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Papoose Club Holiday Bazaar to Feature 62 Vendors STORY & PHOTO BY KAREN BOSSICK
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on’t want to spend the holiday season slaving over the oven? No problem. You can choose from a wide selection of homemade cookies of all shapes, colors and flavors this weekend at The Papoose Club Holiday Bazaar. The 23rd annual Papoose Club Holiday Bazaar will be held Saturday and Sunday at Hemingway Elementary School, 111 8th St. West, in Ketchum. Hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday. There’ll be 62 vendors offering unique art, artisanal and handcrafted goods. Among this year’s items: recycled ski-pole chimes, garden metalwork, hand-carved wooden Santas and letter-pressed stationery. The Soup Kitchen will serve homemade chili, chicken tortellini and vegetarian vegetable soups from top-secret Papoose Club recipes, along with other goodies. The Bead Shop will host a children’s craft table. Santa Claus will drop in at 1:30 p.m. Sunday. And The Papoose Club Holiday Raffle will give shoppers the chance to win scores of prizes, from yurt trips to sunglasses, ski passes to spa treats, jewelry to a Baldy ski pass. Proceeds from the Bazaar will help fund The Papoose Club mission, which is to assist non-profit organizations providing educational, cultural and athletic programs for the children of the Wood River Valley. For information, or to make a tax-deductible contribution, visit papooseclub.org. tws
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Keefer Reynolds will showcase her hand-felted hats and moccasins, along with her scarves, at The Papoose Club Holiday Bazaar.
ou do lunges up Baldy and pole work running around Dollar Mountain. And you engage in countless boot camps filled with plyometric exercises to be at the top of your game when it comes to skiing or hockey. But you may not be exercising the most important part of your body in your bid to achieve peak performance. The brain may not be a muscle. But it plays perhaps the biggest role of all in making sure your muscles and other body parts work properly to achieve peak efficiency and keep you from injury. “For peak performance, you want the brain and body functioning at its optimal level. If one part is working slowly, it’s like a symphony in which the trombone is playing slower than the other instruments—it doesn’t jive,” said Dr. Maria Maricich. “The cool thing is there are some really simple exercises you can do to correct those imbalances—you don’t even need a bike or other expensive athletic gear.” Maricich will offer a free Injury Prevention Workshop at 5:30 p.m. Thursday at the Wood River YMCA. The workshop will help participants identify muscle imbalances, neurological efficiency, coordination and structural imbalance. She will also offer brain-balancing exercises that can be done at home to correct problems and help participants improve their athletic performance and safety on the ski slopes and the ice rink. The use of neurology and neuroscience to improve sports performance is fairly new. “Many people know about brain problems leading to Alzheimer’s, dementia, memory loss, even ADD. But not a lot of people know about how it affects injuries and athletic performance,” said Maricich. Maricich used it with her own son when she discovered he had an intentional tremor. He practiced a couple simple exercises, including one in which he made snow angels on the floor. Feeling the sensation of the carpet against his skin engaged his brain, helping to make his
Dr. Maria Maricich shows a simple neurological test that involves moving the hands back and forth as fast as possible.
“…there are some really simple exercises you can do to correct those imbalances — you don’t even need a bike or other expensive athletic gear.” school work easier. He also started skiing better—he even received an invite to take part in a U.S. Ski Team freestyle event later this month. “It definitely made a difference,” said 16-year-old Zac Maricich-Siele. “It made it easier to focus on my schoolwork. And it made it easier to improve in skiing. The exercises weren’t difficult—it was just a matter of remembering to do them. I was happy I did them.”
Working in concert
Muscle or structural imbalances can put more strain on joints and other body parts like the pelvis. When the pelvis is tilted, it can strain the inner knee on the side that’s elevated and the outside of the knee on the side that’s lower. Head, shoulders and hips that are tilted get fatigued trying to hold you in position and can’t rise to the occasion when you hit a mogul the wrong way. A head held too far forward throws the body off and interferes with body awareness. If one quad responds well and the other doesn’t, both are prone to injury. “Think of all the things that have to happen in your body to make a turn on skis—zillions of things you don’t even think about,” Maricich said. “You want to have the one muscle contracting while the other one relaxes. If you don’t, you may not turn as well on one side as the other. The idea is to make it so your nerves work in concert to make things happen to ensure that everything is doing exactly what it needs to do.” Maricich recently conducted a workshop demonstrating some of the things she will deal with on Thursday. Some of the tests were as simple as touching the cheeks to see if one cheek tingled more than the other. Participants covered one eye, then the other, to see if one detected colors more brightly. They examined pupils to determine if one was bigger than the other. And they stood, putting their feet close together, then closed their eyes to see whether they fell to one side or the other. “We’re not testing for strength as much as how the neurological part is responding,” Maricich told participants.
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