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City of Ketchum Coming Up at City Council and Planning & Zoning June 6 – City Council Request to amend city’s vending ordinance to allow more than one vendor license on a property.

June 13 – Planning and Zoning Commission Proposal to construct a motor vehicle fueling station, convenience store and food service establishment at 911 North Main St. June 20 – City Council Request for an 8-year extension of all approvals for the Warm Springs Ranch Resort project. The agreement has been amended three times.

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MEMORIAL DAY ORIGINS DATE TO U.S. CIVIL WAR

Holiday originally known as ‘Decoration Day’

BY JEAN JACQUES BOHL

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irst known as Decoration Day, the holiday celebrated today as Memorial Day has its origins in the aftermath of the U.S. Civil War and has evolved over the past 150 years to become a day to remember U.S. service men and women, particularly those who gave their lives in the service of their country.

The first recorded observance of a Memorial Day-type celebration occurred in Charleston, S.C., on May 1, 1865, when newly freed black residents of Charleston landscaped and built an enclosure around a mass grave of Union soldiers who had died in captivity in a nearby Confederate prison camp.

The following year, on April 25, in Columbus, Miss., local women decorated the graves of Confederate and Union soldiers.

The next known commemoration of war dead occurred on May 5, 1868 when Civil War Union General John A. Logan, then commander of The Grand Army of the Republic, a Northern veterans association, issued a proclamation for a nationwide and annual observance of Decoration Day as a day to remember fallen Union soldiers.

With a growing recognition of Decoration Day, it became an observance in various areas where people would put flowers on the graves of Union soldiers.

The day of May 30 was chosen for the observance.

By 1890, every Union state had made Decoration Day a state holiday. Southern states also held observances for their dead soldiers.

A four-day “Blue and Gray" event in 1913 in Gettysburg, Pa., involving both former Union and Confederate veterans, marked the 50th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg July 1-3 in 1863 and became recognized as a national reconciliation of the Civil War. The name Memorial Day instead of Decoration Day became more in use following World War I and especially so after

Union General John A. Logan is known as one of the founders of the commemoration known today as Memorial Day. Public domain photo, accessed via Wikimedia Commons

World War II. While Veterans Day salutes the service of all veterans, living and dead, who have served in the U.S. armed forces, Memorial Day was originally intended to remember soldiers who paid the ultimate price while serving.

More than 1.1 million U.S. servicemen and women have died in battle since 1776.

More than 1.1 million U.S. servicemen and women have died in battle since 1776.

It took a 1967 federal law to make the name Memorial Day official. In 1968 the U.S. Congress approved the Uniform Monday Holiday Act, moving

four holidays, including Memorial Day, to a specified Monday in order to create three-day weekends. The law took effect in 1971. After some confusion and bickering, all 50 states adopted the federal holiday policy.

Since then, the Veterans of Foreign Wars has advocated for a return to the traditional observance of May 30. The VFW stated in a 2002 Memorial Day address that “changing the date merely to create three-day weekends has undermined the very meaning of the day. No doubt this has contributed a lot to the general public's nonchalant observance of Memorial Day." Hawaii Sen. Daniel Inouye, a World War II veteran, supported the VFW point of view and in 1987 introduced a measure in Congress to return Memorial Day to May 30. He continued to push for changing the observance until his death in 2002. tws

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The American Legion David Ketchum Post 115

MeMorial Day CereMony Monday, May 30th, 11a.m. • Ketchum Cemetery

Speaker: Colonel Gary R. Marlowe Commander, Mountain Home AFB Featuring: A fly over by two World War II Vintage p-51 Mustang and Curtiss p-40 from the Warhawk Air Museum in Nampa, Idaho.

The event is free • All are welcome Karen Young is the Little Wood River Library of Carey’s selection for the 2016 Heritage Court. Photo courtesy of Karen Young

CAREY WOMAN HUMBLED BY COURT SELECTION Young named to Heritage Court by library in Carey

involved in activities associated with the Blaine County Fair and he Little Wood River various girls’ projects.

Library of Carey has For 28 years she worked for chosen Karen Young for the school district, first in the this year's Heritage Court. Young Carey School lunchroom and is well known in the community later as a bus driver. As a drivof Carey, having been involved er, she chauffeured girls' athletic with the Blaine County School teams. She also enjoyed driving District, various service organi- sixth-graders on trips to Yellowzations and the Church of Jesus stone National Park.

Christ of Latter-Day Saints.

Young started driving for “It’s a great honor,” Young the school district in 1974 and said of her selection to the court. served as scorekeeper at games “But you feel there are more wor- where she drove the teams. thy people. I guess they wanted

"I did it for both bassomeone who ketball and really uses the volleyball as library and they well as drivIt’s a great honor. ing to places felt that I would But you feel there like Boise, meet the qualare more worthy people.” S h o s h o n e , ifications. I’ve lived in Blaine Richfield and Karen Young G o o d i n g , ” County for over 30 years and I’m Young said. over 70 years of “They age and I like to made me the participate in the community.” scorekeeper so I wouldn’t be Young said that when she such a wild fan,” she said with first came to Carey in 1966, “I a laugh. “When my kids were thought I had come to the end of playing, I would get pretty exthe world. Now I love it. We built cited. But when you sit at the our house in 1970 and have lived scorer’s table, you really have to there ever since. behave.”

“I love the people in Carey beKaren and Ross Young are accause they are so kind and car- tive members of the Carey LDS ing. With about 500 people, it’s church, and have twice, since rea really nice community to be in tiring, served on missions, once and I like being close to Craters in Nauvoo, Ill., and five years of the Moon and the Little Wood later in Storm Lake, Iowa. This Reservoir. year the couple will celebrate “It’s so pretty and when I look their 61st wedding anniversary. out our kitchen window I can see tws all the mountains,” she said. “It’s HERITAGE COURT also a great place to raise kids. It may not have all the activity of This is the second of a Hailey, but all my children went four-part series about the to college and they all had a great four women selected this education in Carey.” year for the Blaine County Historical Museum Heritage Young was born in HuntingCourt. Now in its 13th year, ton Park, Calif., one of five chilthe Heritage Court was dren. In 1955 she married Ross founded to honor women Young and worked for Thiofor their contributions to kol while her husband earned a the history and heritage of master’s degree from Utah State Blaine County. A coronation University. The couple moved to ceremony for this year’s Carey two months before their honorees is set for 3 p.m. fifth child was born.

Sunday, June 12, at the LibFor several years Karen erty Theatre in Hailey.

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KETCHUM NOT GIVING UP ON NEW CITY HALL

Greenberg wins Democratic ticket in commissioners' race

BY TERRY SMITH

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etchum officials aren’t ready to call it quits on seeking voter approval to build a new city hall, but acknowledged at a city council meeting Monday that more public input and involvement will be needed if the proposal is to succeed.

They may ask Ketchum voters again as early as November to approve a $23.1 million 30-year general obligation bond to replace the aging structure on East Avenue that currently houses city hall.

A two-thirds majority was needed for approval, but the measure put to the voters on May 17 didn’t come anywhere near that.

Instead, the measure received only 32.5 percent approval and was defeated by a sound margin of 181 to 556.

Prior to a decision as to whether the measure should be put to voters again, city council intends to gather more public input, through surveys and town hall meetings, and to increase public

involvement, possibly by forming a citizens’ committee.

In other election results, officials of the cities of Hailey and Sun Valley are pleased with the results of funding measures they put before voters.

Hailey’s electorate voted 568 to 402 to approve a two-year special levy of $800,000 for the city’s infrastructure. Specifically, the city intends to use the funding to repair, design and construct sidewalks, bike paths, trails and other bike-pedestrian systems. The measure needed a simple majority for approval but received a 58.5 percent positive vote.

