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LIGHTING UP MERIDIAN’S STREETS

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As the city grows, older neighborhoods are being left in the dark from their lack of street lighting. See what it takes to get new lights into older subdivisions.

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CITY NEWS A mobile home along East Fairview Avenue was destroyed in a fire. Although firefighters were able to prevent the fire from spreading, officials said there is now an estimate for the total damage done.

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The Treasure Valley Children’s Theater is celebrating its third year this summer, and director Autumn Kersey said there has been significant growth since the company originally got its start.

Classes are available to teach people to dance or to learn a new language, but Open Lab Idaho wants to teach people to sew and use power tools.

Now the nonprofit is looking for a home in Meridian.

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The time has come to say goodbye W connect zchastaine@idahopress.com

ell everyone, the time has come. My pal Holly Beech is back from South Africa and will be resuming her post as the Meridian Press reporter.

Holly and I will enjoy a few days of working on the paper together before she takes over entirely, so although I’ll still be here for a bit, I’m making my exit.

Since this is my last column I want to extend some thanks to a few people and say a couple things.

First and foremost I want to thank my editor Scott McIntosh for taking a chance on me. Journalism is hard and to be in charge of an entire weekly newspaper is a big responsibility. I feel honored to have been given the opportunity to show what I can do and trusted to get this paper written every week.

I want to thank my team here at the office, including Randy Lavorante, our designer, as well as our photographers Greg Kreller and Adam Eschbach for making the paper look great each week and making all the different pieces come together. Thanks to Lauren Green the Meridian Press advertising representative for making what we do possible and a big thanks to our assistant editor Christina Lords for giving me the guidance I needed to consistently write something worth reading.

Phone: 208-465-8122 Twitter: @MPchastaine

CRIME WATCH

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Meridian road reports for the week of July 10

Meridian Police Department Log

Police made the following arrests or issued charges: 2 open alcohol container violations 1 possession of marijuana 6 warrants 1 juvenile battery 1 juvenile beyond control 6 possession of drug paraphernalia 6 driving under the influence 1 soliciting without a license 1 criminal solicitation 1 no-contact order violations 2 petit thefts 1 possession of a controlled substance 2 possession of marijuana 1 juvenile consumption of alcohol 1 juvenile domestic battery 1 driving without insurance 1 juvenile warrant 1 juvenile resisting and obstructing 1 juvenile detention order 1 possession of methamphetamine

Police also took calls, investigated or assisted: 3 commercial burglaries 1 grand theft auto 1 domestic verbal 1 aggravated battery 2 residential burglaries 6 protective custody holds 3 vandalism 2 runaways 1 petit theft 2 frauds 5 domestic verbal 2 vehicle burglaries 1 custodial interference 1 agency assist 1 possession of a controlled substance 4 grand thefts 1 unattended death 1 battery 1 attempted burglary 1 juvenile beyond control 1 identity theft 1 burglary

Current projects There will be lane restrictions on Amity Road east of Glenmere Way for shoulder work. Flaggers will direct traffic. The expected completion date is July 31. n There will be lane restrictions on Franklin Road between Linder Road and Main Street during the weekends for an overlay project. Flaggers will direct traffic. The expected completion date is July 27. n There will be lane restrictions on Linder Road from Almaden Drive to Ducky Alley Road for a road rebuild project. Flaggers will direct traffic. The expected completion date is Nov. 17. n McDermott Road will be closed between McMillan Road and Ustick Road for sewer main work. The expected completion date is Wednesday. n There will be lane restrictions on McMillan Road between n

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I also want to thank Kenneth Corder, Tammy de Weerd, Kaycee Emery and everyone at Meridian City Hall for making me feel welcome when on the job.

It’s one thing to have grown up in a by Zachary Chastaine place like Meridian, but learning it from zchastaine@idahopress.com the inside out and juggling a coverage © 2015 MERIDIAN PRESS area of 90,000 people for the newspaper is not easy. The fact that I could show up to meet officials, see streamed meetings and speak about real matters relating to the city meant a lot to me.

That’s it, Meridian. I have enjoyed my time as your reporter and can’t wait to see what happens to our city moving forward.

