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July 2018

St. John’s Calendar of Events Most events are free unless otherwise noted.

Health & Wellness

Support Groups Teton Parkies (For those affected by Parkinson’s Disease)

Joint Classes

Gather for mutual support, discussion of disease and therapies, and more.

Information for people considering or scheduled for joint replacement surgery Tuesday, July 3, 4-5:30 pm Thursday, July 12, 8-9:30 am Tuesday, July 17, 4-5:30 pm Thursday, July 26, 8-9:30 am Tuesday, July 31, 4-5:30 pm Physical Therapy Room St. John’s Medical Center

POWER UP! A movement and voice class. Mondays, July 2 and 9 Senior Center, $4 for ages 60 and up; $7 under 60 Walk at Emily’s Pond Tuesday, July 10 Parkie Potluck Tuesday, July 24 Member’s home in Wilson Contact Elizabeth at 307.733.4966 or 614.271.7012

W! Growing Through Grief NE An 8-week program for those experiencing the loss of a loved one. Led by St. John’s Hospice social worker Oliver Goss, LCSW. Thursdays, July 19–September 6 noon –1 pm To register, call 307.739.7463

Grief Support Group

Memory Loss Support Group

Led by St. John’s Hospice social worker Oliver Goss, LCSW Drop-ins welcome, but please call ahead Wednesdays, July 11 and July 25 Noon – 1 pm

For those suffering from persistent memory problems; family members and caregivers welcome Thursday, July 12 Noon – 1 pm

Call 307.739.7463

For information, call 307.739.7434

Teton Mammas

Weight Management Support Group

For new babies and their families Wednesday, July 11 10 am – noon Moose-Wapiti Classroom Wednesday, July 25 10 am – noon OB waiting area St. John’s Medical Center

For information, call 307.739.6175

Exploring Options for Returning to Work Breastfeeding Part 2: Bottle feeding a breastfed baby Wednesday, July 18 10 am–noon Boardroom St. John’s Medical Center

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Open to everyone interested in weight loss and those considering (or who have had) bariatric surgery

Call for updated date and time 307.739.7634

Type 2 Diabetes Prevention Group in Spanish In Spanish! ¡En Español! Zumba with Elvis. Family friendly. Mondays and Wednesdays 5:30 – 6:30 pm Moose-Wapiti Classroom St. John’s Medical Center

For information, call 307.739.7678

Chronic Pain? This free 8-week class will teach you to use your brain to help manage your pain. Fridays, July 13–August 31 11:30 am–1 pm

Please register by calling 307.739-7589.

Childbirth Education Class For expectant parents Saturday, July 14 8:30 am–5 pm

Please register by calling 307.739.6175

Please register by calling 307.739.6199

Foundation 4th of July Parade See our entry for the Living Center! Wednesday, July 4, 10:30 am Downtown Jackson

17th Annual Steve Winograd Memorial Diabetes Tennis Tournament Spine Classes Information for people considering or scheduled for spine surgery Monday, July 2, 1-2:30 pm Tuesday, July 10, 3-4:30 pm Monday, July 16, 1-2:30 pm Tuesday, July 24, 3-4:30 pm Monday, July 30, 1-2:30 pm Physical Therapy Room St. John’s Medical Center

Please register by calling 307.739.6199

Friday, July 20–Sunday, July 22 Jackson Hole Golf & Tennis Club

To register, call 307.690.2552

Auxiliary Monthly Luncheon The Role of Hospitalists in Health Care, with Matt Neimat, MD Thursday, July 5 noon – 1 pm Moose-Wapiti Classroom St. John’s Medical Center

For information, call 307.739.7517

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BY METEOROLOGIST JIM WOODMENCEY

During late June and early July, most of the precipitation we receive is produced by thunderstorms. Typically, a series of afternoon or evening thunderstorms might accumulate a couple of tenths to a half an inch of rain. On rare occasions, stronger thunderstorms are capable of putting down more than a half an inch of rain, in a relatively short amount of time. Those storms will cause streets and parking lots to flood, as storm drains can’t keep up with the inflow of water.

The average low temperature during this last week in June is 39-degrees, heading towards 40-degrees in early July. The record low temperature this week in Jackson is 21-degrees, dating back to June 30th, 1947. That was an exceptionally cold temperature for the last day of June. No other records this week dip that low, although it did get down to 24-degrees during this same week in 1968, and also in 1976.

HIGHS

Average high temperatures these last days of June is around 78-degrees, on our way to an average high around 80-degrees in early July. The record high temperature this week is 93-degrees. That record was set way back on June 27th, 1927. This record has stood the test of time for the last ninety-one years. Oddly enough, there are quite a few record highs that are still hanging in there from the late 1920’s and 1930’s, a period of drought and warming in the Western U.S.

NORMAL HIGH NORMAL LOW RECORD HIGH IN 1927 RECORD LOW IN 1947

78 39 93 21

THIS MONTH AVERAGE PRECIPITATION: 1.63 inches RECORD PRECIPITATION: 4.82 inches (1967) AVERAGE SNOWFALL: .01 inches RECORD SNOWFALL: 5 inches (1973)

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ENJOY YOUR FLOAT, BUT DON’T ROCK THE BOAT. Respect our community!

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Per Town of Jackson municipal code: No trespassing on private lands Open alcohol containers are strictly prohibited on Flat Creek. Dogs are prohibited in public parks. No dogs at large. Public urination is prohibited.

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Please respect private property at all times. Utilize designated public access locations when accessing Flat Creek. Be considerate of neighbors and environment by limiting noise and disturbance to riparian habitat. Respect wildlife. Glass containers are prohibited. Please dispose of garbage in designated receptacles. Float at your own risk – no safety personnel present. Dangerous and swift flowing cold water, low clearance bridges and shallow water occur in some locations. For additional information and maps of public access points the Town of Jackson or the Parks and Recreation Department: www.townofjackson.com or www.tetonparksandrec.org

SINGLE-TRACK MIND Welcome back to the Singletrack report. It’s been a tough spring for consistent riding due to the wet weather we have received. But, now that it’s officially summer, things are looking up and the trails are primo. The Greater Snow King trails are all in great shape with flowers popping and the undergrowth in a mild state. Skyline trail will remain closed for elk calving until July 1. There has been a bit of confusion about the legality of Josie’s Ridge. Upper Josie’s from the junction with Sink or Swim is open to bikes in both directions. Lower Josie’s and Kelly’s Loop are closed to bikes. But please remember that Josie’s is a popular hiking trail so it would behoove all cyclists to be on their best behavior so that it remains open to bikes. All the trails on Teton Pass are open. A few snow patches remain on the way out to Mt. Elly so plan on carrying

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your bike a bit in order to access Lithium or Black Canyon. There is still some work being completed on Lithium so be be on the lookout for tools and don’t shred fresh berms until they’re officially open. JHMR has been busy building and refining their bike park. It’s in great shape and definitely open for business. The Hoback Trail is completed all the way up to Casper restaurant and is a fun and scenic trail that is enjoyable in both directions. Grand Targhee has opened the majority of their trails. It continues to upgrade its trail system, so check the ‘ghee’s website before heading over in case your favorite trail is closed for construction. Make sure your bike and body are ready for the upcoming season, be nice to other trail users, don’t cut trails and go sample the dirt. – Cary Smith

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Hansen, then governor, for a U.S. Senate seat. Roncalio ended up winning back his old spot in Congress and, in 1978, when he retired, was succeeded by Dick Cheney, who came back to run in Wyoming after serving in the Ford administration. Roncalio noted it was no secret where the Democrats base of power resided. “Labor,” he said, in his plainspoken way more than 30 years ago. “The strength of the Democrats is they have the back of the working people.” By that, he meant Wyoming’s 2016 presidential election results by county. unions pushing for livable wages, finite working hours and safety. The party recognized daily economic necessity—i.e. survival—was the number one priority for Americans going to the are missing why Trump won in 2016 polls. Contrary to the vision BY TODD WILKINSON | @BigArtNature of the West as being big, open, empty and popubi-coastal party figureheads on Capitol Hill—US. Rep. Nancy Pelosi of California lated by rugged individual pastoralists, and U.S Sen. Chuck Schumer of New the pattern of settlement—for most people—was urban, as in towns founded York—are to people in our hinters. To even acknowledge this is regarded as natural resource extraction outposts as an act of betrayal to those claiming a based upon whatever merchantable prodblue tidal wave will begin to crash in 2018. ucts could be pulled out of the ground— namely minerals and trees. But will it? Contrary to the way things are today, The truth is, and polls confirm as much, most Americans in the rural the party of the environment was not counties Trump carried could care less Democrats but moderate, conservative about the fractured identity-politics spiel Republicans who, like those Dems of Democrats continuously peddle. Unless it Roncalio’s era, have vanished. While environmental laws have precan demonstrate an ability to be a party of big unifying ideas, the Left will remain lit- vented the kind of disasters that occurred tle more than a ragtag confluence unable with frequency in the past, more resource to register with the masses in a way that extraction jobs are consistently being lost not to “regulation” but to robots, autofeels cohesive. In the mid 1980s, while writing a story mation and efficiency. There is no union about natural gas drilling in the Upper representing robots. The idea that towns like Jackson and Green River basin, I met with the late Teno Roncalio in Rock Springs, Wyoming. Bozeman would rise in the 21st century as Roncalio was the last Democrat in “leisure communities,” where economies Wyoming to have a seat in Congress. That are perpetuated by digital entrepreneurs pouring in and wanting to play, would was 40 years ago. His Italian immigrant father had been be mind-blowing according to Roncalio’s a coal miner. Roncalio fought in World orientation to the world. But do Jackson and Bozeman repreWar II and participated in the Normandy invasion. He easily could have been a cop- sent where their states are going or, to those who voted for Trump, are they bitter per miner’s son in Butte, Montana A bit of Roncalio lore: he lost in a fairly reminders of how so many people feel left narrow race to Jackson Hole’s own Cliff behind? PJH

onald Trump gave Hillary Clinton a thorough shellacking. He beat her by 20 percentage points in Montana. In Wyoming, Trump netted three times as many votes as Clinton; in Idaho, he garnered twice the percentage of Clinton’s tally. Could the president achieve the same results today were he facing a different opponent? Not likely. For that matter, could a guy like Trump, with his documented record of deception, philandering and vitriol honestly get elected to serve on a local school board or city commission? Would organizations like Rotary or chamber of commerces put him in a position of leadership? Would corporate board Dems members tolerate such behavior were he CEO of a publicly-traded company answerable to shareholders? Would churches hold him up as a role model for other parishioners? In almost every category of modern life, except for tribal politics, Trump would be treated as a pariah. Still, as we know, the results of the 2016 presidential election were less about a love fest for Trump and more about epic disgust for Clinton. America’s rejection of the Clintons (plural) cannot be blamed on the Russians. The whiplash has been brewing since the 1990s, and it’s something Democrats in the interior West have an easier time understanding than anywhere else. If you want a visceral reminder of why Trump won—as part of a vendetta to get even—re-watch the 1998 movie Primary Colors, based on Joe Klein’s anonymously-written, purportedly-fictional profile of the Clintons as self-absorbed figures. It’s brutal. Clinton may have won the national popular vote but unless Democrats figure out how to connect with real people and run candidates on more than just moral indignation against Trump, further disappointment awaits. A second reality the Democratic National Committee seems inexplicably clueless about: just how repulsive its

