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Captain USA won the wheelie competition, and was named the overall champion in Hailey… For more information on this photo, see “On The Cover” on page 3. Photo courtesy of Live A Little Productions

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THE WEEKLY SUN CONTENTS

Read about the upcoming cabaret act “Superstar” with Sharron Matthews on Page 12. Also, learn about Sawtooth Brewery’s fourth annual Oktoberfest on the same page. Photo courtesy of Sun Valley Center

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Continued from page 1: …Another fan favorite was Unnamed and Untamed, driven by Sam Sturges, 67, from Tucson, Ariz.

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City of Ketchum Save the Date Community Housing Workshop planned for Friday, Oct. 21, noon at Ketchum City Hall. The public is welcome and encouraged to attend.

Public Notices NOTICE FOR DEMOLITION OF HISTORIC BUILDING: Permit application by Michael and Kristen Spachman for demolition of a condemned, 50-year-old structure at 471 East River Street (FR River Street TL 8321, Ketchum Lot 5 Block 21).

NOTICE OF CONSIDERATION: Reevaluation of the current use of Lift Tower Lodge. Item continued to Sept.

26 Planning & Zoning Commission meeting for additional information requested by the Commission and staff.

NOTICE OF CONSIDERATION: Inspection of Heinz Residence (Lot 6, Block 1, Bigwood Subdivision #1) Bigwood River Bank Stabilization Floodplain Development project, Sept. 26 P&Z meeting at 5:30 pm.

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING: City initiated text amendment to align parking ordinance with objectives of Comprehensive Plan, Title 17, Zoning Ordinance, Chapter 17.125, Off Street Parking and Loading, Sept.

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Crisis Hotline welcomes Mary Austin Crofts

Mary Austin Crofts has joined the nonprofit Crisis Hotline team to assist with a wide variety of projects, including raising awareness and support.

“We are excited to have Mary’s expertise,” Sher Foster, Crisis Hotline executive director, said. “We are committed to serving people in crisis, 24 hours a day. Over the years, we have helped thousands of Mary Austin Crofts people and saved countless lives,” Foster added.

Crofts has had a very successful career raising awareness and funding for community projects and events. She spent 20 years as director of the Blaine County Recreation District and for the past seven years has been executive director of the Trailing of the Sheep Cultural Heritage Center.

“There are many ways to make a difference in today’s world,” Austin Crofts said. "The Crisis Hotline is saving lives – one of the most important ways to make a difference. I have always admired the work of the Crisis Hotline. I especially admire the work they are doing with students and our young people. I don’t think many people realize how many local students experience depression and suicidal thoughts. I am excited to help.”

The Crisis Hotline was founded in 1987 by a passionate group of caring individuals who made a commitment to helping people in crisis. For information, call (208) 788-3596.

Friedman Memorial Airport Art Committee seeks works for exhibition

The Friedman Memorial Airport (SUN) Art Committee seeks artists to submit two-dimensional works for exhibition in the airport’s public spaces. The SUN Art exhibition will feature as many as 30 pieces of artwork that will be displayed Nov. 10- May 18. An independent jury consisting of representatives of the airport, the Hailey, Ketchum and Bellevue arts commissions, area galleries and local arts advocates will select the work. The upcoming show will be the fourth SUN Art exhibit installed in Friedman Memorial Airport.

The project is open to artists 18 years or older residing in Blaine County as well as all artists who create work that is inspired by central Idaho. There is no fee to apply, nor will an honorarium be awarded. The deadline to submit applications is Friday, Oct. 14.

For a copy of the call and the application, visit www.iflysun. com, www.haileycityhall.org or www.ketchumidaho.org.

By Dana DuGan

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magine, if you will, a film noir theme park. The men lurking in alleys and bars would be dark, chiseled and cagey. The stylish women would be longlegged, cunning and alluring.

The snappy dialogue would force park visitors to sit still in awe of the interplay of words, and the lighting would be shadowy and spikey. Also, it’d be dangerous in subtle ways. My kind of place.

“Film noir is low-down, sexedup, over the speed limit,” Greg Olson, the curator of Seattle Art Museum films, wrote. “It’s the juvenile-delinquent child of brooding German Expressionist cinema aesthetics, French poetic realism and American pulp fiction, godfathered by post-WorldWar-II malaise and timeless moral corruption.”

Or, more simply stated, a damn good, edge-of-your-seat flick.

Inspired by the Seattle Arts Museum’s long-running film noir series, Hailey resident Jeannine Gregoire introduced her passion to the area three years ago.

Olson helps her choose the films for the Sun Valley Film Noir Series each year.

This year, the series is entitled “Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye,” taken from the title of a noir novel

by Horace McCoy, and a classic film adaptation with James Cagney.

The series will begin at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 15, at the Magic Lantern Cinemas in Ketchum, with a screening of “Scarlet Street” (1945), directed by Austrian-German filmmaker Fritz Lang and starring Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett and Dan Duryea. In 2008, the American Film Institute nominated this film for its

Top 10 Gangster Films list.

“Scarlet Street” is considered one of Lang’s best American films. Based on the French novel “La Chienne,” the film tells the tale of an unhappily married bank cashier with little to show for his life, who becomes obsessed with the beautiful woman he rescues one night.

An opening reception will take place at the Magic Lantern Cinemas at 6 p.m. before the film with opening remarks prior to the screening by Charles Brandt and Vernon Scott.

“Film noir deals in some things that strike us deeply – greed and guilt – whether the ultimate price is paid or not,” Olson said.

Art is cathartic but does that explain why we love these dangerous, uncomfortable, conniving stories so much?

“These are eternal questions,” Olson said. “We all have light and dark within us. It’s a way of delving into that dark side of our nature. In movies, we can see the humanness of it.”

Olson said that in curating the movies for the Sun Valley Film Noir Series, he has a sense of “educating the audience a little bit.” He started with the archetypal choices, Germanic directors, who’d fled the Nazis, like Lang, Billy Wilder, Fred Zinnemann, Max Ophuls, and Robert Siodmak used what they knew of German expressionism in their work.

“They were used to envisioning mental states around the characters, the shadows, and tipping camera angles,” Olson said.

“It was right out of lithographs and stage performances they might have seen. Then they came to Hollywood to direct domestic films. It makes sense they’d use what they knew and had seen.

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It’s very stylistic.

These directors – boy oh boy – they controlled and cared about every inch of those films. Details are really important.”

Olson said the second movie in the series, “The Killers,” has “big noir themes about how the past haunts us – it’s the presence of the past. It’s all convoluted time, with 11 flashbacks narrated by eight different people, but it flows on the screen.

“All my career I’ve wanted to push those boundaries, so we’ll do that in your valley as well,” The Sun Valley Film Noir Series will continue on Thursday, Sept. 22, with “The Killers” (1946) directed by Robert Siodmak and starring Burt Lancaster, Ava Gardner and Edmond O’Brien based on a short story

by Ernest Hemingway (Idaho alert). On Thursday, Sept. 29, the screening will be “In a Lonely Place” (1950) directed by Nicholas Ray and starring Humphrey Bogart, and the inimitable Gloria Grahame (who was married to Ray at the time).

Tickets will be $10 at the Magic Lantern Cinemas box office the day of each film. tws

Serving as the public introduction to the Sun Valley Film Noir Series is the distinctive poster, using a photo of Gregoire herself, created by Boise-based artist Ward Hooper. Hooper’s work can currently be seen in the 32 Cells Art Show inspired by an Old Idaho Penitentiary inmate’s story and crime at the Swell Artist Collective Gallery, 404 South 8th Street, on the lower level of the Old Mercantile Building in the BoDo district, Boise.

