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Fundraiser for crisis center set for Friday
By LESLIE SIEGER
lsieger@am-news.com
BLACKFOOT — The
Bingham Crisis Center is
inviting everyone out for
dinner and live auction at
the Jason Lee Memorial
Methodist Church on
Friday to help raise funds
for the crisis center. Chili
is or chili dogs with chips
and a cinnamon roll for
desert are the menu for the
evening.
“Bingham Crisis Center
(BCC) would like to welcome members of the
community to come to
the fundraiser on Friday
in support of survivors of
domestic violence, sexual
assault, teen dating violence, and stalking,” BCC
Executive Director Dixie
Chapman said.
“The large amount of
Shelley mom dies in
one-vehicle accident
auction items donated are
absolutely wonderful and
the chili dinner is guaranteed to satisfy your hunger.”
Some of the items to
be auctioned are a huge
“Hello Dolly” gift basket,
donated by Westmark
Credit Union, two $50 gift
certificates for lawn care,
donated by Turfco, hotel
stays, restaurant gift certificates and much more.
The cost of dinner is $5
per person or $20 for a
family and begins at 5:30
p.m. The auction begins
at 6:30.
“Plan on bringing your
family and have some
fun with a great group of
community
members,”
Chapman said.
All proceeds will be
used for direct victim services and support services.
Fun in the Sun ...
By LESLIE MIELKE
lmielke@am-mews.com
SHELLEY — Mysty
Marie
MacCormack
Johnson, 26, of Shelley
died in a one-vehicle crash
on Tuesday, Feb. 23. The
Bingham County Sheriff’s
office was dispatched at
7:05 p.m. to a crash on
Highway 91 at 512 North.
When officers and
medical personnel arrived, roadway that had struck
they noticed a blue subur- a ditch, fence and power
ban on the west side of the
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Firth school board
talks levy at meeting
By LESLIE MIELKE lmielke@am-news.com
FIRTH – Speaking to the
Firth School District trustees during the February
school board meeting,
Firth High School (FHS)
principal Jeff Gee supplied
details about how the
money raised in the levy
has been used.
“Whether we are going
for levy or not, we need
to continue to move forward,” Gee said.
How much technology
is used in the school district?
The ratio of Chrome
books to students is oneto-one at the high school,
Superintendent Sid Tubbs
said. “You can go into any
classroom and the Chrome
books are constantly in
use. Students are doing
reports or typing papers.
Chrome books are
available in each school,
however, the ratio of onestudent-to-one-Chrome
book is limited.
“We would like to
expand the number of
Chrome books in the district so that each student
in grades three through 12
would have access to a
Chrome book,” Tubbs said.
“We would also like to be
on a schedule to enable
the district to replace onethird of the Chrome books
each year.
The second information
technology (IT) person was
also paid through the old
Morning News — Leslie Sieger
Juana Gonzalez, Joanna Diaz and
Theresa Jeffs (above) and Ida Cole
and Grayson Neumann (right) had
fun swinging, playing and taking
advantage of the nice weather at the
park at Jensen Grove Wednesday
afternoon.
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Sen. Crapo to visit Blackfoot, Ft. Hall
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BLACKFOOT — Idaho
Sen. Mike Crapo will be
in southeastern Idaho this
week to discuss issues
with Idahoans during three
town meetings. Crapo
has been taking about the
nation’s $19 trillion debt
and taking questions during many stops around
the state. His schedule
this week includes visits
to the to Blackfoot Friday,
4 p.m. at Blackfoot City
Hall and Saturday at 2:30
p.m. at the Tribal Council
Chambers on Pima Drive.
One of the subjects the
Senator may discuss is his
recent bipartisan effort
with a group of senators
this week in renewing their
efforts to expand restitution for victims of radiation
exposure related to U.S.
nuclear arms testing in the
1950s and 1960s.
As a part of that effort,
Crapo introduced S. 331,
the Radiation Exposure
Compensation
Act
(RECA), which seeks to
expand RECA eligibility
to affected individuals in
Idaho, Arizona, Colorado,
Montana, Nevada, New
Mexico and Utah.
Since its creation in
1990, RECA was designed
to assist those directly
affected by above-ground
nuclear testing or work
in uranium mines in the
United States, but limited
to individuals in certain
counties in Utah, Colorado
and Arizona. Known as
“downwinders”,
these
Americans suffered from
cancer and other various
health issues as a result of
radiation exposure.
In 2005, the National
Academy of Sciences
released a report calling
on Congress to establish
new scientific criteria for
decisions about awarding
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Talent shines at Shelley quilt show
By LESLIE MIELKE
lmielke@amnews.com
SHELLEY – Carloads of
quilters attended the 17th
annual Quilt Spectacular
at the North Bingham
County District Library in
Shelley on Tuesday and
Wednesday.
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Quilts bedecked the
library shelves with color
and diverse patterns. Lots
of talent was on display,
plus lots of work.
The enthusiasm for the
subject was palpable.
Nationally recognized
quilt teacher and author
Carmen Geddes from
Eagle Mountain, Utah,
presented a trunk show
where a quantity of her
work is explained.
She also explained how
to easily and accurately
make half-square triangles.
The patterns Geddes
sold included the lay out
or the grid pattern of specific quilts.
“All you have to add is
the fabric,” she said.
Visit tensisters.com for
more information.
“I named my first book,
“Ten quilts for 10 sisters,”
Geddes said. “I’m one of
10 sisters and we have
seven brothers.”
Terry Anderson from
Basalt presented ideas for
orphan blocks.
“Add a border and use
it for a table decoration.
Combine them into one
quilt. “Choose your favorite color of material and
sash the quilt or project,”
she said. “The sashing
does not need to match the
quilt blocks. Whatever you
sash it with will become
the color of the quilt.”
Four Yearsley children
from Shelley were visiting
the library on Wednesday.
They enjoyed the quilts as
well. Thomas, 5, Thomas
liked the colors. Luke, 7,
liked the patterns and Kyle,
9, liked the Levi quilt.
“This was the best quilt
show ever,” said North
Bingham County District
Director Heidi Riddoch.
“There were great classes
and great presenters.”
Each year, quilters are
asked to donate to the
Humanitarian Effort. This
year, quilters donated 347
gently used books and 340
blocks.
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The books will be donated to the Firth Reading North Bingham County District Library Director Heidi Riddoch (on left) receives some
Initiative (FRIday) and explanation about a pattern from Carmen Geddes in Shelley on Wednesday.
other school outreaches.
The quilt blocks will be
made into charity quilts
and donated where needed.
Saddle raffle to take place
at CAL Ranch Friday, Saturday
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University of Utah hospital for 49 days, in the
local hospital for 45 days,
and has undergone extensive physical therapy.
Her home needed to be
remodeled so she could
go home.
More surgeries and skin
grafts are scheduled.
The
Fawn
Wright
Benefit Bull Riding event
is scheduled from 11 a.m.
to 4 p.m. on Saturday,
April 9, in the Indoor
Arena at the Bannock
County Fairgrounds.
That day, 30 bull riders
will compete beginning at
1 p.m.
Sponsors of this “Beat
the Odds” raffle are Cal
Stores and Riverside Boot
& Saddle.
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pole. Medical personnel pronounced Johnson
dead at the scene of the
accident.
Johnson was traveling north on Highway.
91 when she went off the
right side of the road and
then over corrected, going
off the left side of the road,
striking the ditch, fence
and power pole. She was
not wearing her seatbelt.
Highway 91 was closed
for more than three hours
while officers investigated the crash. Bingham
County Sheriff’s Office
is still investigating this
crash.
Johnson leaves behind
her husband, Jordan and
three young children —
Bryson, 7, Bryker, 3, and
Brylee, 1.
A GoFundMe account has
been set up by her family.
“The family is need-
ing help coming up with
money for Mysty’s funeral,”
writes her sister, Mylysa
MacCormack. “They were
a two income family and
will now need help with
upcoming bills, childcare
costs, everyday living
expenses and, of course,
her funeral expenses.
“ … she was always
willing to help others,”
she said. “That is why she
wanted to be a nurse.”
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BLACKFOOT — A
saddle is up for grabs in
the “Bear the Odds” raffle
sponsored by the Benefit
Bull Riding organization.
The saddle will be
at CAL Ranch Store in
Blackfoot from 11 a.m.
to 4 p.m. on Friday and
Saturday, Feb. 25 and 26.
People can purchase
raffle tickets at the CAL
Ranch Store in Blackfoot
on those days. Tickets are
$5 each or you can get
five for $20.
This year, the proceeds
from the raffle will benefit Fawn Wright from
American Falls. Fawn and
her husband, Larry, were
in a car accident on I-86
about five months ago.
The Wright family’s car
had broken down and was
on the side of the interstate. Larry had the car’s
hood up when the car was
hit by a pick-up. Larry was
thrown 110 feet.
Fawn had stepped out
of the car to see if she
could help. She was hit,
run over and drug by the
pick-up. Their 9-year-old
daughter was in the car,
watching.
“It would be easier to
name the number of bones
that Fawn did not break,”
Amber Davis, organizer of
the “Beat the Odds” raffle,
said. “She had 60 bones
broken or shattered.”
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levy.
“The second IT person
has been instrumental in
helping the district with its
technology,” Tubbs said.
The Firth trustees have
scheduled a work meeting
at 4 p.m. this Friday, Feb.
26, to discuss the levy.
A decision must be made
in March for the levy to
appear on the ballot in
May.
A discussion about what
the Legislature will do took
place.
Athletic Director (AD)
Roger Harrison gave a
report on the state of boys’
soccer at FHS.
When members of
the Firth School Board
approved the boys’ soccer
program
before
school year 2015-16
started, the goal was to
raise a certain amount
of money to pay for officials, travel, equipment
and uniforms.
Presently, the boys’ soccer program is $3,500 in
the hole.
“We may not know
until August if enough
boys come out to field a
team,” Harrison said.
“Part of the problem is
there are not many teams
in 2A soccer,” Tubbs said.
“Districts 2A and 3A are
combined so our kids must
play up a division.”
During the past legislative session, the Legislature
appropriated $4,000 per
school district or charter
school to be used specifically for board, superintendent, and charter
school administrator training.
Firth trustees scheduled
two hours of school board
training before the start of
the February public meeting.
Susan Sherz, an Idaho
School Board Association
trainer, presented material
on the role and responsibility of trustees.
The relationship of the
board and the superintendent and the development
and review of policy and
the district’s finances were
also reviewed.
In executive session,
the board members evaluated the principals of the
schools — Jeff Gee at the
high school and David
Mecham at the middle
school. Sid Tubbs is the
elementary school principal.
The trustees approved
a one-year extension of
Superintendent
Tubbs’
contract.
They also approved
Policy 5120, Personnel-Equal Employment and
Non-Discrimination;
Policy 5265, Personnel—
Employee Responsibilities
Regarding
Student
Harassment, Intimidation
and Bullying; and Policy
5500
Personnel—
Personnel Files. Policy
7400,
Financial
Management—Purchasing
was also approved.
The next Firth school
board meeting is scheduled for Thursday, March
10.
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under RECA, arguing that
states far from the original
Nevada test site were not
only exposed to radiation,
but also may have been
exposed to much higher
levels than those in currently eligible areas. Crapo
has since then introduced
or co-sponsored legislation
seven times to amend the
program.
“Idaho communities
and individuals who have
been adversely affected by
our nation’s weapons programs must be justly and
sufficiently compensated
by the federal govern-
ment,” Crapo said. “I recognize the burden placed
upon cancer patients and
their families to pay for the
expensive regimen of treatments this disease requires,
and this legislation is an
important step in helping
Idahoans get the care they
need and deserve.”
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Gayland Leslie Westover, 69
Thursday, February 25
• Terri Clark and Aaron Tippin at ISU’s Stephens
Performing Arts Center at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $38 or
$32. For more information on Terri and Aaron Tippin
visit terriclark.com and aarontippin.com. For more
information contact the Stephen’s Performing Arts
Box Office at (208) 282-3595.
• ‘Let’s Talk About It’ book discussion series continues at 6:30 p.m. at the Blackfoot Public Library.
The series is entitled “Tough Paradise” and this is
the third book and discussion in the series. The last
session will be March on 24. Refreshments will be
served.
• Shelley Community Blood Drive from 1:30-7
p.m. at 585 W. Fir St.
• AARP Tax Aide is avaliable from 5-7:30 p.m. each
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday in the basement
of Lighthouse Assembly of God at 288 W. Pacific in
Blackfoot. This service continues through Thursday,
April 14. For more information, call Harrison
Gerstlauer at (208) 680-0021.
Friday, February 26
• Senator Mike Crapo town hall meeting at 4 p.m.
at Blackfoot City Hall to discuss issues with citizens.
He has been talking about the nation’s $19 trillion
debt and taking questions during many stops around
the state. He will also be in Fort Hall on Saturday at
2:30 p.m. at the Fort Hall Tribal Council Chambers
and in Aberdeen at 4:30 p.m. at Aberdeen City Hall.
Questions can also be directed to Crapo’s Regional
Office in Pocatello at (208) 236-6775.
Saturday, February 27
• Benefit concert and raffle to raise money for
local radio DJ, Dusty Bee. The money will be used for
doctors bills and transportation to and from appointments in Salt Lake City. The event will be at 6 p.m. at
Stingers in Blackfoot. More items are needed for the
silent auction and raffle. For more information or to
make a donation, call Jamie Broadhead at 716-7402.
• Senator Mike Crapo town hall meeting at 2:30
p.m. in Fort Hall at 2:30 p.m. at the Fort Hall Tribal
Council Chambers and in Aberdeen at 4:30 p.m. at
Aberdeen City Hall. He has been talking about the
nation’s $19 trillion debt and taking questions during
many stops around the state. Questions can also be
directed to Crapo’s Regional Office in Pocatello at
(208) 236-6775.
Monday, February 29
• An Evening with Garrison Keillor at ISU’s
Stephen’s Performing Arts Center at 7:30 p.m. One
of the most prolific American storytellers of all time,
Garrison Keillor is a writer and humorist best known
for his popular live radio show, A “Prairie Home
Companion.” For more information on Keillor visit
garrisonkeillor.com. Tickets are $55 or $45. For more
information contact The Stephen’s Performing Arts
Box Office at 208) 282-3595.
• Stone Soup fundraiser from 5:30-8 p.m. at
Mountain View Middle School at 645 Mitchell Road
in Blackfoot. This event is sponsored by SEICAA. The
‘Best Soup’ in Bingham County will be crowned,
along with a carnival for kids, local entertainment,
raffle and silent auction. Tickets are $7 per person
or $25 per family in advance and $8 and $30 at the
door. For more information, call SEICAA at 785-1583.
• “Taking a Closer Look at Social Security” at
6:30 p.m. at the Blackfoot Public Library presented
by Bobbette Brown and Scott Wallace. They will
discuss upcoming changes that will affect your benefits. Learn how to make the most of your retirement.
Refreshments will be served at this free program.
• AARP Tax Aide is available from 9 a.m. to 12
p.m. at the Senior Citizen Center at 20 E. Pacific St.
in Blackfoot. This service continues each Monday
through April 11. For more information, call Harrison
• Beginning Spanish classes from 6-7 p.m. every
Monday through May 4th. Amando Alvarez will be
teaching the class in room 202 at Blackfoot High
School. The cost of the class is $50. For more information call Amando at 785-1402.
• Stalker Elementary family literacy night from
6:30-8 p.m. Super heros will join parents and students for an assembly. There will also be a book fair
at the school.
Tuesday, March 1
Gayland
Leslie
Westover, 69, of Idaho
Falls, passed away on
February 20, 2016, at East
Idaho Regional Medical
Center of natural causes,
surrounded by family
members.
He was born on April
21, 1946, to Ernest Cecil
Westover and Florence
Hansen Westover
in
Blackfoot, Idaho. He was
the youngest of five children.
Gayland
attended
school at Snake River High
School in Moreland, Idaho,
and graduated in 1964. He
entered into the United
States Army the next year.
He completed Basic and
Advanced Training at Fort
Ord, California. He served
a year in South Korea and
a short time in Turkey. He
completed his military service in Fort Hood, Texas,
with the rank of Specialist
4 (E-4). He received an
honorable discharge in
1967.
Gayland
married
Pearl Sullivan Martin in
Thursday, March 3
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday in the basement of
Lighthouse Assembly of God.
Graveside
services
will be held at 2 p.m.
Friday,
February
26,
2016,
at
RiversideThomas Cemetery West
of Blackfoot in Bingham
County, under the direction of Wood Funeral
Home East Side, 963 South
Ammon Road.
Condolences may be
sent to the family online at
www.woodfuneralhome.
com.
785-1320
ServiceS
Matthew Murray
Sorensen
Celebration of Life:
6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
Friday, February 26,
2016 at the Blackfoot
Stake Center
Funeral Services:
11:00 a.m. Saturday,
February 27, 2016 at the
Blackfoot Stake Center
Viewing:
One hour prior to
services at the church
‘Caminando la Terra Mexicana’ at ISU
POCATELLO — Idaho
State University’s Hispanic
Awareness
Leadership
Organization will host
“Caminando la Tierra
Mexicana
(Walking
through the Mexican
Land)” Feb. 27 from 6 to
9 p.m. in the Pond Student
Union Ballroom.
Prices for tickets pur-
chased in advance are $5
for ISU students, $7 for
ISU faculty and staff and
$8 for the general public.
Tickets purchased at the
door will be $8 for all
guests.
Mexicana”
features
Mexican food, cultural
entertainment and danc-
ing.
Tickets can be purchased in advance at tables
located near the food court
of the Pond Student Union
and on the main floor of
Rendezvous Complex.
For more information
call Julia Garcia at (208)
249-8848 at or email her
at garcjul3@isu.edu.
International Night 2016 set for March 12
POCATELLO – The
Idaho State University
International
Student
Association invites all of
Pocatello and the surrounding communities to
experience and celebrate
the rich cultural diversity of ISU at International
Night 2016 on Saturday,
March 12, in the Pond
Student Union Ballroom.
Doors will open at 6
p.m. and the event officially kicks off at 7 p.m.
This year’s theme is “No
Passport? No Problem!”
and will showcase perfor-
mances from various cultures by the international
students of ISU including
songs, dances and dramas.
Dinner will be provided
at the event featuring traditional cuisine from a variety of countries including
Nepal, Africa and Saudi
Arabia.
Tickets are $7 for ISU
students, $8 for faculty
and staff and $9 for the
public and at the door.
Tickets will be on sale
from Feb. 29 in the Pond
Student Union Building
and the Rendezvous
Correction
The Democrat Party
Caucus for Bingham
County will begin at 7 p.m.
on Tuesday, March 22, at
Sa-Sys Event Center, 214
S. University in Blackfoot.
People can register for
the caucus when the doors
open at 5 p.m.
The doors will be closed
and locked at 7 p.m. for
the caucus to begin.
The caucus was previously stated to begin at
6 p.m. This was incorrect
for which the Blackfoot
Morning News regrets the
error.
Death Notice
Donald Wayne Bardinelli Sr., 74
Donald Wayne Bardinelli Sr., 74 of Blackfoot, passed
away Wednesday, February 24, 2016 at The Willows
Assisted Living Center.
Funeral arrangements are pending under the direction of Hawker Funeral Home and will be announced.
Condolences may be sent to: www.hawkerfuneralhome.com.
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Complex. Patrons wearing
traditional or cultural dress
will receive an extra raffle
ticket at the door.
For more information,
please contact Damara
Marshall at (208) 2190691, marsdama@isu.edu
or Krystoff Kissoon at (208)
530-1797, kisskrys@isu.
edu.
C. Merrill Evans
Funeral Services:
12:00 Noon Saturday,
Blackfoot 4th Ward
Viewing:
6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
2016 at Hawker Funeral
Home and for one hour
prior to services at the
church
Deon Winifred
Webster Cotterell
Funeral Services:
1:00 p.m. Saturday,
February 27, 2016 at
Hawker Funeral Home
Viewing:
One hour prior to
services at the funeral
home
for more info visit
hawkerfuneralhome.com
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• Craft Night at 6:30 p.m. at the Blackfoot Public
Library with Linda Beauvais, who will teach how to
make a decorative bunny for Easter. The cost is $5
and the class is limited to 15 people. Call the library
at 785-8628 to sign up. Refreshments will be served.
September 1968, and
they made their home in
Pocatello, Idaho. They
had two boys, Paul Kirk
and Steven Douglas. They
were divorced in 1977. He
married Mary Jacobson of
Moreland, Idaho, in 1978.
They were divorced the
next year. In 1987 Gayland
met Dorothea (Dori) Deerr
in Lompoc, California.
They stayed together until
her death in 2004.
Gayland worked for the
American Potato Company
in Blackfoot, Idaho, after
he got out of High School.
