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“It’s like getting into the middle of an octopus orgy and any tentacle you pick to cuddle with could explode into another 1,000-year war.”

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Helping the Herd

Wild horses rescued from the Soda Fire are recovering with help from the BLM

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It might be cold outside, but things are heating up downtown for December First Thursday

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Most Impressive How the Treasure Valley YMCA helps train the next generation of Jedis FREE TAKE ONE!

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EDITOR’S NOTE FICTION 101 ENTRIES DUE In case you missed this in the run-up to the holidays—or, as one Internet meme calls them, the peak of the “Jabba Zone,” when “tradition dictates that human beings gorge themselves uncontrollably”—the time is nigh to turn in those Fiction 101 entries.

Seemingly in the blink of an eye, the submission period is closing Friday, Dec. 4 at 3 p.m.

The judges in this year’s 14th annual contest include Idaho Humanities Council Executive Director Rick Ardinger, Story Story Night emcee and co-founder Jessica Holmes, local author Christian Winn, The Cabin Executive Director Kurt Zwolfer and Greg Likins, of Rediscovered Books.

As the name of the competition suggests, entries must be works of fiction (not poetry) containing exactly 101 words.

They must be typed. They must be mailed or dropped off at Boise Weekly—labeled “Fiction 101”—to 523 Broad St., Boise, ID 82702. They must accompanied by a $10 entry fee and contact information on the back, including your name, address, telephone number and, if possible, an email address.

Don’t send cash in the mail. Checks should be written to Boise Weekly.

Winning stories will be published in the Jan. 6, 2016, edition of BW and cash prizes will be awarded to first, second and third place winners, as well as two honorable mentions and five judges’ picks.

We know it’s a tight window, but we believe in you. If you’re reading this on Dec. 2, you only have to get down 50.5 words per day. Or 2.1 per hour. It’s easy. I ate up 21 words with that “Jabba Zone” thing and another 17 telling you I did. So good luck and get writing.

Correction: Last week’s Boise Weekly Poll (“Do you agree with Gov. Otter that the U.S. should halt its refugee resettlement program pending review?”) included incorrect percentages. They should have read: Yes—49.42%; No—50.15%; I don’t know— 0.43%. BW regrets the error.

—Zach Hagadone

COVER ARTIST Cover art scanned courtesy of Evermore Prints... supporting artists since 1999.

ARTIST: Randy Van Dyck TITLE: “Apple Sider” MEDIUM: Acrylic ARTIST STATEMENT: Please come and see an exciting new series of small works I will be showing at Gallery Five 18 through December. Special pricing will be offered for the opening on First Thursday, Dec. 3.

SUBMIT Boise Weekly publishes original local artwork on its cover each week. One stipulation of publication is that the piece must be donated to BW’s annual charity art auction in November. A portion of the proceeds from the auction are reinvested in the local arts community through a series of private grants for which all artists are eligible to apply. Cover artists will also receive 30 percent of the final auction bid on their piece. To submit your artwork for BW’s cover, bring it to BWHQ at 523 Broad St. All original mediums are accepted. Thirty days from your submission date, your work will be ready for pick up if it’s not chosen to be featured on the cover. Work not picked up within six weeks of submission will be discarded.

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NAMES NAMED THE T WO DEPUTIES INVOLVED IN THE NOV. 1 FATAL SHOOTING OF C O U N C I L A RE A R AN C H E R JAC K YANTIS HAVE BEEN IDENTIFIED

BY ADAMS COUNT Y SHERIFF RYAN ZOLLMAN, WHO E XPRES SED CONCERN THE OFFICERS AND THEIR FAMILIES MAY NOT BE SAFE FROM THOSE WHO FEEL THE SHOOTING WAS UNJUSTIFIED. GE T MORE ON NE WS/CIT YDESK.

SCARY A woman is recovering from a harrowing experience after she was abducted from a Spokane, Wash., grocery store, bound in duct tape and driven to northern Idaho. Get details on News/Citydesk.

MERRY-DIAN The Meridian Winter Lights parade and Christmas tree lighting is set to kick off Friday, Dec. 4, with floats, bands and all the holiday hoopla. Get dates, times and locations at Arts/Culture.

BRING BUMMERS ICYMI: The Museum of Broken Relationships is sending its Broken Relationships exhibition to Boise, and is soliciting items from locals for inclusion in the show. Details at Arts/Arts News.

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MAIL BOISE IS EVERYONE’S I have been saddened recently to learn that the city of Boise has been ticketing the temporary residents of Cooper Court. Criminalizing homelessness is a flagrant waste of police, prosecutorial, judicial, jail and taxpayer resources.

Furthermore, saddling the homeless with misdemeanor criminal offenses makes it even more difficult for those who are able to find work or housing, to find some.

I also have been concerned about the local reporting of the situation at Cooper Court. Having volunteered, I can attest that the numbers reported in the news of the homeless in Boise are grossly under-inflated. Each report assures me also that the city of Boise and the office of the mayor hold the homeless with the utmost concern, and are dedicated to finding solutions to transition the guests of Cooper Court into more permanent housing. I don’t believe this is true.

I attended a lecture given by Andrew Heben, a leader in the current tiny house movement and an expert in solutions for helping house the homeless. There were members of the community, representatives from each of the shelters, volunteers, homeless people, members of the press and more. We were all very eager to hear a solution that might help to alleviate Boise’s homeless problem, and we had been assured that representatives of the city had been invited to attend as well.

Mr. Heben asked during his lecture if there was anyone from the city in attendance. We were hopeful a representative of the city might be willing to engage with us and answer questions about plans for the homeless that we hear about in the news. Sadly, nobody

stood. Mr. Heben pointed out that of all of the cities in which he has given this presentation, Boise was the only one that did not have a representative of the city in attendance.

We hung our heads in shame. Surely the city we love cannot be this heartless.

The only reason I can imagine for publicly underreporting the issue and falsely reassuring the public is that you do not want Boise tarnished in the public eye. You wish for our community to be seen as dynamic, educated, affluent and idyllic. We are! We are all of those things! We are also an economically diverse community with real problems. We have a beautiful, wonderful place to live, but taking pride in one’s city doesn’t mean pretending it is perfect. It means building and facilitating a community in which ALL of our citizens are cared for and treated as if they are important.

I urge you to make a serious effort in addressing these issues. Boise belongs to everyone.

—E.T. Parker Boise

HOSPITALITY NEEDED Those in Idaho who aim to support refugees are receiving threats. The rhetoric of fear is contagious and, like a disease, it must be treated or else it spreads. The cure for fear is courage, and courage is the judgment that other things, like providing refuge, are more important than fear.

Hospitality is one of the greatest goods. When the Jews tried to flee Nazi Europe, many were met with hostility because of fear. People were turned away, and left to the cruelties of Nazism, but not in the town of Le Chambon-sur-Lignon.

This French town saved numerous asylum seekers by taking them into their homes during a

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time of need and fear.

Their hospitality gave something much more important to the people fleeing: hope. Let us give hope to those who are the most vulnerable in the world by supporting our refugee centers, and in doing so, we can treat the disease of fear that is spreading in our community.

—Kevin Kelley Boise

DEAR OTTER, ‘DON’T TURN YOUR BACK ON REFUGEES’ Good morning, Gov. Otter, Up until very recently, Idaho had an incredibly strong history of supporting people fleeing war, famine and dictators.

“Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.” This is our morality.

However this does not seem to be your prevailing logic behind your decision to join the state senators—primarily Republican—who are rejecting Syrian immigrants.

Is that what the citizens of Idaho want? Or of the United States? More importantly, is that the morally right decision?

To put it bluntly, I am ashamed at the cowardice of Idaho, and much of America is showing, toward a largely innocent and completely victimized group of people.

There are many more effective ways to stop the spreading of violence—more effective than starting a war and “invading” or “sending in ground troops” (more violence).

Many times all that is needed is taking the higher road and showing human decency to those in need.

Are you willing to turn your back on those in need? Before me, your state and your God? I do not expect that you will take my single view into account, but I do ask that you do consider the impact your decisions have on future generations’ ability to work with the rest of the world, and moreover, our nation’s ability to legitimately call ourselves the torchbearer of democracy and freedom.

—Steven M. Russell Boise BOISEweekly c DECEMBER 2–8, 2015 c 5

OPINION RADIO FREE ISLAM Sunday school for Muslims?

BILL COPE You might have missed this relatively minor item, lost as it was in the aftermath of the rampage in Paris and ensuing hysteria: Ohio Gov. John Kasich—that person who, of any of the GOP’s presidential candidates, comes the closest to being a competent, serious and intelligent individual... which is absolutely not the same thing as saying he is a competent, serious and intelligent individual, so please, for God’s sake, don’t misunderstand this to be a recommendation that we elect John Kasich president... Heaven forbid, no!—announced that if he were elected president, he would create a new federal agency whose task would be to spread Judeo-Christian values throughout the Middle East. It is his opinion that our problems with the people of the Muslim world would go away if only they were schooled in the wonderful things that might come to them if only they would start acting like Methodists or Presbyterians. Or Unitarians. Or something.

Said Kasich, America is “failing to advance our values in the battle of ideas. ... We need to beam messages around the world about what it means to have a Western ethic, to be part of a JudeoChristian society. It means freedom, it means opportunity, it means respect for women ... it means so many things.”

Aside from the fact that the Muslim world already has a long history of exposure to the “Western ethic”—including but not exclusive to the Crusades; the European colonization of northern Africa, various oil rich countries adjacent to the Persian Gulf, and the Islamic tribal lands of Afghanistan and Pakistan; what many Palestinians consider the bald-faced theft of their homeland in the establishment of Israel; the installation and support in funds and arms by the Western powers of any number of tyrannical despots, ranging from the Shah of Iran to Saddam Hussein to Hosni Mubarak; and, most recently, George W. Bush’s disastrous invasion of Iraq, which has led to the entire region degenerating into the worst chaos imaginable—we have to wonder what faction of the Judeo-Christian sensibility would Gov. Kasich put in charge of this venture.

Before we go any further, I should apologize for the length and convolutions of that last sentence, but I find any time I start writing about the Middle East, the Muslim world, all or any of that uneasy interface between the Islamic reality and ours, it rapidly slips out of my writerly control and goes schizo. Seriously, you can hardly say anything about this whole culture clash/sectarian conflict/Israeli-Palestinian/Sunni-Shia/Ayatollah/Jihadist/radical Islam vs. moderate Islam/ Salman Rushdie/Lawrence of Arabia/xenophobic/ Al Qaeda-ISIS-Hezbollah-Taliban/200 years of 6 c DECEMBER 2–8, 2015 c BOISEweekly

exploitation/refugee crisis/Fatwa/shock and awe/ Sharia law/9-11/OPEC/IED/WMD/suicidebombed-up muddle, without getting sucked in by all the variables and anomalies, permutations, histories and histrionics. It’s like getting into the middle of an octopus orgy and any tentacle you pick to cuddle with could explode into another 1,000-year war.

But John Kasich, now... he’s proposing that we can combat all the Jihadist propaganda that attracts recruits to terrorist organizations simply by telling the Muslims how great it is to be a Lutheran. Or Catholic, maybe. Southern Baptist, I don’t know. Kasich didn’t get specific as to which one of our sects we should employ to neutralize their sects.

Yet if such an agency actually got up and running, exactly who’s running it could be a contentious issue. For instance, when it comes to the “Judeo” share of the Judeo-Christian experience, would President Kasich include those hardliners who would like to expel all Arabs from Israel and who refuse to consider allowing the Palestinians a state of their own? You can only imagine what sort of comfort the Muslim world would take from that aspect of the “Western ethic,” eh?

Given a choice between Pope Francis, the Quorum of the 12 Apostles from Salt Lake City or Pat Robertson from the 700 Club, whose values would President Kasich pick to set the agenda for this new agency of his? He mentions how “respect for women” is one of the appeals of the Judeo-Christian tradition—in spite of the fact that when we take a closer look at much of that tradition, there’s not enough respect to allow the gals to make their own health choices or serve in significant ecclesiastical roles.

Why quibble over what simpletons say during a campaign season? The truth is, those freedoms and opportunities Kasich hopes would lure Muslims away from Islamist dogma have little, if anything, to do with Judeo-Christian values. That a relatively open, liberal society and Judeo-Christian predominance are here in the same place at the same time is more coincidental than causal.

Besides, if Muslims decide they wanted in on this “Western ethic,” they could do it as Muslims just as readily as if they converted. The proof: millions of Muslims have already been absorbed into “our” culture, and they are still Muslims.

All Kasich has accomplished with this proposal is to demonstrate that, of all the contenders for the Republican nomination, even the most a competent, serious and intelligent among them is capable of coming up with the silliest damn ideas in their desperation to catch the bitter affections of the Religious Right.

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Snake River Waterkeeper Buck Ryan points to deterioration at the base of an Idaho bridge.

CRUMBLED CONFIDENCE: A LOOK AT RAILROAD BRIDGES IN IDAHO

Boise’s plan to energize the Vista neighborhood with energy efficiency GEORGE PRENTICE There’s really only oneway to change a neighborhood: door-to-door.

“Welcome,” said Steve Burgos, city of Boise environmental manager, extending a handshake at the doorway of 2108 Atlantic St. “This is it.”

