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10 COVER STORY HUSHED HUNGER How many people are silently suffering in the valley?

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4 OPINION

20 GET OUT

6 THE BUZZ

22 WELL, THAT...

14 CREATIVE PEAKS

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18 MUSIC BOX

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By Meteorologist Jim Woodmencey

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ven though February averages out to be the driest winter month, some February’s have been prolifically wet or snowy. In last week’s almanac I had 1978 listed as the snowiest February with 33 inches of snow in town. That did not seem right to me, and after further investigation I found that February 1999 was actually snowier, with 44 inches of snow for the month. Ten inches of that snow fell in one day, on February 17, 1999.

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How low can you go in February? Well, according to the historic weather records, minus 44-degrees is as cold as we have ever been in the month of February. That has happened on two occasions, once on February 1st, 1956 and once on February 18th, back in 1942. Thirty below zero or colder in February is rare, and the last time we were colder than 30-below was on February 3rd, 1996 when it hit minus 34-degrees in town.

It was 45-degrees above zero on the official thermometer in town one day last week. Last year, it had already been up to 52-degrees on February 7th, 2015. Both would pale in comparison to this week in 1982, when we reached a high temperature of 56-degrees, on February 21st. Or, back in 1947, which still holds high temperature records for 4 out of the 7 days, ranging from 55-degrees on February 17th to 49-degrees for a high on February 23rd.

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GUEST OPINION The Giving Tree As the good Earth gives, are we losing sight of what we need to protect?

BY CRAIG BENJAMIN

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t’s an ancient truth so fundamental that even a young child understands its importance. An ancient truth we forget at our own peril.

I was fortunate growing up in Seattle to have a family that loved to spend time outdoors, and I still vividly remember one particular camping trip we took to the Olympic Peninsula when I was about the same age that my nearly 7-year-old daughter Piper is now.

I remember the majestic trees in Olympic National Park, hundreds of years old, reaching high into a grey cloudy sky with moss dripping down to the ground and trunks so large that when my mom, dad, little brother and I linked arms we couldn’t wrap around them. I remember the clear cuts outside the park. Devastated moonscapes with ancient trees mowed down to gigantic stumps.

And I remember the towns we passed through as we made our way around the peninsula on Highway 101. Port Angeles, Forks, Humptulips, Hoquiam, Aberdeen, Cosmopolis. Nearly every home and business in these towns had the same sign in the window: “This family supported by timber dollars.”

I asked my parents, why? Why did these people have to cut down all the trees in order to feed their families and put a roof over their heads? They responded, “That’s just the way things are.” Since that moment I’ve spent my entire life trying to figure out why things are the way they are, and what was really going on with those families. So, what was going on?

Those families were supported by timber dollars; their wealth came from the trees. Their signs said something so basic that many of us have forgotten: all true wealth originates from resources of the earth. But what is wealth exactly?

There are three basic kinds of wealth. Dense forests, fertile soils, abundant fisheries, thick seams of coal, and oil bubbling up from the ground are all examples of primary wealth.

Secondary wealth is what we make from primary wealth. The

trees become timber, the soils grow food, the fish end up as fish sticks, the coal gets turned into electricity, and the oil becomes the gas that powers our cars. Without the trees, there can be no timber.

We create all kinds of paper abstractions that we layer on the first two sources of wealth. Shares of Weyerhaeuser, bonds, derivatives, mortgage-backed securities, money, and everything else we invent are what we’ll call tertiary wealth. This tertiary wealth is simply a claim on primary and secondary wealth; it’s not wealth itself. Just like there’s no timber without trees, there’s no value to those shares of Weyerhaeuser if the company doesn’t own any trees they can turn into timber.

Here’s the ancient truth: the earth is the source of primary wealth, and without primary wealth there’s nothing. Even as a little kid I could do math and tell that these families would be in a lot of trouble pretty soon because there weren’t many trees left. What then?

Nearly everyone who has lived in Jackson Hole has intuitively understood this ancient truth. From the Native Americans who used the valley as seasonal hunting grounds, to the early settlers who eked out a living through innovative farming techniques, to the generations of ranchers, to everyone who earns a living from tourism dollars—dollars generated from people who come here to recreate on our American public lands, and experience the natural beauty and abundant wildlife of this special place. People in Jackson Hole have always understood that the value of this place comes from the Earth. More importantly, they’ve understood the importance of stewarding our lands so our valley can continue to prosper.

This concept is so fundamental it provides the core vision of the Comprehensive Plan our community adopted in 2012: “Preserve and protect the area’s ecosystem in order to ensure a healthy environment, community and economy for current and future generations.” To accomplish this vision, our Comprehensive Plan explains that it is the community’s primary goal to permanently protect and actively steward wildlife habitat, habitat connectivity, scenic viewsheds, and agricultural open space. To achieve this goal, the plan states we should explore the establishment of a dedicated funding source for conservation easements and other measures that protect wildlife habitat, habitat connectivity, and scenery

valued by the community.

Given all of this, you’d think that if our local elected representatives engaged in a conversation about how to align our investments with our values, we would prioritize the protection of wildlife habitat and connectivity; yet as of right now, that’s not the case.

In response to the housing crisis that’s destroying our middle class and threatening the fabric of our community, and the transportation challenges that are tearing into our quality of life, our local elected representatives have directed town and county staff to come up with a plan—known as the Community Priorities Fund—to put before Teton County voters in November to support investments in housing affordable to people who work here and transportation choices through revenue from a one cent general sales tax. This is a positive step for our community and will help address two important challenges.

Here’s the thing, as Vice-President Joe Biden once famously quipped, “Don't tell me what you value; show me your budget, and I'll tell you what you value.”

Unfortunately, outside of encouraging mentions from county commissioners Barbara Allen and Mark Newcomb, along with town councilor Jim Stanford, discussions regarding the Community Priorities Fund don’t yet reflect our community’s highest value: protecting wildlife habitat and connectivity.

To get this right, our local elected representatives should allocate an appropriate percentage of the Community Priorities Fund toward the creation of a strategic program that leverages and complements existing private land conservation efforts and works innovatively to achieve our ecosystem stewardship goals.

Yes, let’s prioritize addressing our housing and transportation challenges. Let’s also address our core community priority to protect the wildlife habitat and connectivity that make this valley special. Because as Chief Sealth (the namesake of Seattle) once explained, “When the green hills are covered with talking wires and the wolves no longer sing, what good will the money you paid for our land be then.” PJH Craig Benjamin is the executive director of the Jackson Hole Conservation Alliance.

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hat month is it again? It sure doesn’t feel like February. While I was skiing last week, it was 40 degrees, and unfortunately, stayed that way all week. Looking at the upcoming week, we are in store for about the same—a few snow days and a few days in the 40s.

Getting out on Saturday, I was surprised to see snow somewhere around 9,000 feet falling as grapple. Sunday was the same. I guess I shouldn’t be surprised considering the temperatures, but historically, I remember snow falling in flakes in February.

Thanks to warming temperatures, I would feel more comfortable skiing bigger lines, as the danger of this season’s persistent slab is dissipating. But do not fully disregard the presence of slabs. With grapple falling in the high country I expect the snowpack to lose some of its newly gained stability.

Couple that with the wind and a slick surface and you can expect surface snow to slide rather easily.

The Bridger Teton Avalanche Center noted that 18 inches fell over a 24-hour period (on Sunday) with two inches of water weight. This snowfall was wet and it consolidated quickly into dangerous surface slabs.

Then again, a friend of mine just skied off the South Teton.

His report and the images I saw made it look pretty damn good. Sheltered areas seem to be holding solid snow still.

Glory pow turns may be meager, but if you look hard enough it can happen.

Stay safe friends and pray for snow.

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GUEST OPINION 2 Gleaning Knowledge from Near Death

BY SKYE SCHELL

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Certain situations prompt us to step back, slow down and ask the question, ‘Why are we here?’ didn’t get knocked out and was much more with it than me, and that his first thought was to check on the driver who hit us and make sure she was OK. I am very grateful to the first people on the scene, an awesome couple from Colorado that recently moved to Alpine. They made sure everyone was OK and let us stay warm in their “Hayduke Lives”stickered car (it was 12 degrees outside and we were at the site for a couple hours). Then to the EMTs, fire fighters, state police and county sheriff who took good care of all of us on the scene. And the good nurses and doctors and CT techs at St Johns ER, and to Aunt Mamie (a nurse!) who has us all under her watch and good cooking now, and Uncle Ron as well.

More broadly, I feel fortunate and grateful to be alive—in general, and especially today. I am extremely grateful for all the care we got and all the support I have in family and friends, and for having health insurance and a good hospital nearby, so many things I usually take for granted but am directly appreciating right now. And I have a deeper appreciation for the people I know (and don’t know) who have gone through so much worse and survived (or not survived), and the people who love them.

Getting beat up just a little bit also made me reflect on the ways in which people beat people up so much more. Somehow I feel more tuned in to the frequency of receiving high-energy physical violence and force right now. And I am sad that our country, to which I have pledged allegiance and pay taxes,

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has been responsible for so much unjust violence and torture, from slavery in the 1800s (just saw “Twelve Years a Slave;” highly recommended) to segregationist beatings in the 60s, to supporting Latin American death squads who killed Jesuit priests and peasants in the 80s, to rendition and torture nowadays and presidential candidates calling to crank up the torture dial even more. Sure, everybody else does it too, and there are lots of bad guys out there… but could we please lead by example and just stop doing torture?

Life is so fragile and fleeting, and so easy to lose—out of nowhere, without even a warning. As much as it’s a cliché, I know any day really could be the last, whether from an avalanche in the Tetons, a bomb in a war, or just a driver who inexplicably goes full speed into stopped for a school bus. So, while we’re all here right now, let’s prioritize peace and healing, however we can.

I welcome any thoughts you have on the fragility of life and how to end torture, or more mundane topics like best practices for dealing with insurance of a very totaled car, what I should replace it with, or how to care for concussions and broken noses.

Above all, I’m feeling very grateful for family, friends and my community. PJH Skye Schell works on conservation and workforce housing in Jackson and writes about sleeping in strange locations at inthebivy.tumblr.com.

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ast week I was in a nasty car crash in Star Valley. I was driving back to Jackson with my cousin Style and I had stopped for a school bus picking up kids. However, the woman driving a VW Bug behind me did not stop. She ran her car into mine at about 65 mph, sending my head into the steering wheel, which knocked me unconscious, and propelled my car into a 450-degree spin while she careened towards the school bus.

The impact also sent my vehicle into a third car with a baby in the backseat. Luckily, incredibly, thankfully, as far as I could tell, nobody else was hurt. I may have gotten the worst of it by going face-first into the steering wheel (even with a seatbelt; the airbags didn’t deploy). I ended up with a broken nose (one stitch, very haggard), concussion, whiplash, lung air pocket, and assorted other face and chest bruises. Most importantly, we’re all still alive and those kids are safe. It could have been so much worse.

I had a lot of time to reflect, driving to and from the hospital, in the ER, and at my aunt and uncle’s house. Brushing up against death brought to mind Mary Oliver’s great line: “Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?” I wonder—here, in this brief window of clarity, of seeing past the day-to-day, the myths and distractions promulgated by the TV and corporate media and false binary choices— should I do things differently?

What arose from this incident was mostly a sense of gratitude. I’m grateful that Style

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THE BUZZ Black as Coal The plight of an endangered industry is illuminated as Teton County looks for school construction funds.

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inding trenches of black coal seams carve across Powder River Basin’s infertile earth. Since the 1970s, commercial coal companies have been stripping a 200-mile-long cleft of land in northeast Wyoming that supplies the U.S. with 40 percent of its coal. Although there are still more than 100 billion short tons of coal left in the Powder River Basin, the future of coal is bleak. But while strip mining may leave massive scars on the countryside, another casualty of coal’s pending collapse is the budget hole it will leave in the Cowboy State.

In the past, royalties from coal leases on federal lands were set aside specifically for Wyoming public school construction. But the coffers are empty. Now school districts in Wyoming are looking for alternative funding two years sooner than expected. A week ago Teton County School Board trustee Keith Gingery estimated there was roughly $433 million in coal lease bonuses left to fund public school construction. To the surprise of the school board and legislators, however, legislative budget hearings last week revealed the designated fund for school construction has evaporated entirely.

Back in 2004, the Wyoming legislature voted to funnel the surplus from coal lease bonuses into a designated fund for public school construction. According to Gingery, nearly a billion dollars in school construction has been completed since then. In fact, Jackson Elementary School is a product of coal lease bonus funds. But as Teton County’s population swells, one coal school will not be enough. A capacity study ordered and funded by the state concluded that not only are Colter and Jackson Elementary schools currently over capacity by state standards, the problem will worsen in the coming years.

In an effort to get ahead of the curve, the school board petitioned the state in January for funds for a second plot of land to add a fourth elementary school by 2020. But a purchased plot of land acquired through coal lease funds at Hog Island, intended to alleviate some of the school congestion, now finds itself in limbo as the legislature “re-prioritizes” school construction funding this week.

Rep. Andy Schwartz (District 23) says he’ll attend the week’s budget hearings with an open mind but he’s uncertain what the future holds. “I need to consider funding schools in the broad context to understand how we can replace coal lease revenue,” he said.

Cowboy fuel domination In the United States, Wyoming is the number one producer of coal, the number seven producer of oil, and the number five producer of natural gas, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. With a record like that, Wyoming would appear fiscally stable. However, economic diversification rarely extends beyond natural resources, leaving the state bound to the fickle fossil fuel market.

A study by the University of Wyoming’s Center for Energy Economics predicts that if the coal industry folds, approximately one in five Wyomingites will feel the pain. The state would also lose its second largest pool of tax revenue, which funds highway construction and maintenance, water system

maintenance, and government operations.

Wyoming Governor Matt Mead, however, is not ready to let the dying dog die. Rallying behind the coal industry, Mead is spending millions of taxpayer dollars attempting to revitalize the industry. State measures to preserve the industry—things like underground coal gasification (UCG), carbon sequestration, and coal-to-liquid fuel conversion— have come under fire for being too costly and, particularly in the case of underground coal gasification, environmentally destructive. Senior advisor for the National Toxics Network, Dr. Mariann Lloyd-Smith cautioned that “UCG has been linked to a number of environmental impacts including contamination of ground water, air pollution, subsidence of the overlying terrain [creates sinkholes], and climate change exacerbation.” She also said the waste streams produced by UCG contain “mutagenic and carcinogenic pollutants” that could potentially invade groundwater supplies.

In Mead’s State of the State address, the governor referred to the Obama Administration’s “anti-coal agenda,” making reference to a political “war on coal.” President Barack Obama’s Clean Energy Act calls for a 30 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2030; Wyoming, specifically, will need to decrease its emissions by 44 percent.

But as Mead struggles to resuscitate the coal industry, Gingery is looking toward bonds and potential tax increases to make up for the loss of revenue. During his 10-year tenure in the Wyoming House of Representatives, Gingery was present for the legislature’s decision to use coal lease bonuses for public school construction. But before that revenue pool existed, Gingery pointed out that the state was still finding ways to build schools. “We used bond elections before coal lease bonuses,” Gingery explained. “They’re trickier, because you have to petition the people for the funds, but there are alternatives to coal.”

