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• Preservation of personal property rights and a focus on private sector solutions to community challenges.

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By Meteorologist Jim Woodmencey As we slide into the final week of October our average high and low temperatures are also starting to slide down the Fahrenheit scale, dropping a few degrees more each week. It was a big October, for both snow up high and rain in the valley. Snow that is in the mountains now will likely stay in the mountains for the rest of the winter. We are also dangerously close to breaking the record for October rainfall in town, set back in 1972.

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Average low temperatures this week are now close to 20 degrees, which means that overnight lows above freezing will be increasingly rare from now until spring.

Overnight lows getting as cold as the single digits are also rare, and would require a fresh snowfall, followed by clear and calm conditions. The coldest recorded temperature in Jackson this week is 3 degrees, which happened October 30, 1991.

Average high temperatures this week are around 50 degrees. Record high temperatures this time of year are mostly in the mid 60s. However, on October 26, 1999 it made it up to 71 degrees, the record high for this week. On October 29, 1983 it made it up to 70 degrees, and that is as late in the calendar year as we have ever had a 70-degree temperature reading. We will likely have to wait until sometime in April before we have the potential to make it to 70 degrees again.

NORMAL HIGH 51 NORMAL LOW 21 RECORD HIGH IN 1999 71 RECORD LOW IN 1991 3

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Monday’s newspaper featured a story on tenant rights. It was written as a response to a proposal by mayoral candidate Pete Muldoon to do something about the shameful state of tenant protections in Wyoming. But the headline writer got it wrong: “Mayoral Candidates Propose Renter Protections If Elected.”

Muldoon is the only candidate with a proposal.

Current mayor Sara Flitner was quoted as saying she’s looking into it, and claimed she wanted to have a first draft done by the end of the year. But she’s had almost two years to do something, and we have yet to see a proposal. At a candidate forum in August, when asked if she supported tenant protections, her response was “maybe.”

Where is the leadership on this issue?

Our renters have the rights of second-class citizens. They’re desperate and have no leverage, and landlords can take advantage of this by refusing repairs, or allowing tenants to live in unsanitary conditions. They can refuse to offer leases, which leave tenants at the mercy of their landlords, wondering when the rug will be pulled out from under them. Their First Amendment rights are also violated—landlords are known to prohibit tenants from displaying campaign signs for candidates. And tenants can legally face retaliation for complaining about any of this.

If Muldoon had not pressed the issue, does anyone really believe Flitner would now be talking about tenant rights in the eleventh hour?

- Bo Elledge Jackson, WY

The People’s Movement

Whatever the outcome of our election, I am very happy to see a grassroots process happening in the race of mayor. Grassroots movements aim to raise money, build organizations, raise awareness, build name recognition, win campaigns, and to deepen political participation. Grassroots movements derive their power from the people and their strategies seek to engage people in political discourse to the greatest extent possible. Grassroots movements are associated with bottom-up, rather than top-down decision-making. I think this is the way it should be. Nationally and locally, we’ve drifted very far from a representative government.

We have a few candidates that have personal agendas and will have conflicts of interest when it comes to making decisions regarding the future of Teton County and its development, due to their profession or family ties. When a candidate has to rescue themselves due to conflicts of interest they must not discuss, question, comment or vote on that matter. To me, that means they are unable to do the job they were elected to do. When you see a change to whom some candidates turn to for donations you can expect to see a change to whom those elected officials will be accountable. What does it mean when money becomes a fixture on a once-sleepy local political landscape? It can’t be good.

For more than 30 years we have lacked the kind of leadership it takes to resolve issues critical to our very survival. We have been unable to adhere to comprehensive plans and we have allowed money to complicate, distort, and delay decision-making at every turn.

Decision-making has been fear based. Our leaders continue to have their hands out for money to solve these issues. However, money from our pockets isn’t the answer and there is no guarantee that the money will be used for its original purpose. It’s time to make a change.

I am wondering when the people of Jackson are going to take their town back.

Please vote.

- Carla Watsabaugh Wilson, WY

Mayor Does Too Little Too Late

If our Jackson mayoral election were about voting for the person you know and like best, it would be a tough choice for me.

I happen to know and like both candidates.

But this election should not be a popularity contest, nor should it be personal; it should be about taking a strong and clear stand on the issues and having the ability to boldly lead our town into a sustainable future.

While Pete Muldoon has a clear position on limiting downtown commercial development, Mayor Sara Flitner has demonstrated a willingness to give more to commercial interests. Their projects would further exacerbate our housing crisis by creating more low-wage jobs and a greater demand for scarce affordable housing. Not to mention adding unnecessary and unwanted congestion to downtown.

On rental housing, Pete has proposed a renter’s “bill of rights.” It includes specific protections such as minimum notice for evictions, leases for all rentals to ensure some level of housing security and a requirement to keep apartments in reasonably good repair. These specific requirements would hardly be onerous and they’re the right things to do.

Sara’s rental housing policy is too little too late. In an Oct. 24 newspaper article, she said she had been looking into the issue.

“The basic thing we could do, that would be a positive step, is to have more clarity to ensure basic safe and secure conditions and better relationships,” the mayor said.

Wyoming law already provides an inadequate bare minimum standard for security and safety and is one of the weakest tenant laws in the nation.

How do you codify “better relationships”?

What does “more clarity” mean?

The mayor said she’d give us details after the election. Really? I would suggest that Sara take a bold step now and tell us exactly what she would like to achieve regarding rental housing so that we know where she stands before we vote.

Politicians who have many constituents to please give vague answers and put off the hard decisions. Leaders, on the other hand, clearly state their goals and take bold action to achieve them.

- Roger Hayden Jackson, WY

Save the Working Class

For decades the working people of Teton County have been pushed to the wayside by matters on zoning, antagonism towards tourism, hostility towards businesses and a priority for wildlife. Are all those actions deliberate?

Who knows, but they are consistent. If we are to carry on this tack our population will dwindle significantly. The threat will become reality for those among us who do the indispensable works and functions to keep services going.

With the coming elections we could send a signal that we are not content with the current situation. We are ultimately responsible for electing representatives who are competent, visionary and courageous.

A 1 percent sales tax is on the ballot; here is a chance to get funds rather painlessly, mostly provided by visitors. It is slated to help, in a small way, affordable housing and transportation. The only drawback is our elected officials will be allocating the funds and endless discussions would delay the implementation.

Sadly, we have spent years and several millions of dollars on a revision of the Comprehensive Plan, which we will find ways to mitigate. We should have applied all this brainpower to alternatives for Jackson’s economic future. Instead we don’t know where we are going as far as developing other sources of incomes, which could reduce the inequalities here. Heaven forbid!

We’ve seen a trend: people who live here on a part-time basis, who do not need to work and have no comprehension of ordinary life in Jackson, use financial clout and top it with legal actions to get their piece of paradise intact at the detriment of the working people.

The State of Wyoming statistics shows that 35 percent of the real estate in Teton county is occupied less than one month a year. That

fact is enough to make a worker looking for affordable housing feel nauseous. The zoning laws promulgated by the people who do not care about ordinary folks is one of the main reasons why real estate is so expensive here.

And for those who want to limit tourism in some fashion— for argument sake, with a touch of sarcasm and cynicism, let us close all the hotels except for a couple for stranded motorists at sundown. For good measure we should also close the ski resort, backcountry skiing is much healthier anyway. Snow King could still be open as our recreation hub. The consequences would follow. All commercial airlines would leave. Salt Lake City air traffic controllers will handle private jets.

Most of the foreign workers, documented or not, would leave. That would help to ease the housing crisis and the transportation issues. Hundreds if not thousands of blue collar workers and white collar ones would lose their jobs and would be forced to depart with the entire emotional trauma that it would cause.

We would be left with huge properties occupied less than one month a year by proprietors who would bring their own staff anytime they would visit their empty mansions.

St John’s Hospital would be reduced to a clinic.

By 2036 the population would dwindle to 5,000. It would be like stepping back to the 1940s. Let’s not let this scenario materialize.

The only endangered species here is the working class. We should put as much energy into preserving it as we have the fauna and nature around us.

- Yves Desgouttes Wilson, WY

1 Percent of the Details

Although no real discussion of the proposed town and county housing program has yet to take place, we are being asked to vote on a 1 percent tax that will fund it. I’m guessing a lot of us might like to vote “maybe.”

The problem, of course, is that the devil is in the details, and so far no one knows what those details will look like. The actual policy that gets implemented, if the tax passes, will depend on who gets elected and how commissioners structure the program. Sorting this out will take considerable time and effort. In our rush to provide major funding for some kind of solution—any kind of solution—we have yet to come to grips with the delicate, lengthy and difficult process of designing the program we’re being asked to fund in advance.

If three out of five commissioners cannot agree on how to focus the housing program and spend the money intelligently, those funds will sit unused, as well they should, awaiting the next election. Though I’m startled to be saying it, I don’t think of this as a basic flaw in the proposal. Rather, it seems more like a viable, built-in, check and balance mechanism that should prevent the town and county housing initiative from going off the rails.

Everything will depend, of course, on how carefully commissioners craft a program that takes into account both the concerns of the public and the potential for unintended consequences. Being in favor of “workforce housing” is not an acceptable mandate because it’s too vague. Being committed to exploring how we can spend the money intelligently—or else not at all—to accomplish carefully defined and focused housing goals could, on the other hand, be a realistic choice.

In the meantime, individual candidates

for county commissioner can state explicitly what they’d be willing to support up front.

My advice, for starters, would be to fund only restricted housing for town and county employees, including the hospital, the school system, the library, and a few select nonprofit social services that we have come to rely on as a community. Any housing that comes up free should go back into the original subsidized pool and made available again to the same sub-set of social infrastructure employees. Let’s start by using the money to keep our core social service employees living within the community they serve.

As to the future of an expanded program that might include the private sector work force, let’s stay flexible enough to avoid stoking the fires of additional commercial development by subsidizing its need for employee housing. That should be a private responsibility. If new businesses find it hard to plant roots in Jackson Hole that is probably a plus rather than a minus. If winter housing becomes unaffordable during the summer months for established year-round employees we may want to look at rent controls. And bussing short-term employees into town from outlying communities on a daily basis during the summer may reduce unnecessary and unwanted local development.

Everything should be on the table.

We’re definitely backing into this additional 1 percent sales tax decision. Still, if we can agree now on a viable income stream, it should be possible to start an open-ended conversation, moving forward slowly. But commissioners are going to need smarts, honesty, and a willingness to say “no” to stay out of trouble.

Loring Woodman Wilson, WY

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Ghost Governments The mysterious ‘special districts’ that operate in the soft underbelly of conventional government.

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hey can sue and be sued. They can borrow money and acquire debt.

They can impose taxes on their citizens but are themselves a tax-exempt entity. They establish laws, provide water/ sewer, maintain the streets, and keep the lights on. Sound like town government?

Well, kind of.

Special districts are quasi governments—actual political subdivisions of the state—that fly mainly under the radar in miniscule five-point font size under public notices in the local paper. From synthetic cities to makeshift municipalities, many of these special districts are like HOAs on steroids. Across the state they generate $1 billion annually with virtually no transparency or oversight. More than 41 special districts have formed in Teton County alone and that number is growing by the day. Four more have applied only last week.

Special districts can be formed for most anything. Wyoming allows for 28 distinct special districts ranging from hospital and school districts to predatory animal and cemetery districts. The most common in Teton County is the improvement and service district, or ISD. ISDs are like hyper-homeowners’ associations with the functional power and authority of a micro-government, nested within a county, inside a state. Special districts can be models of democracy in action—a government closest to the people, involving sometimes just a handful of residents. But they also pose inherent problems. Those forming them can easily get overwhelmed by the paperwork involved or simply don’t understand what they are doing. Then there is the potential for abuse.

A new sheriff in town Paul Vogelheim is a county commissioner assigned by the governor to a taskforce looking into special purpose governments with the idea of creating more oversight.

“I had no idea these districts generated that kind of money with no real accountability,” Vogelheim said. He estimated

special districts in Teton County alone generate $140 million.

Along with state senators Cale Case and Chris Rothfuss, and state representatives Dan Kirkbride and Jerry Paxton, Vogelheim and his fellow legislators have drafted four bills that will both educate those forming ISDs, as well as provide more accountability for county and state officials. Word is out after five meetings with the group, and Vogelheim has already heard from ISD board members curious to know what he’s cooking up.

“I feel a little like Simpson-Bowles right now. We’ve done a good job of pissing everybody off,” Vogelheim said of the committee’s early efforts. “State statutes are very complicated on all these 28 different types of special districts. Last year, for instance, Rafter J didn’t even have their election. They forgot. I think there are five or six [special districts] called out by the state Department of Revenue in our county for potential audit. This isn’t a ‘gotcha.’ The board of county commissioners wants to help these guys be successful.”

