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EDITOR’S NOTE BOTTOM DOLLAR In an article published last year on forbes.com, “Should Everyone Go to College?,” Adam Ozimek wrote “decent jobs that don’t require college degrees exist and so do college degrees that are really bad investments.” True enough, but Idaho high-schoolers are in a uniquely bad position. In this week’s feature—by Pacific Northwest Inlander staff writer Daniel Walters—we learn that one in 10 Idaho teens will go on to earn a college degree. That number sends chills down the spines of educators, economic development specialists and employers alike. The many reasons for this trend are explored in Walters’ piece (on Page 10), but can be distilled to a central tradeoff: incur the heavy debt associated with higher education or enter the workforce and build the skills necessary to earn a livable wage. The latter career path has been and continues to be the best option for millions of Americans. In Idaho, however, it is riskier than almost anywhere else. More than 7 percent of workers in Idaho earn at or below the minimum wage, which is pegged to the federal minimum of $7.25 an hour. That puts Idaho in the No. 2 spot for percentage of minimum wage workers nationwide. So far the Legislature seems dead set against even a modest increase—despite the real possibility that a federally-mandated wage hike could happen in the near future (see Page 8). Meanwhile, according to figures analyzed by the Idaho Department of Labor in January, Idaho wages ranked last in the country in 2012—even when adjusted for the state’s lower cost-of-living. Ozimek is right that “decent jobs that don’t require college degrees exist,” but they don’t seem to exist in adequate numbers in Idaho. We do have an education problem, but it won’t be fixed until we address the underlying wage crisis. —Zach Hagadone
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OPINION COME ON IN, PHIL It’s cold out there where you are BILL COPE In the interest of full disclosure, I’ll say first thing that I know Phil Batt personally. In another incarnation, he and I have spent many hours together. Many, many hours, although the largest share of those hours were spent not in discussions political or otherwise, but in stomping our way through such dusty golden oldies as “If I Had You” and “Tin Roof Blues.” You may not know this, but Phil is the finest licorice stick man to have ever sat in the Idaho governor’s chair. And he is a gentleman. He is such a gentleman, in fact, that I can’t help but feel he is in the wrong party, politically and otherwise. He may have fit right in at one time, back when the Republican Party in Idaho was represented by the likes of Robert Smylie and Len Jordan, honorable men and honest leaders. But those days are over, a sad reality that I believe even Phil has come, or is coming, to realize. I say that from evidence he himself provided in a speech he made in Nampa for the Lincoln Day event Republicans throw every year to raise money and take undue credit for being the political heirs of the greatest of all presidents. I was not surprised that Gov. Batt—a man slight of stature, yet with a backbone big enough to stand up to the nuclear cartel when they tried to turn Idaho into the nation’s radioactive coat closet— could take the stage there in Canyon County, the epicenter of Idaho right-wing nuttery, and declare his support for granting legal protection to the LGBT community. After all, this was the guy who, as a legislator, introduced voting rights legislation and MLK Day to a state not exactly renowned for its tolerance and interracial warmth. And I know from personal experience that Phil is one of the more accepting people to walk this earth. It was his public resignation to the scorn and rejection that would likely follow, coming from the... as I call them... the frothing asshole faction of his party, by saying “If that makes me a ‘RINO’, so be it” that moved me to write this piece commending him for his stand. It is no small thing in Idaho to be branded a RINO— Republican In Name Only. I tend to believe it is the fuel that feeds the screaming engine of much of the modern GOP rabidity, that Republican leaders, here and across the country, must go to ever greater extremes to escape the accusation that they might have some RINO blood in their veins. For any Idaho Republican to choose decency over this stigma is a remarkable act, and I’m certain that Phil knows better than I it probably means he has relinquished whatever heft he still might have among his brethren. Soooo... pal. What say you blow that sour BOISE WEEKLY.COM
pop stand and come over here where the smart people are? I’m serious. You don’t belong there. Sure, you’re “tight” when it comes to taxpayers’ dollars, but there’s plenty of room under the Democrats’ banner for a fiscal conservative. Besides, this isn’t so much a matter of what the parties offer as what Democrats don’t offer. We do not have DINOs, what I suppose would be the mirror image of RINOs. We have individuals who differ with other individuals over what the proper balances are between state and federal power, regulation and deregulation, socialism and laissez-faire, environment and jobs, etc., etc.... but we do not try to drive those with whom we have legitimate differences from our party. (I admit I’ve run into a WINO or two in Democrat circles, but you and I both know the GOP has their share of them, huh?... glug glug.) We do not have any policy or plans to restrict primary voting to registered party members only, with the goal being to squeeze out all but the truest of believers. As opposed to the Tea Party dwarves who hold your GOP by the short hairs, we Democrats actually think it is the grand melting pot of ideas and perspectives and independent thought that makes this nation what it is, not the suffocating hysteria of fundamentalist ideologues who have so distorted and corrupted the significance of principles and values into something not safe for human consumption. We do not have schemes and plots and conspiracies to prohibit, discourage and disrupt the hallowed act of voting because some people are convinced that they, and only they, should be allowed to hold the reins of governance—and I’m sure you’ve had more than a few of them slap you on the back over the years. Now, I’m not saying that everyone in the Republican Party believes voting restrictions are a good thing. But this is for certain: It’s not Democrats who are purging registration rolls, cutting early voting hours, eliminating same-day registration, and pulling any number of rotten tricks to make it harder for millions of Americans to get to the polls. Finally, we Democrats do not have a prevailing attitude among ourselves or the men and women we choose as our elected leaders that is evermore openly racist, sexist, homophobic, hostile to science, hostile to working people, hostile to education, hostile to everyone and everything beyond their own claustrophobic caves. So what say, Phil? Come out of the darkness. Belonging to the minority is actually rather comforting, when the majority is so foul. And hey, bring ol’ Lincoln with you. Anymore, Honest Abe doesn’t belong in that party, either. BOISEweekly | MARCH 11–17, 2015 | 5
OPINION IN THE COMPANY OF MEN A true story JOHN REMBER By the winter I was 12, I had become a bookish person, one headed for a teaching or writing career rather than a life of honest labor out in the open air. My uncle Grant took it upon himself to save me from the direction I was headed in. He took me hunting ducks on Silver Creek, which was fine, and ice fishing at Jimmy Smith Lake, which was not. Jimmy Smith Lake was on the East Fork of the Salmon, three hours from where we lived in Hailey. For me, that meant three hours of lowgrade-reading-in-the-car-sickness. We would get to the lake after everyone else had gone home for the day. Sensible people didn’t spend afternoons in long winter shadows, stupid with cold, sitting on blocks of wood, knocking ice off lines and bait. After two or three hours we would drive back to Hailey with our day’s catch, 10 or 12 little cutthroat. If there was enough light, and if I hadn’t had powdered-sugar donuts and a Coke for lunch, I’d finish my book. Our last fishing trip that year was on a sunny morning in April. We were a mile below Galena Store when a man appeared on the bank of the Wood River, waving his arms and post-holing toward us. Grant stopped the car. The man fell and got up and post-holed again until he dove over the snowbank and slid onto the pavement. He ran to our car, jumped in the driver’s side back door and huddled close to the floor. He was a small man, hardly bigger than I was. He was wearing cowboy boots and a cotton T-shirt. His jeans were soaked because he’d broken through the ice on the river, and he was shivering so much he couldn’t talk, except to say, “Go! Go on! Go!” Then we noticed that another car was moving down from Galena Lodge on our side of the road. It slowed and stopped a foot from our bumper. A big man got out. Grant rolled down his window. “Give me that little son-of-a-bitch,” said the big man. “I’m going to kill him.” He started for the back door but Grant reached back and locked it. “You leave him alone, Swede,” said Grant. “Grant?” said the big man. “Here’s what we’re going to do so you don’t end up back in prison,” said Grant. “I’m going to pull around your car. We’re going to take Eddy to Smiley Creek where he can warm up. You go back to Galena and stay there.” The big man stood there for a long minute, then got back in his car. Grant backed up and drove around him. “He has a gun,” said the little man. 6 | MARCH 11–17, 2015 | BOISEweekly
“Shut up, Eddy,” said Grant. “When I saw it was you I was sorry I stopped.” “You don’t like me, do you?” asked Eddy. “As far as I know, nobody does,” said Grant. Grant didn’t introduce me. Eddy sat up in the back seat and tried to take off his cowboy boots, but they were too packed with snow to get off. Grant turned the heater up as far as it would go, and started driving up Galena Summit, too fast for the icy road. Eddy shivered all the way to Smiley Creek, but he told us he couldn’t get out there. It wasn’t safe. He shivered all the way to Stanley, where it wasn’t safe, either. We finally left him shivering in front of the fireplace at the old hotel in Clayton, went on to Jimmy Smith Lake, and caught our limit of cutthroat with the April sun on our backs. “Eddy’s been running Galena Store with Swede,” Grant told me. “Swede’s not very smart. Eddy makes fun of him and jabs at him—chips away at him and makes him feel even more stupid than he is—until Swede decides to kill him. It looks like cabin fever, but Eddy’s just a mean little asshole.” It was still daylight when we got to Galena Store. Grant slowed down and I thought he was going to stop. Swede was standing in the doorway of the store, blocking it. Eddy was standing in front of him in the parking lot, shivering and pleading to get in. “Jesus,” said Grant. “Jesus Christ.” He shook his head, and we drove on home. These days, Galena Store is Galena Lodge. It’s a much bigger building now. The snow doesn’t slide off the roof and block the windows like it used to. Nobody gets cabin fever there anymore, and the people out on the banks of the Wood River are on skate skis and snowshoes and they all feel safe and happy, from the looks of them. Over the years, I’ve thought about what Grant said about Eddy sitting in the snowshadowed interior of Galena Store, chipping away at Swede, who didn’t understand what was happening to him, who only knew it hurt. I’ve thought that what Grant and I drove into that day was a darkness he didn’t want his brother’s young son to see. He explained it away as one guy being stupid and one guy being a jerk. It was a hasty cover story, designed to bring a quick order and understanding to a situation that lacked both, but it came to have a wider application for me. For a long time, I imposed it on every situation I found myself in. When it finally quit working for me, Grant was dead. I couldn’t ask him what thing he saw that day, and how he knew enough to turn my gaze away from it. BOISE WEEKLY.COM
Boise State history department loses adjunct and lecturer funding
Cannabis oil may be the last hope for some Idaho children who suffer from seizure disorders.
BY JESSICA MURRI On Monday, March 2, Joanne Klein was called into Shelton Woods’ office. Klein is the chair of the Boise State University Department of History, and Woods is her boss—the associate dean of the College of Social Sciences and Public Affairs. “He said ‘something has come up,’” Klein told Boise Weekly. “Then he told me and my incoming chair that funding had been cut for the adjuncts and the lecturers [in the history department].” Klein was shocked. She said no one had consulted the history department before the decision was made. The fall semester schedule was already made, though it’s not open for enrollment yet. Klein said the news sent her scrambling and she had to cancel seven classes for the 2015-2016 academic year. She typically brings on five to eight adjuncts to carry the class load and relies on two additional full-time lecturers, as well. Not anymore. “There was nothing we could say,” Klein said. “It was a done deal.” According to Woods, the university’s budget is being reduced after student enrollment for the current spring semester fell short of projections. He also said a new curriculum put in place a few years ago doesn’t require students to take a history course, so enrollment in the department is down. Meanwhile, Boise State reduced the number of credits required to graduate with a bachelor’s degree from 128 to 120. Because of changing program priorities, Woods said instructional money is being funneled away from the history department. And, he cautioned, the “history [department] is not going to be alone in this.” That doesn’t bode well for Boise State’s adjuncts, who have had an increasingly chilly relationship with the university’s administration. The part-time instructors earn an average salary of $18,000 per year and struggle with job insecurity as they are hired temporarily with no assurance they’ll be re-hired from semester to semester. Because their positions are considered part-time and temporary, they don’t get raises, health insurance or retirement benefits. In early March, a handful of adjuncts took part in a walkout to bring attention to their low wages and lack of benefits. “A single parent with two kids on my wage would qualify for food stamps,” said adjunct BOISE WEEKLY.COM
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Joanne Klein, chair of the history department at Boise State University, was shocked to learn that all funding had been cut for adjuncts and lecturers in her department. The result: seven classes canceled.
instructor Dana Hathaway. She was disappointed with the turnout of the demonstration, but added that it’s clear why adjuncts would steer clear of a public protest. Because they are at-will employees and can be told at any time they won’t be hired back, they tend to keep their mouths shut, Hathaway said. Many adjuncts—and even tenured professors—aren’t comfortable talking on the record about the issue. Yet the university relies heavily on them, with adjuncts making up almost half the instructional staff. One of the reasons for that, according to Boise State Provost Martin Schimpf, is flexibility. “That’s what adjunct funding is about,” Schimpf said. “It’s about having some flexibility to move where your instructional dollars are going.” Schimpf said there has been a 40 percent decline in enrollment in the history department during the past five years. He said enrollment is shifting to classes in science and engineering, and he doesn’t think the lack of adjunct funding in the history department will have a big impact. “We believe [the history department] can offer whatever’s needed without creating bottlenecks with the tenure track faculty that they have,” Schimpf said. “There may be a boutique or specialty course here or there they might not offer, but it shouldn’t have any impact on the progression of the students.” However, Klein confirmed that a section of introductory history was cut, as well as some survey courses. “We won’t have enough people to teach them,” she said. Schimpf added that the university is looking at “a couple hundred thousand dollars” worth of instructional costs to move around. Though he also said the cuts won’t end with history.
“History was an obvious one,” Schimpf said. “I’m not ready to give you the specifics, but we know history will be among them.” When Erik Hadley accepted his job as a history lecturer, he was excited to leave behind the job insecurity of adjunct instruction. He taught as an adjunct for four years before he was offered the permanent position last spring. “It’s like a dream job for me,” Hadley said. “It’s rewarding to have the department recognize your teaching. This was a filled lecturer position so the person who had it before me had it for over a decade. I wasn’t worried when I took the position. It didn’t occur to me that it could be cut.” Hadley learned on March 3 that he was going to be out of a job. He taught a section of Western Civilization from 9-10:15 a.m., and after he finished, he walked back to the history department’s office and was chatting with a colleague when the department chair, Joanne Klein, came in. “She had this shocked look on her face,” he said. “She asked me and Ray [Krohn, the other lecturer whose position will be cut] and she just basically said, ‘This is what I was told by Shelton Woods.’ She didn’t know what to say. I didn’t know what to say. Ray had to go teach a class, I don’t know how he did it.” Hadley left the office and called his wife, who was already distraught over their teenage son’s recent rock climbing accident, which left him with a fractured vertebrae and strapped into a back brace for the next month. “We’ve had a pretty tough week,” he said. Unlike the department’s adjuncts, as a lecturer Hadley will teach through next year, which gives him time to start looking 8 for another teaching job. He said it’s still hard to accept he’s no longer needed.
Members of the Idaho Senate State Affairs Committee on March 9 unanimously agreed to hold a bill opening the way for medical use of cannabis oil, though promised it wouldn’t languish there as they mull over several amendments meant to answer concerns raised by law enforcement officials and prosecutors. The hold comes on the heels of emotional testimony given March 4, when parents told the committee that passage of Senate Bill 1106—known as Alexis’ Law, named after 10-year-old Alexis Carey who suffers from a rare seizure disorder—offered their children a last hope to control debilitating and life-threatening seizures. “We are almost out of options,” said Boise father Ron Gambassi, testifying on March 4 about his twin daughters’ treatment plans. The girls suffer from daily seizures, some of which last as long as two hours and come day and night. The girls currently take three different types of pharmaceutical medications to control the seizures. “That’s a lot of poison,” Gambassi said. The March 4 hearing drew a number of questions from lawmakers but no opposition to the intent of the bill. The questions centered on how police would enforce current marijuana laws, including concerns that the bill’s passage would result in additional laboratory analysis on marijuana seizures and hamper the work of drug dogs, which can’t distinguish between cannabis oil and marijuana. Committee members challenged lawmakers to meet with stakeholders and draft amendments to the bill backed by the Epilepsy Foundation of Idaho that address police concerns. They did just that and returned less than a week later with a version of the bill that its sponsor, Boise Republican Sen. Curt McKenzie, called the most restrictive CBD oil bill in the nation. McKenzie reworked the measure with input from police and the Office of Drug Policy into an amended version modeled after Georgia’s CBD oil bill, which doesn’t legalize CBD oil but provides patients and caregivers a defense in court should 8 they face prosecution for possessing cannabis oil. BOISEweekly | MARCH 11–17, 2015 | 7
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Alexis Carey (left) has suffered from daily seizures since she was an infant. CBD oil might help.
