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Unpacking the impact of guns on campus

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OLD AGE STORY An investigation into big-money elder care

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PLAZART City Hall sculpture design unveiled

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RED CARPET Talking shop with the Sun Valley Film Fest

“[E]xpect it to be the rationale for hotels, guiding services and the tour buses of salmon-porn addicts.”

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Hedden-Nicely is not only head teacher at Marian Pritchett High School, but occupies a special place in BW’s heart as one of the paper’s founders in 1992. Skinner many will know as the driving force behind The Flicks, Boise’s beloved art house theater and all-around cultural institution.

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BOISEWEEKLY.COM What you missed this week in the digital world.

THE BIGGER THEY ARE “Big” Ed Beckley won’t let a crash keep him from “jumping that sucker.”

Cruise on over to Citydesk for more.

THE LEARNING TREE A film based on stories by Senegalese youth that screened at SVFF will show at Treefort. Learn more on Cobweb.

IT’S A CRYING SHAME The Boise Pride board of directors voted to dissolve Boise Pride, Inc. On Citydesk, read why the rainbow flag won’t fly.

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TRY THE TRUTH, LUKER Who knows, it may get to be a habit In a recent column, I managed to call Lynn Luker “despicable,” “paltry,” “unfit” (to be an elected official) and “a dumbshit,” all in one sentence. I now feel bad about that.

Looking back, with what I know now, I can see I may have left out the most pertinent thing about Mr. Luker. If I’d known then what I know now, that sentence would have read something like, “Rep. Lynn Luker, RBoise, is a despicable, paltry, unfit, dumbshit coward.

But let me back up and explain how I left out that pertinent detail.

You probably think of Luker, if you think of him at all, as the sponsor of the “Free Exercise of Religion Act,” or what I call the “Hall Pass to Be a Bigoted Bastard Bill.” I remind you that the intention of the bill was to allow anyone practicing a profession that called for a state license the legal right to deny their services, as long as their assholery was founded in “sincerely held religious beliefs.”

On it’s shallow surface, the law, had it been enacted, was for the benefit of those pious souls who object to, or are offended by, homosexuality. But myself and many others tried to point out that—beyond the in-yourface evil of singling out one set of humans for inhumane treatment—there are more “sincerely held religious beliefs” than the ones Luker had in mind. A lot more. And that once you institute permission to discriminate into state law, you never know what direction it might take.

After much to-do over the proposed law, Luker decided to put his ugly baby back to bed. Evidently, even he could see that the stink it was kicking up would likely kill it eventually. I don’t for a minute believe he took the serious arguments against it into account. That’s not the way this GOP hog wallow we call the Idaho Legislature does things.

Whether the issue is education reform, guns on campus or the expansion of Medicaid, these boys are masters at ignoring the testimony of the opposition and doing whatever the hell they intended to do in the first place.

So I’m not clear on why Luker pulled his Free Exercise of Religion Act. I don’t believe he gives much of a damn that every respectable newspaper in the state editorialized against it, that even many Christians think it is a stupid idea, or that, indeed, it is a stupid idea.

However, turns out it is a widely held stupid idea, and that’s what I know now that I didn’t know then.

Had I been paying closer attention when Luker’s bill was all the buzz here in Idaho, I might have caught wind of attempts being made to enact the same legislation, in spirit if not textually, in at least 11 other states—Arizona being the state under the greatest scrutiny. Nor would it come as a shock to find out that even more state legislatures were waiting

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to see what sort of luck the legislation would have in places like Idaho and Arizona before getting their own gay-bashing balls rolling.

Need I say that the legislation was, in every case, the work of Republicans? And isn’t that the way Republican lawmakers work these days? As much as they pontificate on how decisions should be handled at the state level, they are always eager to take an idea born in some cracker craphole–Mississippi comes to mind—and spread it out as rapidly as possible, from sea to shining sea, before an opposition has time to organize.

“Stand Your Ground” laws, “personhood” legislation to restrict birth control, privatizing education... these and much more, including the “Free Exercise of Religion Act,” are all dumplings being served from the same pot, then carried dutifully into legislative action by willing footmen who proceed to act like the whole thing was their idea.

Seriously, you didn’t think little Lynny Luker thought of this by himself, did you?

UUU So then, who is it that’s cooking this stuff up? And why is it that pissants like Luker are so loath to tell us who slipped him the idea?

I feel like I have answered the second question, to my own satisfaction if no one else’s.

If we start with the proposition that Luker did not originate this concept of using the sacred cow of religious freedom to bludgeon gays, that means there are only two possible explanations as to why he hasn’t told us the idea didn’t start with him: 1) he’s a slimy opportunist who would take credit where credit is not due, or 2) he is a coward, a man without the backbone to acknowledge he is simply a boot-licking lackey who does what he is told to do.

Or, of course, he could always be both.

And about the true source? The pot from which this rancid slop was ladled? The brain behind the dimwits. The puppet master with the name which must not be spoken? C’mon Luker, was it ALEC (American Legislative Exchange Council), that Koch brothers’ front which, as we know, passes out marching orders to Republican dronebots? Was it—as suggested by Zach Hagadone in last week’s Boise Weekly (BW, Feature, “Feeding the Beast,” March 5, 2014)—Focus on the Family, that foul nexus of faith and fascism with such a hatred of gays they would hire even a drifting oil slick like Bryan Fischer to speak for it?

Luker, this is your chance to be a man.

Tell us the true source of this bill. Tell us when you were contacted, and by whom, and how they suggested you should deliver this evil into our state. Do that, and I will happily apologize to you here in this space, publicly, for calling you a despicable, paltry, unfit, dumbshit coward.

I’ll be holding my breath until you do.

Yeah, sure.

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WHOSE MONUMENT? De facts of de facto ownership

Last month, as part of the Idaho Humanities Council’s “Wilderness Considered” program in Hailey, I lectured on what we seek when we seek the wild. My thesis was that there are spiritual aspects of being human that only become apparent when we’re safely distant from civilization. Since we were in an electrically heated classroom in a community whose economy rests on industrial tourism, I couldn’t identify those spiritual aspects by pointing at them. The room, the Humanities Council sponsorship and the audience that had driven to the program in automobiles all ensured that any spiritual components of the wild could only be defined by default.

It was a most civilized evening. People were polite. Even I was polite, which is a good default if you’re a Humanities Council Scholar.

My lecture was not so polite. It was about the toxic aspects of industrial tourism, which come into being, for example, when crowds of people experience the same high mountain lake: the wild disappears. It’s smothered under tent floors. It’s blackened by the charcoal of campfires. It’s transformed by trails and photo points and the REI-engendered expectations of its visitors until it becomes another imperfect artifact of an imperfect civilization.

I talked about the tedium experienced by hunting guides, fishing guides or moonlight hayride guides. I talked about the elimination of real fish from our streams and rivers and their replacement by artificial hatchery rainbow, animals that will strike at any fly that looks remotely like a hatchery food pellet. I talked about the recreational real estate industry, which turns proximity to wilderness into fat commissions. I talked about how wolves, introduced to Idaho to restore the wild, have become intensely managed political animals morally indistinguishable from pound dogs.

Toward the end of the evening I talked about disputes over who owns Idaho’s wild lands, and noted that the original meaning of Eden—a spiritual wild place where we’re supposed to be able to walk with and talk to God—was “walled garden,” which suggests that Adam and Eve didn’t get kicked out because of that business with the apple. Instead, they had maxed out their credit cards in a place someone had gone to all the trouble to put a wall around. God owned the place, but you could forget about walking and talking with Him. He was huddled with His lawyers, accountants and marketing people over in corporate headquarters in Megiddo.

The idea of Eden as a moneymaker comes into sharp focus when framing the BoulderWhite Clouds as a national monument.

In the most literal sense, a national monument is a frame: A boundary will be drawn around half a million acres. Admission will be charged. If those who work there are lucky, enough money will be appropriated from the treasury to improve inside-the-frame campgrounds, trails and roads. That money will BOI S EW EEKLY.COM

build bridges, buy grazing rights, close roads and contract with private companies for garbage removal, camp hosts and fee collection.

What’s inside the frame will be protected.

Protected from whom is another question.

Carl Pence, a former Sawtooth National Recreation Area ranger, has written that existing legislation already protects the BoulderWhite Clouds from serious threats. Last year, in an eloquent letter to the Idaho Statesman, he noted the National Forest Management Act, the National Environmental Policy Act, the Endangered Species Act, the Clean Water Act and the act that created the SNRA address any physical dangers facing the area.

Mining isn’t going to happen, because if you enforce existing environmental and safety laws, even high-grade ores aren’t economical to mine. (Castle Peak’s molybdenum was profitable only because the federal government purchased it in the ground, as part of the establishment of the SNRA). We had 100 years of intense mining in Idaho, and the BoulderWhite Clouds are still here, unspoiled except for a few antique attractions like Boulder City.

Grazing and salmon spawning beds are regulated. Motorized vehicle use is restricted to designated roads and trails. The high peaks are managed to maintain wilderness values. As Pence stated, “Additional legislation designed to provide additional protection presents an illusion [italics mine] of political progress.”

Pushing for the “protections” of monument status present an opportunity to turn the Boulder-White Clouds into a wholly owned subsidiary of industrial tourism. It’s no accident that two of the people in the Idaho Conservation League ads supporting monument status are a former executive director of the Ketchum-Sun Valley Chamber of Commerce and owner of the store where I buy my hiking boots. It’s also no accident that the Pew Foundation, which gives the ICL much of its funding, mindlessly counts wilderness acres as a measure of its cultural colonization of the West.

Because resort-town gateways, ticket booths and developed campgrounds require discretionary income, the terrible threat that monument status will protect the BoulderWhite Clouds from is poor people.

Assuming it happens, the new monument will be enlisted to reinflate the Wood River Valley’s real estate bubble. You can expect it to be the subject of travel articles in The New York Times. You can expect it to be the rationale for hotels, guiding services and the tour buses of salmon-porn addicts. You can expect a sacrificial donut of development around it, and if that’s too slow in coming, you’ll hear cries for its designation as a National Park.

What you won’t hear is discussion of the spiritual qualities of the Boulder-White Clouds, because those will have fled for less managed parts of Idaho, places that will soon resonate to relentless calls for their protection.

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NEWS PATR IC K S W EENEY

LOCKED AND LOADED The Idaho Legislature muscled past design review to build its $8 million parking garage.

UNDER THE RADAR Anyone curious as to what passes for a design review at the Idaho Legislature might want to take a look at the block-long slab of concrete passing as a half-finished parking garage a stone’s throw from the Statehouse.

The 2013 Legislature muscled through its plans for an un-historic parking ramp in one of the city’s most treasured districts, supplanting two historic dwellings along the way.

Not content with last year’s thumb-of-thenose to the city of Boise, members of the 2014 Idaho Legislature now have a design of their own: further tightening the leash on design review, making commercial building design review mostly voluntary.

During a Feb. 24 debate on the floor of the Idaho House, Boise Democratic Rep. Mat Erpelding repeatedly questioned the sponsor of this year’s bill—Hayden Republican Rep. Ed Morse—if Morse could provide any specific example of a property that had previously been restricted by design review.

And that’s when Morse resurrected the 2013 debate over the Legislature’s pet project, that still-under-construction parking garage, which caused Boise’s Design Review and Planning and Zoning commissions to rule that the structure was “incompatible with the surrounding area.”

“We had an example just last year with the state parking garage,” Morse reminded his Idaho House colleagues.

What Morse forgot to remind lawmakers was that the Legislature overrode Boise and moved forward with its garage anyway.

“This seems to be directed toward the city in which I live, and the city I’m proud of,” said Erpelding. “It’s underhanded.”

But House Bill 480, which has received scant media coverage, is currently gliding through the Legislature—having already been approved by the Idaho House 50-17 and now on its way to the Senate for its consideration.

“This bill took off like it was on fire,” said K.K. Lipsey, business development director for CSHQA architects and engineers.”But this bill is still under the radar because there are so many other controversial issues this year.”

It’s not as if the bill hasn’t met opposition.

“This is bad business,” Boise architect Andy Erstad told the House Local Government Committee Feb. 18. “The state shouldn’t be in the role of dictating to cities what to do.”

But Morse powered his bill through anyway, telling his House colleagues that he was advocating for individual property owners who had suffered “major impairments” by design review requirements.

But many of the men and women who make up the Idaho Legislature come from areas of the Gem State 9 where design review is a rarity.

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What ‘guns-on-campus’ would mean for Idaho universities HARRISON BERRY Jeff Decker, a student majoring in construction management at Boise State University, believes guns have a place in the hands—or, rather, holsters—of Boise State students.

Prior to transferring to Boise State in the fall of 2013, Decker attended Manchester Community College in Manchester, Conn.

In March 2013, a student there reported to police that she’d seen a gun tucked into another student’s waistband. The police locked down the campus for hours in search of the armed student. During the lockdown, an officer was wounded when his weapon accidentally discharged.

“I have the right to protect myself,” Decker said. “I don’t want to wait 10-15 minutes for the police to respond.”

Decker’s story illustrates how seriously guns are taken on university campuses, and how polarizing the issue can be. Over the past few weeks, SB 1254, which allows retired police officers and holders of enhanced concealed carry permits to wear their weapons in certain areas of Idaho university campuses, cruised through the Idaho Statehouse. There, it was universally opposed in testimony by Idaho’s university presidents, their legal counsel, and the police and security forces that serve campus communities. It was supported by some faculty and students like Decker, as well as the Fraternal Order of Police.

As Boise Weekly went to press, Gov. C.L. “Butch” Otter was poised to sign the so-called guns-on-campus bill into law.

