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Fishes Alive!
Line Up Your Putter For The Ketchum Wide Open
STORY AND PHOTO BY KAREN BOSSICK
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t’s goofy golf in the finest sense of the word. The annual Ketchum Wide Open will take place Saturday in Ketchum. That’s when several restaurants and bars will challenge golfers with unique mini-golf-type holes in a free-for-all through downtown Ketchum. Participating restaurants and bars are Grumpy’s, Sawtooth Brewery, Whiskey Jacques’, The Cellar Pub, The Casino, The Sawtooth Club, Smoky Mountain Pizzeria Grill and The Cornerstone Bar & Grill. Prizes will be given for best hole, best costume, youngest golfer, oldest golfer and golfer who traveled the farthest. The Golden Putter Award will be given for the lowest score to par. Admission is $20 for a team of two. Sign-ups start at 11 a.m. at Ketchum Town Square near Starbucks. Tee-off is at noon. All scorecards must be turned in by 5:30 p.m. The event will be capped by a show featuring Blueprint with DJ Rare Groove and Count Bass D at Ketchum Town Square next to Starbucks. An awards ceremony will be held at 6 p.m. Then the party will head to Whiskey Jacques’ for more of Blueprint, an emcee and producer from Columbus, Ohio, and Count Bass D. Blueprint released a debut solo album “1988” in 2005 and has since been one of the most prolific artists around, releasing a slew of projects, including two instrumental albums titled “Sign Language” and “Chamber Music,” along with “Adventures in Counter-Culture,” “Electric Purgatory” and other recordings. Count Bass D has been an underground hip-hop musician for 20 years. There is no cover charge for the Whiskey’s show. tws
Jim Kuehn and Dr. Glen Shapiro compare koi. STORY AND PHOTOS BY KAREN BOSSICK
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r. Glen Shapiro pointed down into the murky mud. “There! Don’t you see it?!” Courtney Hamilton glopped through the muck, the mud splattering on her rust-colored waders. She stuck her hand into the muck and fished out… nothing. She tried again. Nothing. Finally, after about five minutes of fishing around in the muck, she pulled out an inch-long trout. All that for an inch-long trout????? “It’ll be a 20-incher one of these days!” laughed Shapiro. About 20 members of the Wood River Valley’s Trout Unlimited chapter turned out for a fish rescue at Jude and Ju-
lia Damascos’ new home on Buttercup Road last Wednesday. And they were determined to save every last fish in the acre-sized lake, which sits south of Indian Creek. “It’s a messy job but someone has to do it,” said Carmen Northen. “It feels good to give them a chance. They would die, otherwise.” Jude and Julia Damasco, who hail from Half Moon Bay, Calif., recently purchased the property, which they have dubbed “Buttercup” after the road it sits on. They’re working with the Idaho Department of Water Resources to install metering devices in the lake so they know how much water is coming in and out. And they plan on planting trees and other plants along the lake’s edge to enhance the fish habitat. In order to do this, they had to pump
water out of the lake, which used to be part of a big ranch. They called on the local Hemingway Trout Unlimited chapter to help save as many fish as possible as they drained the lake. “I don’t know what we’ll find at the bottom,” said Julia Damasco after listening to local artist Eric Eberhart tell of finding Indian arrowheads in the area. “We saw a 16-inch trout in there the other day. Sometimes I wake up wondering if we’ll find a body at the bottom!” Carmen Northen, who resurrected the local fishing chapter nine years ago, grasped the front of a long net, leading the way as she stepped into the muddy, murky lake bottom. She and others strung the net around the outside of the diminished lake, then tightened the circle, collecting fish as they
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