20 September 2017

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Special Event News Sawtooth Firefighters Ball Will Bring The Heat

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Arts News Political Film To Have Idaho Premiere

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Election News Candidate Profiles For Hailey City Council

“One must maintain a little bit of summer, even in the middle of winter.” ~Henry David Thoreau

For information about this photo, see “On The Cover” on page 3. Courtesy photo by Rich Puddicombe

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SEPTEMBER 20 - 26, 2017

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5:30-7 p.m. Sun Club (North Room), 731 N 1st Ave, Hailey. Info: 208-481-0686

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DOLLARHIDE CROSSES

Does anyone have any knowledge or information about the two metal crosses at the top of Dollarhide Summit?

If so, please contact Blaine County Historical Museum at 208-788-1801

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Lost Black Diamond telescopic walking stick. Red and black in color. If found, please call Becky DeShields 208-928-7203.

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ELKHORN ROAD CONSTRUCTION UPDATE For the week of Sept. 18, work on the Elkhorn project will be underway in the lower section between HWY 75 and Weyyakin Drive. For safety reasons as well as accommodating equipment in the area, one lane of traffic will be closed. Flaggers will be monitoring and directing the flow of traffic into one lane.

Extra care is being taken around private driveways and landscaping through this section, therefore, progress through this section will be slower than normal.

Intermountain Gas is dedicated to the safety of its employees and the public and urges drivers to use caution and reduced speeds through the work zone.

Thank you for your patience as we complete this project.

For more information, see our website: www.intgas.com

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As part of ongoing efforts to maintain safe and reliable service to customers in the Wood River Valley, Intermountain Gas is conducting system upgrades along a section of Elkhorn Road.

Construction is scheduled to be completed by Oct. 15.

LANE RESTRICTION WORK ZONE

T H E W E E K LY S U N • S E P T E M B E R 20 - 26, 2017

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ON THE COVER Bald Mountain is blanketed by the first snowfall of the season on Tuesday morning, looking west from Knob Hill in Ketchum. Courtesy photo by Rich Puddicombe

Local artists & photographers interested in seeing their art on our cover page should email submissions to: mandi@ theweeklysun.com (photos should be high resolution and include caption info such as who or what is in the photo, date and location).

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“I believe it is important for Ketchum to invest back into the community in order to provide excellent services and amenities for residents and visitors. Infrastructure investments that further community values for walkability, the environment, play and safety are key in creating the qualityLorem of lifeipsum and place that will retain and attract residents.

As Mayor, I have budgeted $5.4 million over the past three years for city improvements.”

- MAYOR NINA INFRASTRUCTURE IMPROVEMENTS HAVE INCLUDED: SIDEWALKS, STREET LIGHTING AND TENNIS AND PICKLE BALL COURTS, PARKING BALL FIELDS, AND THE SKATEPARK RIVER TRAIL ACCESS ESSENTIAL EQUIPMENT FOR EMERGENCY RESPONDERS STREET REPAIRS AND DRAINAGE WATER AND ENERGY EFFICIENCIES

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SEPTEMBER 20 - 26, 2017

NEWS SPECIAL EVENT

FIREFIGHTERS BALL TO LIGHT UP YOUR LIFE

City of Ketchum City Plans Little League Field Opening Join Mayor Nina Jonas as she throws the first pitch at the opening of the Little League field at Atkinson Park on Saturday, Sept. 30 at 11 a.m. The city will provide food, drink and swag! Then, stay for the first game on the field.

Request for Proposal for Development Project The city is requesting proposals for a development project that could consist of rental community housing and public parking, or a public parking structure, on city property at the corner of Leadville Ave. and 6th St. Visit ketchumidaho.org/rfpfor full description.

Join the Ketchum Team!

The City of Ketchum has a variety of jobs available. For full job descriptions and application,visit ketchumidaho.org/jobs.

Snow Stake Safety Snow will start to fly soon so Ketchum is preparing for safer snow stakes or road markers in the right of way. Please eliminate the use of steel snow stakes and replace them with fiberglass poles. The steel can be dangerous to pedestrians, vehicles and snow removal equipment.

Public Notice CONDITIONAL USE PERMIT PUBLIC HEARING: On Monday, Oct. 9, at 5:30 p.m. the P&Z Commission will hold three public hearings. Sun Valley Company parking lots – Review of compliance with conditions of approval for a 300-space parking lot located at 319 Puchner Lane (Lot 3, Greyhawk III Subdivision) and a 26-space employee parking lot, equipment storage and pathway located at the south end of Gates Road (Lot 16, Block 2, Greyhawk II Subdivision and Tax Lot 6856) in the T-3000 and AF Grumpy’s Restaurant – Review of compliance with conditions of approval for a food service establishment locatedat 860WarmSprings Rd. in the LI-1zone.

Public Meetings CITY COUNCIL MEETING Monday • October 2 • 5:30 pm • City Hall

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BY MARIA PREKEGES

he 40th annual Sawtooth Valley Firefighters Ball will take place Saturday, Sept. 23 at Redfish Lake Lodge in Stanley. There will be a silent auction starting at 8 p.m., and music by the Boise band Jonathan Warren & The Billy Goats will begin at 9 p.m.

Admission is $10 and there’s a free shuttle to and from the event to run continuously throughout the evening, starting at 7 p.m. in the Mountain Village parking lot and on Ace of Diamonds Street in Stanley.

“The Stanley Community Volunteer Fire Department was established in 1977, spearheaded by Steve and Kathy Cole, whose family owned and operated the Sawtooth Hotel at the time,” said Stephanie Marquis, a volunteer who recently retired after 20 years with the fire department’s district clerk. “They started with 12 volunteers, half of them women. They had one fire truck that was donated by Bill Harrah, of Harrah’s Casinos, who owned the Mountain Village resort at the time.”

Marquis said that one vehicle was used as “matching value” for a grant from the Idaho Department of Lands to obtain other needed equipment for the new department.

The first fireman’s ball took place that same year in the garage of the Mountain Village gas station, and although the venues have varied throughout the year, it’s been held every year since to raise funds for new equipment.

“Given that many of our volunteers serve as

both EMTs on the ambulance and firefighters with the fire department, the ball eventually became a shared effort and all proceeds are split between the two entities,” Marquis said.

The Firefighters Ball attracts about 250 people each year and they hope for the same amount this year. There are lodging and dining options available at Redfish Lake and in Stanley.

“The Sawtooth Valley is an awesome place to be in the fall,” said Marquis. “The crowds have thinned out, fall colors are gorgeous and the air is crisp and clear. We encourage people to make a weekend of it and would prefer that they stick around after a night of fun and not try to drive back home over Galena.

“Everyone is invited and we absolutely encourage folks from the Wood River Valley to come up north. Historically, we’ve always had a good number of folks from the Valley in attendance as well as support from Wood River Valley businesses who donate to the silent auction.”

The silent auction will have a wide variety of items, from gift certificates for dinners to oil changes for your car. There will also be outfitted adventures, hotel stays, veterinary services, artwork, and dental cleanings.

“It’s different every year,” said Marquis.

For more information, visit stanleycc.org/firefighters-ball-sat-sept-23, or contact Cassie Stanley at (208) 774-2222 or email her at cassie.svrfd@ gmail.com. tws

PLANNING & ZONING COMMISSION MEETING Monday • October 9 • 5:30 pm • City Hall

Keep Up With City News Visit ketchumidaho.org to sign up for email notifications, the City eNewsletter and to follow us on Facebook and Twitter.

Email questions and comments to participate@ketchumidaho.org.

NEWS IN BRIEF

Idaho Gets Poor Grade In Climate Preparedness

Climate Central gave Idaho a D+ in its “States and Climate Risk” report (reportcard.statesatrisk.org) due to the intensity of risks the state faces, such as drought and fires, but also as a result of the lack of preparedness by the state to deal with these risks.

According to the Sun Valley Institute, climate scientists have warned for decades that there will be fires, hurricanes and floods to come, and yet states have not acted fast enough to avoid the destruction we’re seeing today.

SVI will host gatherings to continue to inform and inspire a resilient community, starting with “An Evening of Climate Optimism: Building Resilient Prosperity – How Public Leadership and Private Innovation are Transforming Risk into Opportunity” in New York City on Sept. 20; and three talks called Discover the Vision, Monday, Sept. 25, Friday, Oct. 6, and Tuesday, Oct. 17, in Ketchum.

