsupervised probation, sentence to run concurrently with other charge. Destruction, alteration or concealment of evidence, $245.50 costs, $1,200.42 restitution, five years penitentiary, two determinate, three indeterminate, 188 days credited, sentence suspended, seven years unsupervised probation, sentence to run concurrent with other charge. Kirsten Jo Lopez, AKA Kirsten Jo Becker, 30, Twin Falls; possession of a controlled substance, $285.50 costs, $500 public defender, seven years probation, one determinate, six indeterminate, 183 days credited, sentence to run consecutively to 2012 case. Emily Marie Boyer, 55, Hagerman; possession of a controlled substance, $285.50 costs, $100 DNA, $60 workmans comp. program fee, five years penitentiary, two determinate, three indeterminate, 31 days credited, sentence suspended, three years supervised probation. Taunia Goe Tucker, 33, Twin Falls; manufacture or deliver a controlled substance or possess with intent to manufacture or de-
liver, $285.50 costs, 12 years penitentiary, four determinate, eight indeterminate, 33 days credited,365 days retained jurisdiction, sentence to run concurrent with other charge and 2016 case. Second charge manufacture or deliver a controlled substance or possess with intent to manufacture or deliver, $285.50 costs, 12 years penitentiary, four determinate, eight indeterminate, 33 days credited, 365 days retained jurisdiction, sentence to run concurrent with other charge and 2016 case. Taunia Goe Tucker, 33, Twin Falls; possession of a controlled substance, $285.50 costs, $100 DNA, seven years penitentiary, four determinate, three indeterminate, 56 days credited, 365 days retained jurisdiction, sentence to run concurrent to other 2016 case. Possession of a controlled substance, $285.50 costs, seven years penitentiary, four determinate, three indeterminate, 56 days credited, 365 days retained jurisdiction, sentence to run concurrent to other 2016 case. Third charge possession of a controlled substance, $285.50 costs, seven years penitentiary, four determinate, three indeterminate, 56 days credited, 365 days retained jurisdiction, sentence to run concurrent to other 2016 case. James Russell Hunt-Pyeatt, 29, Twin Falls; drug trafficking in methamphetamine or amphetamine, $245.50 costs, 13 years penitentiary, three determinate, 10 years indeterminate, 122 days credited, sentence to run concurrent to other charge. Aggravated battery, $285.50 costs, $10,000 fine, 13 years penitentiary, three determinate, 10 indeterminate, 122 credited, sentence to run concurrent to other charge.
Francisco Jose Tavares, 39, Twin Falls; possession of a controlled substance, $285.50 costs, $500 public defender, $100 DNA, $60 workmans comp. program fee, $550.36 restitution, six years penitentiary, two determinate, four indeterminate, sentence suspended, three years supervised probation. Kasey Lynn Allred, 20, Buhl; possession of a controlled substance, $285.50 costs, $500 public defender, $100 DNA, four years penitentiary, two determinate, two indeterminate, 27 days credited, 365 days retained jurisdiction. DRIVING UNDER THE INFLUENCE SENTENCINGS David Roy Flynn, 57, Twin Falls; DUI excessive, $1,000 fine, $1,000 suspended, $202.50 costs, $75 public defender, 180 days jail, balance suspended, 23 days credited, guilty withheld judgment, 365 days restricted drivers license suspension, one year interlock device to follow, 24 months supervised probation, attend victim impact panel and court alcohol school. Nicole Renee Espinosa, 31, Twin Falls; DUI excessive, $1,000 fine, $1,000 suspended, $202.50 costs, 180 days jail, 175 days suspended, one day credited, guilty withheld judgment, 365 days restricted drivers license, 24 months supervised probation, 365 days interlock device to follow, attend victim impact panel and court alcohol school. Brice Norman Neimeyer, 30, Twin Falls; DUI, $1,000 fine, $600 suspended, $202.50 costs, $50 public defender, 180 days jail, 177 suspended, one day credited, guilty withheld judgment, 16 hours work detail, 180 days
restricted drivers license to be served concurrent to ALS, 12 months supervised probation, attend court alcohol school and victim impact panel. Salone Jordan Lynn Page, 22, Twin Falls; DUI, $1,000 fine, $600 suspended, $202.50 costs, $50 public defender, 180 days jail, 177 suspended, two days credited, guilty withheld judgment, eight hours work detail, 180 days restricted drivers license 12 months supervised probation, attend victim impact panel and court alcohol school, permission granted to work and serve alcohol. Edwin Christopher Umpierre III, 29, Hansen; DUI, $1,000 fine, $600 suspended, $202.50 costs, $50 public defender, 180 days jail, 177 suspended, one day credited, 16 hours work detail, 180 days restricted drivers license, 12 months supervised probation, attend victim impact panel and court alcohol school. Kurt Gregory Egbert, 53, Twin Falls; DUI, $1,000 fine, $600 suspended, $202.50 costs, 180 days jail, 176 suspended, two days credited, 16 hours work detail, 180 days restricted drivers license, 12 months supervised probation, attend victim impact panel. Driving without privileges charge dismissed. Possession or possess with intent to use drug paraphernalia charge dismissed. DIVORCE CIVIL PROCEEDINGS Jolene Denman v. Rory Denman Amanda Ruiz v. Jose Ruiz Corona Skyler Walker v. Heather Walker Cassie Mills v. Charles Walker Monica Iniguez v. Juan Iniguez-Martinez Jr.
Donations increase for annual fundraiser helping homeless TIMES-NEWS
B OISE — A record amount of money was raised for nonprofits helping the homeless in Idaho. Idaho Housing and Finance Association’s Home Partnership Foundation announced a total of $501,439 was raised for 40 Idaho nonprofits in its sixth annual Avenues for Hope Housing Challenge Dec. 8 through
Dec. 31. Twin Falls’ South Central Community Action Partnership received $1,387 and Volunteers Against Violence received $35. The annual event helps businesses and individuals support nonprofits providing housing and critical services for the homeless across the state. The campaign received 2,232 donations this year,
for a total of $292,739, plus grant prizes and matching funds of $208,700 supported by 29 sponsors. This year’s donation numbers grew by 55 percent and raised 70 percent more in total funds than last year. More than $1,472,640 has been raised in the last six years. Avenues for Hope Housing Challenge started in 2011. Donations can still
be made to participating nonprofits at avenuesforhope.org or by text-to-give $10 option. Text HOUSING to 50555 to make a donation. Nonprofits, businesses and individuals interested in participating in next year’s campaign can contact Deanna Ward, development director of Home Partnership Foundation, at 208-331-4756.
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Magic Valley Humane Society People for Pets KAREN BOSSICK
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hat they do: The orW ganization takes in stray dogs and cats and adopts them out. What’s changing? Every year more and more animals land at the door. What’s the biggest difference the organization made in 2016? The organization introduced a volunteer training program that ensures everyone’s on the same page to provide the animals with consistency. The food pantry gave out 32,000 pounds of food, enabling people experiencing hardship to keep their pets. The low-to-no-kill shelter’s adoption rate was 97 percent—the best ever, according to Director Debbie Blackwood. “When we took it over 27 years ago, our adoption rate was only 3 percent,” she added. What are their hopes for 2017? The shelter is in the middle of planning a foster program. It also needs the community to step up with cats. “We say, ‘If you feed a stray, spay a stray.’ And do it before it becomes pregnant so we have one kitty
About this series Today we present the tenth and final installment in our series about nonprofits making a difference in the Magic Valley. View other parts in the series at Magicvalley.com. to take care of instead of 14,” Blackwood said. The shelter can assist with spaying through its adopt-a-stray program, she added. “It’s going to take each one of us taking care of kitties before they reproduce to cut down the cat problem in the community,” she added. How can people help? People can donate such supplies as powdered Tide laundry detergent, Clorox bleach, PineSol and vinegar, as well as old towels, cotton blankets without batting, fleece blankets, flat sheets and pillow cases. Dog lovers can donate rawhide bones, Kirkland Signature Puppy Dry Food from Costco, Nutra Nuggets Adult Dry Dog Food Green Bag from Costco or Fred Meyer, Pedigree
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needed. Contact: The shelter at 420 Victory Ave., in Twin Falls. Send tax deductible donations to P.O. Box 1163 Twin Falls, ID 83303. Go online at twinfallsanimalshelter.com or call 208-736-2299. Hours are 10 a.m. to 1:15 p.m. and 2:30 to 5:30 p.m. weekdays, and 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturdays.
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A newcomer to cross-country skiing gets hooked by the sport makes it easier to learn. Usually one pole is used at a time in an alternating pattern. Parallel tracks are groomed into the trails to make this style easier; they also help keep your skis properly aligned. Classic is better suited to ungroomed trails, too. Skate: Skate skiing generates more speed and is the preferred method for covering longer distances. It is reliant upon groomed sur-
faces and can be more difficult to learn because of the less-intuitive technique. “Skate skiing is a lot more like ice skating or roller blading — you’re using the inside edge of your ski for propulsion, so it doesn’t really look like a run or a jog like classic skiing does,” said Josh Williams, the director of the Bogus Basin Nordic center. “And you’re always going to be using both poles at the same time.
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OISE — The first time B I tried cross-country skiing, I was in junior high in southern Minnesota wondering why anyone would want to work that hard in bitter cold when they could be downhill skiing (or hiding indoors) instead. That remained my opinion of the sport for most of the next 25 years. But when I became the outdoors writer at the Idaho Statesman nearly a year ago, I quickly identified cross-country skiing as a sport I needed to learn. With my desire for good, interesting exercise increasing as I get older, it was even an exciting prospect. So the past two Wednesdays, I spent a couple hours learning how uncoordinated I can be (sorry, Josh), sweating profusely and enjoying the beauty of clear days at Bogus Basin Mountain Recreation Area. The verdict: I could ski on my own quickly, though not yet efficiently; the sport’s reputation as a great calorie burner is well-earned; and I think I’ve got another lifetime sport to pursue. “Most people have a really positive response to it,” said Josh Williams, the director of Bogus Basin’s Nordic center. “A lot of people come in being a little intimidated by it and come out of it feeling like that intimidation wasn’t necessary. It’s a lot easier and more fun than they anticipated.” The first question we needed to settle: classic or skate style? I’d been told by several people who are better downhill skiers than I am that skate skiing could be a challenge to learn. And classic skiing, they told me, would be a fairly comfortable transition from running. That made my decision easy: classic for now, and maybe I’ll try skating later. On our first day, Williams covered the basics of traveling across relatively flat land on the Nordic Highway. After I recovered from the shock of how light, skinny and slippery my skis were, Williams started by having me shuffle my feet to get the feel for the skis. We moved into the classic-ski tracks — the parallel lines set by groomers — that make it easier to keep your skis on the right path. The next step was a 1-2-glide pattern, learning to let my skis do some of the work. As Williams told me, the reason skiing is more efficient than walking or running is the ground you cover while gliding. Then he introduced poles, and that’s where the day got tricky. The motion that comes so naturally when running or
walking suddenly had me thinking too much — left ski forward, pull with the right pole; right ski forward, pull with the left. It wasn’t until we tried a short uphill section, which requires more of a running motion, that poling finally felt natural. After we were done, I spent another hour on my own trying to establish the rhythm required to ski for extended periods. My biggest bugaboo: I tried to go too fast rather than settling into more of a walking pace. But the extra work paid off. When I reported for the second lesson, I was immediately more comfortable. “It’s really good when you take a lesson to take some time to practice on your own and then take another lesson to help refine your form,” Williams said. For the second lesson, we moved to the hills. Going downhill was like watching my son on his first day of downhill skiing. You just snowplow, or wedge, or pizza — or whatever term you use — your way down the hill and around corners because the skis aren’t designed for parallel turns. On the climbs, we used more of a running/stomping motion to prevent the skis from sliding backward on moderate hills and a herringbone, V-shaped walk on steep hills. The running motion takes some practice to use your weight correctly; the
herringbone is pretty easy, and less taxing. By the end, I felt like I could go out to a groomed trail anywhere in my travels and enjoy myself. The risk of injury is minimal — the equipment is more likely to break than your body, Williams said, because only the toe of the boot is attached to the ski. In five years at Bogus, the worst injury Williams has seen was a twisted ankle. He’s a former high school and college runner who was attracted to cross-country skiing for the winter workout. “I like it because it’s a full-body workout,” he said. “... You’re working your upper body a lot, working your core. It’s also a lot lower impact. It’s easier on your joints than running.” Bogus, which has 37 kilometers of groomed trails, puts about 100 skiers a year through its passport program for Nordic skiing (four group lessons, season rentals, Nordic season pass for $150). Most days, others stop in to rent skis and tell the staff they’re new to the sport. “With classic skiing, if you feel like you’re a really athletic person, you can usually get out and tool around,” Williams said, “but it doesn’t hurt to take a lesson. With skate skiing, it’s definitely good to start off with a lesson just be-
cause sometimes the motion is not super intuitive.”
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Dworshak Elementary School will also get an HVAC replacement this summer; Burley Junior High School got an HVAC replacement with bond money last year. Raft River and Oakley both got new agriculture science shops. The district will also finish work at Oakley High School this year. In 2015, the school district passed a $37 million construction bond, but that fall realized the costs for the projects in Declo and Burley were underestimated by $15 million. The district tried to make up the difference by passing a $15 million bond in March, but voters shot it down. District officials reevaluated projected and trimmed costs and then began construction projects in 2016. The district plans to remodel Mountain View Elementary School after students are moved from that school to the new Burley elementary. The remodel at Mountain View is expected to be complete in spring 2018. Officials will then determine new attendance zones and shift the elementary schools to the K-6 model. Will Burley get a new airport? The question of whether Burley will finally replace its airport with a more regional venture hung in the wings in 2016 as an airport task force was assembled that identified two possible sites for a new airport and engineering studies were put on hold after the Federal Aviation Administration requested proof that the community would be behind the project. Mark Mitton, administrator for the city, said the engineering company hired to work on the airport master plan study has resumed its work. The city has tried to relocate its municipal airport for more than 20 years, but each time other government officials or landowners spoke out against it, foiling the efforts. Economic development
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Above, Star Corporation President Michael Arrington, left, and Communications Officer Debbie Critchfield, right, talk about the need for a new elementary school Sept. 20, at Declo Elementary School in Declo. leaders say finding a new home for a Mini-Cassia airport is key to continuing to drive the regional economy and attract new businesses. Officials say the current airport has safety problems, including short runways and the lack of safety buffers at the ends of runways. But finding a location to rebuild has been challenging. The airport task force chose a preferred site south of Interstate 84 and Exit 216 and an alternative site north of the interstate in the same area. Ronnie G. Kincaid Jr. A court case filed against a Declo man charged in the death of his wife is set for a jury trial in February. Ronnie G. Kincaid Jr., 36, is charged with first-degree murder, mayhem, forcible sexual penetration with a foreign object and destruction of evidence along with a charge for being a persistent violator. Melissia Kincaid died at the couple’s home in September 2015. The case is set for jury trial on Feb. 27. Melissia Kincaid, who was found in a back bedroom of the family’s mobile home. Kincaid said his wife was having “female medical problems,” and that the couple had sex the night before and she became unresponsive afterwards. Kincaid told police he tried to wake her up by putting her in the shower, but he did not call the police until 9 a.m.
He is in jail on a $5 million bond waiting for his court date. Kincaid’s son, Ronnie Kincaid III, was originally charged with accessory to murder and concealing and destroying evidence after officers said he helped his father wash his step-mother’s body of blood and evidence. The Cassia County prosecutor dismissed the charges last year saying he planned to refile them at a later date. Vadian Dougal February is also the month set for a jury trial for a Burley man charged with kidnapping in an incident at a Burley elementary school. Vadian Dougal, 51, was charged with felony second-degree kidnapping after police said he and an accomplice tried to lure girls from White Pine Elementary School’s playground last April and grabbed a girl as she walked to school. Charges were later dismissed against the second man. A girl said Dougal was sitting on the concrete around a light pole and offered her candy and money after she got off her school bus. When she started to walk away, the child said, he ran up and grabbed her arm and did not release his grip until she hit his arm, police said. A four-day jury trial is set Feb. 7, and attorneys are expected to interview 120 potential jurors.
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Hotel officials say they want the lounge at the Limelight to be a respite for guests and a “livingroom” for the Wood River Valley. Jeff Gundy, chef de cuisine, also serves up such dishes as Pulled Pork Mac and Cheese, Elk Carpaccio, Grilled Cheese and Tomato Soup and House Ricotta Cannelloni. Those with a sweet tooth will be able to please it with a Sticky Toffee Pudding, Apple Crisp with Huckleberry Ice Cream and S’mores, which are expected to be a hit around the fire pit on the patio. “It’s not just for guests,” Gundy said. “We want locals to feel welcome here.” A boardroom can double as dinner place for up to 18 people; an event space can hold 153. Guests promptly snapped up the 30 of the 99 hotel rooms under construction the first night the hotel made them available. The second floor is pet friendly. The third-floor hotel rooms are expected to be finished in late January. And workers hope to have the fourth- and fifth-floors, which feature 14 two- to five-room residential units, ready to move into in February. The residential units range from 1,528-square feet to 3,579-square feet. “We had hoped to have everything finished by early December,” said Curnow. “But we tried to do a 20-month project in 17 and it didn’t work.” Hotel guests are expected to be social adventurers who
appreciate quality but want to be self-sufficient. “We make things how you want them,” said Ben Ylinen, a desk manager who came from Aspen. Although there’s an exercise room and outdoor hot pool, guests can avail themselves of all that the upscale Zenergy Health Club and Spa has to offer for an additional $15 daily fee. The hotel boasts a sports store that guests will be able to rent skis from. Guests can also avail themselves of a concierge, who can help them plan trips or arrange for free shuttles. The hotel is working with Sun Valley to offer first tracks experiences for its guests and with Ketchum’s Environmental Resource Center to offer complimentary snowshoe treks. Come summer, the hotel will have bright green cruisers for its guests. The rooms offer a lot of little niceties like bathroom dimmers and wall hooks. They also have wine glasses and porcelain bowls and cups, instead of the plastic ware found in so many hotels. Ten of the 14 residences are under contract, which is “pretty good,” considering they’re not even built yet, Realtor Dick Fenton said. “We’re happy to have the Limelight here,” he added. “It offers a very relaxed fun atmosphere that’s really ap-
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spacious and modern, and I like the comfy lounge chairs.” Ketchum resident Terri LeFaivre has already booked a room being offered for $110 a night to members of the philanthropic Wood River Women’s Foundation so she can check out the outdoor hot tubs and heated pools and the bountiful breakfast buffet. Special construction rates are available through Jan. 20. Normally, room rates are around $320 a night plus taxes, with 20 percent off for a three-day stay. But the hotel plans to offer Idaho locals
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was too dark. I went and paid the ticket but then got pulled over again by the same officer who wrote the tint ticket. The officer cited me again for having dark window tint. My question is; isn’t that double jeopardy? -Lisa A: No, double jeopardy is when round two of jeopardy comes back on and the value of the question is double (Okay maybe this is the worst joke of the year). The answer is still no, though. Simply paying a ticket does not give you a pass for any future tickets. The citation is for the violation on the
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day you got the citation for having illegal window tint. A second citation for that same-day violation would be grounds for double jeopardy. The trick to avoid getting a second citation for a violation on another date would to simply fix your window tint. I have seen driver’s tell me that they couldn’t afford to fix the problems with their vehicles, yet they continue to get citations that run up the cost much more than simply fixing whatever problem needed fixed. Q: I was involved in a crash on the slick roads.
Although I was driving below the posted speed limit the officer determined that I was a fault and also cited me for me for speeding. I don’t think it was right and was wondering if I would waste my time fighting the citation in court? – Bob A: As I have said before I will never suggest that you should not go to court. You never know you might win your case and get the charge dropped. I will tell you that I’m pretty sure what you were cited for, was not actually speeding but driving too
fast for conditions. Idaho Code 49-654 reads; No person shall drive a vehicle at a speed greater than is reasonable and prudent under the conditions and having regard to the actual and potential hazards then existing. What that means is that if you’re driving fast enough to cause a crash then you are driving too fast. That means even if you are under the speed limit it does not mean you can avoid getting a ticket. Officer down: Please put these officers, killed in the line of duty, and their families in
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Buhl Library Starts 2017 Book Talk Program with a Winner BUHL — The Buhl Public Library is starting its winter and spring book talks off with a bang. On January 24 from 7-9 p.m., Mike Cothern will be leading the discussion on Pulitzer Prize winner All the Light We Cannot See by Idaho author Michael Doerr. Set in World War II, it tells the story of Marie, a French Girl who goes blind at the age of six and flees with her father to Saint-Malo when the Germans occupy Paris. Her story becomes entwined with Werner, a German orphan, whose genius with radios makes him an expert tracker of the Resistance. He, too, ends up in Saint-Malo. Kim Smith will be sharing insights on the non-fiction memoir Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed on
February 21 from 7 to 9 p.m. Strayed’s book, also the basis for the Reese Witherspoon film of the same name, chronicles the emotional and physical journey it’s author takes on an eleven-hundred-mile solo hike that broke down a young woman reeling from catastrophe – and built her back up again. On March 21 from 7-9 p.m. Cheryl Jarrell will be taking a look at The Woman Who Heard Color by Kelly Jones. An “art detective” Lauren O’Farrell, has made it her mission to retrieve invaluable art works stolen by the Nazis during World War II. Her quest has led her to a Manhattan apartment of an eighty-two year old woman Isabella Fletcher. As Isabella reveals the secrets of her life, Lauren comes to believe that
a priceless Kandinsky painting, thought to be destroyed, may in fact still exist. Isabella’s story of courage and secrecy reveals a complexity that Lauren could not have imagined. Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann will be the April 18 title. Cindy Bjorneberg Snyder will be in charge of the discussion from 7-9 p.m. This book is also a winner of the National Book Award. Set in New York in the 70’s, in the background is Philippe Petit, the French acrobat, and his wire walk between the Twin Towers. His walk is a leitmotif; the theme around which McCann has assembled his cast
and an event that links them because it is a pivotal one in all their lives. The other non-fiction work in the talks, Born to Run by Christopher McDougall will be the subject of the May 2 gathering. Eileen Scheldt will be bringing this book to life for readers. Isolated by Mexico’s deadly Copper Canyons, the Tarahumara Indians have honed the ability to run hundreds of miles without rest or injury. McDougall, an often-injured runner himself, sets out to learn their secrets and takes readers on an incredible journey finally ending in a climactic race in the Copper Canyons that pits America’s best ultra-runners
against the tribe, raising the question were we born to run? Finally, on May 23 from 7-9 the book talk group will discuss Me Before You by Jojo Moyes with Maxine Metzler guiding the group. The novel brings together two people who couldn’t have less in common and are from very different backgrounds. Louisa takes a badly needed job
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American Legion Post 77 The American Legion Post 77 would like to thank the men and women who have served our country with courage and commitment. We would like to invite Veterans to coffee and doughnuts at no charge. Join us, from 8 to 11 am, Saturday, January 21, 2017, at the Wilbur C. Hall American Legion Post 77, located at 132 Wayne St. in Paul, for our Monthly Veterans Coffee. We hope to have a good turnout and great information to share. For those planning on attending, please help us get the word out and bring a new Veteran with you. You don’t have to be a member of any post or Veterans organization, you are invited. We look forward to seeing and meeting you. For more information contact, Post 77 Commander Damian D. Rodriguez at 679-2550 or Vice-Commander Wyatt Saunders at 679-1215.
