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SIGHTS AND WONDERS As with anything people care about, they can get pretty pedantic about the early history of photography. Was the artform invented by failed experimenter Thomas Wedgewood at the turn of the 19th century, or by Joseph Nicephore Niepce, with his grainy rooftop image captured in the late 1820s? What about Louis Daguerre, whose eponymous process was the first, in 1839, to make the permanent preservation of images from nature widely available? The origins of photography as a mechanical art stretch back to the Middle Ages, with the invention of the camera obscura, but are part of the larger trend in human history to preserve moments in time. The difference between your Instagram feed and the blown-paint handprints and vaulting animals of the prehistorically art-adorned Chauvet Cave in Southern France is a matter of technological sophistication: I suspect both to be rooted in the satisfaction of—even the need to—stake a claim on immortality, if even for a second. Like our ancestors, we never tire of revisiting these representations because they put us outside of time—the world will never be the same as it was the moment the camera shutter closed, but in the image, it will never change. That’s comforting at the deepest existential level. Every year for the past 12, Boise Weekly has celebrated the art and power of photography with its Black-and-White Photo Contest, inviting the keen of eye to submit their best work for a juried examination, cash prize and publication. This week we present the winners, top picks and honorable mention selections starting on Page 13. Suffice to say, Wedgewood, Niepce and Daguerre would be proud. Speaking of images (or the lack thereof), on Page 26 find a piece by staff writer Jessica Murri on Derek Rabelo, a young surfer who traveled from his native Brazil to take part in the Payette River Games. In itself, that’s not newsworthy—upwards of 35,000 people descended on the river June 20-22— but Rabelo was born blind. Despite never having seen the curl of a wave, he has become a well regarded ocean surfer and subject of a documentary film. And speaking of the Payette River, on Page 20 BW features a two-page calendar of events for summer happenings in the McCall area. So go forth and experience—whether that be the grayscale of an artful image, a picture-perfect summer vacation or the feel of a kayak paddle in your hands. —Zach Hagadone
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NEED FOR SPEED Starting Tuesday, July 1, the speed limit on some stretches of Idaho interstates will increase to 80 mph for passenger vehicles and 70 mph for trucks. Read more on Citydesk.
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MAIL MISSTATED MAUSER I found the reprint from High Country News by Dan Baum amusing (BW, Feature, “Loaded Debate: The Great Gun-Rights Divide,” June 11, 2014). Your dismissive quip about Mr. Baum and his “favorite Mauser machine pistol” was less so (BW, Note, “Lawyers, Guns and Miscellany,” June 11, 2014). In order to stave off a potentially harmful plunge into lib/prog angst among your regular readership, it would probably be a good idea to clarify the fact that Mr. Baum’s Mauser is almost certainly NOT a machine pistol. The Mauser C-96 was the world’s first commercially successful semi automatic pistol. Vast numbers were produced. From its initial release in 1896 until World War II halted production, it was sold with the wooden holster pictured. A metal clip attached to the holster fits into a corresponding slot milled in the pistol’s butt, allowing it to serve as a small carbine. IF one possesses both the pistol and the issue holster with intact hardware, the U.S. government classifies the combination as a Class III weapon, not because it is capable of automatic fire, but because it is considered a short barreled (less than 16”) rifle. In the absence of the attachment, it is treated simply as a run-of-the-mill self-loading pistol. The same regulations cover fully automatic weapons and shotguns with barrels shorter than 18”, which also require federal registration.
In the interest of fairness it should be pointed out that Mauserwerk did build a few selective fire pistols in the 1930s, but due to their extreme rarity and astronomical price, I seriously doubt that Mr. Baum’s is one of them. I apologize if this seems overlong and pedantic, but truth can’t always be delivered as a flippant sound bite. —Frank Enstein
PRIMARY SOURCES Through the years I’ve learned when opening/ reading the Boise Weekly to expect the normal antiRepublican rant and lying repeatedly to make a point. Objectivity and truth are left by the wayside in order to just “slam” “slam” Republicans. While getting my morning coffee noticed John Rember’s rant against Otter, Luna, Risch, etc. (BW, Opinion, “None of the Above: The Learned Helplessness Civics Lesson,” June 18, 2014). What intrigued me was his blatant lie that Jim Risch transferred property taxes from the corporations to the homeowners. It was just the opposite. Local property taxes on the homeowner had soared so high that Risch was able in a special session to pass legislation to significantly up the homeowner’s exemption and if memory serves me correctly limit the annualized mill levy increases. As a commercial property owner I saw those property taxes go up dramatically while my homeowner’s taxes went down just as
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dramatically. Where Rember came up with the outrageous statement about grocery taxes is amazing. I moved to Idaho in 1978. From 1976-1994 Cecil Andrus and John Evans, Democrats, were governors and the grocery sales tax was in place during their terms. In a former life I graduated from a Theological Seminary. The most difficult course I ever took was Research and Bibliography. The professor pounded into our heads the need to check and recheck our facts before presenting them from the pulpit or in writing. His theme was “primary sources,” “primary sources.” I am convinced the Boise Weekly has no serious interest in checking the facts, especially if they diverted from the overall theme of blaming the Republicans for everything wrong in this state and nation. —Milt Erhart Editor’s Note: Rember’s opinion piece cited Sen. Risch’s “transfer of property taxes from corporations to fixed-income grocerypurchasers” as an example of his “contempt” for Idaho voters. Specifically, Rember was referencing Risch’s 2006 tax shift, raising Idaho’s sales tax (which falls heaviest on lower-income consumers of a variety of goods, including groceries) in order to cut the $260 million school maintenance and operation property tax levy—a move that, according to a recent piece by Lewiston Tribune Editorial Editor Marty Trillhaase, probably came out to a net loss for all those earning less than about $135,000 per year. Rember made no reference in his piece to homeowners, the homeowner’s exemption or grocery taxes.
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Nearly everything is above ground now. I still haven’t seen any sign of the parsnips, but they’re always slow. Beans are up; spinach, of course; corn; carrots; cantaloupe; cucumbers; all coming along just fine. Lost a couple of peppers, but… aw hell, I’m boring the crap out of myself with this. I can imagine what it’s doing to you. The thing is, I’m having some difficulty at the moment coming up with enough interest in any of the current events to generate 1,000 words out of it. Eric Cantor lost his primary challenge to a tea bagger?… big deal. One douche replacing another—standard procedure in today’s Republican Party. John McCain still bitching about the Bergdahl deal?… so what? It’s like that crazy dog that barks all night—you just have to tune it out if you want to get any sleep. Iraq disintegrating into sectarian violence?… duh! And we all need to send George Bush a thank-you note for giving us the gift that keeps on giving. I thought maybe a little of that pastoral gardening vibe would get me through this week. Yeah… if I can stay awake long enough to get it written. So let’s do this instead: I’m going to duck over to MulletBoy’s “Randem Thinkings” blog and see what’s occupying his brain today. UUU Whooee dawG! I think I’ve figured out what to do with my hair when I go away to collige. I wouldn’t of thought nothing about it except for when ol’ Ripster comes strutting into Lube ‘N’ Scoot about three weeks ago with a head so bald you could use it to pound dings out of one of those Chinese wok pots. I says “Whatd you do to all your hair, Cuzz?” cause ever since we were in jumior high school both me and him been wearing our hair long to show what rebels we are. He says “When I go to collige, I want to look like the toughest dude in the dormertary. And what with this here bald head along with the Glock I’m going to have strapped under my arm ever where I go, I figure them fraturnity boys’ll think I’m somebody you don’t want to mess no how no way with. It makes me look like Vin Deezle, don’t you think?” I says “Yeh, sure does. If ol’ Vin Deezle had ol’ Adrien Brody’s face and ol’ Jack Black’s body, you’d look just like him.” Then Rip says “Well hows about you shave your head too. What I hear is the collige girls love a skull with nothing but skin on it” and I say “Rip, did you forget I’m married?” which I don’t know how he coulda since he was my best man and threw me the hum-dingerest bachelor party Owyhee County ever seen except for he couldn’t get a stripper to come down here from Nampa for anything less than 25 bucks so he hired old lady Lickymaw instead and when she pulled up her bra, she accidently knocked out her own dentures and I been trying to forget what I seen ever since.
“Naw” he says “I didn’t forgot you were married. All I’m saying is it wouldn’t do no harm to have a good looking coed or two helping out with the stuff we ain’t very good at. And there ain’t nothing that a coed likes more than a shaved head. That’s what I hear anyway.” So then I say “Who told you that?” and he says “The barber what shaved my head.” So I say “But the thing is, Rip, we ain’t even heard back from them colliges we appleyed to. And besides, how could I call myself MulletBoy in my blog anymore if I went and had my mullet shaved off?” “Uh, I hadn’t thought of that” he says, but I’ve been thinking about it since and I’ve decided I can’t go to collige looking like I looked ever since jumior high school, can I? So I got to wondering what I’d look like if I shaved off ever thing but the mullet parts, and last Friday night when we were sitting out by the ditch drinking that Keystone he brought over, I told ol’ Rip what I’d been wondering and he says “Wull why don’t we give it a try?” So we did. At the time, I thought it was a good thing my wife had gone to bed sos she could watch ol’ Greg Fergyson sos I wouldn’t have to listen to her tell me not to do it. But then when I woke up the next morning with her screaming in my face about how I looked like some kind of choopoocabra or something, I was wishing she’d been there to stop me. I says to her “Well it’s your fault, you and your precious Greg Fergyson!” and she says “How is it my fault?” which I then say “Cause if you didn’t have to watch Greg Fergyson ever night like he was your boyfriend or something, Rip wouldn’t ha done this cause you’d ha said he couldn’t!” Then Rip says, cause he’d never gone home yet and spent the night sleeping out by the ditch, says “What’s the big deal? It’ll grow back. Probably.” And she stomps out and han’t spoken a word to Rip since. If she wants to tell him something, she says to me “Tell your idiot cousin that it’s been a week now and you still look like a choopoocabra!” Yeh. Like she’d know what a choopoocabra looks like. But so anyway, I’m glad it all happened cause it got me to thinking about how I want to look when my hair except for the mullet parts grows out. And now I’ve finally decided. I’m growing a beard. Whooee Dawg! A real long ‘un. But not no Mooslem beard like that Bowe Bergdoll’s daddy grew. Nope, my beard’ll look like ol’ Duck whatshis-name on that Dynasty show. And I’m hoping that by the time our get-into-collige papers come, the rest of the hair on my head will all be back. My wife says I’ll look like a saucequash but that’s okay. I bet there’s not many fraturnity boys what’ll mess with no saucequash. Especially not when he’s got Vin Deezle with ‘im. B O I S E WE E KLY. C O M
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Ten ways of looking at the White Clouds 1. The White Cloud Range in Central Idaho is named for its color, which comes from the bleached limestone of some of its highest peaks. Other mountains in the range—25 of them taller than 10,000 feet—consist of granite and basalt. In wet years, the range is home to 125 lakes and countless small ponds. During its brief springs and summers, its high meadows and lakeshores are covered with wildflowers and grazing deer, elk, mountain goat and tourists with mountain bikes and fly rods. During the fall, the tourists have guns, ATVs, camo and ammo. 2. The highest peak in the White Clouds is 11,815-foot Castle Peak. It contains a large deposit of molybdenum, an abundant metal used to harden and strengthen steel. Plans by the American Smelting and Refining Company (ASARCO) for an open-pit mine were shelved due to the law that created the Sawtooth National Recreation Area. That law prohibited any mining that damaged scenic or wildlife values, and ended the possibility that the White Clouds would be open-pitted, short of a national emergency occasioned by Chinese foreclosure or nuclear war. 3. Advocates for a White Clouds National Monument have lumped them with the Boulder Mountains and desert sagelands into a 600,000-acre behemoth bounded by the Salmon River on the north, Sun Valley’s Trail Creek on the South, Highway 75 on the west and Highway 93 on the east. Advocating monument status for this huge area reflects criteria so broad that the only federal land in Idaho not equally eligible is being used for nuclear waste dumps and bombing ranges. 4. The Wilderness Act of 1964 contains some of the most unequivocal language in the federal register. Efforts to soften it have turned wilderness into a bargaining chip, one of a stack of chips that includes motorized corridors, mechanized wildland travel and transfers of federal land or timber or minerals to corporate constituents. That’s why U.S. Rep. Mike Simpson’s original CIEDRA bill included transfer of federal lands near Stanley to Custer County, which would have sold them to developers. The Idaho Conservation League supported that bill—actually supported transfer of federal land to a local government planning to cover it with trophy houses—in an effort to please its masters at the Pew Foundation. 5. The word “Protect” has been identified by focus groups as one of the four or five best words for fundraising—“Enduring,” “Investment,” “Future” and “Children” being notable others. Trouble is, if you’re “Protecting the White Clouds as an Enduring Investment for the Future of Our Children,” you have to vilify the folks you’re protecting it from. Monument opponents are being portrayed as Cliven Bundys when they’re not being portrayed as the Peabody Coal Company. In fact, opponents understand the damage that monumentation—there’s a fundraising word
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for you—can do to the wild, and to the experience of the humans who visit it. 6. Tourism is a terribly polluting industry. I’m not talking about motorhome and trophy house construction, or the enormous amount of jet fuel and gasoline that gets the average tourist to a Middle Fork boat ramp. I’m not even talking about crazed 14-year-olds on dirt bikes, or Vietnamese children stitching together backpacks. I’m talking about spiritual pollution, and you can see it in the local/tourist divide in any resort town. Locals know the secret spots, the hidden waterfalls, the places that haven’t been designed for sale. Tourists get funneled into a constructed experience that takes their money and gets them out the door before the next tourist wanders in. The trouble is—as any tourist industry worker knows—the construct becomes the reality. What’s real is replaced by its commodified facsimile. 7. The ICL prides itself on its relentlessness in the cause of wilderness, and Cecil Andrus prides himself on his ability to let the ends dictate the means, but their monument proposal is a jumble of special interest provisions. It looks more like a relentless ICL fundraising effort than an attempt to preserve a fragile landscape. Andrus is old enough to know that the means always corrupt the ends. Establishing a monument by executive order is an exercise in disenfranchisement. Who is being disenfranchised is important, too, because many of the voices against the monument are former Forest Service managers and those of us who have spent summers in the area, taking the time to understand its delicate balances. 8. Monumentation is the further commercialization of the American West. It began with Indian extermination, followed by trapping, mining and agriculture. It continues with the designation of areas for industrial recreation. 9. Monument status for the White Clouds means increased development if the federal government is solvent, increased police presence if it’s broke. Cut a service agency’s budget, and it quickly devolves into a police agency, substituting crowd control for serving the public. The worst case occurs when a federal agency is forced to forage for its own operating money. The result is pay stations, profit-generating corporate “partners,” parking fees and restrictive permits that, together, bar anyone but the wealthy from public lands. 10. President Barack Obama is caught between an evolving energy shortage and the damage that fossil fuel corporations are doing to the planet. He’s already using national monuments as environmental cover while his administration touts the mining of “clean” coal and fracked natural gas, technologies that risk turning this country into a Superfund Site without a Superfund. Monument advocates might well prevail, but we might well ask what is being traded here, where the trading floor is and who gains and who loses from the transaction. B O I S E WE E KLY. C O M
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REWRITING (AND REBUILDING) HISTORY
The Boulder-White Clouds include 500,000 acres between Sun Valley and Challis.