To reserve a place for any of these events, call (208) 928-7873 or send an email to inquiries@sunvalleyinstitute.org.

Idaho Power Explosive Sounds Will Continue

Idaho Power is continuing to work on the reconstruction of the King to Wood River 138-kV transmission line that runs from Hailey down to the Snake River near Hagerman.

Crews are currently setting new poles and stringing conductor lines in the Hailey area. The crews are using implosive devices to connect the new wires. These devices make a loud noise when attached. This work will be necessary for the next two to three weeks west of Hailey, and there may be six to 12 connections made per day.

“We appreciate customers’ patience and understanding with the noise—this rebuild work is part of the Wood River Electrical Plan to enhance energy reliability in the Valley,” said Tom Barber, project manager.

Another Earthquake Strikes Mexico

An earthquake registering 7.1 struck central Mexico on Tuesday afternoon about 100 miles south of Mexico City. Buildings swayed violently in the center of the capitol city, including in the historic districts of El Centro and Roma. Closer to the epicenter, the quake toppled buildings with people still inside, and sent people flooding into the streets for the second time in just two weeks.

On Tuesday afternoon, 61 people had been reported killed.

According to The New York Times, the earthquake struck on the 32nd anniversary of another major disaster: the 1985 quake that killed as many as 10,000 people in Mexico.

Photo courtesy of Sawtooth Valley Firefighters

NEWS IN BRIEF

Special Weather Alert

According to weather reports, there will be more snow accumulation above 6,000 feet this week. Cool temperatures tonight will be followed by a brief warm-up Wednesday, but a cold front during the day will allow much cooler air to filter into the area. Snow levels are forecast to drop to near Valley floors, but with little accumulation below 6,000 feet.

Snow totals tonight through Thursday night are forecast to range from 2 to 6 inches, though areas above 8,500 feet could see accumulations between 6 and 12 inches.

Roadways for the next couple days will be slick at times, especially in the Sawtooth Mountains-Big and Little Wood River region, the Lost River/Pahsimeroi areas, and in the cities of Stanley, Clayton, Hailey, Ketchum, Bellevue, Arco, Challis and Mackay.

Land Trust To Host a Family- and Pet-Friendly BAH

The Wood River Land Trust will team up with The Chamber to host a family- and pet-friendly Business After Hours at the Land Trust’s pavilion at the Draper Wood River Preserve, from 5-7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 21 Tasty treats from the Wood River Sustainability Center, KB’s and Sawtooth Brewery will be served.

Cornhole games will be set up and there will be an update given on the progress of Hailey Greenway Master Plan.

LLR 81974 The Bureau of Land Management will discuss its new regional Travel Plan. The Trailing of the Sheep ADJUSTABLE Festival will have a booth and, the Animal Shelter of the Wood River Valley will have dogs and cats for adoption.

DESK RISER For any questions, please contact the Wood River Land Trust at (208) 788-3947.

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SEPTEMBER 20 - 26, 2017

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NEWS IN BRIEF

Ketchum Artist Donates Artwork To Amazon Watch

Sawtooth Botanical Garden To Thank Volunteers & Community

Ketchum artist Will Caldwell has donated two large oil paintings to the rainforest conservation group “Amazon Watch” for its annual fall fundraising event held in San Francisco on Wednesday, Sept. 27.

Caldwell’s two paintings portray indigenous women of the Huaorani and Achuar tribes of Ecuador where Amazon Watch is working with communities to advance protection of their lands.

Caldwell’s paintings were created with the intention of donating them to raise funds for conservation after Caldwell and his wife Julie visited rural communities in Ecuador and Peru.

Amazon Watch is a nonprofit organization founded in 1996 to protect the rainforest and advance the rights of indigenous peoples in the Amazon Basin. The group partners with indigenous environmental organizations in campaigns for human rights, corporate accountability and preservation of the Amazon’s ecological systems.

Caldwell has a longstanding commitment to forest conservation; he was formerly president of Ketchum’s chapter of the Idaho Conservation league, and board president of the Idaho Sporting Congress of Boise, which is credited with ending illegal logging practices on Idaho’s national forests.

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Crash Takes Life In Buhl

A fatal crash occurred Monday morning just outside of Buhl. Claudia Padilla Valdez, 24, of Buhl, was driving eastbound on 3800 North in a 2013 Hyundai Sonata. Scott Waller, 56, also of Buhl, was driving southbound on 1000 East in a Peterbuilt semi pulling a trailer.

Padilla Valdez failed to yield at the stop sign and entered the intersection, where her vehicle was struck on the driver’s side by the semi. Both vehicles came to rest on the southeast corner of the intersection. The semi came to rest on its side.

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The Papoose Club will hold its annual Open House Social Monday, Sept. 25 at the new Limelight Hotel in Ketchum. Anyone that may be interested in hearing a little more about the Papoose Club should plan to attend.

There will be an abbreviated meeting with one grant request but the main focus will be on socializing and giving guests the opportunity to ask questions. The Papoose Club is a nonprofit volunteer organization that supports youth-oriented groups in the Wood River Valley through fundraising activities and community events.

The club’s mission is to promote and assist cultural, social, educational and athletic activities for the children of the Wood River Valley. I hope you will consider joining us for the informational, fun (and free) evening to learn a little more and see if you think it might be a fit now or in the future.

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“We couldn’t have made the remarkable progress we did this year without our amazing volunteers and the community’s support,” said Kat Vanden Heuvel, executive director. “As a nonprofit organization, it means so much.”

The SBG is located at 11 Gimlet Road, four miles south of Ketchum on Highway 75.

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Sawtooth Valley

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FIREFIGHTERS IDAHO RISING TO PRESENT BALL POLITICAL DOCUMENTARY Saturday, September 23 Redfish Lake Lodge Live music from 9 pm - 12 am Jonathan Warren and the Billy Goats Silent Auction from 8pm - 11pm Admission: $10

Free shuttle provided from Stanley to Redfish Lake and back throughout the evening

For additional information contact Cassie at cassie.svrfd@gmail.com

KNITTING NIGHT Help us knit blankets to welcome immigrants to the United States!

In the Welcome Blanket Project, each handmade blanket is a physical manifestation of this celebration of new refugees and other immigrants: “Welcome to the United States and your new life here!

We are so glad you have arrived.”

Join us on September 21, 28, and October 5 at 5:00 p.m. to make squares of a blanket we will combine and send to the Welcome Blanket Project. The blankets you make, along with enclosed notes, will be displayed together in an inaugural show at the Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago through December 17. After the show’s close, the blanket packages will be distributed to refugees and other immigrants through resettlement organizations.”

For more information, please call 788-2036 or our website at haileypubliclibrary.org.

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new documentary film, “Waking the Sleeping Giant: The Making of a Political Revolution,” will have its Idaho premiere at 6:30 p.m.

Thursday, Sept. 21 at the Wood River High School Performing Arts Theatre located at the Community Campus in Hailey.

The film will be hosted by a new Wood River Valley-based citizens group, Idaho Rising.

Following the screening, there will be a filmmaker question-and-answer period with Katherine Goldman, one of the film’s producers. With Jacob Smith and Jon D. Erickson, Goldman spent more than two years filming in 11 states at debates and marches, protests and conventions.

Produced by the group’s own Purple Frog Production, the feature-length documentary “chronicles a two-party American political system that has lost touch with the people it is supposed to represent, and helps chart a course forward to a democracy that works for everyone,” Goldman said.

It also features a cast of notables, including Sen. Bernie Sanders, Dream Corps co-founder Van Jones, Amy Goodman of Democracy Now, former Labor Secretary Robert Reich, and host and founder of The Young Turks, Cenk Uygur.

Rising voices in the progressive movement appear along the way, including Linda Sarsour, one of the organizers of the Women’s March on Washington.

“Jacob, my colleague and an old friend (and the former mayor of Golden, Colo.), was working for Bernie (Sanders) in the Senate, as a staffer,” Goldman said.

“He was holding town hall meetings, and noticing a lot of movement going on.”

When they realized that Sanders might run, the duo decided to make a film, and asked Erickson, an experienced filmmaker and professor of ecological economics at the University of Vermont, to join them.

“We started with Bernie in Iowa in February 2015,” Goldman said. “He was exploring a run, talking to community groups, universities and unions.

We had good access. Bernie and his staff are great. (Smith had left Sanders’ staff by then).

“We thought we were going to make a movie about Bernie; inside the campaign,” Goldman

said. “He is who he is. He’s not different than what he is onstage.