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JURY PROCESS UNDERWAY IN BLANKENSHIP MURDER TRIAL

More than 200 prospective jurors answer questionnaires in Rupert

BY TERRY SMITH

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he initial process of selecting an impartial jury for the Keith Eric Blankenship murder trial was started in August and finished earlier this month in Rupert, where the trial was moved following declaration of a mistrial in Blaine County in April.

Blankenship, 52, is charged with felony counts of second-degree murder and evidence concealment in the shooting death of neighbor Stephen Michael Romanchuk, 47, on or about Jan. 20, 2014, at Blankenship’s home on Deer Creek Road north of Hailey. Blankenship turned himself in to the Blaine County Sheriff’s Office on May 14, 2014, and Romanchuk’s body was recovered the following day from where it was partially hidden in a pile of dead leaves and debris. Blankenship has claimed that the shooting, over a money dispute, was in self-defense.

The Minidoka County District Court clerk’s office told The Weekly Sun on Monday that 216 prospective jurors have been summoned to 5th Judicial District Court in Rupert to fill out questionnaires regarding their knowledge of the case and any preconceived notions they may have formed involving guilt or innocence. Prospective jurors filled out questionnaires on Aug. 9 and in a make-up session on Sept. 9.

The questionnaires are now being reviewed by the Blaine County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office and defense attorney Keith Roark to trim the number of jurors down to a smaller group for final jury selection when the trial starts in Rupert on Sept. 27.

Two similar jury selection processes were implemented in Blaine County prior to the change of venue to Minidoka County. In each case, approximately 180 prospective jurors were called into court. The first occurred in September 2015 when the trial was set to start in Hailey on Oct. 13, 2015. The trial was postponed upon revelation from Roark that he intended to use a professional witness

Keith Eric Blankenship

who testified that Blankenship suffered post-traumatic stress disorder from a murder-suicide he witnessed at the age of 12 in 1977 at an East Magic Reservoir bar and restaurant establishment.

In that incident, on July 15, 1977, Blankenship’s stepfather, Dennis Sechrest, 38, shot to death Blankenship’s sister, 14-year-old Dana Blankenship, and bar patron 58-year-old Fred Klamm, of Paul, before shooting himself. Sechrest died the following day at a Boise hospital.

The second attempt at a jury selection took place in Blaine County in March of this year when some 180 prospective jurors filled out questionnaires prior to a trial that started in Hailey on April 12.

Presiding Judge Jonathan P. Brody declared a mistrial during that trial following revelation on the first day of testimony of information not previously known to either the defense or prosecution and which was deemed to be possibly prejudicial to Blankenship.

Brody ordered the trial moved to Minidoka County in May because of the significant media attention given to the case at that point in Blaine County.

Blankenship remains incarcerated in the Blaine County jail on $500,000 bond. He has been held since his arrest on May 14, 2014. tws

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Boulder Mountain Clayworks FamilY saturdaY classes Tuition: $45 for one adult and one child. $10 for each additional person halloween Jack O lanterns: OCT 15 10:00-12:00 or 2:00-4:00 empty BOwl-A-thOn: open and Free to the community! saturdaY Oct 8 10:00-2:00 Join Boulder Mountain Clayworks is its efforts to benefit the Blaine County Hunger Coalition. Bring a friend and make bowls that will be sold at our 6th annual Empty Bowl lunch on January 16th, 2017. schedule your book club or service organization for an “Empty Bowl” event at Boulder Mountain Clayworks this fall, oCT 10- dEC 10th. no experience necessary.

ROaD MainTEnanCE On TRaiL CREEk ROaD Blaine County Road and Bridge will be conducting road maintenance to the gravel portion of Trail Creek Road.

Planned construction is scheduled to begin Monday September 19, 2016 – September 30, 2016.

During this timeframe, Trail Creek Road will be CLOSED (excluding weekends) to all traffic during the operating hours of 8:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. and reopened daily at 4:00 p.m.

Construction includes the clearing of debris fields from the uphill side of the road, grading to establish proper water drainage, the install of culverts as well as the hauling of road surface material to build up the road base to establish a proper road crown and driving surface.

All traffic is asked to obey all road closures. Any questions may be directed to Andrea Walton with Administrative Services at 208-788-5543.

Thank you for your cooperation.

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TWO CANDIDATES VIE FOR TRUSTEE POSITION

By Jean Jacques Bohl

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he Blaine County School Board of Trustees has a vacancy to represent Zone 3. Hailey residents Irene Healy and Pamela Plowman both sent letters of interest. The board will interview these candidates at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 20, at the Community Campus, in a meeting open to the public. If the four-member school board cannot agree on a candidate, the three Blaine County Commissioners will make the choice. More applications must be received by 3 p.m. Friday, Sept 16.

The Weekly Sun: What do you think is your greatest asset to the school Board?

Irene Healy: I will bring two strengths to the board: As a result of working for years with our district’s custodians and maintenance teams, our secretaries, guidance counselors, special services teachers, and building principals, I’ve acquired insights into how the whole system works together for the benefit of students. Second, during years of working on high school and district-wide committees, I learned how to engage others in discussions and planning. My focus was on getting a task done cooperatively with minimum friction and maximum efficiency. I’m offering those skills to the board to work toward the district’s goals.

Pamela Plowman: I have two especially valuable assets for the school board. First, I have closely followed Blaine County School District issues in recent years and am up to speed on financial and policy issues. I have a clear understanding of the dynamics and am ready and capable of stepping into the role. I am an outside, independent thinker who will represent the voice of the community. Secondly, I’ve had a lifetime focus on the wellbeing of children and families. I obtained a bachelor’s degree in nursing from the University of Florida in Gainesville, in 1977, in order to prepare myself to practice homebirth midwifery, which I practiced for 25 years.

For the past 11 years, I have operated Owl House, a children’s sanctuary for children ages 1-5.

Because of this history, in addition to prudent financial oversight, I will be able to be a consistent, dedicated advocate for the fundamentals of whole child wellness and research-based educational practices.

TWS: What do you see as the biggest issue in the school district?

IH: The principal goal is to facilitate learning for every student at every level. In order to do that, the district has to resolve the continuing issue of reconciling revenues and expenses, and do it in a way that takes into consideration the needs of students, taxpayers, parents and staff.

PP: After attending more than three years of school board meetings, I believe that the biggest issue in the school district has come to be a divided board.

Pamela Plowman. Photo courtesy of Pamela Plowman

Irene Healy. Photo courtesy of Irene Healy

Generally speaking, I see it as a conflict between those who think spending is being handled well and those who think there needs to be a serious restructuring of spending, especially at the administrative level. I believe that such restructuring is critical to reestablishing public trust. In my opinion, BCSD can do a better job of utilizing its financial resources so that they are focused on the needs of the children and their teachers. I want to be a part of instituting a transition to a leaner, more efficient administration, as a way to bring greater educational resources directly to the children in this Valley.

TWS: What is your position regarding administrative and teacher salaries?

IH: I think that some type of administrators’ salary schedule and a timeline for full implementation can be worked out that will save the district money without disenfranchising current employees. This will need to be discussed and analyzed in several board work sessions before it can be brought to the administrators’ group for official contract negotiations.

In principle, I support raises for teachers statewide. In our district, the Blaine County Education Association and the board have used interest-based bargaining for years to negotiate pay raises and benefits, and I trust the process.