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hey’ve paid thousands in fees and waited for months, but two transparency advocacy groups still don’t have the public records they requested. Now they’re threatening to sue the Wyoming State Auditor—the second such threat in less than a year and the latest skirmish in a dispute over new rules that allow state agencies to charge for public records.

‘Why were we charged an $8,000 fee when the auditor is tasked with paying the bills, auditing the books and fulfilling open records requests?’

State Resists Tools of Transparency Public records dispute may land Wyoming in court BY ANDREW GRAHAM, WYOFILE.COM

records are only kept online for 90 days. Open the Books wants all the data— including figures which were once available online but have since been removed—for the last five years.

Costly New Rules

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The auditor’s office has told Open the Books the files exist for the five-year period they’ve requested, Andrzejewski said. “Her office already vetted this information, posted it online, and stored it in archive,” he wrote. But State Auditor Cloud initially rejected the request. The office called the request burdensome and said the requested records could include private information and needed to be reviewed. “As previously state [sic], to comply with the request to provide an electronic copy of ‘any’ and ‘all’ vendor (transfer of property or services) payee payments for the year 2016 would be a daunting effort,” Deputy State Auditor Sandy Urbanek said, according to emails published on openthebooks. com. Completing the request would “impair the State Auditor’s Office’s ability to discharge its duties to the citizens

of Wyoming,” Urbanek wrote. Cloud is one of five statewide elected officials. In January 2018, Open the Books threatened to sue through Drake Hill’s law firm. The auditor then dropped her objections, but under new rules allowing state agencies to charge for certain public records required $7,820 from the groups to complete their request. “Why were we charged an $8,000 fee when the auditor is tasked with paying the bills, auditing the books and fulfilling open records requests?” Andrzejewski said. “It’s the job description of the office.” Agencies can more broadly charge for public records following the 2016 implementation of statewide rules enabling such fees. A legislative committee is now reviewing those rules and the 2014 law that called for them, in part, because of Open the Books’ requests. The group is pursuing data from more than 800 Wyoming state and local government entities. At the committee’s first meeting since the last legislative session ended, several heads of small rural entities testified

American Transparency, a national organization, and the Equality State Taxpayers Association, a Wyoming group, say they paid Auditor Cynthia Cloud’s office nearly $8,000 to provide five years of spending data—much of it public information that had been previously published online. But eight weeks after the payment, they’ve only received records for a few weeks of expenditures. The vast majority of their request remains unfulfilled. The auditor’s office told the two groups it will take “many months” to compile the data, documents show. The requestors argue that maintaining such information is the core of a public auditor’s mission. And they’ve given the state a deadline of July 15, after which, they say, they will take their case to court. “At the present rate of producing the records,” a letter from Casper attorney Drake Hill to the Wyoming Attorney General’s office read. “It literally will take 30 years to comply with records requests seeking just five years of data.” Open the Books—a project of the Illinois based nonprofit American Transparency—compiles government expenditures and publishes the information online to track tax dollar spending. They’ve published “checkbooks” for 47 states on openthebooks.com, CEO and founder Adam Andrzejewski told WyoFile. The group has been pursuing Wyoming’s “state checkbook” since 2015, he wrote in an email. They want a record of all state government payments to vendors and have separately requested a list of all the vendors the state uses, and their addresses. The intent is to combine the two lists in order to create the “state checkbook,” Andrzejewski wrote. The majority of the data they’re requesting has already been publicly posted: Vendor payments are searchable on the auditor’s website, but the

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Why Open the Books?

the requests had swamped their small staffs. A letter from the auditor’s office to Andrzejewski and Bill Doenz, the chairman of the Equality State Taxpayers Association, cited the new rules in justifying the nearly $8000 fee. The auditor’s office estimated it would take 18 hours of staff time to review each year of the previously-published vendor expenditures to ensure that no “confidential records” are disclosed. Total cost to protect confidentiality: $3,600. Gathering the addresses of the vendors the state paid would be even more difficult, the letter signed by Deputy State Auditor Sandra Urbanek said. The office does not keep a list of vendor addresses in its database, Urbanek contended. Staff would have to retrieve the information from various disparate databases, she wrote, in a detailed and complex description of the work required. The office will have to develop a “special computer program” to compile the list and “retrieve the requested electronic data and public records from approximately 9 million data transactions … from the uniform accounting system database,” Urbanek wrote. Then they’d have to “compile the data, assemble the data into a report, validate that the extract’s outcome meets the specification of the query, and then review the retrieved data to scrub all confidential information.” The letter went on to describe the technical process of retrieving the data and how the computer program would need to be overseen by office staff while it was running. It would take IT staff 40 hours to write the computer program and other staff 80 hours to review the data once it’s extracted. Total cost to compile the list of addresses: $4,400. Andrzejewski and Doenz asked to observe the data collection to verify the amount of time it would take and thus the veracity of the fees, according to the auditor’s letter. But public record rules don’t require “that we allow a requestor to be present,” the letter said. Instead, the auditor’s office would provide statements itemizing the time spent fulfilling the request, the letter said. Andrzejewski called the auditor’s fee “draconian.” But the American Transparency and Equality State Taxpayers Association split the fee, with

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each writing a check for $3,910. Doenz paid the Equality State Taxpayers share, said Kevin Lewis, the organization’s associate vice president. Lewis spoke to WyoFile on behalf of Doenz, he said. The Equality State Taxpayer’s accidentally wrote its check for $3,900. Documents show the auditor’s office responded that it “will not proceed till it has received payment in full.” Lewis returned to the office to deliver the missing $10 and the request proceeded, he said. Since paying however, Andrzejewski wrote, “Auditor Cloud has slow walked the production.” It is difficult to explain the auditor’s delay, he wrote, particularly in light of his experience with requests around the country. “When we filed an open records request with the City of Chicago in 2012,” Andrzejewski wrote, “the city was able to produce 10 years of spending in about 10 days. With modern financial software, it’s just not a complicated task in the year 2018.” It’s particularly galling to the requestors that the auditor’s office is citing technical complexities in compiling the data because the office recently entered into an expensive contract with a data service firm, Lewis said. In 2016 the auditor extended a contract with data company CGI Group, Inc. The extension included technology upgrades and was estimated at a value of $63.9 million according to a press release from the company. Both groups say they wonder if the auditor is deliberately stalling to hide bad accounting. “We are troubled that the state auditor, whose job it is to stop waste, fraud, corruption and taxpayer abuse, is behaving in violation of transparency laws,” Andrzejewski wrote. Lewis agreed. “We have to ask the question, what are they hiding?” he said. Since filing legal notice the groups have not received a response from the auditor’s office or the attorney general, nor has the pace of records production quickened, Lewis said. Andrzejewski blasted the auditor, and Wyoming transparency in general, last week in an editorial in Forbes Magazine, where he is a frequent contributor. “This should be embarrassing for Wyoming elected officials,” he wrote. “It shouldn’t take a search warrant, subpoena, or litigation to force open the state checkbook expenditures.” The state auditor prepared comments for WyoFile that had to first be reviewed

by the attorney general, according to auditor’s office staff. Those comments had not been received by press time. Wyoming public records law doesn’t require agencies to create new records in response to requests—only to produce existing records—making it difficult to envision why the auditor’s office would charge for the compilation of the vendor address list said Shannon Anderson, staff attorney for the Powder River Basin Resource Council. To complete the records request, A nderson told WyoFile, it would seem they just need to perform the search of their records and provide any data it turned up to Open the Books and the Equality State Taxpayers to compile as they needed. Anderson and PRBRC have opposed the fees-for-records rules, saying they would hurt efforts by her organization to represent her landowner constituents in environmental disputes. “If an organization like ours got an estimate of $8,000 to get records we would just abandon the request,” she said. “You pay it before you even get the records and you don’t know what records you’re going to get and when you’re going to get them,” she said. The hefty fee combined with the uncertainty creates a “chilling effect” on those seeking public data, she said. Though Open the Books and Equality State Taxpayers are paying a special fee for their requests, the auditor’s office has shown it doesn’t intend to prioritize their request over their other business, according to Drake Hill’s letter. To Anderson, that’s a telling fact about the records fees. “You’re creating this additional set of work for them and you’re compensating them for it but it’s not as though they’re going to stay after five to get that done or put aside other priorities to get that done,” she said. Under the rules crafted by Wyoming Department of Administration and Information, the two groups aren’t technically compensating the auditor’s office, either. The $7,820 will go into the state’s general fund, which lawmakers

use to pay for the entire state budget. “It’s not a reality that makes any sense,” Anderson said. “I don’t think the fees have any objective of funding the agency or producing the documents. The whole goal is to prevent requests in the first place.”

“I don’t think the fees have any objective of funding the agency or producing the documents. The whole goal is to prevent requests in the first place.”