Vogelheim said the county could extend their board training programs to include ISDs to help them be compliant with state statute by educating them in public meeting laws, elections and proper bookkeeping.

State statute requires special districts to have at least 60 percent of the affected residents in agreement to form. A board of three to five members needs to be elected and put in place. Recordkeeping is also a major challenge.

“Most of them are making sure things are done right. Like those at Teton Village where they have professionals in place like Melissa Turley and their own fire department,” Vogelheim said of the Village’s five different districts. “Others are smaller and volunteer, and they are wading through a lot of paperwork. I’m asking for more training at the formation level so we make sure they understand what they are taking on when they form. This shouldn’t be just a rubber stamp approval.”

Lilliputian electorates Many neighborhoods find ISDs useful.

From Skyline’s ISD, to take on road and sewer challenges, to Indian Paintbrush, where they need water pumped uphill, to Flat Creek’s new coalition, formed to deal with flooding headaches nearly every winter for residents along that tributary—ISDs tackle the little jobs the county just can’t get to.

“At Skyline, one of the county’s original developments, the developer turns the property over to a homeowner’s association, so the property owners there need to get together and keep the roads plowed and maintained, and form their own private water district versus individual wells,”

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Vogelheim said. “When problems couldn’t get fixed, residents set up a Flat Creek water district under the umbrella of a conservation district trying to address the frazzle ice and flooding. That’s an example of a special need that local government hasn’t been able to deliver on so they are taking matters into their own hands.”

With the relative ease of forming a special district, dozens have popped up in recent years. One in Teton County, in fact, consists solely of a single married couple.

“Their board decisions would have to be unanimous I would think,” joked county clerk Sherry Daigle.

While these mini-administrations are an example of smaller government closest to the people taking care of the problems the county doesn’t want to deal with, according to Vogelheim, they also land on the commissioners’ desks when problems arise.

“Take, for example, Game Creek. That’s a wild one,” Vogelheim said. “They are like the Hatfields and McCoys up there. There are two different districts dealing with the roads, keeping them plowed, and maybe there should be just one. We have people coming to the county saying, ‘You have to fix this.’ Sometimes you have these small entities that don’t get along.”

One of the reasons Gov. Matt Mead called together the committee Vogelheim is part of is to give the county some “teeth” in dealing with disputes that occasionally arise with ISDs. “In the Village, they fund themselves with mill levies, fees, and sales tax. They have the option of adding three mills without their voters even weighing in on it. If people get upset about these things, where are the checks and balances? Where can people complain?

“We’ve heard other stories about counties with irrigation districts where a public meeting is advertised by a note tacked onto the door of Fred’s shack in the middle of his field. Or the Johnson County Wars are still

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going on. Members have formed a cemetery district there, and say they need to go from one to three mills even though they have a 400-year supply of cemetery space and millions of dollars in reserve.”

Why so special?

So why do these special districts form?

“That’s an easy one,” said county attorney Keith Gingery, who happens to live in an ISD in Rafter J. “You can access grants and loans. To get at state funds you have to be a government entity. If you are just an HOA you can’t get funds. You can also bond as a special district.”

ISDs are eligible for grants and low interest loans when infrastructure needs repair or updating. They can also purchase parts and equipment with tax-exempt status.

“Another good reason to form a special district is it’s a lot easier to collect people’s dues,” Gingery said. “Let’s say it’s just you and another couple of people on a road and you get together every year to hire Evans to come plow. What happens if one guy forgets to pay, or doesn’t want to pay? You don’t want to be the guy who has to deal with that. Up at Game Creek, for example, that is one advantage when it comes to collecting fees. When you pay your property tax there is a line item for Game Creek ISD where you would pay that fee.”

Gingery sees ISDs as an extension of HOAs. He likes how they work and believes special districts to be a unique example of democracy in action. “I live in Rafter J and we have an HOA. They can deal with barking dogs and trash and stuff that an HOA would deal with. ISDs deal with what a small city would do in a much more organized way.” PJH

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THE BUZZ 2 Land Locked Local officials and candidates respond to study on the potential transfer of public lands.

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selling off public lands to the highest bidder, according to Luther Propst, board chair of the Outdoor Alliance, a public lands advocacy group. “I commend Y2 Consultants telling their clients what they don’t want to hear,” Propst said.

Similarly, the Wyoming Hunters and Angler Alliance, which advocates against a public lands takeovers, welcomed the study’s results. “The study concludes state management of federal lands would be ‘unlikely to accomplish the goal of markedly better managed federal lands and management decisions,’” said Max Ludington, Alliance board member. “That might be news to some legislators who have supported this ill-considered idea, but sportsmen have questioned it since its inception.”

Y2 consultants were hired by the state through a bill passed in 2015 to pay for the study. The consultants were asked to compare the state’s management of school trust lands and see if a similar model of management could work for public lands. However, the study explains that school trust lands are by mandate managed for revenue, whereas public lands would still be privy to management mandates aimed at conservation, recreation and preservation for generations to come.

Of Wyoming’s approximately 62 million acres, more than 30 million acres, or about 48 percent, are federally owned and administered. The federal public lands included in this study total about 25 million acres.

Locally, keeping federal lands safe from private interests has earned almost unanimous support from town and county leaders. In 2015 both the town and county passed resolutions opposing state control of public lands.

The only dissenting voice at the time was Mayor Sara

Would the state take control of land in the Gros Ventre Range if Wyoming assumed management of federal lands?

Flitner who voted against the resolution. She told The Planet she stands by her decision.

“I was concerned that some of the language in the resolution was inflammatory and would be insulting to the State Loan and Investment Board,” Flitner said. “We had grant requests in front of SLIB, including one million dollars for Budge Slide, and because the resolution did not specifically take action, I did not want to create unnecessary conflict.”

Mayoral candidate Pete Muldoon said he would have supported the town and county resolutions. “Those are our lands,” Muldoon said. “If we don’t keep them in federal hands, the state of Wyoming will end up selling them off and the public will no longer have access. And that is unacceptable.”

Attempts to take over management of federal lands, Propst says, are part of a larger effort to chip away at federal control of public lands throughout the West. He noted that public lands have lost federal funding consistently since 1980.

“So, of course the lands aren’t being managed as well as they should be,” Propst said. “More funding is the answer, not just giving away land to the states who will inevitably reduce access.”

Keep It Public, Wyoming will hold a rally for public lands 1 p.m. November 5 at the Izaak Walton League, 205 Fort Casper Road, Casper. PJH

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report released last week is fueling the fight over who should manage federal lands in Wyoming.

The $75,000 study by Jackson-based Y2 Consultants says transferring management to state and local hands would be too costly. Instead the report suggests the state take a piecemeal approach to strengthening current local management mechanisms.

Marylee White is the Democratic candidate for House District 22 running against incumbent Marti Halverson.

White’s objection to the transfer of public lands is one of the main reasons she threw her hat into the ring. Her opponent is in favor of the transfer. For White, the report confirmed something she’s been saying all along. “Taking over management of federal lands in Wyoming is a bad idea,” she said. “And full transfer of these lands is an even worse idea.”

White credited the report’s authors with crafting “a good alternative.”

“It recommends that there are mechanisms that allow for state and local community involvement in federal land management that we don’t take full advantage. [These mechanisms] would help us work collaboratively to solve some of these problems,” she said.

One such tool would be Natural Resource Policy Plans at both state and local levels that describe citizens’ preferred environmental conditions and baseline economic needs. The report recommended against full-scale state management of public lands, citing what it called a bureaucratic maze of overlapping, entwined, often conflicting federal mandates the state would inherit.

However, that maze didn’t put Halverson off. She interpreted the report to mean that full transfer was the best solution. “The state has more experience with conservation and forest and rangeland management than faceless unaccountable bureaucrats in Washington DC,” she told The Planet.

However, environmentalists and recreation enthusiasts see state control of public lands as a step toward

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his month marks the 18th anniversary of Matthew Shepard’s murder, a hate crime that devastated a community and mobilized lawmakers across the nation to draft protections for LGBTQ people. On the October 12 anniversary, executive director of the Matthew Shepard Foundation Jason Marsden noted: “We have come a very long way since that fateful night in Laramie 18 years ago.”

Also this month, The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) released the Municipal Equality Index, which quantifies Marsden’s statement—it rates cities across the country on how they engage with and protect LGBTQ citizens. The criterion includes non-discrimination laws, protections for employees, municipal services, law enforcement, and cities’ overall relationships with the LGBT community. Jackson received 17 out of 100 points. The score, higher than other Wyoming towns barring Laramie, offers some level of hope to advocates here, but it’s also a reminder that there is still much to be done. Nationwide the mean score is 55 points.

The HRC believes that a city can only be fairly judged within its context. So, although Jackson is a small town in a conservative state, this did not guarantee its low score. The group found that the size of a city is not predictive of its score, and that many small cities even in states without supportive laws, were able to provide high standards of service and protection for LGBT citizens—Missoula scored 100. In fact, 87 cities from states without any LGBTQ protections still scored in the top half of all the cities rated.

Mark Houser, longtime coordinator of Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG) and the advisor of Jackson Hole High School’s Gay Straight Alliance, relates both to the hope of Marsden’s message, and the discouraging implications of the HRC study. He says he is optimistic and realistic about working for social change in the town and state.

“Twenty years ago, I would not have expected the high school administration to be supportive of the Gay Straight Alliance, to reach out for input from the club ... there is a greater openness in the community,” Houser said.

Valley politicos have been at the forefront of non-discrimination statutes at the state

level. In 2015, Sen. Leland Christensen and Rep. Ruth Ann Petroff co-sponsored SF 115, an anti-discrmination bill that passed by an overwhelming majority in Wyoming’s Senate but was shot down in the House. At the town level, Jackson was the first municipality in the state to codify protections for sexual orientation and gender identity in the town’s employee handbook. Though Wyoming joined the rest of the country in legalizing same-sex marriages in 2014, Houser says that before legalization, the state consistently struck down “mean-spirited legislation” that refused to acknowledge same-sex marriages from other states on the basis of unconstitutionality.

Teton County Commissioner Smokey Rhea echoed Houser’s sentiments: “Our community is far ahead of the rest of the state in recognizing the rights of all individuals,” she said. “I have been to many meetings where our elected officials (state and local) have shown up in support of the LGBT community.”

Houser also noted that local leaders have actively supported events such as Pride picnics, and the recent vigil in the Town Square for victims of the Orlando night club shooting. Though the HRC analysis gave Jackson zero out of 22 points in the Law Enforcement category (based on having an LGBTQ police liaison or task force, and reporting hate crime statistics to the FBI), Houser does not necessarily believe that any “single number can capture the complexity” of the work being done in a community. He says police have long supported the LGBT community and advocated for legislation to protect them. Jackson may not have a liaison, but Houser argues that it’s a difficult goal when there’s not a community center, or a structural way for someone to interact with the LGBTQ population.

However, while there have been notable legislative shifts in the last couple decades, prejudice among individuals and communities persists. In fact, Houser said, “Those who hold an anti-gay bias may at times become more sophisticated in how they express their displeasure.” Though the progress is marked and hopeful, Houser still doesn’t believe “opinions have shifted as much as might be suggested on the surface.” This is evidenced partially by the fact that Wyoming has joined nine other states to take exception with the federal mandate to provide restrooms to transgender students.

An update to the Municipality Equality Index is slated for 2018, when Jackson has a chance for a higher score, to grow in every category and reflect Mardsen’s belief that “we have come so far since Shepard’s death 18 years ago.”

“We are at a pivotal point with these issues and the arc of social justice crosses generations,” Houser said. “I am hopeful that progress will now take a geometric progression, rather than the linear progression we’ve seen over the past decade.” PJH SEND COMMENTS TO EDITOR@PLANETJH.COM

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1. U.S. Military Forces Deployed in 70 Percent of World’s Nations

2. Crisis in Evidence-Based Medicine —Richard Horton: ‘What is Medicine’s 5 Sigma?’

3. Rising Carbon Dioxide Levels Threaten to Permanently Disrupt Vital Ocean Bacteria

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society—an oligarchy with highly centralized economic power pretending to be a “free marketplace of ideas.”

It may give people what they think they want in the moment, but it leaves them hungry for more, if not downright malnourished in the long run. The missing stories concern vital subjects central to the healthy functioning of our democracy. The problem is, we may not even realize what we’re missing, which is precisely why Project Censored is essential.

Another way to think about it is as censorship of what the people as a whole can hear, rather than what any one individual can say. Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights makes it very clear: freedom of opinion and expression includes the right “to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.”