A RIVER OF DEBATE FLOODS BOULDER-WHITE CLOUDS
Something old, something new at the Owyhee GEORGE PRENTICE Jason Osterburg exudes a specific type of confidence. Not the swagger of a stock broker or athlete, but the assuredness of a builder who knows that he’s about to bring in an enormous project on schedule. “We have 96 people on the job today,” said Osterburg, quoting a number that would make most builders’ heads spin. But Osterburg is senior project manager for Andersen Construction, which has been building landmarks in Boise and throughout the Northwest for more than 60 years. “Can I compare this job to anything else? Not in Boise,” he said with a knowing smile. “Maybe in Seattle, but there hasn’t been something of this magnitude here.” Boise is bearing witness to more contemporary projects (Simplot’s JUMP), taller ones (Gardner Company’s Eighth and Main tower) and deeper ones (the soon-to-launched City Center Plaza, again Gardner), but the revitalization of the century-old Owyhee Plaza has perhaps been the most ambitious. Less than two years after Boise Weekly first reported that the Owyhee had new owners (BW, Citydesk, “Owyhee Plaza Sold,” Nov. 30, 2012) and 14 months after BW sat on the edge of the Owyhee’s empty and now-gone swimming pool with one of its owners, Clay Carley (BW, News, “Everything Old is New Again,” April 17, 2013), the owners couldn’t be happier with how their vision has become reality. “For anyone who has the memory of the old Owyhee still fresh in their mind, they would be stunned,” said Carley. “I honestly don’t think another contractor and project team could have done this as fast,” said Mike Brown, Carley’s partner in the Owyhee development and co-owner of L.A.-based Local Construct, which specializes in urban infill development. “Jason and his team put some of their top guys on this project, while Clay and I came together for, let’s say, a meeting of the minds.” And while BW sat with Brown, Carley and Osterburg in a construction trailer just south of the Owyhee, we couldn’t help but note a calendar on the trailer’s wall that was crammed with notes and reminders. But everything was blank from Wednesday, July 9, forward. “Yes, we’re on schedule. I just put 80 very special invitations in the mail for July BOI S EW EEKLY.COM
Owyhee partners Mike Brown (left), Clay Carley (center) and Jason Osterburg, senior project manager for Andersen Construction (right), stopped work—briefly—to pose outside their landmark achievement.
8, where we’ll invite our building team for a special celebration and then 500 more invitations are going out for July 9,” said Carley. But no worries if an invite doesn’t make it to your inbox—the July 9 ribbon cutting is open to the general public, which will get its first look at the Owyhee’s mixed-use of apartment/retail/office meeting space, including the much anticipated penthouse. Anyone who thinks that the revitalization was simply a task of revisiting a particular era would be mistaken, and even a bit confused. “The historic Owyhee was built in 1910,” said Brown, “but apartments were built on the first three floors in 1961; the fourth floor came in 1969; the meeting and banquet space was added in 1978 and then along came the motel in back of the building [which has since been demolished]. But then everything was rehabbed over the years in a very disjointed fashion. There were different finishes in different parts of the building.” In a twist that can only be attributed to the federal government, some of the building’s hidden gems need to be covered up. Due to be eligible for historic preservation tax incentives, the U.S. Park Service, which administers the approval, told the new owners some surprising news. “There were things that we were told we needed to cover up,” said Carley. “For instance, we discovered gorgeous wood columns, 14 inches square, that couldn’t be exposed because they would not have been exposed when the hotel opened in 1910. We were told the same thing about some greatlooking brick inside the building. Now keep in mind that this was the first structure of its kind west of Chicago that had a concrete and steel base, and we found some amazing steel columns with rivets that are pieces of art. And we’re covering them up.” But nothing lasts forever. Even the tax credits will have to expire someday, meaning the owners could someday expose some of the building’s secret features. Regardless, Brown and Carley said they’re
excited to showcase their old-meets-new treasure. “Our overarching goal was to rebuild the historic façade to its original appearance so that somebody who knows architecture would appreciate that it’s the way it was in 1910,” said Carley. “But then we gave it a color and theme inside that is very modern, very striking and elegant.” Brown echoed his partner, saying that the Owyhee’s new visitors will see new “wayfinding,” something they said was missing from the old hotel—but hopefully guests won’t even need signage. “I keep thinking that the Owyhee will be like an Apple device, somewhat intuitive,” said Brown. “Everything from the outside in will say, ‘This is an old building, but with a modern touch. We’re bringing the ethos back but the building is in a stage of becoming.’” While Brown and Carley waxed poetic about the conceptual Owyhee, Osterburg remained focused on the structural Owyhee. When asked if he spent most of his time with the big picture, or if it was scores of smaller pictures competing for his attention, he was quick to say “both.” “Those pictures in your head are changing every day. You manage this space-byspace, floor-by-floor; this project is very much like that,” he said. “We’ve got quite a few skill sets here at any given time: carpentry, painting, flooring contractors, masonry, mechanical, electrical, plumbing and the tile guys, in particular, have worked wonders with the 100-year-old elements.” And even though he usually has as many as two or three of Andersen’s different construction projects consuming his time, Osterburg said he still takes time to admire some of his work. “This has been a big part of my life for 25 years. I tend to stay pretty intimate with my projects, long after they’re complete,” he said. “I like to walk by them and say, ‘I was part of that.’” On July 9, he’ll have one more; a big one.
The chili being dished out at a June 23 luncheon wasn’t the only spicy thing on the menu for the Idaho Environmental Forum’s newest entry in the escalating debate over Idaho’s Boulder-White Clouds area. “This should be an interesting, fast-moving presentation,” promised moderator Will Whelan, director of government relations for the Nature Conservancy. He was half-right. Interesting? Absolutely. Fast-moving? It was, until some of the forum’s participants abused their microphone privileges. The afternoon was always lively, however, thanks to the plain-talking of Brad Brooks, deputy regional director of the Wilderness Society, and Custer County Commissioner Wayne Butts. “I’m pretty damn blunt and sometimes rude,” said Butts. “Deal with it.” Butts said his numbers didn’t lie. Quite simply, his constituents have no desire for President Barack Obama to issue a proclamation establishing the Boulder-White Clouds Mountains National Monument, covering more than 500,000 acres between Sun Valley and Challis. “I would be hard-pressed to find 1 percent of Custer County that are in favor of this,” said Butts. “I’m totally opposed. This whole thing became a jumbled-up mess.” But Brooks said it was congressional inaction on Idaho Rep. Mike Simpson’s own wilderness bill for the area that was the cause of the “jumbled-up mess.” “The intransigence in Congress isn’t getting better. It’s getting worse,” said Brooks, whose organization has been on the front lines of urging Obama to move forward with the monument designation. That’s when Gary O’Malley, executive director of the Sawtooth Society, took the lion’s share of the time, beginning with his ode to David Letterman’s “Top 10.” “Here are the Top 10 reasons why I’m against this,” started O’Malley, beginning with No. 10—“Let’s not screw up a good thing”—all the way down to No. 1—”credibility.” “I’m talking about the credibility of people who say they’re concerned with our environment,” said O’Malley. If he hadn’t yet raised the hackles of a number of the attendees, many of them some of Idaho’s most prominent conservationists, he was about to. “Their credibility is at risk. There’s information out there that is simply not accurate,” said O’Malley. Several minutes later, O’Malley raised the same theme when he held 10 up a door-hanger that had recently
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CITYDESK/NEWS appeared on front doors throughout Southern Idaho. 9 “This says, ‘The Boulder-White Clouds are at risk for mining.’ That’s simply not true,” he said, adding that the literature was asking citizens to sign a petition in support of the monument designation. But Blaine County Commissioner Larry Schoen was quick to grab the microphone to tell the audience that the literature had nothing to do with a separate petition, which he supported, urging Obama to move forward with the monument declaration. Schoen said, to date, the petition had garnered more than 700 signatures. “How many people in this room have lived in, or visited, Blaine County?” asked Schoen, while the majority of hands in the room reached for the sky. “Now, how many people in this room have lived in, or visited, Custer County?” Even more hands flew up. “It’s not just about Blaine and Custer counties. A lot of people have a stake in public lands,” he said. Indeed, in the same hour that the IEF event was taking place in downtown Boise’s Hoff Building, just a few blocks away, at Boise City Hall, Mayor Dave Bieter was throwing his support behind the monument proposal. “Boise is the largest population center in Idaho that uses and cares about the Boulder-White Clouds,” Bieter wrote in a letter to U.S. Interior Secretary Sally Jewell and U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack. “A meeting hosted here in Boise would allow you to hear from a broad spectrum of voices and gather insight on how Idahoans feel about protecting the Boulder-White Clouds as a National Monument.” Blaine County has approximately 21,000 residents; Custer County only about 4,300 residents. But the U.S. Forest Service estimates that up to 1.6 million visitors come through the Boulder-White Clouds region each year. “And if you ever floated the Middle Fork of the Salmon River, you can thank Sen. Frank Church for the protection of that area,” said Brooks, referring to the breathtaking wilderness and whitewater rivers that were formally protected in 1980 on the strength of the late-senator’s efforts. “I don’t see the issue of the BoulderWhite Clouds as any different as that issue back then,” he said. But Butts wanted to have the last word on the Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness, where people come from across the globe to raft and hike. “But the Frank Church [wilderness area] has gotten to the point where it’s only usable by folks who have lots of money,” said Butts. And of those people with lots of money, Brooks said the monument designation would have to put a limit on the ever-growing motorized recreation in the area. “But that’s not to say we don’t want motorized recreation; quite to the contrary, we just don’t want to see it go beyond from its current level,” he said. “Let me put it this way; you don’t wait to buy flood insurance until the river was overflowing its banks.” But the river of debate is quickly approaching flood stage. —George Prentice
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NO, THANKS Boise to ACHD: Put the brakes on Third/Bannock roundabout JESSICA MURRI The Boise City Council and Ada County Highway District have come to yet another gridlocked intersection. ACHD has already proposed several roundabouts for Boise’s downtown core as part of its larger plan to convert more oneway streets to two-ways—and the district would like to start at Third and Bannock streets (BW, Citydesk, “ACHD Hosts Open House on Mini Roundabout,” May 15, 2014). But when Boise Comprehensive Planning Manager Daren Fluke briefed the City Council on the proposal June 17, lawmakers said “no, thanks”—not there and not now. “We’re not going to do it at this time,” said Fluke, adding that the city would like to see a roundabout at a different location. In fact, the Council and Boise Mayor Dave Bieter crafted a letter to ACHD commissioners, saying that while they support roundabouts as a traffic control measure, they worry about the timing and design of the Third and Bannock proposal. “Specifically, we are very concerned with the loss of approximately nine on-street parking spaces and six mature trees in addition to the unanticipated timing conflict with the St. Luke’s and Fort Boise master planning efforts now underway,” the June 11 letter read. “We believe that making a significant investment in this intersection prior to the resolution of those efforts is premature.” The Council instead suggested moving downtown’s inaugural mini-roundabout to a location on Grove Street. Though ACHD doesn’t need the Boise City Council’s blessing to build the roundabout, once the district received the letter, it was equivalent to putting up a roadblock. “We were supposed to start construction on the [Third and Bannock] intersection in September,” said ACHD spokeswoman Nicole Pineda. “So it was already very far along in the planning process.” ACHD Senior Transportation Planner Matt Edmond told BW that the Council’s rejection of the Third and Bannock roundabout meant he needed to go back to the drawing board—but it’s not like this was the first the city had heard of roundabout plans for Third and Bannock. Edmond said the Third and Bannock location had been on the city’s radar since December 2012 as part of the Downtown Boise Implementation Plan (BW, News, “A New Direction,” June 19, 2013), a planning document that included buffered bike lanes, conversion of several downtown streets
The city of Boise’s response to a proposed roundabout at Third and Bannock streets: concerns over timing and lost parking spaces and trees conflict with master plans for St. Luke’s and Fort Boise.
from one-ways to two-ways, and a handful of mini-roundabouts to replace traditional downtown intersections. Edmond said the plan explicitly stated Third and Bannock would be the pilot site. “We feel like this is a good location for it,” Edmond said. “I’m confident on what’s going to happen with the intersection and that’s going to be an increase of traffic.” He said a mini-roundabout—a smaller version of a regular roundabout with only one lane and a low center island—can move up to 1,500 cars in a peak hour, while a four-way stop couldn’t do that without notable congestion. He added that a roundabout is a much more dynamic way to move traffic, with lower emissions and reduced traffic delays. What’s more, once that street is a two-way, traffic is sure to increase. Despite the city’s concerns and suggestion to move the project to Grove Street, Edmond isn’t excited about that idea. “I guess we could talk about it,” he said. “I don’t know if taxpayers would be thrilled knowing we spent $67,500 on designing it, then not building it and having to design it for somewhere else.” During a May 14 ACHD-hosted open house on the Third and Bannock roundabout, Christy Echevarria, who lives on the corner of Bannock and Third streets said she “wasn’t opposed to it” after learning more about the proposal. Meanwhile, other members of the public said there wasn’t enough traffic to warrant a roundabout right now, and wished the money could be spent elsewhere. At the May 14 open house, ACHD officials indicated that the project had a green light, but now that remains to be seen.