He’s a public servant in the real sense of the word.”

The documentary “chronicles a two-party American political system that has lost touch with the people it is supposed to represent, and helps chart a course forward to a democracy that works for everyone.”

The trio began with Sanders’ campaign announcement, and then moved on to the Democracy Spring march on Washington, D.C., sit-ins and marches.

Through the course of filming at these events, they met the people who also became lead characters in the film.

One, Sabrina Shrader, from coal country in West Virginia, is an anti-poverty activist who was so inspired, she ran for office.

Another, Jan Williams, is a bus driver in the Los Angeles school district.

“She’s working on Black Lives Matter, and justice for those killed by police, especially Wakiesha Wilson,” Goldman said, referring to the young woman who died in an L.A. jail cell in 2016.

“Jan is a huge part of the film.”

Filmmakers must act as a witness, “which doesn’t mean you don’t have a perspective,” Goldman said. “We definitely had a perspective. But you don’t know what’s going to happen.”

Through each event and interview, the film evolved to include people whose views were strong and unique.

“We were telling the story of Bernie running, and doing interviews with public thinkers, activists, and journalists, focusing on economic justice issues,” Goldman said. “Racial justice issues became vital to follow.”

Goldman, a political consultant and an elected official in Bellevue, said the stories they discovered on the road were “vitally important.”

“The biggest single thing, which was a surprise or huge change in our focus, was we thought the film was going to be about economic populism and inequality,” she said. “This was one of the dominant themes in the primary for a while. But, as Van Jones says (in the documentary), the ‘racial justice movement charged the stage’ and forced the left-wing establishment to grapple with a broader range of issues. That ended up as a key part of the story we told, even though it wasn’t something we anticipated going in.”

Bellevue resident Katherine Goldman produced the film, “Waking The Sleeping Giant.” Photo by Dana DuGan

Goldman admitted she got a “much deeper understanding of the level of discontent in this country and the sources of it.

It added to my perspective and gave me a national angle on rural frustration over being called a ‘flyover zone’” by politicians.

While Goldman said the debates were crazy, “filming at the Ada County Caucus (in Boise) was profound. It was pouring and people were standing in the rain and wind waiting to get in.

Bernie inspired that. It was really interesting… people who were there who’d never voted, old people, Republicans who’d hadn’t questioned anything before. It was an unprecedented level of attendance at that caucus.

“What animated so many voters was that, in the end, there were people in the mix who were outside of the status quo.”

“Waking the Sleeping Giant” premiered in the U.S. on April 19, 2017 at the Thin Line Fest in Denton, Texas, where it was named the festival’s “Best Feature Documentary.” It had its international premiere at the DOXA film festival in Vancouver, Canada, and numerous other screenings in states around the U.S. “It’s important for our group and the broader community to come together to see this film and discuss what can be done in Idaho,” said Molly Page, a founding member of the host group, Idaho Rising. “Since January, grassroots groups have emerged across the state.”

The screening of ‘Waking the Sleeping Giant’ at the Community Campus is free.

NEWS IN BRIEF

Child Passenger Safety Week Continues Through Friday

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Keeping children safe on the road means putting them in the right safety restraint at the right age.

That’s the message from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and the Idaho Transportation Department during National Child Passenger Safety Week Sept. 17–23.

Motor-vehicle traffic crashes are a leading killer of children, but properly used child safety seats have been shown to reduce fatal injury by 71 percent for infants (under a year old) and by 54 percent for toddlers (1 to 4 years old).

“From 2011 to 2015, 12 children under the age of seven that were killed in Idaho passenger-vehicle crashes were unrestrained,” said Sherry Jenkins with the ITD’s Office of Highway Safety. “Those kids would likely have survived, or had a much better chance, had they been properly buckled up.”

Idaho has more than 260 certified child passenger safety technicians committed to educating parents and caregivers about the best ways to keep kids safe while traveling in cars, no matter how short or long the trip.

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NEWS ELECTION

FOUR RESIDENTS VIE FOR HAILEY CITY COUNCIL SEATS

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BY DICK DORWORTH

wo of four Hailey City Council seats will be on the Nov. 7 ballot. Incumbent Martha Burke is being challenged by Jeff Bacon, currently the executive director of The Chamber of the Wood River Valley, formally known as The Hailey Chamber of Commerce.

Kaz Thea and Henno Heitur are running for the seat held by longtime councilman Don Keirn, a member of the city council since 2001, who will retire at the end of his term.

Burke has been a member of the city council since 1994. If she wins this time, she will take her seventh oath of office in January.

Burke, 70, told The Weekly Sun that it is “so much fun” to be on the city council and that she is “so excited” to receive the draft agenda before every council meeting because she continues to learn and build upon her experience.

“Experience counts,” she says.

Burke says that a major challenge facing Hailey is the lack of workforce housing.

“People who work in a community and can’t live in it, and leave for and return home each day in the dark, live a lonely community life, and the community they work in—but can’t live in—can become hollow at the core,” Burke says.

Jeff Bacon

Her opponent, Jeff Bacon, grew up in Boise and visited Bald Mountain whenever he and his friends could talk a parent into making the drive. He moved to California while in high school and eventually worked in San Francisco, in marketing, with Hyatt Hotels, and with the G.S. Haly Company, the largest importer of premium teas in the U.S. In 2010, Bacon returned to Idaho and the Wood River Valley. He began working at The Chamber in 2015 and was named executive director in 2016.

Bacon is a five-time medalist from his two appearances at World Martial Arts Championships. He enjoys mountain biking, skiing and backpacking, and lives in Hailey with his partner, Tracey, and their two dogs, Doug

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Wood River Jewish Community HIGH HOLY DAYS SERVICES

All services are held at St. Thomas Episcopal Church, 201 Sun Valley Road For these Days of Awe: Rabbi Julie Saxe-Taller, Cantor Judy Schiff, Jim Watkinson, Musical Accompanist

ROSH HASHANAH

Wednesday, September 20 7:30 p.m. Rosh Hashanah Evening Service Thursday, September 21 10:00 a.m. Rosh Hashanah Day Service followed by Tashlich

YOM KIPPUR

Friday, September 29 7:30 p.m. Kol Nidre/Yom Kippur Evening Service Sunday, September 30 10:00 a.m. Morning Service 4:00 p.m. Children’s Service 5:00 p.m. Afternoon Service/Yizkor and Neilah 7:00 p.m. Community Break the Fast

Wood River Jewish Community 471 Leadville Avenue – Ketchum wrjc.org – wrjc@wrjc.org – Phone: 208-726-1183 Kaz Thea

and Marci.

Thea is a well-known Valley social and environmental activist. She has managed the Wood River Farmers’ Markets for 13 years.

Born in 1961 in New York City, Thea grew up in Scarsdale, attended college at the University of Vermont (where she helped Bernie Sanders win his first election as mayor of Burlington) and graduated from Evergreen State College, in Olympia, Wash., where she studied environmental science and education. She has a master’s degree in natural science from the University of Idaho. Thea is married to Kurt Nelson, district ranger for the Ketchum District U.S. Forest Service. Their son, Kai, is 15.

“My parents instilled in me a strong work ethic, community engagement and serving my community,” Thea said. “Running for city council is a natural progression for my volunteerism, professional work and community organizing interests. Building safe streets for pedestrians and bikes to create a walkable, rideable community and a vibrant downtown are top priorities. I’m running because we need fresh ideas, creative solutions, and a bold, progressive vision for City Hall.”

Heitur is a guitarist with the local band Cake Face Jane and the founder/owner of Cake Face Jane Music. He has lived in the Wood River Valley for 11 years, and bought his home in Hailey in 2012.

“I have no previous political or community organization experience,” Heitur says on his website VoteHenno.org. “I commute to my 40-hour-a-week job in Ketchum, where I do building maintenance for Thunder Spring.

You might catch me playing guitar at one of our local live music venues. I am your neighbor, your client and your customer, and I want to be your council member.

I will bring an open and fresh outlook to the council, unencumbered by current or past affiliations. I have worked with boards and management of homeowners’ associations for 26 years; the smallest form of self-government.” tws

THE NEW SCIENCE OF SINGLE LIVING A WORKSHOP FOR DIVORCEES, WIDOWS OR NEVER MARRIED

This workshop offers the latest views and research about single living with methods that promote a solo lifestyle based within an architecture of sustainable happiness.