Dirty deeds Some call the coal industry’s collapse an economic decision, not a political one. Dr. Robert Godby is chair of the department of economics and finance at the University of Wyoming. “The demand for coal is falling off,” Godby told The Planet. He explained that as natural gas has become cheaper, and produces fewer greenhouse gas emissions, it would be foolish of companies not to invest in it. Especially with the advent of fracking, which has given states across the country easy and cheap access to previously unreachable natural gas.

Fracking, or hydraulic fracturing, involves shooting a highly pressurized mixture of water, undisclosed chemicals and sand into rock deep in the earth, fracturing it in order to force fuel to the surface.

Fracking is a particularly vexing topic for environmentalists due to fears of groundwater contamination, pressure-induced ground tremors, and cheap natural gas that encourage

countries to avert their focus from renewable energy technology. In Pavillion, Wyoming, located on the Wind River Reservation, a fracking debacle became the poster child for fracking-related groundwater contamination.

After five years of water quality concerns, citizens of Pavillion contacted the EPA in 2008 about the water pollution they were experiencing. Their water was discolored, had a foul taste and smell, and in one illustrious case, could be set ablaze from the tap. In 2009 the EPA sampled an assortment of ground wells in the surrounding area. The study concluded that fracking could not be ruled out as a cause of groundwater contamination, leaving many to blame fracking for the polluted wells.

But the EPA took a lot of flack from the state of Wyoming for its conclusions, and was eventually bullied into handing off the investigation to Wyoming regulators EnCana. Their findings, along with the Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality, concluded unsurprisingly, that fracking was “unlikely” to have caused contamination of well water in Pavillion.

The citizens are still fighting.

Meanwhile, coal is becoming more and more inefficient to harvest and cost-prohibitive to ship. Coal sold at market value straight from the Powder River Basin costs as little as $5 a short ton. But by the time it reaches the East Coast, it costs an average of $30 a short ton—a hike derived solely from transportation-associated costs. “So even if there were no greenhouse gas regulations and no increased stringency in the future—even if none of those things had happened and never happened in the future—coal faces a really rough ride,” Godby said.

Last month, two of the largest coal mining and processing companies in the country, Arch Coal and Alpha Natural Resource, filed for bankruptcy. Most economists believe Peabody Energy will follow suit. These are three of the largest mining companies in the Powder River Basin. Arch Coal alone supplies approximately 16 percent of America’s coal, but due to poor investments, it is now $4.5 billion in debt. In coal’s heyday in 2008, Alpha Natural Resources’ stock was selling for more than $100 a pop. Today it is a penny stock, selling for two cents a share.

“If these companies are filing for bankruptcy, obviously they are not going to be able to purchase future coal leases,” Godby said.

Gingery urges legislators to explore alternatives to coal-funded school construction even while many believe there to be nearly a half-billion dollars in coal lease funds left. “I think most of us knew back then [when they initially decided to use coal lease as a fund for schools],” Gingery said, “it might be short-lived, but we thought we should do what we could while we had the ability. I think we’ve accomplished a lot of good in the last 12 years. But the times are changing and we now need to make another smart decision for the future.”

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THE BUZZ 2 No Weed for Wyoming A third of the way through the legislative process has already left a graveyard of dead bills.

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he Legislative Budget Session convened for a full day on President’s Day as state lawmakers slogged though another busy round of work. This week, the focus is expected to zoom in on difficult budget choices.

A few early bills have already been crushed in committee as lawmakers weed through 159 registered House Bills and more than a hundred Senate Files.

Up in smoke The first week of session was tough on Rep. James Byrd. The Cheyenne Democrat brought four bills, three of which his peers had seen before. He had high hopes for two marijuana bills that were both burned down once they hit the floor.

With House Bill 3, which Byrd brought in previous years, the intent was to decriminalize possession of up to one ounce of weed with a civil fine of no more than a Benjamin.

Offenders would also not incur an arrest record for sparkin’ up. Currently, one joint can bring a misdemeanor charge with a possible year in prison and $1,000 fine. The House shot down the measure 20-39 despite support from all three Jackson Hole reps—Andy Schwartz, Ruth Ann Petroff, and Marti Halverson.

Byrd’s bid to protect out-of-state residents holding a valid medical marijuana license from being arrested over possession while in Wyoming was also a fail. The vote for the medical marijuana reciprocity bill (HB7) was closer at 21-37, with Petroff on the “nay” side that time.

Byrd was thought by some to have a decent chance at getting some traction with

a minimum wage bill but once again his peers slammed the effort, defeating HB4 by a 49-9 margin. Schwartz was the lone area representative on the losing side. The bill would have raised the state minimum wage from $5.15 to $9.50 an hour.

A controversial bill that would allow mountain lion trapping received fierce pushback from wildlife activists especially in Teton County. The bill failed introduction in a very close vote, 34-24. Had the vote taken place in a general session, the bill would have passed, but requiring a two-thirds super-majority in a budget session, it narrowly failed. Halverson was for trapping. Petroff and Schwartz voted no.

Other fails Petroff’s bid to tweak state statute for the restructuring of the Teton County Housing Authority was shot down. Teton County is unique in that it has only one municipality within the county—Jackson. Petroff was hoping to change state law that would allow for an all-commissioner housing board of five to run the Authority. House Bill 93 failed despite 33 voting for it and 19 nays. Schwartz, Petroff, and Halverson were all yeses.

Schwartz took a shot at protecting big game animals with a bill that would define and outlaw the harassment and disturbance of elk, moose or deer. Perhaps the loose definitions of harassment in the bill did not sit well with the majority on the floor. Definitions of harassment included “worries” and “annoys” among other nebulous descriptions. The bill failed 11-48, though Petroff did join Schwartz in the losing effort.

Did you know that Wyoming has provisions for a state militia? Should things hit the fan in Washington, or if zombies do indeed begin feeding on the population, Wyoming could, in an emergency, organize an “unorganized militia.” There’s only one problem.

Those older than 70 would be disqualified.

That’s not fair, Halverson thought. She cosponsored House Joint Resolution 9 that would change the age requirement for Wyoming’s rag tag apocalypse brigade from the current 17 to 70 to anyone 17 or older. The measure stalled in committee.

Buzzy bills Wyoming lawmakers continued their buzz kill on reefer with the committee approval of

Despite the support of local reps, a bill to decriminalize weed in Wyoming was shot down in the House last week 20-39.

Senate File 96, which would toughen penalties on edible marijuana. The Senate Judiciary Committee moved the bill to the Senate floor Monday with a 4-1 vote. If passed, anyone caught with three or more ounces of brownies (down from one pound) could be charged with a felony punishable by up to five years in prison. Sen. Leland Christensen was in favor.

Currently, a suspected drug runner can have his car seized and sold even without a conviction. Property or money believed to be associated with a crime is fair game and can be taken by law enforcement without a charge or conviction. Legislators attempted to change that law last session but after the bill passed both the Senate and House it was vetoed by the governor.

Lawmakers are trying again this session with similar asset forfeiture bills from both sides. HB14 and SF46 are flying through once again to the governor’s desk. HB14 was moved by the House Judiciary committee on a 6-3 vote with Halverson in favor. It passed first reading in the House, 52-6. The Senate has passed their version twice with 30-0 votes.

Up and coming?

Gov. Matt Mead had a change of heart a few years ago regarding Medicaid expansion but has yet to gather support from the Senate or the House. Though no stand-along bill has been introduced this session, Minority Floor Leader Rep. Mary Throne, D-Cheyenne, said she is confident there will be a vote on Medicaid expansion soon. Wyoming is one of 19 states that have so far rejected optional expansion.

A strongly worded letter to lawmakers from Alan Simpson (former Wyoming legislator and retired U.S. senator) and Mike

Sullivan (two-term governor of Wyoming) called for compassion and new thinking.

“These old coots know the pros and cons of Medicaid expansion that have been debated for years,” the letter read. “The Legislature needs to remove politics from the discussion.

Let’s stop talking about “what ifs” and talk about what really matters.”

Schwartz’s anticipated resort bill has yet to be filed. The Jackson Democrat introduced a bill last year that would allow resorts located within a municipality to assess and collect their own sales and property taxes. Currently, JHMR and Targhee both do so legally because they are not located within an incorporated town or city. Schwartz is hoping to level the playing field for Snow King Resort.

The effort failed last session but Schwartz said he would try again this year. No bill has been filed so far.

Only in Wyoming

A bill that would allow people to hang on to their guns (up to three) and ammo (1,000 rounds) in the event they declared bankruptcy flew through the Senate Judiciary Committee. SF10 would make exempt up to $3,000 worth of firearms and bullets from bankruptcy lawyers trying to liquidate assets in order to pay creditors.

The bill that would allow people to scoop up the elk they ran over and throw it in the back of the truck died once again in committee. HB143 never made it across the road or to the House floor before it was struck down and killed. PJH

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Intelligent Design

NEWS OF THE

WEIRD

Wired.com’s most recent “Absurd Creature” feature shows a toad devouring a larva of a much-smaller beetle, but the “absurdity” is that the larva is in charge and that the toad will soon be beetle food. The larva’s Darwinian advantage is that, inside the toad, it bites the hapless “predator” with its hooked jaws and then secretes enzymes to begin decomposing the toad’s tissue (making it edible)—and provoking it to vomit the still-alive larva.

Great Achievements in Laziness

An 80-year-old man and a 37-year-old woman were ticketed in separate incidents in Canada the week of Jan. 18 when police spotted them driving cars completely caked in snow except for a small portion of the windshield. The man, from Brussels, Ontario, was driving a car resembling a “pile of snow on the road.” The Halifax, Nova Scotia, woman’s car was, a police statement said, “a snowbank with four wheels.”

By CHUCK SHEPHERD a suspect a few days after the collision when police, visiting his home, noticed freshly disturbed earth in his backyard. Eventually Lemek confessed to literally burying the evidence—using a construction vehicle to crush his truck and an excavator to dig up his backyard and drop the truck into it.

n The 20-year New York marriage of Gabriel Villa, now 90, and Cristina Carta Villa, now 59, apparently had its happy moments, but as Cristina found out when things went bad recently, Gabriel had attempted to protect himself shortly after the wedding—by obtaining a Dominican Republic divorce and keeping it secret. Cristina found out only when she realized in a property accounting that her name was not on the deed to their Manhattan apartment.

(She is challenging that divorce as improper even under Dominican law.)

Suspicions Confirmed

Fed up with the “pretense” of the art world, performer (and radio personality) Lisa Levy of Brooklyn, N.Y., sat on a toilet, naked and motionless, at the Christopher Stout Gallery in January to protest artists’ “BS” by presenting herself in the “humblest” way she could imagine. Visitors were invited to sit on a facing toilet (clothed or not) and interact with her in any way except for touching. Levy told the Bushwick Daily website that too much “ego,” “like a drug,” “distorts your reality.”

Several Connecticut state troopers involved in a DUI checkpoint in September were apparently caught on video deliberating whether to make up charges against a (perhaps obnoxious) checkpoint monitor. Veteran protester Michael Picard, 27, posted the videos on his YouTube page in January, showing troopers (illegally) confiscating Picard’s camera and suggesting among themselves various charges they could write up (at least some not warranted by evidence) to, as one trooper was heard imploring, “cover our asses.” (The troopers returned the camera after deliberating, but seemed unaware that it had been running during the entire incident.) State police internal affairs officers are investigating.

Wait, What?

Oops!

Great Art!

In January, the U.S. Department of Justice’s inspector general recommended closing down a program of the department’s Drug Enforcement Administration that paid employees of other federal agencies (Amtrak and the beloved Transportation Security Administration) for tips on suspicious passengers. (The program apparently ignored that federal employees have such a duty even without a bounty.) DEA was apparently interested in passengers traveling with large amounts of cash—which DEA could potentially seize if it suspected the money came from illegal activity (and also, of course, then keep the money under federal forfeiture law). According to the inspector general, the tipping TSA agent was to be rewarded with a cut of any forfeited money.

The Continuing Crisis

n Firefighers in Osnabruck, Germany, told Berlin’s The Local that in two separate incidents in December, men had come to their stations asking for help removing iron rings they had placed on their penises to help retain erections. (The Local, as a public service, quoted a prominent European sexual-aid manufacturer’s recommendation to instead use silicone rings, which usually do not require professional removal.)

Recurring Themes

Few matters in life are weirder than the Scottish love of haggis (sheep’s liver, heart, tongue and fat, blended with oats and seasonings, boiled inside a sheep’s stomach to achieve its enticing gray color!), and in January, in honor of the Scottish poet-icon Robert Burns, prominent Peruvian chef Mitsuharu Tsumura joined Scotland’s Paul Wedgwood to create haggis from, instead of sheep, guinea pig. Wedgwood said he was “proud” to raise haggis “to new gastronomic levels.”

Least Competent Criminals

Bright Ideas

Thanks This Week to Patty Lively, Phyllis Sensenig, Ann Lloyd and Jeff Brown, and to the News of the Weird Board of Editorial Advisors.

Christopher Lemek Jr. was arrested in Palmer, Mass., in January and charged in a New Year’s Eve hit-and-run accident that took a pedestrian’s life. Lemek emerged as

Briton Jacqueline Patrick, 55, was sentenced to 15 years in prison in December for the 2013 murder of her husband, accomplished by spiking his wine with anti-freeze.

To cover her crime, she handed over a note the husband had supposedly written, requesting that if tragedy struck him, he wished not to be resuscitated, preferring to die with “dignerty” (sic). Suspicious, police asked Patrick to spell “dignity,” which, of course, came out “dignerty.”

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Britain’s North Yorkshire Police successfully applied to a judge in January for a “sexual risk order” against a man whose name was not disclosed publicly and whose alleged behavior was not revealed. Whoever he is and whatever he did, he is forbidden to enter into any sexual situation with anyone without providing at least 24 hours’ notice to the police—nor is he allowed to look at or possess any sexually oriented materials. According to the York Press, the order is temporary until May 19, at which time the magistrates may extend it.

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n Chiropractor William DeAngelo of Stratford, Conn., was charged with assault in January after an employee complained that she was ordered to lie down on a table and let DeAngelo apply electrical shocks to her back—as punishment for being the office gossiper, spreading rumors about colleagues. DeAngelo said he was reacting to complaints from patients and staff, but seemed to suggest in a statement to police that he was only “re-educating” the woman on how to use the electrical stimulator in the office’s practice (though she felt the need to report to a hospital afterward).

A middle-aged woman reported to a firehouse in Padua, Italy, in January to ask for help opening a lock for which she had misplaced the key. It turned out that the lock was to the iron chastity belt she was wearing—of her own free will, she said (because she had recently begun a romantic relationship that she wanted not to become too quickly sexual).

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How many people are silently suffering in the valley?

