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Olympic sendoff for Arritola, Watanabe, HamiltonIt isn’t often you

can get Morgan Arritola to

stand still for two hours, Sun Valley Nordic Ski Coach Rick Kapala ac-knowledged.

But the 5-foot-4 skier did just that Sunday evening as a couple hundred well-wishers crowded into the Sun Valley Club to cheer her on as she heads off to the 2010 Win-ter Olympics in Vancouver.

“I’ve even had people cheer-ing for me when I run down the bike path,” the Commu-nity School graduate told the crowd. “I really appreciate all

your support. The next couple months are

going to be real fun and I’ll be home in April.”

Arritola will represent the United States as

part of the Nordic team, along with

Simi Hamilton, who moved to Sun Valley

from Aspen two years ago to further his dreams of skiing on the U.S. Ski Team. Hamil-ton won his first U.S. National Championship earlier this month in Anchorage and is representing the U.S. at the

Engineer Dick Fosbury, who stunned the world with his “Fos-bury Flop” in the 1968 Summer Olympics, told the audience that Morgan Arritola, Simi Hamilton and Graham Watanabe will serve as ambassadors for the community, as well as the nation.

Morgan Arritola doesn’t like to draw attention to herself. But she did take the microphone on Sunday night, alongside Nordic Coach Rick Kapala, who will get to see his young charge perform at the Olympic at Sun Valley Ski Education Foundation Director Don Wiseman’s insistence.

scenein the valleyPhotos & story by:

Karen bossicK

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Banff film fest

From the film ‘African Revolutions Tour’ by Pat Camblin, which will be shown during the upcoming Banff film fest.

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Read about it on page 6

Max T. Rudolph

Max Rudolph: Coming home

Ahhhh ….the Wood River Valley ….it’s home to me, but some might say I’ve been fickle over the past few years.

I’ve been traveling and living in far-flung coordinates, drinking in exotic cultures with each morning’s coffee. Max Rudolph here, checking in after a decade of wander-ing. I grew up here. I went to high school here. I skied, hiked, biked and played here until I set my sights on broader horizons.

I’ve spent my days walking among strangers, observing landscapes and faces I’d never imagined I’d see. Pyramids, pal-aces, the Dead Sea, the Northern Lights, caravans, savannas … all contributing to a heady combination of nature and man that has finally satisfied a kind of restless-ness in me that was bred by growing up in a small, familiar place. They say you can never go home again, but I’m out to prove

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Wood River High School senior, Stephanie Sloan

It’s pretty difficult to be proficient in playing one

musical instru-ment. But to play nine? In addition, can you also imagine being a standout singer waiting to hear about a scholarship to the prestigious Berk-lee School of Music in Boston? That’s the position Stephanie Sloan finds herself in as a mu-sician extraordinaire. This very talented senior at Wood River High School can do it all when it comes to music and all her friends attest to the fact that if she picks up an instrument, invariably she’ll soon be able to play it. “Everything about mu-sic just feels right to me,” she said. “I’d never be unsatisfied with any form of music.”

Born in Los Angeles, Sloan moved to the Wood River Valley when she was four years old. “My dad got a job at Marketron and we fell in love with this place. I go back to L.A. twice a year and I really don’t like it very much. I love this place. It’s amazing and very inspirational. I wouldn’t be where I am without it. The people and the community are so supportive of the youth and doing things for them.” She has traveled to the Philip-pines, Thailand and Mexico, “but it’s always nice to come home and see the mountains.” But she is anxious to escape what she calls the “bubble” and go to college, even though the process will be bittersweet. In addition to Berklee she has also applied to the University of Oregon and the Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle. “I really enjoy Wood River High School but I need to be in a bigger environment with more people and a greater influx of ideas and attitudes.”

Wherever she goes, music will still be Sloan’s life. Her father was a musician who traveled the world playing in funk bands, and for her, “that has always been my dream.” At five years old she was handed a tambourine in church choir and from that there was no stopping her. Her first love was the drums, which she picked up in sixth grade and eventually joined the concert band as a drummer. “I always had rhythm and it was fun to hit stuff and make it sound good.” Since she listened to Louis Armstrong since she was a baby, the trumpet was the

next obvious choice. From there it was

the French horn and in succeed-ing order the trombone, tenor banjo (which she mastered in

a week), guitar, ukulele, piano, quad

toms and the upright bass. Along the way

there have been stints in the concert band, Dixieland band, jazz band, and the orches-tra and drum line. She also plays drums in a local band, The Motherfunkers, and this year she played drums in the orchestra pit for the Company of Fools’ production of “A Year With Frog and Toad.” As to playing, Sloan says, “I really love the way you can put out a sound and anyone can inter-pret it and take what they want from it. When I play, if I’m feel-ing a certain way, anyone else can feel that emotion and I can tell a story.”

Along with playing instru-ments, using her voice as an instrument competes for her number one love. She started when she was six years old. “I really didn’t know what I was doing, but I was introduced to music theory and reading mu-sic at a young age.” In eighth grade she joined the Sun Valley Summer Symphony School of Music where she spends three hours each Saturday in ensemble work and private lessons. “It’s the best program I’ve attended in the Valley.” She is also a part of the women’s ensemble Colla Voce, studied jazz vocals for five weeks last summer on a scholarship at Berklee, and was awarded the maestro award twice at the Heritage Festival in Anaheim for outstanding performer. “At Berklee, I learned a lot about my voice and to make it what I want it to be. It also gave me the tools to pursue any career I want by being in an environ-ment like that.

“I like singing more and I’ve been doing it longer. There is so much more to give an audi-ence when you’re singing for them than when you’re playing notes for them. I have a lot of fun because I feel free, and more and more confident. I re-ally want to pursue vocal study at college.”

In her free time, Sloan is vice president of the environmental club at Wood River High School and she buses tables at Zou 75. This musical prodigy has a very bright future, indeed.

Stephanie Sloan

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Going into the desertAs it turns

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magic of Algeria and its light were quickly dispelled by its reality. Cape Cod’s blend of land, light, sea and architecture is visually far more sophisticated and varied than the straightforward brilliance of North Africa. I was downright blasé. Algiers was shabby, the victim of a typically socialist (public) neglect. I stayed there because I had no money and couldn’t move.

In Rome, I saw a poster in a travel office. It pictured an ochre adobe town named Ghardaia. It was love at first sight. The honeycombed adobe structures covered a small hill, topped with an African-style mosque, spiked rather than domed, and somewhat off-cen-ter, which is one of the great charms of adobe. This style can also be seen in the town of Djenne, in Mali. The town just oozed character. I knew I had to go there. After two weeks of pounding the pavement in the capitol, I scraped together enough money for a bus and simple accommodations for three nights. Heaven. When I’m photographing, my personal daily comforts always come second.

The modern bus was full of soldiers on leave, heading for their various homes. It was 5 p.m. and they were partying. Wine and marijuana all around. Twenty minutes out of town, they discovered the exotic stranger in their midst—an American, no less—who spoke some French. All the more reason to party. Oh boy. Saying ‘no’ wasn’t an option. Pot and hashish are as North African as the camel and the souk, but not in strident, proper, social-ist Algeria. Recreational drugs were strictly forbidden. So who smokes? The military. I wasn’t surprised. As Americans, we often go in search of the exotic. In the more remote parts of the Third World, we are the exotica.

After a couple of hours, the good times turned to snores.

If there’s one thing about youth, they can’t hold their liquor or their drugs. Some of the soldiers puked all over the floor, and it wasn’t long before the accumulated sour smell became a stomach-turning stench. Welcome to reality. In the all-night ride, we stopped twice to stretch our legs and to get some refreshments from the small roadhouses. The locals wore the long wool robes of day, though it was night. Now, at 70 degrees Fahrenheit, it was cold, the wind had come up, and with it blown sand and silt. Tomorrow, the daytime temperatures would be 50 to 70 degrees higher, and the robes would stay on to keep out the sun, to prevent evapo-ration. Deserts are defined by their rate of evaporation and when that exceeds the rate of replenishment. Welcome to the Sahara. Though big, it is by no means the worst desert in the world. That honor belongs to

the Taklamakan of northwest China, which literally means, ‘he who enters does not come out.’ The Empty Quarter of Saudi Arabia is a close second.

The bus arrived just before dawn. We had come about 300 miles south of the Atlas, with lots of stops. The soldiers were gone, though the stink remained. The sun began its ascent like no sun I had ever seen. It had a pulse. A burst of light was followed by dark-ness, as if night and day were in a struggle for supremacy. Each burst was brighter than the last, only to repeatedly sink back below the horizon. This went on for a few min-utes before the sun finally got the upper hand and flooded a world used to its blaze.

Boy with blind brother on the streets of Ghardaia.PHOTO: BALI SZABO/TWP

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Kristin Armstrong shares her authentic lifeBy KAREN BOSSICK

For years Kristin Armstrong lived in Lance Armstrong’s shadow. She encouraged

him as he fought testicular can-cer. And she raised their three children in the French Riviera as he focused on winning five Tour de France competitions.

That all came to an end in 2003 when the couple di-vorced.

Now Armstrong, who worked in advertising and public rela-tions before meeting Lance, has stepped into the spotlight.

She’s written three books, including “Happily Ever After,” a devotional targeted at women going through divorce or other difficult times.

She’s written about her mara-thon running as a contributing editor for “Runner’s World” magazine.

She’s told how her faith helped her through her darkest moments on “Oprah,” “Good Morning America,” “Rachel Ray” and other TV programs.

And on Saturday she will tell her story in Ketchum.

Armstrong will give a free youth presentation at 2 p.m. at the Presbyterian Church of the Big Wood in Ketchum.

She will follow that up at 3 p.m. with another presentation, a question-and-answer session and a book-signing for her new book, “Work in Progress: An Unfinished Woman’s Guide to Grace.” Cost for the 3 p.m. pre-sentation is $15 for adults and $5 for students for the public.

Armstrong will also attend a no-host cocktail reception in her honor from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at the Sun Valley Inn.

Three women—Chrissy Field, Cindy Kirk and Mary Fauth—are bringing Armstrong to Ket-chum because they think she has some important messages she can share with men and women, athletes and children.

Chrissy Field said she tuned into Kristin Armstrong and her work after her sister sent her

Armstrong’s latest book, “Work in Progress,” an easy-to-read book that touts that women’s strength lies “not in our edges, but in our curves,” and offers Armstrong’s tips for build-ing trust with God: “Scour His word for His promises and put them to the test!”

Field liked the book so well that not only did she mark dozens of pages, she pur-chased additional copies for her daughter and two friends.

“Cindy Kirk and I were out hiking and we said we should bring her to talk to the women in our church,” she said. “Now it’s grown way beyond that—it’s not just for church women. It’s for everyone in the commu-nity—children, athletes, men, women.”

Armstrong brings a wealth of springboards from which to talk, Field said. She’s battled with cancer. She’s spoken at Girls on the Run conventions. And she’s survived a very pub-

lic, difficult divorce, in which she and her “wasband,” as she calls Lance, have figured out a way to co-parent with mutual respect and love for the sake of their children.

“She came out the other side of that very difficult divorce stronger and more authentic,” Field said. “And I think that’s something all of us can learn from.”

Kristin Armstrong

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The Wood River Community YMCA will present a live satellite broadcast on Thursday, February 4 at 6 p.m. featuring Patti LuPone with Leonard Lopate. Tony Award–winning actress Patti LuPone has wowed Broadway audiences for years, starring in hits like Swee-ney Todd, Gypsy and Evita. Enjoy a fascinating discussion of her illus-trious career as a performer and her roles both on-stage and off as she talks with Leonard Lopate of WnYC’s The Leonard Lopate Show.