It was designed to bring parts of Idaho’s institutions of higher learning closer to the fold of the Second Amendment, but in Idaho, where guns are comparatively commonplace, its passage means substantial changes to the state’s universities. Campus officials will, soon enough, begin ramping up security infrastructure while political action committees seek to unseat legislators who voted for the bill.

Meanwhile the numbers of new, renewed and duplicate concealed carry licenses being issued in Ada County have decreased compared to 2013. In January and February 2014, 441 new concealed carry permits were issued, 351 were renewed and 30 were duplicated. In all of 2013, 4,877 new such permits were issued, although the county doesn’t track which are enhanced permits.

In Latah County, home of the University of Idaho, there are 24 enhanced permits and 10 applications for enhanced permits are in

Emily Walton, co-founder of the Idaho Coalition to Keep Guns Off Campus: “We need to change our strategy—start focusing on November.”

process. Statewide, 1,128 of the enhanced permits have been issued.

Enhanced permits are transferable between Idaho counties, and the number of permits issued in Ada or Latah counties don’t necessarily reflect the numbers of enhanced permit holders on Idaho campuses, which is why Moscow Chief of Police David Duke, whose department coordinates with the University of Idaho’s campus security, is recommending an expansion of police presence and updated security infrastructure there. That would mean metal detector wands at Kibbie Dome events, educational courses to inform students about the presence of guns and gun safety, and possibly raising the number of police officers on campus from two to six to provide 24-hour coverage. The officers alone might cost the university an additional $500,000 per year, though any changes there are still in the planning stage.

“We’ll be working with the university administration and emergency management to see if they want additional officers. They’re working within their structure to determine what they should do with their security,” Duke said.

At Boise State, a rationale for plans to update campus security was outlined in a memo by Director of Campus and Police Services Jon Uda prior to the passage of the bill. Campus security, he wrote, “should be the first priority and the first attempt at a solution to the supposed problem” of student safety.

“With guns prohibited on campus, any situations involving a firearm are an immediate 911 emergency call. … Officers will now have to be trained in ‘good gun v. bad gun’ situations,” he wrote.

In the memo, Uda outlined the costs of the various measures he recommends Boise

State put in place. Already the Boise Police Department, which holds the contract for Boise State police coverage, has requested an increase in its contract rate. If approved, in 2015 Boise State would pay BPD $275,000; in 2016, that would increase to $305,000.

Additionally, $774,210 would be needed to update security at Boise State’s various venues and the Department of Public Safety estimates that salary and benefits, operating expenses and new facilities expenses would total $895,050 in 2015 alone.

At the University of Colorado-Boulder, concealed weapons have been allowed on campus since 2011. Since then, the violent crime rate on campus has decreased. According to Commander Robert Axmacher of the CU-Boulder Police, the real effect of allowing guns on university campuses hasn’t been an increase or decrease in violence, or an influx of safety-related security costs, but something less tangible.

“Since 2011, what we’ve seen is increased discussion on the topic. We haven’t had any event, at least on the Boulder campus, that would indicate that we’ve had an increase or decrease in campus safety [due to guns on campus],” he said.

Nevertheless, intangibles are a concern to campus administrators at Boise State. The university’s director of government relations, former Idaho House Speaker Bruce Newcomb, worries that having concealed weapons on campus will affect professor, student and athlete recruitment, and that guns have no place at Idaho’s universities.

“I had one professor tell me, ‘All my kids are going to get As.’ I think it changes the whole climate,” Newcomb said.

But just because guns were forbidden on campus didn’t mean they 9 weren’t there. Matthew Townsend said he’s been carrying his .380 BodyB O I S E WE E KLY. C O M

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The Idaho Legislature’s parking garage, still under construction.

Boise-based RMH teamed up with Portland, Ore.-based GGLO to propose a $17 million block-long, condominium and retail development for River Street, framed by Fulton, Eighth and Ninth streets.

THE NEXT BIG THING Ninth and River Street development could be new city gateway GEORGE PRENTICE Following the emergence of Whole Foods, the Eighth and Main Tower, and the burgeoning JUMP and multi-modal transit projects, Boise’s latest project du jour will pop up on some of the city’s most prime real estate—a 1.2-acre block on River Street, framed by Fulton, Eighth and Ninth streets.

In a process that triggered one of the most robust competitions in recent memory, the Capital City Development Corporation put the word out that it would entertain formal proposals for its underutilized, but much coveted property—attracting elaborate designs from some of the region’s premier architectural firms.

“And our selection was made more difficult, in a healthy way, due to the high interest of some of the best development groups you could ask for,” CCDC Executive Director John Brunelle told his organization’s board of commissioners. “It’s conceivable that more than one of these concepts will find a location in Boise.”

Brunelle had everyone’s attention. Similar to listening to the Academy rules being explained before the Oscars are handed out, attendees of the March 10 CCDC meeting nervously waited through Brunelle’s niceties before he finally announced the choice. The only thing missing was an envelope.

“We can only begin the … negotiating process with a single company, and staff is recommending it be with RMH Company of Boise,” said Brunelle.

More than a few attendees rummaged through their packets of proposals from each of the competitors. And there it was: RMH’s watercolored vision of two separate mixed-use condominium/retail buildings, divided by a shaded walkway serving as a pedestrian gateway from the Boise River Greenbelt, through BODO and toward the Grove Plaza.

“And another reason that this would be such a big deal is the library,” Brunelle told Boise Weekly. “There could be changes in

guard semi-automatic pistol for two years. Townsend isn’t a Boise State student, but said he carries his weapon on cam8 pus four to five times a month in the fall and spring, and at least twice a month during the summer, and said he knows of “more than five, but less than 15” people who carry their concealed weapons onto campus daily.

“Since there is no actual law prohibiting weapons on campus, I carry without fear of legal prosecution,” he said prior to the passage of SB 1254.

The law aims to take guns out of the shadows of Idaho campuses, but students, faculty and activists are already working to show that enacting legislation without heeding education or law enforcement stakeholders has political consequences. Until the passage of the bill, the Coalition to Keep Guns Off Campus focused on collecting signatures and letters from the people affected by the law.

The coalition’s members are retooling, creating a political action committee to energize voters against yea-voting legislators. University student body leadership organizations are communicating, and Boise political organizer Emily Walton said she and others are looking beyond voicing disapproval and taking action.

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the wind at that location.”

Indeed, in a March 5 memo to his own board of trustees, Boise Public Library Director Kevin Booe wrote that the future of the Ninth and River site “will determine how the library’s footprint should be developed.”

RMH partnered with Portland, Ore.based GGLO to craft the winning proposal.

“But the purpose of the exclusive rightsnegotiation process that we’re entering now is to get a timeline and budget put together,” Brunelle told BW. “Yes, there will be some refinement to their original proposal; that’s a given.”

RMH is estimating that the project—65 market-rate condos, retail and live-work businesses and rooftop gardens—has an approximate price tag of $17 million.

A best-case scenario would see ground broken in 2014.

“Hopefully, we’ll get a project going this year,” said Brunelle.

“We need to change our strategy—start focusing on November,” she said, referring to legislative elections that will take place at the end of the year.

That strategy will likely mean mailings and students knocking on doors in legislative districts 10, home to Caldwell Republican Sen. Jim Rice and Republican Reps. Brandon Hixon and Darrell Bolz; and 15, the seat of Boise Republican Sen. Fred Martin and Republican Reps. Lynn Luker and Patrick McDonald, all of whom voted in favor of the bill and whose districts contain large student populations.

While a handful of legislators may be vulnerable in November, however, the law may not: Citing the amount of time and money it takes to mount a successful referendum in Idaho, Walton said that putting the question to Idaho voters of whether students should be able to bring guns on campuses, regardless of the permit status of who carries them or whether they’re carried openly or concealed, is unlikely to happen in November 2014—just seven and a half months away.

“I don’t think we could get the signatures in that time,” she said.

lators come from Idaho’s rural communities and can’t imagine what it’s like to manage urban-ness,” Lipsey told Boise 8 Weekly. “Zoning is like a crazy quilt and you might have residential right next commercial and not even know it.”

In fact, Lipsey said property owners have the most to lose here.

“If this bill becomes law, it would have a major impact on property values. You’ll be more hesitant on buying a piece of property because you’ll never know what could go up next door,” she said.

Nampa Republican Rep. Robert Anderst, a commercial real estate broker and co-sponsor of HB 480, argues that there “needs to be greater trust” in those commercial developers who might build something next door.

“Will we like every building that is built?

Maybe not,” wrote Anderst in a Feb. 28 op-ed to the Idaho Press-Tribune.“We know, however, that the buildings will be safe, functional and in a compatible location.”

But Lipsey told BW that Anderst’s own district is a prime example of why design review is imperative.

“Take a drive to Nampa and see what happened; they didn’t have design review until about a decade ago,” said Lipsey. “Not to pick on Nampa, but they didn’t have anyone to manage what could be built until recently.”

Lipsey conceded that design review isn’t always the easiest obstacle course for an architect or developer to negotiate.

“You bet; design review can be challenging, but you wouldn’t have wanted standard operating procedures on a lot of projects like JUMP or Whole Foods,” she said.

Lipsey should know. Boise-based CSHQA has helped design and build Whole Foods markets throughout the food store’s Rocky Mountain region.

“Take our Boise location for example,” said Lipsey. “It’s a gateway location. But what a lot of people don’t know is that if [the accompanying] Walgreens store had simply plunked down one of its standard locations on that corner, motorists on Broadway would have been looking at a loading dock and the back end of a building. That’s unacceptable.

But our architects worked hand-in-hand with the city of Boise’s design review to make the entire 360-degrees of Walgreens and Whole Foods aesthetically attractive. You just don’t let anything be built anywhere.”

But unless Idaho lawmakers listen to more debate from architects and city planners, HB 480 could be the law of the land.

“The Legislature is probably looking at these architects as some kind of bow-tied professionals who think they’re smarter,” said Lipsey. “But on this, they are smarter and they know what they’re talking about.”

—George Prentice

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through May, we have a class. For $150, you get lessons, a tutor book, flash cards, a CD and something called a practice chanter: That’s a recorder-like instrument.

What are the ages of the students?

Harbison: A lot of them are adults, 25 to 35 years old.

Lopez. But we do have some young ones.

There’s a little guy who just turned 8.

Harbison: And my son; he’s 12.

GRANT HARBISON AND RON LOPEZ The pipes, the pipes are calling GEORGE PRENTICE When the clock strikes 6 p.m. this Friday, March 14, Grant Harbison and Ron Lopez will stand in the center of Boise’s Crescent “No Lawyers” Bar and empty their lungs into their bagpipes and play the opening notes of “Minstrel Boy,” a 19th century Irish anthem. “Let Erin Remember” and “Wearing of the Green” will follow in the first of many medleys, as Harbison, Lopez and their fellow Boise Highlanders launch another St. Patrick’s Day celebration.

The Highlanders—who are so popular that they’ll need to split into four separate groups to play Friday, March 14; Saturday, March 15; and Monday, March 17 (St. Patrick’s Day)—are the Treasure Valley’s go-to pipers. In fact, they’ll go to pretty much wherever you’re celebrating—Boise Weekly counted more than 40 gigs on this year’s calendar.

“I think I’ve spent more time getting ready for this St. Patrick’s Day than ever before,” said Lopez, the band’s manager.

Lopez is the “pipe major emeritus” of the Boise Highlanders, handing over the title of pipe major a few years ago to Dr. Grant Harbison, who spends his days working with patients at the Boise Veterans Affairs Medical Center.

In preparation for their big weekend, BW sat down with Harbison, 41, and Lopez, 73, to talk about their unique art form and what exactly lies beneath those kilts.

How many members play as Boise Highlanders?

Lopez: We have 27 pipers; that’s pretty big for a pipe band.

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At what point do you go from a chanter to a full set of bagpipes?

Lopez: All you have to do is decide that this is what you want to do for the rest of your life.

How long have the Boise Highlanders been playing?

Lopez: We were established in 1961. I joined in 1964, and that’s where I met my wife. We got married 14 years later. Years later, my son Ryan was giving lessons to a girl, eventually asked her to go steady and they got married.

Hold it. Are you telling me that bagpipes are some kind of aphrodisiac?

Lopez: Oh yeah; love has really hit a lot of our pipers and dancers.

Grant, how did you get to become the pipe major?

Lopez: He was the best.

Harbison: The pipe major in our band is elected, but generally, pipe bands are not a democracy.

women.

Your St. Patrick’s Day weekend looks like it’s packed to the gills with performing.

Lopez: So far, we’re signed up for 46 gigs.

We charge $200 per performance and we haven’t raised our prices in 10 years.

And how does someone learn to play the bagpipes?

Lopez: Each Tuesday night, October

I’m presuming that this is your biggest source of revenue?

Harbison: Oh yes. We also have two major

performances each year: the Robert Burns Banquet for the Idaho Caledonian Society in January, and the Treasure Valley Highland Games in September. Plus, we perform at a number of weddings, and we did about 40 funerals last year.

Lopez: But St. Patrick’s Day is crucial for the survival of the band. It produces more audience satisfaction than anything we do.

This is a pretty aggressive schedule, going pub to pub; can you drink in between performances?

Lopez: I don’t have a rule against it, but I wouldn’t want to do it.

Harbison: It depends on the performer.

Some are comfortable drinking while playing.

Do you have favorite places to play on St. Patrick’s Day? Lopez: I like Hannah’s, the Crescent and Hyde Park Pub. Talk to me about audience reaction.

Lopez: Well, you know some women can be horrible with a man in a kilt. If I asked what they asked, I would be accused of sexual harassment.

So here’s the question: What do you wear under your kilt?

Lopez: Shoes.