Using personal experience along with an evidence-based positive approach, Christina reframes personal challenges with realistic optimism. Goals are identified that build a contented lifestyle.

Discussions end on viable ways to search for romantic partners.

Be ready to laugh, learn, and be inspired to live single in a refreshing new way.

Date: Friday September 29 Time: 6-8:30 Where: 101 E Bullion St. 3J, Hailey, Idaho Cost: $55/person Early Bird Special: $45 if paid in full by September 19th Go to christinatindle.com/payments.html Use Paypal or Mail check to Christina Tindle, Box 5877, Hailey, 83333

FALL 2017 CLASS SCHEDULE Adult Classes Tuition $150/ four week classes ALL LEVEL THROWING with Lauren Street Session 1: Mondays ~ OCT 2, 9, 16, 23 9:30-12:30 Session 2: Mondays ~ NOV 6, 13, 20, 27 9:30-12:30 BEGINNING SCULPTURE with Bridgette Aldrich Session 1: Wednesdays ~ OCT 4, 11, 18, 25 9:30-12:30 Session 2: Wednesdays ~ NOV 1, 8, 15, 29 9:30-12:30 HANDBUILDING with Cliff Frates Session 1: Thursdays ~ OCT 5, 12, 19, 26 9:30-12:30 Session 2: Thursdays ~ NOV 2, 9, 16, 30 9:30-12:30 THROW A PLATE with Lauren: $35 Tuesday NOV 7 6:00-9:00 One evening, 3 hours and you’ll be an ace plate maker

Youth Classes

Children’s Clay Daze with Diane Walker: Tuition $148 Tuesdays OCT 3, 10, 17, 24, 31, NOV 7 3:00-4:30 Teen Throwing: Tuition $165 Thursdays OCT 5, 12, 19, 26, NOV 2, 9 4:00-6:00

Christina Tindle, LPC

Call: 208.315.3075 www.christinatindle.com

Boulder Mountain Clayworks OPEN STUDIO FOR TEENS Selected Saturdays 2:00-4:00 $10/ Saturday SEPT 9 & 23 ~ OCT 14 & 28 ~ NOV 4 & 18 ~ DEC 2 & 9 Teens must have previous throwing experience in middle school and up FAMILY SATURDAY CLASSES Tuition: $45 for one adult and one child. $10 for each additional person.

Halloween Witches ~ OCT 14 10:00-12:00 or 2:00-4:00 Thanksgiving Turkeys ~ NOV 4 10:00-12:00 or 2:00-4:00 Holiday Candle Holders ~ DEC 9 10:00-12:00 or 2:00-4:00 7th ANNUAL EMPTY BOWL-A-THON Open and Free to the community!

SATURDAY OCT 7 10:00-2:00 Join Boulder Mountain Clayworks in its efforts to benefit the Blaine County Hunger Coalition. Bring a friend and make bowls that will be sold at our 7th annual Empty Bowl lunch on January 14th, 2018. Schedule your book club or service organization for an “Empty Bowl” event at Boulder Mountain Clayworks this fall, OCT 10- DEC 10th. No experience necessary.

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NEWS IN BRIEF

Women Vets To Meet At Summit

In celebration of the American Women Veterans Foundation’s Inaugural Leaders Summit in Sun Valley, the group will present “Not Every G.I. Is A Joe” at 6 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 21 at the Presbyterian Church of the Big Wood’s River Room, in Ketchum.

The event will be held to introduce women veterans from past, present and current eras as they tell their stories.

More than 2.2 million women veterans live in the United States. Women represent approximately 15 percent of modern military forces, and with the recent lifting of restrictions on women in combat-arms jobs, that percentage is increasing. Despite the military’s official inclusion of women into combat arms, women have served on the front lines of the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts.

Panelists will include retired Major General Dee Ann McWilliams, who served 29 years in the U.S. Army, as well as serving on the advisory boards of the Army Historical Foundation and the Army Women’s Foundation, where she served as president. In 2007, McWilliams joined the board of directors for the Women in Military Service for America Memorial Foundation, assuming the position of vice chair in 2014.

Also on the panel will be U.S. Army Reserve, Sergeant First Class (Promotable) Genevieve Chase, a Valley resident and founder of American Women Veterans, who served for 14 years as a Counterintelligence Special Agent with two deployments to Afghanistan with the 10th Mountain Division and 101st Airborne Division. Chase is currently a Drill Sergeant Candidate with Bravo Company, 2nd Battalion, 414th Regiment, 95th Division, out of Gowen Field, Boise. In 2010, she was selected by the U.S. Army as an All American Soldier Hero and in 2016 was inducted into the U.S. Army Women’s Foundation Hall of Fame.

In 2015, the nonprofit AWV relocated its headquarters from Washington, D.C., to the Wood River Valley.

The event is free to military veterans with proper identification, and $20 for adults and $10 for children under the age of 18.

THE WEEK

Locavores at Local Food Alliance’s Elevated Table farm-to-table dinner on Friday applaud two of the farmers who grew some of the food served at the event.

Standing—from left to right—are Kurtis and Roxine Williams, owners of Waterwheel Gardens in Emmett, and Food Alliance Director Ali Long. Photo by Thia Konig (www.thiakonig.com), courtesy of Local Food Alliance

Ketchum Arts Commission Unveils First ‘Surprise Art’ Project

The City of Ketchum and Ketchum Arts Commission are celebrating the first “Surprise Art” project now on display on the south side of the Ketchum Innovation Center building located at 311 First Ave. N., in Ketchum.

A Wood River Valley native and resident of Portland, Ore., Rudi Broschofsky created the city’s newest public art. The artwork consists of metallic enamel and spray paint on 5-foot-high wood panels that stretch across 36 feet of the building’s outside wall.

Broschofsky’s work, titled “Flight,” is based on a proverb about the wise old owl. According to Broschofsky, the owl’s open wings symbolize a welcoming nature to outsiders and entrepreneurs.

Wings also “denote the idea of flight, as the KIC is a place where aspirations hatch and take flight into something more successful and concrete,” Broschofsky said.

Ketchum Mayor Nina Jonas said the newest addition to Ketchum’s public art inventory underscores the city’s commitment to the value of art to engage and enhance quality of life. “Art in public spaces engages the community in their environment, inviting conversation and contemplation,” Jonas added.

“All of us on the Ketchum Arts Commission are thrilled with the results of our first Surprise Art project,” said Courtney Gilbert, chair of the Ketchum Arts Commission and curator of visual arts at the Sun Valley Center for the Arts. “Rudi’s owl activates the exterior of the KIC building in a visually engaging way. His dynamic artwork is a great example of the way art can help enliven the city. We’re looking forward to pursuing other more temporary, pop-up Surprise Art projects around the city in the future.”

A group with true grit painfully enjoys a round of stein hoisting – a centuries-old, Bavarian competition – at Oktoberfest. The contestant who can hold her or his beer at arm’s length for the longest amount of time wins. Photo courtesy of Sawtooth Brewery

Tour Gardens

The Sawtooth Botanical Garden will celebrate the Trailing of the Sheep Festival with free guided tours of the Garden of Infinite Compassion and other popular gardens Wednesday through Sunday, Oct. 4-8.

Tours of the Garden of Infinite Compassion will be held from 10-11 a.m. each day. The Compassion Garden was created to honor the 2005 visit of His Holiness the Dalai Lama to the Wood River Valley and hosts a rare Tibetan prayer wheel, one of only two of its size in North America.

Additional tours will be held from 4-5 p.m. each day. These tours will explore the newly installed Garden of the Five Senses Montane Garden that features native plants and perennial beds filled with cultivated plants that flourish at high altitudes.

SBG is located at 11 Gimlet Road, four miles south of Ketchum on Highway 75. For more information, visit sbgarden.org or call (208) 726-9358.

Oktoberfest attendees enjoy the scene while some participate in games such as hammerschlagen (or “hammer striking,” in which several players try to hammer a nail into a stump) and chicken bingo (not shown). Photo courtesy of Sawtooth Brewery

Bellevue Resident Crashes Onto House

Bellevue resident and hang glider Jake Harris was in a hang-gliding accident on Sunday, Sept. 17. In his fall, Harris landed on a roof and then slid off onto a porch.

Harris was life-flighted to St. Alphonsus Regional Medical Center in Boise. In the accident, he fractured three ribs, his pelvis, a vertebra and his tailbone. He has a long road of recovery ahead of him, and will have a lot of medical bills. He also broke his eyeglasses in the crash. To help, visit gofundme. com/4gacc74.