These unique live broadcasts from the 92nd Street Y in new York City have been hosted at the Wood River Y over the past two years and have been a good way for locals to expand their viewpoints beyond the Valley. Cost for members is $5, non-members is $8. Space is limit-ed for this program. You can regis-ter online at www.WoodRiverYMCA.org or by calling 208.727.9622.

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Banff film festival; tandem bikingBy KAREN BOSSICK

In 2007, Dominic Gill decided to bicycle 32,000 ki-lometers from Prudhoe Bay,

Alaska, to Ushuaia, Argentina.But he didn’t do it alone.He picked up strangers along

the way, asking them to help him pedal his tandem bicycle.

His story is chronicled in the film, “Take a Seat.” And it will be one of 20 films shown during the three-day Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour 2010 in Ketchum.

The film tour, which is marking its 10th anniversary of making a stop in Ketchum, will be held Thursday through Saturday, Feb. 4 through 6, at the nexStage Theatre, 120 S. Main St.

“Every year I travel to the Banff Film Festival in Canada a bit nervous wondering if the filmmakers will be able to come up with enough movie material once again to hold up three nights of films in Ketchum,” said Michael Boge, who organizes the film tour in Ketchum. “And every year I’m pleasantly surprised. This year I had to make hard choices from five strong human inter-est feature films.”

The Banff Mountain Film Festival, founded in 1976, fea-tures films ranging from a few minutes to an hour that offer cutting-edge looks at mountain sports and human interest films about cultures around the world.

Proceeds from the event will go to the Friends of the Sawtooth National Forest Ava-lanche Center and The Satipo Kids project, which enables 38 Peruvian children to attend school. One of the sixth-grad-ers, whose mother sells cook-ies and candy on the street, recently took top honors in her class, Boge said.

A raffle each night with prizes ranging from gift certifi-cates to Ketchum restaurants to a Sun Valley Heli-Ski trip will benefit the Sawtooth National Forest Avalanche Center, as will sales of pizza, drink and other refreshments.

“We survive because of the Friends of the Avalanche Center,” said Janet Kellam, who heads up the Sawtooth Na-tional Forest Avalanche Center. “Not only does it help fund our forecasters, but it gives us great exposure.”

Film festival tickets are $15 each night, available in Ket-chum at Chapter One Book-store, Backwoods Mountain Sports, The Elephant’s Perch and at the door. Raffle tickets are available at Backwoods, The Elephant’s Perch and at the door.

Here’s the schedule. Films range in length from a few minutes to an hour:

Thursday“MedeoZ,” filmed in the Mont

Blanc range of France, features six different mountain sports—climbing, skiing, snowboarding, speed riding, paragliding and BASE jumping.

“Signatures: Canvas of Snow” features skiers, snowboarders, a photographer and a noboard-er who are in tune to the Japa-nese sense that the rhythm of

fall, winter, spring and summer influences the rhythm of the person, their riding style and the lines they choose.

“Take a Seat” features a young man who spends two years cycling 32,000 kilometers across two continents full of extraordinary characters and incidents.

“Shining Spirit” spotlights two Tibetan men in exile as they sing with the family they left behind in Tibet through multi-track recording technol-ogy.

“Huulen” follows two Ca-nadians who battle falling ice and crashing water when the humongous frozen waterfall they planned to climb thaws.

“Africa Revolutions Tour” follows a group as they kayak the crocodile-infested White Nile in Uganda and big-water first descents in Madagascar.

“Project Megawoosh” focuses on a German engineer as he works to perfect the world’s tallest human water slide.

Friday“Kranked-Rovolve” follows

mountain bikers downhill and over dirt jumps from the French Alps to British Colum-bia.

“Finding Farley” features two filmmakers, their two-year-old son and a dog who set out to retrace the 5,000-kilometer trip of the literary Farley Mowat by foot, sail and paddle from the Prairies to the Maritimes.

“The Ultimate Skiing Show-down” is a spring showdown between the fastest skiers on Earth in juxtaposition with a stunt performer showing the sickest moves on Nordic skis.

“Mustang—Journey of Transformation” is the story of

efforts to rescue the Himalayan kingdom of Mustang from the brink of extinction.

“First Ascent: Alone on the Wall” focuses on Alex Honnold, who attempts the first free solo of the Regular Northwest Face on Yosemite’s Half Dome after gaining fame for his landmark free-solo of Moonlight Buttress in Zion National Park.

Saturday“Revolution One” takes a

look at the history, people and places that have defined off-road unicycling.

“Mont Blanc Speed Flying” follows six speed riders down the upper slopes of Mont Blanc to Chamonix in one continuous 10-minute shot.

“A Little Bit Mongolian” tells the story of a 12-year-old Aus-tralian who trains to compete with Mongolian children in the long-distance Naadam Festival horse races.

“Rowing the Atlantic” fol-lows a man who sets off across the Atlantic Ocean alone in a rowboat.

“Deep/Shinetsu” expresses a typical day in the mountains of Japan.

“Pick-up Sticks” takes view-ers on an aerial plunge off the edge of an Arctic coastal headland into the abyss of a seabird colony to find out how marine environmental change is affecting the balance of life for these birds.

“Azazel” follows four friends establishing a new route on the Trango Pulpit Tower, a mythic 6,000-meter-high rock wall in Pakistan.

“Project Megawoosh” focuses on a German engineer who works to perfect the world’s tallest human water slide.

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thanks for coatsThe Kiwanis Club of Hailey and the Wood River Valley would like to thank all the helpful citizens who donated their coats and win-ter clothing to this year’s success-ful drive. We collected over 350 coats, 20 pairs of boots, 50 pairs of gloves and over 30 sweatshirts. These items, along with a check for $500, was given to Jeanette McIl-

henny, community resource work-er for the Blaine County schools. These collected items were dis-tributed through the schools to children that did not have proper winter clothing. We have received several wonderful thank-you let-ters from the students that needed this clothing.Kiwanis wants to thank the mer-chants who provided the collection locations.

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Footlight Dance Earth Day tributeBy KAREN BOSSICK

Eighteen dancers will do their best to evade gravity Saturday as they present

an evening of dance in honor of the 40th anniversary of Earth Day.

Footlight Dance Company students will present eARTh day dancing at 7 p.m. Saturday at the Community Campus in Hailey.

The dances were inspired by the abstract “Homo Enigmus,” or “human puzzle,” paintings of Hailey painter Mark Kashino, said Footlight Dance Director Hilarie Neely.

“These abstract paintings allow each viewer to find mean-ing between what we need to do to help our planet and art that can inspire action,” she said. “The dancers will inter-pret the paintings through ballet, modern jazz, tap and hip-hop dance.”

The company presented

a shortened version of their dance to students in all eight Blaine County schools over the past couple weeks. Footlight Dance has performed for more than 50,000 students in its 20 years of existence, Neely noted.

Tickets for Saturday’s perfor-mance are $10 for adults and $5 for students, available at

Chapter One Bookstore in Ket-chum and the Footlight Dance Centre studio at the Communi-ty Campus in Hailey. They also are available at the door.

Proceeds from the concert will provide scholarships for students attending classes and summer workshops.

Alex Aupt, Dylan Peterson leaping between the trees.COURTESY PHOTO: AUBREY STEPHEnS

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It is shocking that people still continue to buy 25 billion plastic water bottles a year. It isn’t cheap or healthy! Averag-ing $1 per bottle, that’s over $900 a year if you drink three bottles a day, 300 days a year. Forty percent of bottled water comes from tap water anyway.

Most bottled water is not regulated (you don’t know what you’re drinking), while tap water is.

Manufacturing and ship-ping a bottle of water wastes five times as much as is in the bottle and consumes 1.5 mil-lion barrels of oil.

Single-use plastic bottles can leach BPA (bisphenol-A) which is a hormone disruptor in hu-mans. BPA has been linked to breast and uterine cancer, an increased risk of miscarriage, and decreased testosterone levels.

While less than 20 percent are downcycled, over 3 million bottles end up in landfills each day, and many more end up in our rivers and oceans.

What can you do to help your health, wallet and the environment?

Switch to a stainless steel water bottle and make sure that the bottle is epoxy-free stainless steel, both inside and out (Klean Kanteen, New Wave, Good Life, Sigg, Eco Canteen).

Invest in a water filter for your kitchen faucet (Brita, Pur). Water filters currently provide the best and healthiest solution to tap water.

If you must use a plastic bottle occasionally, make sure you recycle it.

For more information con-tact the Environmental Re-source Center at 726-4333 or www.ercsv.org

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briefsrotarun nights

Rotarun will open for night ski-ing on Friday nights starting Fri,., Feb. 5th., 6-9pm. Ticket prices are: Adults $15.00, Juniors (11-17) $12.00, Children (5-10) $8.00, Tots (4 & under) $5.00.

Promoters Colter Brehmer and Jon Chrysikopoulos along with help from the SVSEF Freestyle ski team organized a fundraising event to aid Rotarun in the purchase of new rails for their terrain park. A total of $851.26 was raised during the Premiere.

Rotarun will hold its annual Slush Cup ski race on Saturday Feb. 13th. The race is open to kids 12 & under registration starts at 8:30 am and closes at 10 am, race starts at 11. For additional info or to preregister email or call Sarah at sarahb@rotarun or 788-1173.

Valentines ballGet out your boutonniere. The

annual Boutonnieres Valentines Ball will be held at 6:30 p.m. Feb. 6 at Carol’s Dollar Mountain Lodge.

The Boutonnieres was found-ed more than 10 years ago by a group of Sun Valley residents who thought the valley needed a good old-fashioned party without any fundraising strings attached. It is limited to a hundred guests who will enjoy a formal night out with dinner and dancing preceded by a no-host cocktail hour.

Cost is $65 per person. Attire is Sun Valley formal or black tie.

For reservations, call 622-2800 or email meyer-2000@msn.com

Dating violenceThe Advocates for Survivors

of Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault will speak with teens and parents about healthy relation-ships, and the latest dating trends throughout the month of February and national Teen Dating Violence Awareness & Prevention Week, Feb. 2-6.

Dating violence is a pattern of abusive or aggressive behavior used in a dating relationship by one partner to exert control over another partner. The vast major-ity (89 percent) of teens age13-18 say they’ve been dating and 1 in 3 dating teens will be in an abusive relationship.

Abuse can be verbal, emotional sexual or physical. Signs that your child may be in an abusive relation-ship include frequently cancelling plans at the last minute for rea-sons that sound untrue; losing in-terest in activities; worrying about angering their partner; or a change in weight appearance, or grades. Source: www.nomeansknow.com

For more information, call Darrel at The Advocates, 208.788.4191 or visit www.theadvocates-aplace-togo.org

Local gymnastsWood River Gymnastics Acad-

emy competes in Boise at the Gem State Invitational.

After practicing between 9 and 20 hours per week in the Wood River Gymnastics Academy gym the teams went to Boise to joins 670 gymnasts and 20 teams at the 33rd annual Gem State Invi-tational gymnastics competition. Teams traveled to the competition from Oregon, Washington, Nevada, Utah, Alaska and Idaho.

Our top finisher of the meet was Amber Park (Level 4) who won 1st place all-around, 1st place on vault, 1st place on beam, 1st place on floor and 3rd place on bars.