Harbison: When people ask, I usually pull my kilt up and show them my boxers. Then they’re happy.

Do you have pipers who don’t wear anything underneath?

Harbison. They call that “going regimental.”

Lopez: I don’t want to know.

You must love doing this.

Harbison: It’s awesome.

Lopez: There are people like me that get goose bumps whenever they hear the pipes.

We call that having “the piper’s soul.”

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MONOPOLY ON AGE In churn of assisted living deals, an island of misery A.C. THOMPSON

The one-story beige building on Southwest Hill Road in McMinnville, Ore.—an old mill town between Portland and Salem—has seen plenty of trouble over the years of its operation as an assisted living facility.

Two men have been jailed for committing sex crimes inside its walls. Residents of the facility have repeatedly assaulted one another.

There has been at least one case of severe, near-fatal neglect. To be sure, then, the building has been something less than the refuge it has held itself out to be for local seniors, many of them afflicted with dementia. State records have chronicled the damage.

The episodes of violence and neglect inside the McMinnville facility, if sad, are not particularly unique. Page through the regulatory records and court files of any state and one will come across such horror stories.

The history of the facility itself reflects a larger reality of the assisted living business.

Hundreds of such facilities—some exemplary, some deeply troubled—change hands each year, many of them scooped up by the large chains that have come to dominate this swiftly expanding industry.

Such deals typically well serve the large companies that drive them. Often enough, however, they do little to improve conditions in places like the facility in McMinnville, where ownership turmoil can compound the unaddressed problems that undermine care.

In less than three years, the McMinnville facility came under the ownership of three different companies, including two of the most prominent chains in the country. The first, Sunwest Management, collapsed under nearly $2 billion in unpaid debt, a spectacular implosion that led federal prosecutors to label the company a Ponzi scheme and file criminal fraud charges.

The second was a three-way joint venture between Blackstone, the private equity firm, Emeritus Senior Living, the nation’s largest assisted living company, and a real estate company. As part of the deal, Emeritus took over the operation of the facility, dubbing it Emeritus at Osprey Court.

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The joint venture held onto the property for a few years before selling it in 2012 to a real estate investment trust with a vast portfolio of health care properties. That trust immediately leased the facility back to Emeritus. Today, Emeritus, under close scrutiny from Oregon regulators due to the continued problems in McMinnville, has decided to subcontract the facility’s operations to an outside firm.

Throughout all the changes, there has been one constant for the elderly people who call the place home: dubious living conditions.

In April 2013, citing the facility’s “chronic” inability to follow state laws, the Oregon Department of Human Services, which regulates assisted living in the state, moved to revoke its license and shutter it permanently.

For Emeritus, the ongoing legal troubles— fines, failed inspections, a string of scathing state investigations—has not kept the company from generating revenue at the McMinnville facility. Internal company records show the facility pulled in approximately $1 million during the first six months of 2013.

A company spokeswoman, Karen Lucas, said Emeritus was not currently making a profit on the facility, but rather investing money in improving its operations.

Conceived as a humane alternative to nursing homes, assisted living facilities typically offer apartment-like rooms, meals, and help to people too ill or frail to live independently, most of them elderly. Over the past decade, large chains have become a major force in the assisted living business, which now houses some 750,000 Americans. There are at least 35 companies with 1,000 or more beds, many of them, like Emeritus, publicly traded.

Some industry analysts say the increase in chain ownership has had virtues: a more professional and sophisticated workforce inside the facilities; cheaper prices for consumers; the financial wherewithal to invest in improvements, whether in the level of 24-hour care offered or the quality of food served. A trade group for the industry says customers express high levels of satisfaction in surveys

the group has conducted.

But others, including advocates for the elderly, frustrated state regulators, and academics who study the industry, say chains’ expanding footprint in assisted living has also come with serious downsides. In some cases, companies that are under pressure to produce returns for investors and saddled with debt from acquiring facilities cut back on items that affect care, such as staffing, training and basic upkeep.

In the churn of what can often seem like real estate swaps, critics say, places like McMinnville can get lost, becoming specks in financial empires, lines on a balance sheet.

In just the past few years, one major player, Sunrise Senior Living, was purchased by a real estate trust in a deal valued at $4.3 billion; a private equity fund acquired another large company, Assisted Living Concepts, which had been embroiled in litigation with its former top executive; and Emeritus bought a mobile nursing firm and took control of facilities spread across eight states that had been run by a competing chain.

“It’s about, ‘How do I make a buck?’” said John Bowblis, an economist and assistant professor at Miami University’s Farmer School of Business in Ohio. “It seems a lot of the human element has been taken out of it.”

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The McMinnville facility has been operating for a decade, but 2009 seems to have been a particularly grim year for the facility’s residents.

In separate incidents, two men were arrested and convicted for sexually abusing elderly women with dementia. In one case, the husband of a resident sexually assaulted another woman in the facility; in the other, a nursing assistant at the facility was found guilty of sexually assaulting a woman living at the facility and sentenced to more than eight years in prison.

A state investigator, in records examined

by ProPublica, noted something remarkable about the case involving the nursing assistant:

He had been hired to work at the McMinnville facility even though he’d accumulated five criminal convictions between 2005 and 2008.

The facility was, at the time, owned and managed by Sunwest. Chief Executive Jon Harder oversaw Sunwest’s national operations from the company’s headquarters in an office complex in Salem, 30 miles from McMinnville. He’d built the company into one of the industry’s leading players, amassing a collection of roughly 300 facilities that claimed to generate $500 million in annual revenues.

But by 2006, a year after it had acquired the McMinnville facility, Sunwest was in financial trouble. And in the ensuing years, it became the target of federal investigators.

Prosecutors ultimately produced a 56-count fraud indictment in federal court in Portland, alleging that Harder, in an effort to hide the company’s growing losses, went on “an acquisition binge,” one financed by $130 million he illegally obtained by misleading more than 1,000 investors and banks.

Harder has pleaded not guilty in the case, which is still unresolved. He could not be reached for comment, and his attorney, Christopher Schatz, declined to be interviewed.

By late 2008, Sunwest was buckling under a reported $2 billion in debt. In McMinnville, the company had defaulted on a $26.9 million mortgage on the facility, property records show. The company eventually became embroiled in bankruptcy proceedings, and auctioned off its assets under the scrutiny of a judge and dozens of private attorneys Before the sale, Sunwest had been in conflict with the state due to a string of “significant” regulatory violations, according to Christina Higby, the corrective action coordinator for the licensing wing of the Oregon Department of Human Services. Higby said the department deployed an array of “different sanctions,” including fines and a written plan aimed at bringing the facility into compliance with state laws during the Sunwest era.

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For Emeritus, the 2010 deal was, in the words of the company’s chairman, a “game-changing event.” Emeritus and its partners had acquired 144 Sunwest facilities for $1.3 billion. [The company operates five assisted living and retirement communities in Idaho, including one in Boise. Another facility is located across the Idaho-Oregon border in Ontario.] It was an attractive enough proposition that the Blackstone Group, a prominent private equity firm in New York, had put much of the money into the deal.

The purchase helped make Emeritus the largest assisted living company in the country—the company would staff and manage the old Sunwest buildings and hold a small ownership stake in them.

And as a general rule, the company’s strategy of buying up properties offered a tax advantage, allowing Emeritus to list the real estate as assets with declining values, reducing its tax burdens.

The company’s rapid expansion pushed its debt load to nearly $2 billion, and Bowblis, the Ohio economist, said that is one of the perils of these kinds of acquisitions. Locked into debt payments and short of cash, like homeowners who’ve signed onto a mortgage too big for their monthly budget, companies like Emeritus can be forced to cut costs elsewhere.

Brian Kaskie, associate director of the University of Iowa’s Center on Aging, has seen what often happens next: staff cuts, fewer training sessions for workers, a falloff in the quality of the food provided in the company’s facilities.

“Individual facilities may be unable to provide good care because the parent corporation isn’t giving them enough money,” Kaskie said.

“It’s all spread-sheet driven.”

In an interview late last year, Granger Cobb, the chief executive officer of Emeritus, said the company’s debt obligations were not an impediment to delivering quality care.

“We’ve been never been in a position where we felt like our capital structure was too heavy on the debt side,” Cobb said.

“We’ve always felt very comfortable about our revenue stream and our cash flows. And the beauty about our business—and part of the reason I’m so passionate about it—is if you do a really good job of delivering the care and service and creating high customer satisfaction, you’re going to stay full from an occupancy standpoint. You’re going to be able to charge a fair price for your product and the

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rest of it just kind of takes care of itself.”

The financial and regulatory records reviewed by ProPublica don’t show spending or revenue for individual facilities, so it is unclear how changes at Emeritus have affected the 57bed McMinnville property. The company says it has invested amply in improving the facility.

In 2011, the state pressed Emeritus to bolster its employee training in key areas.

After conducting inspections in late 2011 and early 2012, the Human Services Department concluded the facility was putting seniors at “risk for serious harm,” and barred Emeritus from admitting new residents, according to interviews and state records.

The restriction was eventually lifted, but regulatory violations continued to pile up, with the department citing the facility in at least 14 separate subsequent complaint investigations.

In one case, the state faulted Emeritus for failing to give a resident a prescription medication for nearly a month. In another, the state determined that the facility neglected a client so severely the person nearly died. After losing 21 pounds during the course of a month, state records show, the resident was sent to the hospital suffering from respiratory failure, kidney failure, pneumonia, sepsis and dehydration. Hospital staff promptly pumped five liters of fluid into the person.

In the eyes of the department, the failure of Emeritus staffers to address the resident’s mounting health problems constituted “abuse.”

Lucas, the company spokeswoman, said Emeritus disputes the state’s finding.

ProPublica asked the company what, precisely, it disputed about the state’s investigation, or whether it could provide any more detail about the incident. The company said it would not comment further.

Many of the other violations involved episodes in which residents with dementia physically attacked one another. Oregon’s Human Services Department has repeatedly faulted Emeritus staffers for failing to intervene to prevent the violence.

“Emeritus overtook operations of Osprey Court from Sunwest, which admitted residents with psychiatric disorders,” Lucas said in an email response to questions from ProPublica.

“These types of health conditions are characterized by an increased risk of behavioral issues, including aggressive behaviors towards other residents and staff. Many of those residents were still living at the community when B O I S E WE E KLY. C O M

“Emeritus saved Osprey Court from bankEmeritus took it over.” ruptcy and its residents from bankruptcy’s imThe facility had changed owners again pact,” Lucas said. “Had we not done so, many in fall 2012. This time, the joint venture of these residents would have been displaced organized by Emeritus sold it and 128 other with nowhere to go. We have invested subproperties to HCP, a real estate investment stantially in measures designed to enhance the trust. HCP leased the facility back to Emericare environment to meet the unique needs of tus, which continued to run the place.

Osprey Court’s residents, a number of whom This transaction appears to have been a have psychiatric disorders. We are committed score for Emeritus. The company had put a to seeing this through.” relatively modest amount into the original While there are no national statistics, indusdeal, buying a 6 percent sliver of equity in the try experts say it’s unusual for a facility owned properties, according to securities filings; the by a major chain to be closed; it’s far more rest of the cash was put up by the other joint common for regulators to shut down establishventure partners. On an earnings call, a comments run by small companies. Larger chains pany executive was exuberant: “As a result of often have the financial resources to chalthis transaction, within two short years,” lenge such actions in court, and they Emeritus had turned an “initial $20 BROOKtypically run facilities with many million investment into $140 DALE SENIOR more residents, both of which million,” said Chief Financial give regulators pause when Officer Robert Bateman.

LIVING AND EMERITUS considering terminating a After expenses, Bateman SENIOR LIVING, TWO OF THE facility’s license. continued, the company NATION’S LARGEST ASSISTED Brian Lee recently would be looking to net LIVING COMPANIES, WILL MERGE reviewed three years $110 million.

IN A $2.8 BILLION DEAL, THE COMPAof license revocation On Southwest Hill NIES ANNOUNCED IN LATE FEBRUARY. data for Florida. “I Road, there was no [BROOKDALE HAS THREE LOCATIONS IN saw no corporate obvious indication IDAHO, INLCUDING TWO IN BOISE.] facilities,” said Lee, that anything had head of Families changed: EmeriTHE NEWLY EXPANDED COMPANY, WHICH for Better Care, an tus workers kept advocacy group, working. The WILL BE RUN BY BROOKDALE EXECUTIVES, and a former state brown-and-white WILL CONSIST OF MORE THAN 1,100 SENIOR ombudsman for Emeritus signs reRESIDENTIAL COMMUNITIES IN 46 STATES, assisted living and mained out front.

ACCORDING TO THE ANNOUNCEMENT. THE COMnursing homes.

PANY WILL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR MORE THAN “They’re all small CHAPTER 3.

112,000 SENIORS AND THEIR FAMILIES WITH A operators.”

Regulators WORKFORCE OF OVER 80,000.

In Oregon—as in many states in most states—the are hesitant to EMERITUS, WHOSE CEO WILL JOIN BROOKprocess of pulling a permanently close DALE’S BOARD OF DIRECTORS AND SERVE facility’s license can assisted living faciliunfold slowly over ties—shutting down AS A CONSULTANT, HAS BEEN THE the span of months or a troubled operation FOCUS OF MONTHS OF REPORTING BY even years. can sometimes cause PROPUBLICA, SHOWING THAT THE Emeritus continues even more trouble, COMPANY HAS BEEN PLAGUED BY to run Osprey Court, in the form of costly FINES, LAWSUITS AND OTHER though the company has litigation and scrambles to SANCTIONS FOR FAILURES quietly handed over the relocate seriously ill seniors.