Sun Valley voters approved by a vote of 154 to 71 to extend the city’s local option taxes for another 10 years. A 60 percent majority was needed for approval but the measure instead received a positive vote of 68.4 percent.

Also in the May 17 primary election, Blaine County’s only contested race for public office was won on the Democratic ticket by incumbent Commissioner

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Wood River High School physics and robotics students have created a “mythbuster” experiment that involves crashing a remote-controlled van into a simulated utility pole.

The experiment is intended to show whether it is safer to crash into a pole at low speed or at high speed. WRHS physics teacher Chris Cey explained that the experiment will explore a common belief that it is safer to crash a vehicle into a pole at a high rate of speed because the impact is more likely to simply sheer off the pole.

Cey’s applied physics students became interested in the subject two years ago when construction involving new placement of utility poles was underway on State Highway 75 south of Ketchum. At that time, his students used math and physics to calculate impact of vehicles into utility poles at various speed.

This year, with the help of students in Blaine County Bots, a robotics organization, the students designed a real-life test using a van donated to the project by the Hailey Fire Department. Robotics students designed and installed a remote-control system in the van.

The students will give a presentation on the project today at Wood River High School and plan the actual crash test for Saturday, May 28, in Slaughterhouse Canyon in Bellevue.

The public is invited to both events. The presentation is set for 11-11:45 a.m. at the Distance Learning Lab. Visitors will need to check in at the school front office.

The crash test is set for 12 p.m., but the students will be available starting at 11 a.m. that day to explain the experiment and modifications to the van. The public is advised to check the Blaine County School District website at www.blaineschools.org for an update on whether or not the crash test will be postponed because of last-minute component problems.

“The students have been highly engaged in this project,” Cey said. “We invite the community to come out and support our students as they take their learning out of the classroom and into the real world.”

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Jacob Greenberg who received 1,278 votes out of 2,255 cast for a winning percentage of 56.6.

Challengers Kaz Thea received 852 votes and Gary Whitworth Brower 125 votes.

Greenberg is unopposed for the November general election.

BROOKE SUNDHOLM Loves to sing and help others

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STUDENTS CREATE ‘MYTHBUSTER’ CRASH TEST

Incumbent Blaine County Commissioner Jacob Greenberg won the Democratic ticket for reelection in the May 17 primary vote. Photo courtesy of Blaine County

BY JONATHAN KANE

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rooke Sundholm, a senior at Wood River High School, sings with Colla Voce, the school’s all-female singing group, and derives fulfillment from helping others.

“When I graduate from college I want to be a traveling nurse and go to Third World countries to help,” Sundholm said. “Maybe be part of Mercy Corps, which is an organization that helps create jobs and careers for 13-year-old girls so that they have an option to being married at that age. It’s such a gratifying feeling to help others in need.

“Here in Sun Valley, people are not so much in need, so the opportunities to help are not as great, but I love volunteering at the soup kitchen at the Catholic Church.

“I’ve also been very involved with the Matsiko Child Choir, which is a traveling orphanage choir,” Sundholm said. “I assist them with housing and work at their concerts, selling jewelry. I was in fifth grade when they first came here and we housed them.

While they lived with us, we taught them English and learned a lot about them.”

The choir consists of children who come primarily from India,

Peru and Africa.

“What inspired me the most were the stories of their childhoods,” Sundholm said. “The first year we housed them, a girl from Uganda told us how children were taken from the villages to become soldiers. The level of everyday fear is awful.”

At WRHS, Sundholm has a 3.4 grade point average. Her main interest is in biology, which led her to want to become a nurse.

“I’m going to Baylor University next year, which has a great nursing program, so I thought I’d take advantage of it,” she said.

“You get to interact more with people than you do as a doctor, which is more fun and you see a lot of cool things. It makes me feel fantastic to help because you get to make an impact on someone else’s life.”

Sundholm also has a passion for singing, which finds an outlet as a member of Colla Voce.

She has been singing with the group for three years. There are 12 women in the group this year and the singers had to audition to be selected.

“I was in musicals as a kid and then in sixth grade I joined the choir at the middle school,” Sundholm said. “My first show was ‘Annie’ at St. Thomas Play-

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Wood River High School senior Brooke Sundholm sings with Colla Voce. Photo courtesy of Maggie Sfingi

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“My mom wanted me to do it and be involved in something after school and I made a lot of friends. I don’t remember too much except being on a bunk bed and that was my spot for the whole play. It was so much fun, and then I did a lot at the nexStage Theatre. I was told I was good, so I pursued it.

“I tried out for Colla Voce my freshman year and didn’t make it.” Sundholm said. “When I did get in the next year, I had just finished driver’s education and got my permit, so it was the best day ever. I just jumped up and down.

I was really proud of myself.” tws

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DEFENDANT FOUND ‘INCOMPETENT’ IN CAMAS COUNTY CASE Judge vacates manslaughter trial for Harley Park

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SCHOOL DISTRICT RECEIVES NATIONAL MUSIC HONOR

For the fourth year in a row, the National Association of Music Merchants has recognized the Blaine County School District for its “outstanding commitment to music education” with a Best Communities for Music Education designation.

The school district reported in a press release that the designation “affirms school districts that have demonstrated exceptional efforts toward maintaining music education as part of the core curriculum.”

BCSD was one of 476 districts nationally, and the only school district in Idaho, to receive the designation.

“The work that our music teachers do every day to help our students love and enjoy music is greatly appreciated,” said district Superintendent GwenCarol Holmes. “From kindergarten to high school, students have the opportunity to participate in music education.

“This long-term investment in music education is evident when you attend an energetic performance at one of our elementary schools, or see the award-winning musicians at our secondary schools,” Holmes said.

the death of 61-year-old Lynn Stevenson on Sept. 3, 2003 at a golf course Stevenson owned near Soldier Mountain Ski Resort north of Fairfield.

According to a police report filed shortly after the death by Camas County Sheriff Dave Sanders, Park, who was staying and working at the golf course, killed Stevenson because Stevenson was “the devil.”

Park was being held without bond until Tuesday at the Elmore County Jail in Mountain Home.

He has spent the majority of the past 13 years court committed to the State Hospital South mental institution in Blackfoot.

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udge Robert J. Elgee on Tuesday found that Harley Robert Park, charged with involuntary manslaughter in the death 13 years ago of a prominent Camas County businessman, is “incompetent” to stand trial.

Elgee further vacated a trial that was scheduled to start on June 6 in Blaine County 5th District Court. He ordered instead that Park be transported to a facility to be determined by the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare, that a new mental evaluation be conducted and that the court and defense and prosecution counsel review Park’s mental capacity in 90 days.

Elgee’s ruling follows an earlier reduction of a first-degree murder charge for Park to involuntary manslaughter. That decision was made by the Idaho Attorney General’s Office and was based upon information from an expert witness who was expected to testify at trial that Harley Robert Park was not of sound mental condition when he killed a man in Camas County in 2003.

The decision to amend the charge against Park was formalized on May 16 in Blaine County 5th District Court, which now has jurisdiction over the case.

Deputy attorneys with the AG’s Office, which has been assigned as special prosecutor, acknowledged then that the charge was reduced because of “expert reports.”

Specifically, Hailey attorney Douglas Nelson, assigned

as public defender for Park, informed the court and prosecution in an Oct. 13, 2015 memorandum that he would call as a trial witness Dr. Richard Worst, a Twin Falls psychiatrist who interviewed Park shortly after Park allegedly beat to death a prominent Fairfield businessman.

Nelson wrote in the memorandum that he intended to “raise mental illness as a defense” and that Worst would testify that Park “suffered from mental illness such that he could not form the sufficient mental state required to be convicted of first-degree murder.”