And all of this comes after the feud between ACHD and the city peaked when ACHD scrubbed away any evidence that buffered bike lanes had recently been offered to cyclists on Capitol Boulevard, Main and Idaho streets, despite the City Council’s plea for more time (BW, Citydesk, “ACHD Bike Lane Removal,” June 9, 2014). Of the failed bike lane pilot, Mayor Dave Bieter told BW, “We had a pretty good idea of where ACHD was likely to go on this. It’s almost sad.” Edmond said he remained firm that Third and Bannock should be downtown’s first roundabout intersection, but the project timeline is up in the air at this point. That’s where the ACHD board of commissioners comes in. The commissioners will discuss the letter sent by the city and decide what direction to take on Wednesday, June 25. Edmond said he hopes he can address the city’s issues with the loss of parking spaces and trees. “We’re open to putting the project on hold until we can come to some agreement,” he said. “[Moving forward without the city] isn’t the right way to go at this point. We may not be able to please everyone, but I think we can look at some ways to improve it.” Meanwhile, ACHD isn’t wasting any time in engagng the public with an even bigger roundabout project for the 36th Street, Hill Road and Catalpa Drive intersection. The one-lane roundabout, shaped more like an egg-timer, will be the subject of a public open house, 5:30 p.m. Thursday, June 26 at ACHD’s Garden City headquarters. B O I S E WE E KLY. C O M
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HEATHER GOBET Five generations of the most explosive family in the Northwest (they’ll ignite Boise’s fireworks) GEORGE PRENTICE Heather Gobet doesn’t have a short fuse. She better not. She and her family, owners and operators of Western Display Fireworks—which will be responsible for Boise’s Fourth of July fireworks extravaganza in Ann Morrison Park—are absolute experts in their field. But they also know that they’re in the joy business; and Gobet says it’s an honor, and even “humbling,” to be responsible for the hundreds of fireworks spectaculars that they’ll ignite throughout the Northwest on Friday, July 4. In preparation for their busiest week of the year, Boise Weekly sat down to talk with Gobet about her explosive profession and how her family’s history with fireworks is almost as impressive as its displays.
How many generations of your family have been in the fireworks business? Five. I’m the fourth generation; I started with Western Display Fireworks in my early 20s. Now, my son is working here full-time, and my daughter, a student at Oregon State, is helping out this summer. Which leads me to ask about your greatgrandparents. Mickey and Dorothy Weygandt. They had a farm near Canby, Ore.; they grew medicinal herbs—mostly ginseng and goldenseal—that
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they exported to China. But there was one year that they had difficulty getting payment from their Chinese customers, who offered to ship them fireworks instead. My greatgrandfather was quite the entrepreneur—he sold several patents for berry-picking machines to International Harvester—so it was not unlike him to see the opportunity in this. So they started selling fireworks. Things were very different in the 1940s, and you could ship fireworks through the mail, so they had a successful mail-order business.
How many fireworks shows does Western Display service each year? About 300—more than 200 of them for the Fourth of July. Talk to me about the next week-and-a-half. Is it madness, or absolute organization? Somewhere in between. We start planning for the Fourth on July 5 of the previous year. We have to have our orders to China by August. Do most of the fireworks come from China? We get products from all over the world, but China has become the predominant manufacturer of fireworks. There’s a woman in China, my counterpart, and we talk about how her parents did business with my grandparents. What’s the one thing that really threatens a fireworks show? Wind is the major enemy of fireworks. We’re used to setting up and firing in the rain, especially in the Northwest, but in a major metropolitan area, there isn’t a lot of room for error. So, we’re careful about wind speeds. How big does your staff get this time of year? We have a team of 1,200-1,500 people who work for us over the Fourth of July. We’ve trained them over the years to work on different crews and they all mobilize over the next week. How big is your business? There are a handful of companies that are huge and do shows across the globe and the U.S. We’re the next tier down. We’re the pre-
miere company in the region, but we’ve made a calculated decision not to reach too far, and take care of the region that we serve. Are you putting shows together for very small communities in Idaho, Oregon and Washington? We do them all. Frankly, some of the shows may not make a lot of financial sense for us, but those communities may have been our customers for 50-plus years, and we always make sure that they have a Fourth of July. From small towns to Seattle, we’ll be there. Talk to about the mechanics of setting up here in Boise. We’ll arrive on site on Wednesday, July 2; we’ll set up our equipment—the mortars to launch the shells will all be put into place. And do you need extra security for the overnight storage of the shells? Actually, the shells will leave Canby at midnight on July 4. About 90 percent of the time, we deliver the fireworks on the day of the show. When you sync a fireworks show, such as Boise’s, to music, do you provide the score or do the local radio and television stations send you the music? It’s collaborative. We know what works well from a fireworks standpoint, but the local station knows what works musically with its audience. I’m actually putting the finishing touches on your display as we speak. We think it will be a pretty tremendous show—a lot of patriotic themes and some contemporary songs. And it never gets old? It’s pretty cool and pretty humbling. You look at a venue like Boise and realize the magnitude of what’s going to take place and how many people will be entertained. It’s a rare opportunity. I have to constantly remind myself not to be too stressed over it. I’ve been doing this my whole life and, no, it never gets old.
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%ODFN :KLWH 3KRWR The great Canadian photojournalist, Ted Grant, has taken portraits of icons like Israeli Prime Minister David Ben Gurion, U.S. President John F. Kennedy and First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy; documented Vietnam, the Six Day War and Chernobyl; and captured historic moments like a triumphant post-election Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau sliding down a bannister. He has lectured on photography at top universities in Canada and the States, published wve books and received some of his home country’s most prestigious awards. Much of his work has been in black-and-white. According to Grant, that’s for a simple reason: “When you photograph people in color, you photograph their clothes. But when you photograph people in blackand-white, you photograph their souls.” We’re not taking sides, but it’s important to note that we don’t host the annual Full-Color, Photoshop-Edited, Instagram-Filtered Photo Contest.
Black-and-white imagery is mesmerizing—it causes us to slow our impressions and wll in the gaps. It can turn the mundane bizarre, the profane sacred and the familiar unknowable. We might not know the speciwc reasons, but we know we like it. This year we received 133 contest submissions, organized into the categories People, Places and Things. Winnowing the weld to a few top picks was hard work but made possible with the expertise of local photographers Levi Bettwieser and Glenn Landberg, as well as Boise Weekly graphics team Kelsey Hawes and Tomas Montano. BW Associate Editor Amy Atkins and I were allowed to help out in the judge’s suite, as well. Thank you to all those who submitted work—it was a pleasure to see so many talented pieces in one place. And if what Ted Grant says is true, it seems pretty clear that there are plenty of insightful souls behind the lens, too.
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8 DAYS OUT WEDNESDAY JUNE 25 Festivals & Events MEET MISS IDAHO—Meet Sarah Downs, Miss Idaho 2013. She will talk about her journey and answers kids’ questions. 4 p.m. FREE. Boise Public Library Hayes Auditorium, 715 S. Capitol Blvd., Boise, 208-384-4076, boisepubliclibrary.org. PEDAL 4 THE PEOPLE—Join Boise Bicycle Project to celebrate the cycling community and the joys of human-powered transportation. Festival ends Saturday, June 28. Get a complete schedule of events at pedal4thepeople. org or facebook.com/Pedal4thePeopleBoise. FREE. Boise Bicycle Project, 1027 Lusk St., Boise, 208-429-6520, boisebicycleproject.org. RENEWABLE ENERGY AND ELECTRIC CARS—Meet Reid Burkhart, a member of the Sierra Club energy group, who will lead a discussion on renewable energy and electric cars. This will be the last evening TransForm Idaho meeting until September. For more info, email transformidaho@ gmail.com. 7 p.m. FREE. Boise Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 6200 N. Garrett, Garden City, 208-658-1710, boiseuu.org.
Talks & Lectures LIFE IN THE FOREIGN SERVICE—Idaho native Thad Ross, who recently returned from a two-year stint at the U.S. Consulate in Chengdu, China, will give a close-up view of a diplomat’s life, as well as the process of joining the Foreign Service. 6:30 p.m. FREE. Boise Public Library Hayes Auditorium, 715 S. Capitol Blvd., Boise, 208-384-4076, boisepubliclibrary.org.
Odds & Ends EMOTIONS ANONYMOUS—Emotions Anonymous offers a 12-step program to help people cope with stress in daily living and to live a healthier emotional life. The program is open to anyone who has a desire to become emotionally well. Meets weekly on Wednesdays. For more info, email crnnbennett96@ yahoo.com. 7 p.m. FREE. IHOPEmerald, 7959 W. Emerald St., Boise, 208-322-4467, ihop.com.
THURSDAY JUNE 26 Festivals & Events PEDAL 4 THE PEOPLE—Join Boise Bicycle Project to celebrate the cycling community and the joys of human-powered transportation. Festival ends Saturday, June 28. Get a schedule of events at
pedal4thepeople.org or facebook. com/Pedal4thePeopleBoise. FREE. Boise Bicycle Project, 1027 Lusk St., Boise, 208-429-6520, boisebicycleproject.org. RIDE SUN VALLEY BIKE FESTIVAL SHEEPTOWN DRAG RACES—The Ride Sun Valley Bike Festival kicks off with a comedic battle challenging the brave to race with flaming logs chained behind their bikes. Open to the public, participants gather at the Powerhouse Bike Shop and Pub 5:30-7:30 p.m. for registration happy hour, with racing to follow. Get more info at ridesunvalley.com. 5:30 p.m. FREE. WEED DATING—Like speed dating, participants are paired up in beds for quick one-on-one weeding sessions with other singles. Local beer available. Get more details and FAQs on the website. 6 p.m. $5. Earthly Delights Farm, 3516 Hawthorne St., Boise, 208-2843712, earthlydelightsfarm.com.
On Stage COMEDIAN MUNDEK CLEMENTSTEIN—Featuring Emmanuel Vera. 8 p.m. $10. Liquid, 405 S. Eighth St., Ste. 110, Boise, 208-2875379, liquidboise.com.
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MUSIC THEATRE OF IDAHO: WEST SIDE STORY—This great love story takes to the streets in this landmark Broadway musical that is one of the theater’s finest accomplishments. Buy tickets online at mtionline.org or by calling 208-468-2385. 7:30 p.m. $18 adv., $22 door. Nampa Civic Center, 311 Third St. S., Nampa, 208-468-5555, nampaciviccenter. com.
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CIVIL RIGHTS ACT 50TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION—Celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act and learn more about the history of civil rights in Idaho. This all-ages event features musicians, performers, speakers and food. See Picks, Page 24. 5:30 p.m. FREE. Zoo Boise, 355 Julia Davis Drive, Boise, 208-608-7760, zooboise.org. HWY. 21 FLEA MARKET—Featuring 25 vendors with antiques, coins, glassware, household items, blacksmith and more. 9 a.m. FREE. Idaho City, Hwy. 21, 40 miles past Boise, Idaho City, 208-392-4159, myidahocity.com.
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6:30 p.m.-10:30 p.m. Salmon River Brewery, 411 Railroad Ave., McCall salmonriverbrewery.com
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Every Saturday until mid-October (weather permitting), local producers come together to offer fresh fruits and vegetables, meats and poultry, yowers and sundries. Proceeds from the open-air market benewt McCall area nonprowts.
10 a.m.-2 p.m. Pine and Lenora streets, McCall mccallchamber.org
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For the 16th year, the McCall Arts Council hosts its free children’s art festival. The outdoor arts event gives kids of all ages ample opportunity to enjoy some hands-on creativity. Let the little ones loose on booths and watch them learn. All ages welcome.
10 a.m.-2 p.m. Central Idaho Historical Museum, Highway 55 and State Street, McCall mccallarts.org
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Ride the chairlifts and benewt the Heartland Hunger Resource Center. Donate a can of nonperishable food or $1 per ride to support the HHRC. Enter a rafye to win gear and equipment, with proceeds going to benewt the food bank. Grand prize is a giant swag bag and a 2014 summer season pass. Tickets are $1 or a can of food. Summer ops will continue Fridays-Sundays, and holidays, through Labor Day.
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Since it was started by friends to commemorate Marjorie Moore Davidson, Art in the Garden has grown into one of the most important annual events for the McCall Arts and Humanities Council. Featuring auctions of local and regional art, appetizers and wine, and live music, proceeds from support MAHC’s mission to provide community programming. Local artists win, too: Participating artists receive a gallery commission on their evening’s sales. Tickets cost $45 and must be purchased in advance. Numbers are limited, so plan ahead.