This year, 221 students and 33 faculty members from 18 college and university campuses across the United States and Canada were involved. A panel of 28 judges comprised of media studies professors, professional journalists, and even a former commissioner of the Federal Communications Commission, also participated.

4. Search Engine Algorithms and Electronic Voting Machines Could Swing 2016 Election

5. Corporate Exploitation of Global Refugee Crisis Masked as Humanitarianism

6. More than 1.5 Million American Families Live on $2 Per Person, Per Day

News, after all, isn’t just created for individuals to consume, but for citizens to debate, discuss and then take action on. The real Project Censored, in short, includes you, the reader.

Project Censored has always dealt with specific stories, but on anniversaries like this one, the larger patterns those stories fit within are impossible to ignore.

Economic inequality, global warming, petro-politics, suppression of health science, government spying, corporate influence of government, these are all familiar themes that appear again on this year’s list. But a bit more ought to be said by way of introduction to this year’s top censored story, before starting the list proper.

Jensen began the preface to Project Censored’s 20th anniversary edition with the story of how John F. Kennedy killed a detailed New York Times story blowing the whistle on the planned invasion of Cuba. A shrunken, muted version ran in its place. Afterwards, Kennedy told a Times editor, “If you had printed more about the operation, you could have saved us from a colossal mistake.”

This year’s No.1 censored story is a direct descendent of the story JFK wished he hadn’t managed to kill.

7. No End in Sight for Fukushima Disaster

8. Syria’s War Spurred

by Contest for Gas Delivery to Europe, Not Muslim Sectarianism

9. Big Pharma Political Lobbying Not Limited to Presidential Campaigns

10. CISA—The Internet Surveillance Act No One is Discussing

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hroughout its 40-year history, Project Censored has covered a lot of ground that the corporate mainstream media has missed. Launched by Carl Jensen, a sociology professor at California’s Sonoma State University shortly after Watergate in 1976, it’s become an institution involving dozens of faculty members and institutions working together to come up with an annual list of the Top 25 Censored Stories of the Year.

The Watergate burglary in June 1972 “sparked one of the biggest political cover-ups in modern history,” Jensen later recalled. “And the press was an unwitting, if willing participant in the coverup.”

“Watergate taught us two important lessons about the press: First, the news media sometimes do fail to cover some important issues, and second, the news media sometimes indulge in self-censorship,” he said.

On the upside, it led to the creation of Project Censored.

As with the Watergate story, these aren’t censored in the overt heavy-handed manner of an authoritarian dictatorship, but in the often more effective manner reflecting our

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1. U.S. Military Forces Deployed in 70 Percent of World’s Nations

The covert exercise of U.S. military power is a recurrent subject of Project Censored stories. This year’s top censored story joins that long tradition. It deals with the massive expansion in the number of countries where the officially unnamed war on terror is now being waged by U.S. Special Operations Forces—147 of the world’s 195 recognized nations, an 80 percent increase since 2010. This includes a dramatic expansion in Africa.

The majority of the activity is in “training missions,” meaning that this expansion is promoting a coordinated worldwide intensification of conflict, unseen at home, but felt all around the globe. Writing for TomDispatch, the Nation and the Intercept, Nick Turse exposed different aspects of this story and its implications.

Turse’s story for the Intercept focused on the development of a single base, Chabelley Airfield, in the East African nation of Djibouti. It’s an “out-of-the-way outpost” transformed into “a key hub for its secret war … in Africa and the Middle East.”

In the Nation, Turse tackled the question of mission success. Project Censored noted that, “Turse [had] reported skepticism from a number of experts in response to this question, pointing out that “impacts are not the same as successes.”

In Vietnam, body counts were mistaken for signs of success.

“Today, tallying up the number of countries in which Special Operations forces are present repeats this error,” Vietnam veteran and author Andrew Bacevich told Turse.

4. Search Engine Algorithms and Electronic Voting Machines Could Swing 2016 Election

2. Crisis in Evidence-Based Medicine—Richard Horton: ‘What is Medicine’s 5 Sigma?’

The role of science in improving human health has been one of humanity’s greatest achievements, but the profit-oriented influence of the pharmaceutical industry has created a crisis situation. That research simply cannot be trusted. Burying truth for profit is a recurrent theme for Project Censored. The top 1981 story concerned fraudulent testing from a single lab responsible for one-third of the toxicity and cancer testing of chemicals in America.

But this problem is much more profound.

“Something has gone fundamentally wrong” said Richard Horton, editor of the Lancet, commenting on a UK symposium on the reproducibility and reliability of biomedical research: “[M]uch of the scientific literature, perhaps half, may simply be untrue. Afflicted by studies with small sample sizes, tiny effects, invalid exploratory analyses, and flagrant conflicts of interest, together with an obsession for pursuing fashionable trends of dubious importance, science has taken a turn towards darkness …

The apparent endemicity of bad research behaviour is alarming.”

Horton’s conclusion echoed Marcia Angell, a former editor of the New England Journal of Medicine, who went public in 2009.

A classic case was Study 329 in 2001, which reported that paroxetine (Paxil in the United States/Seroxat in the United Kingdom) was safe and effective for treating depressed children and adolescents, leading doctors to prescribe Paxil to more than 2 million U.S. children and adolescents by the end of 2002, before being called into question. The company responsible (now GlaxoSmithKline), agreed to pay $3 billion in 2012, the “largest healthcare fraud settlement in U.S. history,” according to the U.S. Department of Justice.

Nonetheless, the study has not been retracted or corrected, and “none of the authors have been disciplined,” Project Censored points out.

This, despite a major reanalysis which “‘starkly’ contradicted the original report’s claims.”

The reanalysis was seen as the first major success of a new open data initiative known as Restoring Invisible and Abandoned Trials.

While Project Censored noted one Washington Post story on the reanalysis, there was only passing mention of the open data movement.

“Otherwise, the corporate press ignored the reassessment of the paroxetine study,” and beyond that, “Richard Horton’s Lancet editorial received no coverage in the U.S. corporate press.”

3. Rising Carbon Dioxide Levels Threaten to Permanently Disrupt Vital Ocean Bacteria

Global warming is a recurrent Project Censored subject. Systemic changes associated with global warming threaten human welfare and all life on earth through a multitude of different pathways. These remain largely hidden from public view. One potential pathway—directly dependent on carbon, not temperature— is through the catastrophic overproduction of Trichodesmium bacteria, which could devastate the entire marine food chain in some regions. It lives in nutrient-poor parts of the ocean, where it fixes atmospheric nitrogen into ammonium, an essential nutrient for other organisms—from algae to whales.

A five-year study by researchers at the University of Southern California and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution found that subjecting hundreds of generations of the bacteria to predicted CO2 levels in the year 2100 caused them to evolve into “reproductive overdrive,” growing faster and producing 50 percent more nitrogen.

As a result, they could consume significant quantities of scarce nutrients, such as iron and phosphorus, depriving the ability of other organisms to survive. Or the Trichodesmium bacteria could drive themselves into extinction, robbing other organisms of the ammonium they need to survive.

“Most significantly, the researchers found that even when the bacteria was returned to lower, present-day levels of carbon dioxide, Trichodesmium remained ‘stuck in the fast lane,’” Project Censored noted. It is a finding that one researcher described as “unprecedented in evolutionary biology.”

Social media has played an important role in recent social movements, from the Arab Spring to Black Lives Matter, but technology can potentially undermine democracy as well as empower it.

In particular, search engine algorithms and electronic voting machines provide opportunities for manipulation of voters and votes, which could profoundly affect the 2016 election.

Mark Frary, in Index on Censorship, describes the latest research by Robert Epstein and Ronald E. Robertson of the American Institute for Behavioral Research and Technology on what they call the Search Engine Manipulation Effect, or SEME. Their study of more than 4,500 undecided voters in the United States and India showed that biased search rankings “could shift the voting preferences of undecided voters by 20 percent or more” and “could be masked so that people show no awareness of the manipulation.”

In an earlier article for Politico, Epstein wrote that the Search Engine Manipulation Effect “turns out to be one of the largest behavioral effects ever discovered … [W]e believe SEME is a serious threat to the democratic system of government.”

Because courts have ruled that their source code is proprietary, private companies that own electronic voting machines are essentially immune to transparent public oversight, as Harvey Wasserman and Bob Fitrakis documented.

In 2016, about 80 percent of the U.S. electorate will vote using outdated electronic voting machines that rely on proprietary software from private corporations, according to a September 2015 study by the Brennan Center for Justice at the New York University School of Law. The study identified “increased failures and crashes, which can lead to long lines and lost votes” as the “biggest risk” of outdated voting equipment, while noting that older machines also have “serious security and reliability flaws that are unacceptable today.”

“From a security perspective, old software is riskier, because new methods of attack are constantly being developed, and older software is likely to be vulnerable,” Jeremy Epstein of the National Science Foundation noted.

On Democracy Now! and elsewhere, Wasserman and Fitrakis have advocated universal, hand-counted paper ballots and automatic vot-

er registration as part of their “Ohio Plan” to restore electoral integrity.

While there has been some corporate media coverage of Epstein’s and Robertson’s research, the transparency and reliability advantages of returning to paper ballots remain virtually unexplored and undiscussed.

7. No End in Sight for Fukushima Disaster

5. Corporate Exploitation of Global Refugee Crisis Masked as Humanitarianism

6. More than 1.5 Million American Families Live on $2 Per Person, Per Day

Even the working poor receive scant attention, but those living in deep poverty—less than $2 per day—are almost entirely absent.

Kathryn J. Edin and H. Luke Shaefer, sociologists and authors of the book $2.00/a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America state that in 2011 more than 1.5 million U.S. families— including 3 million children—lived in deep poverty at any given month.

Their depiction of what poverty looks like reads “like a Dickens novel,” Marcus Harrison Green wrote in YES! Magazine, Project Censored noted, while in the Atlantic, economist Jared Bernstein noted that their research highlights the problematic long-term consequences of President Bill Clinton’s 1996 welfare reform

initiative, with its “insistence on work without regard to job availability.”

Project Censored notes that Edin and Shaefer proposed three policy changes to address extreme poverty in the United States: First, policy must start by ‘expanding work opportunities for those at the very bottom of society.

Second, policy must address housing instability, which Shaefer described as both a cause and a consequence of extreme poverty. “Parents should be able to raise their children in a place of their own.”

Third, families must be insured against extreme poverty, even when parents are not able to work.

William Julius Wilson, a leading sociologist in the study of poverty, described their book as “an essential call to action,” in a New York Times book review, but this was a rare recognition in the corporate press.

8. Syria’s War Spurred by Contest for Gas Delivery to Europe, Not Muslim Sectarianism

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The Syrian war and its resulting refugee crisis have repeatedly gained headlines over the past five years, but the origins of the conflict, control of oil and gas, are rarely considered—the politics of which have dominated the region since before World War II. The hidden influence of oil—from climate change to campaign finance and corporate lobbying to foreign policy—has been a recurrent subject of Project Censored stories.

Project Censored cites a single September 2015 story by Mnar Muhawesh for MintPress News, but that story cites others as well, notably an August 2013 story in the Guardian by Nafeez Ahmed.

“The 2011 uprisings, it would seem — triggered by a confluence of domestic energy shortages and climate-induced droughts, which led

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The world is experiencing a global refugee crisis (60 million worldwide according to a June 2015 report, 11.5 million of them Syrian). This has been covered in the corporate media—though not nearly enough to generate an appropriate response. What hasn’t been covered is the increasingly well-organized exploitation of refugees, particularly those displaced in Syria.

An AlterNet article by Sarah Lazare—cited

by Project Censored—warned of the World Bank’s private enterprise solution to the Syrian displacement crisis.

“Under the guise of humanitarian aid, the World Bank is enticing Western companies to launch ‘new investments’ in Jordan in order to profit from the labor of stranded Syrian refugees, Lazare wrote. In a country where migrant workers have faced forced servitude, torture and wage theft, there is reason to be concerned that this capital-intensive ‘solution’ to the mounting crisis of displacement will establish sweatshops that specifically target war refugees for hyper-exploitation.”

A World Bank press release touted “the creation of special economic zones or SEZs,” but Project Censored noted, “Myriam Francois, a journalist and research associate at SOAS, The School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London, told Lazare that the development of SEZs in Jordan ‘will change refugee camps from emergency and temporary responses to a crisis, to much more permanent settlements.’”

The SEZ proposals, Francois said, are “less about Syrian needs and more about keeping Syrian refugees out of Europe by creating (barely) sustainable conditions within the camps, which would then make claims to asylum much harder to recognize.’”

Another story, by Glen Ford of Black Agenda Report, described a related agreement between Turkey and the European Union to keep millions of refugees from entering Europe as “a deal between devils,” adding that Turkey has “cashed in on the people it has helped make homeless.”

