Making Sense of Eastland Roadwork
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Wednesday • July 20, 2011 www.magicvalley.com • 75¢ Q&A Making Sense of Jerome Truck Center to Add 40 Jobs • N4 Eastland Area Orchards Offer Pick Your Own Fun • F1 Roadwork The pending construction on Preparing for the Eastland Drive has caused a Worst, Hoping bigger-than-normal stir with BLM Seeks for the Best the city’s handling of rights of way. Here’s what the A Twin Falls County results hope to accomplish: Bids for sheriff’s deputy walks inside the police line at the scene of Friday’s fatal What is the FALLS AVE. shooting and hostage scope of work? Wild Horses situation. The city of Twin Falls is doing work As one wild horse herd all over Eastland prepares to return to the Drive. The road- rebuild projects Magic Valley, the BLM seeks include: road from homes for the surplus of Elizabeth Boule- horses nationwide. vard to Fourth Av- enue East; road BY KIMBERLEE KRUESI from south of [email protected] Hillcrest Drive to about Sherry With growing herd numbers and Lane, including limited space, the U.S. Bureau of the Addison Av- Land Management is seeking bids on enue intersection; new pasture facilities to care for wild and a complete re- horses and burros. build and widen- Every few years, the BLM expands ing from Falls Av- its holding areas to meet herd enue to Filer Av- growth. According to the BLM web- enue. The rebuild site, there are an estimated 38,500 means all the as- wild horses and burros roaming phalt will be torn throughout BLM-managed range- up, down to the lands, 12,500 more than the BLM has gravel base, and determined is the appropriate man- restored. agement level. “In the past few years, weve seen How much will it not as many people are adopting wild cost? horses,” said Tom Gorey, BLM The multi-year spokesman.“This has caused a spike project is expected in our herd amounts.” to cost about $5.5 Gorey said the recession and a shift million for all the in horse training preferences caused work, City Engi- the adoption decline. neer Jackie Fields “In the past we saw more people said. The work will adopting a wild horse and the owner be paid for with would either train it or hire a trainer,” reserves in city he said. “Now people want the BLM coffers. to train the horses.” GEARING Gorey did not know if any Idaho What is the pur- residents are submitting pasture bids. pose of the work? However, the Idaho BLM is manag- “It’s just an old ing 500 wild horses — among them, road,” Fields said. a herd that calls the Magic Valley “Some of those home, but was moved after the Au- sections on East- gust 2010 Long Butte Fire southwest land are ancient — of Hagerman. UP In addition to that, The fire destroyed most of the we’re going to STADIUM BL. rangeland used by the Saylor Creek have a capacity horse herd.Nearly one year later,part problem.” of the herd will return to the area lat- The capacity er this month, said BLM spokes- problem will likely woman Heather Tiel-Nelson.An ini- take longer to tial 30-horse herd is expected to grow peak than when to as large as 50 horses over time. the city expects Please see HORSES, M2 TIMES-NEWS FILE PHOTO the road to fully crumble — some- When faced with extreme situations like have spent the better part of time around 2015 their careers with their respec- — but it is still Friday’s shooting and hostage crisis, area tive agencies crisis response something that police turn to training and partnerships to teams, experiencing what it’s needs to be ad- Soldiers Honors manage the danger. like to be in the thick of a situa- dressed, she said. tion with weapons at the ready Further,East- and as decision-makers in a land Drive is iden- BY BRADLEY GUIRE “Weve had pursuits. Weve command center. tified as an arterial [email protected] had officers shot. Weve had Newman said the pressure road and is one of homicides. Weve had, very cant be comprehended by the major funnels Calling the job “stressful” is an rarely, kidnap situations … but someone who has never been in of north-south understatement. not usually all at the same time,” a situation like Fridays, when traffic in the city, For members of any Special Twin Falls Police Capt. Matt an armed man attempting to making capacity a Weapons and Tactics or crisis Hicks said. “We literally cant elude police shot an officer be- concern for all response unit and its com- have enough people there.” fore taking a hostage and refuge commuters on the manders, engaging a potential- Chief Deputy Don Newman in the Twin Falls hotel. eastside of town. ly armed and dangerous suspect of the Twin Falls County Sher- “The hardest part is to main- could have devastating conse- iff’s Office concurred with tain the ability to think and act,” —Nick Coltrain, quences. Area law enforcement Hicks. Newman said. “Youre making Times-News agencies experienced this on “The dynamics of this partic- split-second decisions that Friday at the Hampton Inn in ular call is something Ive not people can take days and weeks KRISTOPHER ZIGICH • FOR THE TIMES-NEWS Twin Falls, participating in experienced in 20 years of law to analyze.” Nicole Jansen, 31, lights a candle what they’ve called the largest enforcement,”he said. “It’s not Despite hundreds of hours of At Right: during a vigil held Tuesday at the assembly of police for a specific the norm in Twin Falls.” training, team members and The Wider Idaho National Guard Armory in incident in the Magic Valley. Both Hicks and Newman Please see GEARING UP, M2 Twin Falls, in memory of Sgt. Nathan Road R. Beyers, 24, and Spc. Nicholas W. An aerial view of Newby, 20. Both of Coeur dAlene, the the current guardsmen died July 7 from injuries street; the new received after insurgents attacked sidewalks and their convoy with an explosive device More on Cleveland: Shooting Suspect Has Prior street width are in Baghdad. Beyers received a outlined in posthumous promotion from white. Domestic Violence Arrests Page M2. FILER AVE. specialist. Source: JUB Engineers Live music: Twin Falls Tonight, featuring Jason Lugo Band, High 81° 55°Low Bridge C4 Markets N4 Dear Abby C5 Obituaries F7-8 6-9 p.m. at the fountain on Main Avenue and Hansen Street. Comics C7 Crossword C6 Jumble C8 Opinion M1 Sunny and cooler. 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