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conscious consumer can use her purchasing power in many ways. Michael Pollan, the food writer and activist, often says, “Vote with your fork” when discussing food politics. The same is true for the environment, sustainability and gender issues.

With money to invest, even if it’s not millions, consumers can use their power to effect changes by investing dollars in products, industries and services they support.

The challenge of green investing is to increase personal wealth while avoiding harm to people and the environment.

“If you’re not investing socially responsibly, you’re a socially irresponsible investor,” said Mark George, the founder and president of Accord Capital Management in Ketchum. “You have to be one or the other.”

And it’s not all hemp and windmills, either.

Investors can directly support industries they believe in, from water conservation, healthcare, green construction and e-commerce, to companies that build batteries to store alternative energy and organic food systems.

“Green investing is becoming more requested,” George said. “In fact, this is the evolution of finance. It’s as simple as this: Do you believe we’ll be driving diesel trucks in 20 years, or will we be driving super-efficient quiet electric cars? Where do you want to put your money?”

Millennials are not only on the forefront of this movement—they are the driving force. According to the Pew Research Center, by 2019, millennials will outnumber the famously outsized group of post-war babies known as boomers. Boomers changed a variety of ways investment was accomplished, including the invention of the 401(k)-retirement savings program 35 years ago.

“Simply by money flow alone, these conscientiously social and environmental investments will experience an inflow from millennials,” George said. “It’s the coolest and biggest piece of this topic, and it’s happening.”

Green investing is not a fad. According to Chris Wedding, of Iron Oak Energy Capital, more than a trillion dollars has been invested in the clean sector alone in the last four years alone.

George, who has been in the investment business for 25 years, believes the act of socially responsible investing is better for the soul. He said that at one point he’d merged his own company with another but felt like he was losing his soul.

“So I changed my business model,” he said. “I want to live my own truth through my business.”

George calls himself a bridge for people who want to change their relationship with their money.

“Some people’s investment portfolios represent everything to them—their children, their homes, their passions, their livelihoods, their future,” he said. “Yet 90 percent of investors often don’t ever know what they own in those portfolios. I noticed a disconnect. I truly believe that financial advis-

ers have an obligation to inform. I see my job as mentoring people’s portfolios and their knowledge while creating appropriate goals that are balanced with prudent risk decisions. My advice is what’s prudent given a client’s time horizon and priorities in life.”

What George and other fund managers do is build portfolios with a mix of companies. It’s called diversification. The United Nations has 17 goals on sustainability for the planet. Among them are water, housing, energy, education, gender equality, hunger, poverty, work and economic growth “I took that and used it as a foundation of themes that I pick for my conscious portfolio [a group of stocks, bonds and funds],” he said. “When you own things that generate income, there are many layers of diversification. We don’t want to put all our eggs in one basket.”

The success of these portfolios shows that investing green and being financially lucrative are not mutually exclusive, but there are some myths about Wall Street that one must wade through.

“I believe our government is inappropriately influenced by special interest groups and campaign finance,” George said. “So our vote is our dollar.

We need to express our values and have a voice with our dollar in order to see the changes we want in our society and economy. Which is why we choose to support and invest in companies that share our beliefs. It’s traditional finance integrated with value-based investing. I do rely heavily on common valuation metrics, such as price-earning ratios and dividend yields, but I’m integrating them with investors’ values and beliefs. In doing that, I’m empowering investors’ voices.”

According to the Morgan Stanley Capital Index (MSCI), an influential index manager tracked by fund managers, socially responsible investments have higher performance, higher dividends, lower stock-specific risk, and lower systemic risks.

Another financial advisor, Kristin Hull, of Nia Global Solutions in San Francisco, uses another socially responsible benchmark: gender.

“Financial inclusion is a significant part of how we will achieve gender equity,” Hull writes on her blog. “Currently, women receive only 4 percent of venture capital funding. As investors, we all need to check our biases to ensure we are directing capital to women, and not missing opportunities by inadvertently excluding this half of our population of startup businesses. Is your bank providing loans to women entrepreneurs? Are the lending companies in your portfolio on board to lend to women and women-owned businesses?”

These investment methods are part of an environmental, social and governance integration known as ESG. “This is an approach to delivering a portfolio that’s part of both worlds,” George said. “It’s a new frontier. The common language doesn’t exist. You can keep your blue-chip stocks, but little by little you’ll end of being a convert. You don’t have to drink all the Kool-Aid, you can add a little water.” tws

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ith over 26 years of experience providing support and safe housing for abuse survivors in the Wood River Valley, The Advocates will expand in order to reach out to even more men, women, and children.

This expansion comes in the form of a new building on River Street, which will be part of the organization’s new program, Safe Housing First.

Safe Housing follows the success of a program The Advocates first developed three years ago called Domestic Violence Housing First, which provides assistance for victims of abuse to obtain and maintain housing.

“When people are in an abusive relationship, often they rely on their partner to help pay the rent or the mortgage, and then when they finally get to the point where they are ready to leave, it can be difficult,” said Tricia Swartling, CEO of The Advocates. “Either they can’t afford to stay in the house or they can’t find a place they can afford. We do have an apartment building on River Street right now, but it’s always full and has a wait list.”

The Advocates decided to build upon the achievements of its Domestic Violence Housing by transitioning to the Safe Housing First project. The decision to create a new building stemmed from the continual shortage of affordable housing in the community and the difficulty created therein for the organization’s clients.

“The whole idea behind the need for this project is that our clients are struggling leaving abusive relationships because they can’t find housing of their

own independently,” Swartling said. “We’re building these safe-housing units for them, helping them get on their feet and then transition to something in the community that they can afford.”

The 18 new safe housing units will be highly rent subsidized in order to make them affordable for victims of abuse.

In addition to the new building, The Advocates will also expand its existing space for client services and prevention programs.

While the new building will be constructed on a vacant lot donated to the organization, The Advocates will also be remodeling one of its current buildings, adding two stories to the structure. This will combine the staff who help walk-in and phoning clients, program support staff, and fundraising staff onto the first floor. The other two floors will be apartment units.

“It will be really nice because we’ll be a stronger staff team, and it will also be more confidential for shelter clients because they won’t have all the walk-in traffic from people not living in the shelter,” Swartling said.

The project will be phased and have two parts, with the expectation that the main building will be completed by September of next year and the second building will be completed the following year.

The Advocates has raised $2.76 million of the $5 million in funding required to complete the Safe Housing project. Funding is entirely donation-based.

“The great thing about the Valley is that people are always willing to help,” Swartling said.

The Advocates will break ground for their new building next Friday at noon.

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NET Makes Drug Trafficking Arrest On Thursday, June 21, members of the Blaine County Narcotics Enforcement Team (NET) arrested Joell Elaine Bullock, 56, of Twin Falls, for the sale and trafficking of controlled substances in Blaine County. NET officers charged Bullock with two felony counts of delivery of a controlled substance, stemming from two separate occasions where Bullock reportedly sold hydrocodone, also known as Vicodin, to a confidential informant in Blaine County. On June 21, investigators observed Bullock selling 361 hydrocodone pills valued at nearly $4,000. On March 12, Bullock sold 115 hydrocodone pills valued at $1,380 with her daughter and infant granddaughter in the vehicle.

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Senior Manager Of Medical Imaging Given President’s Award Last week, Dr. David Pate, CEO of St. Luke’s Health System, recognized Kandis Pederson, senior manager of Radiology at St. Luke’s Wood River, with a President’s Award. The President’s Award was established in 1990. Her peers nominated Kandis for “going above and beyond job expectations,” according to a press release from SLWR. Tanya Furlong, senior director of Operations at SLWR, cited numerous examples of Kandis being an exceptional leader, including setting up a quarterly system ultrasound meeting to increase communication and put protocols in place to improve consistency across the system.

“She created a team that has high morale and feels supported,” Furlong said. “Every day she demonstrates what it means to put the patient first, working tirelessly with her staff, peers and physicians from across SLHS to improve quality outcomes and the patient experience.”

Kandis began her career in 1998. This past year, she earned a Master’s of Radiologic Sciences degree through Weber State University, in Ogden, Utah.

“She is a true role model when it comes to excellence and the belief that you can do anything you set your mind to,” said Cody Langbehn, SLWR administrator.

“Nothing is as beautiful as something you don’t expect.”