Now if you don’t mind, I would like my column to end with some lyrics from one of my favorite bands, Megadeth. Not because I’m poetic, but because I’ve never gotten to say goodbye to an entire city before, and these lyrics seemed like a pretty cool way to do it: “A tout le monde, A tout mes amis, Je vous aime, Je dois partir,” which translates to mean “To everyone, to all my friends, I love you, I must leave.”

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Eagle Road and Locust Grove Road for a road project. Flaggers will direct traffic. The expected completion date is Sept. 18. n There will be lane and pedestrian restrictions on Meridian Road at James Court Drive while workers install an pedestrian signal. The expected completion date is Aug. 28. n There will be lane and pedestrian restrictions on Ten Mile Road from Cherry Lane to Ustick Road for road, sewer and water improvements. The expected completion date is Nov. 23. n Locust Grove Road will be closed between Fairview Avenue to Ustick Road with no access to Cougar Creek Drive to Meadowgrass Street for sewer and water work. The expected completion date is Sunday.

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Second and third place will also win gift cards valued at $100 and $50.

Deadline to enter is midnight July 22. There is no fee to enter the photo contest.

Winners will be announced by judges July 25 at the Idaho BabyPalooza, and contestants must be present at midnight to win.

BabyPalooza will be held at Expo Idaho on 5610 Glenwood Ave. in Garden City and have free admission.

The photo entries will be judged on overall look, appearance and creativity. Babies must be no more than 1-years-old at the time the photo was taken. For complete guidelines for the contest and official entry instructions visit ibleventsinc.com/treasure-valleys-cutest-baby-contest.

For questions call IBL Events at 376-0464 or email annmarie@ibleventsinc.com.

Idaho population aging quickly

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Future projects Eagle Road will be closed between Amity Road to Lake Hazel Road with no access to Amity Road to Taconic Drive for sewer work starting Monday.

The expected completion date is Nov. 4. n There will be lane restrictions on Locust Grove Road from Cougar Creek Drive to Meadowgrass Street starting Monday. Flaggers will direct traffic. The project is expected to be completed within the same day. n

Idaho’s population is aging faster than the rest of the nation’s, according to estimates released by the U.S. Census Bureau on Monday.

Idaho’s population of seniors increased by nearly 19 percent from the middle of 2010 to mid-2014 compared with a 14.2 percent for the nation.

This group of seniors includes the oldest four years of the baby boomer generation born between 1946 and 1964 and accounts for 14.3 percent of the state’s population.

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BOISE — Ada County Commissioners and Ada County Mosquito Abatement officials announced Tuesday that aerial spraying to curb growing mosquito populations will begin to take place.

After learning that the county’s mosquito population, including the species that carries West Nile Virus, is increasing at an accelerated rate this summer, commissioners approved an aerial spray application to proactively combat the threat.

Detailed information about the aerial application is available on the Ada County website at adacounty.id.gov.

To follow the mosquito activity, navigate to the Weed, Pest and Mosquito Abatement page and click on “Mosquito Tracker,” or follow Weed, Pest and Mosquito Abatement on Facebook and Twitter for live updates during the spraying.

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A Meridian man died after a car crash on westbound Interstate 84 Wednesday morning.

According to Idaho State Police, Michael C. Trombley, 36, drifted off the roadway to the left and overcorrected to the right edge of the road, causing his vehicle to roll.

He taken by ambulance to Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center in Boise, where he died from his injuries.

Trombley was wearing a seatbelt.

The crash happened at 6:18 a.m. east of the Eisenman exit. It is still under investigation by ISP.

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Right now we’re mainly focusing on safe routes to school and other walking routes where we know there’s pedestrians and there’s bus stops.”

AUSTIN PETERSEN Meridian transportation and utility coordinator New historical looking street lamps have been put in on Meridian Road and Main Street in Meridian.

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Lighting up Meridian’s old streets

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s part of an ongoing process to light up the streets of Meridian’s older subdivisions, the Public Works Department is seeking $50,000 in next year’s city budget to purchase and install lights at intersections and pathways.

The new lights are meant to improve safety conditions for motorists and pedestrians, as well as contribute to expansions on roads in areas that are anticipated to grow.

by Zachary Chastaine Lighting for the city takes different forms from the simple zchastaine@idahopress.com residential lights found in neighborhoods to the more ornate © 2015 MERIDIAN PRESS and decorative lights found in downtown Meridian.

