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22nd Annual Papoose Club Holiday Bazaar This Saturday and Sunday
Fresh Powder for Opener
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Powder Festival to Include Big Air Contest Page 8
Margot Dishes Up Some Holiday Bread Page 12
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Opening Saturday: Sun Valley’s
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Christmas Cards to Raise Money for Art BY KAREN BOSSICK
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ant a Christmas card that celebrates Hailey’s hometown holidays? You might find what you want in a new holiday card available at four Hailey locations. The card features a photo Chris Syms took of Hailey welder Bob Wiederricks’s giant bicycle in front of Sturtevants in the snow. Background lights are framed in such a way that the bike almost looks as if it’s bedecked with holiday lights. Hailey artist Mark Johnstone helped finance the printing of 500 cards and Hailey Copy and Print discounted its costs. The cards are on sale in Hailey for $2 at Sturtevants, the Hailey Chamber of Commerce, Copy & Print and Sun Summit South. Proceeds will go to benefit public art in Hailey, said Wiederrick. Wiederrick said he already has collected $927 for public art in Hailey by recycling cans. He hopes to exceed $1,000 by the end of the year. People can drop cans off 24 hours a day at a bin outside at 4051 Glenbrook Drive in Hailey’s light industrial tws area.
Free Reading, Tuesday BY KAREN BOSSICK
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nyone who’s sat around a campfire knows how men like to try to outstorytell one another. That’s the case in Conor McPherson’s play, “The Weir.” Only, in this case, it involves four guys sitting in a rural Irish pub trying to impress a pretty young woman from Dublin, who just moved into a supposedly haunted house, with their ghost and fairy tales. Turns out Valerie has a story of her own—a true story of why she has left Dublin. And this story has a haunting twist. The nexStage Theatre will present a free reading of “The Weir” at 6:30 p.m. Thursday at the nexStage Theatre, 120 S. Main St., Ketchum. The play-reading features Andrew Alburger, Charlotte Baker, Scott Creighton, Dawson Howard and Keith Moore. Complementary wine and cookies will be served. The play was first produced in London in 1997 where it received the Olivier Award for Best New Play. “Conor McPherson is an Irish playwright who wrote ‘The Weir’ when he was 27 years old. He’s a riveting playwright—it’s one of the best-written plays I’ve ever read,” said the play-reading’s director, Jon Kane. “The quality of his writing is extraordinary. Each of his characters has a beautifully written monologue, and I don’t think I could find a better cast. We’ll be doing more of his plays. Definitely.” tws
Sun Valley’s iconic Opera House sports the earthy aroma of molasses, nutmeg and other spices under Jones’ care.
“I’ve found Sun Valley’s buildings interesting because there are lots of little details that make each building identifiable.” - Mary Jones STORY & PHOTOS BY KAREN BOSSICK
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ary Jones has built between 30 and 50 gingerbread houses for each of the past 25 years. They’ve run the gamut—from edible Victorian houses to Gothic churches with bells that ring. Some have looked like Hansel and Gretel A-frame cottages. Others resemble her clients’ own personal homes. This year, the proprietor of The Chocolate Moose is padding her résumé with something even grander. She’s building the entire Sun Valley Village out of gingerbread. Jones has spent the past two weeks creating Sun Valley’s iconic Red Barn, the duck pond in front of the Sun Valley Lodge, the ice rink, the resort’s two hot pools and 30 other structures out of gingerbread. Sun Valley Resort will have a ribboncutting for the gingerbread village at 1 p.m. Saturday in The Boiler Room in the Sun Valley mall. Homemade donuts, cider, mulled wine and cocoa will be available. The village will be on display throughout the Christmas holiday. “I have not heard of someone making an entire village out of gingerbread,” said John Murcko, Sun Valley’s new director of culinary operations. “I’ve always wanted to do something like this but it’s such an undertaking.”
The village, which covers a 16-by-24foot footprint, will feature the Sun Valley Opera House, Trail Creek Cabin, the Wells Fargo bank, the duck pond, even the Sinclair gas station with its pumps. If all goes as planned, the Snowball Express—the train that brought skiers to Sun Valley in its early days—will go around the village. The train was a gift to Sun Valley General Manager Tim Silva from his children. “As someone who worked in the film industry, I look at everything as props. And I’ve found Sun Valley’s buildings interesting because there are lots of little details that make each building identifiable. I don’t have time to put every little detail into the buildings I’m creating. But I’ll do the best I can,” Jones said. “The most difficult thing is that I have to do the Konditorei and I don’t even know what it will look like since they’re still building it.” The whole process started with aerial views of Sun Valley Village, which Sun Valley’s security guard Randy Long set to scale. Jones then took pictures of each building and made patterns that she used to cut out of some 300 pounds of cookie-like gingerbread that she baked in her Ketchum studio. She glued them together with special icing that sets up like concrete. And she created windows using clear sugar
candy similar to Jolly Ranchers that she crushed and melted. “People pay lots of money for windows like these,” she said, pointing to windows that had tiny bubbles in them. Long and Thane Hendricks, who works in Sun Valley’s food and beverage department, are frosting the ground with 300plus pounds of royal icing made of powdered sugar and egg whites. They’ll dust the rooftops with snow made of powdered sugar. Then they’ll position tiny people and trees along Sun Valley’s pathways. “As an urban planner, I’ve done small models before. But nothing like this,” said Long. Jones has gotten a feel for Sun Valley’s famous tradition of undertaking massive building projects in extraordinary short periods of time—a tradition that began with the building of the Sun Valley Lodge in 1936 and has continued under Earl and Carol Holding. “This is right up my alley, but it’s a two-month job and I had just over two weeks to do it,” she said. “I hope that next year we can plan ahead—maybe even start in May—and add Dollar Mountain and Baldy.” As it is, Jones has been working around the clock since the project started. By Sunday, she was getting just three hours of sleep a night. “If I get three hours, I’m good for
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