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Celebrating Life in Boise

WOMEN INSPIRING CHANGE

SUNNYSLOPE’S FINE WINES

FACES OF HOPE

IDAHO FORESTERS AND WWI

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CONTENTS SPRING 2018

DEPARTMENTS Metro

14 A New Home for the Hawks?

16 ‘Boise Boys’ Hits HGTV

FEATURES

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Strong Voices

Nine Boise women creating positive change in the world

By Karen Day and Laurie Sammis

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Center Moment #visitidaho

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Better with Age

The burgeoning wine country of Sunnyslope

By Zach Kyle

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A Call to Action

How Idaho forestry soldiers aided the Allies’ effort in The Great War

By Eve Chandler PHOTO: Wine grapes in the Sunnyslope region near Caldwell, Idaho Photo by Thia Konig COVER: Boise women inspiring change photographed by Todd Meier at Trailhead in downtown Boise—more about our cover shot on page 10

Life

20 Getting to a Place of Hope Explore

24 Cruising With Purpose 28 Spring in the Foothills 30 Enjoying a Geothermal Mecca Habitat

56 A Cinderella Story of Land Restoration Arts

60 A New Star in Boise’s Literary Constellation 62 Bearing Witness to Idaho’s Magical Landscape 66 Born to Compose Taste

70 Serving Up More Than Just Slices 74 Savor Idaho Turns 10

ALSO IN THIS ISSUE 6 Editor’s Letter 10 Contributors 68 Calendar 76 Dining Guide

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or much of Idaho, spring is somewhat of a nonevent. Winter peters out, blurs into a brief mud season, then sometime in June summer emerges.

Not so in Boise. Boise is the place to be in spring. There is always an explosion of color and life. The air is fresh, bright with promise. Days stretch out, move toward the languorous feel of summer.

Spring is, above all else, a time to adventure and to explore all that is new. As with every issue of Territory, we try to explore in print what we hope our readers can and will experience beyond the pages. Perhaps that effort entails hiking in the foothills, a wildflower wonderland, as reported by avid hiker/runner Torrie Cope in “Spring in the Foothills” (page 28). Or, a little farther afield, one might soak in the remarkable hot springs peppering the state, many of which are a short drive from Boise (“Enjoying a Geothermal Mecca,” page 30).

Also a short drive from downtown Boise is the spectacular Sunnyslope wine country. As Zach Kyle discovers in “Better With Age” (page 44), the 14 wineries in the area are garnering regional and national attention for their wines after years of experimentation with grape varieties and growing methods. The area has become an increasingly popular destination for those looking to explore gorgeous country, taste new wines, and learn about the industry.

Right in the midst of Boise is a little-known refuge ripe for discovery as well: Hyatt Hidden Lakes Reserve (“A Cinderella Story of Land Restoration,” page 56). Once the site of an asphalt company gravel pit, the reserve is now home to waterfowl, beavers, and other wildlife. What’s more, the 44-acre reserve doubles as a storm water filtration system that ultimately protects the Boise River from a number of pollutants.

Inherent in exploration is hope, also a hallmark of spring. And despite the dispiriting national news about sexual harassment, abuse and other alleged criminal behavior by powerful men in media, politics, and entertainment, it is clear that women—both those powerful and those not—are finding a bold voice to change the social mores that have been entrenched for decades. If anyone should doubt the future as envisioned by women, he or she should read about just some of the women of Boise who are making a difference in the world (“Strong Voices,” page 34). This is hope embodied in nine individuals, all working in varying fields but all, too, wholly committed to the capital city’s future.

Hope takes a different but equally important form in a unique Boise nonprofit called Faces of Hope (“Getting to a Place of Hope,” page 20). This center offers to victims of trauma—sexual abuse, domestic violence, and child abuse—a range of critical services under one roof. Faces of Hope is literally a lifesaving concept.

Admittedly a cliché, it is nonetheless true that spring is, ultimately, a time of renewal, which, as far as it pertains to community, culture, even nation, is sometimes simply a matter of finding ourselves again. Read Eve Chandler’s piece about the Idaho foresters who shipped off to France for World War I (“A Call to Action,” page 50) and one remembers what sacrifice for a common good is all about. It seems, at times, a lost principle. However, reading about 18-year-olds giving up sweethearts and spouses, careers, even life itself for the simple yet fuzzy idea of America can’t help but inspire us. It can’t help but stir beliefs we once held dear but may have simply misplaced for a time.

Exploration, hope, renewal; they’re in the air. Breathe them in. Get out there.

Enjoy.

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CONTRIBUTORS Winslow Brokaw, born in Idaho and raised on a remote

peninsula in northern Maine, feels at home in the mountains and on the ocean. Graduating from Middlebury College with a B.A. in International Studies and a minor in Education, she spent several years designing and leading girls’ and adolescent empowerment programs in the Dominican Republic, Mexico, India, and the U.S. Prior to her current position, Client Resource & Outreach Coordinator at The Hunger Coalition in Blaine County, Winslow helped launch the cruise industry’s first social impact brand, Fathom Travel, in the Dominican Republic and Cuba. (“Cruising With Purpose,” page 24).

Eve Chandler is the author of “Building Bogus Basin,” “Brundage Mountain: Best Snow in Idaho” and has written for local, regional and national publications. Her focus of late has been on writing histories for hospital, university and nonprofit organizations. A native Idahoan, Eve has served on the City of Boise Arts and History Commission and Friends of Idaho Public Television board. Currently, she is engaged with historical preservation work for the Christ Chapel Historical Society and is a Bogus Basin Recreational Association board member. Her true calling is skiing, hiking, and paddle boarding with friends and family in Idaho’s wild terrain. (“A Call to Action,” page 50).

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Christina Carlson is a Boise-based photographer with

over 20 years of professional experience. She still gets a thrill every time she is on a photo assignment. She loves working with people, getting to know their story, and capturing important moments through the lens. She has lived most of her life in Idaho, growing up in Sun Valley and now living in Boise with her husband and three girls. (“Getting to a Place of Hope,” page 20).

Brooke Burton lives and works in Idaho as an artist and

photographer, recently exhibiting work at the Boise Art Museum and writing for the City of Boise’s Arts & History Department blog, in addition to teaching workshops and classes. Brooke earned her MFA in photography from Boise State University and continues her artistic practice between the chaos of family and professional life. Spare time is spent traveling, laughing with family and friends, and working on her elaborate dollhouse (“Bearing Witness to Idaho’s Magical Landscape,” page 62).

on the cover A First Lady, a Muslim refugee, a mortgage broker, a Democrat, a Republican, an Hispanic, an African-American—these are but a few societal labels defied by the women profiled in the spring issue of

BOISE TERRITORY. Assembling these Treasure Valley superstars in one room for a photograph, however, proved a challenging task. Success required professionals who could juggle lighting, staging, draping, lipstick, scheduling, and nine trailblazers.

Photographed at Trailhead, this specialedition cover is a collaboration of the best

in Boise, including photographer Todd Meier, set stylist and wardrobe coordinator Lindsey Pate for Bliss Events, makeup artists Blush by Jamie Rose and Megan Garbani, and production assistants Caitlin Zak , Harper Crabtree and B.J. Albertson.

Special thanks go to Karen Day, BOISE

TERRITORY’S Director of Business and Content Development, who acted as production director on this cover shoot and conceptualized and coordinated all efforts in featuring these nine inspiring women.

also in this issue... contributing writers

Amy Busek, Torrie Cope, Karen Day, Cheryl Haas, Jamie Hausman, Kate Hull, Zach Kyle, Amy Story Larson, Kelcie Moseley, Patti Murphy, Ellie Rodgers, Laurie Sammis, and Gwen Ashley Walters

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A New Home for the Hawks?

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By Kelcie Moseley

he Boise Hawks baseball stadium has been located next to the Western Idaho Fairgrounds since 1989, and local critics of the space would probably tell you it looks like it still belongs in that era.

The stadium has undergone a few renovations over the years, but patrons still complain about uncomfortable metal seats, the dirt parking lot, the lack of transportation options to the stadium, and its vulnerability to baking-hot sun during the summer months.

All that may soon change if the city of Boise’s plans come together. After conducting a feasibility study and collecting public feedback in fall 2017, the City is exploring the possibility of

building the Boise Sports Park near the downtown area that would host approximately 250 events per year and attract more than 200,000 people.

Events would include baseball games, youth sports, Boise School District athletic events, and family events such as concerts and festivals.

“The idea of a downtown sports stadium of some type is one that’s been kicked around for several years now,” said Mike Journee, director of communications for the Boise mayor’s office. “(Mayor Dave Bieter) has been in office for 14 years now, and for probably a decade of that they’ve talked about having a stadium that would allow for major sports events.” And most of the time, those conversations have centered on making it a new home for the Boise Hawks.

Nic Miller, Boise’s director of economic development, said the City was approached by Greenstone Properties, a developer that has been successful building stadiums and associated private developments nearby. Miller said Greenstone Properties identified the 11-acre site where the stadium could potentially be placed, which is along Shoreline Drive and Americana Boulevard.

“It’s an easy walk from City Hall, about a 10-minute walk, and it’s right along the Greenbelt, right along Americana coming down off the bench, and right next to the connector,” Miller said. “So, it has high visibility and easy access to our major thoroughfare coming into downtown.”

The neighboring $60 million mixed use development space would include

The proposed stadium could host major sporting events, including soccer.

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Stadium photos: Courtesy Boise Hawks

Boise explores options for a downtown sports complex

60,000 square feet of retail space, 300 residences, 12,000 square feet of office space, and a new parking garage. The sports park is estimated to cost $36 million, financed in part by $5 million from the Boise Auditorium District, $3 million from the city of Boise’s general fund, and $1 million from the developer. The remaining $27 million is to be financed through bonds issued by the Capital City Development Corporation, which is Boise’s urban renewal agency.

Miller said the annual bond payment on that $27 million would be approximately $2 million, covered in two ways each year: about half through sponsorships and fundraising, and the other half from tax-increment revenue.

“When an urban renewal district is formed, there’s a base year, and as values increase and tax revenue increases, the increment—which is an increase in tax dollars—goes to the urban renewal agency, and that money can be used to improve the area,” Miller said. “In this case, the developer that would be working in partnership with the stadium said he would guarantee no less than $67 million worth of development. That gets you to roughly $1 million in tax increment, and that’s how the bond payment gets made.”

The concept is still in its early stages, and there are also conversations happening that could change the stadium’s location. After the College of Western Idaho failed to secure a bond in 2016 that would have allowed them to move into a parcel of land close to the proposed stadium location, the City is discussing the idea of a land swap with the college that would allow them to immediately move into the space and the stadium to be placed on the land purchased by CWI.

“The mayor was immediately enamored with this, because it’s a twofer, basically,” Journee said. “If we can make the stadium happen and the CWI campus downtown happen, then the benefit coming back to the community is that much greater.”

If the project is approved, construction is scheduled to begin in 2019 with a grand opening in 2020.

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FORM, FUNCTION, AND FRIENDSHIP The ‘Boise Boys’ bring old local homes to life

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ou can tell we’re completely different people,” Clint Robertson said with a laugh.

Dressed practically and with the air of someone who doesn’t mind getting dirty, the Texas- born entrepreneur with a contractor’s conversational style is friendly and folksy, true to his Southern roots. He was referring to business partner Luke Caldwell, a former musician and current home designer. Caldwell, a Boise native, has an urban, coiffed style and a careful, measured way of speaking.

Variety is a large part of the appeal of their new HGTV series, “Boise Boys,” scheduled to air beginning in March.

The unlikely designer-contractor duo sees the untapped beauty in old Boise homes and remodels them until their

“That’s where the magic happens, at the crux of thinking alike but looking at completely different aspects.

Luke … lives in the form … and I come at it from the function standpoint.”

— Clint Robertson, who plays the contractor role in the “Boise Boys” duo

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potential becomes reality. Caldwell and Robertson are highlighting the charm of local homes and neighborhoods in the new show premiering this spring, acting as designer and contractor, respectively.

Robertson and Caldwell—Bert and Ernie references are made—are different enough to make things interesting, but similar when it counts.

You can tell by the way they finish each other’s sentences.

They met through a mutual acquaintance at church and an “immediate connection” was forged after they partnered on a construction project, Caldwell said. “We both knew that we didn’t need each other to be successful,” he said. “But what we realized when we did that first deal together, was (that) this just works because we have the same work ethic.”

Caldwell actually got his start renovating homes as a way to make quick cash to afford an adoption fee.

He and his wife have since adopted four children, paid for by home renovations. Both men are husbands and fathers.

“I think we’re both grounded in the same thing, which is our faith, our families. And really just our friendship,” Caldwell said. “Those three things collectively, and just really wanting to do the best that we could do, in everything we do.”

Robertson had built, brokered, and sold multifamily homes in Texas until

a change of heart prompted him to sell everything and move to Coeur d’Alene, fortuitously, right before the recession hit. He had a stint on “The Apprentice” in 2011, leaving as a popular runnerup. The family moved to Boise when Robertson’s eldest son was accepted to Boise State University approximately six years ago.

“We took a family trip down here, stayed at a hotel over on Parkcenter, looked at the stars, saw the mountains in the background and thought, ‘This place is great,’” Robertson said. “So that’s when we got a condo. Eventually, within a few months, we were living here full time.”

After their initial project, Robertson and Caldwell were soon renovating 15 houses a year. They reached national attention after a pilot show received high ratings last year, and HGTV offered them the chance to share their home renovation business, Timber and Love, with millions of viewers. The duo purchased seven local homes to remodel for the first season.

Caldwell describes their unique style as “Idaho mod”—clean, bright and modern with an Idaho vibe.

Robertson says their styles converge where form meets function.

“That’s where the magic happens, at that crux of thinking alike but looking at completely different aspects,” Robertson said. “Luke ... lives in the form and that’s why our

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houses are so beautiful, because he envisions these things. I come at it from the function standpoint, where I see what can be done and should be done, so that beauty and function can both prevail.”

They’re looking for homes with character, and that can turn a profit.

But flipping houses, Caldwell says, is not what he and Robertson do.

“We don’t even consider ourselves flippers—we hate that word,” Caldwell offered. “We’re definitely renovators, and we restore.

“What draws both of us to properties is that you can see the house that was lived in, that was loved, and maybe just had too many years gone by before somebody’s done (something) to it. What we try to do is preserve what we can.

Obviously, we don’t want to just tear it up if there’s character, if there’s history (and) if there’s charm.”

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From a 1940s clinker-brick Tudor home in the North End, to an unusual Spanish-style farmhouse, the Boise Boys will feature a wide variety of styles in their renovation episodes this season. They’ve found gems in the North End, the Bench, the Central Rim and Garden City. Boise is the only Pacific Northwest location with an HGTV show, Robertson said.

“I knew that Boise was heading into a Goldilocks zone,” he said.

“Houses weren’t so expensive that you couldn’t buy them and renovate them, and they weren’t so inexpensive that there was no margin to make.”

Granted, Boise housing stock has decreased with the ongoing market boom and prices are climbing. But both Robertson and Caldwell say the Treasure Valley housing market is still full of potential. Caldwell said they are even willing to branch out into nearby communities, including Nampa and Caldwell.

“We like staying in Boise because it’s close to our families and it makes it easier for filming, but at the end of the day, there’s beautiful homes and potential all around us,” he said.

“We tell people all the time when they (say), ‘You guys are buying up everything; there’s nothing to be bought,’ that’s just not true.”

“There’s always someone selling a house for some reason,” Robertson agreed.

If the hometown reception is any indication, Boise is buying what Timber and Love are selling. The duo is getting shout-outs on social media and friendly honks when they drive around town.

“It’s cool because all the other houses we’ve invested so much love and life into over the years, you finish them, you occasionally drive by them and think, ‘Gosh, I hope someone’s really enjoying that house,’” Caldwell said. “But the fact that we’ve been having all these camera crews following us along, to be able to see that, watch it with our kids, our families...”

“Our work’s memorialized,” Robertson added.

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GETTING TO A PLACE OF HOPE Faces of Hope provides a comprehensive safety net of crisis services

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hen facing any form of interpersonal violence—sexual assault, domestic abuse, elder abuse, or child abuse—one of the most invasive, traumatizing experiences a person could have—the process of seeking justice and services—can, unfortunately, add to the trauma by having to relive one’s story again and again. For Jean Fisher, this had to change.

“We want to de-traumatize this as much as possible so people don’t repeat their story,” said Jean Fisher, the Ada County Prosecutor special crimes chief and Faces of Hope Victim Center chief operating officer. “We want to make sure victims are in a place that is appropriate for an experience they have gone through. In an emergency room, you are subject to a schedule. Your event becomes less important than a lifethreatening injury. You just experienced a traumatic event that, although not life-threatening, is huge.”

In 2016, Ada County Sheriff’s Office responded to 5,236 calls related to domestic abuse, child abuse, and sexual assault.

According to the Idaho Coalition Against Sexual and Domestic Violence, each day in Idaho 559 victims of domestic violence and their children seek safety and services from communitybased domestic violence programs. The need for victim support is pressing.

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Building: Mark Lisk / Courtesy VERTICAL Construction Faces of Hope staff: Christina Carlson

By Kate Hull

The solution? Faces of Hope, a center that offers all the arms of trauma support and care under one roof. The organization has gone through some growing pains since its inception 10 years ago—it was originally called FACES Family Justice Center—and, over the past year, it has evolved to become one of the leading one-stop triage facilities in the country.

Fisher has been with the Ada County Prosecutor’s Office for nearly three decades. As the chief prosecutor for the special crimes unit, supervising child abuse and sexual assault cases is the norm. In her role, Fisher has seen the shortcomings of a victim’s journey to justice when dealing with a sensitive situation such as assault.

“If you were raped, you would have to go to the hospital for a rape kit, law enforcement for an interview, a counselor for therapy, and then the prosecutors to get ready for trial. It is the same situation for child protective services,” Fisher explained.

In 2004, an idea was sparked to bring all of these resources under one roof, thanks to Fisher and Ada County prosecuting attorneys Greg Bower and Jan Bennetts. They developed FACES Family Justice Center, “a multi-jurisdictional planning body to develop a community victim-assistance center” that opened its doors on the corner of 6th and Myrtle streets in Boise.

