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s a former flight attendant for Alaska Airlines, Molly Flick is used to plying airline passengers with refreshments, earphones and pillows to while the flight away. This week she will be handing out a crossword puzzle she created especially for the Trailing of the Sheep Festival for her girlfriends to work on the flight from Seattle. Flick put a girl’s weekend
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together for herself Flick said she and her and a few friends husband have been to check out this coming to Sun Valweekend’s festival. ley for 25 years beShe designed the ginning with their crossword puzzle honeymoon but around words like have never had “sad little girl who the opportunity to by: Karen lost her sheep” and attend the Trailing Bossick “Woolite” to add to of the Sheep. the experience. “Two years ago “It was fun putting it we bought a place in together and actually pretty Elkhorn and this is the first easy, too. I googled sheep for opportunity I’ve had to take ideas and once I put together a some girlfriends over to show list of words and clues I went to them Sun Valley and our ‘new’ a crossword puzzle maker site, place,” she said. “After watching typed it all in and—Voila!-- I the little video on the website of had a crossword puzzle,” said the continued, page 15 Redmond, Wash., woman.
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Opera takes a seat at the movie theater
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etropolitan Theatres announced that it has partnered with the Sun Valley Opera to bring the Metropolitan Opera’s Emmy and Peabody award-winning The Met: Live in HD to the Wood River Valley. The season will feature 12 LIVE operas broadcast exclusively at the Bigwood Cinemas in Hailey on Saturdays beginning Saturday, Oct. 9. This will be the fifth season that the critically-acclaimed series will be transmitted live in high definition to nearly 550 movie theatres and performing arts centers in the United States through a renewed agreement with National CineMedia (NCM) Fathom, the operator of the largest digital in-theatre network for cinema advertising, entertainment and events in North America. The Met: Live in HD expands the appeal and reach of opera around the world and has been met with both critical and popular acclaim. The Met: Live in HD captures the onstage action from striking angles and heightens attention to the narrative elements of both performance and production by using robotic cameras and state-of-the-art technology. The series offers exclusive behind-thescenes features, live interviews with cast and crew, insightful short documentaries and bird’s-eye views of the productions, offering an unprecedented look at what goes into the staging of an opera. Tickets for individual performances may be purchased online at www.metrotheatres.com or www.fathomevents.com and the theatre box office. Discounted season tickets may be purchased at the theatre. General admission tickets are $22 per show with a price of $20 for seniors and $18 for students and children. Frank Meyer, president of Sun Valley Opera, added, “Audiences around the world are
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It’s Ragtime!
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Tom Rigney and his Cajun-flavored Flambeau will kick off the 21st annual Swing ‘n’ Dixie Jazz Jamboree on Wednesday. Read about it on page 13
inside: FIRST THURSDAY, PG 6 | GALLERY WALK, PG 8 | MARICICH TALKS THYROID, PG 16