At first glance, the single-level, three-bedroom, one-bath house looks like scores of homes in the Vista neighborhood framed by Overland Road to the north, the New York Canal to the south, Federal Way to the east and Roosevelt Street to the west. However, this house, which is just south of Lemhi Street, will be a major topic of conversation in an area that has already generated a significant amount of buzz.

In April 2014, city leaders kicked off Energize Our Neighborhoods, an initiative to engineer change on several fronts: transportation, sustainability, health and community services, public safety, economic vitality, greater opportunity for kids and, perhaps, most important, housing. The first neighborhood to grab City Hall’s attention was Vista, and key demographics drove much of the decision, including: • Median household income in the neighborhood is approximately $35,551, compared to the citywide median household income of $49,313.

• While 44 percent of Boise school children are eligible for a free or reduced-price school lunch, that number increases to 68 percent at Hawthorne Elementary School and 85 percent at Whitney Elementary, the Vista neighborhood’s two anchor gradeschools.

• The average assessed single family home value in the Vista area is $99,850 compared to a citywide average of $181,435.

• While 51 percent of homes citywide were built before 1979, that number rises to 61 percent in the Vista neighborhood.

The house at 2108 Atlantic St. lies smack dab in the middle of the stats.

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Beth Baird, city of Boise Air Quality Program coordinator, and Steve Burgos, city of Boise environmental manager, review the energy-wise plans for 2108 Atlantic St.

project. “But it has been at least three years since anyone lived here.”

Baird and Burgos walked through the home, explaining how it and the land had been owned by the city for decade. A former resident had a mortgage with the city, but the property defaulted back to the city when the resident died.

The years will gradually fade away as the home is upgraded in a city-driven renovation that Burgos calls a “low cost/no cost” project to introduce energy efficiency and sustainability to the neighborhood.

“We’re doing this to show the neighborhood how doable this can be,” said Burgos.

In his City Hall office, Burgos mapped out the plan for the Atlantic Street home. Burgos has only worked in the public sector—and only for the city of Boise—for about a year. He was previously employed as an environmental services consultant for the nationwide environmental engineering firm of Brown and Caldwell.

“When you’re in the private sector, the best analogy I can use is it’s like being in a car, but you’re in the passenger seat trying to give some directions to the driver. Maybe they listen to you, maybe they don’t,” said Burgos. “Now, I feel like I’m driving the car. I get to make really cool decisions. There are so many things happening in this building right now that will effect change at the local level.”

A fair amount of those City Hall discussions are about the Vista neighborhood. For example, one of the city’s other ambitious Vista initiatives is a partnership with the Boise School District to introduce pre-kindergarten learning at Hawthorne and Whitney elementary schools, which was launched Nov. 2.

“I’ve learned quite a bit about Vista since I’ve been here,” said Burgos, “and the first thing I learned is how passionate the folks there are about their neighborhood. When I began sitting down with them, I was so impressed with how serious the neighbors are about effecting change.”

A good amount of the change neighbors spoke about, according to Burgos, focused on sustainability, more energy-efficient households and lower utility bills.

“We want to demonstrate that there are very straightforward low-cost/no-cost things that we can do,” he said. “But it’s not all about bells and whistles. We can have all of the fancy upgrades but, meanwhile, we’re acting out all these inefficient behaviors. I promise, if you focus on your behaviors first, it makes the upgrade much more cost effective.”

Back at 2108 Atlantic St., Baird ticked off a laundry list of “major items” for the upgrade.

“There’s no irrigation for the lawn, so we’re definitely looking at some low-cost xeriscaping,” she said. “But let’s go inside.”

Two key areas were immediately obvious: windows and insulation.

“Absolutely the windows,” said Burgos, pointing to the first of multiple windows that will help seal in some efficiencies. Then he pulled up a trap door revealing an approximately threefoot crawl space under the house. “This floor was never sealed, so we’re going to seal that up.

The floors and ceiling have some of the old pink insulation. We’re going to fill that space with foam insulation.”

The tiny kitchen had already been gutted.

“Definitely some energy efficient appliances here,” said Baird.

The home has been heated for decades by a combination electric/gas generator that is the size of a shack and sits right outside the home.

“This has got to go. We’re going to go allelectric,” said Burgos.

The backyard is extensive and presents plenty of opportunity.

“We’re going to put in some raised beds for gardening and a composting area,” said Baird. “This is going to be a 8 pretty great little house.”

Primarily, the city of Boise sees 2108

Buck Ryan hiked down embankments, scrambled across scree fields and spent a lot of time looking up at railroad bridges in Idaho, Oregon, Utah, Washington and Wyoming.

He took notes on the cracks spreading through concrete pilings, rust and corrosion of metal frameworks, broken supports, exposed spikes, rotting wood and makeshift repairs.

He photographed 25 bridges and submitted them to the Waterkeepers Alliance, a nonprofit watchdog group with more than 250 member chapters worldwide. Ryan is one of them—“the first Snake River Waterkeeper,” he said.

When he’s not traveling across the Snake River Basin testing water and inspecting bridges, Ryan is an attorney who works with environmental groups like Advocates for the West.

The Waterkeepers Alliance collected information on railroad bridges from across the United States and released a report with ForestEthics in November called Deadly Crossing: Neglected Bridges and Exploding Oil Trains.

The report identifies deterioration in 46 percent of bridges inspected in 15 states. Overall, 250 bridges were inspected, 114 of which were found to have crumbling infrastructure.

“I’m not a professional, but I can look at a bridge and see a support that’s supposed to be in a riverbed that has the bottom corner missing on it,” Ryan said. “A lot of these bridges are ancient. I would see these little placards and I would clean them off and a lot of them would say 1906, 1908, 1910. It looked like not a lot had been done to them since then.”

This raises concern for the Waterkeepers because of a sharp increase in train traffic since 2008, especially with the transportation of crude oil. According to the report, oil train traffic increased from 9,500 tank cars in 2008 to 493,000 tank cars in 2014—a more than 50-fold increase.

Crude oil is a risky material to transport because of its combustibility, as well as the environmental devastation caused by an oil spill.

Most recently, in July 2013, an oil train derailed and exploded in Lac-Megantic, Quebec, killing 47 people and destroying nearly half of the downtown area.

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Oil train traffic increased more than 50 times from 2008 to 2014, upping derailment risks.

waterways are properly inspected and held to high safety standards.

7 “We are asking for routine and systematic inspections to ensure that the bridges can bear the loads of these trains because they are heavy railcars,” Ryan said. “This is certainly not the use they were built for in the early 1900s.”

Union Pacific Railroad Company, which owns a major railroad running parallel to I-84 through much of southern Idaho and the Snake River Basin, is quick to reassure inspections happen regularly.

“We believe that Union Pacific bridges are safe for the freight traffic they carry,” said Francisco Castillo, Jr., Union Pacific director of Corporate Relations and Media for the West.

“Rust doesn’t mean a bridge is structurally deficient. I want to make that very clear.”

In Idaho, UP employs 11 bridge safety professionals who inspect bridges along the railroad twice annually. In 2014, UP sent 141,000 carloads of crude oil through Idaho—about 4 percent of its business in the state.

The railroad company inspects and operates its own bridges, but the Federal Railroad Administration can audit its inspections anytime.

Since 2013, it conducted 800 field audits out of 100,000 bridges nationwide.

In September, FRA Administrator Sarah Feinberg wrote to railroad companies urging them to be more cooperative and transparent with citizens concerned over bridge safety.

“Many of the nation’s railroad bridges are more than 100 years old. More and more bridges are showing visible signs of superficial deterioration,” the letter stated. “These signs, along with increased tonnage and traffic on the country’s rail system in recent years, have led to concerns about the structural integrity of railroad bridges.”

The letter points out bridges were designed to support steam locomotives—heavier than today’s trains—and asks railroad companies to assure communities their bridges are safe.

“We’re not suggesting any of these bridges are prone to failure,” Ryan said. “But this is the kind of thing that happens quietly and trustingly, where people assume there must be an agency overseeing and regulating it very carefully. My main concern is the increased [possibility] of these derailing in or near rivers that are supposed to be under my watch.”

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WILD HORSES, SURVIVORS OF SODA FIRE, GET NEW HOMES ‘It takes time and training and a lot of trust’ DAVE GOINS A handful of miles south of Boise, the wind turned a late-fall afternoon particularly cold.

The Bureau of Land Management’s Wild Horse Corrals sit on the fringe of the Treasure Valley’s civilization, out on a scruff of high desert. It felt like the valley’s string of strip malls and beige suburbs were half-a-world away.

With a late October wind whipping to beat all get-out, a recording of the proceedings was nearly all garbled or muffled like some sort of cotton or sand rubbing against an already-scratched LP. Among the noise and chatter, BLM spokeswoman Heather Tiel-Nelson said something clearl as the big blue Idaho desert sky: “It was awful.”

Tiel-Nelson was speaking of horses dying by fire, relaying images of horrific pain and burned flesh. Tiel-Nelson spoke briefly about the ultimate deaths of 37 wild horses, victims of this summer’s Soda Fire, a grasslands blaze that swept across the southwest Idaho/eastern Oregon border. The Soda Fire began Aug. 10 and scorched nearly 300,000 acres—much of it on Owyhee County rangelands—scores of miles from where Tiel-Nelson stood. In it, 29 wild equine died directly in the flames. Another eight wild horses were euthanized after being injured in the blaze.

Against that backdrop, the good news is 186 horses survived and were brought to the BLM Wild Horse Corrals.

“A lot of the mares and foals came in with some pretty significant burn injuries, but really, they’re looking good,” said Tiel-Nelson. “Yeah, they’re really starting to hair up; better than they were when they first came off the range.”

Tiel-Nelson pointed to a 10-year-old mare that was brought to the protected rangeland about two months prior. She said the horse’s condition had significantly improved since.

“She had burn marks all over her hips,” TielNelson said. “You can see her mane, how scraggly it is. Even so, the improvement is marked. She looks amazing.”

The mare—along with many other, older wild horses—are expected to remain at the BLM corrals long-term, possibly a few years. But 43 other wild horses were hand-picked to be auctioned off Nov. 7. On that day, 32 of the 43 that BLM deemed to be available for adoption were sold, bringing in $3,485. Bidding started at $125 per horse. One gelding fetched a highest-bid of $400.

The entire herd—nearly 200 horses—was rescued in late August and early September, when their grassland food source in the Owyhee desert was either decimated or threatened by the Soda Fire, then in the late stages of containment.

Of those wild horses not auctioned off, many are expected to be released back to their native rangeland within a few years. Still, BLM officials said even though 32 of the horses were auctioned off to new owners on Nov. 7, the future of those horses may still be uncertain.

Some, they said, could be turned into beasts of

burden. Others may toil on southern Idaho cattle ranches and a few may become packhorses on hunting treks into rugged Idaho terrain.

A BLM press release stated ranchers in the region “lost livestock and other property” on private and federal land during the Soda Fire. Boise resident Paul Valentine, whose family owns cattle ranches in New Plymouth and Weiser, rested an arm on a fence at the BLM corrals and surveyed some of the captured horses. Valentine described himself as “an avid hunter” who would likely put two horses to work.

“We have quite a bit of cattle, and [the horses] might be good to herd cattle,” Valentine said. “It’s a process that takes time and training and a lot of trust that you have to build with these mustangs.”

Boise resident Leanne Smith said she saw the horses differently. Smith, a social worker at St. Luke’s Regional Medical Center, said she likes to “take lessons and rides.” On her first visit to the BLM corrals, camera in-hand, Smith said she enjoys the aesthetic of horses.

However visitors and participants in the Nov. 7 auction saw the animals, the formerly wild horses are among the few survivors the Soda Fire.

“We knew that we needed to gather those horses because there simply wasn’t enough forage to sustain them,” said Tiel-Nelson.

Atlantic St. as a working-class model for neighbors to walk through and see that 7 energy efficiency is not a pipe dream that requires a bank loan before visiting Home Depot or Lowe’s.

“Imagine people walking through the home, and we’ll go from room to room showing them what we’ve done but then we’ll give neighbors a series of options on windows, insulation, you name it,” said Burgos. “Then, picture us show-

ing them what happens the second that you turn on another set of lights or the dishwasher or an appliance. We’re envisioning a demonstration that shows real-time impacts from the choices we make and the behaviors that we continue.”

The city of Boise’s commitment to the upgrades is approximately $50,000, with a fair amount of partners.

“We would love to see some graduate

students, with an emphasis on environmental studies, possibly living in the home for a year to track much of how the change can benefit the neighborhood,” said Burgos.

The change will happen sooner than later.

“We’re hoping that much of our work is done by the time a lot of snow falls,” said Burgos.

Just in time for the cold temperatures to put some of home’s new efficiency to the test.

Leanne Smith, at the Bureau of Land Management’s Wild Horse Corrals south of Boise, takes a picture of the wild horses that survived the Soda Fire: “I love horses and the view is free.”

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CITIZEN I ended up here in Boise and took an undergrad class in the College of Education, and ended up in the Master of Science STEM Education program, doing my thesis on FIRST Robotics.

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‘Success to me looks like a functioning robot’ HARRISON BERRY Christine Chang-Gillespie decided she wanted to be an engineer after watching the 1995 film Apollo 13.

“You know the part where they dump all the stuff on the table, and they’re trying to fix the air filter? They were trying to solve a problem and I thought, ‘That’s what I want to do, and I want to do it at NASA,’” she said.