“Instead of decriminalizing or legalizing CBD, the approach that I came to 7 was basically to provide an affirmative defense to a limited category of people,” McKenzie told the committee. Law enforcement and prosecutors wouldn’t have to do anything differently than they do now and the measure wouldn’t create a new bureaucracy, McKenzie added. “The doctor would be the gatekeeper,” he said. Under the amended measure, patients or caregivers would have a legal defense if their possession case went before a jury—but only if they carry independently lab verified, non-psychoactive cannabis oil with a THC content of less than 0.3 percent in a labeled container, and have a physician’s recommendation to treat a defined illness or disorder. Alexis Carey, whom McKenzie named the bill after, has battled Dravet Syndrome and the daily seizures that accompany the disorder since she was an infant. Alexis’ mother, Clare Carey, told Boise Weekly in January that the family wants the option to try the CBD oil without facing prosecution. The supplement has proved successful in treating seizure disorders that have resisted conventional treatments. If the bill passes, Idaho would join 12 other states that have medical CBD oil exemptions on the books. Nearly half of the states currently allow for the use of medical marijuana. Inconsistent cannabis oil laws have prompted families to move across the country in order to treat aggressive seizure disorders that threaten their children’s lives and stall their development. Lawmakers heard from parents who said that moving across state lines is not an option and that their children’s health care shouldn’t be determined by their zip code. “I think that we all have the heart to get to the same place,” Assistant Majority Leader Sen. Chuck Winder, R-Boise, said of finding consensus on the measure. Those words give Carey hope. “All the committee members are saying, ‘We need to make this happen this session.’ That’s just so encouraging and hopefully we can address everyone’s concerns,” she said. —Carissa Wolf
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Sidelined in the Idaho Senate, lawmakers continue to press for a higher minimum wage HARRISON BERRY
At 7.1 percent, Idaho has the second-highest percentage of minimum wage workers in the nation.
Rep. Mat Erpelding, D-Boise, and Sen. Michelle Stennett, D-Ketchum, were looking forward to public testimony on the bill they introduced to raise Idaho’s minimum wage above the federal minimum of $7.25 per hour. Now that discussion—touching on the plights of working families, employers and the Idaho economy at large—isn’t going to happen, at least not in 2015. “I think that a public hearing would have helped clarify the economic factors. It wouldn’t be dumbed down. The entire economic issue is so complex that we need to have an educated conversation,” Erpelding said. The bill received a print hearing in the Senate State Affairs Committee on Feb. 27, but the committee’s chairman, Republican Boise Sen. Curt McKenzie, declined to give the bill a public hearing. Raising the minimum wage in Idaho is dead in the Senate, but according to Erpelding, waiting another year to raise wages could put Idaho in a bind if the federal minimum suddenly increases. In his 2014 State of the Union address,
President Barack Obama called for increasing the federal minimum to $10.10 per hour. Meanwhile, Wal-Mart has raised wages for 2.4 million of its employees in 21 states. According to the Economic Policy Institute, wages at the retail giant will increase an average of $1 per hour to an average of $8 and a maximum of $9.15. Wages at T.J. Maxx, Marshall’s and Home Goods will increase to $9 this year and $10 in 2016. The Idaho bill would have increased the minimum to $8.25 per hour in 2015 and $9.25 per hour in 2016, then peg the minimum wage to the consumer price index. According to Erpelding, Idaho should stay ahead of the curve when it comes to compensating hourly workers—especially considering the fact that, according to the most recent data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Idaho is No. 2 in the nation for the percentage of workers making at or below the minimum wage. What’s more, as businesses like Wal-Mart come around to raising wages, opposition to an increased federal wage may soften in Congress, prompting what would
be a mandate to boost pay. Erpelding and Stennett offered their bill as a way to soften the blow. “Slow, calculated advancing of the minimum wage isn’t going to cause that small business owner to lay off employees,” Erpelding said. The Idaho bill would not, however, have made Idaho’s minimum wage its living wage. In August 2014, the Alliance for a Just Society the “Families Out of Balance” report, concluding that Idaho’s minimum wage was just short of half its living wage for a single adult—$14.57 per hour. According to a study conducted by the University of California-Berkeley, more than half of frontline fast food workers nationwide—a huge block of minimum-wage earners—are older than 20 years of age and 68 percent are the primary wage earners in their households. Erpelding told Boise Weekly that the “minimum wage was never intended to be the living wage.” “They’re two different numbers,” he said. “I see the minimum wage as being a worker protection.”
In this past academic year, he estimates that he’s taught close to 400 students. He’s 7 taught several introductory history courses as well as upper division classes on medieval and early modern British history, a class on the French Revolution and a senior research seminar, plus summer session classes. Hadley is only contracted to teach four classes each semester, but he took on an additional class in the fall and the spring to help keep up with demand. He said he’s taught at 125 percent of his contract for a year and doesn’t see the declining enrollment that prompted the job cuts. “I don’t know what the administration is looking at,” Hadley said. “I can say from my perspective—in the trenches—my classes are really full. The provost, the deans, the president, they have a birds-eye view of things that’s different from mine. … But when you take in all the students I’ve taught and all the classes, I guess it’s hard to square that my position isn’t a revenue generator.” When he met with the associate dean of the college, Shelton Woods, he also heard allusions to
cuts happening in other departments. “[Woods] said we would be notified, but the only notification I’ve seen is through the news, and I’ve just seen the history positions,” Hadley said. “It seems increasingly not university-wide, but very specific to the history department.” Schimpf said it comes down to retaining programs that can pay for themselves through enrollment revenue. The history department and Department of Community and Regional Planning, which is being phased out over the next two years, have to be subsidized. Without more money coming from the Legislature, Schimpf said “we just can’t afford to subsidize them anymore.” Continuing to raise tuition to fund enrollment growth is also not an option, he said. If saving money is the goal, the decision leaves some wondering why such relatively inexpensive employees are being let go. One university faculty member, who wished to remain anonymous for fear of “reprisal,” pointed out that despite a budget crisis, Boise State is expanding. The school created three new colleges this
year—the School of Public Service, the Venture College and the College of Innovation and Design. It purchased part of the building in BoDo that houses the Andrus Center as well as two floors of a new building to be built at the City Center Plaza. “We’re concerned that the hiring freeze is only for people who make less than $200,000,” the faculty member said. “The most cost-effective employees of all are the ones that are being fired. … The people who were let go, they were stars. The state of Idaho invested heavily in those people.” Schimpf said he expects that as a few more years go by with the new curriculum, enrollment numbers will even out and employment at the university will be more stable. But for teachers like Hadley, it’s hard to stomach. “I understand that they need to cut costs and reallocate, but from where I sit, I feel like I’ve done quite a bit of teaching and the demand is there, at least in the classes I teach,” Hadley said. “You don’t have to be at the birds-eye view to see that.” BOISE WEEKLY.COM
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REP. PAULETTE JORDAN From tribal politics to state politics HARRISON BERRY Rep. Paulette Jordan didn’t have political ambitions; rather, political ambitions found her. Born and raised in the small North Idaho town of Plummer, she attended the University of Washington to play basketball but became involved in Native American and political issues on campus. Since then her political rise has been rapid: She’s currently serving her third term as the gaming co-chair for the Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians, has been elected twice as Idaho’s at-large delegate for the Democratic National Convention and served as the youngest elected member of the Coeur d’Alene Tribal Council. In her first term in the Idaho House, she has been a vocal supporter of House Bill 02, which would have added “gender identity” and “sexual orientation” to Idaho’s human rights law. She took a break from the legislative session to talk with Boise Weekly about moving from tribal to state politics, her inspirations and why it’s so important to “add the words.” How did you become politically active? When I went to the University of Washington, I went there to play basketball but I veered into the political arena, getting involved with the Seattle City Council, the university president and vice provost regarding Native American affairs. What was fun about it, I wasn’t veering into politics purposefully. There was a need. When you have ideas, people want you to play those ideas out. I didn’t expect to be in a leadership role, but it went from one position to another. Maybe my leadership, my direction, my vision—people just respected that. You ran for the Legislature on issues of education and economic development. Can you speak to your interest in those issues? When you’re on the tribal council ... you have to be a CEO. You’re expected to be a professional of education. You’re doing a lot of work with the courts and social services. You play so many roles that you are required to have a general understanding of everything, and of course you want to grow your in-depth understanding of everything. I would say the greatest insight I ever received being on the council was that you should definitely know more about business. BOISE WEEKLY.COM
Why make the jump from the Coeur d’Alene Tribal Council to the House of Representatives? You want to see things grow and get better. You want to see improvements amongst your people. When you’re connected to my land, you’re connected to my belief that I want to see your life get better. Tribes all across the board have that general understanding and mentality. You want to see people of all walks of life have a good life. You want to see a balance in the environment. I felt that same way growing up through my mentors. Local community members have always kept me included. I was really drawn in when Obama ran for president. I was a fan of JFK initially when my grandmother was always talking about John Kennedy. What was it about these presidents that inspired you? I started off loving John Kennedy because my grandmother loved him so much, and my grandmother was raised Catholic. John Kennedy was Catholic, and I think there was some connection there. I ended up learning more about him as I grew up. Just how [Barack Obama] was—his speaking style, he was humble, he had a good
Do you think President Obama has delivered on the promises he made in 2008? Absolutely. Especially from the tribal perspective. A lot of people don’t give him credit for what he’s done. The Lilly Ledbetter [Fair Pay Act of 2009] balancing the scale for women, trying to create more protections for women—he was a great advocate for that. There seems to me to be so much that he’s done that people overlook. I don’t know if it’s because of the color of his skin or because he’s a Democrat. He’s young, as well. I think leadership should be given credit for leadership. What was the genesis of your passion on ‘adding the words’? I feel very passionately about it. My concern, and, of course, my support, began a few years ago. To me, it doesn’t just stem from the people around me; it stems from society as a whole. Every one of us can speak with some level of impact with discrimination, and no one of us can speak without hypocrisy. We need to be leaders of the people and not pick and choose who we want to understand. When being asked to speak, I felt that it was an absolute necessity. It’s about equality and fairness. We certainly need to carry that out. Even with the bill ... there was nothing that said we’d lessen anyone’s religious freedoms and rights. That bill itself wouldn’t have impacted my own businesses or associates’ businesses. Rep. Brent Crane asked many at the hearings in January to respond to a question about how adding the words would impact business owners. How would you have responded to that question? Every single business owner that I know wrote letters of support in favor of the bill. Even [conservative billionaire Melaleuca owner Frank] Vandersloot came out in support of the bill, although he was concerned with the “gender identity” part. I respect everyone’s voice, but I think, ultimately, you’re impacting a lot of people and you should do your research. I was hearing all the voices. It would not hurt a business or restrict religions. That was a party-line vote. Were you hoping that the testimony would have swayed some from the other side of the aisle to vote in favor of adding the words? Absolutely. You always hope you’ll be able to draw out the humanity and empathy in others. Especially the stories that had to do with suicide or the deaths and the harassment and the beatings. I felt that maybe, at some point, it would pull at some of their heart strings. It didn’t work out that way, but it reached out to some in a good way, and they mentioned it toward the end that they would like to see this bill happen.
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WHY IDAHO KIDS DON’T GO TO COLLEGE And what that means for the Gem State DANIEL WALTERS
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through the mall arm in arm with her boyfriend says a mental health diagnosis nixed her culinary school plans. The tattooed dad, eating at the food court with his two little blonde girls, says his first daughter was born before high school graduation and work made more sense than college. Jon Byrum, 25, and his wife, Paris, look through the window of a jewelry store. “Never saw the point of it,” Jon says of college. High school, he felt, had mostly been a waste of time. Why would college be any different? “I didn’t know what I wanted to do,” he says. “So why go to college, get my general education, get all that nonsense, so I can have an A.A., which means absolutely nothing, and still not know what I’m doing?”
Internet. I ended up living out of my vehicle.” In the chaos, he missed his financial aid deadline. Instead of school, he ended up working odd jobs, mostly manual labor, often getting paid under the table. His friend next to him didn’t make it to college either. Damian Johnson, decked out in a camo sweatshirt, planned to take just a year off after high school before college. But one year became five. Five years of bagging groceries, pushing shopping carts and manning gas station registers. “It’s been rough,” he says. The reasons for missing out on college vary. Just ask the people in this one mall: The employee at the body-piercing parlor says her mom refused to fill out her financial aid information. The young woman walking
he first advertisement a shopper notices when entering Coeur d’Alene’s Silver Lake Mall isn’t one for spring fashion or Cinnabon. It’s the one painted across an entire wall in big, brash deep red, telling shoppers to go to college. “CARDINAL RED LOOKS GREAT ON YOU!” the ad proclaims, with the North Idaho College cardinal mascot peeking out. “Apply now at www.nic.edu/Apply.” Nearby, in a bright pink Payless ShoeSource aisle, Geoffrey Hess says he actually did apply to North Idaho College, back in 2013. “I had the acceptance letters, I had taken the [ACT] Compass test, had everything squared away,” he says. But then his parents kicked him out their house: “I didn’t have access to the
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Add all of these reasons together, zoom out, and you’ve got a problem that plagues most Western states, but especially Idaho. A year after high school, nearly half of Idaho’s 2013 high school graduates hadn’t enrolled in higher ed. In 2010, Idaho ranked last in the nation in its college-going rate, and it’s remained in the bottom five ever since. You can quibble about the data—some measurements don’t account for military service, apprenticeships or Mormons who do door-to-door missions after high school—but it all points toward the same grim conclusion: As Idaho’s economy is struggling, its high-tech jobs are going unfilled and the solution—an educated workforce—means that a lot more Idahoans need to start getting college degrees. Idaho knows this: Since 2013, the J.A. and Kathryn Albertson Foundation has been pumping out ads calling out the dismal state of Idaho education. “Look at it this way: For every 10 highschool freshmen, eight will graduate, four will go to college and only one will graduate with a degree,” former Dirty Jobs host Mike Rowe narrates in warm, earnest tones in one ad. “Let’s get to an educated state. Don’t Fail Idaho.” The foundation had tried positive ads. For five years, it ran an $11 million “Go On” campaign encouraging students to go to college. They didn’t work. Districts, universities, business leaders and legislators have banded together to fight the problem, but after rising briefly, the statewide rate of kids going to college actually declined from 2013 to 2014. “It alarms me that people aren’t more alarmed by this,” says Jennie Sue Weltner, foundation spokeswoman. “We’re not making the kind of progress everyone hoped we would make.” The question is why.