In addition to the $3.3 billion in EU money, Project Censored noted: Turkey has also sought admission to the European Union, and, with this, the right for 75 million Turks to enter Europe without visa restrictions as a condition for controlling its refugee population.

Thus, according to Ford, Turkey has engaged in a “vast protections racket trap,” effectively agreeing to protect Europe from further incursions by “the formerly colonized peoples whose labor and lands have fattened Europe and its white settler states for half a millennium.”

“Europeans will never accept Turkey into the fold, because it is Muslim and not-quitewhite,” Ford concluded.

Five years after the Fukushima nuclear power plant was destroyed by an earthquake and tsunami in March 2011, the nuclear disaster continues to unfold, with the ongoing release of large quantities of radioactive waste water into the Pacific Ocean, in turn affecting ocean life through “biological magnification.”

Meanwhile the Japanese government has relaxed radiation limits in support of its efforts to return the refugee population—a move that younger people, prime working-age taxpayers, are resisting.

Project Censored cites a media analysis by sociologist Celine-Marie Pascale of American University. Pascale covering more than 2,100 articles, editorials, and letters to the editor on Fukushima in the Washington Post, The New York Times, Politico, and the Huffington Post between March 11, 2011 and March 11, 2013, focused on two basic questions: “Risk for whom?” and “from what?”

She found that just 6 percent of articles reported on risk to the general public, and most of those “significantly discounted those risks.”

Pascale concluded: The largest and longest lasting nuclear disaster of our time was routinely and consistently reported as being of little consequence to people, food supplies, or environments. ... In short, the media coverage was premised on misinformation, the minimization of public health risks, and the exacerbation of uncertainties.

In contrast, Dahr Jamail’s reporting for Truthout pointed out that the cooling process—still ongoing after five years—has produced “hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of tons” of highly radioactive water, much of which has been released into the Pacific Ocean. Such nuclear disasters “never end,” Arnold Gundersen, a former nuclear industry senior vice president told Jamail.

Project Censored also cited Linda Pentz Gunter, writing for the Ecologist about the Japanese government’s ongoing coverup.

“In order to proclaim the Fukushima area ‘safe,’ the government increased exposure limits to 20 times the international norm,” Gunter wrote, in order to force refugees to return home, despite medical or scientific evidence to the contrary.

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to massive food price hikes, came at an opportune moment that was quickly exploited,” Ahmed wrote, as part of a broader strategy to undermine governments in the region, as well as manipulating social movements and armed factions for the purpose of maintaining control of oil and gas.

Muhawesh and Ahmed both point, in particular, to Assad’s choice between competing pipeline proposals. He refused to sign a proposed agreement for a pipeline from Qatar’s North field through Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Syria and on to Turkey in 2009, because it would have hurt his ally, Russia.

“The proposed pipeline would have bypassed Russia to reach European markets currently dominated by Russian gas giant Gazprom,” Project Censored notes. Instead, Assad pursued negotiations—finalized in 2012—for a pipeline through Iraq from Iran’s South Pars field, which is contiguous with Qatar’s North field.

Muhawesh cites U.S. cables revealed by WikiLeaks as evidence that “foreign meddling in Syria began several years before the Syrian revolt erupted.” Ahmed came to the same conclusions by drawing on multiple sources, including a RAND corporation document, “Unfolding the Future of the Long War,” which discussed long-term policy options (trajectories) dealing with the complex interplay of energy interests and ethno-religious-political manipulations.

There’s a whole deeper level of driving forces not being reported on behind the Syrian war and refugee crisis.

9. Big Pharma Political Lobbying Not Limited to Presidential Campaigns

The pharmaceutical industry (a.k.a. “Big Pharma”) already appeared in story No. 2, “Crisis in Evidence-Based Medicine,” due to the destructive influence of its financing on the practice of basic science in testing and developing new drugs. But that’s not the only destructive impact of its spending.

Although they spent $51 million in campaign donations in the 2012 presidential election, and nearly $32 million in the 2014 midterms, Mike Ludwig of Truthout reported it spent $7 lobbying for every dollar spent on the midterms.

“The $229 million spent by drug companies and their lobbying groups that year was down from a peak of $273 million in 2009, the year that Congress debated the Affordable Care Act,” Project Censored noted. Legislation influence involved all the industry’s top concerns, “including policy on patents and trademarks, management of Medicare and Medicaid, and international trade.”

The last item includes pressuring other countries to suppress the manufacture of life-saving generic AIDS drugs in India, to cite just one example.

“Pharmaceutical lobbyists also consistently lobby to prevent Medicare from negotiating drug prices,” Project Censored also noted. Coverage of their spending is scant, and virtually never tied directly to the issues that Big Pharma itself is lobbying on.

10. CISA—The Internet Surveillance Act No One is Discussing

In July 2015, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell attempted to attach the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act, or CISA, as an amendment to the annual National Defense Authorization Act. However, the Senate blocked this by a vote of 56-40, in part because, unlike an earlier version, it essentially enabled intelligence and law enforcement officials to engage in surveillance without warrants.

Yet, on December 18, 2015, President Barack Obama signed CISA into law as part of a 2,000page omnibus spending bill, amid media silence—with notable exceptions at Wired and the Guardian. The act authorized the creation of a system for corporate informants to provide customers’ data to the Department of Homeland Security, which, in turn, would share this information with other federal agencies—the National Security Agency, FBI, Internal Revenue Service and others—without privacy-protecting safeguards.

In one sense it followed a familiar—if distressing—pattern, as the the Guardian reported, civil liberties experts had been “dismayed” when Congress used the omnibus spending bill to advance some of the legislation’s “most invasive” components, making a mockery of the democratic process.

But this one was different, since censored stories usually do not stifle powerful voices, as Project Censored observed: [Andy] Greenberg’s Wired article noted that tech firms—including Apple, Twitter, and Reddit—as well as 55 civil liberties groups had opposed the bill, and that, in July 2015 DHS itself warned that the bill would “sweep away privacy protections” while inundating the agency with data of “dubious” value.

In April 2016, Jason R. Edgecombe reported for TechCrunch on the glaring inadequacies of interim guidelines to deal with privacy and civil liberties concerns, while the corporate media silence continued. And in May, Violet Blue wrote for Engadget about candidates’ positions on cyber issues. Only Bernie Sanders and Rand Paul opposed CISA, but it never became the subject of any broader media discussion.

Paul Rosenberg is the senior editor for Random Lengths News at the Port of Los Angeles, Calif., and is a contributing columnist for Salon.com. Terelle Jerricks is the managing editor for Random Lengths News.

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The Edge of Survival Warren Miller’s new film depicts the global adventures of local snow heroes.

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Rob Kingwill enjoys some air in a place where the mountains meet the ocean.

11:00am, Valley of the Tetons Library, Free, 208-787-2201 n Library Friends Board Meeting 12:00pm, Teton County Library Ordway Auditorium B, Free, 307-733-2164 n Total Fitness 12:10pm, Teton Recreation Center, $8.00, 307-739-9025 n Open Build 1:00pm, Valley of the Tetons Library, Free, 208-354-5522 n Things That Go Boom: Science & Games (Afterschool) 3:45pm, Teton County Library Youth Auditorium, Free, 517-733-2164 n Barbara Trentham Life Drawing 6:00pm, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $10.00, 307-733-6379 n Cribbage 6:00pm, Valley of the Tetons Library, Free, 208-787-2201 n Senior Oktoberfest 6:00pm, Senior Center of Jackson Hole, 307-733-7300 n League of Women Voters Candidate Forums 6:00pm, Teton County Library, Free,

Compiled by Caroline LaRosa 307-733-2164 n Introductory, Conversational Spanish 6:00pm, CWC-Jackson, $110.00, 307-733-7425 n Selfie! Performance for Video 6:00pm, Center for the Arts, $195.00 $235.00, 307-733-6379 n Candidate Forum: House District 22 and St. John’s Medical Center Trustees 6:00pm, Teton County Library Ordway Auditorium, Free, 307-733-3105 n Ballroom Dancing Workshop 6:30pm, Dancer’s Workshop, $75.00, 307-733-6398 n Donation Dry Needling Clinic 6:30pm, Medicine Wheel Wellness, 307-690-7480 n Reclaiming Your Youth & Optimizing Your Performance 6:45pm, Medicine Wheel Wellness, 307-690-7480 n KHOL Presents: Vinyl Night 8:00pm, The Rose, Free, 307-7331500 n Songwriter’s Alley Open Mic

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Other unique challenges the crew faced during filming included the area’s endless light, which, during spring conditions at that lattitude, can make a person go crazy, Kingwill explained.

Additionally, the fact that polar bears could be lurking anywhere added another air of mystery/nail biting. Kingwill recounted the cultural aspects of polar bears as a food source for this remote community. “The person that spots it calls the hunter, and the entire community helps process it on the floor in a house. The bear spotter gets a large piece of it,” he said.

(Wouldn’t it be nice if that’s the way it worked for elk hunting here?)

Kingwill also noted Greenland’s unexplored sensibilities: “It feels like the next frontier, like Alaska used to feel.” The preferred mode of travel for him, of course, is his snowboard and even the casual rider can sense the joy, fluidity and natural artwork when watching Kingwill shred in the film’s closing segment.

Although the local pro-rider has been all over the globe with his shred stick, he noted a career highlight that happened in Greenland.

“I had one of the top five runs in my life there.

It’s an intimate feel to ride these places and explore.”

But even after traversing through the magic of Greenland, something always brings Kingwill back to the land he grew up. “Greenland is amazing, but there’s so many places I’d like to explore in my own backyard,” he said.

Here, There & Everywhere screens 8 p.m. Friday, October 28 at Center for the Arts, $16. Attendees can win ski vacations and sweet gear from Western Montana’s Glacier Country, Gosling’s, L.L.Bean, Moosehead Lager, Switzerland Tourism, Helly Hansen, Korbel, K2, HEAD, Marker Dalbello Völkl and SKI Magazine. jhcenterforthearts.org PJH

n Yoga 7:00am, Teton Recreation Center, $8.00, 307-739-9025 n Dance & Fitness Classes All Day 8:00am, Dancers’ Workshop, $10.00 $16.00, 307-733-6398 n Demo Week at Dancers’ Workshop 8:00am, Dancers’ Workshop, Free, 307-733-6398 n Suicide Prevention Training 8:00am, CWC in Center for the Arts Room #305, Free, 307-264-1536 n Toddler Gym 8:30am, Teton Recreation Center, $4.00, 307-739-9025 n Mediation Training 9:00am, UW Extension Office/4-H Building, $225.00, 307-733-3087 n Storytime 10:00am, Valley of the Tetons Library Victor, Free, 208-787-2201 n Fables Feathers & Fur 10:30am, National Museum of Wildlife Art, 307-732-5435 n Lap Sit

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ki flick legacy filmmaker Warren Miller brings his 67th film Here, There and Everywhere to Jackson Hole on Friday. Making movies since 1949, Miller’s 2016 film captures skiers and riders around the world in search of the untouched white stuff. Featured athletes include JT Holmes, Jeremy Jones, Seth Wescott, Ingrid Backstrom, Marcus Caston, Wendy Fisher, Tyler Ceccanti and Kaylin Richardson exploring the U.S. and Canada. The film also follows Jackson locals, skier Jess McMillan and rider Rob Kingwill, as they shred in remote locales, including a tour of the Glacier Express for a Swiss Alps adventure and a foray in Greenland.

Kingwill recalled his Greenland experience with exuberance. The giant ice shelf boasts large, jagged mountains that end at the ocean. When reflecting on his favorite mode of transportation, Kingwill said travelling via sled dog was a true highlight.

“You got to see the culture of a town based around sled dogs where people are living off the land with no electricity. It’s literally the edge of where humans can survive.”

Of course, given the fact that much of the terrain ends in the ocean, helicopters and boats were necessary in some scenarios.

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MUSIC BOX

The Halloween Motherload Dean Ween Group with The Meat Puppets, Ben Folds, Moon Hooch, Teton Serenade, Sneaky Pete, Chanman Roots Band and more happen this week.

BY AARON DAVIS @ScreenDoorPorch

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he music offerings for this Halloween weekend are unprecedented... this is the off-season?

The Deaner, Dean Ween, Michael “Mickey” Melchiondo, Jr.—he’s all the same beast of a guitarist, vocalist, songwriter and yes, a fishing guide. I first heard his international cult band Ween in 1992 on a mix tape, the same tape that introduced me to Phish. In 1984, Deaner co-founded Ween as a middle school student with Aaron Freeman (Gene Ween) in New Hope, Pennsylvania.

