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COVER STORY: Food bank fills growing demand The economy has improved, but food insecurity is still an issue for the estimated 72,000 Valley residents who will visit the Meridian Food Bank this year. “(People) may have gone back to work, but they don’t have enough money to buy food,” Dan Clark says.

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ON THE TOWN Meridian’s Ashton Shaul, 13, is crowned this year’s Junior Dairy Princess, along with Senior Dairy Princess Courtney Pape, 17, of Kuna.

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SPORTS NEWS

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The Eagle Vipers American Legion baseball team turned around its season with a 5-0 record and tournament championship last weekend at Vallivue High.

Former Meridian resident Paula Snapp has expanded her mediation business into downtown. Her local roots run deep — her new office is the same house her grandmother lived in more than 20 years ago.

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he face of homelessness is changing, Meridian Food Bank Founder Dan Clark told me last week.

“It used to be homeless people literally were homeless — they slept in a hollow, a ravine, a creek bed, whatever. But now they sleep in other people’s houses. The definition of homelessness is different now, so it’s hard to define how many, because unless they tell you, you don’t know.”

That same day, I helped some friends move out of their house. A deal gone wrong with a crooked contractor had drained the family’s resources.

When the bank kicked them out, they had only four days to leave their home of 27 years. The family will disperse and live with relatives in three different places until they get back on their feet.

Thankfully they had family to turn to, but that’s not the case for everyone. I spoke with Amanda Whitley at the Food Bank, who left her family in Oregon to move to Boise with her fiance. But when they broke up, Whitley lost almost everything. She’s turned to food banks, public bathrooms and shelters for help.

“You get a lot of judgment when you’re around in town. Even though I’m an educated person, I’m … a working person, I’m also a full-time student, I have been treated much less than,” Whitley said.

But, she said, that’s the same response she might have had before becoming homeless herself.

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BOISE — (AP) An Uzbek refugee accused of terrorism-related crimes in Idaho and Utah has a new lawyer whose resume includes successfully defending a man accused of murdering a federal agent and helping free a Saudi college student charged with working for a group funneling money to terrorists.

A federal judge appointed Charles Peterson to take over Fazliddin Kurbanov’s defense.

Kurbanov, 30, Boise, has pleaded not guilty in U.S. District Court in Boise to charges including that he helped teach people to build bombs to target public transportation.

BOISE (AP) — Fewer sandhill cranes in Idaho mean fewer chances for hunters to bag the long-legged birds.

The Idaho Department of Fish and Game will be taking public comment on a proposal to limit the 2013 harvest to 137 cranes and make changes to daily and seasonal limits.

The state’s changes are brought about by a decision of The Pacific Flyway Council to allocate 137 cranes for Idaho’s season.

That allocation is the lowest since 1996 and lower than the 275 cranes taken by hunters last season.

CRIME WATCH Meridian Police Department Log June 12-18 Meridian Police made the following arrests or issued charges: 1 domestic battery 1 interruption of a 911 call 1 trespassing 1 malicious injury to property 1 vehicle burglary 1 failure to appear 5 warrants 1 open alcohol container 1 driving without privileges 1 battery 3 driving under the influence 3 possession of drug paraphernalia 1 injury to child 1 grand theft 1 possession of a controlled substance 1 witness intimidation

1 forgery 2 vehicle burglaries 3 domestic verbals 2 batteries 1 injury traffic accident 2 runaways 1 burglary 7 vandalisms 2 grand thefts 1 vehicle accident 1 disturbance 1 firearm violation 1 petit theft 2 soliciting without a license

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“Unless you’ve been there, you don’t really understand,” she said. “… I just try to think, well, when I had lots of money and I was living very well, I didn’t really respect people who were homeless, and you just think they’re just bums and they’re not trying and stuff like that.”

Every person’s story is different, Clark said.

That’s why Food Bank volunteers don’t speculate when someone drives up in a Cadillac, because it could be all they have left.

“We hear people come in and fill out the paper work for the first time crying — sobbing — never thought they’d have to do this, never thought they’d have to go to a food bank,” he said. “And it’s just a matter of husband lost a job. Wife and three kids are at home. … Next thing you know they couldn’t pay for their house, couldn’t pay for their car, now they’re living in a hotel — and this just happens within just months.”

Clark acknowledges that where there is free help, by Holly Beech like at the Food Bank, there will be people who take hbeech@mymeridianpress.com advantage. But volunteers continue to give without © 2013 MERIDIAN PRESS pointing fingers. They put policies in place to help prevent abuse, but they don’t agonize over it.

This nonjudgmental generosity is a source of strength to Whitley and her young daughter.

“Here they provide me food and they treat me like a human being,” she said. “... I know that we’re not permanently going to be like this.”

House votes to cut food

stamps by $2 billion

WASHINGTON (AP) — The House voted on Wednesday to cut food stamps by $2 billion a year as part of a wide-ranging farm bill.

The chamber rejected 234-188 a Democratic amendment to the five-year, half-trillion-dollar farm legislation that would have maintained current spending on food stamps, now called the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP. The overall bill cuts the $80 billion-a-year program by about 3 percent and makes it harder for some people to qualify.