Austin Petersen, the city’s transportation and utility coordinator, said there are some key differences in the lighting chosen for different parts of the city.

For residential areas, Petersen said a more standard residential light is used. The lights are between 25 and 35 feet tall.

The purpose of the standard residential lighting is meant to illuminate a right of way or pathway. The large lamps produce more directed light and can light an entire intersection.

If Public Works gets the funding for the light installations, it would begin the work on the expansion in late spring 2016. Some of the areas that would see new lights include the intersection of West Chateau Drive and North Monaco Way in the Glennfield Manor subdivision as well as Woodmont Drive and Aronmink Way in the Cherry Lane Village subdivision.

Public Works tries to prioritize safety concerns in its planning for projects. Although the main concern is traffic and pedestrian safety, deterring crime is another aspect of the project.

“Right now we’re mainly focusing on safe routes to school and other walking routes where we know there’s pedestrians and there’s bus stops,” Petersen said. “We need lighting to address those needs. In some of the calls that I have received from citizens there have been complaints about vandalism or people breaking into their cars, and they have listed that as some of the reasons they would like street lights in certain areas.”

The practice of putting in new lights in old neighborhoods is not new. Petersen said 46 new lamps were installed on Linder Road in one of the larger lighting additions, part of which was completed last year. This expansion coincided with an Ada County Highway District Project to improve pathways to schools along Linder Road.

Petersen said Linder Road may see additional work in 2016.

Part of the funding sought by Public Works would go to installing lighting along Franklin Road between Black Cat and Ten Mile Road. The project is being headed by the Ada County Highway District and will widen and signalize parts of Franklin Road as well as install landscaping and drainage. The expansion is meant to improve safety and accommodate more cars in the future. Petersen said construction is planned on the properties around Franklin Road and the road construction gives Meridian an opportunity to install the new lights at the same time rather than putting them in later.

Because the project is federally funded, Meridian is only required to match a certain percent for lighting which is estimated to cost between $25,000 to $30,000. How much the city has to put toward the project will also determine how much is left for more residential lighting.

“The actual cost of the project is going to be approximately $500,000 for all the illumination and the conduit and everything,” Petersen said. “Our match of that,

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depending on what the bids come out to and what not, we’re expecting around $30,000.”

Petersen said each residential lamp costs about $5,000. However this price can vary depending on what is needed to install it and get it connected to power.

The older intersections present challenges to contractors and the city, which has to install the lighting around existing driveways, landscaping and other obstacles already at the location. But one of the greatest challenges is getting the light actually connected to the power. For this, Idaho Power has to send in a technician to actually connect the lamp. Sometimes this can mean installing new hardware to accommodate the light.

Petersen said it is often resident complaints that contribute to the locations the city plans lighting for.

New subdivisions are subject to city lighting guidelines which were established in 2010. Lights have to be a maximum of 220 feet apart and built in certain areas.

“There’s a lot of areas in the older subdivisions...in these older areas there’s intersections, in some cases four-legged intersections that have no lights at all, and those are our main priorities,” Petersen said.

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LOCAL NEWS CIVICCALENDAR Meridian civic and business calendar Week of July 13- July 17

MONDAY Picnic in the Park Meals Program will run from Monday to Friday. Visit idahofoodbank.org/programs/picnic-in-the-park for information.

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TUESDAY Children’s Reading time with McGruff the Crime Dog at 10:30 a.m. at the Meridian Library’s Silverstone branch on 3531 E. Overland Road in Meridian. Join McGruff for stories at the library.

Meridian City Council will meet for a workshop meeting at 3 p.m. at City Council Chambers in Meridian City Hall, 33 E. Broadway Ave. Grow your business with social media workshop will take place from 10 a.m. to noon at the New Ventures Lab on 33. E. Idaho Ave.

WEDNESDAY Ada County Highway Commission will meet for its regular meeting at noon at Ada County Highway District headquarters located at 3775 Adams St., Garden City. Call 387-6100 for information or for accommodations.

THURSDAY The Planning and Zoning Commission will meet at 6 p.m. at City Council Chambers in Meridian City Hall, 33 E. Broadway Ave. Children’s Reading time with McGruff the Crime Dog at 10:30 a.m. at the Meridian Library’s Silverstone branch on 3531 E. Overland Road in Meridian. Join McGruff for stories at the library.

