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This wildlife viewing screen was installed in November at the rest stop that backs up to Anderson Ponds along Highway 30 south of Hagerman. It is handicapped-accessible, with a wide concrete ramp and rails, and cutouts that provide easy and safe viewing of the many species of waterfowl that are found here. The viewing screen is part of the Thousand Springs Scenic Byway project, funded by a grant and built in cooperation with Idaho Fish and Game, the Idaho Department of Transportation, the Prairie Falcon Audubon Society and Southern Idaho Tourism. “We still have things to complete,” says Debbie Dane of Southern Idaho Tourism. “We're working on the interpretive signs right now, and they should be completed and installed by spring.” The signs will include information about the birds species of the area, migration, numbers and habitat. The viewing screen is heavy-duty stainless steel with cutouts of fish and fowl that are perfect peepholes for faces and cameras. It was fabricated by Hatfield Manufacturing in Wendell.

INSIDE: St. Patrick’s Fun Run & Walk @ Malad Gorge 1 Chili Cook Off & Cabin Fever Memories 2 Sheep Monument Coming Soon 3 Let’s Talk About - Essential Fatty Acids 3 Getting Fresh in the Kitchen 4 Showing Up 5 Gooding County Centennial Gala Dinner 5 Hagerman Public Library News 6 Food Pantry is Ready to Help 7 Legislative Update 7

March 2013 Volume 2, #3

Hagerman Valley Press

Spring is Springing Up All Over Evelyn Simon

Winter is finally over. Hundreds of robins are in the air and trees, rockchucks once again scamper across the roads, and calves and lambs and kids are appearing in the fields. One can see a tinge of green in fall-planted fields and we’ve had many windy days; all signs of spring in this valley. People are getting out and about too; this month there’s the fun run at Malad Gorge, the 7th annual Cowboy Poetry event in Hagerman, a community supper in Buhl, and auctions are starting up again all over the Magic Valley.

March Happenings: 10: Daylight Savings Time 13: Hagerman Public Hearing, 7:30 pm, City Hall 16: St. Patrick’s Day FUN RUN @ Malad Gorge 16: Gooding County Centennial Gala Dinner & Fundraiser 17: St. Patrick’s Day 18: Open House @ Gooding Helping Hearts & Hands 20: First Day of Spring 22: Community Supper in Buhl 22-23: Cowboy Poetry in Hagerman 22/23 FASHIONS @ Mallane Professional Building 23: Senior Center Fund-Raising Breakfast with Cowboy Poets for entertainment 25: Wendell Community Auction 31: Easter Sunday COMING UP: APRIL 25, 26, 27, & 28: Hannah’s Hope Rockchuck Derby, Poker Run - 4 day event in Bliss, Idaho MAY 18: Health Fair in Wendell JUNE 29: Sheep Monument Dedication

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(208) 837-4900 460 So. State Street, Hagerman, ID Hagerman Valley Chamber of Commerce 23rd Annual

St. Patrick’s Day Fun Run & Walk Saturday, March 16, 2013 Malad Gorge State Park, Tuttle, ID 11:00am Prizes and lunch!! Please call Suzanne at 539-6116 or Kris at 590-1839 for registration info.

Patch --- Mend --- Sew (208) 837-6267 Zipper Replacements - Hemming - Alterations Repairs: Jeans, Jackets, Blankets, Insulated Bibs, Tents & more. 380 East Salmon in Hagerman

Notice of Public Hearing March 13th 7:00 p.m. Hagerman City Hall The City of Hagerman and the City Council have scheduled a public hearing to discuss rate changes to Hagerman City Water and Sewer utility billing. Meeting is March 13, 2013 at 7:00 PM. Public testimony on the Water and Sewer Rate Changes will be accepted at the hearing. Questions can be directed to the City Clerk or by calling (208) 837-6636. Comments may be submitted orally during the hearing or in writing any time prior to the hearing by sending them to the City of Hagerman, PO Box 158, Hagerman, Idaho 83332. Any person needing special accommodations to participate in the above noticed hearing should conact City Hall 2 (two) days prior to the meeting. 208-837-6636. Thank-you

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Chili Cook Off and Cabin Fever Memories Hagerman Cabin Fever day and the Chili Cook Off February 23rd were fun for many, even though the weather was cold and windy. Below are some photos from around town.