THE ISOLATED GEOGRAPHY
It was 11 degrees below zero in Pocatello, researcher Jered Hinchcliffe recalls, when he flew into Idaho in December of 2013. Over nearly two weeks, he visited Pocatello, Coeur d’Alene, Boise and Twin Falls. He looked everywhere: leadership classes, malls, a bowling alley, a Boys and Girls Club, a KFC and a Carl’s Jr. He’d been hired by the Albertson Foundation’s ad agency to find kids to talk about their plans after high school. “One of the things we noticed the most, especially for the younger people, is that they all had a plan,” says Hinchcliffe. “They all wanted to go to college.” But the closer they
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were to graduation, he says, the less certain and more skeptical they had become. Brand strategist Jen van Arkel and her colleague followed up with in-depth interviews, the entire thing filmed by a documentary crew. All this to ask: “Why don’t more kids go on to college after high school?” The kids shared their fatigue and frustration with school, the lack of support they felt and the mixed messages they’ve heard about the value of college. And as she interviewed them, she saw the dramatic disparity between kids with bright academic futures and kids with dim ones. Income mattered. Day-to-day struggles like paying rent or avoiding domestic violence can make higher education the last thing on their parents’ minds. Location mattered too. “We talk to some kids in more rural areas whose families are in agriculture, and they would say, ‘My dad didn’t go to college, and my grandfather didn’t go to college, and they’re doing just fine,’” van Arkel says. “So why bother?” These are places like Bonners Ferry, a town of less than 2,500 near the Canadian border with the lowest per-capita income in North Idaho. A year after 2013’s high school graduation, only 41 percent of Boundary County students enrolled in college, one of the lowest rates in the state. “A fair amount of that is probably just financial hardship and difficulties,” says Tim Gering, principal of Bonners Ferry High School. “This is a very economically depressed area.” As a rule of thumb, poor, rural communities struggle to send their kids to college: A National Student Clearinghouse study of the class of 2013 showed high-income suburban high schools had college enrollment rates nearly 50 percent higher than low-income rural schools. Idaho is especially rural and poor. Legislators cringed last year as the Idaho Department of Labor reeled off 2012’s economic rankings. Idaho: last in the nation in average wages, per-capita income and wage increases; first in percentage of minimumwage workers. The pothole-pocked roads and isolated communities in Idaho can hit education hard. For the more than 400,000 Idahoans living rurally, it’s easy for college to seem out of reach. Take Chad Copenbarger, for example, a recent high-school grad from Wendell, north of Twin Falls. “I did go to college for two weeks and had enough of that,” Copenbarger says. During those two weeks, he had to juggle classes, work and the distance between. He drove his used Chevy pickup from his jack-of-all-trades job in the city of Wendell a half-hour to the College of Southern Idaho, and then the halfhour back. “I liked the class. I liked to learn how to weld,” Copenbarger says. But gas alone, he BOISE WEEKLY.COM
estimated, was costing him $100 every month: “I couldn’t make what I was spending.” So for now, he’s dropped his college plans. Idaho, filled with federal lands, has very few colleges. In fact, for most of its history there were only two comprehensive community colleges in the entire state. Until 2009, even Boise didn’t have one. (Idaho actually is in the middle of the pack in sending students to four-year colleges—it is with communitycollege attendance that Idaho is in dire straits.) A look at state data shows that isolation and poverty are hardly the whole story, however. Chart Idaho’s “go-on rates” by how well schools are funded, or by the poverty level, and the result looks like a shotgun spread. No obvious correlation. There’s another factor at play, something elusive to define and unique to each community: culture.
THE SELF-RELIANCE DOCTRINE
Matt Handelman, superintendent of Coeur d’Alene Public Schools, says when he moved to Idaho from Spokane a few years ago, “the fierce independence of Idahoans” stood out, with their sense of “don’t tell me my life’s trajectory.” “There’s less of a sense of the importance of education for education sake’s as much as other places I’ve lived,” Handelman says. “Early on, people I met here preached that you’re throwing away money by just going to a fouryear liberal arts school.” If you’re not exactly sure what you want to do, he says, the sense in Idaho is that you’re just piling on debt. Instead of seeing college as an exercise in intellectual edification, Handelman says many Idahoans view it in practical terms: Is it worth it? In the long run, studies still suggest that it is. An associate’s degree results in annual salaries more than $6,500 higher than just a high school diploma, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Georgetown University research finds that recent college graduates were making more than even employees with decades of experience and only a high school diploma. Even art and psychology majors made nearly 30 percent more than their noncollege peers. (Engineering majors? 138 percent higher.) Yet the case for college has become more muddled lately, partly a victim of its own success. At one time, an applicant with a bachelor’s degree stood out from the crowd. Now, they’re competing with a horde of peers holding degrees just like theirs. Combine that with exploding tuition—30 percent higher at University of Idaho and Boise State University than in 2008. “Kids are hearing their peers getting saddled with a ridiculous amount of debt,”
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van Arkel says. For the seven years she’s been a postsecondary transition counselor at Sandpoint High School, Jeralyn Mire has watched students struggle with the decision to go to college. Facing uncertainty over what they want to be and the huge price tag, many choose what seems like a sensible option: Take a year off and work. Then, once they’ve saved up, go to college. An improving economy, where entry-level jobs are becoming more available, can make that path seem even more attractive. “Until they get a truck payment. Until they get a cellphone bill. Until they get a girlfriend. Until they get a boyfriend. ... and they have no money,” Mire says. “Life happens. And it gets harder.” She pleads with students to keep at least a toe dipped in education. Pell Grants and scholarships are available to help with financing, especially for lowincome parents. But that’s only if they know how to get them. One report estimates that nearly $20 million in financial aid went unclaimed in Idaho in 2013. Justene Garner, from Lewis-Clark State College, walks Sandpoint High students through the list of things they need to enroll in college. The FAFSA form for federal financial aid has 108 questions, and one 2007 Brookings Institution study calculated that completing it took 10 hours on average. For parents who’ve never been to college, taking that on can be especially intimidating. “You want me pissed off?” Mire asks, then rattles off a story about a bright kid losing a scholarship from Boise State because he won another scholarship from a regional foundation. She’s yelling, swinging her hands. “There you go! Here, kid! Go apply, go do some work, bring in an extra scholarship! Oh, we’re going to take yours away! Because we’ve met your”—she shifts into a mocking tone—”federal need.” Mire helped the family get the issue resolved. But many parents don’t have someone like Mire to guide them through the process, while others are downright skeptical of what college represents. “Education has a reputation, straight up into higher ed, for being a bastion of liberalism,” Handelman says. “Bastions of liberalism aren’t received too well in Idaho.” In 2012, for example, the Coeur d’Alene School Board ended the International Baccalaureate program after two years of the program being attacked for allegedly having a liberal, United Nations-backed agenda. So why would Idahoans want to spend tens of thousands of dollars to send their kids to a place that contradicts their values? 12 | MARCH 11–17, 2015 | BOISEweekly
To some conservatives, like the Idaho Freedom Foundation’s Wayne Hoffman, all this obsession with college has a dark side. “It’s causing people to emphasize college to everyone, people that don’t need to go to college,” Hoffman says. He’s worried about “credentialism,” the idea that the letters of a degree matter more to society than the training it represents, that employers may be turning down qualified applicants because of educational requirements. Degrees, critics worry, can just as easily be artificial barriers, perpetuating inequality, as they can be signs of expertise. Last month, the credentialism debate invaded the 2016 presidential race as pundits wondered whether—despite being the governor of Wisconsin—potential GOP candidate Scott Walker’s lack of a college degree disqualified him from the presidency. Rowe, who voiced “Don’t Fail Idaho” ads, leapt to Walker’s defense. “I think a trillion dollars of student loans and a massive skills gap are precisely what
happens to a society that actively promotes one form of education as the best course for the most people,” Rowe wrote on Facebook. “And I think that making elected office contingent on a college degree is maybe the worst idea I’ve ever heard.” Many of the Idahoans fighting to improve college-going rates would agree. College, in the classic four-year sense, isn’t for everyone. Van Arkel worries that society’s focus on the four-year degree is so unrelenting, it drowns out the other options—community colleges, trade schools, apprenticeship programs. It’s why they’ve shifted from the phrase “college”—implying four-years, ivy-covered dorms and tweed-jacketed professors—to “postsecondary,” alluding to community colleges, trade schools, the military and apprenticeships. “People learn in different ways. A trade school, where a school is doing hands-onwork, that’s a way a lot of the kids learn,” van Arkel says. “These kids, they need to know there are other options.”
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THE MORPHING ECONOMY
The path to a job in Idaho wasn’t traditionally through the classroom. It was in the field or the forest or mine. That reality has changed so gradually that many haven’t noticed it. Blue collar and white collar have blended together. These days, auto body shops use computer programs to mix the paint they use to coat dinged fenders. The semi-trucks that cross Idaho’s highways are equipped with high-tech computer systems. “If you went into a sawmill 25 years ago, everything was done by hand,” says Rod Gramer, president of Idaho Business for Education. “Now if you go into a sawmill, when they cut the boards, they do it by lasers and computers. It’s all high-tech.” Technology has been a double whammy for underskilled Idaho: It’s meant fewer wellpaying blue-collar jobs that require a lot more training. Hess, at the Silver Lake Mall, knows what it’s like looking for jobs without the degree on his résumé. “It’s definitely closed a lot of doors because I have all the experience in the world, but there’s only so much you can do,” says Hess. He has three Automotive Service Excellence certifications but needs 13 for full master certification. “I can’t even get a job at a shop, and I’ve been working on cars since I was 8,” Hess says. “If you’re not master-certified, they just don’t want you.” Multiple studies have shown that in just a few years, 60 to 70 percent of Idaho jobs will require more than a high school diploma. Two years ago, Gov. C.L. “Butch” Otter’s education task force unanimously set a goal to increase the number of 25-to-34-year-olds with postsecondary credentials from 40 percent to 60 percent by 2020. “That’s our North Star, if you will,” Idaho State Board of Education Director Mike Rush says. Everything they do is geared toward improving that rate: “It is our economic future.” But when Bob Lokken, CEO of WhiteCloud Analytics in Boise, addressed the Legislature earlier this year, he was blunt: It was already too late to meet the goal by that deadline. And at least for tech companies, Lokken says, that’s a huge problem. If you can’t recruit enough talent locally, growth is slow and stunted. Companies look elsewhere, launching branches in other states, or even move entirely. Lokken saw it happen. In 2006 he sold the ProClarity Corporation to Microsoft, which he hoped would continue to hire engineers for its team in Boise. It didn’t. “After four years of not being able to keep up with attrition, they shut it down,” Lokken says. That’s the nightmare: If Idaho can’t get kids to college, it won’t hurt just their future, but the future of the entire state.
THE STRUGGLING SCHOOLS
When Education Week ranked Idaho a dismal 46th in the nation for education this year, it didn’t just cite the state’s bottom-rung BOISE WEEKLY.COM
postsecondary rate. It blamed the state’s mediocre test scores, near-last per-pupil spending and 50thplace ranking in early education—behind only Utah. It slammed Idaho for inequality: The reliance on local levies means Idaho schools in regions with higher property values raise money easier. So in Preston, schools get less than $5,000 per student, but in Blaine County, schools get more than $15,000 per student. Low pay means some districts struggle to recruit teachers who meet even the minimum qualifications. Several of the kids interviewed by van Arkel said they could feel that the state didn’t care enough to invest in education, which many of their teachers had given up on them and didn’t care whether they were learning. The state’s high school graduation rate— 83.6 percent—is one of its few bright spots. But even that has some observers questioning whether the graduation rate is so high because standards are so low. Of the Idaho students who do make it to a four-year college, nearly a third never make it to their second year. In fact, a letter from Idaho’s education leaders last year, including thenSuperintendent of Public Instruction Tom Luna, blamed the state’s lousy academic standards for not preparing “students for the rigors of postsecondary education” and contributing to Idaho’s low college-going rate. (The solution, the tougher Common Core standards, isn’t exactly beloved by Idaho conservatives, especially in the Panhandle region.) Many Idaho kids are unprepared for the rigors of college. “A lot of those people have 4.0’s and have to go to remedial classes when they go to college,” Lokken says. Half of Idaho’s community college enrollees have to take catch-up courses. It’s a massive task for Sherri Ybarra, the controversial new state schools superintendent. When she proposed her educational budget to the Legislature, she came under fire for her modest request— substantially less than the governor’s—and lack of details. Despite repeated requests over the course of three weeks, Ybarra declined to be interviewed about the high numbers of Idaho students failing to enroll in college. “Right now she’s worried about other stuff,” spokesman Kelly Everitt says. The State Board of Education, however, has been hammering away at the problem for years. It increased funding for the Idaho Opportunity Scholarship and made it available to 14 BOISEweekly | MARCH 11–17, 2015 | 13
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more students. It pushed classes that also count for college credit—from 2008 to 2014, the number of high school students taking dualcredit classes grew from 5,000 to more than 12,000. Two years ago, Idaho became one of only two states to pay for SATs for every student. The state held a “College Application Day,” where students could apply to an in-state college without an application fee. College applications skyrocketed at the participating high schools. Otter’s latest proposed budget includes more money for teacher salaries, nearly $3.4 million extra for colleges, and an additional $2.5 million for college and career advisers in high schools. “I think Idaho education is on a good trajectory,” says Rush, the state board of education director. “But we have a lot of work to do.”
THE LOCAL SOLUTIONS
It’s a rainy Friday morning at Sandpoint High School. Pennants from numerous colleges—Whitworth, BYU-Idaho, Carrington College, Montana Tech, University of Southern California—line the walls of the counseling center. Lewis-Clark State College enrollment specialist Justene Garner leads a small crowd of high-school seniors through the nuances of dorm room setups, scholarships, parking passes, roommate matchups and the campus Quidditch club. “Are you guys feeling way overwhelmed right now?” Garner says, her peppiness contrasting with the groggy unease of the students. “Like, overwhelmed to the max? Garner is here to try to ease their minds. Zale Filce, a Sandpoint senior with a red beanie and braided goatee, flips through a brochure. “How is it dealing with the paper mill?” he asks about the college’s Lewiston location. “I hear it smells.” “That is the smell of the economy and money,” Garner assures him. A lot of Filce’s friends aren’t planning on going to college. “I have a friend currently who’s dropped out. He’s working at a pizza parlor,” Filce says. “It’s tricky, because they affect my life. I see what they’re doing—that looks like fun.” But Filce is sticking to his plan: Go to college for business, nursing or physical therapy, get a solid job and then use that to support his passions: glassblowing and guitar manufacturing. For the past seven years, Sandpoint High School has been a
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grand experiment. Supported by grants from groups like the local Panhandle Alliance for Education and the Albertson Foundation, the school has tried anything and everything to promote college. Mire, the transition counselor, walks out of the counseling center, and there are a handful of students outside her door, thumbing through the “Great Wall of Scholarships”— multicolored folders taped against the wall and filled with scholarship paperwork. “Look at these guys!” Mire says. “Taking their scholarships!” She walks down the hall, where outside every teacher’s room there’s a poster with an educational story attached to it—where the teacher went to college, what they majored in, which activities they did while in school. Not just the teachers, but the counselors, the principal and the staff. Kids can see that the lunch lady went to the University of Wisconsin, majored in resource management and minored in biology. Enter the library, where sophomores are tapping away at keyboards. “Adrenaline junkie job,” writes Trevor Eidson, a kid with a Carhartt patch duct-taped to his cap. “Linemen have a job filled with danger and excitement at the same time.” The very first big paper that freshman students write is about what they want to do with their lives. The next year, they write about the education they need to get there. So when Eidson graduates, he wants to be one of those guys who dares to climb power poles in storms to fix downed electrical lines. His friend beside him, in a camouflage jacket and mud-speckled black hat, wants to be a mechanic. They both sketch out plans in their papers. Eidson’s friend has his sights set on WyoTech—a Wyoming-based technical institute. Eidson calls up a Spokane Community College video about Avista’s Pre-Apprentice Lineworker school. It’s a pricey, exhausting four-month program, but at the end of it, if he’s hired, a pre-apprentice groundman starts at $50,000 a year. As for that intimidating financial aid paperwork? Sandpoint High countered with “FAFSA Frenzy” nights. Attendees scarf down pizza and sandwiches and enter raffles to win gift cards as they work through the knottier parts of pre-college paperwork. “First Generation” students—students whose parents never went to four-year colleges—have a club where they and their parents can work through each step of the college process. All of this can seem a bit much to keep track of for a high-school student. But there’s an app for that, too. “They let you sign up for texting— they send you reminders,” Filce says. “Here’s scholarships coming out. Here’s counselor meetings. Here’s field trips.” Filce says the school has taken him on multiple trips to see the North Idaho College campus. At Sandpoint, applying for college is nearly
mandatory. Senior Paige Schabell was dead set on not going; she wanted to travel instead. But Mire insisted that Schabell apply somewhere. She recounts sitting stubbornly in the library computer lab a few weeks ago as her classmates were applying for college, refusing to comply for most of the class period. Finally, grudgingly, she applied to North Idaho College. “I applied so she wouldn’t keep nagging,” Schabell says. That, and a conversation with her mom, changed her mind. Now she plans to take Idaho community college online classes this summer. So far, there have been encouraging signs. Sandpoint’s SAT scores recently have been among the highest in the state. Student surveys the past few years have shown that about three-fourths of Sandpoint seniors plan to go to a four-year, two-year or technical college, with an additional 5 percent joining the military. Yet a year after graduating, only 59 percent of the class of 2013 had enrolled in college. Sandpoint resident Jim Elsfelder, for one, doesn’t have a college degree. He’s 57 and has spent 40 of those years butchering hogs, cows and sheep in a meatpacking plant. He likes the variety, but he knows the cost as well. Coming home exhausted, clothes smelling like decomposing pig guts, with back, shoulders and neck aching. Or worse. “I’ve had well over 300 stitches,” he says. He lost a kidney after a bullet missed a cow’s head, blew through his right side and tore through his liver, kidney and spine. He lost a tear duct when a roller fell on him, the hook swinging around hitting him in his eye. Behind the scenes, Elsfelder and thousands of parents like him may be the most crucial players in changing Idaho’s educational landscape: Parents who didn’t go to college but are doing everything to make sure their kids get the chance. His daughter, Sandpoint senior Topi Elsfelder, plans on attending the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology. “My parents always wanted us to be better than they were,” she says. “They were always pushing us.” Her dad, like many in Idaho, still has a traditional job. But he looks around and sees firsthand how different the world is now. “It used to be, a kid would get right out of high school and go to the mill or go cut trees. And that’s gone away,” Elsfelder says. “More [Sandpoint kids] are saying, ‘I cannot get out of high school and make a living in this town.’ Unless you want to flip burgers or cut hair.”