He returned to work there
after his military service
and remained until he
moved to Lompoc. He
gained employment at
Vandenberg AFB where
his brother, Brian Phil, was
serving. He was employed
as a Security Guard and
a Courier. He retired in
2011 after 29 years of service and since his brother,
Brian Phil, had died several years earlier, Gayland
returned to Idaho, and
lived his last five years in
Idaho Falls near other family members.
He enjoyed Sunday
dinner with family, watching Western Classics and
listening to 50’s music.
He was a big tease. He
enjoyed teasing his brothers and sister and nieces
and nephews any chance
he got.
Gayland is survived by
his sister Cecile Staker
and brother Richard D
(Charlet) Westover, of
Idaho Falls, ID, and Robert
K (Donna) Westover of
Kenai, AK. He was preceded in death by his parents and his brother, Brian
Phil, and brother-in-law
Doyle Staker.
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Your weekly guide to area volunteer and in-kind
giving opportunities — Search for more opportunities at www.seidahovolunteer.org
Columnist Beth Estopinal
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and the IRS. Any American with income under $62,000
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Idaho Art Lab: The nonprofit Idaho Art Lab is a drop-in
community art center, artists’ gallery and art supply store in
St. Anthony. Entry is free. Our volunteers work to keep up
with the demands of this fun art center. We are open 40 hours
a week and need volunteers who can staff the art gallery,
art center, pottery & ceramic studios. We need volunteers,
13 and up (13-15 with parental supervision), with a steady
hand and creative eye to help clean ceramic green-ware.
Afternoon volunteers, will often be working alongside children and teens. Early afternoons, from 12-3 p.m. are often
quiet and great for those who wish to work alone or with just
1 or 2 others. Volunteers who commit to a 3 hour shift per
week are given free use of the Lab’s art labs and taught many
different art mediums at no charge. We need you to know
how to work the art equipment so you can ensure that community members are using the Labs safely. If you can only
give an hour or two, great! There is no training needed for
these short shifts. Contact Kara Hidalgo, Executive Director,
at (208) 932-0893 or info@idahoartlab.org.
First Baptist Church Food Pantry: Each Wednesday we
receive our food order from the Idaho Foodbank at 3 p.m.
Volunteers assist with unloading food and help put it away for
distribution. Volunteers must be in good physical shape and
able to lift up to 50 pounds. Lots of bending, sorting, moving.
Each Thursday we distribute emergency food to anyone in
need. The role of the volunteer is to ensure that our Guests’
receive not only enough food for 3 days or so, but quality
customer service and care while they are with us. Volunteers
will assist with filling out the ‘shopping list’, signing new
people in/checking people in, assisting with food selection
and assisting with carrying food out to their vehicle. GREAT
customer service skills; likes working with public; some
nutrition knowledge and willingness to share that knowledge
is helpful but not required; for carry-outs must be in good
physical shape, able to carry 50 pounds or more. For either
opportunity contact: Karl Pettit, Pastor, (208) 232-6305.
Good driving record?: Bingham County Senior Citizen
Center needs Meals on Wheels drivers and dining room
assistants. We would be happy to work with the volunteer
to whatever schedule works with them. M-F 8 a.m. - 4
p.m. Contact: Cara Fitzgerald at (208) 785-4714 or cara@
seniors4ever.com.
Do you like planning events?: The Bingham County
Senior Center is looking for a volunteer from the business
community to be on their event committee. If you’d like to
give them a hand, contact Larry Hinderager at 317-5436.
Docents Needed:
If you are looking for volunteer work, the Idaho Potato
Museum needs volunteers for their gift shop this coming tourism season — April 1 to Oct. 1. The shifts are 3-hours long.
Give the museum a call if you know of anyone who would
want to work in the gift shop and talk to people from all over
the world! Call 785-2517 to volunteer.
Some continuing needs:
- The Salvation Army has a new “Client Choice” food distribution program. Volunteers will need to help clients as they
select food items from the pantry and possibly assist in checking in/out the clients. The hours will be Monday—Friday 1-4
p.m. Contact Darin or Julie at 232-5318 or darin.fisher@usw.
salvationarmy.org.
- Family Services Alliance is looking for volunteers who
would want to stuff packets. Contact Karlee at 232-0742 or
karleeb@fsalliance.org
- Foster Grandparents of SE Idaho needs volunteers in
Head Start Programs and elementary schools throughout
southeast Idaho for approximately 15 hours each week during the regular school day. Types of activities are: listening;
encouraging; offering positive guidance and suggestions;
assisting children with social skills or educational skills
such as math, spelling and reading. Must be able to pass
background checks, have reliable transportation, be in good
health, and have compassion and patience with children.
Contact Lori Murdock, 785-8454 or lori@fgpsei.com.
In-kind Needs:
If you have any assistive medical equipment that you
no longer need (items such as but not limited to; walkers,
wheelchairs, scooters, canes, crutches, shower chairs or
other adaptive equipment), they can be donated to the Area
V Agency on Aging to assist an individual in our community.
You can bring your donations to the Area Agency on Aging at
214 E. Center in Pocatello or call 233-4032.
Beth Estopinal, Margaret Ganyo, Joan Hansen and Kim
Hirning staff the United Way of Southeastern Idaho and
encourage you to visit www.seidahovolunteer.org.
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Home suite home
We’ve been thinking
about moving from our
big, old, two-story house
to something a little easier to clean and maintain. And if we’re going to
move, why not move to a
warmer, sunnier place?
Then again, maybe we
should stay here, and just
find a more compatible
house. We’ve often wondered what it would be
like to live in a place with
level floors and square
corners instead of our old
wreck -- whoops! I mean,
our old historic landmark.
Our house is so historic, you can stand in front
of the closed windows
and still feel the wind
blow. It’s so historic that it
has no closets. Who had
extra clothes back then?
They hung everything
they owned on a nail on
the back of the door. It’s
so historic that everything
costs two or three times
the normal price to fix. It
makes charming, historic
noises all night long.
It’s so historic that
there’s a sign on it that
says, “George Washington
wouldn’t sleep here
because it looked unsafe.”
And that was in 1776.
Sue and I have talked
about moving for years.
We wonder what it would
be like to have high-speed
Internet and reliable cellphone service. We’d even
be happy with electricity that stayed on after
a minor snowstorm or a
hard rain. We dream of
living on one story, and
of having square corners,
level floors, a balcony, an
elevator and a super.
So we look at the real
estate listings. It turns out,
a place like that costs
$4,500 a month, plus
utilities. It’s one-fifth the
size of the place we have
now, and five times the
price. How does that
make sense? We would be
downsizing our space and
upsizing our spending.
We keep seeing real
estate ads that say things
like, “Price dropped from
$1.1 million to $799,000!
What a steal!” In our circle of friends, we probably know one person who
could afford a $799,000
house. And he made all
his money flipping houses. Even if he bought
it, he wouldn’t keep it.
Obviously, we’re hanging
around with the wrong
kind of people.
Where is all this money
coming from? When you
see the housing prices in
New York, Miami and San
Francisco, it seems as if
everyone who lives there
is a multimillionaire. They
can’t all be selling drugs
for a living. They can’t all
have won the Powerball
jackpot. They can’t all
be hedge fund managers. They can’t all be the
Housewives of Wherever.
So where does all the
money come from? Well,
a lot of it comes from
overseas. If you were a
wealthy Russian, would
you rather put, say, $10
million in a Russian
bank or park it in a New
York City penthouse? If
you made a fortune in
China, would you leave
it there or buy a Beverly
Hills mansion? Then you
just wait five or 10 years
for your country’s financial crisis to end, or for
a new leader to come
along, and poof! You sell
your property at a profit.
Meanwhile, you’ve priced
us out of the market,
thank you very much.
Of course, we’d like to
stay in the town where all
our friends live, where all
our family lives and where
all our roots are. But over
the years, our friends
have gone to live with
their children in Florida
or Phoenix, our families
have scattered to the four
winds, the waitress at the
restaurant we’ve gone to
every week for the past
30 years asks us if we’ve
ever eaten here before,
and the clerks at the drugstore give us the senior
discount without asking.
We haven’t left home,
it left us. When people
ask us if we’re really moving, Sue says, “We’re just
window shopping.”
Maybe, but we’re doing
a lot of it.
(Contact Jim Mullen at
JimMullenBooks.com.)
pion as he defeated Sonny
Liston in Miami Beach.
In 1991, during the
Persian Gulf War, 28
Americans were killed
when an Iraqi Scud missile hit a U.S. barracks in
Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.
In 1994, Americanborn Jewish settler Baruch
Goldstein opened fire with
an automatic rifle inside
the Tomb of the Patriarchs
in the West Bank, killing
29 Muslims before he was
beaten to death by worshippers.
In 1996, blasts set off
by suicide bombers in
Jerusalem and Ashkelon
killed at least 27 people. A
12-mile tether connecting
a half-ton satellite to space
shuttle Columbia broke as
it was almost completely unreeled. Cambodian
activist Dr. Haing S. Ngor,
who’d won an Academy
Award for his performance
in the 1984 movie “The
Killing Fields,” was shot
to death outside his Los
Angeles apartment. (Three
gang members were later
convicted of murder.)
Ten years ago: In
Uganda, President Yoweri
Museveni was declared
the winner in the central
African country’s first multiparty election in 25 years.
Apolo Anton Ohno upset
favored South Korean Ahn
Hyun-soo to win the gold
in the 500-meter short
track speedskating event at
the Winter Games in Turin.
Five
years
ago:
Republicans
in
the
Wisconsin Assembly took
the first significant action
on their plan to strip collective bargaining rights
from most public workers, abruptly passing the
measure in the small hours
before
sleep-deprived
Democrats realized what
was happening. (The vote
sent the bill on to the
Wisconsin Senate, where
minority Democrats had
fled to Illinois to prevent
a vote.) The Obama White
House broke decades of
tradition, naming Jeremy
Bernard the first man to
ever serve as social secretary in the female-dominated East Wing. Suze
Rotolo, artist and girlfriend
of singer Bob Dylan, who
was his lyrical muse when
he came to prominence in
the early 1960s, died in
New York at age 67.
One year ago: Secretary
of State John Kerry fielded
dozens of questions from
House Foreign Affairs
Committee members worried about what Iran could
get in a deal being negotiated to block its ability to
make an atomic weapon.
Today’s
Birthdays:
Humorist Jack Handey is
67. Actress Veronica Webb
is 51. Actress Tea Leoni is
50. Comedian Carrot Top is
49. Actress Lesley Boone is
48. Actor Sean Astin is 45.
Singer Daniel Powter is 45.
Latin singer Julio Iglesias
Jr. is 43. Rhythm-and-blues
singer Justin Jeffre is 43.
Rock musician Richard
Liles is 43. Actor Anson
Mount is 43. Comedianactress Chelsea Handler
is 41. Actress Rashida
Jones is 40. Country singer Shawna Thompson
(Thompson Square) is 38.
Actor Justin Berfield is 30.
Actors Oliver and James
Phelps (“Harry Potter”
movies) are 30.
Thought for Today:
“Hero-worship is strongest
where there is least regard
for human freedom.” —
Herbert Spencer, British
philosopher (1820-1903).
Jim
Mullen
Today in history
Today is Thursday, Feb.
25, the 56th day of 2016.
There are 310 days left in
the year.
Today’s Highlight in
History:
On Feb. 25, 1986,
President
Ferdinand
Marcos fled the Philippines
after 20 years of rule in the
wake of a tainted election;
Corazon Aquino assumed
the presidency.
On this date:
In
1836,
inventor
Samuel Colt patented his
revolver.
In 1905, the Upton
Sinclair novel “The Jungle”
was first published in serial form by the Appeal to
Reason newspaper.
In 1913, the 16th
Amendment to the U.S.
Constitution,
giving
Congress the power to
levy and collect income
taxes, was declared in
effect by Secretary of State
Philander Chase Knox.
In 1922, French serial
killer Henri Landru, convicted of murdering 10
women and the son of one
of them, was executed in
Versailles.
In 1940, a National
Hockey League game was
televised for the first time
by New York City station W2XBS as the New
York Rangers defeated
the Montreal Canadiens,
6-2, at Madison Square
Garden.
In 1956, Soviet leader
Nikita Khrushchev harshly criticized the late Josef
Stalin in a speech before a
Communist Party congress
in Moscow.
In 1964, Eastern Airlines
Flight 304, a DC-8, crashed
shortly after taking off from
New Orleans International
Airport, killing all 58 on
board. Muhammad Ali
(then known as Cassius
Clay)
became
world
heavyweight boxing cham-
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Call 680-3881 or go on line at binchs.org. Located at
766 South Broadway (just north of Arctic Circle).
Open Wednesday 2 to 6 pm or by appointment.
To adopt, call the Humane Society at 680-3881.
Please remember to spay or neuter your pet.
GAMBER
Gamber as you can see is a beautiful 6 month old kitten that
was rescued from the north end of Bingham County. She had
a rough start but would like a new indoor only home where she
can fill your home with love this spring and forever. Will Gamber
be yours?
SHEA
Shea was rescued from the I.F. animal shelter. She had
pups that were ready to wean and now it’s time for her to
find a new home. She is a little timid at first. We think she
is a Corgi mix, possibly Corgi dachshund. She sleeps in
bed with her foster mom. What a cutie!
BLAIR
Blair was taken in as a small kitten and had to be bottle-fed.
She is very active and needs a home where she can get plenty
of activity. She may be a little rough for tiny kids. She is 5
months old and looking for an indoor only home so she can
have a long, happy life.
GINGER
Ginger was rescued from the Blackfoot Animal Shelter
along with her babies. She is a very sweet girl and gets
along well with other cats or kittens. We are not sure
about dogs. Ginger would like a new indoor only home
so she will be safe. Is Ginger the girl for you?
FINGERS
Fingers is a 5 month old long haired torti who was found as
a stray and the family that took her in could not keep her.
She is a fun loving little kitten who is great with other cats
and dogs in her foster home. Is Fingers your girl?
MARISSA
Marissa has been with us a year. She and her siblings were
somewhat wild but they are getting much better. She’s
hoping that 2016 will be her year for a new forever home.
Will she be yours?
LIGHTNING
Lightning pictured and his brother Thunder are 8 month
old Polydactyl (extra toes) kittens. They found a new home
but were returned because of allergies. They are loving but
also somewhat independent. Typical cats that would prefer
a home together. Will it be yours?
CLEO
Cleo is a 6-7 month old Border Collie cross? She is a great
dog but does have a lot of energy. She would love to have
a home with a fenced yard and other dogs to play with or
be with an active person who will take her for long walks or
a run every day. Can you offer that to Cleo?
BLACK BEAUTY
Black Beauty’s name really fits her. She came into us with
her kittens from the shelter. The kitties all found homes and
it’s her time now. She has a beautiful personality also and is
great with other cats. Black Beauty wants a new home
where she can be safe and fill that home with love. Can you
make that happen?
JACK
Jack was a stray in Blackfoot. He is currently in a foster
home and likes to sleep with his foster mom. Although he
wasn’t as people friendly when we took him in he is so now.
He would take the chill out of your home these spring
months. Can you offer that to Jack?
PEPE LE PU
PepE’s person passed away and she has been staying with us
since. She is very friendly and gets along with most cats and
kittens. She has a little limp in the back end but it doesn’t seem
to be an issue. You couldn’t go wrong taking this beautiful girl
into your home.
LILLY
Lilly is a 4 month old kitten that was rescued from the
Blackfoot Animal Shelter along with her siblings and mom.
She is looking for a new indoor only home where she’ll be
warm and safe watching out the window and see the snow
instead of having to live in it.
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CHIP
Chip is a 4 year old Jack Russell/Chihuahua mix. He is
sweet and gets along with cats and other dogs. Sometimes
he likes to be the top dog. He is housetrained to a doggie
door and hoping to find his new forever home soon. He
does need a fenced yard.
CHICKADEE
Chickadee was a stray in a Blackfoot neighborhood. She is
a medium haired charcoal gray. She is beautiful and is
being fostered in a multi-cat environment. Chickadee
would love a new indoor only home to keep her safe. Is
this beauty the chick for you?
WILLOW
Willow was a stray in a Blackfoot neighborhood. She went
into their garage and had 4 kittens. The kittens have all
found homes but Willow is still looking for hers. She is a
great cat, very friendly with people as well as other cats.
Can you offer this beauty a new forever home?
O.J.
O.J. was a stray on the streets in Blackfoot. He’s available
for adoption but we also want to remind everyone that we
have a special running on cat spay/neuter certificates.
We really want to help save the cats and kittens in our
community. Fixing animals saves lives. Please do your part.
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Health teams go into slums to start Zika study
JOAO PESSOA, Brazil
(AP) — Teams of U.S. and
Brazilian health workers ventured into dicey
slums, fought through
snarled traffic and braved
torrential downpours on
the first day of their effort
to determine if the Zika
virus is causing babies
to be born with a birth
defect affecting the brain.
The eight teams, each
made up of one “disease detective” from the
U.S. Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention
and three Brazilian health
workers, went to work
Tuesday in Paraiba, the
impoverished state in
northeastern Brazil that
is one of the epicenters of
the country’s tandem outbreaks of Zika and microcephaly.
Their goal is to persuade about 100 mothers
of infants recently born
with the defect as well to
enroll in the study. They
also need participation as
controls of two to three
times as many mothers
from the same areas who
delivered babies without
microcephaly at about
the same time.
The study aims to
determine if the Brazilian
government is right that
Zika can cause microcephaly, or whether the
mosquito-borne virus is
not in fact to blame or
is only partially responsible, as a growing chorus of doctors in Brazil
and beyond have begun
to suggest.
The seemingly straightforward task of locating
the women and infants
was fraught on day one
by traffic jams, logistical snags and menacing weather, though the
teams soldiered stoically
on.
Stuck in the chronic
gridlock of the state capital, Joao Pessoa, one team
missed its first appointment, and the two home
visits that it had scheduled for morning didn’t
get underway until well
after lunchtime.
“Obviously, we’ve seen
the problems of logistics
— to be able to reach
the families, to have them
be there,” said Dr. Alexia
Harrist, a Boston-born
pediatrician who works
for the CDC’s Epidemic
Intelligence Service. “If
things take longer, things
take longer, but I think
we’re all really dedicated
to getting it done.”
Packed into a small
sedan, Harrist, three
Brazilian health workers
and a driver weaved from
the CDC’s headquarters
in a beachfront hotel
to the outskirts of Joao
Pessoa along potholemarred streets swimming
with runoff from recent
rains.
They turned onto a
side street lined with
trash, then turned again
and again onto successively narrower and more
pocked streets that carried them deep into the
heart of the Taipa shantytown. The Aedes aegypti
mosquito that spreads
Zika proliferates in such
neighborhoods, where
omnipresent trash provides breeding grounds
in discarded margarine
tubs, yogurt containers
and plastic bottle caps.
When the going got
too rough, Harrist and
her colleagues parked
and headed on foot along
a dirt road running with
raw sewage and dotted
by foraging chickens and
goats to a three-room cinderblock home.
Janine dos Santos, a
23-year-old unemployed
former towel factory worker, shares the space with
her mother, two siblings
and two children, including Shayde Henrique —
born in November with
the truncated head and
brain damage caused by
microcephaly.
“I didn’t expect to see
all these people,” Santos
said, adding that the visit
renewed her hopes of
understanding what happened to Shayde. “Not
only me, but all the mothers, we want to understand the mystery behind
all this — what really
causes microcephaly?”
She and the family
answered an extensive
questionnaire probing
everything from whether
she used insect repellent
during pregnancy to what
was the source of their
drinking water. The team
also drew blood samples
from mother and infant,
setting off screams from
a child who, like many
infants with microcephaly, is rarely quiet.
Down the street, the
team knocked at an
abandoned warehouse
where
another
new
mother, 26-year-old Aline
Ferreira, squats with her
fisherman husband and
three kids.
Her
4-month-old
daughter,
Angeline
Karolayne, is in good
health and doesn’t suffer
from microcephaly, and
Ferreira agreed to take
part in the study as a
control case. Such cases
will be a critical element
in understanding whether
Zika is triggering microcephaly and, if so, whether it’s doing so alone or
with contributing factors.
Ferreira
patiently
responded to the litany of
questions. “When I was
pregnant, there were all
these problems with Zika
and microcephaly and ...
I could very well be in
the place of any mother
whose baby has microcephaly,” she said.
Organizers
expect
it will take a month to
gather data, but acknowledge it could take longer.
Ferreting out results from
the data will take several
more months.
Despite
Tuesday’s
rocky start, the CDC’s
Harrist said the generosity
and openness of the two
young mothers her team
managed to contact gave
her hope.
“I’m actually encouraged by what happened
today,” said Harrist, who
worked in Sierra Leone
during the Ebola outbreak
in West Africa.
She said Santos and
Ferreira seemed enthusiastic to join in the study.
“I hope that means they
think that the study is
important,” she said.
