April 27, 2011

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Free storytelling presentation with Teresa Jordan this Thursday at Community Campus

2011 Heritage Court announced Page 3

Big Win for Wood River High School Page 4

Kane reviews Jane Eyre movie this week Page 10 read about it on PaGe 12

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Sunday’s Bug Zoo Festival kicks off the Ninth Annual Bug Zoo

Photos & Story By KAREN BOSSICK

Liz Roquet shows off a few of the different labels that adorn her coffee blends.

Lizzy’s puts the fun in coffee buying, giving Photos & Story By KAREN BOSSICK

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ne woman told relatives of her pending birth by handing out coffee bags with a picture of her ultrasound at Thanksgiving dinner. Another woman toasted her brother’s 50th birthday by presenting him with a steady stream of coffee bags starting out with pictures of him as a baby and progressing to adulthood. Lizzy’s Fresh coffee puts the fun in coffee before you ever get to what’s inside the bag. “Selling good coffee in a boring bag seemed boring to me. I thought: Why not have my customers come up with labels that allowed them, their dogs and cats, their babies to be the stars? I just want my business to be fun and cheeky,” said Lizzy’s owner Liz Roquet, who even awards a month’s supply of coffee to those whose pictures she picks to put on her labels each month. The result has meant coffee bags featuring iconic Sun Valley landmarks, such as Baldy and Sun Valley’s red barn. It’s meant a series of “Bad Dog” labels featuring Fido and Rover caught in the act. It’s meant labels featuring Sun Valley’s top skiers and boarders designed to raise funds for Sun Valley’s Ski Education Foundation. It’s even meant labels designed by Hemingway students who wanted raise money to buy soccer jerseys for children in Montserrat, Colombia, where Roquet purchases a lot of her coffee. “My son Cooper came up with the idea. And I took the jerseys with me when I went to Montserrat to be a cupping contest judge. It took 26 hours to get to Bogota, then a truck ride along a road that had been taken out by an avalanche the year before, necessitating the farmers to ship their coffee beans by skinny horses, she recounted. “Montserrat is like having Ketchum’s Main Street on top of Baldy. And the coffee fields were on steep slopes like Greyhawk. The contest was a big deal for the winners because they got to take home a couple extra hundred dollars to their family. And I got to bring my favorite coffee of the 59 I tested back to my customers.” Lizzy’s Fresh Coffee opened in 2008 the wake of Icebreaker’s departure from Ketchum.

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is mating call sounds like a dog’s bark. He’s named for his colorful belly. And he’s a force to be reckoned with by the inhabitants of this year’s Bug Zoo. After all, the fire-bellied toad has a penchant for bugs—from crickets to moths. Kids and adults alike will get a chance to meet this tropical bugeating character when the Sawtooth Botanical Garden presents its Ninth Annual Bug Zoo. This year’s hands-on affair launches with a Bug Zoo Festival from 1 to 4 p.m. Sunday. And children and adults can continue to view the bugs through May 14. Sunday’s Bug Zoo Festival will include face painting, bug magnets, buggy games, the opportunity to eat like bugs do with their various mouthparts and snack craft, such as the opportunity to make insect cupcakes and cereal butterflies. Youngsters will also get to tour examine Luna moths, scor-

pions, tarantulas, silkworms and Kanay Cornett gets a about two dozen more bugs from feel for what it would be all over the world up close and like to crawl out of a cocoon. personal. Cost for that day only is $5 for youngsters whose families are members of the botanical garden and $10 for those who are not members. Beginning May 2, more than a thousand schoolchildren will visit the Bug Zoo on field trips. The public is invited to check out the bugs free of charge from 1:30 to 5 p.m. weekdays and from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. May 7-8 and 14. The Bug Zoo is designed to give kids a chance to learn about the many-legged creatures who inhabit this planet while gaining an appreciation of the natural world. “I’ve learned a lot about the resiliency of bugs after doing this for several years,” said Allison Kennedy, the garden’s education director. “The cockroaches, for instance, are amazing. Kids accidentally drop them on the The Luna moth, which is typically seen at night, has a wingspan meafloor and the cockroaches just suring up to five inches, making it one of the largest moths in North keep trucking along.” tws America. The eyespots on its wings confuse potential predators.

The SUN and the “101”

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eginning May 25, the publishers of The Weekly SUN will distribute a very unique magazine throughout the Valley... “101 Amazing Things To Do!” Never before have Valley businesses been offered an opportunity to reach so many customers, for an entire season, for such a reasonable cost. Full color ad rates start at just $99. This unique new publication will highlight 101 of the most popular activities and events to found in and around the Wood River Valley. Each category will offer creative

suggestions along with times, dates, contact information, and other pertinent information to help readers (your potential customers) find out what is going on throughout the summer and into the early fall. Advertising positions are limited and filling fast. You may also have the opportunity to have your event/activity information included where appropriate. Contact the SUN team today for more information: jeff@theweeklypaper.biz or call 928-7186. tws

St.Petersburg

String Quartet Saturday, April 30 talk featuring 7:00 PM Pre-concert Dick Brown – 6:15 PM

VENUE: Presbyterian Church of the Big Wood TICKETS: $30 at Ketchum Bookstores or SVWAS.org INFO: (208) 725-5807


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