The Mayor’s Anti-Drug Coalition will meet from 4-5 p.m. at the Meridian Police Department at 1401 E. Watertower Ave. The group works to find creative ways to educate youth and adults on the dangers of drug abuse. To learn more, call 8467395 or email bfemrite@meridiancity.org.

Boise - H8 Cancer Human Foosball Tournament, Boise - Arduino Robot8:30am, Bishop Kelly High ics Summer Camp at DCI, School 7009 W. Franklin Rd. 9:00am, Discovery Center of $30.00 Idaho 131 W Myrtle St Kuna - The Lavender MerMeridian - Boise Slam Inchant Lavender Festival, dividual & Group Basketball $0.00 Training, 6:00pm, Boise Slam Nampa - Nampa FarmWarehouse 3670 E. Lanark Dr. ers’ Market, 9:00am, Lloyd $50.00 Square 14th Ave & Front St Boise - Explore, Experi$0.00 ment, Build Summer Camp at Boise - Put the Rad in RadDCI!, 9:00am, Discovery Center ish: Farm Shares!, 9:00am, of Idaho 131 W Myrtle St Create Common Good: Farm Boise - Friends & Family 4750 S. Surprise Way $350.00 Lock-up, 6:00pm, Old Idaho Boise - Starbelly Dancers Penitentiary 2445 Old PeniSaturday Performance at tentiary Rd. $6.00 Boise International Market, Boise - Holding What Can’t 1:00pm, Boise International Be Held, an art exhibition, Market 5823 West Franklin 7:00pm, Ming Studios Road $0.00 Meridian - Mid-Summer 3 Boise - WalkAbout Boise on 3 League, 6:00pm, Boise - A Downtown Walking SLAM Warehouse 3670 E. Tour, 11:00am, Basque Block Lanark Dr. $160.00 $10.00 Nampa - Nampa Art Walk, 5:00pm, Various locations in Sunday Downtown Nampa Boise - John Two-Hawks Nampa - Nampa Firefight- Mindfulness - A Native ers Burnout Fund BBQ, 5:00pm, Downtown 1st St So. American Perspective, 2:00pm, Center for Spiritual & 13th Ave So. $10.00 Living 10464 Garverdale Ct Meridian - Rock the Village Concert Series, 6:30pm, $25.00 The Village at Meridian On the Corner of N Eagle Rd and Tuesday E Fairview Ave Boise - 10,000 Scoop Challenge, 11:00am, Grove Plaza Saturday 826 E. Main St. $0.00 Boise - Brown Bag LecBoise - Andersen Banducture: Basques in Idaho, ci Twilight Criterium 12:00pm, Central Auditorium at Washington Group Plaza 720 E Park Blvd.

Boise - Group f/64: Revolutionary Vision Exhibit, 10:00am, Boise Art Museum 670 Julia Davis Dr. Boise - Paint Me a Story “Are You a Horse?”, 6:30pm, Ceramica 1002 S Vista Blvd $10.00

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Calexico, 6:30pm, Knitting Factory 416 S 9th St Nampa - Explore College of Western Idaho, 11:00am, College of Western Idaho Micron Center 5725 E Frankline Rd $0.00 Nampa - Pink on the Dirt Luncheon, 11:00am, Ford Idaho Center 16200 Idaho Center Blvd Boise - Tour De Compadres: NEEDTOBREATHE, SWITCHFOOT + MORE!, 7:00pm, Morrison Center for the Performing Arts 2201 W Cesar Chavez Ln

Thursday Boise - Ghosts & Projectors presents Allan Peterson and Martin CorlessSmith with Megan Levad, 7:30pm, The Cabin 801 S Capitol Blvd $0.00 Boise - Kids Canvas Class Friendly Tree Frog, 6:00pm, Ceramica 1002 S Vista Blvd $22.00

July 17 Eagle - 2015 Star Quilt Show, 10:00am, North Star Charter School 839 North Linder Road $5.00 Nampa - Dancing in the Dirt Meet and Greet with Riverbilly, 12:00pm, WalMart 5875 E Franklin Rd. Boise - Hands Around the Capitol, 11:00am, Idaho State Capitol 700 W. Jefferson $0.00