Idaho Representatives Raul Labrador and Mike Simpson both voted in favor of the measure.

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Ten Mile Christian Church is hosting a community yard sale Saturday to raise funds for Lighthouse Rescue Mission in Nampa. Boise Rescue Mission, the largest provider of homeless services in Idaho, directs City Light Home for Women and Children in Boise, the River of Life Rescue Mission in Boise and the Lighthouse Rescue Mission in Nampa.

In 2012, the Mission provided 338,000 meals, 124,000 overnight stays and transitioned 500 men and women from homelessness into independent living.

GET INVOLVED WHAT: Community yard sale to benefit Lighthouse Rescue Mission WHERE: Ten Mile Christian Church, 3500 W. Franklin Road, Meridian WHEN: Saturday, 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Meridian librarian selected for leadership conference Meridian Library District Silverstone Branch Manager Natalie Nation is one of 40 librarians selected from a competitive national pool to attend Leading to the Future, a new four-day American Library Association conference in Illinois.

Nation said she can’t wait to bring back new ideas for collaboration with Meridian organizations.

Police also took calls, investigated or assisted: 5 medical assists

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KLEINER COMMUNITY GARDEN CORRECTION The man in the Kleiner Community Garden photo on page 3 of the June 14 Meridian Press edition is named Clair Manning.

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BOISE — The Boise State Public Radio website was recently named the best in the country by the Radio Television Digital News Association. The organization Wednesday announced the winners of the 2013 national Edward R. Murrow Awards on Wednesday.

The station will receive the award at the New York Marriott Marquis in New York City on Oct. 14. More than 90 awards will be presented.

“To be recognized nationally for the news we produce online every day is a huge milestone for a station of our size,” general manager John Hess said. “I couldn’t be prouder of our news team and our entire station.”

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BOISE (AP)— Gov. Butch Otter, former Gov. Phil Batt and other Republican officials oppose giving GOP party leaders power to vet candidates for primary elections, saying it’s an exclusionary plan that ignores the will of voters.

The proposal is slated for consideration Friday and Saturday at the Republican Party Central Committee’s meeting in McCall. It comes from former Idaho Senate Majority Leader Rod Beck, a GOP official and architect of the state’s move in 2012 to a closed GOP primary that Otter and Batt also opposed.

Otter and Batt, interviewed Thursday with Secretary of State Ben Ysursa, House Speaker Scott Bedke, of Oakley, and Rep. Dell Raybould, of Rexburg, all say the proposal to require GOP candidates get their committee leaders’ blessing is a bad idea.

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Front page: Meridian Food Bank Director Dan Clark at the food bank in Meridian.

Meridian Food Bank, by the numbers

5,000 individuals served each month 85 volunteers, 13 board members

In 2012: 63,922 individuals served; projected to be 72,000 in 2013 752,400: pounds of food distributed 700,000 pounds of food donated by residents, retailers and partnering organization Idaho Foodbank $100,000: estimated amount of food purchased by the Food Bank 12,400: back packs of food given to local students, 2012-2013 school year

operating budget Food bank: $165,300 in 2012; $126,200 in 2011 Backpack program: $36,200 in 2012; $24,000 in 2011

Meridian Food Bank fills growing need in community

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ast month, Amanda Whitley and her 8-year-old daughter, recently homeless, visited the Meridian Food Bank for the first time.

Food Bank volunteers helped ease Whitley’s guilt about asking for help, she said.

“They didn’t make me feel bad for my situation,” she said. “They ask what you need, they try to help you however they can.”

The Meridian Food Bank, founded by Dan Clark in 1999, helped almost 64,000 people last year, distributing about 752,400 pounds of food.

“There’s a lot of homelessness in Meridian. People just don’t realize it because they do think of the bedroom communities and nice homes,” Clark said. “... (People) may have gone back to work, but they don’t have enough money to buy food and do whatever else they have to do — buy clothes or pay rent, whatever the case may be.”

Even with the economy improving, the number of people served by the Food Bank goes up by 15 to 20 percent every year, Clark said.

“We hear people come in and fill out the paper work

by Holly Beech for the first time crying — hbeech@mymeridianpress.com sobbing — never thought © 2013 Meridian Press they’d have to do this, never thought they’d have to go to a food bank,” he said. “... Husband lost a job, next thing you know they couldn’t pay for their house, couldn’t pay for their car, now they’re living in a hotel — and this happens within just months.”

The Food Bank serves anyone from the Treasure Valley. First-time clients are asked about their income, but no one is turned away, Clark said. Clients can pick up two grocery baskets of food, twice a month.

The Food Bank also gives supplies to the homeless and has a food-backpack program for Joint Contact School District No. 2 students.

Whitley, who is working part- 133 W. Broadway Ave., time and earning a bachelor’s de- Meridian gree, looks forward to giving back 888-5102 when her situation improves. meridianfoodbank.org “I know that we’re not permaHours nently going to be like this,” she said. “... I’m going to try to give Monday, Wednesday, back as much as I can once we’re Thursday, 12-6 p.m. able to.”