IN CARE (SEE PAGE day-to-day management to a In Oregon, the Human Ser14). consulting firm, Aidan Health vices Department moved to shut Services, according to the Human down only one of the state’s 475 Services Department and Emeritus facilities during 2013. employees.

It was Emeritus at Osprey Court, the Mc“As a part of our commitment to providMinnville facility. ing quality care and the well-being of Osprey For the state, the biggest concern in Court’s residents and families, we have McMinnville was the “sheer volume” of engaged Aidan Health Services to help in that regulatory violations, said Diana Norton, regard,” Lucas said in her reply to ProPublica. deputy director for the department’s licensing “We sought additional resources because of wing. Norton said Emeritus had been granted the location and challenges of the physical “many opportunities” to turn things around environment, something Emeritus does on but couldn’t consistently adhere to state laws.

In a written notice, the department said the occasion.”

At some point, Emeritus may be forced facility’s failures posed a “threat to the health, to abandon its little outpost in McMinnville, safety, and welfare” of its clients.

“When you get to the point where the state but the company’s march toward ever greater growth seems set to continue: It recently is revoking the facility license, it is a sign that the whole operation is on fire,” said Eric Carl- snapped up another 38 facilities in a single acquisition. son, directing attorney of the National Senior Citizens Law Center.

This article, part of ProPublica’s ongoing Lucas, the spokeswoman for Emeritus, said investigation project “Life and Death in Asin an email that the company could not comsisted Living,” was published Dec. 31, 2013, ment on the pending dispute with the state at propublica.org. over the license revocation effort.

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ASSISTED LIVING GIANT IS FOCUS OF FEDERAL PROBE Investigators for the last year have been examining the operations of Emeritus Senior Living, the nation’s largest assisted living company A.C. THOMPSON

The federal government is investigating the operations of the nation’s largest assisted living company, Emeritus Senior Living, according to a company official.

Karen Lucas, a spokeswoman for the company, described the investigation as a routine civil probe, and said Emeritus was “cooperating fully” with the federal authorities.

A person with direct knowledge of the investigation portrayed it as a two-pronged effort involving both the Justice Department and the inspector general for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Since January of 2013, investigators have been exploring allegations of improper Medicaid billing, as well as other aspects of the company’s business dealings, the person said.

News of the investigation, reported here for the first time, comes as the company prepares to merge with another major assisted living chain, Brookdale Senior Living, in a $2.8 billion deal. The planned merger was announced in late February.

“As a matter of policy, we will not comment on a pending investigation beyond confirming its existence, because cooperation includes not publicly airing information that might compromise or influence the government’s review,” Lucas said.

The Health and Human Services department oversees the Medicare and Medicaid insurance programs and its inspectors often focus on billing issues, including efforts to bilk the programs through fraudulent requests for reimbursement.

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Emily Langlie, a spokeswoman for the Justice Department, would not discuss the probe. The Health and Human Services department also would not comment.

A Brookdale spokeswoman declined to say if the federal investigation was discussed by the two companies in the negotiations leading to the announced merger.

“We are limited in what we can say due to the transaction,” said the spokeswoman, Julie Davis.

In the past, Emeritus has encountered problems with its Medicaid billing practices in Texas, where it paid $1.86 million to settle fraud charges in 2007. The state Attorney General’s Office alleged that Emeritus improperly billed for services provided at 11 of its facilities in the state and “routinely submitted false claims to the Texas Medicaid program.” Under the terms of the settlement, the company denied any wrongdoing.

Emeritus, a Seattle-based chain that has grown enormously in recent years, was the subject of a ProPublica/PBS “Frontline” series inw 2013 that focused on the company’s business practices, its entanglements with regulators in numerous states and its lengthy record of safety lapses. Over the past two decades, Emeritus has evolved from a small regional player into a publicly traded outfit with approximately 500 facilities spread across the country and nearly $2 billion in annual revenue. Its facilities provide housing, meals and day-to-day help to the elderly and disabled.

Emeritus’s rapid growth mirrors that of the assisted living industry as a whole,

which now cares for some 750,000 people, increasing numbers of them afflicted with serious health problems, including advanced dementia.

The person with direct knowledge of the investigation said employees had received instructions from a company lawyer about how to deal with the probe.

“First off, you should not feel compelled to provide answers, documents, or information to any government investigator or agent,” the attorney wrote in an email sent last February. “You may politely decline to answer,” the lawyer said, or refer the agents to the company’s legal department.

The lawyer did instruct the employee to be truthful if they decided to answer the questions of investigators.

Brian Lee, a consumer advocate with Families for Better Care, a Florida nonprofit group focused on assisted living and nursing homes, said the federal investigation of Emeritus struck him as unusual. Typically, he said, it is state authorities who tackle problems in the industry.

The probe, Lee said, could prove to be “an opportunity to pull back the veil on the problems in assisted living, whether financial or related to care.”

Medicaid money accounts for a relatively small portion of Emeritus’s business, which is driven chiefly by private paying customers looking for alternatives to formal nursing homes. Still, Medicaid billings total millions for the company each year—in 2012, Emeritus derived 13.9 percent of its total revenue from Medicaid and Medicare, including

funds flowing into a subsidiary nursing firm, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Lucas, the company spokeswoman, portrayed the company’s participation in the Medicaid program as a public service, saying Emeritus is one the few companies that “offer assisted living services to low-income seniors” because of the program’s low reimbursement rates.

The Emeritus-Brookdale merger, which is slated to close later this year, will create a mega-operator far larger than any other chain in the assisted living industry.

Headquartered in the Nashville suburbs, the combined company will function under the Brookdale brand name and will be run

by Brookdale Chief Executive Andy Smith.

Emeritus Chief Executive Granger Cobb is expected to take a seat on the board and serve as a consultant.

On a conference call announcing the deal, Smith downplayed concerns raised by the ProPublica/”Frontline” series about the treatment of seniors in Emeritus facilities and said he was confident that Emeritus executives were focused on providing “highquality services to all of their residents.”

Smith said the series had caused a “temporary setback” for Emeritus financially, but that he was confident the company was “getting back to their expected level of growth.”

This article, part of ProPublica’s ongoing investigation project “Life and Death in Assisted Living,” was first published Feb. 27, 2014, at propublica.org.

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Dancing and crocheting? They go together better than you can imagine.

FRIDAY MARCH 14 These padawans know how to do more than plie.

strictly come dancing ASIMINA CHREMOS AT BALANCE DANCE COMPANY

THURSDAY-FRIDAY, SUNDAY MARCH 13-14, 16 inside source BALLET IDAHO: NEW VOICES The so-called Great Recession taught American companies like Costco, Trader Joe’s and REI to get more value out of their employees by recruiting from within. Instead of hiring administrators from outside their companies, they promoted driven, longtime employees, whose insights have encouraged innovation and loyalty—and driven sales.

Relying on the expertise of insiders has also worked for Ballet Idaho, which calls on its dancers to occasionally produce their own ballet choreographies. It’s a chance for BI’s dancers to cut loose and exercise their creative muscles; for attendees, it’s a reminder that ballet is a dynamic artistic force that produces new talents and dances all the time.

This year, five BI dancers are trying their hands at choreography with seven new dances performed by company dancers as part of BI’s New Voices program, which runs Thursday, Friday and Sunday, March 13, 14 and 16, at the Esther Simplot Performing Arts Academy. Dances include “Nekollage,” choreographed by Nathan Powell with music by Neko Case and others; “All The Signals Are Sent: (In the case of Modern Lovers)” by Daniel Ojeda, with music by Arctic Monkeys; and “The Heart Asks Pleasure First” by Lauren Menger with music by Philip Glass.

Throughout the BI performance season, audiences get the chance to see these dancers on stage. New Voices is an opportunity, in an intimate setting, to see those dancers step into the role of creator.

March 13-14, 7 p.m., March 16, 1 p.m., $15-$20. Esther Simplot Performing Arts Academy, 516 S. Ninth St., 208-345-9116, balletidaho.org.

FRIDAY MARCH 14 let’s hear it for the jokes COMIC CINEMA REMIX OF FOOTLOOSE Almost any movie made in the ’80s is practically begging to be made fun of. Few are riper for the

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picking than Footloose—the teendrama-dance-musical extravaganza starring none other than Kevin Bacon.

Whether you saw it when it premiered in movie theaters or this is the first you’ve ever heard of Footloose, prepare to be seriously entertained at the inaugural Comic Cinema Remix, hosted by InkVision and the Over 19 Adult Shop. In the way Mystery Science

What do crocheting and dance have in common? Asimina Chremos. In the time it would take to say her name five times fast, Chremos could: A) create a dance piece, B) crochet a delicate free-form doily or C) both of those things, depending how much you struggle through the consonants.

Pittsburgh-based Chremos is an accomplished artist who has been training in dance since she was a child. In a statement on her website, she writes she has studied Aikido and practices contemplative dance regularly.

“However, at the root of all my work is my ongoing exploration of freeform, spontaneous movement. I am concerned with ongoingness, continuance and flow, and evolution through repetition,” Chremos writes.

See the results of her exploration on Friday, March 14, at 7 p.m., when Chremos puts on a dance performance in the Boise Contemporary Theater Rehearsal Loft. Admission is free.

Later this month, in collaboration with Balance Dance Company, Chremos will be one of three instructors teaching a master dance class March 21-23. The class is for dancers age 13 and older who possess an intermediate skill level and costs $180 to attend.

7 p.m., FREE, Boise Contemporary Theater Rehearsal Loft, 854 Fulton St., 208-331-9224, bctheater.org.

Theater 3000’s Mike Nelson, Tom Servo and Crow made some of the worst movies ever watchable, local comics Brett Badostain, Chad Heft and Dylan Hass will provide running jokes and commentary as Ren (Bacon) dances his way into your heart.

The plot is only the beginning.

This movie has a lot more to offer when it comes to potential for satire: love interest Ariel (Lori Singer), the naughty preacher’s daughter; Rusty (Sarah Jessica Parker), the cute tomboy; and a city ordinance banning dancing.

If that’s not enough, there are lines like, “I think you’re sexier than socks on a rooster.”

Throw in a soundtrack with the likes of “Holding Out For a Hero,” “Almost Paradise” and “Let’s Hear It For the Boy,” and you have seemingly endless fodder

for funny. Maybe they’ll even play a few rounds of Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon.

9 p.m. $5. The Visual Arts Collective, 3638 Osage St., Garden City, 208-424-8297, visualartscollective.com.

SATURDAY MARCH 15 mean green running machine ST. PATRICK’S DAY FUN RUN It sounds like the start of a bad joke: A priest, a rabbi and a minister take off running… but it could really happen at the upcoming St. Patrick’s Day Fun Run B O I S E WE E KLY. C O M

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FOZZY DOG LEASHES You won’t want to miss TMP’s swan song, music by Queen.

SATURDAY MARCH 15 f is for final TREY MCINTYRE PROJECT: FINAL BOISE PERFORMANCE In January, Boise Weekly reported that big changes were afoot at Trey McIntyre Project. Founder Trey McIntyre announced a “bold new creative direction” that included more photography, lecturing and filmmaking—and less of the artform that made his a household name in the City of Trees: dancing.

The move polarized fans. Some applauded his transition into other media. Some cried foul. Ultimately, however, admirers and detractors of McIntyre’s decision alike can bid a bittersweet farewell to the dance company that became Boise’s cultural ambassador to the world.

That farewell comes in the form of TMP’s final Boise performances Saturday, March 15, at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. at the Morrison Center, where the company will perform McIntyre’s two newest works: Mercury Half-Life, with music by Queen; and a group of contemporary ballets, The Vinegar Works: Four Dances of Moral Instruction, McIntyre’s last choreography for the full-time dance company inspired by illustrator, writer and ballet aficionado Edward Gorey.

However you feel about McIntyre’s decision to pursue other interests, the man and his work made a mark on Boise and TMP’s final Boise performance is an event not to be missed.

2 p.m. and 8 p.m. $10-$63. Morrison Center, 2201 Cesar Chavez Lane, 208-426-1609, treymcintyre.com.

sponsored by the YMCA. Categories include a onemile Kilted Run, a kid’s onemile run/walk, a five-mile run and a 5K. Start times will be staggered, beginning at 9:30 a.m., and the 5K and five-mile runs will offer chip timing.

Race courses will follow the Greenbelt, so even if you’ve spent more time lifting pints instead of weights, there’s still a good chance you’ll reach your personal pot of gold—the finish line.

Of course, no St. Paddy’s Day celebration would be complete without loads of green, so runners are

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encouraged to get in touch with their inner leprechaun.

A quick search online turned up a wealth of ideas: green glitter canes, top hats, tutus, munchkin slippers and the cumbersome life-size rainbow.

For the lady who can’t possibly run without her handbag, try the beer stein purse.

Bah-humbug runners should consider wearing T-shirts with sayings like, “Pinch me and you die!” The five bestdressed participants will win all kinds of bragging rights.

If green Guinness is more your thing, consider volunteering, since the Y is always

Erin go bragh.

FRIDAY-SATURDAY, MONDAY MARCH 14-15, 17 livin’ the high life again BOISE HIGHLANDERS PERFORMANCES With St. Patrick’s Day around the corner, it’s time to start planning how to spend it. While using the holiday as an excuse to get delightfully inebriated is what a lot of people do, there are plenty of other ways to embrace your heritage or your circumstantial Irish pride—or at least supplement the drinking.