Their efforts laid the foundation for what it is today, but the model needed updating.

“We were underserving this population,” Fisher said. “People would think it was just for families or just a justice center. It isn’t just for families.

It isn’t just for justice. Some people just want to get away and get the resources to do this. We can help.”

Fisher moved to the center full time in April 2016. She and others developed a new model with two Opposite page, from left: Paige Dinger, Faces of Hope Foundation program manager; Dina Denney, Faces of Hope crisis counselor; Jean Fisher, special crimes chief deputy Ada County and COO Faces of Hope Victim Center; Faye White, executive director Faces of Hope Foundation; Annellie McArthur, victim service coordinator; Michael Carney, University of Idaho clinician domestic violence clinic. Opposite page, bottom: Faces of Hope Victim Center building, open 24/7/365 at 417 S. 6th Street in downtown Boise.

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The Faces Hope Victim Center offers many services, including medical and forensic examinations, counseling, and law enforcement.

22 Ada County residents undergoing arms: The Faces of Hope Victim Center crisis. Each of the 18 partner organiand the Faces of Hope Foundation. zations covers and controls its own Fisher worked to move the fundraisprograms, but the united center allows ing aspect away from the county and for collaboration and a coordinated to provide a clear distinction between response to better serve those in need. the two entities.

“We went from a budget of $30,000 Ada County oversees daily operathat would get us hotel rooms and tions and provides the building and some gas cards, to this year’s, which is utilities at no cost. The foundation $500,000,” Fisher works to raise funds and fill In 2016, the Ada County Sheriff’s said. “Our whole model is providthe community Office responded to 5,236 calls ing a safety net of resources gap by providing essential related to domestic abuse, child services to stabilize each person. This services that the abuse, and sexual assault. helps immensely victims might not in getting someone be able to afford or to stay engaged and move forward, that may not be covered by insurance. rather than recant and move back to The Faces of Hope Victim Center the situation.” provides 18 private and public partAlthough justice centers exist ners that collaborate in one buildthroughout the country with a similar ing to offer a myriad of services to mission, the team at Faces of Hope victims: from law enforcement, safety knew they wanted to go one step furplanning, medical care, and forensic ther and do it all. This meant providexaminations, to support groups, ing medical services, too. St. Luke’s self-defense classes, and emergency Women’s Clinic, Saint Alphonsus & St. assistance.

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Evaluation Services provide on-site medical exams.

Faces of Hope recently added a partnership with the University of Idaho College of Law to provide free legal counsel, an aspect of removing persons from abusive situations that can often be a barrier.

“This center is a great example of what could happen statewide if the resources were there, and we looked at our resources differently,” said Fisher. “You don’t all have to have a center as large or as complex as ours.

But in all of these rural areas, you could share your resources so much more.”

Fisher and team measure the success of Faces of Hope with one word: hope. When a person arrives at the door, he or she does an intake survey on how that person is feeling by circling adjectives. Words like “overwhelmed,” “confused” or “distrustful” might be circled. When victims leave, they are given the same survey; however, the answers are different.

Words like “hopeful,” “empowered,” and “believed” carry the day.

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CRUISING WITH PURPOSE Boisean Tara Russell leads an effort in social-impact travel

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Fathom travelers participate in a gardening project in Jamaica.

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Fathom’s original ship, the Adonia, was the first ship to sail from the U.S. to Cuba in over 50 years, giving many Cuban-born Americans a chance to return to their birthplace after more than 40 years.

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eadership is a willingness to live with eyes focused on a future that doesn’t yet exist and that you want to lead people into,” said Tara Russell, a Boise local. Russell has done just that with the cruise industry. She radically reimagined the potential of cruises and travel, in general, to transform lives. Russell pioneered the first social impact travel brand, Fathom Travel.

Fathom Travel launched in 2016 as Carnival Corporation’s 10th and newest brand in Cuba and the Dominican Republic. It has since blossomed into an international movement of “Love in Action.”

Based on the importance of deep human connection, Fathom, according to Russell, “helps travelers unleash their potential and strengthen global communities.” Onboard, the cruise’s programming is creative and customized, providing travelers with meaningful opportunities to dream about their own futures, to brainstorm ways to more fully engage with local and global communities, and to learn about the places they visit.

Onshore, Fathom has worked with community partners to create “Impact Activities” that bring travelers into the heart of their destinations to support the dreams and goals of local initiatives and organizations. This is an integral pillar of Fathom’s Impact Travel mission.

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Russell put it, “learn to participate and immerse in experiences that further the local hopes and dreams of the community. It is about giving, playing, and growing while participating in a global travel experience and community.” Russell will be the first to remind an eager traveler that “we must be patient enough to listen. If we listen, we can figure out the right way to explore shared values.”

In Fathom’s first year visiting Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic, travelers worked with local community members to plant 19,075 trees and produce 22,604 sheets of recycled paper. They also made enough water filters to provide 7,996 people with clean drinking water, 108 concrete floors that benefited 569 people, and taught 35,308 hours of English to school children. This is Fathom Travel in action.

While Fathom originally launched as one ship, the Adonia, between Cuba and the Dominican Republic, it recently expanded to include other locations and has partnered with sister brands like Holland America and Princess Cruises to bring Fathom’s “travel with a purpose” experiences to a larger audience. Travelers can now travel to Jamaica to swim, play, and collaborate with local residents at The Rastafari Encounter and A Taste of Jamaica From Farm to Table.

In the Dominican Republic, travelers immerse themselves in the local communities through Hands On Dominican Chocolate,

In the Dominican Republic, travelers immerse themselves in the local communities through Hands On Dominican Chocolate, Artisanal Soap Experience, Dominican Mountain Coffee Adventure, and Island Art, Jewelry, and Craft Workshop.

In its first year, Fathom’s Dominican Republic customer satisfaction scores averaged 73.6 percent, some of the highest scores in the entire Carnival Corporation fleet worldwide.

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— Tara Russell, founder of Fathom Travel (pictured here with Arnold Donald, President & CEO of Carnival Corporation)

26 Artisanal Soap Experience, Dominican Mountain Coffee Adventure, and Island Art, Jewelry, and Craft Workshop. And this past January, Fathom and Princess Cruises launched “Cruise for the Caribbean,” voyages to provide relief efforts in places like St. Maarten, St. Thomas, and the Dominican Republic. But this is just the start. The possibilities for traveler and community empowerment in the Caribbean and across the globe are limitless as Fathom actively builds community solutions that will be incorporated into this new age of travel.

And who is this Russell who led the travel industry into a new future? She is a warm-hearted and big-thinking dreamer and builder who makes the impossible possible and who follows her heart and vision against all odds.

She admits that leadership isn’t easy: “It’s terrifying and scary, but it’s still the path I pick every day. I choose to focus on what’s possible if and when.

Life is short, so why not go for it? I want every day to matter.”

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AND WHY BOISE? Russell and her husband, Jeff, chose Boise as their home base from an “access, affordability, and livability standpoint.” They love the mountains, being active, building businesses, and raising their two children, and they can make it all happen in Boise. With Boise’s friendly atmosphere for social enterprises and its status as one of the fastest growing states in the country, Russell felt it was a dynamic place from which to lead her regional and global crusades.

Ultimately, Fathom’s goal is to “reengineer hope,” Russell said. By “positively disrupting” the cruise industry and “the broader cultural narrative of confusion, fear, and sadness,” Fathom’s role moving forward is to instill “resilience in both Carnival Corporation and its partner communities through creative and reimagined initiatives, and to inspire a too divided world for a more united humanity,” she said. Fathom’s success as an innovative start-up is proof that the world is eager for authentic connections and interaction among cultures. It also reminds us that travel is a gift; it forces us to reach beyond our daily lives to appreciate our shared humanity.

CHANGING LIVES AT HOME CREATE COMMON GOOD Believing that “everyone has underleveraged potential that can be unleashed with encouragement, empowerment, and the appropriate skill set,” Tara Russell founded Create Common Good (CCG) 10 years ago to forge brighter futures in the Treasure Valley. Today, CCG provides food service skills training and job placement assistance to refugees, women at risk, the formerly incarcerated, and anyone with barriers to employment while simultaneously serving as an outsourced food production social enterprise that manufactures wholesale food for regional customers.

According to its website, CCG’s eight-week training program teaches trainees (who are generally heads of households) the “necessary skills to successfully work in the food service industry (createcommongood. org)” and supports them in joining the workforce. In 2017, CCG trained 63 individuals and placed 89 percent of them into jobs that paid an average of $9.90 per hour upon placement. This was a significant accomplishment given that nine of the 10 trainees entered CCG’s program unemployed with an average wage of $0.85 per hour.

Trainees also gain hands-on leadership experience by having the opportunity to manage CCG’s community feeding initiatives, which provide nutritious snacks to lowincome children in the Treasure Valley.

Walking the talk of supporting people on their path from dependency to selfsufficiency, CCG is a business model for community empowerment that serves as an example of what can be accomplished when one believes in people, no matter their backgrounds or stories.

Meet Jacky (video) at createcommongood.org

Russell and Donald: Courtesy Fathom Travel Jacky: Courtesy Create Common Good

“It’s terrifying and scary, but it’s still the path I pick every day. I choose to focus on what’s possible if and when.

Life is short, so why not go for it? I want every day to matter.”

not new to creating concepts and building on them. She is an engineer by training and has worked in diverse consumer product arenas with Fortune 500 companies such as General Motors (GM), Intel, and Nike where she has lived the full product life cycle, from design and development to sales and manufacturing.

She studied mechanical engineering at Georgia Tech and subsequently worked for Saturn and GM China. In particular, working for GM China was a transformative experience. While helping to build GM’s first startup operation in Shanghai, Russell saw abject poverty nearby. The experience affirmed for her that she “was to live down the middle and build businesses that radically transformed people’s lives for the better.” Since then, Russell has co-founded three global social enterprises: Jitasa, Nightlight, and World Economic Forum Global Shapers Idaho. She also founded the food production social enterprise Create Common Good in Boise.

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Wildflowers and spectacular views beckon hikers and bikers

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hen the snow finally melts and the temperatures warm after a long winter, the Boise foothills welcome eager hikers, runners, and mountain bikers ready to enjoy the trails again in the spring.

The spring is also a special time when the foothills transform, briefly trading in their typical muted shades of brown and yellow for a dark green backdrop punctuated with bright white, yellow, and purple wildflowers.

Because of that, it might not be surprising to learn that spring is the busiest time of year for the foothills.

“Spring is really busy in the foothills, but it’s also the prettiest time in the foothills,” said David Gordon,

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“It’s just beautiful.” Gordon said trail usage begins to pick up starting about mid-March.

There are more than 190 miles of trails to explore in the trail system, according to Ridge to Rivers, but there are a couple of areas in particular that Gordon recommends for taking in the wildflowers on a spring hike or run.

MILITARY RESERVE CENTRAL RIDGE TRAIL The flowers start to bloom at the Military Reserve area of the foothills typically in early to midspring, Gordon said. He recommends the Military Reserve’s Central Ridge Trail that time of year. The trail offers spectacular year-round views of downtown Boise, but in the

spring, those views are framed by wildflowers, making a spring hike even more special.

The Military Reserve is easy to access with plenty of parking. To get there from Avenue B near St. Luke’s Hospital in downtown Boise, take Reserve Street to Mountain Cove Road.

There a few different options for designated parking areas on Mountain Cove Road, and numerous options for making loops on the trails from those parking areas, whether you want to do just a couple of miles or a long trail run or hike.

One option is to park at the Toll Road Trailhead. This is past the archery range and just around the curve on Mountain Cove Road. From the parking area, take Toll Road Trail up to Ridge Crest Trail. Climbing Ridge

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Crest, one enjoys fun switchbacks that turn a beautiful shade of green with spring wildflowers on either side of the trail.

The top of Ridge Crest joins Central Ridge. Go left on Central Ridge for a shorter loop. Follow Central Ridge back down to Toll Road and the parking area. Going down Central Ridge allows runners and hikers to take in the views of the city and wildflowers at the same time. That’s about two miles.

For a longer loop, go right at the top of Ridge Crest on Central Ridge and come back down Bucktail Trail. Turn left on Ridge Crest to get back over to Central Ridge and the parking area.

Yet another option is to add Shane’s Trail and Three Bears Trail from Central Ridge for a longer loop and more hills, then come back down Bucktail to Central Ridge, which will be about seven miles total.

Later in the spring, Gordon recommends the Watchman Trail for wildflowers. This three-mile trail connects to Five Mile Trail, which has a trailhead and parking on Shaw Mountain Road and the upper end of the Three Bears Trail.

and come back, instead of trying to make a loop with other trails. There’s a creek along Lower Hulls Gulch Trail that’s flowing in the spring. The sights and sounds of the flowing water add to the beauty of the trail, which also has some trees alongside it and a fun rock formation to hike over.

According to Ridge to Rivers, this is one of the most popular trails in the system.

SPRING TRAIL CONDITIONS One of the key messages Ridge to Rivers officials try to convey to people throughout the year is to pay attention to trail conditions and to stay off muddy trails. This can be an issue in the spring with rainy weather and melting snow.

Using the trails when they’re muddy can widen them and cause erosion, Gordon said. Footprints on a muddy trail can make the surface look like a tractor tilled it up, he added.

The Ridge to Rivers website and Facebook page have up-to-date trail conditions each day to help people plan ahead. It includes information on specific trails to avoid and what to expect.

When conditions are marginal, Gordon suggests using sandier trails or doing an out-and-back hike or run instead of trying to make a loop. One suggestion is a five-mile out-and-back starting in Boise’s Camel’s Back Park, which is at the corner of 13th and Huron streets. Start on Red Fox Trail and follow that to get to Lower Hulls Gulch Trail. Turn around at the top

The Watchman Trail winds through yellow arrowleaf balsamroot wildflowers in late spring.

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INFO AND MAPS Before heading out on the trails, check trail conditions and find detailed area descriptions and trail maps at ridgetorivers.org. Under the etiquette tab on the website, there’s also a list of trails to avoid when conditions are muddy and others that tend to be in better shape.

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Enjoying a Geothermal Mecca Hot springs in Boise’s backyard

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n estimated 17 million years ago, according to scientists, a meteorite traveling upwards of 50,000 miles per hour slammed into southeast Oregon, drastically affecting its climate and appearance. The resulting volcanic activity gave us Craters of the Moon and Yellowstone National Park, among other wonders.

Beyond the earth’s crust, water was forced upwards to the surface, forming natural pools of residual heat and energy near fault lines.

Out of all that chaos, millions of years later, came a geothermal mecca: Idaho. The state contains a network of approximately 130 hot springs suitable for soaking, more than any other state.

Pro-soaking arguments abound: stress reduction, muscle tension relief, the promotion of calm, well-being, circulation and blood flow, natural pain relief and sleep encouragement, even the burning of 140 calories per hour while immersed.

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A soaker at Trinity at Paradise.

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ROYSTONE While many Idaho hot springs are worth a visit, a handful should not be missed. Halfway between Emmett and Horseshoe Bend on Highway 52 in Sweet, Idaho, sits Roystone Hot Springs, discovered by wintering Native Americans.

In 1914, Dr. Alfred Skippen, ailing from tuberculosis, purchased the springs as a “recreation and health” resort. The waters improved him, until a run-in with poison ivy sent him to a Portland hospital, where he sold the hot springs to fellow patient, Roy Stone, in 1919.

Also in poor health, Stone married Eva, the nurse he’d fallen in love with.

Desperate to regain his health, they’d planned a move to Sweet, but Roy passed before the trip. His wife and son moved afterward, built a 7,000-squarefoot home that was often filled with guests and dancing, and named the “Sweet Sanitarium” after Roy. Eva advertised “Roystone” as having “mineral waters that cured everything from rheumatism to stomach trouble.”

After Eva’s passing, Roystone changed hands several times over the next 50 years, falling into disrepair, until Louis and Ella Mae Johns took ownership.

Roystone is now an impeccably clean, easily-accessible, well-kept commercial facility with a large covered pool, hot tub, Spring House Event Center, tent and RV camping, volleyball, Frisbee golf, picnic, and bonfire areas and shelters. It’s an ideal place for families or large groups, with private swim time a likelihood.

Adding to visual delights of the rugged, hilly backdrop of Sweet and quiet highway is the astounding metalwork of artist Ward Johns, hung throughout the resort.

THE SPRINGS A 45-minute drive north past mile marker 37 on Highway 21 towards Idaho City will get you to The Springs, formerly Warm Springs Resort. Historically a post office, police station, even an overnight stage stop and saloon, the resort has experienced great transformation since the 1800s. With a $2.7 million makeover several years ago, The Springs reopened in 2013 to crowds of anxious soakers.

Built on a theme of luxury, the 40-foot-by-80-foot pool, 16-foot-diameter hot tub, steam room, massage and

dining yurts feature geothermal-heated walkways and changing rooms, fluffy towels, fireplace hearth and poolside bonfires, with thoughtful lighting that doesn’t inhibit stargazing.

Café items are served poolside, and during summer months, surrounded by mountains, evergreens, and crisp air, there is live music.

Complimentary amenities like sundries, herbal tea, mineral water, and coffee are offered, and The Springs limits the number of visitors at any given time, preventing overcrowding.

TRINITY AT PARADISE Formerly known as Paradise Hot Springs or Price’s Plunge, site of the deepest known source of fresh water on earth, Trinity at Paradise can be found on the Pine/Featherville Road

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HOT SPRINGS ETIQUETTE • Keep cool water or drinks nearby.

Drink before, during, and after your soak to rehydrate.

• When in doubt, wear a swimsuit.

• Avoid bringing glass.

• Leave no garbage behind.

• Jumping and splashing is a party faux pas.

• Mind the space bubble of others.

• Keep yelling or loud talking to a minimum; people are chilling.

The theme at The Springs is luxury and relaxation.

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OTHER HOT SPRINGS TO TRY Kirkham Hot Springs: 5 miles east of Lowman off Highway 21, near mile marker 77.