Twin Falls Public Library TWIN FALLS — On January 21 from 10 a.m. to 2 at the Twin Falls Public Library it will be pet adoption day in partnership with the Magic Valley Humane Society.
TF Senior Center plans fundraising breakfast TWIN FALLS — The Twin Falls Senior Center will hold a fundraising breakfast from 8 to 10 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 14, at 530 Shoshone St. W. Entertainment will be pro-
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hen I was 5 years old my father came home one evening with considerably more excitement than normal. “Look at this,” he glowed, as he put a box on the kitchen counter. He plugged in the box and turned a knob. In a moment I was slack-jawed in amazement. There, right on the front of the box, gray images of moving people suddenly appeared out of nowhere. My dad turned another knob, and sound came out of the box. Funny lines went back and forth across the picture. Dad jiggled a couple of metal sticks sticking out of CHRIS the top of the box HUSTON and the funny lines went away. Clearly, my dad could do anything. And with those grainy images the Huston family was ushered in 1957 into a world so modern it contained something called television. In the years since then there have been a few more inventions of note. Stereo. The measles vaccine. Agent Orange. Lava lamps. Satellites. Valium. Pocket calculators. Microwave ovens. FM radio. Cable. Artificial hearts. Cars with eighttrack tape players. Computers small enough to fit inside your home. The World Wide Web. Space Invaders. Facebook. Digital everything. Along with the inventions came the moments: The grassy knoll. The British invasion. Woodstock. Civil rights. Roe vs. Wade. Vietnam. The pill. Watergate. Tear down this wall. Read my lips. AIDS. I did not have sex with that woman. 9/11. Desert Storm. Change you can believe in. Sandy Hook. Ebola. Gay marriage. ISIS. Trayvon. Build a wall. Lock her up. In the pre-digital world of my childhood my parents complained about the Beatles, mini-skirts and the difficulty of living in such modern times. We may laugh at that today, but 50 years from now our children will likely look back on the early 21st century and marvel at the digital stone age in which we lived our lives. Old or young, from the past, present or future, we’re all just trying to make our way through what for us is modern life. For 40 years I’ve worked in television news. You might say I’ve had a front-row seat watching the good, the bad, and the sometimes very ugly. When I began my career in 1977 we wrote with typewriters, Apple was just a fruit, disco ruled the world, and CNN was still three years way. Since then I’ve watch the raw tapes of two generations worth of war, political turmoil, natural disasters, and social upheaval. But as much as the headlines fascinate me, I’m more fascinated by the way people react to the headlines. The selfless service after the disaster. The cruelty born from fear and misunderstanding. Why despair crushes some but strengthens others. Why thoughtful understanding so often takes a quick back seat to rushed judgment. A few things have come into fairly sharp focus at this point in my life. Our digital age — born in the promise of bring us together — has left us more divided than ever before. Yes, it’s a beautiful thing when a soldier serving on the other
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elieve it or not after last year’s do-nothing fizzle to the end of Idaho’s legislative session, but this year we actually have high hopes for the Legislature as it begins its session on Monday. Why so rosy? Three reasons: The state is sitting on a surplus — meaning there’s money to spend, save or give back to taxpayers in the form of tax cuts. Just like at your house, decisions in the Statehouse are always easier to make when you have money than when you don’t. Secondly, there seems to be fairly broad bipartisan support for some of the biggest issues likely to surface this session. And third, the Magic Valley delegation of mostly moderates yields a lot of power, especially through House Speaker Scott Bedke and Rep. Maxine Bell, who holds enormous sway as chairwoman of the Legislature’s budget-setting committee. There’s plenty of experience and leadership capabilities — now it’s upon our delegation to wield the power they’ve earned. Here’s how we hope they use it:
Education
Democrats appear to be on the same page with most Republicans when it comes to continuing to boost funding for education, after lawmakers decimated public schools during the recession. This year, lawmakers are expected to boost funding by an additional $58 million. The funding boost is also top-of-mind for Bedke, a Republican from Oakley. The only stumbling block may be the disastrous news that the state’s Board of Education badly botched teacher evaluations this summer and then sat on the news for months, a move that not surprisingly peeved legislators. The evaluations are tied to the funding, so educators will have to show they have a handle on streamlining and simplifying the evaluation process before lawmakers will comfortably pony up the money. New House Minority Leader Mat Erpelding says he’s on the same page with Republicans across the aisle on the evaluations. With the full weight of
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Speaker of the House Scott Bedke (R) goes over agenda items Thursday, Jan. 29, 2015, at the Capitol in Boise. the Legislature on them, we’re confident education leaders will get their act together. Expect to hear serious talk but probably little action on proposals to boost early-childhood education. Local Republicans say they want to expand
kindergarten to full-day before they’re willing to increase spending for a public preschool program. A program launched last year — a pet project of Gov. C.L. “Butch” Otter — to increase childhood literacy by third grade is a noble goal, but
we continue to believe all-day kindergarten and public preschool would better accomplish this rather than intervention programs that come after a student has already fallen behind. Please see LEGISLATURE, Page B3
READER COMMENT
Questions remain for proposed plant
We attended a City Council Meeting in Shoshone on Jan. 3, to listen to a presentation on a proposed “protein plant” to be built in Shoshone. Mr. Brandon Stokes and his brothers are planning on a 15,000-sq. ft. operation at the site of the old Shoshone Sale Yard on the east side of town. The “protein plant” is an offal processing plant. Offal is defined as animal parts discarded after butchering. Typically processing plants of this type produce, noise, odor and effluent that need to be treated. Mr. Stokes discussed the odor, noise and effluent issues and their plans of operation to negate those issues. However, when asked specific questions about contingency plans and references for facilities with this equipment in use the answers were lacking or non-existent. We support growth for the
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city of Shoshone and for Lincoln County. We realize that we are an agricultural-based area, but growth should be about the right type of growth in the right areas. We thought there were impact-zone studies that would help direct what type of industry should be located in certain areas. We don’t feel that processing animal parts within the city limits of a growing community is the best choice. After questions to the City Council we learned that the land had already been purchased, building permits issued and that just a few final permit issues remained before building started. How did all this happen without a public hearing notice or comment session? Have all the proper legal procedures been followed by the county and city in this matter? Mr. Stokes indicated plans were already in place for expansion! Just how big
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could this get? In the presentation, the equipment being installed was highly touted as “state-of-theart” from a processing and odor control standpoint. This is some of the main questions that we asked during the presentation: Q: Would the company supply contact names and numbers for a similar plant with similar equipment so we could speak with the plant and the community to see if the plant was living up to its promises? A: Mr. Stokes said he would supply the information to the mayor. No response has been received as of writing this letter. Q: We asked what the backup plan was if the odor control system failed and how long it would take to repair. No answer Q: There will be an estimated 10,000 gallons of effluent to the
city sewer system. No information on expected loadings for COD, BOD, TSS, etc. Q: On the issue of noise control Mr. Stokes noted that if noise were an issue, they have plans in place to further insulate the building. We commented that if plans were in place then it would likely need to happen so why not do the work up front? No answer. We found an article showing that a similar plant by Brandon Stokes was denied approval by Jerome Planning and Zoning. It would be interesting to know why. We encourage all concerned citizens to contact the city of Shoshone or the Lincoln County Planning and Zoning Commission and understand what this really means for this community. Hugh and Lori Royal are residents of Shoshone.
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Quote of the day What makes Twin Falls special is its commitment to community, but we can’t do it alone. We need citizens to be our eyes and ears. Twin Falls City Administrator Travis Rothweiler after the city declared a flood emergency in anticipation of a major melt. The city asks that residents call 311 to report dangerous situations.
IDAHO VIEW
Cold War Do as little harm as relic, present possible while doing little day threat This appeared in the Lewiston Tribune:
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ASHINGTON — You can kick the can down the road, but when Kim Jong Un announces, as he did last Sunday, that “we have reached the final stage in preparations to test-launch an intercontinental ballistic rocket,” you are reaching the end of that road. Since the early 1990s, we have offered every kind of inducement to get North Korea to give up its nuclear program. All failed miserably. Pyongyang CHARLES managed to exKRAUTHAMMER tort money, food, oil and commercial nuclear reactors in exchange. But it was all a swindle. North Korea was never going to give up its nukes because it sees them as the ultimate guarantee of regime survival. The North Koreans believe that nukes confer inviolability. Saddam Hussein was invaded and deposed before he could acquire them. Kim won’t let that happen to him. That’s why Thae Yong Ho, a recent highlevel defector, insisted that “As long as Kim Jong Un is in power, North Korea will never give up its nuclear weapons, even if it’s offered $1 trillion or $10 trillion in rewards.” Meanwhile, they have advanced. They’ve already exploded a handful of nuclear bombs. And they’ve twice successfully launched satellites, which means they have the ICBM essentials. If they can miniaturize their weapons to fit on top of the rocket and control re-entry, they’ll be able to push a button in Pyongyang and wipe out an American city. What to do? The options are stark: (1) Pre-emptive attack on its missile launching facilities. Doable but reckless. It is the option most likely to trigger an actual war. The North Koreans enjoy both conventional superiority and proximity: a vast army poised at the Demilitarized Zone only 30 miles from Seoul. Americans are not going to fight another land war in Asia. (2) Shoot down the test ICBM, as advocated by The Wall Street Journal. Assuming we can. Democrats have done their best to abort or slow down anti-missile defenses since Ronald Reagan proposed them in the early 1980s. Even so, we should be able to intercept a single, relatively primitive ICBM of the sort North Korea might be capable of. Though such a shoot-down would occur nowhere near North Korean soil, it could still very well provoke a military
response. Which is why the new administration should issue a clear warning that if such a test missile is launched, we will bring it down. Barack Obama is gone. Such a red line could be a powerful deterrent. (3) Return tactical U.S. nuclear weapons to South Korea. They were withdrawn in 1991 by George H.W. Bush in the waning days of the Cold War. Gorbachev’s Soviet Union responded in kind. A good idea in general, but not on the Korean Peninsula. Pyongyang had railed constantly against their presence, but they did act as a deterrent to any contemplated North Korean aggression. Which might make them a useful bargaining chip. (4) Economic leverage on China, upon which Pyongyang depends for its survival. Donald Trump seems to suggest using trade to pressure China to get North Korea to desist. The problem is that China has shown no evidence of being willing to yield a priceless strategic asset — a wholly dependent client state that acts as a permanent thorn and distraction to U.S. power in the Pacific Rim — because of mere economic pressure. (5) Strategic leverage on China. We’ve been begging China for decades to halt the North Korean nuclear program. Beijing plays along with sanctions and offers occasional expressions of dismay. Nothing more. There’s one way guaranteed to get its attention. Declare that we would no longer oppose Japan acquiring a nuclear deterrent. This is a radical step that goes against our general policy of nonproliferation. But the point is to halt proliferation to the infinitely more dangerous regime in North Korea. China is the key. The Chinese have many nightmares, none worse than a nuclear-armed Japan. The principal strategic challenge facing the United States is the rise of revisionist powers — Russia, China and Iran — striving to expel American influence from their regions. In comparison, the Korean problem is minor, an idiosyncratic relic of the Cold War. North Korea should be a strategic afterthought, like Cuba. And it would be if not for its nukes. That’s a big if. A wholly unpredictable, highly erratic and often irrational regime is acquiring the capacity to destroy an American city by missile. That’s an urgent problem. North Korea may be just an unexploded ordnance of a long-concluded Cold War. But we cannot keep assuming it will never go off. Charles Krauthammer’s email address is letters@charleskrauthammer.com.
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eople of a certain age might have come away from Friday’s legislative preview humming one of Peggy Lee’s old tunes. You know, as in “Is That All There Is?” Here you had Gov. C.L. “Butch” Otter and legislative leaders spelling out a low-wattage affair. Of course, Otter will offer more details Monday in his State of the State address—and the state’s course could change on a dime if President-elect Donald Trump and the GOP-controlled Congress shake things up. As things now stand, however, a governor entering the 11th year of his tenure and who may be distracted by the lure of serving in Trump’s cabinet doesn’t plan on doing much. He’ll push for funding the largest chunk of his five-year teacher career ladder program — $58 million. He’s also shifting his focus toward higher education, employing the same task force dynamic that produced his public education reform package. Nothing wrong with that idea. Idaho’s institutions of higher learning have yet to recover from the budget cuts they suffered almost a decade ago during the depth of the Great Recession. Idaho’s colleges and universities have relied on student tuition to such a degree that they’ve priced the cost of an education beyond the reach of many Idaho families. No wonder the proportion of Idaho high school graduates pursuing higher education is slipping. Between 2014 and 2015,
it declined from 52 percent to 46 percent. That all but guarantees Idaho will never reach its goal of seeing 60 percent of its young adults holding some sort of post-secondary degree or certificate by 2020. But convening a task force takes time. Otter doesn’t envision this panel outlining its reform blueprint until next fall—which means a lame-duck governor in his final year in office will try to commit the state to a long-term vision his successor may not share. Beyond that, the list of problems left to fester will expand. Otter acknowledged the 2015 transportation tax and fee package is producing about $58 million against a $262 million annual maintenance backlog. Nothing could be done last year because lawmakers were preparing to seek re-election. And this year? “I’m not going into that in my State of the State, but I will tell you the maintenance, we’re falling further and further behind,” Otter said. What of the 78,000 low-income Idaho adults who can’t afford even subsidized health insurance? So far, partisan politics has trumped every argument in favor of expanding Medicaid coverage — economics, tax savings and even compassion. With Trump and Congress pledged to “repeal and replace” Obamacare, Otter is urging caution. What did come up was the inevitable march toward raiding Idaho’s treasury for tax cuts. Never mind that 20 years of cutting taxes has not produced prosperity. Never mind that Idaho is not a heavily taxed state. Never
mind that Idaho’s current economic challenge is upgrading the skills of its workforce. The best Idaho is going to obtain from this crowd would be the Hippocratic Legislature — one that first does no harm. Rather than tax cuts, how about tax reform? Lower rates but expand the base by eliminating exemptions and doing something about taxing e-commerce transactions. How about calling a truce in the culture wars? Does the state really need another anti-abortion rights battle? Or an assault on Muslims? Or even injecting religion into the public schools? Can we please avoid another round of laws pre-empting the autonomy of Idaho’s cities, counties and local voters to decide matters for themselves? There’s always room for a few modest advances: Reform campaign finance laws as Secretary of State Lawerence “Boss” Denney has suggested. A good start would be imposing stricter contribution limits, tougher penalties for evading Idaho’s Sunshine Law and reeling in independent expenditure campaigns. Find some money for the $20 million career and technical center Lewis-Clark State College and the Lewiston School District want to build. Close the loophole that allows parents to withhold medical care from their suffering or dying children on the grounds of religious freedom. Otherwise, there’s this prediction from the governor: “I think the legislative session should be short.” One can always hope.
OTHER VIEW
Sowing the seeds of a successful White House
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n 1933, Franklin Delano Roosevelt famously used his first 100 days as president to attack the demons of the Great Depression. All new presidents since have had a 100-day gantlet to confront the ills that face them. Having run more than five 100day gantlets since announcing his candidacy in June 2015, Donald Trump has had practice facing demons. On Jan. 20, a newly inaugurated President Trump will begin to battle in earnest with the District of Columbia gladiator corps, now sharpening their swords and deep-stretching for Day One. That’s the bad news. The good news is our 45th president has a garden to tend. It has been left to him, and to the entire nation, by first lady Michelle Obama in the form of the White House Kitchen Garden, her greatest achievement while living in the People’s House. As the new president, Trump would do well to cultivate not only the more than 2,000-square-foot garden but also a taste for all things vegetable. PEOTUS is moving into a climate that has a sweet mildness unique in the country. In nearby Charlottesville, Virginia, even at a higher elevation, Thomas Jefferson grew a year-round bounty of herbs, fruits and vegetables. Since then, U.S. presidents from James Monroe to John F. Kennedy conjured forth gardens, arboretums, fountains and even greenhouses—the latter of which
have disappeared from the White House grounds. On his first day in office, Trump can sow seeds of peas, kale, lettuce, mustard greens, kohlrabi, cauliflower, cabbage, broccoli and Brussels sprouts, as well as beets, carrots, chard, radishes and spinach. And he can plant bulbs for green onions and “seed potatoes.” Hecould be eating all of them within 75 days. Indeed, the D.C. climate is so mild that the White House Kitchen Garden can yield three end-toend crops of arugula in the first 100 days; if he sows every two weeks, he’ll have to open a farm stand on Pennsylvania Avenue. In full disclosure, the Burpee Foundation is the sole donor of funds to maintain the White House Kitchen Garden for the next 17 years, serving the palates of three to five new presidents. Like all youths in the 1960s, I grew up attracted to fast food, even though its grease took some getting used to. When one is mobile, fast food is handy. At age 70, Trump can be as mobile as he likes, but he courts illness by eating regularly at KFC, and from the many kitchens at his buildings. Changing to a plant-based diet brings you into the sunlight. With a large vegetable garden steps from your bedroom window, you can easily improve your health. It takes about three weeks on average for palates to adjust from taco bowls and the like to fresh vegetables. Once you have tasted
just-harvested and steamed broccoli with drawn butter and ground pepper, you never go back to junk food. After a month, you can barely even chew fried chicken or any other high-fat, high-sodium fast food. For instance, Trump, and many others, may not know this, but the turnip is a fantastically delicious and nutritious vegetable. Peeled and eaten with a bit of salt, few things can compete. I rank kohlrabi second for flavor, high nutrition and low calories. Eat it like an apple to enjoy its delightful taste. Third place goes to the heavenly watermelon radish, so called because of its rose-pink flesh. It is one of God’s great gifts to the world, as is the rest of the Brassica, or cabbage, family. Like the others, sown in late January, the petite globe-shaped variation of the Japanese daikon will be ready mid-March. Quartered, drizzled with olive oil, dashed with salt and pepper, wrapped in aluminum foil and baked for an hour or so, it is a uniquely savory dish. With his newly dug fingerling potatoes and a bit of melted butter, and his ever-present surplus arugula steamed and braised with a touch of garlic, our born-again healthy chief executive will be ready to conquer his 101st day and many thereafter. George Ball is chairman and chief executive of the W. Atlee Burpee Company and a past president of the American Horticultural Society.
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ext to the White House, the most talked-about federal entity in my world of the ‘50s and ‘60s was the Justice Department. Few editions of the Washington Afro American newspaper or weekly Jet magazine failed to contain mention of a DOJ action in civil rights enforcement. Bring up the scourge of discrimination, and Justice was there, or so it seemed. The Justice Department’s role in COLBERT I. promoting equal KING justice for all was, and remains, indispensable. Which draws attention to President-elect Donald Trump’s nomination of Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., to the position of attorney general of the United States. Confirmation hearings are scheduled for next week. It was no small moment when NAACP protesters, led by their national president, Cornell Brooks, staged a sit-in and got arrested Tuesday at Sessions’s Mobile, Alabama, office. Or when more than 1,100 professors from 170 law schools in 48 states
wrote to urge the Senate to reject Sessions. Charging that Sessions can’t be trusted to be the nation’s chief law enforcement Sessions officer for voting rights, Brooks said, “We have an attorney general nominee who does not acknowledge the reality of voter suppression while mouthing faith in the myth of voter fraud.” The army of law professors agreed. “We are convinced,” they wrote, “that Jeff Sessions will not fairly enforce our nation’s laws and promote justice and equality in the United States.” The focus of their concerns is Sessions’s 1986 nomination for a federal judgeship; his rejection by the Senate due in part to his prosecution of black voting rights activists on voter fraud charges when he was a U.S. attorney in Alabama; and his alleged racially insensitive remarks during his tenure there. Former Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick, who as a staff lawyer at the NAACP Legal Defense Fund represented the three vot-
ing-rights workers targeted by Sessions, sent a scathing letter to the Senate opposing Sessions’s confirmation. To be sure, Sessions has his defenders, led by Trump, who said his nominee “is a worldclass legal mind and considered a truly great attorney general and U.S. attorney in the state of Alabama.” Other supporters claim Sessions is being smeared by the left. Former George W. Bush administration deputy attorney general Larry Thompson, an African-American and good friend of Sessions for more than 30 years, said, “He doesn’t have a racist bone in his body.” Another defender, George Terwilliger III, who served as deputy attorney general under President George H.W. Bush and has known Sessions for nearly three decades, echoed Thompson: “I can say unequivocally there’s not a racist bone in the guy’s body.” But this is not about knowing what’s in the mind or body of Jeff Sessions. What should matter most are his words and deeds as a U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Alabama, as attorney general
of Alabama and as a U.S. senator. Is Sessions the right person to place in charge of the central agency for enforcement of our federal laws? If confirmed, the nation will have an attorney general who, as a senator: - Applauded the Supreme Court’s 2013 Shelby County v. Holder decision, which gutted key provisions of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. - Voted against reauthorizing the Violence Against Women Act. - Voted yes on a constitutional ban of same-sex marriage. - Opposed the repeal of “don’t ask, don’t tell.” - Opposed the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act. - Voted to ease restrictions on wiretapping of cellphones. - Voted to abolish a program that helps businesses owned by women and minorities compete for federally funded transportation projects. - Opposed comprehensive immigration reform and nearly every immigration bill that has come before the Senate over the past two decades, including voting against a Senate resolution
affirming that the United States must not bar people from the country because of their religion. That is the record of an individual who would have the major say in which cases the Justice Department litigated and who was recommended for federal judgeships. This would be the person who determined whether the Justice Departmentwould be driven by ideology and politics palatable to Trump or if the department would follow and uphold the Constitution and laws of the United States. What’s more, this attorney general wouldn’t be flying solo. If confirmed, Sessions will take with him a posse of new presidential appointees, including a deputy attorney general and a collection of assistant attorneys general for civil rights, criminal, national security and tax divisions, to name a few. Ninety-three U.S. attorneys and 94 U.S. marshals, many of them new, would have to call him boss. Entrust Jeff Sessions to fairly, openly and impartially administer justice and protect the rights of all Americans? Not if his own public record is any guide.