From a song called “Something Different,” by David Yazbek, from the Tony Award-winning musical “A Band’s Visit,” that one line sums up the play itself. The musical is not only beautifully different, but has proved to be unexpectedly successful, as well.

One of the producers of the play, Thomas S. Perakos, a part-time resident of the Wood River Valley, is a philanthropist and investor in various shows, including the current revivals of “Carousel” and “My Fair Lady,” as well as past hits “Billy Elliott,” “Moon for the Misbegotten,” “Dream Girls,” and the stunningly original “War Horse.”

He clearly has a nose for great shows.

On Saturday, July 7, in association with the Sun Valley Opera, Perakos and his nose have helped facilitate another show: “Salute to America the Beautiful,’ at the Sun Valley Pavilion, with Broadway actors Sutton Foster and Brian Stokes Mitchell accompanied by the America Festival Chorus & Orchestra. There will be appropriately timed fireworks going off of Dollar Mountain to finish the show.

Perakos, who grew up in Connecticut, acted as a child in shows at the Repertory Theatre of New Britain. On the Saturday before the Antoinette Perry Awards for Excellence in Theatre (Tonys) were held at Radio City Music Hall in New York City, Perakos attended the groundbreaking for the Thomas S. Perakos Arts Center, which he gifted to his alma mater, The Gunnery, in Washington, Conn. after nine years of efforts. By weekend’s end, “The Band’s Visit” had earned 10 Tony Awards, including Best Musical. Perakos called it a “miracle weekend.”

“It is absolutely the highlight of my career, for two reasons: I got involved from the get-go, and I’ve never been associated with a more beautiful cast —that in reality is a family—than the cast and crew of ‘The Band’s Visit,’” he said. “Bar none.”

“The Band’s Visit” is the story of a snappily dressed Egyptian police band whose travel plans go awry. They find themselves in Bet Hatikva, a desolate Israeli town, for one night of drifting connections, yearnings, revelations, and incredible music that seems to organically swell up from each character’s deepest feelings.

Perakos became involved more than three years ago.

“I was contacted by someone I knew from the film industry, John Hart, who said he had the potential rights to make this movie into a musical. As a favor, I watched the movie right here,” Perakos said, pointing to the large-screen TV in his home at Flying Heart in the mid-Valley.

“I was blown away by it,” he said. “It’s an incredible humanitarian tale for our times. I said ‘John, if you can get the right director and cast…’ I said it was a tremendous roll of the dice, but if ever there was a humanitarian cross-cultural story that resonates and would have a tremendous impact on anyone with a brain, this is it. I put in seed money and enhancement capital with an option for a Broadway run.”

The show was staged at the Atlantic Theater Company for under $300,000, and then moved to Broadway as a roughly $10 million production.

Just after it opened on Broadway last fall, Ben Brantley, writing in The New York Times, called it “One of the most ravishing musicals you will ever be seduced by.”

Perakos is indisposed to rest on his laurels.

He said he will hope to have “another potential blockbuster” to announce in the next couple of weeks. In the meantime, two more shows he has invested in are coming along: “Jagged Little Pill,” based on the Alanis Morissette song, and the story of The Temptations, “Ain’t Too Proud,” is currently on the boards out of town. (In Broadway parlance, that’s anywhere not New York City, such as Boston, Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles).

As well, Perakos intends to co-sponsor a revival of the musical “Ragtime,” in New York City, with its original cast, including Audra McDonald, by the end of the year, “if the original cast can agree on the right night on which to do it,” he said.

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Thomas S. Perakos holds a Tony Award belonging to Orin Wolf, the producer of “The Band’s Visit,” at the Tony Awards. Perakos calls Wolf the “hardest working producer in the business.” Photo courtesy of Thomas S. Perakos

tor’s Fund, a charity Perakos is most passionate about.

“Between those three shows and my philanthropic adventures, I have very little time to think, or fly fish,” he said.

For now, his focus is on ‘Salute to America.’

Last year, Perakos brought in the Broadway star Kelli O’Hara for a show at the Pavilion—also with Sun Valley Opera—and he wondered if he could possibly top the “beauty and magnitude of that evening.”

“Then God spoke to me and said, ‘Bring her back, or bring Sutton Foster and Brian Stokes Mitchell,’” Perakos said. “In my honest opinion, Sutton is the best song and dance actress on the Broadway stage today.”

Stokes Mitchell and Foster are well-known names on Broadway, two-time Tony Award winners and TV actors. Stokes Mitchell, who was inducted into the Theatre Hall of Fame, has won, or been nominated for, Tonys and other major awards, for such shows as “Kiss Me Kate,” “Man of La Mancha,” “Kiss of the Spider Woman,” “Ragtime,” “Jelly’s Last Jam,” “Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown,” and “Shuffle Along.”

Stokes Mitchell has also sung at many venues spanning jazz, opera, pops, country, and musical theater worlds.

Foster has appeared in such shows as “Anything Goes,” for which she won a Tony, “Shrek,” “Young Frankenstein,” “The Drowsy Chaperone,” “Little Women,” “Thoroughly Modern Millie” (another Tony Award), “Les Misérables,” “Annie,” “The Scarlet Pimpernel” and “Grease.” She has also appeared in several off-Broadway shows, solo events and on television including the “Gilmore Girls” and “Younger.”

As part of the entire weekend of events, there will be a Diva cocktail party with entertainment

by Avenue B, Thursday, July 5, and Perakos will also host a private dinner for Sun Valley Opera on Friday, July 6.

“With stars of this magnitude, we hope to sell enough tickets to ‘Salute to America’ to open the lawn for concertgoers this year,” Perakos said between a multitude of micromanaging phone calls.

“I think it’s going to be a one-off, over-the-top concert—a guaranteed experience people will never forget. Run, don’t walk, to get your tickets.”

Perakos admitted that after the whirlwind of his Tony and Gunnery school weekend, he is now “completely in the zone” for ‘Salute to America,’ “starring two of the greatest stars you can imagine, and my good friend, Craig Jessop,” the former conductor of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir from 1999-2008. Jessop will conduct the America Festival Chorus & Orchestra, which he founded in 2008, for the show at the Sun Valley Pavilion.

Perakos has a philosophy with legs: “If you stay focused, you can make your dreams come true.”

For tickets to the Diva Party and the Pavilion show, call (208) 622-2135, visit sunvalleyopera. com, sunvalley.ticketfly.com or purchase tickets at the Sun Valley Resort’s box office. tws

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Dr. John Medina, author of The New York Times’ bestseller “Brain Rules,” will deliver the keynote presentation to kick off the 2018 Sun Valley Wellness Festival at 6:30 p.m. Friday, June 29, at the Sun Valley Opera House.

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ump-start the journey to healthier living with the Sun Valley Wellness Festival, returning to the Wood River Valley for its 21st annual conference June 29 through July 2 at the Community School campus in Sun Valley. Considered one of the top wellness events in the United States, the festival will feature more than 15 high-profile speakers, workshops, classes, music and more.

“This is an exciting time for SVWF as we present this year’s event at a new time and centered from a new location,” said Andria Friesen, the new SVWF president. “In our previous two decades, the festival was held on Memorial weekend. This year, we enthusiastically move into the summer season and we also have a new and exciting location and partnership with the Community School in Sun Valley.”

Developmental molecular biologist Dr. John Medina will deliver the keynote presentation to kick off the 2018 Sun Valley Wellness Festival at 6:30 p.m. Friday, June 29, at the Sun Valley Opera House.

Divided into three parts, Medina’s keynote “Mindfulness, Nostalgia and the Human Brain” focuses on how external activities such as educational experiences and mindfulness training boost memory and processing speed. The author of The New York Times’ bestseller “Brain Rules,” Medina will also present “Attack of the Teenage Brain” at 11:15 a.m. on Saturday, June 30, in the school’s auditorium.

“Amid our new speaker selection process, we learned that brain health and gut health are the top two areas folks in this community are most interested in learning about today,” Friesen said. “We were fortunate in securing brain expert Dr. Medina as our keynote speaker and, additionally, we have nationally recognized gut doctor, Dr. Steven Gundry.”

In addition to Medina and Gundry, other featured speakers include Sharon Salzberg, Preethaji Krishna, Dr. James Doty, Warren Farrell, Susan Eirich, Jacob Glass, David Pond, Rabbi Naomi Levy, Molly Barker, Colleen McCann, Lynn Hankes, Dr. Devra Davis and Joan Borysenko.