(208) 837-4822 17940 US Highway 30, Hagerman, ID 83332 www.billingsleycreeklodge.com The Chamber’s annual Chili Cook-Off was well-attended; every seat was taken. Diana Bray won first place for her tasty chili and about $3300 was raised for the Hagerman Fire Department. Terry & Janelle Mode of Country Elegance ran the live auction.

Face-painted children enjoying the decorate a cupcake activity at Quail Ridge Restaurant above, and at left, more children of all ages having fun making necklaces at Helping Hearts & Hands.

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(208) 837-6116 200 North Eighth Buhl, Idaho 83316 208-543-5417 www.eighthstreetcenter.com email: eighthstreet@onewest.net Community Supper Friday, March 22 5-7 pm Music by: Timeless 6-8 pm Pay as you wish. We are always available for your special events.

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Let’s Talk About: Essential Fatty Acids Courtesy of Julie Johnson www.jjnourishme.com

NourishMe Health Food Store & Cafe’ 151 N. Main St., Ketchum, Idaho

The idea that fat causes heart disease began in the late 1960s with an American scientist named Ancel Keys. After a cherry-picked study of diets in seven different countries, he found that a diet low in animal fat protected against heart disease and that a diet high in animal fats led to heart disease. As a result, representatives of the American Heart Association announced on television and in print that a diet, which included large amounts of butter, lard, eggs and beef would lead to coronary heart disease. This resulted in the American government recommending that people adopt a low fat diet in order to prevent heart disease. Nervous Americans took this low fat approach and erroneously turned it into no fat. The current diabetes can be traced to this low fat fad. By depriving foods of nutritious fats something had to be added back in to the foods to make the taste relatively tolerable. But here are the facts: Fats are like big slow burning logs one puts on the fire to last all night, thus creating slow burning energy. They’re the best fuel source for the body. Fat satiates us, and digests slowly. This means there is a slow release of the fat molecules from the food. A huge food crusade against dietary fat ran rampant through the 1980s and ‘90s, as dietary fat was indiscriminately replaced with grains, and saturated fat was replaced by unsaturated fat. Enter corporate food. These corporations (just who you want making your food) outdid themselves replacing the satisfying taste of natural fat with weird artificial concoctions, the most notable of which is high fructose corn syrup. The food scientists use cutting-edge technology to calculate the “bliss point” of sugary beverages or enhance the “mouth feel” of fat by manipulating its chemical structure. Check out the new book, Salt, Sugar, Fat, How Food Giants Hooked Us, though the title is a tad misleading. These additives are largely in the form of simple refined carbohydrates, which--as it turns out--are exactly the foods that spike blood sugar and eventually make us fat. By the 1980s, grocery stores in the U.S were stocked with an impressive selection of unnatural foods that tasted kind of like real foods, i.e.: I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter, Cool Whip, and Kraft American Cheese, to name a few. These engineered processed foods are made with altered chemicals, addicting sugars, and poisonous additives. Without the fats to slow digestion these foods caused hypoglycemia, which prompts a person to eat more of the same thing. Now the U.S. as a nation is fatter than at any time in history. The problem is that these foods cause inflammation and, unbelievable as it sounds, heart disease. We also replaced healthy solid fats (see below) that had been used for frying with fragile vegetables oils, turning them into hydrogenated and saturated fats that are indigestible. When there are essential fatty acids in the small intestine, special hormones are produced that prevent the hunger contractions. Thus a careful balance of fat in the diet becomes critical for someone trying to lose weight. Properly prepared essential fatty acids do not turn into fat when we consume normal amounts. Fat has many jobs in the body. While unused fats may be stored as fats for slow burning energy they’re main function is to rebuild healthy cells, hormone production, and protect the neurons in the brain. The point is that eating a fat from animals not only gives a person long lasting energy, but good gut health, and it tastes good. Fat does not make us fat. Eating refined grains and sugars makes us fat.

Hagerman Historical Society Has Exciting News: The Society’s Sheep Monument project is nearing conclusion, as the 45 foot long life size statue of a sheep herder and his horse, stock dog, and sheep, will be installed in March and the dedication is June 29th. Governor ‘Butch’ Otter will attend the June dedication. Local retired sheep rancher Bill Jones has commissioned the artwork, and a model of it can be seen in Hagerman at the Snake River Grill (across from US Bank). For more information: Ranae Taylor 837-4156.