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For more than a quarter century, the Roseberry Arts and Crafts has been showcasing the best original, handmade work by local and regional artists and craftspeople. Sponsored by the Long Valley Preservation Society, the juried fair takes place at the historic Roseberry townsite with nearly 100 hand-picked vendors, offering everything from Western-themed art to home decor, handicrafts and more. Enjoy a wide variety of food booths, live music throughout both days and the opportunity to explore the Roseberry museum and historic townsite in a beautiful mountain setting. The Roseberry Arts and Crafts Fair runs 9:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Saturday, July 5 and 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Sunday, July 6. Admission is free.
All day Historic Roseberry, one mile east of Donnelly, historicroseberry.com
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They take Fourth of July seriously in Central Idaho. In Cascade, events go down from 11 a.m.-11 p.m., including a downtown parade, barbecues, live music and wreworks over Cascade Lake at dusk. In McCall, Fourth festivities also run all day, with bounce houses, water slides, crafts and games at Depot Park, and local vendors at East Lake Street open at 11 a.m. Catch live music at the Depot Park/Salmon River Brewery beer garden and a kids parade at 6 p.m. At 8 p.m., patriots will take to the lake with a sailboat parade from the Mill Harbor 9acht Club. Boats, done up in red, white and blue, will cruise close to shore between downtown McCall and Shore Lodge until the sun goes down and the wreworks go up.
All day Downtown McCall, mccallchamber.org
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Each night through Saturday, July 19, historic Roseberry gets noisy with some of the best country, folk, rock and bluegrass around. This year kicks off with Locals’ Night, featuring Ben and Mallory Herbst, Scott Pierce, The Ukeladies, Wisdom E Wonder, Kelly G. E Friends, The Dawgs and Buckskin Bible Revue. Individual tickets cost $15-$25, three-day passes cost $50-$55.
6 p.m.-11 p.m. Historic Roseberry, one mile east of Donnelly thesummermusicfestival.com
Historic Roseberry dewnes old-school entertainment with antique engine and equipment demonstrations; an antique and classic car show; and hay, buggy and tractor rides. Crafts for the kids and Scandinavian music round out the experience, which includes a live auction at 2 p.m. and a quilt rafye at 3 p.m. Ice cream, hot dogs, hamburgers, lemonade, Finn Bread and pastries will be served all day.
Noon-4 p.m. Historic Roseberry, one mile east of Donnelly historicroseberry.com
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6 p.m.-8 p.m. The Lodge at Osprey Meadows, Tamarack Resort cimbarides.org
Presented by the Central Idaho Mountain Bike Association, ride the Tamarack trails and meet back at the parking lot of The Lodge for a barbecue.
All day Whitetail Club, 501 W. Lake St., McCall whitetailclub.com For the ninth year, the Whitetail Club, in McCall, hosts the annual Payette Cup golf tournament—a two-day, 36-hole competition on a golf course ranked in the Top 100 by Golf Digest. The public gets in on the action with the Shamble Better Ball tournament on the 7,200-yard championship course. Couple-team entry fee of $1,350, which includes lodging at Shore Lodge. See website for details.
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6:30 p.m. History Roseberry Bandshell, Roseberry, one mile east of Donnelly historicroseberry.com
Every Wednesday through Aug. 27, catch free performances at the Historic Roseberry Bandshell. See website for a full schedule and lineup.
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They call it “an uphill challenge at your favorite downhill destination,� and they’re not kidding. The wrst-ever Summit Cat Track 10K leads runners on a 3.1-mile ascent, gaining 1,640 feet in elevation, followed by a descent following the same route. Friends and family can enjoy discounted chairlift rides to cheer on their favorite runners. The event is followed by a post-race party and awards ceremony at Smoky’s Bar and Grill at the Brundage Mountain ski lodge. Start time is 11 a.m. at the Brundage base area, with a lunch party at Smoky’s Bar and Grill at noon. Awards and rafye at 2 p.m. Registration is $35, if entered by July 14; $40 July 15-July 31; and $45 Aug. 1-8. Register at ultrasignup.com (search: “Brundage Mountain Summit Cat Track Run�).
10 a.m.-3 p.m. Brundage Mountain Resort, McCall brundage.com
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WEDNESDAY NIGHT CONCERT SERIES AT ROSEBERRY
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Every Tuesday night through July 29, go for a two-course meal at the Narrows Restaurant and stay for an after-dinner movie. This year’s selections: Rob the Mob, Afyicted, Bad Words, Jack Ryan and Blue Ruin. Reservations recommended.
6 p.m.-9:30 p.m. Shore Lodge, 501 W. Lake St., McCall shorelodge.com
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The McCall Jazz Festival is once again taking over the the McCall Golf Club to present world-class jazz in a world-class setting. Hosted by Boise-based chart-topper Curtis Stigers, the festival begins at 2:30 p.m. with the Ben Burdick Trio, followed by Andrew Coba at 3:30 p.m. and The Sneider Brothers at 4:30 p.m. Joel Frahm kicks off the second half of the event at 5:30 p.m., followed by Ann Hampton Callaway at 6:45 p.m. and closed out by the host himself, Curtis Stigers and his band at 8 p.m. Presented by Idaho First Bank, proceeds benewt The Shepherd’s Home, providing help for children in crisis. Free parking and shuttle at Payette Lakes Middle School, 111 S. Samson Trail, McCall. Lawn seating costs $25, chairs (provided) cost $35.
2:30 p.m.-9:30 p.m. McCall Golf Club, 925 Fairway Drive, McCall, brownpapertickets.com/event/714278
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The annual celebration of all things culinary in McCall is one of the McCall-Donnelly Education Foundationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s major fundraisers. Hosted at River Ranch in McCall, Taste of McCall brings together area restaurateurs and caterers to showcase their talents and summer selectionsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;paired, of course, with wne wines and microbrews. This year look for vendors including Rupertâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s at Hotel McCall, Stacey Cakes and The Sushi Bar; Cold Springs Winery, Periple Wines and <hoo <hoo Hells Canyon Winery; and McCall Brewing Company, Payette Brewing Company and Salmon River Brewery. Beyond the food and refreshments, attendees can also participate in a silent auction. Tickets cost $50, available online at the MDEF website.
Noon-4 p.m. River Ranch, 1002 Mission St., McCall, mdef.org
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8 DAYS OUT PEDAL 4 THE PEOPLE—See website for schedule. FREE. Boise Bicycle Project, 1027 Lusk St., Boise, 208-429-6520, boisebicycleproject.org.
On Stage COMEDIAN MUNDEK CLEMENT-STEIN—See Thursday. 8 p.m. and 10 p.m. $12. Liquid, 405 S. Eighth St., Ste. 110, Boise, 208-287-5379, liquidboise.com. MUSIC THEATRE OF IDAHO: WEST SIDE STORY—See Thursday. 7:30 p.m. $18 adv., $22 door. Nampa Civic Center, 311 Third St. S., Nampa, 208-4685555, nampaciviccenter.com.
Art CINDER MURAL KICKOFF PARTY—Enjoy an adult beverage while you chat with the artists from Sector 17, who will create the first Winery Mural. Food trucks will be on hand. Ride your bike, and get $1 off your first drink. 5 p.m. FREE. Cinder Winery, 107 E.44th St., Garden City, 208-376-4023, cinderwines.com.
Calls to Artists BOISE’S FUNNIEST PERSON AUDITIONS—See Thursday. 7 p.m. FREE. Liquid, 405 S. Eighth St., Ste. 110, Boise, 208-2875379, liquidboise.com.
Sports & Fitness DANIEL DOPPS MEMORIAL RAM PRCA RODEO—In memory of Daniel Dopps, who died on Aug. 7, 2005, from injuries sustained at a PRCA rodeo. He was 19. Dance follows rodeo both nights, featuring The Jeff Palmer Band. Get more info at 3dmemorialrodeo.org. 7:30 p.m. $10 adults, $5 child 6-12. Optimist Park-Mountain Home, Elmcrest and Fifth Ave. N., Mountain Home.
Odds & Ends THE LOOP SHOP HOP—Take advantage of two days of sales, discounts and giveaways at a group of retail small businesses located on the “loop” of State and Glenwood streets and Chinden Boulevard. Get more info at facebook.com/ theloopshophop. 10 a.m. FREE. TASTINGS WINE BAR’S THIRD ANNIVERSARY—Free wine tasting 4-7 p.m., plus live music from 7-10 p.m. from Innocent Man, The Qwahitas and the Boise Rock School Adult Band. 4 p.m. FREE. Tastings Wine Market & Bar, 2447 Apple St., Boise, 208-385-9463, tastingsboise.com.
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at pedal4thepeople.org or Facebook.com/Pedal4thePeopleBoise. 5 p.m. $10. Crooked Fence Barrelhouse, 5181 Glenwood St., Garden City, 208-376-4200, facebook. com/crookedfencebarrelhouse. SUPER SUMMER CRAFT MARKET—Check out the deals at Flying M in Nampa’s parking lot, which will be loaded with local crafters and artisans and more. 9 a.m.-3 p.m. FREE. Flying M Coffee/Concert Garage, 1314 Second St. S., Nampa, 208-467-5533, flyingmcoffee.com. UNITED COMMUNITY CELEBRATION—Enjoy music, games, food and drink, silent auction, gift certificates, gift baskets, artisan crafts and much more. 6 p.m. $12 for adults, $7 kids under 12. Wright Congregational Church, 4821 W. Franklin Road, Boise, 208-3430292, wrightucc.com.
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Festivals & Events FIRST OF HARVEST PARTY—Enjoy fresh cherries, barrel tasting and new wine releases. With music by Wayne White, Katrina Nicolayeff and Matt Hartz, and food by Firepie Traveling Pizza Co. 10 a.m. FREE. Williamson Orchards and Vineyards, 19692 Williamson Lane, Caldwell, 208-459-7333,willorch.com. HWY. 21 FLEA MARKET—See Friday. 9 a.m. FREE. Idaho City, Hwy. 21, 40 miles past Boise, Idaho City, 208-392-4159, myidahocity.com. PEDAL 4 THE PEOPLE HELLADROME—Join Boise Bicycle Project for the finale of 10-day festival. This is a wacky bicycle race with awesome obstacles. Get more info
BOISE MUSIC FESTIVAL—All-day, family-friendly event with seven stages and a carnival. Get more info at boisemusicfestival.com. See Listen Here, Page 29. 10 a.m. FREE. Expo Idaho (Fairgrounds), 5610 Glenwood St., Garden City, 208-287-5650, expoidaho.com. COMEDIAN MUNDEK CLEMENTSTEIN—See Thursday. 8 p.m. and 10 p.m. $12. Liquid, 405 S. Eighth St., Ste. 110, Boise, 208-2875379, liquidboise.com. MUSIC THEATRE OF IDAHO: WEST SIDE STORY—See Thursday. 1:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. $18 adv., $22 door. Nampa Civic Center, 311 Third St. S., Nampa, 208-4685555, nampaciviccenter.com.
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Citizen THIRD ANNUAL CONNECT THE PIECES GALA—Enjoy an Iron Chef-style cook-off between Mai Thai, The DISH! and Kind Cuisine, plus music by the High Beams, food by A Lively Chef and a juice bar by Shangri-La. Wear your best Hawaiian shirt. Buy tickets at connectthepieces. org or at Second Chance Building Materials Center, 1423 Grove. See Picks, Page 25 6:30 p.m. $50 individual, $375 table for eight. Rose Room, 718 W. Idaho St., Boise, 208-381-0483, parklaneco.com/roseroom.
Kids & Teens SPLASH BASH POOL PARTY— Teens are invited to swim and hang out with friends at this Idaho Meth Project Teen Night after-hours pool party. For ages 12-17. 8:30 p.m. FREE. Lincoln Pool, 508 Davis Ave., Nampa, 208-465-2218, nampaparksandrecreation.org.
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8 DAYS OUT Calls to Artists BOISE’S FUNNIEST PERSON AUDITIONS—See Thursday. 2 p.m. FREE. Liquid, 405 S. Eighth St., Ste. 110, Boise, 208-2875379, liquidboise.com.
and buy tickets at idso.org. 6 p.m. $50. Special Olympics Idaho Headquarters, 199 E. 52nd St., Garden City, 800-915-6510, idso. org.
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Sports & Fitness
THE LOOP SHOP HOP—See Friday. 10 a.m. FREE.
DANIEL DOPPS MEMORIAL RAM PRCA RODEO—See Friday. 7:30 p.m. $10 adults, $5 child 6-12. Optimist Park-Mountain Home, Elmcrest and Fifth Ave. N., Mountain Home.
TIME ZONE TOYS OUTDOOR TOY SHOW—Buy, sell, trade and network with other collectors in Idaho. 9 a.m. FREE. Time Zone Toys, 2945 W. Chinden Blvd., Garden City, 208-343-6358, timezonetoys.com.
TREASURE VALLEY ROLLER DERBY HOME BOUT—Take the family and watch some exciting Treasure Valley Roller Derby. Tickets are available for sale at the door. Email tvrgirls@gmail. com for more info. 6 p.m. $10. CenturyLink Arena, 233 S. Capitol Blvd., Boise, 208-424-2200 or box office 208-331-8497, centurylinkarenaboise.com/home.aspx.