Top Level 4 finishers were Am-ber Park , 1st on vault (9.3), 3rd on bars (8.35), 1st on beam (7.35), 1st on floor (9.0) and 1st all around (34.60); Ciara Hulett, 3rd on vault (9.15), 4th all around with a score of 32.750. Lauren Cord, 4th on vault (8.95), 2nd on beam (7.8), 4th on floor (8.05) and 5th all around (30.95), Ana Pokl-emba who placed 2nd on vault with a 9.175., Haley Bjorkman, 3rd on vault (9.3) and 3rd on beam (7.15). RGA

Our next competition will be in nampa, Idaho where we will com-pete against about 500 gymnasts. Many of our gymnasts still need to score high enough to make it to the State competition that will be held in Moscow, Idaho on the weekend of March 19 – March 21. If you know our gymnasts, wish them good luck!

Funding start-up.Early-stage businesses face

challenges in securing equity capi-tal. Jigsaw’s guest speaker, Kevin Learned, will talk about the current environment for raising start-up funds and suggest the best posi-tioning strategies to attract inves-tors on Friday, February 5 at 11:45 a.m. Dr. Learned is a founding member of the Boise Angel Fund, which invests in early-stage busi-nesses in western Idaho. He also counsels at Boise State Universi-ty’s Small Business Development Center where he focuses on early-stage, high-potential businesses. There will be a catered lunch with a talk at The Hatchery, 411 6th St. at Leadville in Ketchum. Cost is $10 for Jigsaw members, $15 for non-members. RSVP required by February 2, 5 p.m. to jimasv@cox.net or 726-1848.

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The KCDC is looking to hire an Executive Director (ED) to lead the 501c3 non-profit organization in project execution, capac-ity building, communication and outreach. Not only will the ED be the “face” of the organization in the community, he/she will provide vision and leadership in implementing the KCDC’s strategic plan.Strong organizational skills and multi-tasking ability is a requirement, while experience in business development, grant writing, non-profits, volunteer motivation, public relations and board reporting will all be viewed favorably.Most important of all, the KCDC board will be looking for a person with a passion for our community, and the ability to listen, learn and grow into a leader who can make a difference.Please view our website (ketchumcdc.org) for a detailed job description and summary of our strategic plan. Please send your resume and a cover letter describing why you are uniquely suited for this job to neil.bradshaw@mac.com by Friday, February 5, 2010. The ED salary is expected to be in the range of $50k to $65pa DOE. Please state your salary expecta-tion in your application.The KCDC is an equal opportunity employer.

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Nordic smörgåsbordBy KAREN BOSSICK

A plethora of ski-joring Moms pulling children behind them on skis

took to the Wood River bike path Saturday morning, along with some 400 skate skiers, classic skiers and dozens of fast mushing dogs to launch the inaugural Sun Valley Nordic Festival.

“I feel confident our num-bers were very high and way up from the last couple of years,” said Jim Keating, Blaine County Recreation director. “We also had a much larger crowd celebrating at the Sun Valley Brewery and enjoying the band Up a Creek while checking out Hailey. And I’m told they had more than 40 skiers signed up for the après ski buffet at Smi-ley Creek Lodge on Monday.”

The 9-day festival continues through Sunday with snowshoe sprint races on Sun Valley’s White Cloud golf links today and Ketchum Nordic Night on Thursday.

“Nordic Night promises to be a blast with a tremendous band brought in by the Sun Valley Center for the Arts, chili and food by Galena Lodge, and a bunch of fun activities organized by the Sun Valley Ski Education Foundation and The Elephant’s Perch,” said Keating. “People can bring their own skis, or The Perch and Back-woods will have equipment there, as well.”

Boulder Mountain Tour Director Kevin Swigert said the prestigious 32-kilometer race on Saturday could reach its quota of 800 skiers. The new Half-Boulder Mountain Tour is full.

Among those racing in the inaugural Half-BMT is Paula Perry, who will have her hands full on Thursday night serving a special dinner at Perry’s to raise funds for the purchase of the VAMPS new Pisten Bully.

“I decided to challenge myself with the half-BMT,” said Perry, who is a member of the 130-member VAMPS women’s Nordic group.

Here’s a schedule of the remaining events:

TodayGuided Snowshoe Adventure.

Guides will offer a free snowshoe tour on the trails around Galena Lodge, 24 miles north of Ketchum on Highway 75, at 11 a.m.

Sun Valley 5K Snowshoe Chal-lenge. sunvalleyrunning.com pres-ents the first-ever snowshoe race at noon on the White Cloud Nine golf course at the Sun Valley Club on Sun Valley Road. Runners will be confronted with a variety of con-ditions, including a groomed trail, packed snowshoe single track and cross-country travel.

Register at www.active.com or in person on race day from 9 to 11:30 a.m. at the Sun Valley nor-dic Center. Cost for race day regis-tration is $25. A limited number of Atlas race/run snowshoes will be issued on a first come first served basis. Awards will be given to the top male and top female and will be followed by a raffle for all en-trants.

Sun Valley Nordic Sprint Races. Sprint heats begin at 1 p.m. on a 1.5 k loop on the White Cloud trails opposite Sun Valley Nordic Center. Waves of four to six will go out with the top two qualifying for semi-fi-nals. Final The $20 entry goes to-ward a cash purse.

“Behind the scenes at the

Olympics.” Author and Olympic skier John Morton will share his observations from seven differ-ent Winter Olympic Games at 6 p.m. at The Community Library in Ketchum. The talk will be coupled with hot chocolate and pepper-mint schnapps and a book signing. Free.

ThursdaySnowshoe with a Ranger at 11

a.m. at Galena Lodge. Free.Nordic Ski Festival Dinner. Per-

ry’s will celebrate the Nordic Ski Festival with a special dinner from 5 to 8:30 p.m. to coincide with the ski races and music at the nearby Simplot Lot.

The restaurant will serve up lamb stew with Yukon Gold mashed potatoes, Cesar’s shrimp chowder , Cattleman’s Chili and zesty veg-gie chili with cornbread. Keith and Paula Perry will donate 10 percent of their sales to the purchase of the Vamps Cat.

Outdoor Concert and Snow-shoe Dancing. Dance to the world pop music of Sol’Jibe, a high-en-ergy five-man band from Reno that draws on the flamenco, jazz and rock flavorings of Spain, Cuba and Central America. The concert, sponsored by the Sun Valley Cen-ter for the Arts, will be held from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. across from the Ketchum post office at Second Av-enue and Fourth Street.

Friendly Nordic races, a snow-shoe dance competition, bonfire and refreshments, including chili and cocoa provided by Galena Lodge and beer and wine from the Sun Valley Center for the Arts, will accompany the music. Free.

Best of Banff Film Festival and Friends of the Sawtooth National Forest Avalanche Center Fundrais-er at the nexStage Theatre in Ket-chum. Doors open at 6 for wine, beer and food. Films start at 7 p.m. The raffle, including a day of heli-skiing, benefits the avalanche cen-ter. Film tickets are $15 and avail-able at Backwoods, The Elephant’s Perch, Chapter One Bookstore and at the door. Raffle tickets are at Backwoods, The Elephant’s Perch and at the door.

FridayIdaho Conservation League

Boulder Foothills Ski Tour. An ICL guide will offer a half-day of ski touring in the foothills off the Boul-der Mountains at the southwest-ern edge of the proposed Boulder-White Cloud wilderness area. The group will meet at the Sawtooth National Recreation Area parking lot seven miles north of Ketchum at 9:45 a.m. and carpool to an area of flat terrain suitable for ski-ers of all abilities. Call 726-7485 to register.

Boulder Mountain Tour Expo—Racers can pick up race bibs and clothing bags from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. at the YMCA at Warm Springs and Saddle roads in Ketchum.

Ketchum-Sun Valley Historical Society Heritage and Ski Museum reception. Peruse the ski museum and enjoy beer, wine and hors d’oeuvres at 5 p.m. The free mu-seum is open weekdays from noon to 4 p.m. and Saturdays from 1 to 4 p.m.

Banff Film Festival. Saturday

35th Boulder Mountain Tour. The world-renown race kicks off at 10 a.m. with racers following the Wood River for 32 kilometers from Galena Lodge to the SnRA seven miles north of Ketchum. The inaugural Half-Boulder Tour starts at 10:45 a.m. at Baker Creek—the halfway point in the course. Go to www.BoulderMountainTour.com for more information.

Avalanche Rescue Beacon Clinic—Avalanche Center staff will teach users how to use a beacon to find a buried partner from 1 to 3 p.m. at the Avalanche Rescue Training Park next to Our Lady of the Snows Catholic Church on Sun Valley Road (parking is at the For-est Service lot). A few beacons are available to try out. Those who have beacons should bring their own. Free.

Best of Banff Film FestivalSun-day

Boulder Mountain Tour Demo Day. Skiers are invited to try the latest nordic equipment free of charge from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Sun Valley Nordic Center.

Paula Perry will ski the new Half-Boulder Mountain Tour while her hus-band Keith skis the entire 32-kilometer race.

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Julie Johnson is a local food entrepreneur who has a mission to bring the snack

cracker to a new level. The business founder and operator of the eponymous Julie Foods, LLC works solo out of her home kitchen to produce pack-aged “raw food crackers” that are naturally wheat free, gluten free, dairy free, and sugar free. Her products are sold locally at health food stores and selected markets.

Like many early entrepre-neurs, Julie’s business started spontaneously. She had been working in a local health food store, guiding people in their purchase of supplements to promote nutritional balance. Julie would also recommend what foods they could health-fully consume to round out their diets. “My most common suggestion was raw seeds from organic flax, pumpkin, and in-dustrial hemp because of their protein and fiber content,” she explains. “The idea doesn’t always appeal, however,” she adds, showing me a handful of tiny, dry, bland-looking, and multitudinous seeds.

Julie suggested ways that customers could prepare a seed snack, but “people would just look at me as if they didn’t have bowls or water to work with,” she laughs. She decided to do a show-and-tell and make something edible that she could hand to customers and then teach them how to make for themselves.

Her first item, a corn chip, quickly found its way to her kitchen trashcan. But after two months of tweaking, taking co-pious notes on customer feed-back, and doing more tweak-ing, Julie came up with her first cracker, named “I Am Allergic to Everything.” Her prepara-tion involved 4-5 hours for the seeds to sprout, another hour to mix and cut the dough, and then dehydration for 24 hours.

People liked it! But instead of rushing home to churn out their own crackers, clients asked Julie to do the work. Thus began her food line. In spring 2009, a few months af-ter her initial experimentation, Julie launched Julie Foods. She now ships crackers to custom-ers, many of them second home-owners, in Vermont, Connecticut, Texas, Seattle, and California. In addition to her initial flavor, Julie has invented four other crackers: Anaheim Pepper and Black Olive, Basil, Leek & Tomato, Idaho Flax Bread, and Idaho Olive Flax Bread.

Julie explains that she has been interested in nutrition as long as she can remember. ‘When I was 16, I put my whole family on a mucous-free diet after doing some research into what was good and not so

good to eat.” Although primar-ily self-taught, she has taken college courses in naturopathic remedies and is certified for layman homeopathy.

While Julie overflows with in-formation about supplements, she favors food itself as the body’s best nutritional source. It just has to be the right food made the right way, accord-ing to Julie. Her crackers are uncooked and unprocessed, preserved through dehydra-tion and the vitamin E present in the seeds. Her crackers are thus considered “raw food,” containing live enzymes that feed the body’s physiological systems. As her packaging an-nounces, Julie Foods’ crackers are “part of the nutritional revolution.”