Kirkham Hot Springs is an undeveloped, awe-inspiring location in natural sand and rock pools, positioned off Highway 21, with piping hot, steamy waterfalls flowing into the South Fork of the Payette River below. An interpretive geothermal activity trail takes adventurers along multiple pools filled with mineral water and includes signs providing historical information. Well-gripping shoes are recommended when getting to these pools. The terrain is often filled with slippery rocks and can be even more difficult to navigate during winter months. Hiking sticks or trekking poles may be helpful.

This popular camping spot can fill up during both summer and winter months.

• There is a $5 parking fee at the campground. Vault toilets are available in peak camping season.

• Hot springs closure is in effect from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m.

• “Textile Soaks” means swimsuits are required.

Bonneville Hot Springs: 19 miles southeast of Lowman in the Boise National Forest The campground opens mid/late April, sometimes May. Park and hike-in sites are available seasonally, as well as other National Forest campsites nearby. Park at either the campground, or near Warm Springs Trailhead, just before Bonneville Hot Springs turnoff. The trailhead is at the north end of the campground.

• Possible wildlife sightings: wild turkey, deer, elk.

• The springs are nicknamed “Bonnie” by the regulars.

• Snowshoes or skis recommended for the trail in winter.

• Time to avoid: “spring runoff.”

• Good time to visit: January with skis, hiking boots, or snowshoes.

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Kirkham Hot Springs near Lowman overlooks the South Fork of the Payette River.

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past Johnson Bridge. Tucked along the Middle Fork of the Boise River, the resort was purchased by the Rock family, who’d been interested for years in the acclaimed resource of the only certified “Naturliches Heilwasser” (natural health water) in North America, according to Europe’s “Institut Fresenius,” international authority on free-flowing spring sources of beneficial silica, fluoride, and other mineral-containing, exceptionally pure water.

Carbon dating places the water in historical significance as the “oldest known water from the deepest known source,” with the water coming to the surface now not having seen the light of day for over 16,000 years. It has what Trinity calls “ancient purity.”

With her holistic health and wellness background, daughter Dana Stream works toward Trinity’s recognition as a health club and wellness eco-resort, with a focus on Vinyasa yoga, mindfulness, well-being, and meditation.

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by Karen Day and Laurie Sammis

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THE YEAR WAS 1890. Idaho was a newborn state, and a national contest was launched to design the Idaho State Seal. The prize: $100.

An unknown artist named E. S. Edwards was declared the winner and soon proved as capable of creating controversy as art.

Admittedly, Miss Emma Sarah Edwards had entered the contest using only her initials to ensure an 18-year-old girl in a hoop skirt received equal consideration among her allmale competitors and judges. Today, Emma Edwards Green remains the only woman in U.S. history to create a State Seal.

Individual acts of courage—this is how history is made, how social change occurs, and how Idaho, so rich in wilderness yet home to the fastest-growing population in the nation, continues to shatter stereotypes.

A Republican First Lady, a Democratic State Senator, a geek philanthropist, the first Hispanic woman on the City Council, a visionary music maven, an altruistic financial wizard, a gravity-defying new mom, a revolutionary food guru, a Syrian refugee—the women profiled here, all leaders and innovators, are creating positive change in Boise and beyond.

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Like Emma Edwards and many more pioneers famed or unnamed, these women have triumphed over challenges and failure with strength, heart, determination, and hard work. In so doing, they’ve embodied the old saying, “A rising tide lifts all boats.”

Idaho may be landlocked, but the tide is rising thanks to these innovators.

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Nine Boise women creating positive change in the world

Lubna Al Aboud “I LEFT SY R I A because I want to live,” explains Lubna Al Aboud, a 17-year-old refugee and junior at Capitol High School. “There’s no life there. I cannot get an education. I cannot follow my dream to be a doctor.

We could not even find food.”

Lubna, her parents and five brothers were resettled in Boise nearly two years ago. The children appear to have adjusted well, speaking English, riding the bus to school, texting, playing video games.

“We feel very grateful for our new life, for the generosity of people in America,” says the teenager. “But we do not understand why President Trump does not like us.”

Soft-spoken and authentic, Lubna shared her life story on a refugee panel at FilmFort last year. It was a story of falling artillery shells, shattering bodies and windows of hospitals without doctors. Since then, she’s become an accidental ambassador, speaking often for those still trapped in the continuing conflict.

“Everyone is very kind in Boise,’ Lubna insists.

“Sometimes people stare.

Some kids at school ask if I’m bald. When I tell them no, they tell me to prove it by removing my hijab— but I do not. They’re not bad people. They don’t

understand that in my culture and religion, women are considered precious. We wear head­ scarves to gain respect, to encourage others to consider the worth of our character and intellect and not judge women by our hairstyle or clothes.”

Her enlightening perspective on this Muslim tradition shines an ironic spotlight on America’s pandemic of sexual harassment. The pertinence is not lost on Lubna. “I wish life was as easy as numbers. I love math. There is nothing to translate. The numbers always add up right.”

The teenager shakes her head. ‘I’m just normal. I like to watch movies, spend time with my friends. I really care about studying because I have a dream to be a doctor since I was a child.

To save even one soul is the greatest thing I have ever dreamed. I would love to go back to help the people of my country, but there are no dreams in Syria anymore.”

For Lubna, and refugees like her, Boise may prove to be a place where dreams come true.

“… consider the worth of our character and intellect and not judge women by our hairstyle or clothes.”

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A FIRST L A DY, like The Queen Mother and Wonder Woman, is supposed to be different from us. Forever coiffed and smiling, she’s perfected the art of charm with polished authenticity. She wears pantsuits and gowns that cost more than our cars. She’s very passionate but never angry. She even looks good in ugly hats. But what if this is only a media image? What if a First Lady was just like us? A teacher, a wife, a woman with two jobs?

Then we’d be talking about Lori Otter, Idaho’s First Lady.

Yes, Miss Lori (her nickname) looks good in hats: specifically, cowboy hats and baseball caps, which she wears for rodeos, parades and lawn mowing. And yes, she has a beauty-queensmile as a former Miss Idaho, but more so, because she loves working beside her husband, the Governor. That high-beam congeniality quickly flips to frustration, however, when discussing her view from the Capitol Building: the heartbreaking opioid crisis, the relatively low percentage of female legislators, and the economics of Girl Scout cookies.

“My biggest regret as First Lady is that I couldn’t help get that bill passed.” She’s talking about her three-year effort to get a tax relief bill on the sale of Girl Scout cookies passed in Idaho’s Legislature. “It just fries me that they—we—as one of only two states, penalize entrepreneurial young girls. It was a huge lesson for me. I learned that, even as First Lady, if you’re not part of the political process, you’re not going to be part of the solution. This motivated me to become CEO of I-WIL.” Idaho Women in Leadership (I-WIL), which has partnered with Zions Bank, has two missions: to support women moving into corporate leadership positions and to inspire and educate women—Democrat, Republican and Independent—to run for office. And win.

“Women have driven the results of every election in the last 100 years. Yet, they’re not equally represented because they don’t step up and run for office. And sadly, the few elected women in our Legislature are often divided by party lines, so their strength is divided.”

These words sound more like the seeds of a powerful campaign speech than the reflections of a soon-to-retire public servant. Then again, Lori Otter is not at all what you’d expect in a First Lady. She’s much more.

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Suzi Boyle THINK BACK TO 2009 when the impossible happened every day—when the housing-fueled bubble burst and banks toppled.

For many people in Boise and beyond, the meltdown still haunts them. Suzi Boyle, one of Boise’s most successful mortgage brokers, then and now, was no exception. Watching helplessly as hundreds of clients lost everything broke her heart.

“Five percent of the industry took the entire country down,” Boyle explained recently. “The hardest part of my job now is people don’t trust mortgage brokers. I have to explain that I helped write federal loan legislation to help prevent another disaster.”

Boyle is 5 feet, 3 inches tall, and hapa; her mother was Japanese, and her father Caucasian. Raised in Burley, Idaho, a graduate of Boise State University, she made an unlikely career choice because she wanted “to help people in Boise get a home. But even when business was good, it’s never been easy.”

Then again, compared to the challenges Boyle has faced in her personal life, gender discrimination in a

historically male jungle is a mosquito bite.

When she was 38, her father and mother were murdered in their home in Burley. Then, after Boyle spent five years recovering from a stroke at age 50, her husband, Michael Hummel, suffered a traumatic brain injury in a car accident. “Resilience,” Boyle said, “can’t be taught. It’s only learned the hard way.”

This financial altruist, community advocate, and devoted philanthropist expressed reluctance when invited to be in this article: “I’m not sure I deserve to be included with all these amazing women.”

When asked why, she offered humbly, “I guess I have a very high standard of achievement for myself. I’m just not there yet, but I’m working on it and hopefully, helping others along the way.”

Boyle embodies qualities common with the women in this group and many more unmentioned: humility, purpose, compassion, resilience, and courage. These are human qualities that define true success for all of us, male and female, despite our differences.

“Resilience can’t be taught.

It’s only learned the hard way.”

Eileen Barber TA NGO, the sad, sensual, elegant and melancholic dance that originated in Buenos Aires in the 1880s, has bled into the soul of Eileen Barber.

Barber, who is the co-founder of Keynetics, the largest privately held tech company in Idaho and parent company to both Kount, Inc. (a provider of fraud and risk management solutions) and ClickBank (one of the largest online retailers), is a professional tango dancer and board member at Tango Boise. In the past year, she launched Ochos, a social dance venue and tapas bar.

And, although tango and tech seem like an odd mix, for Barber, it makes perfect sense.

“The arts are important to me,” said Barber, who served as past president of the Idaho Shakespeare Festival and believes that the arts and artistic expression help teach creative problem solving, which she sees as a key component to science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) jobs. “We started our software business in a 6-by-12 garage 20 years ago,” recalled Barber. “It was about seeing trends and identifying patterns.”

Barber has taken a step back from day-to-day operations at Keynetics but is still committed to solving problems. Most

37 recently, she donated $250,000 to Boise State University (BSU) for the Kount Tutoring Center in downtown Boise—a move she said was motivated by her goal of engaging more women in the field of technology. Nationwide, there are projected to be 2.4 million unfilled STEM jobs this year, and women are presently filling only 24 percent of them.

“Programming requires diversity of thought and creativity,” stated Barber, who believes that young women need to be exposed to it earlier and is committed to supporting that process. “If they can see it, they can be it,” she said emphatically, citing her work with educators in developing a robust AP Computer Science program at the high school level and introducing programming to fifth-graders. In 2009, Barber also helped establish the Keynetics Inc., Computer Science Scholarship for Women, followed by the Ada Lovelace Computer Science Scholarship for Women in 2013 (in honor of the world’s first computer scientist, Ada, Countess of Lovelace). But perhaps her proudest tech moment to date will be watching her daughter, a music minor, as she graduates with a computer science degree from BSU. SPRING 2018

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festival that has stayed true to its roots and remains a celebration of what makes Boise great. In this respect, it is clear that Shandro Oüten’s intensely directed, yet calm and genuine presence helps guide the mission of the festival, which was recently named the City of Boise’s Cultural Ambassador for its role in connecting Boise creatives with other communities around the region, the country, and the world.

“Treefort has exceeded all our expectations and has truly become a community-built festival,” said Shandro Oüten, who attributes its success to passion and timing. “It is amazing how many people have come forward in the community to offer their talents and passion.”

Treefort, which Shandro Oüten formed in partnership with cofounders Drew Lorona and Eric Gilbert, has grown from a threeday festival with 137 bands and 13 venues when it launched in 2012 to a five-day festival featuring more than 447 bands at over two dozen venues.

“My favorite aspect of Treefort continues to be watching the creative crossover that buildS between all the different forts each year,” said Shandro Oüten, who cites nine different forts (which are akin to franchises run under the umbrella of Treefort), including Alefort, Yogafort, Storyfort, Hackfort, Filmfort, Skatefort, Comedyfort, Kidfort and Foodfort.

This places Shandro Oüten at the epicenter of one of the biggest creative cultural movements in Boise.

“My role is really to encourage people to cultivate what they are good at and what they love doing,” she said. It is what brings her the most joy, and, fortunately for Boise, her passion for music has helped create a vehicle to bring the community together to share their love of Boise and engage the city on a larger stage.

Meg Carlson MEG CARLSON intends to save the world with a food group: fat.

“Not the bad kind,” says the CEO of MELT, purveyors of a plant-based butter. “Good fat. Organic. Palm fruit, sunflower, flax seeds—natural fats that support brain function. It’s polyunsaturated fats in processed foods, carbs and sugar that convert to saturated fat in your bloodstream.”

Research has shown that too much animal-based fat, starches, and refined flour can stop your heart. Carlson put those stats on the dinner table and proved the philosophical principle of Occam’s Razor: when two explanations arise for an occurrence, the simpler one is usually better, even when you’re talking about butter.

A 30-year veteran in the Idaho food industry, Carlson brings more than philosophy and heart-healthy recipes to the free consults she provides to hundreds of startup food entrepreneurs at Boise Trailhead and Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO), a national network of entrepreneurs.

“There’s a radical shift happening,” she tells aspiring foodies. “Outliers are disrupting aging corporate structures.”

That means mom’s handwritten grocery list with Campbell’s Tomato Soup has been replaced by the generation with online carts Googling free-trade avocado-turmeric toast.

They care about what they’re eating, where it came from.

What’s Carlson’s best advice for aspiring outliers? Be passionate, and talk to people who have tried, failed, and succeeded. Have a business plan and don’t expect to become a millionaire in three to five years. Know the risk is high and the return low in the short term, but the experience is invaluable in the long run. And finally, don’t forget to stop, breathe deep, and remind yourself why you started the journey.

Carlson’s most profound advice, however, is not advice.

It’s wisdom. The kind that only comes from experiencing great personal tragedy: the suicide of her 19-year-old-son.

“You grieve the loss of a child your entire life. But from that experience I found three things that could help me endure and move forward: one, a strong faith in God, as my husband and I couldn’t bear the pain alone; two, accepting support from family and friends; three, a clear and meaningful purpose. Luckily, for me, my work is also my purpose: helping families make the choice to live healthier lives.”

Profile photos: Makeup: Blush by Jamie Rose and Megan Garbani; Set Stylist/Wardrobe: Lindsey Pate for Bliss Events

NOT YOU R T Y PICA L CPA, Lori Shandro Oüten knows the tax code, was a specialist in the taxation of insurance companies, has consulted with start-ups, and started her own business. But, what sets her apart from her field is the simple fact that, in her spare time, Shandro Oüten helped launch and produce Treefort, a five-day music festival that runs annually in downtown Boise every March.

Treefort has been praised for being intimate and authentic—a

Cherie Buckner-Webb CHERIE BUCKNER-WEBB is a fifth-generation Idahoan who comes from a long line of pioneers and forerunners. True to her heritage, she is a leader for her generation: She was the first woman of color admitted into the Junior League of Idaho, rose to the top of her field while climbing the corporate ladder at Boise Cascade and Hewlett-Packard, and was elected Idaho’s first African American State Legislator in 2010, winning the seat with 68 percent of the vote.

Two years later, she won the Idaho Senate seat (in 2012 for District 19) and was named the Democratic caucus chair shortly thereafter.

“My mother was a strong-willed, free-thinking black woman who was not afraid to disturb the peace,” said Buckner-Webb, who recalled the time when a local hate group burned a cross in the front yard of their north Boise home. She was in the first grade at the time and remembers her mother boldly displaying the cross on the mantle as a reminder and an act of strength, an experience she credits with motivating her into human rights and civil discourse.

“Sometimes the biggest impact you can make in your life is what you do locally,” she said, adding that she is thrilled to be serving Idaho and is encouraged to see women standing together in support of their beliefs, whether for education, gender equality, social or economic justice.

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in people and the power in uniting people. She is also an accomplished jazz and gospel singer. She has recorded with the late great Gene Harris and her debut solo album “By His Grace” won the Idaho Excellence in the Arts Award in 2004.

Perhaps this is why her voice so often lifts people up. Her personal mantra is “leave a legacy” and she believes this inspires, no, requires her to stand purposefully to confront and interrupt any of the violence, oppression, abuse, disrespect and discrimination that she sees in the world.

“I come from a generation of consciousness raising,” said BucknerWebb, who admits she may have more of her mother’s “Disturb the Peace” motto than she originally thought.

“It wasn’t, ‘go out trouble making.’ It was: ‘When you see something that is not the way it should be, don’t be timid, don’t sit back, don’t cover your mouth, don’t bow your head.

Stand up and interrupt that behavior.’”

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Lisa Sanchez AS THE FIRST Latina elected to the Boise City Council, Lisa Sanchez made the Idaho history books on Nov. 7, 2017. She had never run for political office before but won more than 44 percent of the vote.

“I am proud to be of Mexican descent,” said Sanchez. “When we do something, we don’t do it for ourselves, we do it with each other and for each other.” These are qualities she would like to bring to her role on the City Council. Her goal: to bring everybody to the table.

Sanchez recognizes that it will take solid leadership to accomplish this task.

She knows because she had strong role models growing up. “I was literally drowning in powerful women,” said Sanchez. Her mother, Janie Ortiz, was

honored by two Idaho governors. She was appointed to the Idaho Commission on Hispanic Affairs by Gov. Cecil B. Andrus in 1995, and was awarded a posthumous commendation for all her public service work by Gov. Butch Otter in 2017.

(Sanchez notes that this represents both a Democratic and a Republican governor, and proudly states that her mother saw all people equally, without making divisions between people, communities, politics, or conditions.)

Sanchez herself was the first Latina to serve as both student body vicepresident and president at Boise State University (BSU) and, more recently, was the only Spanish-speaking civil rights investigator for the Idaho Human Rights

Commission (2008 to 2013). But it is her mother and grandmother to whom she gives credit for inspiring her journey into office. “My mom had a ‘never give up’ spirit,” Sanchez said. “They both had very little, but the way they led their lives was by experiencing value in their community.”

Sanchez learned from their examples that leaders roll up their sleeves and get to work. There was no waiting for a program or permission, and no recognition was needed.

“My mother had the trust of the people,” Sanchez said, adding that it would be her greatest honor to live up to her legacy while in office.

“We don’t do it for ourselves, we do it with each other and for each other.”