OTHER VIEW
The most interesting intelligence briefings
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t may be that [Donald Trump] is more suited to intelligence briefings essentially in the form of tweets— short, punchy statements that leave out some of the nuances but give him the core message without giving him the sense of being talked ALEXANDRA down to or getting repetitive text,’ PETRI [David Priess] said. ‘Sometimes you’ve got to come up with a way to make this more interesting.’”—The New York Times “A U.S. intelligence report on the hacking was scheduled to be presented to [President] Obama on Thursday and to Trump on Friday, though its contents were still under discussion on Wednesday, officials said.”—Reuters They have been in this conference room for nearly 48 hours, and it is starting to smell like an intoxicating combination of dry-erase marker, sweat and that stuff that collects on your mousepad despite your best efforts. “We have one day left,” a Senior Intelligence Official says. “Hell,” says A Slightly Less Senior Intelligence Official. He takes another sip from a large flask of what he has been assuring the room is coffee, then casts a despondent eye on the whiteboard, which reads: “IDEAS TO MAKE THE INTEL BRIEFING HOLD TRUMP’S INTEREST: THINGS WE KNOW HE LIKES” in large block capitals. Underneath it, over the course of several days, someone has written: - himself! - pageant? - sex sells - deals? - tweets - Ivanka - saying nice things about Vladimir Putin - funny insults - big celebrities - hats - “SNL” - “Morning Joe” - sometimes the New York Times but sometimes not?
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Taran Killam, left, Republican presidential candidate and guest host Donald Trump, center, and Darrell Hammond perform during the monologue on “Saturday Night Live.” “Okay,” the Senior Intelligence Official says. He is sweating profusely. “Okay. We have this. Okay.” “Do we?” Slightly Less Senior asks. He takes another long sip from his flask, eyes closed. “Okay,” a Somewhat Senior Intelligence Official says from one corner of the room. “How about an ‘SNL’ sketch where someone compliments Ivanka very sexily while wearing a Trump hat, but they slip in little pieces of important intelligence? Like, ‘The only thing that 19 independent agencies confirm more strongly than how wonderful, beautiful and intelligent Ivanka Trump is, is the fact that Russians are behind the hacking of the DNC?’ “ “How is that an ‘SNL’ sketch?”
makers to commit anything close to that, but it’s likely there will be at least a nominal and muchneeded boost to transportation funding.
“Then the sexy person can say ‘I’m David Pumpkins!’ “ “No.” “Or!” Somewhat Senior continues, undeterred, “or, we get the Rockettes to come in, they do a kickline, they say, ‘Congratulations, you are very smart!’ and when they are lined up it spells ‘GRU SANCTIONS.’ “ “Great,” Senior says again. “Is it?” Slightly Less Senior asks. “I feel like he’ll just ask, ‘What is a grusanction?’ If he even notices that they are spelling something.” He takes a long swig. “In general, this really doesn’t seem like it plays to our skill set at all.” “WE MUST ENTERTAIN HIM,” Senior says. He has not slept in several days, and if he lets his eyes shut for too long,
the project to lawmakers. The center could have major economic development implications, From B1 as well as develop new ways to make the industry more friendly Transportation to the environment. Lawmakers committed $92 It’s likely the state will commit million to transportation funding Ag research center to partially funding the center if two sessions ago, knowing then A nearly decade-old plan to planners can find other partners that it wasn’t really enough to build a state agriculture research to share the costs. meet state needs. But that figure center is back. The center would “Idaho’s the third-largest dropped to about $58 million for be managed by the University of milk-producing state in the state projects after the rest of the Idaho but fold in other colleges union,” Bedke said. “The Magic money was funneled to municiand institutions of higher learnValley is home to all of the food palities, Otter said last week. And ing. The state’s dairy industry, last year, the Legislature didn’t centered in the Magic Valley, is es- processing capacity, so there’s a commit anything extra. That pecially excited about the project. good partnership to be had out means, according to Otter, the Early estimates say it may take there with these animal and food science industries, and I think state needs something closer to $45 million to get it started, but that’s what we’re trying to ac$250 million to meet its mainteexpect to see a lower estimate in nance needs. Don’t expect lawa few weeks when planners pitch complish.”
great dark shapes with red eyes appear in the corners of his vision. “WE MUST ENTERTAIN HIM, OR WHO KNOWS WHAT WILL BECOME OF US.” “Where’s Debbie?” Somewhat Less Senior asks. “I’m here!” shouts Debbie (A Very Senior Intelligence Official), coming in from the hallway in a full evening gown with a sash that says “RUSSIAN HACKING CONFIRMED BY 19 INDEPENDENT AGENCIES.” “No,” the room says, in unison. “Are we sure?” Debbie asks. “I just thought—briefing pageant. We know he hates briefings, but he loves pageants. And we could say: LOOK OUT, HERE COMES AN INTELLIGENCE BOMBSHELL!” The room is silent. Debbie takes this as encouragement.
Health care
Lawmakers skedaddled last session without settling on a fix for the 78,000 Idahoans who still lack affordable access to health care. Legislators still have an obligation to help these people. Unfortunately, we’re not holding out hope a fix will come. Leading lawmakers have already made clear they’re taking a wait-andsee approach as Congress begins dismantling the Affordable Care Act once President-elect Donald Trump takes office. That makes last year’s failure all the more heartbreaking. Our hope now is that lawmakers at least find a bandage to
“We could have a guy, like a Chippendales guy, he comes in, and he goes, ‘Russia caught us WITH OUR PANTS DOWN!’ and then, like, the beat comes in, and then we have the agencies come in, and each of them is represented by a lady with a sash, see, we have Miss CIA and Miss FBI, and he can ask us questions about our findings while we twirl slowly in evening wear or bikinis.” Slightly Less Senior drains his entire flask and lets his head fall onto the desk. “Or,” Debbie says, “or, we could—“ “What?” “I didn’t have anything,” Debbie says. “I was stalling for time.” “It’s tomorrow,” Senior says. He sounds sad and resigned. “I miss President Obama already. He liked things that were boring. They were his passion and hobby. Boring things, and almonds.” “We don’t have time for this,” Somewhat Senior says. “Okay, idea: We get a guy to dress up as Vladimir Putin to tell him that this hacking was bad and he regrets it and he deserves to be sanctioned? But, like, he says it sexily?” “Maybe?” Debbie says. Her heel snags on the carpet. “We know he likes Putin.” “Or,” Somewhat Senior says, “we rig a mirror so he looks into it and it’s his own reflection saying ‘Donald, you should be concerned about this hack!’ He’d listen to that, I bet.” Senior closes his eyes and the ominous dark shapes move closer. “I’ve just—never had to convince a president of the United States that an intelligence briefing was interesting before,” he murmurs. The room falls silent. Debbie sighs. “No,” she says. “We haven’t.” She rubs her temples. “We still have a few hours. I’m sure we’ll come up with something.” Alexandra Petri writes the ComPost blog, offering a lighter take on the news and opinions of the day. She is the author of “A Field Guide to Awkward Silences.”
cover the uninsured until Congress finds an ACA replacement. Something — anything — is better than nothing.
Taxes
Some Republicans are clamoring for tax cuts, hoping to give some or all of the surplus back to taxpayers. We’d also like to see some tax relief this session — but only if it comes after funding education, transportation, the ag research center and health care. We consider those programs as investments in Idaho’s future. And we believe funding those programs now will pay off — literally — in the future.
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No dopers in Cooperstown his appeared in Saturday’s T Washington Post. aseball’s Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York, is the sport’s pantheon to its greatest players (and executives, managers, umpires and writers), but not only that: It is a kind of national shrine. If that seems overblown, or quaint, then consider the morality play doubling as the current debate over the suitability, or not, of electing two prodigiously talented alleged
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cheaters to the hall: Roger Clemens and Barry Bonds. Both were diamond deities in Major League Baseball’s steroid era — mainly, the 1990s — and there is strong evidence both used performance — enhancing drugs, known as PEDs, to juice their bodies and prolong their careers. Until now, it has been widely, and rightly, assumed that Bonds, baseball’s all-time home run titleholder, and Clemens, the dominant
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pitcher of his generation, had disqualified themselves from induction into the Hall of Fame through their suspected PED use. Now, suddenly, the 400-odd baseball writers whose votes determine who gets admitted have had a rethink, and the doping duo’s prospects have improved. They shouldn’t. The arguments in favor of enshrining the two are an exercise in twisted judgment and logic-bending rational-
ization whose underlying assumption is that actions need have no consequences if undertaken by athletes of transcendent talent. The tortured justifications for elevating, and excusing, Bonds and Clemens come in various flavors. One that has gained particular currency is that it is unfair to bar entrance to the hall to the two superstars given that Bud Selig, baseball’s commissioner during the steroid era, was recently enshrined.
people like you and me who, despite our best efforts, are capable of both. In the weeks to come we’ll take an eyes-wideopen look at the comedies and tragedies of living our modern lives. I’ll welcome your comments along with your own tales from the front lines of the daily battles that engulf us.
So as we now return to the war, I hope you’ll join me in remembering that win or lose, the good fight is always worth fighting. See you next week. Chris Huston is a former news director of KMVT. Connect at chrishuston-modernlife.com, on Facebook, and @ MLchrishuston.
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Report warns of changing ‘threat environment’ CHRIS MOONEY
The Washington Post
WASHINGTON — At a time of heightened focus on U.S. cybersecurity risks, the Energy Department released a comprehensive report on the nation’s rapidly changing electrical grid Friday that calls for new action to protect against evolving threats. The agency urged policymakers to grant regulators new emergency powers should threats become imminent, among other recommendations. The document notes the sprawling scale of U.S. electric infrastructure: The nation has THE ASSOCIATED PRESS 7,700 power plants (ranging from coal-fired to nuclear) and 55,800 In this Dec. 16, 2009 photo, reactor containment domes of the Indian Point substations. Some 707,000 miles nuclear power plant in Buchanan, N.Y. rise above homes just north of the of high-voltage transmission town of Verplanck, N.Y. as seen from the Stony Point Historic Site.
lines link the two, and then 6.5 million additional miles of local lines spread out from the substations. Dramatic change is sweeping over the sector. For instance, so-called smart meters are being added to bring more online control to the electrical grid. And more and more households are adding solar systems to their rooftops, providing new connecting points. A “rapidly evolving system” is in major need of modernization and upgrades to keep pace, the report says. “There’s the weak-link issue for the whole system,” Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz said in an interview to highlight the report. “The reality is, for a lot of rural, smaller utilities, it’s a very
difficult job to have the kind of expertise that will be needed in terms of cyber, so we suggest for example, grant programs to help with training, to help with analytical capacity in these situations.” “The economy would just take an enormous hit” from a successful grid attack, he said. The document is the second installment of the Quadrennial Energy Review, a series of wide-ranging reports surveying the entire U.S. energy system that the department began after President Barack Obama announced new climate change policies in 2013. The first installment dealt broadly with the entirety of the Please see THREAT, Page C2
Czech gov’t tells citizens to shoot terrorists AMANDA ERICKSON
The Washington Post
A couple of months ago, Czech President Milos Zeman made an unusual request: He urged citizens to arm themselves against a possible “super-Holocaust” carried out by Muslim terrorists. Never mind that there are fewer than 4,000 Muslims in this country of 10 million people—gun purchases spiked. One shop owner in East Bohemia, a region in the northern center of the Czech Republic, told a local paper that people were scared of a “wave of Islamists.” Now the country’s interior ministry is pushing a constitutional change that would let citizens use guns against terrorists. Proponents say this could save lives if an attack occurs and police are delayed or unable to make their way to the scene. To become law, Parliament must approve the proposal; they’ll vote in the coming months. The Czech Republic already has some of the most lenient gun policies in Europe. It’s home to about 800,000 registered firearms and 300,000 people with gun licenses. Obtaining a weapon is relatively easy: Residents must be 21, pass a gun knowledge check and have no criminal record. By law, Czechs can use their weapons to protect their property or when in danger, although they need to prove they faced a real threat. This puts the country at odds with much of Europe, which has long supported much more stringent gun-control measures. In the wake of the 2015 terror attacks in Paris, France pushed the European Union to enact even tougher policies. The European Commission’s initial proposal called for a complete ban on the sale of weapons like Kalashnikovs or AR-15s that are intended primarily for military use. Ammunition magazines would be limited to 20 rounds or less. The Czech Republic came out hard against the directive. Officials warned—somewhat ominously—that the measure would limit the country’s ability to build “an internal security system” and make it nearly impossible to train army reservists. And a total ban on military-style rifles that can fire large numbers of rounds would make illegal thousands of weapons already owned by Czech citizens, potentially creating a black market for terrorists to exploit. Finland and Germany offered their own reservations; Europe’s pro-gun groups also mobilized against the bill with the support of politicians on the extreme right. After months of contentious negotiations, the EU passed a compromise last month; the Council of Ministers will confirm the measure this spring. All member states will have 15 months to comply with the new gun restrictions. The final measure bans the sale of most military-style rifles and requires all potential buyers to go through a psychological check before they can buy a weapon. If someone fails a check in one E.U. state, M 1
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Protesters against Trump’s controversial border wall proposal outside the Republican National Convention in July.
Trump’s border wall plans could go south AMBER PHILLIPS
The Washington Post
If Donald Trump’s vision that Mexico would pay for his border wall seems unrealistic, the notion that taxpayers are going to pay for it is likely just as unrealistic, say budget experts. And yet that’s exactly what it looks like Republicans are planning to do: The Washington Post’s Mike DeBonis reports that in the decided absence of an agreement from Mexico to pay for it (their leaders have scoffed at the idea), Republicans in Congress are looking at how to fund a wall or fence of indeterminate billions of dollars with taxpayer money, and then hope Mexico pays for it later. Friday morning, Trump tweeted, “The dishonest media does not report that any money spent on building the Great Wall
(for sake of speed), will be paid back by Mexico later!” But moving forward with that plan would put Republicans and Trump in some very awkward political positions, and it could even lead to a potential government shutdown this spring. “This would be a huge and ridiculous overreach by Republicans,” said nonpartisan budget expert Stan Collender. Let’s break down how funding a border wall could go south real quickly for Republicans in Washington.
They don’t have a way to pay for it yet Trump has estimated his wall would cost $8 billion. The Post’s team of nonpartisan fact checkers concluded that’s an extraordinarily low number; it would
likely cost $2 billion for just the raw materials. No one has exact figures, but one top construction analyst told our fact checkers the entire wall could cost $25 billion. Budget experts say it’s not clear where money like that would come from right now. You could technically take money from already-appropriated border security funds to pay for the wall, but those funds are nowhere near enough: The government is spending an estimated $4 billion a year on border security. And we should note a 2013 proposal that suggested spending $46 billion on border security over the next decade failed to pass Congress. Republicans could raise taxes to pay for it — but that would put them in the awkward position of asking the American taxpayers to contribute more money for a
border wall Trump has promised they wouldn’t have to pay for. Which brings us to our second reason this could backfire on Republicans:
It gives Democrats a lot of openings to attack Republicans If Republicans move forward with trying to fund Trump’s wall (or fence or some kind of barrier) with no guarantee of reimbursement from Mexico, they’d be opening themselves up to ridicule by Democrats on several fronts: 1) Broken promises: Democrats could claim Republicans are trying to spend billions of taxpayer dollars on a wall that they promised Mexico would pay for. Please see WALL, Page C2
US a bystander in Syria peace efforts MATTHEW LEE
AP Diplomatic Writer
WASHINGTON — Stung by years of failure to stop Syria’s bloodshed, the United States is now just a bystander to the civil war as President Barack Obama’s tenure ends. Secretary of State John Kerry still is speaking sporadically with Russian, Turkish and Arab foreign ministers about cease-fire efforts, and there are occasional consultations with the opposition. But less than two weeks before Donald Trump’s presidency begins, the Obama administration no longer is even claiming to play the leading part in the peace mediation that it spearheaded unsuccessfully for years. Formal contacts with Russia and others in Geneva, the
main meeting point for the U.S.led diplomacy, have ended. Leadership has been ceded to Russia and, to a lesser degree, Turkey and Iran. After helping Syria’s military oust the remaining rebels from the city of Aleppo last month, Moscow has cast itself as the would-be peacemaker. It clinched a new truce without Washington’s help and announced Friday that it was starting to draw down its forces in the region. Russian envoys also are organizing the first talks between the Syrian government and opposition in nearly a year. The discusTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS sions are set for later in January in Astana, Kazakhstan. Rescue workers attend to the wreckage after they and Syria’s opposition activists say dozens were killed when a car bomb went off in a busy market Please see SYRIA, Page C2 in a rebel-held Syrian town of Azaz along the Turkish border, Saturday.
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Beating suspects refused release DON BABWIN
Associated Press
CHICAGO — A Chicago judge refused to allow four black people caught on cellphone footage taunting and beating a mentally disabled white man to post bail and leave jail, saying they are accused of such “terrible actions” that they are a danger to society. “Where was your sense of decency?” Cook County Circuit Judge Maria Kuriakos Ciesil asked them on Friday during their first court appearance, sounding baffled that the suspects could be charged with such cruelty toward the 18-year-old victim. The beating was captured on cellphone video by one of the assailants and has since been viewed millions of times on social media. The graphic footage shows the suspects taunting the victim with profanities against white people and President-elect Donald Trump. Prosecutors offered new details of the assault, explaining that one of the suspects demanded $300 from the mother of the victim, who is schizophrenic and has attention-deficit disorder. They also said the beating started in a van when the same attacker became angry that the mother had contacted him asking that her son be
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These booking photos provided by the Chicago Police Department show, from left, Tesfaye Cooper, Brittany Covington, Tanishia Covington and Jordan Hill, four people charged, Thursday, with aggravated kidnapping and taking part in a hate crime after allegedly beating and taunting a man in a video broadcast live on Facebook. allowed to come home. A prosecutor told the judge that the suspects forced the victim to drink toilet water, kiss the floor and then allegedly stuffed a sock into his mouth and taped it shut as they bound his hands with a belt. The four are charged with two counts of committing a hate crime — one because of the victim’s race and the other because of his mental disabilities. On the video, the male suspects use knives to cut the victim’s hair and his sweatshirt. One of the females can be seen laughing. A female also laughs as she punches the victim.
One of the men pulls the cord from the victim’s sweatshirt around the victim’s neck and holds him up while the victim groans in pain, according to a document read in court. The victim can be heard screaming when one of the men walks up to him with a knife and asks if he should “shank” him. At one point, the prosecutor said, someone on the video can be heard saying that he did not care if the victim was schizophrenic. The four suspects were identified as Brittany Covington and Tesfaye Cooper, both of Chicago, and Jordan Hill, of suburban Carpentersville. All are 18. A fourth
suspect was identified as Covington’s 24-year-old sister, Tanishia Covington, also of Chicago. They stood quietly as the prosecutor read the allegations. Some of their relatives also listened, including a woman who wiped tears from her eyes. Defense attorneys portrayed the suspects as hardworking, responsible and religious. Cooper, for example, takes care of his twin brother, who is in a wheelchair. Tanishia Covington has two small children. Her sister attends college and has a job. Hill, the judge was told, goes to church with his grandmother. All four have experienced brushes with the law, some for serious and violent crimes. Hill, for example, was arrested as a juvenile in 2015 on allegations of armed robbery, possession of a stolen vehicle and residential burglary. Chicago police said they did not know the disposition of those arrests by suburban officers. Tanishia Covington was arrested in 2007 on attempted armed robbery and aggravated battery charges. Police records do not show any convictions as a juvenile. As an adult, she was arrested on charges of battery and aggravated assault, but those charges were dropped. The uproar over the beating in-
tensified the glare on Chicago after a bloody year of violent crime and protests against Mayor Rahm Emanuel and a police department that has been accused of using excessive force and hushing-up wrongdoing. The department has also been the subject of a long civil-rights investigation by the Justice Department, which is expected to report its findings soon. The incident also stirred emotions still raw after a presidential campaign that split the nation. Some conservatives suggested it was linked to the Black Lives Matter movement. Police said there was no indication of any connection. The incident began New Year’s Eve, when the victim and alleged assailant Jordan Hill met at a suburban McDonald’s, and then called his parents later to say he was staying with Hill for a sleepover. Instead, Hill drove the victim around in a stolen van for a couple of days, ending up at a home in Chicago, where two of the other suspects lived, police said. The victim’s parents reported him missing Monday evening, two days after last hearing from him. The victim eventually escaped and a police officer spotted him wandering down a street, bloodied and disoriented.
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That means that regardless of how the Czech parliament votes on the terrorist-hunting measure, gun laws in the Czech Republic are going to get stricter. All gun purchasers will be required to pass the psychological checks, though it’s not yet clear if gun owners will have to turn in newly illegal weapons. That ambiguity has led one Czech newspaper to suggest that the Interior Ministry’s latest move is much more about political safety than safety from terrorism.
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that information will be shared in an international database so that the person can’t procure a gun somewhere else. Online sales are also severely curtailed. The Czech Republic was the only country to oppose the directive for being too strict. Luxembourg also voted against the measure, but on the grounds that it was too weak.
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THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
President-elect Donald Trump talks to reporters Dec. 28 at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Fla.
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“They could characterize it as a huge campaign promise break by Trump,” Collender said. 2) The deficit: Democrats could claim that now that Republicans are in charge, they’re raising the deficit — what the government spends versus takes in every year — with this wall. Another campaign promise broken by Republicans, they could say. 3) Public opinion: Democrats could use the mere fact a wall/ fence/barrier is being built to rally their base on immigration. CNN exit polling from the 2016 election shows 54 percent of Americans oppose building the wall along the entire Mexican border (Trump has said he’s willing to skip some parts). Next would come a game of chicken that Congress has become all too familiar with in recent years. Congress has to pass some kind of spending bill
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nation’s energy infrastructure, which goes far beyond electricity to encompass natural gas and oil pipelines, storage infrastructure, and other facets. This one zooms in on electricity. It highlights not only cyberattacks on electric infrastructure in Ukraine in late December of 2015 — in which three Ukrainian utilities were hit by synchronized cyberattacks, leading to power losses for 225,000 customers — but also the Oct. 21, 2016, event that used in-home Internet-connected devices, collectively, to lead a large denial-of-service attack. “We know that this is not just a theoretical concern,” Moniz said. The report calls for utilities to engage in “deliberate risk man-
by April 28 so the government doesn’t shut down. If this border wall provision is in there, Democrats could use all the arguments above as justification to block it. One side would have to back down before the April deadline, and budget experts think that will be Republicans, for the reasons I just outlined. “A shutdown is possible, and I think Republicans would back down almost immediately,” Collender predicted.