July 18 Boise - Central Idaho - Eat, Hike, Play, 8:00am, Boise - Field Trip: Geology of the Snake River CanyonHuntington to Hell’s Canyon, 8:00am, Idaho Museum of Mining and Geology 2455 Old Penitentiary Road $15.00

July 19 Boise - CONCERT: An Evening with GRAHAM NASH, The Egyptian Theatre 700 West Main Street

July 21 Boise - THE BOOK OF MORMON - Broadway in Boise 2014/2015, 7:30pm, Morrison Center for the Performing Arts 2201 W Cesar Chavez Ln $0.00 Boise - Business Launch, 5:30pm, Women’s Business

July 22 Boise - Guided Business Plan, 3:00pm, Women’s Business Center 1607 W. Jefferson St $0.00 Boise - Train: Picasso at the Wheel Summer Tour 2015, 7:00pm, Taco Bell Arena 1401 Bronco Ln

July 23 Boise - BOISE CLASSIC MOVIE PRESENTS THE BIG LEBOWSKI, , The Egyptian Theatre 700 West Main Street Boise - Dream Builder Business Plan Course, 5:30pm, Women’s Business Center 1607 W. Jefferson St Meridian - Hang Eleven at Kleiner Park Summer Concert Series, 5:30pm, Julius M. Kleiner Memorial Park 1900 N. Records Ave. $0.00 Boise - How to manage all your documents webinar, 1:00pm, Webinar 575 E 42nd Street $0.00

July 24 Boise - Last Summer On Earth - Barenaked Ladies, Violent Femmes, Colin Hay, 6:15pm, Knitting Factory 416 S 9th St

July 25 Nampa - 50th Commemoration of the Vietnam War, 10:00am, War Hawk Air Museum 201 Municipal Drive $0.00 Boise - BabyPalooza, 10:00am, Expo Idaho 5610 N Glenwood St $0.00 Boise - Kids Obstacle Challenge, 10:00am, Expo Idaho 5610 N Glenwood St $40.00 Boise - Living Proof Live, CenturyLink Arena 233 S Capitol Blvd Boise - Run Wild, 8:00am, Zoo Boise 355 E Julia Davis Dr Boise - Tennis 101 Fort Boise Courts - Boise - 2 Week Session, 9:00am, Fort Boise Tennis Courts 700 Robins Rd

June 27 Meridian - Animal Super Heroes, 11:00am, Meridian Library District 1326 W. Cherry Lane Meridian Library District

Peggy Lynn Christie, 57, of Franklin Sinclair, 64, of MeBoise, died July 2015. Funeral Home: ridian, died Sunday, July 5, 2015 at his Cremation Society of Idaho home. Funeral Home: Nampa Funeral Home, Yraguen Chapel John Colwell, 67, of Meridian, died Tuesday, July 7, 2015, at a local Norman Brost Weber, 97, hospital. Funeral Home: Accent Fu- of Boise, died Monday, July 6. Funeral neral Home, Meridian Home: Cremation Society of Idaho

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Meridian Library District to open third branch downtown L

ibraries are historically associated with books, magazines and maps. But as technology continues to change, the Meridian Library District is keeping up with the times by bringing new and emerging technologies to the community.

Now, the library is looking to build a home just for this new asby Zachary Chastaine zchastaine@idahopress.com pect of the library in what will be the Meridian Library District’s third © 2015 MERIDIAN PRESS branch, scheduled to open in early October.

But this branch will not be like the others on Cherry Lane and Overland Road.

The new branch will be housed at 713 N. Main St. in downtown Meridian in a building that used to house a bank.

Nick Grove was recently promoted within the Meridian Library District to the position of digital services librarian.

Now Grove will be in charge of running the library’s newest third branch.

Grove said the new branch will collaborate with New Ventures Lab just around the corner to aid fledgling businesses.

“We want to work jointly with them,” Grove said.

Grove said the library has worked with

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New Ventures Lab director Rick Ritter and Sarah Pokorney to find mutual strengths between the two organizations. The goal is not compete but to create resources for entrepreneurs and library users from the community.

Grove said the location is being modified to better accommodate the library’s needs. The building, which is owned by the Meridian Development Corporation, is also being remodeled to get the building up to compliance.

But the new library branch is also an effort by the Meridian Library District to play a role in the city’s revitalization.

“That’s one of the reasons we wanted to be down there,” Grove said.