Doenz’s Dealings and Donations

Equalit y State Taxpayers Association was originally created by Doenz, a rancher, to fight tax increases, particularly property taxes, Lewis said. Today, the group is primarily concerned with pursuing transparency in government spending and budgeting in response to some lawmakers’ discussions of changing Wyoming’s tax structure, Lewis said. The group asks politicians to sign a pledge to oppose any new taxes and sees Wyoming’s government as “bloated,” according to its website. “It is time to reduce the size of state government to reflect our current economy,” the site states. Doenz himself is a donor to conservative politicians, including several lawmakers who have publicly aligned with Equality State Taxpayers Association — such as Reps. Chuck Gray (R-Casper), Mark Jennings (R-Sheridan) and Bo Biteman (R-Ranchester). Most recently, he gave $2,500 to Harriet Hageman’s campaign for governor, a donation that was matched by his wife, Theresa Doenz. Hageman has government-spending transparency as part of her platform, particularly as it applies to education funding. Other candidates have echoed that message. “There are only a handful of people who potentially truly understand the budget,” Hageman told WyoFile last week. “There’s a reason that Wyoming has grown to be the largest government,” she said. Advocates for public education caution against taking narratives of opaque accounting too far. Some information pursued by Open the Books is already published in other forums. Teacher salaries that the organization pursued, for example, are published in local newspapers as required by statute, said

Brian Farmer, director of the Wyoming School Boards Association. Earlier requests by Open the Books found expenses like $35,000 paid by the Department of Education for a magician to perform at a 2015 STEM conference, according to an opinion column by Andrzejewski in the Casper Star-Tribune. Spending items like that are potent fodder in the increasingly heated political debate over education funding. But Farmer argued people have ample ways to understand where the money in education goes. In July, school boards will begin to finalize their budgets. They will hold public hearings and take comment, Farmer said. Public schools, Farmer said, “really make it easy to find a whole host of information on both finance and performance.” If spending raises eyebrows, then people should ask questions, he said. “Call the person at the Department of Education and say ‘can you explain why did we hire a $35,000 whatever for this STEM conference,’” he said. “Chances are there’s a very good answer.” The politics of education funding aside, Anderson, the environmental attorney, said it’s clear that Open the Books and Equality State Taxpayers are bringing a debate over fees for public records to a new boiling point. The new record rules don’t allow for an appeal of fees set by agencies and Drake Hill’s letter makes plain the groups’ intention to bring their arguments to court if need be. It is only a matter of time before the new rules are challenged in court either way, Anderson said: “We’re going to see some litigation on this.” PJH

Last week, the auditor’s office told WyoFile it was preparing comments that would need to be reviewed by the Wyoming Attorney General’s office, which were not received by the time of this article’s original publication. On Monday evening, Deputy State Auditor Sandy Urbanek said in an email that her agency does not comment on “potential pending litigation.” She provided the below copy of a response to attorney Drake Hill, who wrote the agency on behalf of American Transparency and Equality State Taxpayers Association.

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for More than a Day

Lauren Ames and Anne Marie Wells embrace their outness at Jackson Hole Live.

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was the tallest person in the room by a mile.

Or rather,

tallest by 10-inch, black patent leather platform boots. his peers seek to be fully themselves, which means not conforming to gender norms and not being quiet about their sexual orientation. Jackson’s reputation as a blue dot in a red state belies the way in which the community has yet to fully embrace LGBTQ culture. Lesbian, bisexual, gay, trans, and queer people say they regularly face harassment and discrimination in Jackson, and are not protected from being evicted or losing their job for their sexuality. It’s only now that the town is moving forward with a non-discrimination ordinance—a full 20 years after the murder of Matthew Shepard made Wyoming famous for homophobic violence.

Jackson LGBTQ residents report feeling afraid to hold hands, dance, or kiss in public. Others say they have been taunted at bars and public venues. Though Pride picnics have been a staple for four years, the more raucous Pride Dance Party this month was the first of its kind in Jackson—48 years after the first ever U.S. Pride parade rocked the streets of New York City. While most cosmopolitan locales in the U.S. have evolved with the times to create inclusive environments for LGBTQ people, Jackson has some serious catching up to do. Yes, you can be gay here, just don’t be too gay about it, has been Jackson’s unspoken message. Zender’s generation is changing all that.

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“Ranch,” the drag queen alter ego of Luke Zender, made an impression at the June 9 JH Pride Dance Party. Dressed in a rainbow tutu and bare-chested with pink duct tape criss-crossing each nipple and white glitter makeup masking her beard, Ranch paraded through the lobby of the Pink Garter Theater like a royal princess. Her boots lifted her to a full seven feet. Unlike traveling drag performers that have graced Jackson stages, Ranch is homegrown. Zender, a 26-year-old Jackson native, is part of a new generation of LGBTQ people who are striving to make Jackson more inclusive. Instead of assimilating, Zender and

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A Watershed Moment

Ranch’s Pride appearance was the first time Zender, who identifies as queer, has been on the streets of Jackson in drag. “I was outside on Broadway in full drag in disbelief that it was actually happening,” he said. “It felt like the Twilight Zone.” For the Pride Dance Party the Pink Garter Theater was festooned in rainbow flags and streamers. The Rose served drinks like “Freddy Mercury’s Moustache” and “Gay on the Beach.” Attendees came in their finest attire—glittery dresses and button down shirts. A lip-sync competition featured men and women in drag, an on-stage male make-out session, and a gigantic pair of inflatable pink lips. More than 450 people attended the dance. Organizer Andrew Munz avoided tallying how many self-identifying queers were in attendance because it would have run counter to the spirit of the event. “The concept of LGBTQ labeling and identification is meant to be fluid and all-inclusive, and that’s how we wanted the party to be,” he said. “It was absolutely amazing,” Anne Marie Wells said. A 32-year-old writer and actor, Wells identifies as queer. “The straight people knew it wasn’t for them, that queerness was the point. It felt like going to a gay club in a big city. Couples were comfortable dancing intimately and kissing. People were comfortable wearing queer identified outfits.” What outfit to wear was a concern for Rafael Lopez, a 25-year-old gay man from Venezuela who moved to Jackson last year with his boyfriend. “I was a little anxious before I left my house,” he said. “I was afraid I was going be bullied on my way to the party. But I got nothing but love and support starting the moment my Uber driver showed up. I think our straight allies here are quite accepting.” Lopez said he had a blast at the party. The next day the full impact of the event really sank in, how good it felt to be out and free, to be himself in Jackson Hole. “I woke crying the next morning—out of happiness. I was thinking about all the people who showed up to support the event,” he said. Lauren Ames, a 26-year-old lesbian, also appreciated the support from straight allies. “Most of my straight friends dressed up and everyone was getting into it,” she said. But the best part was that a few of her friends used the opportunity to come out and declare their queer identity. “I definitely think the dance was an open door,” she said. For Ames, finding a safe space to be out did not feel personally revolutionary in the context of the rest of her life. Last year she moved to Jackson from Denver. She’s used to being out and has had the good fortune to find acceptance in the places she has lived. “I’ve always been confident and open,” she said. “I came out in high school and I wasn’t bullied about it.” In Colorado, she found plenty of LGBTQ people. When she moved to Jackson, she wasn’t sure what to expect. “I’ve been surprised. I actually have a lot of LGBT friends here,” she said. But for 30-year-old Munz, who grew up in Jackson and has endured bullying and stigma about being

gay, throwing a gay dance party in Jackson was groundbreaking. “We lifted a veil and allowed people to breathe,” he said. All night LGBTQ residents approached Munz thanking him for putting on the dance. “I met so many people in the community who I didn’t know before,” he said. “It’s hard to express to the general Jacksonite the impact this simple dance party had in some people’s lives,” Munz said. “Straight people can hold hands in public or pick someone up at a bar without repercussions.” Days after the event, Wells reveled in the openness the dance engendered. “I could go up to other women and ask if they wanted to dance and it wasn’t weird or uncomfortable,” she said. “It felt wonderful.” Beyond comfort, though, the party was a safe space to express queer identity and queer sexuality. Embraced by supportive peers, LGBTQ people could let down their guard, not look over their shoulder, not try to look straight. There is a reason behind their fear. Violence against people perceived to be LGBTQ is on the rise. According to recent FBI hate crime statistics, hate crimes based on sexual orientation rose by 2 percent from 2015 to 2016, and by 9 percent based on gender identity. The LGBT advocacy organization Human Rights Campaign (HRC) defines gender identity as “One’s innermost concept of self as male, female, a blend of both or neither...One’s gender identity can be the same or different from their sex assigned at birth.” This definition applies to transgender people as well as people who identify as genderqueer or gender fluid. Or who choose no gender at all. People born intersex can also fall under this definition. The law that criminalizes someone for targeting a victim on the basis of gender identity was first used in 2017 when Joshua Brandon Vallum pleaded guilty to violating the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act by killing Mercedes Williamson in 2015 because she was transgender. In 2016, 1,076 hate crimes in America were based on sexual orientation bias and 124 were based on gender identity bias. Wyoming, meanwhile, reported zero sexual orientation/gender identity hate crimes in 2016; however, that doesn’t mean they didn’t occur. In its analysis of the 2016 statistics, HRC noted, “these numbers likely represent only a fraction of such cases, given that reporting hate crimes to the FBI is not mandatory.” In fact, thousands of law enforcement agencies throughout the country did not submit any data. “The lack of mandatory reporting means that the FBI data, while helpful, paints a very incomplete picture of hate crimes against LGBTQ Americans,” HRC stated. Wyoming’s hate crimes law does not pertain to crimes committed because of a victim’s sexual orientation or gender identity/expression. Without such a law, the federal hate crimes law is difficult to enforce. The federal authority to investigate and prosecute is limited to hate crimes that affect interstate commerce, a tough hurdle to surmount. The state would not be reliant on the FBI and could more effectively

" big city.