Women are historically underrepresented in technology, science and engineering-related disciplines. According to the National Science Foundation, 19.2 percent of engineering, 18.2 percent of computer science and 19.1 percent of physics bachelor’s degrees were awarded to women in 2012. Chang-Gillespie bucked the trend, receiving a bachelor’s degree in engineering from Cornell University in 2004, working for NASA at the Johnson Space Center in Houston and at Boeing in Seattle.

After moving to Idaho, she received a master’s degree in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education. Now, Chang-Gillespie is a project manager at Boise State University, recruiting girls in grades 9-12 and mentors from across the Treasure Valley for an all-women robotics team competing in Boise’s debut at the regional FIRST Robotics Competition tournament in April.

Between now and the competition, her team will learn to design, build and program a robot that will square off against other ’bots from around the country.

You became interested in engineering and involved with FIRST Robotics at around the same time.

I decided I wanted to become a mechanical engineer and found out my school had a robotics team. I joined the robotics team to find out if it was actually something that I wanted to do, and not just see in a movie. That was my introduction to FIRST Robotics.

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What did you do for NASA? I was trained to be a flight controller at mission control. I also did pyro testing on the space shuttle and when I worked there full-time I moved on to a group that was building a device to extract oxygen from lunar soil.

Why did you leave?

Even people who love their jobs have to love where they live. I wanted to get into education in some way so I explored how I wanted to do that.

What did you learn from your thesis and how are you applying it to a FIRST Robotics team?

I was curious what the relationship was between the students on the [FIRST Robotics] team and what they ended up doing in college and their careers. There was a strong correlation between the role they played [on the team] and what they ended up doing later on. One of the things that struck me afterward was the strong need for more female mentors so girls felt more empowered to take on more engineering roles on the team, and hopefully end up in engineering and STEMrelated careers. One of the projects I work on is starting an all-girls FIRST Robotics team that is recruiting students from all over the Treasure Valley. They’re largely mentored by females and we’re actively recruiting girls. We have 12 girls currently on our roster and we’re recruiting more. I’d like to have at least 20 people on the team.

Why is yours an all-women team?

One answer is because my thesis said so, but the dean of the College of Engineering, Dr. Amy Moll, is constantly trying to increase the percentage of women enrolled in the College of Engineering. This summer she was at an event geared toward elementary school girls. At the event she heard two interesting quotes: one was that she thought STEM was for old people, and the other comment was from a girl saying it was really nice to get to play around with the robots without the boys around telling her what to do. One of the members of my thesis committee, Dr. Don Plumlee, heard her talking about this and said for her to talk to me. The rest is history.

What have your responsibilities been building the team?

I’ve been recruiting mentors. I’d really like for it to be majority female mentors, but finding them is a bit of a challenge. Also, planning learning experiences for these girls so they feel prepared—workshops with the subteam mentors and getting the team ready from a logistical standpoint. Registering the team, registering for regionals, kickoff, finding space, all of that.

What does success look like?

Success to me looks like a functioning robot at the end of the competition and girls who feel like they gained something from this experience.

Whether that’s learning what engineering is or learning what real teamwork looks like or realizing what it looks like to get mentored by someone else or be a mentor to someone else—any of those— but, really, a functioning robot and that the girls learned something from the experience.

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FIRST THURSDAY east side THE AMSTERDAM LOUNGE— Visit the comfy Amsterdam Lounge surrounded by local artistry and live music by Jake Ineck. 5-9 p.m.

FREE. 609 W. Main St., Boise, 208-283-8048, facebook.com/ amsterdamboise.

BANDANNA RUNNING AND WALKING—Do not miss Bandanna’s Annual Holiday Sale. Gear up for the holidays and save 30 percent on apparel, 20 percent on accessories and 15 percent off shoes. 5-9 p.m. FREE. 504 W. Main St., Boise, 208-386-9017, bandannarunning.com.

BARDENAY—Catch the distillers and tour the distillery to find out all you want to know about our nation’s first small batch distillery pub.

5 p.m. FREE. 610 Grove St., Boise, 208-426-0538, bardenay.com.

BASQUE MARKET—Stop in for the annual Holiday Candy Sale, with 20 percent off all sweets and candies.

They will also have holiday-inspired pintxos, wine and their famous pa-

ella at 6 p.m. Prices vary. Go early to get a seat. 5-9 p.m. FREE. 608 W. Grove St., Boise, 208-433-1208, thebasquemarket.com.

BASQUE MUSEUM AND CULTURAL CENTER—Everyone receives 10 percent off, and members 20 percent. Plus refreshments and Pintxos (appetizers), free admission to the Museum, live Basque music, no-host bar and all-around holiday cheer. 5:30-8:30 p.m. FREE. 611 Grove St., Boise, 208-343-2671, basquemuseum.com.

BRICKYARD STEAKHOUSE—Enjoy Snake River Farms American Kobe sirloin coulotte. 5-9 p.m. FREE. 601 Main St., Boise, 208-287-2121, brickyardboise.com.

BRICOLAGE—Don’t miss the opening reception for Victoria Anne Greener’s new collection of photographs, An Idaho Adventure. Plus, Bramble Pies slices will be served from 5-8 p.m. 5-9 p.m. FREE. 418 S. Sixth St., Boise, 208-345-3718, bricoshoppe.com.

CAPITOL CELLARS—Get in the spirit of the holiday season with two

glasses of wine for the price of one, and Pinney’s Potato Croquettes for $7. 5-9 p.m. FREE. 110 S. Fifth St., Boise, 208-344-9463, capitolcellarsllc.com.

DRAGONFLY—Enjoy a free wine tasting with Michael Elrod from 4-9 p.m. 4-9 p.m. FREE. 414 W. Main St., Boise, 208-338-9234, www. facebook.com/dragonflyboise.

FLYING M COFFEEHOUSE—Wren Van Bockel presents Creature Comforts. 5-9 p.m. FREE. 500 W. Idaho St., Boise, 208-345-4320, flyingmcoffee.com.

FRONT DOOR—Enjoy beers from the local Bear Island Brewery, starting at 6 p.m. with Brewmaster Beth in house. 5-9 p.m. FREE. 105 S. Sixth St., Boise, 208-287-9201, thefrontdoorboise.com.

GOLDY’S CORNER—Shop creatively for the holidays at the Pack Rat pop-up shop at Goldy’s Corner, hosted by Boise State Graphic Design students. 5-9 p.m.

FREE. 625 W. Main St., Boise, 208433-3934, facebook.com/pages/ Goldys-Corner.

GUIDO’S ORIGINAL NEW YORK STYLE PIZZERIA—Enjoy a large one-topping pizza and one bottle of select wine, two bottles of beer, or four fountain sodas for only $22 plus tax. Dine in only. 5 p.m. FREE. 235 N. Fifth St., Boise, 208-3459011, guidosdowntown.com.

HIGH NOTE CAFE—Try out the delicious food made from scratch in the open kitchen, $2 specialty mimosas with seasonal local fruit and berries, six taps of local brews and a lovely local wine list. 5 p.m. FREE. 225 N. Fifth St., Boise, 208-4291911, thehighnotecafe.com.

IDAHO FIRST BANK—Check out the grand opening open house for Idaho First Bank’s newest branch.

There’ll be art by Jessica Tookey, hors d’oeuvres by Whatever Works Catering, music by Chiron Audio, raffle and giveaways. 5-9 p.m.

FREE. 250 S. Fifth St., Ste. 800, Boise, 208-947-0424.

IDAHO MADE—See what’s new and support local this Christmas.

They have all your handmade Christmas gift items, and lot of

goodies to snack on while you shop.

5-9 p.m. FREE. 108 N. Sixth St., Boise, 208-830-9450.

THE MELTING POT—Take advantage of the First Thursday 2-for-$22 special. You receive a cheese fondue for two and two glasses of house wine. 5-9 p.m. FREE. 200 N. Sixth St., Boise, 208-343-8800, meltingpot.com/boise.

MING STUDIOS—Boise-based photographer John Shinn presents a selection of images from his ongoing collection, New Light. 3-9 p.m. FREE. 420 S. Sixth St., Boise, 208-949-4365, mingstudios.org.

REEF—Enjoy handmade wild Mexican prawn and certified Angus beef steak tamales, served with salsa verde and paired with an El Jimador and Godiva chocolate martini. 5-9 p.m. FREE. 105 S. Sixth St., Boise, 208-287-9200, reefboise.com.

SILLY BIRCH—Play Brew Feud at 9 p.m., Silly Birches’ version of Family Feud. 5 p.m. FREE. 507 Main St., Boise, 208-344-1889, sillybirch. com.

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TRADER JOE’S—Try a taste of samples around the store. As always, the wine and beer sampling will be flowing, but with extra holiday cheer. 5-9 p.m. FREE. 300 S. Capitol Blvd., Boise, 208-3367282, traderjoes.com.

WEEKEND BBQ STORE—The brand-new Weekend BBQ Store has everything you need: grills, smokers, charcoal, pellets, sauces, rubs, lots of cool gear and gifts, as well as a great selection of wines and craft/hard-to-find beers. 5-9 p.m. FREE. 102 N. Sixth St., Boise, 208-343-4321.

WHISKEY BAR—Enjoy cheese and whiskey pairings at 6 p.m. 5-9 p.m.

FREE. 509 W. Main St., Boise, 208345-2505, whiskeybarboise.com.

ZEE’S ROOFTOP CAFE—Enjoy live music by Douglas Cameron. 5-9 p.m. FREE. 250 S. Fifth St., Boise, 208-381-0034, facebook.com/ zeesrooftopdeli.

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We may not win the cover spot, but BW employees each contributed a little something to one of Hadden’s (40) Thousand.

TOM GRAINEY’S—Head on down for Rockeoke every First Thursday.

10 p.m. FREE. 109 S. Sixth St., Boise, 208-345-2505, tomgraineys. com.

During his exhibit at Bricolage last year, local artist Ryan Hadden drew designs—and he noticed something unexpected.

“The adults were coloring with the kids,” Hadden said.

“Even after the kids got bored, the adults were still there coloring. I know I like to color, but I didn’t know there was a demand for it.”

Hadden learned more about the growing trend of coloring books for adults when his wife sent him links from National Public Radio on the therapeutic nature of coloring.

“Four of the books on The New York Times [Games and Activities] Bestsellers list are coloring books right now,” Hadden said, referring to Enchanted Forest, Creative Haven’s Creative Cats, Art Nouveau Animal Designs and Johanna Basford’s hugely popular Secret Garden.

While working full-time installing marble and granite countertops and raising five children ages 8 to 16, Hadden began designing his own coloring book. While his family watched movies, Hadden drew, sometimes getting so caught up, he’d work until 2 a.m.

Within six months, he had created (40) Thousand. He took repeating shapes and lines and used them 1,000 times each to create a larger image. Some are illustrations, like blades of grass, a tree or arrows, but most are intentionally abstract.

“If it’s abstract, it frees you up to focus on the coloring,” Hadden said. “Having a lot of different shapes forces you to spend a lot of time coloring as well, so it helps create that meditative experience.”

The books will be for sale for $10 at the Speakeasy Gallery (850 W. Main St.) on First Thursday, Dec. 3.

NOTE: Boise Weekly is sponsoring a (40) Thousand contest: Pick up one of seven designs from the book for free during First Thursday at Speakeasy or through Friday, Jan. 8, 2016 at BWHQ—and color away. Then submit it to us before Friday, Jan. 15 for a chance to be a 2016 Boise Weekly cover artist.

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ATOMIC TREASURES—Stop in and check out the collection of vintage, retro, art and found objects.

You’ll find decorative and unique treasures for home, jewelry, books, collectibles, vintage ephemera. 5-9 p.m. FREE. 409 S. Eighth St., Ste. 105, Boise, 208-344-0811.

AVA RAE BOUTIQUE—Sip, shop and sparkle as you save 15 percent off your entire purchase. Let Ava Rae Boutique help you get dressed for all your parties this upcoming season. 5-9 p.m. FREE. 439 S. Capitol Blvd., Boise, 303-995-9185, facebook.com/AvaRaeBoutique.

BODOVINO—Drop by for a complimentary wine tasting and local art. 5-9 p.m. FREE. 404 S. Eighth St., Boise, 208-336-VINO (8466), bodovino.com.

BOISE FARMERS MARKET—The indoor market will be open with special vendors and artists for this night only, as well as refreshments, live music and more. 5-9 p.m.

FREE. Eighth and Fulton streets, Boise, 208-345-9287, theboisefarmersmarket.com.

BONEFISH GRILL—Drop by for $6 Bang Bang Shrimp appetizer from 4 p.m. to close, with purchase.

Plus happy hour 3-6:30 p.m. and 9 p.m.-close. 3 p.m. FREE. 855 W. Broad St., Boise, 208-433-1234, bonefishgrill.com.

COLE MARR PHOTOGRAPHY WORKSHOPS AND COFFEEHOUSE—Check out local artist Barbara Kemp and her new body of work, Images of Future’s Past, created with large format and digital cameras. Artist will be present and comfort foods will be offered.

6-9 p.m. FREE. 404 S. Eighth St., Ste. L100, Boise, 208-336-7630, cmphotoworkshops.com.