OPEN HOUSE Come in and see our facility! Monday, March 18th 12:00 noon – 6:00p.m. Irish Stew, Bread, Dessert, Punch and Coffee

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Pam Wissenbach bizminders@aol.com 208.308.4755 Fax: 208.326.4239 Helping small businesses with bookkeeping and business solutions

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THANK YOU The Hagerman Fire Protection District and the Hagerman Quick Response would like to THANK everyone that made the Chili Cook-Off and Auction such a GREAT success. We appreciate the area’s support. Judy Osborne Hagerman Valley Chamber of Commerce

Getting Fresh in the Kitchen

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It’s a cold, dreary day in early February and I am shopping in the market. I’m doing pretty well with my choices of healthy foods, which is not all that easy in the winter time. Carrots, chicken, brown rice. I talk to myself in my Sesame Street voice, “Good girl Janie! Now what other healthy foods can you find?” Sitting in the house with a blanket over my lap, watching a movie and eating butter-drenched popcorn while chocolate chip cookies bake would be my choice if honesty were involved in this equation. Then, walking out of the produce section....there they are! It almost seems like a mirage. Easter candy!! I love Easter candy! Ok, I love anything remotely related to candy. I even love bad candy but THIS is the candy of the gods. Maltedmilk chocolate eggs, chocolate-caramel eggs, jelly-bean eggs, chocolate bunnies and Peeps! Peeps are marshmallow baby chickens for those of you that don’t understand those of us with Seasonal Sweets Disorder or SSD. Now my entire focus has changed. Why waste calories on chicken and carrots when I can eat Cadbury Creme Eggs!!! So, I know what you are thinking now. What’s the big deal? We have these candies every year and candy itself is available year round. This is the point where I would like to bring up mass marketing and shift any guilt or blame back on the stores. The grocers are putting seasonal confections out earlier and earlier each year. I saw Christmas candy out for display last year in late October....and, well, I bought some. There are just certain varieties of chocolate kisses which are only available during the holidays. See! That proves my point! ( Or I just validated my sickness to myself again.) I have to buy them when I see them because I know those treats may not be there the next time I come in. Candy corn is the only seasonal sweet where the malted-milk ball mongers finally gave in and it’s available anytime....and I don’t really want it anymore now that I can always find it. See! Answers on this month’s Facebook poll were fast and furious. Alana says she is in a “Peep coma” by the time Easter arrives. Danielle enjoys Hershey’s chocolate eggs and describes them as “giant M&Ms”. Elaine gave up sweets for Lent, but plans to make up for lost time on Easter Sunday. Pam pondered if a Girl Scout cookie addiction was different from SSD. I believe it fits right in because as soon as I see those little girls in front of the market waiting to take my order I start to change my priorities. My goal will be to get as many boxes as I can! What if they sell out right away? What if they aren’t here tomorrow? I’ll have to wait a whole year before I see them again!....And the symptoms of the illness continue.

Terry Jerome (208)539-9716

Todd Hagerman (208) 539-9711

LIVE - EAT - LOCAL Jane Deal and Idaho Preferred have put together this beautiful new cookbook full of recipes featuring Idaho-grown products. and including information about the farms growing our food. The Idaho Preferred 10th Anniversary Cookbook is available at Country “Our bodies are our Elegance in Hagerman, gardens - our wills are our Rudy’s- A Cook’s Paradise gardeners.” in Twin Falls, and Cook’s Food Town in Gooding. Or ~William Shakespeare contact Jane Deal 308-7444 Chuck Smart exhibits his chainsaw artistry skills during Hagerman’s Cabin Fever day last month. We also enjoyed the locally produced wine and cheese tasting at Country Elegance that day - and the blackened catfish special at River Boat Restaurant. -Ed.

This month’s recipe is the SSD answer to granola. ‘Easter Bunny Gone Bad’ Trail Mix 1 bag Easter peanut M&Ms 1 bag Easter plain M&Ms 1 bag Cadbury chocolate eggs (Not the small ones, get the the BIG bag!) 1 bag malted-milk eggs 1 bag Easter jelly beans 2 cups salted peanuts (for contrast) Mix together and enjoy......for a limited period of time. (You’d better go shopping today to get more.) Check out the information on this page about Jane Deal and Idaho Preferred’s cookbook; Live.Eat.Local. -Ed.