Citizen COMMUNITY PROGRESSIVE 4—See how local businesses, nonprofits, artisans, musicians, growers, producers and more contribute to our community. See Picks, Page 25. 10 a.m. FREE. Julia Davis Park, 700 S. Capitol Blvd., Boise, facebook.com/TheCommunityProgressive RUN OR DYE BOISE COLOR 5K—Run or Dye Give Love World Tour event benefits the Girl Scouts of Silver Sage. For more info or to register, visit thecolorrun. com/boise/2014-08-23. 9 a.m. $42-$57. Parkcenter Park, 385 E. Parkcenter Blvd., Boise. SPECIAL OLYMPICS IDAHO ROUND-UP—Enjoy a catered dinner by Mickey Ray’s Roadhouse BBQ, complimentary beer and wine, live and silent auctions, raffle prizes, dancing to JoyRide and much more. Get more info
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SUNDAY JUNE 29 Festivals & Events BRIDES AGAINST BREAST CANCER BRIDAL SHOW—Brides and guests can browse through hundreds of new and lovingly worn designer and couture wedding gowns, ranging from $99 to $3,900, available in all styles and in sizes 4-18. Plus wedding vendors and giveaways. A portion of the proceeds benefit those affected by cancer. Visit bridesabc. org for more info. 11 a.m. $5. Riverside Hotel, 2900 Chinden Blvd., Garden City, 208-343-1871, riversideboise.com. HWY. 21 FLEA MARKET—See Friday. 9 a.m. FREE. Idaho City, Hwy. 21, 40 miles past Boise, Idaho City, 208-392-4159, myidahocity.com.
On Stage COMEDIAN MUNDEK CLEMENTSTEIN—See Thursday. 8 p.m. $10. Liquid, 405 S. Eighth St., Ste. 110, Boise, 208-287-5379, liquidboise.com.
EYESPY Real Dialogue from the naked city
STORY STORY LATE-NIGHT: UGLY—Join the provocative and powerful story party and get ready to talk about “Swan Songs of the Good, the Bad & the Hideous.” Hosted by Emma Arnold, with music by Stardust Lounge. Buy advance tickets at storystorynight.bigcartel.com. 8 p.m. $8 adv., $10 door. Visual Arts Collective, 3638 Osage St., Garden City, 208-424-8297, visualartscollective.com.
TUESDAY JULY 1 Animals & Pets REPTILE PETTING ZOO—Meet snakes, lizards and other cool creepy crawlies. All ages. 2 p.m. FREE. Ada Community Library, Lake Hazel Branch, 10489 Lake Hazel Road, Boise, 208-2976700, adalib.org.
WEDNESDAY JULY 2 Festivals & Events HAILEY DAYS OF THE OLD WEST 4TH OF JULY CELEBRATION—Hailey throws a five-day birthday party for America, with a plethora of events. Get the full schedule at haileyidaho.com. Hailey, 208-787-0183. THE SOULSHINE TOUR: A DAYTIME YOGA & MUSIC EXPERIENCE—Energetic and soulful flow class for yogis of all experience levels, ages, shapes and sizes at Trail Creek Picnic Grounds. Taught by Allie Purdy with Michael Franti performing. Buy tickets at sunvalleycenter. org or call 208-726-9491. Get more info on The Soulshine Tour Yoga Experience at soulshine. com. 11 a.m. $10-$20. Sun Valley Resort, 1 Sun Valley Road, Sun Valley, 208-622-4111 or 1-800-786-8259, sunvalley.com.
On Stage ROARING TWENTIES SPEAKEASY HOT JAZZ CABARET— Featuring Jack’s Five, with Christina Boyd-Eisenhauer; Dancing Moll’s Chorus Line Girls; and MC Dylan Cole. Includes free Charleston and Swing dance lesson by Joel Hunter and Stephanie Hinton of Heirloom Dance Studio at 8:15 p.m. 9 p.m. $8 adv., $10 door. Bouquet, 1010 W. Main St., Boise, 208-3456605. THE SOULSHINE TOUR NIGHTTIME CONCERT—Featuring Michael Franti & Spearhead, SOJA, Brett Dennen and Trevor Hall. 6 p.m. $40-$50. River Run Lodge, at the Base of Bald Mountain, Sun Valley, 208-726-9491, sunvalleycenter.org. Overheard something Eye-spy worthy? E-mail production@boiseweekly.com
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ALIVE AFTER FIVE “We shall overcome,” 50 years later.
It’s easy, you put funny into this funny-box, right?
THURSDAY-SATURDAY JUNE 26-28 break a leg BOISE’S FUNNIEST PERSON 2014: AUDITIONS
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 25 GIRLS GUNS AND GLORY Opening Act: Buckskin Bible Revue From the Wild East of Beantown comes this quartet of rocka-billy crooners channeling the ghost of Jerry Lee Lewis. On its raucous numbers, as in“Shake Like Jello,” the band’s jumpy rhythms are textbook 1950s rock, while more balladic numbers like “One of These Days” mix an alt-country sensibility with a lyrical earnestness that recalls the coming-of-age rockers of the late-’90s and early ’00s. Locals Buckskin Bible Revue open with their brand of “holy shit dance-grass.” 5 p.m. Grove Plaza, 900 W. Grove St., downtownboise.org.
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Comedians don’t come out of the womb cracking jokes—Bill Burr, Louis C.K. and Reggie Watts had to start somewhere. At one point, they were amateurs who yearned for the spotlight. If you have that same longing, here’s your chance to show what you’re made of: the second edition of Boise’s Funniest Person. If you think you have the jokes, gags and banter to wow eight judges, take home $1,000 and live forever as a legend in Boise stand-up comedy lore, this is your time to shine. The brainchild of Sarah and Daniel Shamblin Foster, Boise’s Funniest Person is an amateur-only competition, so if you’ve been paid for standup or have more than three months experience, you’ll have to enjoy this one from the crowd. Auditions are open but space is limited. Visit boisesfunniestperson.com for more information. Thursday, June 26, 6 p.m.; Friday, June 27, 7 p.m.; Saturday, June 28, 2 p.m. FREE. Liquid Laughs, 405 S. Eighth St., 208941-2459, liquidboise.com.
FRIDAY JUNE 27 history lessons CIVIL RIGHTS ACT: 50TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION It has been 50 years since one of the most important legislative milestones in United States history: the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Though millennials and Gen Xers don’t remember, the earliest Baby Boomers likely can’t forget a time when it acceptable—legal, even—to refuse service or entry into a public establishment because of a person’s ethnicity, skin color, faith or birthplace. The Civil Rights Act outlawed discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin; and, locally, the act’s 50th anniversary will be celebrated in style at Boise Zoo with a big event hosted by the Idaho Central Credit Union, ACLU of Idaho, the Pride Foundation, Idaho Commission on Human Rights, the Idaho State Historical Society, the NAACP and the Black History Museum. This all-ages celebration, which includes musicians, performers, food and informational booths, is free and open to the public. 5:30 p.m. FREE. Zoo Boise, 355 Julia Davis Drive, 208-6087760, acluidaho.org/venue/zoo-boise.
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FOURTH ANNUAL COMMUNITY PROGRESSIVE
THIRD ANNUAL CONNECT THE PIECES GALA It’s time to break out your Hawaiian shirts and grass skirts. Connect the Pieces kicks off its Recovery Revolution Beach Party Friday, June 27, with the Third Annual Gala and Auction. Connect the Pieces is a local organization that aims to prevent prescription drug abuse in our community. This year’s gala focuses on how nutrition can help those suffering with addiction through recover y. The gala will feature an Iron Chef-style cook-off between three restaurants: Mai Thai, The Dish and Kind Cuisine Cafe. Two new programs will be debuted at the event, including the Recover y Wellness Program and The Amazing Adventures of Pharmacist Phil safety program for students in kindergarten through third grade. All proceeds benefit Connect the Pieces’ prevention and recover y programs. 6:30 p.m. $50 individual, $375 table. Rose Room, 718 W. Idaho St., connectthepieces.org/gala.
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In 2010, Boise Weekly published a report about the impact of buying local that quoted research suggesting for every $100 spent locally, $45 stay local. Compare that with $100 spent at a big box store or chain outlet, where only $14 stay in the local economy. If that sounds like a good deal to you, gather with fellow locavores at Julia Davis Park Saturday, June 28, for a celebration of sustainable food, local investments, community involvement, and—of course—buying locally. Bring the kids and your own thinking cap, because the educational forecast is looking strong with groups like Close the Gap, Idaho! and Lift Up Idaho! Minimum Wage scheduled at the public education stage. Vendors and nonprofits representing topics from safe schools to GMOs to contraception will also be at the event, but attendees are advised to leave their partisanship at home—at least for the day, since Mayor David Bieter will proclaim June 28 the official Community Progressive Day in the City of Trees. 10 a.m.-8 p.m. FREE. Julia Davis Park, 700 S. Capitol Blvd., facebook.com/TheCommunityProgressive.
WAVEFORM JEWELRY Berlin-based designer David Bizer has created Waveform Jewelry, a line of accessories that are customizable… to the human voice. Using a program, app or digital recording device, customers can record themselves (or a loved one) saying whatever they choose—Bizer recommends between two syllables and a full sentence: “I love you,” for example. The soundwaves $39-$135 of those words are then visubza.biz ally represented in plywood or acrylic “beads” or discs, strung together for a unique necklace or bracelet, which Bizer calls Waveform Jewelry. The beads range in size from 1 millimeter to 3 millimeters (the larger the bead, the more expensive it is) and come in black, blue, brown, transparent and white. Or you can get your soundwave in a solid piece of metal— gold-plated brass, silver or stainless-steel, for example—in a variety of matte and polished finishes. The solid soundwaves can be made into a keychain or earrings. Prices range from $39 to $135, depending on the item. Everything in Bizer’s shop is listed in euros but will automatically convert to dollars at checkout when paid for with PayPal (you can also use direct bank transfer). If you can’t afford Bizer’s Waveform pieces, or you want to take the customizing to the next level—and you have access to a 3-D printer—Bizer has a template available at instructables.com/id/Waveform-Necklace-Bracelet. —Kelsey Meeker
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INSPIRING ON THE PAYETTE Brundage nears the end of a $500k uprade.
FAT TIRES AND FESTIVAL MOVES Valley County commissioners passed an ordinance June 16 allowing fat-tire bicycles on groomed snowmobile trails in the area, opening more than 200 miles of trails to cyclists. Fat tires are double the width of conventional tires, handling conditions like snow or sand where regular bikes couldn’t ride. The measure passed with ease, according to Valley County Recreation Director Larry Laxson, who added that the most exciting part of the process was “get[ting] the motorized people and the non-motorized people to come together.” Like snowmobilers, the ordinance requires fat-tire bike users to buy a $25 annual sticker to access the trails. “They want to be part of the system to help pay for the groomed trails and they didn’t have a way to do that before,” Laxson said. The money from those registration stickers goes straight back into maintaining trails. But the Idaho Department of Parks and Recreation isn’t as excited about the ordinance as Laxson and fat-tire enthusiasts. “It’s not that our agency has a qualm with allowing those fat-tire bikes on trails,” said Jennifer Okerlund, communications director for IDPR. “We don’t like those bikes having to purchase snowmobile registration stickers.” Specifically, Okerlund said, that’s because the snowmobile stickers come with a specific registration process that requires a vehicle identification number, which bicycles don’t have. She said registration laws in Idaho would have to be changed to include bikes. Valley County’s ordinance is a “square peg trying to fit into a round hole,” she added. Laxson said he really wanted something like this to pass at a state level, “but the IDPR doesn’t do anything about it, so we did it on a county level.” “We want it to be a trails pass and we don’t care where people stick them,” Laxson said. “We’ve got to be inclusive; that’s the key to recreation. We have to all work together, or we lose it.” In other Valley County recreation news, Brundage Mountain Resort is spending the first month of summer finishing the final phase of its $500,000 lodge renovation— vastly increasing its amount of sun-exposed deck space to 14,000 square feet. The deck will be serviced by Smoky’s Bar and Grill throughout the summer and winter seasons. Because of the construction at the resort, the Idaho-Down Music Festival, which for five years has taken place at the base of the ski area, will be postponed until summer 2015. Brundage’s normal summer chairlift service kicks off June 27 with scenic rides and mountain biking (see McCall summer calendar, Page 20). —Jessica Murri
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Blind surfer Derek Rabelo competes alongside athletes from all over the world JESSICA MURRI Derek Rabelo’s pupils look a little like opals. The 22-year-old professional surfer from Brazil has been blind his whole life, so the 2014 Payette River Games in Cascade included a lot of firsts for him: first time in Idaho, first time surfing on a river, first time in a kayak. Another Brazilian athlete in Idaho for the games, Marcelo Galizio, pulled a lifejacket over Rabelo’s head and helped him step into a kayak sprayskirt on the afternoon of June 21, the first day of events in the weekend-long event. They walked down to the river bank at Kelly’s Whitewater Park, Rabelo keeping his hand on the kayaker’s shoulder—less like a guide and more like a close friend. They chatted with each other in Portuguese as Galizio explained the tandem kayak to Rabelo, who couldn’t see its bright red color or the river he was about to paddle through. A group of Rabelo’s supporters seated him in the front of the boat, and it took a team to secure his sprayskirt around the cockpit. Galizio sat close to Rabelo, their helmeted foreheads touching as the latter explained what to do if the kayak flipped over. Galizio placed the paddle in Rabelo’s hands, which the former ran his fingers along until he hit the blades, tracing their outlines, feeling where they fused with the grip—the same way he figures out everything in his life. Galizio cleaned off the lens of his GoPro camera and stuck it on the front of the boat, facing Rabelo, and they took off upstream, Rabelo clumsily dipping his paddle blades into the water, oblivious to a near miss with the shoreline. They pointed the boat downstream and rode through Kelly’s Whitewater Park to the cheers of thousands of spectators. This is how Rabelo lives—entrusting his life to the hands of people he can’t see, and listening to scores of others cheer him on. “His father is a huge surfer and his dream in their little Brazilian town was to have his son become a professional surfer,” said Kristina Pickard, who organized the Payette River Games and founded Kelly’s Whitewater Park with her husband, Mark. Rabelo received his first surfboard when he turned 17, and hit the beach. Since then, he’s fulfilled his father’s dream; as a professional surfer, he has ridden the Pipeline of Oahu among some of the biggest names in the sport. “As soon as I got the first wave, I fell in love with surfing,” Rabelo told Boise Weekly, as translated by Galizio. “I feel pretty blessed to be able to surf.”