This weekend, he’ll bring his Dean Ween Group, which includes the touring members of Ween except Gene. The super double-bill pairs them with The Meat Puppets courtesy of KHOL, Jackson’s community radio station.

Seeing Ween three times in the late 90s was as mind warping as listening to The Pod (1991) or Pure Guava (1992), two of their nine strikingly non-mainstream studio albums that are like nothing I’ve heard before or since.

Deaner’s fresh release Oct. 21, The Deaner Album, brings his love of classic guitar rock to 14 tunes including four instrumentals, and sound waves that echo cracked country and the quirky mix of soul, funk, metal and punk that has defined his career.

“After Ween [took a four-year hiatus in 2012], I put my guitar down for almost a year,” Deaner explained in a press release (he hasn’t given a proper interview in years,

Dean Ween Group according to his publicist). “I’ll never do that again. I’m so into practicing and writing and being good at my craft right now. I’m back in playoff shape. I write and play and record all day, every day, and I’m going to keep it there for the rest of my life.”

At times, The Deaner Album plays out like a Ween discography bookend with splashes of digital backing drum tracks, the same way Ween performed as a duo for over a decade. And, of course, there’s some ridiculously hilarious subject matter (“Exercise Man,” “Bundle of Joy”) and other surprises like “SchwartzePete”—a tight instrumental and loving tribute to Les Paul, originally written long ago for a TV pilot with Deaner playing all of the instruments.

Moreover, it’s a trippy set of accessible guitar-inspired anthems. The biggest change for Deaner was moving into his own studio, converted from an old chicken coop in the woods of Western New Jersey on a patch of land donated by a friend’s father.

“I think finally having my own studio has been a big part of why this record is as good as it is,” said the 46-yearold, who also happens to hold a captain’s license and run his own charter fishing company out of Belmar, New

Jersey. “All the gear I’ve acquired over the years that’s been in storage and my garage and my attic, it’s all in one place now. I’m there pretty much all day, every day, all night, every night, doing something—recording, practicing, mixing. It’s in the country, in the woods, nobody can hear us, and you can go outside in your underwear and smoke a cigarette or blow off a grenade and nobody’s going to hear you.”

As for The Meat Puppets—also a product of the mid80s—they have sustained a career via playing hard, loud and fast, but with the sensibilities of classic artists like ZZ Top, The Grateful Dead and Neil Young. The long, storied epic of the band is worth checking out, though their association with Nirvana is undeniably their most memorable mainstream footnote. After re-emerging as Nirvana’s opening act on their 1993 tour, The Meat Puppets appeared on MTV Unplugged with the famed band, which covered three Meat Puppets songs that led to a commercial breakthrough for the group.

KHOL presents Dean Ween Group with The Meat Puppets, 9 p.m. Saturday, October 29 at Pink Garter Theatre, $33-$35. pinkgartertheatre.com

Wyatt Lowe & the Mayhem Kings...?

Hallow folds As of late, pop-rock pianist/vocalist Ben Folds has been encouraging his audiences to fly paper airplanes onto the stage with song requests, giving fans a chance to choose from the 150 or so tunes in his brain. As a songwriter, his lyrics have often been deeply personal. His biggest hit with Ben Folds Five, “The Brick,” is about a high school girlfriend’s abortion.

It was released in 1997, when he was on the road for more than a year, including playing the infamous H.O.R.D.E. Festival.

Folds has been back in the limelight more in recent years as a judge on NBC’s a capella competition reality show The Sing Off. His most recent release is 2015’s So There, an eight-track set of chamber pop originals recorded with New York City-based classical sextet yMusic, as well as his “Concerto for Piano and Orchestra,” which features the Nashville Symphony.

Ben Folds, 7 p.m. Monday, October 31 at the Center Theater, $81-$101. jhcenterforthearts.org

Ladies serenade the Tetons The third annual Teton Serenade is a dude-less, all-female variety show that has sold out the last two years. This year’s event broadens the scope of backgrounds from career musicians to enthusiasts, and the presence of more songwriters. Most of the performers do not have a regular gig or stage on which to perform outside of the open mic circuit.

“We just like to try to find local women musicians who might not have opportunity or even time to get out and play on stage,” said co-organizer Jenny Landgraf.

“Having this women-only concert might get some on stage who might not otherwise do it, so Teton Serenade acts to

empower women.”

Ten women will be featured: Seadar Rose, Sage Hibberd, Jennifer Ford, Tasha Ghozali, Veronica Verdin, Hannah Leigh, Lee Robert, Lina Marquis, and organizers Landgraf and Sally McCullough.

Teton Serenade, 8 p.m. Saturday, October 29 at Dornan’s in Moose, $12 at Dornan’s, The Liquor Store, and Valley Bookstore. Dinner served until 7 p.m. 307-733-2415.

Spooky riffs and more costume parties If there’s a better concoction for this twisted holiday than Moon Hooch, let me know. Jazz, groovy funk, synth-pop and pulsing electro dance music, Moon Hooch is a Brooklyn-based double horn-and-percussion trio that met while attending the New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music. NPR called their sophomore release This Is Cave Music “irresistible,” and it’s not far from house music, but more primitive, jagged and raw. Honeycomb— known as the “vocal cord conductor”—will be the guest vocalist in an otherwise instrumental outfit.

Moon Hooch with Honeycomb, 9 p.m. Monday, October 31 at Pink Garter Theatre, $23-$25.

Three full sets with “a stupendous surprise planned for set two,” Sneaky Pete & the Secret Weapons have been touring the great Northwest and Rocky Mountain circuit as hard as any band from Jackson Hole’s original-minded band history, and it shows. Get funked on, with special guests to boot, to boot, to boot.

Sneaky Pete & the Secret Weapons, 9 p.m. Saturday, October 29 at the Knotty Pine in Victor, $10.

If your party-hopping budget is at off-season levels,

A satire and lampooning of Jackson current events, public figures and colorful characters.

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Aaron Davis is a singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, studio engineer, member of Screen Door Porch and Boondocks, founder/host of Songwriter’s Alley, and co-founder of The WYOmericana Caravan Tour.

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here’s your free ticket with a high value. What has become a tradition at the Silver Dollar Showroom in recent years is a reggae Halloween on Saturday with local eight-piece Chanman Roots Band, decked out by The Celestial Horns and a gang of backup vocalists. The costume contest runs 9 to 10 p.m. for these categories: Best Female, Best Male, and Best Couple. The prize is dinner for two at the Silver Dollar Grill.

Chanman Roots Band, 7:30 to 11 p.m. Friday and Saturday, October 28 and 29 at the Silver Dollar Showroom, free.

The rockabilly fright fest will be in full affect as you straddle a saddle or cut moves on the valley’s biggest dance floor. Also a costume contest and Wyatt Lowe guarantees “to lure you thrill seekers into our throne to be tranced into insanity.”

Wyatt Lowe & the Mayhem Kings, 9:30 p.m. Saturday, October 29 at the Million Dollar Cowboy Bar. Free.

Heavy hitting electronic music is a staple of the downtown throw down.

HalloBASS, 10 p.m. Saturday, October 29; DJ Capella, 10 p.m. Monday, October 31 at Town Square Tavern, $TBD. A new offering this year, get weird with festive karaoke on anthems like “The Monster Mash.”

Halloween Scaraoke, 8 to 11 p.m. Monday, October 31 at the Silver Dollar Showroom, free. PJH

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Kiwanis Follies 35th annual

Doors Open 6:00pm

Moon Hooch

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8:00pm, Silver Dollar Showroom, Free, 307-732-3939

CREATIVE PEAKS

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 27

n Dance & Fitness Classes All Day 8:00am, Dancers’ Workshop, $10.00 - $16.00, 307733-6398 n Demo Week at Dancers’ Workshop 8:00am, Dancer’s Workshop, Free, 307-733-6398 n Yoga 9:00am, Teton Recreation Center, $8.00, 307-739-9025 n Mediation Training 9:00am, UW Extension Office/4-H Building, $225.00, 307-733-3087 n Toddler Time 10:05am, Teton County Library Youth Auditroium, Free, 307-733-2164 n Storytime 10:30am, Teton County Library Youth Auditorium, Free, 307-733-2164 n Spin 12:10pm, Teton Recreation Center, $8.00, 307-7399025 n Fun-Filled Owl-o-ween Party 3:30pm, Old Wilson Schoolhouse, Free, 307-690-7654 n Center Stage: Theater & Story-crafting (Afterschool) 3:45pm, Teton County Library Youth Auditorium, Free, 307-733-2164 n Hand and Wheel 4:00pm, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $120.00, 307-733-6379 n REFIT® 5:15pm, First Baptist Church, Free, 307-690-6539 n Zumba 5:30pm, Teton Recreation Center, $8.00, 307-739-9025 n Ski Fitness 5:30pm, Teton County/ Jackson Parks and Recreation, $8.00 - $85.00, 307-732-5754 n Whiskey Experience 6:00pm, VOM FASS Jackson Hole, Free, 307-734-1535 n Sculptural Flameworking: Bugs and Animals 6:00pm, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $110.00, 307-733-6379 n Small Scale Savvy! Hand Printed Cards 6:00pm, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $125.00, 307-733-6379 n League of Women Voters Candidate Forums 6:00pm, Teton County Library, Free, 307-733-2164 n Glaze like a Pro 6:00pm, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $84.00, 307-733-6379 n JH Community Band Rehearsal 7:00pm, Center for the Arts Performing Arts Wing, Free, 307-200-9463 n Crane Evening with Dr. George Archibald 7:00pm, National Museum of Wildlife Art, Free, 208354-8939 n Major Zepher 7:30pm, Silver Dollar Showroom, Free, 307-733-2190 n Aikido Classes 7:30pm, 290 N Millward, Free, 307-690-3941 n Salsa Night 9:00pm, The Rose, Free, 307-733-1500

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 28

n Dance & Fitness Classes All Day 8:00am, Dancers’ Workshop, $10.00 - $16.00, 307733-6398 n Demo Week at Dancers’ Workshop 8:00am, Dancers’ Workshop, Free, 307-733-6398 n Toddler Gym 8:30am, Teton Recreation Center, $4.00, 307-739-9025

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Thespians and Humanoids Theatrical humor and scifi art take over the valley this week.

BY MEG DALY @MegDaly1

Staged laughs Everything was fine until Masha showed up. Bickering middle-age siblings Vanya and Sonia find comfort in commiseration, but their sister Masha casts a new light on old family ghosts while swanning about with her boyfriend Spike. Will family ties, and the family house, ever be the same again?

Off-Square Theatre and the Russian Club of Jackson Hole are presenting a staged reading of the Tony-award winning play Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike by Christopher Durang this week.

The play is a comic send-up based loosely on Anton Checkov’s The Cherry Orchard, and stars Jackson native Creed Garland who is reprising his role as Spike from the Broadway production.

Visiting director Allison Watrous of the Denver Center of Performing Arts directs the reading. She will be in residence for a week teaching workshops at Jackson Hole High School and the Journeys School, part of the Center of Wonder’s artist-in-residence program.

“I love the play because it is so amazingly funny in its humanity,” Watrous said.

Having participated in Chekovian plays both as an actor and a director, Watrous says she admires the way Durang worked with the material.

“Durang really addresses the main Chekovian themes in this new contemporary way. You see how this Vanya mirrors ‘Uncle Vanya.’ The writing is just so smart.”

The play also features Nicole Madison Garrett, Clare Payne Symmons, Liliana Frandsen, Pat Towne and Malika Williams.

Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, 7 p.m. Friday, October 28 and Saturday, October 29 in the Black Box Theatre at Center for the Arts, $18. offsquare.org

Immersive imaginations Teton Artlab is hosting two visiting artists this month, Gabe Michael Kenney

It would make sense that the entrance to another world is located in Jackson Hole, and artist Gabe Michael Kenney may just have the proof. and Dana Lynn Harper. Both hold MFAs from Penn State, and both create unique immersive experiences with their art.

Kenney will present a device called the Portal Vortex Machine, which he created during the residency. As its sci-fi name suggests, the device is to be used by a character, played by Kenney, to search for the entrance to another world. He calls the world Agartha, a city located deep underground populated by ancient humanoids.

His multi-faceted work includes printmaking, photography, video, sculpture and performance. He will show photographic documentation of Kenney’s adventures with the Portal Vortex Machine in our regional wilderness. The machine is still in progress, but Kenney has made scouting expeditions to Yellowstone’s Fountain Paint Pots and other locales. Eventually he will set up the Portal Vortex Machine and “proactively meditate,” he said.

Kenney explained: “With a laser guide to help establish precise locality, I hope to make peaceful contact with Extra Terrestrial Intelligences or Ultra Terrestrial Intelligences and request guidance and assistance for the human race here on Earth.”