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FIRST THURSDAY years in a row, FOTH will be offering $2 off all beer on tap, wine and appetizers, such as Calamari Strips, Seared Ahi, Crab Cakes and more. 5-9 p.m. FREE. 401 S. Eighth St., Boise, 208-343-0220, freshoffthehookseafood.com.

GALLERY FIVE18—Stop by and enjoy some holiday cheer as you check out the Annual Small Works Group Show, featuring works by 20 artists. 5-9 p.m.

FREE. 518 S. Americana Blvd., Boise, 208-342-3773, galleryfive18.com.

HA’ PENNY BRIDGE IRISH PUB AND GRILL—Enjoy the special Irish menu or one of the 24 beers on tap, featuring 10 percent off for First Thursday. Happy hour from 4-6:30 p.m. daily and live music starts at 8:30 p.m. 5 p.m. FREE. W. 855 Broad St., Ste. 250, Boise, 208343-5568, hapennybridgepub.com.

HAIRLINES—Call today to make an appointment for a new ’do by Lui The Hair Whisperer. 5-9 p.m. FREE. 409 S. Eighth St., Boise, 208-383-9009.

HAPPY FISH SUSHI/MARTINI BAR— Enjoy a special 10 percent discount on any purchases made at Happy Fish. They have full selections of liquor, 34 martinis and 24 beers on tap. 5-9 p.m. FREE. 855 W. Broad St., Boise, 208-343-4810, happyfishsushi.com.

JOSIE ANNE’S BOUTIQUE—Celebrate holiday cheer at Josie Anne’s open house. Sweet treats will be provided, as well as in-store specials. 5-7 p.m. FREE. 404 S. Eighth St., Boise, 208-424-8900.

LIT & CO. CANDLES—Beer+cake+ candles=the perfect combination. Edge Brewing Co. will be in shop along with The Cakeballers. There will be beer samples, cake balls, candle making and fabulous holiday gifts a-go-go. 5-9 p.m.

FREE. 755 W. Broad St., Boise, 208-9941041, litandco.com.

MR. PEABODY’S OPTICAL SHOPPE— They always have new frame styles, with frame and single-vision lenses starting at $95—and now take vision insurance. 5-9 p.m. FREE. 409 S. Eighth St., Boise, 208344-1390, mrpeabodysoptical.com.

QUE PASA—Enjoy the best in Mexican expression, featuring thousands of items from Mexican master craftsmen: Sterling silver, pottery, blown glass, Talavera, dragons, fairies, mermaids and Day of The Dead. 5-9 p.m. FREE. 409 S. Eighth St., Boise, 208-385-9018.

SNAKE RIVER WINERY—Stock up for the holidays. Take 20 percent off your entire purchase during First Thursday. Shop while enjoying a complimentary wine flight of Snake River’s award-winning estate wines. 5-9 p.m.

FREE. 786 W. Broad St., Boise, 208-345-9463.

SOLID GRILL & BAR—Don’t miss out on the free tasting, free art show, and free appetizers, plus 2-for-1 drinks and live music. 5 p.m. FREE. 405 S. Eighth St., Boise, 208-345-6620, solidboise.com.

central downtown ANGELL’S BAR AND GRILL RENATO—The patio is transformed into a Christmas wonderland for the Festival of Trees. They’ll have new Winter Warmers: seven bodywarming drinks for $6, plus live Christmas music and adult-style pictures with Santa. 5-9 p.m. FREE. 999 W. Main St., Boise, 208-342-4900, angellsbarandgrill.com.

ART OF WARD HOOPER GALLERY AND VINTAGE SWANK—Check out the local art and fantastic vintage finds from all over Idaho. 5-9 p.m. FREE. 745 W. Idaho St., Boise, 208-866-4627, wardhooper.com.

BANANA INK—Enjoy 10 percent off all Banana ink gear.

They raffle off some cool local stuff from different artists they have in the shop, and Calle 75 Street Tacos will be on hand with delicious samples. 5-9 p.m. FREE. 280 N. Eighth St., Ste. 100, Boise, 208-345-1288, banana-ink. com.

BITTERCREEK ALEHOUSE—Art of the Worm: Get to know the underground worms that Bittercreek Alehouse employs in their quest to eliminate organic waste. Tours run 6-8:30 p.m. 5-9 p.m. FREE. 246 N. Eighth St., Boise, 208-429-6340, bcrfl.com/bittercreek.

BUY IDAHO—Shop for made-in-Idaho crafts, specialty foods and unique gifts. 5-9 p.m. FREE. Ninth and Idaho Building, 225-237 N. Ninth St., Boise.

CHANDLERS—Enjoy some special new bites at Chandlers New Social Hour from 4-6 p.m., featuring a menu of delicious small plates and creative cocktails, all priced between $5-$7. This menu is exclusive to these hours only. 4 p.m. FREE. 981 W. Grove St., Boise, 208-3834300, chandlersboise.com.

CHICO’S—Celebrate the holidays in style with all the best looks including gorgeous jackets, tops and accessories.

Enjoy $25 off your purchase when you spend $100.

4-7 p.m. FREE. 816 W. Idaho St., Boise, 208-424-6722, chicos.com.

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE READING ROOM—Take advantage of specials on products as well as audio/visual presentations on spiritual healing based on the Bible.

5-9 p.m. FREE. 222 N. 10th St., Boise, 208-344-5301, cschurchboise.org/readingroom.html.

CITY PEANUT SHOP—Join City Peanut this holiday season with both Boise Brewing and Proletariat for beer, wine and nuts. 5-9 p.m. FREE. 803 W. Bannock St., Boise, 208-433-3931.

COSTA VIDA—Surf in for the best beach-inspired fresh Mexican food. 5-9 p.m. FREE. 801 W. Main St., Boise, 208-429-4109, costavida.net.

D.L. EVANS BANK—Enjoy holiday music by John Rich, delicious hors d’oeuvres by Rooser’s Eatery, wine by BRJ and City Santa. Donations benefit the Women’s and Children’s Alliance. 5-9 p.m. FREE. 890 W. Main St., Boise, 208-331-1399.

FANCY PANTS—Be fancy this holiday season. Find clothing for men and women, great selection of designer denim, and gift wrapping. 5-9 p.m. FREE. 825 W Idaho St, Boise, 208-345-3339, fpstyle.com.

FLATBREAD NEAPOLITAN PIZZERIA—Enjoy happy hour 4-6 p.m. with 50 percent off all cocktails, beer and wine. After 5 p.m., get 20 percent off all bottles of wine until they’re gone. Kids under 12 eat free with the purchase of an adult meal. 4 p.m. FREE. 800 W. Main, Boise, 208-287-4757, flatbreadpizza.com.

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FIRST THURSDAY FREAK ALLEY—Check out the exciting new things going on in the Freak Alley Gallery. 5-9 p.m. FREE. Bannock between Eighth and Ninth streets, Boise, facebook.com/ pages/Freak-alley-gallery.

GALLERY 601—Save 50-70 percent on all framed artwork on display, figurines, books and ornaments by your favorite artists. Plus, wine tastings by Crossings Winery.

5-9 p.m. FREE. 211 N. 10th St., Boise, 208-336-5899, gallery601. com.

GRAEBER & COMPANY—Enjoy complimentary hand massages, chair massages, make-up finishes, appetizers, and refreshments.

Plus 20 percent off all open stock Aveda all day. 5-9 p.m. FREE. 350 N. Ninth St., Boise, 208-343-4915, graeberandcompany.com.

JAMBA JUICE—Enjoy FREE samples of premium freshly squeezed juices, including all natural fresh produce, all day long. 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

FREE. 132 N. Eighth St., Boise, 208658-1765, jambajuice.com.

LEAF TEAHOUSE—Enjoy FREE tastes of gingerbread and other holiday treats. Get one ounce of select holiday teas free with any purchase of $30 or more. Plus live music by Dale Cavanaugh. 5-9 p.m.

FREE. 212 N. Ninth St., Boise, 208336-5323, leafteahouse.com.

LUX FASHION LOUNGE—If you’re looking for new and resale men’s and women’s clothing for a fraction of retail price, then this is your place. 5-9 p.m. FREE. 817 W. Idaho St., Boise, 208-344-4589, facebook.com/pages/Lux-FashionLounge.

MCU SPORTS—Shop the best selection of winter gear for great holiday gifts for all ages. Plus, refreshments from 5-7 p.m. and free gift boxes with purchase. 5-9 p.m.

FREE. 822 W. Jefferson St., boise, 208-342-7734, mcusports.com.

MIXED GREENS MODERN GIFTS—Jamison Rae will be on hand with her beautiful jewelry.

While you’re shopping, enjoy beer tasting by Payette Brewery and nuts from City Peanut Shop. 5-9 p.m.

FREE. 237 N. Ninth St., Boise, 208344-1605, ilikemixedgreens.com.

THE MIXING BOWL—Warm yourself up with some hot cider and let The Mixing Bowl help you tackle that Christmas list. 5-9 p.m. FREE. 216 N. Ninth St., Boise, 208-345-6025, themixingbowlboise.com.

THE MODE LOUNGE—Check out the winter cocktail list. Hot buttered rums $6 all night long. 5-9 p.m.

FREE. 800 W. Idaho St., Boise, 208-342-MODE (6633), themodelounge.com.

OLD CHICAGO—Enjoy happy hour from 4-7 p.m., with $5 glasses of wine, $1 off all pints, and $3 well cocktails. Plus, kids eat FREE. 4 p.m. FREE. 730 W. Idaho St., Boise, 208-363-0037, oldchicago.com.

OLIVIN OLIVE OIL AND VINEGAR TAPROOM—Looking for that special Christmas Gift? You’ll find it at Olivin. 5-8:30 p.m. FREE. 218 N. Ninth St., Boise, 208-344-0306, olivinboise.com.

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REDISCOVERED BOOKS—Local author Kathryn Kemp Guylay will be signing from her new acclaimed self-help book, Mountain Mantras: Wellness and Life Lessons from the Slopes. 5-9 p.m. FREE. 180 N. Eighth St., Boise, 208-376-4229, www.rdbooks.org.

SAGE YOGA AND WELLNESS— Check out photographer Peter Lovera’s new show, Borderline With My Atoms. Plus Indian Creek Winery tastings, live music, Prairie Smoke jewelry pop-up shop, and beginner yoga 5:30-7 p.m. 5-9 p.m. FREE. 242 N. Eighth St., Ste. 200, Boise, 208-338-5430, sageyogaboise. com.

SCOTTRADE SECURITIES—Drop by and say hello to the Scottrade team and the newest team member from Salt Lake City. They’ll have some goodies to share. 5-9 p.m.

FREE. 176 N. Ninth St., Boise, 208433-9333, scottrade.com.

SNAKE RIVER TEA CO.—Enjoy free samples of holiday teas, buy-oneget-one-free 12 ounce tea drinks, and 40 percent off loose leaf tea purchases of four ounces or more.

5-9 p.m. FREE. 801 W. Main St., Ste. 103, Boise, 208-841-9746, facebook.com/SnakeRiverTeaCo. THE STUDIO: AN ELITE SALON AND SPA—Enjoy free food, beverages and the best gift-card special in Boise: $100 purchase gets you $120 or a $200 purchase gets you $250. 5-9 p.m. FREE. 702 W. Idaho St., Boise, 208-577-6252, facebook.com/TheStudioAnEliteSalonAndSpa. SUPERB SUSHI—Sample some awesome wines and also the inhouse Smoked Salmon. Unlimited dollar Nigiri with the purchase of any sushi roll all night long.

Located beneath Thomas Hammer Coffee. 6-8 p.m. FREE. 208 N. Eighth St., Boise, 208-385-0123, superbsushidowntown.com.

TWO ZERO EIGHT SALON—Check out the debut of Two Zero Eight, a brand new upscale salon and spa.

Enjoy complimentary chair massages, wine and hors d’oeuvres.

5-9 p.m. FREE. 810 W. Bannock St., Boise, 208-287-3787.

ZIONS BANK—Enjoy refreshments, artwork and holiday favorites sung by the Sounds.

5:30-8:30 p.m. FREE. 800 W. Main St., Boise, 208-344-5523, zionsbank.com.

west side THE ALASKA CENTER—Interfaith Sanctuary celebrates its 10th anniversary with cake and hot spiced cider. Fractal artist Judson Cottrell is the featured artist for the Alaska Center winter art show. 5-9 p.m.

FREE. 1020 W. Main St., Boise.

ALLAN R. ANSELL PHOTOGRAPHY—Featuring an open studio, with complimentary portraits. 5-9 p.m. FREE. Alaska Center, 1020 W. Main St., Boise, 208-863-2808, ansellphotography.com.

ART SOURCE GALLERY—Check out artist Laura Johnson’d natureinspired fused glass artworks.

Plus, music by JB Duo. 5-9 p.m.

FREE. 1015 W. Main St., Boise, 208-331-3374, artsourcegallery. com.

BEN & JERRY’S SCOOP SHOP— As always, enjoy $1 scoops all day on First Thursday. 1-8 p.m. FREE. 103 N. 10th St., Boise, 208-3421992, benjerry.com.

BOISE ART GLASS AND FIREFUSION STUDIO—Don’t miss the 10th Annual Holiday Party, with live music by Wayne White, beer from Woodland Empire, wine from Cinder Wines and food from Burgerlicious. 5-9 p.m. FREE. 1124 W. Front St., Boise, 208-3451825, boiseartglass.com.

