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Two Vallivue schools part of safety study Assistant superintendent: We’re grateful for study By IDAHO PRESS-TRIBUNE, TWIN FALLS TIMESNEWS and IDAHO FALLS POST-REGISTER STAFF newsroom@idahopress.com

BOISE — A recent state report will help at least one Canyon County school district address its vulnerabilities in school safety. The findings of the study were not surprising, according to many school officials and elected representatives across the state. But they were disturbing. A recent safety and security report published by the Idaho Department of Education documents threat assessments at a random sampling of 74 Idaho public schools — about 10 percent of all schools in the state. Among those were two from Vallivue School District. The report found that in 71 of the schools, investigators got in from an unauthorized entryway. On average, they were on their own 10 minutes before anyone approached them. But at 19 schools, “we just wandered around,” said Matt McCarter, who oversees a division of the state Department of Education. Gary Johnston, assistant superintendent at Vallivue School District, said two of their schools were selected, but he didn’t want to give many details because of the subject’s sensitivity.

CHESS ON ICE

Boise Curling club allows locals to try out ancient Scottish game

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Denise McCann, of Boise, releases a stone at the Friday evening Learn to Curl class at Idaho Ice World.  Take a video ride on the curling stone at idahopress. com/multimedia

There’s always a big surge around the Olympics … we are having five classes, and there is a waiting list of people who want to learn. It’s been great.”

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JARED BELSHER President of the Boise Curling Club By BOBBY ATKINSON batkinson@idahopress.com

Please see Safety, A3

KID YOU SHOULD KNOW

BASICS OF CURLING

Hog line

throwing

curling is 10 ends (which are much like innings). In each end, teams of four take turns throwing the stone toward the house. Each player throws two stones — eight stones are thrown in each end. At the end of the end, the team closest to the center of the house is awarded a point for each stone closer than the opposing team’s closest stone.

2. Our thrower in the

3. The first player to

sweeping stone se Hou

Photo illustration by Sara Oliver/For the Idaho Press-Tribune and Bobby Atkinson/IPT

6. It’s a game of strategy,

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things like “Whoa!” and “Hurry hard!” to the sweepers. In the illustration, the stone being thrown comes to a stop near the button. If this were the final throw of the end, the red would be granted two points because two red stones are closer to the button than the yellow team’s closest stone.

sweeping follow the skip’s calls about how hard and when to sweep the ice in front of the stone (or around opponents’ stones). Sweeping creates friction to melt a layer of ice, allowing the stone to travel further and curl less.

Skip

5. The skip calls out

illustration is shooting a draw shot. The skip behind the house will point with his or her broom where the thrower should aim. The thrower pushes off the hack (a grip behind the house) and glides with the stone across the ice, turning the stone slightly to make it curl. The thrower must release the stone before crossing the hog line.

4. The two players

throw, called the lead, will usually try to throw guard shots, in which the stone lands in the free guard zone (between the hog line and the house). Stones thrown by the lead that land in the free-guard zone cannot be removed. Other stones are disqualified if they touch a free-guard zone stone.

Hack line

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1. A typical game of

stone

CALDWELL — Sophomore Jaynee Combs is what most would consider a normal teenager on the surface. She’s a 16-year-old Thomas Jefferson Charter School student who enjoys drama and choir, and loves to travel. She’s a teacher’s aide in two classes. But what makes Combs a standout in the Caldwell community is her involvement in something weightier than history or school sports. Combs started volunteering for Advocates Against Family Violence when she was 14 — one of Canyon County’s largest resources for victims of domestic violence. The organization has a shelter for women and children, transitional housing and many other services. Combs volunteers at events and at AAFV’s daycare, Hope Lane Learning Center. She started watching the children while their moms went to classes. The reason she started volunteering, she said, is because she was also in a support group at the shelter for children that had domestic violence in their homes. Combs said she feels she can relate to the children and teens. “This summer I will be joining the AAFV Teen Advisory Board to bring awareness in Canyon County and the state of Idaho on teen dating violence and prevention,” Combs said. Although graduation is still a ways off, Combs hopes to attend a design school and she’s exploring colleges in Florida. Before that happens, she hopes to be a foreign exchange student as a senior. What is the biggest accomplishment or honor you’ve made or received in high school? Taking and passing my driver’s test.

Free guard zone

kmoseley@idahopress.com

Tee line

By KELCIE MOSELEY

Center line

Caldwell sophomore volunteers for domestic violence shelter

so the throws of the next three players are decided by the skip, the last shooter and the team’s “quarterback.” The second and third may throw guards, draws (throws to land in the house) or takeouts (throws to knock away opponent stones). The skip throws last and usually throws for points, especially if the team has the hammer, the last stone thrown in an end.

ou probably saw it during the recent Winter Olympics. It was nothing if not intriguing. Colorfully dressed men and women standing on a long, narrow sheet of ice. Someone sliding across the ice with some sort of fat stone. Two people vigorously sweeping the ice in front of said stone. And someone at the end behind a target painted on the ice yelling seemingly nonsensical things like “Hurry hard.” Curling has been around since the 16th century, when it was first played in Scotland. Scottish immigrants brought the game to North America, specifically Canada, in the 19th century, and it’s been hugely popular with our northern neighbors ever since. But the sport wasn’t an official Olympic event until 1998, and when the winter games are held every four years, there’s a resurgence in interest among Americans. It was the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver when Jared Belsher’s interest was first sparked for “The Roaring Game” — a nickname for the game due to the sound the stones make gliding across the ice. “I saw it on the Vancouver Olympics and said, ‘What is this? This is awesome,’” Belsher said. Four years later, Belsher is the president of the Boise Curling Club, which hosted a “Learn to Curl” class Friday and Saturday to teach Treasure Valley residents how to play the sport referred to as “Chess on ice” because of the strategy involved. The club was founded in 2004, and Belsher, who joined in 2010 after attending a Learn to Curl class, said it has grown every year since. It’s especially grown every four years as the Winter Olympics broadcasts the game to hundreds of millions. “There’s always a big surge around the Olympics … we are having five classes, and there is a waiting list of people who want to learn. It’s been great,” Belsher said. Belsher said the classes teach people the basics of what can be a complicated sport (see illustration for a basic guide on how the sport is played).

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WHAT YOU CAN DO To learn more about the league and/or sign up to be on the waiting list for the next class, visit boisecurlingclub.org or send an email to info@boisecurlingclub.org.

Jaynee Combs SPORTS CORRECTION: A story in Sunday’s sports section incorrectly listed whose 4A scoring record the Kuna High wrestling team broke. Sandpoint previously held the record.

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