It felt like going to a gay club in a

Couples were comfortable dancing

intimately and kissing. - Anne Marie Wells

prosecute hate crimes based on sexual orientation and gender identity if it had its own law specifically pertaining to those categories. HRC is also pressing Wyoming and other states lacking LGBTQ hate crimes laws to require the collection and reporting of hate crimes data. Without accurate data, crimes may go under-reported or unreported, perpetuating an inaccurate picture of the hate and discrimination LGBTQ people face. Similarly, Jackson’s nondiscrimination ordinance, if passed, will provide a means to file formal discrimination complaints with the town and will aid agencies in tracking this data. “If the government can gather information about how people in a community are being treated, it can prevent issues,” Sabrina King, Wyoming ACLU policy director, said. A small liberal town like Jackson can seem like a relatively safe place to live in general. However, LGBTQ residents report varying levels of feeling safe from homophobic violence. Zender said he was nervous before the dance party. “I had some reservations going into the event,” he said. “I worried about gay bashing.” Though the town non-discrimination ordinance will not address incidents of violence, it will be an important statement that the town cares about its LGBTQ residents. People who discriminate against LGBTQ people in housing, employment and public places could be investigated and fined $750 per day. King attended Town Council’s first reading of the ordinance in which councilors voted 5-0 to move the ordinance forward and delivered strong statements of support. King said such local government support in the region is unprecedented.

i love the land here deeply. Every creature deserves to be where they are and what they are. - Alli Rand (left or right)

" i felt like my story

When I left Jackson,

didn’t matter

as much as news about a skier doing a 360 off of Corbet’s. - Ash Tallmadge (left or right)

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see themselves represented in marketing and other media about the outdoors. Outdoor adventurist and gay man Mikah Meyer wrote an essay in Outside Online last year discussing the outdoor industry’s shabby record of representing LGBTQ people. “When rafting down the Green River or hiking on the Appalachian Trail, I don’t feel out of place,” Meyer wrote. “But when I look at outdoor apparel ads, marketing for outdoor vacations, and editorials on how to live the outdoor lifestyle, it’s very apparent that the queerest thing about my nature excursions is simply that I’m there—because the outdoor industry doesn’t show me or any of my openly LGBT tribe in those situations.” Queering nature, and simultaneously recognizing that queer is natural, may be one of the biggest impacts LGTBQ people make in a place like Jackson, where a hypermasculine, heteronormative version of adventure reigns. For Ash Tallmadge and her wife Alli Rand, moving to Jackson this month means living in tune with nature in a respectful, contemplative way that matches their personalities. Tallmadge leads wildlife tours and Rand works at Valley Bookstore. “I love the land here deeply,” Tallmadge said. “It’s a natural sanctuary.” She remembered her reaction when wolf hunting became legal in Wyoming last year. Though she was living in Santa Fe, New Mexico, the news hit her hard. “It hurt my heart,” she said. “I feel connected to wolves because they have a right to be there and not killed for who they are and what they are. I felt a relationship to that. Every creature deserves to be where they are and what they are.” For Tallmadge, 32, the move is a return. Like Zender, she was raised in Jackson, and her family dates

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Being seen and accepted is the central issue for LGBTQ people in Jackson, especially if they grew up in the valley. Zender was raised in Jackson and fled at age 16, knowing he was different and no longer feeling at home in his hometown. He lived in cities, delved into his love of dance and performance, and cleaved to an urban gay lifestyle. But when he was 23, he heard the mountains calling. “I decided it was time for me to come home, spend time in solitude and find out what makes me tick.” He joined the local dance company, Contemporary Dance Wyoming, and made a splash with his feminine style. A tall man with a delicate septum ring in his nose, Zender exudes an androgynous beauty even when he is in street clothes. Before he moved back, Zender fit right in living in Los Angeles in his early 20s. His boyfriend was a winner of Ru Paul’s Drag Race, they lived in West Hollywood and everything about his life was “gay, gay, gay.” As liberating at that scene was, there was a dark side. “There was sketchy sex and drugs and a lack of kindness,” he said. “Gay men can be catty in toxic ways.” Returning to Jackson seemed like a way to get in touch with his essential self. His family is here, and he

knew he’d have a solid home base. However, the first months back in Jackson were rough. “All my insecurities came back,” he said. He started dressing in Jackson guy attire —the ubiquitous plaid shirt, jeans and baseball cap. “At first I hypermasculinized myself more so I could have some anonymity,” he said. “Which sucks because we should all dress as we want to.” As Zender developed a chosen family of friends, he has felt comfortable expressing his full self. But the most important journey has been an inner one. “I’ve found what I was looking for,” he said. “I have the ability to speak my truth whenever I need to and to share my feelings.” Nature has played an important role in Zender’s Jackson life, providing him the space for the self-reflection he was seeking. “Living in the city everything is so electric all the time. It waters down our intuition because we are not listening the way we can listen in nature.” If a drag queen communing with nature sounds paradoxical, that is only an indication of how strict society’s codes are about who can enjoy nature and how. Zender may not be climbing mountains or braving rapids—though plenty of LGBTQ people do—but his experience is just as valid. Last fall, he and his CDW colleague Michaela Ellison made a beautiful video of themselves dancing in the golden late fall grasses on a hillside. Their eloquent and energetic movement is a welcome departure from Jackson’s ubiquitous ski porn and Go-Pro mountain bike footage. People who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer and gender-fluid live in Jackson for the same reason anyone does: to be close to the land and the wildlife, and to enjoy the kinds of lives a person can have in the mountains. However, LGBTQ people rarely

“In all the town council hearings or legislative meetings I’ve been around the region, I have never heard a government body go to bat for the LGBTQ community the way the Jackson Town Council did,” King said. “They told the queer community, ‘Not only do we see you and love you and want you in the community, we see what you have to face every day, and we are passing this ordinance because of that, not in spite of it.’”

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back 100 years in the valley. She wants to reclaim her hometown, and to find a way to make her story part of Jackson’s larger story. Her family, her life with another woman, her love of wildlife are all aspects of Jackson she doesn’t want to be occluded by Brand Jackson Hole and the outdoor recreation industry. “When I left Jackson, I felt like my story didn’t matter as much as news about a skier doing a 360 off of Corbet’s,” she said of the infamous couloir at Jackson Hole Mountain Resort. The newness, the flashiness bothered her. She feared people were losing touch with what makes Jackson special in the first place.

Popping the Bubble

" different We might have a

set of vocabulary and a different aesthetic in life, but those differences

are what unify us as a world. - Luke Zender

I’m sick of

conforming to an idea of what people think Jackson should be. - Andrew Munz

Perhaps there is something about being marginalized that makes LGBTQ people more attuned to creating a healthy community. Diversity is key to a healthy ecosystem—as it is to human communities. The younger generation of LGBTQ people Planet Jackson Hole spoke with show a commitment to Jackson through their work, their involvement in the arts, and their respect for nature. Munz expressed concern about the direction the town has taken in the past 10 to 20 years. “I’m sick of conforming to an idea of what people think Jackson should be,” he said. “I don’t think we need to be this fake Western tourist haven.” Taken together, the voices of Munz, Tallmadge, and Zender sound like a rising chorus of LGBTQ people who grew up in Jackson and want to ensure the community expands its heart. “When did Jackson go from being a community that is taking care of itself to becoming a community focused on taking care of people who don’t live here?” Munz asked. The community’s character was built by locals, Munz said, not by snazzy ad campaigns and marketing committees. Over time he has watched locals have to “fight for visibility” in their own community. He cited the recent dissolution of the Cultural Council of Jackson Hole, which held the annual Award for Creativity, as an example of a shift away from celebrating local innovators. “The label of ‘local’ has been so muddled and cheapened because of our ebbing and flowing population, so I want to see our community start rallying for those who deserve recognition.” In addition to spearheading the Pride Dance Party, Munz is the mastermind behind the satirical theatrical series I Can Ski Forever.. He has also been an active member of Jackson’s theatrical scene, performing in plays and with the improv troupe, The Laff Staff. A columnist for this newspaper, Munz also writes plays and novels. Two summers ago he organized a vigil in the wake of the 2016 massacre of 49 people at Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida. “The work that I do has less to do with me getting my name out there, and more to do with finding a place for myself here,” he said. “The Pride Dance Party was one aspect of myself where I said, ‘I have to do something for this community. It was not meant to be a tourist attraction. It was for the local community.” The enthusiastic reception to the Pride Dance Party reflects shifting demographics in Jackson.

Architect John Stennis says he has seen more LGBTQ people moving to the valley, sometimes with kids. “That’s exciting to see happen,” Stennis said. “They are wanting to raise their families in Jackson.” Stennis, a 36-year-old gay man, has served on the Town Planning Commission. He ran for Jackson Town Council in 2014. He was unsure at the time if he would face backlash regarding his sexual orientation, but none came his way. He is happy to see the Town Council moving ahead with a nondiscrimination ordinance. “It’s a nice gesture to the community that we take being inclusive seriously,” he said. Jackson must increase its diversity and inclusiveness “because we see so many people here, people from all over the world, different nationalities and religions,” Stennis said. Being exposed to difference “breaks us out of our bubble.” The movement toward inclusivity and against discrimination in the Jackson bubble did not emerge overnight. The inaugural Pride Dance Party stands on the shoulders of LGBTQ visibility work that spans decades. As early as 1994, Jackson activists were lobbying for passage of bias crimes legislation by the Wyoming Legislature. The de facto gay rights group Jackson PFLAG has been around in some form since the 1980s. Jackson PFLAG coordinator and LGBTQ advocate Mark Houser hopes the tremendous attendance at the Pride Dance Party represents a shift in attitude towards the LGBTQ communities in Jackson. “A new generation of LGBTQ people are making their home in Jackson,” he said. “They are willing to be out about their sexual orientation and gender identity.” The generational push toward justice and equality in Jackson will continue if allies of LGBTQ people remember events like the Pride Dance Party as part of a bigger picture. Encouraged by the enthusiasm for the party, Munz wants LGBTQ allies to continue to advocate for safety and justice for queers. “All of the people who were at the Pride Dance as allies need to make sure the message does not get lost,” he said. “If people stop talking about it, it won’t have legs. It’ll fade into selective memory as ‘the party’ and we’ll forget about how we finally created an inclusive, safe place for expression, dancing, and love in our town.” In the week after the party, as Zender was preparing for a Contemporary Dance Wyoming performance and then a visit to see his boyfriend in L.A., he reflected on the main message of the dance party. What he’d like people in Jackson to know about queer people is simple: “That we are human beings.” “We might have a different set of vocabulary and a different aesthetic in life,” he said. “But those differences are what unify us as a world.” PJH