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Sanchez and Edson profile photos: Makeup: Blush by Jamie Rose and Megan Garbani; Set Stylist/Wardrobe: Lindsey Pate for Bliss Events Sanchez swearing-in: Claude Beagarie / Courtesy Lisa Sanchez Edson pose: Steve Smith / Courtesy Lauren Edson

Lauren Edson DA NCE IS A META PHOR. The gravitydefying arcs, bound by skin and bone, sing to our soul in a language everyone can see. With each swirl and dive, a dancer allows the audience to believe humanity must be more than our quotidian lives. If you doubt, go see Lauren Edson dance. She will convince you with a single sweep of her arm that, assuredly, we must be angels, learning to soar.

How many artists have faced the question within or presented by others: “Why don’t you get a real job?” More importantly, how many artists find the answer to the question before they give up and become a barista or a banker? Lauren Edson created her answer in three letters: LED. Edson, 33, founded this creative Boise-based consortium with her husband and musician, Andrew Stensaas, in 2015. Together they’ve built a world-class theatrical experience that includes dancers, musicians, original and genre-bending musical compositions, and, sometimes, wild animal masks. The masks are for the audience.

Whether playing to sold-out audiences at the Morrison Center, Egyptian Theater or Treefort, every performance feels too big for its venue, as if there is simply too much talent to fit on one stage. And in the middle of it all is Edson, 101 pounds of anti-gravitational magic. Just try to take your eyes off her. She is the leaping heartbeat of the entire, pulsing production.

41 Edson started her dance career with the obligatory exodus to New York, hoping to land a paying gig with an established company. Then came Chicago.

Then Portland. Ironically, she found her dream day job right here in Boise when she sent an audition tape to choreographer Trey McIntyre.

“I felt honored to express Trey’s artistic vision. He’s an amazing choreographer. But the longer I danced with him, for him, the more I yearned to express my own vision. When he moved back East, I stayed.

And then everything began to unfold.”

Unfolding seems the perfect word to describe Edson. Her life is her family is her art is LED, and it’s all unfolding, like wings, destined to carry them all to greater heights.

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Center Moment

Fifteen thousand years ago, the Bonneville flood roared through the Snake River plains of Idaho at speeds thought by geologists to be 70 mph. With a supposed 400-foot-high flood crest, one can imagine the geologic havoc the flood created. One result of the event was the creation of Blue Heart Springs, a favorite stop for boaters along the Snake River near Hagerman. With its aquamarine, crystal-clear water bubbling up from below at a breathtaking 58Ëš F, the springs seem somewhat otherworldly amid the stark lava rock walls of the canyon.

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Opposite page: Tempranillo , the famed grape of Spain’s Rioja region, grows well in Caldwell’s Sunnyslope area.

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The wine is already good and getting bet­ ter all the time. The Sunnyslope vine­yards and wineries are on the upswing, and the world is starting to notice.

Nobody was calling the Sunny­ slope area near Caldwell a wine region when Greg Koenig started Koenig Vineyards in 1995. Sure, Ste. Chapelle, which is still Idaho’s largest winery, had already operated nearby for nearly two decades. And a few other small vineyards took advan­ tage of the ideal south-facing slopes.

But the handful of wineries south of Caldwell were too small and too remote to catch much attention.

“Two or three wineries together might just be two or three of us crazy people who set up shop in an obscure region,” Koenig says. “And that’s what it was.”

Even locals didn’t care about wineries in Sunnyslope or anywhere else in Idaho. Boise restaurants car­ ried almost exclusively California wines from famous wine regions such as Napa Valley and Sonoma County.

The remaining menu space was dedicated to wine from Washington, which was beginning to gain its own acclaim following successful market­ ing campaigns.

Idaho didn’t have enough win­ eries, enough volume or enough of a brand to have a seat at the table. That wasn’t all. “Idaho winemakers had to earn their reputation,” Koenig says.

“They needed to make better wine.”

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The landscape has changed dur­ ing the past two decades. Today, more than 50 wineries call Idaho home.

The state has its own Snake River Valley American Viticultural Area to promote, just like the famous wine regions in California and elsewhere.

Most Boise restaurants not only carry local wines, they build wine lists around them.

Sunnyslope has become the AVA’s crown jewel, with a wine trail featur­ ing 14 wineries in Canyon County and another slated to open this year.

Those wineries enjoyed a surge in traffic during the last two or three years thanks to their growing repu­

tation. Koenig opened his tasting room seven days a week initially just to ensure his employees had enough work. Now, customers come every day, including during the winter months when business used to dry up. During peak season in the sum­ mer and fall, 200 or 300 people will pass through his tasting room in between stops on the wine tours, often unloading off of buses or trav­ eling from outside the state to sip wine and enjoy the view overlooking the vineyard before heading to the next winery on the tour.

“In the bad old days there would be Saturdays when nobody came to the tasting room,” Koenig says.

“Now, there’s Idaho wine tours, and wine seekers. There’s enough of a cluster here that people can make an afternoon of it.”

Neighboring Williamson Orchards and Vineyards has con­ verted more and more of its fruit tree acreage to wine grapes since opening its tasting room in 2001. Sunnyslope wine was a tougher sell back then, says Beverly Williamson, who runs the operation with her brother, Michael, and cousin, Patrick.

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The high desert of the Snake River AVA offers plenty of warm, dry sunshine during the growing season and loose, nutrient-rich soil that grapes love.

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Below, from left: Riesling harvest at Williamson vineyards; the Williamsons: Patrick, Beverly, and Michael.

her brother and cousin. “You don’t have to like it. Just try it.”

But since the wine tours started a few years ago—and since the Wil­ liamsons built a larger tasting room that’s easy to spot off of I-55—tasting room traffic and sales have climbed each year.

After producing their own first vintage, the Williamsons partnered with Koenig, trading his winemak­ ing for grape acreage.

Williamson and the rest of Sunnyslope has since flourished.

Williamson says that’s thanks in part to the Sunnyslope winery operators’ willingness to help each other and share expensive equipment. Wine is that rare business where your neigh­ bors’ success can only help your traffic and reputation.

“If I need help shoveling dur­ ing Snowmageddon, somebody will be there,” she says. “We’ve helped pick grapes when neighbors couldn’t get the labor. The thing I like about

this group of crazy winemakers is they treat it like a community.”

Creation of the Snake River AVA and other efforts by the Idaho Wine Commission helped raise Idaho’s profile in the wine world.

Part of that is due to the fact that Sunnyslope has a cluster of winer­ ies, making it a destination, says Mike Dunne, a wine critic for The Sacramento Bee and a longtime judge for wine competitions. But he says it’s also because Sunnyslope wine­ makers have upped their games.

European wine powerhouses such as France and Spain experimented for centuries before honing in on the varieties perfectly suited for the temperatures and soils in each region, he says. California growers first planted wine grapes in the 1700s and became more serious about their craft in the 1970s.

Making top-shelf wine takes time to figure out which varieties and methods fit the region, Dunne says. For example, Napa Valley offers ideal conditions for growing cabernet sauvignon, thanks in part to the cool breeze coming off of the San Francisco Bay. Sunnyslope is

now further along in that process, and the results are delicious, bod­ ing well for the future.

“It’s a really young wine region, and there’s a lot of searching, a lot of trial and error going on,” Dunne says. “Some of it is working out really well.”

Discoveries and Misfires

Conventional wisdom during Idaho wine’s adolescent years said the state wasn’t warm enough to grow red wine grapes.

In truth, the high desert of the Snake River AVA offers plenty of warm, dry sunshine during the growing season and loose, nutri­ ent-rich soil that grapes love. The gentle hills of Sunnyslope offer 270-degree exposure to the sun as it travels its daily course while pushing the cold air downhill at night. Koe­ nig says his 14 acres are about three degrees warmer than at the val­ ley floor, keeping his vines in their sweet spots.

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“Now, we’re known for red wines,” he says. “It’s what people come for. Red wine is where serious wine people start to give attention to a winemak­ ing region.”

Not all experiments worked.

Koenig tried to grow and make pinot varieties for six years. The coolweather grape cooked on his vines and never produced quality juice.

But other trials produced sur­ prising results, including one by Michael Williamson, Beverly’s bro­ther and part of the fourth generation of farm operators. Their father, Roger, told Michael to put his horticulture degree to work by researching grape varieties that would match the farm’s growing conditions. Michael reported back that Sangiovese, an Italian grape with a name meaning “Blood of Jupi­ ter,” was the best match.

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The grape thrived. The wine was good. The Williamsons planted more Sangiovese, which became a topseller, not only as a red but also as a rosé sold under the “Blossom” label.

“I can’t keep it on the shelves in the tasting room,” Beverly says. “Local winemakers are thrilled to have this new variety to play with.”

Koenig and other growers have had success with another lesserknown variety: tempranillo, a fullbodied, early-ripening red grape.

Dunne, the wine critic, said he first noticed Sunnyslope’s tempranillos when he and other judges awarded medals to several. Dunne, who has visited Sunnyslope several times, says he’s excited by the mix of qual­ ity wines coming out of the region.

“What struck me is the exploration,” he says. “You’ll find an outstanding tempranillo, a Spanish grape that does well in warm, arid climates, right next to a vineyard of Riesling, which is a cool-climate, short-sea­ son grape. Yet those rieslings can be outstanding, attractive, layered, dis­ tinctive.”

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flipped, thanks in part to the Buy Local and Farm-to-Fork movements, says Moya Shatz Dolsby, executive director of the Idaho Wine Commis­ sion. Consumers now seek out Idaho wine just like they do local micro­ brews, produce, and anything else.

“Idaho wine is getting out there into the world more because we have great loyalists,” Shatz Dolsby says.

“Consumers in Idaho are ambassa­ dors for the Idaho wine industry. It makes my job a lot easier.”

Finding a Flagship

Pleasing critics isn’t enough.

Successful wineries—and often wine regions—appeal to consumers by promoting flagship varieties. Of its many strong wines, Napa Valley is best known for cabernet sauvignon.

Sonoma County produces some of the nation’s best chardonnay. Ore­ gon is pinot noir country.

Finding a calling card variety could do wonders for the Snake River AVA and Sunnyslope brands, Beverly Williamson says. It’s still early in the process of figuring out what grows here best, but she says Idaho can do itself a favor by not replaying the hits.

“There’s plenty of good merlot and chardonnay in the world. That’s why

“Everybody is surprised that we don’t have chardonnay, but we have this funny ‘V’ grape. Some people call it ‘vinegar.’

No! It’s Viognier [vee-own-yay], and it grows really well here.”

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—BE V ER LY W IL L I A MSON we don’t grow it,” she says. “If we have our name on it, we want it to be the best. We want it to be more unique to our area.”

Williamson said that Viognier—a white wine gaining popularity in the U.S.—could be the ticket. “Everybody is surprised that we don’t have char­ donnay, but we have this funny ‘V’ grape,” she says. “Some people call it ‘vinegar.’ No! It’s Viognier, and it grows really well here.”

Therein lies the rub, Koenig says. Idaho wineries can compete with more established winemakers and regions by producing the four big sellers in the U.S.: cabernet sauvignon, chardonnay, merlot and pinot gris. But that’s not necessarily what Idaho does well.

“But once you get into the more obscure stuff, that’s a harder sell,” he says. “We plant a little bit of those lesser-known grapes for fun, and to see how they do. But commercially, we have to stay within the wheelhouse of American tastes.”

Koenig says he brings his reserve syrahs to fancy dinners when he hopes to show off what his vineyard and the region can do well. People rave about the award-winning syrah, and then order a case of cab. “Most of our sales are cabernet sauvignon, and that can do okay here, as long as the grower is careful to keep the yield low,” he says.

“But the function of that success is that everybody knows what cabernet sauvignon is.”

Maybe Idaho doesn’t need to find a banner wine variety, Shatz Dolsby says.

“Oregon has a lot of great wines that nobody knows about because their marketing campaign is only about Oregon pinot noir,” she says.

“That’s a disservice to people making awesome chardonnay. Even if we do have a leading varietal, I don’t know if we should hang our hats on that.”

The Future Idaho wine needs new blood, Koenig says. And by that he means the state needs new money. Idaho wine is good and im­proving. Vine­ yard acreage is the factor limiting industry growth. The state has about 1,300 acres devoted to wine grapes.

California has more than 900,000.

Idaho simply cannot produce enough wine to distribute to the West Coast, let alone the nation.

Today, Idaho winemakers are local and mostly small-plot operators, Koenig says. If the state is to ramp up production, we’ll likely need out-ofstate vintners to invest millions for land, irrigation and equipment. In the meantime, most of the new wine­ makers have opted to start boutique wineries and buy their grapes rather than sink money—and two years of incurring expenses before yielding fruit—into growing their own.

“I look forward to tasting Idaho wine in 10 years, when we have new vineyards and the others have time to figure it out,” Koenig says.

Shatz Dolsby says there’s plenty of land available in the Snake River AVA, including a 300-acre plot near Melba that could be converted from a dairy into a vineyard. “There’s a lot of land that can be pieced together that’s tumbleweed right now,” she says.

The hills and views that come with great grape-growing country also make great home locations, meaning prospecting vintners must pay a premium to outbid developers.

However, that’s even more true in California, Koenig says. He hopes vintners get fed up with higher prices elsewhere and come to Idaho. “We’re hoping some people will come here, used to California prices, and say, ‘let’s develop these 80 acres into a world-class vineyard.’”

The Orchard House The Orchard House serves as the informal city hall for the Sunnyslope winemakers and grape growers. For years, some of the early Sunnyslope players gathered at the café for coffee and to talk shop, including Greg Koenig of Koenig Vineyards, Gregg Algers from Huston Vineyards, and Rob Bitner from Bitner Vineyards. A member from the Williamson family of Williamson Orchards & Vineyards dropped in occasionally, though one of the regulars would often stop by the farm to chat if they didn’t, Beverly Williamson says.

When they didn’t talk about weather or bugs or wine, they discussed their most daunting task: bringing attention to Sunnyslope wine. Over the years, these conversations coalesced into the formation of the Sunnyslope Wine Trail, the nonprofit responsible for increasing wine tourism in the area. Koenig and Martin Fujishin, Koenig’s former assistant who now owns Fujishin Family Cellars & Lost West Winery, secured a grant that paid for the signs at each winery that help tourists find their way to the next winery. The Orchard House itself is a longtime supporter of the Sunnyslope wine scene, carrying local products, catering to wine tourists and training up staff to know more about wine than probably any other casual Idaho café.

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A Call to Action How Idaho Forestry Soldiers aided the Allies’ effort in The Great War

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ustard gas, aerial bombings, and death from disease and the influenza epidemic were all part of the horrors of World War I. Despite those prospects, and perhaps forgotten or unknown to many living today, over 100 men from Idaho enlisted in

the 20th Engineers (Forestry) Battalion, the largest American regiment in WWI. These uniquely qualified soldiers were considered lucky in that they served behind the front lines, but they worked around the clock, seven days a week, to supply the troops with lumber for hospitals, trenches, bridges, railroad ties, stakes for entanglement fences, and constructing buildings that supported the war effort.

On April 6, 1917, Congress passed President Woodrow Wilson’s declaration of war

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Soldiers: Brassey Family Collection Poster: Library of Congress

A PLEA FOR HELP Upon the United States entering WWI, urgent pleas from the French and British were made to the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) Commander Gen. John Pershing to send foresters and lumbermen to aid the war effort. One historical account states that our allies asked Gen. Pershing to send foresters before sending soldiers. The U.S. War Department made it a top priority to seek skilled forestry troops to serve in the Army.

The 10th Reserve Engineers (Forestry) was formed in May 1917 to recruit soldiers with forestry skills to produce lumber for American and Allied military operations. Recruiting ads boasted: “Join the Largest Regiment in the World.”

The U.S. Forest Service, with assistance from state foresters and lumber associations, recruited men to serve in the 10th Engineers. On Aug. 15, 1917, all forestry units merged under the 20th Engineers (Forestry) with Col. James A. Woodruff named commanding officer.

The 20th Engineers had 514 officers and 30,145 enlisted men from every

state in the nation. By the end of December 1917, Idaho had provided about 110 men to the 20th. Col. William Greeley was in charge of recruiting for the regiment. Prior to joining the Army, Greeley had worked for the U.S. Forest Service as the district forester for Northern Idaho and Western Montana and, consequently, he recruited men he had worked with from Idaho.

Basic training for the soldiers was held on the American University campus in Washington, D.C. The soldiers participated in military drills and were taught administrative and disciplinary procedures before being shipped to France. The troops were already skilled woodsmen and did not require further training for the jobs they would perform. However, when the American Forestry soldiers first arrived in France, in the fall of 1917, they had to first build the sawmills they would later use in the war effort. The sawmills were built with tools and equipment provided by the U.S. government, though some equipment and tools were lacking. Soldiers

Patriotic poster promoting WWI bonds.

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20th Engineers (Forestry) soldiers at Camp American University, Washington, D.C., taken in October 1917

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Idaho resident Willis C. “Buck” Brassey enlisted in the United States Army on Oct. 3, 1917, at age 23. Prior to joining the Army, Brassey operated an automobile transport business and owned a seven-passenger Cadillac that he used to transport residents and gold bullion from Placerville and Idaho City to Boise. From the day Brassey began his service in the American Expeditionary Forces he saved transfer orders, photographs, letters, and memorabilia that documented his war experience.

This collection, preserved in a scrapbook, along with Brassey’s oral history in the Idaho State Archives, provides a glimpse into the life of a WWI forestry soldier. Letters from fellow soldiers serving in the Army suggest the deep camaraderie that developed among them.

Photographs and letters from family, friends, and spouses kept the soldiers abreast of the latest news and encouraged soldiers to fight for their loved ones, yet also made the soldiers long for home.

Sickness, fires, and deaths reminded soldiers of the loss and heartache that was also occurring in their hometowns.