Democrats oppose the wall on principle. But there is a significant number of Republicans who could oppose the wall for its cost. They’re known in Washington as deficit hawks; lawmakers whose top priority is to keep spending in line with revenue year after year. And even without a wall that costs billions of dollars, a Trump presidency is not looking friendly
to deficit hawks, says Steve Bell, a GOP budget expert now at the Bipartisan Policy Center. Bell thinks these hawks will likely hold their noses to pay for a few costly items on Trump’s wish list, like a replacement of Obamacare or his infrastructure plan. But add a costly wall on top of all that, and Bell thinks deficit hawks will stop cooperating. “To now ask them to pay for a wall which we were told Mexico would pay for,” Bell said, “within six months, you’re going to have a splintering inside the Republican Party in the House and Senate. But also a distancing from Trump.” And a split GOP only increases the threat of a shutdown this spring. To sum up, a fractured Republican Party, an empowered Democratic Party, and the very real potential for a government shutdown. Those are the risks Republicans undertake in trying to fund Trump’s border wall without Mexico’s help.
agement activities” as the electric power sector becomes increasingly interconnected with global communications networks. “The threat environment is also changing—decision makers must make the case for investments that mitigate catastrophic, high-impact, low-probability events,” the report notes. Cyberthreats are not the only challenge facing the grid. The report warns that extreme weather events triggered by human-caused climate change also makes the system vulnerable. On grid security, the report contains myriad recommendations, including amending the Federal Power Act to give the Energy Department the ability to issue a “grid-security emergency order,” and also giving the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission new powers to bolster reliability standards that affect
electricity-sector operators “if it finds that expeditious action is needed to protect national security in the face of fast-developing new threats to the grid.” In the interview, Moniz said he hoped that under the next administration, the Quadrennial Energy Review process would continue, noting that the last installment of the report has already triggered major action. Of its 63 recommendations, the DOE has found, 21 are already “fully or partially reflected in Federal law.” “We think that the second volume hopefully is going to have the same kind of track record,” Moniz said. “That’s the basis upon which I certainly hope, and will certainly recommend, presumably to [Energy secretary nominee Rick Perry], that the new administration take ownership of this, and keep it going.”
It could build a wall within the Republican Party
“We still are at the proverbial table,” State Department spokesman John Kirby said Friday. “We may not be at the table in Astana, we may not be at the table in Moscow, I understand that. But it’s not like we are walking away from Syria.” He added later: “We aren’t connected to this piece of it. It’s not like we’re pulling out from the whole puzzle.” With no indication about how the incoming Trump administration intends to proceed on Syria, U.S. diplomats are wary of engaging in any new initiatives that would require a sustained American role. As a result, the Obama administration is ambivalent about attending, even in an observer role, the proposed peace meeting. Turkey has told the U.S. its presence would be acceptable, American officials said, but Washington has yet to make a decision. The diminution of the American role could have drawbacks. Obama demanded almost six years ago that Syrian President Bashar Assad leave power and allow for a democratic transition. But Obama’s reticence to plunge the United States into another Mideast war meant the U.S. never had the capability to shape such an outcome. Its increasingly marginal role in recent months means it could have even less capacity to help shape Syria’s future and safeguard vital American interests, such as Israel’s security and fighting the Islamic State group. On the other hand, Obama hands the baton to Trump without any large-scale military or diplomatic engagement in Syria. Obama never wanted to own the conflict, which has killed up to a half-million people and prompted
millions to flee as refugees. On Saturday, at least 43 people were killed when a car bomb ripped through the center of a busy commercial district of a rebel-held Syrian town along the Turkish border, activists and rescue workers said. Obama’s reticence to intervene in the war at least means Trump will have flexibility, which Obama didn’t have in inheriting the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. In a farewell news conference Thursday, Kerry insisted the administration hadn’t given up on Syria and that he hoped the warring sides could get to “real negotiations” on a peace agreement. But some officials were frustrated by the administration essentially withdrawing from the process. For example, Kerry hasn’t spoken to Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov since Dec. 27. Their discussions occurred almost daily at some points last year. Russia, which backs the Syrian government, and Turkey, a strong supporter of Syria’s moderate opposition, brokered the current shaky cease-fire, which came into effect on Dec. 30. The truce has mostly held but not altogether halted fighting; the government and opposition have blamed each other for violations. The truce doesn’t include areas in Syria controlled by IS. The U.S. is pressing on with its effort in that campaign, and Trump and his national security advisers have said it will be a top priority for them. The Obama administration has an undisclosed number of special operations troops, presumably about 200 to 250, in Syria. They are advising and assisting what the Americans call the Syrian Democratic Forces, which is comprised of Syrian Kurds and Arabs. Some of the Americans are embedded with the SDF in northern Syria.
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Secretary of State John Kerry speaks during a news conference Jan. 5 at the State Department in Washington.
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William E. “Bill” Post October 2, 1943 – December 19, 2016 TWIN FALLS — William E. “Bill” Post, LTC retired, left his earthly home to join the Lord’s Army on December 19, 2016 surrounded by his family at St. Luke’s Magic Valley Medical Center, Twin Falls. Bill was born October 2, 1943 in Cardin, Oklahoma. His parents Donald G. and June B. Post brought the family from Missouri to Twin Falls, Idaho in 1953. Bill attended grade school in Missouri and Twin Falls, Idaho, graduating from Twin Falls High School in 1961. He attained a B.A. degree in Business Administration from the University of Albuquerque, Albuquerque, New Mexico in 1976. Bill joined the United States Army in 1962 and had a distinguished 30 year long career. He started his career as a Buck Private, as an Infantryman. He attended Army Airborne training becoming a member of the 82nd Airborne and was also assigned to the 101st Airborne Division. He received training in a number of personal weapons courses, and tested and became a Green Beret. As a Green Beret, Bill deployed to Vietnam for his first tour in 1967. He was selected to attend Officer’s Candidate School and was commissioned a Second Lieutenant. Bill entered Helicopter Pilot School, returning to Vietnam for his second tour as a Cobra helicopter pilot. His third tour of Vietnam was as a Huey helicopter pilot. Bill received a number of awards and citations for his service during his Vietnam deployments. Bill’s career continued with several overseas deployments to Germany and Korea. Once he reached the rank of Major, he attended General and Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. He was also deployed to Desert Storm in 1991. Some of his military awards include; Army Legion of Merit, Army Commendation, Army Meritorious Service, Combat Infantry Badge, Master Parachutist Badge, and Army Aviator Badge. He completed his 30 years of active service at Fort Sam Houston Texas and retired in 1992. Bill returned to Twin Falls, Idaho and started a second career as an over the road truck driver and continued until he retired in 2013. Bill met Sharon Deagle in 1997 and they were married in 1998. They made their
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home in Twin Falls until his death. Bill is survived by his wife, Sharon; his mother, June Post; brother, Rick Post (Christine); sister, Donna Post Webster, and his children Sean, Meagan and Colin Post all of Boise area; 4 grandchildren, and 2 great grandchildren. His grandson, Ryan Werth, is continuing the Post family tradition of service to their country in the United States Army as an Infantryman and Parachutist. He is also survived by his wife’s family, including his mother-in-law, Lucille Deagle; brother-in-law, Steve Deagle (Christine); sister-inlaw, Darlena Huber (Doug), and number of nieces and nephews. The family would like to thank the medical staff at Saint Luke’s Twin Falls for their professional and compassionate care of Bill and his family. In lieu of flowers the family suggests a donation to the local VFW 2136 Henry D. Lytle Post, or People for Pets-Magic Valley Humane Society, Inc. Services will be coordinated through Serenity Funeral Chapel at a later date (late spring or early summer) and will include full military honors. A service notice will be posted in the paper at that time. Cremation was under the direction of Serenity Funeral Chapel Life Celebration Center & Cremation Services of Idaho, Twin Falls. Condolences may be shared at www.serenityfuneralchapel.com.
BOISE — Elaine McCaskill-Crisp 67 of Boise, Idaho died Saturday December 31st at the home of her daughter Tricia in Boise after a three year battle with cancer. Elaine was born February 4th 1949 in Wendell, Idaho, the third child of Elmer and Frances Kennison. She lived in Idaho all her life, attended Jerome High School and finished her LPN training at the College of Southern Idaho in 1997, was employed by Lamb Weston for six years then went on to fulfill her lifelong dream of being a nurse by first working at the Twin Falls Clinic on the medical surgical unit then continued her nursing career at the VA Community Living Center retiring in 2013. Her favorite hobbies included dancing, music, traveling to tropical destinations, riding horses and raising poodles. She was a dedicated Jehovah’s Witness for close to 35 years. She will be remembered and mourned by her fam-
ily and a vast number of friends. She is preceded in death by her father, mother and one granddaughter. She is survived by two brothers, Gerald and Wayne Kennison of Seattle, Washington, two sisters, Arlene Smith of Middleton, Idaho and Carla Kennison of Vancouver, Washington, and five children Kurt Huddleston of Hansen, Idaho, Chris Beadz of Twin Falls, Idaho, Shannon Huddleston of Boise, Idaho, Tricia Huddleston of Boise, Idaho and Mark Olson of Twin Falls. A private family celebration of life will be held at a future date and place to be announced. In lieu of flowers please donate in her name to the Scholarship Nursing Fund at College of Southern Idaho in Twin Falls, Idaho.
Rodney James Anderson June 9, 1930 – January 2, 2017 Rodney James Anderson, native of Rupert, Idaho, passed away in his home on January 2, 2017. Rodney Anderson was a common man, but for a common man he lived an adventurous life. His adventures started during the depression in the irrigation canals of Southern Idaho. For nine years his adventures sent him down the ‘River of No Return’ as a guide for the Boy Scouts of America. He found himself working with dynamite and helicopters to build trails and bridges in some of the remotest mountain regions of the United States. His adventures left him stranded in Alaska above the Arctic Circle and living on remote islands in the South Pacific. Through all these adventures he had time to raise five children, invent a paper cooking pot, and learn to tie doggy bows. He lived rich and died rich. He is survived by his wife, Violet; his five children: Tami (Stanley Stolpe), Todd (Kay Lynn), Tory (Barbara), Tara (Mike Creager), and Treg (Lisa); Kevin Rasmus-
sen, Lavern Ward (Louie), Danny Rassmussen, Karin Killough (Bob), Debby Kumasaka (Kyle), Buddy Allen Rasmussen (Shelly). Together Rodney and Violet had thirty-seven grandchildren and forty-three great grandchildren. Rodney was preceded in death by his parents, Sherman and Edna; his sisters Janice, Shirley, Christine; and by one son and three grandchildren. Funeral services will be held at Rupert 3rd Ward (526 F Street), on Monday, January 9, 2017 at 11:00 AM. There will be a viewing 6-8 pm Sunday night and 9:30–10:30 day of funeral. Services are under the direction of Arvin Hansen and Kim Godfrey of Cache Valley Mortuary. Please share condolences or memories with the Anderson family /@ www. cvmortuary.com.
Fred William Schloss in Heber City, Utah and also at Cassia Memorial Hospital in Burley Idaho working for Intermountain Health Care until his retirement. Fred was an active member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints serving in many organizations and capacities. As a young man, he served a mission in the West Canadian Mission. Following his mission, he was drafted into the Army where he was stationed for the bulk of his service in Germany. He was active in community events, and a member of the Rotary Club. Fred is survived by his wife Margaret, his children: Robert (Jean), Rheid
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December 1, 1936 – December 31, 2016 BOISE — Larry Elwin Tinker, age 80, of Boise, Idaho passed away peacefully at Life Care Center of Boise on December 31, 2016 after fighting a long battle with diabetes and dialysis. He was a loving husband, father, grandfather, son, brother and friend to many. Born December 1, 1936 in Wendell, Idaho to Elwin and Freda Tinker, he was the oldest of four boys. Larry attended schools in Jerome, Idaho and later entered the Air Force where he served at Havre Air Force Station in Havre Montana. It was there he met and married his bride of over 59 years Edith “Fay” Jewell. After their marriage, Larry attended and graduated from Northern Montana College where he earned his teaching certificate and went on to teach and coach in Cut Bank, Montana. In 1968, after wanting to get back to Idaho, Larry took a position in Arco, Idaho where he taught English and coached. During his time there he attended Idaho State University where he earned his Masters in Education Administration and later became Guidance Counselor of Butte County School District. Never being satisfied in his career and looking for advancement, he packed up the family and moved to Kamiah, Idaho where he became the High School Principal from 1977 through 1979. In 1980 with a desire to move south he had a short stint as JR. High School Principal in Weiser Idaho where he was active in passing a bond for the new JR. High. Always looking to get back to where he grew up he took a position as Principal of Gooding High School where he was there from 1981 to 1990. During his time in Gooding he became the President of the Idaho High School Activities Association providing leadership and guidance. In 1990 Larry finished his career in education as the Superintendent of the Richfield School District where he served until 1997. Larry had several passions in life however the single greatest passion was that of helping students
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Ruby Lou Quigley February 20, 1922 – December 31, 2016 BUHL — Ruby Lou Quigley, age 94, of Buhl, passed away on December 31, 2016, due to reasons of advancing age, while a resident of the Grace Assisted Living Center in Twin Falls. Ruby was born February 20, 1922 in Filer, Idaho, the daughter of Shelby Ernest Williams and Lora Mabel Williams. She grew up on family farms in the Filer and Buhl areas and was a 1940 graduate of Buhl High School. After high school Ruby entered business school in Boise, and continued to work and to study in Boise throughout the years that the United States was engaged in World War II. On January 14, 1946 Ruby married Raymond E. Quigley of Buhl. They returned to Buhl to live and to start their family. Ruby and Ray both lived to celebrate their 70th wedding anniversary together on January 14, 2016. Ruby was a long-time active member of the Buhl First Christian Church, serving in many capacities within that church. Her deep and abiding Christian faith, which she quietly and effectively shared with all, serves as one of the greatest legacies of her long life. Ruby was also an active participant in all aspects of the family’s farming and ranching operations. She frequently mentioned that at this time of year, after our cattle had finished “calving-out” in the fall, one of the things she loved most was being able to look out through our dining room picture window while she worked at other household tasks and watch those baby calves “run and frisk” in the snow that always seemed to cover our pasture during those wintertime years. After the death of her father-in-law, Charles Quigley, Sr, in 1969, Ruby also added the bookkeeping duties at Quigley Plumbing to the many family tasks that she undertook and handled without complaint. When the need arose, she also worked as an assistant to Lyman Caughey and Alice Strickland at the former BeanGrower’s Warehouse in Buhl. Ruby was also an active supporter of her children’s activities during the years they were growing up in the 1950s, 60s, and 70s, and she served as an active leader in 4-H, Scouts, and school PTA. No one who ever went for a car ride with Ruby during that time ever forgot the encounter. Whether
Ruby was gathering every neighborhood child for “dollar-a-car” night at the Moon-Glo Drive-In; or was taking a “short-cut,” through the desert on a group Sunday Excursion; or “flying” down Highway 93 to deliver supplies during the fall cattle roundup, the experience was always memorable – and later, hopefully, one we could all laugh about. Family was at the center of Ruby’s life, and while there was always a lot of hard work involved, every summer in the early 1960s, during the family’s annual vacation at Stanley Lake in the Sawtooth Mountains, she would always take one obligatory trip around the lake on water skis – but only after putting on nearly every life jacket the family owned!! Ruby always had time for a visit, or to extend a friendly word of greeting or to offer a meal of welcome to a newcomer. In later years, after their children were all grown and well-started in life, and with the cattle and farm sold, and the plumbing business closed, Ruby and Ray enjoyed spending many winters in the warmer climates of Arizona and California. Ruby loved her family – was loved in return – and will be dearly missed. She is survived by her daughter, Lora (William) Segura, son, Keith (Kim) Quigley, and son, Gary (Kristin) Quigley, four grandchildren, and four great grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her husband Ray, by her son Philip, and by her brothers, Shelby Williams and Sam Williams. A memorial service is planned at 11:00 a.m. Thursday, January 19, 2017 at the Farmer Funeral Chapel in Buhl. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to St. Luke’s Home Care and Hospice of Twin Falls, or to the Mustard Seed Wellness Clinic in Twin Falls.
Marilyn Lucille Phillips December 9, 1930 – January 6, 2017 PAUL — Marilyn Lucille Phillips, 86, of Paul, passed away peacefully at her home on Friday, Jan. 6, 2017. Marilyn was born Dec. 9, 1930, in Gothenburg, Neb., to William John and Cora Blanche Lewis Slack and was the youngest of ten children. She grew up on the family farm until she came to live with her sister, Eileen, at the age of 15. She married Arvil Hanshew in 1946. The couple had three children and divorced years later. Marilyn married Vernon “Callan” Phillips in 1970. Marilyn and Callan were married 42 years until his death in 2013. Marilyn was known for her keen sense of humor and infectious laugh. She loved being a mother and grandmother and her greatest joy was being with her children, grandchildren, and many nieces and nephews. She enjoyed the many flowers in her yard in the summertime and loved the holiday season with her numerous decorated Christmas trees that graced her home. She is survived by her son, Randy Hanshew of Declo; daughter, Sherri Anderson of Cumming, Ga.; stepdaughter, Peggy “Louise” Rasmussen of Twin Falls; stepson, Randy Phillips of Rupert; stepdaughter, Robyn Hardman of Albuquerque, N.M.; eight grandchildren;
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October 13, 1940 – January 3, 2017 HAGERMAN — Terrance L. ‘Terry’ Lattin, 76, of Hagerman, passed away in Twin Falls on the evening of January 3, 2017. His family was by his side. Terry was born in Twin Falls, Idaho to Lyle and Helen Lattin on October 13, 1940. He graduated from Twin Falls High School in 1958 and joined the U.S. Navy in 1959. He received a Bachelors of Physics degree from the University of Idaho in 1966 and then attended Officer Candidate School. Upon completion, he was commissioned as an officer in the United States Navy. Terry married Rena King on December 26, 1970, in Richfield, Idaho. From April 1968 to February 1970 Terrance flew 88 combat missions over Vietnam. He received a number of honors and awards for his achievements in the Navy. After serving his country for 20 years, he moved back to the Magic Valley. Terry became self-employed hauling firewood and Christmas trees from the South Hills and removing trees for friends and neighbors. Terry loved hunting, fishing, camping, sailing, and riding his motorcycle. He also treasured his time playing chess and cards with family and friends. Terry was preceded in death by his parents, Lyle and Helen Lattin; his brother, Lonny Lattin; brothers-in-law, Verlyn King and Brent King; and sister-in-law, Loretta Mallea. Terry is survived by his wife, Rena Lattin; his chil-
August 27, 1951 – January 2, 2017 PAUL — Timothy Church, age 65, of Paul, died Monday, Jan. 2, 2017, at Minidoka Memorial Hospital. Tim was born August 27, 1951, to Donna H. Holder. He grew up in Arizona and Pennsylvania, graduating from Cedar Crest High School, in Pennsylvania. Shortly after high school, Tim joined the U.S. Marine Corps, where he served for the next five years. After completing his tour with the Marine Corps, Tim joined the U.S. Army and was assigned to the armored tank division where he proudly and honorably served for the next nine years. He had such a passion and love for his company, country and family. Tim honorably retired from service after 15 years. After leaving the military Tim returned to Idaho where he rejoined his family and began his new life as a civilian. Tim worked for the Minidoka County Detention Center for 20 years where the same pride and passion that carried him through his military career showed in his civilian career. After retiring from Minidoka county, he spent his following years doing hobby-related activities and lovingly helping and caring for his mom. Tim’s hobbies were guns, reloading, hunting, fishing, camping and riding ATV’s with his best friend and brother, Bob. They shared many adventures, thrills and laughs on their excursions. Tim was a proud father of three children and extremely proud “grandpa” of five grandchildren. He is survived by his sons, Timothy Brown of Oregon and Michael Brown of Idaho; his mother Donna H. Holder of Paul; and four brothers, Michael Church
dren, Cheri Kober (Cam McKenzie), Sean (Aleah) Lattin, and Bryce (Christy) Lattin; siblings, Rod Lattin, Sue Graf and Mark Lattin; and grandchildren, August (Bri) Kober, Reed McKenzie, Challis Kober, Emma Bowman, Dayvree Lattin, Hanna Bowman, Brylon Lattin, and Charlotte Lattin. Visitation will be held from 6:00 pm until 8:00 pm, Tuesday, January 10, 2017 at Farnsworth Mortuary, 1343 S Lincoln Ave, Jerome, Idaho. Funeral services will be held at 11:00 AM, Wednesday, January 11, 2017, at the Hagerman Christian Center, 2750 S 900 E, Hagerman, Idaho, with Pastor Isaac Tellez and Art Fairbanks officiating. Burial will follow at the Hagerman Cemetery. Memories and condolences may be shared with the family on Terry’s memorial webpage at www. farnsworthmortuary.com.
Ivan Lial Stone July 19, 1927 – January 3, 2017 Ivan Lial Stone, 89, went to Heaven’s Golf Course on January 3, 2017. Ivan was born July 19, 1927 to Fred and Lillie Stone in Twin Falls, Idaho. He graduated from Twin Falls High School and the University of Idaho. He was an architect who continued working until he was 80 years old and left a legacy of local buildings. His wife of 67 years preceded him in death. He is survived by three children, Pamela (Robert) Barnes, Randy Lial (Penny) Stone, and Connie Stone, two granddaughters, Teresa Amend and Nikki (Bill) Albert and two great grandchildren, Averi and Blaze Albert.
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FILER — Elizabeth Bosh of Filer, celebration of life, 1 p.m. Sunday, January 8 at the Turf Club with an open house to follow from 2 until 6 p.m. Arrangements are under the direction of Reynolds Funeral Chapel.