Attendees at Local Food Alliance’s annual Wood River Valley HarvestFest restaurant walk check out the scene on Saturday evening outside of International Cowboy Cocina and diVine Wine Bar in Hailey.

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The chefs prepare a smoked salmon dish during The Elevated Table. From left to right are Mimi Gorby (who volunteered to work as a server during the dinner “because she just wanted to help,” according to Local Food Alliance Director Ali Long), Chef Brian Janego of Town Square Tavern in Ketchum, Chef Sarah Lipton and Chef Sean Temple of Warfield Distillery & Brewery in Ketchum. Photo by Thia Konig (www.thiakonig.com), courtesy of Local Food Alliance

Oktoberfest revelers salute the camera. Photo courtesy of Sawtooth Brewery

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Fishing R epoRt

ACTIVE ART COLUMN SKETCHBOOK HIKING THE “WEEKLY” FISHING REPORT FOR SEPT. 20 - 26 FROM PICABO ANGLER

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all has arrived in the Sun Valley area, seemingly with the flick of a switch.

Cooler daytime and nighttime temperatures have brought on the first of the fall hatches. With a great season already under our belt, the next few weeks are going to be icing on the cake.

Silver Creek was loaded with October Caddis this weekend.

This hatch, for the first time, really became something to look forward to last season. We’ve never really had epic October Caddis on the Creek—never enough to get the fish to key on them—until last season. It is apparent it was not a one-year event.

Plan on making an Orange Stimulator a part of your arsenal.

Fish them in sizes 10 to 14 and treat them like a Grasshopper; cast them at rising fish and along the banks or at the channels between the weeds.

Fall Baetis and the Mahogany Dun have also begun to show up on the Creek. Expect these hatches to increase in volume over the next week. By the weekend, we should be in fullblown hatch mode and the Creek should be on fire.

The Big Wood is seeing a few fall bugs, as well. The Fall Baetis hatches are increasing with the inclement weather, the Western Red Quill is showing up and the Hopper fishing continues to be very good. Be ready to fish small bugs on fine tippets and huge bugs on heavy tippet. This time of the season can provide plenty of opportunity for both.

Think about fishing during banker’s hours, cover a lot of water and look for rising fish in the slickest parts of the runs.

The Upper Lost is fishing okay for those willing to cover a lot of water. Put your walking shoes on for the Upper and take your small attractor flies. If you can fish a few miles of water, you should catch several nice fish.

The Lower Lost is at very fishable flows and will always fish well with red-colored Nymphs this time of the year.

Be sure to have your Baetis selection and your Hopper box, as well.

The South Fork of the Boise is still a Hopper destination, with Fall Baetis and some Flying Ants in the mix. The flows have dropped to very wadeable water and the abundance of riffles cries out for searching with Nymphs and Strike Indicators.

Be ready with fine tippets and small bugs if the Baetis hatch blows up.

Happy fishing, everyone!

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THE BECKONING COLORS OF BERRIES

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BY LESLIE REGO

uring the month of September there are some bright reds peeking out amongst the foliage along our mountain trails. One is the chokecherry berry and the other is the rose hip, the accessory fruit of the wild rose bush.

On an early morning hike, the sun catches these reds, making the berries glisten. Rose hips are one of the highest sources of vitamin C. In just one rose hip there is the vitamin C equivalent to five oranges! In fact, in Britain, during World War II, an elixir from rose hips was made as a vitamin for children’s diets to help keep them healthy.

I like the color of the rose hips, which is a mixture of red and orange. The smooth surface easily catches the light, causing the reds and oranges to shimmer. It is not unusual to find one side of the rose hips primarily red and the other side, away from the sun, an orangish color. I also think the slightly elongated shape is very elegant. Completing the rose hip are five spurs, which jut out of

the tubular end.

The chokecherry berry is another red berry that easily attracts the eye during a hike. The berries transition from a very bright red, to burgundy, to deep purple and, finally, to an almost black color. Each color is elegant. They hang in clusters from reddish twigs that clasp to grey branches. The smooth skin of the berries, like the rose hips, catches the light, creating reflected highlights along the contours.

When sliced open, the berry has a single pit. The pits are poisonous, with toxic amounts of cyanide. Cyanide also exists in the chokecherry leaves and bark. As chokecherry’s name suggests, if the cherry is eaten directly from the tree, it will pucker up the mouth and cause a choking or a gagging sensation. The berry becomes sweeter as the season progresses and is actually quite sweet after the first frost. The birds feast off the berries during the long winter months.

I ask myself as I walk along the trail, “Why am I so intrigued by these two bright reds in the forest?” I think it is because my

Leslie Rego, “Chokecherry Berries and Rose Hips,” pencil, colored pencils.

senses are shifting from summer outings, where I see an abundance of colorful flowers scattered throughout the woods, to an autumn-based experience, where the colors are on the trees with a few interspersed bright reds peeking out among the lower bushes. Seeing these shifts in both the colors and the placements of the colors keeps me alert to the seasonal nuances of

the forest. The height of autumn, with the bright yellows, has not hit yet, but there are transitional colors to be found within the woods.

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

COLUMN SCIENCE OF PLACE

LIONS & TIGERS & LIGERS – OH, MY!

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BY SARAH BAHANUS [SIC]

y last column provided a brief history of taxonomy and discussed how all living organisms are categorized into Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, and Species bins. What defines a species though? This may sound like a simple question, but the answer is hotly debated by biologists and philosophers alike.

Many believe, as is often taught in elementary school, that if two animals cannot produce fertile offspring, they must be different species. A classic example is a horse and donkey. They are capable of mating, but their offspring (mules or hinnies, depending on whether the mother is a horse or a donkey, respectively) are usually infertile.

But what if the offspring are fertile? Lions and tigers rarely overlap in nature, but when a male lion is mated with a female tiger in captivity, their female offspring are capable of reproducing. Despite being in the same genus (Panthera) and the existence of fertile ligresses, no one would argue that an African lion (P. leo) and a Siberian tiger (P. tigris) are the same species. By contrast, as climate change shrinks polar bear (Ursus maritimus) habitat and forces the animals to change their behaviors, they are starting to naturally encounter and breed with grizzly bears (Ursus arctos). Though their pizzly offspring appear to be fertile, the parent bear species are still separate and distinct enough to be recognized as unique species.

Or what if the organism in question does not even reproduce sexually? This is the case with bacteria and many plants, which makes the fertility of hybrid crosses irrelevant.

Questions like these hint at the complexity of defining what makes a species a species.

The idea of a species is a human construct, one that we use as shorthand to make better sense of the natural world and its denizens. As such, there is no clear-cut answer. Jorge Louis Borges drew attention to the rather arbitrary nature and inherent cultural biases of species classification when he sorted animals into 14 categories, which in-

Male and female ligers taken at Everland Amusement Park, South Korea. Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository.

cluded: stray dogs, fabulous ones, and those that, at a distance, resemble flies.

In fact, there are dozens of logical “species concepts” that can be used to help sort living creatures. One is based on evolutionary lineages, another based on ecological niches; one is rooted in the physical appearance of an organism, whereas a competing version is based on genetic variation.

Over the centuries, biologists and taxonomists have largely shifted to grouping organisms based on their evolutionary relationships, so that organisms are grouped together if they share a common ancestor and thus find themselves on the same branch of the family tree. Members of Family Canidae all share a common ancestor distinct from the one that eventually gave rise Family Felidae, but they are both in Order Carnivora, denoting the fact that they are more closely related to one another than either is to primates.

Though there will always be a degree of arbitrariness in defining a species or a unique population of individuals within a species, the most common practice of bequeathing a

species designation to any group of organisms is essentially a pluralistic one. If a taxonomist decides a population is sufficiently distinct from all other populations, using the most applicable species concept for the occasion, then it gets recognized as its own species.

The core purpose of defining and recognizing distinct species is to study and understand life. Beyond the scientific necessity of being able to discuss organisms in both theoretical and applied biology, identifying species has a lot of practical import in the current extinction crisis and subsequent conservation efforts.

Being able to quantify and identify species as a basic unit of biology has become increasingly critical to the public, politicians, and lawmakers alike as we collectively weigh what to protect and how, such as under the aegis of Endangered Species Act. Sarah Bahan grew up in the Wood River Valley and currently works as a veterinarian at Sawtooth Animal Center in Bellevue.

