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Mayor Unveils New ‘Welcome To Hailey’ Sign A press release from the City of Hailey announced that Mayor Fritz Haemmerle will unveil the newest “Welcome to Hailey” sign at 5:30 p.m. on Thursday, Dec. 20. The sign, evocative of an actual 1950s’ local billboard, “Welcome to Hailey, The Friendliest City,” has been designed to greet travellers coming from Friedman Memorial Airport and Atlantic Aviation. Designed by Andy Hawley, of Hawley Graphics, with metal fabrication assistance by Dave Swaner, of D Swaner Welding, the iconic metal-backed sign features back-lit letters set in a historic type and the outline of Hailey’s Carbonate Mountain skyline. Materials and design are complementary with the “Welcome to Hailey” sign located along Highway 75 near Fox Acres Road. The sign will be located in the public right-ofway adjacent to Ferguson Plumbing, at the corner of Aviation Drive and Jetstar Lane.

More Terrain Opening At Sun Valley Resort This Weekend Skiers and riders will have even more options at Sun Valley Resort this weekend, according to a press release from Sun Valley Resort, as the Seattle Ridge area of Bald Mountain is on tap to open this Saturday. The Seattle Ridge and Cold Springs chairlifts will be operating, along with the runs of Leigh Lane, Mid-Broadway, Lower Broadway, Gretchen’s Gold, Muffy’s Medals, Christin’s Silver and Gun Tower Lane. Seattle Ridge Day Lodge will also be opening for the season. The public is invited to attend the official ‘grand reopening celebration’ of the Warm Springs Day Lodge at 11 a.m. on Saturday, Dec. 22, for the ribbon-cutting and hot chocolate chip cookies. Improvements include expanded seating, an enhanced layout, and a moun-

tain-view bar with 18 stools and regional craft beers on tap. A new Konditorei Warm Springs will serve the organically grown, locally roasted coffee and housemade pastries that are local favorites.

Sawtooth Avalanche Center Begins Publishing Backcountry Avalanche Forecasts For The Season After beginning daily backcountry avalanche forecasts last year in late-November, the start to the 2018-19 winter has seemed especially slow. The Sawtooth Avalanche Center announced in their season opener that most mountain weather stations in our region are reporting a snowpack that is 50-60 percent of average, and there is barely enough snow for reasonable backcountry travel on skis, snowshoes or snowmachines. Several winter storms are forecast to impact our area, and the expected snowfall should open up more terrain for winter backcountry recreation. Daily backcountry avalanche forecasts are available now at sawtoothavalanche. com. Forecasts are issued each morning by 7:30 and are available on the website as well as by email subscription. On weekday mornings, you can also tune into KECH 95.3 FM or KDPI 88.5 FM to hear a quick summary of the current avalanche conditions. The Sawtooth National Forest Facebook page (@sawtoothnationalforest) has daily updates, as well. Longtime avalanche center partner The Friends of the Sawtooth Avalanche Center also posts conditions and events information on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram (@ or # sawtoothavy).

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Middle School Choice: Hemingway STEAM And Wood River Middle School Hold Open Houses For Parents And Students Blaine County School District will now offer a choice when it comes to middle school, according a press release from the district. Parents can now choose between Ernest Hemingway STEAM School in Ketchum and Wood River Middle School in Hailey. Starting in the 2019-20 school year, Hemingway’s STEAM School will add eighth grade along with the education integrating science, technology, engineering, arts, and math. The school offers elective courses and world languages. WRMS already offers a well-rounded curriculum that includes world languages and dual immersion. Elective courses and extracurriculars include art, music, technology and athletics. Transportation is provided for middle school students living in Ketchum, Hailey and Bellevue for both middle schools. Parent and student open houses will take place at Hemingway from 5:30-7 p.m., Tuesday, Jan. 15, and at WRMS from 6-7:30 p.m., Wednesday, Jan. 16. A tour with the Hemingway principal is available every Friday in January from 1-1:45 p.m. For more information, visit blaineschools.org.