Brazilian surfer Derek Rabelo (right) rides the Payette with fellow Brazilian and athlete Marcelo Galizio (left).
Getting him into the wave on the Payette was a process. Rabelo always has someone on a boogie board nearby, yelling directions to him. He said he also listens to foam piles and waves forming. After that, it’s all about feeling. “I’m led by God,” he said. The Pickards heard of Rabelo through Beyond Sight, a recent documentary featuring the young surfer. After seeing the film, they invited him to Idaho to compete in the elite men’s river surf event. “We said, ‘You can surf at Kelly’s independently, because we have a standing wave,’” said Kristina Pickard. “‘You can come in and surf that wave until you get exhausted.’” Organizers said river surfing competitions haven’t taken off yet, and theirs might be the biggest yet, with a record total $6,000 purse. “We’re kind of pioneering [river surfing events] in the United States,” said Mark Pickard, whose event—now in its second year—drew 550 athletes from more than 17 countries, vying for a piece of the world-record $100,000 in individual purses. More than 35,000 spectators crowded the banks of the river June 20-22. Pickard said he was excited to feature an athlete like Rabelo, whose commitment to the sport is so evident. “If you don’t get a tear or a goose bump, I’d be shocked,” he said. That was the goal of the event, the theme for which was: “inspiration.” And during the weekend, Pickard announced that Kelly’s Whitewater Park had been inspired to sponsor Rabelo in his surfing career. The “inspiration” didn’t escape other athletes who competed in the surf event. One was overheard telling Rabelo, “That’s crazy man. You’re an inspiration. I can’t imagine getting in that wave blind. I’m having trouble in it and I can see.” Kai Lenny, a Red Bull-sponsored surfer from Hawaii, met Rabelo on the north shore of Oahu, but this was the first time he’d competed against the Brazilian. “I think it’s just incredible that he has the courage to do it,” Lenny said. “A lot of people are really scared in the dark, and he’s in the
dark all the time. So for him to be here, that’s so rad.” This was Lenny’s first time at the Payette River Games as well, and he found this style of inland surfing to be shockingly different from the sport he knows in Hawaii. “The only similarity is that you’re on a surfboard,” Lenny said, explaining that in the ocean, the water comes toward surfers, pushing them in. In the river, it’s reversed. The water pushes the surfers back. Lenny spent a few days before the games practicing at the Boise River Park, trying to pick up tips from the locals. “It’s definitely cool to be a beginner again, you know?” Lenny said. Rabelo struggled like Lenny with the new dynamics of river surfing. During his practice runs, his coach would follow on a boogie board as they tried to cross the swarming froth of the wave to the surf spot. Rabelo would quickly hit the wave wrong and his board would fly into the air without him, leaving him flushed downstream. He tried over and over again, only standing up twice. In the main competition June 22, he managed to stand up and ride the wave, but only for seven seconds—a fraction of the time of the other surfers. Despite that, Rabelo was named the most inspirational athlete and best ride in the men’s surf open; however, he didn’t place in the main event. Neither did Lenny, but the Pickards asked him to stay at Kelly’s Whitewater Park for the next week, teaching Kelly’s Academy students how to river surf. Rabelo wanted to talk about his tandemkayak ride down the whitewater park more than what it’s like to be a blind surfer. Even though the boat flipped and Rabelo had to swim out of it, he said he wasn’t scared. Another kayaker quickly swooped in and Rabelo hung onto the back of the boat while he was towed to shore. Spills and rolls aside, Rabelo was inspired to push himself further. “This is a small river with small rapids,” Rabelo said. “I’m already ready to go bigger and do bigger rapids. I want to drop a big waterfall with [Galizio].” B O I S E WE E KLY. C O M
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Some stand-up river people standing up on the Boise River.
WHAT SUP? When I was a kid, my dad and I had the same routine every weekend: make a pile of plastic paddles, bags of chips, bottles of vanilla Coke and a bright yellow Challenger raft—limp and deflated—at Ann Morrison Park. We’d awkwardly move our pile from the grass to a sweaty leather seat on the shuttle bus, shoving crinkled dollar bills at the driver. The bus would take us to the Barber Park tuber putin, where we’d inflate our craft and float down the Boise River. Then repeat. On a recent afternoon, I tried the Boise River again, this time trading the leaky raft for an inflatable 10-foot stand-up paddleboard. I tagged along with the crew from Corridor Surf Shop, and we didn’t put in all the way up at Barber Park; rather, we entered the river at a quiet little eddy off of Warm Springs Avenue just upstream of the golf course. Well, we thought it was quiet. Out of nowhere charged a black swan with wings spread, feathers ruffled and flashing a bright red, menacing-looking beak. I turned into a frantic and wobbly mess trying to outrun the beast, and only at a swing of a paddle did it retreat. Once the wildlife had been avoided, we came out into the river’s current, flowing at almost 15,000 cubic feet per second— twice it’s usual height—and a shocking 46 degrees. Right in front of us: our first rapid. The weir rapid makes an easy tongue and is popular with kayakers, but it’s also very shallow. Those in our group who tried to stand up through it had little success and fell in. Another got her board wedged inside the rapid and could do nothing but stand there as bottom-fed reservoir water (read: cold water) poured over her lower half. I opted for a lifejacket, and hit the rapid while kneeling on my board. Made it! While a little shaky at first, it didn’t take long to get comfortable. I’ve had hardly any experience on a SUP, but it’s not hard to pick up. Whenever the water got wavy, I’d drop to my knees and SUP THE BOISE RIVER wait it out. That method kept me Tuesdays and Sundays, dry the whole float. 5:30 p.m. $25. Corridor Surf Shop, 314 E. 35th St., We skipped the Ann Morrison Garden City, 208-615-4787, take-out, made an easy portage corridorsup.com. around the dam by Americana Boulevard, and floated all the way down to the whitewater park. Standing in the middle of the river, eye-level with the banks and trees, is a truly awesome way to experience the city—and a huge reminder of why we live here. As my fellow SUP-er said, “Very few people get to see places this way. Everyone should, though.” Corridor Surf Shop is a meeting place every Tuesday and Sunday at 5:30 p.m. for anyone wanting to SUP the Boise River. Board rentals run $25 and Corridor will help arrange a shuttle, but they don’t guide down the river. —Jessica Murri BOI S EW EEKLY.COM
BOISE FRONT TRAIL RUN— Get ready to hit the dirt in the inaugural YMCA Boise Front Trail Run, with 4- and 10-mile courses through the trees and hills of the area. For more info or to register, visit ymcatvidaho.org/runs/ ymca-boise-front-trail-run. Sat., June 28, 10 a.m. $25 youth, $35 adults. Bogus Basin Nordic Lodge and Education Center, Bogus Basin Road, past the Simplot Lodge, Boise, 208-332-5390, bogusbasin.org. FAMILY SWIM FIESTA PARTY— Kids of all ages will enjoy games, contests, prizes, music and swimming. Sat., June 28, 7-9 p.m. $2.50 adults, $1.25 kids age 18 and younger. Fairmont Pool, 7929 Northview, Boise, 208-375-3011, parks.cityofboise. org. FAMILY SWIM HAWAIIAN PARTY—Kids of all ages will enjoy games, contests, prizes, music and swimming. Fri., Aug. 8. Admission $2.50 for adults, $1.25 kids age 18 and younger. Borah Pool, 801 Aurora, Boise, 208-375-8373. FAMILY SWIM PIRATE PARTY— Kids of all ages will enjoy games, contests, prizes, music and swimming. Sat., July 19, 7-9 p.m. $1.50 adults, 75 cents kids age 18 and younger. South Pool, 921 Shoshone, Boise, 208-345-1984. FAMILY SWIM WILD WEST PARTY—Kids of all ages will enjoy games, contests, prizes, music and swimming. Sat., July 12, 7-9 p.m. $1.50 adults, 75 cents kids age 18 and younger. Lowell Pool, 1601 N. 28th St., Boise, 208-345-7918. FIRST TIME FLY TYING—Fly tying for the whole family with Boise Valley Fly Fishers. Each participant will tie their own fly and take it home. Registration required. Thu., June 26, 6 p.m. FREE. Garden City Library, 6015 Glenwood St., Garden City, 208-472-2941, notaquietlibrary.org. FLY FISHING SWAP MEET— Check out this sale of fly fishingrelated equipment, gear, clothing, packs, pontoons, float tubes, etc. Sellers’ reservation deadline is Friday, June 20. To reserve a spot, email michaelbantam@ gmail.com or call 208-323-5560. Sat., June 28, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. FREE. Ann Morrison Park, Americana Boulevard., Boise. TREASURE VALLEY SINGLES CLUB—Bowl weekly on Tuesdays with other club members. And meet for lunch prior to bowling on Saturday, June 21. Call Roberto at 208-342-0243 for more info. Tuesdays, 1 p.m. Continues through July 29. FREE admission. Westy’s Garden Lanes, 5504 Alworth St., Garden City, 208-376-6555, westysgardenlanes.com.
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PATRICIA FOLKNER—6 p.m. FREE. Smoky Mountain PizzaParkcenter
ALIVE AFTER FIVE: GIRLS GUNS AND GLORY—With Buckskin Bible Revue. 5 p.m. FREE. Grove Plaza
ROCCI JOHNSON BAND—9:30 p.m. FREE. Hannah’s
A TASTY JAMM—6 p.m. FREE. Banbury Golf Club COOL GHOULS—With Flashbulb Fires, The Green Zoo and Mt. Joy. 7 p.m. $5. The Crux
PAUL TILLOTSON TRIO—8 p.m. FREE. Lock Stock & Barrel
THREE DAYS GRACE—With Devour The Day. 8 p.m. $23-$65. Knitting Factory WAKA FLOCKA FLAME—8 p.m. $10-$65. Revolution
STEVE AND GRACE WALL—6 p.m. FREE. Gelato Cafe
KEVIN KIRK—6:30 p.m. FREE. Chandlers
STEVE EATON—6 p.m. FREE. Sandbar
THE KOUGARS—6 p.m. FREE. The Blue Moose Cafe
TERRY JONES—8 p.m. FREE. Chandlers
PATRICK RICE—5:30 p.m. FREE. Solid
THURSDAY THUNDER: PILOT ERROR—6 p.m. FREE. Boise Spectrum
PAUL TILLOTSON TRIO—8 p.m. FREE. Lock Stock & Barrel
THE WARREN G. HARDINGS—6:30 p.m. FREE. Highlands Hollow
BLACK TOOTH GRIN, JUNE 27, KNITTING FACTORY
DEAD FRETS—9 p.m. $TBA. Grainey’s
When local band Black Tooth Grin put out its third album, 2011’s Psycle, they may not have realized how prescient the album title was. The members of BTG have been together about 12 years, and with plans to release a fourth full-length this fall—working title All That Shines—the band is in a cycle, averaging a new album every three years. The music is anything but cyclical, however. Though BTG may reach back into the rock and metal canon for inspiration, each release is an evolution of sound and style—while remaining quintessential BTG. Vocalist Justin Arthur says All That Shines is “heavier” than previous releases. “This album is more like Black Sabbath,” Arthur said. “It’s dirtier.”
DOUG CAMERON—7:30 p.m. FREE. Piper Pub
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FRIDAY JUNE 27
HOLLOWPOINT—8 p.m. With State to State and Transistor Send. $5. Shredder
BEN BURDICK TRIO WITH AMY ROSE—5:30 p.m. FREE. Chandlers
JAMES MILLER—6 p.m. FREE. Gelato Cafe
FRIM FRAM FOUR—8:45 p.m. FREE. Pengilly’s
BLACK TOOTH GRIN—With Final Underground, Rise of the Fallen, and The Good Guys. See Listen Here, this page. 8 p.m. $6-$12. Knitting Factory
JARED STINSON AND MATT SALKELD—With Jimmy Sinn. 10 p.m. FREE. Grainey’s
GEORGE DEVORE—9:30 p.m. FREE. Hannah’s
CAROLINA MORNING—7 p.m. FREE. Willi B’s
GREAT GARDEN ESCAPE: BOISE STRAIGHT AHEAD—6:30 p.m. FREE-$10. Idaho Botanical Garden
CHICKEN DINNER ROAD—7 p.m. FREE. Sockeye Grill
—Amy Atkins With Final Underground, Rise of the Fallen and The Good Guys, 8 p.m., $6-$12. Knitting Factory, 416 S. Ninth St., bo.knittingfactory.com.