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SUN VALLEY MEN SERVED AS WWII SKI TROOPS 10th Mountain Division fought in northern Italy

BY MARIA PREKEGES

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emorial Day is mainly intended to honor U.S. soldiers who died in battle. However, common usage has extended to commemoration of all U.S. armed services veterans, whether they died in battle or later of wounds, by accident or from natural causes.

Forty-five Sun Valley area men are remembered for their service as ski troops in the 10th Mountain Division in World War II. The division served in northern Italy, where it was subjected to 110 combat days. Before the war ended, about 1,000 of the division’s soldiers, out of some 30,000 who served in the unit during WWII, were killed in combat.

The Sun Valley soldiers are

Shoulder patch of the 10th Mountain Division.

commemorated with a monument that sits today in Baldy Circle in Sun Valley Village. Placed by the 10th Mountain Division Foundation, the monument is a large boulder with plaques providing the names of the 45 men and a brief description of their service.

Some of the men were drafted into the Army, but were given a nonbinding choice as to where they would like serve. With their experience as skiers, the men were naturally selected to the newly forming Mountain Division, which was looking for skiers, foresters, loggers and others with outdoor experience who, according to the division foundation, “could take care of themselves out of doors in all four seasons.”

The division’s troops received special training for fighting in mountain and Arctic conditions.

In Italy, in addition to mountain fighting, the soldiers served as “light infantry,” which were specialized units that typically served in armed reconnaissance or as advance troops in major operations. As such, they often experienced heavy combat.

One of the Sun Valley men who served in the division was Nelson Bennett, who died earlier this year at the age of 101 and is also known as a founder of the Sun Valley Ski Patrol.

Information on Bennett, who was interviewed in 1986

by John Huckins, is available at The Community Library in

Ketchum. Information there records that Bennett was originally from New Hampshire and learned to ski as a child on barrel staves and homemade bindings.

He loved skiing and eventually moved to Sun Valley and worked on Bald Mountain, where he was appointed to head the ski patrol in 1941. He was drafted after the United States entered World War II. “In 1941 I signed up for the draft, and back then you could indicate the service that you had a preference to be in, but with no promises,” Bennett said in the interview with John Huckins. “So I put down the 87th Mountain Infantry Regiment that was formed at Fort Lewis, Washington, and that was the nucleus of the 10th Mountain Division.”

Bennett said he began training with the division in 1942 after reporting to an induction center in Utah along with Brute Hurley, another Sun Valley man who served in the division.

Also serving in the division was Barney Bell, who was interviewed in 1987 by Shirley Huckins. Information on Bell is also available at The Community Library. Bell reported that he learned to ski in the Wood River Valley in the late 1920s.

“We would go out Quigley,” Bell said in the interview, “and we would climb and climb and climb. And you didn’t have any ski boots or bindings or nothing, so Dad would cut an inner-tube tubing and fix it around my

This monument, placed by the 10th Mountain Division Foundation at Baldy Circle in Sun Valley Village, commemorates the Sun Valley area men who served as ski troops in World War II. Weekly Sun photo by Brennan Rego

heel and up over my toe. And we’d get up there, and we’d ride a long pole just straight down.

You couldn’t turn on those kind of skis, so we’d be up on those mountains, just come straight down.”

Bell said when he underwent training at Fort Collins, Colo., with an elevation over 5,000 feet, he had an advantage over trainees who hadn’t lived at a high elevation.

“Those poor devils had to lay around for six weeks to two months,” Bell said. “They just couldn’t hack it.”

Bell said that, after training, the Army provided the ski troops with “big, heavy wood, white wood skis.” For clothing, “we had special, a lot of special stuff.

They called them mountain warfare clothes, warfare pants, and a big light (white) jacket.”

The soldiers were also given down sleeping bags that Bell said we’re taken away from them when they went to Italy because “they didn’t want us to get trapped in the sleeping bag.”

They were given lighter sleeping

bags, instead.

“That’s why we always looked for a big, heavy pine tree and we’d dig underneath there, you know, to get that shelter,” he said.

Bennett and Bell both attest that living in the Sun Valley area helped with their training and service in the division.

The 10th Mountain Division was deactivated after the war but was reactivated in 1985 and today is based at Fort Drum, N.Y. According to the 10th Mountain Division Foundation, the division has had the most deployments of all U.S. Army divisions since its reactivation.

Elements of the 10th Mountain Division have served in Operation Desert Storm, in Hurricane Andrew disaster relief, in Somalia, Haiti, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, the Sinai Peninsula and at some 20 deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan.

During World War II, the division’s soldiers had a battle motto of “sempre avanti,” which is Italian for “always forward.” tws

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TRUSTEES TO INTRODUCE ALTERNATIVE SCHOOL BUDGET

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BELLEVUE COUNCIL APPROVES ARTS COMMISSION

Bustos and Corker would shift $447,000 in proposed cuts

BY JEAN JACQUES BOHL

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laine County School District Trustees Cami Bustos and Elizabeth Corker plan to introduce an alternative budget for Fiscal Year 2017 that would shift more $445,000 in proposed cuts in the district’s operating budget.

The proposed alternative would restore the district’s Latino and parent liaison positions, the International Baccalaureate program, summer and after-school programs and a subsidy to Mountain Rides Transportation Authority for bus rides for students.

Instead, Bustos and Corker are proposing eliminating the district’s Communications Department, at a cost of $200,000, and reducing $120,000 from administrators’ salaries and benefits and $85,000 from administrator training.

They also plan to transfer the royalties that the district receives from a contract with Silverback, a private educational software company owned by former district Superintendent Jim Lewis, from the Blaine County Education Foundation back to the district’s general fund. Royalties from Silverback, which uses software developed by the school district, amount to about $90,000 per year.

Bustos and Corker unveiled their proposed budget alternative at a town hall meeting

organized by Bustos and held at the Community Campus in Hailey on Monday evening.

After hearing the alternative, district Superintendent GwenCarol Holmes was adamant that “we are not eliminating the Communications Department.”

Concerning administrative salaries, district Business Manager Mike Chatterton acknowledged that salaries compared to nine Idaho school districts of similar size are about 40 percent above the average.

Everything in the budget should support the students’ needs for success.”

know their rights.”

Corker also defended the International Baccalaureate program.

“This is a program that involved parents have told me has significantly increased the quality of their children’s education, teaches critical thinking, global-mindedness, etc.,” Corker said. “It was a top community priority of the last strategic plan. The district has committed significant funds to IB training of teachers; implementation of IB. Now we throw it away?”

Corker also claimed that her research has shown that the district’s teachers earn 61 percent more than the state average, a situation that she attributed to the higher cost of living in Blaine County.

However, she said the some district administrator salaries range from 72 percent to 151 percent above the state average for comparable positions and argued that the differential should be scaled back to match the 61 percent higher wages of district teachers.

The district’s proposed budget for Fiscal Year 2017, which starts on July 1, is $88.8 million, with $53.6 million going to the general fund for operating expenses.

To change a trend in spending more money than it brings in each year, a situation that is gradually deteriorating the district’s financial reserves, the school board intends to cut about $1.3 million from its

Elizabeth Corker Vice chair, BCSD Board of Trustees In an interview with The Weekly Sun after the meeting, Corker, who also serves as vice chair of the board, explained her reasons for submitting the alternative budget.

“It is the job of the democratically elected school board members to spend the taxpayers’ money wisely,” Corker said. “Everything in the budget should support the students’ needs for success.”

She said further that the Latino and parent liaison positions “support students” and are needed to “help parents access special services and

Cami Bustos. Photo courtesy of Blaine County School District

The Bellevue Common Council approved Monday evening forming the Bellevue Arts Commission to help the community procure various grants for arts projects and to help perpetuate a reputation for Bellevue as an arts community.