PP: For the past few years, BCSD expenditures have exceeded revenues. Our people costs are a large part of the problem. If we are to prevent further cuts to programs and positions that directly benefit kids, we must look closely at all areas of the budget – including administrative overhead. Do we need as Continued trustee vacancy Next Page

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Join 5K Fun Run for housing assistance program

The Sun Valley Board of Realtors Community Foundation will launch its new veterans housing assistance program, 5B Realtors for Veterans, with a 5k Fun Run beginning at 9 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 1 at Lions Park in Hailey. Grumpy’s will provide a post-race lunch and Sawtooth Brewery will provide free beer.

A first-of-its-kind program in the Wood River Valley, 5B Realtors for Veterans will give 100 percent of the proceeds raised from the 5K Fun Run to sustainable housing for local veterans and their families.

According to the most recent U.S. Census, there are approximately 1,500 Blaine County veterans and an alarming number of them and their families live below the poverty line. Nationwide, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs estimates that roughly 1.4 million veterans are deemed “at risk of homelessness due to poverty, lack of support networks, and dismal living conditions in overcrowded or substandard housing.”

For more information about 5B Realtors for Veterans, and to register, visit www.5BVeterans.org or call (208) 726-7764.

Denise Simone to trade one stage for another

After 25 years helping to lead Company of Fools, founding member and Core Company Artist Denise Simone will step down from her full-time staff position on Oct. 31. Simone will instead refocus her professional life away from day-to-day management in favor of more artistically focused projects, such as an acting gig with Boise Contemporary Arts next year “I will still live in the Valley I love and will look forward to working with the Fools as an artist,” Simone said. “John Glenn, my dear friend and colleague of over 28 years, will continue to lead the Company forward with purpose, grace and theatrical programming that touches our hearts and minds.”

One of the founding members of Company of Fools in 1992, in Richmond, Virginia, Simone moved to Hailey with her family in 1996 and relocated the theatre company to Idaho. Under her leadership, COF has produced more than 150 plays. It was the first theatre in Idaho to be awarded Constituent Theatre status by the national Theatre Communications Group, and received the 2004 Idaho Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts.

Over the years, Simone has touched the lives of countless Wood River Valley residents as an arts educator. Thousands of Blaine County schoolchildren have benefited from her instruction in COF’s Stages of Wonder theatre arts and creativity program. Many others have enjoyed her dynamic teaching style in the COF’s adult acting classes and workshops. Simone’s many contributions to the arts were recognized by the State of Idaho in 2014 when she was named recipient of the Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts.

A national search for an associate artistic director is underway, and the Sun Valley Center for the Arts and Company of Fools hope to announce a new member by late October.

Ice Dance collaborates with Higher Ground Sun Valley

Ice Dance International is in residence in the Wood River Valley, creating its new show “ICE/DANCE 2016” to premiere at the Sun Valley Ice Skating Center on Sept. 22.

During the residency, twice a week, on Tuesdays and Thursdays, Ice Dance will collaborate with Higher Ground Sun Valley on a skating program for kids with special needs in the Wood River Valley.

Company members and volunteers, including summer show favorites Kim Navarro, Brent Bommentre and Erin Reed, will participate in this enriching program teaching kids to skate, celebrating the joy of flow and glide, while sharing their love of dance on ice. Higher Ground participants will also get free seating at the premiere show.

When in residence, IDI hopes to give back to the communities that open their arms to the company. From public school programs in Portsmouth, N.H., to this program with Higher Ground Sun Valley, the company will share the joy of skating as a lifelong activity for all.

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many high-level administrative positions as we currently have?

Can we afford to keep giving our administrators expensive perks like company cars and family insurance that teachers don’t receive? Can we support a communications department with two full-time employees? These are difficult questions but ones that must be addressed.

Teachers should be highly valued and appreciated, and paid accordingly. Of course there should be cost-of-living raises and raises for greater seniority. I’d like to know how teachers feel about the steps-and-ladders program, which ties greater pay to master’s degree holders.

Sun: Would you support a supplemental levy?

IH: In Idaho, 94 out of 115 school districts collected money from supplemental levies in 2015-16. Eventually, if our enrollment, programs and salaries grow and state financial support does not, our district might have to join the other 94 and ask for a supplemental levy. I’d support a levy if the circumstances demanded it.

PP: The district needs to develop financial prudence to instill confidence in the public before asking for additional tax money. Before I would support any additional collection of money from taxpayers, I would like to see some solid reasons for needing more money. tws

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FEMALE FILMMAKER PANEL TO PRECEDE ‘EXCEPTIONAL WOMEN’ CONFERENCE

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bout 20 years ago, newly out of UCLA film school, Maria Giese wrote and directed a feature film, “When Saturday Comes.” Her film screened at Cannes Film Festival and she signed with the William Morris Agency. She made another award-winning digital movie, “Hunger,” and was preparing to direct episodic TV. She thought she was on her way.

Born on Cape Cod and raised for a time in the tropics – her father was an oceanographer – Giese was a visual storyteller inspired by the sea and her dreams. Her two critically acclaimed movies notwithstanding, she found that work dried up for her, along with other women, many of whom also held master’s degrees in filmmaking.

Giese will be in the Wood River Valley for The Alturas Institute’s “Conversations with Exceptional Women,” Sept. 2223 at The Community Library in Ketchum.

She will first appear at the nexStage Theatre, at 7 p.m.

Tuesday, Sept. 20, for “Women Directors Who Run With The Wolves: Nell Shipman to the Supreme Court.” The panel discussion, presented by Iconoclast Books and Boise-based filmmaker Karen Day, will also feature Day, whose documentary “Nell Shipman: Girl From God’s Country,” will screen at the event. Shipman made more than two dozen independent films, many of them shot at her own studio on Priest Lake, Idaho, in the 1920s. The film also delves into the role of women in films and how what was once an industry friendly to women

writers and directors became, in contemporary times, one completely at odds with the idea of gender equality.

Also on the panel will be London-based Cheryl Robson, editor of “Silent Women: Pioneers of Cinema” and “Celluloid Ceiling,” and Wood River Valley-based filmmakers Meredith Richardson and Whitney McNees. Iconoclast Books will hold a book signing with Robson.

In 2011, Giese began to press the issue of underrepresentation of women directors in the U.S. She researched and wrote about legal strategies to remediate illegal discrimination against women in Hollywood, citing Title VII (of the Civil Rights Act of 1964) that addresses equal employment opportunity to all Americans regardless of race, gender or creed. Last year, after four years of activism in the Directors Guild of America, Giese instigated the biggest industry-wide federal investigation for women directors in Hollywood history, that’s still ongoing.

Through her experiences as an activist, Giese has become a figurehead. A subject of five feature-length documentaries, she’s also writing a book, “Troublemaker,” about her work getting the American Civil Liberties Union and Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to investigate this issue. Earlier this year, Giese was awarded the prestigious Equity Award from Stanford University.

“Title VII is almost entirely unenforceable,” Giese said in a telephone interview from her home in Connecticut. “We have to galvanize and unify behind this EEOC investigation, and bring reform to Title VII.

On Sunday, Sept. 11, at the Sawtooth Botanica “Carnaval” dinner for about 150 people. Music songs, including a moving version of John Lenn the event, Rowsey also announced upcoming c River High School Chamber Orchestra and Wo Department in March and St. Thomas Playhou

Louisiana Fl Maria Giese. Photo courtesy of Maria Giese

That’s my dream: to elevate the conversation into the federal level and get legislative change made.”

Giese said that though her career was “devastated,” her activism “helped to create a community of women filmmakers.

It’s blossoming, so I feel somewhat optimistic.”

Giese also believes that women’s voices need to be heard on all levels to fully represent the world as it is.

“It’s devastating to our civilization to keep half our population silenced,” she said. “It’s a battle worth fighting.”