Pvt. Brassey enlisted as a Wagoner and was assigned to the 1st Battalion, Company B, later known as the 30th Co., 20th Engineers (Forestry). This battalion had a remarkably diverse roster of men; they came from nearly every state in the nation. The battalion sailed for France on Nov. 11, 1917, arriving at the port of St. Nazaire on Nov. 28 on the USS Madawaska. The ship was originally owned by Germany under the name Koenig Wilhelm II. In November 2017, Emile Grandjean, Boise National Forest Service supervisor,

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wrote in response to a letter from Pvt. Brassey, dated Oct. 27, 2017: I was surely glad to receive your letter of October 27, and to know that you and all the boys from Idaho are getting along nicely. Yes, I feel sure that you like Washington, though it is really more of a great big overgrown village than a real city. I suppose you have visited all the different Government institutions, especially the Smithsonian and the Library … since you left the enlistment for the Regiment has been extremely slow. It appears that we have practically obtained all the men of experience who are willing to enlist in this part of Idaho…

Upon arriving in France, Pvt. Brassey was assigned the job of checking in U.S. equipment at regimental headquarters in Tours, France. Soldiers needed saws, axes, and large equipment for the sawmills. According to Pvt. Brassey, $300 million worth of equipment was shipped to France from the U.S. Fearing the Germans would sink many of the transport ships, the U.S. shipped much more equipment than was needed for the forestry regiment.

As it turned out, none of these ships was sunk, and all the equipment remained after the Armistice, leaving all 81 sawmills in operation in France.

covered he had disembarked from the ship at Halifax, where he was quarantined with the measles.

Frontline soldiers fighting in the trenches often looked down on SOS soldiers because they felt these soldiers lived entitled lives of being well-fed and away from the life-and-death dangers of combat. Forestry soldiers were also called POGs, People Other Than Grunts, and SOL, Shit Out of Luck. A popular song was created by the 20th Engineers soldiers assigned to headquarters in Tours.

WORKING BEHIND THE FRONT LINES

LETTERS TO SOLDIERS

Soldiers in the 20th Engineers worked long, monotonous hours as they served in Services of Supply (SOS) behind the front lines. Company B, 1st Battalion forestry soldiers enjoyed privileges that most other forestry companies did not receive, like Army regulation leave, dances that local young French women attended, and a company band.

Great risk was involved in transporting troops to France because German U-Boats sank on average 60 boats per week. The largest loss of life of the 20th Engineers occurred on Feb. 5, 1918; 95 men died when the S.S. Tuscania, transporting forestry troops to France, was sunk by the Germans. Many of the men died when their lifeboat drifted to Scotland and crashed into the rocks at the Isle of Islay. No Idaho soldiers were lost on the S.S. Tuscania. While Fred Groomer from Horseshoe Bend was feared to have drowned, it was later dis-

Mother, Take Down Your Service Flag, Your Son’s in the SOS He’s SOL, but what the hell, He never suffered less.

He may be thin, but that’s from gin, Or else I missed my guess.

Mother, Take Down Your Service Flag, Your Son’s in the SOS Even though fewer SOS soldiers died than combat soldiers, there were still deaths from accidents, disease, and ships sunk by the enemy. The book “Twentieth Engineers: France 1917-1918-1919” states, “It is altogether probable that 375 men of the regiment lost their lives in service of our country.”

Letters were the most treasured form of communication between soldiers and their loved ones at home. Soldiers also wrote to friends serving in different locations in France. Pvt. Brassey’s friend Lawrence wrote to him on Oct. 24, 1918, expressing his desire to leave the SOS and join the artillery troops.

Dear Friend Buck, I received your letter of Sept. 20th and was very glad to hear from you old man for I couldn’t figure out what had become of you.

Glad you are driving old boy for you will get to see a great deal of France and it is right in your line to. We are as busy as hell around here now and have a bit of excitement to(o). Yesterday we saw quite an air Battle five Huns and six allies and what I mean for a few minutes it was a real game of tag. don’t know how they came out for in a few minutes they were all out of sight. I think that I have a chance

Forestry engineers on the road and in the mill: U.S. Army Heritage and Education Center Officers and soldiers on USS Madawaska: Brassey Family Collection

improvised as best they could with the available odds and ends.

Once the men arrived in France they were assigned to work either in one of the 81 mills that produced 2 million board feet of lumber every day or at regimental headquarters in Tours.

The forestry regiment cut 272.5 million feet of lumber and 2.73 million railroad ties by Dec. 1, 1918. Most of the soldiers’ military equipment was left behind at supply stations, and it was estimated only one-tenth of the guns issued were taken to the lumber camps.

Members of the 20th Engineers at the Amex tie mill, France.

A hand-tinted photo portrait of Pvt. Willis

Forestry soldiers in Bains le

Brassey

Bains, France, Sept. 26, 1918.

A forestry soldier hauling lumber during the war in rural France.

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Soldiers on board the USS Madawaska

20th Engineers officers, including Col. J.A. Woodruff, Commanding Officer (front row, second from left)

Such letters and packages from home were highly prized and helped soldiers feel connected to their friends and family.

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During the war years, poetry was highly esteemed among soldiers and the general public. The written word, poetry and songs had a much more important meaning to soldiers in an age without radio, television and instant communication. Soldiers and loved ones memorized poetry, invented songs for their amusement, and wrote daily letters to family and friends.

J. P. McEvoy illustrated this in “The Flu” from his collection of humorous poems, “The Slams of Life.”

THE FLU When your back is broke and your eyes are blurred, And your shin bones knock and your tongue is furred, And your tonsils speak and your hair gets dry, And your doggone sure that you’re going to die, But you’re skeered you won’t and afraid you will, Just drag to bed and have your chill, And pray the Lord to see you through, For you’ve got the Flu, boy, You’ve got the Flu. When your toes curl up and your belt goes flat, And you’re twice as mean as a Thomas cat, And life is a long and dismal curse, And your food all tastes like a hardboiled hearse, When your lattice aches and your head’s a buzz, And nothing is at it ever was,

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Here are my sad regrets to you— You’ve got the Flu, boy, You’ve got the Flu. What is it like, this Spanish Flu? Ask me, brother, for I’ve been through.

It is by Misery out of Despair; It pulls your teeth and curls your hair; It thins your blood and brays your bones, And fills your craw with moans and groans, And sometimes, maybe, you get well.

Some call it Flu—I call it hell!

In addition to enjoying poetry and letters from home, soldiers could get a respite from the war through the services of the YMCA. The YMCA set up canteens for the soldiers during WWI and provided entertainment and reading material, some of which related to the morale, welfare, and rest and recreation for soldiers. Later the YMCA created the USO that entertained soldiers during the Second World War.

A DEADLY WAR ENDS The war ended with the signing of the Armistice on Nov. 11, 1918. Once the Armistice was signed, there were not enough ships to immediately return all the soldiers to the U.S. Many soldiers stayed in France and were assigned to road repairs. Pvt. Martin Smith wrote to Pvt. Brassey relaying news from home and longing to see a familiar face.

December 23, 1918 Brest, France Dear Buck, Some weather we are having in this burg, rain all the time and mud, but I guess I can’t tell you anything about France.

I left the old U.S. three months ago myself. The time passed away fast when a fellow works every day. We landed in this port and been here ever since driving the trucks around the docks and camps. At present I am driving one of those English Karriers. I change shifts today and go on nights. A fellow has got to have eyes like a cat to see without lights.

Are you still driving a truck? Say, old boy when you start home you’ll more than likely come here to embark and if you do be sure and look up the fighting 548 Motor Truck Co. We will get on a drunk to

celebrate the occasion. A fellows eyes get sore watching for a familiar face.

They had quite a time at home with the Spanish “Flue” but thank God, old boy, none of our loved ones got caught.

I suppose you heard about Mrs. McDevitt passing away so suddenly. It must have been heart trouble.

These French “dames” are sure classy but give me a good old American girl any day. What do you say?

Everyone was fine at home when I last heard mother and dad had just got over a light touch of the flu. Little Buck was getting along fine.

Well old sport I’ll close for this time wishing you a Merry Xmas and a Happy New Year and may the next one see us both back in old Placerville.

With best regards from your best friend Lloyd (Pvt. Martin L. Smith) A detachment order was issued by 1st Lt. Raymond Davis, AEF Headquarters, 14th Battalion, 20th Engineers, USA. The Detachment Order, Number 17, was written on the final day of WWI. The order declared, “The above is to provide an opportunity for the men of these headquarters to mingle with the civil populace, that they may celebrate with them the triumphant ending of the Greatest War in all times.”

Col. J.A. Woodruff, Commanding Officer of the 20th Engineer soldiers also wrote to his soldiers at the end of the war. “Notwithstanding the difficulties in obtaining equipment and transportation, notwithstanding the enormous increase in the size of the American E.F., and the work which it undertook over the original estimates, the Army has been given the lumber which it needed, and the suspension of hostilities finds us with a substantial surplus which will be used for the restoration of France … Time and again in spite of difficulties such as lumbermen never contended with before, you have exceeded our expectations. Your record as members of the American E.F. will be a source of pride and satisfaction as you return to civil life.”

Editor’s note: To see a list of Idaho forestry soldiers from the 10th and 20th Engineers, see the story online at territory-mag.com

Photos: Brassey Family Collection

to get transferred into the Artillery and I’m sure trying hard to make it. I will be glad to have a chance of pouring hot lead at the Huns for a change instead of having them cut loose at us and not be able to shoot back at them …

Write when you have time. Good luck and best wishes old pal and here's hoping that we see each other in the states soon.

Yours, Lawrence

WWI soldier Pvt. Willis Brassey returned home in May 1919 on the USS Missouri and brought back memorabilia, including poems, songs and photographs of friends he served with in WWI.

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Maj. F. M. Bartelme, Cmdr., 14th Battalion, 20th Engineers, who ran the sawmill in LePuy, France.

WWI EXHIBIT The exhibit “WWI Idaho Forestry Soldiers: Call to Action” is open at the J. Curtis Earl Museum located on the Old Penitentiary grounds. The

exhibit features artifacts from WWI and photo-

graphs taken during WWI. This museum is part of the Idaho State Historical Society.

In addition to visiting the WWI Idaho Forestry

Soldiers exhibit, you can walk through a WWI trench, aim a machine gun across “no man’s

land” and explore historic arms and military memorabilia dating from the Revolutionary War through WWII.

The museum is open daily noon to 4:30 p.m. and Memorial Day through Labor Day 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. The Old Penitentiary is located at 2445

Old Penitentiary Road in Boise. Admission fees

are: members free, adults $6, seniors (60 and

Pvt. Brassey poses with WWI soldiers (back row, far right).

older) $4, children 6-12 years $3, and children under 6 free.

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A CINDERELLA STORY OF LAND RESTORATION Boise’s Hyatt Hidden Lakes makes a comeback

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s dusk falls on Boise, it's not uncommon to see large groups of Canada geese winging their way to the west, crossing above neighborhoods and shopping centers, busy streets and golf courses, on their short journey to an evening roosting spot known as Hyatt Hidden Lakes Reserve. There, amid quiet ponds and streams, wild grasses and trees, the geese are joined by a hodgepodge of wildlife and waterfowl that also call Hyatt home.

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Of course, geese flying into a ponded area in Boise is hardly a remarkable tale. But the creation and evolution of Hyatt Hidden Lakes Reserve, a 54-acre urban wildlife refuge in the middle of a west Boise neighborhood, can be likened to a Cinderella story. It is the story of a forgotten property that was rescued and transformed into a rich community treasure that is now a wildlife preserve, a city park, and a natural wetland doing double duty as a storm water filtration system.

Hyatt Hidden Lakes Reserve: Courtesy City of Boise

ONCE UPON A TIME In the 19th century, the property was a family farm that was worked well into the 20th century when, in the 1960s, the owners leased it out to an asphalt paving company that excavated gravel on the site until the 1980s.

As the story goes, after 20 years of excavating the scrubby property, the gravel operation finally hit the water table and groundwater began bubbling up into the gravel pits.

“Beavers began infiltrating the site, and started building dams," said Tom Governale, former superintendent of parks for the City of Boise and member of the team that led the design and planning of Hyatt Hidden Lakes. “By the time the gravel operation ended in the late 1980s, the beavers had dammed enough water to create a wetland area, so, it was really the beavers that got this thing started,” he said.

Then, in 1990, along came Larry Hyatt, a conservation-minded Boisean who purchased the excavationscarred site with the vision of creating a wildlife reserve—a tall order for a rocky plot of land that was bounded by high-traffic roads, neighborhoods and businesses.

“I knew I wanted to create a space for wildlife where they could live and also learn that humans will not encroach upon them,” said Hyatt. “Once they learn that, they can live more naturally in their own environment.”

Hyatt said that the previous owners had wanted to turn the site into softball fields. “To fill it in they kept trying to plug the springs,” he said with a chuckle. “There were six siblings who owned a share of the property, and all of them would get out there in their Wellies with shovels and picks to break up the beaver dams.

“The first thing I did when I bought the land was let the beavers build their dams, and the water came up three feet,” he said. “What was cool was the rising water killed the invasive purple loosestrife and Russian olive trees, and made it a better environment for the cattails to take over.”

It wasn’t long until Hyatt gifted the 22-acre wetland to the City of Boise.

The reserve is now filled with ponds and streams, wild grasses and cottonwood trees, walking paths and interpretive signs.

The city then purchased an additional 22 acres on the site, and acquired an adjacent 10-acre parcel donated by the Ada County Highway District.

"In the late 1990s, the site was already popular with the local neighbors even before it was developed," said Governale. "People started going into the area and just walking and creating volunteer trails through the brush.

There were lots of ducks and geese migrating through." But, Governale noted, there was also a growing concern over the potential for wildfires, erosion, invasive plants, and water quality issues that could threaten the habitat for waterfowl and other wildlife. In fact, in the fall of 1998, about 400 ducks and geese died from avian botulism due to poor water conditions and overcrowding of waterfowl.

“There wasn’t much we could do, we just had to let it run its course,” Governale recalled. “There were so many birds that year and it was a low-water, high-temperature year, the conditions were prime for the virus to take hold.

"The wetlands were naturally evolving, and invasive species were coming in and the ponds were starting to fill with sediment. If we had allowed it to continue it would have become a bog and perhaps a lowland forest," he said. With the input of hundreds of neighbors, the city drew up a master plan and a design and management plan for the property.

THE STORY OF STORM WATER Over the next few years, key events and partnerships came together to bring Hyatt to where it is today. For one, Ada County Highway District expressed an interest in using the wetland to retain and treat storm water runoff from major streets instead of allowing it to dump into the canals as had previously been done. This would ease flooding after large storm events.

And, the city of Boise received a $1.3 million grant from the Environmental Protection Agency to design an innovative storm water filtration project on the site.

The storm water system sends water from street drainage systems through a sedimentation basin to remove oil, grease, debris and sediment.

Then, it flows into a vegetated sand filter planted with specially selected grasses and topsoil that biologically removes bacteria, metals and smaller particles from the water. Then the water goes through a layer of crushed rock before flowing into the wetland, where it is retained. The now-clean water can be released as needed into area irrigation canals and, eventually, into the Boise River.

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removal efficiency of 99 percent.

“The system is very effective,” said Governale. “We don’t want to put toxins and sediment back into the river. This keeps the river healthier for fish and waterfowl, and that helps the Valley thrive, so there is also the economic impact of clean water.”

Residents of Hyatt Hidden Lakes Reserve include great blue herons, Canada geese, and beavers.

WILDLIFE RETURNS Today, 20 years after Larry Hyatt gifted a scrubby wetland to the City of Boise, it is filled with ponds and streams, wild grasses and cottonwood trees, walking paths and interpretive signs. In the middle of the wild grass sits a public art piece called HaBATat

by Boise artist Mark Baltes: a steel sculpture designed as a unique bat roost, which is large enough to house hundreds of bats and their young.

Waterfowl, birds, hawks, deer and small non-game animals flour-

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ish on this site that's almost entirely surrounded by both residential and industrial land. Over 150 species of birds have been observed at the reserve, and the park has been designated part of the Idaho Birding Trail, a network of sites that provides the best viewing opportunities to see birds in Idaho.

Just like Larry Hyatt dreamed decades ago, the priority of the reserve is to provide safe and natural habitat for waterfowl and other wildlife with minimal impact. Trails are screened with shrubs and topography so that the movement of pedestrians is not visible to waterfowl. This unusual city park has no dogs, bikes, motor vehicles, sports, playgrounds or picnic facilities.

“There are spots where you can overlook the whole site, and walk the pathways, but they’re not in the middle of where the wildlife is, so it provides them with a sense of being protected in their own habitat,” said Kelly Burrows, park designer for the City of Boise.

A SENSE OF PLACE “Hyatt Hidden Lakes gives the neighborhood a sense of place,” said Governale. “One of the important goals was to provide educational opportunities, and school groups go out there to observe wildlife and learn how the wetland works. People love to walk through the reserve, and photographers and birdwatchers come out to observe the wildlife. This one place provides education, wellness, and economic and environmental benefits to the community.”

“Any time we have a way to literally reserve space for wildlife in the city, it’s a nice thing to have,” said Hyatt. “It will be held like this in perpetuity and there is comfort in that.

We don’t have to worry about it being changed. It will be here for generations to come.”

From rock pit to reserve, Hyatt Hidden Lakes is a success story both for the community and wildlife, and an example of what can happen when there is collaboration between public agencies, neighbors, and a generous conservation-minded citizen.

And, of course, the beavers, too.

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coming in the summer issue of

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A New Star in Boise’s Literary Constellation

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riters speak of “sense of place” as more than just a setting. A location can reflect plot, shape characters, evoke emotion, and ground readers in the writer’s imaginary world.

For author Emily Ruskovich, North Idaho’s Hoodoo Mountain is that place, looming over much of her work. The snowy, isolated landscape was her childhood home. It inspired her debut novel, “Idaho,” a bestselling story woven around memory loss, murder and love.

The mountain and characters she created there so hold her heart, she says, it’s been hard to move on.

“I went through a long grieving period when I had to send it to the publisher,” she said. “I have another novel I want to write, but I can’t let go of the first.”

For now, she can savor glowing reviews and, recently, a Pacific Northwest Book Award. And she’s settling into her new job as an assistant professor in Boise State’s acclaimed Master of Fine Arts program in creative writing.

On a recent, chilly night, Ruskovich discussed her book and life, sitting in the newly remodeled lobby of her campus office, waiting for husband Sam McPhee, also a fiction writer, to finish teaching. She rested a slender arm over a barely visible baby bump. It will be the couple’s first child.