The proposal was brought to the council by artists Suzanne Hazlett, a Sun Valley resident and co-founder of the Wood River Valley Studio Tour, and Anne Jeffrey, a Bellevue resident. With approval of the new commission, the council appointed Hazlett and Jeffery as the city’s first art commissioners.

“Anne and I have identified local, state and federal grants that have the exciting potential to be transformative for the southernmost city in the Wood River Valley,” Hazlett told The Weekly Sun. She further explained that an ever-growing number of artists are choosing to live and operate studios in Bellevue.

Elizabeth Corker. Photo courtesy of Blaine County School District

operating budget for FY2017 compared to FY2016.

The new budget is scheduled to be considered for approval by the five-member school board at its next regular meeting on June 14. tws

Anne Jeffrey, left, and Suzanne Hazlett. Courtesy photo

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isten, Idaho, you can hear the sounds of tailgates slamming shut and the hiss of float tubes being aired up. You can hear the slow click of reels as line gets strung through rod guides. You can hear the crisp snap of a fly box being closed.

Under those tones you can hear muted noises like oars being shuffled into place and strapped into boats, and the distinct crinkling of waders as they come out of a bag totally dry for the first time this year. Soon these sounds will be replaced by the swish of legs in water and the whisps of casts placed far over the water.

Opening Day is upon us!

Silver Creek is the place to be for Opening Weekend! Join Picabo Angler on Friday night for the Picabo premiere of Hank Patterson’s “Mystery of the Cuttyrainbrown Trout,” showing in our airplane hangar at 8:30 p.m.

Bring a camp chair and your hardiest laugh. On Saturday, the festivities continue with our Opening Day barbecue starting at 11:30 a.m.

If you are fishing Silver Creek this weekend, plan on seeing a few hatches. Callibaetis have been the most prolific as of late.

Baetis is always a possibility, especially if we see a lot of cloud cover. And have a few PMD patterns, just in case…

Regardless of the hatches, you can count on Terrestrials carrying the day. Be sure to have plenty of Ants and Beetles in a variety of sizes. Large Chernobyl patterns can be good in adverse weather, and smaller flies like Flying Ants and Crowe Beetles will be effective if the water stays glassed over.

Anglers sticking around for the night fishing will find Mouse patterns effective, and Brown Drakes will be coming into the mix soon enough – probably not this weekend, but probably not far behind, either. Anglers that don’t want to be out late can opt for getting up early and fishing Streamers in the gray morning light.

The South Fork of the Boise will also be fishable on the opener. The river is at driftboat levels and Nymphing with big flies like Girdle Bugs and Salmon Fly Nymphs is your best bet. Smaller nymphs like Copper Johns and Hares Ears are also excellent choices.

Plan on runoff affecting most of our rivers over the weekend, which will make places like Silver Creek busier than normal.

Please remember to be kind and share your experiences as best you can with your fellow anglers.

Happy Opening Day, everyone!

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BY FRAN JEWELL

WANTING LASSIE

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o, you thought this week’s article would be about dog training? Well, in essence it is, but I am sharing with you a personal experience to help reveal what it’s all about.

This past weekend my favorite little character, Kalidor, and I traveled to Hamilton, Mont., to perform before an AKC judge at the AKC Tracking Dog (TD) test, so Kalidor could earn his certification that would allow him to compete in AKC tracking performance events. In the glory of rolling, grass-covered pastures under dramatic black skies and high winds and drizzle, Kalidor shined, tracking a ‘person’ – a dark cotton glove with cut-off fingers hidden in the deep grass – to the finish. Had Kalidor not followed the correct pathway of hidden footsteps and found that inconspicuous glove, he would not have passed the certification.

As many of you know, I started tracking Kalidor when he was but nine weeks old,

Kalidor is very happy to find his glove. So is the judge! Photo by Fran Jewell

Kalidor tracks a glove hidden in deep grass. Photo by Fran Jewell

imprinting him with looking for scent on the ground that followed footsteps of a specific person in any direction. That was over 18 months ago! Kalidor, now 20 months old, began his man-tracking career the minute he came home to me.

Learning to search for scent on the ground – finding every footstep someone takes – is a painstaking process. We started with a short “track” about 25 feet long with every closely laid footstep filled with food. As Kalidor learned to connect food with the scent of a person, I gradually took food out of the footsteps. First, there would be food in every third or fourth footstep, and then I increased that to 10 or 15 footsteps, and so on, until eventually he no longer needed any food in the footsteps at all. Then we changed the people he was looking for.

Then, Kalidor would find food at an article left behind by the person he was tracking.

Articles could be gloves, a wallet, cellphone, or any object someone might typically carry with them on a walk. At each article, Kalidor learned to “indicate” that he had found it.

His indication was to lie down at the article and wait for me to approach him. When I approached, he would earn a VERY yummy reward for staying down until his command to track was given again!

After months of practicing, and gradually increasing the difficulty in the track with less and less food, more difficult terrain (everything we could think of – dry, wet, snow, long grass, short grass, dirt, pavement, etc.),

we added distractions like barking dogs, horses, wild animal scat, strong winds that blew the scent away, and time, making the scent less and less on the footprints. This is called “proofing.” Once Kalidor learned the behavior, we gradually increased difficulty with distractions.

Essentially, it has taken us 18 months (and I took four months out for my knee surgery) of training to get to this point where Kalidor could successfully perform the requirements of his certification.

Driving home the point of this article, training, ANY training, is not something that happens in four lessons, or one class, or even in two or three months. It takes TIME, COMMITMENT, CONSISTENCY and a GOAL in order to have the dog YOU want to live with. There is no such thing as a Lassie pill. If there were, I wish I had invented it!!!

The second point of this article is to update so many people that ask me weekly how Kalidor is doing. He is one FANTASTIC dog and I am so proud of him!! Our next goal is to go to the AKC TD test north of Missoula, Mont., in June!

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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OPPOSING DYNAMICS

BY LESLIE REGO

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blend into the sage hillsides. They would be easy to miss amongst the much more vivid colors of the lupine. I was so taken by these gentle buds that I stopped again to draw, taking particular care with the drooping character of the flower so as to accurately render the petals.

The tranquil character of the leopard lily began to infuse me with an incredible peace.

I had experienced the adrenaline burst of the extravagant blues and yellows and now I was in a quiet setting, reveling in a very different kind of beauty. Both beauties elicit wonder. It is the rare person that can demonstrate such opposite personality traits. How is it possible that Nature, within a small patch of ground, can showcase such wildly opposing dynamics?

Coming down from the mountain I was torn between the gentle, soothing moments with the leopard lilies and the wild festive moments with the arrowleaf balsamroot and lupine. Nature surely is wondrous.

ast week was the perfect moment to be amazed by the lupine and arrowleaf balsamroot on display in Croy Canyon.

The deep blues and yellows were dazzling. As I walked amongst the flowers, I was in awe that Nature could produce fields overflowing with such abundance of color and blooms.

At first, as I hiked, I was entranced and unable to focus on anything but the entirety of the overwhelming display. I chose a particularly colorful spot amongst the lupine and arrowleaf to sit and draw the different characteristics of the flowers. I took particular delight in drawing the curving leaves of the arrowleaf, depicting their ruffle-like edges.

After sitting for a while, I began to hike deeper and deeper into the hills. As I hiked, more details emerged and I began to pick up on quieter delicacies. At one point, I stumbled upon a rare collection of leopard lily, also known as chocolate lily. These lilies are not as showy as the lupine, but are an elusive, delicate treat. The bell-shaped flowers arc Leslie Rego is an Idaho Press Club downward from slender stems. The stems are award-winning columnist, artist and Blaine so slight that it is a wonder they can sustain County resident. To view more of Rego’s art, the dangling flowers. The understated colors visit www.leslierego.com.