“To be in our rural area and have access to these widely recognized presenters is an exceptional opportunity,” Friesen said. “For example, Warren Farrell, one of our featured speakers, has been chosen by the Financial Times as one of the world’s top 100 thought leaders, and by the Center for World Spirituality (in 2011) as one of the world’s spiritual leaders. Dr. Davis, another featured speaker, is a Nobel Prize winner. Our roster is content-driven and our speakers are world class.”

Community members and visitors can enjoy several free events throughout the festival. Join Toni Childs and Traci Ireland for a Gratitude Water Ceremony at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, June 28, on campus.

There will also be several free guided hikes with Amber Larna and guided meditations throughout the weekend with David Pond and the Oneness/O&O Academy from Boise.

“The Experience Hall is another aspect of the festival free and open to the public,” Friesen said. “It holds an array of wellness practitioners, vendors and products. Visitors will find everything from the latest in wellness technologies to rare crystals from around the world.

And Saturday evening, The Dance Commander Experience shall be on campus. It will be an energetic dance party outside and free to all.”

Passes and tickets for the Sun Valley Wellness Festival can be purchased online at sunvalleywellness.org, where a complete schedule of events is available. tws

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Funds Sought For Hailey Parade ‘Bucking Car’ Since the early 1980s, the grand finale of Hailey’s Days of the Old West Fourth of July Parade has been the “Bucking Car.” However, this tradition of over 35 years is in danger of being lost.

Last year was meant to be the last time the bucking car graced Main Street, due to wear and tear on the vehicle, but Hailey resident Lowell Thomas, owner of Classic Drivers in Ketchum, plans to squeeze one more year out of the current car and hopes The “Bucking Car” bounces down Main Street in Hailey during last year’s to raise funds to convert Fourth of July parade. Photo by Dana DuGan another vehicle into a bucker for next year’s parade.

Many different makes and models have bucked their way down Main Street over the past 35 years, according to Thomas. The current version is a 1972 Ford Thunderbird.

“The car was brought into my shop and we checked it out,” Thomas states in a recent news release. “The current model has been bouncing down Main Street for 12 years, bringing us smiles and laughter. These vehicles were not designed to take this kind of abuse, but there is another year of fun still left in this car.”

Thomas is looking for funds to help repair the current car and to buy another 1970s’ Ford car to convert into a bucker for the future.

“From a nickel to those $20 bills I do so like,” Thomas states. “Donations can be dropped off at my shop or at The Chamber office.”

For more information, call Thomas at Classic Drivers, (208) 928-7139. tws

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Ketchum To Host Event Featuring Dog Dock Jumping and Diving On Friday and Saturday, July 6 and 7, Ketchum will team up with DockDogs to host a two-day event downtown that showcases the amazing and entertaining athletic prowess of dogs of every shape and size. Competitive events include dogs chasing an object down a 40-foot dock and leaping as far as they can into a pool of water.

Other events include a vertical-jump contest and speed retrieval.

The action will be held on a blocked-off section of Washington Avenue between the Limelight Hotel and Forest Service Park. The event is free for spectators. Food, beverages, merchandise and music will also be part of the fun. Canine-related vendors should contact the city for information and guidelines for participation.

“This is all about getting the community and dog lovers to come downtown, have some fun and witness firsthand some of the amazing things dogs can do,” said Neil Bradshaw, Ketchum mayor. It’s a mix of “entertainment options for families and getting our dog-loving residents engaged in a fun, new way.”

DockDogs is an independent governing and sanctioning organization for the growing sport of canine dock jumping and other canine performance sports. The organization sponsors events in cities across the country and the growing popularity of the sport has given rise to clubs worldwide.

Competitors can register online at dockdogs.com. Registration is open until a week before the competition.

Handlers can also register at the event Friday night before competition begins and on Saturday morning beginning at 9 a.m.

Writers’ Conference Announces Open Lecture The Sun Valley Writers’ Conference, which will be held at the Sun Valley Resort from Friday, June 30, to Monday, July 3, has partnered with The Community Library in Ketchum for the third year. The library will host a free lecture before the start of the conference at 5 p.m. Thursday, July 19, in its newly remodeled Lecture Hall.

Novelist and Pulitzer Prize-winner Adam Johnson will speak and sign copies of his books after the talk.

Johnson, a professor of English with an emphasis in creative writing at Stanford University, is the founder of the Stanford Graphic Novel Project. Winner of a Whiting Award and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts and the American Academy in Berlin, he is the author of several books, including “Fortune Smiles,” the winner of the 2015 National Book Award, and the novel “The Orphan Master’s Son,” which was awarded a 2013 Pulitzer Prize.

Johnson’s fiction has appeared in the periodicals Esquire, GQ, Playboy, Harper’s Magazine, Granta, Tin House and Best American Short Stories. His work has been translated into more than 30 languages.

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NASBY CARRANZA Student shines her light

BY EMILEE MAE STRUSS

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asby Carranza, of Hailey, lives her life according to two main ideals: “Your past does not define your future” and “love yourself.” Carranza, a rising senior at Wood River High school, is known for her lifestyle of splash and color. She is involved in soccer, cheerleading, track, figure skating and gymnastics. Her biggest goal is to compete in crossfit.

“I love the intensity, and people pour their hearts out every day and train really hard,” said Carranza. “And they are so strong—it’s really inspiring.”

Carranza is also involved in Art Club and Idaho Drug-Free Youth, and will take several Advanced Placement classes next school year, including AP Psychology, AP Art and AP College English.

“AP Art is harder than you think,” Carranza said. “You have to finish 12 paintings by May and I’m a very detail-oriented person, so it will take me a long time to complete the assignments.”

Upon graduation, Carranza hopes to attend the University of Idaho or Washington State as a dietician major, rather than her previous plan to work with animals.

“Last year I realized I didn’t want to be a veterinarian, and at that time I happened to be

eating,” Carranza said. “It was as simple as that. I realized I wanted to be a dietitian because I enjoy preparing food and learning about healthy food alternatives.”

Carranza enjoys helping her friends with meal plans and strives to live a healthy lifestyle.

This summer Carranza is working at Town Square Tavern in Ketchum as a hostess, and selling raffle tickets for a 2018 Ford Raptor to raise money for The Drug Coalition, a nonprofit in Hailey.

Carranza is excited to “shine her light” on a bigger world upon graduation next spring.

“I want to let people know that I have never had a perfect life,” Carranza said. “What motivates me is that there is a bright future, and even if you’re sad, that could just be for one day. It could be completely different tomorrow.”

Her biggest inspiration is her mother, who reminds her on the sad days and when she feels lonely, “You have me and your brother and we’re here for you.”

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Editor’s Note: Anyone who would like to recommend a Blaine County School District student for The Weekly Sun’s “Student Spotlight” feature should contact Emilee Struss at emilee.struss@gmail.com.

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Accidents Abound Valleywide Throughout the Valley, accidents are occurring due to an increase in vehicles on the streets and people unfamiliar with the area.

Two separate rollover accidents occurred at opposite ends of Blaine County on Wednesday, June 20. Deputies from the Blaine County Sheriff’s Office responded to both accidents.

The first crash occurred at approximately 1:38 p.m. on State Highway 75, about a mile north of Smiley Creek Lodge. Kevin Harter, 19, of Ketchum, was driving too fast to make the corner, southbound on Hwy. 75. His back wheels fishtailed off the road while attempting to brake, forcing the vehicle off the road and rolling approximately two times before again sliding off the roadway. The vehicle hit a bank, sending it airborne and spinning approximately 180 degrees, coming to rest on its wheels approximately 50 feet off the roadway. Harter had no passengers and was wearing a seatbelt. He was treated for minor cuts and transported by Ketchum Fire and Rescue to St. Luke’s Wood River Medical Center, where he was later released. Harter’s Nissan Infiniti received extensive damage and was towed from the scene.

The second crash occurred at approximately 2:25 p.m. on Punkin Center Road approximately one mile south of Byington Way, near Gannett. Faviola Ruiz, 23, of Bellevue, was driving a grey 2007 Mercury Marquis with her two minor children, ages 4 years and 10 months. Ruiz was reportedly looking over her shoulder into the backseat when her vehicle went off the edge of the road. Ruiz attempted to regain control but the vehicle rolled. Ruiz was wearing a seatbelt and both children were in car seats in the back of the car. No one was injured and Ruiz’s vehicle was towed from the scene.