HUSHED

Hunger

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fter paying rent and his monthly bills, Pat*, a 10-year resident, found himself using food stamps and shopping the aisles of the Jackson Food Cupboard last fall. Hungry, he gratefully filled his bags with fresh dairy, produce and meats to get through the shoulder season. Pat had used food assistance once before, five years ago. During summer and winter, his seasonal employer supplies a shift meal, which he largely depends on, but during shoulder seasons without a regular income, unemployment check or steady job, he again found himself submitting his bank statements in exchange for a referral for free food. Pat says he has known many people who resorted to dumpster diving at Jackson Whole Grocer and Lucky’s before the grocery stores started donating their food to Hole Food Rescue and the food bank.

According to the 2015 Teton County Public Health Needs Assessment, food insecuirty is one of the top three risk factors threatening the health of Teton County residents. It is the quiet reality for people like Annabelle*, who drives to the back of the Good Samaritan Mission to pick up free food three times a month. Embarrassed that others might see her with her children in tow, she relies on text messages sent from Michael Ratliff, food service manager at GSM, to learn when new food shipments come in from local nonprofits.

Ratliff noted that even people making a decent wage are now “forced to choose between paying rent or paying for food.” Annabelle agreed, admitting that it is nearly

impossible to afford the dairy and produce she needs to feed her family.

stigma fuels hunger

An increasing number of people cannot afford to feed their families nutritious, healthy food. “We are still just discovering how big the need really is,” said Jeske Grave, associate director of Hole Food Rescue. With Ali Dunford, founder and executive director, and a team of 75 volunteers, HFR distributes food to 18 partner organizations including the Teton County School District; Senior Center; Community Safety Network; Latino Resource Center; Teton Literacy Center; Teton Youth & Family Services (Van Vleck and Red Top); Jackson Cupboard and the Good Samaritan Mission.

Since June 2013, HFR has prevented 400,000 pounds of food waste from traveling to the Bonneville County landfill, more than 100 miles away from Teton County.

They currently divert 5,000 pounds of surplus food per week, which equals about 700 pounds per day.

Nationwide, 14 percent of the population, or 800 million people, are labeled “food insecure,” a phenomenon defined by the Oxford Dictionaries as “being without reliable access to a sufficient quantity of affordable, nutritious food.” This equates to one in six Americans.

In Teton County, 13.5 percent, or 3,000 residents, were identified as food insecure, according to Teton County Public Health Department in 2013.

Sadly, a stigma surrounds food assistance, and it can be “humiliating to ask for help,” as Gillian Chapman, superintendent of Teton County School District No. 1 cited

in an interview with The Planet in January. HFR alone serves around 1,000 individuals weekly, but Grave laments that, “There are people out there we are not reaching … we are trying to get to them.”

In the Teton County School District, 619 kids are currently on free or cost-reduced meals, out of 2,700 total students, (not including Kelly or Moran). That’s about a quarter of local kids struggling with food insecurity. But while 24 percent of the district’s students are on free and cost-reduced breakfast or lunch programs, it’s safe to assume hunger is plaguing even more local families who have not asked for help, explained Chapman during the 22 in 21 conference in January.

The cost to feed one TCSD high school student 10 meals per week is $27.50; for elementary students, it is less than $20 per week, while the cost for price-reduced meals is $3.50 per week. The price to offer students ‘free meal seconds’ three days a week is $5.25. Despite the seemingly low price tag, more than a quarter of students have negative meal balances.

Annabelle, born and raised in Jackson, admits that it is embarrassing to ask for help. “I try to bring my groceries into my house fast so my neighbors don’t see that my groceries look different than theirs,” she said. Raising several young children, and struggling to pay off debts, she admitted, “You don’t want anyone to know that you are struggling.” But she says she doesn’t know how she would survive without the assistance.

According to the Feeding America program—the leading nationwide network of food banks serving 46.5 million needy Americans per year—in 2014, “households with children reported food insecurity at a significantly

Asking for help

Every Tuesday GSM’s Ratliff, along with Georgia Lougori, founder of the Totes of Hope program, and Louis Burnett, a GSM resident, prepare and deliver 40 bags of food to the Learning Center on Tuesdays. The bags include boxed dinners, shelf-stable milk, cereal, tuna, pasta, canned vegetables and fresh fruit. They go to children who teachers have identified as coming from financially stressed families.

Ratliff said that people making $12 to 14 an hour, and paying $1,500 in rent, have nothing left for food. “Even with food stamps,” which amount to about $180-$200 per month, he said, “there is no way they can make it.”

In 2015 the Jackson Cupboard served a total of 5,380 individuals. After three visits, clients need a referral from one of the human service agencies, such as CRC, LRC, doctor’s offices, Children’s Learning Center, Public Health, Community Counseling Center, or local churches. They can also apply through the Department of Family Service’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). After 10 to 16 visits, they are reevaluated (in case they need other kinds of assistance as well, according to the Community Resource Center).

The folks who come forward and benefit from this assistance are big believers, too. “It is easy to get a referral,” Pat said. “You just make an appointment and bring in your bank statements. Many groups of people need this assistance.” Annabelle encouraged people to come to the Mission for dinners and food boxes. “They smile and make you feel taken care of. They treat you like family, and you don’t need a referral.”

The Jackson Cupboard has been serving a vast crosssection of the valley’s growing community for more than 15 years. Donations are made through various food drives, private donations and Old Bill’s Fun Run. A member of the Feeding America program, the Cupboard purchases

food at a deep discount through the Food Bank of the Rockies. Local efforts help stock the Cupboard too. Jackson Hole Middle School recently collected and donated 2,000 pounds of food.

Consistent access to fresh dairy, canned goods and meats, fresh produce, diapers and more is available at the Cupboard, and its new “Free Food Friday” program offers perishable food surplus for free to anyone. Cathy Poindexter, a board member, explained, “People were having a hard time understanding the concept—they didn’t want to take from people in need.” So it was necessary to explain that they had already reached the people in need. “This is the last step before it goes to the landfill,” Poindexter said. Although the demand is high, so is the surplus food; the Cupboard was pouring gallons of milk down the drain before Free Food Fridays, while folks like Annabelle lament, “It is hard to afford dairy and produce. Milk and eggs are what we need most.”

Poindexter and Amy Brooks, case manager for CRC and board member of the Jackson Cupboard, encourage all people who need assistance to come in. “We are missing a population of people who really could use support,” Brooks said.

Ratliff echoed this notion and has made steps to try to accommodate more of these folks. He said there are no set hours at the Mission, and food boxes are often supplied to needy families during hours the Jackson Cupboard is closed.

This year he distributed 40,000 pounds in food boxes.

“We are grateful for the food boxes,” said a mother at the GSM on a recent Sunday. “We cook rice every day, and it is so nice to have milk for the kids.”

GSM’s entire food cooler turns over two to three times per week, while the food shelves turn over every week.

The freezer—packed with fish, hot dogs, sausage, bacon, all frozen according to proper date—turns over every month. But unlike other assistance programs, clients who use GSM are not required to submit their address. “It isn’t important to us,” Ratliff said. “A lot of people live in their car or motorhome. How can someone give you an address

when it’s a 1978 Ford Taurus?”

Carlos Ayala, a Puerto Rican native who arrived a few months ago from Orlando, Florida, lives at the Mission. In exchange for a bed and food, he cooks there on Fridays and Saturdays, serving 30 to 35 people at a time. During the weekends, he cleans. On Sunday, Ratliff’s only night off from cooking, the dinner bell rang and donated Domino’s pizza and salad arrived. Ayala explained in Spanish that in order to reside at the Mission, all residents must work, but that is not enough for him to afford food. He says he is having trouble finding a job with good pay because he does not speak English.

The clientele at the Cupboard is sundry. “Often times folks are one accident or one medical issue away from needing to use the food cupboard,” CRC’s Brooks said. “We have people who have lived in Jackson for 30 to 40 years who have had to use it after a medical crisis.” Some people just need a loaf of bread, a dozen eggs and a gallon of milk to get through the week while they wait for their paycheck, she noted.

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higher rate than those without children: 19 percent compared to 12 percent.”

Michael Ratliff inspects fresh fruit he’ll use to make free breakfast at the Good Samaritan Mission.

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Cathy Poindexter (left), and Amy Brooks observe a densely populated fridge at the Jackson Cupboard. The nonprofit served more than 5,000 people last year.

Unlike most food banks in the state, the Jackson Cupboard allows people to do their own shopping. “I got surplus food that Whole Grocer gave away—goat cheese, Kombucha and crème fraiche, frozen fish and organic meats from the freezer, items I would not normally have been able to afford,” Pat said.

Individuals can leave with three bags of food and supplies in one visit, while families can leave with five.

Available fresh food includes donated fresh eggs and tofu, cheese, milk, yogurt and vegetables, which mainly come from local grocery stores and Hole Food Rescue. The shelves are restocked each Monday from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., and Thursday from 10 a.m. to noon.

Local people need local food

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More than 40 percent of food in the U.S. finds its way to the trash and not into the mouths of people who need it most. So is there a better way to manage the seemingly endless stream of unused food?

Local sustainability projects seek to address food insecurity in unconventional ways. Alex Feher is the sustainability liaison to Aspens Market and Pearl Street Market, and farmer at Huidekoper Ranch in Wilson. Feher and his business partner, Brent Tyc, greenhouse manager and farmer, are proponents of the “triple bottom line:” food should be ecologically sustainable, economically viable and socially just. They grow two different kinds of salad mixes in their greenhouse leased by Aspens Market. One is a golden and red beet, rainbow chard mix; the other is a red Russian kale, radish, arugula, spicy and mild mustard, collard and tatsoi (Asian baby green) mix. The greenhouse has doubled in size since 2012, and

they have just planted 300 tomato seeds in a germination room. “Nutritious food is the best medicine,” Feher said as he clipped a stem of red kale. His fresh-clipped greens are quickly stocked and bought at Aspens Market.

Both Feher and Tyc are dismayed by industrial food production. “Industrial agriculture has done incredibly well to produce their own food, but we are losing two millimeters of topsoil per year by industrial mechanized farming, tilling and killing the soil, not regenerating it,” Feher lamented. Composting in the greenhouse is one way they are seeking to build a new local growing model based on sustainability for the future. The idea is to have a store that sources its own food. “This is one step toward that goal while working with as many local purveyors as we can to be a hub for their local products,” Tyc explained.

Today less than two percent of the nation’s population is employed in agriculture. In 1870, this number was 70 to 80 percent. Troubled by the abundant food shipments delivered to Teton County, Feher has some ideas. “A great way that we could start breaking apart mass agricultural farming is if everyone with a backyard or access to space could grow a portion of their own food on their own plot— this would begin to transcend the supply chain,” he said.

Feher churns the red wiggler worms derived from cow and horse manure in a large galvanized steel watering trough, composting used eggs shells, organic food wastes, and soil from his greenhouse. He says they harvest six to 10 pounds of greens per week. “My hope is that we can supply as much food to the local people as possible at an affordable price,” he said. “We don’t need tractors and machines. Intensive micro farming requires hand tools and planning. The yields are pretty incredible when broken down per square foot.” Feher says he envisions the Huidekoper greenhouse model as a transferrable growing model for the community.

Brent Tyc (left), and Alex Feher among the fruits of their labor, slated for the shelves at Aspens Market and soon-to-be other valley locales.

“What I would like to see is for local food to be cheaper than food that is shipped in. Right now, California organic greens are $3 less than local greens,” Tyc noted. In the future, growers like Feher and Tyc want to find niches for different produce growth through what they call a “community wide growing network.”

Local growing models like Huidekoper Ranch in Wilson and Vertical Harvest in Jackson, offer promise when it comes to cutting out the middleman. Food is supplied directly to community members, straight from the farm. “The security comes from our ability to provide food that doesn’t need to be shipped,” Feher said. “We have free-flowing snowmelt all summer long, and we can use the canopy cover formed by the leaves of the closely planted vegetables to shade the soil.”

Nona Yehia, Vertical Harvest’s managing partner, agreed.

“Local food is an investment in our future,” she said. “These efforts are critical to the sustainable development of a community; local food systems generally mean less energy, emissions and food miles associated with our food.”

Vertical Harvest is currently under its final stage of construction and testing its operating systems. The organization’s intention is not to compete with local farmers, but rather to replace food that’s being trucked in from other states. “This is particularly important in our winter season where very little local produce is being grown,” Yehia said. “Produce that is purchased in the supermarket often has been in transit or cold-stored for days or weeks.

The produce that we grow will be delivered to the public within a day of harvesting.” This means it will be sold at the peak of its nutritional value and taste.

With a goal to begin distributing at the beginning of March, Vertical Harvest plans to grow approximately 100,000 pounds of produce yearly to sell to local grocery stores including Jackson Whole Grocer, Lucky’s, Smith’s

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‘A community should be built around food’

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According to a USDA Consumer Expenditure study in 2013, the lowest income bracket of people spent 36 percent of their total income on food, which calculated to $3,655.Those in the highest income bracket spent 8 percent of their earnings on food, approximately $11,000 annually.

Nationally, 26 percent of food insecure individuals are above the poverty line, and are typically ineligible for most food assistance programs, according to Feeding America’s ‘Map the Meal Gap,’ which measures food insecurity in counties across the nation One of many boxes of fresh produce and annually. In Wyoming, Map the Meal Gap canned and packaged goods dontated to the identified 74,470 people as food insecure Good Samaritan Mission. in the state’s 23 counties in 2013. According to Feeding America: “Food insecurity may reflect a household’s need to make trade-offs between and Albertsons as important basic needs, such as housing or medical bills, well as local restaurants a t and purchasing nutritionally adequate foods.”

Jackson Hole Mountain Resort, the Grand Teton Lodge Ratliff, who rises at 4 a.m. each day to make breakfast Company and those of the Fine Dining Group. Produce for GSM residents and other hungry folks, says the amount will also be distributed to St. John’s Hospital, and VH would of meals GSM regularly serves has risen 20 percent from like to start working with limited programs at the schools. last year. He says it will rise another 20 percent next year.

Additionally, it will sell straight to the public at an on-site In 2015 the Mission supplied 16,000 meals; this year, store called Market.

Ratliff expects to serve 20,000. “More people need food; Pearl Street Market and Aspens Market are launching undocumented workers and those who have no money an initiative to salvage their organic waste for compost left after paying rent. They are hungry, and that is our only next summer, in addition to offering continued locally requirement,” he said. All summer, GSM was at capacity. To sourced produce sold all summer long, as well as farmers’ double the capacity of food he can serve the public, GSM markets on Tuesday nights. Meanwhile, Hole Food Rescue will install a new vent hood and a double convection oven, is engaging in a similar two-year research project called donated by The Community Foundation. Currently, Ratliff ‘Just Food JH,’ to measure the edible food waste of all food manages to feed people on an average 25 cents a meal per retailers vis-à-vis self-administered waste audits. Two person. hundred of Teton County’s food retail businesses, including Mike, a regular client at the Mission, lives in a camper, grocery stores, restaurants and catering companies will be and takes a shower a couple times a week at the Mission, asked to participate in this study. where he normally consumes an average of two lunches While local farmers’ markets and the Jackson Hole and seven dinners per week. He always chips in to help People’s Market are becoming increasingly popular, the Ratliff, often sweeping and helping clean up. “The food is fact remains that most of the valley’s food is still shipped good here,” he said as he took a towel and a washcloth for in. “Too often, I see Cisco and U.S. Foods trucks coming into his shower.

