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75 / 42 BSU’s Petersen offers perspective on the polls Increasing Sports 1 clouds. NO. 5 Agribusiness 4 COLD WEATHER AHEAD >>> Bean growers race to finish harvest, AGRIBUSINESS 1 TUESDAY 75 CENTS September 29, 2009 MagicValley.com Car plunges into canyon Fires doused near Shoshone them. The smaller Controlled Substation Fire was con- trolled late Sunday night, but the larger blaze took burns expected until 6 p.m. Monday evening to be controlled, said BLM in October spokeswoman Barbara Bassler. By Nate Poppino Both fires burned within Times-News writer the 45,000-acre scar caused by 2007’s Red Bridge Fire, Two Sunday afternoon which rushed up to the edge fires that spread across more of Shoshone. Though they than 3,500 acres south of would have eventually hit a Shoshone were fully under feedlot and other structures control by Monday evening, south of Dietrich, both were fire officials said. stopped before any struc- Meanwhile, residents of tures were actually threat- Blaine and Camas counties ened, as far as Bassler was should expect to see plumes aware. of smoke within the next “The only thing it even got month, but shouldn’t worry near was maybe some — the fires will be prescribed haystacks,”she said of Power burns performed as part of Station. “It’s not like the Red projects on federal land. Bridge.” The Power Station and The fire,the largest south- Photos by ASHLEY SMITH/Times-News Substation fires started just central Idaho has seen this An Idaho State Police officer looks over the Jerome County side of the Snake River Canyon rim Monday at a car that plunged more than 200 south of milepost 67 on U.S. summer, is a reminder that feet to the river bank below. Highway 93 and headed the fire season isn’t over and east, burning 3,500 and 72 that dry grasses and other troopers were investigating the fatal acres, respectively, before fuels can still easily light up, crash involving a tan Chevrolet fire crews from the U.S. Bassler said. But as October ISP: Driver Suburban with a solo occupant. Bureau of Land nears, officials with the BLM “The vehicle went off the shoulder Management and a variety FIRES of the roadway for reasons which are of rural fire districts halted See , Main 2 killed in crash still unknown, coming to rest at the bottom of the canyon,” the release By Eric Larsen states. “The driver was alone and died Times-News writer at the scene.” More than 16 service vehicles from JEROME — A brown and white ISP, Jerome County Sheriff’s Search female bulldog wearing a pink collar and Rescue, and the Jerome Police awaited the return of its owner at the Department were at the scene shortly top of the Yingst Road grade Monday before 6 p.m., half of them traveling afternoon. down the grade toward the vehicle’s More than 200 feet below, Idaho resting place about 150 yards west of State Police and Jerome County law the Auger Falls Bridge. enforcement officials milled around The bulldog, found wandering in A law enforcement official sits by the rem- the dark husk of an automobile that the area at about 6:15 p.m., was nants of the car that drove over the northern entombed its unidentified driver, who deemed relevant by officials at the rim of the Snake River Canyon on Monday. plunged the car off the north rim of scene and leashed to a Jerome County ASHLEY SMITH/Times-News the Snake River Canyon west of the sheriff’s cruiser before it was taken to Magicvalley.com Jerome Country Club. the Jerome Animal Shelter in the back Bureau of Land Management firefighter Ryan McPherson, right, mops WATCH a video from the up the Power Station fire Monday near Shoshone. The 3,500-acre fire An Idaho State Police press release See CRASH, Main 2 crash scene. sent at 9:50 p.m. confirmed that was controlled by 6 p.m., Monday. Cold front expected to lead to storms, first frost By Nate Poppino The National Weather mer in the region. The of the thunderstorms and region early Thursday People planning to spend Times-News writer Service is predicting change is the result of a cold high-elevation snow likely morning, and though it time farther north in the Monday’s highs in the front that should move into to appear, meteorologists won’t necessarily be a hard mountains should be pre- Thunderstorms, snow upper 80s to plunge to just the area this afternoon and also want to make sure frost, it will be enough to kill pared for colder conditions and the year’s first frost: All around 50 degrees by send lows to around freez- farmers, gardeners and plants if they’re not covered