One tradition a lot of locals adhere to when celebrating the March holiday is taking in a performance by the Boise Highlanders. The group, comprised of bagpipers, drummers and dancers, is scheduled to appear in more than two dozen locations during the St. Patrick’s Day weekend: from TGI Friday’s on Friday to McCleary’s Pub on Saturday, to Bittercreek Alehouse, Hannah’s, Ha’Penny, Jumpin’ Janet’s and Quinn’s on Monday, and many, many more on each night (see Citizen, Page 10). Basically, there is a good chance the Boise Highlanders will be stopping in any place with food and drink and space enough to hold their not inconsiderable numbers. So if you have a sudden hankering for the cool, soft melodies of bagpipes, the Boise Highlanders want nothing more than to help you get your jig on.

March 14-15, 17, various times and locations, FREE. Visit boisehighlanders.com for a full schedule.

happy for the help, both on and off the course.

Stick around for the post-race awards ceremony and the luck of the Irish will be yours in the form of free snacks provided by Treasure Valley Dieticians. Proceeds from the event benefit the YMCA Team Idaho Track and

You know the scenario: It’s time to walk the dog. You load your pockets with your phone, keys, wallet and poop bags.

Halfway down the street, your phone rings. As you reach for it, the bags fall out and are now blowing down the street. You chase after them and as you bend down to pick them up, your keys shift, stabbing you in the abdomen. You yell out in pain, which makes Fido jerk on the leash. That makes you stumble forward, which knocks out your $34-$50. wallet and phone. You choke fozzydoginc.com back tears as you watch them fall into a puddle.

OK, that whole scene looks like those product infomercials starring people who don’t know how to work knives, pasta or blankets. But wouldn’t it be nice to consolidate your essential items so that taking your best buddy for a walk is more fun?

You can now, thanks to Boise’s own Fozzy Dog. This local company crafts high-quality dog leashes with “an integrated poop bag dispenser” and a conveniently designed, flexible, water-resistant pouch for holding keys, cash, cards and dog treats. The leash comes in four styles: The Original, The Double, The Mini and The Double Mini. The sturdy leashes come in a variety of colors and range in price from $34 to $50—not unreasonable for a locally made quality product. The Dogington Post gave it a ringing endorsement, declaring it the “perfect leash.”

Reward your dog’s unconditional love by making walks hassle-free and fun instead of profanity-laced tirades that end with you crying over a puddle.

—Sam Hill

Cross Country Club, dedicated to inspiring the next generation of runners.

Registration is accepted until 9 a.m. on race day.

9:30 a.m. $30-$38. Julia Davis Band Shell, 700 S. Capitol Blvd., 208 344-5502, ext. 295, ymcatvidaho.org/ stpaddysrun.

an event by email to calendar@boiseweekly.com. Listings are due by noon the Thursday before publication.

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8 DAYS OUT WEDNESDAY MARCH 12

WEEK IN REVIEW

On Stage BOISE ROCK SCHOOL END OF WINTER SESSION GIG—All active BRS bands perform, putting what they’ve learned in class, on the stage. All ages welcome.

4 p.m., $5 suggested donation.

Second performance Thursday, March 13. The Linen Building, 1402 W. Grove St., Boise. For more info, call 208-559-0065 or visit boiserockschool.com.

Talks & Lectures SLOVENIAN MUSIC FESTIVAL: MUSIC AND CULTURE IN MODERN SLOVENIA—This presentation by Slovenian composer Blaz Pucihar, Boise State Assoc. Professor of Music Nicole Molumby, and Boise State History Professor Nick Miller includes performances, composer insights and info on modern Slovenian culture. 4 p.m.

FREE. Morrison Center Recital Hall, 2201 Cesar Chavez Lane, Boise, 208-426-1609.

Sports & Fitness IDAHO STAMPEDE VS. SANTA CRUZ WARRIORS—7 p.m. $8$380. CenturyLink Arena, 233 S. Capitol Blvd., Boise, box office: 208-331-8497, centurylinkarenaboise.com.

THURSDAY MARCH 13 Festivals & Events ADULT NIGHT: THE SCIENCE OF SOUND AND MUSIC—Learn about sound and enjoy food truck grub, beer and wine, all without the kids. Must be 21 or older with valid ID. 6 p.m. $8-$10. Discovery Center, 131 Myrtle St., Boise, 208-343-9895, dcidaho.org.

On Stage BALLET IDAHO: NEW VOICES—See the creativity of the company dancers as they express themselves as choreographers. See Picks, Page 16. 7 p.m. $15-$20.

Esther Simplot Center for the Performing Arts, 516 S. Ninth St., Boise, 208-345-9116.

BOISE ROCK SCHOOL END OF WINTER SESSION GIG—See Wednesday. 4 p.m. $5 suggested donation. The Linen Building, 1402 W. Grove St., Boise. For more info, call 208-559-0065 or visit boiserockschool.com.

JAMAL DOMAN—Stand-up comedy with featured act Jen Adams.

Thursday: 8 p.m.; Friday-Saturday: 8 p.m. and 10 p.m.; Sunday: 8 p.m., $20. Liquid, 405 S. Eighth St., Ste. 110, Boise, 208-2875379, liquidboise.com.

SLOVENIAN MUSIC FESTIVAL: CHORAL WORKS AND CHAMBER ORCHESTRA CONCERT— Featuring the Boise State Meis-

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Balance Dance Company leaned into its recent BCT performance.

IN REFLEXIVITY, BALANCE DANCE COMPANY LOOKS FORWARD, NOT BACK The dancers’ movements in “Adjacent Parts: For Mrs. A” were sometimes mechanical, sometimes explosive. Small, constrained gestures—the roll of an ankle, the twist of a neck—transpired to music by Oscar-nominated composer Alexandre Desplat and Christopher Rouse. Then the per formers erupted from their little prisons with leaps, thrown limbs and thudding stomps. They paired off and broke apart, casting off stiffened self-conscious motion like sweaters on a hot day.

“Adjacent Parts,” choreographed by Kay Braden, was the fourth dance in Balance Dance Company’s Reflexivity, a series of dances, many of which featured guest choreographers, per formed at Boise Contemporary Theater March 6. As its title suggests, Reflexivity had moments of self-awareness—BDC is, after all, a modern dance company—but the highlight of this per formance was an influx of new dancers who showed all the daring, focus and kinetic sureness of professionals.

These included Jun Campion and Hailey Caminiti, two rising stars on the Balance roster. Lithe one moment and muscular the next, Campion radiated charisma. Like a great actor, his movements seemed spontaneous. Caminiti and Campion are new to dance—both began dancing and joined BDC in mid2013—but Campion has already secured a spot at the University of Utah’s Modern Dance Department at, and Caminiti’s per formance suggests uncommon talent.

The evening began with thoughtful, if familiar pieces. “Pigment,” choreographed by Gracie Whyte, was brief, smart and to-the-point. Whyte’s instinct to juxtapose small hand and feet movements with grandiose motions in the hips, legs and spines produced a dance that was signature BDC. Similar in style was Rebecca Reed’s “Exterior.” Per formed to “Taro” by Alt-J, this piece drew much of its energy from sophisticated, synchronized movements between dancers.

Where the first act sometimes seemed like a warm-up, the second was a breakout that began with “Adjacent Parts” and “Wise Words,” which featured choreography by former BDC dancer Ciera Shaver and tunes by Radical Face. Guest choreographer Amy O’Brien’s “All the World’s Mornings” tenderly recalled classical ballet, invoking its signature moves and brave leaps.

Music and dance go together like salt and pepper, though when it comes to dance per formance, the dance tends to be in the foreground. Reflexivity’s third act undermined that trend with a rousing per formance by Calico, a student indie-folk band that played while dancing with BDC. It was a fitting capstone to an evening that featured tremendous per formances

by Campion and Caminiti, as well as regulars Christina Schaeffer and Maya Garabedian—a reminder that BDC is always willing to try something new.

—Harrison Berry

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8 DAYS OUT tersingers, the Timberline High School Chamber Orchestra and the music of Slovenian composer Blaz Pucihar. 7:30 p.m. FREE-$5.

Timberline High School, 701 E. Boise Ave., Boise, 208-854-6230.

Art APRIL VANDEGRIFT MFA OPENING RECEPTION—April VanDeGrift explores ideas about cultural narratives and hierarchy of power through animal imagery. Exhibition continues through April 11. 6 p.m.

FREE. Visual Arts Collective, 3638 Osage St., Garden City, 208-4248297, visualartscollective.com.

METAL—Enso Artspace presents Metal, a new exhibit by Sue Latta, Dennis Proksa, Susan Madacsi and Michael Cordell. 3 p.m. FREE. Enso Artspace, 120 E. 38th St., Ste. 105, Garden City, 208-9910117, ensoartspace.com.

Literature BOOK SIGNING: RYAN BLACKETTER—Author Ryan Blacketter reads from his new novel, Down in the River. 6:30 p.m. FREE. Rediscovered Books, 180 N. Eighth St., Boise, 208-376-4229, rdbooks.org.

p.m. FREE. US Bank Building, 101 S. Capitol Blvd., Boise, 208-3458519, achdidaho.org

3638 Osage St., Garden City, 208-424-8297, visualartscollective.com.

FRIDAY MARCH 14 Festivals & Events

EL KORAH SHRINE 51ST ANNUAL MELODRAMA—See Run to the Roundhouse, Nellie, and The Treasure of Huckleberry Ridge or... Hey, Jude. 6 p.m. buffet dinner, 8 p.m. show. $12.50, $90 8-person table. El Korah Shrine, 1118 W. Idaho St., Boise, 208-343-0571, elkorah.org.

BOISE HIGHLANDERS PERFORMANCES— Boise’s own bagpipers, drummers and dancers will perform in honor of St. Patrick’s Day. See Picks, Page 17. Times and locations vary. FREE. For detailed information, visit boisehighlanders.com.

FILTHY/GORGEOUS DRAG SHOW—Enjoy this drag revue with hostess Bridgette Diamond Halston and performers Tsunami Foxx, Christina E. Champagne, Vivica Valentino and more. Proceeds to benefit breast cancer research.

10 p.m. $5. The Drink, 3000 N. Lakeharbor Lane, Boise, 208-8535070, thedrinkboise.com.

TRIBUTE TO WOMEN IN INDUSTRY—Celebrate the 2014 TWIN honorees. Proceeds benefit Women’s and Children’s Alliance.

7:30 p.m. $15. Sapphire Room, 2900 W. Chinden Blvd., Garden City, 208-343-1871. Tickets available at brownpapertickets.com.

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BALLET IDAHO: NEW VOICES—See Picks, Page 16. 7 p.m. $15$20. Esther Simplot Center for the Performing Arts, 516 S. Ninth St., Boise, 208-345-9116.

ACHD DOWNTOWN BOISE TRAFFIC PLAN OPEN HOUSE— Find out more about plans to revamp traffic in downtown. 5:30

COMIC CINEMA REMIX—Comics make fun of the movie Footloose. See Picks, Page 16. 9 p.m. $5. Visual Arts Collective,

THE MEPHAM GROUP

PERFECT POWER: DANCE BY ASIMINA CHREMOS—Performance by Asimina Chremos, a Philadelphia-based dance improviser. See Picks, Page 16. 7 p.m. FREE. Boise Contemporary Theater, 854 Fulton St., Boise, 208-331-9224, bctheater.org.

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TEENS DIY—Celebrate Teen Week and dive into robotics and 3D printing. For ages 12-18.

4:30 p.m. FREE. Ada Community Library, Lake Hazel Branch, 10489 Lake Hazel Road, Boise, 208-297-6700, adalib.org.

Literature MFA READING SERIES—Featuring poet John Godfrey. 7:30 p.m.

FREE. Boise State Student Union 1910 University Drive, Boise, 208-426-1000.

Sports & Fitness IDAHO STAMPEDE VS. RENO BIGHORNS—7 p.m. $8-$380.

CenturyLink Arena, 233 S. Capitol Blvd., Boise, 208-424-2200 or box office 208-331-8497, centurylinkarenaboise.com.

SATURDAY MARCH 15 Festivals & Events 18TH ANNUAL CHILDREN’S HOME SOCIETY GALA—Proceeds benefit children in need of emotional and behavioral health care. 6 p.m. $100. Boise Centre, 850 W. Front St., Boise, 208-3368900, boisecentre.com.

Complete the grid so each row, column and 3-by-3 box (in bold borders) contains every digit 1 to 9. For strategies on how to solve Sudoku, visit www.sudoku.org.uk.

Go to www.boiseweekly.com and look under odds and ends for the answers to this week’s puzzle. And don’t think of it as cheating.

Think of it more as simply double-checking your answers. © 2013 Mepham Group.

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WATERSHED WEEKEND WORLD WATER DAY CELEBRATION—Celebrate clean water at this event to raise awareness of world water issues. 10 a.m. FREE. Boise WaterShed, 11818 W. Joplin Road, Boise, 208-489-1284, cityofboise.org.

TREY MCINTYRE PROJECT SPRING SHOW—Don’t miss Trey McIntyre Project’s final Boise performance. See Picks, Page 17.

2 p.m. and 8 p.m. $20-$65.

Morrison Center, 2201 Cesar Chavez Lane, Boise, 208-4261609, box office: 208-426-1110, treymcintyre.com.

Literature IDES OF MARCH BOOK CLUB MEETING AND TALK—Join area book club members for this annual meeting and the official closing of this year’s Read Me Treasure Valley project. 2 p.m.

FREE. The Cabin, 801 S. Capitol Blvd., Boise, 208-331-8000, thecabinidaho.org.

Contemporary Theater, 854 Fulton St., Boise, 208-331-9224, bctheater.org.

TUESDAY MARCH 18

Workshops & Classes

Festivals & Events IDAHO WRITERS GUILD LITERARY LUNCH—Boise Weekly News Editor George Prentice will talk about how to work with the media. 11:30 a.m., FREE, Riverside Hotel, 2900 Chinden Blvd., Garden City, 208-343-1871, For more info, call Merilee Marsh at 208-921-5328, or email mm@ merileemarsh.com.