On Friday, June 22, a vehicle pursuit occurred at 9:30 p.m. An Idaho State Police trooper was following a silver 2011 Volkswagen Jetta north out of Bellevue going about 26 mph in the southbound lane. Victor Torres-Vargas, 32, the driver, of Hailey, refused to pull over. He was seen putting his hands—with his middle finger extended— out of his sunroof. A sheriff’s vehicle, parked along the highway near Woodside, was struck by Torres-Vargas as he continued driving north. Finally, a spike strip was laid down on the highway near S. 4th Ave. and Main Street in Hailey.

“He was extremely intoxicated,” Harkins said of Torres-Vargas.

Torres-Vargas was eventually arrested for attempting to elude police, which carries an automatic revocation of driving privileges.

Two more rollovers occurred: On Friday, at Timmerman junction, a Mountain Home man, Steven Short, had minor injuries and was treated at the scene. The other occurred at 12:23 p.m. Saturday, June 23. Perri Gardiner, 32, of Twin Falls, was southbound when a bee flew in to her Ford Explorer. Gardiner is allergic to bees, and tried to swat it away, said Blaine County Sheriff Steve Harkins. She lost control, overcorrected, and rolled the vehicle before ending up back on the highway and sliding about 60 feet southbound on the driver’s side of the vehicle.

Gardiner was transported to St. Luke’s Wood River, where she was treated and released. There were no citations issued in either case.

Alumni Reunion Planned At Community School The Community School All-Alumni Reunion will take place from 4-6 p.m. Thursday, July 5, at the school’s Trail Creek Campus. Enjoy wine, beer, appetizers, and fun company and conversation. Significant others and family members are welcome.

RSVP to bit.ly/CSalumnireunion18, or contact Liz Kantor, Events & Alumni Relations manager, at lkantor@ communityschool.org, or call (208) 622-3960, ext. 165.

Reclaim Idaho Camper To Visit Hailey Luke Mayville of Reclaim Idaho and the Medicaid Expansion camper are on a Vote Yes tour of each of Idaho’s 44 counties in the distinctive green camper. This week, Mayville will be at the Hailey Farmers’ Market at 2 p.m. Thursday, June 28, to talk with people about the fiscal and community advantages of Medicaid Expansion Earlier this year, Reclaim Idaho collected the required 56,192 signatures needed to place the measure on the ballot in November. Passage of the bill would close the health coverage gap for approximately 62,000 Idahoans.

NAMI-Wood River Valley Will Present At National Conference The Wood River Valley affiliate of the National Alliance on Mental Illness will be a presenter at the NAMI National Conference in New Orleans, La., June 27-30. The conference features more than 75 workshops on ‘best practices’ for affiliate members from across the country to learn from. Topics will range from “Policy and Advocacy” to “Living Well with a Mental Health Condition.”

Christina Cernansky, NAMI-WRV executive director, and Amber Leyba-Castle, intern, will discuss the organization’s teen support program called the Bluebirds. The program is held at the middle and high schools once a week to offer support and team-building exercises through activities such as creating vision boards, walking dogs, skiing, carving pumpkins, and decorating cookies. This activity-based support group is an anonymous, safe space for teens to come together and talk about their trials and tribulations as they transition into adulthood.

“We started Bluebirds hoping to shed light on how we all have ups and downs,” Leyba-Castle said. “Sometimes we have ‘blue days,’ but then we will remember that we can fly.’ We also loved the song ‘Zip-a-Dee-DooDah’ and its message that we should remember that plenty of sunshine will be coming our way.”

Blaine County Education Foundation ‘Back To School’ Campaign The Blaine County Education Foundation and The Advocates are partnering with several businesses to provide back-to-school supplies for students in need in Blaine County.

“With over 1,400 students receiving free and reduced lunch programs in Blaine County School District, a family living in poverty may find it difficult to choose between school supplies and basic necessities like food,” said Kristy Heitzman, executive director for the Blaine County Education Foundation.

To help families in need, BCEF will purchase supplies ranging from backpacks, paper and pencils to calculus calculators for students depending on the school and grade that the student will be attending in Blaine County School District this 2018/2019 school year. This program has provided over 300 backpacks to students in need for the past few years.

Families should register at supportbcef.org or call Heitzman at (208) 578-5449 by Saturday, July 14.

Community members can help out by volunteering to assemble backpacks in August. People can also donate to BCEF for the “Back to School” campaign at supportbcef.org. Contact Heitzman for either service.

Nasby Carranza. Photo courtesy of Nasby Carranza

NASBY CARRANZA Student shines her light

BY EMILEE MAE STRUSS

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asby Carranza, of Hailey, lives her life according to two main ideals: “Your past does not define your future” and “love yourself.” Carranza, a rising senior at Wood River High school, is known for her lifestyle of splash and color. She is involved in soccer, cheerleading, track, figure skating and gymnastics. Her biggest goal is to compete in crossfit.

“I love the intensity, and people pour their hearts out every day and train really hard,” said Carranza. “And they are so strong—it’s really inspiring.”

Carranza is also involved in Art Club and Idaho Drug-Free Youth, and will take several Advanced Placement classes next school year, including AP Psychology, AP Art and AP College English.

“AP Art is harder than you think,” Carranza said. “You have to finish 12 paintings by May and I’m a very detail-oriented person, so it will take me a long time to complete the assignments.”

Upon graduation, Carranza hopes to attend the University of Idaho or Washington State as a dietician major, rather than her previous plan to work with animals.

“Last year I realized I didn’t want to be a veterinarian, and at that time I happened to be

eating,” Carranza said. “It was as simple as that. I realized I wanted to be a dietitian because I enjoy preparing food and learning about healthy food alternatives.”

Carranza enjoys helping her friends with meal plans and strives to live a healthy lifestyle.

This summer Carranza is working at Town Square Tavern in Ketchum as a hostess, and selling raffle tickets for a 2018 Ford Raptor to raise money for The Drug Coalition, a nonprofit in Hailey.

Carranza is excited to “shine her light” on a bigger world upon graduation next spring.

“I want to let people know that I have never had a perfect life,” Carranza said. “What motivates me is that there is a bright future, and even if you’re sad, that could just be for one day. It could be completely different tomorrow.”

Her biggest inspiration is her mother, who reminds her on the sad days and when she feels lonely, “You have me and your brother and we’re here for you.”

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Editor’s Note: Anyone who would like to recommend a Blaine County School District student for The Weekly Sun’s “Student Spotlight” feature should contact Emilee Struss at emilee.struss@gmail.com.

This Student Spotlight brought to you by the Blaine County School District

Sagebrush Soiree To Be Held The Sawtooth Society will present its annual fundraiser, the Sagebrush Soiree, at 6 p.m. Saturday, July 28, at a private home on Shaw Mesa Drive south of Stanley.

This year’s event theme, “Building Tomorrow’s Advocates Today,” will focus on the important role of teaching youth to preserve, protect and enhance the Sawtooth National Recreation Area.

The Sagebrush Soiree will include a silent and live auction, cocktails, hors d’oeuvres, and a sit-down dinner.

The live auction will include vacation packages, unique recreational activities and river trips, wines and artwork, along with items created solely for the Soiree.

Our mission is to inspire, engage, educate, and empower every student.

A much-anticipated summer event, the Sagebrush Soiree presents an opportunity to learn more about the Sawtooth Society’s efforts in protecting, preserving and enhancing the SNRA, with Society members, supporters and friends. For tickets and information, contact the Sawtooth Society’s director, Gary O’Malley, at (208) 7212909 or gary@sawtoothsociety.org.

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COLUMN NO BONES ABOUT IT THE “WEEKLY” FISHING REPORT FOR JUNE 27 - JULY 3, FROM PICABO ANGLER

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ive on in—the fishing is fine! Anglers are experiencing the best of the best right now as all our area waters become fishable.

The hatches are percolating on all our freestone streams, and as the water drops, more and more fishing is becoming available.

The Green Drakes have arrived on the Big Wood. This hot-weather bug is best fished in the heat of the day and well into the afternoon hours.

The spinner falls happen early morning before the sun hits the water. Look for the spinners flying over the fastest water. If you are fishing the Drake in the morning and see this activity, consider taking a dry-fly Green Drake and soaking it. Fish it in the pool below this fast water with a strike indicator. If you are fishing the Emergence in the afternoon, try the Colorado Green Drake, or the Green Drake Cripple.