A version of this article first appeared in the Pacific Northwest Inlander. BOISE WEEKLY.COM
CALENDAR WEDNESDAY MARCH 11 On Stage NAMPA ART WALK WINTER FILM SERIES: STRANGERS ON A TRAIN—Watch Alfred Hitchcock’s 1951 adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s thriller, then discuss the film with host Diana Forgione. 7:15 p.m. FREE. Flying M Coffeegarage, 1314 Second St. S., Nampa, 208-467-5533, facebook.com/ nampaartwalk. SUN VALLEY OPERA BARITONES UNBOUND CONCERT—Three dynamite baritones take the stage to give a captivating musical tour of the baritone voice throughout history. 7:30 p.m. $40. Church of the Big Wood, 100 Saddle Road, Ketchum, 208-726-0991, sunvalleyopera.com.
Workshops & Classes WATER EFFICIENT LANDSCAPING—Join United Water Idaho, the city of Boise, University of Idaho Extension and the Idaho Botanical Garden for a FREE low-water landscaping class. Catherine Chertudi from the city will teach you how to maintain your low-water landscape. Register now at landscape@unitedwater. com or by phone. 6-8 p.m. FREE. Library at Cole and Ustick, 7557 W. Ustick Road, Boise, 208-362-7336, unitedwater.com.
Art THE BRAIN: A BIG IDEA MULTIDISCIPLINARY PROJECT— Mondays-Fridays through April 17. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. FREE. Sun Valley Center for the Arts, 191 Fifth St. E., Ketchum, 208-726-9491, sunvalleycenter.org. IN TRANSLATION: MARIA-MERCÈ MARÇAL—Mondays-Sundays through March 28. FREE. Boise
FRIDAY, MARCH 13
Spirits in the material world.
State Student Union Gallery, 1910 University Drive, Boise, 208-4261246, mmmintranslation.com. LIU BOLIN: HIDING IN THE CITY— Tuesdays-Saturdays through May 24. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. $3-$6. Boise Art Museum, 670 Julia Davis Drive, Boise, 208-345-8330, boiseartmuseum.org.
Literature 100 FANCY DANCERS: SHERMAN ALEXIE RECEPTION—You are invited to support The Cabin’s educational programs at an intimate reception with acclaimed author Sherman Alexie. Guests will be entered to win two front row tickets to the Readings & Conversations event at The Egyptian following the reception. There’ll be appetizers and cash bar. Limited to 100 guests. 5:30-7 p.m. $75, $125 for 2. Beside Bardenay, 612 Grove St., Boise, 208-4260538, thecabinidaho.org. READINGS & CONVERSATIONS: SHERMAN ALEXIE—SOLD OUT.
7:30 p.m. $15-$26.50. Egyptian Theatre, 700 W. Main St., Boise, 208-345-0454, 208-387-1273. thecabinidaho.org. SPRING AUTHOR SERIES: A.K. TURNER—Meet New York Times bestselling author A.K. Turner. Her hilarious accounts of parenthood include Hair of the Corn Dog, This Little Piggy Went to the Liquor Store and Mommy Had a Little Flask. Feel free to take your lunch. 12 p.m. FREE. Library at Cole and Ustick, 7557 W. Ustick Road, Boise, 208570-6900, boisepubliclibrary.org.
Talks & Lectures CELEBRATING WHAT’S RIGHT WITH THE WORLD—Hear Jim Everett, YMCA chief executive officer, speak on what it takes to strengthen the foundations of community by developing successful youth, engaging people in healthy living and instilling a commitment to social responsibility. Register at hrs.boisestate.edu/workshops/ letstalk. 11 a.m. FREE. Boise
FRIDAY-SUNDAY, MARCH 13-15
Paintin’ the town red.
State Student Union Brink Room, 1910 University Drive, Boise, sub. boisestate.edu.
held in NCAB 206. 6 p.m. FREE. College of Western Idaho-Nampa Campus, 5500 E. Opportunity Drive, Nampa. 208.-62-3000, cwidaho.cc/calendar.
THURSDAY MARCH 12
INTERMOUNTAIN 3D OPEN HOUSE—See commercial 3-D printing in action, and learn about additive manufacturing, printers, materials and technologies. Special presentation by Paul Spoliansky, regional director of 3D Systems, at noon and 4:30 p.m. 11 a.m.-7 p.m. FREE. Intermountain 3D Inc., 9225 Chinden Blvd, Ste. F, Boise, 208391-5570, intermountain3d.com.
Festivals & Events BRS ADULT NIGHT—Attendees will be broken up into bands and paired with a rock school teacher. Open to adults of any ability. 7:30 p.m. $10. Boise Rock School, 1404 W. Idaho St., Boise, 208-572-5055, boiserockschool.com. CWI VISITING ARTIST SERIES: ALISON REINTJES—Don’t miss this opportunity to meet and learn from artist Alison Reintjes. Activities kick off Thursday at 6 p.m. with a lecture and reception, followed by handson workshops Friday and Saturday 10 a.m.-2 p.m. All events will be
On Stage BAGGAGE—7:30 p.m. $15. Stage Coach Theatre, 4802 W. Emerald Ave., Boise, 208-342-2000, stagecoachtheatre.com. KNOCK ‘EM DEAD: NUNSENSE—8 p.m. $20 adv., $22 door. AEN Playhouse, 8001 W. Fairview Ave., Boise, 208-385-0021, kedproductions.org.
SATURDAY/TUESDAY, MARCH 14/17
The pipes, the pipes are calling.
INTERNATIONAL PARANORMAL REPORTING GROUP AT THE PEN
OFF THE WALL: NEW AND USED ART SALE AT BOISE ART MUSEUM
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There’s no better way to spend Friday the 13th than trying to communicate with ghosts. Appropriately, the Old Idaho Penitentiary is staying open late for just that. In collaboration with the International Paranormal Reporting Group’s Boise Team, the curious can tour the prison deep into the night. The event is for 18 and older only, and the IPRG will provide equipment, research and knowledge. Participants can bring their own cameras, though if you bring a ghost box (aka, a modified portable AM/FM radio that creates white noise that paranormal entities can manipulate to create words), the IPRAG asks that you bring your own headphones so as not to disturb their recordings. 10 p.m.-2 a.m., $25-$30, Old Idaho Penitentiary, 2445 Old Penitentiary Rd., 208-334-2844, history.idaho.gov/old-idahopenitentiary, tickets at brownpapertickets.com.
Your walls could use a shake-up. The citrus in the still-life hanging over your dinner table rotted long ago, and the gurgling stream in the landscape over your fireplace has swelled into a river, carving out a gorge that’s now a tired metaphor for your outdated taste in art. It’s time for something new. Thankfully, there’s the annual Off the Wall fundraiser at Boise Art Museum, where Boiseans can purchase aesthetic refreshment courtesy of donated art from the community. You’ll find artworks, books, jewelry, frames, paintings, prints and sculpture for sale. This longstanding BAM tradition is one of the best bets this spring to brighten up your home. Friday, March 13, 6-9 p.m. Members and donors only. Saturday, March 14, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. and Sunday, March 15, noon-5 p.m. FREE. Boise Art Museum, 610 Julia Davis Drive, Boise, 208-3458330, boiseartmuseum.org.
The Boise Highlanders are strengthening their lungs for another St. Patrick’s Day musical bar crawl. This is the 54th year for the pipe band, which performs at the annual Robert Burns Banquet in January and every September at the Treasure Valley Highland Games. “But St. Patrick’s Day is crucial for the survival of the band,” pipe major emeritus Ron Lopez told Boise Weekly in 2014. In fact, they’re kicking off this year’s wearin’ of the green a little early on Saturday, March 14, with 11 performances at Treasure Valley pubs and restaurants. For traditionalists, St. Patrick’s Day 2015 (which this year is Tuesday, March 17), will feature no fewer than 34 performances, beginning at noon at The Crescent and wrapping up around 11 p.m. at Quinn’s. Various times, various locations. Find a full schedule at boisehighlanders.com.
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CALENDAR OPERA ELECT: A NIGHT AT THE OPERA—Immerse yourself in a wonderful night of classical favorites, from Mozart to Rossini. 7:30 p.m. By donation. Jewett Auditorium, The College of Idaho, 2112 E. Cleveland Blvd., Caldwell, 208-631-2899, operaelect.org. REX’S EXES—7:30 p.m. $11-$16. Boise Little Theater, 100 E. Fort St., Boise, 208-342-5104, boiselittletheater.org/current-season.
Literature AUTHOR ANDREW SMITH—Join bestselling author Andrew Smith for a reading, signing and talk about his new book, The Alex Crow. 7 p.m. FREE. Rediscovered Books, 180 N. Eighth St., Boise, 208-376-4229, rdbooks.org.
READ ME TV BOOK DISCUSSION: FATAL LIGHT—The Vietnam War might seem long ago, but it continues to color how Americans talk about national trauma. Richard Currey’s novel, Fatal Light, gives voice to trauma—in every sense of the word. 12:45-1:45 p.m. FREE. Ada Community Library, 10664 W. Victory Road, Boise, 208-3620181, readmetv.com.
Citizen IDAHO HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION MEETING—A 3:30 p.m. FREE. Idaho Human Rights Commission, 317 W. Main St., Boise, 208-3342873, humanrights.idaho.gov.
Kids & Teens BOISE KINDERGARTEN REGIS-
TRATION & OPEN HOUSE—Check your neighborhood school’s website for exact times and requirements. FREE, 208-854-4112, boiseschools.org.
more. Old Idaho State Penitentiary, 2445 Old Penitentiary Road, Boise, 208-334-2844, history.idaho.gov/ old-idaho-penitentiary-events.
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FRIDAY MARCH 13 Festivals & Events INTERNATIONAL PARANORMAL INVESTIGATION GROUP AT THE OLD PEN—Investigate the Old Idaho Pen with the International Paranormal Reporting Group. All funds benefit the Old Idaho Pen and Idaho Historical Society. 10 p.m.-2 a.m. $30, $25 each for 2 or
BAGGAGE—8 p.m. $15. Stage Coach Theatre, 4802 W. Emerald Ave., Boise, 208-342-2000, stagecoachtheatre.com. BALLET IDAHO NEW DANCE... UP CLOSE—Ballet Idaho dancers push ballet into new territories, as they become the choreographers and express themselves through contemporary pieces. 8 p.m. $20$25. Esther Simplot Performing Arts Academy Annex, 501 S. Eighth St., Boise, 208-343-0556, balletidaho.org. BOISE CHAMBER MUSIC SERIES: AMERICAN BRASS QUINTET—Kevin Cobb and Louis Hanzlik,
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COMEDIAN CHRISTOPHER TITUS LOOKS BACK ON HIS FUTURE From 2000 to 2002, 35-year-old Christopher Titus was at what many would consider the pinnacle of his career: He had his own sitcom, the Emmy-nominated Titus. Issues with the network led to Titus’ unceremonious cancellation, a blow that could have been insurmountable to a lesser—or saner—man. But a tumultuous childhood had prepared the comedian/writer/actor/husband/father to roll with the punches. “The weird thing about it is, I loved that show,” said Titus, who was nominated for a Writers Guild Award. “I loved the stories. We had such a great group of writers, and I got to be the head writer with Jack [Kenny] and Brian [Hargrove]. The show always was about something. I don’t go back and go, ‘Look what I did.’ I like the show because of what it did. There were so many jokes in the show, I forgot what we did, because we were just on a treadmill. So [now] I’ll watch it and go, ‘Oh my god, that joke’s really funny.” Not one to let the dust settle, the funny man moved on, appearing in a slew of reality and scripted TV shows; hosting Pawnography (a game show on the History Channel); founding his own production company; releasing five stand-up specials, all of which aired on Comedy Central or HBO; producing a podcast; touring regularly; and more. Titus barely finishes one thing before starting another and although he’s in the midst of his Angry Pursuit of Happiness tour, he’s writing a 16 | MARCH 11–17, 2015 | BOISEweekly
new stand-up show, titled Born with a Defect. Titus said the audience at his Boise show on Friday, March 13, at the Knitting Factory will be one of the first to hear the new material. While his early experience in television could have derailed him, Titus values it for showing him he “could do anything” and teaching him a vital lesson. “It made me really smart about Hollywood,” he said. “When the show ended, I realized, ‘Oh. This is how it works.’ They’re flying you around in private jets, you’re introducing Sid Caesar for his lifetime achievement award and then… you’re forgotten. That’s how fast it happens.” Titus has some words of wisdom for people in the business who don’t recognize how fleeting it can all be, like a friend who was “bitching” about his success. “A buddy of mine was upset about how good his show was going,” Titus said. “He’s like, ‘You wouldn’t believe how busy I am.’ And I said, ‘Well, yeah, I would believe it.’ I said, ‘Stop and look around. You have people bringing you things, you have people giving you free stuff, you’re on TV every week, you have people begging you to come see them. Look at it as a joy,’” he said without any bitterness. “‘The 10 years it took you to get here? It’s gonna take you 10 seconds to lose it. When they finally decide that it’s over, it’s gonna be one quick phone call. That’s how Hollywood works.’” Following his own advice, Titus founded Combustion Films. Its first full-length film production will be Special Unit, written by, directed by and starring Titus as an LAPD officer with “a drinking problem, an ex-girlfriend problem (his ex girlfriend is now the mayor) and an anger problem [who] is forced to build a team that consists of a rag-tag group of disabled people who want to shove the term ‘differentlyabled’ up the world’s butt.” A crowdfunding campaign only netted $3,600 toward the $480,000 goal, but Titus wasn’t thwarted. “We have raised a quarter of the money, and I have a meeting with bankers on Friday,” he said. “Oh, yeah. This is the windmill I refuse to stop tilting at. I swear to god this movie is getting made. The budget is done, the shooting schedule is done, the production schedule is done, the script—which is ridiculously funny—has been rewritten. Special Unit will happen.” —Amy Atkins With special guest Rachel Bradley, 8 p.m., $25-$35, 18 and older only. The Knitting Factory, 416 S. Ninth St., 208-367-1212, bo.knittingfactory.com.
trumpets; Eric Reed, horn; Michael Powell, trombone; and John D. Rojak, bass trombone will present a colorful program of Renaissance and 19th- and 20th-century works for brass quintet. For single tickets, call 208-426-1216 or email jbelfy@ boisestate.edu. 7:30 p.m. $20-$25. Morrison Center Recital Hall, 2201 Cesar Chavez Lane, Boise State campus, Boise, 208-426-1609, americanbrassquintet.org. BOISE PHILHARMONIC: LOVE’S SONG AND DANCE—Don’t miss this evening of joyful, exciting masterworks, featuring Copland, Brahms and internationally renowned tenor saxophonist James Houlik performing Eric Ewazen’s beautifully melodic concerto. 8 p.m. $21.20-$42.40. Brandt Center at NNU, 707 Fern St., Nampa, 208467-8790, nnu.edu/brandt.
