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Mandala creation swept up and poured into Indian Creek

KUNA SCHOOL DISTRICT

School official: Procedures not followed Assistant football coach Robby Washington hired during ‘short transition’ in HR

By LIS STEWART lstewart@idahopress.com

Geshe Lobsang Rabjor, a Tibetan monk, dumps the remains of the mandala into Indian Creek during a closing ceremony Friday afternoon.

By OLIVIA WEITZ oweitz@idahopress.com

PHOTOS BY CHRIS BRONSON/IPT

ABOVE: Ven. Tharchin, a Tibetan monk, brushes away the mandala during the closing ceremony Friday afternoon at the Langroise Center at College of Idaho.

RIGHT: Alison Moulton receives a gift of gratitude from the Tibetan monks during the mandala closing ceremony Friday afternoon.

CALDWELL — After sweeping up a sand mandala, dozens of hours in the making, Tibetan monks walked down Dearborn Street from the College of Idaho to Indian Creek, where they ceremoniously poured the sand into the water.

The creation of the mandala, later dismantling and finally pouring it in the water is a symbol of impermanence, Geshe Loden, a spokesman for the monks, said at the closing ceremony on Friday.

Jacqui Beaumont brought her 4-year-old daughter to the Langroise Center at the college every day this week to watch the mandala sand picture take shape. She thought that destroying the mandala would be painful to watch; it wasn’t, though.

“As they were using the paintbrush and blending the sands together, it actually just got more beautiful,” Beaumont said.

With calculated brush strokes, the monks slowly swept up the mandala.

During this, a handful of people left the room in tears; most who attended later took a pouch filled with sand from the mandala with them, a present from the monks.

Alison Moulton, who is the executive director of Caldwell Fine Arts, said she hopes the monks’ creation will live on.

“I hope that compassion not only spreads into the water at Indian Creek, but also our workplaces and our schools and our homes,” Moulton said at the closing ceremony.

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KUNA — A Kuna High School assistant football coach who was fired Friday after an arrest on drug charges never would have been hired had proper procedures been followed, according to a school district official.

“If procedures had been followed, it never would have happened,” said David Reinhart, administrator of communications and human resources for Kuna Joint School District.

Reinhart, who was not working with the school district at the time of Robby Lee Washington’s hiring in Washington 2015, said the district’s human resources department was in a “gap period” of personnel, and during that time, the proper hiring procedures did not happen.

“It would have never cleared my desk,” Reinhart said.

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The Griddle restaurant coming to Nampa Diner will be fourth Treasure Valley location for Nevada chain

By LIS STEWART lstewart@idahopress.com

NAMPA — The Nevada-based diner chain The Griddle will continue its hotcake infiltration of the Treasure Valley with a new location in Nampa this year.

“We love the Treasure Valley — we love the community,” said Abe Aboud, business manager for The Griddle. “So we want to be involved as much as possible.”

Opening a restaurant in the old Skippers building, at 1124 Caldwell Blvd. in Nampa, is part of that love, Aboud said. While no opening date has been set, Aboud hopes to have it ready for business, employing around 25 workers, by the end of the year.

The Griddle traces its humble beginnings to Winnemucca, Nevada.

The restaurant opened for business in 1948, originally just staying open from Memorial Day through Labor Day. California restaurateur couple Mike and Betty Aboud purchased the location in 1960, and the family has been running the diner ever since with a reputation for from-scratch home cooking.

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The finished mandala created by Tibetan monks visiting the College of Idaho.

The creation was brushed away and then delivered to Indian Creek for disposal.

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Diner/from A1 Abe Aboud is the grandson of Mike and Betty, who both died several years ago. His father David purchased the family holdings in 2005 and soon after opened the diner’s second restaurant at 2310 E. Overland Road, Meridian.

In addition to the Winnemucca and Meridian locations, The Griddle can be found at 177 Eagle River St., Eagle, and 404 E. Parkcenter Blvd. No. 200, Boise.

Sitting in a green upholstered seat Friday at the counter of The Griddle in Meridian, while employees bustled about serving breakfast, Abe Aboud talked about what people can expect at the new location.

The Nampa establishment will serve the same menus, just breakfast and lunch, and have

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The Griddle Business Manager Abe Aboud poses for a photo at the counter of the company’s Meridian establishment Friday.

a similar look and feel as all the other Griddles, Abe Aboud said.