Sports & Fitness

On Stage

IDAHO STAMPEDE VS. RENO BIGHORNS—7 p.m. $8-$380.

CenturyLink Arena, 233 S. Capitol Blvd., Boise, box office 208-3318497, centurylinkarenaboise. com.

GERMAN PIANIST ALEXANDER SCHIMPF—The first German to ever win First Prize in the illustrious Cleveland International Piano Competition, in 2011, performs as part of the Caldwell Fine Arts series. Buy tickets at The Bird Stop Coffee House (718 Arthur St.), online at caldwellfinearts.org, or by calling 208-459-5275. 7:30 p.m. $5-$20. Jewett Auditorium, The College of Idaho, 2112 E. Cleveland Blvd., Caldwell, collegeofidaho.edu.

ST. PATRICK’S DAY FUN RUN—Meet up at Julia Davis Park and choose from a one-mile kilted run, one-mile walk/run, a 5K walk/run or five-mile walk/run. See Picks, Page 16. 9:30 a.m. $20-$28.

Julia Davis Bandshell, 700 S. Capitol Blvd., Boise, 208-3445502 ext. 295, ymcatvidaho.org/ stpaddysrun.

Animals & Pets CAT SHOW—Cats of different breeds will be judged, plus family entertainment and adoptions.

9 a.m. $4-$6, kids under 5 FREE with adult. Expo Idaho (Fairgrounds), 5610 Glenwood St., Garden City, 208-287-5650, expoidaho.com.

SUNDAY MARCH 16 On Stage

WEDNESDAY MARCH 19

Talks & Lectures CHARLIE SAVAGE—Charlie Savage, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and Washington correspondent for The New York Times, will talk about National Security and Freedom of the Press. Presented by the Andrus Center for Public Policy. 7 p.m. FREE. Boise State Student Union Jordan Ballroom, 1910 University Drive, Boise, 208426-5800, boisestate.edu.

BUILDING ARTS MARKETING SKILLS WEBINAR—Join the Boise City Department of Arts and History for coffee and a webinar by Americans for the Arts, designed for independent artists.

RSVP by March 18 to KLeclair@ cityofboise.org. 10 a.m. FREE. Boise 150 Sesqui-Shop, 1008 Main St., Boise, 208-433-5671.

Art ENSO SOUP-TALK-ART—Talk art with Idaho artists Sue Latta, Dennis Proksa, Susan Madasci and Michael Cordell, whose works appear in the new exhibition Metal.

Register at ensoartspace.com/ events. 6 p.m. $12.50. Enso Artspace, 120 E. 38th St., Ste. 105, Garden City, 208-991-0117, ensoartspace.com.

Literature SPRING AUTHOR SERIES: TIM WOODWARD—In his 40-year career as an Idaho Statesman columnist and reporter, Tim Woodward has written about Idaho people, their stories and the beauty of the state. Noon. FREE. Library at Cole and Ustick, 7557 W. Ustick Road, Boise, 208-5706900, boisepubliclibrary.org.

Odds & Ends MAKITEERS: SEWING GROUP— Call or check the website for more info. 6:30 p.m. FREE. Ada Community Library, 10664 W. Victory Road, Boise, 208-362-0181, adalib.org.

EYESPY Real Dialogue from the naked city

BALLET IDAHO’S NEW VOICES—See Picks, Page 16. 1 p.m. $15$20. Esther Simplot Center for the Performing Arts, 516 S. Ninth St., Boise, 208-345-9116.

Animals & Pets CAT SHOW—See Saturday. 9 a.m. $4-$6, kids under 5 FREE with adult. Expo Idaho, 5610 Glenwood St., Garden City, 208287-5650, expoidaho.com.

MONDAY MARCH 17

On Stage EL KORAH SHRINE 51ST ANNUAL MELODRAMA—See Friday.

8 p.m. $13, $90 8-person table.

El Korah Shrine Center, 1118 W. Idaho St., Boise, 208-343-0571, elkorah.org.

On Stage 5X5 READING SERIES—BCT presents a reading of Blake Shields Abramovitz’s Double Blind. 7 p.m. $10-$12. Boise

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ARTS/NEWS CULTURE/ARTS

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BY BOISE

“Process of Conflict,” by Veiko Valencia, was the top-grossing cover at BW’s 2013 auction.

Art chosen for City Hall Plaza

GRANTS GRANTED

JESSICA MURRI At the end of November 2013, Boise Public Arts Manager Karen Bubb received 104 pages of public comments to sift through.

The public was invited to pick from 27 proposals for a project to decorate City Hall Plaza. And pick, they did.

Citizens left more than 3,000 comments on the proposals—on display in the Sesqui Shop—all unsigned by artists in order to keep input focused on the work. Bubb said because the City Hall site is so high-profile, public input was really important for the $200,000 commission.

People left comments like, “The longer I looked at it, the more I enjoyed it. It kept surprising me,” and, “One of my favorites.

Says Boise, says trees,” and “This is cool,” as well as, “I’m worried it will look like a total mess except from one very specific perspective,” “Seen it before” and “Eh.” The piece that will grace City Hall’s concrete lawn—a sculpture titled “Terrain, Civics, Ecology” from local architecture firm CTY Studio and environmental planning and design company Ecosystem Sciences—received 117 positive comments, making it the second-most popular. A panel of five judges—Boise City Council President Maryanne Jordan, Adam Park of the mayor’s office, local artist Mark Baltes, Arts and History Commissioner Margaret Hepworth and Dana Zuckerman of Capital City Development Corporation—made the final call.

The sculpture features nine 20-foot-tall panels made of steel, with silhouettes of cottonwood trees cut into the slates, which fade from gold to red to green in a natural gradient. The panels will be staggered in a circle to create an enclosure passersby can walk through, and will replace the flagpoles currently arrayed in front of City Hall.

“Terrain, Civics, Ecology” will capitalize on natural light shining through it, as well as integrated lighting making it glow at night.

The design team includes Dwaine Carver, Rob Thornton and Elizabeth Young of CTY Studio and Derek Risso, Tim Maguire and Zach Hill of Ecosystem Sciences. They sat down in October 2013 to start planning.

Two weeks ago, Hill got a call while picking up his son from Highlands Elementary, telling him their design won.

“My kids were more enthusiastic than anybody,” Hill said. “After awhile, you get hardened because it’s such a long, drawnout process with lots of deliberation and BOI S EW EEKLY.COM

The sculpture “Terrain, Civics, Ecology” won a $200,000 commission to grace the City Hall Plaza.

changes. But [the design team] all got together as a group and celebrated at the CTY Studio downtown where we had pinned up all our ideas.”

Hill and his partners grew up in Boise, graduated from Boise High School and are raising families here. They wanted to create a piece of artwork that would truly be emblematic of Boise—so they went back to Boise’s beginnings.

“When we first started talking about this, we said, ‘What is Boise? What is this place about?’” Hill said. “We went into geologic history and how it was formed. We looked at what gave us the landscape we have today, like the basalt formations and the mountains. Then we looked at what’s layered on top: the ecology and the biology, the river and trees, and then the urban context—the city.”

Hill said most of that research didn’t make it into the final proposal.

“But if you saw the storyboard, it would show all those steps distilled down into something presentable. It wasn’t just doodling,” he said.

Their proposed sculpture is representative of CTY Studio and Ecosystem Sciences’ working relationship. Hill said he’s been collaborating with CTY for more than 10 years. When CTY needs a more environmental, ecological perspective, they call Ecosystem Sciences. When Hill needs a design viewpoint, he reaches out to CTY. He called the partnership “symbiotic” and said a large part of that relationship is working with Carver, who isn’t new to public art: He collaborated with Trout Architects to create

“Heliotrope” on the corner of Main and Eighth streets, near the U.S. Bank Building parking lot. The 16-foot-tall steel structure resembles the skeletal backbone of a plant and incorporates vines growing around and through it.

But Carver said this will be very different from “Heliotrope.”

“Building [‘Terrain, Civics, Ecology’] is going to be like installing ‘Heliotrope’ nine times,” he said. “It’s a really interesting sort of barn-raising.”

Carver said the installation will be tied to the renovation of the City Hall Plaza. He expects shovels to hit the dirt a year from now, with the new plaza and the artwork completed by fall 2015.

Hill added that the work is now just starting. It’s not a matter of handing off the design to some contractors—the artistic team will be on the project from start to finish. He said he wants this artwork to be a touchstone for Boise, but transitioning from concept to reality will be the real challenge.

“After we learned that we won, we were enthusiastic and excited. But now we need this to go beyond us,” Hill said. “Boise needs to take ownership of it. How do we transcend this to the next level? How do we make this something that lasts and stands through time?”

Hill said when it’s all done, he’s excited to see the leaves and branches cut out of the panel interacting with the elements—in the sunshine, in the snow. First, though, the proposal still needs approval from the City Council and Capital City Development Corporation.

Since founding the Boise Weekly Cover Art Auction Grants program, we have awarded nearly $100,000 to local arts organization and individual artists. March 6, a panel comprised of Terri Schorzman (Boise City Arts and History Department director), Michael Faison (Idaho Commission on the Arts executive eirector), Sally Freeman (Boise Weekly publisher/owner) and Tomas Montano (local artist, Boise Weekly co-art director) sat down in the BW conference room and pored through nearly 20 submissions for the 2014 Cover Art Grants. (Mayor Dave Bieter was looking forward to participating but was called away on city business.)

After much deliberation, the panel awarded a total of $9,500 to the following organizations and individuals: Surel’s Place: $1,500 to support its artists-in-residency program.

Hermit Music Festival: $2,000 to fund the second annual festival.

Boise Open Studios (BOSCO): $1,500 to support its operations.

Ballet Idaho: $1,000 to fund its New Voices program.

Boise Contemporary Theater: $1,000 to produce The Uncanny Valley.

Homegrown Theatre: $1,500 to produce DIRT. Kate Walker: $500 to film an art video project.

The panel also set aside $500 for an artist to paint a mural at the end of the hallway here at BWHQ. We’re calling it the Artist Portal Project and we’ll put out a call to artists soon.

Speaking of calling artists, the deadline to become a member of BOSCO is Monday, March 31. A big part of the nonprofit is the “open studios” element. BOSCO members open their studios one weekend per year (Oct. 11-12, 2014), allowing people to see the artistic process. Membership is juried and this year, the juror is renowned local artist Cheryl Shurtleff.

Applications must be submitted electronically and you can find them at boiseopenstudios.com. For more information, call Marianne Konvalinka at 208-866-6306, email bosco.membership@gmail.com or visit BOSCO’s Facebook page at facebook.com/ Boise.Open.Studios.

—Amy Atkins

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LISTEN HERE/GUIDE DANIELLE PAR S ONS

GUIDE WEDNESDAY MARCH 12

OPHELIA—8:45 p.m. FREE. Pengilly’s

Dearborne. See Listen Here, this page. 6 p.m. $10. Shredder

DOUG CAMERON—8:30 p.m.

FREE. Piper Pub

RESTLESS SOULS—6:30 p.m.

FREE. Highlands Hollow

DJ FOOSE—10 p.m. FREE. Grainey’s

EOTO—8 p.m. $20. Knitting Factory

BOISE ROCK SCHOOL END OF WINTER SESSION GIG—4 p.m. $5 donation. Linen Building

SINGER-SONGWRITER SHOWCASE—7 p.m. FREE. The Crux

FRANK MARRA—6:30 p.m.

FREE. Chandlers

JOHN JONES TRIO—8 p.m.

FREE. Chandlers

THE WAILERS—8 p.m. $20$40. Knitting Factory

FRIM FRAM FOUR—8:45 p.m.

FREE. Pengilly’s

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It’s interesting to hear a band and feel nostalgid, only to learn it’s not a band you somehow missed in your formative years but one that’s not even as old as your favorite Chuck Taylors.

Pennsylvania-based Daylight is a youngster of a band: Its debut album, Jar (Run For Cover, April 2013), is not quite a year old. And though the band’s grungey/alt/emo rock is hardly new, it is oddly refreshing—Daylight uses classic forms to create new music. The track “Life in a Jar” opens with Nirvana-esque guitar and vocalist Taylor Madison singing in a quiet, slightly ominous tone, his phrases abruptly clipped at the end. It’s not surprising when the build-up leads to Madison belting out the chorus, and most of the tracks on Jar follow that same convention pretty closely—but that doesn’t make the songs any less satisfying. It’s like those Chuck Taylors: You love them because they’re familiar, not in spite of it.

—Amy Atkins

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The Ataris THE ATARIS—With Authority Zero, Drag The River and Versus the World. 7:30 p.m. $18-$35.

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BEN BURDICK TRIO—With Amy Rose. 8 p.m. FREE. Chandlers BOISE ROCK SCHOOL END OF WINTER SESSION GIG—4 p.m. $5 donation. Linen Building DAYLIGHT—With Mixtapes, Telescopes As Time Machines and

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The higher the ticket price at Neurolux, the more likely the show isn’t a show—it’s an experience. That is absolutely the case with Austin, Texas-based metal band The Sword.

The band’s 2012 release Apocryphon (Razor & Tie) is brilliant and reflects the band members’ maturity. In an interview with Rolling Stone, vocalist-guitarist J.D. Cronise said, “I think [Apocryphon] is more diverse musically. We’re older dudes now … we dialed back the aggression to a degree … in favor of trying to write good songs.” The tracks on Apocryphon are better than good, and like The Sword’s other releases, transport a listener to another place and time; a world suggested by myth-laden lyrics: “You want to live for eternity / to see behind the veil / Everything comes around again / the serpent eats its tail.”