While Julie never envisioned herself as an entrepreneur, she now aspires to the next level of success: to wholesale her crackers across the coun-try. “I’m always thinking my product will be sold on shelves across America,” she says, “so with every batch I make, I know it has to be very good!” For Julie to grow her business, however, she needs a more ex-pansive space, both to enlarge her product offerings and to accommodate an employee. “I’d also like the stimulation of being around other people,” she acknowledges.

Julie’s aspirations are big, marking her as a budding entrepreneur. In this way, she is similar to other valley entrepreneurs who are hungry for mentoring, for more space to work, for more people to share ideas with, and for seed financing to assist their busi-ness’ growth. These individuals are the potential source for more jobs and income for the valley. Many of them, like Julie, also express a value system of physical and emotional health Julie Foods’ label says it all, “Eat responsibly, eat well, and always eat for the joy of it.”

Profile: Julie Foods by Julie Johnson

Jima Rice holds a Ph.D. from Harvard University, and is president of Jigsaw, Inc., a local 501(c)(3) non-profit that supports entrepreneurs, small businesses, and a sustainable economy in the Wood River Valley. To recieve Jigsaw’s free weekly e-letter, please contact Jima at jimasv@cox.net

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The societal becomes personal as Saturn, the lessons planet, forms a stressed relationship with Pluto, the planet of construction and de-construction. This aspect indicates changes that help us move toward a new way of being. The teaching methods of this planetary aspect may be uncomfortable, though it’s a necessary part of growth. Like a baby cutting teeth, the discomfort will soon be replaced with new tools and abilities.

ARIES (March 21-April 19). The world will play to your strengths this week if you know what they are. Some of your assets are read-ily recognizable and you use them all the time. You have additional resources that are so obvious to everyone else, and yet you are not seeing or using them. Ask for the opinion of trusted friends.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20). Itís not enough to say this week will start off well. It is exploding like a cork from a bottle of champagne! Whoop it up. It is appropriate to celebrate the progress, even if you cannot find an official milestone to blame for the party. You don’t need any reason more official than that life is good and you feel great about it.

GEMInI (May 21-June 21). Changing your ringtone or the out-going message on your answering machine can seem like such an insignificant effort, but sometimes shifting the smallest details can jog loose new possibilities in larger spheres. Make a few seemingly su-perficial changes and be surprised at the results.

CANCER (June 22-July 22). Good things happen to cheerful people. No one needs to tell you that, though. Itís basic to your personality to be upbeat. So donít be too surprised when the thing youíve been hoping for happens at the end of the week. Taurus is somehow connected. Stay positive

and the positive will stay with you.LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). One

way to look at vanity is that some people are bold enough to enjoy themselves to a greater degree than are others. Timid folks are seldom vain, and neither are they as entertaining to those around them. Which would you rather be? You’ll experiment with both roles this week and find a comfortable middle ground.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). Since the only thing certain in life is change, there is no such thing as a perfect plan. There will always be unexpected information, strange twists and things you never could have taken into consideration. So plan ahead, but don’t get married to those plans. And build wide mar-gins of error into your schedule this week.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). There’s a lot to talk about -- much of it delicious and not all of it kind. It would take a superior human be-ing to resist this kind of gossip. And you are just such a person. Vow to show restraint. Be nice, and don’t pass along any mean news about acquaintances. Don’t join in when the talk is nasty. You’ll be a social hero.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-nov. 21). You are sure of yourself. Because of your deeply rooted inner con-fidence, you really don’t see the need to be right all the time. You might even apologize in order to help someone else (who is clearly in the wrong) save face. Your gra-ciousness will be noted by some-one who shares your high level of class.

SAGITTARIUS (nov. 22-Dec. 21). You strike a difficult balance. You blend in, but you’re still very much an individual. You will be able to turn down your intensity in order to match the vibes around you. This causes others to let down their guard and receive you warmly.

And when it’s appro-priate, you turn the in-tensity right back up again.

C A P R I -CORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). There is a difference in sensibility between you and a colleague or customer. You can bridge the gap with a sense of playfulness. It’s not that you make a joke of things, but you approach with a light heart and a large ca-pacity to be amused by your inter-actions with others. Humor wins out in the end.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). As you look around, you’ll find that there are very few equally balanced relationships. Someone always gives more, but it always works out somehow. Usually that person is getting more, too, from other people in other ways. To live in a state of generosity is a gift to one’s own spirit.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). You have been cared for through-out your life, and yet in some ways you were not tended to in an ide-al manner. That’s why there are some gaps to fill in by taking part in extreme self-care. Create a quiet ritual for yourself this week, one that lets you feel utterly nurtured, and hold it sacred.

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Corporate downsizing has become a common part of American life in 2010.

As homes foreclose and the word recession can sometimes seem like a bad joke, people are losing their jobs and lives are being destroyed at record numbers.

Enter George Clooney whose job is to end others. As a road warrior supreme his occupa-tion is to fire corporate em-ployees whose bosses are too chicken to do it, and he does it with a charm that only Clooney can muster. Using real workers, the director and writer Jason Reitman brings real pathos to these scenes as Clooney heart-breakingly talks about new opportunities. Reitman, who

directed the surprise hit Juno, brings an expert touch to his new film Up In The Air which resonates as both a comedy and tragedy as Clooney’s life mirrors a solitary existence that only endless time on the road can bring.

Clooney loves his life of loneliness claiming that in an airport he’s surrounded by people. His one goal in life is to accumulate 10 million frequent flyer miles. Enter Vera Farmiga, his female twin, and the two begin a cross country affair fitting in time between end-less corporate travels. Along the way his company hires the ultimate twenty something overachiever Anna Kendrick who has convinced the boss Ja-son Bateman (lately the hardest working man in show business) to take everyone off the road

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dous, especially Kendrick as the rising young executive from hell. With a tight ponytail and extreme confidence, she ridicules Clooney as being old and sets out with self satisfied clarity and a humorless per-sonality to change the world. Farmiga and Clooney click effortlessly as they meet cute comparing each others’ credit cards and corporate frequent flyer perks. Tuning in perfectly to the state of America today Up In The Air soars as pure entertainment.

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this weekwednesday, 2.3.10Sun Valley Nordic Sprint Races - 9 a.m., Sun Valley Nordic. Guided Snowshoe Adventure - 11 a.m., Galena Lodge.Sun Valley 5k Snowshoe Challenge - 12 p.m., Sun Valley Nordic Center. Register at www.active.com or race day registration from 9–11:30 a.m., at the Nordic Center.The Biggest Loser 6 week class - 2-3:00 p.m. at The Senior Center in Hailey 788-3468.eAuthor and Olympic Skier John Morton - 6 p.m., at the Community Library. Behind-the-scenes observa-tions from his experiences at seven different Winter Olumpic games, book signing with hot chocolate and peppermint schnapps.SMichael White - from 6 p.m. at Papa Hemi’s Hideaway in Ketchum.Watch Beading at The Bead Shop in Hailey - 6:30-8:00 p.m. 788-6770

thursday, 2.4.10Snowshoe with a Ranger - 11 a.m., Galena Lodge. Movie and Popcorn at the Senior Center in Hailey, this week’s movie is Julia & Julia - 1:00p.m.- 3:00 p.m.SeSVCA presents free con-cert and exhibition with Sol’ Jibe - 5:30–7:30 p.m., at the future site of the Sun Valley Center for the Arts in downtown Ketchum.Please Join Us for our 92nd Street YLIVE satellite broadcast featuring Patti LuPone with Leonard Lopate: The Broadway Life - 6:15 p.m. in The Community Room at the YMCA 928-6719.Best of Banff Film Festival & Friends of the SNFAC Fundraiser - 6 p.m., nexStage Theater in Ketchum. Film starts at 7 p.m. eDog Sledding in Paradise- a silent film of winter in Hailey during the early 1930’s plus film of early skiing at Sun Valley and a gallery of photos from the Mallory Collection- 7pm at the Hailey Masonic Hall, 100 S. 2nd Ave. Hailey Admission FREE.

Brought to you by the Blaine County Historical Museum.SCap’n Dano and the Nobuddies - 8 p.m. at the Sun Valley Brewery in Hailey

friday, 2.5.10Idaho Conservation League Boul-der Foothills Ski Tour - 9:45 a.m., at the Sawtooth National Recreation Area Parking Lot. Info/register: Me-gan at 726-7485.Boulder Mountain Tour Expo - 10 a.m., at the Wood River YMCA, Ket-chum. “Funding Your Start-Up” Jigsaw Featured Speaker Event. Guest Speaker Kevin Learned - 11:45am at The Hatchery in Ketchum RSVP re-quired 726-1848.The Biggest Loser 6 week class - 2-3:00 p.m. at The Senior Center in Hailey 788-3468.KSVHS.org Reception - 5 p.m., at the Ski Museum in Ketchum.Best of Banff Film Festival & Friends of the SNFAC Fundraiser - 6 p.m., nexStage Theater in Ketchum.Dan Gabriel and Gary Cannon per-form for the Winter Comedy Series - 6:30 p.m. at The Boiler Room in Sun Valley. 622-2148.SFour Stroke Bus - 6:30–9:30 p.m. p.m. at Papa Hemi’s Hideaway in Ketchum.SNo Cheap Horses - 7–10 p.m. at Il Naso in Ketchum. SSol Jibe live music at The Boilder Room after the Comedy Se-ries in Sun Valley.

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TWP: Why did you choose this recipe? Stephanie: Well, I don’t usually use recipes and this one was the easiest to describe to some-one wanting to make it. TWP: How did you get inter-ested in cooking? Stephanie: My dad and I used to cook together. It was our

quality time. We still do. He’s my inspiration. TWP: How long have you lived in the Wood River Valley? Stephanie: Excluding college? My entire life! TWP: What do you like about the Valley? Stephanie: What’s not to like?

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Method: Sauté peppers and onions in olive oil for about 20 minutes. Add garlic and cook another five minutes. In another pan, cook turkey with garlic powder until cooked through. The garlic powder reduces any gamey taste.

Mix meat with peppers and onions. Add the tomatoes and the beans. Add spices and garnish with sour cream, cheddar cheese and chips, and serve.

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1 yellow onion, chopped 1 red pepper, chopped 2 cloves garlic, crushed 2 Tbsp. olive oil 1 lb. ground turkey, preferably lighter meat, as it is less gamey 1 can black beans, washed

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Feel-good music at Whiskey Jacques; Sol Jibe, comedy at Boiler RoomVenice, Calif.,

skier, surfer and yogi

Christopher Haw-ley and his Roll-ers will bring his feel-good music to the Wood River Valley this weekend.

Hawley will perform at Whiskey Jacques in Ket-chum at 10 p.m. Friday and at the Sun Valley Brewery in

Hailey at 7:30 p.m. Sat-urday. His voice evokes thoughts of John Fogerty and Johnny Cash. His fingerstyle techniques mimic that of Leo Kottke.Hawley says his music

is for people who love nature. “My good-time vibes

have been known to bring on the snow so be prepared for some awesome powder!”

Meanwhile, Sol Jibe will play the Sun Valley Boiler Room at 9 p.m. Friday and Saturday. Cover charge is $7 to $10 but the first 10 people at the door get in free.

Comedians Dan Gabriel and Gary Cannon will provide the laughs at Sun Valley’s Win-ter Comedy Series. The show starts at 6:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday. Tickets are $15 at the door--$10 if you have a Sun

Valley season pass, discount pass or lift ticket.

Coming up:Americans for UNFPA and

The Advocates will screen three episodes of the BBC se-ries Women on the Frontline about violence towards women at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 10, at The community School.