The restaurant in Meridian is open inside, with warm colors and artwork on the walls, lit by hanging Tiffany-style lamps and overlooked by a large mural of the original Winnemucca diner on the wall.

The mural was painted by Pete Buchan of Long Beach, Califor-

nia. Every Griddle has a similar mural by Buchan, Aboud said.

Buchan worked at The Griddle in Winnemucca in the 1970s and ’80s.

The Abouds try to keep their company as local as possible. The food at The Griddle is made from scratch, on-site, using local ingredients, including meat provided by Meridian Meats. The furniture for the diners is made by Boise-based Crowell & Company.

The old Skippers building was completely gutted and will be rebuilt inside for The Griddle, the business manager added.

And that pole that leans away from the building toward the street, from which an anchor used to hang as part of Skippers’s maritime theme? It’s going to stay.

The Griddle sign will sit atop the pole, just parallel to the ground.

“It’ll look intentional, tilted like that,” Abe said.

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The files of all employees hired between July 1, 2015, and Nov. 1, 2015, are being examined, as well as background checks, he said.

Kuna school district Superintendent Wendy Johnson announced Friday in a letter to parents and community members that Washington, of Nampa, is no longer coaching for the school district.

“Our No. 1 responsibility is to keep all the children under our care safe,” Johnson wrote. “In addition to our regular safety practices and drills, the district requires that all employees undergo a thorough background check before any employee is allowed to work.”

The superintendent said at this point, she has no indication the incident goes beyond what is known but urged parents to contact the high school administration if they have concerns about any activities from the past.

Washington was booked into the Canyon County Jail on Thursday on two counts of suspicion of possession of a controlled substance and one count of suspicion of paraphernalia with the intent to use.

Nampa Police Chief Joe Huff said officers found cocaine, methamphetamine and marijuana, as well as a pipe, in Washington’s car during a traffic stop. A drug K-9 alerted on the car, leading to them to instigate a search.

The AP reported Washington played for the Boise State University Broncos from 1987 to 1989.

Washington has been through the local courts several times, according to a search of the Idaho Court Repository. He faced felony drug charges in Canyon County in 2010, which were

there’s Tibetan throat singing.

Olivia is the Canyon County and city of Caldwell reporter.

She can be reached at 465-8107 or oweitz@idahopress.com. Follow @oliviaweitz1.

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The monks poured the sand into an open section of Indian Creek near the bridge. Pouring it into this section of the creek is special, because when the monks visited in the past, in 2001 and in 2008, the creek wasn’t what it is today, said former Caldwell Fine Arts Executive Director Sylvia Hunt.

“And now they are up the creek a little bit, closer maybe to what the new plan is for this city: to have a real community center and revitalize downtown,” Hunt said at the ceremony.

Nearly half of the 100 or so members who watched the ceremony, walked down to see the monks pour the sand into the creek. Many watched from the bridge; others were perched on rocks along the shore.

On the walk over to the creek, Beaumont said, one lesson her young daughter Annabelle Lawrey-Beaumont will take away from the experience is that, sometimes, it’s okay to sit and be peaceful.

“Nothing’s permanent in life,

and we need to remind ourselves of that sometimes,” Beaumont said.

Beaumont and her daughter were planning to attend the monks’ concert “Sacred Music Sacred Dance for World Healing” later on Friday night.

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dismissed after completing a drug court program. In 2008 and 2009, also in Canyon County, he was found guilty of misdemeanors for failure to purchase or for having an invalid drivers license.

In review of the situation, Johnson said she found Washington was hired during “a short transition in human resource and administrative personnel.”

In addition to the thorough review of all employees hired during that transition period, a thorough review of the district’s hiring practices will also be completed, Johnson wrote.

Students affected by the news will be offered counseling, Johnson added.

“We also ask your help in talking with your students,” Johnson told parents. “If they have concerns that our counseling staff can help with, please let them know that counselors are available.”

For now, no one has been hired to take Washington’s place on the football coaching staff, Reinhart said.

Head Coach Ian Smart is working with the athletes to help them be focused and answer any questions.

As far as Reinhart knows, Washington was a beloved coach. He was a good coach and had a good record with the team.

The school district wants to make sure any alleged drug use on Washington’s part didn’t affect the students.

“We didn’t have any indication that it had affected his job and it was any kind of problem,” Reinhart said.

Lis Stewart is the Nampa reporter. She can be reached at 465-8191 or lstewart@ idahopress. com. Follow on Twitter: @CarpetComm.

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