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COLUMN ON LIFE’S TERMS

HEY, TEACH!

most without exception, a gem shone amidst the sentence errors or dangling modifiers. Perhaps a very time the school year starts, many student trusted relating an intensely private exteachers experience a similar mixture of perience to me, or possibly a 10th-grader finalangst and joy. As I have aged and taught ly realized the art of being specific. Whatever it less, I miss the complex emotions that accompany was, it gave me intense joy, like I had when I saw September. I am fortunate even now to be given a gleam in the eye of sudden understanding from an occasional opportunity to teach, and I leave the the quiet back row of my class. classroom each day thrilled by the hours I have I have written before of some of my vivid expespent with students. I regret the riences, both negative and positive, loss of my former career and wish I as an English teacher, but have hescould still say, “I teach at....” itated to publish those ever since Certainly I am looking back on reading Frank McCourt’s quintesmy career as a teacher with the sential teaching memoir, “Teacher proverbial rose-colored glasses.

Man.” When I met him years ago There were, of course, exhausting at the Sun Valley Writers’ Conhours and traumatic episodes in ference, I was overwhelmed when those years. he shared a hunk of time with me, If you teach out of a passion for comparing notes on the perils and your subject and a true affection joys of instructing and inspiring for students, then you work very in 20th-century American public hard. Many people who have not schools. taught think of the job as consistSometimes I wonder if my ing of hours spent at school, not all JoEllen Collins—a longtime teacher friends have dreams simithe others that consume one’s days. resident of the Wood River lar to the one I have every SeptemValley— is an Idaho Press My daughters say they never recall Club award-winning colum- ber: I hear the bell, the students a time when we were on an eve- nist, a teacher, writer, fabric are arriving, my classroom door ning or weekend excursion when I artist, choir member and opens, and I realize I am either didn’t have papers to correct filling unabashedly proud grandma naked or still in my bathrobe and my big school bag. (An ironic note: known as “Bibi Jo.” slippers. I senselessly try to slip when my house burned down, one out to the teachers’ lounge as soon of the only things that survived was a huge set of as the kids have sat down. Now I chuckle at this uncorrected papers in the back of my car.) recurring dream, like the ones about forgetting Sometimes, of course, I bewailed my chores lines onstage or not being able to dial an importwith huge amounts of paper correction and edit- ant number or persuade someone to get me to an ing, but then I reminded myself of the grab-bag airport in time. Nonetheless, I yearn for those of surprises awaiting me when I put my red pen chalk-dusty rooms and regret September will to the pile on my desk (or by my beach chair). Al- never mean the same to me. tws

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BY JOELLEN COLLINS

LETTER TO THE EDITOR BOB WIEDERRICK

Vote Yes On Hailey’s Business-Friendly Initiatives

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aking it easier for small business to start and flourish should not be a partisan issue. Studies have shown commercial and light-industrial developments pay for themselves over and over again while providing the jobs, products, and services that people demand.

A quick look at the top property taxpayer accounts in Hailey shows that commercial development tax collections far outpace those of residential development. Commercial development does not receive any homeowner exemptions that residential development does.

Commercial development is essential to Hailey’s economy by adding to our tax base, bringing in much needed jobs, adding vitality, and creating more retail and service options for our community. It is time to correct the mistake that the City of Hailey made by adopting the Development Impact Fees for commercial and light-industrial development. We need to remove this barrier to support our local businesses.

The City of Hailey has illegally charged excessive fees for development previously as was proven in the Old Cutters annexation court case.

The City of Hailey wasted over $178,000 of our tax dollars trying to support their flawed annex-

ation agreement. By state law, a city cannot make a profit on fees, and any and all fees have to be justified in terms of a validated cost to the city.

Quite simply, the City of Hailey makes more money on commercial developments than it costs to service these developments. One study in Tennessee found that for every dollar in revenue collected from commercial and LI use, only $0.20 was spent on providing services. Not only should these fees be illegal, according to state law, they also discourage new commercial development that we all benefit from.

We are extremely fortunate to have two major employers here in Hailey. POWER Engineers and Marketron were here before the Development Impact Fees ordinance was adopted over 10 years ago. Hailey has not attracted another major employer here since then and will be unlikely to do so with these fees in place.

It’s time to make Hailey “open for business” and correct the mistake the City of Hailey made with Development Impact Fees. Vote yes on Initiative Petition 2017-1 on Nov. 7.

Robert (Bob) Wiederrick Chairman, Citizens Who Love Hailey

LETTER TO THE EDITOR BRENT HANSEN

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Playing Army With Eric Parker

n regards to Mr. Parker’s perceived mistreatment by the federal government, here are a few thoughts shared by many of us in this Valley.

We don’t need your protection from the BLM. We need protection from you and your ilk. Timothy McVeigh said a lot of things like you and look where that got us.

My grandfather, my dad, my WWII veteran uncles (all people who had guns around all the time in pioneer Idaho) were very forthright about never ever point a gun at someone unless you mean to use it. For you to drive all the way to south Nevada and point your militia-specked AR at BLM peace officers, and then claim there was no ill will or intent, does not add up. Odds are you

were itching to pull that trigger.

What if you had killed one of those guys? What would you say to his kids or wife? They were simply trying to enforce the range laws with a deadbeat welfare “rancher.” Most people in this Valley place a high priority on access to public land and we don’t take kindly to your ideas of selling it all off or letting it be grazed to death.

Here’s an idea for you. Get a job and support your family. Or join the infantry. We could use you to protect us from real barbarians.

Sarah Truxal wants to pursue biomedical engineering. Photo courtesy of Sarah Truxal

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BY JOELLEN COLLINS

arah Truxal, Wood River High School senior with a 4.05 GPA, plans to continue her dedication to academics and athletics as she spends her final year of school in Hailey.

“I intend to fully appreciate this place and this time and experience our Valley and my friends before we go off to college and our adult lives,” Sarah said.

Sarah has already completed seven AP courses and will take four more this year, including one in biology. Science courses are her favorites, and have provided knowledge in her future major of biomedical engineering. Sarah has been a member of National Honor Society since her sophomore year, and remains part of the scholastic organization.

“I am excited to be able to pursue a career I am already passionate about, a demanding and growing field I can embrace,” she said.

A recent tour of colleges may have solidified Sarah’s desire to study in the East. She toured Boston College, Villanova, and Columbia University, among others. She looks forward to the challenge of a different environment and culture than she has experienced here.

Sarah was born in Sun Valley at Moritz Community Hospital and has grown up in a place she enjoys, she said.

“Year-round outdoor activities are so close,” she said. “The accessibility of the outdoors in this part of Idaho has been wonderful

for my interest in athletic activities.”

An added challenge in her life is a health issue she’s had since freshman year that taught her how to deal with difficulties.

“I have learned that one can survive and even flourish after facing hardships,” Sarah said.

Her athletic activities are a large part of her life. In addition to hiking, Sarah participates in team sports, playing soccer since she was in kindergarten. Also, she has been on the Sun Valley Nordic ski team since second grade.

“I hope to spend even more time being active outdoors this year,” she said.

Outside of school sports, Sarah has been active on the Girls on the Run youth board since her sophomore year.

“This is a chance for me to give back to my community,” she said. “Girls on the Run helps girls build confidence through exercise and helps them develop creative and healthy lifestyles.”

Sarah was an intern this past summer at the Sawtooth Animal Center in Bellevue. “I was able to learn about animal anatomy and observe different kinds of operations,” she said.

She is grateful for the opportunity to again have attained some knowledge about her goal of biomedical studies.

Sarah summarizes her generation’s hopes for their futures with optimism.

“We want to find our passion and be able to do what we love,” she said. “That way, both we and the world can thrive.” tws

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Phoebe Simpson, of Hailey, holds the door open for World War II veteran and Bellevue resident Tommy Farr. Photo courtesy of Senior Connection

HOLD THE DOOR OPEN FOR A SENIOR

BY THE SENIOR CONNECTION

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n a world where we are supposed to be more connected than ever, sometimes it seems as if maybe it’s the exact opposite. We now live in a world full of instant gratification, where you can reach just about any bit of information at your fingertips.

Almost everyone now has a cellphone glued to them throughout the day.

Less than two decades ago, mobile phones were not accessible to all demographics.

People stood in line at the grocery store, and it was hard to avoid making eye contact or speaking with a stranger.