CHANDI LIGHTING STUDIO— Peruse an array of locally made goods as you enjoy refreshments in the beautifully lit chandelier studio. 5-9 p.m. FREE. 1110 W. Jefferson St., Boise, 208-3318332, chandilighting.com.

CHI E SHENAM WESTIN—Featuring Landscapes of the West by Chi E Shenam Westin. 5-9 p.m. FREE. Alaska Center, 1020 W. Main St., Boise, fineartamerica.com/profiles/chieshenam-westin.html.

CRAZY NEIGHBOR—Enjoy a free performance of A Child’s Christmas in Wales, 7-7:30 p.m. 4-9 p.m.

FREE. 1415 W. Grove St., Boise, 208-957-6480, crazyneighbor.biz.

DISTRICT COFFEE HOUSE—View local artist Nathaniel McGehee’s collection of oil paintings, titled Don’t Tell Me I Am Free. 5-9 p.m.

FREE. 219 N. 10th St., Boise, 208343-1089, districtcoffeehouse. com.

FOOT DYNAMICS—Save an additional 10 percent off all items already on sale. 5-9 p.m. FREE. 1021 W. Main St., Boise, 208386-3338.

LANEIGE BRIDAL AND TUX—Stop by and find the dress of your dreams at LaNeige Bridal during their $299 sale. 5-9 p.m. FREE. Alaska Center, 1020 W. Main St., Ste. 104, Boise, 208-514-0439, laneigebridal.com.

LILLY JANE’S CUPCAKES—Check out the downtown location and get a free cupcake. You’ll also want to take advantage of special pricing, with $2 large cupcakes and $1 baby cakes. 5-9 p.m. FREE. Alaska Center, 1020 W. Main St., Ste. 111, Boise, 208-336-1747, lillyjanescupcakes.com.

ONE NINTEEN BOISE—Enjoy tasting Boise’s newest addition to craft brewing, Powderhaus Brewing Company. 5-9 p.m. FREE. 117 S. 10th St., Boise, 208-343-4606, onenineteenboise.com.

THE RECORD EXCHANGE—Enjoy 20 percent off journals and books, plus buy-two-get-one-free used music and video. 5-9 p.m. FREE. 1105 W. Idaho St., Boise, 208344-8010, therecordexchange. com.

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Fulton St., Boise, 208-331-9224, bctheater.org.

Festivals & Events ITD BROADWAY BRIDGE OPEN HOUSE—Join the Idaho Transportation Department to learn more about the upcoming replacement of the Broadway Avenue bridge over the Boise River. 4-7 p.m. FREE. Washington Group Plaza, 720 Park Blvd., Boise. 208-334-8938, itd.idaho. gov/broadwaybridge.

WINTER GARDEN AGLOW— Through Jan. 3. 6-9 p.m. $4-$10.

Idaho Botanical Garden, 2355 Old Penitentiary Road, Boise, 208-3438649. idahobotanicalgarden.org.

BOISE CLASSIC MOVIES: WHITE CHRISTMAS—Keep the Holidays swingin’ by watching Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye cut a rug with Rosemary Clooney and Vera Ellen.

7 p.m. $6-$9. Egyptian Theatre, 700 W. Main St., Boise, 208-3450454, 208-387-1273. boiseclassicmovies.com/deals.

CALDWELL FINE ARTS: NUTCRACKER JR.—The wonder of The Nutcracker in a smaller shell, featuring all of Act I and selected dances from Act II. 1 p.m. and 6 p.m. $6-$15. Jewett Auditorium, The College of Idaho, 2112 E. Cleveland Blvd., Caldwell. 208-4595275, caldwellfinearts.org.

Art On Stage BCT: NO MORE SAD THINGS— Through Dec. 20. 8 p.m. $16-$18.

Boise Contemporary Theater, 854

ANIMALIA IV—Through Dec. 18.

9 a.m.-5 p.m. FREE. Gail Severn Gallery, 400 First Ave. N., Ketchum, 208-726-5079, gailseverngallery. com.

THURSDAY, DEC. 3

You could be the king of Choco Mountain.

CHINESE GARDENS—Through Feb. 14. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. FREE-$6.

Boise Art Museum, 670 Julia Davis Drive, Boise, 208-345-8330, boiseartmuseum.org.

THURSDAY DEC. 3

COLOR IV—Through Dec. 18. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. FREE. Gail Severn Gallery, 400 First Ave. N., Ketchum, 208-726-5079, gailseverngallery. com.

Festivals & Events

FOLDING PAPER: THE INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF ORIGAMI— Through Jan. 17. FREE-$6. Boise Art Museum, 670 Julia Davis Drive, Boise, 208-345-8330, boiseartmuseum.org.

HONORING OUR LANDSCAPE IV—Through Dec. 18. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Continues through Dec. 18.

FREE. Gail Severn Gallery, 400 First Ave. N., Ketchum, 208-726-5079, gailseverngallery.com.

NILES NORDQUIST: IN THE WILD—Through Jan. 10. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. FREE. Friesen Galleries, Brandt Center, Northwest Nazarene University, 707 Fern St., Nampa, 208-467-8398, brandtcenter.nnu. edu.

2ND ANNUAL WASSAIL AT THE BISHOPS’ HOUSE—Celebrate with a glass of wassail. Plus, hors d’oeuvres and music by Kevin Kirk from 5-7 p.m. 4-7 p.m. $15, $25 for two. Bishops’ House, 2420 E. Old Penitentiary Road, Boise, 208-342-3279. thebishopshouse. com/events.

SPARCKLE AND SHINE FASHION SHOW—The Arc and Savers celebrate diversity. Proceeds support programs at The Arc. 6-9 p.m. $5-$20. Rose Room, 718 W. Idaho St., Boise, , 208-343-5583, parklaneco.com/ roseroom.

THURSDAY, DEC. 3

Reduce, re-use, recycle, re-model.

On Stage BCT: NO MORE SAD THINGS—8 p.m. $16-$18. Boise Contemporary Theater, 854 Fulton St., Boise, 208331-9224, bctheater.org.

BLT: EVERY CHRISTMAS STORY EVER TOLD, AND THEN SOME— 7:30 p.m. $11-$16. Boise Little Theater, 100 E. Fort St., Boise, 208342-5104, boiselittletheater.org.

BOISE BIBLE COLLEGE ANNUAL CHRISTMAS DRAMA: FIRST N-O-E-L—6 p.m. $5-$12. Boise Bible College, 8695 W. Marigold St., Garden City, 208-376-7731, boisebible.edu.

BOISE CLASSIC MOVIES: WHITE CHRISTMAS—7 p.m. $6-$9.

Egyptian Theatre, 700 W. Main St., Boise, 208-345-0454, 208-3871273. boiseclassicmovies.com/ deals.

A CHILD’S CHRISTMAS IN WALES—Enjoy this Christmas story, brought to you by The Christmas Interludes. 7 p.m. FREE. Crazy Neighbor, 1415 W. Grove St., Boise, 208-957-6480.

COMEDIAN GABRIEL RUTLEDGE—8 p.m. $10. Liquid, 405 S. Eighth St., Ste. 110, Boise, 208287-5379, liquidboise.com.

THE GAME’S AFOOT, OR HOLMES FOR THE HOLIDAYS—7:30 p.m. $12-$17. Stage Coach Theatre, 4802 W. Emerald Ave., Boise, 208-342-2000, stagecoachtheatre.com.

Art DOWNTOWN BOISE WINTER WINDOW GALLERY STROLL— Make sure to vote for your favorite online. Dec. 3-17. FREE. Downtown Boise, Downtown Corridor, Boise. downtownboise.org.

Literature AUTHOR KATHRYN KEMP GUYLAY—Join local author Kathryn Kemp Guylay, who’ll be signing her new acclaimed self-help book, Mountain Mantras: Wellness and Life Les-

SATURDAY, DEC. 5

We wish you a furry Christmas and a puppy new year.

MARIO KART 64 TOURNEY WITH BOISE BREWING

SP-ARC-KLE AND SHINE FASHION SHOW

CLAUS ’N PAWS

Mario Kart 64 is the gold standard for video game multi-player experiences. Select a favorite character from Nintendo’s Mario universe and go head-to-head with your opponents, picking up green shells, deadly red shells, super stars, bananas and the infamous blue shell on favorite tracks like Rainbow Road, Wario Stadium and Choco Mountain. It’s single-elimination—there’s no room for error—and four players compete at a time, with the top two players in each round advancing to the next.

The winner will go home with a Nintendo 64, four controllers and a Mario Kart game—prizes for second and third place are TBA. Boise Brewing will bring the suds, so you can play like you did in college. Sign up at facebook.com/SpacebarArcade/ events.

7 p.m. FREE. Spacebar Arcade, 200 N. Capitol Blvd., 208918-0597, spacebararcade.com.

According to the EPA, Americans throw away nearly 70 pounds of clothing and textiles annually. At around 320 million people in the United States, we toss more than 22 billion pounds of apparel into landfills every year. Secondhand stores like Savers give garments a second chance with help from organizations like The Arc—which provides opportunities for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities—collecting donations from the community. The Arc and Savers are taking their partnership a step further with their first-ever fashion show, featuring models of all abilities.

Art by Arc members will be on display, appetizers and cocktails will be available for purchase, and all proceeds benefit programs at The Arc, so by attending, you’ll be doing some good, too.

Just because they are wild animals with no understanding of a holiday based on gift giving doesn’t mean they should be left out of the season.

On Saturday, Dec. 5, Zoo Boise animals will get their presents neatly wrapped and ready to be torn apart. Primates will get wrapped boxes full of food; for the lions and tigers, unwrapping a big empty box is joy enough; and the bears will get to delight in a mixture of worms and peanut butter.

Animals around the zoo will receive gifts every half hour throughout the day. The annual Claus ’N Paws celebration also includes face painting, games and a photo op with Santa 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Admission to the zoo is free all day.

6-9 p.m. $5-$20. The Rose Room, 718 W. Idaho St., 208-3435583, thearcinc.org.

10 a.m.-5 p.m., last admission at 4:30 p.m., FREE. Zoo Boise, 355 Julia Davis Dr., 208-608-7760, zooboise.org.

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CALENDAR sons from the Slopes. 6-8 p.m.

FREE. Rediscovered Books, 180 N. Eighth St., Boise, 208-376-4229. rdbooks.org.

Sports & Fitness MARIO KART 64 TOURNAMENT—Winner will recieve a Nintendo 64, four controllers and a one-of-a-kind Mario Kart game cartridge. Boise Brewing will be on hand with brews and giveaways. 7 p.m. FREE. Spacebar Arcade, 200 N. Capitol Blvd., Boise, 208-918-0597.

FRIDAY DEC. 4 Festivals & Events 6TH ANNUAL BISHOPS’ HOUSE VICTORIAN OPEN PARLORS—See The Bishops’ House filled with holiday decoration. 4-7 p.m.

FREE-$5. Bishops’ House, 2420 E. Old Penitentiary Road, Boise, 208-342-3279. thebishopshouse. com/events.

IDAHO CITY CHRISTMAS CELEBRATION AND TREE LIGHTING CEREMONY—5-8 p.m. $5. Idaho City Visitor’s Center, 100 S. Main St., Idaho City, 208-392-6040, idahocitychamber.org.

MERIDIAN WINTER LIGHTS PARADE AND CHRISTMAS TREE LIGHTING—6:30-8 p.m. FREE. Downtown Meridian, Corner of Main and Franklin, Meridian. meridiancity.org/christmas.

4619 Emerald St., Boise, 208-9914746, boisecomedy.com.

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THE EIGHT: REINDEER MONOLOGUES—11 p.m. $10-$12. Stage Coach Theatre, 4802 W. Emerald Ave., Boise, 208-342-2000, stagecoachtheatre.com.

AUTHOR CRAIG LEW: BREATH TO BREATH BOOK LAUNCH AND SIGNING—Author Craig Lew will be reading from and signing copies of his acclaimed debut novel, written in verse. 7-9 p.m. FREE. Sage Yoga and Wellness, 242 N. Eighth St., Ste. 200, Boise, 208-338-5430. craiglew.com.

THE GAME’S AFOOT, OR HOLMES FOR THE HOLIDAYS—8 p.m. $12$17. Stage Coach Theatre, 4802 W. Emerald Ave., Boise, 208-3422000, stagecoachtheatre.com.

Art ART ZONE FIRST FRIDAY—6-9 p.m. FREE. Art Zone 208, 3113 N. Cole Road, Boise, 208-322-9464, facebook.com/artzone208.

KRAMPUS INVITATIONAL GROUP SHOW OPENING RECEPTION—Get a refreshing kickstart to your holiday season with this unique group show featuring over 35 local artists who have produced their own interpretation of the dark counterpart to Saint Nicholas. 7-10 p.m. FREE. Visual Arts Collective, 3638 Osage St., Garden City, 208-424-8297.

SATURDAY DEC. 5 Festivals & Events CALDWELL MODEL RAILROAD CLUB HOLIDAY OPEN HOUSE— Check out the CMRC clubhouse and model train layouts, with hundreds of feet of track to enjoy.

Special Thomas train and holiday trains for the kids will be on display and running. Plus, a scavenger hunt and drinks and snacks available.