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daho Power has reached an agreement with the states of Idaho and Oregon that will increase the number of spring Chinook salmon the company releases each year while also funding additional research and water-quality improvements in Hells Canyon over the next 20 years. The proposed agreement enables the company to move forward in the process of obtaining a new long-term federal license for its three hydroelectric projects in Hells Canyon. Hells Canyon is a 10-milewide canyon located along the border of eastern Oregon, eastern Washington and western Idaho. Idaho Power’s three hydroelectric projects on the Idaho-Oregon border, Brownlee, Oxbow and Hells Canyon dams, are collectively known as the Hells Canyon Complex. The Hells Canyon Complex generates about 70 percent of the hydroelectric power that Idaho Power provides to its customers and is a critical resource for keeping electricity prices low while reliably delivering clean, renewable energy. Idaho Power’s federal license for the Hells Canyon Complex expired in 2005 and, since then, the company has operated its projects under a series of yearly licenses while working toward a new long-term license. “We’ve been working on relicensing the Hells Canyon Complex for quite some time,” said Brett Dumas, director of environmental affairs for Idaho Power. “The hangup has been to get state water quality certifications from Idaho and Oregon.” Oregon and Idaho differ in terms of fish passage issues but the recent agreement finally found common ground between the two states. That difference has popped up in what each state requires for Idaho Power to receive water-quality certifications. Section 401 of the Clean Water Act stipulates that both states must certify, but can have different qualifications. “In Oregon’s last certification, they required fish passage and Idaho does not allow that,” Dumas said. “Our increase of hatchery production of fish is a mitigation for Oregon being willing to take that fish passage out of their Section 401 requirements.” Part of the agreement will

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result in boosting production at Idaho Power’s Rapid River Hatchery from the current 3.2 million juvenile fish to 4 million. This is in addition to the more than $400 million already proposed through the company’s Snake River Stewardship Program, a basin-wide water-quality improvement plan. “Now both the Snake River Stewardship Program and the Rapid River Hatchery expansion will be part of our Section 401 water-quality certification,” Dumas explained. “The Snake River Stewardship Program is the largest component of our Section 401. This settlement is just a small piece to resolve the issue around fish reintroduction.” Under terms of the proposed settlement, Idaho Power will spend around $20 million over 20 years boosting salmon production, water quality and stream improvements, and research. Already the company conducts extremely thorough research on bull trout, sturgeon, steelhead, salmon, weeds, recreational use, water-quality parameters, algae production, and resident fish like small-mouth bass. New research will be conducted as part of this agreement on adult hatchery fish that will be put in Pine Creek, an Oregon tributary of the Snake River that flows into Hells Canyon Dam in Oregon. Biologists will monitor the adult use, their spawning and their reproductive success. “The idea is that, through the 20 years, we’ll collect enough data for states to evaluate whether they think natural reintroduction of these species is scientifically justifiable or not,” Dumas said. The agreement is included with each state’s draft water-quality certification, which will now go through the public review process where public comment will be taken into account. A final water-quality certification will most likely be used by June of 2019. Then the process goes to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, which Idaho Power estimates will issue the federal license no earlier than 2022 tws

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BOARD OF TRUSTEES APPROVES NEW SCHOOL CALENDAR FOR NEXT THREE YEARS

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he Blaine County School District Board of Trustees recently approved a new threeyear calendar to take effect in the 20192020 school year. After much input on two different options, the board voted to change the school year start date to Aug. 19 and end May 22. This is a significant change from the 2018-2019 school year starting Aug. 28-June 6. A calendar committee met seven times over the course of 10 months to develop the calendar options for the next three years. The committee was comprised of educators from each school in the district as well as parents and community members. It used seven guiding principles provided by the board to guide the options they drafted. Those principles were to maximize student learning by providing significant stretches of uninterrupted weeks for learning and teaching; maximize student attendance to support student learning; propose a calendar that provides support for the board’s priority of closing the achievement gap; propose a calendar that supports student participation in a wide range of school-related activities, including competitions, extracurricular programs, dual-credit opportunities, etc.; ensure that the calendar meets the Idaho Statutes, including 33-1009 and 33-512; and, finally, to recognize the importance of professional development for staff. The calendar will be done in a three-year cycle. With these guidelines in mind, the committee developed two calendar options and shared a survey, which got 1,757 responses. The first option, which was ultimately voted on, had school year dates of Aug. 19-May 22, and the second option a later start with dates of Aug. 26May 29. One calendar would enable the first semester to