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JEFF CROSBY AND THE REFUGEES—8 p.m. FREE. End Zone JOHNNY SHOES—6 p.m. FREE. Edge Brewing Company KEVIN KIRK AND FRIENDS—6:30 p.m. FREE. Chandlers MISSISSIPPI MARSHALL—7:30 p.m. FREE. Willi B’s PATIO CONCERT SERIES—With Rex Miller, Lawson Hill and Rico Weisman. 7 p.m. FREE. Berryhill
LAIDBACK LUKE—With Dannic, UZ and Black Boots. 8 p.m. $10-$50. Revolution
ROCCI JOHNSON BAND—9:30 p.m. FREE. Hannah’s SOUL SERENE—8 p.m. FREE. End Zone STEVE EATON AND FRIENDS— 6:30 p.m. FREE. Village at Meridian TERRY JONES AND CLAY MOORE—6 p.m. FREE. Berryhill TOM TAYLOR AND DOUGLAS NARRY—6 p.m. FREE. Sandbar WILLISON ROOS—With Charlie Burry and Scott Learned. 6 p.m. FREE. Crane Creek Country Club WOODEN INDIAN BURIAL GROUND—With Junior Rocket Scientist and Velvet Hook. 7 p.m. $5. Neurolux
DJ DOUG—11 p.m. FREE. Neurolux GEORGE DEVORE—8:45 p.m. FREE. Pengilly’s
MATT NATHANSON—With Mary Lambert. 8 p.m. $25-$50. Knitting Factory
INNOCENT MAN—With The Qwahitas and the Boise Rock School Adult Band. 7 p.m. FREE. Tastings
OLIPHANTS—7 p.m. FREE. Harry’s Hyde Park Pub
JOHN JONES TRIO—8 p.m. FREE. Chandlers
PAUL TILLOTSON TRIO—8 p.m. FREE. Lock Stock & Barrel
JONATHAN RICHMAN—.8 p.m. $15. The Crux
SATURDAY JUNE 28 ARBIELLE—7:30 p.m. FREE. The District BEVERLY AND REX MILLER TRIO—7:30 p.m. $13-$20. Sapphire Room
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PAUL TILLOTSON TRIO—8 p.m. FREE. Lock Stock & Barrel ROCCI JOHNSON BAND—9:30 p.m. FREE. Hannah’s TITLE WAVE—6 p.m. FREE. Artistblue
SUNDAY JUNE 29 ALEX RICHARDS AND FRIENDS— 8 p.m. FREE. Pengilly’s BLACK PUSSY—With Mothership and guests. 7 p.m. $8 adv., $10 door. Neurolux DECK PARTY—With Brad Aggen and Friends. 6:30 p.m. FREE. Highlands Hollow JIM LEWIS—6 p.m. FREE. Lulu’s LARRY CLARK—Noon. FREE. Gelato Cafe LEVERSON—4 p.m. $8. Shredder WILLISON ROOS—With Charlie Burry. 5 p.m. FREE. Redfish Lake Lodge, Stanley TODOS CAERAN—With Telescopes As Time Machines and Kissing Party. 7 p.m. $5. The Crux
MONDAY JUNE 30
WITCHBURN—With Wild Throne and Ape Machine. 8 p.m. $TBA. Shredder
1332 RECORDS PRESENTS PUNK MONDAY—8 p.m. FREE. Liquid
WEDNESDAY JULY 2
JOHNNY SHOES—5:30 p.m. FREE. Solid SCARS ON 45—7 p.m. $10 adv., $12 door. Neurolux
ALIVE AFTER FIVE: BIG MONTI— With Marshall Poole. 5 p.m. FREE. Grove Plaza
SEAN FLINN AND THE ROYAL WE—With Fivestar. 9 p.m. FREE. The Crux
ASLEEP AT THE WHEEL—7:30 p.m. $39-$42. Egyptian Theatre
TUESDAY JULY 1
CHEVELLE—With Highly Suspect. 7:30 p.m. $27-$65. Knitting Factory DUCHESS DOWN THE WELL— 9:30 p.m. FREE. Hannah’s
CARTER FREEMAN—5:30 p.m. FREE. O’Michael’s
MICHAEL FRANTI AND SPEARHEAD—6 p.m. With SOJA, Brett Dennen and Trevor Hall. $40-$50. River Run Lodge, Sun Valley
GAYLE CHAPMAN—6 p.m. FREE. Sandbar
ROB HARDING—6 p.m. FREE. Sofia’s
GREGG ALLMAN—8 p.m. $35$65, Morrison Center OPHELIA—7 p.m. FREE. Sockeye
ROBERT FRANCIS AND THE NIGHT TIDE—With Adam Wright and Maxim Ludwig. 8 p.m. $10. The Crux
UH HUH HER—8 p.m. $15. Neurolux
SAM RULE AND JEANNIE CANNON—6 p.m. FREE. Gelato Cafe STEVE EATON—6 p.m. FREE. Sandbar
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BOISE MUSIC FESTIVAL, JUNE 28, EXPO IDAHO Speaking of reaching back into the past while evolving (see Listen Here, Page 28), the Boise Music Festival has grown from a free concert in the park to a destination happening: BMF has been moved to Expo Idaho, includes six local stages and, for the first time, a carnival. Starting at 1:15 p.m., the mainstage will provide nostalgia, with performances by Tonic’s Emerson Hart, Sir Mix-A-Lot and Train, and new music with performances by country musician Kelleigh Bannen, 2010 American Idol winner Lee Dewyze, LMFAO’s Sky Blu, and Fitz and the Tantrums. Music on the local stages starts at 11 a.m. and is divided by genre: alternative, acoustic/ indie rock, EDM, family, hip-hop and variety with about 10 bands on each stage throughout the day. You can win tickets at various ticket stops (listed at boisemusicfestival.com), through radio giveaways or you can buy a ticket for $20, a carnival wristband for $25, a ticket and wristband for $35, or an upgraded Cool Zone ticket for $50. (ictickets.com) —Amy Atkins 10 a.m.-10 p.m., FREE-$50. 5610 N. Glenwood St., Garden City, 208-287-5653, expoidaho.com.
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WORLD REFUGEE DAY P H O T O G R A P H Y B Y N AT H A N S C H N E I D E R | T E X T B Y G E O R G E P R E N T I C E
Soon after a 2001 United Nations initiative creating the annual event, a number of World Refugee Day commemorations in other cities were somber events. “But we eventually came to feel that we should make this a celebration,” said Christina Bruce-Bennion, program director at Boise-based Agency for New Americans.
World Refugee Day uses art and performance to counter the fear and ignorance that shadows the plight of millions of refugees around the world.
Eleven refugees from Bosnia-Herzegovina, Burma, Burundi, Colombia, Iraq, Somalia and Ukraine became American citizens on the World Refugee Day Stage June 21.
Idaho welcomed 822 refugees from 19 countries, including Congo, Burma, Afghanistan and Iraq, in 2013.
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World Refugee Day, June 21, filled Boise’s Grove Plaza with jewelry, handmade baskets and dolls.
Always a highlight on World Refugee Day, many Boiseans got their first tastes of some international delicacies (NNN Uzbeki Catering was a big hit).
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CIVIL WRONGS Spies of Mississippi– we spied on our own citizens; sound familiar? GEORGE PRENTICE My apologies for the hyperbole, but you owe it to yourself, your children and even your citizenship to spend 60 shattering minutes seeing Spies of Mississippi, a one-and-done screening Thursday, June 26, at The Flicks. Spies of Mississippi isn’t just a great film— this contemporary documentary literally Spies of Mississippi reveals how a government commission employed African Americans to spy on their own requires your attention as the United States community, resulting in some of the greatest American atrocities of the 20th century. approaches the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. And you may never look Burning. The shocking fact is that the SoverSovereignty Commission spied on Clyde Kenat your nation the same way again. eignty Commission had compiled a detailed file nard, a black man with the audacity to apply “At times, history and fate meet at a single time and in a single place,” said President Lyn- for admission to Mississippi Southern College. on the three murder victims long before their The Commission saw Kennard’s application as disappearance, including their car and license don Johnson before signing the Civil Rights “an attack on the state” and planted trumped- plate number. Even more stunning is the revAct into law in July 1964. elation that the information came from “Agent And that “single place” was Mississippi. As up evidence (“stolen” chicken feed on his farm), which resulted in Kennard being sent to X,” an African American civil rights activist. one eyewitness to history says in Spies of MisNot only is Spies of Mississippi required prison for seven years. sissippi, “There is Ameriviewing for any U.S. citizen, tickets to the June Spies of Mississippi is ca, there is the South and SPIES OF MISSISSIPPI packed with documen- 26 screening are free, thanks to co-sponsors then there is Mississippi.” 7 p.m., FREE but registration is required. ACLU of Idaho and Concordia Law School tation—more than In the same state that The Flicks, 646 Fulton St., 208-3424222, go to theflicksboise.com/events/ Public Interest Law Student Organization. 160,000 pages of spy proclaimed “The South’s june2014/spies-mississippi to register. “One has to step back into that time in reports were discovWarmest Welcome” as its ered—of egregious acts order to try to wrap your head around what official slogan, engaging in Mississippi was thinking,” Dr. Jill Gill, of Boise such as false imprisonment and even murder civil rights advocacy in Mississippi during the State’s College of Social Sciences and Public against American citizens like Kennard. 1960s was a death-defying act. Affairs, told Boise Weekly. “They approached The stunner is that the Sovereignty ComEspecially deadly was a government-sancmission recruited and employed African Amer- it like a war.” tioned conspiracy: the Mississippi Sovereignty Appropriately, Dr. Gill (BW, Citizen, Jill icans to serve as undercover spies, tasked with Commission, a state-ordered spy bureau with sitting in on church meetings, voter registration Gill, Feb. 12, 2014) will facilitate a postthe sole mission to keep blacks and whites screening discussion at The Flicks. committees and even NAACP rallies. segregated. Simply put, a black person who “The subject of the Spies of Mississippi is a Perhaps the most famous incident of the era was registered to vote was deemed an enemy powerful reminder of how dangerous it can be was the murder of three civil rights workers of the state, and a dossier, documenting every when elected officials view themselves as above who were arrested and then went missing in element of his or her life, was kept. the law and the Constitution,” Gill said. 1964, told so adeptly in 1988’s Mississippi In a particularly nasty bit of business, the
EXTRA/SCREEN mentalists (Jesse Eisenberg, Dakota Fanning, Peter Sarsgaard) purchase a boat, named Night Moves, along with hundreds of pounds of ammonium The first spine-chilling moment comes from realizing Night Moves’ nitrate fertilizer and head out toward Oregon’s hydroelectric Galesville tale of domestic terrorism feels so true. The latest film from director/ Dam. The eco-terrorists’ logic regarding environmental supremacy is so co-writer Kelly Reichardt is not a procedural thriller, though Reichardt perfectly twisted, the trio is terrifying. Audiences in expertly realizes the criminal process. Instead, other parts of the nation may be reminded of the she wraps a crime in a character-driven enigma NIGHT MOVES (R) Weather Underground Organization of the 1960s or that would make Hitchcock proud (if he ever Directed by Kelly Reichardt the Symbionese Liberation Army of the 1970s, but were capable of such nonsense). Reichardt Starring Jesse Eisenberg, Dakota Fanning, those of us in the Northwest are all-too familiar with makes us feel deeply for three individuals who Peter Sarsgaard groups such as the Earth Liberation Army, linked are about to do something quite terrible. to a string of arsons in the 1990s, or the Animal Opens Friday, June 27, at The Flicks, 646 W. And that’s where a second, much more frigid Fulton St., 208-342-4288, theflicksboise.com. Liberation Front, which admitted to firebombing a chill grips our vertebrae: We quickly recognize Caldwell fur retailer in 2011. that the film’s horrific act is about to happen We recommended Night Moves as one of Boise in a familiar place and will have consequences that will hit close to Weekly’s 10 best movies of the summer (BW, Screen, “The Three ‘B’s of home—home being the Pacific Northwest, the setting for so many of Summer,” May 21, 2014) and our feelings haven’t changed. It’s a great Reichardt’s films (Meek’s Cutoff, Wendy and Lucy, Old Joy). film with measurable relevance. More than rivers bend in Night Moves when three radical environ—George Prentice BOI S EW EEKLY.COM
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WINESIPPER/DRINK SINCERELY SANCERRE SAUVIGNON
2012 DOMAINE DE LA PERRIERE SANCERRE, $23 La Perriere is headed by the Saget brothers, who represent that family’s ninth generation in the Loire. This wine’s aromas are lightly herbaceous with sour apple, pineapple, grass, wet stone and mineral. There’s a light saline quality to the palate, where tangy apple and lime flavors dominate, along with subtle grapefruit. This wine is deliciously different. 2012 PASCAL JOLIVET SANCERRE, $24 Founded in 1987, this domaine is a relative newcomer to Sancerre, but it has quickly become one of its most respected. This is classic Loire sauvignon blanc, offering light melon, gooseberry, nettle and green olive aromas. It shows exceptional balance in the mouth, with ripe honeydew melon balanced by zesty lemon and lime. A touch of chalk and mineral adds interest on the long finish. 2013 POMELO SAUVIGNON BLANC, $11.99 Named for a Malaysian fruit that purports to be the predecessor to the grapefruit, the name is appropriate: Grapefruit figures into both the aromas and flavors of this wine, along with pineapple, tart apple, pear and quince on the nose. The creamy stone fruit flavors are round and ripe, but with a touch of grass and mineral. This wine was the panel’s overall favorite. —David Kirkpatrick
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Before there was New Zealand sauvignon blanc, there was French Sancerre. But with its intense varietal character, the in-your-face Kiwi style grabbed the attention of the wine world. While the sauvignon blanc vineyards of France’s Loire Valley can create powerful, perfumed wines, they are typically more reserved. Both are marked by gooseberry, grapefruit and/or melon flavors, but the New Zealand version often has an aroma that can best be described as kitty litter. Sancerre was once the darling of top sommeliers, and with its delicious flavors and exceptional balance, it’s back in vogue. Here are the top picks, including a California ringer.
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HOUSEMADE DELI MEATS Snag a slice at On the Fly and the Boise Co-op deli TARA MORGAN Puzzled by those square logs of bright pink ham and perfectly round tubes of white turkey resting in grocery store deli cases? They didn’t come from a rectangular pig or a cylindrical bird; many are made from animal bits that have been “restructured” with meat glues and preservatives. For those seeking something a little less processed, a couple of Boise delis are now making their own sandwich meats from scratch. On the Fly, a new grab-and-go concept from Brick 29’s Dustan Bristol, offers housemade rotisserie ham, turkey, beef, corned beef, salmon and chicken. Inside the deli’s second story storefront in the Eighth and Main building, a rotisserie oven slowly spins turkey on a meaty Ferris wheel. To make his deli turkey, Bristol buys whole turkey breasts on the bone from Tri-City Meats, breaks them down, marinates them for a couple of days and wraps the breasts in a net before cooking them low and slow on the rotisserie for close to two hours. The turkey is then shaved thin and piled on a Gaston’s baguette with roasted red bell peppers, smoked gouda, aioli and dried chili pesto. In addition to offering a house corned beef made with Angus shoulder that’s brined for three to five days, On the Fly also creates its own bologna, which is served on a sandwich with white cheddar and green olive tapenade in a nod to the iconic deli loaf. “We use pork loin, a little bit of back fat or pork fat, emulsify it, send it through the
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grinder several times,” said Bristol. “We put it in a regular bologna sheet and then cook it and slice it.” The Boise Co-op deli also boasts a line of house-made deli meats, including four varieties of turkey, two types of ham and two kinds of roast beef. The deli meats can be purchased by the pound or on one of the Co-op’s signature sandwiches, like the Cuban, with housemade ham and pulled pork, Swiss cheese, deli mustard, jalapeno relish and cilantro mayo on an Acme baguette. “The whole set-up has probably been upand-running for three to four months now,” said Kitchen Manager Dan Carruthers. “We spent the last six months developing recipes and figuring out how to do it and how to get that much meat in the building.” The Co-op’s deli turkey—available in traditional, mustard-crusted, spicy pepper and maple honey varieties—is the biggest seller.