Whatever the cost, taking a trip with The Sword is well worth the price.

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THE TYRCONNELL SINGLE MALT IRISH WHISKEY, $34.95 More pungent than Bushmills, Tyrconnell has a malty note of overripe bananas on the nose. Though this whiskey was the most aggressive of the three on the palate, it still went down remarkably smooth, with a hint of sweetness and a dry finish. “The Irish had it rough enough, they didn’t need really challenging booze,” mused another taster.

REDBREAST SINGLE POT STILL IRISH WHISKEY, $54.95 Named Irish Whiskey of the Year at the 2013 Irish Whiskey Awards, Redbreast is made from a mash of malted and unmalted barley that’s triple distilled in pot stills and aged 12 years in oak casks. Aging gives this whiskey a darker hue and complex floral notes of apple blossom and vanilla on the nose.

The palate is equally complex, with sweetness and toasty wood shining through. Though there was some stiff competition, this was the tasting group’s top choice.

—Tara Morgan

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Single malt scotch has long been the preferred tipple of the velvet smoking jacket set. But single malt Irish whiskey is harder to characterize. Though it has the same light honey hue as Scotch, Irish whiskey lacks the manly, campfire punch of peat. The term “single malt” refers to whiskey that’s made from malted barley at a single distillery.

In honor of St. Patrick’s Day—which is too often associated with crap booze like green beer and Baileys—we decided to class things up a bit. Here are three Irish whiskeys—two single malts and one a single pot still—that go down smoother than a pint of Guinness.

SCALING BACK Instead of veggies, Rice Family Farms will grow new farmers TARA MORGAN You won’t find bunches of Rice Family Farms’ rainbow carrots or bags of its purple potatoes at the Boise Farmers Market this season. After 22 years in business, the local organic farm is scaling back its operation.

“We were growing quite a diversity of wholesale crops and it just wasn’t enough Rice Family Farms is paring down its crops, but it’s sharing its expertise with True Roots Organics. margin in a large enough percentage of them to make it profitable anymore,” explained sale,” said Ian. “We’ll ... focus on local families of True Roots Organics. owner Lee Rice. “Some of it has to do with through CSAs and the farmers market.”

“We’re working really hard to bring this the economy-of-scale thing—you can be small True Roots Organics will have a booth at young couple along to step right in where we and do mostly retail or you can be really the Boise Farmers Market and sell cut flowers left off at the [Boise] Farmers Market, and large, like the California farms, and sell large they’re going to have a CSA, as well. They’ll be and bedding plants through Idaho’s Bounty, quantities of wholesale.” the Boise Co-op and Whole Foods. They will also doing a little bit of wholesale,” said Rice.

What’s more, Rice said organic wholesale also offer full- and half-sized CSA shares for “It’s going to be a big learning curve for them prices have plateaued over the past four years, $425 and $250, respectively. probably for a couple of years.” making it even harder for his medium-sized “Our CSA is starting in May and it goes for The Kilgores worked for 24 West Ranch farm to contend with inexpensive organic pro20 weeks. ... We’re hoping to get somewhere last season, farming 12.5 acres duce grown in California. from 25 to 50 CSA customers,” said Ian. of summer crops like corn and “If the cost of production TRUE ROOTS ORGANICS Though Rice is passing on the organic farmsquash. But when 24 West is high enough that it takes truerootsorganics.com stopped selling produce to focus ing torch, he still plans to be involved in the you out of the ballgame, then local food community. on grass-fed beef, Rice Family it just takes you out of the “This business move that we’re making, it Farms offered to mentor the Kilgores and lease ballgame,” he said. frees my time up to have more balance in my them five acres and some greenhouses.

Though Rice will still grow two or three life and eat regular meals and do more things “We are growing the same number of wholesale crops this season on his 18-acre for advocacy of organic and local food,” said vegetables as Rice Family Farms, just not the farm, he’s putting most of his energy into Rice. mentoring new farmers Ian and Kelsey Kilgore volume because we’re not going to do whole-

FOOD/PROFILE MARK BITTMAN ON WHAT WE SHOULD EAT With copies of How to Cook Everything and VB6 tucked under their arms, Sun Valley residents filed into the Church of the Big Wood for a March 6 lecture by Mark Bittman.

Bittman—a New York Times food columnist, cookbook author and advocate for eating a vegan diet before 6 p.m. (or VB6)—prefaced his lecture by noting, “I will ramble; there’s a lot in my head.”

“Today is both the best food has ever been and the worst food has ever been,” Bittman continued. “It’s that Dickensian thing—we have better ingredients in more places, we know more about food, we obviously have better restaurants. … There are now more farmers markets in the United States than there are McDonald’s. At the same time, there are more pesticides and fertilizers and insecticides and herbicides used than ever before.”

Combine the health issues created by the industrial food system with the scientific community’s ever-shifting nutritional advice, and Bittman says, “You don’t have any clue what you can possibly eat.”

So what should we put in our mouths? According to Bittman, it all boils down to a simple piece of advice: Eat real food and stop stressing.

“You eat less fake food and you eat more real food and you don’t worry about it too much,” he said.

But Bittman said figuring out what is actually real food can be difficult when we’re constantly blinded by the processed “food carnival” assaulting us with its sights and smells.

“If we could avoid the food carnival and just eat real food we’d be fine,”

he said.

Bittman broke up the rest of his lecture into various food categories, offering his thoughts on each one.

On meat: “It’s good for you in limited quantities, but of course, this is America, we don’t do limited quantities. … If we raised better meat and ate less of it, we’d all be better off” On dairy: “It’s a treat; it’s not something we should eat unlimited quantities of. ... “But there is the special case of butter, which, of course, you can’t eat too much of.”

On cooking: “[Q]uite possibly the most radical thing you can do to improve your diet: Cook.”

On GMOs: “I’m not as worried about it as I am, for example, about antibiotics in our food. … Having said all that, I’m in favor of GMO labelling because I believe in transparency and people should know what’s in their food.”

Though the central point of Bittman’s lecture was that we should “eat more plants, and less of everything else,” he said we don’t all have to be “nutty, carrot and celery” eaters.

“A slice of pizza, a cheeseburger, a double cheeseburger, a package of Pringles, a Coke—these things are not going to kill you,” said Bittman.

“The point is they can’t be a daily staple in our diets and we have to treat them as weird anomalies that are kind of fun but that belong to a past when we didn’t know any better.”

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GEORGE PRENTICE The divine madness that is filmmaking is matched perhaps only by the fervor of those who are simply mad about the movies. But passion for watching great films does not necessarily translate into a successful film festival.

Trust us, Boise Weekly has attended more than our fair share of film festivals—foreign and domestic—and we’ve watched how inadequate Candice Pate, Sun Valley Film Festival Director,: “I’m finding myself acutely aware that venues, poor timing or a lousy slate of films this is where we want to be right now.” can turn off an audience. Having the soul of Steven Spielberg is nice, but it also helps to our film festival,” said Mehlhaff. “It’s actually hungry for validation and brand awareness, have the compromising skill of Henry Clay pretty hard to put into words. But the characand the iron fist of Mussolini to schedule, bud- and you can’t grow fast enough,” said Pate. ters have to feel real; and as simple as that may “But I’m finding myself, a year later, acutely get and manage a better-than-average festival. sound, believe me, it’s not simple. “ aware that this is where we want to be right Which is why it’s so impressive that the SVFF’s schedule of films include some Sun Valley Film Festival, still in its infancy, has now.” real gems, said Mehlhaff, including so-called And while SVFF 2014 offers scores of managed to negotiate the delicate balance of “works in progress,” where filmmakers bring feature-length narratives, documentaries and show business and the business of show—examining the grand bargain of filmmaking while short films to sate any festival-goer’s appetite, a an as-yet-uncompleted film to Sun Valley to gauge an audience reaction. big part of the four-day event’s genuine appeal celebrating the movies themselves.

“In Hollywood, studios will pay tens of is a guest list of Oscar-winning and -nomi“I just think that we’re still striking that nated directors, screenwriters thousands of dollars for test screenings,” she sweet spot,” said Candice Pate, said. “But here in Sun Valley, we want this to and producers participating SVFF director.

SUN VALLEY FILM FESTIVAL be an extra level of engagement between filmin screenwriters’ labs and And that spot still tastes March 13-16, Sun Valley. makers and audiences. “ so-called “coffee talks,” feasweet, a full year-and-a-half Visit sunvalleyfilmfestival.org Mehlhaff and Pate are quick to share any turing the men and women since Pate was asked to bring for times, prices and locations. credit with their colleagues and, in particuresponsible for Clerks, The her marketing skills and expelar, Teddy Grennan, the tall, always-smiling, Dallas Buyers Club, The rience as the Hallmark Chanalways-moving founder and executive director Descendants, The King’s Speech, Little Miss nel’s vice president of business development to of SVFF. the SVFF. A year ago, BW asked Pate how she Sunshine and Nebraska.

“Wow, yeah, Teddy,” said Pate with a big “We have so much industry ‘street-cred’ would assess her first year as the festival’s dismile. “The coffee talks were his idea, plus the from these type of events. They’re free, open rector (BW, Screen, “SVFF Will Only Become works-in-progress; and they have just become to the public and incredibly appealing to filmMore Successful,” March 20, 2013).

“I was a little nervous about moving Holly- makers, students and academia. Great films are roaring successes. And, of course, he works so all about creativity and storytelling,” said Pate, closely with Laura on putting that final schedwood to my own private Idaho,” she told BW ule of films together.” at the time. “We really want to grow this thing who relies on SVFF Programming Director But when the lights dim and the films begin and I think we have found a sweet spot: a little Laura Mehlhaff to curate the festival’s roster of to roll, Pate said she still makes a point to films from several hundred entries. bit of glitz, but not a Sundance wannabe.”

“A film’s budget could be huge, its technical absorb the moment.

And Pate is in no hurry to turn SVFF into “I still get lost in the movies,” she said. achievement could be unsurpassed, but if the “Sundance North.” story is a dud, you’re just not going to see it at “What can I say? I’m still a popcorn kid.”

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Told through the lenses of a ragtag group of 20-somethings—including a recent Harvard grad and a South African musician—As the Dust Settles explores the idea of participatory documentary making. Aside from detailing the ins and outs of one of the country’s oldest, most eccentric celebrations, the film’s five directors, who are also participants, are far from shy: They bare their souls—and bodies—for the camera as they get lost in the supposed power of Burning Man. They dance, they sing, they fall in and out of love, and they interview BOI S EW EEKLY.COM

an interesting cast of characters they meet throughout the week, including a couple who are getting married at the festival—nevermind that they met only a few hours before.

By the end of the documentary, tens of thousands of people from all over the world prepare for the burning of the eponymous wooden figure.

“During the week, you have all of these experiences and they crack parts of you open,” one the filmmakers, a Burning Man first-timer, explains. “The man burning is the image you had of yourself.”

As the Dust Settles is available now on Amazon Prime, Hulu, Roku, Vimeo or through the film’s website, asthedust.com.

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A hearing on the petition is scheduled for 130 o’clock p.m. on (date) APR 01 2014 at the Ada County Courthouse. Objections may be filed by any person who can show the court a good reason against the name change.

Date: JAN 31 2014 CHRISTOPHER D. RICH CLERK OF THE DISTRICT COURT By: DEIRDE PRICE DEPUTY CLERK PUB Feb. 19, 26, March 5 & 12, 2014.

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IN THE DISTRICT COURT FOR THE FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT FOR THE STATE OF IDAHO, IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF ADA IN RE: Jennifer Rose Lidgard Legal Name Case No. CV NC 1402447 NOTICE OF HEARING ON NAME CHANGE(Adult) A Petition to change the name of Jennifer Rose Lidgard, now residing in the City of Boise, State of Idaho, has been filed in the District Court in Ada County, Idaho.

The name will change to Jennifer Rose Leggett. The reason for the change in name is: Petitioner prefers to use her family name.

A hearing on the petition is scheduled for 130 o’clock p.m. on (date) April 10, 2014 at the Ada County Courthouse. Objections may be filed by any person who can show the court a good reason against the name change.

Date FEB 06 2014 CLERK OF THE DISTRICT COURT By: DEBRA URIZAR DEPUTY CLERK PUB. Feb. 19, 26, March 5, 12, 2014.

IN THE DISTRICT COURT FOR THE FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT FOR THE STATE OF IDAHO, IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF ADA IN RE: Amanda Lynn Ludwig Legal Name Case No. CV NC 1402416 NOTICE OF HEARING ON NAME CHANGE (Adult) A Petition to change the name of Amanda Lynn Ludwig, now residing in the City of Boise, Sate of Idaho, has been filed in the District Court in ADA County, Idaho.

The name will change to Lucas Mandel Sethaniel Anorak. The reason for the change in name is: gender identity.

A hearing on the petition is scheduled for 130 o’clock p.m on (date) Apr 08 2014 at the Ada

County Courthouse. Objections may be filed by any person who can show the court a good reason against the name change.

Date: Feb 10 2014 CHRISTOPHER D. RICH CLERK OF THE DISTRICT COURT By: DEIRDE PRICE DEPUTY CLERK Pub Feb 19, 26, March 5 & 12, 2014.

IN THE DISTRICT COURT FOR THE 4TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT FOR THE STATE OF IDAHO, IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF ADA IN RE: Stacy Ann Metz Legal Name Case No. CV NC 1402709 NOTICE OF HEARING ON NAME CHANGE(Adult) A Petition to change the name of Stacy Ann Metz, now residing in the City of Meridian, State of Idaho, has been filed in the District Court in Ada County, Idaho. The name will change to Patrick Riley Smith. The reason for the change in name is: gender identity.