She described how a powerful experience near her family home inspired “Idaho.”

“It was a beautiful day,” Ruskovich said. “We were loading firewood. And I had this feeling that something

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terrible had happened right there. My mom remembers I was in a trance, and I just knew something so bad, so horrible had happened there.”

When she has such a powerful reaction, she allows it to guide her writing. “I try to chase it and trap it into a scene,” she said.

The firewood experience happened the summer before she entered the prestigious University of Iowa’s graduate program in creative writing, where she met McPhee. She crafted a short story based on the feeling, and an editor later asked her to turn it into a novel, which became “Idaho.”

In the book, a mother named Jenny murders her young daughter as the family gathers firewood, and the other daughter disappears into the woods. Struggling with the loss of his family and his memory to Alzheimer’s, the father, Wade, remarries and his new wife, Ann, tries to piece together what happened.

Although Ruskovich’s childhood wasn’t defined by tragedy, her life on Hoodoo Mountain informed her beautiful prose. As a child, writing was her first passion.

She wrote poems and stories, which she read to her mother. She watched her father stay up late writing poetry and a novel after he’d commuted an hour each way for his teaching job and did chores on their land.

“My father really shaped me,” she said. “(Being a novelist) is what he really wanted for his life.”

A song he wrote is the heart of “Idaho,” she says.

Though he read dozens of drafts, she kept the song secret, surprising him with the first published copy.

Book Cover: Courtesy Penguin Random House Ruskovich: Sam McPhee

‘Idaho’ author Emily Ruskovich

Ruskovich now lives with her husband in a log cabin in Idaho City where they are starting a family.

“A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he remakes it in his own image.” —Joan Didion Life on Hoodoo Mountain was idyllic but challenging.

Her family first lived in tents without water or electricity.

They built a barn, lived in it with their animals, had a well dug, and then finally built their house.

The family home was similar to Wade and Ann’s fictional one, located at the top of a road that didn’t get plowed in winter. Once, after her father injured his back, they’d parked their truck at the bottom of the hill in case they needed to get him to the doctor. Some neighbors, who like others nearby likely disagreed with editorials her father wrote for The Spokesman Review, stole gas out of the truck for their snowmobiles. Then they cut the truck’s gas line and drained the remaining fuel in the snow.

Ruskovich now lives in a log cabin in Idaho City with McPhee, and her parents sold their Hoodoo Mountain home and moved to Grangeville a few years ago. She wants someday to write a memoir about growing up on the mountain. She’s asked her family to write down their memories since her journals were filled with poems and stories.

Now beginning her own family, Ruskovich is over the moon to be back in Idaho after teaching in Denver. She’s more suited for life in the woods, where she and McPhee can raise ducks and share a writing life. “I love his writing, and he loves mine,” she said. “I feel so lucky to be able to talk about it with him.”

Boise State is thrilled to have hired her, said Mitch Wieland, director of the MFA program in creative writing. He calls Ruskovich “as kind a person as you will find.

She’s the future of the program. Who knows what she can do?”

Associate professor Brady Udall, who taught Ruskovich as an undergrad at the University of Montana, remembers the strength of her language and sentences.

“She brings a new energy to the program that we've needed for quite some time,” he said. “Let's face it—none of us around here are getting any younger, and Emily's youth and enthusiasm, her generosity, her intelligence and ambition, give the program new life and benefit the students in a myriad of ways.”

Natalie Disney, one of Ruskovich’s first Boise State MFA students who will graduate in May, said Ruskovich had a profound influence on her writing when they first met at the University of Wisconsin, where Ruskovich was on fellowship.

“Emily approached our conversations about writing with incredible generosity—with a kind of heightened awareness of all interior life, whether it be human life, or animal life, or even the life within a certain place,” she said.

Ruskovich influenced Disney’s decision to apply to Boise State. All she knew about Idaho was that it was Ruskovich’s home. “With Emily, it seems you cannot separate the person from the place she comes from.

She grew up in this sort of rugged, remote place, a place that required a certain kind of strength and alertness.

But I think all things in the wild have a really beautiful vulnerability. And a natural, grounded grace.”

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BEARING WITNESS TO IDAHO’S MAGICAL LANDSCAPE The art of Rachel Teannalach

Photos: Brooke Burton

By Ellie Rodgers

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“Still Morning on Payette Lake,” by Rachel Teannalach, oil and wax on linen, 18” x 24”

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or the last three years, artist Rachel Teannalach has taken her paints and brushes outdoors, creating a daily visual journal, one 3-inch-by3-inch canvas each day. She considers it a practice of meditation and contemplation.

Called “tinyExpanse,” her plein-air paintings feature what grabbed her heart each day: her beautiful toddler, Mairead, an icy Boise street, the foothills, a river. Her social media followers looked forward to her daily posts.

One fan likened her on-site paintings to a “haiku in oil.”

Despite creating other work, Teannalach never missed her daily commitment to “tinyExpanse,” once abruptly waking just before midnight to paint before night rolled into morning. Overall, including the three-year project, she estimates she’s done about 4,500 “tinyExpanse” paintings since her first in 2006.

“Plein air is the most satisfying way of enjoying nature,” said Teannalach, a landscape artist who sometimes donates work to raise money to protect the places she paints.

But this past New Year’s Eve brought tinyExpanse to a bittersweet end. With a toddler who needs her, the daily commitment was tough, Teannalach said. And she was not traveling as much, which had helped keep the work fresh.

But as that door closed, Teannalach unveiled her stunning “Portals,” an exhibit of 14 large-scale 88-inch by 48-inch paintings, luminescent land-

“Early Spring in the Boise Foothills,” by Rachel Teannalach, oil and wax on linen, 40” x 50”

scapes of places within 150 miles of Boise. The exhibit runs through March at Northwest Nazarene University.

Teannalach’s rivers, mountains and deserts are breathtaking visions so achingly beautiful you’re pulled into their depths, almost obliged, as she is, to help protect them. Gorgeous storm clouds roil over soft folds of the Bruneau sand dunes. Fall trees cast a fiery glow in a glassy expanse of the Boise River. Golden sun bathes Hells Canyon in heavenly softness, as a thunderstorm churns in the distance.

Jacqueline Crist, owner of J. Crist Gallery and managing partner of the James Castle Collection and Archive, raved about Teannalach’s work. Crist commissioned Teannalach to paint 43 6-inch paintings for the new Saint Alphonsus Medical Center in Nampa.

And Crist recently asked Teannalach to apply to an invitation-only exhibit for site-specific art in the new Boise Centre East.

“I’ve seen her work go through different types of investigations,” Crist said in her gallery office, scrolling through Teannalach’s website, discussing the evolution of her painting. “She’s pulled all these different ideas together in the most magnificent work. I think it’s extraordinary.”

Teannalach’s “Portals” paintings feature bold brushstrokes of sage, rock and wildflowers in the foreground, a technique, she says, that adds to the depth of the pieces and allows the viewer to fill in the detail the strokes suggest.

“I’m more interested in what’s far away,” Teannalach said, over tea in the iconic East-end, mid-century home she and husband Sean Scrivner are renting. This summer, the family will move to their property on the Big Lost River, about 40 minutes from Challis, where views of Mount Borah and the Lost River range will provide plenty of inspiration. Sean, a welder, is building a home and studio from shipping containers. They’ll return to Boise often, she said, and during the school year for Mairead.

As a landscape painter, Teannalach not only is drawn to paint beautiful places, she also uses her work to help protect open space. She was the Idaho Conservation League’s first artist-inresidence in 2013 and 2014 and helped shape their program that now awards a residency to one visual artist a year, providing a symbiotic relationship between art and conservation.

“Rachel took her residency very seriously,” said Mary Beth Whitaker, who oversees ICL’s artist-in-residence program. “She toured all over the state doing these incredible landscapes that represented all parts of Idaho. Her work just leaves me in awe. It commands the same awe I feel about the landscape.”

Teannalach also recently donated work to a fundraiser for Advocates for the West, in which the largest donor in each of 15 categories would receive one of her paintings.

“It makes me feel like I’m doing something meaningful,” she said.

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Though Teannalach mostly focuses on Idaho’s wonders, it wasn’t always her main inspiration. She grew up in New Mexico, attended college in Los Angeles, then moved to the Bay Area for six years, where two galleries still represent her work. A divorce led her to Idaho in 2009, as her parents had retired in Nampa. Then Teannalach discovered Boise. She bought a home, painted, taught yoga and built her successful business.

“Rachel not only has a unique vision of our environment, she has a rare combination for an artist, which includes the ability to run the business,” Crist said. “She has it all down.”

In her studio, a daily schedule on the wall carves her day into blocks of painting and tending the business.

Another list of to-dos hangs above the kitchen table. And along with being a mom, painting and exhibitions, she found the time to train for the New York Marathon, which she ran last fall.

Teannalach credits her father, Gary Eller, a scientist who worked in a lab in Los Alamos, New Mexico, for her focus and need for structure. His love for river rafting, exploring caves, and playing music influenced her passion for the outdoors and the arts.

“He used to take me out with a sketch book when we went camping,” she said. He’d sketch interiors of caves he’d explore and did drawings for the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).

Her mother, Teri Devine, a quilter and knitter, also influenced Teannalach’s love for organization and working with her hands. Teannalach hopes to inspire the same desires in Mairead (rhymes with parade), or, usually, Raidy. Of course, Raidy loves to draw in the studio as Teannalach paints.

As for the future, Teannalach wants to do bigger pieces and plans to keep roots in Boise.

“This city is so amazing and is incredibly supportive of its artists,” she said. And Boise, as evidenced by its love for her work, would hate to lose her.

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Left: “Centennial Marsh,” by Rachel Teannalach, oil and wax on linen, 88” x 48”. One of the 14 large-scale landscapes at the “Portals” exhibit at Northwest Nazarene University.

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BORN TO COMPOSE Jim Cockey is an Idaho original

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im Cockey, a Boise-based composer known for his innovative symphonic works, followed a long and winding musical road before he realized that composition was what he was born to do. “It took me many years to come around to the concept that my life focus could be writing music,” he said.

Growing up, Cockey’s main instrument was the violin. One of the “big moments” that influenced his life’s direction was when his violin teacher at Boise High School introduced him to the music of classical composer Bela Bartok. As he describes it, Bartok’s music rocked his world. “I’d never known music like that existed!” he enthused.

“That’s when doors opened, and I had a new concept of what was possible.”

A spontaneous digression to San Francisco during the summer of 1969 landed Cockey, with violin in hand, and his brother Charlie, a guitarist and songwriter, in the environs of HaightAshbury where they quickly became part of the “scene.”

“We were totally into the hippie thing,” he grinned. “My brother Charlie roomed with Jorma Kaukonen, the guitarist for Jefferson Airplane, and almost became their bass player. Jack Casady got the gig instead.” Cockey

“I could have gone to New York but felt that the geographic place I loved would nurture my creative kindling,” —Jim Cockey said it was the first time he started thinking of music as a lifestyle.

Cockey returned to Idaho and helped found a rock band called Providence. The band explored a mixture of rock and classical influences and featured an eclectic assortment of instruments such as violin and glockenspiel, piano, harpsichord, organ, autoharp, guitar recorder, and viola. Providence’s only album was produced by the same man who worked on the Moody Blues albums, which is how Cockey ended up playing for Moody Blues members Justin Hayward and John Lodge, best known for their song “Knights in White Satin.” Cockey toured with them for several years, and their “Blue

Jays” album went gold in England.

Once again, Cockey returned to Idaho and found himself in Gooding, working with a theater troupe in residency at a building that had been the old tuberculosis hospital in Buhl.

“I knew I was done with rock ‘n’ roll but didn’t know what to do next, so I spent a month plunking keys on an old upright piano to find the right pitch and found I’d composed ‘Sonata for Piano and Violin,’” he recounted. It was during this time that Cockey had the dawning realization that he wanted to be a composer.

To that end, he spent a couple of years at the University of Oregon studying composition, then moved to the mountains of McCall to write music. “I could have gone to New York but felt that the geographic place I loved would nurture my creative kindling,” he said. “I started McCall Chamber Orchestra and wrote pieces for them and helped found the McCall Music Society.”

In McCall, Cockey met and married Berni Cockey, the woman who would become his creative partner and muse. Berni, now an award-winning playwright with an ear for dialogue so natural it sounds as if she’s been eavesdropping at your dinner table, also creates props for the Idaho Shakespeare Festival. How do they nurture their creativity and their marriage?

“So much of our relationship is support of each other, which we can do long-distance,” smiled Berni. “The other thing we’ve had is the ability to push each other. We share artistic hurdles and share our artistic insecurities and allow each other to be vulnerable.”

In 2010, they worked together to write an opera. “At the beginning, we sat down and defined how we were going to collaborate,” Cockey said. “We agreed to be very honest. When something is still being formed, it’s a very tender time to have someone comment on it. So, we worked out the process.”

Both agreed that providing support is invaluable, as is recognizing your own needs. “Just because you are both creative doesn’t mean you have the same creative process,” he clarified. “I think it boils down to mutual respect so that when problems do arise, you have the fortitude to do something about it.”

Cockey has a long list of compositions and commissioned works that

have been performed across the country. In 2008, he composed “An Idaho Symphony” for the Boise Philharmonic, a commissioned tribute to then outgoing music director James Ogle. It was a retrospective in four movements corresponding to the seasons, featuring photographs by Glen Oakley. They also collaborated on Cockey’s work “The Gift of the Elk” in 2016, commissioned by the Cape Cod Orchestra.

“It’s the story of how the Crow tribe came to acquire the flute,” explained Oakley. “In both cases, Jim would provide me with the evolving composition, and my images followed his lead.

When I listen to Jim’s music I hear the arc of the story. I gained an appreciation for complex layers of sound that make a symphony, and hearing it live—that wowed me!”

In 2013, Robert Franz, then music director of the Boise Philharmonic, commissioned Cockey to write “Sacred Land,” a history of the Shoshone Bannock tribes in the area. In 2014, Jared Hallock, a Boise-based percussionist and composer, collaborated with Cockey on “Shadowbreak,” performed by the Langroise Trio with choreography by Idaho Dance Theatre’s then artistic director Carl Rowe.

“Jim’s willingness to share composition duties with a percussionist is a bit daring and should highlight his open-mindedness,” commented Hallock. “Jim has a strong ability to hear parts in his head. His music is purposeful and pared down to the essential meaning. Rhythmically speaking, his music has forward momentum with driving 16th notes and well-disguised time changes. All parts are written to be important, and each player has the opportunity to ‘drive the band.’

I jumped at the chance to work with him.”

The new year started with “forward momentum” for the composer.

His “Concerto for Cello,” composed for Langroise Trio cellist Sam Smith, was performed in January. In February, Grammy-nominated cellist Dave Eggars, at the time artist-in-residence at Surel’s Place, featured a new work by Jim in his show “Cellosong” at Boise’s Sapphire Room. The work included cello, violin, classical guitar, and the tap-dancing footwork of Gregory Hines’ protégé, Andrew Nemr, as a percussion element.

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Morrison Center, 2201 Cesar Chavez Ln., Boise.

7:30 p.m. boisephil.org

MARCH 1-12 — “Portals” Solo exhibition of 14 major landscape paintings

by Rachel Teannalach, a contemporary landscape painter based in Boise. The body of work features a geographic panorama of iconic landscapes each within 150 miles of Boise. Northwest Nazarene University’s Friesen Gallery, 623 S. University Blvd., Nampa.

9 a.m. – 5 p.m. teannalach.com

MARCH 14 – Hula It is said that hula is the heartbeat of Hawai’i and tells the stories of life. This program will give a glimpse into the Hawai’ian culture including background, history, and basic steps. Ages 13 and up. JUMP, 1000 W. Myrtle Street, Boise. 6:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. jumphulaheartbeatwinter. eventbrite.com

MARCH 6 — Viet Thanh Nguyen Viet Thanh Nguyen’s novel “The Sympathizer” is a New York Times bestseller and won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction among a list of other honors. His other books are “Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War” and “Race and Resistance: Literature and Politics in Asian America.” His current book is a short story collection, “The Refugees.” The Egyptian Theatre, 700 W. Main St., Boise. 7:30 p.m. – 9 p.m. thecabinidaho.org

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MARCH 10 — Jay Mohr Comedian, actor, radio host and best-selling author, Jay Mohr! He’s been performing stand-up comedy since he was 16 years old. With a career that has spanned over three decades, Jay has become an artist that is very difficult to define.

Liquid Laughs Comedy Club, 405 S. 8th St., Boise. liquidboise.com MARCH 10 — Broadway Pops with Doug Lebrecque Come enjoy an evening of favorites with Broadway star Doug Labrecque.

Known for his roles in “Phantom of the Opera” and “Showboat,” Mr. Labrecque will be sure to thrill audiences with his powerful voice. Call

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— Ludacris

Revolution Concert House and Event Center, 4983 N. Glenwood St., Garden City. 8:30 p.m. cttouringid.com

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— Brett Dennen

The Egyptian Theatre, 700 W. Main St., Boise. 8 p.m. egyptiantheatre.net

George Lopez is one of the premier comedic talents in the entertainment industry today. Maintaining an active schedule as a stand-up comedian, George is a sellout attraction coast to coast and has headlined concerts at prestigious venues.