Pass the salt? No thanks; NYC can
fine for not posting sodium info
NEW YORK (AP) —
Large chain restaurants
and fast-food eateries in
the nation’s most populous city can be fined up
to $600 beginning next
week for not posting salt
warnings on menu items
that contain more than
the recommended daily
dose of sodium, a judge
ruled Wednesday.
“Some people love
salty food and are just
going to eat those salty
foods
regardless
of
whether there’s a salt icon
next to it,” Supreme Court
Justice Eileen Rakower
said from the bench. “I
believe information is
power.”
The ruling dismissed
a challenge from the
National
Restaurant
Association brought just
days after the first-of-itskind rule was enacted in
December.
It is but the latest in
a series of healthy eating measures pioneered
by New York City public
health officials that have
been challenged in the
courts, including an over-
turned rule limiting the
size of sugary drinks and
an upheld requirement
that chains post calorie
counts on menus.
“This is really good
news for the health of
New Yorkers,” said Dr.
Mary Bassett, the city’s
health commissioner. The
fines take effect March 1.
Under the rule, restaurant owners must now
post distinct triangle icons
with salt-shaker images
inside on menus next to
items that top the recommended daily limit of
2,300 milligrams of sodium, about a teaspoon’s
worth.
Public health officials
have long argued that
Americans consume too
much salt, and point to
cheddar bacon burgers
with nearly 4,300 mg and
boneless Buffalo chicken
salads with more than
3,000 mg as proof.
The warnings will
apply to chains with at
least 15 outlets nationwide, which health officials estimate account
for about one-third of the
city’s restaurant business.
Panera, Applebees and
other chains have already
started posting salt-warning labels.
Preston Ricardo, who
represented the National
Restaurant Association,
likened the salt-shaker
icons to warnings for biohazardous material that
would confuse consumers, steer them to restaurants not required to post
them and violate the First
Amendment rights of restaurant owners forced to
post them.
“The irreparable harm
is real,” he said, arguing that there’s controversy among scientists
themselves about how
much salt is too much.
The association planned
to appeal the ruling, he
said.
The average American
consumes about 3,400
mg of sodium per day
and experts say too much
salt can increase the risk
of high blood pressure,
heart disease and high
blood pressure. The federal government recom-
mends people consume
less than 2,300 mg of salt
per day.
The
salt-warning
labels, initiated by current Democratic Mayor
Bill de Blasio, follow a
string of public health
initiatives championed
by former Mayor Michael
Bloomberg, such as an
attempt to ban oversized
sugary drinks, restrict
the use of trans fats in
restaurants and prohibit
smoking in bars and restaurants.
Supporters heralded
those efforts as meaningful attempts to make New
Yorkers healthier, but critics derided them for turning the city into a “nanny
state” — a message that
apparently
resonated
with the state’s highest
court when it overturned
the limit on supersized
sodas in 2014.
“This case is not the sugary drinks case,” city lawyer Mark Muschenheimd
argued Wednesday. “It is
a modest warning about
something that can make
New Yorkers sick.”
SEI Public Health to
host annual Infection
Connection conference
Southeastern
Idaho
Public Health’s 9th Annual
Infection
Connection
Conference will be held in
Pocatello on March 9th at
Red Lion Hotel from 8:30
a.m. - 4:40 p.m. This is a
free event for healthcare
professionals, Emergency
Responders,
Infection
Control Staff, and healthcare students in southeast
Idaho.
During the conference,
local presenters will talk
about infectious diseases
currently occurring both
nationally and locally, and
what steps health professionals can take to become
better prepared to prevent
the spread of these diseases.
about the event, please
contact Ryan Richardson
at 239-5295. If you are
a healthcare provider,
Emergency
Responder,
Infection Control Staff, or a
healthcare student, please
visit www.siphidaho.org
to register. Register soon.
Space is limited.
Feds want proof for
ACA exchange special
enrollment windows
The federal government
is tightening loopholes
that let customers on the
Affordable Care Act’s public insurance exchanges
buy coverage outside the
law’s annual enrollment
window.
That could ease a major
concern health insurers
have about the exchanges.
The Centers for Medicare
and Medicaid Services said
Wednesday that it will start
requiring documentation
or proof from people who
say they need to buy a
plan or change coverage
outside that window for
reasons like marriage, a
permanent move or the
birth of a child.
Millions of people have
used the ACA’s state-based
exchanges to buy health
insurance over the past few
years. The vast majority do
so during an open enrollment window that starts
every fall and runs into
January.
The law established that
window to prevent people
from waiting until they
become sick to buy insurance. It also created special enrollment periods in
case a life-changing event
causes a customer’s insurance needs to change outside of open enrollment.
UnitedHealth Group
Inc. and other insurers have said they get a
lot of expensive customers through these special
enrollment periods. They
suspect that some customers were waiting until
they become sick to buy
insurance since no one
was asking for proof that
they qualified for a special
enrollment period.
Such proof can come in
the form of a birth certificate or a marriage license,
and insurers require it for
coverage purchased off the
ACA’s public exchanges.
But they aren’t allowed to
ask for that proof from their
exchange customers.
The special enrollment documentation will
be required in the 38
states that use the federal, HealthCare.gov website for their exchange.
The new requirement will
unfold over the next several months.
A CMS spokesman
said the government has
to notify customers about
the new requirement, get
documentation from them
and then verify it.
HealthCare.gov executives said in a blog post
that the government is
committed to making sure
these sign-up windows are
still available to those eligible for them, but “it’s
equally important to avoid
misuse or abuse of special
enrollment periods.”
Insurers like Aetna Inc.
have recently questioned
the sustainability of the
exchanges, and the Blue
Cross-Blue Shield insurer
Anthem Inc. has said it was
paying close attention to
how the government deals
with special enrollment
periods.
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Intermountain Grain and Livestock
POCATELLO, Idaho (AP) — Idaho Farm
Bureau Intermountain Grain and Livestock
Report Wednesday, February 24. Bids are
subject to change.
BLACKFOOT __ soft white wheat 4.30,
down 5; hard red winter 3.95, steady; DNS
14 percent 4.70,unchanged; hard white
4.20, down 1;
BURLEY __ soft white wheat 4.26, down
5; hard red winter 3.73, down 3; hard
red spring 4.56, down 1; barley 6.00,
unchanged; hard white 4.28, down 3;
NAMPA— no bids today;
OGDEN — soft white 4.46, down 4; hard
red winter 4.28, down 4; dark northern
spring 4.96, unchanged; barley 7.08, down
17; hard white 4.68, down 3; corn 7.57,
down 3 cwt;
PORTLAND__ soft white and white club
n/a; hard red 5.22-5.38, down 4; DNS
5.95-6.05, unchanged; corn 4.38-4.46,
down 2; oats 270.00/ton, 3.92 bushel,
unchanged.
LIVESTOCK AUCTION __ Blackfoot Livestock Auction on February 19.
Cows: utility/boner 61-73, cutters 58-64,
heiferettes 82-123; slaughter bulls 80-103;
steers: heavy 135-162.50, light 155-216,
stocker 180-216;
heifers: heavy 127-145, light 140-194,
stocker 150-202;
Remarks: cows and feeder cattle steady.
Governor Otter endorses
Kasich for President
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho Gov. C.L. “Butch” Otter
has endorsed Republican presidential candidate John
Kasich.
The Ohio governor’s campaign announced Otter’s
endorsement Wednesday.
Otter had previously stated he would prefer a
Republican governor to win the presidential election.
Kasich is currently the only Republican governor still
running for president after former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush
quit the race earlier this month.
Idaho’s Republican presidential primary is March 8.
New bill would remove AG
from Idaho Land Board
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — An Idaho House panel has
introduced legislation that would change the Idaho
constitution to replace the state’s attorney general with
the state treasurer on the Idaho Land Board.
The five-member Land Board — made up of statewide elected officials including the governor, state
superintendent of public instruction and state controller
— is in charge of managing Idaho’s 2.5 million acres of
endowment land to reap the highest long-term financial
returns.
The House State Affairs Committee unanimously
approved introducing the legislation on Wednesday. It
now must clear a legislative hearing.
House Majority Caucus Chairman John Vander
Woude, a Republican from Nampa, says currently the
attorney general is asked to protect the trusts of the state
as well as provide legal advice to the board. Vander
Woude says that creates possible conflicts of interests,
particularly when the attorney general chooses to sue
the board.
“It’s almost a position where it’s a no-win position for
the attorney general at that point,” Vander Woude said.
“He’s giving legal advice and then he’s suing himself.”
Attorney General Lawrence Wasden successfully
sued the Land Board in 2010 alleging they violated the
state constitution by setting rents below-market value
on state-owned lakeshore lots. He is the longest serving
member on the board.
“I believe it’s critical that politics be eliminated from
the Land Board,” Wasden said in a statement. “The best
way to achieve that goal is to replace all five constitutional officers now sitting on the board with professionals who have the expertise and professional background
to ensure that all of the constitutional requirements
demanded of the Land Board are consistently met.”
Constitutional amendments must pass with a twothirds majority in both bodies and then win a simple
majority in a statewide vote come November.
Idaho Senate panel clears
local minimum wage ban
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A bill that would ban local
governments from increasing the minimum wage has
advanced to the Idaho Senate.
The Senate Local Government and Taxation
Committee voted along party lines Wednesday to send
the measure to the Senate floor.
Pam Eaton of the Idaho Retailers Association told
the Republican-controlled committee raising minimum
wage in some communities and not others creates a
checkerboard of regulation that is unfair to businesses.
Other supporters have argued that it’s also unclear
whether local municipalities currently have the authority to impose a minimum wage increase.
Meanwhile, the measure’s critics say the legislation
takes away local control and ensures that Idaho will
remain a low-wage state.
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Idaho Senate OKs hybrid fee repeal
BOISE, Idaho (AP) —
Less than a year after the
Legislature passed a $95
million plan to boost funding for Idaho’s aging roads
and bridges, lawmakers
say they’re spending this
session cleaning up the
mistakes made in the final
hours rushing to get the
funding proposal passed.
On Wednesday, Senate
lawmakers voted 27-7 to
remove a new $140 annual fee for hybrid vehicle
owners.
The higher fee was part
of a plan that raised vehicle registration fees and
the gasoline tax by 7 cents.
Electric and hybrid vehicles faced higher registration fees because lawmakers argued those owners
don’t pay as much at the
pump.
“I mistakenly believed,
because of my work on
this issue and resulting
debates, that the extra fee
was based on data that
showed there was a difference,” said Sen. Shawn
Keough, R-Sandpoint, the
bill’s sponsor. “My hope
is that we remove this fee
while we spend the time
in the interim to determine what the equity is
and isn’t.”
Other lawmakers said
they had received multiple angry phone calls
from constituents upset
about the hybrid fee
increase because some
gas-powered vehicles get
the same, or more, gas
mileage as many hybrids.
Furthermore, officials with
the Idaho Transportation
Department say they’ve
been charging alternate
hybrids — like cars that
use alternate fuel for windows — the higher fee
much to the chagrin to the
public.
However,
removing
hybrids reduces $1 million
for maintaining the state’s
roads and bridges.
That reduction is concerning figuring how hard
lawmakers had to fight to
secure last year’s funding
boost, which didn’t even
address the state’s full
transportation shortfall,
said Sen. Marv Hagedorn,
R-Meridian.
Officials
estimate that even with
the $95 million funding increase approved in
2015, the state’s shortfall
remains around $165 million.
“We made a good decision last year,” Hagedorn
said. “I appreciate that
people want to buy
hybrids, but they made a
choice to do that.”
Attempts to find additional sources of funding for
transportation have failed
to make any traction this
session. Instead, Keough’s
bill is the second measure
lawmakers have considered that would clean up
last year’s transportation
plan. House Transportation
and Defense Chairman Joe
Palmer, R-Meridian, has
also introduced a bill that
would fix a mistake directing tax revenue on special
fuels.
However, that bill will
have no fiscal impact on
funding for bridges and
roads.
Senate Bill 1311 now
goes to the House for
approval before it can
reach Gov. C.L. “Butch”
Otter’s desk.
1 in 3 Idaho households struggle with poverty
BOISE, Idaho (AP)
— The Gluch family in
Nampa took a financial hit
when the sewer line broke
at their modest 80-yearold house.
“That was a $3,000
expense we didn’t have a
choice about,” said wife
and mother Chelle Gluch.
She ended up borrowing
the money from her inlaws.
The Croft family from
Boise faced a crisis over
medical bills, even though
both Serena Croft and
her husband, Jerod, had
full-time jobs and medical insurance. A long
hospital stay for Serena
meant copays of $150 a
day over the course of
several weeks. They paid
their utility bills with credit cards to keep the lights
on, and ate thanks to a
local food bank.
And one single Boise
mother of three teenagers
has a college degree but
hasn’t been able to find
a job that pays more than
$10 an hour, not enough
to cover basic expenses.
She lives above the federal
poverty line, but still has
to look for support — free
lunches and reduced fees
for her children’s college
admissions tests — and
declined to publicly give
her name to the Statesman
while she searches for
work.
A new report from the
United Ways of the Pacific
Northwest found that
more than one in three
households in Idaho can
tell a similar story. Adults
in those homes are working, sometimes more than
one job. Even if they’re
managing to keep their
household incomes above
the poverty line, they’re
not making enough to
cover the basic cost of
living in their communities. The report refers to
these families as “ALICE,”
or “Asset Limited, Income
Constrained, Employed.”
The report paints a
detailed picture of residents’ economic strain
and provides information
that hasn’t been available before, said Nora
Carpenter,
executive
director of United Way
Treasure Valley.
“The challenge was that
the federal poverty number
is universal. It doesn’t matter if you’re in Manhattan
or Melba. A certain population in any community is
employed but still not able
to live securely. We just
haven’t known what those
numbers were until now,”
Carpenter said.
The report analyzed
states in the Pacific
Northwest. It considered
both ALICE households
and those at or below
the federal poverty line.
Combined, those account
for 37 percent of all households in Idaho.
As issues of extreme
poverty and homelessness
are in the news, families
in this other large group
can get lost in a quiet
crisis.
“The truth is, we all
know folks who fall into
this category,” Carpenter
said. “Most of us work
with folks who fall into
this category.”
The ALICE report attributes the struggles to low
wages. More than half
of all jobs in the Pacific
Northwest pay between
$10 and $15 per hour,
roughly
$21,000
to
$31,000 a year before
taxes. That’s out of balance
with a family of four’s average expenses for housing,
child care, food and other
basic needs in Idaho:
$46,176 (slightly more in
Ada County, slightly less
in Canyon County).
The report also found
that many jobs are not
located near affordable
housing. That places a
larger burden on public
transportation, which also
is often not adequate.
Living with ALICE
Chelle Gluch has spent
her entire life in Idaho,
aside from eight years in
Wyoming. She couldn’t
wait to get back home —
“Wyoming is nothing but
cattle and oil rigs,” she
said.
She’s studying at Boise
State University to get a
master’s degree in rhetoric and composition, has
written a book of essays
about Idaho that she wants
to get published and has
started a second. She also
owns an in-home child
care business.
Gluch works between
12 and 14 hours a day,
sometimes six days a
week. She supports her
9-year-old daughter and
her husband, who is
trained as a roofer and
welder but can’t work due
to a serious stomach condition. She’s able to pay
basic bills, her mortgage,
utilities and car insurance.
“Anything beyond that
is out of my reach,” she
said.
The family has moved
in and out of the ALICE
income range, in and out
of the federal poverty
range.
“Most of the time I pull
in what would be for a
single working person,
a decent amount,” said
Gluch. Sometimes that’s as
much as $3,000 a month.
But last year she only
made $14,500 — below
the $20,090 federal poverty threshold for a family
of three.
Currently, the Gluchs
qualify for food stamps
— “Amen,” said Gluch.
Her daughter also qualifies for Medicaid. But her
husband is uninsured. His
$65,000 in medical debt
has devastated the family
budget.
Gluch knows she’s not
alone. Like her, the parents whose children she
cares for work full time
and yet are “in dire straits.
One emergency can leave
them homeless.”
Gluch’s
struggles
inspired her to return to
school, even though that
meant amassing tens
of thousands in student
loans. She wants to teach,
but she’s often found university culture at odds with
her life off campus. Boise
State admitted her conditionally, she said, with her
assurance that she would
take the GRE graduate
school entry exam. It was
hard to find time to study.
She sought advice from a
professor.
“He looked at me and
said I needed to get my
priorities straight,” said
Gluch. “I burst into tears. I
have my priorities straight.
I’m doing the best I can.”
Gluch has been public
with her story, even testifying at recent hearings
on Medicaid expansion.
She’s noticed a pervasive
sentiment.
“In Idaho, if you’re
poor, people assume
you’ve done something
wrong, that if you’re poor,
it’s because you’re not
trying hard enough,” she
said.
She took her GRE test.
She passed, she said, “by
the skin of my teeth.”
The state’s lowest percentage of ALICE and poor
families is in Ada County,
at 32 percent. Canyon
County is at 41 percent,
while the highest in the
state is the 62 percent in
Owyhee County.
What happens now?
United Way plans to
share the report as broadly as possible with businesses, civic leaders,
faith leaders and school
districts. Carpenter was
scheduled to present it to
the Idaho House Health
and Welfare Committee
on Feb. 22.
She wants to gather
groups — medical, educational, nutritional and
others — that are already
providing support through
successful programs to find
ways they can combine
their efforts. An example
could be a mobile medical truck that visits specific sites on a schedule that
coincides with English as
a Second Language classes, child enrichment programs and other services.
Carpenter also has her
eye on pilot programs at
Valley Regional Transit.
The organization has been
using vans to transport
refugees and low-income
workers to jobs, or giving nonprofits access to
vans to do the same thing.
Similar programs are in
place for seniors and veterans. Another program,
the “mobile village,” will
provide job training for
men and women who
want to learn to drive or
repair buses or trucks.
After five years, a bus driver can earn around $20
an hour, plus benefits and
retirement.
Kelli Fairless, Valley
Regional Transit executive
director, said she wasn’t
surprised by any of the
information she read in
the ALICE report.
“We’ve all known these
things. But this data is
what we can use now to
have tough conversations.
It’s not about welfare. It’s
about how we make better outcomes for people,”
Fairless said.
Medical expenses are a
persistent issue for ALICE
and other low income families. United Way Treasure
Valley “is finding a stronger voice in the area of
advocacy,” said Carpenter.
“Where we need to lend
our muscle, we will.”
The organization has
provided testimony on
Medicaid expansion in
the past. It will continue
to look for opportunities
in the political realm at
the city and state level,
“where it’s clear that policy change is the fastest
solution,” said Carpenter.
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SPORTS
Kubiak: there’s no rush
for Manning decision
Denver coach Gary
Kubiak says he’s been
in contact with Peyton
Manning but isn’t pressuring him for a decision
about his future. He also
made it clear he wants
Brock Osweiler back under
center for the Broncos next
season.
Fifth-year
backup
Osweiler went 5-2 when
Manning was hurt last season and is set to become a
free agent next month.
Osweiler
led
the
Broncos to crucial comeback wins over New
England and Cincinnati
that helped set up Denver
for its run to Super Bowl
50, where the Broncos
beat the Carolina Panthers
24-10 thanks to a defense
that produced four takeaways and seven sacks.
Manning started all of
Denver’s playoff games
after winning his starting
job back with a comeback
against the Chargers in the
regular season finale.
In comments at the
league’s annual scouting
combine in Indianapolis
on Wednesday, Kubiak
echoed GM John Elway’s
stance that the Broncos will
continue to give Manning
all the time he needs to
announce his plans.
It’s widely expected,
however, that Manning
will forego the final season
on his contract and retire
a champion. He turns 40
next month and has been
bothered by injuries each
of the last two seasons.
“There is no hurry here,”
Kubiak said.
But there is a deadline. Manning’s $19 million salary for 2016 would
become guaranteed March
9, and the Broncos cannot
afford to pay two quarterbacks starter’s money.
Manning would face the
INDIANAPOLIS (AP)
— San Francisco general
manager
Trent
Baalke said Wednesday
he expects quarterback
Colin Kaepernick to be
with the 49ers next season.
Asked at the NFL
combine if Baalke foresees a return to the team
by Kaepernick, who lost
his job during 2015
to Blaine Gabbert, he
replied “absolutely.”
Kaepernick went 2-6
in eight starts before
being benched. His
future in San Francisco
seemed
uncertain,
but with the hiring of
Chip Kelly as coach,
Kaepernick’s style would
seem a good fit. Kelly
prefers mobile quarterbacks who can throw on
the run, but Kaepernick
will need to improve his
accuracy and decision
making.
Kaepernick is recovering from medical procedures on his right thumb,
his left knee, and on his
non-throwing left shoulder to fix a torn labrum.
His $11.9 million 2016
contract becomes fully
guaranteed for injury
April 1 if he’s on the
roster.
