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CONGRESSMAN LEWIS SPEAKS ON CIVIL RIGHTS PAGE 12
Sun Valley Road Rally READ ABOUT IT ON PAGE 16
SUMMER SYMPHONY KICKS OFF PAGE 13
CHARITABLE FOUNDATION TO GIVE $162,000 PAGE 14
J u l y 3 0 , 2 0 1 4 • V o l . 7 • N o . 3 3 • w w w .T h e W e e k l y S u n . c o m
Inspiring A Love Of Books
YOU ARE WHAT YOU EAT
STORY AND PHOTO BY KAREN BOSSICK
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ne of Idaho’s most prolific and best-selling writers lives right here in Sun Valley. Bill Smallwood has published two dozen books, including “McClure of Idaho,” a book recounting the bombing of Guernica, and numerous military books, including “Warthog: Flying the A-10 in the Gulf War.” Now, the 83-year-old Smallwood has published his 25th: “Valor, Guts, and Luck,” the survival story of a B-17 tailgunner who was shot down and captured during World War II. Smallwood’s contribution goes beyond writing them, though. He’s on a mission to make sure today’s youngsters learn to love to read. He challenged 50 youngsters in Buhl to read this summer, with the assistance of representatives at the Buhl Public Library and the local Farmers Bank. And he’s paying them 15 cents a page for each book they complete. If you’re counting, that’s $155.55 for Margaret Mitchell’s “Gone with the Wind.” It’s $59.25 for Eric Maria Remarque’s “All Quiet on the Western Front,” $35.40 for Dale Carnegie’s “How to Win Friends and Influence People,” $92.55 for David McCullough’s “Path Between the Seas,” $42.60 for Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird,” $72.60 for Stephen Ambrose’s “Undaunted Courage” and $42.45 for Timothy Egan’s “The Big Burn.” Ernest Hemingway’s “The Old Man and the Sea” is a relative lightweight, paying just $20. Some of the books on the list come straight out of the Sun Valley Writers’ Conference, including Timothy Egan’s “The Worst Hard Time” and Frank McCourt’s “Angela’s Ashes.” Smallwood has a list of 30 books the youngsters can read, with another 10 to be added as soon as he rereads them, including “The Virginian,” “Travels with Charley” and “The Grapes of Wrath.” Smallwood patterned his endeavor after an incentive he gave his eldest son, now a software engineer. “When he was going into fifth grade, he said, ‘Dad, the other kids are getting allowances. Why don’t you give me one?’ I made a list of 10 books and told him I’d give him 5 cents a page, and he jumped at it. It hooked him on reading,” Smallwood recounted. “I did it with my other son and he made enough to buy an IBM PC.” Smallwood—a former teacher—says he chose Buhl for his experiment because he used to
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Lisa Holley says that, year to year, different things are popular. Her cat portrait was very popular for a couple years before interest lagged. Now it’s popular again. Photo by Karen Bossick including striped mullet and tiger muskie. BY KAREN BOSSICK Barn owls look pretty plump filled with star-nosed moles, ladybugs and black-tailed prairie dogs. A trout looks pretty snazzy as “Dinner on ost artists paint animals and birds the Fly,” composed of dry flies, wet flies and as we see them in all their fur dragonflies. and feathers. Sun Valley artist And eagles? Well, eagle eatables include Lisa Holley—one of the artists at this opossums, snakes, seagulls, weasels, turtles weekend’s Artisans Invitational Show in and—eeeew—skunks. Ketchum--prefers to focus on what’s inside. The paintings possess the complexity of Like bugs and bamboo shoots and mice a “Where’s Waldo?” print. They’ve made and caddis flies. their way onto the walls and even ceilings of That’s the kind of stuff that is the gist of doctors’ offices. her “You Are What You Eat” series. And they’ve made it into public places like An osprey, for instance, takes on a whole the Natural History Museum in Los Angeles new look comprised of 60 different fish,
“Lisa’s paintings create more conversations between parents and children than any I’ve ever observed.” - Deborah Peters
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Make sure your dogs are ready to enjoy the great outdoors with you this summer! Stop by 5B Paws n Claws for our RuffWear Trunk Show, this Saturday, August 2 - and check out the latest and greatest for your dog!
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