The conference, Conversa-

Conversations With Exceptional Women

tions with Exceptional Women, is a great opportunity, Giese said. “For me, success can be defined as service toward the collective good for all women.”

I believe we are all exceptional women – the women in the audience equally so,” she said. “What really stands out as exceptional is our unique opportunity at this time in history. Together, we really could use the momentum of the ongoing federal investigation for women directors to shift the perspective from which American stories emerge, and in doing so level the playing field for all women tws everywhere.”

The Alturas Institute will feature a series of conversations with a selection of highly acclaimed women, drawn from the leadership ranks of the corporate world, government, journalism, Olympic sports, film, literature and academia. This outstanding lineup of national leaders will participate in casual conversations on the question, “What is success?”

This two-day event costs $85, which includes a reception for audience members and the speakers, Thursday, Sept. 22.

Scholarships are available. Seating is limited, so register quickly at www.alturasinstitute.com.

Speakers include: • Kaitlyn Farrington, 2014 Olympic gold medalist winner in Sochi, Russia.

• Gina Bennett, CIA counterterrorism expert, author, subject of television documentaries.

• Jennifer Siebel Newsom, prize-winning director and producer, including acclaimed films “Misrepresentation,” “The Hunting Ground” and “The Mask You Wear.”

• Maria Giese, award-winning film director and producer, subject of television documentaries for instigating the EEOC investigation of gender inequality issues in Hollywood.

• Kathleen Brown, former California treasury secretary, Wall Street executive.

• Dr. Caroline Heldman, academic, author, television commentator, internationals advocate for women.

• Dr. Joanne Freeman, prize-winning author, Yale historian, Alexander Hamilton expert.

• Shirley Babashoff, 1976 Olympic gold medal swimming champion, author, subject of acclaimed documentary.

• Anne Taylor Fleming, author, prize-winning television journalist, PBS essayist.

• Karen Crouse, prize-winning sports writer for The New York Times.

• Elizabeth Redleaf, CEO, Hollywood film production company.

• Sue Toigo, president, Toigo Foundation, political activist, diversity advocate.

• Teresa Carlson, vice-president, Amazon WorldWide.

• Rachael McClinton, co-founder, actress, “Living Voices.”

• Christine Walker, award-winning film director and producer.

In an effort to relieve overcrowding in Louisiana The Inner Pup, facilitated the transfer of more th Rocky Mountain West. Four came to the Animal too traumatized to be seen, from Folsom; Maya, (pictured, right). Photos by Dana DuGan

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On Labor Day morning, Monday, Sept. 5, planner living in Ketchum, was injured while stead at 11,865 feet in the Pioneer Mountain nearly 60 feet down the cliff face. She is a ce Responder.

Two Bear Air Rescue, from Whitefish, Mo 4:20 p.m. on Monday. The team was already search for a missing ATV rider near Lemhi. A ter flew to Shawler’s location, 60 miles away cialist on the cliff via the hoist. Shawler was from hypothermia. She was hoisted into the Wood River in Ketchum at 4:59 p.m., and the at St. Alphonsus Regional Medical Center in Shawler, who is originally from Cashiers, N on Instagram from the hospital, saying, “So

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Riley Revallier worked in Mexico with Compassionate Young Leaders.

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al Garden, the Caritas Chorale performed and hosted a cal director R.L. Rowsey led the local singing group in five non’s “Imagine” on this, the 15th anniversary of 9/11. At collaborations with other organizations, including Wood ood River Orchestra in December; the Wood River Chorale use in April. Photo by Dana DuGan

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David Rau, Jr., 15, of Bellevue, competed last Saturday in Jackson, Wyo., in the Wild West Skate Contest Series finale. Rau took first place in the 13-18 year old male category in Jackson, Hailey, Ketchum and Driggs. Photo by Jennifer Simpson

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animal shelters, stressed by recent flooding, two nonprofits, Wyoming-based Dog is My CoPilot and New Orleans-based han 60 dogs. These adoptable pooches were moved from a shelter in New Orleans, La., to several shelters across the Shelter of the Wood River Valley last week: 7-month-old Korean Jindo/Lab mix brothers Dusty and Cole, who are still , 3, an American Staffordshire mix from Jefferson Parish (pictured, left); and Bo, 3, a Catahoula mix from Ponchatoula

Avery Shawler, a conservation e climbing alone on Devil’s Bedns. Shawler reportedly fell ertified SOLO Wilderness First

ont., received the call around y in Idaho, helping with a A Two Bear Air Rescue helicopy, and inserted a rescue spes severely injured, and suffering e helicopter, taken to St. Luke’s en flown to the Trauma Center Boise.

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alive after a big fall off a cliff at the Devil’s Bedstead East in the Pioneer Mountains yesterday. Amazingly, was able to dial 911 from where I fell (even though I have AT&T), stayed warm with an emergency blanket, and stopped the bleeding in my biggest cuts. Hour and a half later, the rescue helicopter found me and plucked me off the mountain in what must been the craziest hammock ride of my life. Despite the huge fall, I escaped with just four lacerations that required stitches, a fractured radius, a fractured patella, three fractured ribs, a puncture wound where I bit through my lip/ chin, and a shattered cheekbone. No serious head or internal injuries.”

Shawler had three different surgeries. On Tuesday, she was released from the hosipital.

“I just want people to know they should be prepared when they are in the back country,” she said.

Shawler, whose company is Shawler Conservation Planning, works with the Idaho Conservation League, The Nature Conservancy, Wood River Land Trust and Lemhi Regional Land Trust, and area ranchers. To see the rescue video, visit www.twobearair.org/videos2.

Service gives student sense of happiness

By Jonathan Kane

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iley Revallier, an aspiring nurse and former ski racer, loves to help people. Even though her ski racing days are behind her, her father, Patrick, still teaches for the Sun Valley Ski Education Foundation and Riley volunteers as a coach for its development team.

“I love helping people and seeing them thrive,” said the Wood River High School senior.

“That’s why I love being a part of the SVSEF. I get to teach kids, watch them grow, and help them become better people.”

Riley believes that the ski team better prepares kids for their futures by giving them helpful tools.

“It’s not just skiing; it also helps them with school and with their independence and responsibility and confidence.

“It also helps them to be organized, because you have to be really organized for the ski team.

Training six days a week, you are still responsible for yourself and for school and you’ve got to make it to practice on time.”

Riley’s desire to help people really finds expression as part of the Compassionate Young Leaders, an organization that is akin to a youth Peace Corps. “I heard about it and really like doing service work. It would give me a chance to do it in a different culture that wouldn’t be a vacation but, rather, really helping people.”

She went on the CYL’s first trip to San Cristobal in the Chiapas region of Mexico with a group of

10 students and two leaders. San Cristobal is at the heart of the Mayan culture.

“Our main project was to assist at a not-for-profit school led by a couple for indigenous kids,” Riley said. “They paid for everything out of their pocket. We built a greenhouse, painted murals and worked with the kids for the two weeks we were there. It was really fun teaching them English and seeing their hunger for education and watching them learn.”

The second project was helping with an organic garden at a school for disabled people – fertilizing, doing garden work and assisting in upkeep.

“The whole experience gave me a larger perspective on how I live my life and a greater appreciation for what I have. I now know there is a bigger world outside our Valley. I don’t take for granted the schools we attend, the medicine that we have and the opportunities for jobs and work.”

For Riley, service gives her a sense of happiness.

“People all deserve the same opportunity for health and to be given the chance to succeed.”

She plans on going into the nursing field.

“My grandfather was in a hospice [care facility],” Riley said.