“I think the good
thing is we’ve got two
guys that have gone
into games and proven
they can play,” Baalke
said. “And Colin’s done
some awful good things
through his career, won
some big games for the
San Francisco 49ers and
(we) expect him to come
back. The main focus
right now is health, getting him healthy. He’s
doing a good job with
his rehab. Talking to the
medical staff, that seems
to be going very well,
and (we) just look forward to getting him back
and getting him working
with this coaching staff.”
Kelly is not scheduled
to speak to the media at
the combine.
Baalke
has
been
familiar with Kelly for
years, ever since Kelly
was coaching at Oregon.
Asked about their developing relationship as
co-workers, Baalke compared it to a marriage.
“Yeah, it takes a
while,” he said. “It’s
like any relationship.
It doesn’t happen overnight. But all indications are, like I said, I’ve
known coach since he
was at Oregon and see
him no different than the
conversations that I used
ARNIE STAPLETON
AP Pro Football Writer
possibility of being cut by
the Broncos if he decides
against retiring.
Kubiak said Elway and
Manning “have had some
conversations. I had a brief
one with him yesterday.
We will be talking probably today or I know this
week. We want him to take
his time and we’ll work
from there. Nothing has
changed.”
Kubiak said Osweiler
has a bright future — and
he hopes that’s in Denver.
“He did a heck of a job
for us. He started seven
games for us. He played
against some really good
people in some tough situations. He played very
well. I think he has a
bright future,” Kubiak said.
“Obviously we think the
world of him. We want
him to be a part of our
football team.”
Elway meets with the
media at the combine on
Thursday.
49ers GM says he expects
Kaepernick to be on team for
2016 season
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to have with him when
we went in and were
recruiting his players at
Oregon.
“We see eye to eye on
a lot of things. There’s
always going to be things
that you come across in
these types of relationships where you’ve got
to work through. But, as
of right now, as we’re
trying to put this thing
together with free agency and the draft, we feel
pretty good about how
we’re communicating
and what exactly we’re
looking for.”
One thing the Niners
will be looking for coming
off a 5-11 record is a return
to health for running back
Carlos Hyde. He ended the
season on injured reserve
with a stress fracture in his
left foot.
A second-round draft
pick in 2014 out of Ohio
State, Hyde finished
with 115 carries for 470
yards and three touchdowns in seven games
as the replacement for
long-time running back
Frank Gore.
“I actually talked to
him about three days
ago,”
Baalke
said.
“Frank Gore and him
were working out down
in Miami together and I
think it’s coming. He’s
not game-ready yet by
any stretch, but all indications are that it’s healing very nicely and look
forward to having him
full speed as soon as
possible.
“I think coach would
tell you he’s the ideal fit
for what coach wants to
do. Very similar to what
he did at Ohio State, a
big back that runs with
power, runs with a little
anger. How can you not
like that?”
MESA, Ariz. (AP) — Like
Joe Maddon and his players, Chicago Cubs owner
Tom Ricketts is ready to
“embrace the target.” He
also appears ready to give
a new deal to Theo Epstein.
Ricketts acknowledged
the unprecedented hype
and expectations that
surround the Cubs — as
embodied in the manager’s
catchphrase — in his annual spring training talk with
reporters on Wednesday.
“Obviously the team
has all the talent and the
right leadership to go all
the way this year,” Ricketts
said. “It’s a different offseason than when you lose
101 games, that’s for sure.
It’s a different vibe than
we’ve had in the past. But
it’s one everyone accepts.
Obviously the goal is to
win the World Series.”
Ricketts praised Epstein,
the team’s president of
baseball operations, for
sticking to the team’s plan
to develop a young, talented core of players “from
the bottom up” and then
seek out players to “help
get us over the hump.”
“From standpoint of
ownership, it was a matter
of trusting him and supporting him,” Ricketts said.
“From standpoint of fans,
we appreciate the patience
that they’ve had to allow
him to do what he has
to do to build this great
organization. Now, we’re
there. And the key is sustaining it.”
Ricketts said he had
dinner with Epstein, whose
contract is expiring this
year, on Tuesday night. He
said there’s “nothing to
report” on a new deal, but
added that “we’re on the
same page. We just have to
sit down and kind of hammer it out.”
“I think he’s the best
at what he does in the
game,” Ricketts said. “I
think from a compensation
standpoint, it should be
reflected.”
Chicago won 97 games
last year and advanced
to the NL Championship
Series in its first season
under Maddon, sparking
hope among long-suffering
fans that a championship
might finally be on the
way. The World Series title
drought dates to 1908.
The Cubs signed threetime Gold Glove outfield-
er Jason Heyward ($184
million, eight years) and
pitcher John Lackey ($32
million, two years) from
NL Central rival St. Louis,
and they brought in twotime All-Star Ben Zobrist
($56 million, four years).
Ricketts said the Cubs
would apply to host an
All-Star Game once renovations in and around
Wrigley Field are closer to
completion. Chicago last
hosted the game in 1990.
“It’s about our turn,” he
said.
The Cubs staged their
first full-squad workout on
Wednesday, though many
players have been working
out. Maddon said he didn’t
want his players pushing
too hard early.
“I really like the spring
training dance,” he said. “It
should be a slow dance.”
Notes: Ricketts said the
Cubs and city officials are
discussing ways to enhance
both the game-day experience and overall security
around the ballpark, keeping in mind the recent terrorist attacks around the
world. Changes could
include closing parts of
Clark and Addison streets.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP)
— The father of sportscaster Erin Andrews said
Wednesday that his daughter is a shell of her former
self after a stalker made
secret nude recordings of
her and posted the material on the Internet.
Steve Andrews testified
during a civil trial that his
daughter didn’t want to eat,
bathe or be around people
and that all she did was
cry after she discovered in
2009 that the nude videos
had been posted online.
He said she remains afraid
of people to this day.
Erin Andrews cried
throughout her father’s testimony and he choked up
several times on the stand.
The father told the jury
that before a stalker made
the secret recordings, Erin
Andrews was always fun,
always joking, and that
she was happy and successful in her career as a
sportscaster at ESPN. That
has now changed, he said,
remarking, “She’s afraid.
She’s afraid of crowds,
afraid of people. She
doesn’t trust anymore.”
Michael David Barrett
has pleaded guilty to
recording videos of Erin
Andrews through peepholes that he altered on the
doors of her hotel rooms in
Nashville and Columbus,
Ohio. He also admitted
to attempting to make
secret recordings of her in
Milwaukee.
Barrett was sentenced to
serve 2 ½ years in prison.
In July of 2009, however, neither Andrews nor
her family knew how the
videos got online and who
shot them. Steve Andrews
said his daughter called
him “hysterically crying,
screaming out of her mind”
when she found out.
He said that he was
afraid for his daughter’s
life and that no one knew
if someone was still stalking her.
Barrett had shot the
video in September of
2008 while Erin Andrews
was in Nashville to cover
a college football game.
The father said she was so
disturbed about the secret
footage that she vomited
before agreeing to an FBI
request that she watch
the nude videos so agents
could find clues about
who took it.
Growing
up,
Erin
Andrews was always
insecure about her body
because she was so tall
and skinny, her father said.
She was always the kid
in the back of the photos
because she was so tall,
Steve Andrews said, and
she felt so awkward about
her body that she didn’t
like to change in front of
other girls in dance class.
“This was about the
worst thing that could have
happened to her from the
perspective of self-pride,
comfort in the way you
look,” the father said of the
secret recordings posted to
the Web.
Andrews has filed
a $75 million lawsuit
against Barrett, West End
Hotel Partners, which is
the franchise owner of
the Nashville Marriott at
Vanderbilt University, and
Windsor Capital Group,
which manages the hotel.
She maintains that someone affiliated with the
hotel gave Barrett her
room number and he was
intentionally placed in a
room next to her.
Attorneys for the hotel
companies say Barrett
was an experienced traveler who schemed his
way into getting a room
next to her by using an
in-house phone at the
hotel to find out what
room she was in and
then requesting that he
be placed in a room next
to hers.
Andrews now works for
Fox Sports and as a host
on the TV show “Dancing
With the Stars.”
INDIANAPOLIS (AP)
— Ben McAdoo’s first
season as an NFL head
coach could turn on the
recoveries of two key play-
ers, Jason Pierre-Paul and
Victor Cruz.
Speaking at the NFL
combine
Wednesday,
McAdoo focused on the
need for a game-changing
pass rusher, Pierre-Paul’s
specialty before he lost
his right index finger and
damaged the hand in a
fireworks accident last July
4. The former offensive
coordinator who replaced
Tom Coughlin in charge of
the Giants in January also
noted that slot receiver
Cruz is expected to be on
the team for 2016 after
being sidelined throughout last season.
“I spoke to Jason a couple of
different times so far throughout the offseason. He seems
in good spirits,” McAdoo said.
“He went through a procedure and we’ll have to see
how that goes.”
Pierre-Paul underwent
surgery on the hand after
the season, hoping to
improve flexibility. He will
need to prove to any team
interested in signing him
as a free agent that he can
return to his All-Pro level
of play, of course.
Pierre Paul returned to
the Giants for the final
eight games and started
them all. He provided a bit
of a lift to the pass rush,
although he managed only
one sack. Pierre-Paul struggled to finish plays with his
hand wrapped to protect it.
Should
Pierre-Paul
be back with the Giants,
McAdoo said it hasn’t
been determined if defensive end will play without
the “club” on his hand.
Considering that the Giants
ranked dead last in overall and passing defense in
2015, they certainly could
use him if his skill set is not
diminished too much.
“It was obvious when
Jason came back last year
how disruptive he was
without playing football
for a long time,” McAdoo
said. “Just coming in and
having a couple weeks to
get his feet underneath
him, being able to go out
and be disruptive as a pass
rusher, I just think when
you look at him and his
ability to get off the ball
and get after the quarterback, it’s easy to see.
Sportscaster’s father
says Erin Andrews a
‘shell’ of herself
Cruz, JPP recoveries crucial for Giants coach
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Rigby’s Jenson 13th
at Olympic test event
PYEONGCHANG,
SOUTH
KOREA
(AP)
– Rigby slopestyle snowboarder Jessika Jenson traveled across the globe for a
competition last weekend,
visiting Asia for the first time
for the 2018 Olympic test
event at Bokwang Phoenix
Park in Pyeongchang, South
Korea.
Competing with several
other 2014 Olympians,
Jenson came away with
13th place in the qualification round with a best
score of 50. Teammates
Jamie Anderson and Karly
Shorr were among the
six women to advance
Morning News — Greg Eichelberger
Snake River’s Sean Miller, center, signed his National Letter of Intent to play football for the University of Montana
Western Bulldogs surrounded by his teammates on Wednesday at Snake River High School.
Snake River’s Miller to attend
University of Montana Western
By GREG EICHELBERGER will most likely compete
for the Bulldogs starting
QB position. “When I visited the campus last week,
THOMAS - Quarterback
I was very impressed with
Sean Miller, who led the
the coaches and staff. My
Snake River Panthers to
plan is to play quarterback,
the 2014 3A state chambut I will do whatever I
pionship as a junior,
can to fit in their plans.”
signed a letter of intent
Miller also said he felt
on Wednesday to attend
good about the academy’s
the University of Montana
scholastic opportunities.
Western in Dillon. A cer“They have a black sysemony was held to honor
tem, which will allow me
the event in the school’s
to take a class for three
gymnasium with family,
weeks, take a test and
friends, coaches and teamthen move on to another
mates present.
course. This fits me really
“UMW is a perfect fit
well and I will not be burfor me, both athletically
dened down with a lot of
and academically,” said
classes. It’s ver nice. I am
Miller, who added that he
also pleased that the stu-
dent to professor ratio is 12
to 1, so there will be a lot
of one-on-one attention.”
The senior added
that while he was looking forward to playing
there, he would never
forget his experiences
at Snake River, including that title 18 months
ago. “I have had some
great times here,” he said.
“Winning the championship and sharing all of it
with my teammates was
really special. The coaches want us to win, but the
also want to build good
men with good character.
Being a part of this tradition is something I will
never forget.”
Father, Kent, a 1977
SRHS graduate, concurred, saying, “Things
have changed since I
went to school, but the
football program still
teaches good character
and citizenship. I have
watched Sean play since
he was five-years old
on flag football teams. I
am so proud of him and
just know he will fit in
really well as Montana
Western.”
Miller’s mother, Danette
added, “I am so happy for
him, not just as an athlete,
but because he is a leader
and an inspiration to so
many people, on the filed
and off of it.”
Morning News -- Jason Enes
Firth’s Conner Burkhart is fouled hard by West Jefferson’s Matt Jardine during the second quarter of the 2A District 6
championship game at South Fremont High School Wednesday night.
to Sunday’s finals, going
1-2 on the podium with
Anderson receiving a best
score of 81.25 and Shorr
receiving a best score of
70.10. New Zealand’s
Christy Prior, who had
the top score in qualifiers, was third with 66.68.
The women’s slopestyle
snowboard test event featured 26 women from 15
nations.
Simplot Games
Several locals competed at the annual Simplot
Games at Holt Arena over
the weekend, with a handful coming away with top10 finishes in the finals.
Shelley nips Cougars
for District crown
By MARK HIGH
For the Morning News
IDAHO
FALLS
Brennon Wattenbarger hit
the game winning basket to propel the Shelley
Russets to the 3A sixth
district championship on
Wednesday evening with
a thrilling 41-39 final.
With the score tied at
39 the Shelley Russets
came out of the time out
with :14 remaining on the
clock. Blaine Rumsey
took the inbounds pass
and calmly surveyed the
floor as the clock dwindled away. Wattenbarger
made his move on the
left wing and Rumsey
hit him with a pass and
as the South Fremont
defender overplayed the
pass, Wattenbarger wasted little time seizing the
opportunity as he drove
to the basket for the game
winning basket.
“The play we ran there
wasn’t even the play
that we had drawn up,”
Wattenbarger said. “I had
a lane to the baseline and
I just took it. I shot it,
landed on the ground and
heard the crowd go crazy
so I thought that it had to
have gone in. It was an
amazing feeling. To have
the crowd erupt like that
it was just amazing.”
South Fremont had one
last chance to tie or win
the game as they took a
page out of the Valpraiso
playbook with a nifty little
hook and ladder at the
top of the key but the last
second shot drew front
iron as the Russets held
on for the victory.
“South Fremont usually executes better than
we do and really it just
comes down to who hits
the most shots,” Shelley
head coach Jim Kolsen
said.
“They couldn’t
have drawn up a better
play down there at the
end and luckily for us he
missed it.”
The game was a classic nail biter throughout
the evening as the teams
were tied on the scoreboard on nine different
occasions with the biggest lead of the evening
for the Cougars a six point
bulge early in the second
quarter and the Russets
with a three point advantage at the end of the half.
“South Fremont are
a good team, I have no
doubt that they will win
their play in game on
saturday and really anything can happen. You
just have to handle the
ebbs and flows throughout the game and stay
with each other,” Coach
Kolsen said.
The flow was going
South Fremonts way
as they led 17-11 two
minutes into the second quarter.
Bryon
Leckington changed all of
that momentum however
as he drilled his second
three point bomb of the
evening which ignited
a 9-0 run to give the
Russets the lead at 20-17.
Leckington finished the
evening with a trio of
triples from behind the
arc for 11 points for the
Russets.
The half ended with
four straight three point
baskets as each team took
turns dialing long distance with the final shot
a dagger off of the hand
of Blaine Rumsey to give
the Russets a 26-23 lead
heading into the locker
room.
Rumsey finished the
evening as the game’s top
scorer with 15 points for
the district champs.
An evenly played third
quarter set the stage for
the games dramatic finish as the Shelley student body celebrated the
Russets as they cut down
the nets with the victory.
Next up for the Russets
(10-13) is the State tournament which will begin
on Thursday March 3.
Shelley will open with
the fourth district champion Buhl Indians at 1:15
at Meridian High School.
The run of their lives: Cougars
claim 10th straight District title
By JASON ENES
sports@am-news.com
ST. ANTHONY – Firth
head coach Scott Adams
is no stranger to success
during his 12 years as the
Cougars head man.
During his tenure Firth
has brought six state championships back home and
heading into Wednesday
night’s Nuclear Conference
championship game an
astounding nine consecutive district titles.
Number 10 was not
going to come easy is West
Jefferson had anything to
say about it.
West Jefferson kept the
game within six prior to
the half, but Firth pulled
away late to earn a 52-38
win at South Fremont High
School, clinching their
10th straight district title
and the automatic berth to
next week’s state tournament.
With 2:05 left to go in
the first half the Cougars
led 28-17 after a Conner
Burkhart jump shot.
West Jefferson’s Uriel
Garcia ran off five consecutive points to pull within
six points to 28-22 after he
nailed a 3-pointer and a
fall away jumper.
Mason Giles put back
with 1.5 seconds left in
the half extended the Firth
lead back to eight. But
Adams and his coaches
were not thrilled with his
team’s effort.
Garcia wanted to get
West Jefferson back into
the game by himself.
Garcia scored 11-points
in the third quarter nailing
a pair of 3-pointers, finishing a three-point play and
hitting a deep jumper.
Despite Garcia’s best
efforts Firth began moving
the ball and finding the
open player.
Dylan Holley converted a four-point play and
a pair of free throws late
in the quarter and Mason
Giles scored six points all
in the low post to send
the Cougars into the final
quarter leading 44-33.
The final quarter was an
offensive struggle for both
schools.
West Jefferson began
launching 3-pointers trying to claw back into the
game, while Firth was trying to slow the game down
looking for a good shot.
After a Damon Folkman
basket Firth had its biggest lead of the game at
51-35 and the air was all
but gone from the West
Jefferson balloon.
In a back-and-forth
first quarter it was a
Holley 3-pointer that
gave Firth a six-point
lead, West Jefferson
would never get any
closer in the game, but
never did the game feel
comfortable for Firth.
Giles led the Cougars
with 12 points, Holley and
Burkhart each added 10.
Firth opens the 2A state
tournament on Thursday,
March 3 at 3 p.m. against
either Melba or Nampa
Christian at Capital High
School.
Morning News - Mark High
Jack Thompson battles a pair of South Fremont defenders down low in the post during second half action on
Wednesday evening at Skyline High School. Thompson
and the Russets got the better of the battle with a 41-39
district championship victory.
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DEAR DOCTOR K: I’ve
recently moved and would
like to find a doctor for my
kids and myself. I don’t know
many people here yet, so I’ve
hesitated to ask for personal
recommendations. What do
you think about physicianrating websites?
Ask Doctor K
DEAR READER: There
are a lot of doctor rating sites
out there, like Healthgrades.
com or RateMDs.com. Even
websites that offer reviews
of restaurants and repairmen
(such as Yelp and Angie’s List)
feature critiques of doctors,
dentists and other clinicians.
Many of these sites have
users give doctors a “star rating,” as you would rate a
movie on Netflix. But according to a recent article in the
New England Journal of
Medicine, narrative reviews,
in which patients describe
their experiences with clinicians in their own words, can
add valuable context. They
can allow readers to zero
in on reviews from people
with similar problems, needs
and preferences. And if you
understand why someone
gave a clinician a certain
score, you can weigh that
information against what’s
most important to you.
But even doctor-rating
websites that provide space
for personal comments -- and
many do -- could, in my
opinion, be improved. Many
of these websites don’t present data on other important
considerations. For example,
does the doctor offer timely
appointments? Does he or
she follow authoritative
guidelines for preventing and
treating diseases? Do they follow up on recently discovered medical problems that
need close monitoring?
In addition, most of the
existing websites post comments from any source.
There’s no assurance that the
reviews come from real or
recent patients. Furthermore,
the vast majority of doctors’ patients don’t offer their
evaluations on doctor-rating
websites. And the few that do
often have an ax to grind.
Also in my opinion, there
are a few doctors who have a
great “bedside manner” but
don’t practice the best medicine. They order too many,
or too few, diagnostic tests.
They use the newest treatments when older treatments
Dr.
Anthony
Komaroff
would be equally effective,
less expensive and possibly
safer. I say older drugs are
safer because we know more
about the safety of drugs
that have been around for
a while. Having said this, I
think patients usually make
accurate judgments about
their doctors.
So what’s the bottom
line? Doctor-rating websites
might provide some useful
information. But don’t use
them as your only source
of information. If you can,
ask trusted friends or family
members. If you’re new to
an area, as you are in this
case, join a neighborhood
email group and ask for a
recommendation. Or call the
local chapter of a conditionspecific association and ask
them for suggestions.
Of course, it makes the
most sense to trust the judgments of people whom you
know and respect. But you
can learn something from
people you don’t know, and
who may be anonymous on
the ratings website. All the
time, we hear people we
don’t know making judgments about things. We
decide from what they’ve
said and how they’ve said it
whether we believe them.
It’s no different with doctorrating websites.
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state births
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Fundraiser for crisis center set for Friday
By LESLIE SIEGER
lsieger@am-news.com
BLACKFOOT — The
Bingham Crisis Center is
inviting everyone out for
dinner and live auction at
the Jason Lee Memorial
Methodist Church on
Friday to help raise funds
for the crisis center. Chili
is or chili dogs with chips
and a cinnamon roll for
desert are the menu for the
evening.