Donations accepted. 11 a.m.-4 p.m. FREE. Caldwell Model Railroad Clubhouse, 809 Dearborn St., Caldwell. cmrchs.org.

CROOKED FENCE BREWERY MOVING PARTY—Don’t miss your last chance to grab a beer at the original location. Plus appetizers

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RADIO BOISE’S PRACTICE NEW YEAR’S EVE PARTY—Featuring a silent auction, live music by Lounge On Fire and Boise Rockeoke. Beer and wine available with ID. 6-11 p.m. $5. WaterCooler Boise, 1401 W. Idaho St., Boise. 208-258-2072, radioboise.us.

On Stage BCT: NO MORE SAD THINGS—8 p.m. $16-$18. Boise Contemporary Theater, 854 Fulton St., Boise, 208331-9224, bctheater.org.

BLT: EVERY CHRISTMAS STORY EVER TOLD, AND THEN SOME—8 p.m. $11-$16. Boise Little Theater, 100 E. Fort St., Boise, 208-3425104, boiselittletheater.org.

BOISE BIBLE COLLEGE ANNUAL CHRISTMAS DRAMA: FIRST N-O-E-L—6 p.m. $5-$12. Boise Bible College, 8695 W. Marigold St., Garden City, 208-376-7731, boisebible.edu.

COMEDIAN GABRIEL RUTLEDGE—8 p.m. and 10 p.m. $12.

Liquid, 405 S. Eighth St., Ste. 110, Boise, 208-287-5379, liquidboise. com.

COMEDYSPORTZ IMPROV—7:30 p.m. $10. ComedySportz Boise,

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CALENDAR and live music. 6-10 p.m. FREE. Crooked Fence Brewing, 5242 W. Chinden Blvd., Garden City, 208376-4200, crookedfencebrewing. com/.

GARDEN CITY BOOTLEGGERS PROHIBITION REPEAL DAY—Celebrate the anniversary of the Repeal of Prohibition with the Garden City Bootleggers. All 13 establishments will be open and there’ll be food trucks, holiday shopping deals, drinks specials, live music and free shuttles between establishments. 11 a.m.-6 p.m. FREE. Cinder Winery, 107 E.44th St., Garden City, 208-376-4023. facebook.com/ CinderWines.

10 BARREL: PRAY FOR SNOW PARTY—Enjoy giveaways while you celebrate the release of the 2015 Pray for Snow Winter Ale. In the parking lot behind 10 Barrel, at the corner of Eighth and Jefferson. 5-10 p.m. FREE. 10 Barrel Brewing Co., 830 W. Bannock St., Boise, 208-344-5870. facebook. com/10BarrelBrewingBoise.

REPEAL OF PROHIBITION PARTY—Celebrate the repeal of the 18th Amendment with, what else, drink specials and a 1930s-era

costume contest and prizes. Plus, music by Hillfolk Noir. No reservations after 9 p.m. 9 p.m. FREE. Juniper Kitchen and Cocktails, 211 N. Eighth St., Boise, 208-342-1142, juniperon8th.com.

THE SNOW BALL—Enjoy a formal evening of dinner and dancing to benefit The Little Ski Hill and Bear Basin Nordic Center. 6 p.m. $75.

North Fork Lodge, 200 Scott St., McCall, 208-634-1418. littleskihill. org.

WYAKIN WARRIOR FOUNDATION GUARDIAN BALL AND INDUCTION CEREMONY—Celebrate those who served and sacrificed at this black-tie event, featuring fine dining, live entertainment, big band music and dancing, and auction. 6 p.m. $75-$125. Boise Centre, 850 W. Front St., Boise, 208-336-8900. wyakin.org.

On Stage BCT: NO MORE SAD THINGS—2 p.m. 8 p.m. $16-$18. Boise Contemporary Theater, 854 Fulton St., Boise, 208-331-9224, bctheater. org.

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BDA COMPANY SHOW AND NUTCRACKER—Boise Dance Alliance presents its annual company show and Nutcracker performance.

7:30 p.m. $5. Nampa Civic Center, 311 Third St. S., Nampa, 208-4685555, nampaciviccenter.com.

BLT: EVERY CHRISTMAS STORY EVER TOLD, AND THEN SOME—8 p.m. $11-$16. Boise Little Theater, 100 E. Fort St., Boise, 208-3425104, boiselittletheater.org.

BOISE ROCK SCHOOL END OF FALL SESSION GIG—More than 50 bands will be taking the stage during this all-day all-ages mini festival. Food and beverages will be available. 10 a.m.-9 p.m. $5. WaterCooler Boise, 1401 W. Idaho St., Boise.

COMEDIAN GABRIEL RUTLEDGE—8 p.m. and 10 p.m. $10-$12. Liquid, 405 S. Eighth St., Ste. 110, Boise, 208-287-5379, liquidboise.com.

COMEDIAN LEIF SKYVING—8 p.m. $20 show, $34.95 with dinner.

The Playhouse Boise (formerly AEN Playhouse), 8001 W. Fairview Ave., Boise, 208-779-0092, theplayhouseboise.com.

COMEDYSPORTZ IMPROV—7:30 p.m. $10. ComedySportz Boise, 4619 Emerald St., Boise, 208-9914746, boisecomedy.com.

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THE EIGHT: REINDEER MONOLOGUES—11 p.m. $10-$12. Stage Coach Theatre, 4802 W. Emerald Ave., Boise, 208-342-2000, stagecoachtheatre.com.

THE ELVES AND THE SHOEMAKER: A MUSICAL HOLIDAY FABLE—Appropriate for ages 4 and up. Running time approximately 60 minutes. 11 a.m. $5-$9. Treasure Valley Children’s Theater, 703 N. Main St., Meridian, 208-287-8828. treasurevalleychildrenstheater.com.

THE GAME’S AFOOT, OR HOLMES FOR THE HOLIDAYS—8 p.m. $12$17. Stage Coach Theatre, 4802 W. Emerald Ave., Boise, 208-3422000, stagecoachtheatre.com.

MERIDIAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA HOLIDAY CONCERT—7:30 p.m. $9-$11, $27 family. Centennial High School Performing Arts Center, 12400 W. McMillan Road, Boise, 208-939-1404. meridiansymphony.org.

Art ANNUAL WINTER EXHIBITION OPENING RECEPTION—2-7 p.m.

FREE. Stewart Gallery, 2230 Main St., Boise, 208-433-0593, stewartgallery.com.

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

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

Think of it more as simply double-checking your answers.

ILLUSTRATOR JOSEPH COWMAN—Join Joseph Cowman, illustrator of The Nutcracker’s Night Before Christmas, for a signing during the Saturday Holiday Market.

11 a.m.-1 p.m. FREE. Rediscovered Books, 180 N. Eighth St., Boise, 208-376-4229.

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CALENDAR Animals & Pets CLAUS ‘N PAWS—Don’t miss the zoo residents getting their holiday gifts.

And Santa will be on hand from 11 a.m.-4 p.m. for photo ops; your small donation benefits zoo programs. Last admission at 4:30 p.m.

10 a.m.-5 p.m. FREE. Zoo Boise, 355 Julia Davis Drive, Boise, 208608-7760. zooboise.org/event/ claus-n-paws.

SUNDAY DEC. 6 Festivals & Events

The weather outside is frightful, but having the right gear is so delightful.

BOISE DEPOT TOURS— See the building inside and out, and learn about restoration. Noon and 1:30 p.m.

FREE. Boise Train Depot, 2603 W. Eastover Terrace, Boise, parks. cityofboise.org.

YOUR HEALTH IDAHO ENROLLMENT OPEN HOUSE AND WORKSHOP—Get answers to your questions and learn how to navigate through the Your Health Idaho website. In the Bitterbrush Room. 1-5 p.m. FREE. Boise Public Library at Cole and Ustick, 7557 W. Ustick Road, Boise, 208-972-8300, boisepubliclibrary.org.

On Stage BLT: EVERY CHRISTMAS STORY EVER TOLD, AND THEN SOME—2 p.m. $11-$16. Boise Little Theater, 100 E. Fort St., Boise, 208-3425104, boiselittletheater.org.

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BOISE STATE FAMILY HOLIDAY CONCERT—7:30 p.m. $2-$10.

Morrison Center for the Performing Arts, 2201 Cesar Chavez Lane, Boise, 208-426-1609, box office: 208-426-1110, mc.boisestate.edu.

MONDAY DEC. 7 Festivals & Events HOLIDAY LIGHTS TROLLEY TOURS—7-8 p.m. $5-$18. Evergreen Business Mall-Library Plaza, corner of Cole and Ustick, Boise.

208-433-0849, boisetrolleytours. com.

Animals & Pets PET NIGHT—Get your furry friends in the holiday spirit with a visit to Santa. His elves will be nearby, prepared to lend a helping hand and snap a commemorative photo. Price is determined by photo package selected. Dogs and cats only; leashes and crates required.

Monday, Dec. 7, 6 p.m. Boise Towne Square, 350 N. Milwaukee St., Boise, 208-378-4400, boisetownesquare.com.

TUESDAY DEC. 8 On Stage BOISE CLASSIC MOVIES: A CHRISTMAS STORY—Shoot your eye out when A Christmas Story shows for one night only. 7 p.m. $6-$9.

Egyptian Theatre, 700 W. Main St., Boise, 208-345-0454, 208-3871273. boiseclassicmovies.com/ deals.

BROADWAY IN BOISE: DISNEY’S BEAUTY AND THE BEAST—7 p.m. $30-$70. Morrison Center for the Performing Arts, 2201 Cesar Chavez Lane, Boise, 208-4261609, box office: 208-426-1110, mc.boisestate.edu.

Art WORLDS CONNECT: ART IN OUR COMMUNITY— Artists from around the world who have settled in Boise will share their crafts and cultural heritage. 6:30-8 p.m. FREE. Boise Public Library at Hillcrest, 5246 W. Overland Road, Boise, 208-9728340, boisepubliclibrary.org.

Talks & Lectures FRIENDS OF THE HISTORICAL MUSEUM BROWN BAG LECTURE— Join Vangie Osborn for a look at Boise’s history through neon and other commercial signs and her efforts to preserve this part of the city’s heritage. Noon. FREE. Washington Group Plaza, 720 Park Blvd., Boise.

208-780-5192, history.idaho.gov/ events/signs-our-times.

Citizen COFFEE WITH THE MAYOR OF MERIDIAN—Meet with Mayor Tammy de Weerd and other city leaders in a casual environment.

8-9:30 a.m. FREE. MGM Association Management, 289 S.W. 5th Ave., Meridian, 208-846-9189, gomgm.com.

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COME TOGETHER KUNA CHOIR CHRISTMAS CONCERT—7:30 p.m.

FREE. Kuna Performing Arts Center, 637 E. Deer Flat Road, Kuna. 208850-5784, facebook.com/ComeTogetherKuna.

COMEDIAN GABRIEL RUTLEDGE—8 p.m. $10. Liquid, 405 S. Eighth St., Ste. 110, Boise, 208287-5379, liquidboise.com.

THE GAME’S AFOOT, OR HOLMES FOR THE HOLIDAYS—2 p.m. $12$17. Stage Coach Theatre, 4802 W. Emerald Ave., Boise, 208-3422000, stagecoachtheatre.com.

MOOSE: THE MOVIE— Join the Wyakin Warrior Foundation and the creators of the Tundra comic strip for a film about the herbivore your mother warned you about.

Proceeds benefit the WWF. 4 p.m. $15-$20, $40 VIP. Egyptian Theatre, 700 W. Main St., Boise, 208-345-0454, 208-387-1273. moosethemovie.com.

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MUSIC GUIDE WEDNESDAY DEC. 2 CHUCK SMITH TRIO—8 p.m. FREE. Chandlers DAN COSTELLO—6 p.m. FREE. Edge Brewing

RADIO BOISE PRACTICE NEW YEAR’S EVE PARTY, DEC. 4, WATERCOOLER Think of how much better you’d do on your New Year’s resolutions if you got a running start. Now imagine how hard you could party New Year’s Eve night if you had a little practice. Join Radio Boise’s annual Practice New Year’s Eve Party at the WaterCooler on Friday, Dec. 4 to get your practice party on.

Providing the soundtrack for the night will be local funk band Lounge on Fire, which describes itself as a “steel cut, blackened and peppered, rock-hopped, hip-dipped, cock-eyed, funk-trunked, flat-onyour-back, pants-off-dance-off machine.” Sharing the stage will be Boise Rockeoke, which hands you the microphone and plays as your backup band—live karaoke style.

Radio Boise DJs will spin tunes throughout the night while you peruse a variety of items for the silent auction. The party is all ages, but beer and wine is available with a photo ID. —Jessica Murri 6-11:30 p.m., $5, The WaterCooler, 1401 W. Idaho St., 208258-2072, radioboise.us.

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JEREMY STEWART—5:30 p.m.

FREE. Chandlers

TYLOR AND THE TRAIN ROBBERS—8:45 p.m. FREE. Pengilly’s WEDNESDAY NIGHT JAM WITH THE BLIND MICE—8 p.m. FREE. Grainey’s

THURSDAY DEC. 3

KARAOKE—7 p.m. FREE. High Note

BEN BURDICK TRIO WITH AMY ROSE—8 p.m. FREE. Chandlers

KEN HARRIS AND CARMEL CROCK—6 p.m. FREE. Sofia’s

BRANDON PRITCHETT—8:30 p.m.