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Showing Up

Stonebridge Assisted Living 110 River Rock Place Hagerman, Idaho 83332

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Exercise

Residential care in our beautiful 14-bed facility. Day care in our facility or in the home. Respite care in our facility when beds are available.

I would like to take a moment to disabuse new readers of possible preconceptions about the author of this column. While, once upon a time, she was a fit, energetic athletic (well - maybe not) young thing, the years have piled up on her. She is now sixty years old, with high blood pressure, sciatica, a cranky right foot, a previously dislocated shoulder and a stubborn case of ‘tennis’ elbow at the moment. She’s near-sighted and astigmatic as well, and deaf as a post in one ear (only partly corrected by a hearing aid. This leads to amusing birding-by-ear moments, as she reliably faces 90 degrees to the source of a sound while exclaiming “it should be right in front of me!”). All that being said: I recently had the opportunity to attend exercise classes with an old friend and several of her classmates when I spent a week in Schenectady NY. This was a “Silver Sneakers” fitness class for seniors, which included cardio, strength and stretching. It was taught by drill sergeants using weights, balls, and flexible bands as instruments of torture. Those seniors whipped my tail. They spent the class flinging around six-pound weights, while I struggled with one- and two-pounders. They merrily kicked their heels up while gaily chatting about all their activities, while I huffed and puffed trying not to fall too far behind. They cranked out one pushup after the other, while I, gritting my teeth, wobbled through one and collapsed in the middle of number two. Sigrid told me that the women in this class, ranging from late 60s to mid-80s, had been coming regularly for years. One woman had undergone chemotherapy for cancer a year ago, and continued to attend classes. She’d sit in a chair and do what she could. When she could do more, she did, and when she was feeling especially poorly she did less - but she showed up. She’s on the other side of her treatment now, and apparently doing well, as she was one of those who left me in the dust. Another old friend invited me on a ten-mile cross-country ski day. Ruth is twenty-five years older than me, and has been a teaching naturalist for sixty years. (Her 88-year-old husband Tom decided not to go this time, so I could use his skis and boots. He spent the day working on a sculpture exhibit that’s due to open about the time you read this. He routinely tosses around slabs of clay weighing upwards of 25 pounds.) I asked Ruth, who is still lithe and agile as a girl, how she kept limber. She gets up in the morning, unrolls a mat in the kitchen, and runs through a twenty-minute exercise routine. Every morning. While listening to classical music. No wonder she can touch her toes and spring up from the floor. On a zero-degree day under cobalt-blue skies, we skiied through Adirondack beech-birch-maple woods interspersed with balsam fir and Eastern hemlock. Not a bird was to be heard, but the fresh snow was traced with tracks. Delicate sewing-machine tracks of white-footed mice wove across the surface, punctuated by the paired bounding tracks of a small weasel. A pair of single-line footprints braided back and forth across each other, and the snow was spotted pink where they had marked – ah, courting foxes! Big-footed snowshoe hare tracks were everywhere, fishers had crossed our trail several times, and it was easy to identify the troughs plowed by chunky porcupines through the snow. Best of all, an otter chute swooped downhill across our trail for several hundred yards (or further). The chute twisted and turned in graceful curves; when we looked closely we could see snow sprinkles thrown out on the outside of each curve, where the otter had banked and pushed. It was easy to see it in your mind’s eye, tobogganing downhill around trees and over banks. It undoubtedly had a destination, but took the opportunity to get there in the most fun way imaginable. Just like Ruth on her skis. Now that I’m home, I’ve signed up for an exercise class. Although I know how to do all the exercises we’ll cover, I’ve learned that I don’t ‘just show up’ in the kitchen at 6 a.m. as Ruth does. Like Sigrid, I do better in a group. And, as those oldsters very pointedly demonstrated, “use it or lose it”. Wish me luck!