Morrison Center, 2201 Cesar Chavez Ln., Boise. 8 p.m. georgelopez.com

MARCH 21-25 — Treefort Music Fest Multi-venue music festival in downtown Boise featuring over 400 emerging artists! Downtown Boise. treefortmusicfest.com

APRIL 20-21 – ‘Swan Lake’ Peter Anastos’ staging of Swan Lake is one of the glories of Ballet Idaho. True love triumphs over evil in this powerful story set to Tchaikovsky’s memorable score. With stunning costumes and sets by David Walker, this spectacular production will captivate and enthrall you. Morrison Center, 2201 Cesar Chavez Ln., Boise. balletidaho.org

APRIL 3-5 – ‘A Chorus Line’ “A Chorus Line” is musical theatre in its most pure form! Its celebration and true-to-life depiction of performers and their struggle to achieve greatness on the Broadway stage has earned the show unanimous praise as one of the true masterpieces of live theater. Morrison Center, 2201 Cesar Chavez Ln., Boise. morrisoncenter.com/events/detail/a-chorus-line

APRIL 25 – Katherine Boo Katherine Boo is a staff writer at The New Yorker and a former reporter and editor for The Washington Post. Over the years, her reporting from disadvantaged communities has been awarded a Pulitzer Prize, a MacArthur “Genius” grant, and a National Magazine Award for Feature Writing. The Egyptian Theatre, 700 W. Main St., Boise. 7:30 p.m. thecabinidaho.org

Treefort Music Festival

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Garden City. 7:30 p.m. cttouringid.com

downtown venues. treefortmusicfest.com

— The Sword

— Treefort Music Festival Multiple

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APRIL 16 – Rain - A Tribute to the Beatles This show celebrates the 50th anniversary of the release of “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band!” For the first time ever, “Rain” will bring the historic album to life in its entirety for this psychedelic multimedia spectacular! Morrison Center, 2201 Cesar Chavez Ln., Boise. morrisoncenter.com

Ballet Idaho to perform Swan Lake

MARCH 19 Knitting Factory Concert House, 416 S. 9th St., Boise. 8 p.m. knittingfactory.com

APRIL 13-14 – Pauly Shore Pauly Shore tasted super-stardom in 1990 when his precedent-setting MTV show “Totally Pauly” hit the airwaves to major fan approval.

Pauly is working on a documentary of his life that spans the 1970s, ‘80s and ‘90s. Liquid Laughs Comedy Club, 405 S. 8th St., Boise. 8 p.m. liquidboise.com

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Concert House and Event Center, 4983 N. Glenwood St.,

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handmade pastry. The Grove Plaza, 850 W. Front St., Boise. Every Saturday 9:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. capitalcitypublicmarket.com

DEC. 7 – APRIL 2018 – Idaho The action is fast and fun at Boise’s professional minor league team games held in the CenturyLink Arena. 233 S. Capitol Blvd, Boise. Check the Steelheads’ website for game dates and times. idahosteelheads.com

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MARCH 17 – 28th Annual St. Patrick’s Come out for a great time with family and friends at the 28th Annual St. Patrick’s Fun Run & Walk! Malad Gorge State Park, Tuttle, Idaho. 8:30 a.m. hagermanvalleychamber.com

Fun Run & Walk

MARCH 13 – APRIL 24 – KegFit KegFit: A workout, using empty kegs, designed to give those at any fitness level a great workout. Only $8 and you will get a unique workout that your friends have never even heard about ... plus you get a beer after the workout ... for refreshment. Work out, have a beer, meet new people, and have a great time.

Woodland Empire Ale Craft, 1114 W. Front St., Boise. Every Tuesday, 5:45 p.m. – 7 p.m. CorkFit coming in March, too. Time and date TBA. MAY 12 – Race for the Cure The Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure Series, the largest series of 5K runs/fitness walks in the world, raises significant funds and awareness for the fight against breast cancer, celebrates breast cancer survivorship and honors those who have lost their battle with the disease. Albertsons headquarters, 250 E. Parkcenter Blvd., Boise. idaho.info-komen.org KegFit

Gaston’s Bakery at Capital City Public Market

Food & Drink MARCH 17 – Food Truck Rally Goes to This isn’t your typical food truck rally . . . this one really is going to the dogs! Join the Nampa Dog Park Committee and, maybe even some Leprechauns, for some good food, live music and green beer. All proceeds support the continued development of Nampa’s Amity Dog Park as well as fund a second dog park in Nampa. Lloyd Square, 1350 Front St., Nampa. 2 p.m. – 8 p.m. nampaparksandrecreation.org

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APRIL 7 – OCTOBER – Boise Farmers Market The Boise Farmers Market is open outdoors at the corner of 10th & Grove streets each Saturday from April through October. At the Boise Farmers Market you will find fresh local seasonal vegetables and fruit, many types of locally raised protein, breads and pastries, honey, jams and sauces, fresh-roasted coffee, and a delicious selection of ready-toeat foods. Grove and 10th streets, Boise. Every Saturday 9 a.m. – 1 p.m. theboisefarmersmarket.com APRIL 14 – DEC. 15 – Capital City Public Market Meet Treasure Valley farmers who can tell you the best way to choose a ripe ear of corn. Skilled artists who burn the midnight oil in their studios, yet rise with the sun to display their handiwork. Talented bakers who can create the most robust of bread loaves, yet coax a fine, flaky crust from each

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Revolution Concert House and Event Center, 4983 N. Glenwood St., Garden City. 8 p.m. cttouringid.com

Revolution Concert House and Event Center, 4983 N. Glenwood St., Garden City. 7:30 p.m. cttouringid.com

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– Brett Eldredge

MARCH 25 – SNIP’s 10th Annual “SPAY” Join Camp Bow Wow for an evening of “saucy” fun kicked off with live music, silent auction and no-host bar, followed by an upscale spaghetti buffet (with and without meatballs). KTVB’s Larry Gebert emcees during the famous dessert dash and bead game, and he’s the auctioneer for the live auction. Riverside Ballroom, 2900 W. Chinden Blvd., Boise. 5 p.m. – 9 p.m. snipidaho.org/events-news

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– Moon Child

Neurolux Lounge, 111 N. 11th St., Boise. 8 p.m. neurolux.com APRIL 14

– Whiskey Myers

Knitting Factory Concert House, 416 S. 9th St., Boise. 8 p.m. knittingfactory.com

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– Luke Combs, Ashley McBride

Revolution Concert House and Event Center, 4983 N. Glenwood St., Garden City. 7:30 p.m. cttouringid.com

MARCH 23-25 – Boise Flower and Garden Show The Annual Boise Flower & Garden Show is the perfect kickoff to spring with everything you need to make your garden beautiful! Shop for everything from outdoor furniture to sunrooms, tools, garden gadgets, gutter gardens, vintage items, and an amazing jewelry artist. Boise Centre, 850 W. Front St., Boise. gardenshowboise.com MARCH 24 – Easter EGGstravaganza at Zoo Boise Join the Easter Bunny for egg-citing activities including egg scrambles for 30,000 pieces of candy! Plus more eggcellent activities for the whole family, like face painting, special enrichments for the animals, and, of course, the zoo! Zoo Boise, 355 Julia Davis Dr., Boise. 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. zooboise.org APRIL 4-6 – Gene Harris Jazz Festival The 21st Annual Gene Harris Jazz Festival brings world-class music to the Boise community with a mission of inspiring, educating, and entertaining listeners of all ages. The festival is proud to support local music, community partnerships, and student education. Boise State University, 1910 University Place, Boise. 8 a.m. – 10 p.m. geneharris.boisestate.edu

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The Olympic, 1009 Main St., Boise. 8 p.m. theolympicboise.com

Knitting Factory Concert House, 416 S. 9th St., Boise. 8 p.m. knittingfactory.com

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– Japandroids

– Moondoggies The Olympic, 1009 Main St., Boise. 7 p.m. theolympicboise.com SPRING 2018

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Serving Up More Than Just Slices The Wylder joins the neighborhood

t’s safe to say the word is out: The Wylder is Boise’s most happening restaurant. On a wintery Friday night, when most of downtown had settled in against the cold, The Wylder was filled to capacity—with more than an hour-long wait. The host staff seated our party in the lounge area in the back of the restaurant. With a low coffee table, comfortable leather sofa and modern armchairs, it felt like walking into a friend’s living room; however, my friends don’t make food this good.

The Wylder opened on Oct. 19 in The Fowler, a mixed-use apartment building in Central Addition, Boise’s newest neighborhood. The concept is craft pizza and cocktails. With five styles of red pizza and five types of white, pies are not the only reason this restaurant is always buzzing. There’s a kale Caesar salad that has spawned regulars, as well as a cauliflower dish that makes even the most carnivorous diners ponder plant-based diets.

Lizzy and David Rex opened The Wylder just five months after moving to Boise. The Arizona natives were living in Santa Monica, Calif., and working in restaurant operations.

They spent time visiting friends in the Treasure Valley, watching the city grow, and they realized that the fastpaced life they were living lacked the sense of community that they saw in Boise.

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business. We’re big believers in being surrounded by great neighborhoods,” Lizzy Rex said.

As they talked about moving, they called construction companies in Boise to price out their own restaurant concept. When they called Mike Brown with Local Construct, the builder of The Fowler, he said he had just the space.

For the next year, they tested more than 15 pizza dough recipes and designed the modern-farmhouse-style restaurant with Portland-based architects.

In May 2017, with their 2-year-old son and 50-year-old sourdough starter in tow, they moved to Boise and worked full time to open The Wylder. The Rexes have opened eight restaurants during their careers, so when it came time to open their own, they knew what they wanted. At each step in the process, they asked, “What would we want to eat? Where would we want to go?”

“It should just feel good to come eat here. It’s our only goal. We just want people to be happy, whatever the occasion,” David Rex said.

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spaces, guests can experience different dining styles at each one. The cocktail bar and pizza bar allow diners to view the bartenders and chefs at work, while the booths make for more intimate experiences. The lounge area also allows big groups to gather in an organic way, like they would at home. A wooden cloud, as the Rexes call it, spans the ceiling, doubling as an acoustic dampener and art installation.

The service is also intentional. The Rexes aim to hire the nicest people they can find and arm them with as much knowledge about the food as possible.

Their training focuses on educational sessions about the menu items, from the dough to the dessert. Their experience in chef-driven restaurants instilled in them the importance of high-quality ingredients and learning the why behind the restaurant.

“We’re trying to be good neighbors, give people’s kids a safe place to work, a good place to come and eat,” David Rex said.

The Rexes added lunch service on Jan. 4, and while they have a one-shiftat-a-time philosophy, they’re already dreaming about their next concept in the Boise restaurant community.

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The Wylder at 501 West Broad Street serves craft pizzas and cocktails.

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daho winemakers, grape growers, and, most importantly, wine lovers will gather June 10 at the Idaho Botanical Garden to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Savor Idaho, the outdoor annual wine-tasting festival showcasing approximately 30 Idaho wineries. The festival is a major fundraiser for the Idaho Wine Commission, the nonprofit trade organization whose mission is to promote the flourishing wine industry.

And flourishing it is—finally—154 years after the first grapes were planted near Lewiston. Did you know the first Pacific Northwest wineries were founded in Idaho, not Washing-

ton? But along came Prohibition (19201933), which, for all practical purposes, wiped out Idaho’s wine industry. Fastforward to the mid-1980s, and a group of forward-thinking Idahoans decided to get serious about winemaking. It’s taken 35 years, but Idaho is on the verge of breaking out as one of the hottest winemaking states in the country.

Today, there are 52 licensed wineries in Idaho—infinitesimal compared to its Washington and Oregon neighbors, but not insignificant to Idaho. A 2013 economic impact study revealed the Idaho wine industry had a $169.3 million impact on the economy and created 1,250 jobs. Idaho

Mike Williamson from Williamson Orchards & Vineyards.

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has three recognized AVAs (unique American Viticultural Areas defined by the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau of the United States Department of the Treasury): Snake River, Eagle Foothills and the most recent, Lewis-Clark Valley.

Savor Idaho’s 10th anniversary event will be the largest in its history, with an expected attendance of 1,000 guests, set on the idyllic grounds of the Idaho Botanical Garden. Live music will feature singer-songwriter Doug Cameron—think soft rock sounds similar to national artist Jack Johnson.

Wander tent to tent to sip samples from Idaho’s best wineries and nibble

Nuts, cupcakes and Coeur d'Alene: Courtesy Idaho Wines Mike Williamson: Courtesy Williamson Orchards & Vineyards

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orders in the Garden store. It’s an opportunity to purchase limited release bottles generally not available outside of the wineries.

The event is important to all the players: the winemakers, grape growers, the wine commission, and even the consumer.

“We’re not trying to make a lot of money,” Dolsby said. “But the funds raised go back into the marketing and operations of the Idaho Wine Commission, so we can continue the momentum of Idaho wines.

When consumers ask for Idaho wines, whether at the store or in restaurants, that makes me happy. That’s our goal.”

For wineries, the event puts them in direct contact with wine lovers. “One of our markers for success is gaining wine club members. Not everyone can come see us in the wine country, so this event gives us the opportunity to bring our wine to the people,” Williamson said.

“With live music floating through the air, sample award-winning wines and nibble yummy restaurant bites while strolling through Idaho’s Botanical Garden in early bloom. What more could you want on a beautiful summer day?” Dillon said.

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bites from a dozen or so restaurants and caterers. New this year will be food trucks in addition to the free food samples from restaurants. “People said they wanted the opportunity to purchase a full meal,” said Moya Shatz Dolsby, executive director of the Idaho Wine Commission.

For wine lovers who can’t visit all the wineries in the state, Savor Idaho is an opportunity to taste and learn what strides Idaho is making on the wine scene. It offers the opportunity to interact directly with the winemakers and ask questions such as: Which grapes grow well in the various Idaho wine regions? How do they decide which grapes to blend, or why are some varietals not blended and stand on their own?

Kay Dillon, a sales and marketing manager based in downtown Boise and frequent festival goer, thinks people who enjoy wine festivals should put Savor Idaho on their “bucket list.” But she warns to secure tickets early. “I’ve attended four of the last six years,” Dillon said. “Last year, it sold out before I remembered to get my ticket.”

With 30 wineries participating—many bringing a plethora of wines to sample— how does one navigate the day without being overwhelmed? Dillon offered advice: “Approach it like Disney World. You can’t cover it all in one day, so begin knowing you will probably have to come back again next year.”

Mike Williamson from Williamson Orchards & Vineyards will bring his award-winning Harvest Moon, a red blend of Syrah, Mourvèdre and petite sirah. His winery will also be one of five wineries featured in a pre-festival dinner (see sidebar).

“The event showcases the best in food and wine craftsmanship,” Williamson said.

“Wine is all about pairings—discovering those wonderful flavors of locally produced food enhanced by local wines.”

Last year, Snake River Winery, in the southwestern Snake River AVA region, brought a light-bodied red wine made from zweigelt, a grape originating in Austria. Clearwater Canyon Cellars, from the northern AVA Lewis-Clark, featured carménère, a French Bordeaux varietal that winemaker Coco Umiker turned into a lusty red wine with dark berry flavors and a distinct peppery bite.

The festival partners with Boise Co-op to sell limited quantities of the sampled wines. Co-op employees and volunteers fill

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A Sunset Cruise!

Boise’s Savor Idaho isn’t the only fundraising wine festival produced by the Idaho Wine Commission. A sunset cruise on Lake Coeur d’Alene will take place on Aug. 11, 2018, and will be the third annual Savor Idaho North celebration. Once on board the large lake cruiser, guests will sip and savor exclusive Idaho wines from more than a dozen wineries while noshing on light appetizers. The boat boards at 6 p.m. sharp and the cruise is from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., with live music from Doug Cameron. Tickets go on sale June 1, and are $50.

Visit savoridaho.org for more information.

THE DETAILS 10TH ANNUAL SAVOR IDAHO June 10, 2018 • 2 p.m. to 5 p.m.

General admission: $55 VIP: $75 (entry at 1 p.m.)

Idaho Botanical Garden 2355 N. Old Penitentiary Rd., Boise More info: savoridaho.org

A SNEAK PEEK

New to the festival this year is a five-course dinner paired with wine at the Botanical Garden on June 9, the evening before the festival.

The idea is to give 50 wine enthusiasts a chance to dine outdoors as the wineries are setting up for the festival the next day. Juniper, the stylish 8th Street restaurant, will prepare the courses paired with wines from five featured wineries. The featured wines will be from Colter’s Creek Winery; Koenig Vineyards; Potter Wines; Telaya Wine Company; and Williamson Orchards & Vineyards. Check the savoridaho.org website for more information, including how to purchase tickets.

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A Brief Guide to the Valley’s Best Eateries One of the many perks of a bustling city is a vibrant and eclectic dining scene.

Boise is no exception. It seems new and inventive eateries are popping up every day. To help you navigate the many options, we’ve put together a quick guide to some of the best places for food and drink. For a look at full menus and more in-depth coverage of the dining scene, check out territory-mag.com/dining.

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Celebrated chef John Berryhill presents his energetic and Slightly Southern dining in the heart of downtown Boise, featuring 28 wines by the glass, an extensive wine list and full bar. Don’t miss the leather lounge and fireplace.

121 N. 9th Street B, Downtown Boise, (208) 387-3553

Bleubird Serving quality specialty sandwiches, hearty soups, artisan salads, and fresh-squeezed juices and sodas. Don't miss it for lunch.

224 N. 10th Street, Downtown Boise, (208) 345-1055

Boise Fry Company Named the Best Fries in America by the Food Network, Yahoo!, Travel & Leisure and MSN, this local hot spot is a must visit! They strive to keep all ingredients (and the process) green, natural and sustainable, and each signature item has been meticulously researched and made by hand.

204 N. Capital Blvd., Downtown Boise, (208) 949-7523

Capital Cellars Awarded the Wine Spectator "Award of Excellence" in 2016, Capital Cellars serves Boise’s best business breakfast and lunch, as well as featuring an elegant dinner menu that changes seasonally.

110 S. 5th Street, Downtown Boise, (208) 344-9463

Cottonwood Grille Seasonal Northwest fare, farm-fresh wild game, fine wines and classic cocktails served in a rustic setting along the greenbelt.

913 W. River St, Boise, (208) 333-9800 TERRITORY–MAG.COM

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Located at The Grove Hotel in downtown Boise, Emilio’s Restaurant specializes in upscale comfort food, featuring regional Idaho and Northwest influences, including locally sourced produce, meats, fresh fish and more. Plus, enjoy three free hours of valet parking when you dine. Reservations recommended.

245 S. Capitol Blvd., Boise. (208) 333-8002

Fork With ingredients sourced from local Boise and Northwest farmers, ranchers, bakers, distillers, brewers and cheese makers, Fork’s seasonal menu is fresh and innovative— perfect comfort food for lunch or dinner.

Crafted cocktails and a full wine list complement the menu.

199 N. 8th Street, Downtown Boise, (208) 287-1700

Goodwood Barbecue Company Focused on fresh food made from scratch daily and centered on the unique style of closed-pit cooking, Goodwood Barbecue Company gets rave reviews and is fun for the whole family!

