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52 / 27 GBC DOGFIGHT Fairyland All six teams play each other tonight in key conference matchups. reopens Getting breezy. SEE SPORTS 1 ENTERTAINMENT 1 Business 6 BIGHORN SHEEP INVESTIGATION >>> Sierra Club sues over Idaho bighorn sheep land, MAIN 5 FRIDAY 75 CENTS October 9, 2009 MagicValley.com Aragon trial winds down with boy’s testimony Bambi Gwin, Robert Aragon’s Bear,sister didn’t think weather was blizzard-like roommate, embraces Aragon after she finished her testimony By Andrea Jackson dad” get the car unstuck from snow there,” said Bear about his dad’s cell during Aragon’s trial Thursday in Times-News writer along West Magic Road. phone coverage. Aragon is accused of involuntary Aragon later gave Bear permission to Shoshone. Aragon faces up to 25 SHOSHONE — Bear Aragon manslaughter and injury to a child. walk off with Sage,his 11-year-old sis- years in prison for charges of intended to see his mom and help his Closing arguments in the trial are ter, in the snow to see their mom nine involuntary manslaughter and dad when he ventured off with his sis- expected today. miles away,Bear testified. injury to a child for allowing two ter on Christmas during a fatal walk Aragon was driving his children to Before the family left Jerome, Bear of his children to attempt a that began with snow angels. the home of their mother, JoLeta spoke with his mom on the phone nine-mile walk in freezing weath- Bear, 13, told a jury on Thursday Jenks, on Christmas, when the car about coming to see her,the child said. er to see their mother on during the trial for his dad, Robert became stuck. Aragon, that he wanted “to help my “He didn’t have reception out See ARAGON, Main 2 Christmas last year. ASHLEY SMITH/Times-News Boaters split OBO LEARNING on success of R - invasive program The fees, approved by the Stickers raised 2009 Legislature, have so far mainly targeted aquatic $776,000 by Sept. invaders such as the quagga By Nate Poppino mussel, which has not yet Times-News writer invaded Idaho and can clog rivers, lakes and irrigation Idaho’s fledgling invasive systems. species program, funded Jennifer Wernex, com- through stickers required munication manager for for almost every watercraft the Idaho Department of in the state, raised more Parks and Recreation, said than $776,000 this sum- records as of Sept. 22 show mer to pay for boat inspec- nearly 107,000 stickers had tions, educational outreach either been sold or sent out and other efforts. to vendors. Not having the But the program state sticker carries a $57 penalty, officials say was needed to according to state code. save Idaho waters from the All but a small slice of the threat of a tiny mussel only funds — offsetting Parks found two mussel-infested and Recreation’s costs — boats out of thousands of are placed in the fund and inspections. then used by the Idaho Organizers of the Idaho State Department of Invasive Species Fund are Agriculture for various still breaking down how the activities, including boat- ASHLEY SMITH/Times-News money — fees that vary check stations that were set Taunya Sweet, with NASA’s Aerospace Education Services Project, helps Vera C. O’Leary Middle School eighth-graders Elyse Matlock, left, Lane based on the type of boat up across Idaho this sum- and whether its owner lives mer. Fassett-Krull and Kendall Collins Thursday at the school in Twin Falls. The students were learning about the importance of robots in the space in-state — has been spent program and the future exploration of planets like Mars. so far this year. See INVASIVE, Main 2 NASA educates O’Leary students in robotics By Damon Hunzeker “WHICH IS YOUR Services Project. robot will only do what you Times-News writer FAVORITE FUNDAMEN- She asked the classes if tell it to do. They see so TAL PARTICLE?” they’re familiar with the use many movies, but technolo- A few robots never hurt The amount of informa- of robotics in everyday life. gy hasn’t gotten to that place anybody. tion students absorbed was For the most part, the yet.” When NASA showed up on clear display. eighth-graders understood Students were surprised with robots at O’Leary “We learned a lot about the difference between real- and fascinated when Sweet Middle School Thursday, the Mars Rover and the life robots and movie robots, said a robot is currently on Isaac Asimov’s theories of robo-naut,” student Alexis but at one point, Sweet had the way to Pluto — formerly robotics hovered in the Simpson said. “He’s used to clarify: “Well, I don’t a planet — but that it will background — and although when the space men can’t go think I’d consider an oven a take the robot nine and a half the robots at O’Leary were because it’s not safe. We robot.” years to get there. LEGO models of actual