be completed before winter break and the other would be more similar to the current calendar, with the first semester ending after the winter break. The survey indicated an overall preference for option two, with a later start date. A total of 486 school staff members completed the survey and were split 50/50 between the options. While students preferred option one, parents preferred option two, and community members preferred option one. The two options were developed by looking at calendar patterns that resulted in good attendance or poor attendance. The committee also discussed the possibility of lengthening the school day in order to shorten the school year while still meeting state statute requirements for instructional time. The two options were reviewed by the committee and staff multiple times to ensure that they provided slightly more than the number of instructional minutes required by the state (a slight overage provides flexibility for snow days, etc.) and aligned with the master agreement of 185 working days for certificated staff. The calendars were also reviewed for number of short weeks, alignment of parent-teacher conferences, and opportunities for professional development for staff. The board voted at a Dec. 11 meeting for option one. Many parents of students in the Blaine County School District have expressed outrage at the option that was chosen and have started circulating petitions on Facebook. “The survey was intended to provide feedback on the options—it was not a vote,” said Heather Crocker, spokesperson for the Blaine County School District. “The Trustees are the ones who vote on the calendar and they have many factors to consider, including their focus on closing the achievement gap for students."

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14th Annual Lighting Of Luminaries The 14th annual Lighting of Luminaries to benefit The Hunger Coalition will be held Sunday, Dec. 23. Luminary bags sell for $1 each and are sold in batches of five, 10 and 20. Luminaries are available at 620 Kintail Drive in Hailey’s Northridge subdivision or by calling Lee Dabney at (208) 578-0861. Participants are welcome to put as many luminaries as they want outside their homes on the street.

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its outstanding work on the Lost River Museum. Given annually by the Idaho Humanities Council and Idaho State Historical Society, the Sister Alfreda recognition includes a $10,000 award to be used by the awarded museum, historical society, or interpretive organization to continue its educational efforts. Mackay’s Lost River Museum, operated by the South Custer County Historical Society, opened its doors in 2017. The museum houses a collection of unique items donated by the Mackay community and Lost River Valley residents. The museum and collection of historical artifacts truly displays the history, essence and spirit of this small community. A local story is revealed through each and every display. Themed display areas include: farming and ranching, the Mackay branch railroad, Mackay’s movie history, early Mackay businesses, homestead cabins and artifacts, and an extensive local history reference book collection. The award is named for Sister Alfreda Elsensohn, who founded the Historical Museum at St. Gertrude in the 1930s. Sister Alfreda, one of Idaho’s outstanding historians, sought to collect, preserve, and interpret artifacts from Idaho County and the surrounding area to better educate the public. It is her vision of Idaho museums as exciting, interactive and educational institutions that the award seeks to recognize by honoring one outstanding Idaho museum each year.

Blaine County School District announced in a press release that the Hailey Elementary Blaine County Bots Robotics Team, The Space Narwhals, brought home two trophies from their state tournament qualifier on Dec. 8 at the First LEGO League Tournament in Twin Falls. The team, fifth-graders Tessa Peck, Rowan Star, Marlowe Bradley, Story Sharp and Karsen Miller, and fourth-graders Tyler Langbehn and Luca Raziano, earned first place in the Robot Performance Award with the high score of the tournament and were also presented the overall Champions Award for their combined scores in the different disciplines of the tournament. They were the first-place team out of eight teams that qualified to move on to the state championship on Jan. 12. Team coaches include parent volunteers Jaime Sharp, Jessica Miller and Hailey Elementary Technology and Design teacher Vic Morales.

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ST. LUKE’S PROMOTES STRATEGY 2020