The series points out the atrocities happening to women around the world, such as

Rwanda where up to half mil-lion women were raped during the 1994 genocide… Sierra Leone, where up to 64,000 women have experienced rape at the hands of armed combat-ants… and Liberia where more than half of all women in one county experienced were raped during the 1999-2003 conflict.

Afterwards, several clergy-men will lead a panel discus-sion on the subject.

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More skiers despite colder tempsThe first day

of February brought a

little nip to the fingertips that we haven’t felt since…well, De-cember.

The colder tem-peratures produced stellar corduroy grooming conditions on Baldy and skiers have happily been leaving their mark in them.

Check out the kid-friendly menu at the Lookout Restau-rant if you’re up on Baldy this week. You can get sliders, tacos and more for about $4.

Off the slopes: The inaugural Sun Valley

Nordic Festival continues through Sunday with all kinds of deals, including a $49 pass that allows pass holders to ski both Sun Valley Nordic and North Valley Trails for nine days.

Race participants and $49 Combo

Nordic Trail pass holders can get 10 percent knocked off their dinner at Sun valley Resort Village

restaurants by showing their race

bib or pass through Feb. 7. The Roosevelt is

offering a 25 percent discount on dinners to both, along with a free glass of champagne to Boulder Mountain Tour rac-ers. Lizzy’s Fresh Coffee has a limited edition 2010 Boulder Mountain Tour coffee, available at the Boulder Mountain Tour bib pickup or online through Feb. 14 at www.lizzysfreshcof-fee.com. Three dollars of every bag sold will be donated to the BCRD grooming fund.

And PK’s Ski and Sports Backwoods Mountain Sports, Sturtevants and DKG Ketchum Dry Goods ares also offering

discounts to Nordic Festival participants.

Recreational skiers should plan to avoid the Harriman Trail on Saturday since there’ll be nearly a thousand skiers rampaging down the trail in the Boulder Mountain Tour, which starts at 10 a.m. at Galena.

Avalanche danger con-tinues to be considerable, as evidenced by the snowmobiler who lost his life this past week near Soldier Mountain and the skier who was caught in an avalanche out of bounds at Snowbasin in Utah.

You can show your support for the local avalanche center by eating, drinking and being merry at the Banff Film Festi-val at 7 p.m. Thursday through Saturday at the nexStage The-atre. Raffle tickets good for all kinds of cool outdoor gear, res-taurant dinners, etc., are also available at Backwoods Moun-tain Sports and The Elephant’s Perch through Saturday.

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Ragamala dances through life’s journey By KAREN BOSSICK

Their feet and fingers painted red, five danc-ers introduced Wood

River Valley residents to one of the oldest dance forms in the world last Friday night.

Members of Ragamala Dance painted pictures in the air, moved their heads like turkeys and slapped the floor with their bare feet as they brought to life a human being’s journey from the dawn of birth to the twilight of life.

Their two-hour performance reached a thunderous climax as two Japanese Taiko drum-mers with Wadaiko Ensemble Tokara pounded out a rhythm for the dancers to follow.

“It’s mesmerizing,” said Ket-chum resident Carol Scheifele-Holmes.

“This is a discipline that takes a lifetime to learn

beginning at a young age,” added Elkhorn resident Pawan Mehra, who is familiar with the bharatanatyam dance hav-ing grown up in India. “These dancers are very good. In India you would see even more facial expression and vibration of the cheeks.”

The Minneapolis-based dance troupe conducted a workshop for 1,200 school children in the valley prior to its performance Friday night.

The workshops were gifted by the Sun Valley Center for the Arts, which continues to present artists and lecturers to the schools at a time other Idaho schools are slashing field trips and performing arts because of budget cuts.

Ranee Ramaswamy told Hemingway Elementary stu-dents that “ bharatanatyam” is a three-pronged word that means expression, melody and

rhythm. The classical dance form is more than 2,000 years old, she added, causing a ripple of “ooohs” through the bleach-ers.

Ramaswamy explained the hand movements, which il-lustrated such concepts as rain and waterfalls.

“They realized even 2,000 years ago how important it was to respect nature,” she told the students.

Ramaswamy told the stu-dents that everything the danc-ers did with their hands and body were used to tell a story. Then she performed “Jack and Jill went up the hill” to illus-trate, teaching the students some of the hand movements in the process.

She made special note of the dancers’ exaggerated eye move-ments: “We say, ‘Where the hands go, the eye follows.”

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briefsWinter concerts

The city of Ketchum, Downtown Ketchum Event Planning Com-mittee and Sun Valley/Ketchum Chamber & Visitors Bureau are pleased to announce that the popular weekly free concerts in town plaza will be continued begin-ning February 11 and continuing through March 25. LeRoy’s will be open and serving hot chocolate, adult beverages and crepes.

This year’s concert lineup starts out with Matt Hopper on February 11.

More information is available from Cox Communications at www.cox.com.

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Norwegian Nordic Team trains at Sun ValleyThey showed

up in their work suits.

And The Big Red Machine promptly went to work, kicking and gliding along the cross country ski tracks at Sun Valley Nordic Center with the kind of focus you might expect to see in a scientist researching a cure for cancer.

Norway’s cross country ski team, which has tradition-ally fielded the fastest Nordic racers in the world, intends to capture a bevy of gold medals at the 2010 Winter Olympics, which begin Feb. 12 in Vancou-ver, B.C.

And they’ve chosen Sun Val-ley as their stepping stone to do that.

“Why did we come here?” asked Pal Gunnar Mikkelsplass, who took a silver medal at the 1988 Calgary Olympics. “Because of the bad weather, of course!” he said in jest, gestur-ing toward sun-kissed Bald Mountain and the royal blue skies above it.

Team representatives visited Sun Valley last spring and decided the tranquil, secluded venue was the perfect place to prepare their athletes mentally and physically in the days lead-ing up to the Olympics.

It sits 3,000 to 4,000 feet higher than the Olympic venue, giving endurance athletes a competitive edge when they return to lower elevations to compete. It offers them respite from the media that would be hounding them in their home country. The grooming is far better than that in Norway, said Coach Steinar Mundal. And racers can train until 6 p.m. here, whereas it would be dark by 4 p.m. back home in the Land of the Midnight Sun .

“It’s perfect here. Very good,” said Tord Gjerdalen, who will be competing in his second Olympics. “The flat courses are perfect for training and the hills are good for harder training. And the people are really nice and polite, always saying, ‘Hello.’ At home, they just put their head down and keep going.”

The presence of the athletes has electrified the Sun Valley Nordic Center. The sight of the racers gliding by the Sun Valley Club with mechanical precision temporarily brought conversation to a standstill Sunday evening sending those who’d gathered to wish Olym-pic contender Morgan Arritola well scurrying to the windows, cameras in hand.

Others, like Sun Valley Mayor Wayne Willich and City Coun-cilman Nils Ribi, have hap-pily engaged the Norwegians in conversation around the Norwegians’ watering station, talking about mountain biking, golf and airline connections.

“”They’re like Norse gods to us,” said

Steve Haims, an instructor at the Sun Valley Nordic Center. “They’re blown away by how beautiful it is

here and how good the skiing is. And,

in turn, their pres-ence builds excitement

for us.”Many skiers have flocked to

the tracks this week hoping to ski alongside the immortals of Nordic racing—if only for a fraction of a second. Among them, Joann Levy, who cred-its her Norwegian blood for prompting her to ski every day at 69.

She stood at the intersection of the Proctor Loop and Trail Creek Loop Friday afternoon waiting for a glimpse of a racer.

Whoosh!“You can’t pick up any tips

from them they go so fast,” she said. “But the guys are so handsome. And the women are beautiful.”

On Monday Sun Valley resi-dents Robert Disbrow and Kim Kawaguchi spent the morning skiing with World Champion sprinter Eldar Ronning and Martin Sundby –the result of a $5,000 bid they’d made at the Galena Lodge Benefit and Auction.

“You won’t be able to keep up with us now,” Bob Disbrow told skier Nello Busdon upon his return.

Not to be left behind, Busdon joined the two as Mundal taught them more efficient way of double poling by bending their knees and take short strokes with their poles.

Ronning demonstrated, glid-ing down the tracks with the speed of a freight train, blow-ing shoo, shoo’s through his mouth instead of choo-choo’s.

The 15-member contingent, which will be here until Sun-day, includes four male skiers, three female skiers, seven coaches and a chef who is cooking up salmon, spareribs, Thai food and “really good American beef,” according to Ronning.

The skiers work out for about 2 and one-half hours in the morning, break for lunch and return in the afternoon for another 2 and one-half hours. Occasionally, they get out on the Harriman Trail and the trails around Galena.

The golden boy, whom Nor-wegians hope will follow in the ski tracks of Bjorn Daehlie, is 24-year-old Petter Northug, a 6-foot 180-pounder known for a ferocious finishing kick. Nor-thug, who has eight World Cup wins under his red stocking hat and is favored to win four gold medals in Vancouver, is known as “the big mouth from Mos-vik” because of his bravado.

He put that bravado on dis-play here when reminded that

his coach, Thomas Alsgaard, blogged about encountering a mountain lion while training here prior to the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City. The news made front-page head-lines back home.

“I would like to see a moun-tain lion,” Northug said. “If I did, I would just go faster.”

Norwegian-born Jon Engen, a former Olympic biathlete and Nordic racer who now coaches at Sun Valley Nordic Center, says the Norwegians train at a higher level than he did when he was “a glorified weekend athlete” in Billings, Mont., who engineered environmental clean-ups to support his ski habit.

“They’re professional s. Each one is working on something

very specific and we may not even be able to see it,” he said. “As national chairman for the Cross Country USSA, I work with the U.S. Ski Team and when I watch them I’m think-ing: What can I see that could be useful for our program so we can not only match these guys in their red suits but surpass them? How can we develop athletes like them?”

The secret to the Norwe-gians’ success lies in some-thing that may be elusive for American skiers, said Coach Audun Svartdal--tradition.

“Cross country skiing is a very big sport in Norway. The skiers are big stars there,” he said.

Like Michael Jackson?“More like Tiger Woods,”

laughed Mikkelsplass.

Eldar Ronning, Robert Disbrow, Kim Kawaguchi and Martin Sundby catch their breaths after a morning ski around Diamondback at the Sun Valley Nordic Center. PHOTOS: KAREn BOSSICK/TWP

Tord Gjerdalen said he has enjoyed training at Sun Valley.

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“They’re like Norse gods to

us. They’re blown away by how beautiful it is here and how good the skiing is. And, in turn, their

presence builds excitement

for us.”–Steve Haims

Instructor at Sun Valley Nordic Center

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U-23 World Championships in Germany this week.

Joining them at the Olympics will be Hailey’s Graham Wata-nabe, who won a spot on the U.S. Snowboard Cross Team. Watanabe was absent Sunday night because he was compet-ing in Aspen.

Dick Fosbury, who won a gold medal at the 1968 Sum-mer Olympics in Mexico, wore the white jacket and ski cap he will wear carrying the Olympic torch in Vancouver. Fosbury, president of the World Olym-pians Association, reminded the audience that Arritola and the others would represent not only their country but Sun Val-ley, as well.

“We are really starting to put Sun Valley on the map--not just in alpine skiing but Nordic ski-ing, the Paralympics…we’ve got it all,” he added.

There will probably be six athletes representing Sun Val-ley in the Paralympics, said Marc Mast, who heads up the Wood River Abilities Program (WRAP).

They include alpine skier Elitza Storey, who grew up in Sun Valley, and Andy Soule, a Texan who trained in Sun Val-ley on a sit-ski after losing his legs in an explosion in Afghani-stan.