Jackson on Highway 89 and unloading food for restaurants Tim lives and works at GSM. “I haven’t lost any weight, and grocery stores,” HFR’s Grave noted. “Star Valley and and I haven’t gained any,” he said. “We eat nutritious food, Teton Valley have some great local growers, but our valley and we include plenty of protein because we have people has a short growing season.” who are nutritionally challenged.”

Grave says food equity is at the heart of a sustainable A hot breakfast is served Monday through Friday from food system. “Supporting a family of three on minimum 7 to 8:00 a.m., and a continental breakfast is served on wage doesn’t give people a choice in what to buy—they the weekends. Dinner is at 5:30, and lunch is served on buy what is cheapest or whatever is free,” she said. Grave weekends since the Catholic Church offers meals Monday also pointed out that local products aren’t accessible to through Friday. “We have people who utilize the Mission everyone because of social and financial inequities, and every day,” said Ratliff, who happily accommodates that local production may not be enough to sustain the food allergies and any dietary restrictions. entire community, [in addition to the 3.5 million tourists A significant amount of the Mission’s food the valley feeds annually]. comes from the Jackson Cupboard and HFR. Becoming educated citizens is key to the battle, Albertsons also delivers twice a week, and Grave noted. “One of the biggest things to focus is our Food Bank of the Rockies delivers once disconnection with food production,” she said. “Know what a month. “I can’t afford to shop at the you are buying; by understanding where and how food is grocery store,” Ratliff said. “But I can grown, you can make a conscious decision what to support. afford to go to Ali’s and Jeske’s [HFR] Buy less. Waste less. Be part of the solution. Try everything and get high quality food for free, and you can in your own household.” feed it to the people here.”

Feher cites the valley’s abundantly powerful sunshine, and urges people to use more labor and out-of-the-box thinking to create the growing medium the valley needs.

“We need to set up permanent cultures,” he said. “The Aspens Market is selling its own indoor-grown idea of living in a place means stewarding it. That is what micro-greens that live just above the grocery it means to be a community. It all comes full circle. We can Zak Bagley spends a third of his monthly store. live in a resilient, regenerative environment – this is not a income on food, despite receiving a 30 percent progressive or conservative idea, it is a realistic idea.” grocery discount and free shift meals from his

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employer, Aspens Market. He also rolls sushi for Sudachi, delivers it to partner businesses—Pearl Street Market and Aspens Market—and even treks the leftovers to the Good Samaritan Mission. “I could not eat as healthily or support a mostly vegan diet as I do without these benefits,” he said.

Raised in Jackson, the 23-year-old returned to the valley after an apprenticeship at White Buffalo Farm in Colorado, where he learned how to cultivate and distribute under a CSA model. “A community should be built around food,” he said. “Knowing where your meat and vegetables come from creates a sense of partnership.”

Bagley admitted that he had free lunches at school growing up; his family lived in a Habitat for Humanity House. They used the food bank, food stamps and the Mission. He remembers shopping at the food bank, and seeing his friends there. “I didn’t think it was different that we were shopping there. To me, it was just the way we got food.”

The Jackson Cupboard, Free Food Fridays, the Good Samaritan Mission and HFR’s free food table on Gregory Lane are all great resources to find high quality, cost-free food. But it is still a matter of encouraging folks to utilize these resources. “If one doesn’t see the poverty that is in our community, then it is really easy to say it doesn’t exist.

Food is the one thing we should always have,” Brooks said.

“In Jackson, there is no reason for anyone to be hungry.

There are so many options to access food … But we are not reaching as many people as we should or could.”

Ratliff agreed. “A huge amount of people don’t know they can come here,” he said. So Ratliff has been hanging flyers for GSM’s free meals at local hotels, where he knows many food insecure people live.

‘Community Eats,’ a local food insecurity committee, has created a food map showing the places people in need can receive food for free or at a discount, and the hours of availability.

By spring, they intend for it to be posted bilingually on START buses, and to distribute bilingual trifold pamphlets in doctors’ offices and churches in the valley.

“We are only doing 20 at breakfast,” Ratliff said. “We are hoping to increase that to 50 to 75. That is the most important meal. We have pancakes, eggs and bacon to offer to everyone.”

As for Pat, he is uncertain how much assistance he will need from local groups such as The Jackson Cupboard in the future. But as a seasonal worker living in a resort town with rising rent and food costs, he says he can at least find comfort in one thing. “I don’t qualify for free medical care, I don’t qualify for a lot of things, but I do qualify for free food. It was very reassuring that the community was there to back me when I needed it most.”

PJH *Name has been changed.

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The real cost of food

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Wall Stunners Lo-Fi art show hangs sketches and affordable works.

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quick sketch on paper is so immediate an artist might not even realize its value. Yet these quick drawings can become important work, not just for their beauty, but also the insight it gives into an artist.

“Drawings and looser sketches sometimes become some of an artist’s most collected work,” said Travis Walker, executive director of the Teton Artlab. “Leonardo Da Vinci’s sketchbooks are now as famous as the Mona Lisa. These works on paper give insight into genius in his case, and the creative mindset in most cases.”

Teton Artlab’s Wallpaper show, happening Thursday, offers a chance to see dozens of sketches and prints from area artists.

The paper works of nearly 50 artists will adorn Artlab’s walls for the show. “It’s a really interesting way to view work,” Walker said.

“It’s intense. It’s floor-to-ceiling, or at least waist-to-ceiling. It’s very compact, almost like a puzzle. You spend a lot of time meandering piece to piece. The entire show almost becomes a work of art as well. There’s an art in trying to get it to work, design-wise.”

The work papering the gallery will start at $5 for some unsigned prints, and prices will

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Some Wallpaper gems: Jave Yoshimoto’s ‘Jack-a-lope-son’screen print (left), and an untitled woodcut proof by Mike Piggott. increase from there.

It’s a way for Artlab to not only showcase a lot of artists at once, but also for people to buy affordable work from some of their favorites.

A print by Ben Roth, for example, costs a fraction of what it costs to buy a sculpture he created. A painting by Mike Piggott sells for thousands of dollars, but you can pick up a print for about $100 at the show, Walker said.

The exhibit provides a chance for artists to show and sell pieces they haven’t framed, or don’t fit with their normal bodies of work and therefore don’t make it into exhibitions.

Some create a quick piece specifically for the event. “You can get a piece of paper and a pencil and that’s sometimes where the best ideas and the best art comes from—these simple pieces,” Walker explained.

The evening also will feature a silent auction with about 20 pieces of work, including some large Polaroid transfers of insects

by Linda Broadfoot, which Artlab inherited when the Oswald Gallery closed.

Artists will keep 70 percent of money made in the silent auction. The rest will go to the Artlab, which is raising funds for its residency program. Each visiting artist receives a $1,000 stipend, as well as studio space and housing for their month-long residency in Jackson. Money raised from the event will support the program and also help Artlab apply for matching grants. “It’s designed to raise us some funds,” Walker noted, “but also, in keeping with our mission, designed to help make artists some money, too.”

Walker, who is known for his paintings, is donating some small drawings he created. While most of the artists are based in Jackson, several former Artlab residents donated work. Jave Yoshimoto, a former resident, donated two silk screens. One of a

jackalope with the Cowboy Bar in the background and another of Yellowstone’s Grand Prismatic Spring with the Tetons behind it.

He uses dense visual compensations, and his work is influenced by Japanese printmaking. Both prints are ones he created while in Jackson. Yoshimoto is an up-and-coming artist that is gaining international recognition. This is a great chance to pick up his work.

It’s been several years since the Artlab last hosted a Wallpaper show. “It’s a good idea to get a bunch of local artists together again and also get rid of some of this art we’ve been hoarding,” Walker said.

It’s also an important reminder of the struggles artists face in Jackson. Walker hadn’t anticipated it would be a challenge to find people to participate in the show, but he has discovered many artists have left the valley. “We’re celebrating the ones we have left,” he said.

The show, which will creep over into the recently closed Daly Projects gallery, also symbolizes the lack of space for Jackson artists to share work. “This is another response to our complete lack of exhibition space in this town for the local art community,” he said.

For those wanting to pick up specific prints or work by specific artists, they will need to arrive early. All the work is sold first-come, first-served and the show closes promptly at 8 p.m. The silent auction closes at 7:45 p.m. Enjoy food from Persephone Bakery, Café Genevieve and Lotus Café. PJH Wallpaper, 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday, Teton Artlab.

THIS WEEK: February 17-23, 2016

WEDNESDAY FEB. 17

n Freestyle Skating 3:00pm, Snow King Sports & Event Center, $10.00, 307-2011633 n Chess Club: Grades K to 12 3:30pm, Teton County Library Youth Auditorium, Free, 307733-2164 x118 n Chess Club 3:30pm, Vally of the Tetons Library Driggs, Free, 208-3545522 n Altered Books and Bookmaking 3:30pm, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $50.00, 307-7336379 n Apres with Maw Band 4:00pm, Mangy Moose, Free, 307-733-4913 n Free Tax Preparation: InPerson 4:00pm, Teton County Library Ordway Auditorium, Free, 307733-2164 n Winter Wonderland: Ice Skating on Town Square 4:30pm, Town Square, Free n Drawing with Jeremy Morgan 5:45pm, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $95.00 - $120.00, 307-733-6379 n Evening Yoga 6:00pm, Teton Recreation Center, $8.00, 307-739-9025 n Ciao Italia! Italian for the Intrepid Traveler 6:00pm, CWC-Jackson, $100.00, 307-733-7425 n Great Until Late 6:00pm, Local Businesses, Free, 307-201-2294 n College Match Workshop 6:00pm, Teton County Library Youth Auditorium, Free, 307733-2164 n Cribbage Club 6:00pm, Valley of the Tetons Library Driggs, Free, 208-3545522 n Great Reads for Girls Book Club 6:00pm, Valley of the Tetons Library Victor, Free, 208-7872201 n Barbara Trentham Life Drawing 6:00pm, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $10.00, 307733-6379 n Sports Psychology 101 6:00pm, Medicine Wheel Wellness, $25.00, 307-699-7480 n Open Gym - Adult Basketball 6:30pm, Teton Recreation Center, $3.75, 307-739-9025

n Bridge 6:30pm, Old Wilson Schoolhouse, Free, 307-413-9507 n High Elevation Gardening Workshops 6:30pm, Rendezvous Upper Elementary School Library, $75.00, 413-575-0624 n The Four Things That Matter Most 7:00pm, The Center Theater, $10.00, 307-733-4900 n Salsa at Dancers’ Workshop 7:00pm, Dancers’ Workshop, $12.00 - $16.00, 307-733-6398 n STACKHOUSE 7:00pm, Mangy Moose, Free, 307-733-4913 n Tavern Trivia 7:00pm, Town Square Tavern, Free, 307-733-3886 n Songwriter’s Alley 8:00pm, Silver Dollar Showroom, Free, 307-733-2190 n KHOL Presents: Vinyl Night 9:00pm, The Rose, Free, 307733-1500 n Brad O’Brien 10:00pm, Town Square Tavern, Free, 307-733-3886

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n Kettlebells 7:00am, Teton Recreation Center, $8.00, 307-739-9025 n Joint Classes 8:00am, Moose-Wapiti Classroom, St. John’s Medical Center, Free, 307-739-6199 n Zumba at Dancers’ Workshop 8:30am, Dancers’ Workshop, Free, 307-733-6398 n Yoga 9:00am, Teton Recreation Center, $8.00, 307-739-9025 n From Image to Realization: Jeremy Morgan 9:00am, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $495.00 $595.00, 307-733-6379 n Intermediate/Advanced Ballet @ Dancers’ Workshop 9:30am, Dancers’ Workshop, $12.00 - $16.00, 307-733-6398 n Tech Tutor 10:00am, Teton County Library, Free, 307-733-2164 ext. 218 n Curious Kids 10:15am, Jackson Hole Children’s Museum, $8.00, 206733-3996 n Storytime 10:30am, Teton County Library Youth Auditorium, Free, 307733-2164

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n Boot Camp 7:00am, Teton Recreation Center, $8.00, 307-739-9025 n Pilates Mat Classes at Dancers’ Workshop 8:30am, Dancers’ Workshop, $12.00 - $16.00, 307-733-6398 n Toddler Gym 8:30am, Teton Recreation Center, $0.00 - $2.50, 307-7399025 n Yoga 9:00am, Teton Recreation Center, $8.00, 307-739-9025 n From Image to Realization: Jeremy Morgan 9:00am, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $495.00 $595.00, 307-733-6379 n Toddler Gym 10:00am, Teton Recreation Center, $0.00 - $2.50, 307-7399025 n Tech Tutor 10:00am, Teton County Library, Free, 733-2164 ext. 218 n Story TIme 10:00am, Valley of the Tetons Library Victor, Free, 208-7872201 n Open Hockey 10:15am, Snow King Sports & Event Center, $10.00, 307-2011633 n Fables Feathers & Fur 10:30am, National Museum of Wildlife Art, Free, 307-733-5771 n Lap Sit 11:00am, Valley of the Tetons Library, Free, 208-787-2201 n Ladies Day Wednesdays 11:00am, Snow King Mountain, $49.00 - $59.00, 307-699-4227 n Conversations for Common Ground 11:30am, St. John’s Episcopal Church, Free, 307-733-2603 n Public Skating 12:00pm, Snow King Sports & Events Center, $6.00 - $8.00, 307-201-1633 n Total Fitness 12:10pm, Teton Recreation Center, $8.00, 307-739-9025 n Ranger-led Snowshoe Hike 1:30pm, Grand Teton National Park, Free, 307-739-3399 n Alpine Skiing for Seniors 1:30pm, Teton Recreation Center, $90.00 - $120.00, 307739-9025 n Genealogy: Military Records 2:00pm, Teton County Library Computer Lab, Free, 307-7332164

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MUSIC BOX Gripped in the Sound Sonic innovators devoted to musical detail hit Garter; Galactic and Railroad Earth also on tap.

BY AARON DAVIS @ScreenDoorPorch

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eware: sonic hypnosis is a possible side effect when absorbing the music of Papadosio. The five-piece returns Tuesday to the Pink Garter for an encore show following a performance at the 2015 Contour Music Festival, which was preceded by a memorable whitewater experience for the band.

Melding progressive rock with psychedelia, folk, electronica, and jam, the dance music on their latest full-length, Extras in a Movie, features 16 never-before-heard and never-before-performed tracks. Written, recorded and produced by the North Carolina quintet thanks to a successfully funded Kickstarter campaign, it was the first time the band had kept the diverse new material such a secret from their devoted fanbase. That was September of 2015. Now that the songs have breathed life on stage, the band has facilitated the growth of each tune.

“Some of the songs definitely have taken on new forms with new parts, some with just extended sections,” said Billy Brouse (synth, keys, guitar, vocals). “It has been a really interesting time seeing them grow and become different from the original. Some of the songs were kept short on purpose so we

could add to them later, and that’s exactly what we have done.”