Grove said the library is trying to design the new branch in a way that if it needs to be relocated in the future then it can be moved without too much trouble.

While some of the new technologies owned by the Meridian Library District include 3D printers and computer interface software, the new branch will actually be home to computers with video, audio and other design software to make it more useful for the district’s digital services mission.

For the purposes of entrepreneurs, the new branch will also house some of the library’s demonstrative technologies, which include Wi-Fi controlled robots.

Although the robots themselves are simple and good at entertaining young children, Grove said the simplicity of the robots and their interfaces also make them useful for showing entrepreneurs how technologies work.

This way the new branch of the library will be able to make technology available to its users as well as neighboring New Ventures Lab tenants that they might not otherwise have access to.

Grove said this new branch will also be able to work as a testing area for new library programs such as smart whiteboards.

The new branch will have three staff members with Grove overseeing two new part time librarians.

Fire destroys Meridian mobile home Meridian Fire Department crews responded at 1:56 p.m. July 2 to the 400 block of E. Fairview Avenue to a mobile home fire.

The first crew arrived within three minutes, and Fire Chief Mark Niemeyer said due to the size of the fire additional crews were called in.

Niemeyer said crews had the fire controlled by 2:37 p.m. The cause of the fire was a faulty electrical appliance. Total loss was estimated to be $22,000. The Meridian Fire Department also determined that a dog died in the fire. The Meridian Firefighters Burnout Fund is providing assistance to the owners.

Firefighters were able to keep the fire contained to one mobile home.

Meridian Battalion Chief Blake Campbell said the quick action of the firefighters saved other homes in the area.

“As close as these are to each other and as hot as it is outside, this could have been a lot worse,” he said. “Unfortunately the mobile home involved is a complete loss, but thankfully we were able to keep it from spreading.”

Niemeyer said hot temperatures are concerning for all fire departments across the Treasure Valley.

“Thankfully we have all worked hard to build strong relationships which has allowed us to rely on each other for help,” he said. “With these high temperatures, all departments are sending more resources to these fires than we normally would just to keep our firefighters as a safe as possible. When it’s 100 degrees outside we know it’s a lot hotter inside their protective gear. No firefighter wants to quit working, but we rotate them more frequently to prevent heat exhaustion or other injury.”

Ada County Paramedics also responded to assist with crew rehab.

Eagle Fire Department sent an engine to help cover Meridian’s response area while their units were involved with the fire.

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Treasure Valley YOUTH Theater celebrates 3 years T

reasure Valley YOUTH Theater opened its doors just three years ago and will celebrate its third anniversary Sunday.

Since then, owner and executive director Autumn Kersey said the small theater company has seen healthy growth and expanded.

The company has managed to pick up awards and sell out shows along the way.

Treasure Valley YOUTH Theater is a nonprofit organization based in downtown Meridian that

by Zachary Chastaine seeks to bring performing zchastaine@idahopress.com experience to kids and give © 2015 MERIDIAN PRESS them a chance to try something new and have fun.

The kids work on public performances through different camps and full productions, and this year included performances of “Annie,” “the Big Friendly Giant,” “Frozen” and “Pirate Adventure.”

“In our camp environments, we will work off of a theme or a story or adventure,” Kersey said.

The team has grown, too. Kersey said as of this year the company has 11 educators who work as contractors with the company along with 12 company members who put on performances for youth through the adult performing company The Treasure Valley Children’s Theater. This is double the number of company members in 2014.

Photo courtesy Autumn Kersey In addition to providing classes and camps for Whether it is the adult company performing for kids or the kids company performing for everyone, the theater has been bringing theater to the kids through the Treasure Valley YOUTH Theater, the Treasure Valley Children’s Theater puts on per- community more each year. formances for children to enjoy.

Sometimes, though, they are meant to carry a Social Skills. message. This was the case with the company’s 2015 production of Superhero Social Smaller shows include performances in public areas such as Generations Plaza Skills where the adult company performs as superheroes and attempts to teach kids and, more recently, the branches of the Meridian Library District as well as other about social skills. libraries in the Treasure Valley.

Treasure Valley YOUTH Theater has also managed to forge partnerships with “Theater is important to the community because it brings us together, it encourlocal businesses such as The Village at Meridian. Kersey said the Village has been ages (us) to talk about the things that are important to us and to create a common underwriting the company since its first production in 2013. identity,” Kersey said.