FREE. Reef

LIQUID WETT WEDNESDAY—Electronic music and DJs. 9:30 p.m.

FREE. Liquid

DAVE MCT—6 p.m. FREE. ShangriLa

MICHAELA FRENCH AND JOHNNY SHOES—6 p.m. FREE. Highlands Hollow ROSE QUARTZ—With Deeveaux and The Bleach Effect. 7 p.m. $8 adv., $10 door. Neurolux SONGWRITERS NIGHT—8 p.m.

FREE. WilliB’s STEVE EATON—5 p.m. FREE. Bar 365 TOYS FOR TOTS BENEFIT: GERRY AND THE DREAMBENDERS—With Jake Leg. Admission: A new toy, unopened, in its original packaging (but not gift-wrapped), or a cash donation. 6:30 p.m. Sapphire

FRIM FRAM FOUR—8:45 p.m.

FREE. Pengilly’s

VERTIGO AND FRIENDS: CELEBRATING ANN TIPPETTS—7 p.m. $10-$12.50 adv., $12-$15 door.

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FRIDAY DEC. 4 ANDY CORTENS DUO—5:30 p.m.

FREE. Berryhill BIG BLUE SKY—7 p.m. FREE. Shangri-La BLAZE AND KELLY—7 p.m. FREE. WilliB’s BLUE LOTUS—9:30 p.m. $5.

Grainey’s CYMRY—6 p.m. FREE. Murph’s

RANDOM CANYON GROWLERS— 8:45 p.m. FREE. Pengilly’s RAT PACK FUN—Featuring Dave Halston as Frank, Nicholas Brooks as Sammy and Bob Caudle as Dean. 7:30 p.m. $31. Nampa Civic Center WHITAKER AND OLIVER—7 p.m.

FREE. High Note

SATURDAY DEC. 5 AMERICAN HITMEN: ROCK FOR TOYS FOR TOTS—With the Rocci Johnson Band. 9 p.m. $5 suggested donation. Hannah’s

JEREMY STEWART—5:30 p.m.

FREE. Chandlers

EMILY TIPTON BAND—10 p.m. $5. Reef

ANDY BYRON AND THE LOST RIVER BAND—8:45 p.m. FREE. Pengilly’s

MEGAN NELSON—7 p.m. FREE. High Note

FRANK MARRA—5:30 p.m. FREE. Chandlers

BERNIE REILLY BAND—9 p.m.

FREE. O’Michael’s

MR. GNOME—With Dark Swallows. 7 p.m. $10 adv., $12 door.

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JOHN JONES TRIO—8 p.m. FREE. Chandlers

BLUE LOTUS—9:30 p.m. $5.

Grainey’s

NICOLE CHRISTENSEN—5 p.m.

FREE. Bar 365

BOISE ROCK SCHOOL END OF FALL SESSION GIG—10 a.m.-9 p.m. $5. WaterCooler Boise, 1401 W. Idaho St., Boise.

OPEN MIC WITH UNCLE CHRIS—7 p.m. FREE. O’Michael’s ROB HARDING—5 p.m. FREE. Bar 365

OAK RIDGE BOYS: CHRISTMAS AND HITS—7:30 p.m. $35-$50.

Morrison Center RADIO BOISE’S PRACTICE NEW YEAR’S EVE PARTY—Lounge On Fire. 6-11 p.m. $5. WaterCooler

CHUBBY LOVIN’—7 p.m. FREE. High Note

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OPEN MIC WITH REBECCA SCOTT—8 p.m. FREE. Pengilly’s

ESSENTIAL JAZZ—With Pamela Demarche and Jack Holland. 7 p.m. $10-$15 adv., $15-$20 door.

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FRANK MARRA—5:30 p.m. FREE. Chandlers

CHUCK SMITH DUO WITH NICOLE CHRISTENSEN—7:30 p.m.

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RADIO BOISE TUESDAY: GRAND LAKE ISLANDS—7 p.m. $5.

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CHUCK SMITH TRIO—8 p.m. FREE. Chandlers

SHON SANDERS—5 p.m. FREE. Bar 365

GAYLE CHAPMAN—5 p.m. FREE. Bar 365 HEALTH: DEATH MAGIC TOUR 2015—With Pictureplane. 7 p.m. $10 adv., $12 door. Neurolux JOE NICHOLS—8 p.m. $29.50$59.50. Revolution LINEAR DOWNFALL AND PHANTAHEX—With Snoozy Moon and Atomic Moses. 7 p.m. $5. The Olympic

ESTEBAN ANASTASIO—5:30 p.m.

FREE. Chandlers JOHNNY SHOES—5:30 p.m. FREE. O’Michael’s PHANTOGRAM AND HIBOU—8 p.m. $23-$45. Knitting Factory

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MERIDIAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA HOLIDAY CONCERT—7:30 p.m. $9-$11, $27 family. Centennial High MILLENNIAL CHOIRS AND ORCHESTRAS: REJOICE, A CELEBRATION OF CHRISTMAS—7:30 p.m. $15-$35. Morrison Center REPEAL OF PROHIBITION PARTY—With Hillfolk Noir. 9 p.m.

FREE. Juniper SLOW MAGIC AND GIRAFFAGE— With Lindsay Lowend. 8 p.m. $15$30. Knitting Factory SPOON DRAGON—7 p.m. FREE. Shangri-La

SUNDAY DEC. 6 BILL COURTIAL AND CURT GONION—5 p.m. FREE. Bar 365 BOISE STATE FAMILY HOLIDAY CONCERT—7:30 p.m. $2-$10. Morrison Center COME TOGETHER KUNA CHOIR CHRISTMAS CONCERT—7:30 p.m.

FREE. Kuna Performing Arts Center MODERN CLASSICS: OPERA IDAHO AND THE CHIMERA DUO—6:30 p.m. $5-$18. Sapphire NOCTURNUM LIVE INDUSTRIAL DJS—10 p.m. FREE. Liquid THE SIDEMEN: GREG PERKINS AND RICK CONNOLLY—6 p.m.

FREE. Chandlers SO CUTE TOUR AFTER-PARTY— With Eesik and Lovegunz. 10:30 p.m. FREE. Reef

MONDAY DEC. 7 1332 RECORDS PUNK MONDAY—9 p.m. FREE. Liquid CHUCK SMITH DUO—5:30 p.m.

FREE. Chandlers CHUCK SMITH DUO WITH NICOLE CHRISTENSEN—7:30 p.m.

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GIFT OF GAB, DEC. 9, REEF When Justin Buchanan and Nick Maimer opened SACA Entertainment in the basement of the Alaska Building earlier this year, they paid a great deal of attention to the details. With the goal of being a full-service, “one-stop shop” for artist development, it was of utmost importance to them to provide musicians with everything from lessons to mastering to how to create a press kit, and to offer it all in a high-tech, versatile and adaptable environment.

Mission accomplished. Buchanan and Maimer also want SACA to be a trusted name in promotions by bringing some big-time acts to Boise. Mission also accomplished: SACA Entertainment presents Gift of Gab with Wordswell at Reef on Wednesday, Dec. 9.

As a founder of alternative West Coast rap duo Blackalicious, Gab (nee Timothy Parker) honed his chops in the late ’90s, delivering what All Music Guide described as “tongue-twisting, multisyllabic, complex rhymes … on the positive tip, meaning spiritual and uplifting rather than violent or misogynous.” Who doesn’t want to see an accomplished rapper with a positive message this close to the holidays? No one, that’s who.

—Amy Atkins 9 p.m., $10, 21 and older only. Reef, 106 S. Sixth St., 208287-9200, sacaent.net.

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BEERGUZZLER IMPERIAL STOUT This stronger, richer style of stout was first brewed in 18th century England, designated for export to the Russian court. Typically high in alcohol with volume levels hovering around 10 percent, these stouts are meant to be savored, and they’re just the thing for a cold winter night.

OSKAR BLUES TEN FIDY IMPERIAL STOUT, $4-4.70 Canned in Colorado, this stout borders on black in the glass, the two-finger, milk chocolate head persisting nicely, leaving excellent lacing.

Surprising hop presence on the nose—it weighs in at 65 IBUs—mixed with dark malt, mocha, tropical fruit and biscuit. In the mouth, the hops lurk behind caramel, chocolate, banana bread and mango. The finish is long, creamy and lightly bitter.

SIERRA NEVADA NARWHAL IMPERIAL STOUT, $2.50-3 The Narwhal has a mahogany pour with a thin, lingering caramel colored head. The 10.2 percent ABV comes through on the nose with a cherry liqueur quality that blends well with roasted malt and sweet cocoa. Lightly astringent, bitter-sweet chocolate dominates the palate, along with edgy, dark roasted coffee.

Definite heat on the finish.

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THREE NEW PLACES, THREE NEW PLATES Delicious dishes from Grit, Boise Co-op Meridian and Siam Orchid TARA MORGAN TAR A M O RG A N

LAUGHING DOG THE DOGFATHER IMPERIAL STOUT, $7-8.90 Poured from a 22-ounce bomber, this one is a ruby tinged ebony, topped with a mocha froth that collapses quickly. Aged in old bourbon barrels, you get a bit of oak and vanilla on the nose along with sweet toasted malt. It’s big but smooth, with a bit of heat from the 10.85 percent ABV. You get dark chocolate, anise, boozy malt and candied date backed by lightly bitter espresso.

Outstanding effort from this Sandpoint brewery.

FOOD

The lemon-brined fried chicken appetizer at GRIT, in Eagle, is enough for a meal.

The Boise Co-op in the Village at Meridian has a winner of a wiener with its Bavarian Bowl.

Need a warm up? You can’t miss with the qowi teaw pet (duck noodle soup) at Siam Orchid.

GRIT AMERICAN CUISINE: FRIED CHICKEN

BOISE CO-OP, VILLAGE AT MERIDIAN: BAVARIAN BOWL

SIAM ORCHID THAI RESTAURANT & SUSHI BAR: DUCK NOODLE SOUP

The menu at Eagle’s eclectic Grit American Cuisine is a mash-up of influences that leans heavily on Southern staples—down-home classics like chicken pot pie and mac ’n’ cheese.

Most items, however, have a unique twist. The mac, for example, is a blend of cheddar, smoked gouda and that low-brow minx Velveeta, with the option to add house chipotle to spice things up. Other interesting app offerings include crispy cauliflower and pumpkin with cashew yogurt dipping sauce and fire roasted fingerlings with starlight truffle salt.

Housed in the Eagle Pavilion shopping complex near Albertsons, the smallish space has a few booths and tall tables near the steel-top fully stocked bar, as well as wood tables branded with the word “GRIT” and topped with red Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum-esque salt and pepper shakers. The crimson walls are splashed with the vibrant, whimsical work of artist Lukas Evergreen, like the row of animal heads floating on a backdrop of glittering diamonds.

On a recent visit, the lunch star was the lemon-brined fried chicken, an appetizer available in two-piece ($7) or four-piece portions ($13), with heat options ranging from regular to Spicy Nashville.

The two-piece regular, served on a slab of toasted buttermilk bread with dill pickles, came encased in a perfectly crisp golden-brown shell.

The thigh meat was mega moist and had a penetrating lemony herb flavor.

Though the bread seemed superfluous, the app was enough for a meal.

Compared to the Boise Co-op’s bustling, maze-like North End location, the sun-splashed Village at Meridian outpost of the popular natural foods store feels like floating on a cloud. That’s intentional: The layout follows the industry’s “cloud” model, where sections like meat and seafood, dairy and produce are clustered into separate stations. Not only is there more space to wheel your cart around—25,000 square feet— there’s also a handful of new hot offerings.

On a weekend afternoon, the deli counter was crowded with families waiting for sandwiches and burritos. At the far end, an employee slid a thincrust roasted kale pizza into the flickering oven.

Among the Co-op’s most popular new deli items are the Bowls From Around the World, which include specials like the Patagonia Bowl— with Argentinian rice, green chimichurri beef, sweet potato and cilantro—and the Tiki Bowl with Hawaiian-fried rice, house-made spam, sweet chili sauce and sesame seeds.

The Bavarian Bowl—with house-made weisswurst, sage spaetzle and cabbage salad— was a winner. Made using a combo of pork and beef, the juicy weisswurst had notes of white pepper, dried mustard and coriander. Cut into coins and pan-seared, the sausage was served on a pile of bouncy spaetzle, flecked with sage and lacquered with butter. The accompanying salad of shaved purple cabbage and matchstick apples helped offset the richness of the dish. A squeeze of house-made mustard tied everything together. For $6.99, you’d be hard pressed to find a more filling, made-from-scratch lunch.

It’s easy to pass by Siam Orchid, a new Thai restaurant and sushi bar that took over the former Dhondalicious Artisan Food Co-op on Fairview between Milwaukee Street and Maple Grove Road. But Siam Orchid is definitely worth a stop.

The tasteful gray space is filled with bright cherry wood tables and a few matching booths topped with fake orchids. The front features a fountain area with a few leafy plants and the back boasts a small sushi counter. Though the specialty sushi rolls are mostly cream cheese- and tempura-laden creations, the nigiri and sashimi are fresh and surprisingly inexpensive—$3.50 for two pieces of tuna, salmon yellowtail or white tuna nigiri, or $10.95 for nine pieces of mixed sashimi. They don’t skimp on presentation: The simple tuna maki is served in two rows of perfect tear drops.

