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Restored Union Pacific Photos to be Unveiled this Friday Page 3
Free Birding Tour for Mother’s Day
Footlight Dance Centre’s Fairyopolis Begins Friday
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Calendar includes Saturday’s Clean Sweep Page 9
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It Takes a Village STORY & PHOTOS BY KAREN BOSSICK
I Mark Fulmer, Tyler Pickering, Chad Blincoe— last year’s winners! courtesy pic: patty norris
Magic Trolling Derby Turns 18? BY PAUL HOPFENBECK
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ne winter afternoon in the early ‘90s, over a cold beer at the Hailey Hotel, Ed Uhrig and Steve Begley decided to put on the first Magic Reservoir Trolling Derby (Ed put on the derby for 10 years and then decided to have the winner put on the next year’s derby, at which point the Uhrig boys won Save the date three years The Magic Reservoir in a row!). Ed Trolling Derby will take can’t rememplace Saturday, May ber what year 12. that was exCaptains sign-up is Wednesday, May 9 actly, nor can Steve Begley. I at 6 p.m. at the Hailey Hotel. can’t rememEntry fee is $180 ber, either. ($20 goes to local There may be cause). a reason for that… we all owned places at Baja Magic and from Wednesday night after sign-in until the Sunday morning after the derby, East Side Magic was Party Central. This year’s derby poster says “18th Annual,” so someone must be keeping track! Typically held on the second Saturday of May, and originally scheduled to not conflict with Ed’s Kentucky Derby party at the Silver Dollar the week prior, the fishing can be unpredictable. Welcome to Magic. May at Magic is one of the most frustrating times of the year to fish this temperamental body of water. A few weeks back, Bill Tormey and I had our best BIG fish day in 28 years. Two days later, with seasoned veteran Jason Roth, fishing the same spot, we landed one good fish. Musta been holding our mouths wrong! In the weeks leading up to the derby, the reservoir is in flux and conditions can change daily. From ice- out in March until the day of the derby, there is a long list of variables that can predicate tactics. Water level, flows of the Big Wood and Camas Creek, water temperature and clarity, wind, time of day, thermocline level, barometer, and presence of Idaho Fish and Game “planter” stock will all have an impact on where you will find fish. This can demand constantly changing locations, presentation depth, trolling speed, choice of lure type, lure color, and whether or not bait is going to work. I like to pre-fish but because of the changing water conditions, with few exceptions, it doesn’t really give you an advantage. With five first-place finishes between them, the two most successful teams are the Uhrig brothers—Ed, Curtis and Ken—and Team Begley—Steve, Bernie and PeeWee. They will all tell you the same thing: There is no one secret that will put fish in the boat. You just have to show up. Or, if you
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t started with a prom dress and grew into a double degree in mechanical engineering and applied mathematics with a minor in physics. And when Jozey Mitcham graduates from Boise State University on Saturday, she’ll have 64 “guardian angels” from the Wood River Valley who contributed more than $50,000 to her education cheering her on, along with her aunt and uncle, grandmother and father. And back at home another aspiring young college student is ready to take her place. “It still amazes me that people wanted to give me money, especially since I had never met most of them,” said the 24-year-old woman who was raised by her uncle and aunt, Mark and Rustin Miller, after her mother was killed in a car accident. “But I’m really grateful—I could not have taken the heavy class load I did if I’d had to work.” The story began when Hailey dress shop owner Paula Proctor adopted Wood River High School senior Jozey Mitcham as one of her “Paula’s Girls.” Proctor outfitted her with a prom gown and 57 other women offered to style Mitcham’s hair, give her a facial, and provide flowers, high heels, jewelry, dinner for two and money for college textbooks. When Mitcham sent prom pictures and thank-you notes to her contributors, Ketchum resident Carol Harlig was so impressed that she rallied the women to contribute scholarship money to supplement the scholarships Mitcham had received from Rotary clubs, the Sawtooth Board of Realtors, Wood River Odd Fellows and Rebekah Lodge, and other organizations. The first year the women contributed $5,500. This past year they contributed $10,400. The women never stopped giving, and Mitcham never stopped reciprocating with thank-you e-mails that summarized her classes and grades. She told them of spending a week holed up in her apartment, learning about proofs in Discrete and Foundational Math. She shared how classmates from her Probability and Statistics class taught her to wakeboard. She told of attending a George Strait concert, riding a scooter to class every day, watching her uncle race 222 miles per hour at the Bonneville Salt Flats and volunteering at the Idaho Humane
Gay Weakes, Laurel Lallma n, Jozey Mitcham and Car ol Harlig share a moment a garden par ty Harlig thr at ew for Mitcham and her suppor ters.
Society (“When I grow up I’m having dogs for kids.”) She shared how she was able to take classes in archaeology, scuba diving, snowboarding, judo, music, American sign language, self-defense and even comic books amidst computer science, thermal physics, numerical analysis, thermodynamics, biomechanics, biomaterials and fluid mechanics classes. She described building the Greenspeed—the world’s fastest vehicle run on vegetable oil—and the process of moving a new couch into her apartment (“I will have a whole year to plan how to get the couch back out and down three flights of stairs.”) She told of redesigning a hospital crash cart for one project, an intervertebral disc replacement for another and doing a 40-page report complete with code and diagrams for a wind turbine project. She told of the three cats and puppy she adopted from the Humane Society and described a trip to Fresno (“The crazy thing about California is they don’t have fry sauce and they don’t know what it is”). She asked them to cross their fingers as she attempted to cook steak for the first time and she even asked for “easy recipes” to supplement her pizza and Spaghettios diet. “Even with her heavy study load, she
has never failed to include us in her great adventure with wonderful reports of her classes and pithy descriptions of her professors and fellow students,” said Susan Perin. “We were all in awe because we had no idea what she was talking about with some of the classes she was taking,” said Harlig. Mitcham says she would like to parlay her engineering know-how into designing physical therapy carts for animals or improving hip implants and elbow replacements for dogs. To that end she will have a third month-long internship at the Best Friends Animal Society in Kanab, Utah, this summer, followed by an internship with a Boise veterinarian who does joint replacements. “As an only child, my siblings were the pets I had growing up,” she said. “I looked into veterinary medicine, but it requires a lot of chemistry. And I don’t want to operate on animals because you see the bad side. If I work with the therapeutic side, I’ll see the happier side.” Mitcham said she was amazed that her “guardian angels,” as she dubbed them, followed her through six years of college. “Some said they would even follow me through grad school of I chose to do that,
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