Funding source, 2012

Donated building amazes volunteers

74 percent: donations from individuals and local organizations 15 percent: Community Development Block Grant 7 percent: miscellaneous grants 2 percent: corporations 2 percent: foundations

The Food Bank moved into three Ada County Highway District buildings in 2009 — each with a rent of only $1 a year. But those buildings were set for demolition when the Split Corridor Project began.

“We really wanted to stay in this part of Meridian, because this is where the need is. So I looked and looked — nothing. I talked to a couple of realtors — nothing. And we were getting down to the wire,” Clark said.

Then one day in February 2012, Clark got a phone call.

An anonymous donor purchased and donated the Meridian Senior Center — which was getting ready to move — to the Food Bank.

“It was amazing, it was so hard to believe it,” Clark said. “... (When) I told the board what had happened, it was just tears. A lot of people have given their all to this.”

The Food Bank moved into its new home — worth $650,000 and sized at almost 11,000-square-feet, Clark said — five days before its time in the ACHD buildings ran out.

“It was almost like it was intended to happen,” Clark said of the series of events. “... It was a blessing.”

timeline

1999: Dan Clark, a Valley Shepherd Church of the Nazarene employee, founds Meridian Food Bank in an old house downtown.

2000: Food Bank outgrows space, moves into empty building on former Valley Shepherd campus.

2006: Meridian Food Bank incorporated as 501(c)3 nonprofit.

2009: Food Bank again outgrows space, moves into three old Ada County Highway District buildings.

2012: Food Bank moves into old Meridian Senior Center on West Broadway Avenue. The building, worth about $650,000, was given to the Food Bank by an anonymous donor.

How you can help Even though local gardeners give loads of fresh produce to the Food Bank in the summer, other food and monetary donations plummet, Clark said.

“People tend to be spending money on other things, like traveling and vacations,” he said. “... Towards late summer it gets really bad.”

Monetary donations can be the most helpful, he said, so the Food Bank can buy needed supplies in bulk at a lower cost.

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There’s a lot of homelessness in Meridian. People just don’t realize it because they do think of the bedroom communities and nice homes.”

Photos by Adam Eschbach/MP

Top: Meridian Food Bank volunteer Cheryl Danley, Boise, grabs a can of food at the bagging area at the Meridian Food Bank.

Directly above: Dolores Maldonado, Nampa, grabs baby food for her granddaughter.

Dan Clark Director of the Meridian Food Bank

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n Toni Smith, vice president branch Idaho Smart Growth selected Scot Oliver as its executive director. Oliver worked for several manager of the Meridian D.L. Evans years as special projects manager at Capital City Bank branch, was awarded the Development Corp. He has served on boards of Future Farmers of America Degree Scot Oliver Dane Bolinger Dan Price the U.S. Green Building Council Idaho Chapter Award at the annual Meridian FFA and Radio Boise. awards banquet. Smith has donated n Russ Hendricks of Nampa was recently promoted to director of her time to FFA for the past eight years on behalf of D.L. Evans Bank. n Mountain West Bank promoted Dan Price to community banking governmental affairs of the Idaho Farm Bureau Federation. Hendricks president. In his new role, Price will work closely with existing lendhas worked for the organization since 1999. He worked with the Idaho ing supervisors and branch management on community developLegislature’s Interim Energy Committee, which helped draft an update ment, branch operations and lending production in the Treasure of the State Energy Plan. He was appointed by Gov. Butch Otter to serve on the Idaho Strategic Energy Alliance Board of Directors and also Valley, Wood River Valley, Brigham City and Park City. n Jay Lugo, executive director of the Idaho Lions Eye Bank, was serves on the Treasure Valley Clean Cities Coalition Board of Directors. n Hawley Troxell welcomed Dane Bolinger to the firm as an asre-elected to a two-year term on the Board of Directors for the Eye sociate attorney in the litigation, insurance and real estate groups. Bank Association of America. Lugo has helped restore sight to more Bolinger formerly practiced law at Swanson, Martin & Bell, LLP in than 5,600 people in Idaho and the world through the Idaho Lions Chicago.

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Daisy is a 1-year-old spayed female Labrador. She is a sweet, mellow girl who suffers from separation anxiety and requires a home where her people are around a majority of the time. It is reported she is house trained, loves car rides, and gets along with children as well as other dogs. Her adoption fee is $23.50. For more information on Daisy and other available dogs, please visit meridianhumanesociety.org or call 794-0944.

DEATHS All obituaries for Meridian Press must be placed by your mortuary or at selfserve.idahopress.com.

Deadline is 3 p.m. Wednesdays for Friday publication. If you have questions call 465-8128.

Clarence Doug Fogle, 76,

Mildred J. Batton,

Trulah G. Mills, 90, of Boise ,

of Nampa, died, June 19, 2013. Cremation services are under the direction and care of Alsip Funeral Chapel, Nampa. 466-3545.

77, of Nampa, died Saturday, June 8, 2013, at her home of natural causes.

Services will be help at 10:30 a.m.

