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20 YEARS OF BUILDING RELATIONSHIPS Darlene Johnson reflects on success, looks to the future By TORRIE COPE
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Irrigation district board is scheduled to ratify a settlement Wednesday
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t would seem there are never enough hours in the day for Darlene Johnson to do everything she does, but she somehow makes it work. Johnson has owned her eponymous downtown Nampa printing shop for 20 years, weathering downturns and watching other downtown businesses come and go. Over the years, she’s served as a mentor for new business owners who come to her shop seeking not just help with their printing needs, but the wisdom of someone who has been through it before. “The printing is the avenue, but the people and the service and the relationships are what drive me,” she said. Johnson celebrated the shop’s 20th anniversary two weeks ago by thanking those who have supported her along the way. She also looked to the future with another venture of hers taking off and the next generation running the shop with the same philosophy that has led to Johnson’s continued success — putting people and commuDARLENE JOHNSON nity relationships first. Darlene’s Printing owner A few years ago, Johnson decided to try her hand at real estate. She wanted to be there for people on their journey toward homeownership. She found she was good at it, too. Johnson was named Realtor of the Year in 2014 for the agency she works for, Happy Dog Realty, after selling $3 million in real estate that year. “I say my word is blessed,” she said. “I’m blessed that I know so many people and that they trust me with such a big step in their lives.” Johnson’s plastic, double-sided business card, made in her shop, shows both of her professional roles — Darlene of Darlene’s Printing on one side and Darlene of Happy Dog Realty on the other — with a smiling photo of the redhead.
By ANNA STAVER astaver@idahopress.com
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CALDWELL – The end is in sight to a seven-year, multimillion-dollar legal battle between the city of Caldwell and the Pioneer Irrigation District. The two parties have reached a deal that would transfer the ownership and maintenance responsibilities for three Pioneer drains to the city.
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Truck driver in Ore. crushed between semis tells his story Whitby was trapped in multi-vehicle accident on I-84 near Baker City By ANDREW THEEN The Oregonian
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Above: Darlene’s Printing manager Chelsea Johnson, left, and owner Darlene Johnson, right, stand outside the downtown Nampa business that celebrated its 20th anniversary last week. Below: Chelsea Johnson, right, goes over a printing job with employee Ron Lash.
Darlene’s Printing Where: 1224 Second St. S., Nampa When: Open 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Monday-Friday Website: darlenesprinting.com
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Immigrants seeking legalization could have to wait until 2019 Immigration judges overloaded with surge of new cases By SETH ROBBINS The Associated Press
SAN ANTONIO — Thousands of immigrants seeking legalization through the U.S. court system have had their hearings canceled and are being told by the government that it may be 2019 or later before their futures are resolved. Some immigration lawyers fear the delay will leave their clients at risk of deportation as evidence becomes dated, witnesses disappear, sponsoring relatives die and dependent children become adults. The increase in cancella Deaths Cleva Apel Arthur Campo
tions began late last summer after the Justice Department prioritized the tens of thousands of Central American migrants crossing the U.S.Mexico border, most of them mothers with children and unaccompanied minors. Immigration lawyers in cities that absorbed a large share of those cases, including New York, San Antonio, Los Angeles and Denver, say they’ve had hearings canceled with little notice and received no AP Photo/David Zalubowski new court dates. Work permits, green cards, asylum claims, Maximiano Vazquez-Guevara, left, his wife Ashley Bowen, and their 6-year-old and family reunifications hang daughter, Nevaeh Vazquez, pose for a photo in their home Saturday in Commerce City, Colo. The presidential executive order that fast-tracked immigration hearings for in the balance.
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last summer’s flood of Central American migrants may lead to hearing being canceled
PORTLAND, Ore. — Kaleb Whitby drove into the dense fog on the familiar and unremarkable stretch of Interstate 84 just east of Baker City about an Kaleb Whitby Truck driver hour before sunrise. He’d only been on the road for a matter of minutes on Jan. 17 after driving from rural Washington the night before. The 27-year-old was already engrossed in an audiobook and pondering when to eat the prepackaged cinnamon pastry he’d grabbed for breakfast. Then he saw the semi-truck trailer in front of him start to sway. He downshifted, tapped his brakes and felt his truck slip on the black ice underneath him. He aimed for the back of the trailer as he lost control. Whitby is a former high school running back and linebacker and a stout 250-pound former professional weightlifter. He’s taken big hits before, so he braced for impact. He struck the tractor-trailer head on. He slid about 30 feet. The airbag didn’t deploy. Whitby’s 2008 Chevy Silverado went silent. Immobilized, he turned to his right and through the rear passenger window saw another set of headlights coming straight for him. He looked away. All he could do was pray. By all reasonable expectations of physics and the laws of man, Whitby should have died on Interstate 84 on Jan. 17, leaving his wife a widow and his son fatherless. Instead, he walked away with a black eye, a few scratches and a grainy cell phone photograph that circled the globe. Other people might have emerged from the wreckage changed in some way, but Whitby’s story isn’t one of epiphanies acquired after sweet life-saving salvation. It’s a life affirming moment, not a life changing one, largely because of his strong religious beliefs and because his life was going well before the wreck that should have ended it. The eldest of 9, Whitby grew up on his devoutly Mormon family’s sprawling 1,000-plus acre farm about 30 miles north of Richland, Washington. In 2007, Whitby left for a two-year mission in Brazil.
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