THIS WEEK: June 27-JULY 3, 2018

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 27

THURSDAY, JUNE 28

FRIDAY, JUNE 29

n Teton Valley Balloon Ralley 6:30 a.m. Teton County Idaho Fairgrounds, n Friday Yoga Levels 1 & 2 at The Wellness Center 9 a.m. Huntsman Springs, n Alta Storytime 10 a.m. Alta Branch Library, n Free Food Friday 10:30 a.m. Jackson Cupboard, Free, 3076992163 n All Ages Story Time Driggs 11:15 a.m. Valley of the Tetons Library, n Game Night 4 p.m. Valley of the Tetons Library, n Little Free Library Closing Celebration 4 p.m. Valley of the Tetons Library, Free, (208) 354-5522 n Friday Night Bikes Blowout 5 p.m. Teton Village, n CHANMAN - SOLO 5:30 p.m. Springfield Suites by Marriot, Free, 307 201 5320 n George Kilby & the Road Dogs 7:30 p.m. Silver Dollar Showroom, Free, 307-732-3939 n The Otters 8:30 p.m. Hole Bowl, Free, n FREE Friday Night Public Stargazing 9 p.m. Center for the Arts, n Outdoor Arena- Rodeo Teton County Idaho Fairgrounds, n Farmers Market n Teton Valley Balloon Rally Community Picnic (307) 413-4679 n Rodeo

SATURDAY, JUNE 30

n ON THE TRAIL OF THE MOUNTAIN SHOSHONE SHEEP EATERS 10 a.m. Grand Teton National Park, n Patriotic Color Run 5k 10:07 a.m. JHHS Stadium, $5.00 - $30.00, 307-201-9914

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n Grand Teton Community Trails Day 9 a.m. Grand Teton National Park, Free, (307) 739-3379 n WILDERNESS NAVIGATION 9 a.m. CWC-Jackson, $275.00, n Baby Time 12 p.m. Alta Branch Library, n STEAM camp, Driggs 1 p.m. Valley of the Tetons Library, n Theater Thursday, Victor 3:30 p.m. Valley of the Tetons Library, n JACKSON HOLE LAND TRUST & RENDEZVOUS PARK CHAMBER MIXER 5 p.m. 185 East Hansen, n ALIVE@5 5 p.m. Village Commons, n “Heart of Wonder” Artist Reception 5 p.m. Turner Fine Art, Free, n Open Build 5:30 p.m. Valley of the Tetons Library, n Papa Chan and Johnny C Note 6 p.m. Teton Pines Country Club, Free, 307 733 1005 n Music on Main: Orgone w/ Jackson 6 6 p.m. Victor City Park, Free, n Beers & Banter: Local History Happy Hour 7 p.m. The History Museum, Free, 307-733-2414

n Hott Pass 7:30 p.m. Silver Dollar Showroom, Free, 307-732-3939 n JEWELL PARKER RHODES: WRITING FOR YOUTH 8 p.m. The Center Theater, Free,

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n Jackson Hole Conservation Alliance Annual Meeting & Special Presentation 5:30 p.m. Hansen Hall, St. John’s Episcopal Church, Free, 307733-9714 n The HOF BAND plays POLKA! 6 p.m. The Alpenhof Lodge, Free, 307 733 3242 n Jackson Hole Shootout 6 p.m. Jackson Town Square, Free, n Mary Chapin Carpenter at The Center 7:30 p.m. The Center Theater, $63.00 - $78.00, n Ballad of Cat Ballou 8 p.m. Jackson Hole Playhouse, $26.75 - $82.25, n Jackson Hole Rodeo 8 p.m. Teton County Fairgrounds, $15.00 - $35.00, n Pint Night

n Vacation Bible School 8:45 a.m. Shepherd of the Mountains Lutheran Church, $10.00, 307-733-4382 n Wednesday LADIES DAY 9 a.m. Huntsman Springs, n Now on Display: Rare Sample Copy of Taschen’s $12,000 Murals of Tibet, Signed by His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama 10 a.m. Jackson Hole Book Trader, Free, 307-734-6001 n PUBLIC HISTORIC PRESERVATION WALKING TOURS 10:30 a.m. Jackson Hole Historical Society and Museum, n Summer Reading Class, Victor 1 p.m. Valley of the Tetons Library, n Vertical Harvest Tours 1 p.m. Vertical Harvest, Free, n Raptor Encounters 2 p.m. Teton Raptor Center, $15.00 - $18.00, n Historic Ranch Tour 2:30 p.m. Murie Ranch of Teton Science Schools, Free, n VITA 2018 Free Tax Prep 3 p.m. Teton County Library, n Read to Rover 3 p.m. Valley of the Tetons Library, n Slow Food in the TetonsSummer People’s Market 4 p.m. Base of Snow King Mountain, Free, n “Hump Day” Music Series at Warbirds Cafe 4 p.m. Warbirds Cafe, Free, (208) 354-2550 n Bo DePeña 5 p.m. Silver Dollar Showroom, Free, 307-732-3939 n ALIVE@5: TETON RAPTOR CENTER 5 p.m. Village Commons, n Pint Night Benefits Teton Valley Community Animal Shelter 5 p.m. Grand Teton Brewing Company, Free, (888) 899-1656 n OPENING CELEBRATION FOR THE PAVILION PROJECT 5:30 p.m. The Center Park, Free, n DISC GOLF DOUBLES 5:30 p.m. Teton Village,

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JEREMY WALKER

MUSIC

Metal bands Dreadnought and Castle at a previous Fire in the Mountains at Pink Garter Theatre. This year the show returns to its roots with a venue in the woods.

The Fire is Coming Jackson’s own two-day metal festival ignites this weekend

enver heavy metal band Wayfarer sings passionately of mountains and wilderness. While listening to their lyrics, Jeremy Walker’s longing to hear metal in Jackson Hole crystallized. That yearning would become the catalyst behind Fire in the Mountains, a once “underground” heavy metal show that has evolved this year into a heavy music festival with 11 artists performing at Heart Six Ranch on Saturday and Sunday. The festival began in 2015 with Wayfarer performing on Shadow Mountain under the gaze of the Tetons. In its first year, with a stage hemmed in by bonfires, it would become known as “Fire in the Mountains.” The annual festival would later move inside and take place at the Pink Garter Theatre, but this year’s outdoor venue marks a return to its roots. FITM’s name evokes more than an aesthetic. It is also about “stoking one’s internal fire, their spirit,” Walker said. The marriage of mountains and music inspire the festival, he said, but also the

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communion of our varied experiences with nature. Those experiences help us to progress as individuals and the festival celebrates that progression. FITM’s team has indeed created a symbiotic relationship between music and the outdoors. They have sought out performers whose lyrics compliment the mountainscapes and experiences they engender. The headliner Wovenhand is “a transcendent experience, to culminate a transcendent event.” Regarded as the face of “Denver Sound,” the band will take the stage on Saturday night playing gothic country and Americana. Metal is often misunderstood, especially in the jam band flooded confines of the valley. KHOL DJ Cassandra Lee pointed to the incongruent lines that connect metal, mountains and nature: “Metal performers and lovers of metal are a total paradox because there is this reputation of darkness, you expect this hard edge—a dark ambience. But in reality, they are artists that are very thoughtful and loving.”

However “thoughtful and loving” metal artists may be, the festival has drawn concern from some Buffalo Valley residents who contacted county officials to complain. Walker said he has since met with residents to allay their worries about noise, and potential property damage and environmental impact. “We’ve gotten to know each other on a personal level,” Walker said of local residents. He said he has worked to address their concerns and will donate $1 of every ticket sold to a local environmental cause that Buffalo Valley neighbors will choose. “I thought it would be nice for them to have a say directly in where the benefit of these ticket sales goes,” Walker said. The county approved a permit for the event with conditions, which Walker and organizers have agreed to meet: a 400 person per day capacity; no camping on site and the music must end at 10 p.m. Beyond the music, organizers designed the festival with sustainability in mind. Co-organizer Alex Feher of Huidekoper Ranch has overseen “farm

to festival” food offerings alongside some of Jackson’s other festival favorites like Sweet Cheeks Meats, Roadhouse Brewing, Jackson Hole Stillworks and more. Further, the festival is participating in a carbon offset program to alleviate the carbon footprint of visiting bands. This year, an artist walk will happen during the festival. Organizers worked with artist Andy Kincaid to install the works of roughly 40 artists that will be situated in the woods for an outdoor art walk. Kincaid said it will bring the visual arts in conversation with music. “This is an opportunity and great excuse, especially in the format that it’s in, to get a lot of different voices from different places,” Kincaid said. PJH

Music starts at 4 p.m. Saturday and 5 p.m. on Sunday. Campers should come prepared to party in bear country. Food and beverages may be purchased with cash only. Find more info and purchase $89 tickets at fitmfest.com.

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Nicole Hicks’s animals are ‘beautiful and monumental and moving.’

Wild Connections

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Hicks’s work in the new exhibition primarily features animals, but there are several human busts and works that explore mythical creatures like minotaurs, Schwabacher said. Hicks grew up in London, the daughter of two artists. She studied at the Chelsea School of Art and the Royal College of Art. Her sculptures and drawings have shown in numerous museums and galleries around the world. For years, her work has been inspired by animals. She’s known for reinventing animal figures and vividly depicting both realistic and mythical creatures. Her work is rooted in the study of anatomy and observations. “All of her work has this pure and emotional aspect to it,” Schwabacher said. Hicks works quickly no matter the medium. Her materials are selected to expedite her process—straw and plaster for sculptures and large sheets of craft paper for her drawings. A few sculptures she’ll cast in bronze, but mostly she works in a way that lets her set aside work that isn’t right and allows her to keep moving. When, according to a press release, her work feels “terribly finished and a bit dead,” she throws it away and starts again. PJH Hicks will appear at an artist reception 6 to 8 p.m. Tuesday, July 3 at Tayloe Piggott Gallery.