Tuesday, June 18, 2013 at Greenleaf Friends Church. Viewing hours will be between 6 and 8 p.m. Monday, June 17, at Dakan Funeral Chapel, Caldwell.

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died June 16, 2013. Services pending with Bowman Funeral Parlor.

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Walter Nourse, 90, of Boise,

died June 13, 2013. Services are under the direction of Accent Funeral Home, Meridian. 888-5833

Katherine Jean Bowman, Boyd Andrew Tarter, 68,

74, of Nampa, died June 19, 2013.

Services are under the direction and care of Alsip Funeral Home, Nampa.

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of Payette, died June 13, 2013. Cremation arrangements are under the direction of Shaffer-Jensen Memory Chapel, Payette. 208-642-3333

THINGS TO DO Today MERIDIAN — CableONE Movie Night in Meridian, dusk, Settlers Park, Ustick Road. “Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey” on a giant inflatable screen, pre-movie activities and prizes, free to the public. Children under 18 must be accompanied by an adult. Alcoholand smoke-free. Playground, grass fields and baseball fields closed during the movie.

MERIDIAN — Meridian Dairy Days, 10 a.m.-10 p.m., Old McDonald’s Farm.

BOISE — Shrine Circus, June 21-23, Friday, 3 p.m., 7 p.m.; Saturday and Sunday 1 p.m., 5 p.m.; CenturyLink Arena, 233 S. Capitol Blvd. Tickets $14, children $7, kids 12 and under free.

WEISER — National Oldtime Fiddlers Contest 2013, June 17-22, Weiser High School, 690 W. Indianhead Road. Prices vary.

Entertainment and competition all day.

BOISE — Shrine Circus, June 21-23, Friday, 3 p.m., 7 p.m.; Saturday and Sunday, 1 p.m., 5 p.m., CenturyLink Arena, 233 S. Capitol Blvd. Tickets $14; children $7, kids 12 and under free.

Presented by the Meridian Arts Commission. Jazz and rock music.

WEISER — National Oldtime Fiddlers Contest 2013, June 17-22, Weiser High School, 690 W. Indianhead Road. Prices vary.

Entertainment and competition all day.

BOISE — Deli Days and Idaho Jewish Cultural Festival, Israeli Art exhibit, Boise Art Museum, 670 Julia Davis Drive, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; music and dance workshop, 2-3:30 p.m., Boise Art Museum, free and open to the public; Jewish Music Concert, Boise Art Museum, 6:30-8 p.m., free with paid BAM admission; Havdallah in the Park, 8:30 p.m., Idaho Anne Frank Human Rights Memorial.

Sunday BOISE — 27th Annual Garden Tour 2013, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

Sponsored by Idaho Botanical Garden. Tour of private gardens in Boise. Call IBG at 343-8649 for ticket information.

BOISE — Idaho Jewish Cultural Festival, Jewish Films at the Flicks, 12:30 p.m., the Flicks, 646 Fulton St.

Monday CALDWELL — Concerts in the Park, 7:30 p.m., Caldwell Memorial Park bandshell, 618 Irving St. Free music in the park featuring show tunes, medleys, marches and more.

Saturday

Thursday

MERIDIAN — Meridian Dairy Days, 9 a.m. Dairy cattle and Dairy Goat show; 8 a.m.-2 p.m., Old McDonald’s Farm.

MERIDIAN — Concerts on Broadway — High Street., 7-9 p.m., outside in the Meridian City Hall Plaza, 33 E. Broadway Ave.

BOISE — Great Garden Escape, 5:30-9:30 p.m., Idaho Botanical Garden. Enjoy a relaxing summer evening in the coolness of the garden with great music, fine food, and friends. $7 IBG Member, $10 nonmembers, $6 youth (ages 5-12), free for children under 5.

Scentsy CEO elected as Direct Selling Association chairman The Direct Selling Association (DSA) has elected Orville Thompson, co-owner and CEO of Meridian-based Scentsy, Inc., as chairman for 2013-14.

Orville The DSA has more Thompson than 200 corporate Scentsy CEO members, which represent more than 15.9 million independent business owners who sell products or services away from a fixed retail location. In 2012, the U.S. direct selling industry generated about $31.6 billion in retail sales.

In 2004, Thompson and his wife, Heidi, started their fledgling company in a 40-foot ocean container on their small sheep farm in Meridian. The Thompsons quickly grew Scentsy, Inc. into a multi-milliondollar, international direct selling company with three distinct brands, including Scentsy Fragrance wickless candles.

Scentsy, Inc. won the 2013 Direct Selling Association Ethos Award for top marketing and sales campaign for its social media program, Backstage Pass.

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BONOS

Real Chicago food has landed in our backyard here in Meridian.

Bono’s, a new Chicago style restaurant is taking us to new levels of mouthwatering deliciousness. Local Meridian resident, Pamela McKenna, has lived in Meridian for the past 6 years but has always felt like something was missing. Tired of making the commute to find good food, she decided it was time to take matters into her own hands and open Bono’s.