The Thai portion of the menu is mostly filled with familiar favorites—like pad see-ew, Swimming Rama, pad woon sen and massaman curry—but there are a few other intriguing offerings such as duck noodle soup ($12), also listed as qowi teaw pet.

Lightly sweet with an oily red sheen, the soup was spicy in waves. Hunks of green leaf lettuce mingled with a pile of bean threads and slivers of green onion on top, while rich bits of roasted duck leg and thigh meat stewed in a garlicky, black pepper-studded broth and thin rice noodles below. Hearty yet simple, the semi-sweet broth had a pleasant tang.

This spicy soup is a belly warmer that’ll keep you fired-up as the temperatures drop.

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SCREEN WHY STAR WARS MATTERS

‘Heroes come in all sizes’ GEORGE PRENTICE It turns out The Force was always with us: virtue, purity, truth, you name it. Humankind’s pursuit of goodness is nearly a birthright. And when producer/screenwriter/director George Lucas crafted a new space opera in 1977, it was imbued with a moral magnet—The Force— that would be mythical yet attainable.

“I put The Force into Star Wars in order to try to awaken a certain kind of spirituality in young people—more of a belief in God than Jedis in the making. Scores of Idaho kids have participated in Jedi Camp, one of the many school break mini-camps a belief in any particular religious system,” offered by the Treasure Valley Family YMCA. The next Jedi Camp is slated for Dec. 21-23 at the West Boise Y. Lucas told Time magazine in 1999. “I think it’s important to have a belief system and to “There is no chaos,” said Galka.

Galka says he was 7 years old when the origihave faith.”

“There is harmony! responded the class, a nal Star Wars hit the big screen in 1977.

For millions, May 25, 1977 was a day they few giggling at the formality of the exercise.

“There really wasn’t anything like it, right? will never forget. I still recall the line outside “There is no death,” said Galka grimly.

No other movie even came close to that feeling,” the cinema as if it were yesterday, the row I “There is The Force!” the kids shouted. he said, eyes wide and smiling broadly. “The sat in with my dad (15th from the screen) and “Believe it or not, most of the kids memoForce? That really stuck with me as a kid. It’s all the otherworldly blast from John Williams’ rize it and repeat all year long,” said Galka. orchestral score transporting the audience to “a about doing the right thing.”

Many of the campers that Galka has Galka is indeed the “Jedi Master” during the galaxy far, far away.” It felt as if my generainstructed over his two decades at the Y have Y’s special three-day camp. tion had graduated from Disneyesque fairy since become counselors and volunteers, help“During Jedi Camp, we learn to do what’s tales into a fantasy world with more complex ing shape the next generation of attendees. right and even stand up to bullies. And that parables. But goodness still reigned supreme “It’s all about the passion,” said Galka. takes bravery and courage,” said Galka. “We talk in this brave new world though our journey about seeing a kid at school with no friends and “Whether somebody has passion for Star could be fraught with doubt or peril.

Wars, kids or life itself, that’s the person that how important it is to go up to that kid and in“There is the lesson of friendship and symclude him in your activities. We we want to help us with the next generation. biotic relationships, of your also talk a bit about listening to They have that special something. They have obligations to your fellow man good people—our teachers and the...(Galka paused for moment). You know and to other people that are STAR WARS VII: THE FORCE what? They have The Force. That’s exactly parents—as role models.” around you,” Lucas told Time.

AWAKENS (PG-13) what they have.”

Bullies and role models “But you still have control Opens Friday, Dec. 18 The enthusiasm for the Y’s Jedi Camp, aside, Jedi Camp is also about over your destiny.”

Galka reminded us, came before the new Star kids just letting go with some Audiences will no doubt be Directed by J.J. Abrams Wars movie hits theaters in December.

Star Wars-inspired fun. swept away once more Friday, Starring Carrie Fisher, Harrison “And after that movie opens, the Jedi “We play dodgeball, but the Dec. 18 when Star Wars: The Ford, Mark Hamill, Daisy Ridley Camps will probably explode,” said Galka. balls are asteroids,” said Galka.

Force Awakens opens to his“We’ll have another Jedi session at the West “All the kids get to make their toric box office numbers. And Boise Y during the Christmas break and we’ll own lightsaber, and one of our its rebooted story of destiny have about five more separate sessions next still appeals to new generations as evidenced by most popular activities is when the kids make summer and during school breaks next fall. It ‘space snot.’” (Don’t worry moms and dads, it’s kids ages 5-12 participating in the downtown will just keep going as long as there’s interest.” basically flour, water and a lot of food dye.

Treasure Valley YMCA “Jedi Camp.”

Galka said he’s surrounded by amazing colAs the most recent class of Jedi’s-in-the“When we first tried Jedi Camp, honestly leagues at the Y, but insists on still being the making filled the Treasure Valley Y’s camp, we weren’t sure if today’s kids would be a Star Galka put them through their paces by having guy in charge of Jedi Camp. But he’s quick to Wars generation,” said Steve Galka, youth and add the real heroes-in-the-making are the kids. them recite the Jedi code. teen coordinator and 21-year veteran of the “And heroes come in all sizes,” George “There is no ignorance,” said Galka to a Treasure Valley Y. “But it has been huge. When Lucas said in 1999. “Good manners, caring line-up of cloaked kids. the kids first put on their Jedi cloaks, begin about other people—these are heroic acts. Ev“There is knowledge!” they shouted in learning their Jedi skills and, of course, get erybody has the choice of being a hero.” unison. their own lightsabers, it’s pretty amazing.”

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That’s good news, right? Well, mostly. But there are two caveats.

First, wield your mojo as responsibly as you can. Infuse your bewitching allure with integrity.

Second, be precise about what it is you want to achieve—even if you don’t come right out and tell everyone what it is. Resist the temptation to throw your charm around haphazardly.

contradiction. Many non-Geminis would feel paralyzed if they had to live in the midst of so much hubbub. When you are at your best, you thrive in the web of riddles.

In fact, your willingness to abide there is often what generates your special magic. Your breakthroughs are made possible by your high tolerance for uncertainty. How many times have I seen a Gemini who has been lost in indecision but then suddenly erupts with a burst of crackling insights? This is the kind of subtle miracle I expect to happen soon.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): I suspect that in the coming days you will have an uncanny power to make at least one of your resurrection fantasies come true. Here are some of the possibilities: 1.

If you’re brave enough to change your mind and shed some pride, you could retrieve an expired dream from limbo; 2. By stirring up a bit more chutzpah that you usually have at your disposal, you might be able to revive and even restore a forsaken promise; 3.

Through an act of grace, it’s possible you will reanimate an ideal that was damaged or abandoned.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): In September 1715, a band of Jacobite rebels gathered for a guerrilla attack on Edinburgh Castle in Scotland. Their plan was to scale the walls with rope ladders, aided by a double agent who was disguised as a castle sentry.

The scheme failed before it began.

The rope ladders turned out to be too short to serve their intended purpose. The rebels retreated in disarray. Please make sure you’re not like them in the coming weeks, Cancerian. If you want to engage in a strenuous action, an innovative experiment, or a bold stroke, be meticulous in your preparations. Don’t scrimp on your props, accouterments and resources.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): To the other 11 signs of the zodiac, the Way of the Gemini sometimes seems rife with paradox and

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): If you give children the option of choosing between food that’s mushy and food that’s crunchy, a

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majority will choose the crunchy stuff. It’s more exciting to their mouths, a more lively texture for their teeth and tongues to play with. This has nothing to do with nutritional value, of course.

Soggy oatmeal may foster a kid’s well being better than crispy potato chips. Let’s apply this lesson to the way you feed your inner child in the coming weeks.

Metaphorically speaking, I suggest you serve that precious part of you the kind of sustenance that’s both crunchy and healthy. In other words, make sure that what’s wholesome is also fun, and vice versa.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Your mascot is a famous white oak in Athens, Ga. It’s called the Tree That Owns Itself. According to legend, it belongs to no person or institution, but only to itself. The earth in which it’s planted and the land around it are also its sole possession. With this icon as your inspiration, I invite you to enhance and celebrate your sovereignty during the next seven months.

What actions will enable you to own yourself more thoroughly?

How can you boost your autonomy and become, more than ever before, the boss of you? It’s prime time to expedite this effort.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Police in Los Angeles conducted an experiment on a 10-mile span of freeway. Drivers in three

unmarked cars raced along as fast as they could while remaining in the same lane. The driver of the fourth car not only moved at top speed, but also changed lanes and jockeyed for position. Can you guess the results? The car that weaved in and out of the traffic flow arrived just slightly ahead of the other three. Apply this lesson to your activities in the coming week, please. There will be virtually no advantage to indulging in frenetic, erratic, breakneck exertion. Be steady and smooth and straightforward.

to my divinations, a new frontier is calling to you. An unprecedented question has awakened. The urge to leave your familiar circle is increasingly tempting. I don’t know if you should you surrender to this brewing fascination. I don’t know if you will be able to gather the resources you would require to carry out your quest. What do you think? Will you be able to summon the necessary audacity? Maybe the better inquiry is this: Do you vow to use all your soulful ingenuity to summon the necessary audacity?

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): You will generate lucky anomalies and helpful flukes if you use shortcuts, flee from boredom and work smarter rather than harder.

On the other hand, you’ll drum up wearisome weirdness and fruitless flukes if you meander all over the place, lose yourself in far-off fantasies and act as if you have all the time in the world. Be brisk and concise, Scorpio. Avoid loafing and vacillating. Associate with bubbly activators who make you laugh and loosen your iron grip. It’s a favorable time to polish off a lot of practical details with a light touch.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “Once I witnessed a windstorm so severe that two 100-year-old trees were uprooted on the spot,” Mary Ruefle wrote in her book Madness, Rack and Honey. “The next day, walking among the wreckage, I found the friable nests of birds, completely intact and unharmed on the ground.” I think that’s a paradox you’d be wise to keep in mind, Capricorn. In the coming weeks, what’s most delicate and vulnerable about you will have more staying power than what’s massive and fixed. Trust your grace and tenderness more than your fierceness and forcefulness.

They will make you as smart as you need to be.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “Like all explorers, we are drawn to discover what’s out there without knowing yet if we have the courage to face it.” Buddhist teacher Pema Chödrön said that, and now I’m telling you. According

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Aztec king Montezuma II quenched his daily thirst with one specific beverage. He rarely

drank anything else. It was ground cocoa beans mixed with chili peppers, water, vanilla and annatto.

Spiced chocolate? You could call it that. The frothy brew was often served to him in golden goblets, each of which he used once and then hurled from his royal balcony into the lake below. He regarded this elixir as an aphrodisiac and liked to quaff a few flagons before heading off to his harem. I bring this up, Aquarius, because the coming weeks will be one of those exceptional times when you have a poetic license to be almost Montezuma-like. What’s your personal equivalent of his primal chocolate, golden goblets, and harem?

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): “Unfortunately, I’m pretty lucky,” my friend Rico said to me recently.

He meant that his relentless good fortune constantly threatens to undermine his ambition. How can he be motivated to try harder and grow smarter and get stronger if life is always showering him with blessings? He almost wishes he could suffer more so that he would have more angst to push against. I hope you won’t fall under the spell of that twisted logic in the coming weeks, Pisces. This is a phase of your cycle when you’re likely to be the beneficiary of an extra-strong flow of help and serendipity.

Please say this affirmation as often as necessary: “Fortunately, I’m pretty lucky.”

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Legal Name Case No. CV NC 15061 NOTICE OF HEARING ON NAME CHANGE (Minor) A Petition to change the name of Faydh Ammar Younis, now residing in the City of Meridian, State of Idaho, has been filed in the District Court in Ada County, Idaho. The name will change to Fayd Ammar Younis. The reason for the change in name is: Pronunciation. A hearing on the petition is scheduled for 130 o’clock p.m. on January 7, 2015 at the Ada County Courthouse. Objections may be filed by any person who can show the court a good reason against the name change. Date: November 10, 2015. CLERK OF THE DISTRICT COURT By: Debbie Nagele Deputy Clerk PUB December 2, 9, 16, 23, 2015.

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$GYLFH IRU WKRVH RQ WKH YHUJH DEAR MINERVA, I am a podcaster who loves Japanese culture, specifically Japanese entertainment. I have been trying to find people in the Boise area who share my interests, but the results have been frustrating. I have found most people in the area have the mentality that anime and manga are nothing but porn or that anime is for those in their 20s and younger. I know that’s not true. Any advice on how to deal with this issue?

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DEAR F.O., People are not always going to understand the things you are passionate about, and it’s no surprise that directing your energy toward trying to educate people about this topic has been frustrating. We live in a world where we have more information at our fingertips than ever before, but many people simply don’t care about a lot of it. Anyone who wonders about it can get online and discover the origins, style, types, etc. of anime and manga—including the XXX versions.

And you can go online and find what you need, too: A quick Google search returned several results for meet-ups and fan clubs in this area. Harness the power of the internet and find your people.

As a podcaster, use your voice and your forum to get the word out. Correct people politely when they are wrong and hope they understand. If others can’t understand, let it go and just do you. There are bigger battles.

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FROM THE BW POLL VAULT “Where will you do most of your holiday shopping this year?”

Local retailers: 35.29%

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