Now, when people find themselves in socially awkward situations, they can just look down at their phone and not be bothered, or some people are actually working while they are driving, or as they have lunch with a friend; responding to work emails. While it is not just the world of social media and technological devices that are causing connections and disconnections in our society, it’s certainly playing a great part in how people treat each other.

This is why the Aging Friendly Committee in the Wood River Valley set out to run a small but hopefully effective campaign to bring awareness in September during National Senior Center and Courtesy Month to practicing good manners. Made up of members from different local nonprofit and business organizations, the Aging Friendly Committee’s message is about being respectful. Nice and polite never goes out of style, so go ahead and hold the

door open for a senior.

While some people might think this list is simple and common sense, often these are exactly the manners that are overlooked. Everyone could use a good reminder for National Courtesy Month.

1. Say please and thank you 2. Write thank you notes 3. Acknowledge when someone is speaking 4. Say excuse me 5. Be kind to others 6. Don’t cut in line 7. Respect other people’s experiences, and that they are not always the same as your experiences 8. View others with compassion versus judgment 9. If someone is in need of help, offer a hand 10. As you walk through a door, hold it open for someone else Teresa Beahen Lipman, executive director of the Senior Connection, invites members of the community to a special Hoedown Singalong on Thursday, Sept. 21 at 12:45 p.m., following a ribboncutting ceremony of the center’s new outdoor signage. There will be singing of old-time favorites and songs of the West, with musical accompaniment.

These events are always a lot of fun and, as usual, the more the merrier.

There will also be the second annual Cocktails for a Cause, a paddle-up fundraiser for the Senior Connection, at the Gail Severn Gallery in Ketchum on Wednesday, Oct. 11.

For more information, call Teresa at (208) 788-3468.

Left to right, Courtney Loving as the Baker’s Wife and Emma Desserault as Little Red Riding Hood. Courtesy photo by Yanna Lantz

JOURNEY ‘INTO THE WOODS’

STP to present Family Main Stage project

BY YANNA LANTZ

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hat happens after “happily ever after?” As part of St. Thomas Playhouse’s Family Main Stage project, a large ensemble of all ages will grace the stage at Community School Theater in Sun Valley to bring “Into the Woods” to life. The winner of three Tony Awards, Stephen Sondheim’s daring and vibrant musical takes the audience beyond the famous endings to the classic stories of beloved fairy tale characters to reveal the humanity in all.

“The plot is a weaving of several famous fairy tales (including Cinderella, Rapunzel, and Jack and the Beanstalk), and as their famous stories take place simultaneously, the consequences of their actions play out accordingly,” said Brett Moellenberg, director.

“In some ways, there is no American musical like it,” Moellenberg continued. “For instance, with theater that has a narrative and familiar structure, most of the action is leading toward a conclusion that allows its principal characters to move from one way of being to another.

This show does that twice. So, there are many themes along the way: love, loss, companionship, obedience, loyalty, fidelity, faith, betrayal, trust, selflessness, hurt, desperation, fate, destiny, monotony, fear, the unknown, youth, heartbreak, happiness, fanciness, change and on and on and on and on.”

The cast features an incredible ensemble of professional and budding local actors. Reallife couple Ward Loving and Courtney Loving will play the Baker and the Baker’s Wife, respectively. Melodie Mauldin will play Jack’s Mother

Melodie Mauldin plays Jack’s Mother and her son Luke Mauldin portrays Jack. Courtesy photo by Yanna Lantz

alongside her son Luke Mauldin as Jack and her husband John Mauldin as the Wolf. Meredith Skillman, last seen as Maria in “The Sound of Music” at St. Thomas Playhouse, will play Cinderella. Sara Gorby, St. Thomas Playhouse’s education and production director, will play the Witch.

Each character presented in the musical must go on some kind of journey to get their wish.

“The woods are a metaphor,” Moellenberg said. “They are the uncomfortable place where we reside, while journeying from one path to another. They are the excitement, stress, sweat, joy and longing we feel as our lives begin to change, either voluntarily or otherwise; and, this piece showcases the foolishness of believing that the journey is ever over. In fact, the entire first act of this musical is dedicated to tricking many of the characters that their journey has led them to ‘happily ever after.’ Most of them work very hard and take risks to achieve

their dreams of the happiest life possible.”

St. Thomas Playhouse is thrilled to produce this piece at the Community School.

“We love to bring a big family musical to the Valley every year,” Moellenberg said. “By supporting live theater, you are ensuring that your community is vibrant, empathetic and whole.

Hope to see you there.”

Performances run 7 p.m.

Thursday through Saturday, Sept. 21-23, with 2 p.m. matinees on Saturday and Sunday, Sept.

23-24. All performances take place at the Community School Theater, Sun Valley. Tickets for “Into the Woods” are $25 for adults and $15 for kids.

Reserve seats and learn more at stthomasplayhouse.org or by calling (208) 726-5349.

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9:30AM TO 1PM / ADAMS GULCH / KETCHUM The Hikin’ Buddies program, hosted by the Animal Shelter of the Wood River Valley, is held weekly at the Adams Gulch trailhead in Ketchum, from 9:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Attendees can take a shelter dog for a hike, or hang out and socialize some of the smaller dogs.

No appointment is necessary; dogs go out on hikes on a firstcome, first-served basis. Additionally, the shelter will now be doing adoptions at Adams Gulch during Hikin’ Buddies.

An adoption counselor will be on site to help complete the adoption process.

‘MARK TWAIN ON SLAVERY’ THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 20 6-7:30PM / COMMUNITY LIBRARY / KETCHUM Join the community for a unique lecture by author Forrest Robinson. Robinson’s book, “The Lie of Silent Assertion: Mark Twain on Slavery,” looks in some detail at Twain’s insightful writing about race and slavery in America at the beginning of the 20th century, with applications along the way to the nation’s current condition.

Forrest Robinson took his Ph.D. in English Literature at Harvard University in 1967. He is a Distinguished Professor of Humanities Emeritus at UC Santa Cruz. He has written several books on Mark Twain, including “In Bad Faith: The Dynamics of Deception in Mark Twain’s America,” “The Cambridge Companion to Mark Twain,” “The Author-Cat: Clemens’ Life in Fiction,” and more. Head to comlib.org to find out more about this lecture

FALL FILM FESTIVAL WEDNESDAY SEPT. 20 - OCT. 5 VARIOUS TIMES / MAGIC LANTERN CINEMAS / KETCHUM Magic Lantern Cinemas presents its 28th Fall Film Festival, which celebrates a variety of acclaimed documentary, comedy and dramatic films. Theater owner Rick Kessler has curated independent films that have been seen throughout the world at celebrated festivals. The festival began Sept. 15 and will conclude on Oct. 5.

The second official week of the Magic Lantern Cinemas’ 28th Fall Film Festival will begin on Friday, Sept. 22, with the acclaimed documentary film “Kedi.” Other featured films for the week include “After the Storm,” “My Cousin Rachel” and “Wakefield.” Visit mlcinemas.com/film-festival for a full list of showings.

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BY STACEY WHITMAN

just signed up for my Winter Community Supported Agriculture share from Onsen Farm in Buhl. True to its name, a CSA allows the community to support farmers by paying up front for whatever grows that season. Every other week, Onsen delivers freshly harvested veggies from their geothermal greenhouses as well as from a few surrounding farms.

November through May (except January, when food production slows), a box of locally grown goodness appears at my door. The contents depend upon what’s growing— rare winter treats including ultra-fresh spinach, arugula, rainbow chard and herbs, and staples like potatoes and squash. It all feels like a gift from above.

Along with the fresh-picked produce, deliveries come with surprises: handcrafted marinara sauce made with Onsen’s tomatoes and basil; raw local honey; lemons grown in Idaho (who knew?!). Plus, sometimes, a mystery: What exactly is lamb’s quarters? (Hint: It’s green!). How do you cook Asian greens? And what to do with all that parsley? (Answer: Make chimichurri!). Initially wary, I discovered the joy of being pulled from my comfort zone and trying new recipes.

Goodbye dinner rut!

As important as the fresh, delicious food, payment early in the season provides cash flow and requires less marketing so

farmers can be where they’re most needed—in the field. It’s a perfect example of how a direct relationship between farmer and consumer creates clear mutual benefit.

This winter, Onsen is offering FREE delivery to the Wood River Valley for its Winter CSA. For more info, go to Onsenfarm.com/WinterCSA or email onsenfarm@gmail.com.