“Bingham Crisis Center
(BCC) would like to welcome members of the
community to come to
the fundraiser on Friday
in support of survivors of
domestic violence, sexual
assault, teen dating violence, and stalking,” BCC
Executive Director Dixie
Chapman said.
“The large amount of
Shelley mom dies in
one-vehicle accident
auction items donated are
absolutely wonderful and
the chili dinner is guaranteed to satisfy your hunger.”
Some of the items to
be auctioned are a huge
“Hello Dolly” gift basket,
donated by Westmark
Credit Union, two $50 gift
certificates for lawn care,
donated by Turfco, hotel
stays, restaurant gift certificates and much more.
The cost of dinner is $5
per person or $20 for a
family and begins at 5:30
p.m. The auction begins
at 6:30.
“Plan on bringing your
family and have some
fun with a great group of
community
members,”
Chapman said.
All proceeds will be
used for direct victim services and support services.
Fun in the Sun ...
By LESLIE MIELKE
lmielke@am-mews.com
SHELLEY — Mysty
Marie
MacCormack
Johnson, 26, of Shelley
died in a one-vehicle crash
on Tuesday, Feb. 23. The
Bingham County Sheriff’s
office was dispatched at
7:05 p.m. to a crash on
Highway 91 at 512 North.
When officers and
medical personnel arrived, roadway that had struck
they noticed a blue subur- a ditch, fence and power
ban on the west side of the
See ACCIDENT 2A
Firth school board
talks levy at meeting
By LESLIE MIELKE lmielke@am-news.com
FIRTH – Speaking to the
Firth School District trustees during the February
school board meeting,
Firth High School (FHS)
principal Jeff Gee supplied
details about how the
money raised in the levy
has been used.
“Whether we are going
for levy or not, we need
to continue to move forward,” Gee said.
How much technology
is used in the school district?
The ratio of Chrome
books to students is oneto-one at the high school,
Superintendent Sid Tubbs
said. “You can go into any
classroom and the Chrome
books are constantly in
use. Students are doing
reports or typing papers.
Chrome books are
available in each school,
however, the ratio of onestudent-to-one-Chrome
book is limited.
“We would like to
expand the number of
Chrome books in the district so that each student
in grades three through 12
would have access to a
Chrome book,” Tubbs said.
“We would also like to be
on a schedule to enable
the district to replace onethird of the Chrome books
each year.
The second information
technology (IT) person was
also paid through the old
Morning News — Leslie Sieger
Juana Gonzalez, Joanna Diaz and
Theresa Jeffs (above) and Ida Cole
and Grayson Neumann (right) had
fun swinging, playing and taking
advantage of the nice weather at the
park at Jensen Grove Wednesday
afternoon.
See FIRTH 2A
Sen. Crapo to visit Blackfoot, Ft. Hall
GREG EICHELBERGER
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BLACKFOOT — Idaho
Sen. Mike Crapo will be
in southeastern Idaho this
week to discuss issues
with Idahoans during three
town meetings. Crapo
has been taking about the
nation’s $19 trillion debt
and taking questions during many stops around
the state. His schedule
this week includes visits
to the to Blackfoot Friday,
4 p.m. at Blackfoot City
Hall and Saturday at 2:30
p.m. at the Tribal Council
Chambers on Pima Drive.
One of the subjects the
Senator may discuss is his
recent bipartisan effort
with a group of senators
this week in renewing their
efforts to expand restitution for victims of radiation
exposure related to U.S.
nuclear arms testing in the
1950s and 1960s.
As a part of that effort,
Crapo introduced S. 331,
the Radiation Exposure
Compensation
Act
(RECA), which seeks to
expand RECA eligibility
to affected individuals in
Idaho, Arizona, Colorado,
Montana, Nevada, New
Mexico and Utah.
Since its creation in
1990, RECA was designed
to assist those directly
affected by above-ground
nuclear testing or work
in uranium mines in the
United States, but limited
to individuals in certain
counties in Utah, Colorado
and Arizona. Known as
“downwinders”,
these
Americans suffered from
cancer and other various
health issues as a result of
radiation exposure.
In 2005, the National
Academy of Sciences
released a report calling
on Congress to establish
new scientific criteria for
decisions about awarding
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By LESLIE MIELKE
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SHELLEY – Carloads of
quilters attended the 17th
annual Quilt Spectacular
at the North Bingham
County District Library in
Shelley on Tuesday and
Wednesday.
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Quilts bedecked the
library shelves with color
and diverse patterns. Lots
of talent was on display,
plus lots of work.
The enthusiasm for the
subject was palpable.
Nationally recognized
quilt teacher and author
Carmen Geddes from
Eagle Mountain, Utah,
presented a trunk show
where a quantity of her
work is explained.
She also explained how
to easily and accurately
make half-square triangles.
The patterns Geddes
sold included the lay out
or the grid pattern of specific quilts.
“All you have to add is
the fabric,” she said.
Visit tensisters.com for
more information.
“I named my first book,
“Ten quilts for 10 sisters,”
Geddes said. “I’m one of
10 sisters and we have
seven brothers.”
Terry Anderson from
Basalt presented ideas for
orphan blocks.
“Add a border and use
it for a table decoration.
Combine them into one
quilt. “Choose your favorite color of material and
sash the quilt or project,”
she said. “The sashing
does not need to match the
quilt blocks. Whatever you
sash it with will become
the color of the quilt.”
Four Yearsley children
from Shelley were visiting
the library on Wednesday.
They enjoyed the quilts as
well. Thomas, 5, Thomas
liked the colors. Luke, 7,
liked the patterns and Kyle,
9, liked the Levi quilt.
“This was the best quilt
show ever,” said North
Bingham County District
Director Heidi Riddoch.
“There were great classes
and great presenters.”
Each year, quilters are
asked to donate to the
Humanitarian Effort. This
year, quilters donated 347
gently used books and 340
blocks.
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The books will be donated to the Firth Reading North Bingham County District Library Director Heidi Riddoch (on left) receives some
Initiative (FRIday) and explanation about a pattern from Carmen Geddes in Shelley on Wednesday.
other school outreaches.
The quilt blocks will be
made into charity quilts
and donated where needed.
Saddle raffle to take place
at CAL Ranch Friday, Saturday
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University of Utah hospital for 49 days, in the
local hospital for 45 days,
and has undergone extensive physical therapy.
Her home needed to be
remodeled so she could
go home.
More surgeries and skin
grafts are scheduled.
The
Fawn
Wright
Benefit Bull Riding event
is scheduled from 11 a.m.
to 4 p.m. on Saturday,
April 9, in the Indoor
Arena at the Bannock
County Fairgrounds.
That day, 30 bull riders
will compete beginning at
1 p.m.
Sponsors of this “Beat
the Odds” raffle are Cal
Stores and Riverside Boot
& Saddle.
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pole. Medical personnel pronounced Johnson
dead at the scene of the
accident.
Johnson was traveling north on Highway.
91 when she went off the
right side of the road and
then over corrected, going
off the left side of the road,
striking the ditch, fence
and power pole. She was
not wearing her seatbelt.
Highway 91 was closed
for more than three hours
while officers investigated the crash. Bingham
County Sheriff’s Office
is still investigating this
crash.
Johnson leaves behind
her husband, Jordan and
three young children —
Bryson, 7, Bryker, 3, and
Brylee, 1.
A GoFundMe account has
been set up by her family.
“The family is need-
ing help coming up with
money for Mysty’s funeral,”
writes her sister, Mylysa
MacCormack. “They were
a two income family and
will now need help with
upcoming bills, childcare
costs, everyday living
expenses and, of course,
her funeral expenses.
“ … she was always
willing to help others,”
she said. “That is why she
wanted to be a nurse.”
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saddle is up for grabs in
the “Bear the Odds” raffle
sponsored by the Benefit
Bull Riding organization.
The saddle will be
at CAL Ranch Store in
Blackfoot from 11 a.m.
to 4 p.m. on Friday and
Saturday, Feb. 25 and 26.
People can purchase
raffle tickets at the CAL
Ranch Store in Blackfoot
on those days. Tickets are
$5 each or you can get
five for $20.
This year, the proceeds
from the raffle will benefit Fawn Wright from
American Falls. Fawn and
her husband, Larry, were
in a car accident on I-86
about five months ago.
The Wright family’s car
had broken down and was
on the side of the interstate. Larry had the car’s
hood up when the car was
hit by a pick-up. Larry was
thrown 110 feet.
Fawn had stepped out
of the car to see if she
could help. She was hit,
run over and drug by the
pick-up. Their 9-year-old
daughter was in the car,
watching.
“It would be easier to
name the number of bones
that Fawn did not break,”
Amber Davis, organizer of
the “Beat the Odds” raffle,
said. “She had 60 bones
broken or shattered.”
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“The second IT person
has been instrumental in
helping the district with its
technology,” Tubbs said.
The Firth trustees have
scheduled a work meeting
at 4 p.m. this Friday, Feb.
26, to discuss the levy.
A decision must be made
in March for the levy to
appear on the ballot in
May.
A discussion about what
the Legislature will do took
place.
Athletic Director (AD)
Roger Harrison gave a
report on the state of boys’
soccer at FHS.
When members of
the Firth School Board
approved the boys’ soccer
program
before
school year 2015-16
started, the goal was to
raise a certain amount
of money to pay for officials, travel, equipment
and uniforms.
Presently, the boys’ soccer program is $3,500 in
the hole.
“We may not know
until August if enough
boys come out to field a
team,” Harrison said.
“Part of the problem is
there are not many teams
in 2A soccer,” Tubbs said.
“Districts 2A and 3A are
combined so our kids must
play up a division.”
During the past legislative session, the Legislature
appropriated $4,000 per
school district or charter
school to be used specifically for board, superintendent, and charter
school administrator training.
Firth trustees scheduled
two hours of school board
training before the start of
the February public meeting.
Susan Sherz, an Idaho
School Board Association
trainer, presented material
on the role and responsibility of trustees.
The relationship of the
board and the superintendent and the development
and review of policy and
the district’s finances were
also reviewed.
In executive session,
the board members evaluated the principals of the
schools — Jeff Gee at the
high school and David
Mecham at the middle
school. Sid Tubbs is the
elementary school principal.
The trustees approved
a one-year extension of
Superintendent
Tubbs’
contract.
They also approved
Policy 5120, Personnel-Equal Employment and
Non-Discrimination;
Policy 5265, Personnel—
Employee Responsibilities
Regarding
Student
Harassment, Intimidation
and Bullying; and Policy
5500
Personnel—
Personnel Files. Policy
7400,
Financial
Management—Purchasing
was also approved.
The next Firth school
board meeting is scheduled for Thursday, March
10.
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under RECA, arguing that
states far from the original
Nevada test site were not
only exposed to radiation,
but also may have been
exposed to much higher
levels than those in currently eligible areas. Crapo
has since then introduced
or co-sponsored legislation
seven times to amend the
program.
“Idaho communities
and individuals who have
been adversely affected by
our nation’s weapons programs must be justly and
sufficiently compensated
by the federal govern-
ment,” Crapo said. “I recognize the burden placed
upon cancer patients and
their families to pay for the
expensive regimen of treatments this disease requires,
and this legislation is an
important step in helping
Idahoans get the care they
need and deserve.”
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Gayland Leslie Westover, 69
Thursday, February 25
• Terri Clark and Aaron Tippin at ISU’s Stephens
Performing Arts Center at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $38 or
$32. For more information on Terri and Aaron Tippin
visit terriclark.com and aarontippin.com. For more
information contact the Stephen’s Performing Arts
Box Office at (208) 282-3595.
• ‘Let’s Talk About It’ book discussion series continues at 6:30 p.m. at the Blackfoot Public Library.
The series is entitled “Tough Paradise” and this is
the third book and discussion in the series. The last
session will be March on 24. Refreshments will be
served.
• Shelley Community Blood Drive from 1:30-7
p.m. at 585 W. Fir St.
Friday, February 26
• Senator Mike Crapo town hall meeting at 4 p.m.
at Blackfoot City Hall to discuss issues with citizens.
He has been talking about the nation’s $19 trillion
debt and taking questions during many stops around
the state. He will also be in Fort Hall on Saturday at
2:30 p.m. at the Fort Hall Tribal Council Chambers
and in Aberdeen at 4:30 p.m. at Aberdeen City Hall.
Questions can also be directed to Crapo’s Regional
Office in Pocatello at (208) 236-6775.
Saturday, February 27
• Benefit concert and raffle to raise money for
local radio DJ, Dusty Bee. The money will be used for
doctors bills and transportation to and from appointments in Salt Lake City. The event will be at 6 p.m. at
Stingers in Blackfoot. More items are needed for the
silent auction and raffle. For more information or to
make a donation, call Jamie Broadhead at 716-7402.
• Senator Mike Crapo town hall meeting at 2:30
p.m. in Fort Hall at 2:30 p.m. at the Fort Hall Tribal
Council Chambers and in Aberdeen at 4:30 p.m. at
Aberdeen City Hall. He has been talking about the
nation’s $19 trillion debt and taking questions during
many stops around the state. Questions can also be
directed to Crapo’s Regional Office in Pocatello at
(208) 236-6775.
Monday, February 29
• An Evening with Garrison Keillor at ISU’s
Stephen’s Performing Arts Center at 7:30 p.m. One
of the most prolific American storytellers of all time,
Garrison Keillor is a writer and humorist best known
for his popular live radio show, A “Prairie Home
Companion.” For more information on Keillor visit
garrisonkeillor.com. Tickets are $55 or $45. For more
information contact The Stephen’s Performing Arts
Box Office at 208) 282-3595.
• Stone Soup fundraiser from 5:30-8 p.m. at
Mountain View Middle School at 645 Mitchell Road
in Blackfoot. This event is sponsored by SEICAA. The
‘Best Soup’ in Bingham County will be crowned,
along with a carnival for kids, local entertainment,
raffle and silent auction. Tickets are $7 per person
or $25 per family in advance and $8 and $30 at the
door. For more information, call SEICAA at 785-1583.
• “Taking a Closer Look at Social Security” at
6:30 p.m. at the Blackfoot Public Library presented
by Bobbette Brown and Scott Wallace. They will
discuss upcoming changes that will affect your benefits. Learn how to make the most of your retirement.
Refreshments will be served at this free program.
• AARP Tax Aide is available from 9 a.m. to 12
p.m. at the Senior Citizen Center at 20 E. Pacific St.
in Blackfoot. This service continues each Monday
through April 11. For more information, call Harrison
• Beginning Spanish classes from 6-7 p.m. every
Monday through May 4th. Amando Alvarez will be
teaching the class in room 202 at Blackfoot High
School. The cost of the class is $50. For more information call Amando at 785-1402.
• Stalker Elementary family literacy night from
6:30-8 p.m. Super heros will join parents and students for an assembly. There will also be a book fair
at the school.
Tuesday, March 1
Gayland
Leslie
Westover, 69, of Idaho
Falls, passed away on
February 20, 2016, at East
Idaho Regional Medical
Center of natural causes,
surrounded by family
members.
He was born on April
21, 1946, to Ernest Cecil
Westover and Florence
Hansen Westover
in
Blackfoot, Idaho. He was
the youngest of five children.
Gayland
attended
school at Snake River High
School in Moreland, Idaho,
and graduated in 1964. He
entered into the United
States Army the next year.
He completed Basic and
Advanced Training at Fort
Ord, California. He served
a year in South Korea and
a short time in Turkey. He
completed his military service in Fort Hood, Texas,
with the rank of Specialist
4 (E-4). He received an
honorable discharge in
1967.
Gayland
married
Pearl Sullivan Martin in
Thursday, March 3
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday in the basement of
Lighthouse Assembly of God.
Graveside
services
will be held at 2 p.m.
Friday,
February
26,
2016,
at
RiversideThomas Cemetery West
of Blackfoot in Bingham
County, under the direction of Wood Funeral
Home East Side, 963 South
Ammon Road.
Condolences may be
sent to the family online at
www.woodfuneralhome.
com.
785-1320
ServiceS
Matthew Murray
Sorensen
Celebration of Life:
6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
2016 at the Blackfoot
Stake Center
Funeral Services:
11:00 a.m. Saturday,
Blackfoot Stake Center
Viewing:
One hour prior to
services at the church
‘Caminando la Terra Mexicana’ at ISU
POCATELLO — Idaho
State University’s Hispanic
Awareness
Leadership
Organization will host
Mexicana
(Walking
through the Mexican
Land)” Feb. 27 from 6 to
9 p.m. in the Pond Student
Union Ballroom.
Prices for tickets pur-
chased in advance are $5
for ISU students, $7 for
ISU faculty and staff and
$8 for the general public.
Tickets purchased at the
door will be $8 for all
guests.
Mexicana”
features
Mexican food, cultural
entertainment and danc-
ing.
Tickets can be purchased in advance at tables
located near the food court
of the Pond Student Union
and on the main floor of
Rendezvous Complex.
call Julia Garcia at (208)
249-8848 at or email her
at garcjul3@isu.edu.
International Night 2016 set for March 12
POCATELLO – The
Idaho State University
International
Student
Association invites all of
Pocatello and the surrounding communities to
experience and celebrate
the rich cultural diversity of ISU at International
Night 2016 on Saturday,
March 12, in the Pond
Student Union Ballroom.
Doors will open at 6
p.m. and the event officially kicks off at 7 p.m.
This year’s theme is “No
Passport? No Problem!”
and will showcase perfor-
mances from various cultures by the international
students of ISU including
songs, dances and dramas.
Dinner will be provided
at the event featuring traditional cuisine from a variety of countries including
Nepal, Africa and Saudi
Arabia.
Tickets are $7 for ISU
students, $8 for faculty
and staff and $9 for the
public and at the door.
Tickets will be on sale
from Feb. 29 in the Pond
Student Union Building
and the Rendezvous
Correction
The Democrat Party
Caucus for Bingham
County will begin at 7 p.m.
on Tuesday, March 22, at
Sa-Sys Event Center, 214
S. University in Blackfoot.
People can register for
the caucus when the doors
open at 5 p.m.
The doors will be closed
and locked at 7 p.m. for
the caucus to begin.
The caucus was previously stated to begin at
6 p.m. This was incorrect
for which the Blackfoot
Morning News regrets the
error.
Death Notice
Donald Wayne Bardinelli Sr., 74
Donald Wayne Bardinelli Sr., 74 of Blackfoot, passed
away Wednesday, February 24, 2016 at The Willows
Assisted Living Center.
Funeral arrangements are pending under the direction of Hawker Funeral Home and will be announced.
Condolences may be sent to: www.hawkerfuneralhome.com.
SPRING TREE SERVICE
Complex. Patrons wearing
traditional or cultural dress
will receive an extra raffle
ticket at the door.
For more information,
please contact Damara
Marshall at (208) 2190691, marsdama@isu.edu
or Krystoff Kissoon at (208)
530-1797, kisskrys@isu.
edu.
C. Merrill Evans
Funeral Services:
12:00 Noon Saturday,
Blackfoot 4th Ward
Viewing:
6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
2016 at Hawker Funeral
Home and for one hour
prior to services at the
church
Deon Winifred
Webster Cotterell
Funeral Services:
1:00 p.m. Saturday,
February 27, 2016 at
Hawker Funeral Home
Viewing:
One hour prior to
services at the funeral
home
for more info visit
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• Craft Night at 6:30 p.m. at the Blackfoot Public
Library with Linda Beauvais, who will teach how to
make a decorative bunny for Easter. The cost is $5
and the class is limited to 15 people. Call the library
at 785-8628 to sign up. Refreshments will be served.
September 1968, and
they made their home in
Pocatello, Idaho. They
had two boys, Paul Kirk
and Steven Douglas. They
were divorced in 1977. He
married Mary Jacobson of
Moreland, Idaho, in 1978.
They were divorced the
next year. In 1987 Gayland
met Dorothea (Dori) Deerr
in Lompoc, California.
They stayed together until
her death in 2004.
Gayland worked for the
American Potato Company
in Blackfoot, Idaho, after
he got out of High School.
He returned to work there
after his military service
and remained until he
moved to Lompoc. He
gained employment at
Vandenberg AFB where
his brother, Brian Phil, was
serving. He was employed
as a Security Guard and
a Courier. He retired in
2011 after 29 years of service and since his brother,
Brian Phil, had died several years earlier, Gayland
returned to Idaho, and
lived his last five years in
Idaho Falls near other family members.
He enjoyed Sunday
dinner with family, watching Western Classics and
listening to 50’s music.
He was a big tease. He
enjoyed teasing his brothers and sister and nieces
and nephews any chance
he got.
Gayland is survived by
his sister Cecile Staker
and brother Richard D
(Charlet) Westover, of
Idaho Falls, ID, and Robert
K (Donna) Westover of
Kenai, AK. He was preceded in death by his parents and his brother, Brian
Phil, and brother-in-law
Doyle Staker.