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t. Luke’s hospital network began a journey three years ago to change the way it handles patient care. The problems of unaffordable healthcare, lack of communication between healthcare providers and access to good healthcare, resulted in St. Luke’s long-term plan. Strategy 2020 was created to lower the cost of care while simultaneously improving the quality. The new plan, expected to be implemented by 2020, will be completely patient-centered, whether in hospitals and clinics or at home, and will increase communication with the patient as Carmen Jacobsen, well as among all of an individual’s healthcare chief operating officer/chief nursing providers. It is designed to ensure that a patient’s officer, St. Luke’s. care team stays connected and up-to-date on Photo courtesy of that patient’s care. St. Luke’s “Our strategy is rooted in recognizing that the cost of healthcare and the rate it’s rising is unsustainable,” said Mike Fenello, previously the site administrator of St. Luke’s Magic Valley but now the vice president of population health under the new Strategy 2020. “We feel like the government is not going to be able to solve that problem,” Fenello said. “The strategy has been to transform our business model so that it enables the transformation of our clinical model.” One of the ways the business model will change with Strategy 2020 is the payment mechanism; once a pay-for-service structure, St. Luke’s will switch to a pay-for-value system where St. Luke’s receives a lump sum (through insurance providers or Medicare) and then is accountable for the quality of care for that individual as well as the total cost of care. To better understand, Fenello provided an example of a patient described to him by a colleague at another health system. A woman came in and was hospitalized and diagnosed with diabetes. For the next year, this woman ended up coming back to the hospital about twice a week. After a year, the hospital staff finally figured out that when she was sent home the first time, she got the insulin, but it said on the box to keep refrigerated. She didn’t have a refrigerator so she never bothered to get the medication again. Strategy 2020 hopes to ensure that there is enough communication with the patient and the potential for home visits and care that this kind of example never happens again. “We want to stay connected with patients in a way that we would know she didn’t have a fridge,” said Fenello. “If we got the lump sum, we can choose what to do with that money and if that means diverting money to keep that patient healthy at home and buying her a fridge, that’s what we’ll do.” More important than using that lump sum to, as in this instance, buy someone a refrigerator, is the ability to stay connected to a patient daily. In the last few years, since the start of Strategy 2020, several pilot programs were tested, including a remote patient monitoring system where caretakers can help patients stay home while regulating and managing their complex medical problems. Patients instead are armed at home with a kit, including an iPad, a scale, blood pressure cuff, and other tools that allow for monitoring blood sugar and heart rate. The information is conveyed back to a group of nurses whose job it is to stay connected with their patients in their home setting. If something like a high blood pressure reading goes off, the nurses will detect that and connect with the patient and, if need be, go to that patient’s home. By identifying problems before they get out of hand, this type of program can lower costs for patients who would usually end up in the emergency department or getting hospitalized, the highest-cost entry points into the healthcare system. Another part of Strategy 2020 is putting behavioral health team members in St. Luke’s physician clinics. “Behavioral health problems are one of the most challenging issues to solve but also an underlying issue that drives up the cost of healthcare,” said Fenello. St. Luke’s has reorganized internally as part of Strategy 2020, particularly at the site level. Across the eight hospitals in the St. Luke’s system, the role of site administrator was eradicated and replaced by a combined chief operating officer/chief nursing officer. Former chief nursing officer Carmen Jacobsen has taken on that role at St. Luke’s Wood River. “We felt it was important to have a site leader who lives locally, is connected locally, can focus on the deployment of what we’ve learned and want implemented while also having a clinical background and being an executive leader with an operational background,” said Fenello. Fenello also had a change in role, going from site administrator of St. Luke’s Magic Valley to sharing the title of vice president of population health with two other people within the St. Luke’s system. 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Light on the Mountains Center for Spiritual Living Christmas Eve Candle Lighting Service Monday, December 24th, 7:00 PM Our trans-denominational service will include Christmas messages by Rev. John Moreland and Rev. Jill Iris, a special reading delivered by Denise Simone and holiday music with special guest vocalists directed by R.L. Rowsey.

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Blaine County is considering revisions to the Floodplain Overlay and Riparian Setback Districts and now is the time to provide input! The Blaine County Board of County Commissioners will hold a public hearing upstairs in the Old County Courthouse located at 206 First Ave. So. in Hailey, on Wednesday, January 2, 2019, at 1:30 p.m. Proposed amendments are available at the Land Use Office in the County Annex Building and on the Blaine County website www.blainecounty.org in the Land Use Department page under Agendas & Materials. Public comment may be mailed to 219 1st Ave. South Ste. 208, Hailey, ID 83333 or emailed to pzcounter@co.blaine.id.us no later than December 27, 2018 for adequate consideration. For questions, call 208-788-5570. NEWS IN BRIEF

WRMS Students To Sponsor Food And Toy Drive The sixth-grade leadership at Wood River Middle School is starting a toy and food drive to benefit local families, according to the school’s leadership teacher, Melanie Schrader. The drive aims to help financially strapped families by providing food and gifts, including toys, sports equipment and/or art supplies, this Christmas. The WRMS leadership students are collecting donations in person at Hailey Atkinsons’ Market from 4-6 p.m., Friday, Dec. 21, and from 12-3 p.m., Saturday, Dec. 22.