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of Washington, Robert Church of Rupert, Jerry Church and Donald Church of Paul. He was preceded in death by his father, Sidney Alvey Church; and step-father, Melvin H. Holder; and an infant daughter, Misty Ann Church. He was a quiet, loving man with a big heart and will be greatly missed by all who knew and loved him. A funeral Mass will be celebrated at 11 a.m. Tuesday, January 10, at the St. Nicholas Catholic Church, 802 F St., in Rupert, with the Rev. Father Gabriel Moralez as celebrant. Recitation of the rosary will begin at 10:30 a.m. prior to the funeral Mass. Friends may call from 6 until 8 p.m. Monday, Jan. 9, at the Rasmussen Funeral Home, 1350 E. 16th St., in Burley, where Tim will be honored for his military service by the Mini-Cassia Veteran’s Organization. Burial will take place at a later date in the Condon St. Joseph’s Cemetery in Condon, Oregon.
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16 great-grandchildren; and one great-great-grandchild. She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Callan Phillips; son, Steven Hanshew; and stepdaughters, Jamie Rasmussen and Janet Phillips. Marilyn was a special lady that always had a friendly smile on her face and the willingness to make others laugh. She will be greatly missed by her family and many friends. The funeral will be held at 2 p.m. Friday, Jan. 13, at the Rasmussen Funeral Home, 1350 E. 16th St., in Burley, where family and friends may call from 1:00 p.m. until 1:45 p.m. Burial will be in the Paul Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, the family suggests memorials be directed to the Wilson Theatre fund in care of Rasmussen Funeral Home, P.O. Box 878, Burley, ID 83318-0878.
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TWIN FALLS — Roger Marsh of Twin Falls, funeral at 10 a.m. Monday January 9, at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints 10th Ward building located at 229 Park Ave. Twin Falls with visitation at 9 a.m.. A visitation is also Sunday January 8th from 5-7 p.m. at Parke’s Magic Valley Funeral Home 2551 Kimberly Road, Twin Falls.
HAZELTON — Theodore Dean of Hazelton, funeral services to be held Monday, January 9, 2017 have been cancelled due to weather conditions. They will be rescheduled at a later date. Please continue to watch for updates and go to www. Helen Leyba magicvalleyfuneralhome. TWIN FALLS — Helen com. for further informa- Leyba of Twin Falls, celtion. ebration of life at 2 p.m. Wednesday, January 11, 2017 Dennis G. Stewart at Serenity Funeral Chapel CAREY — Dennis G. Life Celebration Center Stewart of Carey, Funeral & Cremation Services of services at 1 p.m. Monday, Idaho, 502 2nd Ave. North, January 9, 2017 at the LDS Twin Falls. Visitation is Church in Carey, Idaho, from 1 p.m. until the time with a visitation at Noon. of services.
INMAN S.C. — Nathan Andrew Huettig, 46, died at his home on January 5 after a brief illness. Nathan was the husband of Melanie Maxey Huettig and the son of Ruth E. Cook and the late Gerald W. Huettig.Born in Pullman, WA, Nathan was the second child of Gerald and Ruth. The family moved to Hazelton, Idaho when Nathan was 4 years old. He grew up in Hazelton working on the family farm alongside his grandfather, dad, and uncles. Besides helping on the farm, Nathan was also on the football, basketball, and track teams at Valley High school. Nathan went to college at University of Idaho earning a bachelor’s degree in marketing and finance. Nathan married Melanie in 1998, and they had 4 beautiful children. Nathan and Melanie lived in Twin Falls while raising their family until they had an opportunity to move to Indiana. It was there that the Lord blessed them with their 5th child. In 2014, the Lord opened up the door for Nathan to move his family to South Carolina. It is there where they resided at the time of his death. Nathan worked as a Marketing Manager with Rain and Hail crop insurance where he made many great friends. He was also blessed to find a church home and great friends at Community Bible Church of Holly Springs. Nathan will be greatly missed by all that new
him. He had a happiness about him that was contagious. He knew that God’s plan is perfect, and he held strongly to his faith while dealing with cancer over the last couple of years. Leaving behind to cherish many memories besides his wife are: five children of the home, Abigail, Thomas, Jonathan, Michael, Magdalene; two brothers, Joel Huettig (Gretchen), Craig Huettig; two sisters, Lisa Baker (Ron) and Sarah Koonce (Kevin). A Memorial Service will be held at Community Bible Church, 2515 Holly Springs Rd., Inman, on January 14, 2017 beginning at 2:00 p.m. Online condolences for the family may be left at: www.livingwatersfh.com. Donations in lieu of flowers: to Samaritan’s Purse in the memory of Nathan Huettig: https:/www. s a m a r i ta n s p u rs e .o rg / our-ministryonate-online/ Or: PO Box 3000 Boone, NC 28607 Living Waters Funeral Home and Crematory Lyman, SC
DEATH NOTICES LaRue Mitchell, 72, of mobile accident. ArrangeTwin Falls died Friday Jan- ments are under the care of uary 6, 2017, from an auto- Rosenau Funeral Home.
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Spacewalking astronauts upgrade station with new batteries MARCIA DUNN
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Spacewalking astronauts hooked up fancy new batteries Friday on the International Space Station’s sprawling power grid. NASA reported that all three lithium-ion batteries were up and running, a successful start to the space agency’s long-term effort to upgrade the aging solar power system. Before venturing out, Commander Shane Kimbrough and Peggy Whitson got a hand from a robot that took care of most of the grunt work — Dextre, a hulking machine with 11-foot arms. Remotely operating Dextre outside the 250-mile-high lab, flight controllers in Houston spent the past week replacing
decade-old, nickel-hydrogen batteries with the new ones. Handling all those batteries — each about half a refrigerator in size — was cumbersome and time-consuming. On Friday, it was up to Kimbrough and Whitson to wire up three of the six new batteries delivered last month in a Japanese cargo capsule. The two made fairly quick work of it. “I’m on a roll, right?” Kimbrough asked Whitson halfway through the job. The two were so far ahead that Mission Control assigned extra work. Kimbrough and another crewmate will plug in three more batteries next Friday. NASA expects it will take two to three years to change out all 48 nickel-hydrogen batteries that make up the station’s solar power system.
The lithium-ion batteries are so efficient that only 24 will be needed, saving space for other items during supply runs. The batteries store power that is tapped whenever the orbiting outpost is on the nighttime side of Earth. Dextre, the station’s robotic handyman, removed the old batteries and popped in the new ones in a series of maneuvers that began on New Year’s Eve. The robot also loosened bolts on metal attachment plates for the new batteries, saving the spacewalkers even more time. NASA’s chief astronaut, Christopher Cassidy, said from Mission Control that sticky THE ASSOCIATED PRESS bolts often stymie astronauts, In this still image taken from video provided by NASA, astronaut Peggy so everyone was grateful to turn Whitson takes a spacewalk outside the International Space Station on over the chores to Dextre, short Friday. for dexterous.
Astronomers predict new star A bright new star will burst into the sky in five years, astronomers predict BLAINE P. FRIEDLANDER JR.
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team of astronomers is making A a bold forecast: A binary star found in the summer constellation Cygnus the swan will burst into a red nova sometime in 2022. When the two stars in the binary system crash into one another, they will create a brick-red beacon so bright that sky gazers will see it with the naked eye, Larry Molnar of Calvin College said Friday at the American Astronomical Society meeting in Grapevine, Texas. As the constellation Cygnus glides gracefully along the Milky Way every late spring and summer, the cosmic bird’s left wing houses a faint binary star called KIC
9832227. The two stars spinning around one another are merging, on a path to an explosion that will result in a red nova, said Molnar and his colleagues. For KIC 9832227, the orbital period is currently just under 11 hours, he said, and “as that period gets shorter, we infer that the separation between the stars is getting smaller. Hence they are spiraling in together.” The astronomers first presented this star’s red nova prognostication at the January 2015 American Astronomical Society meeting, but the predictions teemed with unknowns. “The core of this [new] scientific presentation is that we have done two strong tests and that our hypothesis [from 2015] is holding up,” he said. “We have eliminated the alternative interpretations and we have also refined the predicted time to 2022, plus or minus one year.” To refine the prediction, the astronomers examined a recent red
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A diagram of the binary star system KIC 9832227. nova—a star called V1309 Scorpii, discovered in September 2008. Using V1309 Scorpii research (conducted by astronomer Polish astronomer Romuald Tylenda) as a sort of cosmological blueprint, Molnar and colleagues found similar characteristics—from before the earlier explosion occurred. Like the current candidate, V1309 Scorpii was a contact binary star and—similarly—its orbiting period (the time it took for the two stars in the binary system to spin around
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The location of what may become one of the brightest stars in the sky. one another) decreased. Scientists had noted a changing light curve, all evidence of impending eruption. This quest to comprehend red novas began when Molnar and then-Calvin College student Daniel Van Noord attended a presentation by astronomer Karen Kinemuchi, of Apache Point Observatory in New Mexico, that asked if KIC
9832227 was a pulsing or binary star. Van Noord, who has since graduated, began dedicated observations at the Calvin observatory, where he found the orbital period shrinking. The two spinning stars share a communal atmosphere “like two peanuts sharing a common shell,” said Molnar.
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Prep 20 minutes Slow-cook 4 hours 10 minutes (low) or 2 hours 40 minutes (high) 1 1 ½ ⅓ 3 3 1 ¾ ¾ ⅛ 4 2 3 2 1 4
Tbsp. vegetable oil cup finely chopped carrots cup finely chopped celery cup finely chopped onion cups peeled and cubed russet potatoes (about 1 lb.) cups reduced-sodium chicken broth bay leaf tsp. salt tsp. dried thyme, crushed tsp. paprika cups frozen whole kernel corn cups milk Tbsp. cornstarch Tbsp. dry white wine Tbsp. snipped fresh thyme slices bacon, crisp-cooked and crumbled Cracked black pepper
1. In a medium saucepan heat oil over medium-high heat. Add next three ingredients (through onion); cook about 7 minutes or until tender, stirring occasionally. Transfer mixture to a 4- to 6-quart slow cooker. Stir in next six ingredients (through paprika). 2. Cover and cook on low about 3 hours or on high about 1½ hours or until potatoes are tender. Stir in corn and milk. Cover and cook about 1 hour or until heated through. 3. Stir together cornstarch and wine; stir into mixture in cooker. Cover and cook for 10 minutes more. Stir in fresh thyme. 4. Remove and discard bay leaf. Using a potato masher, gently mash potatoes until soup is slightly thickened. Sprinkle servings with bacon and pepper. Makes 6 servings. PER SERVING 290 cal., 7 g fat (2 g sat. fat), 12 mg chol., 724 mg sodium, 46 g carb., 3 g fiber, 11 g pro.
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Antarctic ice break could be imminent CHRIS MOONEY
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In recent years, Greenland’s enormous Petermann glacier has lost huge pieces of ice, one four times the size of Manhattan, one two times its size. What scientists fear is about to happen in Antarctica would make that look tiny. A growing rift on the floating Larsen C ice shelf on the Antarctic peninsula—a rift that grew dramatically by another 11 miles last month, according to a team of scientists watching it closely—is setting the shelf up for an imminent loss of nearly 2,000 square miles of ice, these scientists say. That’s larger than Rhode Island and almost as big as Delaware. “It is not visible on optical data yet, but the radar data analysis showed a growth of the rift of about 18 km,” said Daniela Jansen, a researcher with the Alfred Wegener Institute in Germany who collaborates with the Project MIDAS team, which announced the rift growth. The 11-mile growth of the rift comes on top of a 13mile growth that occurred earlier this year, during the polar night in Antarctica. The researchers with the MIDAS Project, a British government-funded collaboration based at Swansea and Aberysthwyth universities in Wales, report that only 12 miles of remaining ice now connect the shelf to the emerging mega-iceberg, perhaps more properly called an ice “island.” The rift itself has now grown by some 50 miles since 2011 and has widened to well over 1,000 feet. The consequences of the break could be dramatic. As the researchers put it: “When it calves, the Larsen C Ice Shelf will lose more than 10% of its area to leave the ice front at its most retreated position ever recorded; this event will fundamentally change the landscape of the Antarctic Peninsula. We have
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A crack in the Larsen C ice shelf as photographed on November 10, 2016. previously shown that the new configuration will be less stable than it was prior to the rift, and that Larsen C may eventually follow the example of its neighbour Larsen B, which disintegrated in 2002 following a similar rift-induced calving event.” The British Antarctic Survey also released a statement on the growing rift, saying a huge iceberg is “set to calve” from Larsen C. “”Because of the uncertainty surrounding the stability of the Larsen C ice shelf, we chose not to camp on the ice this season,” David Vaughn, the survey’s director of science, in the statement. The floating ice shelf is fed by glaciers that sit above sea level on the Antarctic Peninsula. As the shelf loses mass, these glaciers could flow more quickly—which would contribute to rising sea levels. Losses from the ice shelf alone, however dramatic, would not have that effect, as the shelf is already floating on water, just like an
Ancient tomato ancestors found BEN GUARINO
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The largest tomatoes in the world weigh more than the average newborn baby. Tipping the scales at over eight pounds—the heaviest such fruit, grown in August 2016, was a whopping 8.6-pounder—the mega tomatoes are red lumps folded over like brain wrinkles. To the Star Tribune, a then-record 8.4 monster tomato was a “lobed behemoth” that resembled a “partially-inflated beach ball” when plucked from a Minnesota greenhouse in 2015. Domestication is not always pretty. (“Modern cultivated tomatoes,” one author wrote in the food studies journal Gastronomica, “are a frail, inbred lot.”) Giant tomatoes bear little resemblance to their wild relatives and progenitors. The tomatillos, chief ingredient of salsa verde, lack a beefsteak crumple and are instead covered in a smooth papery sheath. That sheath, as it turns out, is much older than anyone expected: Researchers recently found a pair of husked fruit fossilized in Argentina, prompting experts to reevaluate the age of the tomato and tomatillo. Called lantern fruits, the fossils belonged to the family Solanaceae, or the nightshades, wrote plant scientists from Cornell University, Penn State University and the Museum of Paleontology Egidio Feruglio, in Argentina, in the journal Science on Thursday. They named the plant Physalis infinemundi, meaning at the world’s end. The name was doubly significant, the authors noted: Infinemundi indicated contemporary Patagonia, at the
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tip of South America, where the fossils were uncovered. The plant also lived during the final stages of Gondwana, the super-continent cluster that 52 million years ago connected parts of South America, Antarctica and Australia. “Physalis sits near the tips of the nightshade family’s evolutionary tree, meaning that the nightshades as a whole, contrary to what was thought, are far older than 52 million years,” said Peter Wilf, a Penn State University geoscientist and study author, in a news release. Previously, experts believed that tomatillos only existed as recently as 9 million to 11 million years ago. The nightshade family contains many children, some of which are quite popular. Several you would find in the supermarket produce aisle. Not just tomatillos and tomatoes, but potatoes and eggplants, too, belong to Solanaceae. The nightshades include a few other species located behind the cash register (tobacco) and flowers at home in a window box (petunias), as well as the relatives you will not find in most backyard gardens (the psychoactive belladonna plant, which sprouts berries so toxic that eating just two can kill a child). At about an inch in diameter, the ancient lantern fruit better resemble a garnish, not something that could be placed in fat slices upon a burger. Given the delicate nature of the fruits, such fossils are rarely found. In addition to the lantern-shaped husk, the fruits had features typical of a Solanaceae plant, noted the researchers, such as veins that travel to the tips of the plant lobes.
The Larsen C rift on November 10, 2016. ice cube in your glass. The Larsen C ice shelf is more than 1,000 feet thick. It is the fourth largest ice shelf in Antarctica, although nothing compared with the two largest, the Ross and Ronne-Filchner ice shelves. NASA, during a flight in November, captured several spectacular photos of the rift. But that was before further extension of the rift last month.
So what happens now? Swansea University’s Adrian Luckman, who heads up Project Midas, told the BBC, “If it doesn’t go in the next few months, I’ll be amazed.” The Alfred Wegner Institute’s Jansen largely agreed in a comment to The Washington Post. “I think the iceberg will calve soon,” she said by email. “The jumps of the rift tip occurred in shorter
time intervals the longer the rift got. This is probably due to the longer ‘lever’ for the forces acting to advance the rift, such as the up and down of the tides or strong winds towards the sea. Whether it will be months or maybe next year, I don’t know.” So stand by. Things in Antarctica have been getting increasingly, er, interesting for some time, and that shows no sign of stopping.
Ebola has proven itself a tricky foe to get rid of in the human body. In numerous cases in which it was thought to be gone and patients fully recovered, the virus has been found in the eyes, semen, amniotic fluid, placenta, breast milk and central nervous system. Now a paper published in the journal PLOS Pathogens describes another possible hiding place for the virus: the lungs. The case study involves a health-care worker who was infected in Sierra Leone and moved to a hospital in Rome for treatment. Doctors were surprised that after the virus had been cleared from the patient’s blood plasma, it could still be found in the lower respiratory tract. Study author Giuseppe Ippolito of Italy’s National Institute for Infectious Disease said that previous studies in the lab, in animals and in patients have suggested that Ebola might cause lung damage because of replicating virus in the lungs, but that there had been no direct evidence of lung infection until now. The paper notes that researchers found viral RNA and viral replication markers in the lungs for five days after Ebola was cleared from the blood and that the patient “developed significant lung injury.” “This suggests a major role of the respiratory tissues in the pathogenesis of Ebola virus disease,” Ippolito and his colleagues wrote.
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Osweiler returns to lead Texans over Oakland ASSOCIATED PRESS
OUSTON — Brock OsweiH ler redeemed himself after last month’s benching. Jadeveon Clowney established himself as a postseason force. And the Houston Texans got their first playoff victory since the 2012 season Saturday against the Oakland Raiders. Osweiler threw for a touchdown and ran for another to lead the Texans to a 27-14 wildcard playoff win over Oakland. Clowney, erasing any doubts he deserved to be the top pick in the 2014 draft, got his first career interception. Osweiler, benched on Dec. 18, got his job back this week with ASSOCIATED PRESS Tom Savage out with a concussion, played his best game of the Houston Texans quarterback Brock Osweiler (17) scrambles for a first down season. It was the first career against Oakland Raiders defensive end Mario Edwards (97) during the first half of an AFC Wild Card NFL football game Saturday, Jan. 7, 2017, in Houston. playoff game for Osweiler, who
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Kimberly holds off Wood River DIANE PHILBIN
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Girls Basketball KIMBERLY 42, WOOD RIVER 32 KIMBERLY — The Host Bulldogs defeated the Wolverines despite a game-high 15 points by Wood River senior Blair Radford. Seniors Ashlie Watts and Emily Wadsworth each finished with 13 points to lead seven scorers for the Bulldogs. Wood River (8-5, 1-3 Great Basin) hosts Jerome on Wednesday and Kimberly (7-6, 2-1) is at Buhl on Thursday. Kimberly 42, Wood River 32 Kimberly 13 13 10 6 -42 Wood River 5 12 9 6 -32 KIMBERLY (42) E. Wadsworth 13, Watts 13, Je. Schmitz 5, J. Wadsworth 2, A. Walker 2, Rosenkrance 2, M. Walker 1 Totals 16 7-14 42. WOOD RIVER (32) Mary 8, Radford 15, Bennett 1, Topp 8. Totals 11 8-16 32. 3-point goals: Wood River 2 (Radford, Topp); Kimberly 3 (Jo. Schmitz, Watts, Je. Schmitz). Total fouls: Wood River 15, Kimberly 15. Fouled out: Kimberly, Jo. Schmitz.
SHOSHONE 54, HANSEN 20 SHOSHONE — Shoshone improved to 11-3 overall with the home win over the Huskies. Sophomores Cierra Hennings and Bailee Owens led the Indians scoring with 19 and 13 points , respectfully. Owens recorded a double-double with 10 rebounds with her 13 points. Haylee Pittman was the leading scorer for Hansen with seven points. Shoshone (11-3, 3-3) hosts Lighthouse Christian on Monday and Hansen hosts Richfield on Tuesday. Shoshone 54, Hansen 20 Hansen 2 7 5 6 -20 Shoshone 18 15 19 2 -54 HANSEN (20) Harris 2, Mireles 1, Alaniz 4, Lasso 3, Pittman 7, Kenney 2, Gibson 1. Totals 5 8-17 20. SHOSHONE (54) Valencia 4, Rodriguez 6, Owens 13, Hennings 19, Rivas 4, Regalado 8. Totals 23 2-8 54. 3-point goals: Hansen 2 (Pittman 2); Shoshone 6 (Hennings 4, Regalado 2). Total fouls: Hansen 10, Shoshone 16. Fouled out: Hansen, Brown.
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was benched for Peyton Manning before the postseason last season with Denver, and coach Bill O’Brien said he’ll start again next week. Osweiler finished with 168 yards passing. “It just goes back to having confidence in my teammates,” Osweiler said. “Believing in what you see and just rip it. Cut it loose and don’t have any hesitation. I trust that my teammates, the skill guys, they’re going to be where they’re supposed to be . and they’re going to make me look good in the end.” Houston (10-7) and its topranked defense, led by Clowney and Whitney Mercilus, bounced back after an embarrassing 30-0 wild-card loss to Kansas City last season to advance to face either the Chiefs or New England in the divisional round next weekend.
Clowney was roundly criticized in his first two injury-plagued seasons before starring this year to help make up for the loss of J.J. Watt. “Those guys picked me No. 1; they (saw) something in me,” Clowney said. “Things didn’t go well earlier in my career, but I’m on the right track now. Things are coming together, I’m healthier. I’m playing good ball and we’re all coming together and playing good defense.” The Raiders’ first trip to the playoffs since the 2002 season, when they went to the Super Bowl, ended with a thud behind the struggles of third-string rookie Connor Cook. He threw for 161 yards with one touchdown and three interceptions. Please see TEXANS, Page D4
Boucher leads Oregon over Washington State ASSOCIATED PRESS
PULLMAN, Wash. — Chris Boucher scored a career-high 27 points off the bench to help lead No. 15 Oregon past Washington State 85-66 on Saturday for its 13th straight victory. Dylan Ennis added 17 points for Oregon (15-2, 4-0 Pacific 12), which won despite leading scorer Dillon Brooks being ejected early in the game. Four players scored in double figures for Washington State (96, 2-1), which had its four-game winning streak snapped. Washington State led 16-15 when Brooks was called for a flagrant foul on Josh Hawkinson while they battled for the ball and the Ducks star was ejected with 13:20 left in the first. Brooks had already scored seven points, half his average. Boucher filled the void, making 10 of 14 shots from the field and adding eight rebounds. The teams, who were tied at 37 at halftime, traded baskets in the early minutes of the second half until consecutive 3-pointers by Ennis and Roman Sorkin gave Oregon a 53-48 lead. Ennis sank another 3 to give Oregon a 59-50 lead with 10:33 left. A 3 by Boucher’ pushed the Ducks’ lead to 13, and Oregon rolled to victory. Oregon leads this long-running series 167-124. This is the only meeting this season between the teams. BIG PICTURE Oregon: The Ducks have held all but two opponents under 70 points this season, and lead the nation with an average of 7.5 blocks per game. Washington State: The Cougars had opened conference play 2-0 for the first time since the 200708 season, and hoped to go 3-0 in league for the first time since the 1987-88 season. Coach Ernie Kent previously coached the Ducks for 13 seasons. UP NEXT Oregon: hosts Oregon State next ASSOCIATED PRESS Saturday. Washington State guard Ike Iroegbu (2) shoots while defended by Oregon guard Dylan Ennis (31) during the Washington State: plays at Stanfirst half of an NCAA college basketball game in Pullman, Wash., Saturday, Jan. 7, 2017. ford next Thursday.