The South Fork of the Boise is fishing well, although day-today. Expect to see Salmon Flies on the lowest stretches. The Mormon Crickets are out. The big fish will eat a few of these. If you see this, try a Royal Stimulator to imitate them.

The Caddis action in the evening can be off the charts and a variety of smaller Stone Flies are great to imitate, as well. The flows are still at boating levels.

Silver Creek is fishing very well. The Damsels have come out early and hot afternoons have been good with Blue Damsel imitations.

The Baby Hoppers are growing fast and trying a small Hopper on a windy day is not a bad idea. Ants remain great flies to fish, as well as PMD and Callibaetis. Look for Baetis if you are fishing early and late.

The Upper Lost may fish well in places. This spotty fishing can be good, but you have to seek it out.

The volume in our freestone rivers is still substantial. With that said, be safe out there. Continue to leave your dog at home until we see more reasonable flows. Fish with a tight wading belt—and a friend!

Finally, a quick word on Picabo Angler guides and guiding.

We want to be sure that everyone knows they can always ask one of our guides for help or advice on the river. We strive to honor the non-guided angler’s space and fun. We will not trespass, or be pushy around other anglers.

Your fun is as important to us as our own guests. So if you see our hat on the water, please say hello. We’re here to help!

Happy fishing, everyone!

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CAN I LOVE MY DOG TOO MUCH?

BY FRAN JEWELL

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he media is doing an excellent job of making “loving our dog too much” a completely acceptable and desirable behavior. Just yesterday I saw an advertisement for a dog harness that had a denim dress as the top part of the harness. Cute, you think? Maybe. To me, this is the epitome of loving our dogs too much and turning them into our “children.” Dogs are not people. They are an extraordinary species to adore for what they are, including the fact that dogs do not feel the same way we do or experience life as we do. It is an honor to have them in our homes and enjoy them for their differences. It is not honoring them to turn them into furry humans.

All of the pet-product websites refer to dog owners as pet parents. While “parenting” a dog in some regard may be descriptive of owning a dog, the idea that a dog is a child is, frankly, not healthy for the dog. A good parent provides boundaries and direction, while providing a trusting and loving environment.

Parents have experienced many of the destructive things in life and will guide their children away from them. However, the term pet parent insinuates that we treat our dogs just like humans, yet it encourages us to let our dogs do whatever they want, sleep on the furniture, tell us when to feed them or when they want a treat and how many treats they want. We indulge them selflessly without understanding

I am so mean to my dogs. I make them sleep in beds too small for them! Photo by Fran Jewell

that the indulgence is harmful to them, just like it is for spoiled children.

When we honor our dogs for what they are, we strive to understand what makes them happy. Happiness for a dog does not come from endless freedom.

In fact, it comes from knowing what the boundaries are.

Building trust with a dog is essential for its happiness. If you are a figure in a dog’s life that it knows will protect it, and what the rules are, that dog is so much more peaceful. Dogs that don’t trust you to be their leader usually express themselves with anxiety, such as separation anxiety, demanding attention and affection, excessive barking, ag-

gression, excessive jumping on people, which literally is a dog saying “Tell me what to do!!”

What we may interpret as high energy is many times a form of anxiety. Is anxiety what we want for our dogs?

Being a leader to a dog can be difficult because many of us derive personal pleasure from pushy dogs that demand our attention. We find some pleasure in knowing they want to be with us every moment, such as crying at the door to go with us when we leave. We feel loved by them if they are touching or sitting on us all the time. Indeed, sometimes this is real affection. However, sometimes it is a cry for discipline and leadership.

If we can realize that building trust with a dog comes from being a leader and giving loving guidance, and setting rules, then our dogs will be truly happy. Sometimes we have to ask ourselves, “Whose needs are we meeting when we nurture dependence, and not independence?” or, more simply put, when we spoil our dog?

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 positivepuppy. com or call (208) 578-1565.

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WALK LIKE A CAMEL

BY LESLIE REGO

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illiam Hamilton Gibson, an American naturalist in the late 1800s, wrote that the truism for the woods is that everything comes to the patient ones who wait. Gibson also quoted Thoreau, suggesting that one must “…walk like a camel … for the camel is said to be the only beast which ruminates when walking.”

It is glorious to hike from an open sunny hillside into a shaded forest. In our area, most of the heavily forested walks are filled with Douglas fir, which can grow quite tall and broad, especially on south-facing slopes. Shady glens abound within these areas and, upon entering, it is good to begin sauntering. It feels as though there are secretive, jewel-like spots all through the forest. Quiet dainties grow in the deep shade. One such gem is the rock clematis, a member of the buttercup family. Most members of this family enjoy the sun, but some, like the rock clematis, seek the shade. This lovely plant has soft lavender sepals and toothed leaves. It grows as a woody climbing vine.

The Greek name, Clematis columbiana, comes from the Greek word klema, which signifies a vine branch that depends

Leslie Rego, “Lavender Sepals,” watercolor.

on other plants for support. The stalks of the leaves wrap around twigs and branches. The side of the stalk that touches the foreign support slows in growth and will continue to wrap several times around the object it encounters.

The other side grows normally.

I have seen the vine rising quite high and running in length for 10 to 15 feet.

In the early morning the velvet

shade of the forest enriches the soft purples of the flowers, making them appear regal. The vine adjusts itself to the undergrowth, climbing over fallen logs and around several different plants as it recedes up the mountainside.

I don’t think I am exactly ruminating, but I am sauntering, enjoying every moment as I peer through the shadows to find the gently glowing sepals.

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

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GUEST COMMENTARY MICHELLE STENNETT

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discovered who my biological parents were and located surviving family who have now emhe word “relinquish” is a rather cold le- braced me fully. One of them is my biological galistic term, usually followed by the mother’s son, a brother born 10 years after I was. words “rights” or “possessions.” A few I am filled with joy. weeks ago, the Superior Court What is hard for me to grasp now of San Francisco honored my is the record that, in court, my birth request for copies of the procemother, in person, “relinquished” dures granting my adoption/reme to the care of the CHS until a linquishment long ago. suitable adoption happened. Later, I have led a rich life, due when the court approved my adopmainly to my having grown up tion, the Giffords saw that fact and with the most loving family one knew that my biological mother could imagine. My adoptive had certainly held me in her arms parents, Helen and Ted Gifford, and had been alive when I was “regave me affectionate support linquished” to that institution. So that helped me survive life’s why the fiction that she was not tragedies and disappointments. alive?

They and my larger family never I swear that, when I was 29, the made me feel “adopted.” last words my mother Helen spoke Why I didn’t choose to learn to me when she lay dying were, JoEllen Collins—a longtime about my biological histo- resident of the Wood River “Honey, there is something I’ve ry years ago was threefold: I Valley—is an Idaho Press Club always wanted to tell you.” A puzadored my family, knowing I award-winning columnist, a zle to me then, I now think that she was in the right place, I was told teacher, writer, fabric artist, wanted to reveal her secret, to let that my young birth mother had choir member and unabashedly me know that somewhere (though died in childbirth, and, further- proud grandma known as “Bibi remotely) I might be able to locate more, records of adoptions were Jo.” another woman to love me. “irrevocably” sealed in CaliforSome adoption experts have posnia. A search seemed moot. ited that perhaps that was what new However, from records provided to me 10 years parents were told to tell their adoptees so those ago by the Children’s Home Society (CHS) of children wouldn’t think they weren’t worthy of California—minus names of people or places—I keeping, but I find that odd. Certainly my parents sensed that my biological mother had not died, gave me enough love to negate that thought. So but had given me up. Since both of the parents why? What a secret to keep—just another burden who raised me are gone, I can’t confirm what they for Helen, who never bore babies but opened our actually knew. Were they told by the CHS that doors to others, two adopted and three or four she my birth mother had died, a statement I can well cared for after their family tragedies required her imagine given to prospective adoptive parents in mothering. the dark ages of negative judgments toward “Illegitimate children”?

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BY HARRY WEEKES

t is the middle of June and I am sitting on a deck overlooking Long Island Sound. A double-crested cormorant pops up, its sleek black head as much aquatic reptile as bird, and the rumination begins. Over the next couple of days, I both see and remember cormorants.

There are the birds hunting along the granitic outcroppings. Cormorants always bring their catch to the surface to eat them. This is invariably interesting, particularly when the fish is one of the flat ones from the bottom, seemingly much wider than the neck. The bird fights with the fish, constantly adjusting it until it is able to engulf it whole. As comical as the adjustment and surface struggle is the expansion of everything on the bird to accommodate the fish—its once streamlined head is now completely fish-shaped.