Through the partnership with The Village, the Treasure Valley YOUTH Theater performs at The Village and The Village sponsors productions such as Superhero  For more information, visit TreasureValleyChildrensTheater.com

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DATE – July 25 TIME – 10 a.m. Running every half hour until 1 p.m.

LOCATION – Expo Idaho at 5610 N. Glenwood St. in Boise.

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Kids will get to run through mud pits, climb rope nets and more during the obstacle course.

Subaru Kids Obstacle Challenge comes to Boise

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n obstacle course mud-run designed specifically for kids is coming to Boise on July 25 to Expo Idaho.

The Subaru Kids Obstacle Challenge will be making its area debut in the Treasure Valley and is a miniaturized version of large-scale mud runs boasting a variety of military inspired obstacles throughout the 1-mile course.

Kids are meant to be challenged and empowered as they cross the muddy finish line.

Unlike other adult mud runs where the kids portion is tacked on to the end of the main course or is a shortened, modified version for kids, this event has been built just for kids ages 5 to 16.

Parents are the spectators and supporters, but they are highly encouraged and invited to join their kids on the course for free.

The course was designed in part by the Army National Guard, and obstacles include a cargo net, plank walk, rope swing over mud, a-frame climb, hurdles, tunnel crawls, a mud crawl to the finish and more.

Amanda Rose, the executive producer of the event, said special obstacles have been added to make the event more fun for kids.

“We’ve even included an inflatable slip n’ slide as one of the obstacles this year, making it extra fun for the kids,” Rose said.

Thomas Hahn dives into the Meridian Community Swimming Pool.

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Nampa - Buffalo Jay, 2:00pm, Artistblue Gallery 1509 Caldwell Blvd. Ste. 1175 $0.00 Boise - Dead Sara, 8:00pm, Knitting Factory 416 S 9th St Boise - John Two-Hawks ‘Horse Spirit’ Concert U.S. Tour, 7:00pm, Center for Spiritual Living 10464 Garverdale Ct $20.00 Nampa - Scott McCormick, 2:00pm, Artistblue Gallery 1509 Caldwell Blvd. Ste. 1175 $0.00 Boise - Starbelly Dancers Saturday Performance at Boise International Market, 1:00pm, Boise International Market 5823 West Franklin Road $0.00

Sunday “The Treasure Valley has been thirsty for an event like this for years,” Rose said. “We’ve grown so big that areas outside of the Pacific Northwest are demanding we bring the event to them. Boise called the loudest, so we went there first. More expansion will follow for 2016, thanks to the opportunity Boise has given us.”

Sponsored locally by Larry H. Miller Subaru with supporting sponsors Alturas Homes and ClifKid, the Kids Obstacle Challenge expects to come close to selling-out in its first year in the Boise area. The event will be partnering with the Treasure Valley Young Marines for support at the event and to help bring awareness to the Treasure Valley Young Marines.

More information and registration details can be found at kidsobstaclechallenge.com.

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Council hears concerns for subdivision traffic

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he Meridian City Council heard testimony Tuesday and ultimately approved a proposed subdivision called Stonesthrow Subdivision on East Fairview Avenue.

Developer Steve Arnold said the 140unit multi-family housing proposal includes a community clubhouse and basketball court.

The homes will

by Zachary Chastaine zchastaine@idahopress.com be built in a modified pinwheel © 2015 MERIDIAN PRESS design and will be positioned to make them more aesthetically consistent with single-family homes already built around the proposed subdivision.

The Meridian Planning and Zoning Department said the majority of discussion before the council meeting on the subdivision was centered around traffic flow. Neighbors worried hazards would increase due to the street going though the development.

One of the changes recommended for the development was the addition of signage for special needs children in the area.

Arnold said he had taken measures to address traffic concerns.

“We tried to mitigate as best we could the impact (of traffic),” Arnold said. “We did do a traffic study, and there was (less) traffic going west than expected.”

Arnold said an engineer calculated drivers make 186 trips per day down East Florence Drive. Neighbors said connecting East Florence Drive — which is not connected at its location next to Wal-Mart on Fairview Avenue — would increase traffic drastically.

Arnold said speed bumps and chokes would be installed to mitigate traffic.