“It’s hundreds of pounds a week,” said Carruthers. “I think it’s 240 [pounds] on average of turkey every week and probably close to 50 on roast beef and probably close to that on ham, also. It’s just a lot of food to be pumping out of a limited amount of oven space.” Though both the Boise Co-op deli and On the Fly use sodium nitrate, or pink salt, to preserve color in their house-made deli meats, the Co-op is searching for alternatives that yield similar results. “We’re trying to figure out the ‘no nitrates added’ thing, but we’re kind of having a hard time with that,” said Carruthers. “[W]e’ll get there eventually.” According to Deli Manager Nick Davis, the Co-op started making its own deli meats to provide more transparency for consumers. “Essentially, when it comes down to it, it’s just us knowing where every ingredient came from,” said Davis.
FOOD/NEWS HAFF BREWING MOVES TO GARDEN CITY AND REEL FOODS OPENS AN OYSTER BAR Garden City’s Booze Belt is getting another tenant: Haff Brewing. The microbrewery is moving in next door to Cobby’s Sandwich Shop, adjacent to the 44th Street Wineries cluster. Though owner Brian Haff originally planned to open the brewery in downtown Meridian, he changed his mind. “It’s a tough market in Meridian. … I think it’s just a little too far outside of where the craft beer drinker is willing to go,” said Haff. “I think as a start-up, we definitely want to be where the people are and where the people are already hanging out.” Haff Brewing will feature a small tasting room with 20-25 seats situated next to a seven-barrel electric brew system. Haff says he and brewer Derek Anderson want a vibrant aesthetic. “We’re fans of color and metal, so I think we’re going to have a lot of bright colors,” said Haff. “I think it’ll look a lot different than some of the other breweries; a lot of people are using woods and earth tones and that’s just not me.” That bright, funky theme will influence Haff’s brews, as well. “One of our beers is a watermelon wheat dry-hopped with Galaxy,”
said Haff. “We’re working on a hibiscus Belgian wit and that will be kind of our flagship pale beer. Just a lot of fun beers that you wouldn’t really expect to see but that are going to be put together real well.” Haff is currently waiting on permits and hopes to be open by late summer. For more information, visit Haff Brewing’s Facebook page. Moving from start-ups to established brands, Reel Foods Fish Market and former Brick Oven Bistro co-owner Stephanie Telesco are expanding the market’s line of lunch and grab-and-go dinner items. “We don’t have it totally set, but we’ll do things like shrimp salads, seafood Louie’s, shrimp Louie’s, shrimp cocktails, different types of seafood cocktails, soups, chowders,” said Telesco. “[A]lso we’re going to be developing dinner items so you can come in and it’ll be the fish plus a sauce that you can just grab and take home; simple, quick.” Reel Foods will also be opening an oyster bar that will serve a rotating assortment of fresh oysters, along with beer and wine. Patrons can slurp oysters at the market’s new counter or on the outside patio tables. “When we say oyster bar, people come and tell us what they want and then we shuck the oysters for them,” said Telesco. Telesco says Reel Foods hopes to implement these new elements over the next two to three weeks. —Tara Morgan B O I S E WE E KLY. C O M
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B O I S E W E E K LY and resident of Boise, Ada County, Idaho. 3. At the request of Defendant, Plaintiff rendered certain legal services to Defendant. 4. Defendant has failed to pay for said legal services rendered, in spite of Plaintiff’s repeated demand for payment. 5. That the reasonable value of such services is $911.57, which includes interest at the contract rate of 18% through November 1. 2013, which is now owing and past due, plus interest of $1.77 through November 5, 2013. The total due as of November 5, 2013 is $913.34. 6. That timely demand has been made upon Defendant for payment of the same, that Defendant did not lodge any objection to the amounts as billed, and Defendant has failed and refused to pay the same. 7. This is an action to collect on an open account, and in a commercial transaction. Plaintiff is entitled to an award of attorney fees in an amount of not less than $500.00, plus all costs incurred, in the event judgment is entered by default, or for such further and additional amounts as this Court
determines if judgment is not entered by default. WHEREFORE, Plaintiff requests that this Court enter judgment in favor of Plaintiff and against Defendant as follows: 1. For the balance of $911.57, which includes interest at the contract rate of 18% through November 1, 2013, plus interest of $1.77 through November 5, 2013, for a total due as of November 5, 2013 of $913.34. 2. For interest thereon at the rate of eighteen percent (18%) from November 5, 2013, until date of Judgment, and at the legal rate thereafter until date of payment in full. 3. For attorney fees in the amount of $500.00 if judgment is entered by default and for such further amounts if judgment is not entered by default, plus costs incurred in pursuing this matter to conclusion. 4. For such other and further relief as the Court deems just and equitable in the premises. DATED this 5th day of November, 2013. BAUER & FRENCH Heather L. Conder of the firm, Attorney for Plaintiff.
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NOTICE OF HEARING A Petition to change the name of CLAYTON JOHN MOORE, 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 CLAYTON JOHN PINES. The reason for the change in name is: Clayton John Moore was adopted by Richard John Pines on June 5, 2014, and wishes to take his same last name. A hearing on the petition is scheduled for 130 o’clock p.m. on August 12 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.
CLERK OF THE DISTRICT COURT By: DEIRDE PRICE DEPUTY CLERK PUB June 25, July 2, 9 & 16, 2014. PETITIONER PRO SE IN THE DISTRICT COURT FOR THE 4TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT FOR THE STATE OF IDAHO, IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF ADA In the matter of name change of: ALEXANDRA MAXINE PEEBLER, An Adult. Case No. CV NC 1411509 NOTICE OF HEARING A Petition by ALEXANDRA MAXINE PEEBLER, who was born on April 18, 1987 at Boise, Idaho, at Boise, Idaho, and now residing at 8540 W. Canary Court, Boise, County of Ada, State of Idaho, has been filed with the above-entitled Court a Petition for Change of Name to ALEXANDRA MAXINE WYATT, for the reason that she desires to take the surname of her adopted mother. Petitioner’s father is father is deceased, and her mother is living. The Petition for Change of Name will be heard at 1:30 o’clock p.m. on the 12th day of August, 2014 at the County Courthouse, located at 200 W. Front Street, Boise,
Idaho. Objections may be filed by any person who can, in such objections, show to the court a good reason against such a change of name. DATED this 18 day of June, 2014. CHRISTOPHER D. RICH CLERK OF THE DISTRICT COURT By: DEIRDE PRICE DEPUTY CLERK June 25, July 2, 9, 16, 2014. IN THE DISTRICT COURT FOR THE FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT FOR THE STATE OF IDAHO, IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF ADA IN RE: Katherine M Herman Legal Name Case No. CV NC 1411278 NOTICE OF HEARING ON NAME CHANGE (Adult) A Petition to change the name of Katherine M Herman, 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 Katherine M. Van Curen.. The reason for the change in name is: I want to resume a former married name. A hearing on the petition is scheduled for 1:30 o’clock p.m.
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ARIES (March 21-April 19): According to an astrologer named Astrolocherry (astrolocherry.tumblr. com), Aries is the sign of the freedom fighter, the explorer, the daredevil and the adventurer. That’s all true; I agree with her. But here’s an important caveat. As you get older, it’s your duty to harness all that hot energy on behalf of the softer, slower, more tender parts of your life. The coming weeks will offer you a great opportunity to work on that challenge. To get started, imagine how you can be a freedom fighter, explorer, daredevil and adventurer in service to your home, family and community. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): After a thorough, detailed, painstaking analysis of the astrological omens, I’m inclined to advise you to be neither thorough nor detailed nor painstaking in the coming days. Instead, I suspect you will thrive by being spontaneous and improvisatory. Wing it, baby! Throw away the script. Trust your gut. Play it by ear. Make it up as you go along. If you find yourself frowning with indecision and beset by lazy procrastination, you will know you’re off course. If you are feeling blithe and agile as you get a lot done with creative efficiency, you will know you’re right in the groove. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): The Japanese word tsundoku describes what happens if you buy a lot of books but never read them, leaving them piled up in a neglected heap. I recommend that you avoid indulging in tsundoku any time soon, Gemini. In fact, I urge you not to acquire any resources that you then proceed to ignore. You are in a phase of your astrological cycle when it’s crucial to make conscientious use of your tools and riches. To let them go to waste would be to dishonor them, and make it less likely that you will continue to receive their blessings in the future. Take full advantage of what’s yours. CANCER (June 21-July 22): If you could harness the energy from a typical lightning bolt, you would be able to use it to toast 100,000 slices of bread. That’s an impossible scenario, of course. But I see it as an apt metaphor for the challenge you have ahead of you. I suspect you will soon get access to a massive influx of vital force that arrives in a relatively short time. Can you find a way to gather it in and store it up? Or will most of it, after the initial burst, leak away and be unavailable for longterm use? The secret to success will lie in whether you can figure out how to create the perfect “container.” LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “Forget the suffering / You caused others. / Forget the suffering / Others caused you.” Czeslaw Milosz wrote these words in his poem “Forget,” and now I’m passing
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them on to you. According to my reading of the astrological omens, now would be an excellent time for you to purge the old hurts you are still carrying, both those you dealt out and those you endured. Opportunities like this don’t come along often, Leo. I invite you to repay emotional debts, declare amnesty, and engage in an orgy of forgiveness. Any other things you can think of that will help wipe the slate clean? VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): When a Navajo baby laughs for the first time, everyone in the community celebrates. It’s regarded as the moment when the child completes his or her transition from the spirit realm into the physical world. The person who has provoked the baby’s laughter is charged with planning the First Laugh Ceremony, a party to commemorate the magical event. I foresee a comparable development in your life, Virgo. You won’t be laughing for the first time, of course, but I suspect your sense of humor will reach a new ripeness. How? Maybe you will be able to find amusement in things you have always taken too seriously. Maybe you will suddenly have a deeper appreciation for life’s ongoing cosmic jokes. Or perhaps you will stumble upon reasons to laugh longer and harder and louder than you ever have before. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Would you like to be free from the experience of getting criticized? Do you think it might be nice if no one ever accused you of being wrong or off-track? If so, here’s how you should proceed, says American writer Elbert Hubbard: “Do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.” But I’m afraid I can’t recommend that behavior for you, Libra. In the coming weeks, you have a sacred duty to your Future Self to risk being controversial. I urge you to take strong stands, speak raw truths and show your real feelings. Yes, you may attract flak. You might disturb the peace. But that will be an acceptable price to pay for the rewards you receive. This is one time when being courageous is more important than seeking harmony. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “Be respectful to your superiors, if you have any,” said British writer Oscar Wilde. How do you respond to that impish nudge, Scorpio? Are there any geniuses and heroes out there whom you consider to be worthy of your respect? If not, I urge you to go out in search of some. At this phase of your evolution, you are in special need of people who inspire you with their greatness. It’s crucial for you to learn from teachers and role models who are further along than you are in their mastery of the game of life. I also believe it would be healing for you to feel waves of admiration and reverence.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “Everyone has something to hide,” declared Russian author Anton Chekhov. Is that true? Do even you blunt Sagittarians have something to hide? I’m going to say that for 90 percent of you, the answer is yes. There are secrets you don’t want anyone to find out about: past events you are reluctant to disclose or shady deeds you are getting away with now or taboo thoughts you want to keep sealed away from public knowledge. I’m not here to scold you about them or to encourage you to spill them. On the contrary, I say it’s time to bring them fully into your conscious awareness, to honor their importance to your life story, and to acknowledge their power to captivate your imagination. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): A German chemist named Felix Hoffman had a prominent role in synthesizing two very different drugs: aspirin and heroin. In analyzing your astrological omens for the coming months, I see you as having a similar potential. You could create good stuff that will have the power to help and heal; or you could generate borderline stuff that will lead to a lot of problems; or you could do both. How it all plays out really is up to your free will. For best results, set your intention to go in the direction of things like aspirin and away from things like heroin. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): This is a good time to risk a small leap of faith, but not a sprawling vault over a yawning abyss. Feel free and easy about exploring the outer borders of familiar territory, but be cautious about the prospect of wandering into the deep, dark unknown. Be willing to entertain stimulating new ideas but not cracked notions that have little evidence to back them up. Your task is to shake up the status quo just enough to invigorate everyone’s emotional intelligence, even as you take care not to unleash an upheaval that makes everyone crazy. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): British poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) had an unusual fetish. He enjoyed eating apples and pears and other fruits while they were still hanging on the tree. Why? Maybe because the taste was as pure and brisk and naked as it could possibly be—an experience that I imagine would be important to a romantic poet like him. In accordance with your astrological omens, I suggest you use Coleridge’s quest for ultimate freshness as a driving metaphor in the coming week. Go to the source to get what you need. Dispense with intermediaries. Be as raw as the law allows.
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