as well. At the very least, a are expected to show up this Wednesday, a change of ing, said David Groenert recreationists are ready for up, Groenert said. The frost couple of inches of light week as fall suddenly arrives almost 40 degrees that like- with the federal agency. the changing weather. Frost will arrive about one week in the Magic Valley. ly signals the end of sum- Besides warning residents is likely across the entire later than average. See FROST, Main 2 Climate-change study cites T.F. council approves rate role of ancient farming increases, Armenian plaque By David A. Fahrenthold The Washington Post “Those tens of millions (of people) had the By Nate Poppino among others led to their Babayan said is acceptable. impact of hundreds of millions, because per Times-News writer emigration to the U.S. But The final plaque wording Has climate change been the proposal ran afoul of a will include both the word around as long as the pyra- person, they had 10 times the impact.” The Twin Falls City recently revised city policy “genocide” and a reference mids? — William Ruddiman, professor emeritus Council narrowly approved a that requires memorials to to the contributions the It is an odd-sounding at the University of Virginia request for a controversial directly tie into Twin Falls Armenians have made to idea, because the problem is plaque and reluctantly raised history. Twin Falls. Council mem- usually assumed to be a degree or more. have gone down’’ many water rates by 12 percent at The request made it to the bers Will Kezele, Lee Heider modern one, the product of Other scientists, howev- thousands of years ago, said its regular meeting Monday council once in August and David E. Johnson all a world created by the er, have said the idea is U-Va.’s William Ruddiman. evening. before it was sent back to the voted against it. Industrial Revolution and deeply flawed and might be “Why did that happen?’’ The plaque, first proposed Parks and Recreation “I think it’s very appropri- powered by high-polluting used to dampen modern His answer is based on earlier this year, will memo- Commission for further ate” and a realistic compro- fossil fuels. alarms over climate change. circumstantial evidence. rialize the Armenian review. That commission mise, Babayan said. She But a professor emeritus Understanding the Ruddiman said two events Genocide — when the tried to tweak the plaque’s added that she hopes to at the University of Virginia debate requires a tour in world history — an Ottoman Empire in 1915 sys- wording in an objectionable install the plaque and tree in has suggested that people through polar ice sheets,the apparent shift in the com- tematically killed much of way, said Liyah Babayan, the next couple of months, began altering the climate inner workings of the car- position of the atmosphere the Armenian population speaking for the Armenian in plenty of time for the April thousands of years ago, as bon molecule, the farming and the first explosion of living in what is now Turkey. community. But after a 24 annual remembrance of primitive farmers burned habits of 5,000-year-old human agriculture — took Members of the Armenian lengthy debate Monday the event. forests and built methane- Europeans and trapped air place at nearly the same community in Twin Falls evening about both city pol- Also Monday, two city bubbling rice paddies. The bubbles more ancient than time. proposed donating both the icy and recognizing the residents questioned the practices produced enough Rome. “Greenhouse gases do plaque and a tree to be event as genocide, council proposed water-rate greenhouse gases, he says, “The greenhouse gases placed in City Park to com- members approved a revised to warm the world by a went up, and they should See CLIMATE, Main 2 memorate the event, which version by a 4-3 vote that See COUNCIL, Main 2 Comics....................Sports 4 Crossword ................H&G 9 Obituaries ..............Main 6-7 Commodities..Agribusiness 2 Dear Abby ..................H&G 7 Opinion ..................Main 8-9 BLENDING HISTORICAL AND HOME Community................Main 5 Movies ......................Main 4 Sudoku ....................H&G 10 Peek inside this local 100-year-old house > H&G 1 MORNINGMORNINGMain 2 Tuesday, September 29, 2009 BRIEFINGBRIEF- TN Times-News, Twin Falls, Idaho Pat’s Picks TODAY’S HAPPENINGS CLUBS AND ORGANIZATIONS Three things to do today Curves, 690 Blue Lakes Blvd. N., no cost for 960 Eastland Drive, Twin Falls, 737-4667. 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