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SUN VALLEY SUMMER SYMPHONY ANNOUNCES INAUGURAL WINTER FESTIVAL

Maestro Alasdair Neale, music director for 24 years, keeps the artists and repertoire details secret but releases a few teasers

BY EMILEE MAE STRUSS

he Argyros Performing Arts Center will warm up this winter with classical music performed at the Sun Valley Summer Symphony’s Inaugural Winter Festival. Public performances will take place on Feb. 22 and Feb. 23. Curator and host, the symphony’s maestro, Alasdair Neale, is keeping details of the event a secret. “I want there to be an element of surprise,” Neale said during a phone interview. “What I can say about it is that there will be a vast range of musical experience from 900 years of music and there will be tremendous variety.” Fifteen classical musicians from outside of Idaho will gather for the festival, their names and repertoire announced from the stage. That repertoire, Neale shared, will be unlike any other previously seen performance, and will, in part, have a nightclub feel. “I’m excited to bring more music and things that I think many people will be experiencing for the first time,” Neale said. “It will not be a typical concert format.” The Winter Festival will commence with an invite-only “Friends and Family” night on Feb. 21. The week also includes several educational opportunities for youth. Musicians and guest artists will work with students from the Sun Valley Summer Symphony’s School of Music in partnership with the Blaine County School District. The events will include

classroom visits, a private concert with open discussion and a session focused on technology. Under the direction of Neale, the Sun Valley Summer Symphony is now the largest privately funded, free-admission symphony in America. Dr. Carl Eberl and his wife Julianne founded the symphony in 1985 as the Elkhorn Music Festival. Neale took over in 1995 as the music director and grew the orchestra to more than 100 musicians. The symphony, as its name demonstrates, is typically performed at the Sun Valley Pavilion in Sun Valley during the warmth of summer. With the new Argyros Performing Arts Center in Ketchum, the symphony is able to expand programming throughout the year. And while Neale said it’s too early to suggest a name change, “We are happy to expand our presence in the Valley and are thrilled to have a [new] venue.” With 24 years behind him, Neale attributed the symphony’s growth and success to the community’s consistent generosity. “We rely on private donations time and time again,” Neale said. “People have gone above and beyond to support all of the artistic initiatives.” The new performing arts venue gives Neale a suitable sound system, flexible acoustics and an array of staging options to offer the public. “I hope, at the very least,” Neale said, “that people will have something to talk about over dinner [after the performanc-

Maestro Alasdair Neale attributes his success in making SVSS the largest privately funded, free-admission symphony in America to “community generosity.” Photo courtesy of Sun Valley Summer Symphony

es].” To reserve seats for the Winter Festival, or to get more information about the Sun Valley Summer Symphony, visit svsummersymphony.org. Concert reservations will be available starting Dec. 17 at 10 a.m. Admission is free; however, reserving seats on their website is suggested. Doors will open at 5:30 p.m. for gener-

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Blaine County held a ribbon-cutting ceremony for a new Adams Gulch Bridge on Monday morning, Dec. 17. From left to right: Erik Wolf, Wadsworth Brothers Construction; Larry Schoen, Blaine County commissioner; Angenie McCleary, Blaine County commissioner; Lan Smith, local highway technical assistance council; Jacob Greenberg, Blaine County commissioner; and Steve Thompson, Blaine County Road and Bridge manager. Photo courtesy of Blaine County

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nd the Sun Valley Board of Realtors have teamed up to collect several holiday toy donations for children. These gifts will Holiday Baskets program, which provides donations to Blaine County families in need during the holidays. In past years, amilies have been served by the Holiday Baskets program, thanks to the local community’s generosity. Photo courtesy of

alm Tree” by Luanne Mandeville. Photo taken on Thursday, Dec. 13, from the top of Bald Mountain, looking northwest, Springs run.

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Police are warning people about a new scam where someone posing as Netflix emails to steal the recipient’s personal information. The email claims the user’s account is on hold because Netflix is having trouble with billing information and then invites the user to click on a link to update their payment method, according to a screenshot shared with police in Solon, Ohio. Netflix’s website advises not to enter login or financial details after following a link in an email or text message claiming to be Netflix. Anybody who receives a suspicious email or text message claiming to be from Netflix is asked to forward the message to phishing@netflix.com for further review by the company’s security team.