Pamela lived in Chicago for almost 25 years and fell in love with the deep dish pizza, Italian beef sandwiches and frozen custard. As fate would have it, Pamela met Ron who had retired from decades of running his own Italian Beef style restaurants and had moved into the Treasure Valley. Armed with his mother Josephine’s secret recipes and years of cooking experience, Ron and his son Ronnie had just the taste Pamela was looking for. A match made in Idaho Heaven! This dynamic duo is now working

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Bono’s is located in the Eagle Island Fred Meyer complex off Chinden and Linder Rd. From the outside you may not realize the ultimate dining experience that is awaiting you. Brick and urban decor give you the real Chicago city feel. Large, life like pictures adorn the walls with the Chicago cityscape, lake and landmarks. There is even a picture of a Chicago bridge where Pamela’s husband proposed to her. The kid’s dining area has miniature chairs and tables with a wall board to draw on while parents can enjoy the beer and wine bar. Don’t miss the Happy Hour with half off drinks from 4-6pm every day that includes the specialty brews on tap and great glasses of wine. Sports fanatics will enjoy the Man Cave that is decked out with sports memorabilia that Pamela and her husband have collected over the years. She

even has her son’s autographed baby socks from a Chicago Bear’s football player on display. The outside patio seating is great to get some fresh air or watch the sunset. On your way to the restroom you will see a mural of graffiti artwork that the general manager Ronnie’s son created.

The menu is delightfully simple with the classic Chicago deep dish pizza and Italian Beef sandwiches but also features amazing classic pizza, Chicago-style all beef hot dogs, polish sausage, burgers and chicken wings. Looking for some greens? The fresh salads are a perfect match to your meal with colorful garden salads, Caesar salads or a meal in itself with the Bono’s Harvest that has field greens, apples, dried cherries, bleu cheese, walnuts and Bono’s house vinaigrette. The kids can enjoy fun fingers foods such as mozzarella sticks, chicken fingers and burgers. Don’t forget dessert! From frozen custard to tiramisu and cannoli you are bound to satisfy your sweet tooth. The frozen custard is all natural from a dairy co-op in Wisconsin and is similar to gelato and soft serve but with all natural ingredients. Come in and try a sample from one of the Bono’s crew members and you will be hooked.

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40th anniversary bash Meridian Pool will celebrate its 40th anniversary with a free swim 5 to 8 p.m. Saturday during the Dairy Days Pool Bash. There will be family activities, music, mascots, mocktail contest, a belly flop contest and a ceremony to honor pool directors and key contributors.

Whoever brings the most canned food items for the Meridian Food Bank will get a free season pass for the summer.

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or the past 40 summers, locals have splashed, played and learned to swim at Meridian Pool, the only public pool in the city.

To celebrate the anniversary, Meridian Pool is hosting a free swim night Saturday — in conjunction with Dairy Days — with contests, prizes and live music.

This summer, about 2,500 kids are expected to take swim lessons at the pool, up

by Holly Beech from 2,000 last year, manhbeech@mymeridianpress.com ager Spencer Meinburg said. © 2013 Meridian Press “The swim lesson program is our main focus,” he said. “... It’s a life-long skill that they can have.”

The pool is also a popular spot for recreational swimming.

“It’s kind of like a safe haven for a lot of kids,” Meinburg said. “A lot of them don’t have other things to do.”

He estimates the number of pool visits has quadrupled in the past five years, thanks to facility improvements and new features, he said, like the vortex water slide, UV sanitation system and kiddie pool.

Three to four high schools also use the pool each year for their swim teams.

Thomas Hahn dives into Meridian’s community swimming pool Monday.

Photo illustration by Aaric Bryan and Randy Lavorante/MP

Pool revenue keeps budget in the black Meridian Pool and Fuller Park are both run by Western Ada Recreation, which receives about $650,000 a year from Ada County property taxes, Western Ada Recreation Secretary and Treasurer Gary Smith said.

Beyond that, swim lessons bring in the most revenue, he said — about $56,000 so far this year.

Smith credits the pool’s increased popularity to Meinburg’s marketing efforts.

“Spencer has done an excellent job in promoting the pool the last several years and going out and reaching out to the public,” Smith said.

Meinburg, 23, started helping at the pool 10 years ago when his mom became pool manager. He’s managed the pool for six years.

Meal program feeds kids through summer Children ages 1 through 18 are welcome to enjoy Linder Elementary, 1825 Chateau Drive, Meridian. free meals weekdays at any of the following locations, Lunch: 12:30 p.m. according to the Joint School District No. 2 website.

Desert Sage Elementary, 9325 W. Mossywood, BoiFrontier Elementary, 11851 Musket Drive, Boise. se. Lunch: 12:30 p.m.

Breakfast: 9 a.m.; lunch: 12:30 p.m.

Meridian Middle, 1507 W. 8th St., Meridian. BreakStory Park, Franklin Road and Main Street, Merid- fast: 9:45 a.m.; lunch: 12:15 p.m. ian. Lunch: 12:30 p.m.

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Adult meals are $1.50. For menus or for more information, contact School Nutrition Services, Joint School District No. 2 at 208-350-5108. Joint School District No. 2 is an equal opportunity provider.