“The nurses there were so amazing and they made sure our loved one was in such good hands. Everyone should be looking out for each other and that’s what nurses do. I want to be a traveling nurse and go abroad and take my education and really help people.” tws

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ilver Creek is absolutely magical right now. The Creek is flowing higher than it has in years. The fish are eating with abandon most of the day. Callibaetis and Hoppers are bringing greedy fish to the surface and the Mahogany Dun is due to show this week – if it hasn’t already. Honestly, the Creek is worth the trip just to see it right now. It looks spectacular.

Anglers staying late will find the Mouse fishing as good as it gets.

The next two weeks on Silver Creek may turn out to be the best two weeks of the season. Don’t miss this!

The South Fork of the Boise should drop to 300 cfs by Friday.

That means a reduction in flows most of the week. If you are planning a trip, watch the USGS graphs and try to wait for things to stabilize. When they do, expect Fall Baetis hatches to continue and even grow in intensity. If you go, start late in the day and fish right up to dark.

The Big Wood continues to fish well with the Western Red Quill and the Fall Baetis.

Hoppers are also in the mix in the bright parts of the day. When fishing the Western Red Quill, use all your favorite Green Drake flies. They will work very well for this hatch. H and L Variants are great, as well as Parachute Adams, Irresistible Adams and Gray Wulffs. The Fall Baetis is easily matched with very small Parachute Adams and Gulper Specials. Bring your spring creek techniques to this hatch and watch the tail of the pools.

The Lower Lost River continues to impress with big numbers of fish being caught – being replaced by anglers catching fewer, but much larger, fish as of late. The Baetis action and Nymphing is the way to go. Be sure you have nymphs in red colors in your box as well. Copper Johns and San Juan Worms are great flies once the Kokanee that spill over the dam start spawning.

The Upper Lost is low and fishing well for anglers on the move, but it is a long walk between pools. Small attractors are the way to go, with a nod toward Red Quill sizes and colors.

There is road work happening on Trail Creek later this week, so if you go, check your local news sources for open and closed times of the day.

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BY FRAN JEWELL

The Perfect Dog

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n our little valley, we expound about how dog-friendly this community is. In reality, in the past two days I have had more people tell me that they feel such extreme pressure to have the “perfect dog” from other community members. While the valley may be “dog-friendly,” it is not always friendly to the owners of other dogs. A recent incident drove this home for me, personally, and it has brought so many thoughts to consider.

The reality of the situation is that there simply is no perfect dog. All dogs have flaws, just like every person does. Some have flaws that can be addressed and changed for the better. And, unfortunately, some have flaws that go so deep there is no rehabilitation. Dogs are another species that we have worked hard to understand, but many times we do not.

The pressure here can be devastating to any dog owner, and many times to the dogs themselves. Owners that have a dog with severe behavior flaws that are hardwired and now habitual find it so difficult to accept that the dog cannot be rehabilitated. They spend so much time, energy and money trying desperately to conform to the community standard that all dogs must be perfect.

In the meantime, the dog lives with so much pressure to change that they slip deeper into neurotic behaviors. This doesn’t even take into consideration how the owner feels with a deep sense of failure when their dog is not able to be rehabilitated.

Then there are owners whose dogs are out of control, but live in denial that the dog is an issue with other dogs or people. The owner becomes defensive and even outright belligerent when called on the fact that their dog is out of control.

There are the dogs that are becoming rehabilitated nicely, but an incident happens that is unexpected, or simply an accident. There is so much public shame for the one failure that the owner now feels completely overwhelmed and ready to give in.

I know I have a taste for the perfect dog. I

Even the most perfect dog is not perfect, and we love them dearly, regardless. Photo by Fran Jewell

love dogs that are well-behaved and I strive personally to help owners make that happen for their dog. I also strive for that in my own dogs and have had to accept that even my dogs have their flaws. As a dog-training instructor, I also have to take great care to not put my own desires upon the needs of each owner that I work with.

So, what is the solution to all this perfectionism conflict in our valley? I think that first is that we be supportive of those that are genuinely trying to work with their dogs.

When accidents or incidents happen, we need to have some compassion, but we also need to work hard at preventing them from happening. Let’s not deny problems our own dogs have. Let’s not be defensive and belligerent when an incident happens. Incidents are traumatic for everyone involved, whether

your dog or someone else’s dog has an issue.

Let’s face the problem with kindness, compassion and thoughtfulness for the dogs and for the owners. But, let’s also do our homework, be honest about our own dogs and do the best we can to be responsible and keep our own dogs safe, and keep others safe.

Backstabbing and social condemnation do little to change anything except to fuel more fires and unrest, making the problems even more difficult to deal with.

Fran Jewell is an Idaho Press Club award-winning columnist, IAABC-certified dog behavior consultant, NADOI-certified instructor #1096 and the owner of Positive Puppy Dog Training, LLC, in Sun Valley. For more information, visit www.positivepuppy. com or call (208) 578-1565.

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Meticulous Note-taking Pays Off

BY LESLIE REGO

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hat a summer for wildflowers this has been.

If what follows is an article full of superlatives, it is because this summer surely deserves each and every one.

For the past few summers I have taken meticulous notes and drawings of where I have been hiking, what has been blooming and even the time of day and light conditions. I like to note early-morning or late-evening light and jot down some descriptive words about the orientation of the meadows or the mountains. There are places where the meadow stays in shade a long time until finally the sun comes up and over the mountain and bathes it in sunlight. A good example of this is the meadow at mile marker 145 on Highway 75 north where mule’s ear was on such tremendous display in June.

I waited for a long time one early morning, watching the geese, until the sun finally hit the flowers.

The date, the time, a descriptive word or two will all go into my journal.

After each hike I make notes

on what flowers I saw and if they were at the height of their bloom, a bit early or a bit late. When my husband and I hiked in the White Clouds, we were a bit late for the mountain heather, but spot-on for the beginning of gentian season.

The wildflowers we encountered during our hike to Boulder Basin were breathtaking. We also perfectly timed our viewing of thimbleberry during a memorable hike to Mill Lake. The summer before, I had seen these flowers beyond their prime. I noted that in my journal and so I knew that this summer I wanted to do the hikes a bit earlier in the season.

Every summer the weather patterns are different. I take this into account when I try to judge when to do a hike for a specific flower. If we have a particularly hot and dry few weeks early in the summer, a cold spell or a wet spell (which has not happened too much recently), I will note all of that in my journal.

After a few years of taking these meticulous notes, I am now able to judge fairly accurately when to see a particular wildflower. Starting in May with the beautiful wild peony, then in

Leslie Rego, “Notes in my Journal,” pencil.

June with the amazing spectacle of purple lupine and chocolate lily at Croy Creek Preserve, and a bit later the yellow lupine behind Dollar Mountain, I saw one beautiful display of wildflower after another.

Next came the lovely mule’s ear. During the early days of July, it was thimbleberry’s turn.

July continued to bring a plethora of amazing wildflowers, with elephant’s head, white bog orchid and many others. End of July moved into the wonderful pur-

ples of gentian season, and the beginning of August I enjoyed the grouping of monkshood with Grass of Parnassus.

And so it goes throughout the season, one wildflower after another creating an incredible and bountiful display of ethereal beauty.

Leslie Rego is an Idaho Press Club award-winning columnist, artist and Blaine County resident. To view more of Rego’s art, visit www.leslierego.com

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letter to the editor Jim Cobble

Support Sally Toone For State Rep.

Please support the election of Sally Toone as our District 26 Representative for Blaine, Camas, Gooding and Lincoln counties. Sally will be an especially valuable and versatile legislator because she relates to the farmer, the businessman, the educational community, parents and, of course, all of them as taxpayers.