The list also includes Nordic skiers Greg Mallory, Chris Klebl and Sean Halsted and Mark Bathum, a blind alpine skier who has been training in Sun Valley this winter.

Bathum’s guide is Elitza’a brother Slater Storey, so there will likely be two Storeys par-ticipating in the Paralympics, which follow the Olympics.

“The support of the com-munity has been amazing,” Bathum said. “We get stopped

every day on the hill with words of encouragement.”

Sending three kids from the Ski Education Foundation’s four-year-old Olympic Develop-ment Team is “pretty amaz-ing,” said Don Wiseman, SVSEF executive director.

Wiseman said the SVSEF puts out about $40,000 a year to help Arritola with insurance, travel and other expenses. Alpine skiers cost even more--$60,000 a year.

“Our goal is to give these athletes a chance to be on the U.S. Ski Team. And we do it because we’re a ski town—that’s what we do,” he said. “These kids are our pro team. We had a dry spell for awhile, but now our kids are kicking butt everywhere they go. And Morgan and the others are having a pull-up effect on our other youth. We have more in the pipeline now than four years ago.”

Eight-year-old Sarah Feltman, a student at Woodside Elemen-tary School, was among those doing a little Olympic dream-ing Sunday evening.

“I think it’s just amazing that Morgan gets to go to the Olympics,” she said as Arritola signed a poster for her. “When I grow up, I hope that I can get good enough to go, too.”

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that wrong. Working on a graduate

degree, focused on anthropol-ogy and history, sent me on a series of amazing social and cultural trips. I’ve wandered across Asia, China and Europe, connecting urban dots with strings of university stops to unload the information aimed at earning a few more letters after my name. My travels have strengthened my simple personality, early on steeped in Ketchum’s brew of rugged outdoor adventures, and given it global perspective.

Now ready to share that per-spective with students in my newly assigned classroom here in the Valley. I’m hoping I can give as much back to this place as it has given me. My guess is, however, that I’ll learn as much or more from my students and neighbors than I will be able to offer them.

I’ve packed up my music and my memorabilia, my pets and my passions, and moved from

nomad to local adventurer. My dog is loving the snow. My cockatiel is a little confused., and may be finding the climate a little chilly. He’s been my constant companion for the past couple of years though, and has learned an interest-ing dictionary of foreign and domestic words that always provide colorful comment, if not objective insight, so he’s staying.

Can’t wait to get outfitted in some new gear, get back out on the mountain, spend some time in the back country, meet some new friends and figure out how to make my life count. I’ve made the choice. Now I need to make it work. There are some questions and challenges that I cannot wait to find answers to. Will I be a good teacher? Can I be happy with a smaller sphere of reference? Should I sell my condo in California and buy a piece of my future here in the Valley? And, will the girl follow?

I invite you to come along with me as I re-engage, taking in as much of the people and the culture here as they will al-low. Looks to be a fun ride that I will enjoy sharing as details of my life unfold through a different writer each week in theweeklypaper. Look for me on Facebook as well. Always interested in what‘s going on and where, so drop me a line if you’ve got a suggestion for events or people that you think I’d enjoy. Nice to be back home. See ya’ around town! MTR

Max Rudolph’s adventures will be chronicled in theweek-lypaper every Wednesday as he moves from student and traveler to local teacher and adventurer. A different local writer will relay details about Max’s life in the Wood River Valley each week. For details on Max, check out his Face-book info page.

second time around ..................................................... froM pg 1

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SBG to showcase Buchart GardensSalome Garau-Tay-

lor is a garlic fiend, grow-

ing hundreds of garlic bulbs each summer.

But on Wednesday night her fancies will turn towards Bu-chart Gardens.

Taylor is providing the wine and other refresh-ments for a free showing of a botanical film showcasing the famous Victoria, B.C., gardens at 5:30 p.m. at the Sawtooth Botanical Garden.

Then she’ll tell moviego-ers about an upcoming tour

of Buchart Gardens that her Travel With

Salome and Co. has arranged May 6 through 9,

The tour will take tour goers behind the scenes

at the garden, said Taylor.Guests will ride the

Victoria Clipper from Seattle to Victoria and lodge at The Empress Hotel. While in Victoria they will have a pri-vate- behind-the scenes tour of the garden, as well as High Tea, or lunch, at the gardens.

They will also have plenty of free time to sightsee on their

own. Cost starts at $650.

The Community Library will continue its Food Flicks in February Film Festival Tuesday night with a free showing of “Tortilla Soup.”

The film dotes on a semi-retired Mexican-American chef who still cooks elaborate multi-course meals for the three adult draughts he shares his suburban Los Angeles home with even though he has lost the senses of taste and smell since his wife’s death.

The film, designed to whet viewers’ appetite for the mid-March Moveable Feast at the library, starts at 6 p.m.

nuggetstoo good to miss

by: Karen bossicK

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theweeklypaper • 17Wednesday 2.3.10 The determination to win is the better part of winning.

Sawtooth Auto Sales.Drive one.

788-2216 • 920 South Main, hailey •www.Sawtoothauto.coM

Hot Club of San Fran: they’ll be back for Jazz JamboreeBy KAREN BOSSICK

Out of sight. Nearly out of mind.As the lights dimmed on

the band and the silent films flickered across the screen, it was easy to forget you were there for a concert.

That was the case Saturday night at the Church of the Big Wood as the Hot Club of San Francisco paired the tight mesh of three guitars, a bass and a violin with four silent films.

The films, one of which dated back to 1912, were so

imaginative and creative it was easy to get absorbed in them, almost tuning out the live mu-sic that accompanied them .

Paul Mehling, the band’s founder, called it the first an-nual Idaho Gypsy Jazz Silent Film Festival. Then he laughed when the audience indicated it had never heard of such films as “It’s a Bird,” an enchanting tall tale about a metal-eat-ing bird that an enterprising junk yard man hunted down to clean up his yard and—it turned out—lay an egg that

turned all it had eaten into a snazzy automobile.

“That’s exactly why we bought it because we knew that you were not sick and tired of it,” he said.

The band, brought to Ket-chum by the Sun Valley Center for the Arts, played many of Mehling’s own compositions to accompany the films, much as organs used to accompany them. The other big contribu-tor was Django Reinhardt, a gypsy jazz guitarist who inspired Hot Clubs around the

world.Considered by some to be

the one of the greatest gui-tar players of all time, more people are aware of him now than were aware of him in his lifetime in the early 1900s, said Mehling. “That’s huge because a lot of people knew of him then,” he added.

The Hot Club of San Francis-co, which displayed elements of gypsy music in its own play-ing, will be among the bands at next October’s Sun Valley Swing ‘n Dixie Jazz Jamboree,

confirmed Jamboree Directors Jeff and Carol Loehr, who were in the audience.

That sits well with Wood River High School Orchestra Director Andy Lewis.

“I love this group,” he said. “They’re such a fun, swinging group.”

Next up: Cabaret Night with Catherine Russell, 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 20, at the nexStage Theater. Visit www.sunvalleycenter.org for more information.

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18 • theweeklypaper How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours. Wednesday 2.3.10

Drink MailAfter my first day on a new

job, a co-worker and I stopped bya nearby pub to celebrate. At thebar my new friend pulled out hiscell phone, put it on the counterand placed his drink on top. Notsure what to think, I inquiredabout his strange coaster.

"It never fails," he explained."If I stop at a bar, my wifesomehow knows to call and findout when I'll be home."

Sure enough within minutes,the phone vibrated below hisdrink. "Aren't you going toanswer it?" I asked.

"Not until the fourth vibrate,"he replied watching the glass."If she's going to keep callingme, the least she can do is mixmy drink!"

(Thanks to Stephen R.)

Reader Humor

Laughs For Sale

Duane “Cash” Holze & Todd “Carry” Holze

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Fast FactsDear Classified Guys,I hate to admit it, but I've beenaround long enough to remem-ber the switch from vinylrecords to 8-track tapes. And asyou know, that lead to cassettetapes, CD's and MP3's. Thingsseem to change faster than mysuit styles (I have a collection ofthose as well). The same thinghappened with computers. Ican't tell you how many PC's Ihave in the closet, each outdat-ing the other. When I upgrade, Ican't bring myself to throw outthe old. If you can't tell, I'm acollector of stuff. Granted, myfirst IBM XT computer with a5¼" floppy drive isn't going toget internet access, but it doeswork. I tried it the other day forlaughs. I've offeredthese things to mykids and grandkids,but no takers. I don'twant to just throw themaway or recycle them.How do I find someone whomight be interested since mostof them still work?

• • •Cash: Considering your collec-

tion, you already know that tech-nology changes quickly. And withyour habits, it's likely you stillhave some 70's leisure suits hidingin the closet as well.

Carry: Unfortunately, unlikefashion, your IBM XT is not likelyto come back into style. Andhopefully the 1970's polyestershirts won't either!

Cash: Since most electronicdevices change due to improve-ments rather than appearance, out-dated equipment typically haslimited use. Take televisions forexample. While many of the cath-ode ray picture tubes still workperfectly fine, most people arecraving a large-screen LCD orplasma television.

Carry: Most computers followsimilar trends, being obsolete bythe time they're delivered to yourdoor! And although your IBM XTmay still work, most peoplewouldn't know what to do with it

if it can't get email.Cash: That's not to say that

your antiquated equipment can'tfind a home outside of your closet.Many people still have some usefor older electronics. They mayneed them for parts or simply wantthem for their own collection!

Carry: Place a classified adoffering your items free to thoseinterested and you're likely to havesome options present themselves.For computers that are still usableby today's standards, considerdonating them to schools or otherlocal organizations who may usethem for training purposes.

Cash: And if you're successfulin cleaning out your entire elec-tronics closet, maybe you can workon your wardrobe closet next!

Ask the Guys

This "flat screen" could use a diet.

©2010 The Classified Guys®01/31/10

Trash TalkIf you're like most people,

you've had several cell phones inthe past few years. The disposalof consumer electronics is a grow-ing problem. In 2007, Americansdisposed of 27 million TVs, 205million computer products andmore than 100 million cell phonesand PDA's according to the U.S.Environmental Protection Agency.Only about 16% of all those elec-tronics were actually recycled.The rest were thrown in the land-fill alongside typical kitchengarbage.Phone Manners

With the global increase in cellphone usage, telephone etiquettehas gotten out of hand. It's com-mon to overhear any number ofprivate conversations while shop-ping, walking down the street oreven watching a movie. But thereis good news. According to theannual survey by LetsTalk.com,cell phone etiquette is slowlyimproving. The number of peoplewho deem it acceptable to talk inrestaurants has dropped 10%, callson public transportation havedropped 7%, and movie conversa-tions are down 9%.Unfortunately, talking in thesupermarket is still acceptable, up6% from previous years.

FOR SALE

22" Fat Screen monitor.

In okay condition.