Leslie Rego, “Leopard Lily,” nib pen, sumi ink, watercolor.

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Naming Of Creatures

BY HANNES THUM

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wo hundred and twelve years ago this month, the Corps of Discovery expedition set out from what was then the westernmost frontier of the settled United States. Their intentions may have included the desire for adventure in the sense that they would be some of the first Euro-Americans to see the West, but, as you have learned in any American history class, there were also practical matters at hand: the United States at the time had a strong desire to make inroads in a region that, in the eyes of some, was more or less up for grabs.

So, much of the West came to be named by this group of men that traversed it, out and back again, in their two-and-a-half-year journey. Places were named after these men; rivers and valleys named after politicians back home that the Corps was trying to honor; and a rather impressive number of plants and animals were “discovered” by the expedition (lest we forget that they were all known by other humans long before 1804).

In biology, generally, whoever first finds a creature gets to name that creature.

Captain Meriwether Lewis was honored with the naming of the Lewis’s woodpecker, which the group first saw in Montana. Lieutenant William Clark’s name was given to the Clark’s nutcracker.

There is some dispute about if these men were actually the first Euro-Americans to see Courtesy photo some of these species, but the descriptions and names of a Hannes Thum is a Wood River huge number of local plants Valley native and has spent most and animals have been none- of his life exploring what our local theless attributed to the expe- ecosystems have to offer. He curdition. Just a few of our iconic rently teaches science at Communiregional species that the Corps ty School. described include the cutthroat trout (with its Latin name, Oncorhynchus clarkii, honoring William Clark), the pronghorn, the grizzly bear (with which their first encounters led to fascinating and terrifying entries in the men’s journals), the black-tailed prairie dog in Montana (which intrigued the men so much that they sent a live specimen back East to the White House), the Ponderosa pine, and the greater sage grouse.

Eventually, naming would lead to claiming, as the United States officially took ownership over this land and the creatures living upon it. The men on the expedition were explorers but were also, by necessity and by their orders, biologists. They were just barely scratching the surface of a land that would become, to you and me, home. And the names of many species we care about are rooted in the work of these men and their trip across the wild landscape of the West. tws

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The Chamber Introduces New Community Guide To Help Valley Visitors This Summer

BY JEFF BACON

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he Hailey Chamber of Commerce has just released its first edition of its Community Guide and Membership Directory just in time for the warmer months and summer visitors to the Valley.

Last year, the Chamber participated in a statewide visitors campaign called 18 Summers, which speaks to the unfortunate reality that families only have 18 summers to spend with their kids before they’ve grown and begin to make a life of their own. The response to the Chamber’s participation in this popular program exceeded initial expectations and highlighted the need for a complete compendium of all that makes our Valley such a great place to live or visit.

“We were blown away at the number of requests for information we received from people coming to the Wood River Valley for vacation,” notes Chamber operations director Pat Bowton. “This new Community Guide will really help us get some great information into the hands of people that we know are coming to the Valley, months before they get here.”

“Idaho’s visitor numbers have been increasing every year,” states Matt Borud, chief development officer for Idaho Commerce in Boise. “Programs like our 18 Sum-

mers campaign help boost those numbers and it’s great to see our partners like the Chamber benefit from their participation.”

Additionally, this year the Chamber has agreed to participate in another Summer Travel campaign developed and produced nationally by USA Today.

“We anticipate that this summer is going to be a busy one with visitors in the Wood River Valley,” adds Pat. “With so much going on in our Valley every year, it’s easy to see why people want to be here.

Our main challenge has always been finding the best way to get information about our Valley in front of the right people and programs like 18 Summers and the USA Today Summer Travel Guide are making it much easier.”

Chamber community guides are fairly common in many parts of the country that depend on tourism. Most are produced by large, out-of-state companies that create guides for many different communities. “We knew we needed to produce a community guide, but we wanted to do it as local as we could, so we hired Centerlyne in Bellevue to design and produce it,” said Chamber president Richard Stahl. “The Centerlyne team has done a really great job of putting everything we think is great about our Valley in one place.”

In addition to the printed cop-

This Chamber Corner is brought to you by the Hailey Chamber of Commerce.

The Chamber’s new Community Guide is now available for summer visitors. Photo courtesy of Hailey Chamber of Commerce

ies of the guide, the Chamber will also have an electronic version it can send to fulfill many of the requests it receives for information.

If you are interested is picking up a copy of the new Community Guide and Membership Directory please stop in to the Visitor Center at the rodeo grounds in Hailey or the Sun Valley-Visitor Information Center at 491 Sun Valley Road in Ketchum.

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

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Dalmation Toadflax (Linaria genistifolia ssp. dalmatica)

BY ANDREA WALTON

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Ribbon Cut For Renewed Wood River Trail

Bob Rosso, former – and longtime – Blaine County Recreation District (BCRD) board member, and Mike Burchmore, BCRD board president, open the renewed Wood River Trail at a ribbon-cutting celebration at the intersection of Bullion Street and the Wood River Trail on Friday morning. Jim Keating, BCRD executive director, claps as the ribbon is cut.

“Thanks to the community’s support, the popular multi-use paved pathway has been restored for all users to enjoy,” states a recent news release from BCRD. “On Tuesday, May 21, 2013 Blaine County voters approved a two-year temporary levy to reconstruct, resurface and rehabilitate the Wood River Trail from Bellevue to north of Ketchum. The Trail connects our community and provides both recreation and active transportation opportunities.”

almation toadflax was introduced as an ornamental plant from the Mediterranean in the late 1800s.

The flower is similar to that of a snapdragon and large plants produce nearly half a million seeds.

Dalmation toadflax loves arid rangelands, pastures, railways and waste areas and is primarily a weed of the Intermountain West and California.

It is very prominent in Blaine County.

Warnings about noxious weeds may seem trivial until you look at their damages based on numbers: $300 million annually in losses to our economy; $20 million to fight noxious weeds on the ground; and more than 8 million acres of land and water infested by noxious weeds. (Resource: www.idahoweedawareness.org).

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matter and you can help us fight them. The Blaine County Noxious Weed Department, along with the Blaine County CWMA [Cooperative Weed Management Area], would like to assist you in identifying the 67 noxious weeds in the state of Idaho.

The Blaine County Noxious Weed Department is a great resource for property owners (remember, property owners are

obligated by law to control all noxious weeds on their property) and can assist with weed identification, management plans, tools, and general information. For more information, call (208) 7885543 or visit www.blainecounty. org.

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Letter To The Editor Pamela Plowman

SCHOOL DISTRICT SHOULD PRIORITIZE SPECIAL NEEDS

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wo trustees of our Blaine County School District (BCSD) deserve accolades. During the current ongoing budget meetings, Liz Corker and Cami Bustos have stood their ground on their desire to make adjustments in the superintendent’s current proposed 2016-2017 district budget.

The BCSD board has stated that the overarching aim in the crafting of the budget cuts is to keep the effects as far away from the classroom as possible, to keep the children from being negatively impacted. In spite of this, Superintendent GwenCarol Holmes has presented to the board a budget that cuts two of BCSD’s arguably most important and valued positions, those of the special needs liaison and the Hispanic community liaison.

“In order to receive an equitable education, those with the most need should get the most help,” has been Superintendent Holmes’ frequent talking point. Why, then, would she ever choose to eliminate these positions (especially after last year’s brouhaha over trying to remove one of them last year)? These positions are designed to provide the special help that special needs communities need. This choice is causing children and their families to lose out.

Rather, the superintendent is proposing to fund the image of the district. Do community members want to pay $260,000/yr. for a Communications Department—to advertise our public school to ourselves—when that money could benefit children?