worked with a robot that After one of her presenta- Science teacher Jody Hurd NASA contraptions, the moves rocks. He would find tions, Sweet explained some said she’s never seen a more eighth-grade attention a route in a crater and make of the benefits of the pro- engaging activity for her spans didn’t waver. sure astronauts have a gram for students. students and that it acceler- Image courtesy Idaho State Department of Agriculture Pictures of Albert secure path.” “You often get kids who ates their imaginations. Einstein, Mars, the moon, NASA representative are afraid that robots are Watching a LEGO replica Quagga mussels, tiny aquatic pests that can clog rivers, lakes and and robo-nauts adorned the Taunya Sweet is touring var- going to hurt them,” she of the Mars Rover navigating irrigation systems, haven’t made it to Idaho yet. State officials want walls in what was clearly a ious schools across the said. “I haven’t encountered a series of rocks, student to keep it that way, and new fees placed on almost all personal science room, as made evi- country for a year as part of that very much here, but it’s watercraft used in the state raised more than $776,000 this sum- dent by the sign asking: the Aerospace Education good for them to know that a See ROBOTS, Main 2 mer to help keep the invasive species at bay. CRASH INTO ME Grazing debate renewed Searching for water, NASA to crash rocket booster into moon after peppergrass listing By Joel Achenbach not happy about the “bomb- By Nate Poppino in southern Idaho’s range- Land Management to finish The Washington Post ing’’ of the moon. They say Times-News writer lands, officials are debating conferring with Fish and it’s probably a military test. the role livestock grazing Wildlife about grazing per- WASHINGTON — Naturally there’s a “Do Not Barring any surprise should play in its protec- mits set to be issued in the America is returning Bomb the Moon’’ Web site. developments, a desert tion. plant’s range. to the moon — violent- There is no bomb, actual- flower found in parts of The U.S.Fish and Wildlife The plant was originally ly. A rocket booster and ly. But that’s beside the southwest Idaho — includ- Service officially published proposed to be listed in a small spacecraft will point: The important thing ing the Juniper Butte area of its decision to list the 2003. But Fish and Wildlife crash into the moon this is that this is a star turn for Owyhee County — will slickspot peppergrass as changed its mind in 2005 morning at 5,600 mph. The the moon. The moon has receive new federal protec- threatened on Thursday, after a challenge from the Earth’s satellite will have two been rather boring in recent tions in just less than 60 starting the 60-day clock — U.S. Air Force. But the new craters. days. And as is often the a timeframe extended to Conspiracy theorists are See MOON, Main 2 case with troubled species allow the U.S. Bureau of See PEPPERGRASS, Main 2 Comics....................Sports 6 Crossword ......Classifieds 3 Obituaries ..........Business 5 Commodities ......Business 2 Dear Abby........Classifieds 6 Opinion ..................Main 6-7 POLICE STOP MORE THAN 1 MILLION ON THE STREET Community ....Business 3-4 Movies ......Entertainment 2 Sudoku ............Classifieds 2 Nearly all are innocent of any crime > Business 6 MORNINGMORNINGMain 2 Friday, October 9, 2009 BRIEFINGBRIEF- TN Times-News, Twin Falls, Idaho Pat’s Picks TODAY’S HAPPENINGS Three things to do today CLUBS AND ORGANIZATIONS 10:30 a.m., Twin Falls Public Library, 201 For detailed coverage of today’s Pat Marcantonio Burley Lions Club, noon, Morey’s Fourth Ave. E., 208-733-2964, ext. 109. Steakhouse, 219 E. Third St. N., 878-7235. arts and entertainment all Family Storytime, 10 a.m., Jerome Public Library, 208-324-5427. • Today is the kickoff of event. Doors open at Idaho 2009 Area 13 Alcoholics Anonymous around south-central Idaho, Fall Assembly and Convention, features the Trailing of the Sheep 4:30 a.m., followed by a check out our Events Calendar SEASONAL EVENTS Festival with workshops, breakfast at 6 a.m. in the Golf Scramble, inspirational speakers, in the Entertainment section of lamb tastings, storytelling Rick Allen Community roundtable discussions, business meetings, banquet with contemporary, vaudeville live today’s edition! The Seventh annual College of Southern and music in Hailey. The Room. Tickets start at $8. Idaho Corn Maze, fundraiser sponsored festival continues through • End the evening with a music and dancing, and spiritual breakfast, today through Sunday, Sun Valley Inn and by CSI Horticulture Club, includes warm- the weekend with the Sheep scare at Fright Night from YMCA, 1751 Elizabeth Blvd., no cost for ing fire and concession table, flashlights Folklife Fair, which features 7 p.m.