Where Kenney delves into alternate realities to discover more about what it means to be human, Harper evokes transcendence in the here-and-now. “My work explores moments of self-transcendence, where time is slowed down and the outside

world is forgotten, a place where the imagination is ignited,” she said.

Harper, who lives in Colombus, Ohio, has been particularly fascinated by clouds during her time in Wyoming. “I’ve always been transfixed by the idea of particles that make up the atmosphere,” she said.

“I like thinking about zooming in on particles to imagine how they would look if I were a bit smaller.”

During her residency, Harper has created drawings based on fog, vapor and clouds using layers of translucent brightly colored theater gel, holographic vinyl paper and hula-hoop tape to create layers of atmosphere. She places these collages on top of clear Plexiglas and then coats them with resin.

Harper will also present an installation inspired by aspen trees in the form of a long wire vine covered in neon pink gaffer’s tape and translucent neon orange leaves. “In all my work, I am trying to create a place, whether that be within the mind, or a moment between painting and viewer,” she said. “The work created at Teton Artlab is an extension of what has already been occurring in my work, but is influenced by my new experiences with the environment here.

Artist talk and open studio with Gabe Michael Kenney and Dana Lynn Harper at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, October 27 at Teton Artlab, free. Tetonartlab.com PJH

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Bewitching Affairs Celebrate Halloween and contribute to good causes at three community events.

BY MEG DALY @MegDaly1

Pins, costumes and sips Get into the ghoulish spirit on Friday with Habitat for Humanity’s young professionals group, DIGS, during HalloWine Bowling Ball at Jackson Hole Bowl. The wine tasting is from 7 to 8 p.m., food included, followed by costumed bowling.

Creative costumers can win prizes for Best in Show, Scariest, Best Couple, Best Group, and Best Creative Theme.

Habitat outreach coordinator Elizabeth Ferguson says volunteers will be on hand to pour and describe wine that local liquor stores and wineries donated for the event.

Costume contest judges are three of your favorite KHOL personalities, Ollie Tripp, Matt Donovan and Rosie Read, and KHOL station manager Zach Zimmerman is DJing.

The young professionals group name stands for Dedicated Individuals Giving and Serving. They get together four or five times a year to help with a build. Habitat’s most recent projects are two single-family homes on donated land in Alpine.

“It’s the first time we have built outside of Teton County,” Ferguson noted. Because the organization’s mission includes the greater Teton area, Ferguson said they are excited to do the expansion that their affiliate has as part of its mission.

Habitat for Humanity’s HalloWine Bowling Ball is 7 to 10 p.m. Friday, October

Everything is more fun when donned in costumed regalia.

28 at Jackson Hole Bowl. Buy $20 tickets at the ReStore or at the door.

Creepy canvassing Keep your costume fresh for the next day during Jackson Hole Conservation Alliance’s Trick or Vote event at The Rose.

Learn how to canvass, then head out in costume to knock on doors. Circle back around to The Rose for an after party with food, drink and revelry.

This is a nonpartisan event, fun and free for everyone.

“We are encouraging people to wear costumes to make it more fun for the canvassers and the people whose doors we knock on,” explained Skye Schell, the Alliance’s civic engagement director. “Our goal is to make it fun to do democracy at a local level, and to remind voters about all the important decisions they can make at our local level.” Canvassers will walk doorto-door, reminding people to vote and providing information on how to register. “We especially hope to reach new voters, like young folks and Latinos, who haven’t voted in Teton County but care about the future of our community,” Schell said.

The Jackson Hole Conservation Alliance’s Trick or Vote canvass training starts at 2 p.m., canvassing is from 3 to 5 p.m. and an after party is at 5:30 p.m. Saturday, October 29 at The Rose.

Altar-ed art On Wednesday, join in a Dia de los Muertos Altar Walk around town, with altars curated by nonprofits, including the Art Association, St. John’s Episcopal Church, Dancers’ Workshop, Center for the Arts, Vertical Harvest, Our Lady of the Mountains Catholic Church and others.

The altars may be personal as well as artistic, based on the Roman Catholic Mexican tradition of honoring the deceased, noted Mark Nowlin, director of

the Art Association. Photos, candles, food and flowers are typical offerings.

“It’s to honor the memory of people who have passed,” Nowlin said. “It will be an easy walk through town stopping to look at altars that are both personally and creatively themed.”

A special guest at Our Lady of the Mountains Catholic Church is Cecilia Delgado-Masse, director of University Museum of Art and Science in Mexico City. Delgado-Masse is in town as part of a new partnership with the Art Association.

She will curate the exhibition series “Art in Translation,” which focuses on Jackson’s Latino community.

During her visit, she will assess the specific needs within Jackson’s rapidly growing Latino community. She will meet directly with individuals and families, as well as partner organizations that serve the Latino population.

Delgado-Masse will present a lunchtime workshop on contemporary art curatorship and her role in the “Art in Translation” series in the Art Association Gallery on Wednesday.

The gallery talk will be in Spanish and English and is free to the community.

“We want to reach the large Latino, and specifically Mexican community, and bridge the gap between Jackson and Tlaxcala through art,” explained project director Thomas Macker.

Delgado-Masse is also working on a show by established Mexican artists who work in the genre of social practice art for an exhibit in May 2017. It will be based on pressing issues facing Jackson’s Latino community.

Cecilia Delgado-Masse talks at noon, Wednesday, November 2 at the Art Association Gallery. The Dia de los Muertos Altar Walk begins 5 p.m. Wednesday, November 2 at St. John’s Episcopal Church, followed by a Fiesta at 6:15 pm at Our Lady of the Mountains Catholic Church. PJH

SEE CALENDAR PAGE 22 n Portrait Drawing Club 9:00am, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $10.00, 307-733-6379 n Yoga 9:00am, Teton Recreation Center, $8.00, 307-739-9025 n No School Day - Spooktacular Art Adventures 9:00am, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $50.00, 307-733-6379 n Tai Chi for Better Balance 10:30am, Senior Center of Jackson Hole, $3.00, 307-733-7300 n Zumba 12:00pm, Teton Recreation Center, $8.00, 307-739-9025 n Monster Bash at Jackson Whole Grocer 12:00pm, Jackson Whole Grocer, Free, 307-733-0450 n Total Fitness 12:10pm, Teton Recreation Center,

$8.00, 307-739-9025 n Electronics/Tech 3:30pm, Valley of the Tetons Library, Free, 208-787-2201 n Fun Fridays: Self-directed play (Afterschool) 3:45pm, Teton County Library Youth Auditorium , Free, 307-733-2164 n Friday Tastings 4:00pm, The Liquor Store of Jackson Hole, Free, 307-733-4466 n Trunk or Treat at the Spud 5:00pm, The Spud, $15.00 - $40.00, 800-TARGHEE n 51st Annual Awards Celebration 5:30pm, Spring Creek Ranch, $65.00, 307-201-2302 n Whiskey Experience 6:00pm, VOM FASS Jackson Hole, Free, 307-734-1535 n Paper, Book, Paper - Weekend Workshop

6:00pm, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $80.00, 307-733-6379 n Kiwanis Follies 2016 6:00pm, Teton County Fair Building, $20.00, 307-733-6600 n Pam Drews Phillips Plays Jazz 7:00pm, The Granary at Spring Creek Ranch, Free, 307-733-8833 n Habitat DIGS-HalloWine Bowling Ball 7:00pm, Hole Bowl, $20.00, 307-7340828 n Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike 7:00pm, Black Box Theater and the Center for the Arts, $18.00, 307-733-3021 n Thriller Workshop & Zombie Crawl 7:00pm, Dancers’ Workshop, $20.00, 307-733-6398 n Free Public Stargazing 7:30pm, Center for the Arts, Free, 844996-7827

DUD e , WHere’s my car?

The Town of Jackson’s overnight parking ban has gone into effect.

SO, if you want to void all kinds of hassles, listen up!

PARKING RESTRICTIONS

n Dance & Fitness Classes All Day 8:00am, Dancers’ Workshop, $10.00 $16.00, 307-733-6398

The Kiwanis Club of Jackson Hole will present the Kiwanis Follies on Friday, October 28 and Saturday, October 29.

This year’s follies include: Fun at the Polling Place, the New Dog Park, the TSA, and more. Bring a picnic to the Fair Building; free soda and popcorn provided. Doors at 6 p.m., entertainment starts at 7:30, finishing with the worldfamous all-male Can-Can’t. Buy $20 tickets at Teton Motors, from any Kiwanis member or at the door.

SHOVELING REQUIREMENTS Additionally, we would like to remind people: Town residents are responsible for keeping sidewalks shoveled.

• The TOJ assists with snow removal in the downtown core and along Broadway.

• Residents should not put their garbage cans out the night before, but rather after 7:00am on garbage days.

• Please keep trash cans, cars, and other obstacles out of the streets and off of the curbs.

This saves your property and makes the streets more clear of drifts and snow.

• Residents are also encouraged to help keep fire hydrants clear of snow.

BROUGHT TO YOU

BY THE FRIENDLY FOLKS AT THE TOWN OF JACKSON

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it is illegal to park overnight on Jackson streets, including public parking lots, regardless of weather (rain, snow or shine). Crews begin plowing at 3am. Parked cars on town streets make the job of keeping roads clear of snow more difficult.

Consequently, cars left on town streets between 3am & 7am will be ticketed and may be towed by Jackson police. To retrieve your car, contact Ron’s Towing at 733-8697, 1190 S. Hwy 89. Overnight parking for 48 hours or less is allowed in the public parking structure at W. Simpson Ave. and S. Millward St. but not on other town parking lots.

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 29

Kiwanis Follies Friday and Saturday at the Teton County Fair Building

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Through April 15th, between 3:00am & 7:00am,

n Chanman Roots Band 7:30pm, Silver Dollar Showroom, Free, 307-733-2190 n Warren Miller Entertainment presents the Jackson Hole premiere of Here, There & Everywhere 8:00pm, The Center Theater, $16.00, 307-733-4900 n Friday Night DJ 10:00pm, The Rose, Free, 307-733-1500 n DJ ERA 10:00pm, Town Square Tavern, Free, 307-733-3886 n WYATT LOWE 9:00pm, Million Dollar Cowboy Bar, $5.00, 307-733-2207

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n Demo Week at Dancers’ Workshop 8:00am, Dancers’ Workshop, Free, 307-733-6398 n 2nd Annual Wyoming Snow and Avalanche Workshop 8:00am, Center for the Arts, $40.00, 307-690-2156 n REFIT® 9:00am, Dancers’ Workshop, $10.00 - $20.00, 307733-6398 n Day of the Dead Craft 10:00am, Teton County Library Ordway Auditorium, Free, 307-733-2164 n Harvest Festival 12:00pm, MorningStar Senior Living, Free, 307-6990559 n Trick or Vote Party 2:00pm, The Rose, Free, 307-733-1500 n Halloween Concert for the Kids 3:00pm, Walk Festival Hall, Free, 307-200-9463 n Whiskey Experience 6:00pm, VOM FASS Jackson Hole, Free, 307-734-1535 n Paper, Book, Paper - Weekend Workshop 6:00pm, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $80.00, 307-733-6379 n Kiwanis Follies 2016 6:00pm, Teton County Fair Building, $20.00, 307-7336600 n Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike 7:00pm, Black Box Theater and the Center for the Arts, $18.00, 307-733-3021 n Halloween Party with Chanman Roots Band 7:30pm, Silver Dollar Showroom, Free, 307-733-2190 n Dean Ween Group 9:00pm, Pink Garter Theatre, $33.00 - $35.00, 307733-1500 n WYATT LOWE 9:00pm, Million Dollar Cowboy Bar, $5.00, 307-7332207 n HalloBASS 10:00pm, Town Square Tavern, Free, 307-733-3886 n Teton Serenade Dornans, $12.00, 307-733-2415

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 30

n NFL Sunday Football 11:00am, The Trap Bar & Grill, Free, 307.353.2300 n Quilting 12:00pm, CWC-Jackson, $100.00, 307-733-7425 n Stagecoach Band 6:00pm, Stagecoach, Free, 307-733-4407 n Paper, Book, Paper - Weekend Workshop 6:00pm, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $80.00, 307-733-6379 n Aikido Classes 7:30pm, 290 N Millward, Free, 307-690-3941 n Open Mic 9:00pm, Pinky G’s Pizzeria, Free, 307-734-7465

MONDAY, OCTOBER 31

n Yoga 7:00am, Teton Recreation Center, $8.00, 307-739-9025 n Dance & Fitness Classes All Day 8:00am, Dancers’ Workshop, $10.00 - $16.00, 307733-6398 n Toddler Gym 8:30am, Teton Recreation Center, $4.00, 307-739-9025 n Intermediate Throwing 9:00am, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $170.00 $204.00, 307-733-6379 n Total Fitness 12:10pm, Teton Recreation Center, $8.00, 307-7399025 n Maker Monday’s

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WELL, THAT HAPPENED

Part One: Horror and Hearts A horrific cinematic experience opens the door to history, heritage and treasure.