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by 65 inches.) She works on craft papers and her choice of materials convey a sense of impermanence. Even though two-dimensional, her paper works have “incredible stance and stature and they steal a room,” Schwabacher said. They are “beautiful and monumental and moving.” The gallery has several of Hicks’s portraiture work featuring nude models that are not part of the new exhibit. But looking at that work, you can see that her approach to rendering humans is similar to animals, Schwabacher said. “She approaches the animals like she’s doing the portrait of a human.” In doing so, she is able to convey their mortality. Her work is especially intriguing because she isn’t interested in creating exaction representations of her subjects in the wild, Schwabacher said. Often her work omits a background so the viewer focuses on the animal. In her piece “Red Bullock,” she gesturally drew the animal’s form, but left the feet unfinished. They aren’t crucial to conveying the essence of the animal. That essence she creates in the facial expression. “You have this incredible emotional connection that she’s intending to be part of the work,” Schwabacher said. “There is a real connection with the animals in her work you don’t always get when you are looking at a wildlife scene.”

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reated from plaster and straw, Nicole Hicks’s wolf sculpture somehow “has a complete presence,” said Sophie Schwabacher, manager at Tayloe Piggott Gallery. “It feels very much like it’s alive.” Hicks’s ability “to transform something that is so still and make it feel so vibrant is incredibly unique,” Schwabacher said. The wolf is a 71-inch long sculpture called “Grey,” that will sit in Tayloe Piggott Gallery for Hicks’s newest show, a retrospective of work from 2005 to the present. And that sense of conscious feeling Hicks brought to the wolf is emblematic of all her art. The British artist is known for her passion in illustrating human-like emotions of animals and beast-like qualities in people. Tayloe Piggott Gallery hosted its first Hicks show in 2014. Her last Jackson show was almost entirely sculptures, Schwabacher said. This new exhibit features 28 pieces and includes a mix of sculpture and works on paper and gives a deeper look at Hicks’s range as an artist. Hicks brings animals to life in both mediums, Schwabacher said. Her subjects have anthropomorphic traits and expressions. “They feel so human even though they are obviously not,” she said. For her works on paper, Hicks uses charcoal, chalk and pastel. She works in large formats. (One piece in the show is 70

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Artist Nicole Hicks captures the common threads between animal and person

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LOCAL SYNDROME n TETON ROCK GYM- WEEKEND OPEN GYM 1 p.m. n Saturday BBQ with Live Music at The Barn at Huntsman Springs 5 p.m. Huntsman Springs,

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n IN/PLANES 5 p.m. American Legion Park, n Legends of the Tetons: A Lady Angler’s Storytelling Night 6 p.m. National Museum of Wildlife Art, Free, (307) 733-3270 n Hapi Gallop n Artisian Market n Women’s MTB Camp with Pro Rider Amanda Carey - Level 1

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SUNDAY, JULY 1

n Symphony on Sundays 4 p.m. Driggs City Plaza, Free, 3076902234 n Symphony on Sunday 4 p.m. Driggs City Plaza, n Symphony on Sunday 2018 4 p.m. Driggs City Plaza, Free, 307 690 2234 n ScripTease 5 p.m. Off Square Theatre CFA Conference Room, Free, 307-733-3021

MONDAY, JULY 2

n Summer Camp, Session 3 9 a.m. Teton Arts Center, n Maker 3 p.m. Valley of the Tetons Library, n Movie Monday-Driggs 3:30 p.m. Valley of the Tetons Library, n Town Council Evening Meeting 6 p.m. n Movies on the Mountain: Independence Day 7 p.m. Walk Festival Hall, Free,

TUESDAY, JULY 3

n Intermediate Tai Chi classes 10 a.m. n The Hole Story: Parent/Tot Storytime at the History Museum 10:30 a.m. Jackson Hole Historical Society and Museum, Free, 307-733-2414 n Teton Valley Food Pantry drop-off 12 p.m. n Read to Rover, Driggs 3 p.m. Valley of the Tetons Library, n Kids Wheel Throwing July 3:30 p.m. Teton Arts Center, n Tuesday Couples Nine and Dine 4:30 p.m. Huntsman Springs, n Bluegrass Tuesdays with One Ton Pig 7:30 p.m. Silver Dollar Showroom, Free, 307732-3939 n Opening Night with Pianist Diane Schuur 8 p.m. Walk Festival Hall, $0.00 - $25.00, n Concert on the Commons - Mandolin Orange 8 p.m. Jackson Hole Mountain Resort, Free,

For complete event details visit www.pjhcalendar.com.

A small selection of venue options limits Jackson’s theatrical potential BY ANDREW MUNZ |

[The author is a board member of Riot Act, Inc. But, he says, his position has “no bearing on my opinions within this column nor my desire to write it.” – Ed.]

ast weekend, I was fortunate enough to experience local theatre company Riot Act, Inc.’s Annual Series of Shorts. The trio of plays premiered at the Center for the Arts, on the second floor, inside Dancers’ Workshop Studio 1. Over the course of the five years the series of shorts has been in existence, the plays have been performed in that studio. The windows are blacked out and a series of curtains act as the primary set dressings, with the audience’s seating area assembled out of risers and folding chairs. Meanwhile, the Center Theater, in the same building, not 500 feet away, stood vacant. As a local actor, writer and director who has been active in the theatrical community for two decades, I recognize creative determination when I see it. Artistic Director Macey Mott has been a consistent advocate for local artistic cultivation. Riot Act productions are a far cry from large-scale Broadway productions, but their intimacy offers a clearer picture of the passion and joy on display. The company has a strong cult following in the valley, despite having no venue to call home. Instead, Riot Act gets creative, performing everywhere from yoga studios, the Elks Club, and even, on one occasion, a warehouse south of town. Their largest shows have taken place at Walk Festival Hall in Teton Village. Now that I sit on the board of a local theatre company, I can liken the stress of finding venues for productions to the

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stress of a person finding housing. I am fighting personal battles on those fronts. Yes, there are options in both arenas, but oftentimes they are not financially or logistically viable. Off Square Theatre Company’s upcoming production of Macbeth next week will take place in the Center for the Arts outdoor amphitheater. As a resident of the Center for the Arts, Off Square sees discounted rental rates on-site, and possesses its own rehearsal space (which it transforms into an intimate performance venue known as the The Black Box). The Jackson Hole Playhouse, performing The Ballad of Cat Ballou this summer, is the only other theatre company in town that has a consistent venue and rehearsal space. The success and survival of both organizations relies on their access to performing and rehearsal spaces. Available and affordable venues are the lifeblood of every theatre company in the world. But Jackson’s limited venues (the largest being Walk Festival Hall, the Center Theater and the Pink Garter Theatre, respectively) are already programmed regularly by the organizations and staff who run them. Other organizations like Riot Act, and, the tragically fading organization, Jackson Community Theater, are faced with high rental quotes. Even if they can afford the rental costs, they are forced to fight for dates in alreadypacked schedules. The new Town Enclosure pavilion outside the Center is an option, but its outdoor location and lack of amenities make it a difficult space for large-scale works. Last week, Big City Broadway founder and creative producer Gina Fellccia announced she was moving her

operations to Sheridan, WY for a few reasons, including the search of more affordable venues. I saw Feliccia’s efforts of bringing performing arts organizations together to form a coalition firsthand. She carried a torch in the fight for collaboration, hoping to create an alliance that would have more success in demanding venue calendar dates. I believe those efforts were less than successful at no fault of Feliccia’s, but rather the friction between mismatched nonprofit missions and a standstill in compromise from both the organizations and the venues in question. The only way this problem can be solved is for there to be another performance venue, one that is affordable and designed by artists for artists. In its defense, the Center for the Arts has bills to pay and should not be forced to offer lower rates or more discounts to its auditorium, nor should it be necessary to coerce a venue like the Pink Garter Theatre to simply give away space for similar reasons. We are all in this community fighting for our voices to be heard and our legacies to be cemented. It is not just those of us involved in theatrical companies, but musicians, dancers, performance artists, set designers, public speakers, and anyone who dreams to stand center stage in front of an attentive audience. The demand for an affordable, easily accessible venue in Jackson Hole exists. Until that place emerges, companies like Riot Act, and all other ambitious artists that will rise in the future, will have to resort to transforming found spaces, like dance and yoga studios, into theaters on nights when the ideal, larger and pricier venues sit empty and dark. PJH

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Mangy Moose Restaurant, with locally sourced, seasonally FRESH FOOD at reasonable prices, is a always a FUN PLACE to go with family or friends for a unique dining experience. The personable staff will make you feel RIGHT AT HOME and the funky western decor will keep you entertained throughout your entire visit. Reservations at (307) 733-4913 3295 Village Drive • Teton Village, WY

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loaves baked with rosemary and asiago cheese. Next door, Victor, Idaho’s Cosmic Apple Farms had a beautiful spread as per usual. I bought a bunch of hakurei turnips, an early season goodie, an enormous bok choy and a bag of basil. Then it was on to Winter Winds Farm of Teton County, Idaho, where owner and operator Nathan Ray, whose chèvre is one of my all-time favorites (and I spent four years in Vermont) greeted me with a smile. When I asked how the operation was going, he replied with one word: “busy.” After all, Ray and company now have 55 goats to milk. But, like he said, “More goats, more milk, more cheese, more money.” Next I had to find a protein for dinner. This year, due to the long commute,

armers’ markets are one of the best things about summer. The seasonal ingredients sold at the People’s Market and Jackson Hole Farmers’ Market make preparation and cooking interesting and interactive. There’s really nothing like drawing inspiration while strolling by each stand and talking to local purveyors about the fruits of their labor. Since it’s early season in the Tetons, I attended the People’s Market on Wednesday at Snow King with measured hopes. I expected a loaf of good sourdough, some cheese and a verdant bag of arugula. But I came away with a bountiful load of fresh, local ingredients that would comprise a delicious meal. I started at Rexburg, Idaho-based Lark’s Meadow Farms/Abundance Bread for one of its signature sourdough

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In this dish, smokey char is juxtaposed by bright summer colors and flavors.

a group of Star Valley-based farmers have come together to form a co-op of sorts, grouping their products under one banner and rotating shifts for the long haul. These include Haderlie Farms, Shumway Farms and Robinson Family Farm and Ranch. Each brings a different product to the table. Haderlie focuses on vegetables, herbs and fresh cut flowers; Robinson provides natural, grassfed beef, pork and poultry/eggs; and Shumway doles out raw milk and ice cream so fresh it tastes like the cow is hiding behind the tent. While I’ve had Robinson’s pork, which is exceptional, I settled for a good old fashioned pair of chicken breasts. My last stop, Tumbleweed Farm, sources its goods from nearby states.