Sally is unique in that she is a third-generation educator and has the invaluable experience of a 37-year career as a math teacher in the Wendell and Gooding school districts. Her long educational career allows her to relate to and understand the needs and challenges facing our most precious asset – our children. It gets better! Sally and her husband Mark, third-generation farmer/rancher, own and operate family farms and cattle ranches in Gooding and Camas counties.

Their two sons, along with their families, have returned to Idaho to raise their children and continue the family agricultural business.

It gets even better! As a longtime resident of southern Idaho, Sally understands the different situations that exist in our small rural communities and will work tirelessly with commissioners, school trustees, constituents and fellow legislators to find ways to solve our unique needs. She will do it in a way that is fiscally responsible.

I’ve personally known Sally for well over 20 years and consider her a great communicator. She is not only smart and articulate, but has the rare ability to listen, consider, and respond with logic and insight. In any organization, political or otherwise, a diversity of ideas and opinions makes for stronger and better decisions.

Sally Toone has the right background to help Idaho prepare for the future.

Please support Sally this November.

Jim Cobble Fairfield resident

letter to the editor Bruce Newcomb

Vote For Michelle Stennett For Senate

I am writing to encourage voters of District 26 to vote for Michelle Stennett for Senate seat District 26. I am sure that some might wonder why a Republican is endorsing a Democrat. In our family, we live by the three F’s: Faith, Family and Friends.

Clint and Michelle were and are such close friends of ours that we consider them family. After Clint passed away, Michelle took the reins and carried on where Clint left off. She owns farms in the Magic Valley and has a real understanding of water rights, ranching and farming.

I observed Michelle represent District 26 in the Senate these last three terms and she has served with distinction in representing her district. She has gained the respect of her peers on both sides of the isle. She is now the Minority Leader of the Senate. She and Clint are the only married couple in Idaho history to serve in that capacity.

Everyone I know that has observed her serve, including me, thinks she has done so with distinction and class. Michelle has a very strong work ethic. She is very intelligent and personable. Michelle is a very good listener. She always gathers all the information she can and makes decisions based on that information in the best interest of District 26 and the State of Idaho.

It is my opinion that the voters of District 26 would be best served by voting for Michelle Stennett for State Senate District 26.

Bruce Newcomb Retired legislator Former Speaker of the House

letter to the editor Richard Jesinger

Vote Yes For Article III Amendment

I urge you to vote YES on November 8 for an amendment to Article III of the Idaho Constitution, providing that the Idaho Legislature may review, approve or reject any administrative (agency) rule, thereby ensuring consistency with legislative intent. This is a NONPARTISAN issue. When the Idaho Legislature voted on HJR 5 (this amendment), only four of 105 legislators voted “no”. All legislators representing Legislative District 26 voted “yes”.

On September 17, we celebrate Constitution Day, 229 years after the Constitution signing by 39 brave men. This most influential document of American history and the Bill of Rights were created to limit an omnipotent federal government by creating a balance of power with three branches, so that no individual or group could gain too much control. Over time, the roles of the three branches – Legislative (makes the laws), Executive (enforces the laws), and Judicial (interprets the laws) – have blurred. Agencies (part of the executive branch) are now creating rules (laws) impacting all Americans. We must guarantee that these rules are reviewed by elected officials.

Historically, Idaho statute has prevented agencies from making laws without legislative review. Statutes can be interpreted and changed by a few individuals; changing a statute does not require a vote of all Idaho citizens. With a YES vote to amend Article III of the Idaho Constitution, we will preserve our right to have elected legislators review agency laws.

In partisan politics, as a retired law enforcement officer and FBI supervisor, as well as father of a Snake River Council Eagle Scout and graduate of West Point who is now a captain in the Army, I respectfully ask you to elect Representative Steve Miller, Dale Ewersen and Alex Sutter – good men all – who will honor the Constitution and Idahoans.

Happy Constitution Day! Richard Jesinger Sun Valley resident Editor’s Note: The Weekly Sun welcomes and encourages submissions of letters to the editor. Letters do not necessarily express the opinion of The Weekly Sun or Idaho Sunshine Media, LLC. Letters are not selected based on opinion; the goal is to provide an open forum for the exchange of ideas in Blaine County. Email letters to editor@theweeklysun.com.

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n 2015, Laura Musbach Drake directed the Championship Sheepdog Trials for the annual Trailing of the Sheep Festival, never thinking she may one day take the reins of the prestigious event. Now, in 2016, as executive director, Laura and her team are ready to recognize the event’s 20th anniversary and ring in a new era of celebrating the Valley’s history of sheepherding and ranching.

“Longtime executive director Mary Austin Crofts did such an amazing job in developing the many events that make up the annual Trailing of the Sheep Festival,” Laura explained during a recent interview. “I knew that I would have some big shoes to fill, but we have a strong staff with many years of experience and a very supportive board and volunteers, so this first year for me has really been about finding the places where we can enhance the experience.”

Returning to the Valley Oct. 5-9, the annual Trailing of the Sheep Festival saw 26,000 people attend the many events that make up the Festival last year. “One of the best parts about the Festival is how many different things are all happening up and down the Valley,” Laura adds. “The Sheepdog Trials will be back in Hailey this year along with the Sheep Folklife Fair. There are cooking classes and storytelling and the Sheepherder’s Ball on Saturday night and, of course, everyone loves to see the sheep come down Main Street in the parade in Ketchum on Sunday.”

As one of the most photographed parts of the Festival, the annual parade of sheep on Sunday is the culmination of more than just a great event.

“Some people think that this migration of sheep south down Main Street is a reenactment,” Laura explains. “In fact, the Trailing of the Sheep Festival was built around the tradition of herding the sheep from their summer grazing areas in the mountains up north to warmer climates south. The fact that

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we not only get to witness this, but incorporate it into a multi-day celebration, is testament to all of the hours and dedication of the hundreds of people that worked on this event for the last 19 years.”

And how many people does it take to put on the annual Festival? “Every year it takes nearly 200 volunteers to manage all of the events that are part of the Festival,” Laura notes. “We’ve been very lucky to have had such amazing people understand the value this Festival brings to the Valley and give of their time.”

Anyone wanting to volunteer as a greeter, assisting at the Sheepdog Trials or Folklife Fair or any of the events during the Festival, should visit the website at www.trailingofthesheep.org.

Jeff Bacon is The Chamber’s membership director. For more information, visit www.haileyidaho. com or call The Chamber at (208) 788-3484.

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‘Sully’

Grace under pressure

By Jonathan Kane

“Sully,” the new biopic from venerable 86-year-old director and American icon Clint Eastwood, makes for straight-ahead entertainment that should be pleasing to a mass audience. It also stars Tom Hanks – which adds to its luster.

But it must be noted that while still delivering the goods, Eastwood can still make some odd choices as a director and the film also suffers sometimes from a bit of the melodramatic.

Is there anyone out there that doesn’t know the amazing story?

On January 15, 2009, 42-year-old Captain Chesley (Sully) Sullenberger piloted US Airways Flight 1549 out of LaGuardia Airport in New York City with 155 crew and passengers on board.

Soon after departure, the plane was hit by a flock of geese, with the birds taking out both engines at once – something that had nev-

er happened before in the history of commercial aviation. With a decision to return to La Guardia or try for Teterboro Airport in New Jersey, Sullenberger made the calculations, based on years of experience, that neither was possible. Heroically, he chose the Hudson River in an impossible water landing and saved everyone on board.