There is the bird at the end of the sea wall, keeping an uncomfortable eye on my wife and me as we swim toward it. Eventually, the bird can’t take it, and explodes off the rock, galloping across the water, fighting to get into the air.

There are the birds right where you would paint them, hunched, sleeping, dark silhouettes lined up on the powerlines, the perfect foreground to a flaming sunset.

There are the birds of memory. One of my favorite childhood books was “Ping,” a story of a wayward duckling struggling to get back on his boat in the Yangtze River. At one point, he hooks up with a Chinese cormorant fisherman, whose trained birds with silver necklaces return to the surface with their catch.

And there is something else, too—something that I have allowed—which is for birds to connect me to things. Yes, it is to connect to the world around me. To wonder what types of fish these birds catch, and where they go in the winter, and to wonder if the birds in front of me are the same ones from previous years, or relatives, or new birds entirely. It is also to let birds highlight and challenge my thinking, to connect me to how I think.

Cormorants. If someone had asked me to free associate with these birds, the following would surface. Ungainly birds. Prehistoric. Reptilian.

Double-crested cormorant. Photo by Mdf, accessed via Wikimedia Commons

Awkward. They struggle to fly, need to dry their wings, and are, by most accounts, weird.

And all of this I think… for no obvious reason and counter to all of my direct observations. Cormorants move through the water with a grace that rivals otters, hunting and CATCHING fish with their mouths. No matter how much you laugh at or criticize their aquatic, pre-flight pedal pumping, the end result is FLYING. This bird has the ability to land and SLEEP on a wire the diameter of a magic marker. For all the birds, this trio—flying, swimming, and perching—is a trifecta very few can do, and even fewer with the consistency and mastery of the cormorant.

Stereotypes and biases are like this—strange habits and simplified patterns of thought, often based on incomplete pieces of information, and frequently antagonistic to and barriers against our deeper understanding.

Cormorants produce less oil than other aquatic birds, which results in them needing to air-dry their feathers. Their characteristic open-wing display is often thought to indicate a primitive, even “stupid” evolutionary holdover. We are just starting to realize that after 30 million years, perhaps this lack of oil serves a different purpose—it lets cormorants stay under water to hunt longer. In other words, they produce just the right amount of oil.

There is an ancient wisdom in birds and in the biology around us. In my experience, I just need to take a little more time to appreciate it.

Harry Weekes is the founder and head of school at The Sage School in Hailey. He has lived in the Wood River Valley and within five miles of the

Michelle Stennett. Photo courtesy of Idaho Democratic Caucus

IDAHO NEEDS STRONG BORDERS TO PROTECT OUR PUBLIC WATERWAYS

BY SEN. MICHELLE STENNETT IDAHO SENATE DEMOCRATIC LEADER

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story broke this month about a boat being stopped at the Washington-Idaho border. At first blush, it might seem like an odd event to draw news coverage. However, it wasn’t the boat the inspectors were interested in—it’s what was on the boat that made them nervous.

What they found on that boat were zebra mussels. Inspectors are also on the lookout for quagga mussels. Collectively, we refer to both species of mussels as “invasive” species. These invaders have hard shells, multiply by the hundreds of thousands, and are generally no bigger than a fingernail. We must strengthen our state’s borders to make sure they never take root in our public waterways.

Believe it or not, Russia and Ukraine do pose a big threat to Idaho—the zebra and quagga mussels trace their origins to waterways in those countries. Over the past few decades, they have made their way to the United States via overseas cargo ships.

They first surfaced in the Great Lakes and have steadily moved west. To date, Idaho has remained “mussel-free,” thanks in part to the diligent men and women who protect our borders at inspection stations. They are trained to search and sanitize boats that enter our state. These mussels could be devastating to Idaho.

Just how devastating? One estimate puts the annual price tag for dealing with these invasive species at $90 million. That’s every year. That’s just Idaho. These mussels can attach themselves to just about anything—dams, hydroelectric gears, irrigation systems. They can destroy beaches and shorelines. If you fish, farm or boat, you are a potential target.

Being a rural legislator representing Camas, Gooding, Lincoln and Blaine counties, that means just about every one of my constitu-

ents is at risk.

To date, zebra or quagga mussels have not entered Idaho, Washington, Oregon, Alberta, or British Columbia, but they are present in many other Western states. Diligent border inspections and an informed, cooperative public are critical to protecting those borders from aquatic invaders.

I recently spoke with inspectors along the Idaho-Montana border.

They told me about the frustrations boaters experience when stopped. However, when these inspectors explain the threat invasive species pose to Idaho, most boaters understand. The problem is, they can only do so much.

None of our border checkpoints are open 24 hours. Many boaters enter our state after dark, without being inspected. Furthermore, the federal government needs to take charge of foreign waterways where the mussels are already present. The feds have jurisdiction over lakes Mead, Powell and Havasu—three of the most mussel-infested waterways in the West. Every boat coming out of those contaminated waterways should be inspected before they leave the shore—let alone cross into another state.

As someone who represents rural Idaho counties, I cringe at the thought of these things getting into irrigation pipes or hydroelectric machinery. The price tag is just as nerve-wracking.

Summer boating in Idaho is a generations-long tradition. But please understand the threat Idaho faces and support our border inspectors. You don’t want to make the news as the person who brought invasive species into Idaho.

Sen. Michelle Stennett is the Senate Democratic Leader. She represents Lincoln, Camas, Gooding and Blaine counties in the Idaho State Legislature.

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he new tax code limits the deduction of state and local property taxes, as well as income or sales taxes, to a total of $10,000. When the tax reform legislation was put into law at the beginning of the year, some experts felt that it could have a negative impact on the luxury housing market.

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According to Capital Economics, “The impact on expensive homes could be detrimental, with a limit on the MID raising taxes for those that itemize.”

According to Mark Zandi of Moody’s Analytics, “The impact on house prices is much greater for higher-priced homes, especially in parts of the country where incomes are higher and there are, thus, a disproportionate number of itemizers, and where homeowners have big mortgages and property tax bills.”

The National Association of Realtors (NAR) predicted price declines in “high-cost, higher tax areas” because of the tax changes.

They forecast a depreciation of 6.2 percent in New Jersey and 4.8 percent in Washington, D.C., and New York.

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Here are a few metrics to consider before we write off the luxury market: 1. According to the NAR’s latest Existing Home Sales Report, here is the percent change in sales from last year: • Home sales between $500,000 – $750,000 are up 11.9 percent • Home sales between $750,000 – $1M are up 16.8 percent • Home sales over $1M are up 26.7 percent 2. In a report from Trulia, it was revealed that searches for “premium” homes as a percentage of all searches increased from 38.4 percent in the fourth quarter of 2017 to 41.4 percent in the first quarter of 2018.

3. According to an article from Bloomberg: “Median home values nationally rose 8 percent in March compared with a year earlier, while neighborhoods of San Francisco and San Jose, California, have increased more than 25 percent. Prices in affluent areas in Delaware and New York, such as the Hamptons, also surged more than 20 percent.”

Bottom line Aaron Terrazas, Zillow’s senior economist, probably summed up real estate’s luxury market the best: “We are seeing the opposite of what was expected. We have certainly not seen the doomsday predictions play out.”

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NEWS IN BRIEF Ballet Sun Valley Presents ‘Day For Dance Education’ For Aspiring Young Dancers As a part of its 2018 festival, July 17-19, Ballet Sun Valley will hold a Day for Dance Education on July 19. To be considered for a class, students must complete an application by July 15, which can be found at balletsunvalley.com.

This special program is in addition to the evening performances held July 17 and 18 at the Sun Valley Pavilion that will feature top international dancers performing works by celebrated choreographers.

Several of the dancers from the world’s preeminent dance companies performing at Ballet Sun Valley will also instruct free dance classes for aspiring young dancers.

A committee of dance instructors will select the students to be invited to participate. There will be classes in three levels of ballet experience. There will also be a class in advanced variations on pointe, and a class on jazz dance. Each selected student will also receive one non-transferrable Pavilion terrace seat for one of the two Ballet Sun Valley performances.

For more information, contact Ally Weihe at education@balletsunvalley.com or call (208) 720-8770.