Bassist/vocalist Rob McConnell added, “The hardest part about improvisation is making it sound like a song. I think for Papadosio, the key is to have as little boundaries as possible in our improv so we don’t force things.”

Sonic invention utilizing synths and electronic samples is a cornerstone to Papadosio’s colorful palette. Electronica and industrial elements factor largely into the framework, with earthy lyrics and often times, folksy vocals: “We all wonder, floating in time/Sisters, brothers, sharing one mind/Long lost lovers dying to find/any glimpse of light at the end of the line.”

Montana’s funk rockers and frequent visitors to the valley, Cure for the Common open the show.

Papadosio with Cure for the Common, 9 p.m., Tuesday at the Pink Garter Theatre. $17$20. PinkGarterTheatre.com, 733-1500.

Post-Mardi Gras tradition at the Knotty It’s become an annual February tradition in Teton Valley—a funk-nasty dance party with Galactic at the Knotty Pine. More often than not, this ritual gets icing on the cake in the form of special guest vocalists. With San Francisco’s dance-heavy funk band Con Brio opening the show, it’s likely we’ll see charismastic vocalist/frontman Ziek McCarter step into Galactic’s world. Get ready for a New Orleans barn burner!

Galactic with Con Brio, 10 p.m., Tuesday at the Knotty Pine in Victor. $40. 208-787-2866.

Prog-grass vets Railroad Earth has arguably contributed some of the most interesting music to the acoustic rock limb of bluegrass since forming in 2001. The band’s last album was 2014’s Last of the Outlaws, followed up by a folk-based

Funk sensibilities care of Con Brio happen at the Knotty Tuesday along with Galactic. collaboration with Warren Haynes that resulted in a two-disc album, Ashes and Dust.

Ultimately, Railroad Earth’s music is driven by the remarkable songs of frontman Todd Sheaffer, delivered with seamless arrangements and superb musicianship courtesy of six band members.

Railroad Earth, 8 p.m., Monday at the Pink Garter Theatre. $30-$33. PinkGarterTheatre. com, 733-1500.

Freda gets funky, experimental Freda Felcher is the dance-funk-jazz-fusion-prog-rocking brainchild of multi-instrumentalist Leif Routman. Also a founding member of local bands Whiskey Mornin’, Black Mother Jones and The Flannel Attractions, Routman has enlisted the skillful rhythm section of bassist Marty Camino and drummer Jacob Green, along with vocalist Hillary Camino.

An instrumental project until recently, the new lineup will feature Routman’s “original works and on-the-spot improvisations, along with reinterpreted covers from artists

like Stevie Wonder, Chaka Kahn, Stuff, and Aretha Franklin.”

Freda Felcher, 10 p.m., Saturday at The Rose. Free. 733-1500. PJH

WED: Songwriter’s Alley feat. Michael Batdorf (Silver Dollar) THUR: BOGDOG (Town Square Tavern) FRI: Fundraiser for Intertribal Winter Sports with DJs Cut la Whut and Eric Burba (Jackson Hole Playhouse); Maw Band (Silver Dollar); Pam Drews Phillips Trio (The Granary) SAT: Freda Felcher (The Rose); Willie Waldman (Trap); Greeneck Daredevils (Mangy Moose) SUN: Stagecoach Band (Stagecoach) MON: Railroad Earth (Pink Garter) TUES: Galactic with Con Brio (Knotty); Papadosio with Cure for the Common (Pink Garter)

Aaron Davis is a songwriting troubadour, multi-instrumentalist, founding member of Screen Door Porch and Boondocks, and host of Songwriter’s Alley.

Friday, 7pm at Jackson Hole Playhouse

FRIDAY FEB. 19

n Boot Camp 7:00am, Teton Recreation Center, $8.00, 307-739-9025 n Toddler Gym 8:30am, Teton Recreation Center, $0.00 - $2.50, 307-7399025 n bootybarre® at Dancers’ Workshop 9:00am, Dancers’ Workshop, $12.00 - $16.00, 307-733-6398 n Yoga 9:00am, Teton Recreation Center, $8.00, 307-739-9025 n Portrait Drawing Club 9:00am, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $10.00, 307733-6379 n From Image to Realization: Jeremy Morgan 9:00am, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $495.00 $595.00, 307-733-6379 n Ballet Workout at Dancers’ Workshop 9:30am, Dancers’ Workshop, $12.00 - $16.00, 307-733-6398 n Zumba at Dancers’ Workshop 10:00am, Dancers’ Workshop, $12.00 - $16.00, 307-733-6398 n Toddler Gym 10:00am, Teton Recreation Center, $0.00 - $2.50, 307-7399025

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n ArtWalk 5:00pm, Various Galleries, Free n Meet & Greet: New Library Director, Valerie Magginis 5:00pm, Teton County Library Ordway Auditorium, Free, 307733-2164 n Type 2 Diabetes Support Group in Spanish 5:00pm, Moose-Wapiti Classroom, St. John’s Medical Center, Free, 307-739-7678 n Jazzercise 5:30pm, Teton Recreation Center, $10.00, 307-739-9025 n Total Fitness 5:30pm, Teton Recreation Center, $8.00, 307-739-9025 n Drawing with Jeremy Morgan 5:45pm, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $95.00 - $120.00, 307-733-6379 n Friends and Family Mental Health Support Group 6:00pm, Board Room of St. John’s Medical Center, Free, 307-732-1161 n Ciao Italia! Italian for the Intrepid Traveler 6:00pm, CWC-Jackson, $100.00, 307-733-7425 n Great Until Late 6:00pm, Local Businesses, Free, 307-201-2294 n Tricks of the Trade: Keys to Sharper Images 6:00pm, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $35.00 - $42.00, 307-733-6379 n ACT Prep Course 6:00pm, Teton County Library Youth Auditorium, Free, 307733-2164 n Writers at the Library: Nam Le 6:00pm, Teton County Library Ordway Auditorium, Free, 307733-2164

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n Storytime 11:00am, Teton County Library Youth Auditorium, Free, 307733-2164 n Open Gym - Adult Basketball 12:00pm, Teton Recreation Center, $3.75, 307-739-9025 n Public Skating 12:00pm, Snow King Sports & Events Center, $6.00 - $8.00, 307-201-1633 n Teton Toastmasters 12:00pm, Teton County Commissioners Chambers, Free n Cribbage 1:00pm, Valley of the Tetons Driggs, Free, 208-354-5522 n Freestyle Skating 3:00pm, Snow King Sports & Event Center, $10.00, 307-2011633 n Cancer Support Group for Patients, Survivors, and Caregivers 3:00pm, Eagle Classroom, St. John’s Medical Center, Free, 307-739-6195 n Culture through Clay 3:30pm, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $150.00 $180.00, 307-733-6379 n Apres with Stack and the Attack 4:00pm, Mangy Moose, Free, 307-733-4913 n Thursday Gates 4:00pm, Snow King Mountain, $49.00 - $59.00, 307-699-4227 n Yoga 4:15pm, Teton Recreation Center, $8.00, 307-739-9025 n Metal Working Series - All Classes 4:15pm, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $125.00 $158.00, 307-733-6379 n Winter Wonderland: Ice Skating on Town Square 4:30pm, Town Square, Free

n Sustainable Winter Community 6:00pm, Spark JH, Free, 303483-8207 n Open Gym - Adult Soccer 6:30pm, Teton Recreation Center, $3.75, 307-739-0925 n Armchair Adventure 6:30pm, Teton Recreation Center, 307-739-9025 n JH Community Band Rehearsal 7:00pm, Center for the Arts Performing Arts Wing, Free, 307-200-9463 n Tribes by Nina Raine 7:00pm, Dancers’ Workshop Studio 1, Center for the Arts, $12.00 - $15.00, 307-203-9067 n Major Zephyr 7:30pm, Silver Dollar Showroom, Free, 307-732-3939 n MA 7:30pm, Silver Dollar Showroom, Free, 307-733-2190 n Salsa Night 9:00pm, The Rose, Free, 307733-1500 n Disco Night 10:00pm, Stagecoach Bar, Free, 307-733-4407 n BOGDOG 10:00pm, Town Square Tavern, Free, 307-733-3886

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n Open Hockey 10:15am, Snow King Sports & Event Center, $10.00, 307-201-1633 n Curious Kids 10:15am, Jackson Hole Children’s Museum, $8.00, 206-733-3996 n Multi-Generational Music 10:30am, Old Wilson Schoolhouse, Free, 307413-9507 n Free Tax Preparation: Drop-Off Service 10:30am, Teton County Library Computer Lab, Free, 307-733-2164 n Yoga 12:00pm, Teton Recreation Center, $8.00, 307739-9025 n Public Skating 12:00pm, Snow King Sports & Events Center, $6.00 - $8.00, 307-201-1633 n Feathered Friday 12:00pm, Jackson Hole & Greater Yellowstone Visitor Center, Free, 307-201-5433 n Total Fitness 12:10pm, Teton Recreation Center, $8.00, 307739-9025 n Story Time 1:00pm, Valley of the Tetons Library Driggs, Free, 208-354-5522 n Ranger-led Snowshoe Hike 1:30pm, Grand Teton National Park, Free, 307739-3399 n Greenneck Daredevils 3:00pm, The Trap Bar & Grill, Free, 307-3532300 n Freestyle Skating 3:00pm, Snow King Sports & Event Center, $10.00, 307-201-1633 n DJ Simotaneous 4:00pm, Mangy Moose, $5.00, 307-733-4913 n Wine Tasting 4:00pm, The Liquor Store & Wine Loft, Free, 307-733-4466 n Winter Wonderland: Ice Skating on Town Square 4:30pm, Town Square, Free n Wine Tasting & Silent Auction 5:00pm, Center for the Arts, $25.00, 307-7334900 n Ladies Night Fridays 5:00pm, Snow King Mountain, $49.00 - $59.00, 307-699-4227 n Friday Night Meditation 6:00pm, Zendler Chiropractic, Free, 307-6998300 n Great Until Late 6:00pm, Local Businesses, Free, 307-201-2294 n Open Gym - Adult Soccer 6:30pm, Teton Recreation Center, $3.75, 307739-0925 n Pam Drews Phillips Plays Jazz 7:00pm, The Granary at Spring Creek Ranch, Free, 307-733-8833 n Tribes by Nina Raine 7:00pm, Dancers’ Workshop Studio 1, Center for the Arts, $12.00 - $15.00, 307-203-9067 n Teton Valley Trout Unlimited Presents Highland Country All-Stars 7:00pm, Knotty Pine, Free, 307-690-4672 n The Maw Band 7:30pm, Silver Dollar Showroom, Free, 307733-2190

GET OUT

Winter Angst A quick list of adventures for when the itch for warmer days hits.

BY BREE BUCKLEY

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t’s a frigid February morning as I chase the beam of my headlamp in the glittering twilight. A faint light in the horizon offers the first sign of daylight. My muscles burn from the relentless grade of the 1,655-foot boot pack, and I wiggle my fingers inside my gloves to regain circulation. I visualize the buoyant feeling I will soon experience skiing down the fluffy eiderdown precious to powder seekers. Frost crystallizes on my hair and eyebrows; I crave a cup of coffee from Pearl Street Bagels at the base of Teton Pass. Just as the sky radiates into a sea of tropical colors, I arrive to the top of Mount Glory. I couldn’t be happier.

Twenty hikes later and I will admit that even I, one of Jackson Hole’s many captivated, adrenaline-driven outdoor junkies, become bored from a long winter of skiing.

My hunger for powder is eventually filled to the brim; my tolerance for avalanche forecast conversation is exhausted, and my body craves new excitement.

If you share my impatience, or if you are someone who has yearned for warmer days since November, never fear. While it’s still winter, warming spring temperatures present the opportunity to reinvent your routine.

After all, there are other ways to soak up vitamin D in the valley without grinding up another skin track.

For those seeking alternatives to the valley’s enduring winter: Beat cold weather fatigue with a picnic in the park or a climb at the Rock Springs Buttress.

Bike to brunch on the lake After indulging in a scenic drive to the northern entrance of Grand Teton National Park, trade four wheels for two, bundle up (don’t forget insulated mittens to fight the windchill breaking against your phalanges), and bike to the Signal Mountain boat launch on Jackson Lake. When the air temperatures are right, this oasis serves as my favorite picnic table in the valley. Brew up a piping cup of coffee, enjoy a pre-made quiche or muffin, and finish off with a leisurely walk onto the frozen surface of the lake. If you feel like amping up your afternoon adventure, bring along some ice skates. Enjoy the sound of your skates slicing the ice as you glide toward Mount Moran on a sequestered skating tour of the Tetons.

Snowmobile to warmer waters Hold on tight as the roar of your snowmobile engine echoes throughout the snow-blanketed Granite Creek wilderness.

Remote peaks will cascade in your vision as your body bobs in conjunction with a jerky ride to natural and manmade hot springs.

Before you slink across the shallow, yet frigid rock bridge of Granite Creek, remove your myriad layers to reveal your sun-deprived skin and prepare to gingerly tiptoe into the piping spring. While soaking in a pool of heavenly warm water, contrasted by biting temperatures, remember that your sulfur-infused relaxation is only half of the experience. On your journey out, take time to sneak off the trail and challenge your ‘biling skills in a field of weightless powder. Create memories in the sun-kissed wilderness, and let the deep groan of your sled drown out thoughts of

tomorrow’s obligations.

Ski to climb

OK, so this might still involve skiing, but purely for accessibility reasons. Arguably the best granite rock in Jackson Hole, the Rock Springs Buttress outside the southern gates of Jackson Hole Mountain Resort, offers both sport and traditional climbing routes. And despite the actual air temperature, a cloudless bluebird day will allow you to absorb the sun’s rays and climb in comfort. Take a ride to the top of the world on the tram then carve down Rendezvous Bowl with an uncomfortably hefty pack full of climbing gear. Then trade your ski boots for climbing shoes, and take special care to keep everything as dry as possible.

While climbing is a sport of adrenaline, patience and focus, surprise will be an added emotion to your day when a paraglider swoops beside you on their aerial tour, or when the sound of a ski etching against the sun-crusted snow vertically echoes 300 feet to your roped-up body.