Homegrown Film Festival Presented By Friends Of The Sawtooth Avalanche Center

The Friends of the Sawtooth Avalanche Center and title sponsor Black Diamond are teaming up to present the 2nd Annual Homegrown Film Festival. The festival will benefit the Sawtooth Avalanche Center and celebrate phenomenal local athletes and filmmakers. This popular event will show for one night only and was sold out in advance last year. Tickets are $15 for Blaine County students and $20 for adults. Tickets are on sale in Ketchum at Backwoods Mountain Sports and The Elephant’s Perch, Sturtevants in Hailey and online at the argyros.org. Films begin at 7 p.m.

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Join the Environmental Resource Center (ERC) and longtime Wood River Valley resident and tracking extraordinaire Ann Christensen for a winter tracking workshop from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., Saturday, Dec. 29. Christensen begins each program at the ERC office, introducing participants to local winter animals, their life histories and winter adaptations while laying out some basics about tracking. Participants then head outside on a snowshoe tracking adventure through the fields and woods north of town. Christensen, who studied with the famous tracker and author James Halfpenny, has been introducing residents and visitors to the secret stories left in the snow for decades. Bring snowshoes, warm clothes, water, and your curiosity. There is a suggested donation of $10/ERC members and $20/ nonmembers. Space is limited, so register early. For more information, contact (208) 726-4333 or email alisa@ercsv.org.

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LOCAL STUDENTS STEP UP TO HELP WILDLIFE AND DOGS

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team of eighth and ninth graders at The Sage School in Hailey recently teamed up with the Wood River Land Trust (WRLT) to help remove old barbed-wire fencing found throughout the region that endangers wildlife and dogs. After seeing so much old fencing in the Valley, the group reached out to the Land Trust to see if there were any places they could help remove these dangers. The WRLT suggested the group tackle the newly opened Quigley Canyon easement, which is littered with barbed wire that challenges and even harms wildlife like deer and elk and the occasional dog out for a walk with its owner. Earlier this fall, The Sage School Fence Removal Team began to tackle this major project. Once a week, the students have been going out in the sun or snow to remove hundreds of yards of barbed wire. The students have found the labor-intensive work to be not only impactful, but rewarding. “It is strangely satisfying, and you know what you’re doing is for a good cause,” said ninth-grader Maddox Nickum. “It’s really fun,” said ninth-grader Lila Fenn. “You feel kind of powerful and you sure know you’re making a difference for migrating animals crossing the Valley floor.” “I loved the teamwork and seeing that we’re making definite progress,” said ninth-grader Nora Blamires. The work has included using lopers to clear sagebrush from buried wire, wire cutters to remove the long strands between fenceposts, and nippers to untwist the loops that wrap the wires to the vertical posts. “It’s terrific what the students are doing,” said Jim Keating of the Blaine County Recreation District, one of the partners involved in the Quigley Canyon easement. “It’s inspiring.” While the work on the ground will slow down during the winter months, the team will use this time to plan for more community involvement once the snow starts melting. They are planning weekly Business Volunteer Days and will also hold a Community Barbed Wire Removal Day late next spring, as well. They have been recycling much of the old barbed-wire fencing into wreaths that will be given to those who help support this important mission. “We’re really excited about this project and its possibilities,” said Cameron Packer, stewardship coordinator for the WRLT. “We’re very impressed with this team of students for making this happen. They’re making a big and positive impact.” To find out more about the project, contact the Wood River Land Trust at (208) 788-3947 or Nancy Linscott at The Sage School at (208) 788-0120. tws

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NEWS CRIME & COURTS

SENTENCING HEARING REVEALS VICTIM REQUESTED CHARGE REDUCTION FROM FELONY RAPE TO MISDEMEANOR SEXUAL BATTERY BY BRENNAN REGO

Editor’s Note: This is a follow-up to a story that appeared in the Dec. 12 issue of The Weekly Sun, titled “Hailey Man Sentenced In Sexual Battery Case.” In that story, The Weekly Sun was unable to answer why the Blaine County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office agreed to a plea deal with Marco Antonio Martinez-Reyes in which his charge was reduced from felony rape to misdemeanor sexual battery. This story answers that question.