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10 help wantedTula’s Salon is looking for a cos-metologist. Please inquire at 120 North Main in Bellevue. Ask for Julie. 788-9008. **TFN**

Leasing Stations: Tired of paying that high rent? Give me a call. Debi 788-9319 *TFN*

Place your help wanted ads with us for only $7 per week for up to 40 words. Buy 2 weeks, get 1 free. Call theweeklypaper at 928-7186 or e-mail your ad to classifieds@theweeklypaper.com **TFN**

14 child careNeed a babysitter or nanny while you’re on the mountain or out for a night on the town? Call Jessie at 208-794-8621. Great local referenc-es. **07**

CHILDREN’S CLASSES & SERVIC-ES - are forming now at Teddy Bear Corner! Yoga, gymnastics, begining ballet, art enrichment; piano, flute, voice & guitar lessons; academic tutoring. All instructors are trained & certified. Very reasonable rates! 788-1955 or Teddy_Bear_Corner@msn.com. **06**

18 construction5 gal. propane bottles - retail $35+. $20 each. Call 720-4360. **TFN**

10’ foot work platform for fork lift. Brand new was $2200 new, will sell for $1200. Call Mike at 720-1410. **TFN**

19 servicesMath Tutor - Elementary through College. 17 years of experience. Improve your understanding and grades in pre-algebra through cal-culus. 1st 2 sessions free. Call Ann Parry at 721-7490. **07**

We’re Here to Help!Have you recently had knee/hip sur-gery and need a little temporary help around the house? Errands? Catch up the company books? Transpor-tation for Appointments? Bonded, licensed and insured. Members, Marie Vetsch, 578-7761 or 208-830-4239; Barbara Browning, 721-8277. To The Rescue, LLC. **06**

RESERVE BELLA COSA STUDIO - we supply the food, drinks and ceramics. For a fun night out with a group of friends. 208-721-8045 **TFN**

‘Personal’ Property Assistant and Management Available: Ketchum area personal assistant and home management! Including checking on your home, stocking for your arrival and departure, arranging transporta-tion to airport, mail pick-up, xmas tree installation, love kids and pets, some cooking, arranging all servic-es, cars, vacation rental, and more! References. Call Alex Hughes, 208 720-7444, alexsunvalley@cox-inter-net.com. **TFN**

Salon Stations for lease Debi 788-9319 *TFN*

20 appliances6 foot Home Theatre System - Ep-son portable wide screen. $950. Call 450-9135. **07**

IBM Selectric typewriter, excellent $35 208-721-7918. **07**

JVC 32” television for sale. $150.00. Works great. Call 208-788-0139 for details. **07**

500 Watt Professional Series The-ater Speaker system with 2 Acoustic Pro Speakers. $400. 450-9135. **07**

Evolution Pro Compact garbage disposal for sale. ¾ HP motor. Never out of the box. Paid $350.00, will sell for $100.00. Call 208-788-0139 for details. **07**

Replace all of your remotes with this Logitech 880 universal remote. Paid $159 new. Has newer battery, charging base, USB connector and Quick Start guide. I just upgraded to the 900. Love it! First $50 takes. 720-4988. **TFN**

SONY single disc standard CD/DVD player. Includes remote and manual. First $25 takes. 720-4988. **TFN**

Home Entertainment System - Watch the Olympics in widescreen. 42 inch plasma TV, TV receiver, au-diovisual receiver, DVD player, DVR, VCR, three loudspeakers. All re-motes and manuals. Excellent con-dition $800. 208-622-4613. **06**

FREE TO A GOOD/NEEDY HOME: Amana Washer and gas dryer. Ap-proximately 10 years old. White. Both run good. Occasional small leak from washer. Can be repaired. Available approx. Dec 21st when our replace-ments come. Jeff 720-4988. **TFN**

22 art, antiques, etc.Extensive Raikes Bears collection for sale at the St. Luke’s Hospital Gift Shop, just in time for Valentine’s Day. Come in or call 727-8725. And, add some of our exclusive See’s Can-dies. **06**

NANCY STONINGTON ORIGINAL WATERCOLORS. View from Sterling Winery $1200, Dogwoods in the For-est, $950, Alpine Flowers $800. Call Ann (208) 726-9510 **05**

24 furnitureBrand new brown “Serta Sleeper “queen sofa. Fabric protected. Nev-er used. Must see to appreciate. Can email photo. $1,000 melody5b@ya-hoo.com or 720-5558 **07**

Everything must go! Twin Beds, couch, loveseat, bookcases, coffee table, TV, stand, and much more. Call for details. 720-8357. **07**

Off-white suede queen sofa couch - new. $900 OBO. 578-0688. **06**

Single boxspring & mattress - new. $250. 578-0688. **06**

Log Bun Bed - $400. Please call 309-2460. **06**

28 clothingHot Chily’s rep samples - Men’s and Women’s medium only. Tops and bottoms available. All brand new. Everything is $20 or less. Call 309-1088. **TFN**

30 children & toddlersHave childrens toys or supplies you don’t need? Sell them here as a free classified. **TFN**

34 camerasMavica Digital Still Camera - MVC-CD1000. Costs $1,600 new. Needs service (approx. $175). Current value from sony @ $875. Your price $150. Call 450-9135. **07**

36 computersHP Photosmart D7160 printer. Brand new, in box. Purchase ink. $125. Call 450-9221. **TFN**

For sale Brother fax machine 1840C like new $25. Contact Jan, 720-1097. **TFN**

4 Dish Network receivers - $60 each. Call Jan 720-1097. **TFN**

40 musicalMusic ‘n Me is accepting new piano, guitar, bass, drums, vocal and violin students in Ketchum & Hailey. Viva Rock Camp for Girls. For sign ups call 788-3348. **05**

42 firewood/stovesHeat King Wood stove. Takes 16” logs. Stove dimensions are 30”h, 26”w and 24”deep. $500. Call 720-4498. **TFN**

44 jewelryPerfect for Valentine’s! Beautiful pear diamond engagement ring. 1.41 Ct. $5,000. 578-1123 **07**

Perfect for Valentine’s! Heavy, gold bracelet. Beautiful design. 578-1123 **07**

Heavy Tri-Color gold necklace. $1,500. 578-1123 **07**

GREAT GIFTS! One-of-a-kind, lo-cally hand-blown, glass pendants. $25-$35. Please call to see. 788-4342. Can also e-mail photos if you

like. **TFN**

48 skis & equipmentNew 2010 Volkl mens and womens skis at 1/2 price. Womens Cielo 156 cm with binding. Retail is $625 sell for $250 obo. Womens Aire 154 cm with marker binding. Retail is $700 sell for $250 obo. Womens Oceana 156 cm with marker binding. Retail is $700 sell for $250 obo. Womens Pearl twin tip 162 cm with marker binding. Retail is $545 sell for $235 obo. Call 309-1088. **TFN**

Have any equipment that you don’t use? Sell it here with a free classi-fied. **TFN**

50 sporting goodsOakley LiveStrong Men’s sunglass-es - lightly used. New $150, selling for $50 OBO. Travis, 434-227-8169. **TFN**

1 Virtual Reality Golf Arcade simula-tor with bill acceptor. $900. Call 450-9135. **07**

45 Cal Kimber Handgun - 1911 model with 50 rounds. New model never used. $400. Call 450-9135. **07**

Winchester 12 Gauge Model 1300 Shotgun w/Walnut Stock & Nikon BuckMaster Scope. Excellent condi-tion $200.00 obo. Call 208.721.2558. **06**

Benelli 12 gauge Super Black Eagle 11 Shotgun W/ Satin Walnut Stock. Excellent condition $999.00 obo. Call 208.721.2558. **06**

Bowflex Power Pro XTL - 310 lbs. Power rods. Like New. Paid $1,900, will take $1,000 OBO. Call for more info. 471-0026. **TFN**

52 tools and machinerySnowblower-Snapper 2008 single stage. Purchased from Clearwater Nursery for $900, registered with warranty. Used maybe 10 hours to-tal. Will sell for $650. 788-5648 **06**

Retired plumbing contractor - ev-erything for sale. Tools, plumbing supplies, pipe machine. Call for in-quiries. 471-0653. **06**

10” Powermatic cabinet saw - 5hp, 3 phase w/1 phase converter. 6’ Biesmeyer fence. $650. 720-9250

**05**

10’ foot work platform for fork lift. Brand new was $2200 new, will sell for $1200. Call Mike at 720-1410. **TFN**

54 toys (for the kids!)Have any kids toys that you don’t need? Sell them here with a free classified. **TFN**

56 other stuff for saleWheel chair made by Invacare in perfect condition in Hailey $100 208-721-7918 **07**

FOR SALE:7 NEW Coin Operated

Vending Machines.Be your own BossRecession proof!

$2,500 OBO Will deliver within

the Valley.

Call Tony 720-5153 **TFN**

real estate for sale

60 homes for sale

For sale by owner - Bellevue home @ 300 South 3rd on 9,000 sq. ft. corner lot. 2-3 bd, 1 bath, 2 car, de-tached garage. Asking $250,000. Adjacent 6,000 sq. ft. lot also for sale. Call 788-3564. Courtesy to Brokers. **08**

If you work in Blaine County and make less than $43,568/year, you

theweeklypaper • 19Wednesday 2.3.10 The best mirror is an old friend.

the weekly classified ad pages

Janine Bear

cell:720.1254

Beautiful Office Space

Beautiful office space in Ketchum’s 120 building. 442 sq. ft. first floor location with shared conference room, lobby and bathroom. Re-served, covered parking included. Asking $167,750.

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can buy Frenchman’s Place 1BR/1B with Den and underground parking in Ketchum for $120,370. Call BCHA to apply 788-6102. **05**

List your house and gain added ex-posure for only $7 a week (up to 40 words). And you can Buy 2 weeks now, and get 1 FREE! **TFN**

62 open houseOpen House - February 4, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at 102 S. 4th, Hailey. Clas-sic “Old Hailey” 4BD/3BA, 2,111 sf., Turn-of-the-Century home has a very functional floorplan for today’s mod-ern lifestyle needs. The large 12,000 sf lot has wonderful gardens and mature landscaping. Old Garage is accessed off the alley and currently used for storage. MLS# 09-306908. $398,000. Cindy Ward, 720-0485. Sun Valley Real Estate, LLC.List your open house and gain added exposure for only $7 a week (up to 40 words). And you can Buy 2 weeks now, and get 1 FREE! **TFN**

64 condos/townhouses for sale

1/ 4 Fractional Ownership in a fully furnished vacation ready condo lo-cated in Elkhorn. With 4 bedrooms and 3 baths, it is perfect for those that want that extra space! Plus you will have access to Elkhorn tennis, golf, and pools. This is a great value at $125,000! Compare to other 4 bedrooms in the area! Private financ-ing is available with $ 5,000 down . 208-860-3443. **06**

Tired of boxes? Gain added exposure to help sell your house. For only $7 a week (up to 40 words). And you can Buy 2 weeks now, and get 1 FREE! **TFN**

66 farm/ranchesGot Barn? Got Ranch? List it here for only $7 a week (up to 40 words). Buy 2 weeks, get 1 FREE! **TFN**

70 vacation propertyWinter Vacation Getaway in Palm Desert. 2400 sq. ft. home 3/2 and office. Furnished with pool, fenced back yard, dogs friendly. 2 queens, 2 twins or 1 king bed. Bermuda Dunes, close to golf, shopping and casinos. $150/day, $3000/month. Call Jim 208-720-1212. **TFN**

Relax. List your vacation property here and gain added exposure for ONLY $7 a week (up to 40 words). Buy 2 weeks, get 1 FREE! **TFN**

73 vacant landJanine BearSotheby’s

208-720-1254Vacant Land

$155,000 Pine View Lot (partial Realtor owned)

$199,000 Northridge Lot (partial Realtor owned)

$249,000 Corner lot Northridge$249,000 Half acre lot

$419,000 2.53 acresTimberline Lot**TFN**

real estate for rent

79 shoshone rentals

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80 bellevue rentalsVery clean, large 3 bd, 1.5 ba home on 5 acres, 1 mile south of Bellevue. Breakfast nook, dining room, large patio & shared laundry room with basement tenants. 8 mo+ lease. 1st, last & deposit. $900. 788-3657 **06**

For rent in Bellevue - 2 bd, 1 ba mo-bile home. Very clean. $500 includes water & sewer. No smoking, animals maybe. 212 South 2nd. Call 788-4013. **05**

81 hailey rentalsCharming East Hailey Cottage for rent Feb. 1st thru June 1st. Some

utilities included. $700/mo. 788-1277 or 720-3703. **06**

Beautiful large home on 1+ acres in the Heatherlands. 3,400 sf. 4 bd, 3 ba, 2 master suites, w/chef’s kitchen. $1,975 per mo., plus utilities. Ed at 720-2079. **TFN**

Hailey/ Bellevue Rentals$2200/mo - 1 acre retreat with artisan inspired home. Includes landscaping and snow removal 2/2.5. Lower Broadford Rd.$1400/mo - Chestnut Loop, Bel-levue, 3/2.5, like new condition, hardwood floored kitchen, tiled baths, fireplace, bonus room, fenced yard. $1300 - Della View, 3/2 with loft for office/gym, dbl. car garage, just painted, dogs negotiable. References - 1st., last and dam-age required @move in.