GLAMOROUS NOIZE—Tod Alan and Idaho Dance Theatre present a funky chic evening of art, fashion and dance. Alan’s original artwork will be for sale and a small live auction will add excitement to the night. Proceeds benefit IDT. 8 p.m. $35. Azure Hair Studio, 1519 W. Grove St., Boise, 208-333-0303. idahodancetheatre.org. KNOCK ‘EM DEAD: NUNSENSE—6:30 p.m. dinner seating, 8 p.m. show. $20-$39. AEN Playhouse, 8001 W. Fairview Ave., Boise. 208-385-0021, kedproductions.org. REX’S EXES—8 p.m. $11-$16. Boise Little Theater, 100 E. Fort St., Boise. 208-342-5104, boiselittletheater.org/current-season.
CATHEDRAL CONCERT SERIES CHAMBER MUSIC SPECTACULAR—Artists will include Craig Purdy, Brian Hodges, Carola Winkle, Jennie Ficks and Peggy Purdy in various chamber music ensembles. Works of Brahms, Dunhill and Piazalla will be featured. 7:30 p.m. By donation. Cathedral of the Rockies, First United Methodist Church, 717 N. 11th St., Boise, 208-343-7511, cathedraloftherockies.org.
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COMEDIAN CHRISTOPHER TITUS—Fresh off of his sixth comedy special release, Christopher Titus brings his dark, yet outrageously funny style of comedy to town. He is joined by fellow comedian Rachel Bradley, known as Bombshell Rae on Titus’s podcast. 8 p.m. $25-$35. Knitting Factory Concert House, 416 S. Ninth St., Boise, 208-3671212, bo.knittingfactory.com.
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COMIC CINEMA REMIX: FRIDAY THE 13TH PART 3—That’s right true believers, the Comic Cinema Remix yahoos are tearing apart the 1982 classic. Join Brett Badostain, Chad Heft, Dylan Haas and their very special guest Mundek ClementStein as they remix the film that single-handedly converted the hockey mask into an icon of gore. 9 p.m.-1 a.m. $5. Visual Arts Collective, 3638 Osage St., Garden City, 208-424-8297, comiccinemaremix. com. THE EDGE: OPERA ELECT AND VELOCITY POLE ART—Enjoy the unique experience of acrobatic pole dance paired with the classical feelings of opera. It’ll be a show you’ll never forget. 7:30 p.m. $5-$7. Jewett Auditorium, The College of Idaho, 2112 E. Cleveland Blvd., Caldwell, 208-631-2899, operaelect.org. EL KORAH SHRINE 2015 MELODRAMA DOUBLE FEATURE—The Paper Bag Bandit Rides Again... or Behind the Cheap Mask by Robert Swift, and Hold the Onions by Conrad Davidson. You can go for the show only or enjoy a buffet dinner with your laughs. 8 p.m. $12.50 show, $15 dinner. El Korah Shrine Center, 1118 W. Idaho St., Boise, 208-343-0571, elkorah.org.
LIT FOR LUNCH—Get together with other lovers of literature monthly through May. March’s selection is Joseph Conrad, The Nigger of the ‘Narcissus’ (1897) .12-1 p.m. FREE. Boise Public Library, 715 S. Capitol Blvd., Boise, boisepubliclibrary.org, 208-345-1510.
COBE SPEAKER SERIES: BLAKE LINGLE—The co-founder and owner of the Boise Fry Company offers insight on the secret sauce for successful restaurants and start-up businesses. Lingle is an economics graduate of Boise State’s College of Business and Economics. For more info, visit cobe.boisestate.edu/ cobespeakerseries. 1:30-3 p.m. FREE. Boise State Micron Business and Economics Building, 2360 University Drive, Boise, boisestate. edu. HIKING THE PACIFIC CREST TRAIL—This presentation will include information about longdistance hiking gear, obtaining a thru-hike permit, on-line sources of information, trail guidebooks, personal preferences on food, cook stoves, fuel and re-supply techniques will also be shared. 7-9:30 p.m. FREE. ICON Credit Union, 485 W. Overland Road, Meridian, 208258-2525, iconcreditunion.org.
Religious/Spiritual ROCK AND WORSHIP ROAD SHOW—Headlining the seventh annual Roadshow are tour founders MercyMe, joined by Crowder, Matt Maher, Jamie Grace, Tedashi, Group 1 Crew, as well as tour newcomers I Am They, Jon Guerra and guest speaker Shaun Groves. General admission at the door. Available online are VIP tickets for $50 per person, which include a Q&A with select artists, early entrance for premium seating, an exclusive tour T-shirt and more. 7 p.m. $10-$50. Taco Bell Arena, 1910 University Drive, Boise State campus, Boise, 208-426-1900, tacobellarena.com.
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CALENDAR Animals & Pets IDAHO CAPITOL CITY KENNEL CLUB DOG AGILITY TRIALS—Indoor dog agility trials. See these dogs race against the clock in a course that has running, jumping, weaving and teeter tottering all while off the leash. FREE to watch; concessions on site. 8 a.m. FREE. Canyon County Fairgrounds, 22nd Ave. S., Caldwell, 208-455-8500, canyoncountyfair.org.
Food BASQUE MARKET FRIDAY THREE-COURSE DINNER—Choose a starter, entrée and a dessert from weekly seasonal and locally sourced Chef’s Menu. Wine pairings for each course and pintxos will also be available for an additional charge. Check the market’s Facebook page for upcoming choices. Call to RSVP. 4:30-8 p.m. $25. Basque Market, 608 W. Grove St., Boise, 208-433-1208, thebasquemarket.com. ST. MICHAEL’S LENTEN LUNCHES—Observe Lent with lunch each Friday through March
27. Menu features clam chowder, salad or slaw, cheese bread and beverage. Homemade pie is available for $2.50 extra. 11 a.m.-1 p.m. $6.50. St. Michael’s Episcopal Cathedral, 518 N. Eighth St., Boise, 208-342-5601.
SATURDAY MARCH 14 Festivals & Events BAM OFF THE WALL ART SALE—Boise’s premier, up-scale rummage sale returns. Browse a large selection of donated new and gently used home décor, frames, ceramics, art books and jewelry, in addition to art of all kinds. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. By donation. Boise Art Museum, 670 Julia Davis Drive, Boise, 208-345-8330, boiseartmuseum.org. BCT CELEBRITY GAME NIGHT—Join celebrity guests Jessica Holmes, Tim Johnstone, Alan Heathcock,
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Emma Arnold, Lynn Hofflund and Joe Golden as they face off in a pop-culture battle of epic proportions. All proceeds from this fundraiser support BCT operations. 7:30 p.m. $25. Boise Contemporary Theater, 854 Fulton St., Boise, 208-331-9224, bctheater.org. EECDP URBAN GARDEN INITIATIVE—Ethiopian and Eritrean Community Development Project is having a garden preparation day. You can help till the soil, plant seeds, compost and clean up the garden plot for the growing season. FREE Ethiopian food and beverages on site. Limited gardening supplies; take your own shovel, rake and gloves. 9 a.m.-2 p.m. FREE. Salvation Army Service Center, 1904 W. Bannock St., Boise, 208-336-0283.
On Stage BAGGAGE—8 p.m. $15. Stage Coach Theatre, 4802 W. Emerald Ave., Boise, 208-342-2000, stagecoachtheatre.com. BALLET IDAHO NEW DANCE... UP CLOSE—2 p.m. and 8 p.m. $20-$25. Esther Simplot Performing Arts Academy Annex, 501 S. Eighth St., Boise, 208-343-0556, balletidaho.org. BOISE CLASSIC MOVIES: OFFICE SPACE—Don’t miss Peter Gibbons, Samir Naga... Naga... NaganaWorkHereAnymore, and Michael Bolton (not the one who sucks) affixing cover sheets to their TPS Reports, dismantling a printer with extreme prejudice, and taking on Bill Lumbergh and the Bobs at Initech. 7 p.m. $9 online, $11 door. Egyptian Theatre, 700 W. Main St., Boise, 208-345-0454, 208-387-1273, boiseclassicmovies.com. BOISE PHILHARMONIC: LOVE’S SONG AND DANCE—Don’t miss this evening of joyful, exciting masterworks, featuring Copland, Brahms and internationally renowned tenor saxophonist James Houlik performing Eric Ewazen’s beautifully melodic concerto. 8 p.m. $22.70$70.40. Morrison Center for the Performing Arts, 2201 Cesar Chavez Lane, Boise, 208-4261609, box office: 208-426-1110, mc.boisestate.edu.
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COMEDY OPEN MIC NIGHT— Check out this evening of laughs hosted by local comedian Mikey Pullman. It’s rated PG-13, so feel free to take the family. Comedians sign up 30 minutes before showtime. 9 p.m. FREE. Cheerleaders Sports Bar and Grill, 815 W. Ann Morrison Park Drive, Boise, 208789-0270, cheerleaderssbg.com. COUNTRY GOSPEL HOEDOWN— The Hoedown will feature the Idaho Jr. Jammer Fiddlers and the Little Hoedowners, current Grand Master Champion fiddler Katrina Nicolayeff and master fiddler Matthew Hartz. 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. $7-$10. Nampa Civic Center, 311 Third St. S., Nampa, 208-468-5555, nampaciviccenter.com. EL KORAH SHRINE 2015 MELO-
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CALENDAR DRAMA DOUBLE FEATURE—8 p.m. $12.50 show, $15 dinner. El Korah Shrine Center, 1118 W. Idaho St., Boise, 208-343-0571, elkorah.org. KNOCK ‘EM DEAD: NUNSENSE— Dinner seating at 6:30 p.m., show at 8 p.m. $39 dinner/show, $20 show only adv., $22 door. AEN Playhouse, 8001 W. Fairview Ave., Boise. 208-385-0021, kedproductions.org. REX’S EXES—2 p.m. and 8 p.m. $11-$16. Boise Little Theater, 100 E. Fort St., Boise, 208-342-5104, boiselittletheater.org/currentseason.
Talks & Lectures OPERA IDAHO COFFEE & CONVERSATION—Enjoy a hot and delicious cup of coffee, courtesy of Opera Idaho, as General Director Mark Junkert gives an informative pre-performance talk on topics specially chosen for select Met Live in HD performances. 10:15 a.m. FREE with ticket to Met Live performance. Regal Boise Stadium 22 with IMAX, 7701 W. Overland Road, Boise, 208-377-9603, operaidaho.org.
Sports & Fitness SPRING SPORTS MADNESS FOR MOMS & SONS—Moms and sons enjoy time together over pizza, basketball, dodgeball, fun games, prizes and more. For boys ages 3-13 and moms. 7-8:30 p.m. $8-$10. Nampa Recreation Center, 131 Constitution Way, Nampa, 208-468-5858, namparecreation. org.
by local high-school students. Shop vendors beginning at 11 a.m., followed by fashion show at 2 p.m. $10. Ford Idaho Center, 16200 Idaho Center Blvd., Nampa, 208468-1000, fordidahocenter.com.
p.m. $6-$7. Eagles Lodge Boise, 7025 Overland Road, Boise, 208376-0115.
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BAGGAGE—2 p.m. $15. Stage Coach Theatre, 4802 W. Emerald Ave., Boise, 208-342-2000, stagecoachtheatre.com.
IDAHO CAPITOL KENNEL CLUB DOG AGILITY TRIALS—8 a.m. FREE. Canyon County Fairgrounds, 22nd Ave. S., Caldwell, 208-4558500, canyoncountyfair.org.
SUNDAY MARCH 15 Festivals & Events BAM OFF THE WALL ART SALE— 12-5 p.m. By donation. Boise Art Museum, 670 Julia Davis Drive, Boise, 208-345-8330, boiseartmuseum.org. TREASURE VALLEY SINGLES CLUB WEEKLY DANCE—Join the Treasure Valley Singles Club for a weekly dance with live bands. Everyone 21 years and older is welcome, including married couples. 7:30
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FLAMENCO AL ANDALUZ: LA PRIMAVERA—With Kina Mendez, Joaquin Gallegos and Savannah Fuentes. 7 p.m. $5. Crazy Horse, 1519 W. Main St., Boise, 208982-4294, crazyhorseboise.com/ calendar. GIRL FROM GOD’S COUNTRY DOCUMENTARY—Boise premiere of a new documentary on the life of silent filmmaker Nell Shipman. Plus private VIP wine reception with director and crew from 5-7 p.m. 7 p.m. $20 film, $100 VIP. Egyptian Theatre, 700 W. Main St., Boise, 208-345-0454, 208-387-1273, egyptiantheatre.net. KNOCK ‘EM DEAD: NUNSENSE—3 p.m. $20 adv., $22 door. AEN Playhouse, 8001 W. Fairview Ave., Boise. 208-385-0021, kedproductions.org.
MILD ABANDON By E.J. Pettinger
Citizen MARCH FOR MEALS ON WHEELS—Join Metro Meals on Wheels for what they are hoping will be the largest March for Meals “march” event in the country. There is no entry fee for the short walk, and Food Services of America will donate $5 to Metro Meals on Wheels for every marcher. 11-11:30 a.m. FREE. Julius M. Kleiner Memorial Park, 1900 N. Records Ave., near Fairview Avenue and Eagle Road, Meridian, metromealsonwheels. net.
Kids & Teens IDAHO SCHOLASTIC STATE CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP—Join the fun and competition at Idaho’s largest chess tournament, open to all Idaho students from kindergarten through 12th grade. 8 a.m.-3 p.m. $20 adv., $30 onsite. Vineyard Christian Fellowship, 4950 W. Bradley St., Garden City, 208-608-9791, idahochessassociation.org. PROM EXTRAVAGANZA USA— Here’s your chance to check out the latest prom fashions, modeled
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CALENDAR Literature
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READ ME TV: IDES OF MARCH CELEBRATION OF BOOK CLUBS— All are invited to this annual celebration of Treasure Valley book club members. Coffee and light refreshments will be served. 12:30 p.m. FREE admission. The Cabin, 801 S. Capitol Blvd., Boise, 208331-8000, thecabinidaho.org.
FOOD TRUCK RALLY GOES TO THE DOGS— Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with good food, live music and green beer. Proceeds support the continued development of the Nampa Dog Park. 3-7 p.m. FREE admission. Lloyd Square, Intersection of 14th and Front streets, Nampa.
Sports & Fitness TREASURE VALLEY ROLLER GIRLS OPEN ENROLLMENT 2015— Treasure Valley Roller Derby wants you! No experience needed. For more info, visit the Roller Derby Facebook page. 9-11 a.m. FREE. Eagle Skate Park, Horseshoe Bend Road, Eagle.
Animals & Pets IDAHO CAPITOL KENNEL CLUB DOG AGILITY TRIALS—8 a.m. FREE. Canyon County Fairgrounds, 22nd Ave. S., Caldwell, 208-4558500, canyoncountyfair.org.
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MONDAY MARCH 16 On Stage BCT 5X5 READING SERIES: HANSOL JUNG—Hear some of your favorite local actors bring five of the best new plays in the country to life. March features No More Sad Things by Hansol Jung. 7 p.m. $10$12. Boise Contemporary Theater, 854 Fulton St., Boise, 208-3319224, bctheater.org. IDAHO JAZZ SOCIETY: BILL ANSCHELLE & BRENT JENSEN—Don’t
miss this acoustic concert with three-time Northwest instrumentalist of the year, pianist and composer Bill Anschell, with Brent Jensen. 7 p.m. $15-$20. Riverside Hotel Sapphire Room, 2900 W. Chinden Blvd., Garden City, 208-343-1871, riversideboise.com.
Literature POETRY READING: TRANSLATIONS OF MARIA-MERCÈ MARÇAL—Boise State professor and translator Clyde Moneyhun will read from his English translation of Catalan cult poet Maria-Mercè Marçal’s book Witch In Mourning (1979). 7 p.m. FREE. Boise State Student Union Gallery, 1910 University Drive, Boise, 208-426-1242, mmmintranslation.com.