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REEN BAY, Wis. — Aaron G Rodgers won’t be the only quarterback in Green Bay this weekend who knows how to “run the table.” Eli Manning has gone streaking, too, for the New York Giants. In fact, Super Bowl runs in the 2007 and 2011 seasons took the Giants through Lambeau Field each time. Two of the league’s marquee franchises meet again in Titletown when the Packers host the Giants in an NFC wild-card game on Sunday. “We just know what it takes to win, and obviously the feeling of being on the other side of that, which we’ve had,” Rodgers said about the importance of postseason experience. “We’re
pretty hot right now and usually the teams that are hottest and can stay healthy are the teams that are there at the end.” The NFC North-champion Packers (10-6) roll into the playoffs on a six-game winning streak. They haven’t lost since Rodgers said he thought that Green Bay could “run the table” after falling to 4-6. In some ways, this season has a similar feel to the Packers’ wildcard run in 2010, when Green Bay also finished the regular season 10-6 and overcame a slew of injuries to win the Super Bowl. Rodgers is leading the way again: fifteen touchdown passes and no interceptions during the six-game winning streak. A master at extending plays playing behind a good offensive
line, Rodgers is giving receivers time to get open and delivering laser-like throws. “I just see a guy that’s playing with an edge ... and he’s playing with a killer instinct,” first-year Giants head coach Ben McAdoo said. McAdoo should know. He was an offensive assistant under Packers coach Mike McCarthy from 2006-13 before a two-year stint as Giants offensive coordinator. McAdoo has seen up close what Manning and the Giants (11-5) can do at Lambeau. The Giants beat the Packers 23-20 in overtime in the NFC title game on Jan. 20, 2008. They ASSOCIATED PRESS won 37-20 on Jan. 15, 2012 in the divisional round, defeating Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers (12) passes the ball during the first half of an NFL football game against the Washington Redskins in Please see PACKERS, Page D3 Landover, Md.
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TODAY’S SCHEDULE SUNDAY, JAN. 8 OLLEGE BASKETBALL C 10 A.M. NBCSN — Richmond at George Washington
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OON N NBCSN — Davidson at Saint Louis
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P.M. 2 ESPNU — Wichita St. at N. Iowa :30 P.M. 2 BTN — Rutgers at Iowa CBS — Wisconsin at Purdue 3 P.M. CBSSN — UCF at UConn 5 :30 P.M. BTN — Ohio St. at Minnesota P.M. 6 ESPNU — Wake Forest at Virginia FS1 — Stanford at UCLA P.M. 8 ESPNU — California at Southern Cal OLF G 1 P.M. GOLF — Web.com Tour, The Bahamas Great Exuma Classic, first round, at Great Exuma, Bahamas NBC — PGA Tour, SBS Tournament of Champions, final round, at Kapalua, Hawaii 3 P.M. GOLF — PGA Tour, SBS Tournament of Champions, final round, at Kapalua, Hawaii BA BASKETBALL N 6 P.M. NBA — Utah at Memphis FL FOOTBALL N 11 A.M. CBS — AFC wild card, Miami at Pittsburgh :30 P.M. 2 FOX — NFC wild card, N.Y. Giants at Green Bay HL HOCKEY N 6 P.M. NBCSN — Minnesota at Anaheim UGBY R 8 A.M. NBCSN — English Premiership, Wasps vs. Leicester Tigers OCCER S 6:30 A.M. FS1 — FA Cup, Liverpool vs. Plymouth Argyle :50 A.M. 9 FS2 — FA Cup, Chelsea vs. Peterborough United A.M. 9 FS1 — FA Cup, Tottenham vs. Aston Villa KIING S 4 A.M. NBCSN — FIS Alpine World Cup, Women’s Slalom, at Maribor, Slovania 5 :30 A.M. NBCSN — FIS Alpine World Cup, Men’s Slalom, at Adelboden, Switzerland OMEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL W 10 A.M. ESPNU — South Carolina at Florida SEC — Vanderbilt at Georgia 1 1 A.M. CBSSN — Saint Louis at VCU ESPN2 — Tulane at Temple OON N ESPNU — Kansas at Iowa St. FS1 — Villanova at Providence SEC — Texas A&M at Kentucky 1 P.M. CBSSN — George Washington at Dayton ESPN2 — Notre Dame at Miami P.M. 2 FS1 — Oklahoma at West Virginia SEC — Mississippi at Auburn 3 P.M. ESPN2 — UCLA at Washington
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Jerome Youth Wrestling Jerome Youth Wrestling will have signups for the 2017 Idaway Season on January 11, at 5:00 pm at the High School. Kids who sign up for the season will get free admission to the JHS v. Buhl dual match. Information: 208-720-3874.
Elks National Hoop Shoot The Snake River Elks Lodge is sponsoring a free-throw shooting contest on Jan. 7 at the College of Southern Idaho gym. Registration will be at 10:30 a.m. with the free-throw contest to follow. The contest is open to boys and girls, ages 8-13 as of April 1, 2017, from Twin Falls and Jerome counties. A birth certificate is required for proof of age. All girls use the 28.5 circumference ball. Boys, ages 8-9, use the 28.5 circumference ball, and boys 10-13 use the regulation ball. Winners in each division will advance to the district shoot Jan. 21 at Minico High School. The divisions are girls ages 8-9, 10-11, 12-13, and boys ages 8-9, 10-11, 12-13. Information: Jerry Diehl at 208-308-8215.
Twin Falls Little Dribblers Camp Dates for Twin Falls Little Dribblers Camp: Saturday, January 14 8-10 am Saturday, January 21 8-10 am Monday, January 23 6-7 pm Boys and girls hoopers ages preschool-fifth grade are welcome to Twin Falls High School’s Baun Gym for the Little Dribblers Camp. The final evening includes a practice for performance, and parents are invited to join. Cost is $35 per person. Printable forms can be found online at tf.tfsd. org/2016/12/13/little-dribblers. Information: Matt Harr at 208-737-5208 ext. 3050 Submit your sports news to sports@magicvalleycom.
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MINNEAPOLIS — George Hill scored 19 points in his return from a concussion and the Rudy Gobert tipped in a rebound with 27.5 seconds to play to lift the Utah Jazz to a 94-92 victory over the Minnesota Timberwolves on Saturday night. Derrick Favors scored seven of his 15 points in the fourth and Gobert finished with 12 points, 13 rebounds and four blocks as the Jazz rallied from 11 points down to start the final quarter. They still trailed by nine with three minutes to play, but closed on an 11-0 run. Zach LaVine had 24 points, nine rebounds and four assists and Karl-Anthony Towns had 18 points and 15 rebounds for the Timberwolves. They have lost four straight games. The Wolves went the final 4:41 without a field goal. With Utah down 93-83 with 3:05 to play, Favors scored seven straight points for the Jazz, including a corner 3-pointer to cut it to 92-90 with 1:29 to play. Andrew Wiggins missed a jumper on the other end and went 0 for 4 in the final 12 minutes and Hill made a pair at the line to tie the game with 52 seconds to play. After Gorgui Dieng missed a jumper,
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Utah Jazz’s George Hill, left, in view of Minnesota Timberwolves’ Ricky Rubio, of Spain, eyes a shot during the first quarter of an NBA basketball game Saturday, Jan. 7, 2017, in Minneapolis. Gobert tipped in a miss, then forced a wild hook shot from Towns that caromed off the rim. The Wolves had one more chance, but LaVine missed a jumper at the buzzer. The Wolves dropped to 5-15 in “crunch time” games — defined by the scoring margin being five points or less in the final five minutes. TIP-INS
Jazz: It was the first game all season the Jazz had all 15 players healthy. ... Trey Lyles scored 13 points off the bench. ... Gordon Hayward had 16 points on 4-for-13 shooting. Timberwolves: PG John Lucas III was waived on the deadline for his contract to become fully guaranteed for the season. Coach Tom Thibodeau said the team likes the added flexibility of an open
roster spot as it looks at trades and available free agents. ... F Shabazz Muhammad returned after missing the game on Friday night with an illness. He had five points in 18 minutes. HILL’S BACK The Jazz point guard is crucial to everything they do, but had played just 36 minutes total over the previous 18 games due to injuries. Coach Quin Snyder said they would have to keep his shifts a little shorter than usual while he gets his conditioning back, but he played 33 minutes after a three-game absence, hitting 5 of 12 shots to go with seven assists. BIG MAN BATTLE Gobert had his way with Towns early, blocking four of his shots right at the rim and forcing the reigning rookie of the year into a 1-for-6 first quarter. But Towns kept attacking, trying to initiate contact and force the officials’ whistle. Gobert picked up his fourth foul midway through the third quarter, and the Wolves went to work. Towns threw down a ferocious, one-handed putback dunk in the fourth, but it wasn’t enough. UP NEXT Jazz: Utah wraps up a fivegame road trip at Memphis on Sunday. Timberwolves: Minnesota has the second of a four-game homestand when it hosts Dallas on Monday.
No. 7 West Virginia Escapes TCU College basketball roundup ASSOCIATED PRESS
No. 7 West Virginia 82, TCU 70 MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Daxter Miles Jr. tied a season high with 22 points and No. 7 West Virginia needed a late burst to beat TCU 82-70 on Saturday. West Virginia (13-2, 2-1 Big 12) bounced back from an overtime loss at Texas Tech
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and improved to 10-0 against TCU since the schools joined the Big 12 in 2012. Esa Ahmad added 16 points for West Virginia, while Jevon Carter and freshman Sagaba Konate scored 13 each. Alex Robinson led TCU (12-3, 1-2) with 17 points and Vladimir Brodziansky added 14. ___ No. 8 DUKE 93, BOSTON COLLEGE 82 DURHAM, N.C. — Freshman Jayson Tatum matched
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W L T Pct PF PA y-Seattle 10 5 1 .656 354 292 NBA Arizona 7 8 1 .469 418 362 Sunday 4 12 0 .250 224 394 FAVORITE LINE O/U DOG Los Angeles at BROOKLYN 2½ (214½) Phil. San Francisco 2 14 0 .125 309 480 at LA CLIPPERS OFF (OFF) Miami x-clinched playoff spot at MILWAUKEE 4 (213) Wash. y-clinched division Sunday’s Games Houston 2 (224½) at TORONTO at MEMPHIS 3 (191) Utah Minnesota 38, Chicago 10 Clev. 9 (219) at PHOENIX Cincinnati 27, Baltimore 10 Golden St. 10½ (222½) at SACRAMENTO New England 35, Miami 14 at LA LAKERS 2 (216) Orlando N.Y. Jets 30, Buffalo 10 COLLEGE BASKETBALL Philadelphia 27, Dallas 13 Sunday Indianapolis 24, Jacksonville 20 FAVORITE LINE DOG Tampa Bay 17, Carolina 16 at GEORGE WASHINGTON 4 Richmond Tennessee 24, Houston 17 at VALPARAISO 18½ Detroit Pittsburgh 27, Cleveland 24, OT at PURDUE 2½ Wisc. N.Y. Giants 19, Washington 10 Davidson 13½ at SAINT LOUIS Seattle 25, San Francisco 23 at IOWA 8 Rutgers Nwestrn. 1 at NEBRASKA Denver 24, Oakland 6 Memphis 11½ at TULANE Kansas City 37, San Diego 27 Wichita St 10 at N. IOWA Arizona 44, Los Angeles 6 Evansville 6 at DRAKE Atlanta 38, New Orleans 32 Oakland 9½ at ILL.-CHICAGO Green Bay 31, Detroit 24 at UCONN 1 UCF at MINNESOTA 6 Ohio St. at VIRGINIA 12 Wake Forest at UCLA 18½ St.anford at SOUTHERN CAL 3 California NHL National Hockey League Sunday EASTERN CONFERENCE FAVORITE LINE DOG LINE Atlantic Division at PITTSBURGH OFF Tampa OFF at CAROLINA OFF Boston OFF GP W L OT Pts GF GA at COLUMBUS -176 Phil. +164 Montreal 40 25 9 6 56 124 93 at CHICAGO -145 Nashville +135 Boston 42 21 17 4 46 102 101 at OTTAWA OFF Edmonton OFF Ottawa 38 20 14 4 44 94 99 at ANAHEIM OFF Minn. OFF Toronto 39 18 13 8 44 120 116 College Football Tampa Bay 41 19 18 4 42 116 121 Monday National Championship Game Florida 41 17 16 8 42 95 113 FAVORITE OPEN NOW O/U DOG Detroit 39 17 17 5 39 97 109 Championship Game Buffalo 39 15 15 9 39 89 109 At Tampa Metropolitan Division Alabama 6½ 6½ (50½) Clemson GP W L OT Pts GF GA NFL Columbus 38 27 7 4 58 130 84 Playoffs Sunday N.Y. Rangers 42 28 13 1 57 146 107 FAVORITE OPEN NOW O/U DOG Pittsburgh 38 25 8 5 55 133 107 at PITTSBURGH 7½ 11 (46) Miami Washington 39 25 9 5 55 111 83 at GREEN BAY 7½ 5 (44½) NY Giants Philadelphia 41 21 15 5 47 122 127 Updated odds available at Pregame.com Carolina 39 17 15 7 41 100 105 New Jersey 41 16 17 8 40 95 121 N.Y. Islanders 37 15 15 7 37 105 115
a season high with 22 points and Duke won in Jeff Capel’s season debut as Hall of Fame coach Mike Krzyzewski’s temporary replacement. Grayson Allen had 12 points and 11 assists, and the Blue Devils had six double-figure scorers in winning their first game at Cameron Indoor Stadium without Coach K since 1995. Krzyzewski had back surgery Friday and is expected to miss roughly four weeks. The Blue Devils (14-2, 2-1 Atlantic Coast Conference)
Edmonton at Ottawa, 5 p.m. Nashville at Chicago, 5 p.m. Minnesota at Anaheim, 6 p.m. Monday’s Games Florida at New Jersey, 5 p.m. Washington at Montreal, 5:30 p.m. Calgary at Winnipeg, 6 p.m. Dallas at Los Angeles, 8:30 p.m. Tuesday’s Games Columbus at Carolina, 5 p.m. Philadelphia at Buffalo, 5 p.m. Vancouver at Nashville, 6 p.m. Boston at St. Louis, 6 p.m. Detroit at Chicago, 6:30 p.m. San Jose at Edmonton, 7 p.m. Dallas at Anaheim, 8 p.m.
shot 55 percent but blew most of a 25-point lead, with the Eagles chipping away over the final 10 minutes and pulling to 88-82 on Ky Bowman’s reverse layup with 44.1 seconds left. Tatum hit four free throws in the final 42 seconds to put Duke back up by double figures. Jerome Robinson had 21 points for BC (8-8, 1-2). ___
M onday’s Games New Orleans at New York, 5:30 p.m. Dallas at Minnesota, 6 p.m. Oklahoma City at Chicago, 6 p.m. Tuesday’s Games Chicago at Washington, 5 p.m. Atlanta at Brooklyn, 5:30 p.m. Boston at Toronto, 5:30 p.m. Charlotte at Houston, 6 p.m. Milwaukee at San Antonio, 6:30 p.m. Cleveland at Utah, 7 p.m. Detroit at Sacramento, 8:30 p.m. Miami at Golden State, 8:30 p.m. Portland at L.A. Lakers, 8:30 p.m.
College Basketball Scores
EAST Butler 85, Georgetown 76 Columbia 66, Howard 48 Creighton 78, Providence 64 N BA Fairleigh Dickinson 87, Bryant 74 Farmingdale 57, Old Westbury 56 EASTERN CONFERENCE Green Mountain 62, Castleton 56 Atlantic Division Harvard 74, Dartmouth 58 Hobart 82, Vassar 66 W L Pct GB Toronto 24 12 .667 — LIU Brooklyn 83, St. Francis (Pa.) 70 Boston 23 14 .622 1½ La Salle 88, Duquesne 81 New York 17 20 .459 7½ Northeastern 64, James Madison 54 Philadelphia 9 25 .265 14 Penn St. 72, Michigan St. 63 Brooklyn 8 27 .229 15½ Philadelphia 70, Felician 57 Princeton 61, Penn 52 Southeast Division Quinnipiac 81, Manhattan 72 W L Pct GB Robert Morris 62, St. Francis Brooklyn 58 Atlanta 21 16 .568 — Charlotte 20 18 .526 1½ Saint Joseph’s 70, Fordham 55 Washington 17 18 .486 3 Seton Hall 87, DePaul 56 Orlando 16 22 .421 5½ Siena 56, St. Peter’s 54 Miami 11 27 .289 10½ St. Bonaventure 82, George Mason 72 Syracuse 87, Pittsburgh 56 Central Division Temple 81, East Carolina 62 W L Pct GB UNC Wilmington 91, Delaware 81 Cleveland 27 8 .771 — Villanova 93, Marquette 81 Indiana 20 18 .526 8½ Wagner 75, Sacred Heart 64 Milwaukee 18 17 .514 9 West Virginia 82, TCU 70 Chicago 19 18 .514 9 Yale 102, Mitchell 46 Detroit 17 21 .447 11½ SOUTHWEST Abilene Christian 69, Stephen F. Austin 60 WESTERN CONFERENCE Baylor 61, Oklahoma St. 57 Southwest Division Houston Baptist 60, McNeese St. 49 W L Pct GB Lamar 74, SE Louisiana 54 San Antonio 30 7 .811 — Middle Tennessee 79, North Texas 68 Houston 29 9 .763 1½ New Orleans 87, Incarnate Word 72 Memphis 23 16 .590 8 SMU 84, South Florida 65 WESTERN CONFERENCE New Orleans 14 24 .368 16½ NFL Sam Houston St. 74, Nicholls 61 Dallas 11 26 .297 19 Central Division Texas A&M-CC 99, Northwestern St. 82 AFC GP W L OT Pts GF GA Northwest Division Texas Southern 87, Prairie View 82 East Chicago 42 25 12 5 55 115 102 Texas St. 81, Texas-Arlington 73 W L Pct GB W L T Pct PF PA Minnesota 38 24 9 5 53 121 84 23 15 .605 — UAB 88, Rice 81, OT y-New England 14 2 0 .875 441 250 St. Louis 40 21 14 5 47 114 118 Utah 1 MIDWEST x-Miami 10 6 0 .625 363 380 Nashville 39 17 15 7 41 110 105 Oklahoma City 22 16 .579 16 22 .421 7 Alma 79, Adrian 76 Buffalo 7 9 0 .438 399 378 Winnipeg 42 19 20 3 41 116 126 Portland Denver 14 23 .378 8½ Aquinas 96, Concordia (Mich.) 89, OT N.Y. Jets 5 11 0 .313 275 409 Dallas 40 16 16 8 40 103 121 Minnesota 11 26 .297 11½ Benedictine (Ill.) 90, Wis. Lutheran 78 South Colorado 39 13 25 1 27 79 130 Bethel (Minn.) 89, Augsburg 71 Pacific Division W L T Pct PF PA Pacific Division Bowling Green 76, Ball St. 71 y-Houston 9 7 0 .563 279 328 W L Pct GB GP W L OT Pts GF GA Golden State Tennessee 9 7 0 .563 381 378 31 6 .838 — Buffalo 77, E. Michigan 68 Indianapolis 8 8 0 .500 411 392 Anaheim 41 21 12 8 50 112 111 L.A. Clippers 25 14 .641 7 Calvin 71, Albion 70 Jacksonville 3 13 0 .188 318 400 Edmonton 41 21 13 7 49 117 108 Sacramento 15 21 .417 15½ Carroll (Wis.) 66, Millikin 49 San Jose 39 23 14 2 48 99 87 North L.A. Lakers 14 26 .350 18½ Columbia (Mo.) 66, Williams Baptist 60 W L T Pct PF PA Los Angeles 40 20 16 4 44 98 99 Phoenix 12 25 .324 19 Davenport 90, Cornerstone 81 41 21 18 2 44 111 116 y-Pittsburgh 11 5 0 .688 399 327 Calgary Davis & Elkins 85, Malone 77 Friday’s Games Baltimore 8 8 0 .500 343 321 Vancouver 41 20 18 3 43 104 118 Edgewood 85, Rockford 72 Houston 100, Orlando 93 39 11 22 6 28 84 127 Cincinnati 6 9 1 .406 325 315 Arizona Evangel 83, Clarke 81 Cleveland 1 15 0 .063 264 452 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for Washington 112, Minnesota 105 Fort Wayne 87, Denver 83 Boston 110, Philadelphia 106 overtime loss. W est Hamline 68, Concordia (Moor.) 53 Cleveland 116, Brooklyn 108 W L T Pct PF PA Friday’s Games Illinois St. 77, Indiana St. 58 New York 116, Milwaukee 111 y-Kansas City 12 4 0 .750 389 311 Toronto 4, New Jersey 2 Indiana 96, Illinois 80 L.A. Clippers 106, Sacramento 98 x-Oakland 12 4 0 .750 416 385 Florida 2, Nashville 1 Kansas 85, Texas Tech 68 L.A. Lakers 127, Miami 100 Denver 9 7 0 .563 333 297 Chicago 2, Carolina 1 San Diego 5 11 0 .313 410 423 Colorado 2, N.Y. Islanders 1, OT Kansas St. 75, Oklahoma 64 Memphis 128, Golden State 119, OT Lake Superior St. 78, Hillsdale 65 Saturday’s Games Anaheim 3, Arizona 2, OT NFC Lakeland 81, Dominican (Ill.) 76 Indiana 123, New York 109 Vancouver 4, Calgary 2 East Lourdes 71, Lawrence Tech 63 Boston 117, New Orleans 108 Saturday’s Games W L T Pct PF PA Loyola of Chicago 78, Bradley 62 Chicago 123, Toronto 118, OT y-Dallas 13 3 0 .813 421 306 Buffalo 4, Winnipeg 3 Marygrove 64, Siena Heights 61 Oklahoma City 121, Denver 106 x-N.Y. Giants 11 5 0 .688 310 284 Philadelphia 4, Tampa Bay 2 Maryland 77, Michigan 70 Utah 94, Minnesota 92 Washington 8 7 1 .531 396 383 Los Angeles 4, Minnesota 3, OT Michigan-Dearborn 91, Madonna 71 Atlanta 97, Dallas 82 Philadelphia 7 9 0 .438 367 331 Edmonton 2, New Jersey 1, OT Milwaukee Engineering 77, Aurora 71 San Antonio 102, Charlotte 85 South Boston 4, Florida 0 Mount St. Mary’s 77, CCSU 68 Detroit at Portland, ppd. W L T Pct PF PA N.Y. Rangers 5, Columbus 4 N. Illinois 87, Cent. Michigan 83 Sunday’s Games y-Atlanta 11 5 0 .688 540 406 Washington 1, Ottawa 0 Tampa Bay 9 7 0 .563 354 369 Montreal 5, Toronto 3 New Mexico St. 78, Chicago St. 62 Philadelphia at Brooklyn, 10 a.m. New Orleans 7 9 0 .438 469 454 North Central (Minn.) 97, Crown (Minn.) 74 Washington at Milwaukee, Noon Carolina 6 10 0 .375 369 402 St. Louis 4, Dallas 3 North Dakota 95, S. Utah 65 Miami at L.A. Clippers, 1:30 p.m. N. Y . Islanders at Arizona, 6 p.m. North Notre Dame 75, Clemson 70 Houston at Toronto, 4 p.m. W L T Pct PF PA Vancouver at Calgary, 8 p.m. Omaha 101, S. Dakota St. 93 Utah at Memphis, 6 p.m. x-Green Bay 10 6 0 .625 432 388 Detroit at San Jose, 8:30 p.m. Purdue-N. Central 95, Cardinal Stritch 76 Cleveland at Phoenix, 6:30 p.m. Sunday’s Games x-Detroit 9 7 0 .563 346 358 S. Illinois 75, Missouri St. 67 Detroit at Portland, 7 p.m. Minnesota 8 8 0 .500 327 307 Tampa Bay at Pittsburgh, 3 p.m. South Dakota 85, IUPUI 74 Golden State at Sacramento, 7 p.m. Chicago 3 13 0 .188 279 399 Boston at Carolina, 3 p.m. St. John’s (Minn.) 73, Gustavus 56 Orlando at L.A. Lakers, 7:30 p.m. Philadelphia at Columbus, 4 p.m.