This fall’s district survey clearly directed the district to put the Communications Department and District Office expenses at highest priority for reduction of expenses. For some reason, Superintendent Holmes is completely ignoring this clear mandate.

In spite of the facts that she is certainly capable of being the district voice to the public herself, and that the website could be perfectly well-maintained as a function of the well-staffed tech department, she has proposed a budget that keeps this expensive and unnecessary BCSD department.

The communications needs of the district can easily be handled in other ways. Out of the 20 Idaho districts that are similar to us in size, only Madison School District (enrollment of 5,400, compared to our 3,300) has a communications department.

For that matter, only three other of these districts (Middleton, Lakeland and Lake Pend Oreille Districts – all larger than BCSD) have assistant superintendents, and only three others (Moscow, Preston Joint, Kuna Joint and Homedale Joint districts) have a testing and data coordinator position. Blaine County has all three: Assistant Superintendent, Communications Department and Data and Testing Coordinator).

I know this is a lot to absorb, but I think it’s important for the community to understand, since it is our money the district is using. Trustees Corker and Bustos have done all they can to accomplish redirecting monies to benefit children rather than the district office. Chair Bennion and Trustee Clayton do not want these changes made. Trustee Freund has been absent and has not officially weighed in.

It’s up to the public to continue this demand that: 1) liaison positions of extreme value to our high-needs communities need to be protected from budget cuts; and, 2) costs be cut in areas farthest from affecting the children.

Email your board representative (or, better yet, email all members of the board). Ask them to protect the needs of the children over the superintendent’s need for an unpopular and very expensive public relations department. (ShawnBennion@blaineschools. org, CamiBustos@blaineschools.org, CaroleFreund@blaineschools.org, RobClayton@blaineschools.org, ElizabethCorker@ blaineschools.org.)

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ith many people celebrating Mother’s Day this past month, it seems fitting to announce a book written by a local Wood River Valley resident that takes people on a special journey between a mother and daughter, in one of the most intense times of their lives.

“Launching Vee’s Chariot: An End-of-Life Tale” is published and will be on shelves soon. Kate Riley, Vee’s daughter, is the author of the book, which takes the reader on a voyage unlike any other and deals with a subject many don’t want to talk about – end of life.

When it comes to the subject of death, many people shy away from talking about it. Perhaps it’s just the fear of the unknown.

Many children don’t want to talk with their parents about it as it’s just too hard to fathom.

It’s too hard to think about a world without them. But in today’s society, that is slowly changing. Slowly changing with people like Kate and her book. And really changing, with people like her mother, Vee Riley, who found the courage to die with dignity, the way she wanted to.

Vee was diagnosed with cancer – nine malignant tumors, to be exact. After she was diagnosed, Vee made it clear to her family that she wanted to die a conscious death. She wanted to die in her home with her family by her side. Vee was an artist who was also a writer who contributed to The Weekly Sun. Her artist side shone through after her diagnosis.

Vee decided to create her own cremation container as part of her ‘conscious death.’ She then decided to collage the cremation container. After she finished this incredible work of art, she placed a small sign at the foot of the container. The sign read: ‘Vee’s Chariot’.

In the book, Kate writes about the nine months she and her mother spent together after her cancer diagnosis and before her death.

“There were days I felt strong, very strong. And then there were days when I caved.

Death is a vulnerable place. I structured the book to have an impact on the readers, in hopes of initiating more conversation, or at least thinking more about death. I also purposely take the readers through Vee’s conscious dying process, which is not easy.”

Kate continues to talk about how the book is really her mother’s story. “‘Launching Vee’s Chariot’ is really Vee’s story; however, I wanted to reveal my internal landscape because I think it’s important.”

Starting the death conversation well in advance is important to Kate, who is part of the Death Café movement. The Death Café objective is to increase awareness of death with a view to helping people make the most of their (finite) lives. A Death Café is a group-directed discussion of death with no agenda, objectives or themes. It is a discussion group rather than a grief support or counseling

Kate Riley, left, and Vee Riley. Photo courtesy of Kate Riley

The front cover of “Launching Vee’s Chariot: An End-of-Life Tale.” Local artist Kim Howard captures Kate Riley’s mom, Vee Riley, as she was laid to rest in her chariot. Photo courtesy of Balboa Press

session.

Kate continues: “Death – it may be the most important conversation you ever have.

Our culture insulates itself from death. People miss out in extraordinary ways. There is so much to gain from being with the dying. I work in this field because of the intimacy, vulnerability, and strength that comes with it all.”

Just being there is incredibly important to Kate.

“Holding sacred space; even if no one is talking, one bears witness to a profound time in another’s life. The dying always have a profound influence in the way I choose to live life. Every death I’m involved in changes me in some profound way. The impact affords me appreciation

and a greater love for all life.”

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Meet The Author

Kate Riley was invited to participate and be a part of the Sun Valley Wellness Festival and will be at the Chapter One Bookstore location inside the Sun Valley Inn on Sunday, May 29 at 12:30 p.m. Both will be opportunities to meet Riley and talk with her about her book. Pre-orders will be taken at that time. For more information on the author, Kate Riley, and to pre-order a book, visit www.kateriley. org.

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Korbin Heitzman is shown with his award for the “Do The Right Thing” program at a Business After Hours event in Hailey on May 19. Shown with Korbin is Hailey Fire Department spokesperson (and Korbin’s mother) Kristy Heitzman. Weekly Sun photo by Brennan Rego

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behavior of “doing the right thing.” he Hailey fire and Alexander described Heitzpolice departments, to- man, this year’s local winner, gether with the Blaine as an “exceptional member of County School District, have our valley.” announced the 2016 awards “Korbin is the most positive, for the “Do The Right Thing” natural leader I’ve ever seen program, which is intended to in my 15 years of teaching,” reinforce positive behavior by Alexander wrote in her nomiyoungsters. nation. “His ability to rally his The top award went to classmates to succeed and do Korbin Heitzman, who was their best is amazing. I have nominated for the program by full confidence that if I had his Hailey Elementary School to step out of class, he would fifth-grade teacher Jenica take charge and keep everyone Alexander. learning and Other nomon task.” inees were Also as Youth can do the Gina Pulleiro, part of the right thing both inside program, a student at of school and outside of Carlos GonWood River High School, zalez, the school.” and Hallie 2015 local top Taylor, a stuCraig Aberbach award winner, dent at Wood Hailey Fire Chief was recentRiver Middle ly awardSchool. ed a $500 The scholarship. students were recognized at a Gonzalez was chosen last year Hailey Chamber of Commerce because of his commitment to Business After Hours event on the community and his passion May 19. The BAH was hosted for soccer, where he assists

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Weekly Sun. The program is now acceptThe program is also ing new nominations for Do supported by several local The Right Thing. Anyone can businesses and organizations, nominate any student in Blaine including KB’s, ESS Eyewear, County by visiting the City of Board Bin, Bigwood 4 Cinema, Hailey website at www.haileyWiseguy Pizza, Shorty’s, Haicityhall.org and filling out a ley Rotary, Hawley Graphics, brief nomination form.

Windy City Graphics, Zions “Youth can do the right Bank and the Hailey Chamber thing both inside of school and of Commerce. outside of school,” said Hailey Do The Right Thing is a na- Fire Chief Craig Aberbach, tional program that was formed who brought the program to in Hailey in 2014. Nationally, the Wood River Valley. “We the program recognizes thouwant to involve everyone in the sands of youngsters who have effort to recognize youth for performed acts or exhibited doing the right thing.”

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The Sage School 10th- and 11th-grade students put on quite a special dinner on Friday, May 13. In fact, I would state that on that day the students were the proprietors of the best restaurant in town.

