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March 2016
Centennial Cinema Year-Long Film Festival to Celebrate the National Park Service One-Hundredth Anniversary —Contributor: Annette Rousseau, Education Specialist, National Park Service
A hundred-year birthday is certainly a milestone to celebrate. This year, the National Park Service turns 100 years old. The more than 400 national parks across the country are celebrating this milestone. As part of the celebration, Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument (NM) and Minidoka National Historic Site will hold a year-long film festival, Centennial Cinema, to showcase their incredible stories. Movies will be shown monthly at the Hagerman Fossil Beds NM Visitor Center auditorium in downtown Hagerman every third Saturday and Sunday. Hagerman Fossil Beds NM films through the year will highlight four major themes: Fossil Features (dinosaurs and fossils); Starry Stories (night sky and outer space); Trail Tales (the Oregon Trail and pioneers); and Geologic Gems (geology and earth science). From January to June, the Minidoka cinema will feature baseball films, Home Run Hits, in anticipation of the rebuilding of a baseball – softball field at Minidoka on May 28,2016. At both venues, park rangers and interns will share stories and lead activities related to the films. Popcorn will be available; all participants are invited to bring a pillow or comfortable chair to enhance their viewing enjoyment. March Cinema Schedule Home Run Hits, Saturday, March 19, at 3:00 p.m. at the Minidoka Cinema. Audience members can enjoy an outstanding family experience and learn more about the rebuilding of the film at Minidoka. Fossil Feature, Sunday, March 20, 2:00 p.m. at the Hagerman Fossil Beads NM Visitor Center auditorium. This feature tells the story of when the earth was being overrun by glaciers, and animals were scurrying to save themselves from the upcoming ice age. Three animals are forced to become unlikely heroes while braving the deadly winter elements. Drop-In Saturdays Hagerman Fossil Beds will offer family activities at the Hagerman Visitor Center on the third Saturday of the month until May. Visitors can stop by any time from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturdays and participate in nature-themed crafts, activities and games. Everyone will have fun learning about the sciences of paleontology, geology, ecology and what our role should be as stewards of the land. Programs will vary weekly. Drop-in activities are free and do not require registration.
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Hagerman Public Library Prepares for Spring By Geri Omohundro, Director
Do you know someone who used to love reading books but who hasn’t been able to lately because their vision has worsened? The Idaho Commission for Libraries has a wonderful program that furnishes audiobooks with a listening device simple and easy to use. Applications and information packets are available at the library. Fill out the application—including information about what type of books you enjoy—and mail it in. If you are eligible, you will receive the first audio book within a week. Then simply return the audio book by mail to receive the next one. Supported by federal and state agencies, the service is entirely free, including postage. We have added some interesting new books at the library—from Pulitzer Prize winner, “Gilead,” written by Idaho author Marilynne Robinson, to best-selling author John Saul’s “Guardian,” a thriller that takes place in the Wood River Valley. We have a new shipment of kids’ books from Australia that feature stunning graphics, donated by a generous person whose parents were long-time Hagerman residents. As always, we are busy with a number of projects including springcleaning and weeding of books for our Spring Book Blow Out sale coming April 22 – 23, which coincides with the community clean-up weekend. Volunteers are invited to drop in during library hours: Tuesday – Friday from 2 – 5:30 p.m. and Saturday from 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. Our contact info: Hagerman Public Library, PO Box 330, Hagerman ID 83332; email: hagermanpubliclibrary@gmail.com; phone: 208-837-6520.
Gooding County Relay for Life Team Meeting Scheduled GOODING – The next Gooding County Relay for Life team meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, March 9, at 5:30 pm at the Gooding County Fairgrounds Ag Extension office. This year the Relay will be held during the day instead of as an overnight event. Cancer survivors and personal caregivers and Relay members will check in on June 11 around 9 a.m. at the fairgrounds. The cancer survivors and caregivers will be treated to breakfast around 10 a.m. and the opening ceremony will start at approximately 11 a.m. Most of the walking will take place the rest of the day. The Luminaria walk, held in memory of those we have lost to cancer, will take place around 10 p.m.; the closing ceremony will follow directly after the walk. Reception Breakfast Scheduled A reception breakfast for cancer survivors and personal caregivers will be held at 10 a.m. Last year seventy survivors and caregivers attended; this year we hope to have 100 people attend for a celebration of their survivorship. The painted handprints made by last year’s cancer survivors have been made into quilts that will be auctioned off at this year’s Relay during the opening ceremony. All proceeds go to the American Cancer Society for cancer research. Relay Poker Run and Car Show Scheduled for June 4 The County Relay Poker Run and Car Show will start from the Gooding County Fairgrounds. All vehicles and motorcycles are welcome. Relay teams are encouraged to have food or items for sale at the Fairgrounds during the event. This is an event-wide fundraiser for all Gooding County Relay for Life teams. More information will follow in next month’s Valley Press. To sign up for a Relay team, go to www/relayforlife.org/goodingid or contact Christine Bryant at 616-330-0275 or e-mail chrismckbryant@ gmail.com. Corporate sponsors are encouraged to contact Christine to become a part of this community event before May 1 so your company name and logo can be included on the team shirts. For more information, follow us on Facebook at: www.facebook.com/GoodingRelayForLife
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Showing Up © Christina O’Brien 2016