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Emery Hall said he liked the subdivision but was sure traffic would increase greatly. He said he was frustrated the city seemed to be making its decision without taking his input into account.

OTHER BUSINESS n Robert Simison, chief of staff for Mayor Tammy de Weerd, presented a budget amendment approval of $13,000 to fund the city’s proposed youth farmers market to take place in September.

Simison said the event is working to finalize funding from the Meridian Development Corporation, Blue Cross of Idaho and possibly the Boise Co-op.

Councilman Luke Cavener asked if the market would for sure be taking place if the funding had yet been finalized.

Simison said although funding has not yet been finalized, the plan is to have the youth farmers market in September.

However, it is possible that the market would have to be delayed if commitments fall through.

Vendors for the event are also a concern, and sponsors such as Blue Cross of Idaho would provide canopies and tables.

The youth farmers market was described during the State of the City address given by de Weerd earlier this year. n The council also approved appointments to the Meridian Transportation Commission.

Ryan Hall was appointed to Seat 2, and Bryan Leisle was appointed to Seat 7.

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Meridian residents working to build a classroom for creative science T

here are classes out in the community that can teach you to cook, how to knit and even how to dance. But what if you want to build something?

For many people, things like a drill press or power tools are not readily available, and they can be expensive to invest in. A maker space provides an opportunity for people to get their Suzi Steiner Randy Steiner hands dirty and learn how to do something new. This can be anything from an art

by Zachary Chastaine project they have wanted to take on to something more zchastaine@idahopress.com practical like learning to sew. © 2015 MERIDIAN PRESS The lab is a nonprofit which hopes to offer classes in areas like metalsmithing, sewing and 3D printing.

While similar to other maker spaces in the area such as those being developed in libraries by the Meridian Library District, Open Lab Idaho is different because it is funded by membership dues and its focus is provide a learning platform for hobbyists.

Randy Steiner is the president of the board for Open Lab Idaho. He and his wife Suzie Steiner are two Meridian residents, and they’re looking to bring the lab to Meridian. This means finding a space for the lab so that the classes they hope to provide have a permanent home.

Open Lab Idaho is currently housed in the Reuseum located in Garden City.

Randy Steiner said the goal of Open Lab Idaho was to expand its membership and continue to provide a home for learning and provide opportunities for groups like the Boy Scouts of America. He said Open Lab Idaho was the only STEM explorer post for the Ore-Ida Boy Scout Council.

“The things that we’re really targeting are education for both older youth so really 12 to 18 and adults,” Steiner said. “The group started out as a 3D printer user group back in 2011.”

Open Lab Idaho is working to become more involved with the community by providing STEM education for homeschool students in the area. It recently brought a robot to the Meridian Library District’s day of making on June 15, and it a float in this year’s Meridian Dairy Days Parade.

Randy Steiner said the focus for the lab is to teach people basic building techniques and will debut a line of classes for people to take in the fall. Depending on the popularity of the classes, the curriculum of the lab may shift to provide better support or different classes for people.

These will range from more advanced and hands-on classes to basic classes, some of which are free so that students can get an idea of what it is they are learning about. This includes getting an idea about what things like an Arduino or Raspberry Pi (small programmable computers) are.

These free survey classes are called show and tell classes.

“We can talk about Arduinos and Raspberry Pis are used to make things smart, what we want to do is we want to extend that into a holiday display type smart things (class),” Randy Steiner said.

While 3D printers are one aspect of the lab, Randy Steiner said another aim was to give people a chance to learn how to use larger machine tools such as drill presses and lathes which are expensive. This way people can try a machine and learn to use it before they actually invest in one of their own.

Randy Steiner said one of the biggest challenges faced by Open Lab Idaho is that it is funded by membership dues.

Suzie Steiner said there are a small core of members since Open Lab Idaho had been founded in 2011. The memberships for the group go up and down as people join. After people learn the skills they come to learn, they move on.

The Steiners hope having a permanent home in a centrally located area like Meridian will help with membership, but Randy Steiner said there is still a lot of work to be done.

To learn more about Open Lab Idaho and see what classes it offers, visit openlabidaho.org.

Photos courtesy Open Lab Idaho

Open Lab Idaho gives students hands on experience with technologies as well as how to be artistic with them.

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