BY ANDREW MUNZ @AndrewMunz

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can’t write at home. Not because I don’t have the ability to, but because I don’t necessarily get much writing done if I’m distracted by Netflix and a comfy couch and a fridge. Therefore I use Pearl St. Bagels as a writing office. Some might think solitude and silence are the key ingredients of a writing session, but in truth, I find busy human activity comforting. Surrounded by familiar faces and fresh coffee, I can hone in on my writing projects and will occasionally get pulled into a brief conversation that will engage my mind for a few minutes—a much-needed break. And to no surprise, I’ve befriended the baristas who kindly deal with my four-hour-long table occupation.

Diana Edlinger is one of those baristas. A stunning, cat-eyed transplant from the east coast, she’s easily spotted by her on-point fashion choices and eccentric hair styles, and is more often than not lobbing opinions about the latest pop

The author’s eyes were closed during this seemingly common horror movie scene depicting a creepy little girl doing creepy things. culture phenomenon. In our quick transaction conversations, we found common ground in the fact that we both absolutely hate horror movies. This revelation was instantly followed by a terrible idea: “Let’s go see Ouija: Origin of Evil together!”

“Uh… no,” Diana said. “I don’t do scary movies. I start snorting.”

“Snorting?”

“Yes. I get so scared that I snort.”

“Well, now we definitely have to go,” I said.

The only reason I wanted to see the Ouija movie was because it was racking up some unexpected good reviews. Movie critics usually scrutinize horror films because the success of the film rests on the fact that it needs to invoke a certain feeling. Some movies get incredible reviews, despite being light on the actual scares (Babadook, The Witch), while others will be of a poorer quality, but leave a lasting, horrific impact on the audience’s psyche (Paranormal Activity, Sinister).

Ouija: Origin of Evil is a sequel of sorts to the original Ouija film released in 2014.

I tried watching it before Diana and I saw the other film, but I couldn’t make it past the first scene. It was so unbelievably dumb. I feared for our experience, but the 81 percent approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes convinced me otherwise.

Sitting in the theater at Movieworks at the 9:20 p.m. showing, we were in good spirits. We chatted about the upcoming films shown in the trailers and sipped on our high-school-flavored alcoholic contraband (vanilla vodka Cokes). By the time

the film started we were slouched in our seats, prepared for the worst. And as the film commenced, I crumpled up with my fist to my mouth, as if my brain reverted back to a time when I was a thumb-sucking toddler. Diana proceeded to snort with every jump-scare, and we screamed more than once. The film was exceptionally effective, and while it had some lackluster visuals here and there, we had fallen into every trap the filmmakers set up for us.

Walking back to Diana’s house in the dark, we divulged stories of our lives, having grown closer as friends after our shared traumatic experience (I still have a bruise on my bicep from Diana’s fearful death grip). After some time, we both learned how bizarrely similar we were, almost as if we were siblings.

Both of us were born in the same area in upstate New York to immigrant parents and we both held dual citizenship to U.S. and Austria. Our love for bagels, cinema and Westworld was already known, but we were connected in more ways than we realized. The horrifying images of the film drifted away as we chatted about our upbringings and our strange pasts, and eerily, things started to match up.

As midnight approached and the half moon rose above Snow King, the mood shifted. We brought up our relatives’ connections to the Nazis of WWII, which then drifted to a conversation about lost Nazi gold, a mysterious death of a young diver in 1963, and ultimately a treasure hunt that beckoned us like a tormented ghost from the basement…

To be continued. PJH

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3:30pm, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $100.00, 307-733-6379 n Movie Mondays: Films & Gaming (Afterschool) 3:45pm, Teton County Library Youth Auditorium, Free, 307-733-2164 n Kiln Formed Glass 6:00pm, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $210.00 - $252.00, 307-7336379 n The Center Presents Ben Folds and A Piano 7:00pm, The Center Theater, $79.00 $99.00, 307-733-4900 n Halloween Scary-Oke 8:00pm, Silver Dollar Showroom, Free, 307-733-2190 n Moon Hooch 9:00pm, Pink Garter Theatre, $23.00 $25.00, 307-733-1500 n Sneaky Pete and the Secret Weapons 9:00pm, The Knotty Pine, $10.00, 208-787-2866 n DJ Capella

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ave you ever been caught with your pants down on Halloween? Not in the literal sense, but in the sense that you are completely unprepared for the onslaught of ghouls, goblins, ghosts, and (dare I say) clowns parading to your doorstep? I have. I remember it clearly.

My husband and I were sitting down to dinner—one of our homegrown chickens roasted with rosemary, lemon and garlic and paired with a nice crisp chardonnay, when we heard the first knock at the door. A glance out the window revealed a long handled scythe sticking up above the hedge next to a ladybug, a lion, and Sponge Bob Square Pants.

“Oh no,” I recoiled in horror, “we have no candy!”

And what was worse, we had no curtains, no blinds, nowhere to hide from their sugar thirsty stares. I quickly tipped a bag of art supplies into the wicker basket that usually held our car keys, plastered a smile on my face, and opened the door to their battle cry, “Trick or treat!”

They each took three colored pencils, except for the Grim Reaper, who got my plastic protractor. My husband, ever the hero, followed up with a packet of blueberry PopTarts apiece. We passed out Pop-Tarts until the box was empty, turned off all of our lights, and snuck out the back door with our bottle of wine, narrowly escaping Princess Elsa and a seven-foot tall banana.

So I didn’t have candy on hand on Halloween, so what?

Does that make me a bad person? No, no it does not! Why? A traditional Irish turnip jack-o’-lantern from the early 20th century photographed Because candy corn and miniature snickers bars were at the Museum of Country Life in Ireland. never intended to be a part of a tradition that has been celebrated for two thousand years before the invention of to the ease of carving large soft pumpkins instead of the smaller, high fructose corn syrup. harder turnip.

The ancient origin of Halloween dates back to Ireland and the Halloween remained a popular family celebration up until Celtic festival of Samhain (sow-in), on the last day of the late fall World War II, after which Americans, more sober and lackluster harvest. People invoked ancestral spirits, thanked the Earth for from the trials of war, handed the celebration completely over to her bounty, and distributed offerings of nuts, root vegetables, their children. And the children have spoken. While bobbing for sacrificial beasts and wine beyond the boundaries of the village to apples might be a good time, turns out what kids really want is appease evil spirits and keep mischievous fairies at bay. candy. In fact, the National Confectioner’s Association projects Around the same time, the Romans were celebrating their own that this year’s candy sales will soar beyond the more than $2.6 harvest. Nuts and fruits were placed at the altar of the orchard billion dollars people spent on Halloween sweets last year. goddess, Pamona, along with apples, to represent love and fertiliThe moral of the story is that this time around, I’ll be more ty. By the year 43 AD, the Roman Empire had overtaken the Celtic prepared. While the little ones are still at home duct taping their lands and the two traditions merged into one. outfits together, my printer will be buzzing as I print out copies of The Roman Catholic church grafted itself onto the holiday this article and attach it to healthy little bags of my All Hallow’s in 835 AD, dulling down the party a bit by replacing traditional Eve Trail Mix instead of candy. food and wine with spiced biscuits known as soul cakes, which Then I’ll sit back with a glass of wine and wait for the little darwere distributed to the poor in exchange for their prayers. The lings to come toilet paper my house. name of the holiday was changed to All Saints Day or All Hallow’s Happy Halloween! PJH Day while Halloween, of course, falls on the evening before All Hallow’s Day. The tradition, ever entrenched in mysticism, evolved and the All Hallow’s Eve Trail Mix foods associated with the holiday were given certain powers of 2c. Granola divination. In Colonial America, a girl might see the reflection of 1c. Dried Apples her would-be lover’s face in the pans used to make the Hallow’s 1c. Craisins Eve feast. If peeling an apple, she might see the name of her future 1/2c. Toasted Pumpkin Seeds husband take shape where the apple’s peel fell on the floor.

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ACROSS

74 French vineyard 77 Unit in a gym 78 Prickle 79 Viscount’s superior 80 Troubles 81 Place for afternoon refreshment 83 Saunters 86 Reason 87 Failure 88 Emulated Paul Bunyan 89 More spicy 90 Help with money, perhaps 93 Road hog?

94 Most lucid 95 “Ben-Hur,” e.g.

96 Common teen phase 97 Mosaic artist 98 Dracula’s favorite fruit?

102 Where werewolves seek stardom?

107 Choler 108 Futuristic 2009 James Cameron film 109 Conjure up 110 Real estate sale 111 Equinox mo.

112 Negligent 113 Like 62-Across 114 Story

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Kia model Whale group Slippery __ Pan in the air Quicken Loans, for one Adjust, as a faulty stitch Taught to submit “Heaven Can Wait” character Many Manets Meant to lose Monster’s daily newspaper reading?

33 Move obliquely 34 Front man?

35 Wall Street debacle 36 UFO-tracking org.

38 Spanish ayes 40 Clear 41 Similar to 42 Relatives of hems 43 Monsters’ cookie-selling group?

44 Smidgen 46 Perched on 47 Chances 49 Speck of dust 51 Mole, maybe 52 Curtain fabric 53 Budget competitor 54 __ this world 57 LAX info 59 One usually has six sides 60 The Sierra Nevada’s Mount __ 61 Bay, say 62 Fiber source 63 Catcalls 64 River through Orsk 65 Smidgen 67 Salon job 68 One-horse carriage 70 Pompous gait 71 Stopped waffling

72 Origin 73 Overrun with crabgrass 75 Odometer control 76 One with an instruction manual 80 Port feature 82 Unawares 83 Wall Street headlines 84 Symbols of wisdom 85 Boils 86 __ Island 88 Animator Bill and others 89 Eponymous comet tracker 90 Casual jacket fabric 91 Art form with singing 92 More pleasant 93 Part of Hispaniola 94 Outfit at the track 97 Ark units 99 Carwash challenge 100 Blvd. cousin 101 Butter from a farm 103 In vitro cells 104 Andean stew veggie 105 ’60s-’70s teammate of Esposito 106 Binge-watching site

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25 Witches living together?

27 Retreats 28 Warty amphibians 30 Pacific relative of the Canada goose 31 Muffin man 33 Evening reception 34 “Just to See You Smile” country singer 36 Tool with a blade 37 More sick 38 Saharan 39 Messed up 40 Firstborn 42 Spanish noble 45 One of five inhabited U.S. entities 46 Seed covering 47 Retreat 48 Buzz 50 Iconic WWII island, familiarly 51 Dracula’s least favorite lunch?

55 Lennon’s lady 56 State of rest 58 Lumps 59 __ tape 60 Transpose, say 62 Daycare banes 63 Anniversary celebration 66 Donald, to Dewey 67 Top-rated 68 World __ 69 U.N. workers’ gp.

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Synchronized Bliss How to rejuvenate and realign with the earth as the seasons change.

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he natural rhythm of autumn signals shorter days with less direct rays from the sun and longer nights. These shifts are nature’s cues for life to slow down and turn inward for a needed period of rest and regeneration. This is an invitation for us to do the same.

Native American tribes and other cultures across the globe have always taught that we live our best lives by synchronizing with the cycles in nature and learning from her creatures. The premise is that everything anyone would ever need to know for thriving is already here in the natural world. In those traditions, animals have long served as teachers of noble traits and healthy lifestyle habits for us to aspire to and emulate.

Bear medicine The bear is the animal guide many Native Americans look to for wisdom about transitioning from end of summer to fall and winter and using the time for deep regeneration. Here in the Tetons we are so fortunate to witness the bears right now as they finish gathering their food and prepare their dens for hibernation. When bears enter their den-caves, they safely and fully disconnect from the outer world of survival, and spend time being held in the deeper energies of the Earth and the greater cosmos. It is no wonder that according to North American Native tradition, the bear brings us the teaching of introspection.

As fellow earthlings, we are invited to follow the cues of nature and gracefully move to a more inward focus at this time of year. This is not a call to hibernate. It is an invitation to embrace the shorter days and welcome the opportunity to refresh ourselves as participants in the regenerative beauty of this season. What might that look like? This can include enjoying more sleep and quietude, becoming focused on introspection, intuition and inner knowing, opening to deeper levels of heart and creativity, examining purpose, and connecting with the wisdom in our souls. This winter

can be the time to nourish the “being” part of our human being selves. More being and less doing allow us to receive higher guidance for new, inspiring possibilities in our lives.