19-yearold Hailey man charged with misdemeanor sexual battery for an incident involving a 16-year-old girl at the Carey hot springs in January, 2018, was sentenced on Monday, Dec. 3, in Blaine County Magistrate Court. Marco Antonio Martinez-Reyes was originally arrested by the Blaine County Sheriff’s Office on Jan. 14, 2018, under one count of felony rape; however, in August, he struck a plea agreement with the Blaine County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office to reduce the charge. A recording of the sentencing hearing, which was combined with the change of plea hearing, indicates why the Prosecuting Attorney’s Office was willing to make the deal. “I had spoken with the victim,” Blaine County Deputy Prosecuting Attorney Matt Fredback said at the hearing. “She chose this way to resolve the case. She’s on board and thought this was better than the alternative, which is letting it go to trial.” The victim had gone to the hot springs on the night of January 13 with some female friends, Martinez-Reyes and the victim’s uncle, according to police reports included in court documents. Both Fredback and defense attorney Douglas Nelson said at the hearing that the group was drinking heavily and that both the victim and Martinez-Reyes had also used marijuana. Nelson said at the hearing that, according to one of the victim’s female friends, at some point, Martinez-Reyes and the victim became separated from the rest of the group by about 20 feet. At some point after that, the victim came running back to the group “in distress,” according to Fredback. “She went to her uncle saying she’d been hurt,” Fredback said at the hearing. The following morning, they reported the incident to the sheriff’s office. Martinez-Reyes was arrested that same day on a felony rape charge. At the hearing, Fredback said he agreed to the plea agreement in August for a few reasons. First, he saw difficulties because of the victim’s and Martinez-Reyes’ proximity to the rest of the group during the incident. “They should have, or could have, seen what was going on,” he said. He said he was also “troubled” by the type of sexual contact that was alleged and the fact that there was “a lot” of it. Some of it appeared to him to require participation from both parties, he said. “There were some witnesses who said that Mr. Martinez and the victim were sort

of flirting leading up to this point,” he said. Nelson said at the hearing that the female friend approached Martinez-Reyes and the victim at some point while they were away from the group and saw the victim “kissing on” Martinez-Reyes, that she was “all over him” and that “she told him if he was good” she would perform oral sex on him. Nelson said the friend then left the two alone because things were getting “hot and heavy” between Martinez-Reyes and the victim. However, Fredback said at the hearing that regardless of whether things began consensually, they did not end that way. “There’s no doubt that whatever happened back there in the dark away from everybody else was traumatic and serious enough where, when it ended, she came flying out of the hot springs, crying, screaming, and I think everyone there knew that something had seriously happened to her,” he said. “For me, there’s no doubt that there was absolutely a sexual battery.“ Fredback also said that alcohol was a “serious component” in the crime, but that just because someone is drunk does not automatically lead that person to batter a young female. “Any time anybody forces themselves on a young female in a sexual nature is about as serious a battery as there is,” he said. “It needs to be sent home to him and to others that that kind of behavior is just not going to be tolerated.” He added that the amount of time the case has taken to resolve has also made things frustrating, “particularly on the victim’s part.” The maximum penalty for sexual battery is one year in prison and a fine of up to $2,000. Fredback requested at the hearing that Martinez-Reyes be sentenced to 90 days in jail, two years probation, a no contact order between the defendant and the victim, and that the court ensure the defendant stays sober. Nelson argued that jail time has diminishing returns after about two weeks and maintained that, had the case gone to trial, Martinez-Reyes would have been deemed innocent by a jury. Magistrate Judge Jennifer Haemmerle sentenced Martinez-Reyes to 360 days in jail, with 319 suspended and six days credit for time served—totaling 41 days, with 35 more to serve. Martinez-Reyes is eligible for work release after serving 14 more days. The court also ordered him not to have unsupervised contact with females under the age of 18, except relatives, and ordered him to have no contact with the victim. The court fined Martinez-Reyes $2,000, with $1,500 suspended, and ordered him to pay court costs of $457.50. He must also complete 24 months of supervised probation, including classes for substance abuse and mental health, abstain from alcohol and controlled substances not prescribed by a physician and not be in physical control of a vehicle after having consumed any alcohol or controlled substances. “I apologize,” Martinez-Reyes said at the close of the hearing. “Especially for my drinking.” tws

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