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Mountain View grad Holt hits the grand stage C of I runner races for spot at world championships

by Bruce Mason

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The bull’s-eye is imprinted upon the purple jersey as she gallops past the herd of runners at NAIA events.She’s the cream of the crop, the runner to beat.

But this weekend is a different dynamic for Hillary Holt, a College of Idaho junior who competes among a star-studded field at the USA Outdoor Track & Field Championships in Des Moines, Iowa. She’ll be standing at the starting line among professional runners, as well as the nation’s most talented Division I athletes as the 1,500-meter race awaits the starting gun.

Is she star-struck? Confident? Both?

“When I think about who I’m going to be competing against, and thinking about who I’ll step on the line with, I do get a little star-struck,” said Holt, who seeks a top-three finish, which would qualify for the World Track & Field Championships in Moscow, Russia. “But at the same time, it just kind of reinforces a little bit more confidence in myself, because I ran the time that I did to get here, and I qualified to be competing on the same stage as these women, who are incredible, and I look up to.”

Holt never envisioned this success three years ago at Mountain View High.

Several Division I schools passed her up, oblivious to her potential. But College of Idaho coach Pat McCurry brought her aboard to the Caldwell campus, and today, the 10th-year coach will see the purple C of I track jersey in the U.S. National Championships elite division for the first time in school history.

“It’s a proud moment for us,” McCurry says. “The last couple of years, we’ve kind of been building towards it.”

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The College of Idaho’s Hillary Holt leads the 1,500-meters final field en route to defending her national championship at the NAIA Outdoor Track and Field National Championships in Marion, Ind. says Holt, who needed to reach the USATF “A standard” time of 4:13. “Then it just kind of set in: ‘I just qualified.’”

It’s the continuation of a rise to stardom for Holt, the most decorated athlete in C of I history with six national championships.

Her five individual national titles surpass the four titles earned by C of I alums Evan Williams (2005-08, snowboarding) and Brent LaBounty (1986-87, skiing). The mark achieved at the Oregon Twilight is the all-time best by a collegiate runner in Idaho history, shattering the 1997 mark of Boise State’s Niamh Beirne (4:17.88), according to Cascadeconference.org.

In this season alone, Holt won five national titles — one cross country, three indoor track, one outdoor — for perhaps the all-time best season by a College of Idaho student-athlete.

“I’ve exceeded my expectations,” Holt says. “This is kind of just the cherry on top of my year.”

C OF I’S MOST DECORATED TURNING PRO? Holt qualified for this event at the May 3 Oregon Twilight in Eugene, Ore. — and she was shocked it happened.

She crossed the finish line at Hayward Field and couldn’t believe the digits on the giant screen. She felt swift as the 1,500 meter race unfolded, but … 4:11.62?

Her best-time ever?

“I didn’t know I could run that fast, so I was definitely pretty surprised,”

Her qualifying time (4:11.62) ranks 15th best among a field of 32, according to the Usatf.org entry list. There’s two heats of 16 in today’s first round. The top three times in each heat and the next six fastest times — a total of 12 runners — advance to Saturday’s finals.

The top competitors are Treniere Moser (4:02.85) and Shannon Rowbury (4:03.15), who both have a

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contract with Nike. Rowbury, 28, placed sixth in the 1,500 at the 2012 London Olympics, the best-ever finish by an American woman in the event in the modern Olympics.

Holt has the potential to reach a similar level.

The Cascade Conference Women’s Athlete of the Year could get a pro contract right now with the times she’s posted and the races she’s won. McCurry hopes her credentials improve during her senior season, which will further boost her prospects.

“It’s really up to her and her body, and how far it goes,” McCurry says. “As long as she’s healthy and wants to keep doing this, she’s got the caliber from a talent standpoint and performance standpoint.”

As a C of I freshman, Holt’s goal was to be an NAIA All-American. Three years later, she has 10 of those awards.

Today, her accomplishments reach the summit when she grazes the starting line and rubs shoulders with the nation’s best, the cream of the 1,500-meter crop.

“It’s just a testament to where I’ve come from, and it feels kind of cool knowing they were once kind of the same athlete as I was,” Holt says. “There was a point in time where they were competing at their first U.S. Championship, and now look at them.

“I could eventually be in that exact same spot.”

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Eagle Vipers, from left, Patrick Burns, Brandon Martinez and Kam Lane celebrate after defeating the Vallivue Titans 10-2 in the Smoky Mountain Pizza Invitational championship game Sunday at Vallivue.

Hot Vipers take Smoky Mountain tourney title

by John Wustrow

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For the Eagle Vipers American Legion baseball team last weekend’s Smoky Mountain Pizza Invitational proved to be a nice change of pace.

The hope for the Vipers is that it can help them move past their slow start to the season, too.

Eagle beat the hosts, the Vallivue Titans, 10-2 in the tournament championship game on Sunday to finish the weekend with a 5-0 record. The Vipers improved their record to 7-5 after winning just two of their first seven games.