The shift to less daylight, longer nights and cold weather can also be very challenging physically and psychologically.

If you are someone who is suffering from seasonal affective disorder, become informed on proven ways to mitigate those symptoms. If the approach of winter darkness has you experiencing more serious depression, seek professional help so you can heal as deeply and quickly as possible. If you need resources, email me.

Be inspired to go within Here are some questions that can stimulate your winter of introspection. Take a few minutes to sit comfortably in a place where you will not be interrupted. Close your eyes and take three slow, relaxing deep breaths. Keeping your eyes closed, focus your awareness on your physical heart and rest there as you take three more slow, deep breaths. Gently open your eyes, keep the focus in your heart, and jot down some spontaneous answers to the following questions: What do you need in your life in order to regenerate body, mind and spirit this winter? How can you begin that process in each of those three aspects of your life? What indoor and outdoor activities bring you into a quiet state of being? What opens your heart and how can you bring more of whatever those things are into your life now? Are there books you’ve been eyeing? Are there things you’ve wanted to learn or create, or explore, or experience, or invent that you could begin this winter?

Keep in mind that so many simple things can open you to a pure state of being. The zen of skiing can do this, and the same is true in yoga, meditating or practicing random acts of kindness. You can also reach this pure state of being while creating or noticing beauty, writing, drawing, cooking comforting food, shoveling snow, making music, staring into the embers in the fireplace, or watching the snow fall silently in the woods.

As above, so below Lastly, if you’d like a simple way to peer into the awesome mystery of creation, take the time to observe the geometric perfection of snowflakes. Notice that every snowflake is its own unique design. Perhaps you can see that we are the same as the snowflakes; we are all perfectly designed and every person is unique. PJH

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

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his is supposed to be the scariest time of the year, but I think the whole year has been scary. I judge everything by the Ick Factor and this year has had it.

For instance, I was in the grocery store looking at prepared food when I saw a whole fish, all cooked and covered in breadcrumbs. It had beady eyes and was smiling at me. “It’s Dory,” I said. “They found her and cooked her for lunch.” I told the counter man I didn’t want to be acquainted with my food and he offered to cut its head off. Poor Dory, I’ll bet she was delicious.

I am one of those wimpy people so disgusted by some of the things people eat that I can’t even think about it. When you see those hideous skinny crab legs at the seafood counter, can you imagine them running after you? They are spiders, you know. Every see a coconut crab? They are the size of a garbage can and can crack coconuts. Now that’s a lot of Crab Louis.

By the way, lobster lovers, did you know that the lobster is a nasty, vile cannibal that never stops growing and just gets more ugly? It is also an insect, and the last thing I want on my plate is something with boiled eyes and feelers looking at me. All the tartar sauce in the world won’t help.

Since early childhood I have been a natural weenie. I remember hiding under the bed when we had company and hiding under the seat at the movies. (Today I seldom hide under the bed anymore when

Years ago this young man waited at the Old Faithful Inn to meet the Midnight Ghost. He did, and except for a grease spot by the front door, no one has seen him since.

company comes, but I have considered it.)

The first movie that compelled me to hide was Snow White. The evil queen scared me witless. She did bear a close resemblance to Verna Flitch, our junior high principal.

We all knew that Miss Verna had a closet full of medieval torture instruments and that she kept her poor old mother tied up in the basement. We also knew that the cops had taken away the rubber hose she used on recalcitrant pupils. I would like to say she was really a lovely person, but she wasn’t. When she pointed a boney finger at you, you were toast.

Phobias are extreme fears and there is one for almost everything. We all know about the fears of spiders, snakes, heights, water, etc., but there are others. There is zitaphobia, the fear that a large red glob the size of a third eye will appear on your forehead on picture day. There also is the fear of relativity—the unrelenting fear of your in-laws, especially your mother in-law and sister in-law alone, or together.

Bigger even and more horrifying, is blobaphobia, the horrendous agony of having to try on a bathing suit. The realization the awful jiggaly rubbery creature in the mirror could be you is soul destroying, it has to be the poor lighting? Did you know there is a feet phobia? And a fear of bananas? Olaf Crumm in my hometown had both. I have seen his feet and know why. If Olaf stepped on a banana would he be doubly terrified?

I admit that I am icked out by a lot of things and while this has caused an occasional problem, I have managed. I realize that while I am a wuss, I can inflict wussiness on others. I was a world-class lunch room lady and there is a whole generation out there who still thinks I am the scariest they ever saw. And well, they should. PJH

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BY ROB BREZSNY

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) During this Halloween season, you have cosmic permission to be a bigger, bolder, and extra beguiling version of yourself. I trust you will express your deep beauty with precise brilliance and imagine your future with superb panache and wander wherever the hell you feel like wandering. It’s time to be stronger than your fears and wilder than your trivial sins. Halloween costume suggestion: the superhero version of yourself.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) I won’t offer you the cliché “When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.” Instead, I’ll provide alternatives. How about this, from the video game Portal: “When life gives you lemons, don’t make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back! Get mad! Say, ‘I don’t want your damn lemons!’” Or you could try this version, from my friend Barney: “When life gives you lemons, draw faces on them like Tom Hanks did on his volleyball in the movie Cast Away, and engage them in sexy philosophical conversation.” Or consider this Brazilian proverb: “When life gives you lemons, make caipirinhas.” (Caipirinha is Brazil’s national cocktail.)

Suggestion: Play around with these themes to create your Halloween costume.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) Speaking on behalf of the cosmic powers, I authorize you to escape dull realities and go rambling through the frontier. Feel free to fantasize twice as hard and wild as you normally do. Avoid literalists and realists who think you should be more like them. This is not a time to fuss over exacting details, but rather to soar above the sober nonsense and see as far as you can. You have permission to exult in the joys of wise innocence. Halloween costume suggestions: bohemian poet, mad scientist, carefree genius, brazen explorer.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) I invite you to fantasize about what your four great-grandmothers and four great-grandfathers may have been doing on November 1, 1930. What? You have no idea how to begin? You don’t even know their names? If that’s the case, I hope you’ll remedy your ignorance. Your ability to create the future you want requires you to learn more about where and whom you came from. Halloween costume suggestion: your most interesting ancestor.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) All of us are creators and destroyers. It’s fun and healthy to add fresh elements to our lives, but it’s also crucial to dispose of things that hurt and distort us. Even your body is a hotbed of both activities, constantly killing off old cells and generating new ones. But in my understanding, you are now in a phase when there’s far more creation than destruction. Enjoy the exalted buzz! Halloween costume suggestions: a creator god or goddess, like the Greeks’ Gaia or Prometheus; Rainbow-Snake from the Australian Aborigines; Unkulunkulu from the Zulus; or Coyote, Raven, or Spider Grandmother from indigenous North American tribes.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) At any one time, over two million frozen human embryos are stored in tissue banks throughout Europe and North America. When the time is right, their owners retrieve them and bring them to term. That’s the first scenario I invite you to use as a metaphor for your life in the coming weeks.

Here’s a second scenario: Scotch whiskey is a potent mind-altering substance. Any particular batch must mature for at least three years, and may be distilled numerous times. There are currently 20 million barrels of the stuff mellowing in Scottish warehouses. And what do these two scenarios have to do with you? It’s time to tap into resources that you’ve been saving in reserve—that haven’t been ripe or ready until now. Halloween costume suggestions: a woman who’s nine months pregnant; a blooming rose or sunflower; ripe fruit.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) In 1938, a chef named Ruth Wakefield dreamed up a brilliant invention: chocolate chip cookies. She sold her recipe to the Nestlé company in return for one dollar and a lifetime supply of chocolate. Maybe she was happy with that arrangement, but I think she cheated herself. And so I offer her action as an example of what you should NOT do.

During the next ten months, I expect you will come up with many useful innovations and intriguing departures from the way things have always been done. Make sure you get full value in return for your gifts! Halloween costume ideas: Thomas Edison, Marie Curry, Hedy Lamarr, Leonardo da Vinci, Temple Grandin, George Washington Carver, Mark Zuckerberg.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) To create a bottle of Cabernet Sauvignon, a winemaker needs about 700 grapes. Compare this process with rain-making. When water vapor that’s high in the sky becomes dense enough, it condenses into tiny pearls of liquid called cloud droplets. If the humidity rises even further, a million of these babies might band together to form a single raindrop that falls to earth. And what does this have to do with your life? I suspect that in the coming weeks, you will have both an affinity and a skill for processes that resemble wine-making and rain-making. You’ll need a lot of raw material and energetic effort to produce a relatively small marvel—but that’s exactly as it should be. Halloween costume suggestion: a raindrop or bottle of wine.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) Some Brazilians eat the heads of piranhas in the belief they’re aphrodisiacs. In Zimbabwe, women may make strategic use of baboon urine to enhance their allure. The scientific name for Columbia’s leaf-cutter ant is hormiga culona, translated as “fat-assed ant.” Ingesting the roasted bodies of these critters is thought to boost sexual desire.

Since you’re in a phase when tapping in to your deepest erotic longings will be healthy and educational, you may want to adopt elements of the aforementioned love drugs to create your Halloween costume. Here are other exotic aphrodisiacs from around the world that you might be inspired by: asparagus, green M&Ms, raw oysters, wild orchids, horny goat weed.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) Do you know how to repair a broken zipper or patch a hole in your bicycle tire? Are you familiar with the art of caulking a bathtub or creating a successful budget? Can you compose a graceful thank-you note, cook a hearty soup from scratch, or overcome your pride so as to reconcile with an ally after an argument? These are the kinds of tasks I trust you will focus on in the coming weeks. It’s time to be very practical and concrete. Halloween costume suggestion: Mr. or Ms. Fix-It.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) In the film Terminator 2, Arnold Schwarzenegger played a benevolent android who traveled here from the future.

As a strong, silent action hero, he didn’t need to say much.

In fact, he earned $30,000 for every word he uttered.

I’m hoping your speech will pack a comparable punch in the coming days. My reading of the astrological omens suggests that your persuasiveness should be at a peak.

You’ll have an exceptional ability to say what you mean and mean what you say. Use this superpower with flair and precision! Halloween costume suggestion: ancient Greek orator Demosthenes; Martin Luther King Jr.; Virginia Woolf; Sojourner Truth; rapper MC Lyte, Winston Churchill.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) It’s the prosperity-building phase of your cycle. Let’s celebrate! Let’s brainstorm! Are there rituals you can create to stimulate the financial lobes of your imagination, thereby expediting your cash flow? Here are a few ideas: 1. Glue a photo of yourself on a $20 bill. 2. Make a wealth shrine in your home. Stock it with symbols of specific thrills you can buy for yourself when you have more money. 3. Halloween costume suggestions: a giant bar of gold, a banker carrying a briefcase full of big bills, Tony Stark, Lady Mary Crawley, Jay Gatsby, Lara Croft, the Yoruban wealth goddess Ajé.

ABSENTEE BALLOT NOTICE

Headed south for the winter? Worried about having to wait in line?

Have you made up your mind and want to vote NOW? That’s okay, because whatever the reason, you can vote by absentee from September 23 to November 7, 2016!

All absentee ballots must be received by 7:00 p.m. on November 8th, 2016.

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Stop in and vote at the absentee polling site located in the basement of the Teton County Administration Building at 200 S. Willow St., Jackson, WY. You can also call or email us to request that a ballot be mailed to you.

307.733.4430 | elections@tetonwyo.org

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Fall Residential Yard Waste Collection 3 DAYS ONLY

NOVEMBER 4TH, 5TH, AND 6TH •

Drop-off event only – NO CURBSIDE PICKUP - Bring your leaves, grass and branches either loose (pickup truck) or in compostable paper bags to the Rodeo Grounds Parking Lot between 9am and 4pm.

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Free compostable yard waste bags available at Town Hall and the Recycling Center

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Residential Yard Waste Only – No Trash, No Dog Poo!

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County Residents – the Trash Transfer Station will accept residential yard waste at no charge during regular business hours the week of October 31, Monday – Saturday.

• Yard waste will be composted locally by Terra Firma Organics rather than trucked 100 miles to the landfill

Great Pumpkin Round-Up! •

Drop off Halloween Jack-OLanterns for free so that they can be composted locally rather than entombed in the landfill

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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 5TH AT THE RODEO GROUNDS PARKING LOT FROM 9AM TO 4PM

Fire Engine Ladder Pumpkin Drop at High Noon, and on the hour until 4pm. Seasonal treats and hot apple cider provided.

CALL 733-7678 FOR MORE INFORMATION, OR VISIT WWW.TETONWYO.ORG/RECYCLE