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Idaho Art Lab: The nonprofit Idaho Art Lab is a drop-in
community art center, artists’ gallery and art supply store in
St. Anthony. Entry is free. Our volunteers work to keep up
with the demands of this fun art center. We are open 40 hours
a week and need volunteers who can staff the art gallery,
art center, pottery & ceramic studios. We need volunteers,
13 and up (13-15 with parental supervision), with a steady
hand and creative eye to help clean ceramic green-ware.
Afternoon volunteers, will often be working alongside children and teens. Early afternoons, from 12-3 p.m. are often
quiet and great for those who wish to work alone or with just
1 or 2 others. Volunteers who commit to a 3 hour shift per
week are given free use of the Lab’s art labs and taught many
different art mediums at no charge. We need you to know
how to work the art equipment so you can ensure that community members are using the Labs safely. If you can only
give an hour or two, great! There is no training needed for
these short shifts. Contact Kara Hidalgo, Executive Director,
at (208) 932-0893 or info@idahoartlab.org.
First Baptist Church Food Pantry: Each Wednesday we
receive our food order from the Idaho Foodbank at 3 p.m.
Volunteers assist with unloading food and help put it away for
distribution. Volunteers must be in good physical shape and
able to lift up to 50 pounds. Lots of bending, sorting, moving.
Each Thursday we distribute emergency food to anyone in
need. The role of the volunteer is to ensure that our Guests’
receive not only enough food for 3 days or so, but quality
customer service and care while they are with us. Volunteers
will assist with filling out the ‘shopping list’, signing new
people in/checking people in, assisting with food selection
and assisting with carrying food out to their vehicle. GREAT
customer service skills; likes working with public; some
nutrition knowledge and willingness to share that knowledge
is helpful but not required; for carry-outs must be in good
physical shape, able to carry 50 pounds or more. For either
opportunity contact: Karl Pettit, Pastor, (208) 232-6305.
Good driving record?: Bingham County Senior Citizen
Center needs Meals on Wheels drivers and dining room
assistants. We would be happy to work with the volunteer
to whatever schedule works with them. M-F 8 a.m. - 4
p.m. Contact: Cara Fitzgerald at (208) 785-4714 or cara@
seniors4ever.com.
Do you like planning events?: The Bingham County
Senior Center is looking for a volunteer from the business
community to be on their event committee. If you’d like to
give them a hand, contact Larry Hinderager at 317-5436.
Docents Needed:
If you are looking for volunteer work, the Idaho Potato
Museum needs volunteers for their gift shop this coming tourism season — April 1 to Oct. 1. The shifts are 3-hours long.
Give the museum a call if you know of anyone who would
want to work in the gift shop and talk to people from all over
the world! Call 785-2517 to volunteer.
Some continuing needs:
- The Salvation Army has a new “Client Choice” food distribution program. Volunteers will need to help clients as they
select food items from the pantry and possibly assist in checking in/out the clients. The hours will be Monday—Friday 1-4
p.m. Contact Darin or Julie at 232-5318 or darin.fisher@usw.
salvationarmy.org.
- Family Services Alliance is looking for volunteers who
would want to stuff packets. Contact Karlee at 232-0742 or
karleeb@fsalliance.org
- Foster Grandparents of SE Idaho needs volunteers in
Head Start Programs and elementary schools throughout
southeast Idaho for approximately 15 hours each week during the regular school day. Types of activities are: listening;
encouraging; offering positive guidance and suggestions;
assisting children with social skills or educational skills
such as math, spelling and reading. Must be able to pass
background checks, have reliable transportation, be in good
health, and have compassion and patience with children.
Contact Lori Murdock, 785-8454 or lori@fgpsei.com.
In-kind Needs:
If you have any assistive medical equipment that you
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Home suite home
We’ve been thinking
about moving from our
big, old, two-story house
to something a little easier to clean and maintain. And if we’re going to
move, why not move to a
warmer, sunnier place?
Then again, maybe we
should stay here, and just
find a more compatible
house. We’ve often wondered what it would be
like to live in a place with
level floors and square
corners instead of our old
wreck -- whoops! I mean,
our old historic landmark.
Our house is so historic, you can stand in front
of the closed windows
and still feel the wind
blow. It’s so historic that it
has no closets. Who had
extra clothes back then?
They hung everything
they owned on a nail on
the back of the door. It’s
so historic that everything
costs two or three times
the normal price to fix. It
makes charming, historic
noises all night long.
It’s so historic that
there’s a sign on it that
says, “George Washington
wouldn’t sleep here
because it looked unsafe.”
And that was in 1776.
Sue and I have talked
about moving for years.
We wonder what it would
be like to have high-speed
Internet and reliable cellphone service. We’d even
be happy with electricity that stayed on after
a minor snowstorm or a
hard rain. We dream of
living on one story, and
of having square corners,
level floors, a balcony, an
elevator and a super.
So we look at the real
estate listings. It turns out,
a place like that costs
$4,500 a month, plus
utilities. It’s one-fifth the
size of the place we have
now, and five times the
price. How does that
make sense? We would be
downsizing our space and
upsizing our spending.
We keep seeing real
estate ads that say things
like, “Price dropped from
$1.1 million to $799,000!
What a steal!” In our circle of friends, we probably know one person who
could afford a $799,000
house. And he made all
his money flipping houses. Even if he bought
it, he wouldn’t keep it.
Obviously, we’re hanging
around with the wrong
kind of people.
Where is all this money
coming from? When you
see the housing prices in
New York, Miami and San
Francisco, it seems as if
everyone who lives there
is a multimillionaire. They
can’t all be selling drugs
for a living. They can’t all
have won the Powerball
jackpot. They can’t all
be hedge fund managers. They can’t all be the
Housewives of Wherever.
So where does all the
money come from? Well,
a lot of it comes from
overseas. If you were a
wealthy Russian, would
you rather put, say, $10
million in a Russian
bank or park it in a New
York City penthouse? If
you made a fortune in
China, would you leave
it there or buy a Beverly
Hills mansion? Then you
just wait five or 10 years
for your country’s financial crisis to end, or for
a new leader to come
along, and poof! You sell
your property at a profit.
Meanwhile, you’ve priced
us out of the market,
thank you very much.
Of course, we’d like to
stay in the town where all
our friends live, where all
our family lives and where
all our roots are. But over
the years, our friends
have gone to live with
their children in Florida
or Phoenix, our families
have scattered to the four
winds, the waitress at the
restaurant we’ve gone to
every week for the past
30 years asks us if we’ve
ever eaten here before,
and the clerks at the drugstore give us the senior
discount without asking.
We haven’t left home,
it left us. When people
ask us if we’re really moving, Sue says, “We’re just
window shopping.”
Maybe, but we’re doing
a lot of it.
(Contact Jim Mullen at
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pion as he defeated Sonny
Liston in Miami Beach.
In 1991, during the
Persian Gulf War, 28
Americans were killed
when an Iraqi Scud missile hit a U.S. barracks in
Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.
In 1994, Americanborn Jewish settler Baruch
Goldstein opened fire with
an automatic rifle inside
the Tomb of the Patriarchs
in the West Bank, killing
29 Muslims before he was
beaten to death by worshippers.
In 1996, blasts set off
by suicide bombers in
Jerusalem and Ashkelon
killed at least 27 people. A
12-mile tether connecting
a half-ton satellite to space
shuttle Columbia broke as
it was almost completely unreeled. Cambodian
activist Dr. Haing S. Ngor,
who’d won an Academy
Award for his performance
in the 1984 movie “The
Killing Fields,” was shot
to death outside his Los
Angeles apartment. (Three
gang members were later
convicted of murder.)
Ten years ago: In
Uganda, President Yoweri
Museveni was declared
the winner in the central
African country’s first multiparty election in 25 years.
Apolo Anton Ohno upset
favored South Korean Ahn
Hyun-soo to win the gold
in the 500-meter short
track speedskating event at
the Winter Games in Turin.
Five
years
ago:
Republicans
in
the
Wisconsin Assembly took
the first significant action
on their plan to strip collective bargaining rights
from most public workers, abruptly passing the
measure in the small hours
before
sleep-deprived
Democrats realized what
was happening. (The vote
sent the bill on to the
Wisconsin Senate, where
minority Democrats had
fled to Illinois to prevent
a vote.) The Obama White
House broke decades of
tradition, naming Jeremy
Bernard the first man to
ever serve as social secretary in the female-dominated East Wing. Suze
Rotolo, artist and girlfriend
of singer Bob Dylan, who
was his lyrical muse when
he came to prominence in
the early 1960s, died in
New York at age 67.
One year ago: Secretary
of State John Kerry fielded
dozens of questions from
House Foreign Affairs
Committee members worried about what Iran could
get in a deal being negotiated to block its ability to
make an atomic weapon.
Today’s
Birthdays:
Humorist Jack Handey is
67. Actress Veronica Webb
is 51. Actress Tea Leoni is
50. Comedian Carrot Top is
49. Actress Lesley Boone is
48. Actor Sean Astin is 45.
Singer Daniel Powter is 45.
Latin singer Julio Iglesias
Jr. is 43. Rhythm-and-blues
singer Justin Jeffre is 43.
Rock musician Richard
Liles is 43. Actor Anson
Mount is 43. Comedianactress Chelsea Handler
is 41. Actress Rashida
Jones is 40. Country singer Shawna Thompson
(Thompson Square) is 38.
Actor Justin Berfield is 30.
Actors Oliver and James
Phelps (“Harry Potter”
movies) are 30.
Thought for Today:
“Hero-worship is strongest
where there is least regard
for human freedom.” —
Herbert Spencer, British
philosopher (1820-1903).
Jim
Mullen
Today in history
Today is Thursday, Feb.
25, the 56th day of 2016.
There are 310 days left in
the year.
Today’s Highlight in
History:
On Feb. 25, 1986,
President
Ferdinand
Marcos fled the Philippines
after 20 years of rule in the
wake of a tainted election;
Corazon Aquino assumed
the presidency.
On this date:
In
1836,
inventor
Samuel Colt patented his
revolver.
In 1905, the Upton
Sinclair novel “The Jungle”
was first published in serial form by the Appeal to
Reason newspaper.
In 1913, the 16th
Amendment to the U.S.
Constitution,
giving
Congress the power to
levy and collect income
taxes, was declared in
effect by Secretary of State
Philander Chase Knox.
In 1922, French serial
killer Henri Landru, convicted of murdering 10
women and the son of one
of them, was executed in
Versailles.
In 1940, a National
Hockey League game was
televised for the first time
by New York City station W2XBS as the New
York Rangers defeated
the Montreal Canadiens,
6-2, at Madison Square
Garden.
In 1956, Soviet leader
Nikita Khrushchev harshly criticized the late Josef
Stalin in a speech before a
Communist Party congress
in Moscow.
In 1964, Eastern Airlines
Flight 304, a DC-8, crashed
shortly after taking off from
New Orleans International
Airport, killing all 58 on
board. Muhammad Ali
(then known as Cassius
Clay)
became
world
heavyweight boxing cham-
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the Bingham County Humane Society in helping friends unite.
Call 680-3881 or go on line at binchs.org. Located at
766 South Broadway (just north of Arctic Circle).
Open Wednesday 2 to 6 pm or by appointment.
To adopt, call the Humane Society at 680-3881.
Please remember to spay or neuter your pet.
GAMBER
Gamber as you can see is a beautiful 6 month old kitten that
was rescued from the north end of Bingham County. She had
a rough start but would like a new indoor only home where she
can fill your home with love this spring and forever. Will Gamber
be yours?
SHEA
Shea was rescued from the I.F. animal shelter. She had
pups that were ready to wean and now it’s time for her to
find a new home. She is a little timid at first. We think she
is a Corgi mix, possibly Corgi dachshund. She sleeps in
bed with her foster mom. What a cutie!
BLAIR
Blair was taken in as a small kitten and had to be bottle-fed.
She is very active and needs a home where she can get plenty
of activity. She may be a little rough for tiny kids. She is 5
months old and looking for an indoor only home so she can
have a long, happy life.
GINGER
Ginger was rescued from the Blackfoot Animal Shelter
along with her babies. She is a very sweet girl and gets
along well with other cats or kittens. We are not sure
about dogs. Ginger would like a new indoor only home
so she will be safe. Is Ginger the girl for you?
FINGERS
Fingers is a 5 month old long haired torti who was found as
a stray and the family that took her in could not keep her.
She is a fun loving little kitten who is great with other cats
and dogs in her foster home. Is Fingers your girl?
MARISSA
Marissa has been with us a year. She and her siblings were
somewhat wild but they are getting much better. She’s
hoping that 2016 will be her year for a new forever home.
Will she be yours?
LIGHTNING
Lightning pictured and his brother Thunder are 8 month
old Polydactyl (extra toes) kittens. They found a new home
but were returned because of allergies. They are loving but
also somewhat independent. Typical cats that would prefer
a home together. Will it be yours?
CLEO
Cleo is a 6-7 month old Border Collie cross? She is a great
dog but does have a lot of energy. She would love to have
a home with a fenced yard and other dogs to play with or
be with an active person who will take her for long walks or
a run every day. Can you offer that to Cleo?
BLACK BEAUTY
Black Beauty’s name really fits her. She came into us with
her kittens from the shelter. The kitties all found homes and
it’s her time now. She has a beautiful personality also and is
great with other cats. Black Beauty wants a new home
where she can be safe and fill that home with love. Can you
make that happen?
JACK
Jack was a stray in Blackfoot. He is currently in a foster
home and likes to sleep with his foster mom. Although he
wasn’t as people friendly when we took him in he is so now.
He would take the chill out of your home these spring
months. Can you offer that to Jack?
PEPE LE PU
PepE’s person passed away and she has been staying with us
since. She is very friendly and gets along with most cats and
kittens. She has a little limp in the back end but it doesn’t seem
to be an issue. You couldn’t go wrong taking this beautiful girl
into your home.
LILLY
Lilly is a 4 month old kitten that was rescued from the
Blackfoot Animal Shelter along with her siblings and mom.
She is looking for a new indoor only home where she’ll be
warm and safe watching out the window and see the snow
instead of having to live in it.
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CHIP
Chip is a 4 year old Jack Russell/Chihuahua mix. He is
sweet and gets along with cats and other dogs. Sometimes
he likes to be the top dog. He is housetrained to a doggie
door and hoping to find his new forever home soon. He
does need a fenced yard.
CHICKADEE
Chickadee was a stray in a Blackfoot neighborhood. She is
a medium haired charcoal gray. She is beautiful and is
being fostered in a multi-cat environment. Chickadee
would love a new indoor only home to keep her safe. Is
this beauty the chick for you?
WILLOW
Willow was a stray in a Blackfoot neighborhood. She went
into their garage and had 4 kittens. The kittens have all
found homes but Willow is still looking for hers. She is a
great cat, very friendly with people as well as other cats.
Can you offer this beauty a new forever home?
O.J.
O.J. was a stray on the streets in Blackfoot. He’s available
for adoption but we also want to remind everyone that we
have a special running on cat spay/neuter certificates.
We really want to help save the cats and kittens in our
community. Fixing animals saves lives. Please do your part.
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Health teams go into slums to start Zika study
JOAO PESSOA, Brazil
(AP) — Teams of U.S. and
Brazilian health workers ventured into dicey
slums, fought through
snarled traffic and braved
torrential downpours on
the first day of their effort
to determine if the Zika
virus is causing babies
to be born with a birth
defect affecting the brain.
The eight teams, each
made up of one “disease detective” from the
U.S. Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention
and three Brazilian health
workers, went to work
Tuesday in Paraiba, the
impoverished state in
northeastern Brazil that
is one of the epicenters of
the country’s tandem outbreaks of Zika and microcephaly.
Their goal is to persuade about 100 mothers
of infants recently born
with the defect as well to
enroll in the study. They
also need participation as
controls of two to three
times as many mothers
from the same areas who
delivered babies without
microcephaly at about
the same time.
The study aims to
determine if the Brazilian
government is right that
Zika can cause microcephaly, or whether the
mosquito-borne virus is
not in fact to blame or
is only partially responsible, as a growing chorus of doctors in Brazil
and beyond have begun
to suggest.
The seemingly straightforward task of locating
the women and infants
was fraught on day one
by traffic jams, logistical snags and menacing weather, though the
teams soldiered stoically
on.
Stuck in the chronic
gridlock of the state capital, Joao Pessoa, one team
missed its first appointment, and the two home
visits that it had scheduled for morning didn’t
get underway until well
after lunchtime.
“Obviously, we’ve seen
the problems of logistics
— to be able to reach
the families, to have them
be there,” said Dr. Alexia
Harrist, a Boston-born
pediatrician who works
for the CDC’s Epidemic
Intelligence Service. “If
things take longer, things
take longer, but I think
we’re all really dedicated
to getting it done.”
Packed into a small
sedan, Harrist, three
Brazilian health workers
and a driver weaved from
the CDC’s headquarters
in a beachfront hotel
to the outskirts of Joao
Pessoa along potholemarred streets swimming
with runoff from recent
rains.
They turned onto a
side street lined with
trash, then turned again
and again onto successively narrower and more
pocked streets that carried them deep into the
heart of the Taipa shantytown. The Aedes aegypti
mosquito that spreads
Zika proliferates in such
neighborhoods, where
omnipresent trash provides breeding grounds
in discarded margarine
tubs, yogurt containers
and plastic bottle caps.
When the going got
too rough, Harrist and
her colleagues parked
and headed on foot along
a dirt road running with
raw sewage and dotted
by foraging chickens and
goats to a three-room cinderblock home.
Janine dos Santos, a
23-year-old unemployed
former towel factory worker, shares the space with
her mother, two siblings
and two children, including Shayde Henrique —
born in November with
the truncated head and
brain damage caused by
microcephaly.
“I didn’t expect to see
all these people,” Santos
said, adding that the visit
renewed her hopes of
understanding what happened to Shayde. “Not
only me, but all the mothers, we want to understand the mystery behind
all this — what really
causes microcephaly?”
She and the family
answered an extensive
questionnaire probing
everything from whether
she used insect repellent
during pregnancy to what
was the source of their
drinking water. The team
also drew blood samples
from mother and infant,
setting off screams from
a child who, like many
infants with microcephaly, is rarely quiet.
Down the street, the
team knocked at an
abandoned warehouse
where
another
new
mother, 26-year-old Aline
Ferreira, squats with her
fisherman husband and
three kids.
Her
4-month-old
daughter,
Angeline
Karolayne, is in good
health and doesn’t suffer
from microcephaly, and
Ferreira agreed to take
part in the study as a
control case. Such cases
will be a critical element
in understanding whether
Zika is triggering microcephaly and, if so, whether it’s doing so alone or
with contributing factors.
Ferreira
patiently
responded to the litany of
questions. “When I was
pregnant, there were all
these problems with Zika
and microcephaly and ...
I could very well be in
the place of any mother
whose baby has microcephaly,” she said.
Organizers
expect
it will take a month to
gather data, but acknowledge it could take longer.
Ferreting out results from
the data will take several
more months.
Despite
Tuesday’s
rocky start, the CDC’s
Harrist said the generosity
and openness of the two
young mothers her team
managed to contact gave
her hope.
“I’m actually encouraged by what happened
today,” said Harrist, who
worked in Sierra Leone
during the Ebola outbreak
in West Africa.
She said Santos and
Ferreira seemed enthusiastic to join in the study.
“I hope that means they
think that the study is
important,” she said.
Pass the salt? No thanks; NYC can
fine for not posting sodium info
NEW YORK (AP) —
Large chain restaurants
and fast-food eateries in
the nation’s most populous city can be fined up
to $600 beginning next
week for not posting salt
warnings on menu items
that contain more than
the recommended daily
dose of sodium, a judge
ruled Wednesday.
“Some people love
salty food and are just
going to eat those salty
foods
regardless
of
whether there’s a salt icon
next to it,” Supreme Court
Justice Eileen Rakower
said from the bench. “I
believe information is
power.”
The ruling dismissed
a challenge from the
National
Restaurant
Association brought just
days after the first-of-itskind rule was enacted in
December.
It is but the latest in
a series of healthy eating measures pioneered
by New York City public
health officials that have
been challenged in the
courts, including an over-
turned rule limiting the
size of sugary drinks and
an upheld requirement
that chains post calorie
counts on menus.
“This is really good
news for the health of
New Yorkers,” said Dr.
Mary Bassett, the city’s
health commissioner. The
fines take effect March 1.
Under the rule, restaurant owners must now
post distinct triangle icons
with salt-shaker images
inside on menus next to
items that top the recommended daily limit of
2,300 milligrams of sodium, about a teaspoon’s
worth.
Public health officials
have long argued that
Americans consume too
much salt, and point to
cheddar bacon burgers
with nearly 4,300 mg and
boneless Buffalo chicken
salads with more than
3,000 mg as proof.