“It’s a big boost of confidence right there,” said Eagle first baseman Steven Hexum, who had an RBI in all four of his plate appearances Sunday. “We just need carry on and, hopefully, we’ll just take off.”

The Vipers were dominant in all five victories during the weekend, beating the Boise Senators 9-1 in their first game June 13, before winning via the 10-run rule in their next three games.

Eagle was 90 feet away from evoking the 10-run rule on Sunday, as Hexum’s one-out RBI triple in the bottom of the sixth inning extended the Vipers’ lead to

10-1.

“Our pitching staff did amazing,” Eagle coach Jarod Robinette said. “Really it was our pitching and defense that kept us in it. The wood bat approach came through when we needed it to, and it resulted in a really good tournament for us.”

Eagle’s pitching effort on Sunday resulted in a seven-hit combined effort from Robbie Archbold, Austin Dupuis and Spencer Gothberg. Archbold started and pitched the four shutout innings, striking out four Vallivue batters to earn the win.

He never allowed more than one Falcon runner to reach base in an inning.

Offensively, the Vipers finished with nine hits, including three for extra bases. Hexum had two of those extra baggers, a double in the fifth to go along with his sixth inning triple, and finished 3-for-4 at the plate with four RBIs. “They came out and the swung the bats,” Vallivue coach Justin Schneidt said. “They’re a good hitting team and they have good athletes over there that run. They won that baseball game. They swung it, and they deserve to walk out of here with that first-place trophy.”

Eagle scored three runs in the bottom of the inning to extend its lead to 7-1.

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Parks and Rec offers veritable plethora of events for whole family With 90-degree temperatures already on the books and the kids out of school, summer has definitely arrived. Here in Meridian, the beginning of summer also means the beginning of another season of CableONE Movie Night in Meridian at Settlers Park, where we show a family-friendly movie every Friday in June, July and August at dusk.

Every year as we charge forward into a new season of movies, it is fun to reflect on the program’s humble beginnings and how it has grown into a tradition for many Meridian families through an abundance of community support.

On June 1, 2007, we hosted our very first show at Settlers Park on our 25-foot-by-14-foot inflatable movie screen. More than 200 people attended the first showing, and we were so excited at the turnout. Since then, we’ve hosted 68 movies and the crowds have grown considerably, reaching up to 3,000 people.

During that time, we have been fortunate to work with many community sponsors who have done so much

more than just help offset the program costs. In many cases our sponsors have become a part of the festivities, hosting activities like bounce houses, live bands, games and giveaways.

When you come to CableONE Movie Night in Meridian this summer, make sure you take a moment to say thank you to those sponsors who are striving to make their community a more fun place to live.

This year we have a great schedule of movies on tap for you and your family on an even larger 30-foot-by-17-foot inflatable movie screen.

We’re also excited to announce the launch of Meridian Teen Movie Night this summer. This Saturday-night pilot program will feature three shows throughout the summer. We held the first Teen Movie Night last weekend. If you missed it, make sure you come join us on July 13 and Aug. 10. Our goal is to make this a fun and safe summer hangout spot for Meridian teens.

You can check out the movie schedule at www.meridiancity.org/teenmovienight.

CableONE Movie Night in Meridian and Meridian Teen Movie Night aren’t the only events going on this summer.

Mark your calendars for other community happenings taking place in our parks, such as concerts on Broadway on Saturday, July 20, and Aug. 10; the Barn Sour 10k/6k/1-mile fun run on June 29; the Independence Day Festival on July 4 and the Community Block Party on Sept. 14. Information about all these events can be found in our Summer Activity Guide which you can access on our website at www.meridiancity.org/parks_rec.

With summer’s arrival and so many reasons and opportunities to take advantage of Meridian’s great park system, the time to start enjoying is now!

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UP & DOWN to all the people who ignore “no parking” signs at Storey Park, and to all the parents who arrive with their large bags full of McDonald’s and then send their children to the line for free lunch.

Thumbs up for city of Meridian teen movie nights.

Great to have the city consider this age group that’s always in need of fun, inexpensive options for entertainment.

to once every two weeks on the recycle days. My bin is full after a week. Canyon County picks up once a week. It would be nice if Ada would too.

Editor’s note: Some trash collection services in Canyon County pick up recyclable materials once every two weeks.

It would have been nice if the Dairy Days parade could have gone on using a different route this year.

And I am a bit shocked that Meridian canceled Rib Fest over what amounted to mostly parking issues, and yet they allow the baseball games at Settler’s Park that create a traffic hazard along Ustick Road every week.

for the article on Meridian Dairy Days. I could have missed it, but this is the only coverage I have seen and would have missed this fun celebration if not for Meridian Press. So thank you, and my grandkids will thank you as we take in the carnival.

Just wait until they build those apartments there at Cedar Springs and Settler’s Park. Talk about parking issues.

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Follow burn rules and help prevent wildfires Fire season is officially here. Both locally and across the state, crews are beginning to respond to either weather-related or humancaused vegetation fires.

These fires, when combined with our Idaho weather patterns — namely high winds — can have very devastating effects.