Call Jim 208-720-1212.**TFN**

84 short-term rentalCharming East Hailey Cottage for rent Feb. 1st thru June 1st. Some utilities included. $700/mo. 788-1277 or 720-3703. **06**

Stanley Cabin. Comfortable, light, well-furnished, 2 bedrooms, 1 bath. Iron Creek area. Sleeps 6. $200/night (2 night min.) or $1,300/week. Dogs OK. Call Jima, 726-1848. **TFN**

85 long-term rentalRichfield, 2 bed, 1 bath trailer $300/month, includes water, sewer & trash. 309-1023. **08**

For Long term rental of house in Elkhorn: $2,400/month. Spacious 4 bedroom 3 bath home with garage in Elkhorn. This furnished house offers a living room with vaulted ceilings and fireplace. The downstairs has an office, family room and 2nd Master Suite. 12 month lease. No smoking/no pets. 208-860-3443 photos avail-able. **06**

Fairfield rental for $385 a month!!!! 3 bd, 2 ba home available immedi-ately to qualified renter. Large yard, close to schools, nice neighborhood. Double carport, storage, washer and dryer. Trash, water, sewer included. Pets negotiable. First and $500 deposit. References required. 6 month lease min. 720-3618 or 726-5399. **06**

Fantastic 3bed 3.5 bath home on 5 acres top quality finishes throughout, 3car garage beautifully landscaped. located in Bellevue farms. $3,200/ mo. Utilities not included $4,000 without current renter in garage apt (has seperate entrance). SERIOUS INQUIRES ONLY. Deposit required. References required. Contact Jan 720-1097. **TFN**

86 apt./studio rentalGimlet Mid-Valley - fully furnished one bedroom apt. above garage. Parking in garage - private entrance, w/d. $600 per month + security de-posit. Call to see 726-4844 or 309-1193. **05**

87 condo/townhome rental

Warm Spring Alpine Townhome: 4 BR, 3.5 B, FP, garage, SUNNY big windows facing mt! Walk to moun-tain! Free bus nearby! Quiet location! Recently remolded with new beds/linens/kitchen, comfortable every-thing! e-mail: alexsunvalley@cox-in-ternet.com for photos and availability and 2009 discounted pricing! **TFN**

89 roommate wantedPrivate room in awesome Mountain Chalet - 2 miles west of Hailey. Cen-trally located on 18 acre estate. $500 per month. Call 720-4360. **TFN**

Like to share? Looking for some-one to share the cost of living these days? For the price of 2 Red Bulls a week, you can list it here! **TFN**

200 farm equipmentSell your farm equipment here with a free classified.*TFN**

202 livestock for saleRegistered quarter horse (mare), registered paint (mare) - $3,000. (May sell separately, please inquire). Will consider trade. Call 208-320-3374 **TFN**

300 puppies & dogsGot a cute pooch that needs a good home? Help them find that special someone with your listing here. **TFN**

302 kittens & catsMeow, Meow. List your kittens & cats here. **TFN**

400 share the rideWanted: someone with a truck go-ing to L.A. Need couch, chair & table sent to L.A. Will share in Gas. Call Rich at 818-618-4865. **TFN**

500 personal connections

SWF—made you look! Find your personal connection here. **TFN**

502 take a classCHILDREN’S CLASSES & SERVIC-ES - are forming now at Teddy Bear Corner! Yoga, gymnastics, begining ballet, art enrichment; piano, flute, voice & guitar lessons; academic tutoring. All instructors are trained & certified. Very reasonable rates! 788-1955 or Teddy_Bear_Corner@msn.com. **06**

Blaine County Fitness January Class Schedule:

Mondays: Back Class 8:30 a.m.; Core Strength 12 p.m.; Zumba 4:30 p.m.; Spin Bike 5:45 p.m.Tuesdays: Spin Bike 5:45 a.m.; Pi-lates 9 a.m.; Boot Camp 12 p.m.; Zumba Blast 5:30 p.m.Wednesday: Zumba 5:45 a.m.; Tai Chi 8 a.m.; Zumba 4:30 p.m.; Spin Bike 5:45 p.m.; Yoga, 7 p.m.Thursday: Spin Bike 5:45 p.m.; Back Class 8 a.m.; Pilates 9 a.m.; Boot Camp 12 p.m.; Zumba Blast 5:30 p.m.Saturday: Spin Bike 8:15 p.m.; Yoga 10 a.m. **08**

CERAMIC SCULPTURAL BOWL CLASS - Class forming Now! call Sarah for details at Bella Cosa Stu-dio. 208-721-8045 **TFN**

RESERVE BELLA COSA STUDIO - we supply the food, drinks and ceramics. For a fun night out with a group of friends. 208-721-8045 **TFN**

506 i need thisComputer whiz to help transfer info from one website to another. Can be a barter (I tutor!!) or a $-per-hour job; your call. Great for student or adult looking to make some extra $s or what-not. 725-4056. **05**

I have another classified ad under NEEDED. Needed - A 6 or 8 drawer bedroom dresser. Please call Christy 481-0162. **07**

Needed. Alley Cat Trading Compa-ny is opening a new resale store for furniture, clothing and accessories. If you have something you want to trade/sell, give us a call. 720-3918. Reuse • Refresh • Renew. Good for you and the environment too! **08**

I need someone to train - improved health, extra money - fully commit-ted to your success. Simple system. Let’s talk. Call Ann (208) 726-9510. **05**

Needed - A nice sectional couch. Please call Christy, 481-0162. **TFN**

Wanted: someone with a truck go-ing to L.A. Need couch, chair & table sent to L.A. Will share in Gas. Call Rich at 818-618-4865. **TFN**

Barber Chair - call Ariel at 721-8155. **TFN**

Have a Dog Crate (21” h x 18” w x 24” d) with 2 doors for sale - like new. We need a larger one for our growing puppy. Please call Christy at 481-0162. **TFN**

508 really oddDo you have a vermicompost bin? I will help you get it going or I will take it and get it working. Call 720-4401. **TFN**

Give your plants a treat! Indoor and outdoor plants. Vermicompost tea. Call 720-4401. **TFN**

Got something really odd? Share it with the rest of us. Inquiring readers want to know. **TFN**

509 announcementsKetchum Arts Festival 2010 appli-cations are out. If you did not get one by email, email to Ketchum_Arts_Festival@yahoo.com, call 725-4090 or pickup at Coffee Grinder, Ket-chum or Hailey Visitor Center. Dead-line March 15. Blaine County artists are not juried. **06**

Do you have an announcement you’d like to share? Send someone wishes for their special occasion, or list open houses for events, busi-nesses, etc. For only $7 a week, for up to 40 words, or make the ad stand out with a border or picture for only

$7 more. Call 928-7186. **TFN**

510 thank you notesThanks to those Ketchum eateries for allowing Peruvians Maria Laura Bustamante and Alejandro RIvas to perform their genuinely beautiful and memorable music on Saturdays, Wednesdays, etc. Verrry sorry you two have to return to Peru in March -- but at least we have your terrific stage presence here in the mean-time!!! **05**

514 free stuff (really!)

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FREE TO A GOOD/NEEDY HOME: Amana Washer and gas dryer. Ap-proximately 10 years old. White. Both run good. Occasional small leak from washer. Can be repaired. Available approx. Dec 21st when our replace-ments come. Jeff 720-4988. **TFN**

Free training for better health, extra money. I’m committed to helping you succeed. Simple system. Let’s talk. Call Ann (208) 726-9510. **05**

FREE BOXES - moving, packing or storage. Lots of sizes Come and get ‘em or we’ll recycle them. Copy & Print, 16 W. Croy St., Hailey. **TFN**

FREE PALLETS...always have a few in the way if you want them. Jeff, 788-4200. **TFN**

FREE wonderful coffee grounds for your pine trees and/or compost. Call 788-4572. **TFN**

518 ravesNeeded - Alley Cat Trading Compa-ny is opening a new resale store for furniture, clothing and accessories. If you have something you want to trade/sell, give us a call. 720-3918. Reuse • Refresh • Renew. Good for you and the environment too! **08**

Biggg thanks to Max Kessler for that genuinely riveting, heartfelt (and sometimes quite moving, too) “per-formance-poetry slam” he gave on Jan. 27th in Ketchum!! Thought IM-MEDIATELY of some of those su-perb, gripping Sinclair Lewis-inspired monologues Daniel Day-Lewis deliv-ered so eloquently and powerfully in 2007’s “There Will Be Blood” -- and also Studs Turkel’s “Working” book as well. A world away from Max’s Jan. 8th Hailey Grange Hall “Matt Mayhem’s One-Man Band” show -- but a similarly memorable and daz-zling “world”, nonetheless!! **05**

OMG—what a pheeee-nom-enal turnout they had on Jan. 26 at Hailey’s SV Brewery for that pheeee-nomenal Austin band, Wisebird: www.myspace.com/wise- bird!! When’s the last time you saw al-most 20 people on a Brewery dance floor -- and on on a TUESDAY night, no less?!?! Sean has a seriously

grrrreat booking instincts; thanks for an AMAZING night of music!! **05**

wheels, etc.

600 autos under $2,500‘97 Honda Civic 4dr LX - 139k miles, 35 mpg, 2 sets tires, 4 new studded snow & 4 hiway. Excellent running. $2,100 firm. 720-9250 **05**

606 carsPROGRESSIVE INSURANCE - For all of your automotive needs. Call 208-788-3255 **TFN**

609 vansHave a van you want to sell? Sell it here with a free classified. **TFN**

612 auto accessoriesSet of 4- 235/75 R15 Nokian Hak-kapeliitta winter snow tires mounted on Jeep Canyon clear coat rims. Excellent condition with limited use. $750 call Mike @ 720-7250. **06**

14’ ATV/snowmobile/wood car-rying trailer. Worth $1,600. For sale $800. Call 481-1216 or 764-2440. **TFN**

616 motorcyclesPROGRESSIVE INSURANCE - For all of your motorcycle needs. Call 208-788-3255 **TFN**

620 snowmobiles etc.Polaris 2000 Indy Classic 500 and 1998 700 RMK with trailer - $4,500. 720-1765 after 5:00pm. **05**

PROGRESSIVE INSURANCE - For all of your snowmobile needs. Call 208-788-3255 **TFN**

Men’s 2 piece Polaris/Klim snow-mobile suit. Very nice condition. Cost $485 new, selling for $220. Call Jeff at 720-4988. **TFN**

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