Even kids in buggies get in the act during the Days of the Old West Fourth of July Parade in Hailey. Photo by Dana DuGan

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he Wood River Valley plans to celebrate the Fourth of July with nonstop events and merriment.

From Hailey to Sun Valley, enjoy happenings for all ages and interests.

The Hailey Days of the Old West commemorates this historic holiday with a dynamic range of activities, including a children’s carnival, parade, RiverFest, the Sawtooth Rangers rodeo, and fireworks.

Start the day off with a pancake breakfast at the Upper Big Wood River Grange Hall, hosted by Blaine County 4-H. Afterwards, walk it off with the Tutus & Tennis Shoes 5K Fun Run & Walk at 9 a.m., starting at Sun Valley Ballet Studio and benefitting the dance company.

The famous Hailey Days of the Old West Parade will see over 80 enthusiastic parade participants wend their way down Hailey’s Main Street to delight and thrill the crowd. The parade will begin at noon and finish by 1:30 p.m.

Wood River Land Trust’s RiverFest will follow the parade.

The festivities will commence around 2 p.m. at Lions Park in Hailey. The free afternoon event runs until 5 p.m. and is perfect for families and kids of all ages. Enjoy food, music featuring the Celtic rock band Swagger, face-painting, educational nature programs and more. New this year, attendees can enjoy a Beer Garden from Sawtooth Brewery.

Because of the popularity of this event, attendees are asked to ride a bike or walk to the event, if possible. For more information about RiverFest or to volunteer or donate, visit woodriverlandtrust.org.

Every year since 1947, the Sawtooth Rangers Riding Club has held an exciting professional rodeo over the Fourth of

Up A Creek will play at the post-parade bash, RiverFest, at Lions Park, accessed from Bullion Street in west Hailey. Photo courtesy of Wood River Land Trust

July weekend. This annual tradition features some of the best riders and stock in the country and takes place at the Hailey rodeo park. Pre-event activities will start at 6:30 p.m., with the rodeo beginning at 7:30 p.m.

Tickets are on sale now at the Hailey Visitor Information and Welcome Center and Atkinsons’ Market locations and will be available onsite.

A classic Fourth of July Fireworks Extravaganza will conclude Hailey’s festivities. As an added bonus, KECH 95.3 will broadcast music timed with the fireworks display.

“The City of Hailey will proudly present an incredible Fourth of July Fireworks Extravaganza that is simply spectacular,” said Mary Austin Crofts, Hailey Chamber executive director. “What a way to celebrate a fabulous Four th of July.”

Catch the action at dusk in the skies over Hailey, around 9:30

p.m. For more information contact The Chamber of Hailey and the Wood River Valley at haileyidaho.com or (208) 788-3484.

Ketchum will celebrate the holiday with a free concert in Town Square featuring Victoria Vox. A singer/songwriter and ukulele player, Vox has played around the country for years, and has been featured on the front cover of Ukulele Magazine and The Wall Street Journal. Kiana Chapman will open the evening at 5:30 p.m., with Vox on the mic from 6-7:30 p.m.

At the Sun Valley Resort, visitors and locals can see Sun Valley on Ice with headliners Maia and Alex Shibutani at 9:30 p.m. Fireworks will light up the sky over Dollar Mountain after the performance. Visit sunvalley.com to learn more about the event.

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9:30AM TO 1:30PM / BOTANICAL GARDEN / KETCHUM From the deserts to the high mountains, from spring through fall, central Idaho abounds in wildflowers. Explore the natural beauty with Sawtooth Botanical Garden and Idaho Native Plant Society. The exact location of the walk will be a surprise, as location depends on what areas are at their peak. Wildflower enthusiasts Jeanne Cassell and Lisa Horton will lead the walk.

Wildflower Walks are free and happen rain or shine. Bring appropriate outerwear, sturdy walking shoes, water, sunscreen, a hat and lunch. Carpooling is encouraged. Meet at 9:30 a.m. at Sawtooth Botanical Garden, located on Highway 75 and Gimlet Road 4 miles south of Ketchum. Visit sbgarden.org or call (208) 726-9358 for details.

DISCOVERY CLUB WEDNESDAY JUNE 27 10-11AM / BOTANICAL GARDEN / KETCHUM Sawtooth Botanical Garden invites children ages 4-8 to join them this summer for Discovery Club. Similar to Story Time at the library, these one-hour, drop-in sessions are free with no need to register in advance.

Each week will feature a different theme, such as “Worms,” “Fruits & Seeds” or “Observing Our World,” to be accompanied by stories, activities and exploration of the Garden. Discovery Club will run on Wednesdays throughout the summer. For more information, visit sbgarden.org or call (208) 726-9358. SBG is located at 11 Gimlet Road, 4 miles south of Ketchum.

WICKED WEDNESDAYS WEDNESDAY JUNE 27 6:30PM / THE WICKED SPUD / HAILEY Head to The Spud for a weekly concert series that raises money for nonprofits throughout the Valley.

Mingle with friends while enjoying talented local musicians perform, and enjoy food from the palapa.

For details about the performance, call (208) 788-0009.

SUICIDE TALK – LOTM WED JUNE 27 & FRI JUNE 29 6:30-8PM / LIGHT ON THE MOUNTAINS / VALLEY Light on the Mountains Spiritual Center will host a talk on suicide and why life matters, with Rev. Jill Iris. For more information, email revjill@lightonthemountains.org.

‘WOODY GUTHRIE’S AMERICAN SONG’ WED JUNE 27-SUN JULY 15 VARIOUS TIMES / LIBERTY THEATRE / HAILEY Company of Fools will begin its 23rd season of theatre with “Woody Guthrie’s American Song,” running through July 15 at the Liberty Theatre in Hailey. An ensemble musical based on the celebrated singer-songwriter’s folk music and writings, “American Song” is directed by Kent Thompson with musical direction by R.L. Rowsey.

Conceived and adapted by Peter Glazer with orchestrations and vocal arrangements by Jeff Waxman, “American Song” honors one of the fathers of the folk-song protest movement. The cast features actors Andrew Alburger, Chris Carwithen and Karen Nelsen, NYC-based actor Tess Worstell, last seen in COF’s “Grey Gardens,” and Los Angeles-based actor Matt Musgrove, who will make his COF debut. Production staff includes lighting design by K.O. Ogilvie, costume design by Maria Gerhardt and scenic design by Company of Fools’ resident scenic designer, Joe Lavigne.

Tickets may be purchased online at sunvalleycenter.org, by phone at (208) 578-9122 or at the Liberty Theatre box office starting one hour before curtain. COF’s box office is located at the Liberty Theatre, 110 N. Main Street in Hailey, with hours from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday through Friday. All seats are reserved.

HAILEY FARMERS’ MARKET THURSDAY JUNE 28 2-6PM / E. CARBONATE STREET / HAILEY The Hailey Farmers’ Market is held on the west side of Main Street, between Galena and Carbonate Street. Vendors offer a great variety of fresh produce, prepared foods and crafts. Fresh Bucks are accepted. For more information visit wrfarmersmarket.org.

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Aging And Dental Health

BY DR. ROBERT CUNNINGHAM, DDS

Q. My mom is in her seventies and seems to be having more dental problems than in the past. Why is this and what can be done for her?

A. What we are facing today with our elderly is that more of our patients have some or most of their teeth, while Grandma wore dentures. She may not have worn her dentures. She may have complained that they hurt. She may have complained that she couldn’t chew with the darned things. Or, on rare occasions, she wore them and didn’t complain, thinking it was just her lot in life because she was old.

BUT, today, older patients with teeth are faced with significant issues: • Gum recession and sensitivity.

• Gum line decay on multiple teeth.

• More cavities due to coordination problems and lack of motivation to brush and floss.

• A bite that doesn’t “fit” due to missing teeth that have not been replaced.

• Darkening of the teeth for multiple reasons.

• Painful gums or teeth with undiagnosed abscesses.

• Dry mouth due to various aging disorders and medications.

Fortunately, all of these issues have solutions. Frequent dental visits and having a plan is the key to a comfortable, problem-free mouth. We customize our care depending on our patient’s needs. We have patients who see us the old standard “every six months,” but many of our other patients are seen every three to four months. A few are seen monthly or every two months.

As with medical care, the best course is early detection and prevention.

Robert Cunningham, DDS 120 N. Second Ave. #202 Ketchum, ID 83340 208-726-3457 Dr. Cunningham is an honors graduate from the USC School of Dentistry. He has practiced dental excellence in Ketchum for 20 years. For a complete list of professional qualifications, contact our office by phone or email at cunninghamdds@yahoo.com.