It is impossible to stop Mother Nature from bringing lightning to our area, but through education and monitoring we can limit the number of human-caused fires. These fires can be both resource and manpower intensive, often lasting several hours to extinguish.

Not to mention costly — did you know a typical fire department response to an out-ofcontrol brush fire can cost in excess of $7,000?

The Department of Environment Quality, Idaho Department of Lands and others have put safeguards in place in an effort to limit these out-of-control fires. If you live outside the city limits and are wanting to burn, Idaho Department of Lands now requires a burn permit when burning between May and October.

This applies to almost all burning, including ditch burning or dry vegetation burning.

For more information on Department of Lands requirements, visit the website at www.BurnPermits.Idaho.gov.

Upon receiving a permit, you will be required to call the air quality hotline at 3730313 to ensure air conditions will allow open burning. The Meridian Fire Department has put together a brochure to ensure our citizens are aware of these requirements.

For more information, please contact the fire department administration at 888-1234.

Mark Niemeyer is Meridian Fire Chief.

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NAMPA — Northwest RibFest has moved to the Idaho Center amphitheater from Julius M. Kleiner Park. The 2nd annual free event features seven award-winning competitive BBQ teams from as far away as Kalamazoo, Mich., and Weatherford, Texas. In addition, 40 other NAMPA — Families can enjoy a host of activities at the Lake Lowell unit of the Deer Flat food vendors will offer up delicious eats. There’s also a full National Wildlife Refuge this weekend. service bar.

Today from 4 to 8 p.m., refuge volunteers will lead activities for kids and families to learn Along with the palate-pleasing adventure you’ll find about local birds and get pointers on bird watching. Binoculars and other supplies will be available. Meet at the boat ramp on the east end of the Upper Dam, where Lake and Iowa June 27-30, there will be live music all four nights. On avenues intersect.

Thursday, it’s Journey (Unauthorized). On Friday, Ty HernOn Saturday from 10 to 11 a.m., all ages are welcome to attend a Birding Basics workshop. don performs and on Saturday it’s Billy Dean. Sunday’s enAttendees will explore how birds survive and thrive in different habitats at Deer Flat National tertainment is Zeppelin Live (tribute band). Music begins Wildlife Refuge before using binoculars to develop beginning birding skills. Birding Basics will each night at 6:30 p.m. A limited number of reserved seats be held at the Refuge Visitor Center. The entrance road is at the intersection of Roosevelt and will be sold at ictickets.com.

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What: Singer-songwriter Carrie Rodriguez with Fulton Sanders When: 8:30 p.m.

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What: Barenaked Ladies’ Last Summer on Earth Tour with Ben Folds Five and Guster When: 6 p.m. June 28 Where: Idaho Botanical Garden, 2355 N. Old Penitentiary Road, Boise Website: knittingfactory.com or ticketweb.com Tickets: $57

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BOISE — Scott Evans, the inspiration for the iconic film “The Sandlot,” comes to Boise and Hawks Stadium as part of a national tour to promote his new book detailing the stories behind the story that led to the beloved baseball movie. The Boise Hawks will hold a Family Movie Night, complete with a center field showing of “The Sandlot,” to help celebrate the beginning of the 2013 season. The Friday event also marks the 20th anniversary of the film. You can bring your favorite “Sandlot” memorabilia or baseball gear to have it signed

by Evans. The film showing is at 9:30 p.m., but there will be plenty of activities beginning at 6:30 p.m. The family-friendly event will feature ongoing whiffle ball games, a kids’ fun area and more.

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Sunday from 2 to 3 p.m., kids of all ages are invited to Woodpeckers at Work, a program to learn about the construction workers of the riparian forest. Participants will learn about wildlife species that depend on standing dead trees for habitat and build an ecosystem web of wildlife trees. Meet the Woodpeckers at Work leader at the boat ramp parking lot at the east end of the Upper Dam, where Lake and Iowa avenues intersect.

Activities are posted at fws.gov/deerflat Synchrnyze photography/Ronnie Soldano and at facebook.com/deerflatnwr. For more information, call 467-9278.

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Snapp, a Melba High School graduate and former Comfortex Cordless Meridian resident, saw a Top Down Bottom Up need in the Valley for more Honeycomb Shades mediators, she said. But she was discouraged when she couldn’t find any office spaces she liked.

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xpecting to move to back to Idaho with family in the next couple years, Paula Snapp of Phoenix, Ariz., has expanded her mediation business to the Treasure Valley. Western Mediation & Solutions serves about 350 clients annually in the areas of marriage, divorce and post-decree (post-divorce) negotiations.

Mediation — something that’s popular in coastal areas and “huge” in Phoenix, Snapp said — hasn’t gained much traction in Idaho, even though Idaho’s divorce rate is among the five highest nationwide, she said.

by Holly Beech “That is something I hbeech@mymeridianpress.com have been surprised about, © 2013 Meridian Press is how many people in the Valley don’t know what mediation is and that it’s available,” Snapp said.

Snapp, a certified mediator with a paralegal background, helps couples communicate and navigate divorce and child custody negotiations in court. She also works with couples who are trying to make their marriages work.

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