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Osvaldo Ancinas (right), who knew head alpine coach Ruben Macaya as a boy in Argentina, enjoys a moment with Macaya, Roberto Taddeo (left) and Sara Berman before Saturday’s dinner.
Skiers Honor Macaya at Wild Game Feed STORY & PHOTOS BY KAREN BOSSICK
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he Winter Olympics are still a year away. But Sun Valley Ski Education Foundation athletes hung gold medals around the necks of dozens of guests attending Saturday’s Wild Game Dinner to benefit the ski and snowboard program. The gold medals were a clever ploy to raise money for the Ski Education Foundation and its 450-plus athletes. Patrons paid $100 to wear a gold medal around their neck and be entered into a lottery with the winner getting a chance to pick any one of the 13 live auction items being offered. The winning pick? A trip for two on the Middle Fork of the Salmon River with Steve Lentz and Far and Away Adventures. Following that, the bidding got down in earnest. The 435 attendees at the Sun Valley Limelight Room led off with a high-octane bid of $4,000 for a Starbucks card worth one Starbucks beverage every day for a year. Two-time Olympian Jonna Mendes garnered a couple of $6,500 bids for a day with herself on the slopes and a Sun Valley Hel-Ski Day and Swiss Après Party raised another $6,500. Don Wiseman, who heads up the SVSEF, which brings three-quarters of a million dollars to the community with its events, told those in attendance that it had been an amazing year for the Sun Valley Ski Education Foundation, thanks to the continuing development of the Ski Academy and the acquisition of the Sagewillow Barn to use for dryland training. “And, after two years and a lot of work, we’ve been named the 15th Olympic/Paralympic training site, which means we’re going to have more world-class athletes come here to train and more events. And that really is a community effort,” he said, adding that the Foundation will meet with the community after the first of the year to decide how to shape the program here. Wiseman acknowledged Kate Berman, who was overseeing her last Wild Game Dinner after having shepherded the fundraiser since the days when parents brought wild game to her to be cooked. “I wouldn’t have done it for so long without the incredible support from the community,” she said. “I’ve been doing this so long because I’m incredibly passionate about this program and what it means.” Head Alpine Coach Ruben Ma-
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Chapter One Bookstore: A Peek Inside the Pages “I’ve hung out in lots of bookstores in my 70 years, including the unique Chartwell Booksellers off Madison Avenue in New York City. But until I first set foot in Ketchum in 1985, I had never seen a bookstore so crucial to the well-being of a community as Chapter One.” -Charlie Brandt STORY & PHOTOS BY KAREN BOSSICK
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hapter One Bookstore recently moved for the eighth time in 40 years. But it didn’t lose its following in the move. Even as local followers continued to flock to the indie bookstore now located at 340 E. 2nd St. in the former Dick Alf’s fly shop, the national accolades continued to pour in just as they have always done. The Ketchum bookstore, known for its Hemingway collection, its Idaho books and its spiritual and healing bent, was named one of Five Great Indie Bookstores in the Pacific Northwest as part of Seattle Metropolitan Magazine’s annual Northwest Travels award. Others ranked in the top five included Elliott Bay Book Company in Seattle and Powell’s Books in Portland. And now it is included in a book that is just making its way to the shelves: “My Bookstore: Writers Celebrate Their Favorite Places to Browse, Read and Shop.” The chapter paying homage to Chapter One was written by Charlie Brandt, who has written a handful of Mafia books, including “I Heard You Paint Houses”—a book about Frank “The Irishman” Sheeran, who confessed to killing Jimmy Hoffa. “It’s a big deal, kind of a momentous story,” said Cheryl Welch Thomas, the
Charlie Brandt and Cheryl Welch Thomas are celebrating the inclusion of Chapter One Bookstore in the new book, “My Bookstore.”
bookstore’s gentle, soft-spoken, blondhaired owner. “I was lucky to get into it because it’s mostly East and West Coast bookstores. I was thrilled about it—not just for myself but for all the independent bookstores and writers out there.” She’s so thrilled, in fact, that Thomas is throwing a party to honor some of her independent writers. The Celebration Party will be held from 4 to 8 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 24. It will feature Cristina Cook with her new cookbook, “Con Gusto: Cristina’s of Sun Valley,” along with book signings for Charlie Brandt, Todd Pedderson, Mary Ann Davidson and Leslie Little. It also will feature s’mores that patrons can make on a fire pit outside the store and other refreshments. Amy C. Nelson will offer mini-seated massages and Meg Mazzocchi, new paintings. “My Bookstore,” which is slated to get national press in the The New York Times, USA Today and NPR in the next
couple of weeks, features essays on 82 independent bookstores in America. Most boast names that are definitively not chain names—names like The Regulator, Longfellow Books, Talking Leaves Books, BookPeople and WORD. Those writing so eloquently about them include names that will be very familiar to Sun Valley audiences—Louise Erdrich, Ivan Doig, John Grisham, Abraham Verghese, Timothy Egan… Ron Rice, the book’s editor, wanted to include Chapter One because of Ketchum’s Hemingway connection. When Thomas suggested that Brandt write the essay, he was jazzed—he had read one of Brandt’s books. And, he related, the books fell off the shelves of his house when Philip “Chicken Man” Testa—the later head of the Philadelphia mafia—was blown to bits. Brandt was jazzed, too. He credited
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