7849 W. Spectrum Street., West Boise, (208) 658-7173 1140 N. Eagle Road, Meridian, (208) 884-1021

Grit American Cuisine Chef Paul Faucher and Porterhouse Market’s Dave Faulk join forces to create fresh, seasonal dishes that feature ingredients from Idaho farmers and producers. The gasfired pizza oven turns out hand tossed pizzas and specialties like house-smoked bacon, ham and pastrami make regular appearances on the rotating menus of handcrafted American cuisine.

360 S. Eagle Rd, Eagle, (208) 576-6666

Juniper Locally imagined and seasonally inspired cuisine served in a funky modern-rustic space anchored by a turn-of-the-century brick wall.

A full offering of classically crafted cocktails complements an eclectic wine list.

211 N. 8th Street, Downtown Boise, (208) 342-1142

Red Feather Lounge Red Feather has been celebrating the modern American lounge since its opening in 2002. Enjoy seasonal American cuisine, fresh interpretations of the classic cocktail, and an atmosphere inspired by a vibe of eternal swank.

246 N. 8th Street, Downtown Boise, (208) 345-1813

Reel Foods Fish Market & Oyster Bar Providing the Boise area with a fine-dining restaurant, quality seafood and other

gourmet treasures—soups, sauces, spices, condiments and sides. Reel Foods serves soups and oysters to eat in on the covered patio or for take-away from 11 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Soups include clam chowder, fisherman’s stew and seasonal specialties such as blue crab bisque and cioppino.

611 S. Capitol Blvd., Boise, (208) 342-2727

St. Lawrence Gridiron Focusing on the classic cocktail, with inventive variations and a food menu that changes frequently that “follows very few rules.” The original concept was to serve food that goes well with bourbon and beer, and explores the roots of American cuisine.

705 W. Bannock St., Downtown Boise, (208) 433-5598

State & Lemp State & Lemp offers a dynamic, prix-fixe menu in a contemporary atmosphere Wednesday through Saturday. Relationships built with local farmers, ranchers and artisans lead to thoughtful, creative dishes that showcase the highest quality productions that Idaho and the Pacific Northwest have to offer.

2870 W. State Street, Downtown Boise, (208) 429-6735

The Tavern at Bown Crossing A unique dining experience offering sushi, USDA prime grade steaks, daily seafood specials, burgers, sandwiches and salads. Full bar with an extensive wine list, great classic cocktails, sake and draught beers. Happy Hour is Monday – Saturday. Brunch is served on Sundays from an a la carte menu, from 9:30 a.m. – 3 p.m. Tables range from higher tables in the bar area with an energetic atmosphere, or booths, and a quieter area with lower tables.

Call for your large party or catering needs.

3111 S. Bown Way, East Boise, (208) 345-2277

asian/sushi Ling & Louie’s Asian Bar and Grill The concept is centered around fictional founders Ling, a firecracker of a gal from Shanghai, and Louie, an All-American guy from Toledo, Ohio, who meet, fall in love and share their passion for food by opening an Asian restaurant that’s “Not for Boring People.” The result is an energetic atmosphere, critically acclaimed cuisine and innovative drink menu. It’s “modern Asian meets American comfort”!

3210 E. Louise Dr., Meridian, (208) 888-5000

Mai Thai Unique and authentic dishes from the four regional cuisines of Thailand are complemented by an exceptional wine list

and handcrafted cocktails. It is like stepping into a slice of Thailand, right here in Boise.

1759 W. Idaho Street, Downtown Boise, (208) 344-8424

Mount Everest Momo Café A unique dining experience that brings diners a taste of the rich culinary heritage of the Himalayas. A delicious variety of recipes, painstakingly gathered from the royal kitchens of Nepal to the swept shores of South India, offer a truly delightful Nepali experience. Himalayan, Nepali, Tibetan and Indian food is carefully prepared from scratch.

2144 S. Broadway Ave., Downtown Boise, (208) 342-1268

Pho Nouveau Bistro Contemporary Vietnamese comfort food featuring spring rolls, green papaya salad, rice plates, summer noodle bowls (bun) and the always-popular pho.

780 W. Idaho Street, Downtown Boise, (208) 367-1111

Shige Japanese Cuisine Celebrating over 20 years downtown, Shige Japanese Cuisine is still a local favorite serving up sushi and Japanese specialties at three locations in the same complex— Shige Express, Shige Steakhouse and Shige Japanese Cuisine.

100 N. 8th Street, Downtown Boise, (208) 338-8423

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Superb Sushi After a successful launch in the Crane Creek Market on Bogus Basin Road, Superb Sushi opened a downtown location serving the “most unique sushi in Boise” to loyal customers who return time after time.

280 N. 8th Street, Downtown Boise, (208) 385-0123

bars, pubs & distillery 10 Barrel Brewing Company This 20 barrel brewhouse and our hop-king headbrewer Shawn Kelso make this brewpub "the hoppiest place in Idaho" and a hub for all your pre-game warmups and post-adventure hunger, and quaffing needs.

830 W. Bannock St., Downtown Boise, (208) 344-5870

Amsterdam Lounge Amsterdam is a mixology lounge specializing in craft cocktails and small plates, centrally located in historic downtown Boise, where great conversation is the priority. Women & Whiskey every Wednesday night—ladies receive half-price whiskey all night, featured whiskey is half price for everyone, and free tastings are from 8–11 p.m. Friday happy hour, with half-priced food and drinks, 4-7 p.m.

609 W. Main Street, Downtown Boise, (208) 345-9515

Choose from a diverse selection of fresh cuts, always cooked and seared to your idea of perfection.

208.333.9800 | 9TH & RIVER ST.

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Bardenay The perfect place to meet friends or colleagues for drinks and appetizers. Stop in for lunch or dinner and enjoy Bardenay’s casual Northwestern-style cuisine with cocktails handcrafted with freshly squeezed juices and their signature distilled spirits—currently vodka, rum and gin, with whiskey in the barrel.

610 W. Grove Street, Downtown Boise, (208) 426-0538 155 E. Riverside Dr., Eagle, (208) 938-5093

Barrelhouse Pub and Grill A unique and casual dining experience, Barrelhouse offers a relaxed environment with delicious pub fare. Serving more than 22 rotating taps of handcrafted beers and hard ciders, with a special emphasis given to Treasure Valley breweries.

5181 N. Glenwood Street, Garden City, (208) 376-4200

Tavern at Bown Crossing—

american/regional NW

Exciting dining at an affordable price, the Tavern at Bown Crossing can satisfy your tastebuds—whether you are craving a perfectly cooked USDA prime grade steak, hand-rolled sushi or a selection from its creative list of made-to-order salads crafted with the freshest ingredients, the Tavern has you covered. A full bar with an extensive wine list, great classic cocktails, sake and draught beers ensures everybody is happy!

Bittercreek Alehouse The Bittercreek Alehouse serves exceptional beers, ciders and ales on tap, alongside tasty bites. Don't miss the Low Power Happy Hour—every weekday from 3-5:30 p.m., when the management unplugs and turns down the lights to reduce their energy footprint, serving and drinking by candlelight in honor of the planet. Romantic and earth-friendly.

246 N. 8th Street, Downtown Boise, (208) 345-1813

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Bodovino A total wine experience, with over 144 wines by the glass and over 600 wines by the bottle. Now with two locations—downtown Boise and a new location in The Village at Meridian.

404 S. 8th St., Downtown Boise, (208) 336-VINO (8466) 363 E. Monarch Sky Lane, Meridian, (208) 887-5369

The Basque Market Tapas, paella and specialties such as bocadillos, plus cooking classes, wine tastings and a full Basque food market.

608 W. Grove Street, Downtown Boise, (208) 433-1208

Epi's—A Basque Restaurant Chris and Gina opened Epi’s in memory of their grandmother, Epi Inchausti. This quaint dinnerhouse features food reminiscent of the Basque country, giving you a delightful experience for your evening.

1115 N. Main Street, Meridian, (208) 884-0142

cafés, delis & coffee Bacon

There’s something for everybody on this eclectic menu, where delicious dishes are handcrafted to complement local brews and wines and taps rotate daily!

1607 N. 13th St., North End Boise, (208) 387-HYDE (4933)

What could be better than a restaurant named Bacon? … One that serves five kinds of bacon. BACON, a Southern breakfast and lunch bistro conceived by celebrity chef and restaurateur John Berryhill, features coffee, a full bar and the awesome Bacon Bloody Mary!

121 N. 9th Street, Downtown Boise, (208) 387-3553

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Big City Coffee & Café

The Hyde House

A tropical escape in the heart of downtown, featuring the city’s best rooftop patio, live music and exotic food and drink.

105 S. 6th St., Downtown Boise, (208) 287-9200

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District Coffeehouse

Bar Gernika Traditional Basque dishes, pub fare and an extensive beer selection served in a laid-back space that has become a local institution.

202 S. Capitol Blvd, Downtown Boise, (208) 344-2175 TERRITORY–MAG.COM

Serving breakfast and lunch all day, along with espresso, coffees and in-house baked goods. Try the pumpkin chai muffin, cherry pie scone, or homemade biscuits and gravy with fresh buttermilk biscuits.

1416 Grove Street, Downtown Boise, (208) 345-3145

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A nonprofit created to support an orphanage network called Send Hope, District Coffeehouse focuses on freshly roasted, carefully crafted coffee with a mission. Each batch is roasted in micro-batches twice a

week using 100% Arabica beans.

219 N. 10th Street, Downtown Boise, (208) 343-1089

Express Café If it's breakfast food you want, Express Café has it. It's always busy, but worth the wait, and feels like going home for breakfast with family—with large portions, friendly cooks and wait staff. You won't be disappointed with the great-tasting, fresh, plentiful and reasonably priced menu items, and the place offers a small-town-diner feel that is cozy and welcoming.

400 E. Fairview Ave., Meridian, (208) 888-3745

Flying M Coffeehouse Flying M roasts its own beans, using a smallbatch drum roaster, so coffee is always fresh and delicious. A full complement of madefrom-scratch baked items are handcrafted each morning by master bakers and served with a smile in this bustling downtown coffeehouse that has become a local favorite.

500 W. Idaho Street, Downtown Boise, (208) 345-4320

Goldy’s Breakfast Bistro Goldy’s opened in 1999 in the heart of downtown Boise. Quality made-to-order breakfast has made Goldy’s one of the best restaurants in the Treasure Valley—Voted Best Local Breakfast for 18 years!

108 S. Capitol Blvd., Downtown Boise, (208) 345-4100

JanJou Patisserie Founded by husband-and-wife-team Moshit Mizrachi-Gabbitas and Chuck Gabbitas, JanJou was opened in 2008 as a wholesale bakery selling mostly cookies to local shops.

A retail bakery and full cafe was opened in 2013—with the name as homage to

Moshit's mother, whose nickname was Janjou.

1754 W. State Street, Downtown Boise, (208) 297-5853

Wild Root Café and Market Husband-and-wife-team, chef Michael Trebbi and his wife, Anne-Marie, serve up breakfast and lunch fare with artistic flare and a local, seasonal, farm-to-table focus. The presentation is elegant and the food is fresh, delicious and artfully prepared by hand.

276 N. 8th St., Downtown Boise, (208) 856-8956

italian & mediterranean Alavita Fresh seasonal ingredients inform the locally inspired Italian cuisine at this traditional Italian osteria (an Italian joint). Creative craft cocktails and an extensive wine list complement dishes inspired by regional ingredients, making Alavita a great place for celebrating life with good friends, business associates or family.

807 W. Idaho Street, Downtown Boise, (208) 780-1100

Luciano’s Italian Restaurant Authentic Italian food in a casual, familyfriendly atmosphere that features classic Tuscan-inspired cuisine, with a few surprises— all made from scratch with only the freshest ingredients. Boise’s favorite hole-in-the-wall local Italian is open for lunch and dinner daily.

11 N. Orchard Street, Boise Bench, (208) 577-6415

Le Coq d’Or An unforgettable and artistic dining experience inspired by authentic European countryside cuisine and farm-to-table French cuisine and modern European dishes. Open for dinner only, Tuesday through Saturday.

176 S. Rosebud Lane, Eagle, (208) 947-2840

Richard’s Café Vicino Vicino is Italian for neighborhood. Seasonal menus take advantage of locally sourced produce, fresh fish, meat and game. Chef Richard Langston and his staff share a culinary philosophy that celebrates the integrity of ingredients and prepares simply to showcase the natural flavors of the products. The end result is delicious awardwinning cuisine that receives rave reviews.

808 W. Fort Street, North End, (208) 472-1463

Pie Hole Late night dining in a funky space, serving thin crust New York-style pizza. Pie Hole has become a local institution. Open all day and late night.

205 N. 8th Street, Downtown Boise, (208) 344-7783 1016 Broadway Avenue, Boise Bench, (208) 424-2225

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With eleven cuts of beef

on the menu, ranging from prime, corn fed Mid-Western to American Kobe, organic grass fed to authentic Japanese wagyu,

any time is a prime time to visit Chandlers.

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Chandlers Steakhouse

Enjoy handcrafted, slow-batch pizza with soul.

Experience full-service dining, craft cocktails, and suppers. With five styles of red pizza and five types of white, pies are not the only reason this restaurant is always buzzing. There’s a kale Caesar salad that has spawned regulars, as well as a cauliflower dish that makes even the most carnivorous diners ponder plant-based diets. Now open daily for lunch.

501 West Broad Street, Boise. (208) 209-3837

Prime cuts of beef and fresh caught fish, combined with local homegrown ingredients and an extensive wine list, are served in a swanky, hip setting. The Lounge at Chandlers features live jazz nightly and a martini bar— home of the Ten Minute Martini™. Social Hour is Monday-Friday, 4-6 p.m.

981 W. Grove Street, Boise, (208) 383-4300

Located in the historic Owyhee building, this steak house offers American Wagyu, USDA prime grade steaks, organic salmon, fresh ahi, and oysters on the half shell. Specialties also include kung pao calamari, Kobe fondue and ahi poke salad—and don’t forget to ask for a side of cheddar tots or Brussels sprouts. $5 Happy Hour, Monday-Friday from 3-6 p.m.

1109 Main Street, Downtown Boise, (208) 639-0440

Fresh Off the Hook

Stagecoach Inn

mexican Andrade’s An eclectic atmosphere that features more than 100 menu items from the heart of Mexico.

Offering great food, great service and great value, Andrade's is known as a local's favorite.

Owner Javier Andrade offers a glimpse into the cuisine of a pueblo rich in history, culture, and traditions—with pride in every dish.

4903 Overland Road, Boise Bench, (208) 344-1234

Chapala Traditional Mexican food in a family-friendly atmosphere offering choices for every taste, and with multiple locations throughout Boise.

1201 S. Vista Ave., Boise Bench, (208) 429-1155

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Matador Popular Mexican cuisine in an "Old World" atmosphere of dark walnut, intricate ironwork and deep, roomy booths. Matador features the city’s widest selection of tequila and a spacious outdoor patio during the summer months.

215 N. 8th St., Downtown Boise, (208) 342-9988

A little slice of Seattle mixed with a dash of San Francisco, add a pinch of Alaska and toss it together with the flavors of Key West and you’ll enjoy an incredible seafood experience—right here in Boise. Bright and cheery, soaked in the colors of the ocean, Fresh Off the Hook owner David Bassiri is committed to delivering service and freshness. Guaranteed!

507 N. Milwaukee Street, West Boise, (208) 322-9224 401 S. 8th Street, Downtown Boise, (208) 343-0220

Lucky Fins Seafood Grill Welcome to a new way to experience seafood—where great quality and affordability come together! Daily chalkboard specials are innovative and creative, complemented by a menu of diverse flavors influenced by Asian, Mexican and Northwest cuisines. And don’t miss sushi prepared by one of the best sushi chefs in the Treasure Valley!

801 W. Main Street, Boise, (208) 888-3467 1441 N. Eagle Road, Meridian, (208) 888-3467

Owyhee Tavern Owyhee Tavern opened in October 2016 bringing a new vibe to the downtown area.

steak & seafood Barbacoa Upscale South American steak house featuring tableside guacamole, fresh seafood, chicken mole and certified Angus beef steak served on Argentina ironwood. Specialty crafted cocktails, from margaritas to mojitos, and an extensive wine list complement every meal.

276 Bobwhite Court, East Boise, (208) 338-5000

Bonefish Grill Full of fresh and innovative dishes, the Bonefish Grill crafts a complete dining experience—from customized pairings and craft cocktails, daily specials and a menu that specializes in seasonal fresh fish prepared with elegant simplicity over a wood-burning grill. Taste today's fresh catch.

855 W. Broad St., Downtown Boise, (208) 433-1234 TERRITORY–MAG.COM

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Owyhee Tavern—

steak & seafood The Owyhee Tavern, at the corner of 11th and Main, is a welcome addition to the downtown culinary scene.

The restaurant is owned and operated by Barry Werner and John and Kristy Toth, who also own Tavern at Bown Crossing.

The Tavern's location in The Owyhee exemplifies the “Work, Meet and Live” ethos of the building. Enjoy excellent food and a great atmosphere in historic Boise.

Stagecoach Inn opened in 1959. A Treasure Valley favorite dinner restaurant and bar famous for its hand-breaded bar prawns, prime rib and banana cream pie. Folks near and far make the historic Stagecoach their favorite destination restaurant.

3132 Chinden Blvd., Garden City, (208) 342-4161

Ruth’s Chris Steak House Featuring Ruth’s special 500˚ sizzling plates and an award-winning wine list perfect for a romantic dinner, business meeting or private party. Happy Hour, seven days a week, from4:30-6:30 p.m.

800 W. Main Street, Downtown Boise, (208) 426-8000

The BrickYard Touted as a steak house, The BrickYard has other notable features that are bound to pique your epicurean interest, such as our tableside salad service and our wide range of entrée selections from Idaho Wagyu Kobe beef to crab and scallop topped halibut.

Open for lunch and dinner. Happy Hour, 3-6 p.m. and Friday & Saturday from 10-11 p.m.

Dueling Piano Show, Friday and Saturday, 10 p.m. – close.

601 Main Street, Boise. (208) 287-2121

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