A hearing on the petition is scheduled for 130 o’clock p.m. on (date) APR 15 2014 at the Ada County Courthouse. Objections may be filed by any person who can show the court a good reason against the name change.

of Nancy Elisabeth Garrity, now residing in the City of Boise, State of Idaho, has been filed in the District Court in Ada County, Idaho.

The name will change to Nancy Elisabeth Fallon. The reason for the change in name is: Divorce.

A hearing on the petition is scheduled for 130 o’clock p.m. on (date) April 24, 2014 at the Ada County Courthouse. Objections may be filed by any person who can show the court a good reason against the name change.

Date: FEB 19 2014 CLERK OF THE DISTRICT COURT By: DEIRDE URIZAR DEPUTY CLERK PUB March 5, 12, 19 & 26, 2014.

IN THE DISTRICT COURT FOR THE FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT FOR THE STATE OF IDAHO, IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF ADA IN RE: Roger Alan Miller Legal Name Case No. CV NC 1403307

NOTICE OF HEARING ON NAME CHANGE(Adult) A Petition to change the name of Roger Alan Miller, now residing in the City of Boise, State of Idaho, has been filed in the District Court in Ada County, Idaho. The name will change to Jonathan Roger Smith. The reason for the change in name is: for artist reasons.

A hearing on the petition is scheduled for 130 o’clock p.m. on (date) April 22, 2014 at the Ada County Courthouse. Objections may be filed by any person who can show the court a good reason against the name change.

Date FEB 25 2014 CHRISTOPHER D. RICH CLERK OF THE DISTRICT COURT By: DEIRDE PRICE DEPUTY CLERK PUB March 5, 12, 19 & 26, 2014.

IN THE DISTRICT COURT FOR THE 4TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT FOR THE STATE OF IDAHO, IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF ADA IN RE: Parker Benson Elgethun

Legal Name of child Case No. CV NC 1402885 NOTICE OF HEARING ON NAME CHANGE(Minor) A Petition to change the name of Parker Benson Elgethun, a minor, now residing in the City of Boise, State of Idaho, has been filed in the District Court in Ada County, Idaho. The name will change to Parker James Kavulich.

The reason for the change in name is: because: Benson and Elgethun both have ties to a father who is not a part of Parker’s life. He is in and out of prison and Parker is blessed to now have a stable loving father who has taken on the role of his dad.

A hearing on the petition is scheduled for 130 o’clock p.m. on (date) APR 15 2014 at the Ada County Courthouse. Objections may be filed by any person who can show the court a good reason against the name change.

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Date FEB 13 2014 CHRISTOPHER D. RICH CLERK OF THE DISTRICT COURT By: DEIRDE PRICE DEPUTY CLERK PUB Feb. 26, March 5, 12, 19, 2014.

IN THE DISTRICT COURT FOR THE FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT FOR THE STATE OF IDAHO, IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF ADA IN RE: Nancy Garrity Legal Name Case No. CV NC 1403172 NOTICE OF HEARING ON NAME CHANGE(Adult) A Petition to change the name

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Date FEB 14 2014 CHRISTOPHER D. RICH CLERK OF THE DISTRICT COURT By: DEIRDE PRICE DEPUTY CLERK PUB March 5, 12, 19 & 26, 2014.

IN THE DISTRICT COURT FOR THE THIRD JUDICIAL DISTRICT FOR THE STATE OF IDAHO, IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF CANYON IN RE: Rafael Salinas Legal Name Case No. CV 2014-2316

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NOTICE OF HEARING ON NAME CHANGE(Adult) A Petition to change the name of Rafael Salinas, now residing in the City of Nampa, State of Idaho, has been filed in the District Court in Canyon County, Idaho. The name will change to Roxie Chula Salinas. The reason for the change in name is: Gender Identity.

A hearing on the petition is scheduled for 930 o’clock a.m. on (date) April 10, 2014 at the Canyon County Courthouse. Objections may be filed by any person who can show the court a good reason against the name change.

Date 3-3-14 CHRIS YAMAMOTO CLERK OF THE DISTRICT COURT By: T CRAWFORD DEPUTY CLERK JUDGE JEROLD W LEE PUB March 12, 19, 26 & April 2, 2014 IN THE DISTRICT COURT FOR THE FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT FOR THE STATE OF IDAHO, IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF ADA IN RE: Elizabeth Dale McClerkin Legal Name Case No. CV NC 1403056

ARIES (March 21-April 19): “There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.” So says a character in Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel The Unconsoled. At this juncture in your life story, Aries, it might be healing for you to make a similar declaration. Now is an excellent moment to say a final goodbye to plot twists that you wished would have happened but never did. To do so will free up stuck energy that will then become available for future projects. You may even awaken to exciting possibilities you haven’t imagined yet.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): In May 2011, two Nepali men reached the top of Mt. Everest after a six-week climb. Lakpa Tsheri Sherpa and Sano Babu Sunuwar had prepared an unprecedented way to get back down off the mountain. Strapping themselves to a single parachute, they leaped off and paraglided for 45 minutes, landing near a Sherpa village thousands of feet below the summit. I suggest you look around for a metaphorical version of a shortcut like that, Taurus. Don’t do the next part of the journey the same way you did the previous phase. Take a more direct route.

Enjoy an alternate adventure. Give yourself a fresh challenge.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Seeking wisdom and chasing after pleasure are polar opposites, right? You must devote yourself to either one or the other, correct? You can be an enlightened servant of the greater good or else an exuberant hedonist in quest of joy, but not both. True? No. No. No. False. Wrong. Here’s the bigger truth: Now and then, grace periods come along when you can become smarter and kinder by exploring the mysteries of feeling really good. Can you guess when the next of these grace periods will arrive for you, Gemini? Here’s the answer: It’s here now!

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Humans walked on the moon before anyone ever had the simple idea to put wheels on suitcases.

Unbelievable, right? Until 1972, three years after astronauts first walked on the lunar surface, travelers in airports and train stations had to carry and drag wheelless containers full of their belongings.

I suspect that a comparable outof-sequence thing may be going on in your own life, Cancerian. In some ways you are totally up-todate, and in other ways you are lagging behind. Now would be a good time to identify any discrepancies and start correcting them.

Metaphorically speaking, I’d love you to have rolling luggage by the next time you take a journey.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Have you ever heard of the sasquatch, also known as Bigfoot? You know, one of those big, hairy, humanoid

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beasts that walks upright and lives in dense forests? Scientists assure us that there is no such thing. But then they used to say the same thing about the platypus.

It was a myth, they declared; a figment of explorers’ vivid imaginations. A duck-billed, egg-laying mammal simply could not exist.

When the respected British zoologist George Shaw claimed there was indeed such a creature, he was mocked by his contemporaries. Eventually, though, the truth emerged and Shaw was vindicated. I suspect that you Leos will soon experience an event akin to the discovery and confirmation that the platypus is real.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Kyoka is a Japanese word that means a flower reflected in a mirror. I suggest you use it as a metaphor to help you understand what’s happening in your life right now. Here are some clues to jumpstart your ruminations. Are you more focused on the image of what you love than on what you love? If so, is there anything wrong with that, or is it perfectly fine? Are you more interested in ephemeral beauty that you can admire from afar than in tangible beauty you can actually touch? If so, is there anything wrong with that, or is it perfectly fine? Should you turn away from a dreamy surrogate and turn toward the real thing? If so, why?

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): A British researcher poured 300 million facts into a computer program designed to determine the most boring day in history. The winner was April 11, 1954. It was selected because almost nothing important happened except an election in Belgium. I’m wondering if you Libras might reach that level of blah sometime soon. The astrological omens suggest it’s a possibility. And frankly, I hope that’s exactly what happens. You need a break from high adventure and agitated activity. You would benefit from indulging in some downtime that allowed you to luxuriate in silence and stasis. The time has come to recharge your psychic batteries.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): You won’t be the recipient of good luck in the coming days. Nor will you experience bad luck or dumb luck or weird luck. No, Scorpio. The serendipitous slew of synchronicities that will slip and slide into your sphere requires a new word, which I have coined for this occasion.

That word is “shluck.” Shluck is a cracked yet plucky sort of backward luck that provides you with an abundance of curious slack.

Shluck slings your way a series of happy accidents and curious coincidences that give you experiences you didn’t even realize you needed. To take maximum advantage of shluck’s benefits, you have to dispense with your agendas and drop your expectations.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): In the old fairy tale “Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves,” the poor woodcutter Ali Baba is collecting firewood in the forest when he spies a gang of thieves bragging about their exploits. Observing them from a hiding place, he hears them chant a phrase, “open sesame.”

This magically unseals the opening to a cave that happens to be full of their stolen treasure. Later, when the thieves have departed, Ali Baba goes to the cave and says “open sesame” himself. The hocus-pocus works. He slips into the cave and steals a bag of gold from the robbers’ plunder. This story has resemblances to an adventure you could enjoy sometime soon, Sagittarius. I suspect you may discover your own version of “open sesame.” It will give you access to a less literal and more legitimate bounty.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Your ability to heal rifts and bridge gaps is unusually high. You could connect seemingly irreconcilable elements and forge apparently impossible links. Former allies who have become estranged might be moved to bond again through your compassionate intervention. I’m not promising amazingly miraculous feats of unification, but I’m not ruling them out, either.

You have a sixth sense about how to create interesting mixtures by applying just the right amount of pressure and offering just the right kind of tenderness.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): My friend Harry said he wanted to teach me to play golf. “Are you kidding?” I asked him incredulously.

“The dullest game on the planet?”

He tried to convince me that it would provide lots of interesting metaphors I could use in writing horoscopes. “Name one,” I challenged him. He told me that “Volkswagen” is a slang term that describes what happens when a golfer makes an awkward shot that nevertheless turns out to be quite good. “Hmmm,” I replied. “That is exactly the theme I have decided on for the Aquarius horoscope.”

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Do you remember being in your mother’s womb? Probably not.

But here’s what I know about that time: In the first few weeks after you were conceived, your body grew at a very rapid rate. Once you were born, if you had continued to expand and develop with that much vigor, you would literally have grown to be as big as a mountain by now. So let’s be thankful you slowed down. But I do want to sound an alert and let you know that you are currently in a growth spurt with some metaphorical resemblances to that original eruption. It’s basically a good thing.

Just be aware that you may experience growing pains.

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NOTICE OF HEARING ON NAME CHANGE(Adult) A Petition to change the name of Elizabeth Dale McClerkin, now residing in the City of Boise, State of Idaho, has been filed in the District Court in Ada County, Idaho. The name will change to Jayce Dale McClerkin. The reason for the change in name is: I am transgender.

A hearing on the petition is scheduled for 130 o’clock p.m. on (date) APR 22 2014 at the Ada County Courthouse. Objections may be filed by any person who can show the court a good reason against the name change.

Date FEB 25 2014 CHRISTOPHER D. RICH CLERK OF THE DISTRICT COURT By: DEIRDE PRICE DEPUTY CLERK PUB March 12, 19, 26 & April 2, 2014.

IN THE DISTRICT COURT FOR THE 4TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT FOR THE STATE OF IDAHO, IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF ADA IN RE: Debra J. Maness Legal Name Case No. CV NC 1404040 NOTICE OF HEARING ON NAME CHANGE(Adult) A Petition to change the name of Debra Jane Maness, now residing in the City of Boise, State of Idaho, has been filed in the District Court in Ada County, Idaho.

The name will change to Debra Jane Coates. The reason for the change in name is: I would like to take back my maiden name as I am no longer married.

A hearing on the petition is scheduled for 1:30 o’clock p.m. on (date) May 15, 2014, 2014 at the Ada County Courthouse.

Objections may be filed by any person who can show the court a good reason against the name change.

Date MAR 03 2014 CLERK OF THE DISTRICT COURT By: Debra Urizar DEPUTY CLERK PUB March 12, 19, 26 & April 2, 2014.

IN THE DISTRICT COURT FOR THE 4TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT FOR THE STATE OF IDAHO, IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF ADA IN RE: Rachael Marie Robertson Legal Name Case No. CV NC 1404288 NOTICE OF HEARING ON NAME CHANGE (Adult) A Petition to change the name of Rachael Marie Robertson, now residing in the City of Boise, State of Idaho, has been filed in the District Court in Ada County, Idaho. The name will change to Rachael Marie Beierle. The reason for the change in name is: because share name with life partner A hearing on the petition is scheduled for 130 o’clock p.m. on (date) May 15, 2014 at the Ada County Courthouse. Objections may be filed by any person who can show the court a good reason against the name change.

Date MAR 06 2014 CHRISTOPHER D. RICH CLERK OF THE DISTRICT COURT By: DEBRA URIZAR DEPUTY CLERK

IN THE DISTRICT COURT FOR THE 4TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT FOR THE STATE OF IDAHO, IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF ADA IN RE: Tawny Miessek Legal Name Tawny Miessek Case No. CV NC 1403751 NOTICE OF HEARING ON NAME CHANGE(Adult) A Petition to change the name of Tawny Miessek, now residing in the City of Boise, State of Idaho, has been filed in the District Court in Ada County, Idaho.

The name will change to Jessye Annalee Williams. The reason for the change in name is has used this name since birth an desires to make it legal for graduation and life.

A hearing on the petition is scheduled for 130 o’clock p.m. on (date) April 29, 2014 at the Ada County Courthouse. Objections may be filed by any person who can show the court a good reason against the name change.

Date March 6, 2014 CHRISTOPHER D. RICH CLERK OF THE DISTRICT COURT By: DEIRDE PRICE DEPUTY CLERK PUB March 12, 19, 26 & April 2, 2014.

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