A few more

Sure, Jackson will forever be a winter lover’s paradise, but you don’t have to stick to the slopes to have an adventure-filled day during the wintry months. Cruise on a fat bike through Cache, hike up Snow King’s boot pack and take the chairlift down, take an endorphin-releasing walk along the Snake, or embark on a photo tour of the valley, hitting the Elk Refuge, GTNP during the day and Town Square at night. PJH

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n Adding Pizazz to your Digital Images with Adobe Lightroom 8:30am, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $65.00 - $78.00, 307-733-6379 n Zumba at Dancers’ Workshop 9:00am, Dancers’ Workshop, $12.00 - $16.00, 307-733-6398 n Demo Days 9:00am, Grand Targhee Resort, 307-353-2300 n Teton Valley Winter Farmer’s Market 10:00am, MD Nursery, Free, 208-354-8816 n 24th Annual Moose Chase Marathon 10:00am, Trail Creek Nordic Center, $10.00 - $75.00, 307733-6433 n Adult Oil Painting 10:00am, The Local Galleria, $25.00, 208-270-0883 n Parents’ Ski Saturdays 10:00am, Snow King Mountain, $49.00 - $59.00, 307-699-4227 n Experimenting with Collage 10:00am, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $45.00, 307733-6379 n Open Hockey 10:15am, Snow King Sports & Event Center, $10.00 n Free Tax Preparation: Drop-Off Service 10:30am, Teton County Library Computer Lab, Free, 307-7332164 n Tram Jam 11:00am, Base of the Bridger Gondola, Free n Winter Wonderland: Ice Skating on Town Square 12:00pm, Town Square, Free n Genealogy: Take a Tour of the Past 1:00pm, Teton County Library Computer Lab, Free, 307-7332164 n Ranger-led Snowshoe Hike 1:30pm, Grand Teton National Park, Free, 307-739-3399 n Raptor Encounters 2:00pm, Teton Raptor Center, $10.00 - $12.00, 307-203-2551 n Willie Waldman 3:00pm, The Trap Bar & Grill, Free, 307-353-2300

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n Chanman Solo in the K BAR at the Teton Mountain Lodge and Spa 4:00pm, K BAR, Free, 307-4131348 n 3rd Annual Chocolate + Beer Pairing 4:00pm, Snake River Brewing, $5.00, 307-739-2337 n Snowboard Saturday Adult Classes 5:00pm, Snow King Mountain, $49.00 - $59.00, 307-699-4227 n Great Until Late 6:00pm, Local Businesses, Free, 307-201-2294 n Party for a Purpose 6:00pm, Silver Dollar Showroom, Free, 307-733-2190 n Open Gym - Adult Soccer 6:30pm, Teton Recreation Center, $3.75, 307-739-0925 n Tribes by Nina Raine 7:00pm, Dancers’ Workshop Studio 1, Center for the Arts, $12.00 - $15.00, 307-203-9067 n The Maw Band 7:30pm, Silver Dollar Showroom, Free, 307-733-2190 n Dirt Road Music 8:00pm, Knotty Pine, Free, 208-787-2866 n Greenneck Daredevils 9:00pm, Mangy Moose, $7.00, 307-733-4913 n Jameson Music Series Featuring Freda Felcher 10:30pm, The Rose, Free, 307733-1500 n DJ E.R.A 10:30pm, Town Square Tavern, Free, 307-733-3886

SUNDAY FEB. 21

n Open Hockey 10:15am, Snow King Sports & Event Center, $10.00. 307-2011633 n SRB’s Barrel Program 11:00am, Snake River Brewing, Free, 307-739-2337 n Winter Wonderland: Ice Skating on Town Square 12:00pm, Town Square, Free n Ski with the Godfather-Bill Briggs 12:00pm, Snow King Mountain, $49.00 - $59.00, 307-699-4227 n Open Gym - Adult Volleyball 4:00pm, Teton Recreation Center, $3.75, 307-739-9025 n Apres with Major Zephyr 4:00pm, Mangy Moose, Free, 307-733-4913 n Stagecoach Band 6:00pm, Stagecoach, Free, 307-733-4407 n Taize 6:00pm, St. John’s Episcopal Church, Free, 307-733-2603

n Great Until Late 6:00pm, Local Businesses, Free, 307-201-2294 n Square Dancing 6:30pm, Old Wilson Schoolhouse Community Center, $10.00, 307-413-9507 n Hospitality Night 9:00pm, The Rose, Free, 307733-1500 n Uncle Stackhouse 10:00pm, Town Square Tavern, Free, 307-733-3886

MONDAY FEB. 22

n Boot Camp 7:00am, Teton Recreation Center, $8.00, 307-739-9025 n Pilates Mat Classes at Dancers’ Workshop 8:30am, Dancers’ Workshop, $12.00 - $16.00, 307-733-6398 n Toddler Gym 8:30am, Teton Recreation Center, $0.00 - $2.50, 307-7399025 n Jazzercise 9:00am, Teton Recreation Center, $10.00, 307-739-9025 n Zumba at Dancers’ Workshop 9:30am, Dancers’ Workshop, $12.00 - $16.00, 307-733-6398 n Kindercreations 9:30am, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $85.00 - $102.00, 307-733-6379 n Art Education: Kindercreations 9:30am, Art Association Borshell Children’s Studio, $16.00, 307-733-6379 n Toddler Gym 10:00am, Teton Recreation Center, $0.00 - $2.50, 307-7399025 n Open Hockey 10:15am, Snow King Sports & Event Center, $10.00, 307-2011633 n Little Hands, Little Feet 11:00am, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $85.00 - $102.00, 307-733-6379 n Public Skating 12:00pm, Snow King Sports & Events Center, $6.00 - $8.00, 307-201-1633 n Total Fitness 12:10pm, Teton Recreation Center, $8.00, 307-739-9025 n Story Time 1:00pm, Valley of the Tetons Library Driggs, Free, 208-3545522 n Subaru Winter Driving Course 1:00pm, Fairgrounds Parking Lot, Free n Ranger-led Snowshoe Hike 1:30pm, Grand Teton National Park, Free, 307-739-3399

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n Friday Night DJ with Nathan Hudson 10:00pm, The Rose, Free, 307733-1500 n The Mustache Militia 10:00pm, Town Square Tavern, Free, 307-733-3886

Journeys on the Sea Reveling in third class travel on the Atlantic.

BY ANDREW MUNZ @AndrewMunz

U

nless you have the money to spend on a first class ticket, air travel can be a frustrating affair, sucking the life clean out of you. Sure, you get to your destination quicker, but there’s no joy in flying anymore. Gone are the advertisements with smiling people in their 1960s attire eating steaks and smoking cigarettes. Here to stay are the screaming babies, cramped seats and lackluster meals. So when I made the decision to take a vacation from my vacation and head to Copenhagen, Bremen, and Amsterdam, I decided to take as few planes as possible. And now I’m currently writing this on the open-air deck of a ferry in the northern Atlantic Ocean.

The journey to Denmark from Iceland takes roughly three days on rough seas. The wind is crazy at the moment, stirring whitecaps on the waves all around me. My fingers are slightly frozen, as is my computer, but the sun is struggling to break through the heavy cloud cover. In about four hours we’ll be in the Faroe Islands, harboring in the capital of Tórshavn (literally, Thor’s Harbor). The boat is swaying so much that I need to keep catching my laptop from sliding off the table, but there is something incredibly peaceful that lingers in every moment I spend aboard the ship.

Yesterday I almost missed the ferry due to a winter storm that closed all the roads that mattered. First, I wasn’t able to leave my Icelandic fjord town because the mountain pass was closed, and then I had to wait patiently until the road to Seyðisfjörður—the town where the ferry harbors—reopened. My boss drove me half the way, but didn’t want to chance driving into Seyðisfjörður in fear of not making it back over the pass. So we

The Norröna ferry departing from Seyðisfjörður Iceland into the wild Atlantic.

stopped at the base of the pass, where I was picked up by a very kind German couple who spoke only a little English. Luckily, growing up Austrian, I spoke enough German to make the nerve-wracking drive pleasant.

Upon boarding the ferry—a boat much larger than I pictured—I managed to garner favor with a group of young Faroese men who were heading back home after spending a week in Iceland on a study trip. They were all training to be welders and blacksmiths, and fed my hands with plenty of cigarettes and 7.2 percent Faroese beers. One of the guys, Jógvan Elias, was also a big metal fan (the music this time), wearing a black leather jacket and a chain bracelet. He eagerly listed off his favorite bands to see if I knew them.

“Do you know ACDC? Metallica?”

“Yes.” “Really!”

I recounted my quiet Icelandic life to them and explained that while Wyoming and Miami do sound somewhat similar, they are, in fact, very different places. They taught me some Faroese, not unlike the Icelandic I am currently learning, but with flares of Danish and English. After assuring them that no, I was not voting for Donald Trump, and yes, I do have faith in American police officers, we parted ways and I spent my first night on the sea.

I swayed back and forth in the top bunk of the bed. Three other guys are sharing the room with me, a Spaniard, an Icelander and a Canadian. With no window to look out of and barely any room to walk around in, it is the ultimate definition of third class travel.

So now, as we make our way closer to the Faroe Islands, I realize that traveling is more than just getting on a plane and landing in your destination. It should be about the journey, the people you meet along the way, and the moments like this one right now.

Everywhere I look I see ocean, and while I’ve had to rub my fingers together for warmth about 10 times during this column, I have to admit that sea travel is paramount. In two days I’ll be in Denmark with no plans and plenty of optimism.

The adventure continues. PJH

n Public Planetarium Program 6:30pm, Teton County Library, Free, 307-413-4779 n Railroad Earth 8:00pm, Pink Garter Theatre, $30.00 - $33.00, 307-733-1500

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n Kettlebells 7:00am, Teton Recreation Center, $8.00, 307-739-9025 n Zumba at Dancers’ Workshop 8:30am, Dancers’ Workshop, Free, 307-733-6398 n Yoga 8:30am, Teton Recreation Center, $8.00, 307-739-9025 n Ballet Workout at Dancers’ Workshop 9:30am, Dancers’ Workshop, $12.00 - $16.00, 307-733-6398 n Toddler Time 10:05am, Teton County Library, Free, 307-733-2164 ext. 118 n Open Gym - Adult Basketball 12:00pm, Teton Recreation Center, $3.75, 307-739-9025 n Public Skating 12:00pm, Snow King Sports & Events Center, $6.00 - $8.00, 307-201-1633 n Lunchtime Learning: Improving End of Life Care: POLST and Advanced Directives 12:00pm, Teton County Library Ordway Auditorium, Free, 307733-2164 n Lunchtime Learning 12:00pm, Teton County Library, Free, 307 739 7466 n MELT at Dancers’ Workshop 12:10pm, Dancers’ Workshop, $12.00 - $16.00, 307-733-6398 n Spin 12:10pm, Teton Recreation Center, $8.00, 307-733-5056 n Freestyle Skating 3:00pm, Snow King Sports & Event Center, $10.00, 307-2011633 n Afterschool Monthly Workshops - All 17 Sessions 3:30pm, Borshell Children’s Studio, $180.00 - $216.00, 307733-6379 n Print Shop 3:30pm, Art Association of JH, $50.00, 307-733-6379 n Free Tax Preparation: Drop-Off Service 3:30pm, Teton County Library Computer Lab, Free, 307-7332164 n White Lightning Open Mic Night 4:00pm, The Trap Bar & Grill, Free, 307-353-2300

n Apres with Fresh Roy and the Winch Cats 4:00pm, Mangy Moose, Free, 307-733-4913 n Joint Classes 4:00pm, Moose-Wapiti Classroom, St. John’s Medical Center, Free, 307-739-6199 n Yoga 4:15pm, Teton Recreation Center, $8.00, 307-739-9025 n Winter Wonderland: Ice Skating on Town Square 4:30pm, Town Square, Free n Tele Tuesdays 5:00pm, Snow King Mountain, $49.00 - $59.00, 307-699-4227 n Jazzercise 5:30pm, Teton Recreation Center, $10.00, 307-739-9025 n Total Fitness 5:30pm, Teton Recreation Center, $8.00, 307-739-9025 n Level 1 Avalanche: Decision Making In Avalanche Terrain 5:30pm, CWC-Jackson, $375.00, 307-733-7425 n Great Until Late 6:00pm, Local Businesses, Free, 307-201-2294 n Scholarship Application Help Nights 6:00pm, Teton County Library Computer Lab, Free, 307-7332164 n Language Exchange 6:00pm, Valley of the Tetons Library Driggs, Free, 208-3545522 n Beginning Painting: Acrylic 6:00pm, Art Association of JH, $130.00, 307-733-6379 n Whitebark Pine Ecology and Management in the Greater Yellowstone Area 6:00pm, Teton County Library, Free, 781-259-9819 n Open Gym - Adult Volleyball 6:30pm, Teton Recreation Center, $3.75, 307-739-9025 n The Biophotonic Scanner 6:30pm, Medicine Wheel Wellness, $10.00, 307-699-7480 n Hip Hop at Dancers’ Workshop 7:00pm, Dancers’ Workshop, $12.00 - $16.00, 307-733-6398 n Language Exchange Night 7:00pm, Valley of the Tetons Library, Free, 208-787-2201 n One Ton Pig 7:30pm, Silver Dollar Showroom, Free, 307-732-3939 n Papadosio 9:00pm, Pink Garter Theatre, $17.00 - $20.00, 307-733-1500 n Galactic 10:00pm, Knotty Pine, $40.00, 208-787-2866

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n Willie Waldman 3:00pm, The Trap Bar & Grill, Free, 307-353-2300 n Freestyle Skating 3:00pm, Snow King Sports & Event Center, $10.00, 307-2011633 n Maker Monday’s 3:00pm, Valley of the Tetons Library Victor, Free, 208-7872201 n Handbuilding Plus!

3:30pm, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $150.00 $180.00, 307-733-6379 n After School Kidzart Club 3:30pm, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $195.00 $234.00, 307-733-6379 n Heart Centered Mixed Media 3:30pm, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $5.00, 307-7336379 n Apres with Tucker Smith 3-piece band 4:00pm, Mangy Moose, Free, 307-733-4913 n Barre Fusion at Dancers’ Workshop 5:30pm, Dancers’ Workshop, $12.00 - $16.00, 307-733-6398 n Suicide Prevention Training 5:30pm, St. John’s Medical Center Moose Wapiti Room, Free, 307-264-1536 n Level 1 Avalanche: Decision Making In Avalanche Terrain 5:30pm, CWC-Jackson, $375.00, 307-733-7425 n Hootenanny at Dornans 6:00pm, Dornans, Free, 307733-2415 n Evening Yoga 6:00pm, Teton Recreation Center, $8.00, 307-739-9025 n Great Until Late 6:00pm, Local Businesses, Free, 307-201-2294 n Design to Print 6:00pm, Center for the Arts, $130.00, 307-733-6379 n Foreign Policy Series: International Migration 6:00pm, Teton County Library Ordway Auditorium, Free, 307733-2164 n Make a Quilt Top in 4 Weeks!

6:00pm, CWC-Jackson, $75.00, 307-733-7425 n Skiers can Tango, and so can You! 6:30pm, Center for the Arts, Free, 917 613-3176 n Open Gym - Adult Basketball 6:30pm, Teton Recreation Center, $3.75, 307-739-9025

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BEER, WINE & SPIRITS

Serious Sips of Sicily Going mano a mano with Cusumano.

BY TED SCHEFFLER @critic1

W

ine has been produced in Sicily for millennia. Legend has it that Dionysus (also known as Bacchus) brought pleasure to mankind, and wine to Sicily. Nonetheless, Sicilian wines have never been among Italy’s most sought-after or respected. For much of the past century, grapes grown in Sicily were exported and added to wines made in other parts of Italy.

But, that is changing.

In the past couple of decades, a new generation of winemakers has introduced changes in techniques and philosophies about how Sicilian wines should be made, and some of the Mediterranean country’s best wines are now coming from Sicily. One such producer is Cusumano. I recently had the pleasure of sampling some Cusumano

wines and was very impressed.

