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Olympic sendoff for Arritola, Watanabe, Hamilton
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Engineer Dick Fosbury, who stunned the world with his “Fosbury Flop” in the 1968 Summer Olympics, told the audience that Morgan Arritola, Simi Hamilton and Graham Watanabe will serve as ambassadors for the community, as well as the nation.
t isn’t often you your support. The next can get Morgan couple months are Arritola to going to be real fun stand still for two and I’ll be home in hours, Sun Valley April.” Nordic Ski Coach Arritola will Rick Kapala acrepresent the Photos & Story by: knowledged. United States as Karen Bossick But the 5-foot-4 part of the Nordic skier did just that team, along with Sunday evening as a Simi Hamilton, who couple hundred wellmoved to Sun Valley wishers crowded into the Sun from Aspen two years ago to Valley Club to cheer her on as further his dreams of skiing she heads off to the 2010 Winon the U.S. Ski Team. Hamilter Olympics in Vancouver. ton won his first U.S. National “I’ve even had people cheerChampionship earlier this ing for me when I run down month in Anchorage and is the bike path,” the Commurepresenting the U.S. at the nity School graduate told the crowd. “I really appreciate all continued, page 16
scene in the valley
Morgan Arritola doesn’t like to draw attention to herself. But she did take the microphone on Sunday night, alongside Nordic Coach Rick Kapala, who will get to see his young charge perform at the Olympic at Sun Valley Ski Education Foundation Director Don Wiseman’s insistence.
5GEQPF 6KOG #TQWPF Max T. Rudolph
Max Rudolph: Coming home
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hhhh ….the Wood River Valley ….it’s home to me, but some might say I’ve been fickle over the past few years. I’ve been traveling and living in far-flung coordinates, drinking in exotic cultures with each morning’s coffee. Max Rudolph here, checking in after a decade of wandering. I grew up here. I went to high school here. I skied, hiked, biked and played here until I set my sights on broader horizons. I’ve spent my days walking among strangers, observing landscapes and faces I’d never imagined I’d see. Pyramids, palaces, the Dead Sea, the Northern Lights, caravans, savannas … all contributing to a heady combination of nature and man that has finally satisfied a kind of restlessness in me that was bred by growing up in a small, familiar place. They say you can never go home again, but I’m out to prove
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Banff film fest
From the film ‘African Revolutions Tour’ by Pat Camblin, which will be shown during the upcoming Banff film fest. COURTESY PHOTO
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