That’s where I found apricots from Palisade, Colorado, and English peas from Wasatch, Utah. I drove home contemplating how to best utilize my delicious findings. The late summer light beckoned, so I fired up the grill and devised the following: Harissa marinated and grilled chicken breast with grilled bok choy, english peas, red bell peppers, grilled hakurei turnips and grilled apricots. The dish was full of bright summer colors and flavors to accompany the smokey char. Pro-tip: grill off a thick slice of Abundance’s sourdough and smear it with some Winter Winds chevre. If you have any leftover grilled apricot, slice it and spread it across the toast for a delicious pre- or post-dinner treat. PJH

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Harissa Marinated Chicken With Grilled summer Vegetables and Apricots For the marinade 2 Robinson Family Farm and Ranch chicken breasts 1 lemon, zest and juice 2 cloves garlic, minced 1 T honey 1 T harissa paste 1/2 cup extra virgin olive oil Salt and pepper to taste Combine all ingredients and marinate for at least one hour For the rest 1 red bell pepper 2 apricots 1 large bok choy 4 hakurei turnips 1/2 lb english peas 1 lime Extra virgin olive oil Salt and pepper

While the chicken bathes Slice the red bell pepper into thin strips and place in a tossing bowl. Bring a medium saucepan of water to a boil. Blanch the greens of your hakurei turnips for a few seconds. Pat dry, oil, and season with salt and pepper. Open and empty half a cup’s worth of english peas. Discard the shells, preferably into a compost. Blanch the peas until they are just cooked, but not to the point where they begin to shrivel, approximately 2 minutes. Drain and allow to cool. Pour into the tossing bowl with the bell peppers. Halve 2 apricots, oil and season. Halve one large Bok Choy, sprinkle with the juice of half of a lime, a pinch of chili flakes, and salt and pepper. Bring all ingredients, including chicken, to the grill, and begin the grilling bonanza. Start with the chicken. Once you flip it over, place the remaining ingredients on the grill and cook until charred. To assemble: Cut the grilled bok toy width wise and toss into the mixing bowl along with the peppers and peas. Squeeze the remaining half of your lime over top and toss. Slice the apricot halves into 4 wedges. Serve over the chicken.

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

THAI ME UP Home of Melvin Brewing Co. Freshly remodeled offering modern Thai cuisine in a relaxed setting. New tap system with 20 craft beers. New $8 wine list and extensive bottled beer menu. View our tap list at thaijh.com/brews. Open daily for dinner at 5 p.m. Located downtown at 75 East Pearl Street, (307) 733-0005, melvinbrewing.com.

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THE BLUE LION A Jackson Hole favorite for 39 years. Join us in the charming atmosphere of a historic home. Serving fresh fish, elk, poultry, steaks, and vegetarian entrées. Ask a local about our rack of lamb. Live acoustic guitar music most nights. Open nightly at 5:30 p.m. Reservations recommended, walk-ins welcome. 160 N. Millward, (307) 733-3912, bluelionrestaurant.com

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MANGY MOOSE Mangy Moose Restaurant, with locally sourced, seasonally fresh food at reasonable prices, is a always a fun place to go with family or friends for a unique dining experience. The personable staff will make you feel right at home and the funky western decor will keep you entertained throughout your entire visit. Teton Village, (307) 733-4913, mangymoose.com. Opened in Jackson Hole by Tom Fay and David Fogg, Moe’s Original Bar B Que features a Southern Soul Food Revival through its awardwinning Alabama-style pulled pork, ribs, wings, turkey and chicken smoked over hardwood

Come down to the historic Virginian Saloon and check out our grill menu! Everything from 1/2 pound burgers to wings at a great price! The grill is open in the Saloon from 4 p.m.-10p.m. daily. Located at 750 West Broadway, (307) 739-9891.

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

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ITALIAN CALICO

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

MEXICAN

EL ABUELITO

Serving authentic Mexican cuisine and appetizers in a unique Mexican atmosphere. Home of the original Jumbo Margarita. Featuring a full bar with a large selection of authentic Mexican beers. Lunch served weekdays 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Nightly dinner specials. Open seven days, 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Located at 385 W. Broadway, (307) 733-1207.

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The locals favorite! Voted Best Pizza in Jackson Hole 2012-2016. Seek out this hidden gem under the Pink Garter Theatre for NY pizza by the slice, salads, strombolis, calzones and many appetizers to choose from. Try the $7 ‘Triple S’ lunch special. Happy hours 10 p.m. - 12 a.m. Sun.Thu. Text PINK to 71441 for discounts. Delivery and take-out. Open daily 11a.m. - 2 a.m. Located at 50 W. Broadway, (307) 734-PINK.

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Serving organic, freshly-made world cuisine while catering to all eating styles. Endless organic and natural meat, vegetarian, vegan and gluten-free choices. Offering super smoothies, fresh extracted juices, espresso and tea. Full bar and house-infused botanical spirits. Serving breakfast, lunch & dinner starting at 8am daily. Located at 140 N. Cache, (307) 734-0882, theorganiclotus.com.

served with two unique sauces in addition to Catfish and a Shrimp Moe-Boy sandwich. A daily rotation of traditional Southern sides and tasty desserts are served fresh daily. Moe’s BBQ stays open late and features a menu for any budget. While the setting is family-friendly, a full premium bar offers a lively scene with HDTVs for sports fans, music, shuffle board and other games upstairs. Large party takeout orders and full service catering with delivery is also available.

Serving authentic Swiss cuisine, the Alpenhof features European style breakfast entrées and alpine lunch fare. Dine in the Bistro for a casual meal or join us in the Alpenrose dining room for a relaxed dinner experience. Breakfast 7:30 a.m.-10 a.m. Coffee & pastry 10 a.m.-11:30 a.m. Lunch 11:30 a.m.-3 p.m. Aprés 3 p.m.-5:30 p.m. Dinner 6 p.m.-9 p.m. For reservations at the Bistro or Alpenrose, call (307) 733-3242.

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SUDOKU

Complete the grid so that each row, column, diagonal and 3x3 square contain all of the numbers 1 to 9. No math is involved. The grid has numbers, but nothing has to add up to anything else. Solve the puzzle with reasoning and logic. Solving time is typically 10 to 30 minutes, depending on your skill and experience.

L.A.TIMES “COOL COMFORT” BY GAIL GRABOWSKI

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Tip off Iridescent stones Broadway restaurant founder Fancy window feature Bizet’s “Habanera,” e.g. Frequent co-star of Sly From the top Large volume Bottom of a pie Quality bedding material Gourmet gastropod Puts at risk Ring components Fish caught in pots Stock ending? Historic 1804 contest Texas city in the film “Friday Night Lights” Org. with a New London academy Sites with jets Leading the line Where Petaluma is Switchboard connection: Abbr. Mil. driller For hire to sire It may be a lot Wistful remark Burn the toast, say How much sautéing is done Hate the idea of Org. founded on the 100th anniversary of Lincoln’s birth “Dark of the Moon” poet Hummus scooper Fam. tree member Religious faction Room in some posh residences Made off with Barely done Road closing? Amazon predator Brand with a Creamy Vodka sauce

79 1954 Ford debut 81 Great Plains tribe 82 Unc, to Dad 83 “It’s not my first __!” 84 Choral part 85 Teaching model 86 Hugs, on cards 87 Manning of football 88 Tex-Mex dipper 91 Botch 92 Carriers of carriers 94 Pre-college, briefly 95 Female folklore fiend 97 Scoffing sounds 98 Rel. title 100 “She Believes __”: Kenny Rogers hit 101 Lash out at 104 Like parts of the Great Plains 108 Invited 112 Oakland-based environmental group 114 2009 Meryl Streep role 116 Author Dinesen 117 Ruin, with “up” 118 Part of PGA: Abbr. 119 Singer on a 2007 Black Heritage postage stamp, familiarly 120 Is just right 121 Bring to a boil 122 Lots of paper 123 Overly curious

11 Well-coordinated 12 Super Bowl XXXIV champs 13 24 horas 14 On trial 15 Fifth-century Roman Empire foe 16 Revolution prefix 17 “Seriously?” 18 They’re often cooped up 24 Pub round 26 Separately 29 Mumbai melody 32 Altar sacrifice, at times? 34 Enjoyed some courses 35 Initial stages 36 College offering 37 Struggling student’s option 38 Freed, in a way 39 iTunes Store category 40 Mil. authority 41 Intangible quality 42 Game player’s purchase 43 Suit 44 Part of a plan 47 “__ Mio” 48 2002 Nobel Peace Prize laureate 49 View from much of U.S. Highway 101 52 Samaritan’s offering 55 Can’t get out of it 58 Like many soup veggies 61 Performer’s place DOWN 62 Keep the beat? 1 Pub hardware 63 Use, as one’s 2 Shillelagh’s land resources 3 “__ With a ‘Z’”: 1972 TV special 66 Last Supper ques4 Like the most summery day tion 5 Non-Rx 67 Meditative discipline 6 City awarded the 2024 Summer 68 Long, thin mushOlympic Games room 7 Donor drive target 70 Awful 8 Sylvester’s problem 71 Barbecue fare 9 Fill completely 73 Water-absorbing 10 Palatable plant part

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Tube top Kitchen job Cast assignment Protection from the elements Short orders? “Mayor” author Prefix with ware “C’est magnifique!” Big name in casual garb Air out Predatory fish with an acute sense of smell 96 Former car-financing org. 98 Green word? 99 Glowing piece 100 Beat around the bush, e.g. 101 “Get real!” 102 Response to un capitán 103 Administrative hub 104 Wallop 105 Just shy of shut 106 Trojan Horse, for one 107 Rick’s “kid” 109 Drug bust unit 110 Some annexes 111 1944 turning point 113 Rip off 115 Coolers, briefly, that span two words in the nine longest answers

COSMIC CAFE Humanity’s Shifting Past Recent discoveries point to untold history BY CAROL MANN

he earth is disclosing more of her past. She is providing archaeologists with the physical evidence that ancient legends about giants, ETs and hobbits are based on fact. These findings are like discovering relatives you never knew existed and learning new family history.

which did not originate on earth, lived here till about 2,000 years ago and might have mixed its genetics with local humans. Keep in mind that the pharaohs claimed to be direct descendants of the “gods” who came to earth.