Of course, it’s the aviation scenes that take center stage and are beautifully executed by Eastwood. Told multiple times from everyone’s perspective, the scenes are riveting and give the audience their money’s worth.

But, of course, there needs to be more than the crash, so the dramatic heart of the film is the National Transportation Safety Board, with their cliché cast of characters, accusing Sully of making the wrong decision and sacrificing the valuable plane by his belief that it couldn’t make land.

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elebrate fall like a true German with Sawtooth Brewery’s fourth annual Oktoberfest. Grab some lederhosen and head to Ketchum Town Square from 4-9 p.m. Friday, Sept. 16, and from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 17, to participate.

“It’s a great community event because it’s for all ages,” said CEO/head brewer Paul Holle.

“We’ve got root beer for the kids and traditional German games.

It’s really about coming together to celebrate fall and hanging out.”

Anyone can walk into the event, but to drink they must buy a beer stein.

“We’ll have four different types of glassware ranging from $5 to $10, and that glass will get you into any future Oktoberfest events as well,” explained Holle.

Friday, catch the annual Ketchum Kraut-off and see contestants compete for the Kraut Cup. Judging will begin at 5 p.m. Old Death Whisper will take the stage at 5:30 p.m. and

Sawtooth Brewery’s fourth annual Oktoberfest returns Sept. 16-17 in Ketchum Town Square.

help locals kick up their clogs.

Saturday, the Beer Olympics will take place at 3 p.m. Find a team of four to register and compete in games like beer pong, cornhole, hammerschlagen, mechanical bull riding and the volume chug. The champions will walk away with a 2-litre glass boot. Live music will start at 4 p.m. with The Barking Owls.

Afrosonics will take the stage at 6 p.m.

“For a town where there’s so much to do, to see 2,000 people hanging out in Town Square drinking beer is just a wonderful experience,” Holle concluded.

Learn more about Sawtooth Brewery’s fourth annual Oktoberfest at www.sawtoothbrewery.com/oktoberfest-2016.

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Sharron Matthews comes to Ketchum

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he Sun Valley Center for the Arts will present “Superstar” with Sharron Matthews, an award-winning cabaret performer from Stratford, Ontario, Canada, at 7 p.m. Friday, Sept. 16.

Matthews will perform at the nexStage Theatre in Ketchum, in cabaret-style seating. Wine and appetizer plates will be available for purchase.

SVCA Performing Arts Director Kristine Bretall said she looked for a cabaret act to bring to the community for some time.

“I’ve been wanting to find the right fit for the Valley – her vocal quality, humor and the stories she weaves in are a perfect fit for the Valley,” Bretall said.

“She’s also worked with kids and will visit the schools.”

Earlier this year, Matthews’ cabaret “Full Dark” was named Best Cabaret Performance of 2015 by broadwayworld.com,

and in 2011 her show was named Best of Show at the massive Edinburgh Fringe Fest in Scotland.

“I had a lot of good musical theatre experience before I was 25 years old,” Matthews said. “I always got work.

But I wasn’t getting what I wanted. There wasn’t a lot of diversity or depth.

I had more to say and I wanted to say it with all the different songs that I loved.”

Most cabaret shows feature the “Great American Songbook” Sharron Matthews will bring her cabaret act oeuvre, but Matthews to nexStage Theatre Sept. 16. Photo courtesy of Sun Valley Center goes a step further.

“It’s a rock ’n‘ roll what I love about cabaret. It show with comedy,” she said. “A little like Bette Mid- breaks the fourth wall.”

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EVENTS CALENDAR HIKIN’ BUDDIES WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 14 9:30AM TO 1PM/ ADAMS GULCH / KETCHUM The Animal Shelter of the Wood River Valley continues its popular Hikin’ Buddies program out Adams Gulch. All are welcome to join in throughout the summer, weather permitting. Meet at the Adams Gulch trailhead from 9:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Wednesdays.

At Hikin’ Buddies, attendees can take a Shelter dog for a hike or hang out and socialize some of the smaller dogs and puppies.

It is a great opportunity to meet some of the Shelter’s adoptable dogs as well as to learn more about the organization. No appointment is necessary. Also, the Shelter will now be doing adoptions at Adams Gulch during Hikin’ Buddies. Call (208) 788-4351 to learn more about the program.

‘BECAUSE YOU’RE BEAUTIFUL’ WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 14 6-10PM / DOLLAR LODGE / SUN VALLEY Cultivate self-love and mindfulness practices at “Because You’re Beautiful Live A Moment,” a fourhour workshop presented by Toni Childs and Deborah Greene. Childs, Emmy winner and three-time Grammy-nominated recording artist and yoga teacher, has joined forces with Greene, CEO and founder of LiveaMoment.com, to construct an incredibly powerful event aimed at embracing and growing the beauty of humanity. The workshop will take place 6-10 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 14, at Carol’s Dollar Mountain Lodge in Sun Valley.

The cost to attend this celebration of life is $40 and participation numbers are strictly limited. Book tickets through Chapter One Bookstore in Ketchum by calling (208) 726-5425 or emailing chapterone@q.com. Learn more about the event at www.becauseyourebeautiful.yoga.

‘DAZZLE CAMOUFLAGE’ THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 15 5:30PM / THE CENTER / KETCHUM The Sun Valley Center for the Arts will host an evening tour of their current visual arts exhibition, “Dazzle Camouflage: Hiding in Plain Sight,” on Thursday, Sept. 15 at 5:30 p.m. Visitors are invited to enjoy a glass of wine and a guided tour of the exhibition with The Center’s curators and gallery guides. The Center’s evening exhibition tours are free and open to the public.

First developed by the British during World War I in response to the introduction of submarine warfare, dazzle camouflage was an innovative marriage of military technology and visual art devised to protect British and American ships from German aggression on the high seas. Dazzle camouflage (often called “razzle dazzle” in the United States) was a system of high-contrast geometric patterning applied to ships as disruptive camouflage.

Unlike most camouflage, dazzle was not meant to conceal ships from view through enemy periscopes.

Instead, it was intended to create visual confusion that could mask a ship’s direction, speed or size, making it difficult to accurately fire a torpedo.

At a time when artists working in modernist styles were experimenting with sophisticated compositions based on geometric planes of color, many dazzle-camouflaged ships resembled enormous works of modernist art. The Center’s exhibition features original dazzle diagrams from the collection of the Fleet Library at Rhode Island School of Design, and a variety of dazzle-camouflage interpretations by contemporary artists including Thomas Bangsted, Liz Collins, Stuart Elster, Stephanie Syjuco and Carrie Schneider.

“Dazzle Camouflage: Hiding in Plain Sight” will be on view at The Center through Oct. 14. For more information visit www.sunvalleycenter.org or call (208) 726-9491.

HEROIC QUESTS & HEROINES’ JOURNEYS THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 15 6PM / LIGHT ON THE MOUNTAINS / KETCHUM Author Jody Gentian Bower, Ph.D., will be discussing the heroine’s journey on Thursday, Sept. 15 at Light on the Mountains Spiritual Center. Additionally, a book reading and signing with the author will be held at Chapter One Bookstore at 10 a.m. on Friday, Sept.16.

Bower is a cultural mythologist and the author of “Jane Eyre’s Sisters: How Women Write and Live the Heroine’s Story.” A scientific and technical writer and editor for over 30 years, Bower earned her doctorate in Mythological Studies with an emphasis in Depth Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute in Santa Barbara, Calif. She now teaches classes and lectures on the wisdom of women’s stories, archetypal psychology and the role of myths in modern culture. She continues to offer writing and editing services to individuals and businesses, edits nonfiction books and coaches beginning writers.