The warnings will
apply to chains with at
least 15 outlets nationwide, which health officials estimate account
for about one-third of the
city’s restaurant business.
Panera, Applebees and
other chains have already
started posting salt-warning labels.
Preston Ricardo, who
represented the National
Restaurant Association,
likened the salt-shaker
icons to warnings for biohazardous material that
would confuse consumers, steer them to restaurants not required to post
them and violate the First
Amendment rights of restaurant owners forced to
post them.
“The irreparable harm
is real,” he said, arguing that there’s controversy among scientists
themselves about how
much salt is too much.
The association planned
to appeal the ruling, he
said.
The average American
consumes about 3,400
mg of sodium per day
and experts say too much
salt can increase the risk
of high blood pressure,
heart disease and high
blood pressure. The federal government recom-
mends people consume
less than 2,300 mg of salt
per day.
The
salt-warning
labels, initiated by current Democratic Mayor
Bill de Blasio, follow a
string of public health
initiatives championed
by former Mayor Michael
Bloomberg, such as an
attempt to ban oversized
sugary drinks, restrict
the use of trans fats in
restaurants and prohibit
smoking in bars and restaurants.
Supporters heralded
those efforts as meaningful attempts to make New
Yorkers healthier, but critics derided them for turning the city into a “nanny
state” — a message that
apparently
resonated
with the state’s highest
court when it overturned
the limit on supersized
sodas in 2014.
“This case is not the sugary drinks case,” city lawyer Mark Muschenheimd
argued Wednesday. “It is
a modest warning about
something that can make
New Yorkers sick.”
SEI Public Health to
host annual Infection
Connection conference
Southeastern
Idaho
Public Health’s 9th Annual
Infection
Connection
Conference will be held in
Pocatello on March 9th at
Red Lion Hotel from 8:30
a.m. - 4:40 p.m. This is a
free event for healthcare
professionals, Emergency
Responders,
Infection
Control Staff, and healthcare students in southeast
Idaho.
During the conference,
local presenters will talk
about infectious diseases
currently occurring both
nationally and locally, and
what steps health professionals can take to become
better prepared to prevent
the spread of these diseases.
about the event, please
contact Ryan Richardson
at 239-5295. If you are
a healthcare provider,
Emergency
Responder,
Infection Control Staff, or a
healthcare student, please
visit www.siphidaho.org
to register. Register soon.
Space is limited.
Feds want proof for
ACA exchange special
enrollment windows
The federal government
is tightening loopholes
that let customers on the
Affordable Care Act’s public insurance exchanges
buy coverage outside the
law’s annual enrollment
window.
That could ease a major
concern health insurers
have about the exchanges.
The Centers for Medicare
and Medicaid Services said
Wednesday that it will start
requiring documentation
or proof from people who
say they need to buy a
plan or change coverage
outside that window for
reasons like marriage, a
permanent move or the
birth of a child.
Millions of people have
used the ACA’s state-based
exchanges to buy health
insurance over the past few
years. The vast majority do
so during an open enrollment window that starts
every fall and runs into
January.
The law established that
window to prevent people
from waiting until they
become sick to buy insurance. It also created special enrollment periods in
case a life-changing event
causes a customer’s insurance needs to change outside of open enrollment.
UnitedHealth Group
Inc. and other insurers have said they get a
lot of expensive customers through these special
enrollment periods. They
suspect that some customers were waiting until
they become sick to buy
insurance since no one
was asking for proof that
they qualified for a special
enrollment period.
Such proof can come in
the form of a birth certificate or a marriage license,
and insurers require it for
coverage purchased off the
ACA’s public exchanges.
But they aren’t allowed to
ask for that proof from their
exchange customers.
The special enrollment documentation will
be required in the 38
states that use the federal, HealthCare.gov website for their exchange.
The new requirement will
unfold over the next several months.
A CMS spokesman
said the government has
to notify customers about
the new requirement, get
documentation from them
and then verify it.
HealthCare.gov executives said in a blog post
that the government is
committed to making sure
these sign-up windows are
still available to those eligible for them, but “it’s
equally important to avoid
misuse or abuse of special
enrollment periods.”
Insurers like Aetna Inc.
have recently questioned
the sustainability of the
exchanges, and the Blue
Cross-Blue Shield insurer
Anthem Inc. has said it was
paying close attention to
how the government deals
with special enrollment
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Citigroup..........................38.09........—.13
CocaCola.........................43.91......... +.22
ColgPalm..........................66.32........—.88
ConocoPhil.......................32.96......... +.04
ConEd..............................71.57........—.48
IntPap...............................34.71......... +.52
JohnJn.............................104.96......... +.88
LockhdM........................216.63....... +1.48
Loews...............................36.18........—.32
LaPac................................15.76......... +.44
MDURes...........................18.07......... +.39
MarathnO...........................7.22......... +.19
McDnlds........................117.06......... +.16
McKesson.......................154.67......... +.68
Merck...............................50.56......... +.02
NCRCorp..........................23.38......... +.35
NorflkSo...........................73.94......... +.07
NorthropG......................190.02......—1.29
OcciPet............................69.47......... +.47
Olin..................................15.06......... +.34
PG&ECp...........................57.46......... +.24
Penney...............................7.70......... +.15
PepsiCo............................99.68......... +.14
Pfizer................................30.02......... +.06
Praxair............................101.89........—.33
ProctGam.........................81.56........—.25
Questar............................24.71........—.06
RockwlAut......................102.41........—.25
SempraEn.........................98.90......... +.07
SouthnCo.........................48.98........—.12
Tegna................................24.15........—.22
Textron.............................34.00......... +.11
3MCo.............................157.22....... +1.05
TimeWarn.........................67.48....... +1.38
Timken.............................30.08......... +.42
TriContl............................18.52......... +.06
UnionPac..........................80.09....... +1.14
Unisys..............................10.69......... +.30
USSteel...............................7.73........—.31
VarianMed........................77.59......... +.18
VerizonCm.......................50.82......... +.19
ViadCorp..........................27.25......... +.27
WalMart...........................67.12......... +.64
WellsFargo........................47.61........—.49
Weyerhsr..........................25.00......... +.75
Xerox..................................9.57......... +.07
YumBrnds.........................71.48........—.03
Intermountain Grain and Livestock
POCATELLO, Idaho (AP) — Idaho Farm
Bureau Intermountain Grain and Livestock
Report Wednesday, February 24. Bids are
subject to change.
BLACKFOOT __ soft white wheat 4.30,
down 5; hard red winter 3.95, steady; DNS
14 percent 4.70,unchanged; hard white
4.20, down 1;
BURLEY __ soft white wheat 4.26, down
5; hard red winter 3.73, down 3; hard
red spring 4.56, down 1; barley 6.00,
unchanged; hard white 4.28, down 3;
NAMPA— no bids today;
OGDEN — soft white 4.46, down 4; hard
red winter 4.28, down 4; dark northern
spring 4.96, unchanged; barley 7.08, down
17; hard white 4.68, down 3; corn 7.57,
down 3 cwt;
PORTLAND__ soft white and white club
n/a; hard red 5.22-5.38, down 4; DNS
5.95-6.05, unchanged; corn 4.38-4.46,
down 2; oats 270.00/ton, 3.92 bushel,
unchanged.
LIVESTOCK AUCTION __ Blackfoot Livestock Auction on February 19.
Cows: utility/boner 61-73, cutters 58-64,
heiferettes 82-123; slaughter bulls 80-103;
steers: heavy 135-162.50, light 155-216,
stocker 180-216;
heifers: heavy 127-145, light 140-194,
stocker 150-202;
Remarks: cows and feeder cattle steady.
Governor Otter endorses
Kasich for President
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho Gov. C.L. “Butch” Otter
has endorsed Republican presidential candidate John
Kasich.
The Ohio governor’s campaign announced Otter’s
endorsement Wednesday.
Otter had previously stated he would prefer a
Republican governor to win the presidential election.
Kasich is currently the only Republican governor still
running for president after former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush
quit the race earlier this month.
Idaho’s Republican presidential primary is March 8.
New bill would remove AG
from Idaho Land Board
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — An Idaho House panel has
introduced legislation that would change the Idaho
constitution to replace the state’s attorney general with
the state treasurer on the Idaho Land Board.
The five-member Land Board — made up of statewide elected officials including the governor, state
superintendent of public instruction and state controller
— is in charge of managing Idaho’s 2.5 million acres of
endowment land to reap the highest long-term financial
returns.
The House State Affairs Committee unanimously
approved introducing the legislation on Wednesday. It
now must clear a legislative hearing.
House Majority Caucus Chairman John Vander
Woude, a Republican from Nampa, says currently the
attorney general is asked to protect the trusts of the state
as well as provide legal advice to the board. Vander
Woude says that creates possible conflicts of interests,
particularly when the attorney general chooses to sue
the board.
“It’s almost a position where it’s a no-win position for
the attorney general at that point,” Vander Woude said.
“He’s giving legal advice and then he’s suing himself.”
Attorney General Lawrence Wasden successfully
sued the Land Board in 2010 alleging they violated the
state constitution by setting rents below-market value
on state-owned lakeshore lots. He is the longest serving
member on the board.
“I believe it’s critical that politics be eliminated from
the Land Board,” Wasden said in a statement. “The best
way to achieve that goal is to replace all five constitutional officers now sitting on the board with professionals who have the expertise and professional background
to ensure that all of the constitutional requirements
demanded of the Land Board are consistently met.”
Constitutional amendments must pass with a twothirds majority in both bodies and then win a simple
majority in a statewide vote come November.
Idaho Senate panel clears
local minimum wage ban
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A bill that would ban local
governments from increasing the minimum wage has
advanced to the Idaho Senate.
The Senate Local Government and Taxation
Committee voted along party lines Wednesday to send
the measure to the Senate floor.
Pam Eaton of the Idaho Retailers Association told
the Republican-controlled committee raising minimum
wage in some communities and not others creates a
checkerboard of regulation that is unfair to businesses.
Other supporters have argued that it’s also unclear
whether local municipalities currently have the authority to impose a minimum wage increase.
Meanwhile, the measure’s critics say the legislation
takes away local control and ensures that Idaho will
remain a low-wage state.
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Idaho Senate OKs hybrid fee repeal
BOISE, Idaho (AP) —
Less than a year after the
Legislature passed a $95
million plan to boost funding for Idaho’s aging roads
and bridges, lawmakers
say they’re spending this
session cleaning up the
mistakes made in the final
hours rushing to get the
funding proposal passed.
On Wednesday, Senate
lawmakers voted 27-7 to
remove a new $140 annual fee for hybrid vehicle
owners.
The higher fee was part
of a plan that raised vehicle registration fees and
the gasoline tax by 7 cents.
Electric and hybrid vehicles faced higher registration fees because lawmakers argued those owners
don’t pay as much at the
pump.
“I mistakenly believed,
because of my work on
this issue and resulting
debates, that the extra fee
was based on data that
showed there was a difference,” said Sen. Shawn
Keough, R-Sandpoint, the
bill’s sponsor. “My hope
is that we remove this fee
while we spend the time
in the interim to determine what the equity is
and isn’t.”
Other lawmakers said
they had received multiple angry phone calls
from constituents upset
about the hybrid fee
increase because some
gas-powered vehicles get
the same, or more, gas
mileage as many hybrids.
Furthermore, officials with
the Idaho Transportation
Department say they’ve
been charging alternate
hybrids — like cars that
use alternate fuel for windows — the higher fee
much to the chagrin to the
public.
However,
removing
hybrids reduces $1 million
for maintaining the state’s
roads and bridges.
That reduction is concerning figuring how hard
lawmakers had to fight to
secure last year’s funding
boost, which didn’t even
address the state’s full
transportation shortfall,
said Sen. Marv Hagedorn,
R-Meridian.
Officials
estimate that even with
the $95 million funding increase approved in
2015, the state’s shortfall
remains around $165 million.
“We made a good decision last year,” Hagedorn
said. “I appreciate that
people want to buy
hybrids, but they made a
choice to do that.”
Attempts to find additional sources of funding for
transportation have failed
to make any traction this
session. Instead, Keough’s
bill is the second measure
lawmakers have considered that would clean up
last year’s transportation
plan. House Transportation
and Defense Chairman Joe
Palmer, R-Meridian, has
also introduced a bill that
would fix a mistake directing tax revenue on special
fuels.
However, that bill will
have no fiscal impact on
funding for bridges and
roads.
Senate Bill 1311 now
goes to the House for
approval before it can
reach Gov. C.L. “Butch”
Otter’s desk.
1 in 3 Idaho households struggle with poverty
BOISE, Idaho (AP)
— The Gluch family in
Nampa took a financial hit
when the sewer line broke
at their modest 80-yearold house.
“That was a $3,000
expense we didn’t have a
choice about,” said wife
and mother Chelle Gluch.
She ended up borrowing
the money from her inlaws.
The Croft family from
Boise faced a crisis over
medical bills, even though
both Serena Croft and
her husband, Jerod, had
full-time jobs and medical insurance. A long
hospital stay for Serena
meant copays of $150 a
day over the course of
several weeks. They paid
their utility bills with credit cards to keep the lights
on, and ate thanks to a
local food bank.
And one single Boise
mother of three teenagers
has a college degree but
hasn’t been able to find
a job that pays more than
$10 an hour, not enough
to cover basic expenses.
She lives above the federal
poverty line, but still has
to look for support — free
lunches and reduced fees
for her children’s college
admissions tests — and
declined to publicly give
her name to the Statesman
while she searches for
work.
A new report from the
United Ways of the Pacific
Northwest found that
more than one in three
households in Idaho can
tell a similar story. Adults
in those homes are working, sometimes more than
one job. Even if they’re
managing to keep their
household incomes above
the poverty line, they’re
not making enough to
cover the basic cost of
living in their communities. The report refers to
these families as “ALICE,”
or “Asset Limited, Income
Constrained, Employed.”
The report paints a
detailed picture of residents’ economic strain
and provides information
that hasn’t been available before, said Nora
Carpenter,
executive
director of United Way
Treasure Valley.
“The challenge was that
the federal poverty number
is universal. It doesn’t matter if you’re in Manhattan
or Melba. A certain population in any community is
employed but still not able
to live securely. We just
haven’t known what those
numbers were until now,”
Carpenter said.
The report analyzed
states in the Pacific
Northwest. It considered
both ALICE households
and those at or below
the federal poverty line.
Combined, those account
for 37 percent of all households in Idaho.
As issues of extreme
poverty and homelessness
are in the news, families
in this other large group
can get lost in a quiet
crisis.
“The truth is, we all
know folks who fall into
this category,” Carpenter
said. “Most of us work
with folks who fall into
this category.”
The ALICE report attributes the struggles to low
wages. More than half
of all jobs in the Pacific
Northwest pay between
$10 and $15 per hour,
roughly
$21,000
to
$31,000 a year before
taxes. That’s out of balance
with a family of four’s average expenses for housing,
child care, food and other
basic needs in Idaho:
$46,176 (slightly more in
Ada County, slightly less
in Canyon County).
The report also found
that many jobs are not
located near affordable
housing. That places a
larger burden on public
transportation, which also
is often not adequate.
Living with ALICE
Chelle Gluch has spent
her entire life in Idaho,
aside from eight years in
Wyoming. She couldn’t
wait to get back home —
“Wyoming is nothing but
cattle and oil rigs,” she
said.
She’s studying at Boise
State University to get a
master’s degree in rhetoric and composition, has
written a book of essays
about Idaho that she wants
to get published and has
started a second. She also
owns an in-home child
care business.
Gluch works between
12 and 14 hours a day,
sometimes six days a
week. She supports her
9-year-old daughter and
her husband, who is
trained as a roofer and
welder but can’t work due
to a serious stomach condition. She’s able to pay
basic bills, her mortgage,
utilities and car insurance.
“Anything beyond that
is out of my reach,” she
said.
The family has moved
in and out of the ALICE
income range, in and out
of the federal poverty
range.
“Most of the time I pull
in what would be for a
single working person,
a decent amount,” said
Gluch. Sometimes that’s as
much as $3,000 a month.
But last year she only
made $14,500 — below
the $20,090 federal poverty threshold for a family
of three.
Currently, the Gluchs
qualify for food stamps
— “Amen,” said Gluch.
Her daughter also qualifies for Medicaid. But her
husband is uninsured. His
$65,000 in medical debt
has devastated the family
budget.
Gluch knows she’s not
alone. Like her, the parents whose children she
cares for work full time
and yet are “in dire straits.
One emergency can leave
them homeless.”
Gluch’s
struggles
inspired her to return to
school, even though that
meant amassing tens
of thousands in student
loans. She wants to teach,
but she’s often found university culture at odds with
her life off campus. Boise
State admitted her conditionally, she said, with her
assurance that she would
take the GRE graduate
school entry exam. It was
hard to find time to study.
She sought advice from a
professor.
“He looked at me and
said I needed to get my
priorities straight,” said
Gluch. “I burst into tears. I
have my priorities straight.
I’m doing the best I can.”
Gluch has been public
with her story, even testifying at recent hearings
on Medicaid expansion.
She’s noticed a pervasive
sentiment.
“In Idaho, if you’re
poor, people assume
you’ve done something
wrong, that if you’re poor,
it’s because you’re not
trying hard enough,” she
said.
She took her GRE test.
She passed, she said, “by
the skin of my teeth.”
The state’s lowest percentage of ALICE and poor
families is in Ada County,
at 32 percent. Canyon
County is at 41 percent,
while the highest in the
state is the 62 percent in
Owyhee County.
What happens now?
United Way plans to
share the report as broadly as possible with businesses, civic leaders,
faith leaders and school
districts. Carpenter was
scheduled to present it to
the Idaho House Health
and Welfare Committee
on Feb. 22.
She wants to gather
groups — medical, educational, nutritional and
others — that are already
providing support through
successful programs to find
ways they can combine
their efforts. An example
could be a mobile medical truck that visits specific sites on a schedule that
coincides with English as
a Second Language classes, child enrichment programs and other services.
Carpenter also has her
eye on pilot programs at
Valley Regional Transit.
The organization has been
using vans to transport
refugees and low-income
workers to jobs, or giving nonprofits access to
vans to do the same thing.
Similar programs are in
place for seniors and veterans. Another program,
the “mobile village,” will
provide job training for
men and women who
want to learn to drive or
repair buses or trucks.
After five years, a bus driver can earn around $20
an hour, plus benefits and
retirement.
Kelli Fairless, Valley
Regional Transit executive
director, said she wasn’t
surprised by any of the
information she read in
the ALICE report.
“We’ve all known these
things. But this data is
what we can use now to
have tough conversations.
It’s not about welfare. It’s
about how we make better outcomes for people,”
Fairless said.
Medical expenses are a
persistent issue for ALICE
and other low income families. United Way Treasure
Valley “is finding a stronger voice in the area of
advocacy,” said Carpenter.
“Where we need to lend
our muscle, we will.”
The organization has
provided testimony on
Medicaid expansion in
the past. It will continue
to look for opportunities
in the political realm at
the city and state level,
“where it’s clear that policy change is the fastest
solution,” said Carpenter.
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SPORTS
Kubiak: there’s no rush
for Manning decision
Denver coach Gary
Kubiak says he’s been
in contact with Peyton
Manning but isn’t pressuring him for a decision
about his future. He also
made it clear he wants
Brock Osweiler back under
center for the Broncos next
season.
Fifth-year
backup
Osweiler went 5-2 when
Manning was hurt last season and is set to become a
free agent next month.
Osweiler
led
the
Broncos to crucial comeback wins over New
England and Cincinnati
that helped set up Denver
for its run to Super Bowl
50, where the Broncos
beat the Carolina Panthers
24-10 thanks to a defense
that produced four takeaways and seven sacks.
Manning started all of
Denver’s playoff games
after winning his starting
job back with a comeback
against the Chargers in the
regular season finale.
In comments at the
league’s annual scouting
combine in Indianapolis
on Wednesday, Kubiak
echoed GM John Elway’s
stance that the Broncos will
continue to give Manning
all the time he needs to
announce his plans.
It’s widely expected,
however, that Manning
will forego the final season
on his contract and retire
a champion. He turns 40
next month and has been
bothered by injuries each
of the last two seasons.
“There is no hurry here,”
Kubiak said.
But there is a deadline. Manning’s $19 million salary for 2016 would
become guaranteed March
9, and the Broncos cannot
afford to pay two quarterbacks starter’s money.
Manning would face the
INDIANAPOLIS (AP)
— San Francisco general
manager
Trent
Baalke said Wednesday
he expects quarterback
Colin Kaepernick to be
with the 49ers next season.
Asked at the NFL
combine if Baalke foresees a return to the team
by Kaepernick, who lost
his job during 2015
to Blaine Gabbert, he
replied “absolutely.”