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Gooding County Historical Society Annual Gala Dinner

“Happy 100th Birthday, Gooding County” Saturday, March 16, 2013

Social Hour - 6 pm, Dinner & Entertainment - 7 pm at the Gooding Basque Center, Hwy. 26, Gooding Entertainment by Ernie Sites, the “Yodeling Cowboy”. DINNER Tickets ($30) must be purchased by March 9th and are available at United Metals, 1776 S 1800 E, 934-8581. or: Kriss Nelsen 934-8330 Ilene Rounsefell 536-5366 Sharon Cheney 934-5135 Judy Erdman 934-9475 This is the Historical Society’s primary fundraising event. Also we are seeking items for the auction held at the dinner. For more information call 208-934-5318

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Chris is practicing Showing Up from her micro-farm in Boise, and is enjoying showing up in her old Hagerman stomping grounds more often these days.

Hagerman Public Library News

Milk & Honey Childcare & Learning Center

Charlotte Rosen, Librarian

The Hagerman public library has a new greeter at our front door. It’s a wooden bear sitting on a stack of books and reading a book. This way as you drive by you know we are open. Our greeter acquired a little sister at the Volunteer Firemen’s fundraiser. Both bears were carved by chainsaw artist Charles Smart of Hagerman. Starting on Hagerman’s Cabin Fever Day, we started a ‘name the bear’ contest. The contest is only open to children from preschoolers to 6th graders. We are asking those whom wish to participate to color a bear’s head, put the name they want on the front, and their name and phone number on the back. The pictures have been distributed to the school and must be returned to the library as soon as possible but no later than, March 8th. Two winners will be chosen March 9th. Special prizes will be awarded, which of course will include a choice of two new books. The best part is that we get to put up all the colored pictures in the library for all to see. So stop by and see the artwork and vote for your favorite. Our newest books include No Easy Day, the firsthand account of the mission that killed Osama Bin Laden, and was featured on 60 minutes last week. This book is a Navy Seal autobiography and a first-person account of the planning and execution of the Bin Laden raid. Also new to our shelves is Sue Grafton’s Kinsey Kinsey and Me and Me. If you have been following the alphabet with her you will love this book. Spring is not too far away, so if you are planning a garden or need to work on your flower gardens, remember we have a lot of books that can help, and if I don’t have it I will find it. Read with your children for their future depends on it. The library phone number is (208) 837-6520.

Current Openings for these age groups: a 3 & 4 year old preschoolers a 4 & 5 year old pre-Kindergarten a K - 3rd grade: after school

Hours: 7:15 a.m. to 5:45 p.m. PreSchool hours: 8 a.m. to Noon. Core knowledge curriculum - Phonics based reading Hands on learning - Professional & loving atmosphere Educational activities for ALL age groups - Safe & controlled environment

208/308-7769 Call for more information & references. Director: Wendy Willet 120 Main Street, Hagerman Idaho Public Television The 2013 PBS Kids Go! Writers Contest has begun

Entry forms for the contest are available http://idahoptv.org/kids/writerscontest.html The contest is open to children in Kindergarten through 3rd grade. Be sure to read the contest rules for complete rules and information. Entries must be received at Idaho Public Television by March 29.

Miscellaneous Items For Sale: Set of FOUR Jean M. Auel paperbacks: The Valley of Horses, Clan of the Cave Bear and The Mammoth Hunters, Plains of Passage: $5 for the set. Four John Grisham paperback novels; The Firm, The Client, A Time to Kill, and The King of Torts $8 for the set. Boxed set of four Dorothy Gilman paperbacks $4. Set of four John Grisham hardcover books: The Street Lawyer, The Rainmaker, The Chamber, and The Testament: $12 Heavy metal pasture drag $75. Horse tack: halters $10 bridles $20 saddles $200 & up. 837 6523

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HORSE TRAILER FOR SALE Nice aluminum trailer-1990 Sooner two-horse slant load, body HE, model TL. 2,370 lbs. Length 15 ft. This is a wide and tall tandem axle trailer, separate tack room and threelevel swing-out saddle rack. Excellent condition. It is silver with red striping, and has extra-thick rubber matting (stock mats plus astro turf from BSU). Trailer pulls easily and horses ride in comfort. Reduced price is $5,600. OBO Call Terrell Williams at (208) 536-6421. ANNUAL Wendell Annual Community Auction March 25, 2013 Call 539-0111 or 837-6523 to list your items. Masters Auction Service Joe Bennett, Auctioneer