The dinner, dubbed a “Farm-To-Table Feast,” took place at the Elkhorn Springs Event Venue and is the culmination of a two-year education project. The students learn all about the food they will eventually serve, visit the farms from where they source the food (some of the food the students grow themselves), negotiate deals with local food providers and other businesses and entities, and finally cook and serve the meal to the lucky Feast attendees.

The dinner also doubles as a fundraiser for The Hunger Coalition. This year, the students raised $6,500 for the nonprofit, money that will be used to feed those in need in Blaine County.

For me, the dinner was both extraordinarily impressive as an education project and also struck quite a personal chord. Following my college education, I went to culinary school (which led to food writing for magazines in San Francisco, eventually leading to local journalism here in the Wood River Valley).

The final class at most culinary schools is a “Restaurant Rotation” type class, in which students learn how to run each station of a restaurant, including positions in both the front and back of the house. The schools have their own restaurants from where they serve the food to paying customers.

I must say, The Sage School students put out a meal that was several times more delicious and more professionally served than any of the culinary school restaurants I have experienced (either as a student or as a diner). Kudos to The Sage School students! They should be very proud of the meal they put out and of everything they learned through the process. These gals and guys are certainly not going to head off to college without knowing how to boil water.

I can’t wait for May 2018; I will certainly be at the next Feast.

Brennan Rego, Publisher

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KETCHUM SEEKS SPONSORS FOR PLANTERS The City of Ketchum is seeking participants for its new “Adopt a Planter” program.

The city reported in a press release that individuals and businesses can sponsor one of the 30 city-owned planters along Fourth Street this summer. Each sponsor will be recognized with a custom engraved 6-inch-by-8-inch sign. The city’s contracted landscaping company will provide, install and maintain the flowers.

Sponsorship costs range from $217 to $908 depending on the size of the planters, which range from 3 by 9 feet to 5 by 30 feet.

Anyone interested should call (208) 726-7803 or send an email to participate@ketchumidaho.org.

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WRHS BUSINESS STUDENT PLACES FIRST NATIONALLY

Wood River High School senior Caitie Sfingi won first place in “fundamental desktop publishing” at the Business Professionals of America National Leadership Conference.

The event on May 5-9 in Boston, Mass., is held annually and involves thousands of students who gather to compete and showcase their business and leadership skills.

Other WRHS students who Caitie Sfingi. Photo courtesy of attended the conference were Blaine County School District Brock Olson, Oscar Avila, Nathan Stouffer, Sophia Coplin and Maggie Sfingi.

DRUG COALITION AND BCSD CONDUCT YOUTH SURVEY

The Drug Coalition and Blaine County School District are working together to conduct a youth “Develop Assets Profile” survey.

“The results of this survey will inform the Drug Coalition’s work as well as give our schools a perspective on the experiences and opinions of youth in Blaine County,” said Amber Larna, executive director of the Drug Coalition. “Our community has been collecting this data since 2002 and using it to assess how organizations support our youth and their development. It is an excellent gauge of the strengths and weaknesses of the community in regards to at-risk behavior and the resiliency of our youth.”

The Drug Coalition and BCSD reported in a joint press release that this year’s survey is being conducted with students in grades 6, 8, 10 and 12. Students are being asked to provide information “regarding their drug and alcohol use in addition to their commitment to learning, level of empowerment and other strengths.”

The survey is voluntary, but the BCSD reported that it encourages all students to participate. Parents wanting more information are advised to contact their child’s school principal.

Jewel will kick off the 2016 Sun Valley Wellness Festival with her keynote presentation on Friday, May 27 at 6 p.m. in the Sun Valley Pavilion. Photo courtesy of Sun Valley Wellness Festival

Healthy Days Ahead Renowned health festival returns

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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 19th annual conference May 27-30 at the Sun Valley Resort. One of the top wellness events in the United States, the festival features over 20 high-profile speakers, workshops, classes, music and more.

Multi-platinum singer and songwriter Jewel will be delivering the keynote presentation to kick off the 2016 Sun Valley Wellness Festival on Friday, May 27 at 6 p.m. in the Sun Valley Pavilion.

“In her keynote address Jewel will discuss life, wellness and personal growth, stories, lessons and moments of introspection from her book ‘Never Broken: The Songs Are Only Half the Story,’” states a release from Sun Valley Wellness Festival. “Jewel will select songs throughout her address that highlight her story and lessons.”

Other featured speakers include David Whyte, Marianne Williamson and MC Yogi.

Whyte, poet, author and speaker, will present a lecture titled “Half a Shade Braver: The Foundations of a Courageous Life.”

American spiritual teacher Williamson will present a keynote address on Sunday titled “How to Live a Miraculous Life.”

MC Yogi is an American hiphop musician and renowned yogi. He believes that if he can transform his mind and make it into a beacon of love and joy, “then everything I touch is going to be uplifted by that energy.” On Saturday, May 28 at 9:30 a.m., he will give a special lecture called “Only Love is

MC Yogi will give a special lecture called “Only Love is Real,” exploring his life story, transformation through yoga, meditation and the power of music. Photo courtesy of Sun Valley Wellness Festival

Real,” exploring his life story, transformation through yoga, meditation and the power of music.

The Sun Valley Wellness Festival is thrilled to have Joan Borysenko, a distinguished pioneer in integrative medicine, as a prominent presenter at the festival. A world-renowned expert in the mind/body connection, Borysenko’s work has been foundational in recognizing the role of the spiritual dimensions of life as an integral part of healing.

“Spirituality is our deepest sense of connection to ourselves, to nature, and to God or Spirit as we understand it,” Borysenko said in a recent interview with Gaiam Life. “For most people, joining with Spirit happens when we’re connecting to ourselves or to someone else and are fully present in the moment, enabling us to feel love, harmony, beauty and the awe of belonging.”

Borysenko will give two presentations over the weekend. The first presentation, ti-

tled “Mindfulness and the New Brain Science,” will take place on Saturday, May 28 at 9:30 a.m. Her second lecture, “The Cutting Edge of Mind-Body Medicine: From Immunology to Neuroscience,” will take place on Sunday, May 29 at 3:45 p.m.

In addition to the exceptional lineup of speakers and workshops, the Sun Valley Wellness Festival will also offer specialized classes in the Movement Studio. Also, be sure to check out what is happening at The Experience Hall, an expo featuring wellness products and hands-on experience with wellness practitioners. Attendees can get a massage, reflexology, have an intuitive reading, or try out a henna tattoo. The Experience Hall is free and open to the public throughout the festival, starting at 9 a.m. on Saturday, May 28.

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New Moms Group Wednesday May 25

Noon to 1:30PM / St. Luke’s / Ketchum This group provides newborn and breastfeeding support and an opportunity to ask questions and learn the basics of raising babies. The presence of professionals, as well as other new parents, makes this group a comfortable and valuable experience.

The group meets in St. Luke’s River Run Rooms, 100 Hospital Drive, Ketchum. Call (208) 727-8733 for more information.

Exhibition Walk-Through Wednesday May 25

1-3PM / WR High School / Hailey

Come and see the culmination of Wood River High School’s Personal Project Exhibition with a walkthrough. Students will showcase their Personal Project and what they have accomplished over the past year. At Wood River High School, students choose an independent project to complete, starting their freshman year and ending their sophomore year. The exhibition is a chance to see all of these projects.

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On Thursday, Community School will welcome author and parenting expert, Kim John Payne, M.Ed., for a free public talk: “Simplicity Parenting: Using the Extraordinary Power of Less to Raise Calmer, Happier, and More Secure Kids.” The talk will take place in the Community School Theater and Iconoclast Books will sell Payne’s books at the event. Following the talk, there will be a question-and-answer period and book signing.