Giants of Earth

Beings with only three long fingers and three long toes are depicted among ancient petroglyphs, rock paintings and ancient textile motifs in South America. In June 2017, a curious discovery offered insight about these images. Four totally preserved human-like mummified bodies had been found in Nazca, Peru. These mummies, covered in white powdery diatomaceous earth, have slightly elongated skulls, tiny slit mouths and nostrils, very large eye sockets and long thin arms with three long digits on each hand and on each foot. Five countries are performing DNA testing on the decomposed tissue beneath the white pigment. Now remember the time-honored stories from many cultures about hobbits who were their own fully functional diminutive race of people? Scientists have discovered skeletons of a hobbit-like species who grew no taller than a two-year-old of today. They possessed grapefruit-sized skulls, weighed about 50 pounds and lived on the island of Flores east of Bali from about 95,000 to 13,000 years ago. They were their own species, not dwarfs or pygmies.

Ancient Humans

Challenging Evolution

Carol Mann is a longtime Jackson resident, radio personality, former Grand Targhee Resort owner, author, and clairvoyant. Got a Cosmic Question? Email carol@yourcosmiccafe.com

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In his book, Human By Design, scientist and author Gregg Braden shares peer-reviewed science that anatomically modern humans are not the product of eons of slow evolution. Rather, we suddenly appeared about 200,000 years ago as the result of some specific, intentional genetic manipulation. I encourage you to read Braden’s book and learn more about our rapidly expanding story. PJH

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When pharaohs and their royal family members are depicted in ancient Egyptian art, they all have oddly elongated skulls. Was this a genetic anomaly, the practice of binding a child’s skull, or artistic imagination? Archaeologists have unearthed the remains of an ancient humanlike race with large, elongated skulls. International scientific teams concur the skulls are neither genetic anomalies nor the result of binding. Their cranium capacity is 25 percent larger than ours and the bone 60 percent heavier. Genetic research indicates their mitochondrial DNA is different from any human, primate or animal. This was likely a human-like race

Nazca Mummies and Tiny Human Remains

Legends from South America, England and Africa, those of Native American origin and in the Bible describe a time when god-like giants roamed the earth. These stories seemed improbable until archaeologists found complete skeletons of giant humans on almost every continent. Examples include: * South Africa: A human giant’s footprint measuring more than five feet in length was found embedded in a granite outcropping millions of years old. *USA: Ancient skeletons of giant humans 16-feet tall have been found in California, Ohio, Wisconsin and Texas. * Mexico: Dozens of 14-feet tall skeletons have been excavated * Antarctica: Insiders report frozen remains uncovered of human-like giants who stood 33-feet tall.

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY

BY ROB BREZSNY

CANCER (June 21-July 22) In the coming weeks, you will have an excellent chance to dramatically decrease your Wimp Quotient. As the perilously passive parts of your niceness toughen up, I bet you will encounter brisk possibilities that were previously off-limits or invisible to you. To ensure you remain in top shape for this delightful development, I think you should avoid entertainment that stimulates fear and pessimism. Instead of watching the latest flurry of demoralizing stories on Netflix, spend quality time summoning memories of the times in your life when you were unbeatable. For extra credit, pump your fist ten times each day as you growl, “Victory is mine!” LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) It’s not so bad to temporarily lose your bearings. What’s bad is not capitalizing on the disruption that caused you to lose your bearings. So I propose that you regard the fresh commotion as a blessing. Use it as motivation to initiate radical changes. For example, escape the illusions and deceptions that caused you to lose your bearings. Explore unruly emotions that may be at the root of the superpowers you will fully develop in the future. Transform yourself into a brave self-healer who is newly receptive to a host of medicinal clues that were not previously accessible.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) “If I didn’t define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people’s fantasies for me and eaten alive.” Activist author Audre Lorde said that, and now, in accordance with your current astrological and psychological needs, I’m offering it to you. I realize it’s a flamboyant, even extreme, declaration, but in my opinion, that’s what is most likely to motivate you to do the right thing. Here’s another splashy prompt, courtesy of philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre: “We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made us.”

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) I suspect that sometime soon you will come into possession of an enchanted potion or pixie dust or a pouch full of magic beans—or the equivalent. If and when that occurs, consider the following protocols: 1. Before you use your new treasure, say a prayer to your higher self, requesting that you will be guided to use it in such a way as to make yourself wiser and kinder. 2. When you use it, be sure it harms no one. 3. Express gratitude for it before and during and after using it. 4. Use it in such a way that it benefits at least one other person or creature in addition to you. 5. See if you can use it to generate the arrival or more pixie dust or magical beans or enchanted potion in the future. 6. When you use it, focus on wielding it to get exactly what you want, not what you sort of want or temporarily want. ARIES (March 21-April 19) Your best ideas and soundest decisions will materialize as if by magic while you’re lounging around doing nothing in a worry-free environment. So please make sure you have an abundance of relaxed slack and unhurried grace. Treat yourself to record-setting levels of comfort and self-care. Do whatever’s necessary for you to feel as safe as you have ever felt. I realize these prescriptions might ostensibly clash with your fiery Aries nature. But if you meditate on them for even two minutes, I bet you’ll agree they’re exquisitely appropriate for you right now. TAURUS (April 20-May 20) “It is always what is under pressure in us, especially under pressure of concealment—that explodes in poetry.” Taurus poet Adrienne Rich wrote that in an essay about the poet Emily Dickinson. She was describing the process of tapping into potent but buried feelings so as to create beautiful works of literature. I’m hoping to persuade you to take a comparable approach: to give voice to what’s under pressure inside you, but in a graceful and constructive way that has positive results. GEMINI (May 21-June 20) Introductory offers are expiring. The bracing thrills of novelty must ripen into the cool enjoyments of maturity. It’s time to finish the dress rehearsals so the actual show can begin. You’ve got to start turning big, bright fantasies into crisp, no-nonsense realities. In light of these shifting conditions, I suspect you can no longer use your good intentions as leverage, but must deliver more tangible signs of commitment. Please don’t take this as a criticism, but the cosmic machinery in your vicinity needs some actual oil, not just your witty stories about the oil and the cosmic machinery.

Go to RealAstrology.com for Rob Brezsny’s expanded weekly audio horoscopes and daily text-message horoscopes. Audio horoscopes also available by phone at 877-873-4888 or 900-950-7700.

The absentee polling site is located in the basement of the Teton County Administration Building at 200 S. Willow St., and will be open Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., from July 6th through August 20th, 2018 for the Primary Election.

Please contact the County Clerk’s office to request an absentee ballot by mail, or to obtain more information regarding the August 21st, 2018 Primary Election and the November 6th, 2018 General Election. Visit our website: tetoncountywy.gov/cc Email us: elections@tetoncountywy.gov Call: 307.733.4430 All primary absentee ballots must be received by the County County Clerk’s office by 7:00 p.m. on August 21st, 2018.

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) On her 90th birthday, my Great-Aunt Zosia told me, “The best gift you can give your ego is to make it see it’s both totally insignificant and totally important in the cosmic scheme of things.” Jenna, my girlfriend when I was 19, was perhaps touting a similar principle when, after teasing and tormenting me for two hours, she scrawled on my bathroom mirror in lipstick, “Sometimes you enjoy life better if you don’t understand it.” Then there’s my Zen punk friend Arturo, who says that life’s goodies are more likely to flow your way if you “hope for nothing and are open to everything.” According to my analysis of the

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) Ecologists in Mexico City investigated why certain sparrows and finches use humans’ discarded cigarette butts in building their nests. They found that cellulose acetate, a chemical in the butts, protects the nests by repelling parasitic mites. Is there a metaphorical lesson you might draw from the birds’ ingenious adaptation, Aquarius? Could you find good use for what might seem to be dross or debris? My analysis of the astrological omens says that this possibility is worth meditating on.

To insure that all registered voters have the opportunity to cast their ballot, Wyoming begins absentee voting 45 days prior to each election. A qualified elector may cast their ballot at the absentee polling site, or request that a ballot be sent to them.

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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) André René Roussimoff, also known as André the Giant, was a French actor and professional wrestler. He was 7 feet, 4 inches tall and weighed 520 pounds. As you might imagine, he ate and drank extravagantly. On one festive occasion, he quaffed 119 bottles of beer in six hours. Judging from your current astrological indicators, Scorpio, I suspect you may be ready for a binge like that. JUST KIDDING! I sincerely hope you won’t indulge in such wasteful forms of “pleasure.” The coming days should be a time when you engage in a focused pursuit of uplifting and healthy modes of bliss. The point is to seek gusto and amusement that enhance your body, mind, and soul.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) In accordance with the astrological beacons, I have selected two pieces of advice to serve as your guiding meditations during the next seven weeks. You might want to write them on a piece of paper that you will carry in your wallet or pocket. Here’s the first, from businessman Alan Cohen: “Only those who ask for more can get more, and only those who know there is more, ask.” Here’s the second, from writer G. K. Chesterton: “We need to be happy in this wonderland without once being merely comfortable.”

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) Here’s my list of demands: 1. Avoid hanging out with people who are unreceptive to your influence. 2. Avoid hanging out with people whose influence on you is mediocre or dispiriting. 3. Hang out with people who are receptive to your influence and whose influence on you is healthy and stimulating. 4. Influence the hell out of the people who are receptive to your influence. Be a generous catalyst for them. Nudge them to surpass the limits they would benefit from surpassing. 5. Allow yourself to be deeply moved by people whose influence on you is healthy and stimulating.

astrological rhythms, these messages will help you make the most of the bewildering but succulent opportunities that are now arriving in your vicinity.

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