Last summer, Squash Blossom Farm in Hailey offered its first CSA, running midJune through October. Go to Squashblossom.farm/CSA to learn more.

Local Food Alliance’s monthly newsletters contain the latest news on CSAs and other farm and food shares in our area. To subscribe, go to Localfoodalliance.org.

Stacey Whitman is the communications director of Local Food Alliance, 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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EVENTS CALENDAR, CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS PAGE ART HISTORY LECTURE THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 21 5:30PM / THE CENTER / KETCHUM

5B OPEN GOLF TOURNAMENT FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 22 NOON / ELKHORN GOLF CLUB / SUN VALLEY

The Sun Valley Center for the Arts will continue its two-part art history lecture titled “The Aztecs, Conquest and Early Colonial Art of Mexico,” presented

by Dr. Courtney Gilbert, Curator of Visual Arts at The Center.

Gilbert’s first lecture (Sept. 14) focused on the art and architecture of the Aztecs–—a Mesoamerican culture that flourished between 1350 and 1521 in what is today considered Central Mexico. Her second lecture (Sept. 21) will begin with the arrival of the Spanish in Tenochtitlan in 1519 and the impact of their conquest of Mexico on art and architecture throughout the remainder of the 16th century.

Gilbert will illustrate the ways in which native artists incorporated European styles, imagery and materials into their work and explore how the Aztecs resisted their colonial rulers.

Registration for the lecture is $10 for members of The Center and $12 for nonmembers. To register, or for more information about other upcoming Sun Valley Center for the Arts events, visit sunvalleycenter.org or call The Center’s box office at (208) 726-9491.

The National Alliance for Mental Illness Wood River Valley affiliate will host its second annual golf tournament, “Swing Fore Recovery,” at the Elkhorn Golf Club in Sun Valley on Friday, Sept. 22 to raise funds to expand educational programs and trainings. The day will include an 18-hole scramble, a dinner and a raffle. Registration begins at noon and tee-off is at 1 p.m. Dinner starts at 7 p.m.

Organized by the NAMI-WRV board of directors, the golf tournament is part of a campaign to raise funds to promote educational programs to provide cutting-edge support for individuals with mental illness, for family members and to eliminate the stigma of mental illness. For more information or to register visit nami-wrv.com/golf.

TEDXSUNVALLEY SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 23 10AM TO 5PM / OPERA HOUSE / SUN VALLEY TEDxSunValley is an independently organized event, licensed by TED, which features original TEDx talks by people from and connected to the Sun Valley community as well as official TED Talk videos and a musical performance. Several themes emerged from the speakers, including: the rise of millennials, tapping into and taming technology, innovative approaches to social impact and the power of story to inspire.

2017 speakers include Dale Bates & Cody Lee, Deborah Brosnan, Kevin Cahill, Todd Dean, Pirie Grossman, Todd Mitchem, Gerry Moffatt, Nadia Novik, Terry O’Connor, Narda Pitkethly, Annie Pokorny, Kate Riley, Paul Shapiro, Jody Stanislaw and Hayley Stuart. Learn more at TEDxSunValley.com and at the TEDxSunValley Facebook page.

‘NATIVE POLLINATOR CONNECTIONS’ THURSDAY SEPT 21 6-7:30PM / SAWTOOTH BOTANICAL GARDEN / KETCHUM

KETCHUM FARMERS’ MARKET TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 26 2-6PM / TOWN SQUARE / KETCHUM

Celebrate the Autumnal Equinox by joining the Sawtooth Botanical Garden for a free talk by Idaho Department of Fish and Game Regional Wildlife Biologist Ross Winton, a trained entomologist in the Wildlife Diversity Program. Winton will explore the many fascinating connections between native pollinating insects and native plants.

Participants will explore the SBG on foot while learning to identify native bumble bees and solitary bees, and might even see a Monarch butterfly. Winton will discuss unique central-Idaho species that live nowhere else in the world and have unique relationships with native plants as well as offer good sources for pollinator-friendly native plants and seeds. For more information visit sbgarden.org or call (208) 726-9358. The talk will be held at SBG, 11 Gimlet Road, four miles south of Ketchum.

The Ketchum Farmers’ Market can be found in downtown Ketchum at the intersection of East Avenue and Fourth Street, just east of Atkinsons’ Market and Giacobbi Square. Shop local and check out some of the fruits, vegetables, flowers, meats, baked goods and more available weekly at the market. Locals and visitors can head to the Ketchum Farmers’ Market weekly on Tuesdays through Oct. 10.

PAPOOSE CLUB OPEN HOUSE SOCIAL MONDAY SEPT 25 7-9PM / LIMELIGHT HOTEL / KETCHUM Learn more about the Papoose Club and its mission at an Open House Social. A “boots-on-the-ground” volunteer organization, Papoose Club holds iconic Wood River Valley fundraisers and events throughout the year. Enjoy light drinks and appetizers; all are welcome.

‘BRIGHT HALF LIFE’ – PLAY WED SEPT. 27 - OCT. 14 VARIOUS TIMES / LIBERTY THEATRE / HAILEY Company of Fools’ 22nd season of theatre continues this fall with a production of “Bright Half Life” by playwright Tanya Barfield.

Company of Fools interim artistic director Ilana Becker will direct the play, which runs Sept. 27-Oct. 14 at the Liberty Theatre in Hailey. “Bright Half Life” is a stunningly human and humorous depiction of a life in love. In Tanya Barfield’s nonlinear, intimate play, Vicky and Erica navigate the peripatetic present through a lifetime of courtship and marriage, kids and parents, death and divorce, Ferris wheels and skydiving, in a moving story that spans decades in an instant.

The cast features New York-based actors Liz Morgan and Sophie Hassett as Vicky and Erica, respectively. The production features scenic design by resident designer Joe Lavigne, lighting design by Mike Inwood (Philadelphia/NYC), sound design by Emma Wilk (NYC) and stage management by K.O. Ogilvie. 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.

CONVERSATIONS WITH WOMEN THURSDAY SEPT 21-22 8AM TO 3PM / COMMUNITY LIBRARY / KETCHUM

Alturas Institute will present a two-day event at The Community Library titled “Conversations with Exceptional Women: Uniting Women Across Generations.”

2017 speakers include astronaut Barbara Morgan; president of the Society of American Journalists, Lynn Walsh; vice-president of Amazon Worldwide, Teresa Carlson; award-winning writer, actress and producer, Naomi McDougall Jones; and more.

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The Spot Presents “Rocky Horror LIVE”

Back by popular demand, The Spot will present the cult classic “The Rocky Horror Picture Show Live” Oct. 26-31 in Ketchum. True to cult fashion, prop bags will be provided to audience members with instructions on how to participate in the show. Traditional items to throw and use, like rice, toast, water guns, party hats, newspapers, playing cards and more, are included.

With “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” projected alongside a live cast of actors who give audience participation a whole new meaning, The Spot hopes this will be a night that attendees will remember for a very, very long time.

Visit spotsunvalley.com to purchase tickets and learn more.

Second Annual 5K For Veteran Housing Assistance Program To Be Held

Sun Valley Realtors Give Foundation (SVRG) will host its second annual 5K & Tailgate party on Saturday, Sept. 30 to continue raising money to provide housing assistance for local veterans.

Registration is available online at 5BVeterans.org. Check-in for race participants, including day-of registrants, will begin at 9 a.m. KB’s will provide a post-race lunch for purchase and Sawtooth Brewery is providing free beer.

The only program of its kind in the Wood River Valley, 5B Realtors for Veterans will give 100 percent of the proceeds to sustainable housing assistance for local veterans and their families. To date, the program has helped two veterans with rental assistance, and a third, a World War II veteran, with major home repairs, so that he is able to continue safely living in his home.

“Our goal is to continue giving Blaine County veterans the housing assistance they need,” said Amanda Ornelas, chief executive officer of Sun Valley Realtors Give

Foundation. “It’s a small thank you for the big sacrifices they made so that we may enjoy life here in the Wood River Valley.”

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

Trailing Of The Sheep Festival Announces Highlights

The annual Trailing of the Sheep Festival will celebrate its 21st year, Wednesday through Sunday, Oct. 4-8. The event highlights the people, arts, cultures and traditions of sheep ranching in Idaho and the West. This is not a reenactment but is living history at its best.

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For more info on products & business opportunities, contact Mandi Iverson at mandiiverson3@gmail.com mydoterra.com/mandiiverson

Space is limited, call today!

Brennan: 208.720.1295