Something New Under the Sun Red-breasted nuthatches are little woodland sprites, living year-round in much of Idaho. At only four and one-half inches long, they’d be easy to overlook, except for their insistent calls and unique behavior. If you hear a miniature dump truck in a patch of woods, backup alarm blaring, it could possibly be an aerial Tonka Toy. More likely it’s a nuthatch. Nuthatches toot their way up and down and around tree trunks and branches, their skinny bills probing into fissures in the bark for spider eggs and other delicacies. As the only North American bird that can nonchalantly stroll head-first down as well as up a tree trunk, they can peek under downward-facing bark plates that are inaccessible to up-walkers like brown creepers and woodpeckers. Nuthatches need lots of calories to stay fueled. Insects and tiny eggs are rich in fat and protein, as are sunflower seeds and suet. Hence they’re happy to come into bird feeders too. I grew up watching nuthatches and chickadees practically eyeball to eyeball at a feeder hung at our dining room window. A nuthatch would swoop to the feeder, select the plumpest sunflower (reflecting our family etiquette when a plate of cookies passed round: At a quick glance, select the largest), and fly to the nearby white pine. There it would grip the seed between its feet and the branch and hammer at it until the shell dropped to the ground (hence the name nut-‘hatchet’). For a high-calorie snack, it would cling to a wire mesh bag of suet hung in the tree and hammer off little chips of frozen fat. All this leads up to one of the most fun days I’ve ever had, courtesy of the 2016 Hagerman Bird Festival. A hardy dozen folks signed up for my Bird Watching 102 field trip, an exploration of the Ritter Island part of Thousand Springs State Park on a somewhat inclement Valentine’s Day. As we climbed out of our vehicles in the Idaho Power Park, someone noticed a small lump on the lowest branch of a juniper. Binoculars and the spotting scope confirmed that it was a red-breasted nuthatch, but it surely wasn’t acting like one. Nuthatches are busy little birds, scrambling upward, downward, and sideways over tree trunks and limbs in their search for insect morsels. They don’t sit like lumps on top of branches. That’s just not what they do. But there was no mistaking the needle-like bill, black cap split by a white line just above the eye, pale throat and rusty-red underparts. What was going on? As true-blue bird watchers, we stood and watched. Eventually the nuthatch dropped to the mowed lawn, and seemed to be poking its bill into the lawn, though a darned fallen leaf blocked our view. This was also something nuthatches just don’t do. As tree bark gleaners, they aren’t found on manicured lawns—or on the ground at all. But this one was. After a moment or two, it briefly flew back to its branch, then dropped back down to the exact same spot, conveniently marked by that little leaf. The next time it flew, it continued up into the dense juniper foliage and didn’t reappear. We felt comfortable moving in to see if the ground showed any clues. It didn’t. But that little tan leaf? It was a chunk of abandoned cheese from someone’s picnic, with little tiny nuthatch-sized bites taken out. Nothing else we saw that weekend—not the half-dozen eagles soaring and calling just over our heads, nor the sky-dancing harrier doing 300-foot barrel rolls, nor the cliff-dwelling geese, nor the canyon wrens on talus slopes, nor the well-camouflaged screech owl in the dairy barn loft—could surpass that enterprising nuthatch. Huge congratulations to the hardworking team that pulled the bird festival together, and many thanks to Mark and Tina Bolduc for their generous hospitality as well. What a glorious weekend! 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.
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Photo at left: Pelican basking on a rock at Anderson Ponds south of Hagerman. Photo by Michelle Brown.
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Patrick’s Day Run/ St. Walk Scheduled for March 19
by Janice Urie
HAGERMAN – The 26th Annual St. Patrick’s Day Fun Run/ Walk presented by the Hagerman Valley Chamber of Commerce will be held on Saturday, March 19, 2016, at the Malad Gorge State Park in Tuttle, Idaho. The 13.1 mile run will begin at 10:00 am and the 3.5 and 5.5 events will begin at 11:00 am. Awards will be presented to the top three over-all finishers and the top three finishers in each age group for each event. For more information, or to pre-register online, visit hagermanvalleychamber.com. Race day registration will be accepted at the starting line beginning at 9 a.m. Those registering before March 12 will receive a discount. Participants will receive a T-shirt and there will be a postrace party with food and beverages. Start off your spring with this fun event for families, groups, or individuals.
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THE NORTHSIDE CENTER ANNOUNCES MARCH SCHEDULE Wines of the Southern Hemisphere Discover the wines of Australia, New Zealand, Chile, Argentina, Brazil, and South Africa. This class will play homage to the burgeoning wine industry south of the equator. Explore and taste grape varietals unique to the other half of the world and enjoy a “southern” take on the more familiar ones. Tuesday, March 15; 6 – 8 p.m.; Thousand Springs Wintery, 18852 Highway 30, Hagerman; Instructor: Marguerite Janes; Fee: $39 Quilt Binding Techniques Learn how to bind the outside edges of your quilt through practical, hands-on experience. You’ll experiment with the three grains of fabric (straight, crosswise, and bias) and complete take-home samples. You may even bring in your own quilting project that needs to be finished. Please choose either the afternoon session or evening session when you register. Thursday, March 17; 1 – 3 p.m. or 7 – 9 p.m.; Gooding Co. Extension Office; Instructor: Kaylynn Cheney; Fee: $15 Gooding College: Lecture Series 2016 From 1917 to 1938, Gooding Idaho was home to an excellent college of higher education. Gooding College was started by the Methodist Episcopal Church and was considered one of the finest in Idaho. During its heyday, Gooding College had a voice respected by the community it served and the students it taught. In this presentation, learn about the fascinating history of the college including its patriotic role in the community during World War I, its tribulations during the Spanish Flu Pandemic, and perhaps most important, its role in shaping the City of Gooding and surrounding communities. The college folded in 1938 and the buildings were given to the state to be used as a tuberculosis hospital. What remains of the college is now privately owned. Tuesday, March 8; 7 p.m.; North Side Center; Presenter: Kelly Kast: Fee: Free; No registration required.
Photo above: Anderson Ponds south of Hagerman. At right: Natural spring at National Fish Hatchery, Hagerman. Photos by Michelle Brown.
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