Kaepernick went 2-6
in eight starts before
being benched. His
future in San Francisco
seemed
uncertain,
but with the hiring of
Chip Kelly as coach,
Kaepernick’s style would
seem a good fit. Kelly
prefers mobile quarterbacks who can throw on
the run, but Kaepernick
will need to improve his
accuracy and decision
making.
Kaepernick is recovering from medical procedures on his right thumb,
his left knee, and on his
non-throwing left shoulder to fix a torn labrum.
His $11.9 million 2016
contract becomes fully
guaranteed for injury
April 1 if he’s on the
roster.
“I think the good
thing is we’ve got two
guys that have gone
into games and proven
they can play,” Baalke
said. “And Colin’s done
some awful good things
through his career, won
some big games for the
San Francisco 49ers and
(we) expect him to come
back. The main focus
right now is health, getting him healthy. He’s
doing a good job with
his rehab. Talking to the
medical staff, that seems
to be going very well,
and (we) just look forward to getting him back
and getting him working
with this coaching staff.”
Kelly is not scheduled
to speak to the media at
the combine.
Baalke
has
been
familiar with Kelly for
years, ever since Kelly
was coaching at Oregon.
Asked about their developing relationship as
co-workers, Baalke compared it to a marriage.
“Yeah, it takes a
while,” he said. “It’s
like any relationship.
It doesn’t happen overnight. But all indications are, like I said, I’ve
known coach since he
was at Oregon and see
him no different than the
conversations that I used
ARNIE STAPLETON
AP Pro Football Writer
possibility of being cut by
the Broncos if he decides
against retiring.
Kubiak said Elway and
Manning “have had some
conversations. I had a brief
one with him yesterday.
We will be talking probably today or I know this
week. We want him to take
his time and we’ll work
from there. Nothing has
changed.”
Kubiak said Osweiler
has a bright future — and
he hopes that’s in Denver.
“He did a heck of a job
for us. He started seven
games for us. He played
against some really good
people in some tough situations. He played very
well. I think he has a
bright future,” Kubiak said.
“Obviously we think the
world of him. We want
him to be a part of our
football team.”
Elway meets with the
media at the combine on
Thursday.
49ers GM says he expects
Kaepernick to be on team for
2016 season
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to have with him when
we went in and were
recruiting his players at
Oregon.
“We see eye to eye on
a lot of things. There’s
always going to be things
that you come across in
these types of relationships where you’ve got
to work through. But, as
of right now, as we’re
trying to put this thing
together with free agency and the draft, we feel
pretty good about how
we’re communicating
and what exactly we’re
looking for.”
One thing the Niners
will be looking for coming
off a 5-11 record is a return
to health for running back
Carlos Hyde. He ended the
season on injured reserve
with a stress fracture in his
left foot.
A second-round draft
pick in 2014 out of Ohio
State, Hyde finished
with 115 carries for 470
yards and three touchdowns in seven games
as the replacement for
long-time running back
Frank Gore.
“I actually talked to
him about three days
ago,”
Baalke
said.
“Frank Gore and him
were working out down
in Miami together and I
think it’s coming. He’s
not game-ready yet by
any stretch, but all indications are that it’s healing very nicely and look
forward to having him
full speed as soon as
possible.
“I think coach would
tell you he’s the ideal fit
for what coach wants to
do. Very similar to what
he did at Ohio State, a
big back that runs with
power, runs with a little
anger. How can you not
like that?”
MESA, Ariz. (AP) — Like
Joe Maddon and his players, Chicago Cubs owner
Tom Ricketts is ready to
“embrace the target.” He
also appears ready to give
a new deal to Theo Epstein.
Ricketts acknowledged
the unprecedented hype
and expectations that
surround the Cubs — as
embodied in the manager’s
catchphrase — in his annual spring training talk with
reporters on Wednesday.
“Obviously the team
has all the talent and the
right leadership to go all
the way this year,” Ricketts
said. “It’s a different offseason than when you lose
101 games, that’s for sure.
It’s a different vibe than
we’ve had in the past. But
it’s one everyone accepts.
Obviously the goal is to
win the World Series.”
Ricketts praised Epstein,
the team’s president of
baseball operations, for
sticking to the team’s plan
to develop a young, talented core of players “from
the bottom up” and then
seek out players to “help
get us over the hump.”
“From standpoint of
ownership, it was a matter
of trusting him and supporting him,” Ricketts said.
“From standpoint of fans,
we appreciate the patience
that they’ve had to allow
him to do what he has
to do to build this great
organization. Now, we’re
there. And the key is sustaining it.”
Ricketts said he had
dinner with Epstein, whose
contract is expiring this
year, on Tuesday night. He
said there’s “nothing to
report” on a new deal, but
added that “we’re on the
same page. We just have to
sit down and kind of hammer it out.”
“I think he’s the best
at what he does in the
game,” Ricketts said. “I
think from a compensation
standpoint, it should be
reflected.”
Chicago won 97 games
last year and advanced
to the NL Championship
Series in its first season
under Maddon, sparking
hope among long-suffering
fans that a championship
might finally be on the
way. The World Series title
drought dates to 1908.
The Cubs signed threetime Gold Glove outfield-
er Jason Heyward ($184
million, eight years) and
pitcher John Lackey ($32
million, two years) from
NL Central rival St. Louis,
and they brought in twotime All-Star Ben Zobrist
($56 million, four years).
Ricketts said the Cubs
would apply to host an
All-Star Game once renovations in and around
Wrigley Field are closer to
completion. Chicago last
hosted the game in 1990.
“It’s about our turn,” he
said.
The Cubs staged their
first full-squad workout on
Wednesday, though many
players have been working
out. Maddon said he didn’t
want his players pushing
too hard early.
“I really like the spring
training dance,” he said. “It
should be a slow dance.”
Notes: Ricketts said the
Cubs and city officials are
discussing ways to enhance
both the game-day experience and overall security
around the ballpark, keeping in mind the recent terrorist attacks around the
world. Changes could
include closing parts of
Clark and Addison streets.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP)
— The father of sportscaster Erin Andrews said
Wednesday that his daughter is a shell of her former
self after a stalker made
secret nude recordings of
her and posted the material on the Internet.
Steve Andrews testified
during a civil trial that his
daughter didn’t want to eat,
bathe or be around people
and that all she did was
cry after she discovered in
2009 that the nude videos
had been posted online.
He said she remains afraid
of people to this day.
Erin Andrews cried
throughout her father’s testimony and he choked up
several times on the stand.
The father told the jury
that before a stalker made
the secret recordings, Erin
Andrews was always fun,
always joking, and that
she was happy and successful in her career as a
sportscaster at ESPN. That
has now changed, he said,
remarking, “She’s afraid.
She’s afraid of crowds,
afraid of people. She
doesn’t trust anymore.”
Michael David Barrett
has pleaded guilty to
recording videos of Erin
Andrews through peepholes that he altered on the
doors of her hotel rooms in
Nashville and Columbus,
Ohio. He also admitted
to attempting to make
secret recordings of her in
Milwaukee.
Barrett was sentenced to
serve 2 ½ years in prison.
In July of 2009, however, neither Andrews nor
her family knew how the
videos got online and who
shot them. Steve Andrews
said his daughter called
him “hysterically crying,
screaming out of her mind”
when she found out.
He said that he was
afraid for his daughter’s
life and that no one knew
if someone was still stalking her.
Barrett had shot the
video in September of
2008 while Erin Andrews
was in Nashville to cover
a college football game.
The father said she was so
disturbed about the secret
footage that she vomited
before agreeing to an FBI
request that she watch
the nude videos so agents
could find clues about
who took it.
Growing
up,
Erin
Andrews was always
insecure about her body
because she was so tall
and skinny, her father said.
She was always the kid
in the back of the photos
because she was so tall,
Steve Andrews said, and
she felt so awkward about
her body that she didn’t
like to change in front of
other girls in dance class.
“This was about the
worst thing that could have
happened to her from the
perspective of self-pride,
comfort in the way you
look,” the father said of the
secret recordings posted to
the Web.
Andrews has filed
a $75 million lawsuit
against Barrett, West End
Hotel Partners, which is
the franchise owner of
the Nashville Marriott at
Vanderbilt University, and
Windsor Capital Group,
which manages the hotel.
She maintains that someone affiliated with the
hotel gave Barrett her
room number and he was
intentionally placed in a
room next to her.
Attorneys for the hotel
companies say Barrett
was an experienced traveler who schemed his
way into getting a room
next to her by using an
in-house phone at the
hotel to find out what
room she was in and
then requesting that he
be placed in a room next
to hers.
Andrews now works for
Fox Sports and as a host
on the TV show “Dancing
With the Stars.”
INDIANAPOLIS (AP)
— Ben McAdoo’s first
season as an NFL head
coach could turn on the
recoveries of two key play-
ers, Jason Pierre-Paul and
Victor Cruz.
Speaking at the NFL
combine
Wednesday,
McAdoo focused on the
need for a game-changing
pass rusher, Pierre-Paul’s
specialty before he lost
his right index finger and
damaged the hand in a
fireworks accident last July
4. The former offensive
coordinator who replaced
Tom Coughlin in charge of
the Giants in January also
noted that slot receiver
Cruz is expected to be on
the team for 2016 after
being sidelined throughout last season.
“I spoke to Jason a couple of
different times so far throughout the offseason. He seems
in good spirits,” McAdoo said.
“He went through a procedure and we’ll have to see
how that goes.”
Pierre-Paul underwent
surgery on the hand after
the season, hoping to
improve flexibility. He will
need to prove to any team
interested in signing him
as a free agent that he can
return to his All-Pro level
of play, of course.
Pierre Paul returned to
the Giants for the final
eight games and started
them all. He provided a bit
of a lift to the pass rush,
although he managed only
one sack. Pierre-Paul struggled to finish plays with his
hand wrapped to protect it.
Should
Pierre-Paul
be back with the Giants,
McAdoo said it hasn’t
been determined if defensive end will play without
the “club” on his hand.
Considering that the Giants
ranked dead last in overall and passing defense in
2015, they certainly could
use him if his skill set is not
diminished too much.
“It was obvious when
Jason came back last year
how disruptive he was
without playing football
for a long time,” McAdoo
said. “Just coming in and
having a couple weeks to
get his feet underneath
him, being able to go out
and be disruptive as a pass
rusher, I just think when
you look at him and his
ability to get off the ball
and get after the quarterback, it’s easy to see.
Sportscaster’s father
says Erin Andrews a
‘shell’ of herself
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– Rigby slopestyle snowboarder Jessika Jenson traveled across the globe for a
competition last weekend,
visiting Asia for the first time
for the 2018 Olympic test
event at Bokwang Phoenix
Park in Pyeongchang, South
Korea.
Competing with several
other 2014 Olympians,
Jenson came away with
13th place in the qualification round with a best
score of 50. Teammates
Jamie Anderson and Karly
Shorr were among the
six women to advance
Morning News — Greg Eichelberger
Snake River’s Sean Miller, center, signed his National Letter of Intent to play football for the University of Montana
Western Bulldogs surrounded by his teammates on Wednesday at Snake River High School.
Snake River’s Miller to attend
University of Montana Western
By GREG EICHELBERGER will most likely compete
for the Bulldogs starting
QB position. “When I visited the campus last week,
THOMAS - Quarterback
I was very impressed with
Sean Miller, who led the
the coaches and staff. My
Snake River Panthers to
plan is to play quarterback,
the 2014 3A state chambut I will do whatever I
pionship as a junior,
can to fit in their plans.”
signed a letter of intent
Miller also said he felt
on Wednesday to attend
good about the academy’s
the University of Montana
scholastic opportunities.
Western in Dillon. A cer“They have a black sysemony was held to honor
tem, which will allow me
the event in the school’s
to take a class for three
gymnasium with family,
weeks, take a test and
friends, coaches and teamthen move on to another
mates present.
course. This fits me really
“UMW is a perfect fit
well and I will not be burfor me, both athletically
dened down with a lot of
and academically,” said
classes. It’s ver nice. I am
Miller, who added that he
also pleased that the stu-
dent to professor ratio is 12
to 1, so there will be a lot
of one-on-one attention.”
The senior added
that while he was looking forward to playing
there, he would never
forget his experiences
at Snake River, including that title 18 months
ago. “I have had some
great times here,” he said.
“Winning the championship and sharing all of it
with my teammates was
really special. The coaches want us to win, but the
also want to build good
men with good character.
Being a part of this tradition is something I will
never forget.”
Father, Kent, a 1977
SRHS graduate, concurred, saying, “Things
have changed since I
went to school, but the
football program still
teaches good character
and citizenship. I have
watched Sean play since
he was five-years old
on flag football teams. I
am so proud of him and
just know he will fit in
really well as Montana
Western.”
Miller’s mother, Danette
added, “I am so happy for
him, not just as an athlete,
but because he is a leader
and an inspiration to so
many people, on the filed
and off of it.”
Morning News -- Jason Enes
Firth’s Conner Burkhart is fouled hard by West Jefferson’s Matt Jardine during the second quarter of the 2A District 6
championship game at South Fremont High School Wednesday night.
to Sunday’s finals, going
1-2 on the podium with
Anderson receiving a best
score of 81.25 and Shorr
receiving a best score of
70.10. New Zealand’s
Christy Prior, who had
the top score in qualifiers, was third with 66.68.
The women’s slopestyle
snowboard test event featured 26 women from 15
nations.
Simplot Games
Several locals competed at the annual Simplot
Games at Holt Arena over
the weekend, with a handful coming away with top10 finishes in the finals.
Shelley nips Cougars
for District crown
By MARK HIGH
For the Morning News
IDAHO
FALLS
Brennon Wattenbarger hit
the game winning basket to propel the Shelley
Russets to the 3A sixth
district championship on
Wednesday evening with
a thrilling 41-39 final.
With the score tied at
39 the Shelley Russets
came out of the time out
with :14 remaining on the
clock. Blaine Rumsey
took the inbounds pass
and calmly surveyed the
floor as the clock dwindled away. Wattenbarger
made his move on the
left wing and Rumsey
hit him with a pass and
as the South Fremont
defender overplayed the
pass, Wattenbarger wasted little time seizing the
opportunity as he drove
to the basket for the game
winning basket.
“The play we ran there
wasn’t even the play
that we had drawn up,”
Wattenbarger said. “I had
a lane to the baseline and
I just took it. I shot it,
landed on the ground and
heard the crowd go crazy
so I thought that it had to
have gone in. It was an
amazing feeling. To have
the crowd erupt like that
it was just amazing.”
South Fremont had one
last chance to tie or win
the game as they took a
page out of the Valpraiso
playbook with a nifty little
hook and ladder at the
top of the key but the last
second shot drew front
iron as the Russets held
on for the victory.
“South Fremont usually executes better than
we do and really it just
comes down to who hits
the most shots,” Shelley
head coach Jim Kolsen
said.
“They couldn’t
have drawn up a better
play down there at the
end and luckily for us he
missed it.”
The game was a classic nail biter throughout
the evening as the teams
were tied on the scoreboard on nine different
occasions with the biggest lead of the evening
for the Cougars a six point
bulge early in the second
quarter and the Russets
with a three point advantage at the end of the half.
“South Fremont are
a good team, I have no
doubt that they will win
their play in game on
saturday and really anything can happen. You
just have to handle the
ebbs and flows throughout the game and stay
with each other,” Coach
Kolsen said.
The flow was going
South Fremonts way
as they led 17-11 two
minutes into the second quarter.
Bryon
Leckington changed all of
that momentum however
as he drilled his second
three point bomb of the
evening which ignited
a 9-0 run to give the
Russets the lead at 20-17.
Leckington finished the
evening with a trio of
triples from behind the
arc for 11 points for the
Russets.
The half ended with
four straight three point
baskets as each team took
turns dialing long distance with the final shot
a dagger off of the hand
of Blaine Rumsey to give
the Russets a 26-23 lead
heading into the locker
room.
Rumsey finished the
evening as the game’s top
scorer with 15 points for
the district champs.
An evenly played third
quarter set the stage for
the games dramatic finish as the Shelley student body celebrated the
Russets as they cut down
the nets with the victory.
Next up for the Russets
(10-13) is the State tournament which will begin
on Thursday March 3.
Shelley will open with
the fourth district champion Buhl Indians at 1:15
at Meridian High School.
The run of their lives: Cougars
claim 10th straight District title
By JASON ENES
sports@am-news.com
ST. ANTHONY – Firth
head coach Scott Adams
is no stranger to success
during his 12 years as the
Cougars head man.
During his tenure Firth
has brought six state championships back home and
heading into Wednesday
night’s Nuclear Conference
championship game an
astounding nine consecutive district titles.
Number 10 was not
going to come easy is West
Jefferson had anything to
say about it.
West Jefferson kept the
game within six prior to
the half, but Firth pulled
away late to earn a 52-38
win at South Fremont High
School, clinching their
10th straight district title
and the automatic berth to
next week’s state tournament.
With 2:05 left to go in
the first half the Cougars
led 28-17 after a Conner
Burkhart jump shot.
West Jefferson’s Uriel
Garcia ran off five consecutive points to pull within
six points to 28-22 after he
nailed a 3-pointer and a
fall away jumper.
Mason Giles put back
with 1.5 seconds left in
the half extended the Firth
lead back to eight. But
Adams and his coaches
were not thrilled with his
team’s effort.
Garcia wanted to get
West Jefferson back into
the game by himself.
Garcia scored 11-points
in the third quarter nailing
a pair of 3-pointers, finishing a three-point play and
hitting a deep jumper.
Despite Garcia’s best
efforts Firth began moving
the ball and finding the
open player.
Dylan Holley converted a four-point play and
a pair of free throws late
in the quarter and Mason
Giles scored six points all
in the low post to send
the Cougars into the final
quarter leading 44-33.
The final quarter was an
offensive struggle for both
schools.
West Jefferson began
launching 3-pointers trying to claw back into the
game, while Firth was trying to slow the game down
looking for a good shot.
After a Damon Folkman
basket Firth had its biggest lead of the game at
51-35 and the air was all
but gone from the West
Jefferson balloon.
In a back-and-forth
first quarter it was a
Holley 3-pointer that
gave Firth a six-point
lead, West Jefferson
would never get any
closer in the game, but
never did the game feel
comfortable for Firth.
Giles led the Cougars
with 12 points, Holley and
Burkhart each added 10.
Firth opens the 2A state
tournament on Thursday,
March 3 at 3 p.m. against
either Melba or Nampa
Christian at Capital High
School.
Morning News - Mark High
Jack Thompson battles a pair of South Fremont defenders down low in the post during second half action on
Wednesday evening at Skyline High School. Thompson
and the Russets got the better of the battle with a 41-39
district championship victory.
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DEAR DOCTOR K: I’ve
recently moved and would
like to find a doctor for my
kids and myself. I don’t know
many people here yet, so I’ve
hesitated to ask for personal
recommendations. What do
you think about physicianrating websites?
Ask Doctor K
DEAR READER: There
are a lot of doctor rating sites
out there, like Healthgrades.
com or RateMDs.com. Even
websites that offer reviews
of restaurants and repairmen
(such as Yelp and Angie’s List)
feature critiques of doctors,
dentists and other clinicians.
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users give doctors a “star rating,” as you would rate a
movie on Netflix. But according to a recent article in the
New England Journal of
Medicine, narrative reviews,
in which patients describe
their experiences with clinicians in their own words, can
add valuable context. They
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in on reviews from people
with similar problems, needs
and preferences. And if you
understand why someone
gave a clinician a certain
score, you can weigh that
information against what’s
most important to you.
But even doctor-rating
websites that provide space
for personal comments -- and
many do -- could, in my
opinion, be improved. Many
of these websites don’t present data on other important
considerations. For example,
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she follow authoritative
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treating diseases? Do they follow up on recently discovered medical problems that
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accurate judgments about
their doctors.
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260-0933
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3 bdrms, 1 bath w/single car garage
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$115,000 Major updates to this
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#200293 Super Clean $115,000
bdrms & 2 baths, large living room
Cute & Updated 4 bdrm home in Pingree. &3 separate
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maple cabinetry, central air, sprinkler
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#199060 This Classic 2-Story could be yours!
$107,000 Perfectly suited for home or salon/spa. 4
bdrm, 2 bath with hardwood floors, claw foot tub,
custom tile and paint. Call Andy 681-7444
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200011 Great Buy! $129,900
5 bdrm/2 bath home near schools.
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2 Bdrm/2 Bath with rustic oak
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Gorgeous 2 story on Shilling w/5 bdrms
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vinyl windows on a nice treed lot. Single garage &
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6 bdrms, 3 baths, custom kitchen &
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thoroughfare near downtown.
23921 sq. ft., 2 buildings with drive
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8400 sq ft Custom home on quiet cul-desac! Amazing kitchen, woodwork, granite,
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NOTICE OF PROPOSED
CHANGE OF WATER RIGHT
TRANSFER NO. 80656
TERRI L FOSTER and MARC
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ABERDEEN, ID 83210; has
filed Application No. 80656
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