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St. Olaf 78, Macalester 60 St. Scholastica 83, Wis.-Superior 65 St. Thomas (Minn.) 62, Carleton 61, OT St. Xavier 80, St. Francis (Ill.) 68 Toledo 91, Miami (Ohio) 76 Trine 65, Kalamazoo 62 UMKC 93, Rio Grande 79 Viterbo 73, Dickinson St. 66 W. Illinois 86, Oral Roberts 71 Wayne (Neb.) 70, Minn. St.-Mankato 55 Xavier 97, St. John’s 82 Youngstown St. 80, Wright St. 75 SOUTH Alabama 59, Vanderbilt 56 Alabama A&M 79, MVSU 76 Augusta 73, Montevallo 60 Bellarmine 91, William Jewell 53 Belmont 87, E Missouri 75 Clayton St. 82, Francis Marion 79 Coastal Carolina 80, Arkansas St. 65 Coll. of Charleston 77, Hofstra 71 Delaware St. 55, NC A&T 53 Duke 93, Boston College 82 E. Illinois 74, E. Kentucky 60 ETSU 67, Mercer 58 Elon 72, Towson 61 Fayetteville St. 74, Virginia Union 73 Florida 83, Tennessee 70 Florida A&M 54, Coppin St. 53 Florida Gulf Coast 89, Stetson 88 Florida St. 93, Virginia Tech 78 Freed-Hardeman 90, William Woods 64 Furman 73, FIU 64 Gardner-Webb 79, Charleston Southern 75 Georgia 71, Missouri 66 Georgia Southern 86, Troy 82 Georgia St. 78, South Alabama 77 Guilford 75, Shenandoah 60 Hampton at SC State, ppd. Indiana-East 71, Alice Lloyd 67 Jackson St. at Alcorn St., ppd. Jacksonville St. 71, Austin Peay 68 Kentucky 97, Arkansas 71 King (Tenn.) 110, Pfeiffer 91 Lees-McRae at Belmont Abbey, ppd. Liberty 61, Campbell 54 Lipscomb 82, Kennesaw St. 79 Louisiana-Lafayette 69, Louisiana-Monroe 60 Louisville 65, Georgia Tech 50 Marshall 110, Charlotte 93 Maryville (Tenn.) at Berea, ppd. Milligan at Point (Ga.), ppd. Mississippi 88, Auburn 85 Mississippi St. 95, LSU 78 Morehead St. 73, SIU-Edwardsville 65 N. Kentucky 83, Cleveland St. 75 Norfolk St. at Savannah St., ppd. North Carolina at NC State, ppd. North Florida 80, Jacksonville 64 Ohio Christian 126, Asbury 104 Old Dominion 79, W. Kentucky 67 Pikeville 76, Campbellsville 60 Radford 76, Presbyterian 63 Randolph-Macon 77, Bridgewater (Va.) 53 SC-Upstate 75, NJIT 65 Samford at Wofford, ppd. South Carolina 79, Texas A&M 68 Southern Miss. 73, UTEP 65 Southern U. 87, Grambling St. 79 Spring Hill 66, Albany (Ga.) 65 The Citadel 79, VMI 74 Thomas More 98, Geneva 90 UALR 76, Appalachian St. 68 UNC Asheville 88, High Point 58 UNC Greensboro 76, W. Carolina 57 UTSA 69, Louisiana Tech 68 VCU 81, UMass 64 Valdosta St. 76, Lee 72 William & Mary at Drexel, ppd. Wingate 79, Carson-Newman 77 Winthrop 83, Longwood 65 FAR WEST BYU 68, Pacific 55 Colorado St. 85, Air Force 58 Gonzaga 67, Portland 55 Long Beach St. 70, UC Riverside 64 Loyola Marymount 66, Santa Clara 56 Montana 65, E. Washington 59 Oregon 85, Washington St. 66 San Diego 76, Pepperdine 68 San Jose St. 69, Fresno St. 62 UC Davis 66, Cal Poly 64 Utah 88, Arizona St. 82 Utah St. 79, UNLV 63 M Washington 87, Oregon St. 61 1
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Utah holds on to beat Arizona State ASSOCIATED PRESS
TEMPE, Ariz. — Kyle Kuzma scored 19 of his career-high 26 points in the second half and grabbed 12 rebounds, helping Utah hold off Arizona State 8882 on Saturday. Utah (11-4, 2-1 Pac-12) built a nine-point lead behind a second-half run keyed by Kuzma, only to allow Arizona State to claw its way back in the closing minutes. Obinna Oleka pulled the Sun Devils within 82-80 on a twohanded slam, but Lorenzo Bonham and JoJo Zamora combined to make 3 of 4 free throws in the final 25 seconds. The Utes shot 55 percent and made 8 of 16 from 3-point range after struggling to get shots to fall in a loss to Arizona on Thursday. Zamora and David Collette had 18 points each. Shannon Evans scored 21 points and Kodi Justice 17 to lead the Sun Devils (9-8, 2-2).
Wright leads Montana past EWU ASSOCIATED PRESS
CHENEY, Wash. — Walter Wright scored 19 points, Michael Oguine hit 4 of 5 from 3-point range and finished with 17 points and Montana closed the game on a 7-0 run to beat Eastern Washington 65-59 on Saturday. Ahmaad Rorie scored 12 for Montana (8-9, 3-1 Big Sky). A jumper by Sir Washington gave EWU (10-6, 2-1) a 59-58 lead with a minute left. Wright made two free throws eight seconds later and after a missed 3-pointer on the other end, two foul shots by Rorie made it 62-59 with 23 seconds to go. The Eagles missed another 3 and Oguine hit two free throws to give Montana a five-point lead before Rorie made 1 of 2 to cap the scoring. The game featured seven ties and 17 lead changes, including three and seven, respectively, in the final five minutes. Bogdan Bliznyuk had 23 points and six assists for EWU, but missed all seven of his 3-point shots. Jacob Wiley added 10 points and a career-high 14 rebounds for his second-consecutive double-double.
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FORT COLLINS, Colo. — Gian Clavell hit five 3-pointers and finished with 28 points, both season highs, and Colorado State pulled away in the second half for an 85-58 win over Air Force on Saturday to give Coach Larry Eustachy his 500th career victory. Prentiss Nixon added 20 points, including four 3s, while Anthony Bonner scored 11. Emmanuel Omogbo had 14 points on 5-of-7 shooting, 10 rebounds and a career-best five assists. Omogbo sandwiched a 3 and dunk around seven straight points from Clavell during a 12-0 run that made it 47-32 with 15 minutes left. Bonner, Nixon and Braden Koelliker each hit a 3-pointer as Colorado State (116, 3-1 Mountain West) scored 13 in a row to open a 29-point lead with 8:48 remaining. Clavell scored 21 as the Rams shot 63 percent (17 of 27) from the field and made nine 3-pointers in the second half. Frank Toohey scored 14 and Jacob Van added 11 points for the Falcons (8-8, 1-2). The Rams made a season-high 14 3-pointers, had 26 points off 18 Air Force turnovers and outscored the Falcons 52-30 after halftime.
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No. 9 LOUISVILLE 65, GEORGIA TECH 50 ATLANTA — Donovan Mitchell scored 13 of his 20 points in the second half as Louisville became the last Atlantic Coast Conference team to pick up a league win. Louisville (13-3, 1-2) used stifling defense in the first half and the long ball to beat Tech (9-6, 1-2) for the sixth straight time. Quentin Snider added 12 points and seven rebounds for the Cardinals while center Ben Lammers paced the Jackets with a career-high 24 points, nine rebounds and three blocks. Freshman Josh Okogie scored 15 points for Tech, which made just 5 of 20 shots in the first half. ___ No. 10 CREIGHTON 78, PROVIDENCE 64 PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Justin Patton had 20 points and Maurice Watson Jr. scored 11 with 14 assists for Creighton. Marcus Foster had 17 points and Khyri Thomas added 16 for the Bluejays (15-1, 3-1 Big East), who opened a 10-0 lead and never trailed. Emmitt Holt scored 17 points and Kalif Young had nine rebounds for Providence (11-6, 1-3). ___ No. 12 FLORIDA ST. 93, No. 21 VIRGINIA TECH 78 TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Terance Mann scored 22 points and Dwayne Bacon added 17 for Florida State. It is the first time since joining the Atlantic Coast Conference that the Seminoles have won their first three league games. FSU, which has won 11 straight, improved to 15-1, which matches it with the 1988-89 team for best start in school history thru 15 games. Chris Clarke led the Hokies (12-3, 1-2) with 22 points while Zach LeDay and Ahmed Hill added 19 apiece. ___ No. 16 XAVIER 97, ST. JOHN’S 82 CINCINNATI — Edmond Sumner had 20 points and seven assists for Xavier, which is alone atop the Big East. Xavier (13-2, 3-0) has won six straight games since consecutive road losses at Baylor and Colorado. The Musketeers are the last unbeaten team in Big East play. It was the second straight big game for Sumner, who had been limited by an injured left hand. The point guard had a career-high 28 points with 8 rebounds and 6 assists in 81-76 win at Georgetown last Saturday. Xavier had a season high in points. Marcus LoVett scored a career-high 32 for St. John’s (8-8, 2-1). ___ No. 18 BUTLER 85, GEORGETOWN 76 (OT) WASHINGTON — Freshman Kamar Baldwin scored 16 points as Butler followed its upset of No. 1 Villanova with a win. The Bulldogs (14-2, 3-1 Big East), who upended the defending national champions 66-58 on Wednesday, never trailed in the overtime to earn their third consecutive victory. L.J. Peak scored 21 points and Jagan Mosely added a career-high 20 for the Hoyas (88, 0-4), who lost their first four conference games for the first time since 1998-99. ___ No. 23 NOTRE DAME 75, CLEMSON 70 SOUTH BEND, Ind. — V.J. Beachem tied his career-high with 22 points and Notre Dame
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a heavily favored Packers team that finished 15-1 in the regular season. That year was the last time the Giants were in the postseason. Their four-year playoff drought is over after relying on the stingiest defense in the NFC (17.8 points per game) and the playmaking ability of receiver Odell Beckham Jr. “Feels good to win games during the regular season, and to be in this position,” said Manning, who turned 36 on Tuesday. “You definitely want to take advantage of it. You don’t know if you get more shots. You know how hard it is after these last years, how hard it is to get here.” Some notes and other things to watch in Sunday’s game: COVERING BECKHAM: Beckham had just five catches
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West Virginia guard Daxter Miles Jr. (4) take a jump shot as TCU guard Alex Robinson (25) defends during the second half of an NCAA college basketball game, Saturday, Jan. 7, 2017, in Morgantown, W.Va. remained undefeated in the Atlantic Coast Conference. Matt Farrell added 15 points for the Irish (14-2, 3-0) including a 3-pointer with 10 seconds left for the game’s final margin. Bonzie Colson recorded his ACC-best 10th double-double of the season with 13 points and 12 rebounds for Notre Dame, which has won five straight. Steve Vasturia added 14 points. Jaron Blossomgame had 22 points and eight rebounds for Clemson (11-4, 1-2). ___ No. 24 FLORIDA 83, TENNESSEE 70 GAINESVILLE, Fla. — KeVaughn Allen connected on four
3-pointers in the final 7:34 and scored 23 points to lead Florida. The Gators (12-3, 3-0 Southeastern Conference) pulled away from a 56-all tie with 8:57 left to win their fifth straight game. Allen made three of his 3s in a span of five possessions to turn a game that had featured six ties and 12 lead changes into a runaway at the end. Admiral Schofield had 18 points and 10 rebounds for Tennessee (8-7, 1-2). Florida hit 10 of its first 11 shots in the second half and has won its first three SEC games for the fourth time in five years. ___ No. 25 INDIANA 96, ILLI-
NOIS 80 BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — James Blackmon Jr. scored 25 points and Thomas Bryant had 20 as Indiana got its first Big Ten Conference win of the season. Illinois was scoreless for the first 6 minutes of the game, during which time the Hoosiers (11-5, 1-2) jumped out to a 13-0 lead. Indiana led for the entire game, and was up by as many as 22 points. Illinois pulled within 10 points of the Hoosiers with less than 5 minutes remaining in the game, but Indiana stretched its lead one final time. Jalen Coleman-Lands and Malcolm Hill scored 21 points each for Illinois (11-5, 1-2).
for 56 yards and a touchdown when the teams met in the regular season in Week 5, a 2316 victory for Green Bay. The Packers’ secondary was battered by injuries then, just like it is now. Quinten Rollins (neck/ concussion) will miss the game Sunday, while Damarious Randall is questionable with a knee injury. But second-year player LaDarius Gunter, who helped contain Beckham back in October, remains healthy. Gunter has become the most consistent cornerback for the Packers, who have also been without veteran Sam Shields (concussion) since the season opener. CORNER CONCERN: Randall was a full participant in practice at midweek. If he can’t go, the Packers might have to rely on undrafted rookies Josh Hawkins and the newly activated Herb Waters — a former receiver — to help Gunter at cornerback. Safety/slot cornerback Micah Hyde may also get more work
outside. Regardless, the secondary will get tested by Beckham and fellow receivers Sterling Shepard and Victor Cruz. THE NEW NYPD: The Giants’ secondary has proudly taken on a new nickname — “NYPD,” or “New York Pass Defense.” The NFL’s best unit in the red zone (39.5 percent) features three cornerbacks in Janoris Jenkins, Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie and Eli Apple who can match up with the Packers’ potent receiving corps, along with sturdy strong All-Pro safety Landon Collins (team-high 125 tackles, five interceptions). CAN COBB GO?: Receiver Randall Cobb has missed the last two games with a sore ankle, but teammates are helping fill the void. Undrafted rookie free agent Geronimo Allison has eight catches for 157 yards and a touchdown over the last two weeks. Tight end Jared Cook has joined Jordy Nelson and Davante Adams as another key target for
Rodgers. The possible return of Cobb to an increasingly diverse passing attack could pose another problem for the Giants. Cobb had nine catches for a season-high 108 yards against the Giants in October. ON THE RUN: The Giants’ running game awakened in the 19-10 win last week in Washington for a season-high 161 yards, including 102 on 21 carries for rookie Paul Perkins. Rashad Jennings, who didn’t play against the Packers in October, added 52 yards rushing and a touchdown against the Redskins. “Yeah I mean it can make it incredibly difficult,” Packers linebacker Clay Matthews said about the Giants’ recent rushing success. “Then, on top of that, (they) can do a lot of play-action out of that. ... We anticipate this being a much different game than the first time around. But it should be a good one.”
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BURLEY/RUPERT FORECAST
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TWIN FALLS FIVE-DAY FORECAST Today Monday Tonight
Today: Cloudy skies with a 90% chance of rain and snow, high temperature of 37º, humidity of 87%.
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Tonight: Expect cloudy skies with a 60% chance of rain and snow, overnight low of 34º. South southeast wind 7 mph.
Tomorrow: Skies will be cloudy with a 70% chance of rain, high temperature of 37º, humidity of 87%.
ALMANAC - BURLEY Temperature Yesterday’s High 15 Yesterday’s Low -2 Normal High / Low 34 / 18 Record High 55 in 1956 Record Low -22 in 1982
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Cloudy skies today with a 90% chance of rain and snow, highs in the low 30s. Light winds. New snow accumulation of 4 to 8 inches possible. Expect cloudy skies tonight with a 90% chance of rain and snow. Today Highs low 30s
Today Highs/Lows mid-30s/low 30s
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Grangeville 34 / 29
Dixie 30 / 18
McCall 30 / 29
Caldwell 30 / 28 Boise 34 / 32
Cloudy skies today with an 80% chance of rain and snow, highs in the low 30s. Southeast wind 11 to 18 mph. New snow accumulation of Salmon around an inch possible. 24 / 18
Sun Valley 30 / 24
Idaho Falls 30 / 30 Pocatello 36 / 36
Rupert 37 / 36
Mountain Home 37 / 30 Twin Falls 37 / 34
Precip Chance: 70%
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Oct. 27 at the top of Boise’s Table Rock Road, students with Riverstone International School plant sagebrush seedlings grown at the Duck Valley Indian Reservation — the reservation greenhouse program’s first native sagebrush contracted for wildfire rehabilitation.
NEW HELP FOR FIRE-RAVAGED LANDS
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WYHEE — A small pink flag fluttered in the wind as students formed a semicircle around the charred remains of a massive sagebrush. The ground beneath their feet was scorched black, just like the base of the sagebrush. Its branches reached skyward, gray and bare. “Do you know why there is a black circle?” Martha Brabec asked the students Oct. 27. Brabec held a shovel, a spade and a bag of soil with tiny, light-green sagebrush plants inside. Rehabilitating more than 2,500 acres burned during June’s Table Rock Fire was one of the first tasks for Brabec, the newly appointed foothills restoration specialist with Boise Parks and Recreation. DREW NASH, TIMES-NEWS The plants in her bag were a first, too: Sagebrush grow in a Duck Valley Indian Reservation greenhouse Nov. 2. the first native sagebrush from a Duck Valley Indian Reservation greenhouse used for wildfire rehabilitation. of the reasons is cheatgrass, an in“People think growing One The reservation on the Idaho-Nevasive species from Eurasia and a fine plants in greenhouses vada border illustrates the kind of colfuel that spreads fires like a wick. laboration between tribes and federally Because of the demand, land manis easy. But it’s harder agers usually contract with commermanaged lands that U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell called for in October. because there is so much cial nurseries and private contractors Boosted by a major federal agreement, a sagebrush plants a year in advance. more to monitor. I took for champion in the Bureau of Land ManUntil Duck Valley Indian Reservation’s agement and a new full-time staff, the greenhouse operation — which sprouted a few days to regroup greenhouse program at Duck Valley is a decade ago but didn’t immediately myself. It was so sad, but flourish — Idaho had only one major finally getting off the ground. That matters for Shoshone-Paiute sagebrush provider. we can learn from it.” tribal members, who see potential for On Oct. 27, 40 student volunteers from Riverstone International School an economic and educational boost on Susan Filkins, Boise-based BLM helped Brabec plant 1,000 sagebrush the reservation. And it matters for Idaho, natural resource specialist grown in Duck Valley Indian Reservawhere native sagebrush, willows and tion greenhouses. Nearly 5,000 sageforbs from these greenhouses can reha More online: In a special audio collection at Magicvalley.com, bilitate burned lands and restore wildlife brush from Duck Valley and elsewhere hear the voices of Mariah Gonzales, would be planted at Table Rock, though habitat. Clayton Cota and Susan Filkins. only a portion were expected to survive. Big demand to fill The tribal program also sent bitterbrush In Idaho, as in many other Western plants and blanket flowers, one of the five states, wildfires peak in July and August. are extinguished, the demand is high for forb species the Duck Valley program Some are sparked by lightning; others, sagebrush plants to rehabilitate these grows. like the fire at the popular Boise foothills areas in the Great Basin’s sagebrush When no one knew what the black cirlandmark, are human-caused. steppes. cle around the charred sagebrush meant, In 2015, U.S. wildfires set a record with Fires used to be a 70- to 100-year Brabec explained: It’s a fertile island, more than 10 million acres burned, the event, said Susan Filkins, a Boise-based where the most soil nutrients are. National Interagency Fire Center re- BLM natural resource specialist. Now Please see HELP, Page E2 ported. In southern Idaho, after the fires they happen every five to seven years.
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DUCK VALLEY GREENHOUSES
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1877
The year that Duck Valley Indian Reservation, situated on the Nevada and Idaho border, was established by executive order.
2,300
The number of Shoshone-Paiute Tribe members. Only 1,700 live at Duck Valley Indian Reservation.
2006
The year the first greenhouses were built at Duck Valley.
