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A Sun Valley Christmas G
ot White Stag ing back to the 1930s stretch pants? when Sun Valley deA Roffe nylon buted as America’s ski jacket? first destination ski Knickerbockers resort. or a boiled wool And there will loden jacket with be raffles, refreshleather trim and ments and plenty by: Karen collar? people watching, Bossick Sun Valley is as well. marking its 75th The party is one of anniversary season on a week full of events Saturday by celebrating 75 that Sun Valley has years of ski fashion. lined up as it heads And it needs you to make the towards Christmas. picture complete. Here’s what to The resort is hosting a Vinexpect: tage Ski Party and Contest at 2 Today—Sun Valley is showp.m. Saturday at the River Run ing Warren Miller’s latest ski Plaza. There’ll be prizes for the film “Wintervention� at 4:30 best outfit from each decade datp.m. Mondays, Wednesdays and
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Saturdays throughout the ski season in the Sun Valley Opera House. Tickets are $5. Thursday—Sun Valley is showing “Sun Valley Serenade,� the 1940s movie showing Sonja Henie, at 4:30 p.m. Sundays, Tuesdays and Thursdays throughout the winter in the Sun Valley Opera House. Admission is free. Friday—Some of Sun Valley’s best rail riders will strut their stuff during a Rail Exhibition on Sun Valley’s new Quad Wall from 5 to 6:30 p.m.  The fun gets started at 3 with live music by Twin Falls musician Ethan Tucker. Then Sun Valley will
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Sharon and John Wellsandt pose for pictures in the ice sleigh carved for last year’s tree lighting ceremony. Photo: KAREN BOSSICK/TWP
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A few good books
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ike many in the Valley, I belong to a book club, now heading into our thirteenth year. The club has greatly by: JIMA expanded my Rice, Ph.D. reading horizons. Fiction is not my gig but I have taken on Olive Kittredge and Lolita, among others. After all, our dinners and discussion are spectacular! When I’m the “book-picker,â€? however, the club gets edgy. My taste tends to nonfiction outside most peoples’ interests. With this full disclosure, below are some books I suggest to others interested in good reads about money and economics. 1. Blessed Unrest by Paul Hawken. Hawken is an environmentalist and writer who describes a “movementâ€? for sustainability and social justice that is worldwide, inchoate, and under-the-radar. The book has been called â€œâ€Śa description of humanity’s collective genius and an unstoppable movement to reimagine our relationship to the environment and one another.â€? Hawken provides a short, fast-moving trip across the movement – reinforcing points with a wide range of fascinating information. 2. Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson. This book chronicles Mortenson’s accidental
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Get Scrooge!
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ahead of the curve
Catch Steve d’Smith as Scrooge in this year’s production of A Christmas Carol – The Musical starting at 7 tonight. COURTESY PHOTO Read about it on the cover of Section Too!
inside: LAUGHTER, PG 7 | LIGHTS FOR HUNGER, PG 6 | HOLIDAY SHOPPING, SECTION TOO