TUESDAY MARCH 17 On Stage BCT 5X5 WEST READING SE-
RIES: HANSOL JUNG—Hear some of your favorite local actors bring five of the best new plays in the country to life. March features No More Sad Things by Hansol Jung. 7 p.m. $10-$12. Flying M Coffeegarage, 1314 Second St. S., Nampa, 208-467-5533, flyingmcoffee.com.
EYESPY
Real Dialogue from the naked city
BROADWAY IN BOISE: MAMMA MIA—Have the time of your life at this smash-hit musical. 7:30 p.m. $40-$60. Morrison Center for the Performing Arts, 2201 Cesar Chavez Lane, Boise, mc.boisestate. edu. 208-426-1110.
Food EPWORTH CHAPEL LENTEN SOUP SUPPERS—Enjoy a Lenten soup supper of soup, vegetarian soup and bread. Supper will be followed by Lenten Evening Prayers from the Book of Common Prayer. Lenten Prayers (no supper) on Thursdays will be held at 7 p.m. Everyone welcome. 6-7 p.m. FREE. Epworth Chapel on the Green, 6110 W. Northview St., 208-336-3951, epworthchapelonthegreen.org.
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MUSIC GUIDE WEDNESDAY MARCH 11 CHUCK SMITH TRIO—7:30 p.m. FREE. Chandlers EMILY TIPTON & MICHAEL RUNDLE—6:30 p.m. FREE. Highlands Hollow
LIQUID WETT WEDNESDAY— Electronic music and DJs. 9:30 p.m. FREE. Liquid PATRICIA FOLKNER—7 p.m. FREE. Lock Stock & Barrel THE RINGTONES—8:45 p.m. FREE. Pengilly’s STEVE EATON—5 p.m. FREE. Bar 365 SUN VALLEY OPERA BARITONES UNBOUND—7:30 p.m. $40. Church of the Big Wood, Ketchum SWING IS THE THING WITH PAMELA DEMARCHE—7 p.m. $5. Sapphire Room TERRY JONES—5:30 p.m. FREE. Chandlers
Hey Marseilles HEY MARSEILLES—With Adam Wright and Lost Ones. 7 p.m. $10. Neurolux
YOUNG VALLEY—9:30 p.m. FREE. Reef
THURSDAY MARCH 12
FRIDAY MARCH 13
BEN BURDICK TRIO WITH AMY ROSE—8 p.m. FREE. Chandlers
BROCK BARTEL—7 p.m. FREE. WilliB’s
REQUIEM VI PAN DAEMONIUM: FIENDS IN THE FOREST—8 p.m. $5. Crazy Horse
COMMON KINGS—With New Kingston. 9:30 p.m. $15 adv., $18 door. Reef
DALE CAVANAUGH—7 p.m. FREE. High Note
REX MILLER & RICO WEISMAN—6 p.m. FREE. Berryhill
DJ JUST SOME CLOWN—11 p.m. FREE. Neurolux
SOUL SERENE—8:30 p.m. FREE. Piper
BONE THUGS-N-HARMONY— With Hali Vaye, 360 Squad and IceTre. 8 p.m. $15-$100. Revolution
EMILY STANTON BAND—9 p.m. FREE. The New Frontier Club
WHEATLEY MATTHEWS—7:30 p.m. FREE. The District
BRANDON PRITCHETT—8:30 p.m. FREE. Piper
FRANK MARRA—5:30 p.m. FREE. Chandlers
WIDESPREAD PANIC—8 p.m. $35-$55. Morrison Center
BRETT REID—5 p.m. FREE. Bar 365
JOHN JONES TRIO—8 p.m. FREE. Chandlers
WIDESPREAD PANICK AFTERPARTY: BREAD & CIRCUS—11:30 p.m. FREE. Liquid
CHUCK SMITH TRIO WITH NICOLE CHRISTENSEN—8 p.m. FREE. Chandlers
FRIM FRAM FOUR—8:45 p.m. FREE. Pengilly’s GATECREEPER—With Fuming Mouth and Swamp Shrine. 8 p.m. $6. The Shredder TERRY JONES—5:30 p.m. FREE. Chandlers WAYNE WHITE— 5 p.m. FREE. Bar 365 YOB—With UZALA and Ecstatic Vision. 8 p.m. $10 adv., $12 door. Crazy Horse
NEW MADRID—With Sugar Pox and First Chair. 8 p.m. $10. Neurolux
POKE—8:45 p.m. FREE. Pengilly’s RANDOM CANYON GROWLERS—8 p.m. FREE. Sockeye Grill
PATRICIA FOLKNER—5 p.m. FREE. Bar 365
SATURDAY MARCH 14 BERNIE REILLY BAND—9 p.m. FREE. O’Michael’s
COAL CHAMBER—With Filter, Combichrist and American Head Charge. 7 p.m. $26-$55. Knitting Factory
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FEELING STABLE
Johnny Quaid goes with the flow on The Ravenna Colt’s Terminal Current AMY ATKINS In a handful of articles, Johnny Quaid (aka, surprises and doesn’t surprise Quaid. John McQuade) is called a “nomad” and a “It was one of those things,” he said. “I really “wandering troubadour.” It’s an apt descripfeel that way; I’m not just saying that to sound tion considering how many change-of-address mysterious. Boise picked us. I’d been here one cards he may have filled out: After leaving the time before with My Morning Jacket to play near-constant touring band My Morning Jacket at Neurolux … but hadn’t had a long, quality in 2004, Quaid moved back to his home state of stay [in Boise]. Then some doors opened up Kentucky, crossed the country to California and and all of a sudden we were here. Literally, I’m then trekked back to Tennessee before hearing not exaggerating, we completely fell in love the siren call of the City of Trees. with it. Like on day one. It’s such a great place “I wasn’t aware [I had been called] that,” to live, and I feel so at home here. If somebody Quaid said. “Maybe it’s from had told me 10 years ago that I all the touring and travelwould end up in Boise, Idaho, I THE RAVENNA COLT ing I did with My Mornprobably would have laughed… theravennacolt.com ing Jacket… I was home so but now, we’re dropping anchor. little and constantly living We’re here.” out of a suitcase. And I grew up on a farm in Part of what Quaid loves about Boise is Shelbyville—it’s about 30 minutes east of Louis- that he is able to foster his creativity. He never ville, Ky.” Although he thinks “free spirit” might stopped being a musician, but he wasn’t interbe more fitting, Quaid said he is one of the few ested in trying to recapture the magic of MMJ. people in his large family who lives out of state. The Ravenna Colt, his solo/collaborative project, “So I think by Kentucky standards, I am allows him to feed his passion for making music nomadic,” he added, laughing. and work with other musicians without the The musician is anything but a nomad now, pressures of being in a band. Terminal Current though. About five years ago, some opportuni(Karate Body Records, Feb. 2015), The Ravenna ties arose that Quaid couldn’t pass up and now Colt’s sophomore release, reflects Quaid both his wife and their two grade-school age children artistically and personally. While The Ravenna call Boise home, which is something that both Colt’s debut release, Slight Spell (Removador, 20 | MARCH 11–17, 2015 | BOISEweekly
With The Ravenna Colt, Johnny Quaid (left) finds his own “great voice” on his newest release, Terminal Current.
2010), gave expression to feelings of retrospection, Terminal Current has him totally in the present and shines a light on Quaid’s ability as a storyteller to tap into an “inner darkness” while at the same time acknowledging the happiness in his life—something that can be difficult to do. Terminal Current’s Americana/country melodies are also an excellent example of Quaid’s musicianship and gift for creating addictively listenable tunes—even if he isn’t a stellar vocalist.
“I don’t think I’m a great singer, and I don’t think I have a great voice,” Quaid said. “I’m a big fan of ‘non-singers’ like Townes Van Zandt and Tom Waits, guys who don’t have textbook great voices, but their music and emotion is so powerful that in my opinion, they do have great voices. … And I just can’t have anyone else sing [my songs]. I surrender to that and say, ‘I’m not going to win America’s Got Talent,’” Quaid added with a chuckle. BOISE WEEKLY.COM
MUSIC GUIDE CYMRY—2 p.m. FREE. Artistblue DJ MALLWALKER—11 p.m. FREE. Neurolux THE DODOS—With Springtime Carnivore. 7 p.m. $15. Neurolux EMILY STANTON BAND—8 p.m. FREE. Cylos EPISTOLARY—With Figure 8, Love-Lace, Cameron, Position High and The Headcases. 6 p.m. $10. The Shredder ERIC GRAE—6 p.m. FREE. Berryhill FLEET STREET KLEZMER BAND—4 p.m. FREE. Artistblue FRANK MARRA—5:30 p.m. FREE. Chandlers HIGHLANDERS PIPES & DRUMS—7:30 p.m. FREE. Highlands Hollow
CHUCK SMITH—5:30 p.m. FREE. Chandlers
DAN COSTELLO SOLO GUITAR— 5:30 p.m. FREE. Chandlers
IDAHO JAZZ SOCIETY: BILL ANSCHELLE & BRENT JENSEN—7 p.m. $15-$20. Sapphire Room
OPEN MIC—8 p.m. FREE. WilliB’s
OPEN MIC WITH REBECCA SCOTT & ROB HILL—8 p.m. FREE. Pengilly’s PUNK MONDAY—9 p.m. FREE. Liquid
RADIO BOISE TUESDAY: SKITTISH ITZ—With Ancesters. 7 p.m. $5. Neurolux ROB HARDING—5 p.m. FREE. Bar 365 SPECTRAL VOICE—With Mortal Ashes and Splattered Throat. 8 p.m. $6. The Shredder
TUESDAY MARCH 17 BLAZE & KELLY—8 p.m. FREE. Sockeye Grill BOISE FIREFIGHTERS PIPES & DRUMS—6 p.m. FREE. Highlands Hollow BRANDON PRITCHETT—8 p.m. FREE. Reef CHUCK SMITH & DAN COSTELLO—7:30 p.m. FREE. Chandlers
Boise Firefighters Pipes & Drums ST PATRICK’S DAY PARTY: WOOLY BUGGERS—8:30 p.m. FREE. Piper
V E N U E S Don’t know a venue? Visit www.boiseweekly.com for addresses, phone numbers and a map. Hillfolk Noir
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HILLFOLK NOIR—9:30 p.m. FREE. Juniper HOT PANDA—8 p.m. $5. Crazy Horse KELLY & JAKE—7 p.m. FREE. High Note PILOT ERROR—10 p.m. $5. Reef
SUNDAY MARCH 15 THE ATTIC ENDS—7 p.m. $5. The Crux NOCTURNUM! INDUSTRIAL GOTH DJS—9:30 p.m. FREE. Liquid THE SIDEMEN: GREG PERKINS & RICK CONNOLLY—5:30 p.m. FREE. Chandlers STEEL BEARING HAND—With Alpha Ascension and Kunk. 8 p.m. $5. The Shredder TALIB KWELI & IMMORTAL TECHNIQUE—With Niko Is, CF and Hasan Salam. Hosted by Poison Pen. 8 p.m. $22-$40. Knitting Factory
MONDAY MARCH 16 BILL COURTIAL AND CURT GONION—5 p.m. FREE. Bar 365 CHUCK SMITH & NICOLE CHRISTENSEN—7:30 p.m. FREE. Chandlers
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YOB, CRAZY HORSE, MAR. 12 “Time to wake up.” These four words, spoken by writer-philosopher Alan Watts, open Yob’s latest album, Clearing the Path to Ascend (Neurot, 2014). Other metal bands might employ a sound clip like this as a joke or a tongue-in-cheek warning of the sonic barrage to come. Yob isn’t quite like other metal bands. Formed by lead singer-guitarist Mike Scheidt in 1996, the Eugene, Ore.-based doom metal trio mixes growled vocals, rocksteady tempos and monolithic riffs with ruminations on existence and mortality. The lyrics reflect Scheidt’s long-standing interest in writers like Watts and Eastern philosophy. Yob’s balance of power and mindfulness has garnered a lot of attention lately. Rolling Stone picked Clearing as the best metal album of 2014. Stereogum’s Michael Nelson called the group “the best doom band in the world today.” That heady praise promises an eye-opening experience. —Ben Schultz With UZALA and Ecstatic Vision. 9 p.m., $10 adv., $12 door. Crazy Horse, 1519 W. Main St., 208-982-4294, crazyhorseboise. com.
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REC NEWS
JES SICA MURRI
RECREATION BABES IN BOOTS
Mamma Jamma Rail Jam jumps hurdles A warm winter will affect whitewater.
RAFTERS LOOK AT SUBPAR RIVER PREDICTIONS While area ski resorts have suffered from this season’s warm winter weather, the disappointing snowpack hasn’t been great news for river enthusiasts, either. Nearly 50 members of the Idaho Whitewater Association gathered last week at Cascade Outfitters in Garden City to hear from Ron Abramovich, a water supply specialist at the Natural Resources Conservation Service. Abramovich is also an avid rafter, and he offered a forecast for this year’s boating season. “We’ve got to look to our neighbors to see how good we’ve got it,” Abramovich said, showing a powerpoint slide of Snow Telemetry—or SNOTEL—sites in the west. The slide showed snowpacks as little as 9 percent of normal in Oregon and Washington. Idaho’s range was anywhere from 51 percent of normal in the panhandle, to 90 percent of normal along the Salmon River. SNOTEL sites in northern Idaho are at a record low, tied with stats collected back in 1977. “There’s pockets of good, like the Salmon, but those are isolated,” Abramovich said. “It’s the warm temperatures and rain that killed us in February.” According to the National Weather Service, last month was the warmest February in the Treasure Valley since record collecting started in 1940. Abramovich explained how two pockets of warm water along the country’s coasts have kept the jet stream away from us. “The closer you get to Montana, the better the snowpack,” he said, explaining how the Lochsa and Selway rivers look good, with snowpack ranging from 83 to 100 percent of normal. But in 2013, they were pushing 150 percent of normal, so waters on the Lochsa won’t be as high as last year’s Memorial Day weekend, when the popular Lochsa Madness float takes place. Abramovich said to expect a whitewater season with peaks slightly smaller and shorter than last year’s. He also expects early runoff. As of March 5, Lucky Peak Reservoir is already 81 percent full, and Hells Canyon also looks good, along with the Snake River. The Owyhee and Bruneau rivers will suffer, though. “Hey, “ someone yelled from the audience. “At least we’re not in California.” —Jessica Murri 22 | MARCH 11–17, 2015 | BOISEweekly
JESSICA MURRI Self-described “snowboarder girl” Brittany Roper came up with the idea for an all-girls rail jam after years of competing in co-ed events. One competition in particular got her thinking about the need for a female-led contest: The first-place men’s division winner walked away with a brand new snowboard while Roper, who came in second in the women’s division, got a beanie and two identical T-shirts. She wasn’t impressed. “It was basically swag,” she said. “Like, stuff you would throw out to the crowd.” She got sick of the arguments for why girls don’t get the same attention as guys in freestyle ski and snowboard competitions: girls aren’t throwing down as big of tricks, there aren’t very many girls competing and they’re just not as good. “If you have these wimpy prizes for girls, what are you telling them?” she said. “It’s like, OK, well I’m not going to go out there and bust myself for a beanie and a T-shirt. Whereas when there’s more at stake, then maybe I’ll be compelled to try harder.” So she decided to put on a rail jam with the help of a handful of sponsors including Snow Bunny Magazine, the Boardroom, Eco Lounge, Proof, Prestige Skateshop, Faction Skis, K2 and more. Except hers would be all for women. It was called Mamma Jamma. Putting on the rail jam hasn’t been easy, though. The first Mamma Jamma Rail Jam took place last March at Gateway Parks in Eagle. Originally set for the end of March, she had to move it up a week at the last minute, before the snow melted. This year, she had a similar scramble. “The graphic designer had just sent over the poster, so we were ready to print it off,” Roper said. “The next day, I get a call from Gateway Parks and they’re like, ‘We’re not going to make it. It’s been way too warm.’” She started scrambling again, trying to find a venue for the rail jam, which was scheduled for March 8. She talked Bogus Basin into hosting at its terrain park on Mambo Meadows. She had the whole vision laid out: giant speakers bumping good music, spectators on the yurt deck, backpacks of beer, girls skiing and snowboarding down the park rails. Roper hit another bump when Bogus Basin announced shortened spring hours the day before, closing the lifts at 4:30 p.m. Her event had been scheduled for 4 p.m.