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ince 2013, Local Food Alliance has worked to educate, connect and collaborate with farmers, businesses, organizations and individuals to bring more locally and regionally grown food to the Wood River Valley. As a backbone organization, we help coordinate and cultivate our local food movement to enhance the physical, economic and environmental health of our community.

As we work to expand our network and strengthen our impact, we invite you to take a seat at The Elevated Table! The Wood River Valley’s premiere farm-to-table experience, these special dinners held on the second Friday of July, August and September on three different Bellevue farms will raise critical funds to help support our efforts.

The Elevated Table features four gourmet courses prepared by talented local chefs and served at a long table on a picturesque farm. Seated with friends and the farmers who produce the very food on your plate, savor the unparalleled taste of ultra-fresh seasonal produce and pasture-raised meats. Each course is paired with a regional wine to highlight the terroir of our foodshed.

The first of our three 2018 Elevated Table benefit dinners

is Friday, July 13, at Squash Blossom Farm. Head chef Sean Temple of the Warfield and guest chef Jesse Sheue will create an unforgettable, family-style meal featuring early-season favorites such as fresh berries, succulent greens, and spring peas. Before dinner, sample hors d’oeuvres and seasonal cocktails made with local spirits, seasonal fruit and fresh herbs.

Come get a glimpse of life on an authentic local farm, share an incredible meal with fellow locavores, and meet our farmer heroes who face numerous challenges—including limited growing seasons, extreme weather conditions and high operating costs—to bring us the freshest food on earth.

Tickets are available at: wrvharvestfest.org.

Local Food Alliance is a nonprofit whose mission is to create a vibrant local food system in the Wood River Valley.

For more information, visit localfoodalliance.org.

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6:30-9:30PM / MAHONEY’S / BELLEVUE

4PM / REDFISH LAKE LODGE

Head to Mahoney’s Bar & Grill on Thursdays for free, family-friendly music throughout the summer. This week, enjoy songs by Tony Holiday & The Velvetones.

Music From Stanley is live each Sunday on the Lodge’s front lawn. Redfish is north of Ketchum over Galena Summit, on Highway 75, about 50 minutes. For more information on events and accommodations, visit redfishlake.com.

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5-7PM / THE CENTER / KETCHUM

6-9PM / LEFTY’S BAR & GRILL / KETCHUM

The Sun Valley Center for the Arts’ newest exhibition is called “Burchfield’s Influence: Hayley Barker, Anna Fidler, Katy Stone.” The opening celebration will include refreshments and is free to the community. Artists Anna Fidler and Katy Stone will be in attendance and will make remarks at 6 p.m.

“Burchfield’s Influence” presents the work of 20th-century artist Charles E. Burchfield (1893–1967) in conversation with three contemporary artists who count Burchfield among their most important influences: Hayley Barker, Anna Fidler and Katy Stone.

Each of the three contemporary artists in the exhibition draws inspiration from Burchfield’s belief in a spiritualized natural world, which he translated into radiant landscape paintings that shimmer with energetic line and pattern.

The exhibition features a selection of Burchfield’s drawings and watercolor paintings, as well as wallpaper made according to his design, alongside Barker’s paintings inspired by pilgrimage sites, divine experiences and landscape; Fidler’s works on paper, including new work made during a residency at the Sun Valley Center in Hailey, which was the birthplace of the poet Ezra Pound; and a site-specific installation by Katy Stone. The exhibition will be on view through Sept. 21. For more information, visit sunvalleycenter.org or call (208) 726-9491.

Groove to free live music on the deck at Lefty’s this and every Saturday throughout the summer. This week, hear tunes from Doghaus. Visit leftysbarandgrill.com for a full schedule of performers.

JAZZ IN THE PARK SUNDAY JULY 1 6-8PM / ROTARY PARK / KETCHUM Ketchum’s free concert series, Jazz in the Park, sees many of Idaho’s best jazz musicians. Join the community for a picnic-style evening filled with tunes from the jazz canon, all in the midst of Idaho’s glorious wilderness.

Concerts will take place at the riverside Rotary Park, located at the cross section of Warm Springs Road and Saddle Road. This is more of a mellow music option—more for listening than dancing. To be fully prepared, grab a blanket, low-back chair, a bottle of wine and some friends. This week, enjoy melodies from Boise’s Sally Tibbs and Kevin Kirk.

LYLE ‘POP’ EVANS FRIDAY JUNE 29 9:30PM / SILVER DOLLAR / BELLEVUE

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Enjoy live music this and every Friday night at the Silver Dollar Saloon in Bellevue.

This week, groove to jams by Lyle “Pop” Evans and the Nekid Rednecks.

6-9PM / LEFTY’S BAR & GRILL / KETCHUM

COMPASSION GARDEN SATURDAY JUNE 30

Enjoy free live music on the deck at Lefty’s this and every Sunday throughout the summer. This week, catch James Tautkus. Visit leftysbarandgrill.com for a full schedule of performers.

10-11AM / BOTANICAL GARDEN / KETCHUM

SCIENCE TIME TUESDAY JULY 3 11AM TO NOON / COMMUNITY LIBRARY / KETCHUM

Sawtooth Botanical Garden will offer free guided tours of the Garden of Infinite Compassion each Saturday throughout the season. The Compassion Garden was created to honor the 2005 visit of the His Holiness the Dalai Lama to the Wood River Valley and hosts a rare Tibetan prayer wheel. SBG education director Kristin Fletcher will lead the walk. SBG is located at 11 Gimlet Road, 4 miles south of Ketchum. For details, visit sbgarden.org or call (208) 726-9358.

Science Time teaches children about nature, animals, habitats and the natural world. Science Time is geared toward preschool-age children and is held every Tuesday from 11 a.m. to noon. Check out comlib.org to learn more.

KETCHUM FARMERS’ MARKET TUESDAY JULY 3 2-6PM / KETCHUM TOWN SQUARE

GOTR 15TH ANNIVERSARY SATURDAY JUNE 30 10-12PM / HOP PORTER PARK / HAILEY

Meet the farmers who offer seasonally available and locally grown and raised fruits, vegetables, eggs; sheep, goat, and cow cheeses; organic cuts of beef, chicken and lamb; fresh herbs, wines and so much more. Live music is scheduled weekly and kids’ activities are available. The Ketchum Farmers’ Market can be found in downtown Ketchum at Town Square.

Girls on the Run of the Wood River Valley will celebrate its 15th anniversary from 10 a.m.–12 p.m., Saturday, June 30 with a free birthday bash at Hop Porter Park, in Hailey.

There will be group games such as Twister, potato sack races, volleyball, lawn bowling, dunk tank, birthday cup cakes and ice cream.

Also on Saturday, Girls on the Run in association with the Sun Valley Wellness Festival will host Girls on the Run founder Molly Barker.

Molly Barker Barker will give a talk on “Change the narrative and you’ll change the world,” at 2 p.m. at the Sun Valley Opera House. A meet and greet reception will be held following the talk at the Lotus Lounge on the Community School Campus. Tickets can be purchased at sunvalleywellness.com.

Barker founded Girls on the Run International in 1996 in Charlotte, North Carolina, with 13 girls. It has since grown to more than 200 councils in all 50 states and the District of Columbia.

Wood River Valley resident Shari Kunz started the local chapter with 14 girls running under the umbrella of the St. Luke’s Women’s Health and Fitness Celebration.

Girls on the Run of the Wood River Valley obtained it’s 501c3 non-profit status in July, 2003, and became its own independent council of the national Girls on the Run organization and consistently runs over 150 girls through the program each year.

KETCH’EM ALIVE TUESDAY JUNE 26 7-9PM / FOREST SERVICE PARK / KETCHUM Ketch’em Alive is held weekly at Forest Service Park in downtown Ketchum. Enjoy dancing, music, picnics or food and drink from vendors on the side of the Park. Irish rockers Swagger from Salt Lake City will headline from 7:30-9 p.m. The opening act is Steph Sloan at 7 p.m.

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Two-Time Tony Award Winning Broadway Superstars!

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SUTTON BRIAN STOKES FOSTER MITCHELL

Accompanied by Dr. Craig Jessop and The American Festival Orchestra

Sun Valley Pavilion Concert July 7 H 8 : 00 pm with

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