The winery is owned and operated by the brothers Cusumano, Alberto and Diego, who work closely with expert winemaker Mario Ronco. All of the grapes for Cusumano wines are hand-harvested and estate-grown. They are artisanal wines that harken to the past in terms of vineyard techniques such as handharvesting, yet are modern and innovative on the palate. These wines of the “new” Sicily are adventurous and dynamic, meticulously made from vineyards spread across seven holdings throughout the region.

Probably the best known of the Cusumano wines is the basic Nero d’Avola ($12), made with 100 percent Nero d’Avola grapes—the most common Sicilian varietal.

Like many of Cusumano’s wines, the Nero d’Avola is bright, fruit-forward, with fresh red and black berry aromas, a good choice for a wide range of meat-based dishes. Also like many of Cusumano’s wines, this one features a glass top closure.

My wife, who enjoys Italian wines more than most, really loves Cusumano Insolia 2012 ($12.99). And I’m glad, because it’s an absolute steal at the price. While many of Cusumano’s wines are prestigious and pricey, this has got to be one of the world’s best values in white wine. Native to Sicily, the Insolia grape was mostly used to make Marsala. It’s a somewhat odd white grape

IMBIBE that doesn’t quite taste like any other to me. Its acidity and citrus qualities remind me of Sauvignon Blanc, but then tropical fruit and floral aromas make me think of Viognier. It’s softer than Chardonnay, yet quite rich. Try it with pork and fish dishes and pastas with creamy sauces.

If you’ve had Nero d’Avola-based wines in the past, forget everything you know about them. Cusumano Tenuta San Giacomo Sàgana 2011 ($40.30) will forever change your thinking about what Nero d’Avola can be. For starters, in a return to Sicilian tradition, the wine spends one year in large casks to help smooth out the grape’s rough edges.

It’s taken Cusumano years to find the right balance between wood and wine and their Sàgana is nothing if not well-balanced. That’s a good thing, because this stuff is a fruit bomb. Almost black in color, it’s rich and

bold, well-structured with deep plum, cocoa, vanilla and black pepper flavors.

It clocks in at 15 percent ABV, so go easy. I recently enjoyed Sàgana with homemade Margherita pizza, but it would also take well to meat dishes and red sauces.

Based on the belief that Noah (of Bible fame) was the first person to create wine, Cusumano Noà 2011 ($50.32) is thusly named. The 15.5 percent ABV wine is a blend of 40 percent Nero D’Avola, 30 percent Merlot and 30 percent Cabernet Sauvignon.

It’s a rich, full-bodied wine with sweet tannins—very jammy with hints of anise and cocoa—which would pair nicely with grilled red meats and roasts. PJH

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1/16TH COLOR AD Trio is located just off the town square in downtown Jackson, and is owned & operated by local chefs with a passion for good food.

Our menu features contemporary American dishes inspired by classic bistro cuisine. Daily specials feature wild game, fish and meats.

Enjoy a glass of wine at the bar in front of the wood-burning oven and watch the chefs perform in the open kitchen.

Local is a modern American steakhouse and bar located on Jackson’s historic town square.

Serving locally raised beef and, regional game, fresh seafood and seasonally inspired food, Local offers the perfect setting for lunch, drinks or dinner.

Lunch 11:30am Monday-Saturday Dinner 5:30pm Nightly

Dinner Nightly at 5:30pm 45 S. Glenwood Available for private events & catering For reservations please call 734-8038

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Featuring dining destinations from buffets and rooms with a view to mom and pop joints, chic cuisine and some of our dining critic’s faves!

ASIAN & CHINESE TETON THAI Serving the world’s most exciting cuisine.

Teton Thai offers a splendid array of flavors: sweet, hot, sour, salt and bitter. All balanced and blended perfectly, satisfying the most discriminating palate. Open daily. 7432 Granite Loop Road in Teton Village, (307) 733-0022 and in Driggs, (208) 787-8424, tetonthai.com.

THE LOCALS

FAVORITE PIZZA 2012, 2013 & 2014 •••••••••

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Under the Pink Garter Theatre (307) 734-PINK • www.pinkygs.com

POLKA NIGHT FEATURING THE

HOF POLKA BAND THURSDAY, 7PM-10PM GERMAN BEER SPECIALS

Kazumi is a family-owned and operated restaurant serving unique sushi rolls, fresh sashimi and nigiri, and off-the-charts specialty items. Located near the Town Square, we also feature hot noodle soups and the spiciest rolls in town! Open Monday through Saturday at 11 a.m - 9:30 p.m. 265 West Broadway, 307-7339168, jacksonholesushi.com.

KIM’S CORNER Best ski food in the area! Korean and American style, from breakfast sandwiches, burgers, chicken tenders, Philly cheese steaks to rice bowls and noodles. Something for everyone!

Open Tuesday through Thursday, 9:30 a.m. to 7 p.m.; Friday through Sunday, 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.

At base of Snow King between the ski patrol room and the ice rink. 100 E. Snow King Ave. Order ahead (307) 200-6544, facebook.com/ Kimscornercafe.

THAI ME UP Home of Melvin Brewing Co. Freshly remodeled offering modern Thai cuisine in a relaxed setting. New tap system with 20 craft beers.

New $8 wine list and extensive bottled beer menu. Open daily for dinner at 5pm. Downtown at 75 East Pearl Street. View our tap list at thaijh. com/brews. 307-733-0005.

CONTINENTAL ALPENHOF Serving authentic Swiss cuisine, the Alpenhof features European style breakfast entrées and alpine lunch fare. Dine in the Bistro for a casual meal or join us in the Alpenrose dining room for a relaxed dinner experience. Breakfast 7:30am-10am. Coffee & pastry 10am-11:30am.

Lunch 11:30am-3pm. Aprés 3pm-5:30pm.

Dinner 6pm-9pm. For reservations at the Bistro or Alpenrose, call 307-733-3242.

THE BLUE LION

The Deli That’ll Rock Your Belly 307-733-3448

Sun-Wed 11am-4pm, Thur-Sat 11am-8pm 180 N. Center St. | 1 block n. of Town Square Next to Home Ranch Parking Lot

CAFE GENEVIEVE Serving inspired home cooked classics in a historic log cabin. Enjoy brunch daily at 8 a.m., dinner nightly at 5 p.m., and happy hour

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Steamed Subs Hot Dogs Soups & Salads

A Jackson Hole favorite for 37 years. Join us in the charming atmosphere of a historic home. Ask a local about our rack of lamb.

Serving fresh fish, elk, poultry, steaks, and vegetarian entrées. Live acoustic guitar music most nights. Open at 5:30 p.m. Off Season Special: 2 for 1 Entrees. Good all night. Must mention ad. Reservations recommended, walkins welcome. 160 N. Millward, (307) 733-3912, bluelionrestaurant.com

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Large Specialty Pizza ADD: Wings (8 pc)

Medium Pizza (1 topping) Stuffed Cheesy Bread

daily 3-5:30 p.m. featuring $5 glasses of wine, $5 specialty drinks, $3 bottled beer. 135 E. Broadway, (307) 732-1910, genevievejh.com.

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for an extra $5.99/each

(307) 733-0330 520 S. Hwy. 89 • Jackson, WY

FAMILY FRIENDLY ENVIRONMENT

Breakfast Lunch & Dinner

PIZZAS, PASTAS & MORE HOUSEMADE BREAD & DESSERTS

••••••••• Open daily 8am 145 N. Glenwood (307) 734-0882

FRESH, LOCALLY SOURCED OFFERINGS

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A Jackson Hole favorite since 1965

TAKE OUT AVAILABLE Dining room and bar open nightly at 5:00pm (307) 733-2460 • 2560 Moose Wilson Road • Wilson, WY

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BREAKFAST & LUNCH BURGERS • FRIES RICE BOWLS • NOODLES

733-3912

Tues-Thur 9:30am-7pm | Fri-Sun 9:30am-4pm 100 E. Snow King Ave

20%OFF Good between 5:30-6pm • Open nightly at 5:30pm

160 N. Millward

Make your reservation online at bluelionrestaurant.com

(at Snow King Mtn between Ski Patrol & Ice Rink)

307.200.6544

ELEANOR’S Enjoy all the perks of fine dining, minus the dress code at Eleanor’s, serving rich, saucy dishes in a warm and friendly setting. Eleanor’s is a primo brunch spot on Sunday afternoons. Its bar alone is an attraction, thanks to reasonably priced drinks and a loyal crowd. Come get a belly-full of our two-time gold medal wings. Open at 11 a.m. daily.

832 W. Broadway, (307) 733-7901.

FULL STEAM SUBS The deli that’ll rock your belly. Jackson’s newest sub shop serves steamed subs, reubens, gyros, delicious all beef hot dogs, soups and salads. We offer Chicago style hot dogs done just the way they do in the windy city. Open daily11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Located just a short block north of the Town Square at 180 N. Center Street, (307) 733-3448.

LOCAL Local, a modern American steakhouse and bar, is located on Jackson’s historic town square.

Our menu features both classic and specialty cuts of locally-ranched meats and wild game alongside fresh seafood, shellfish, house-ground burgers, and seasonally-inspired food. We offer an extensive wine list and an abundance of locally-sourced products. Offering a casual and vibrant bar atmosphere with 12 beers on tap as well as a relaxed dining room, Local is the perfect spot to grab a burger for lunch or to have drinks and dinner with friends. Lunch Mon-Sat 11:30am.

Dinner Nightly 5:30pm. 55 North Cache, (307) 2011717, localjh.com.

LOTUS CAFE Serving organic, freshly-made world cuisine while catering to all eating styles. Endless organic and natural meat, vegetarian, vegan and glutenfree choices. Offering super smoothies, fresh extracted juices, espresso and tea. Full bar and house-infused botanical spirits. Open daily 8am for breakfast lunch and dinner. 145 N. Glenwood St., (307) 734-0882, tetonlotuscafe.com.

MANGY MOOSE Mangy Moose Restaurant, with locally sourced, seasonally fresh food at reasonable prices, is a always a fun place to go with family or friends for a unique dining experience. The personable staff will make you feel right at home and the funky western decor will keep you entertained throughout your entire visit. Teton Village, (307) 733-4913, mangymoose.com.

SNAKE RIVER BREWERY & RESTAURANT

Use the code “Planet” and get

15% off your order of $20 or more Order online at PizzeriaCaldera.com or via our app for iOS or Android.

11am - 9:30pm daily 20 W Broadway 307 - 201 - 1472

Mangy Moose Restaurant, with locally sourced, seasonally FRESH FOOD at reasonable prices, is a always a FUN PLACE to go with family or friends for a unique dining experience. The personable staff will make you feel RIGHT AT HOME and the funky western decor will keep you entertained throughout your entire visit.

Reservations at (307) 733-4913 3295 Village Drive • Teton Village, WY

www.mangymoose.com

America’s most award-winning microbrewery is serving lunch and dinner. Take in the atmosphere while enjoying wood-fired pizzas, pastas, burgers, sandwiches, soups, salads and desserts. $9 lunch menu. Happy hour 4 to 6 p.m., including tasty hot wings. The freshest beer in the valley, right from the source! Free WiFi. Open 11:00 a.m. to 11:00 p.m. 265 S. Millward. (307) 739-2337, snakeriverbrewing.com.

SWEETWATER Satisfying locals for lunch and dinner for over 36 years with deliciously affordable comfort food.

Extensive local and regional beer list. Lunch 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. features blackened trout

salad, elk melt, wild west chili and vegetarian specialties. Dinner 5:30 to 9 p.m. including potato-crusted trout, 16 ounce ribeye, vegan and wild game. Reservations welcome. (307) 7333553. sweetwaterjackson.com.

TRIO Owned and operated by Chefs with a passion for good food, Trio is located right off the Town square in downtown Jackson. Featuring a variety of cuisines in a relaxed atmosphere, Trio is famous for its wood-oven pizzas, specialty cocktails and waffle fries with bleu cheese fondue. Dinner nightly at 5:30 p.m. Reservations. (307) 734-8038 or bistrotrio.com.

ITALIAN CALICO A Jackson Hole favorite since 1965, the Calico continues to be one of the most popular restaurants in the Valley. The Calico offers the right combination of really good food, (much of which is grown in our own gardens in the summer), friendly staff; a reasonably priced menu and a large selection of wine. Our bar scene is eclectic with a welcoming vibe. Open nightly at 5 p.m. 2560 Moose Wilson Rd., (307) 733-2460.

MEXICAN EL ABUELITO Serving authentic Mexican cuisine and appetizers in a unique Mexican atmosphere. Home of the original Jumbo Margarita. Featuring a full bar with a large selection of authentic Mexican beers.

Lunch served weekdays 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Nightly dinner specials. Open seven days, 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. 385 W. Broadway, (307) 733-1207.

PIZZA DOMINO’S PIZZA Hot and delicious delivered to your door. Handtossed, deep dish, crunchy thin, Brooklyn style and artisan pizzas; bread bowl pastas, and oven baked sandwiches; chicken wings, cheesy breads and desserts. Delivery. 520 S. Hwy. 89 in Kmart Plaza, (307) 733-0330.

PINKY G’S The locals favorite! Voted Best Pizza in Jackson Hole 2012, 2013 and 2014. Seek out this hidden gem under the Pink Garter Theatre for NY pizza by the slice, salads, stromboli’s, calzones and many appetizers to choose from. Try the $7 ‘Triple S’ lunch special.Happy hours 10 p.m. - 12 a.m. Sun.Thu. Text PINK to 71441 for discounts. Delivery and take-out. Open daily 11a.m. to 2 a.m. 50 W. Broadway, (307) 734-PINK.

PIZZERIA CALDERA Jackson Hole’s only dedicated stone-hearth oven pizzeria, serving Napolitana-style pies using the freshest ingredients in traditional and creative combinations. Five local micro-brews on tap, a great selection of red and white wines by the glass and bottle, and one of the best views of the Town Square from our upstairs deck. Daily lunch special includes slice, salad or soup, any two for $8. Happy hour: half off drinks by the glass from 4 - 6 daily. Dine in or carry out. Or order online at PizzeriaCaldera.com, or download our app for iOS or Android. Open from 11am - 9:30pm daily at 20 West Broadway. 307-201-1472.

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84 Not cramped 85 Bread sometimes prepared with chutney 87 11-Down, say 88 Kama __ 90 Key in 91 First name in skin care 93 Indian lentil dish 94 Limited carry-on items 96 Always, in verse 97 Key below E 99 Shore breezes caused by flapping wings?

102 Present in court 104 Garden resident 105 Gum ball 106 Potato expert?

110 “There you are!”

113 __ Alavesa: Spanish wine 117 Sitar music 118 Language that gave us “shawl” 119 Prop for the gravedigger scene in “Hamlet”?

121 Law school newbie 122 Esteemed group 123 Hides 124 Modest dress 125 Close attention 126 “The Dance Class” painter 127 Product, as of labor 128 Huff relative

75 Label again 76 Not still anymore 77 Red pig 78 Elder statesman 79 Called on the field 80 “SNL” alum Mike 83 Ford, for one 86 7 on the Beaufort scale 88 Dozing place, perhaps 89 Once more 92 Therefore 94 Honorary legal degs.