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reventing frost damage as cooler weather approaches will not only extend your gardening season but will also protect your plants.

Frost injures plants by causing ice crystals to form in plant cells. This makes water unavailable to plant tissues and disrupts the movement of fluids. Frost-damaged leaves appear water-soaked, shrivel and turn dark brown or black.

Plants are classified according to the minimum temperatures they normally tolerate.

“Hardy” plants tolerate some amount of short-term freezing while “tender” plants are killed or injured by freezing temperatures.

Site selection can help prevent frost damage. Elevation, surface reflectivity, soil properties, canopy cover and proximity of structures or plants can all affect heat radiation within your landscape.

Avoid planting tender species in open, exposed areas or in low spots where cold air settles. Put them near a south- or west-facing wall, which absorbs heat during the day and radiates it at night. Fences, boulders and shrubs also can serve a protective function for nearby plantings.

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nerable plants. Use stakes to keep material from touching foliage.

• Remove the coverings when temperatures rise the next day.

• For a short cold period, low plantings can be covered with mulch, such as straw or leaves. Remove once the danger of frost has passed.

• Be creative – cover plants with empty milk jugs.

• Spray an anti-transpirant, available at your local nursery, on the foliage of cold-sensitive plants to seal in moisture.

• Cluster container plants close together and, if possible, in a sheltered spot close to the house.

Plants can be very resilient. If you see signs of frost damage, don’t prune off the affected parts or dig up the plant immediately. Wait until the weather warms up in April to see whether new leaves sprout. You may see healthy new growth at the base of the plant, at which point you can prune out the damaged parts.

If no regrowth is noted, remove the dead specimen and replace it with a more cold-tolerant species.

Sarah Busdon is an administrative assistant with University of Idaho’s Blaine County Extension office. For more information, visit extension.uidaho.edu/blaine or call (208) 788-5585.

NEWS IN BRIEF Valley Creek Preserve Community Planning Process to meet

The Valley Creek Preserve Community Planning Process, will meet 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 22, at the Community Center in Stanley.

The Valley Creek Preserve was established by the Wood River Land Trust in 2015 to protect salmon habitat, wetlands and the scenic views of the Sawtooth Valley. Since then, the WRLT has been working with the U.S. Forest Service, Idaho Department of Fish and Game, Idaho Governor’s Office of Species Conservation and the City of Stanley to come up with plans and goals for best managing the preserve.

“The Land Trust is excited to work with the community of Stanley to develop a management plan that protects the fish and wildlife habitat of Valley Creek and also creates an asset for the entire community and its visitors,” said Keri York, WRLT director of conservation.

The Valley Creek Preserve covers 34 acres along the northern edge of the community of Stanley. It includes wet meadows and a one-mile stretch of Valley Creek. Historically, the creek and its tributaries have been home to a variety of native fish species, like steelhead, bull trout and westslope cutthroat trout, and sockeye and Chinook salmon. Chinook and other species still spawn in Valley Creek, making the small mountain stream critical habitat.

For more information, contact the Wood River Land Trust at (208) 788-3947.

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THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 15

7PM / MAGIC LANTERN CINEMAS / KETCHUM The third annual Sun Valley Film Noir Series is back and will hold its three-week Thursday evening film screenings on Sept.15, 22 and 29. The noir classics will all be shown at 7 p.m. at the Magic Lantern Cinemas in Ketchum. Once again, Greg Olson, the Seattle Art Museum film director, selected the theme for the 2016 film series, “Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye.”

“The past is haunted,” Olson said. “It’s over. Live now. Live fast. Grab all the money you can, the dames, the booze, the big prize. Laws, rules, limits – who cares? But if you’re just living for today, you might have to kiss tomorrow goodbye.”

The 2016 Sun Valley Film Noir Series will kick off with “Scarlet Street” (1945) directed by Fritz Lang and starring Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett and Dan Duryea. This racy noir classic, based on the French novel “La Chienne” (The Bitch), tells the tale of a middle-aged, hen-pecked husband (Edward G. Robinson) who becomes obsessed with the beautiful young woman he rescues one night.

Tickets will be $10, available at the Magic Lantern Cinemas box office the day of each film. For details about this exciting annual film event visit www.facebook.com/sunvalleyfilmnoir or for any interest in becoming a supporter, email Jeannine Gregoire at jeanninegregoire@gmail.com.

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VARIOUS TIMES / MAGIC LANTERN CINEMAS / KETCHUM For the Magic Lantern Cinemas’ 28th Fall Film Festival, owner Rick Kessler has curated several acclaimed independent films from the past year as well as a few surprises, which will make a night out to the movies a memorable one. This year’s Fall Film Festival will include “Don’t Think Twice” from the creator of “This American Life,” with producer Ira Glass.

Writer, director and actor Mike Birbiglia captures universal human experiences that happen in the lives of professional funny people.

It’s a nuanced story of friendship, aspiration and the pain and promise of change.

The 1969 Academy Award winner “The Lion in Winter,” with special guest Jane Merrow, will screen on Sunday, Sept. 18 at 7 p.m. The film will be introduced by the film’s co-star Merrow, with a Q & A to follow the screening. Merrow starred in the film and received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting Actress for her role.

“De Palma” is a documentary film about the legendary director Brian De Palma. Often compared to Alfred Hitchcock, few have a better reputation and body of work in the field of the suspense film exploring the contemporary darkness in American life than Brian De Palma.

“Captain Fantastic,” a festival darling at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival, is about Ben Cash (Viggo Mortensen), his wife Leslie and their six children who live “off the grid,” deep in the wilderness of Washington state. Isolated from society, Ben and Leslie devote their existence to raising their kids – educating them to think critically, training them to be physically fit and athletic, guiding them in the wild without technology and demonstrating the beauty of coexisting with nature.

In “Wiener Dog,” a cute dachshund puppy finds itself shuffled from one oddball owner to the next, including two couples, a veterinary nurse (Greta Gerwig), a screenwriter (Danny DeVito) and a bitter woman (Ellen Burstyn).

“Sing Street” is a dramatic comedy from the writer and director of Begin Again and Once. The film is set in Dublin, Ireland, in 1985, where a Dublin teenager forms a rock n’ roll band to win the heart of an aspiring model.

For show times and schedules for the Magic Lantern Cinemas’ Fall Film Festival visit www.mlcinemas.com.

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3-10PM / WR SUSTAINABILITY CENTER / HAILEY Celebrate the harvest season with an evening of mouthwatering local foods. Top chefs from 10 of Hailey’s best restaurants will dish up small plates of locally grown everything, along with wine and beer, as attendees savor their way through town.

HarvestFest starts and ends at the Wood River Sustainability Center. Kick off the festival with Local Food Fair from 3-5 p.m. Follow up with Restaurant Walk from 5-7 p.m. and end the day with a River Street Party, featuring dessert and live music by The Kim Stocking Band from 7-10 p.m.

Ticket are $35 for adults (21+), $15 for young adults (13-21), $5 for kids (5-12) and $75 for families with up to 4 kids under age 18. Kids under 5 are free. Tickets can be purchased at Wood River Sustainability Center in Hailey or online at www.woodrivervalleyharvestfest.org. All proceeds benefit the Local Food Alliance.

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5:30-6:30PM / ST. THOMAS CHURCH / SUN VALLEY Joel Bejot, director of music at St. Thomas Episcopal Church, will offer an organ recital on Sunday, Sept. 18 at 5:30 p.m. Enjoy works by German, English and Nigerian composers, including Bach, Buxtehude, Mendelssohn, Leighton, Tambling and Sadoh. A reception will follow.

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