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Idaho State Representative Steve Miller’s Legislative Update For the Week Ending March 1, 2013 As many of you are aware, gun legislation was center stage this week in Idaho’s House of Representatives. I fully supported both of these bills. HB 192 On Friday, the House unanimously passed HB 192, which creates an enhanced concealed carry option for folks who are willing to undergo additional training. The enhanced permit will be recognized in more states than the current CCW permit. To secure the permit, a citizen will be required to complete a minimum of eight hours of training by a certified instructor. The enhanced permit will require a minimum of 98 rounds of live fire instruction and will involve training on self-defense, self-defense law and the proper use of a defensive handgun. This new, enhanced CCW permit will not replace or eliminate Idaho’s current CCW permit, which can be secured without the additional eight hours of training. http://legislature.idaho.gov/legislation/2013/H0192.pdf HB 183 On Thursday, with a 62-2-2 vote, the House passed legislation removing a provision in Idaho Code that allowed local jurisdictions to “regulate, prevent and punish for the carrying of concealed weapons.” No longer will local municipal governments be able to disallow the carrying of concealed weapons. Across Idaho there will be statewide consistency, protecting the Second Amendment rights of all Idahoans. http://legislature.idaho.gov/legislation/2013/H0183.pdf Public Lands This week, Governor Otter testified for the Subcommittee on Public Lands and Environmental Regulation Natural Resources Committee United States House of Representatives Oversight Hearing on “State Forest Management: A Model for Promoting Healthy Forests, Rural Schools and Jobs”. He asked for the committee to develop a pilot program giving Idaho control of 2 million of the 20+ million acres of federal public land in the state. Focusing on the huge cost of recent wildfires, the Governor suggested that Idaho could do a better job of managing public lands than the federal government is doing. Here is the transcript of his testimony:http://docs.house.gov/meetings/II/ II10/20130226/100302/HMTG-113-II10-Wstate-OtterC-20130226.pdf I expect to see more discussion of Idaho’s role in managing the public lands during next year’s session. Preliminary studies report tremendous revenue that would be available for Idaho if the state replaced the federal government in controlling these lands. We are continuing to hear funding requests in JFAC. This week we reviewed the Governor’s budget, the Division of Financial Management, Legislative, Legislative Services Offices, and the Idaho State Police. Sequestration was big news this week. What will sequestration cost Idaho? If the sequestration lasts a full year, Idaho would lose about $29 million of the approximately $500 million dollars that the state receives from the federal government. The loss would be approximately 5.8% of the federal funds received by Idaho during the year. Idaho Public Television is gradually introducing the freshmen legislators. My interview was on Thursday. Tonight and tomorrow there are two Lincoln Days events -- one in Hailey and one in Twin Falls. Next week is the Red Jacket Day at the Capitol, when Republican women from around the state come together. It will be good to have an opportunity to connect with folks from our district. Thanks to all of you who have emailed me with your thoughts and opinions. I appreciate the time you have taken to keep me informed while I am in Boise and hope you keep it up. Representative Steve Miller Idaho State Capitol P.O. Box 83720 Boise, ID 83720-0038 smiller@house.idaho.gov

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Hagerman’s Helping Hearts and Hands Food Pantry is Ready to Help

A nearly full pantry shows the successful efforts of Helping Hearts and Hands staff to bring assistance to Hagerman Valley families. Kim White, director of the Hagerman branch of Helping Hearts and Hands is on the right, and Gooding’s Helping Hearts and Hands director Theresa Patterson is on the left. The food pantry is part of the Community Food Bank & Resource Center, which is located in the Center for Courageous Living. 130 N. State St. in Hagerman. 208-539-0355. Along with food assitance, the center offers parenting and addictions classes, and referral sources. Donations are always welcome. Drop off your extra clean (and in good shape) coats this month. Kim can also be reached at: rcwkmw@hotmail.com. Local community resources include: Hagerman Valley Senior Center Emergency Food Pantry 837-6120 South Central Comunity Action 934-5150 Gooding Soup Kitchen at the Catholic Church, 1515 California St. in Gooding, Tuesdays at 5:30 p.m. Wendell Community Dinner at the Catholic Church, 585 2nd Ave. E. in Wendell, Wednesdays at 4:30 p.m.

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