1,000
The number of sagebrush plants sold to the city of Boise to help rehabilitate more than 2,500 acres of land burned during June’s Table Rock Fire.
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The age some sagebrush plants can reach. Many live longer than 100 years.
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The amount of the Bureau of Land Management’s cooperative agreement with the Shoshone-Paiute Tribes of Owyhee County for development and collection of native plant materials at Duck Valley Indian Reservation.
MORE INSIDE: History of the Duck Valley Indian Reservation, E2 | Get to know: Mariah Gonzales, KW Pete, Clayton Cota and Susan Filkins , E3
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The Western Shoshone and the Northern Paiute once lived and traveled across large tracts of land in present-day Idaho, Nevada and Oregon. Today their homelands are much smaller. The Duck Valley Indian Reservation was established by President Rutherford B. Hayes for the Western Shoshone in 1877. The reservation was expanded for the Northern Paiute by President Grover Cleveland in 1886. It was expanded again in 1910 by President William H. Taft. Today, tribal lands consist of 289,819 acres straddling southern Idaho and northern Nevada. Of the more than 2,000 tribal members, 1,700 live on the reservation. Ted Howard, cultural resources director, grew up on Duck Valley and moved away. Howard returned in 1995 after being hired for his current position. “Our people are scattered,” he said. “Not just here, but all tribes are that way.” Howard said the Northern Paiute and Western Shoshone are similar in language and culture, as are the Shoshone and Bannock from Fort Hall. An 1884 effort to move the Western Shoshone to the Fort Hall Indian Reservation, to open up Duck Valley lands for
non-Indians, was successfully resisted by the tribe. The Shoshone and Paiute formed a tribal government with a constitution and bylaws that was adopted in 1936. “After the reservation was set aside,” Howard said, “they had an Indian agent who helped the people grow their own crops. Before they would gather that and travel to different areas to gather.” Many people grow gardens in hoop houses because Duck Valley’s climate is not conducive to crops. “We don’t have a long growing season here,” Howard said. “We are at 5,500 feet. It can freeze as late as June.” On Nov. 28, snow was blowing and the ground was covered in 2 or 3 inches. A boarding school operated on the reservation from 1884 to 1911, and the first public school was established in 1931. Older children were sent to boarding schools off the reservation to attend high school. In 1946, high school classes were added to the public school. The reservation school system was consolidated into Nevada’s Elko County School District in 1956 and today is known as Owyhee Combined School, teaching grades K-12. A lot of the reservation’s kids go TETONA DUNLAP, TIMES-NEWS to Idaho’s three public universities, Howard said. A sign welcomes visitors to the Duck Valley Indian Reservation on the border of Idaho and Nevada.
ABOVE: Rebecca Hoover, assistant greenhouse manager, takes notes during a Nov. 2 meeting on the Duck Valley Indian Reservation. TOP LEFT: Clayton ‘Frog’ Cota, 14, records notes and measurements Nov. 2 concerning sagebrush he planted a month earlier on the Duck Valley Indian Reservation. BOTTOM LEFT: Susan Filkins, a Bureau of Land Management natural resource specialist, talks about seed storage Nov. 2 on the Duck Valley Indian Reservation. DREW NASH, TIMES-NEWS
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Brabec pulled a sagebrush seedling from the plastic bag, then gave instructions on planting one or two seedlings in each fertile island: Pour half a bottle of water into the hole. Don’t bend the root ball as you place it in the ground and cover it with soil. A healthy root ball doesn’t have exposed roots. Don’t disturb the soil too much. We don’t want cheatgrass to get into the soil. After planting, the rest of the water goes on the seedling. “It will give the plants the best chances to grow and become a sagebrush one day,” Brabec said. If the seedlings make it to the next year, they stand a good chance of survival. A sagebrush lifetime can be 150 years, Brabec told the students. “The big ones you see on the side of the road are 50 years old,” she said, and the group hummed with surprised reactions. “Your children’s children may see the plants you are planting today,” Filkins said, stepping forward. Late in the year, finding sagebrush seedlings is difficult because demand is high after the fire season. Luckily, Brabec was introduced to Filkins, a BLM liaison for the Duck Valley greenhouse project. “I’m new in this position, and I didn’t have any contacts in place,” Brabec said. She’s glad to add the Duck Valley reservation, two hours south of Boise, to her contacts list.
sign welcomes visitors to the Duck Valley Indian Reservation, but it’s another couple of miles before the outer limits of Owyhee — houses and tribal buildings — come into view. Behind Owyhee Combined School, KW Pete shoveled weeds and rocks into a wheelbarrow and dumped them in a pile behind the greenhouses Nov. 2. It was a quiet day of general upkeep at the greenhouses — not
like the flurry of activity a week earlier, when the hydraulic popper machine was removing sagebrush seedlings from foam blocks for the Boise order as Owyhee eighth-graders placed seedlings into plastic bags. In 2006, Pete helped build the greenhouses as a high school student at Owyhee Combined. Today — as part of the BLM’s Pathways Program, which offers the potential for a full-time job after gradu-
ation — he is the student manager of the greenhouse project while he works on a University of Idaho master’s degree in environmental science. After the 1,000 sagebrush seedlings for Table Rock were bagged, they were stored in a freezer overnight to keep them from going into shock. Pete transported the Boise order in boxes that had “Sho-Pai Greenhouses, To: City of Boise” written in the left corner.
“It will give the plants the best chances to grow and become a sagebrush one day. The big ones you see on the side of the road are 50 years old.” Martha Brabec
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Drive along the isolated, twolane Idaho 51 between Mountain Home and Owyhee and you’ll pass an occasional vehicle and signs warning motorists of free-range grazing cattle. A brown-and-white Clayton ‘Frog’ Cota, 14, left, and Susan Filkins plant sagebrush Oct. 4.
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“Oh, yeah, that was pretty cool,” he said. “That was a good contract for us.” The $2,000 contract marked a milestone for the greenhouse program. It grew some plants until 2007, but when Filkins came on board in 2013, the three greenhouses were in disrepair and plant production had lulled. “It was a little bit overwhelming,” Filkins said. FFA students were using one of the greenhouses to grow vegetables, but the other two, with holes and broken doors, sat unused. “It was kind of like, ‘Wow, what did I get myself into?’ kind of moment,” Filkins said. “But I just moved forward and cleaned them up.” BLM colleagues traveled to Duck Valley from Boise to help Filkins clean and repair the greenhouses for several days. The greenhouses didn’t have a full-time staff in 2013; during the first couple of years, Filkins, who lives in Boise, spent a lot more time in Duck Valley than she does now. The greenhouse program has seen highs and lows over the past three years. The first crop of 50,000 sagebrush died in 2013; it took eight months to grow the sagebrush and one weekend to kill them. “It was an incredible low,” Filkins said. “I literally spend so much time down there to encourage and tell people, ‘We can do this.’” It was the Fourth of July weekend when the water and ventilation system shut down because of extreme heat. The plants fried by the time the problem was discovered. A year later, the watering and electrical systems were revamped. “People think growing plants in greenhouses is easy,” Filkins said. “But it’s harder because there is so much more to monitor. I took a few days to regroup myself. It was so sad, but we can learn from it.” Please see HELP, Page E4
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MEET KW PETE Kenneth “KW” Pete Jr. wanted to be a farmer when he was growing up on the Duck Valley Indian Reservation, but a trip to Hawaii changed his mind. He was working on a bachelor’s degree in agricultural economics from the University of Idaho when he took a course in Hawaiian culture and ecology — and became interested in growing plants in greenhouses. Pete is now employed by the Bureau of Land Management as the tribe’s student greenhouse manager as he works on a master’s degree in environmental science. Pete shoveled dirt Nov. 2 outside one of the three greenhouses on the Duck Valley reservation. It was just general maintenance to keep the outside, as well as the inside, of the greenhouses looking good and operating smoothly. Pete, who graduated from Owyhee Combined School in 2009, was one of the students who helped build the first greenhouse there in 2006. “The interest KW had was fostered in that first greenhouse,” said Susan Filkins, a BLM natural resource specialist. In October, Pete and Filkins attended the Intertribal Nursery Council in Buffalo, N.Y., an annual conference open to tribal members and others who work for or with tribal agencies. They gather to share conservation information,
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Working on his master’s degree, KW Pete pauses to answer questions outside the Duck Valley Indian Reservation greenhouse Nov. 2. preserve ecological knowledge and receive training. The Intertribal Nursery Council’s website says it is a Forest Service-managed, tribally guided organization for advancing the interests of native peoples involved with plant production in nurseries. Pete and Filkins gave a presentation on the Shoshone-Paiute Tribe’s greenhouse project. “We need more native plants on rangelands,” Pete said. “They are able to compete with exotics like cheatgrass.” As a graduate student, he traveled with a friend — a master’s degree candidate — to Luzon in
the Philippines to help indigenous people grow plants in greenhouses. “This is part of our culture,” Pete said. “We use sagebrush for cultural reasons.” Pete said the Shoshone-Paiute make tea from it and use it to smudge — or bless themselves — and the flowers and seed pods are edible. Though he has traveled far from the Duck Valley Indian Reservation, he didn’t want to be anywhere else Nov. 2. “I think I’ll stick around here for now.” Tetona Dunlap
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Recent Owyhee Combined School graduate Mariah Gonzales, 19, cleans up one of the Duck Valley Indian Reservation greenhouses Nov. 2. hen Mariah Gonzales was an W Owyhee Combined School student, she loved to visit the greenhouses. Sitting with the plants was her escape from stress, and she’d trim the tomatoes or research how to grow different plants. It’s still one of her favorite places. Gonzales, 19, graduated last year and was hired as the Bureau of Land Management’s second student worker at the greenhouses; the other is Kenneth “KW” Pete Jr. Gonzales keeps track of seed inventory, cleans and helps monitor classes that visit the greenhouses. She started volunteering there her junior year. “I want to help the tribe grow stuff so we can have things here,” she said. When Gonzales was growing
up, she and her father grew gardens with watermelon, green peppers and cucumbers. Inside the greenhouses Nov. 15, she was learning how to grow loofah, the sponge people use to remove dead skin cells. “These greenhouses are important,” she said. “It shows you can do things on your own. You don’t have to depend on the store.” In high school, Gonzales was involved in FFA and the Environmental Natural Resources Club. She wants to learn more about greenhouses and plants, but her dream is to become a veterinarian at Duck Valley Indian Reservation. “Sometimes a pet isn’t just a pet,” Gonzales said. “It’s a family member.” Tetona Dunlap
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Clayton ‘Frog’ Cota, 14, finishes planting sagebrush Oct. 4 near his home on the Duck Valley Indian Reservation. As Clayton “Frog” Cota dug his hands into the ground, powdery dirt covered his fingers. He broke apart clumps of soil and made the hole wide, but not deep. A sagebrush plant sat near his knees as he worked, waiting for its new home. Clayton, 14, a freshman at Owyhee Combined School, was planting six sagebrush plants he grew for a two-year science experiment: to find out whether sagebrush grown in natural soil fare better than plants grown in commercial soil. Both were grown in the school’s greenhouse; now they were being transplanted less than a mile from Clayton’s home. His experiment is part of a twoyear Elko County School District science fair project that he will present in March. In 2015, it was
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recognized by Broadcom MASTERS, a program of Society for Science and the Public. Broadcom MASTERS (Math, Applied Science, Technology and Engineering for Rising Stars) is designed to inspire sixth- to eighth-graders to be the next generation of scientists, engineers and innovators. Clayton lives with his grandmother, who encouraged him to get involved. “I thought it would be interesting to learn about plants and sagebrush,” he said. Susan Filkins, a Bureau of Land Management natural resource specialist, helped Clayton plant his sagebrush Oct. 4 on the Duck Valley Indian Reservation. She showed him how to measure his sagebrush, take photos and write notes in his field journal.
Clayton has noticed that the sagebrush plants grown in natural soil didn’t sprout as quickly as the ones in commercial soil. But over time, the ones in commercial soil started to grow thin and wilt, while the ones in natural soil grew strong. “In the natural soil, it’s better,” Clayton said. “They are taller and more sprouted out, more than manufactured soil.” Clayton became interested in science in sixth grade, but he doesn’t know if he wants to become a scientist. He also takes part in football, basketball, wrestling and track, and right now he’s more interested in diesel mechanics as a career. Though he’s required to visit his sagebrush only every Tuesday, he checks them every day during his walk to catch the school bus. Tetona Dunlap
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Susan Filkins, a Bureau of Land Management natural resource specialist, shows a photo of her father while at her desk Nov. 2 on the Duck Valley Indian Reservation.
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Susan Filkins remembers driving through Duck Valley and noticing the greenhouses behind Owyhee Combined School. She wanted to know more. At the time, Filkins worked for the Bureau of Land Management with vegetation and grazing permits. “I knew BLM helped build (the greenhouses), but didn’t know the status of them,” she said. “One day, I asked deputy director Peter Ditton.” When the greenhouse program on the Duck Valley Indian Reservation was revived in 2013, Filkins was approached to facilitate it. In December, she received a Superior Service Award from the BLM for her work on the Duck Valley reservation and the Fort Hall Indian Reservation. Filkins started working for the BLM in 2002 as a Boise State University student pursuing a second undergraduate degree in environmental studies. She also has a degree in natural resources from Western Illinois University. Growing up in southern California, Filkins said, she always had an interest in biology and wanted to become a wildlife biologist. But as a BSU lab technician, she was introduced to plants. That’s where she met Roger Rosentreter, a longtime state botanist for the BLM, who became a mentor to her. Rosentreter is nationally known for his more than 40 years’ work with lichens.
He travels the world talking about his lichen work and in the West lecturing on fire, rangelands and sage grouse habitats. “He had an infectious attitude about plants,” Filkins said. “He showed me amazing things that plants do and don’t do. They have their own turf wars. Lichens will send out chemicals to keep other plants away. You can date sagebrush by the lichen on it. When he started talking about these processes, he was excited. There are so many wildlife biologists out there, but without the soil and the plants, you wouldn’t have any animals out there.” Filkins’ father, Edward Barton, also influenced her work. Barton was Cherokee and shared articles with her about plants and their many uses. Barton, who drew on his Native American culture in all aspects of his life, was in the Air Force for 23 years and was active in Boy Scouts. “He brought his Native culture to many Boy Scouts,” Filkins said. “He created the first Boy Scout troupe in Guam where he was stationed. He would educate people about Native people.” Barton died seven years ago, and Filkins keeps a portrait of her father dressed in regalia in a frame next to her Duck Valley desk. “I really do wish my dad was alive,” she said, “to see the program’s success.” Tetona Dunlap
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DUCK VALLEY SAGEBRUSH SEEDLINGS Dedi Semee, left, and Alex Macha, seniors at Riverstone International School, plant sagebrush at the top of Table Rock Road on Oct. 27 in Boise.
Reporter Tetona Dunlap is from the Wind River Indian Reservation in Wyoming. During her first drive to Duck Valley Indian Reservation, her phone’s GPS told her it was two hours away when really it was three hours from Twin Falls. She thought she was lost and was happy to see the welcome sign on the outskirts of the reservation.
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A sagebrush grown at the Duck Valley Indian Reservation is freshly planted and watered by Riverstone International School students at the top of Table Rock Road on Oct. 27 in Boise.
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Susan Filkins, a liaison from the Bureau of Land Management’s state office, checks a log book Clayton ‘Frog’ Cota, 14, takes notes on a sagebrush he planted. Oct. 4 inside a Duck Valley Indian Reservation greenhouse.
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Growing partnerships
August was a high point: The BLM awarded a $350,000, fiveyear cooperative agreement to the Shoshone-Paiute Tribes of Owyhee County for the development and collection of native plant materials at the Duck Valley Indian Reservation. “The purpose is to help us by growing plants that are more acclimated to our part of the country when doing restoration projects,” said Peter Ditton, BLM associate state director, who has helped oversee the Duck Valley greenhouse project for the past eight years. “Part of that agreement has been the delivery of plants that we use on our restoration projects for areas that have been burned. The more localized genetic material, the higher possibility of survival for the plants.” The BLM will buy the plants it needs from the greenhouses, and the tribe can sell remaining plants on the open market. Eventually, the Duck Valley greenhouses will have an operation similar to Lucky Peak Nursery near Boise, Ditton said, but on a much smaller scale. Lucky Peak grows trees and shrubs and stores seed used to rehabilitate forests and sagebrush steppes. Established in 1959, it provides plant material for national forests in southern Idaho, Utah, Nevada, western Wyoming, Arizona and New Mexico. Lucky Peak, Ditton said, is one of the BLM’s primary sources for sagebrush seedlings. Filkins and Pete brought a new stability to the Duck Valley greenhouse program. “Our goal is to educate and provide opportunity for the youth there,” Ditton said. “It’s a transient population, not in a negative way; they come in and get interested, and then they graduate and move on, unless they go on and pursue it on their own and stay engaged. Having that permanency there, you have someone
who can continue to teach them. It’s not passed on from student to student.” Though the program wasn’t growing at the time Filkins became involved, Ditton said, there wasn’t a lapse in its existence. In 2007, the Murphy Complex Fire burned 600,000 acres from Castleford to Mountain City, Nev. A couple of years following the fire, Ditton said, the tribe provided willows for the land’s rehabilitation. “Prior to Susan’s involvement, we relied heavily on the school district to get things rolling, and we would provide sporadic expertise,” Ditton said. “We realized that we needed more permanency there. That’s when I asked Susan if she would be willing to take that on and help out.” Last year, the BLM further solidified the project by adding Pete as greenhouse manager. Pete, a member of the Shoshone-Paiute Tribe, has a bachelor’s degree in agricultural economics from U of I. “He’s very a nice young man,” Ditton said. “Very capable, and, of course, as a tribal member his interest started with those original greenhouses. That’s how he became interested in going to school. That’s exactly what we hoped and intended to come out of this program. Our hiring of KW Pete as the greenhouse manager, I think that is a critical step. We definitely demonstrated through the participation of Susan that having someone there in a permanent capacity has really helped.” What’s happening in Duck Valley is exactly what Interior Secretary Jewell called for this fall. In October, at the annual Alaska Federation of Natives Conference in Fairbanks, Jewell issued a secretarial order to encourage tribal roles in managing Interior lands with Native American connections. Interior land- and water-management agencies covered by the order include the National Park Service, BLM, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management and
Bureau of Reclamation. “This secretarial order reflects the Obama Administration’s deep commitment to strengthen respect between the United States government and Native American and Alaska Native leaders and communities while boosting our efforts to increase tribal self-determination and self-governance,” Jewell said in her remarks. “This kind of collaboration with tribal nations will help ensure that we’re appropriately and genuinely integrating indigenous expertise, experience and perspectives into the management of public lands.” An example outlined in the order is the facilitation of a partnership to manage plant resources, including collection of plant material — similar to the Duck Valley greenhouse project. “The intent is to provide again those educational opportunities for the kids,” Ditton said. “Part of the secretary’s youth initiative also fits very well with our needs for more native plant materials. It’s not just about growing in the greenhouses, it’s also about learning how to collect that seed. We are looking for that closely sourced genetic material. Simply put, having sagebrush seedlings from a bush grown in southern Idaho is a better option than seed from a sagebrush plant in Nevada (being) put in Idaho. There’s those genetic differences.”
Engaging the youth
The horizon was dark when Filkins and freshman Clayton “Frog” Cota, accompanied by a teacher, arrived at the road leading to Clayton’s house Oct. 4. Filkins helped Clayton, 14, plant six sagebrush plants near his home on the Duck Valley reservation. Clayton is working on a two-year science project comparing the growth of plants grown in commercial soil with those started in natural soil. The plants in commercial soil sprouted first, but the ones in natural soil grew stronger. Now the real test was whether they would survive in the elements.
Filkins showed Clayton how to measure his sagebrush, take photos and write notes in his field journal as the cold wind picked up. “You’ll be amazed what happens when you give a student some seed, soil and a pot,” Filkins said. “They will check on it all the time.” The greenhouses also serve as a tool for students’ science fair projects and teach them how to grow native foods such as the camas root; one of Filkins’ priorities is teaching students about native plants. The greenhouses also provide food to community members as students grow vegetables for tribal elders. “It’s healthier,” Filkins said. “They are more likely to eat vegetables they grow.” But here, growing them is no easy matter. The weather at Duck Valley is unpredictable. The electricity goes out once a month, and the wind is fierce. The growing season is short. It’s common to get frost in May, and a 45-minute hailstorm isn’t unusual. “I’ve done field work in Owyhee, but the wind is so severe here,” Filkins said. “The conditions are so extreme. It’s a hardy place to live.” Propane is a backup for the greenhouses when electricity goes out. Many people who grow gardens at Duck Valley use hoop houses to protect their crops from the damaging winds, snow and hailstorms. Just as Clayton finished planting his final sagebrush, the wind started blowing and tiny ice pellets fell, pelting the ground.
How does a program grow? On Nov. 2, Filkins met with Pete and Rebecca Hoover, assistant greenhouse manager, inside a shop building next to the greenhouses to discuss two new contracts. They are working with Boise BLM to propagate Great Basin wild rye, biscuitroot and scabland penstemon — a total of 200 plants
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— for spring planting on federal rangelands in the BLM’s Boise district. The $40,000 contract will pay for supplies and labor; BLM provides the seed. “All three of these species are fairly easy to grow,” Filkins said. Pete was excited about the new contracts coming in. “We’ll work with them to get plants they can’t get,” Pete said. “Since we’re small, it’s easy for us to do.” The second contract, for $3,000, was to grow 300 willows of two species for Columbia spotted frog habitat restoration projects in the BLM’s Bruneau Resource Area. The frogs need the willows for coverage to make their nests, and the willows will help redirect water to the area so it becomes marshy. “I’m helping them diversify to further their security as greenhouses,” Filkins said. Filkins said the program is on the right track for success with these new contracts. “We have to have a couple years of successfully contracting and selling plant materials,” she said. “That way the greenhouse program can show they are making money and be able to expand into other greenhouses.” She predicted an expansion is three to five years away. “The fact that we have viable plant material that we can sell is a huge success and that we have a full staff,” she said. Filkins, Pete and Hoover continually network and try to create an interest for plant materials grown at Duck Valley. “Word has to get out that down in Duck Valley ... this is producing good plant material. It is a business that can compete,” Filkins said. “Just having Martha (Brabec) take that little bit of a chance with us was huge. The importance of it is not lost.” A couple of weeks after the Oct. 27 planting, Filkins returned to Table Rock to check on the newly planted sagebrush. They were taking to their new home — and growing.
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