The second annual Mamma Jamma Rail Jam attracted 16 freestyle skiers and snowboarders. “That’s huge for our local scene,” said organizer Brittany Roper.
Despite the hiccups, Mamma Jamma took place on Sunday afternoon under a brilliant blue sky and atop soft, springtime snow. The event was held in Steward’s Bowl on the front side of the mountain—sans giant speakers, sans backpacks of beer and sans the large group of spectators. Sixteen girls signed up to compete anyway, which Roper considered a success. “That’s huge for our local scene,” she said. “Typically at a competition, a big turnout is when four girls show up.” The riders ranged from 27 years old, to 7-anda-half. They paid a registration fee of $15 each and slid across platforms, canons, rails and jumps for almost an hour as three judges kept score. At the bottom, they’d hike back up again on snow practically melting beneath them. Aubrey Davis was the youngest competitor. She started snowboarding at 3 years old, when her dad couldn’t keep her off the slopes any longer. “I was going to have her wait a little while before I had her start snowboarding, but she really wanted to go,” said her father, Josh Davis. “Who am I to tell her no?” He doesn’t do much park stuff anymore, but Josh coached Aubrey on her way down the course. She tackled the jumps fearlessly, but every once in awhile, her legs didn’t give her enough speed and she’d have to scoot her way over the snow mounds. At the bottom of the course, Josh would meet her and carry her snowboard up the hill. “This is a great chance to get her alongside a bunch of other females and have some awesome role models to look up to,” he said. “They embrace her and make her feel like she’s one of them and that’s awesome.”
Dylan Sifford was pretty beat up by the end. “You can put my middle name in there, too, if you want,” she said. “It’s Renee. So people know I’m a girl.” The 25-year-old helped Roper come up with the idea for an all-female rail jam and created the name Mamma Jamma. She was also sick of seeing girls treated more like “tag-alongs to the dudes.” “We wanted to change that and make a more tight community, and we definitely accomplished that,” she said. Sifford likes the vibe of the rail jam, but she struggled with her own tricks throughout. “I got first [place] in a slopestyle last week, and at last year’s Mamma Jamma, I came in second,” she said. “But I ate a lot of shit today. Way more than usual.” Roper thinks it’s important to have more all-girls events like this so women like Sifford are more encouraged to try harder tricks. She said it makes a big difference when females ride together, versus surrounded by men. “Sometimes when girls see guys do tricks, they’re like, ‘Well, they’re just better than me, I can’t do that,’” Roper said. “But when you get girls who are riding together, you see them do something and you’re like, ‘Well maybe I can do that, too.’” Sifford came in third, nursing her new bruises with a beer at the lodge during the awards ceremony. She was good with that. “I ate so much shit,” she said, “but I was going for it.” Next year, Roper said she’s definitely going to schedule the event for January, when she knows there will be enough snow. BOISE WEEKLY.COM
AMANDA NAGY, SVFF
SCREEN STARS SHINE AT SUN VALLEY FILM FESTIVAL
Festival-goers, films and famous people come together at SVFF 2015
STARTS FRIDAY, MARCH 13
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Perhaps it was the elevation (the Roundhouse Restaurant sits atop Mt. Baldy at 7,700 feet), but Clint Eastwood suddenly appeared in front of me. I swear I never saw him walk into the room but as soon as I saw him, I heard the theme from The Good, the Bad and the Ugly playing in my head. As he began to survey the room, that Eastwood squint nearly made me jump out of my boots… until I remembered I wasn’t wearing boots: the March 7 dinner to honor Eastwood with the Sun Valley Film Festival’s Vision Award was a semi-formal affair. Making the scene even more surreal was a full moon just outside the Roundhouse’s window, providing a perfect spotlight. Eastwood was a class act and graciously entertained a few questions. “First off, I should tell you that I love Sun Valley,” Eastwood said as the crowd around us began to swell. “The film festival folks have been kind enough to give me this award tonight, and I think that’s a pretty good deal.” Eastwood has won five Oscars (he has been nominated 12 times), he’s the recipient of France’s Legion d’Honneur medal, plus he has been feted for a lifetime achievement award by the Kennedy Center Honors. “Yeah, I’ve been doing this for a while,” Eastwood said. “I’ve been in the business for 63 years and honestly, I don’t think I’m even 63-yearsold,” he added, laughing. “Now, how did I pull that off?” (For the record, Eastwood is 84). From Rawhide to American Sniper, Eastwood’s career is legend. “But you never know about this business. It’s a lot of hard work but it takes even more luck,” Eastwood said. “And tonight, I’m lucky to know all of you,” he added, gesturing to the crowd. Eastwood’s appearance was the penultimate event of the five-day Sun Valley Film Festival. I was not only fortunate enough to have a front-row seat to much of it, but, on a couple of
Clockwise from top: Boise Weekly’s George Prentice hosts a Sun Valley Film Festival Coffee Talk with actor Bill Paxton; screen icon Clint Eastwood mingles with guests at an invite-only event honoring his achievements in film; and Prentice talks with Sundance Film Festival programming director Trevor Groth.
occasions, I took the host’s seat when festival organizers asked me to moderate two popular Coffee Talk sessions at Ketchum’s NexStage Theatre: the first with Trevor Groth, director of programming for the Sundance Film Festival; the second with Bill Paxton, star of Apollo 13, Twister, Titanic and other audience favorites. Paxton said he was particularly excited to be able to tell Eastwood—face to face—how much he meant to him professionally. “He was my idol as a boy. He’s still my idol today. He’s a true auteur, in the same vein as Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd and Woody Allen. He does it all,” said Paxton, adding that his professional bucket list still included working for Eastwood. The 2015 edition of SVFF was perfectly accessible to film fans. Thousands of attendees were able to get face-time with some of the industry’s finest screenwriters, such as Craig Borten (Dallas Buyer’s Club), Jim Rash and Nat Faxon (The Descendants), and Stephen Gaghan (Traffic); directors like Seth Gordon (Horrible Bosses, Identity Thief); and producers such as Heather Rae (Frozen River, Magic Valley) and Lauren Selig (Begin Again, Lone
Survivor). Several workshops, featuring works-inprogress, saw budding filmmakers sit alongside movie fans to get an inside-the-ropes look at the creative process of turning a raw script into a feature-length film. “This was a really big year for us. We got some great talent. We went a day longer this year and I think we pulled it off,” said SVFF Director Candice Pate, adding that she had little desire to expand the festival too much, at least vertically. “You know, I don’t think we want to get too big,” she said. “This was the first year where I finally relaxed about the size of the festival, and started to shift the focus toward quality over quantity. I think a big part of the reason this works so well is that it’s still relatively small; it’s an intimate, accessible experience.” As for next year? “What day is it today?” she asked, knowing SVFF 2016 planning will have to begin soon. “We start working on next year sooner than you think.” See more of Boise Weekly’s SVFF 2015 coverage on boiseweekly.com/blogs/Cobweb.
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WINESIPPER GLOBAL CHARDONNAY
2012 CHEHALEM INOX CHARDONNAY, $21 The back label on this Oregon wine states, “No oak was harmed in the making of this wine.” Many people love big, oaky chardonnays, but they can be a bit overwhelming when pairing with food. Sans oak, this wine’s fruit aromas and flavors shine through. Spicy peach, pear, lime and apple come through on the nose, with bright, lively citrus in the mouth. Pair it with everything from oysters and olives to pasta and pork chops. 2013 HENRI PERRUSSET MACON-VILLAGES, $21 When it comes to chardonnay, French Burgundy sets the standard. This wine from the Maconnais region of southern Burgundy opens with supple tropical and stone fruit aromas. It’s a beautifully balanced wine that, like the Chehalem, sees no oak. Ripe, creamy apricot flavors segue into a crisp, citrusy finish. This wine was the panel’s overwhelming favorite. 2013 OYSTER BAY CHARDONNAY, $13.99 New Zealand may be better known for its racy sauvignon blancs, but this Marlborough entry proves the country has a way with chardonnay. The wine opens with peach and tropical fruit aromas, just a touch of oak and bits of butter and bacon. Soft oak also colors the palate, melding nicely with the crisp citrus flavors. An exceptional value from Down Under. —David Kirkpatrick 24 | MARCH 11–17, 2015 | BOISEweekly
FOOD
JENNY BOWLER
The ABC (Anything But Chardonnay) club still has its members, but the ranks are on the wane—and with good reason. The versatile chardonnay grape is planted in almost every wine region and can result in an outstanding wine. The trick is to not over-manipulate the grape and let the terroir come through. The panel’s top picks follow that axiom to the letter:
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Plus Main Street Deli and Capitol Cellars open TARA MORGAN Reel Foods Fish Market is on the market. Ocean Beauty Seafoods, based in Seattle, bought Boise’s iconic seafood market from owners Don and Linda Elder 15 years ago. In 2012, Ocean Beauty moved Reel Foods from its original location at 304 S. Americana Blvd. to its current storefront at 911 Capitol Blvd. “That move took a fair amount of resources and cash but it was a considerably better location,” said Peter Blatz, business development manager at Ocean Beauty. “Business has been good, it’s been pretty steady, but it has not met the expectations of Ocean Beauty corporate.” So now, Reel Foods—which has $142,900 in total assets and pulls in $722,715 in gross sales, according to business brokerage firm Arthur Berry and Company—is on the market for $125,000. “There’s actually two interested parties looking at the store right now,” said Blatz. “The idea is to keep it going as it has always been … and basically run it under new ownership and Ocean Beauty would be the primary supplier for all their fresh fish.” Blatz said both parties are local and have expressed an interest in keeping everything “exactly the way it is,” including keeping current employees onboard. “It’s tough to say exactly what will happen, but I know that I’ve got pretty good faith in both groups—whichever one comes out on top—that they’re very enthusiastic Reel Foods fans,” said Blatz. “You don’t tweak something if it’s working. Ever since we put the Oyster Bar in in September [2014], our sales have been steadily climbing. Unfortunately, it was not enough of an increase in sales to satisfy the partners at Ocean Beauty. But I’m confident that the right person could get in there and really run with it.” Blatz said he hopes there will be “no interruption in service at all” and wants to see Reel Foods “continue to grow and thrive.” “I think it could have a happy ending and really the winner would be the Boise community because we’d get to keep our little fish market,” he said. In downtown opening news, Main Street Deli is now serving sandwiches, salads and graband-go items at 904 W. Main St. Owner Grant Rosendahl worked at San Francisco’s Boulevard, winner of the 2012 James Beard Award for Out-
Despite steady business, Reel Foods’ Seattle-based owner Beauty Seafoods is selling it off.
standing Restaurant, before relocating to Boise. He wants to appeal to the downtown business crowd with quick-service lunch fare. “We want it to be fast. We want them to be able to come down from their office, get their meal, eat and go back up in a half hour,” said Rosendahl. “We’re trying to get our sandwiches down and ordering in under a five-minute window.” Rosendahl said his most popular sandwich so far has been the housemade Hot Pastrami ($8), which is served on a Gaston’s Bakery ciabatta roll with Swiss cheese and horseradish cream coleslaw. “We cook it in house and we’re using the sous vide method, which is cooking it under water so it maintains a certain temperature—149 degrees for 48 hours,” said Rosendahl. Other sandwich options include the Spicy Saigon Banh-Mi Pork ($8), also cooked via sous vide and served on Gaston’s whole wheat hoagie roll with a spicy cilantro cucumber slaw; and the Downtowner ($8), with turkey, bacon, avocado, provolone and a tarragon-based green goddess dressing on ciabatta. Main Street Deli also offers a selection of house-made salads—like the Latino ($7.50) with chicken, avocado, black beans, cotija cheese and corn—along with the option to build-yourown salad or sandwich. The restaurant is open Monday-Friday from 10 a.m.-5 p.m. “It’s been insane for the first week; I couldn’t believe it,” said Rosendahl. “I couldn’t have asked for anything better.” For more info on Main Street Deli, visit facebook.com/mainstreetdeliboise. In other downtown opening news, Capitol Cellars is now serving breakfast, lunch and dinner in the former District Coffeehouse space at 110 S.
Fifth St. For breakfast, the politically themed restaurant is offering DOMA coffee, served tableside in China coffee pots, along with an assortment of quiches, bagels, scones and muffins. Lunch and dinner menus are bound in vintage books and separated into First Reading, Second Reading and Third Reading categories, with Idaho political history tidbits printed in the margins. First Reading options include a Charcuterie Tasting ($19), with house-cured Loukaniko lamb sausage, Kurobuta salami and pork belly rillettes; and Gracie’s Goat Cheese Pouch ($13) with pistachio-crusted goat cheese, port-soaked cherries, balsamic syrup, figs, chives and truffle oil. Second Reading courses include Kauffman Farms barley soup ($5/$8) and the C. Ben Ross Romaine Salad ($7) with romaine hearts, green goddess dressing, balsamic reduction, goat cheese and tomato. Third Reading offerings include the Press Corp Chicken ($19.43) with pan roasted chicken breast, green pea puree, potato-prosciutto croquettes and sauteed wild mushrooms; and The Senator’s Prime Rib ($29, 12 oz.; $34.43, 16 oz.) served with an Idaho baked potato, warm horseradish sauce and au jus. The wine list boasts a handful of by-the-glass options, along with a selection of 35 wines under $35 that pay tribute to Idaho’s 35 State Senate members. Capitol Cellars is open Monday-Saturday and closed on Sunday. The restaurant opens for breakfast at 7 a.m., serves lunch from 11:30 a.m.2 p.m. and offers a paired-down “Recess” menu from 2-5:30 p.m. Dinner is served from 5:30-9 p.m., Monday-Thursday, and 5:30-10 p.m. Friday-Saturday. For more info on Capitol Cellars, visit capitolcellarsllc.com. BOISE WEEKLY.COM
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Karl J. Cavanaugh, 83, of Boise, ID, died Saturday, February 28th with his loving wife, Shirley McAndrew Cavanaugh, by his side. The couple would have celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary this September. Born in Scranton, Pennsylvania he
was the son of Thomas H. and Mae Hensley Cavanaugh. Karl served in the United States Air Force from 1950 through 1954 in Korea during the Korean War. A skilled craftsman, Karl was a member of the Carpenter and Millwrights Union for 50 years and retired from General Dynamics Land Systems in Eynon, PA. A resident of Montdale, PA for more than 55 years, Karl was heavily involved in the community. He was a member of the Scott Township Lions Club for nearly 40 years; the Knights of Columbus; VFW; American Legion; and a longtime parishioner at St. John Vianney Church. Karl was very proud of his Military Service and was extremely civic-minded, he was inducted into the Pennsylvania Voter Hall of Fame in 2011 for voting in every election for over 50 consecutive years. In Boise, Karl was a member of St. John’s Cathedral; the local chap-
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Karl was preceded in death by two sons, James P. Cavanaugh and John J Cavanaugh; three brothers, Thomas “Bud”, Clifford and David Cavanaugh; four sisters, Helen, Mary Rose Gerrity, Sylvia O’Neill and Barbara Costelloe; and three brother-in-laws, Frank Gerrity, Joseph O’Neill and Daniel Costelloe. For online condolences, visit www.margottafuneralhomes.com
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ter of The Knights of Columbus and helped distribute the Boise Weekly each Wednesday. Karl loved to golf, especially each July in a tournament in memory of his son, John. He also loved reading the newspaper and watching sports on television, particularly Notre Dame and Penn State football games. Most of all, Karl loved spending time with his family and friends, sharing laughs and stories and creating lasting memories. He will be dearly missed by everyone that knew him. Also surviving are a son, Jeff Cavanaugh and his wife, Sandy, Jessup, PA; a daughter, Jill Weigel and husband, Greg, Boise, ID; four grandchildren, Jeff Cavanaugh and his wife, Erika, Jessup, PA; Tom Cavanaugh, Nashville, TN; Thaddeus Weigel, Princeton, NJ; and Dessie Weigel, Walla Walla, WA; a sister-in-law, Ann Cavanaugh, Memphis, TN; and many nieces and nephews.