A consultant and trainer to more than 110 U.S. independent and public schools, Payne has been a school counselor, adult educator, researcher and an education and private family counselor for 27 years. His talk will cover how today’s busier, faster, supersized society affects childhood and how parents can reclaim the space and freedom all kids need. RSVP for free admission at bit.ly/KimJohnPayne. For more information about Kim John Payne, M.Ed., visit simplicityparenting.com.

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Wildflower Walks Friday May 27 8:30AM to 3PM / Sawtooth Botanical Garden / Ketchum View spectacular blue camas lilies and migrating shorebirds at Centennial Marsh with expert botanist Carol Blackburn, birder Poo Wright Pulliam and naturalist Ann Christensen. Bring binoculars, if available. Meet at 8:30 a.m. at Sawtooth Botanical Garden (4 miles south of Ketchum).

Return by 3 p.m. For details call the Garden at (208) 726-9358 or visit sbgarden.org.

Children’s Bike Safety Rodeo Fri May 27 & sat may 28 11AM to 1 PM / YMCA / Ketchum A free Bike Rodeo, designed to teach bicycle safety to children of all ages, will be held on Saturday in the parking lot of the Wood River Community YMCA, 101 Saddle Road. Sponsors are the Ketchum Police Department and Higher Ground Sun Valley.

Ketchum police officers will conduct safety tests and monitor an obstacle course, and mechanics from local bicycle shops will perform safety inspections on children’s bicycles. Partnering in this event are volunteers from the Higher Ground Sun Valley adaptive sports program. All will help children decorate their bicycles if they wish.

Children participating should bring their own bicycles and helmets. The police department will provide a helmet if a child does not have one. Snacks, juice and coffee will be available, and there will be prizes and safety items for bicycles. For additional information contact the Ketchum Police Department at (208) 726-7819.

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Enrique Dolores, a sophomore at Wood River High School, has been selected by Trout Unlimited to attend an annual Youth Leadership Conference June 19-23 at Georgetown Lake, Mont.

The Hemingway Chapter of Trout Unlimited reported that Dolores was selected from applicants from throughout the U.S. in recognition of his six years of volunteer service to Trout Unlimited.

A member of National Honor Society, Dolores plays lacrosse and soccer at the high school. He also serves on the board of directors as a youth advisor to the Hemingway Chapter of Trout Unlimited.

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SYRINGA SCHOOL HOLDS MAY FAIR CELEBRATION

Syringa Mountain School, a state-funded charter school in south Hailey, held its annual May Fair Celebration on May 13.

The school reported in a press release that the day-long event involved students, school families, teachers and community members.

Syringa reported that the “May Fair is an annual outdoor festival that ritually welcomes the spring, which is traditionally celebrated by Waldorf schools throughout the world. This event engages the students with the larger community and celebrates the spirit in which Waldorf schools nourish and support the child’s connection to nature and the season cycles.”

Activities included face painting, crown making, basket weaving, music, singing, storytelling and the Maypole dance. Syringa reported that the dance “evokes community pride and joy and continues a tradition that was started by celebrants performing in May festivals centuries ago.”

The Sawtooth Interpretive & Historical Association (Sawtooth Association) kicks off the summer 2016 season with the opening of the Stanley Museum in Stanley for Memorial Day weekend, May 28-30, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. On Saturday, June 4, the Stanley Museum will remain open every day, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., through Monday, Sept. 5, and will be open weekends for the remainder of September.

The historic exhibits at the Stanley Museum include the restored Ice House (cold cellar), outdoor displays and medical equipment exhibit. Museum docent Jill Sisson and historic specialist Ken Hartz are available throughout the summer to educate and provide information about the museum and exhibits. In addition, the bookstore will have many new titles, as well as useful guidebooks and maps for the area.

“The Sawtooth Association is proud to honor the Sawtooth Valley and its rich history,” said Sawtooth Association President Gary Gadwa. “It’s important to have ongoing education about our region for area visitors to showcase the life and culture of the Sawtooth Valley while preserving the heritage of its people and sites, which is vital for future generations to know and embrace.”

The Sawtooth Association thanks the Forest Service, Idaho State Historical Society, Idaho Heritage Trust, Idaho Humanities Council and Central Idaho RAC as well as its many individual members for their support. For more information on the Sawtooth Association, programs and membership, visit discoversawtooth.org.

Bellevue Museum Opening Saturday May 28

Noon to 4 PM / N. Main Street / Bellevue

Bellevue’s Old City Hall Museum celebrates its 20th year with its summer opening Saturday, May 28, Memorial Day weekend. The museum is open Saturday and Sunday through the season from noon to 4 p.m., closing after Labor Day. The museum opened with a quilt show on Mother’s Day, 1996, after a two-year restoration effort supported by community funding and donations of time, labor and materials.

Today, the museum is a community treasure – small but packed with local history. A continued focus of the museum is on mining in the Broadford area, particularly the Minnie Moore/Queen of the Hills complex. There are also Bellevue School photos and yearbooks, as well as classic historical photos of the city. A small exhibit pays tribute to the late Pete Cenarrusa, Idaho’s longest serving Secretary of State and a local boy.

The 1881 log jail sits behind Old City Hall. A log cabin originally located out East Fork has been moved to the site and outfitted with late-1880s-to-early-1900s furnishings. Both are open to the public.

Sun Valley Rally Monday May 30

9:30AM to 3PM / Ketchum Town Square Higher Ground Sun Valley is teaming up with Carry The Load, a nonprofit dedicated to restoring the true meaning of Memorial Day, for a Sun Valley Rally. The Sun Valley Rally will be full of events dedicated to providing active ways for the community to honor the countless military, law enforcement, firefighter and rescue personnel who dedicate their lives to keeping our country safe.

The day begins with registration for various events for a day of reflection, remembrance and celebration. Events include Murph Challenge (sponsored by Sun Valley CrossFit), the Monster Mash Challenge (a teamwork-oriented timed race), a community Honor March, a BBQ lunch, live music and more.

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11AM / Hailey Cemetery

Join in Hailey’s 13th annual Memorial Day ceremony. The ceremony will honor the nearly 400 veterans from Blaine County laid to rest at the Hailey Cemetery. This year’s theme is, “Always & Forever…Remember .”

The program will feature all five U.S. military branches providing such duties as Color Guard, wreath-bearer, flag-raiser, firing party, etc. The emcee is CPT Shawn Edwards, from the 116th BSTB (brigade special troops battalions) S1. Members from the Boise Highlander Bagpipers will provide some music, amidst other musical selections, poem readings and more. The ceremony also includes a flyover consisting of two P-51 Mustangs and two Curtiss P-40s, all vintage military fighter jets from the Warhawk Air Museum in Nampa. Come honor the true meaning of Memorial Day! This event will take place rain or shine.

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Ketchum Memorial Day Ceremony MONDAY May 30

11AM / Ketchum Cemetery

David Ketchum Post 115 of the American Legion will host its annual Memorial Day ceremony at the Ketchum Cemetery, north of downtown. The featured speaker will be Col. Gary R. Marlowe, Commander, Mountain Home Air Force Base. Col. Marlowe served in operations Odyssey Dawn, Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom. Among his many assignments have been military aide to the President and speechwriter to the Vice Chief of Staff.

A memorial wreath will be laid in honor of longtime Ketchum resident Colonel Edgar McGowan, U.S. Army veteran recently interred at Arlington National Cemetery. Punctuating the ceremony will be a flyover by a World War II vintage P-51 Mustang and a Curtiss P-40 from the Warhawk Air Museum in Nampa. Traditional red poppies commemorating those who have fallen in service to their country will be available at the ceremony. All are welcome to attend.

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