95 Bee team 98 Swollen, with “up” 100 LPGA member?

101 They’re not literal 103 Virtual transaction 106 Ray of fast food 107 Collector’s suffix 108 Prude 109 Court org.

111 Netflix competitor 112 Voices below soprani 114 Chief Norse god 115 Yoda trainee 116 Landed 119 Sunblock letters 120 Versatile ETO carrier

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12 Means of access 13 Early Mexican civilization 14 Did a deli job 15 Greek warrior famous for his weak spot 16 Title role for which Adrien Brody won an Oscar 17 Shopping spot 18 Body wrap offerers 24 Like “Halloween” music 29 Mountain passes 30 Tesla Motors CEO Musk 32 HUD financing gp.

34 Number of good men?

36 Traitor 37 Eel, at sushi bars 38 Joe __, only MLB catcher with three batting titles 39 Cuban base, familiarly 40 Unwelcome looks 41 Sole 42 Enemy lines infiltrator 44 Martinique volcano 45 Astronomical red giant 49 Singer Redding 52 Record-breaking base stealer Lou 54 Flat hat 55 Rose pest 58 Really clean 61 Hurting more 64 Dealt 65 Quake DOWN 66 Sets in dens 10 Winged stinger 67 Contrary 20 “A propensity to hope and afterthought joy is real riches” philosopher 69 “Star Trek” regular 30 Pennsylvania snowbelt city ultimately promoted to 40 Smack Cmdr.

50 __ fever 71 Worked in a shaft 60 Dope 72 Member of the 70 Like some triathlon segments NCAA’s A-10 Conf.

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19 Emanating quality 20 Sadat of Egypt 21 Ring-shaped ocean formation 22 Fellow 23 Good-natured complaint?

25 Wynonna’s mother 26 Olympian queen 27 “Key & __”: Comedy Central series 28 Meditation class chorus 29 Everything you eat?

31 Cousin of com 33 Computer stylus battery 35 Big strings 36 Skilled diver’s advantage?

43 Exercise in a pool 46 One, to Juanita 47 Political fugitives 48 Sgt., e.g.

50 Tampico tots 51 Slap (on), as cologne 53 Attorney-__ 54 Flora and fauna 56 Bank material 57 Teen attachment?

59 Quincy of ’70s-’80s TV et al.

60 Outfits 62 “... against a __ of troubles”: Hamlet 63 Saharan dust swirlers 65 Fashion show photographer?

68 Cote call 69 Bank construction 70 Like some marked-down mdse.

71 Inept painter?

76 Book supplement 81 Angle preceder, in texts 82 Playtime 83 2016 Cactus Bowl sch.

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Hope for the Hopi According to Native prophecies, the world faces one last chance.

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n a cloudless day here in the Tetons, I sat with Native American elder David Bearclaw Abrams talking about the Hopi Indian Prophecies for the 21st century. These have been kept secret for millennia until recently, when the elders of many tribes authorized sharing the information with the world because right now time is of the essence.

The Native American peoples have a long-standing tradition of accurate prophecy. David asked me to help him share these Native American prophecies for our times. His eyes got misty as he talked about how urgent it is to love, honor and respect one another, all forms of life, and our living Earth.

The Positive Role of Prophecy The constructive intent of prophetic information (from any of the world’s wisdom traditions) is to remind us that we always have direct influence on our collective destiny. Prophecy puts us on notice that negative trends in our collective behaviors, if left unchecked, will inevitably create irreversible tragic events.

Ancient Hopi Tablets Hopi teachings say that at the beginning of this World Cycle, each of the four races was given two tablets encoded with simple instructions on how to live in alignment with the laws of the Great Spirit. The tablets also described specific warnings of what would occur if humanity violated the instructions and did not choose the Path of Peace.

Stewardship Along with the two tablets, each race was given a specific gift of guardianship, which was theirs to master, to share with everyone on Earth, and to keep aligned to the Path of Peace for the duration of this world cycle.

• The Red People were given guardianship of the Earth, and instructed to learn the secrets of food and healing from the abundance of the Earth.

• The Yellow People were blessed with guardianship of the air. They were charged with understanding the sky (cosmos) and the breath, and how to apply this for health and spiritual advancement.

• The Black People were given responsibility for the water element—considered the most humble and the most powerful.

They were to learn the many vital secrets of water and bring those to humanity.

• White People were given guardianship and safekeeping of fire. The spark of white man’s fire is found within every aspect of technology. When aligned with the Path of Peace,

fire moves, catalyzes, and facilitates transformation.

The original intent was for all races to live by the directives in the tablets in every generation. If followed, there would be a time in the future, in the 21st century, when all of the races would come together in peace. Then they would combine all their knowledge, and all the tablets would be joined together. Global unity and collaboration would create a great and more highly evolved civilization on the Earth.

Clear Warnings and Call to Action The races were told to never “cast these tablets on the ground,” for if any of the brothers or sisters did this, there would not only be hard times but eventually the life of the Earth would be in peril.

It was foretold that many people would forget the high road.

The Great Spirit would have to shake the Earth at three different periods in history when too many people strayed into greed, self-interest, and disconnection from the heart’s Path of Peace.

World Wars I and II have already been confirmed as two of the three predicted shakings of the Earth.

They added that each time there would be the chance to realign by honoring the Earth, all life on Earth and all of creation.

However, eventually, there would be a “Time of Purification;” one last brief opportunity for every person on the Earth to return to the Path of Heart before the door would close, and the third and final shaking—the purification of the entire Earth—would occur.

Where We Are Now David Bearclaw Adams spoke in a very soft and matter of fact tone when asked where we stand in relation to the Prophecies.

He and other Native American Elders concur we have entered the period of the third and final shaking of the Earth.

Claim Your Power The Native American Elders, along with many other ancient and current wisdom teachings of the world, implore us now to return to a global heart centered Path of Peace if we want to shift and/or mitigate the negative outcomes of the “snowball rapidly rolling down the mountain.”

Every single person who consciously practices loving kindness, and does not cop to fear, contributes to the tipping point necessary to upgrade the destiny of our species and our Earth. We don’t have to be spiritual Olympians, saints or world leaders to accomplish this. We do have to “get it,” “own it” and “practice it.”

Our consciousness is that powerful.

Awesome Outcome What is foretold in the Hopi Prophecies is the highest and greatest abilities that we have in our human blueprint will be released to us when we make this evolutionary shift to a collective heart-centered consciousness. The Native American expression “Mitakuye Oyasin” translates as “We are all related.” Science concurs. PJH

Carol Mann is a longtime Jackson resident, radio personality, former Grand Targhee Resort owner, author, and clairvoyant.

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Biscuit Suffrage Hog Island honey fights for women’s equality in new extreme sport.

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ill, the adventurer, spiritual seeker, advocate for female empowerment and Hog Island native, recently became the first female to solo a full order of Bubba’s biscuits and gravy. I caught up with her last week and she agreed to answer some questions.

PJH: First of all let me congratulate you on becoming the first female to complete a full order of Bubba’s biscuits and gravy. I’m sure our readers want to know how you became interested in biscuits and gravy.

Lill: I began eating Bubba’s biscuits and gravy when I was three years old. My dad would take us out for breakfast when mom was too hung-over to cook. Dad was dating one of the waitresses on the side so he always got a discount. Shelley, that was the waitress my dad knew. She would go on to become his third ex-wife. Anyway, she would set a couple platters of biscuits and gravy on the table and dad, my brothers and I would dig in. If I wanted more than licking empty plates, I had to eat fast.

PHJ: Do you see the female experience of Bubba’s biscuits and gravy as different than that of men’s?

Lill: I do think it is different. Men are raised

to overachieve, to challenge themselves, to feel comfortable with a bloated gut and passing gas. However, women are affected by social attitudes that suggest they shouldn’t eat a half order of biscuits and gravy, let alone a whole order. Still, I think women involved in extreme sports experience similar emotions as men, but we’re not so tied to the results we forget to live the moment, to enjoy the flakiness of the biscuit, the spice and texture of the sausage and most of all, the camaraderie of other women.

PJH: What was the biggest challenge you faced?

Lill: The biggest challenge was overcoming my own self-doubts fed by outdated societal judgments. When a woman orders biscuits and gravy, her boyfriend expects to get some.

Women fear they will become unattractive to men if there is nothing left on their plate for the man to graze on. It’s time we left this black-and-white thinking behind and allow women to reach for the stars. If your man insists on eating your leftovers, order a side of bacon with your biscuits and gravy and let him eat that. Believe me, you’ll both be happy.

PJH: How did you train?

Lill: I am blessed to have

a group of girlfriends who supported me. Lynn Hill, the famous rock climber followed me on Twitter.

News&Guide adventure columnists Molly Absolon and Dina Mishev often showed up at Bubba’s to offer encouragement when I was training. Both were there the morning I broke the record and I may get mentioned in one of their columns.

PJH: What are your plans now?

Lill: In between promotional appearances as a product ambassador for Jimmy Dean Pure Pork Sausage, I want to help other women overcome self-doubt and cheer them on as they push the edge. To women everywhere I say. “If you have a dream, go for it!” PJH

FREE WILL ASTROLOGY

BY ROB BREZSNY

ARIES (March 21-April 19) “Old paint on a canvas, as it ages, sometimes becomes transparent,” said playwright Lillian Hellman. “When that happens, it is possible to see the original lines: a tree will show through a woman’s dress, a child makes way for a dog, a large boat is no longer on an open sea.” Why does this happen? Because the painter changed his or her mind. Early images were replaced, painted over. I suspect that a metaphorical version of this is underway in your life. Certain choices you made in the past got supplanted by choices you made later. They disappeared from view.

But now those older possibilities are re-emerging for your consideration. I’m not saying what you should do about them. I simply want to alert you to their ghostly presence so they don’t cause confusion.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) Let’s talk about your mouth. Since your words flow from it, you use it to create and shape a lot of your experiences.

Your mouth is also the place where food and drink enter your body, as well as some of the air you breathe. So it’s crucial to fueling every move you make. You experience the beloved sense of taste in your mouth. You use your mouth for kissing and other amorous activities. With its help, you sing, moan, shout and laugh. It’s quite expressive, too. As you move its many muscles, you send out an array of emotional signals. I’ve provided this summary in the hope of inspiring you to celebrate your mouth, Taurus. It’s prime time to enhance your appreciation of its blessings!

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) Coloring books for adults are best-sellers. Tightly-wound folks relieve their stress by using crayons and markers to brighten up black-and-white drawings of butterflies, flowers, mandalas and pretty fishes. I highly recommend that you avoid this type of recreation in the next three weeks, as it would send the wrong message to your subconscious mind. You should expend as little energy as possible working within frameworks that others have made. You need to focus on designing and constructing your own frameworks.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) The Old Testament book of Leviticus presents a long list of forbidden activities, and declares that anyone who commits them should be punished. You’re not supposed to get tattoos, have messy hair, consult oracles, work on Sunday, wear clothes that blend wool and linen, plant different seeds in the same field or eat snails, prawns, pigs and crabs. (It’s OK to buy slaves, though.) We laugh at how absurd it would be for us to obey these outdated rules and prohibitions, and yet many of us retain a superstitious loyalty toward guidelines and beliefs that are almost equally obsolete. Here’s the good news, Cancerian: Now is an excellent time to dismantle or purge your own fossilized formulas.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) Russian writer Ivan Turgenev was a Scorpio. Midway through his first novel Rudin, his main character Dmitrii Nikolaevich Rudin alludes to a problem that affects many Scorpios. “Do you see that apple tree?” Rudin asks a female companion. “It is broken by the weight and abundance of its own fruit.” Ouch! I want very much for you Scorpios to be spared a fate like that in the coming weeks.

That’s why I propose that you scheme about how you will express the immense creativity that will be welling up in you. Don’t let your lush and succulent output go to waste.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) Asking you Sagittarians to be patient may be akin to ordering a bonfire to burn more politely. But it’s my duty to inform you of the cosmic tendencies, so I will request your forbearance for now. How about some nuances to make it more palatable? Here’s a quote from author David G. Allen: “Patience is the calm acceptance that things can happen in a different order than the one you have in mind.” Novelist Gustave Flaubert: “Talent is a long patience.” French playwright Moliere: “Trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.” Writer Anne Lamott: “Hope is a revolutionary patience.” I’ve saved the best for last, from Russian novelist Irène Némirovsky: “Waiting is erotic.”

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) “If you ask for help, it comes, but not in any way you’d ever know.” Poet Gary Snyder said that, and now I’m passing it on to you, Capricorn. The coming weeks will be an excellent time for you to think deeply about the precise kinds of help you would most benefit from—even as you loosen up your expectations about how your requests for aid might be fulfilled. Be aggressive in seeking assistance, but ready and willing to be surprised as it arrives.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) For a limited time only, 153 is your lucky number. Mauve and olive are your colors of destiny, the platypus is your power animal and torn burlap mended with silk thread is your magic texture. I realize that all of this may sound odd, but it’s the straight-up truth. The nature of the cosmic rhythms are rather erratic right now. To be in maximum alignment with the irregular opportunities that are headed your way, you should probably make yourself magnificently mysterious, even to yourself. To quote an old teacher, this might be a good time to be “so unpredictable that not even you yourself knows what’s going to happen.”

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) In the long-running TV show MAS*H, the character known as Sidney Freedman was a psychiatrist who did his best to nurture the mental health of the soldiers in his care. He sometimes departed from conventional therapeutic approaches. In the series finale, he delivered the following speech, which I believe is highly pertinent to your current quest for good mental hygiene: “I told you people something a long time ago, and it’s just as pertinent today as it was then. Ladies and gentlemen, take my advice: Pull down your pants and slide on the ice.”

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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) You are entering the inquisitive phase of your astrological cycle. One of the best ways to thrive during the coming weeks will be to ask more questions than you have asked since you were 5 years old. Curiosity and good listening skills will be superpowers that you should you strive to activate. For now, what matters most is not what you already know but rather what you need to find out. It’s

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) Poet Barbara Hamby says the Russian word ostyt can be used to describe “a cup of tea that is too hot, but after you walk to the next room, and return, it is too cool.” A little birdie told me that this may be an apt metaphor for a current situation in your life. I completely understand if you wish the tea had lost less of its original warmth, and was exactly the temperature you like, neither burning nor tepid. But that won’t happen unless you try to reheat it, which would change the taste. So what should you do?

One way or the other, a compromise will be necessary.

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) “I would not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well,” said the philosopher and naturalist Henry David Thoreau. In accordance with your astrological constitution, Leo, I authorize you to use this declaration as your own almost any time you feel like it. But I do suggest that you make an exception to the rule during the next four weeks. In my opinion, it will be time to focus on increasing your understanding of the people you care about—even if that effort takes time and energy away from your quest for ultimate self-knowledge. Don’t worry: You can return to emphasizing Thoreau’s perspective by the equinox.

a favorable time to gather information about riddles and mysteries that have perplexed you for a long time. Be super-receptive and extra wide-eyed!

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