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PUB. FEB. 25, Mar. 4 & 11, 2015. IN THE DISTRICT COURT FOR THE 4TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT FOR THE STATE OF IDAHO, IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF ADA IN RE: April Nicole Davis Legal Name Case No. CV NC 1502023 NOTICE OF HEARING ON NAME CHANGE(Adult) A Petition to change the name of April Nicole Davis, now residing in the City of Boise, State of Idaho, has been filed in the District Court in Ada County, Idaho. The name will change to April Nicole McConnell. The reason for the change in name is divorce. A hearing on the petition is scheduled for 130 o’clock p.m. on (date) March 24, 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 February 12, 2015 CHRISTOPHER D. RICH CLERK OF THE DISTRICT COURT By: DEIRDE PRICE DEPUTY CLERK PUB Feb. 25, Mar. 4, 11 & 18, 2015. IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT OF THE STATE OF IDAHO, IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF ADA In the matter of the application of: ANTHONY I. SEITZ,
for change of name. CASE NO. CVNC 1422943 NOTICE OF HEARING ON NAME CHANGE (Minor) A Petition to change the name of Anthony I. Seitz, a minor, 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 Ashley Kayy Spencer. The reason for the change in name is the minor child is transitioning her gender and desires to change her first and middle name to reflect this transition. The minor child desires to change her surname to reflect that of her siblings. A hearing on the petition is scheduled for 1:30 o’clock p. m. on March 24, 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.
accompany his vocals, he played an acoustic guitar and harmonica. By 1963, his career had skyrocketed. Critics called him a creative genius. Pop stars were recording the songs he wrote, making him rich. But he still kept his instrumentation simple, relying entirely on his acoustic guitar and harmonica. That changed in 1965, when he made the leap to rock and roll. For the first time, his music featured a full drum set and electric guitar, bass, and keyboards. Some of his fans were offended. How dare he renounce his folk roots? I wonder if it might be time for you to consider a comparable transition, Leo. Are you willing to risk disorienting or disturbing those who would prefer you to stay as you are?
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Dated this 12th day of February, 2015. CLERK OF THE DISTRICT COURT Christopher D. Rich By: Deirdre Price Deputy Clerk PUB FEB 25, MAR 4, 11, 18, 2015.
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NOTICE OF HEARING ON NAME CHANGE (Adult) A Petition to change the name of Brandon Gregory Brown, now residing in the City of Boise, State of Idaho, has been filed in the District Court in Ada County, Idaho. The name will change to Brandon Jeffrey Gehman. The reason for the change in name is: to take the name of the man who raised me my entire life. A hearing on the petition is scheduled for 130 o’clock p.m. on (date) March 24, 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.
NOTICE OF HEARING ON NAME CHANGE (Adult) A Petition to change the name of Margarita Maria Lorenz, now residing in the City of Boise, State of Idaho, has been filed in the District Court in Ada County, Idaho. The name will change to Margarita Katniss Cale. The reason for the change in name is: I would like to carry the last name of my father who raised me from young. A hearing on the petition is scheduled for 130 o’clock p.m. on (date) APR 07, 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 FEB 12, 2015 CHRISTOPHER D. RICH CLERK OF THE DISTRICT COURT By: DEIRDE PRICE DEPUTY CLERK PUB FEB. 25, MAR. 4, 11, & 18, 2015.
Date FEB 19, 2015 CHRISTOPHER D. RICH CLERK OF THE DISTRICT COURT By: DEIRDE PRICE DEPUTY CLERK PUB March 4, 11, 18 & 25, 2015.
FREE WILL ASTROLOGY ARIES (March 21-April 19): In the old Superman comics, Mister Mxyztplk was a fiendish imp whose home was in the fifth dimension. He sometimes sneaked over into our world to bedevil the Man of Steel with pranks. There was one sure way he could be instantly banished back to his own realm for a long time: If Superman fooled him into saying his own name backwards. You might think it would be hard to trick a magic rascal into saying “Klptzyxm” when he knew very well what the consequences would be, but Superman usually succeeded. I’d like to suggest that you have a similar power to get rid of a bugaboo that has been bothering you, Aries. Don’t underestimate your ability to outsmart the pest. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): In 1637, mathematician Pierre de Fermat declared that he had solved the “Last Theorem,” a particularly knotty mathematical problem. Unfortunately, he never actually provided the proof that he had done so. The mystery remained. Other math experts toiled for centuries looking for the answer. It wasn’t until 1994, more than 350 years later, that anyone succeeded. I think you are on the verge of discovering a possible solution to one of your own longrunning riddles, Taurus. It may take a few more weeks, but you’re almost there. Can you sense that twinkle in your third eye? Keep the faith.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Your upcoming efforts might not be flawless in all respects, but I suspect you will triumph anyway. You may not even be completely sure of what you want, but I bet you’ll get a reward you didn’t know you were looking for. Cagey innocence and high expectations will be your secret weapons. Dumb luck and crazy coincidences will be your X-factors. Here’s one of your main tasks: As the unreasonable blessings flow in your direction, don’t disrupt or obstruct the flow. CANCER (June 21-July 22): As soon as a baby loggerhead turtle leaves its nest on a Florida beach, it heads for the ocean. It’s only 2-inches long. Although it can swim just one mile every two hours, it begins an 8,000-mile journey that takes 10 years. It travels east to Africa, then turns around and circles back to where it originated. Along the way it grows big and strong as it eats a wide variety of food, from corals to sea cucumbers to squid. Succeeding at such an epic journey requires a stellar sense of direction and a prodigious will to thrive. I nominate the loggerhead turtle to be your power animal for the coming weeks, Cancerian. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): In 1961, 19-year-old Bob Dylan began doing solo performances of folk songs at New York clubs. To
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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “Whoever travels without a guide needs 200 years for a two-day journey.” That’s an old Sufi saying sometimes attributed to the poet Rumi. I don’t think it’s accurate in all cases. Sometimes we are drawn to wander into frontiers that few people have visited and none have mastered. There are no guides! On other occasions, we can’t get the fullness of our learning experience unless we are free to stumble and bumble all by ourselves. A knowledgeable helper would only interfere with that odd magic. But right now, Virgo, I believe the Sufi saying holds true for you. Where you’re
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): There’s a meme rolling around Tumblr and Facebook that goes like this: “Everyone wants a magical solution for their problems, but they refuse to believe in magic.” Judging from the astrological omens, I think this Internet folk wisdom applies to your current situation. As I see it, you have two choices. If you intend to keep fantasizing about finding a magical solution, you will have to work harder to believe in magic. But if you can’t finagle your brain into actually believing in magic, you should stop fantasizing about a magical solution. Which will it be? SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): I have taken a passage from a letter that Henry Miller wrote to Anais Nin, and I have chopped it up and rearranged it and added to it so as to create an oracle that’s perfect for you right now. Ready? “This is the wild dream: you with your chameleon’s soul being anchored always in no matter what storm, sensing you are at home wherever you are. You asserting yourself, getting the rich varied life you desire; and the more you assert yourself, the more you love going deeper, thicker, fuller. Resurrection after resurrection: that’s your gift, your promise. The insatiable delight of constant change.”
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): One of your important assignments in the coming week is to get high without the use of drugs and alcohol. Let me elaborate. In my oracular opinion, you simply must escape the numbing trance of the daily rhythm. Experiencing altered states of awareness will provide you with crucial benefits. At the same time, you can’t afford to risk hurting yourself, and it’s essential to avoid stupidly excessive behavior that has negative repercussions. So what do you think? Do you have any methods to get sozzled and squiffed or jiggled and jingled that will also keep you sane and healthy? CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Singer Gloria Gaynor recorded the song “I Will Survive” in 1978. It sold more than 2 million copies and ultimately became an iconic disco anthem. Yet it was originally the B-side of “Substitute,” the song that Gaynor’s record company released as her main offering. Luckily, radio DJs ignored “Substitute” and played the hell out of “I Will Survive,” making it a global hit. I foresee the possibility of a similar development for you, Capricorn. What you currently consider to be secondary should perhaps be primary. A gift or creation or skill you think is less important could turn out to be pre-eminent.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): I’m tempted to furrow my brow and raise my voice as I tell you to please please please go out and do the dicey task you’ve been postponing. But that would just be a way to vent my frustration, and probably not helpful or constructive for you. So here’s my wiser advice: To prepare for that dicey task, lock yourself in your sanctuary until you figure out what you first need to change about yourself before you can accomplish the dicey task. I think that once you make the inner shift, doing the deed will be pretty easy. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): In the fairy tale “The Ugly Duckling,” the young hero suffers from a peculiar case of mistaken identity. He believes that he is a duck. All of his problems stem from this erroneous idea. By duck standards, he is a homely mess. He gets taunted and abused by other animals, goes into exile, and endures terrible loneliness. In the end, though, his anguish dissolves when he finally realizes that he is in fact a swan. United with his true nature, he no longer compares himself to an inappropriate ideal. Fellow swans welcome him into their community, and he flies away with them. Is there anything in this story that resonates with you, Pisces? I’m guessing there is. It’s high time to free yourself from false notions about who you really are. BOISE WEEKLY.COM
IN THE DISTRICT COURT FOR THE FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT FOR THE STATE OF IDAHO, IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF ADA IN RE: Brittany Elizabeth Barr Legal Name Case No. CV NC 1501017 NOTICE OF HEARING ON NAME CHANGE (Adult) A Petition to change the name of Brittany Elizabeth Barr, now residing in the City of Boise, State of Idaho, has been filed in the District Court in Ada County, Idaho. The name will change to Jaiden Mikah Gregory. The reason for the change in name is personal reason & freedom to feel like myself. A hearing on the petition is scheduled for 130 o’clock p.m. on (date) April 2, 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 JAN 28 2015 CHRISTOPHER D. RICH CLERK OF THE DISTRICT COURT By: DEBRA URIZAR DEPUTY CLERK PUB MAR. 4, 11, 18 & 25, 2015. IN THE DISTRICT COURT FOR THE FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT FOR THE STATE OF IDAHO, IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF ADA IN RE: LAUREL JANE WALKER Legal Name Case No. CV NC 1502627 NOTICE OF HEARING ON NAME CHANGE (Adult) A Petition to change the name of LAUREL JANE WALKER, now residing in the City of Boise, State of Idaho, has been filed in the District Court in Ada County, Idaho. The name will change to LAUREL JANE OSTERHOUT. The reason for the change in name is: returning to my maiden name. A hearing on the petition is scheduled for 130 o’clock p.m. on (date) April 14, 2015 at the Ada County
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Courthouse. Objections may be filed by any person who can show the court a good reason against the name change. Date FEB 25 2015 CHRISTOPHER D. RICH CLERK OF THE DISTRICT COURT By: DEIRDE PRICE DEPUTY CLERK PUB March 11, 18, 25 & April 1, 2015. IN THE DISTRICT COURT FOR THE 4TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT FOR THE STATE OF IDAHO, IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF ADA IN RE: DANIELLE MARIE MORGAN Legal Name Case No. CV NC 1502754 NOTICE OF HEARING ON NAME CHANGE (Adult) A Petition to change the name of DANIELLE MARIE MORGAN, now residing in the City of Boise, State of Idaho, has been filed in the District Court in Ada County, Idaho. The name will change to DANIEL AEDYN MORGAN. The reason for the change in name is: Personal Reasons. A hearing on the petition is scheduled for 130 o’clock p.m. on (date) APR 14, 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 FEB 25 2015 CHRISTOPHER D. RICH CLERK OF THE DISTRICT COURT By: DEIRDE PRICE DEPUTY CLERK PUB March 11, 18, 25 & April 1, 2015. LEGAL NOTICE SUMMONS BY PUBLICATION CASE NO. CV 14 10445 IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE THIRD JUDICIAL DISTRICT OF THE STATE OF IDAHO IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF CANYON, Fieldcrest Village Subdivision Neighborhood Association, Inc., Plaintiff, v. Roberto Acosta and Ana Cabrera Acosta, Defendants. TO: ANA CABRERA ACOSTA You
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have been sued by Fieldcrest Village Subdivision Neighborhood Association, Inc., the Plaintiff, in the District Court of the Third Judicial District in and for Canyon County, Idaho, Case No. CV 14 10445. The nature of the claim against you is for unpaid homeowner association assessments, more particularly described in the Complaint. Any time after twenty (20) days following the last publication of this Summons, the Court may enter a judgment against you without further notice, unless prior to that time you have filed a written response in the proper form, including the case number., and paid any required filing fee to: Clerk of the Court, Canyon County Courthouse 1115 Albany Caldwell, Idaho 83605 Telephone (208) 454-7300 and served a copy of your response on the Plaintiff’s attorney at : Jeremy O. Evans of VIAL FOTHERINGHAM LLP, 12828 LaSalle Dr Ste 101, Boise, ID 83702, Telephone 208-629-4567, Facsimile 208-392-1400. A copy of the Summons and Complaint can be obtained by contacting either the Clerk of the court or the attorney for Plaintiiff. If you wish legal assistance, you should immediately retain an attorney to advise you in this matter. DATED this 25 day of Feb., 2015. CLERK OF THE DISTRICT COURT CHRIS YAMAMOTO PUB. FEB. 11, 18, 25 & APR. 1, 2015.
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BW KICKS To the douchebags that ran over my nephew’s dog on Victory Rd. between Maple Grove and 5 Mile on the night of March 3rd around midnight and didn’t bother to stop to see if you actually killed her or not. Her name was Molly and she was very much loved by her family. SHAME ON YOU. Someday you are going to wish a stranger stops to help you when you are in need. Karma is a BITCH, and she is looking for you. P.S. The people behind you stopped to pull over off the road and read her tags so they could contact the owners. People like you don’t deserve to be forgiven.
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1. American Sniper ($337.2 million) 2. The Hunger Games: MockingjayPart 1 ($336.9 million) 3. Guardians of the Galaxy ($333.1 million) 4. Captain America: The Winter Soldier ($259.7 million) 5. The LEGO Movie ($257.7 million) 6. The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies ($254.4 million) 7. Transformers: Age of Extinction ($245.4 million)
Joe Freeman: It’s called “freedom of religion” not “freedom of Your religion.” Carol Thacker Pullen: She does not deserve to be in office. She should research why our forefathers came to this country. It was because of religious exclusion and so they purposely did not indicate “Christian” in the Constitution, because they wanted this country to be a haven for
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Number of adjuncts employed by Boise State University as part-time instructors during the 2014 spring semester (Boise Weekly)
all religions. She basically indicated by her deeds that she only represents those she personally identifies with. ... Would it have been so hard to just be respectful and kind? No one told her she had to start living along the lines of another religion. Many paths to get there, let each go their own way and respect their process. Dan Conlin: I feel sorry for them, their God is so small, timid and weak that it gives them no courage to be present for another viewpoint. True faith doesn’t hide in the hallway!
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8. Maleficent ($241.4 million) 9. X-Men: Days of Future Past ($233.9 million) 10. Big Hero 6 ($221.3 million) (Source: boxofficemojo.com.)
READER COMMENTS From our most-shared Facebook post, March 3-9, “Religious Leaders Call for Apology from Idaho Senator Over ‘False Gods’ Comment”:
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Justin Goodman: What of her equality? Why is she not able to worship as she believes without ridicule? And to deny how deeply rooted Christianity is in this country is a bit ridiculous. As for actual demographics we are overwhelmingly Christian country by simple majority. Jeff Probst: Really, part of being an American is freedom of religion, which includes freedom from it. If somebody has something to saythat goes against what I believe I have every right not to listen to it, as do elected officials! Nobody told them they couldn’t speak, they just chose not to attend,what’s the big deal?
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Never: 4.55% Once: 18.18% Twice: 13.64% Three-five times: 45.45% Ten times or more: 18.18% Disclaimer: This online poll is not i ntend ed to b e a s c i enti f i c s amp le o f l o c a l, statewi d e o r n ati o n a l o p i n i o n.
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Maximum amount of a full-time employment workload that Boise State adjuncts are allowed to work in a semester (Boise State University Policy Manual)
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