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Magicvalley.com Deadline looms for TFSD contract negotiations Judge “The Legislature set a difficult Jerome, Mini-Cassia PUBLIC SCHOOL CUTS timeline,” said Attorney Brian Julian, with the Boise-based firm dismisses Area school districts are renegotiating teacher contracts to deal with a fiscal year schools also facing 2011 decrease in state funding coming to public schools in July. Here’s a sampling Anderson, Julian and Hull, recom- of approved or proposed cost-saving measures. mending the board not push the vote on pay reductions due process hearing into June. Cuts approved 12 furlough days for administrators, jail lawsuit “There are events that will take By Blair Koch Gooding School District: representing a 6.3 percent reduction place after the hearing … we can’t Times-News correspondent 4.35 percent pay reduction for admin- wait because of the timeline.” Halper sued Jerome Co. istrators Jerome School District: If needed, the due process hear- The Twin Falls School District 5.6 percent pay reduction for superin- 1 percent pay reduction for teachers ing would give the district and over jail funding issues and the Twin Falls Education tendent and administrators and 10 furlough association an opportunity to Association have three weeks to Four furlough days, representing 3.6 days, representing a 5 percent reduc- present evidence to support why, By Andrea Jackson finalize a new teacher contract for percent reduction for teachers tion or why not, the reductions are Times-News writer the upcoming school year. necessary. Lowering the amount paid Cuts proposed Twin Falls School District: The board would have 10 days JEROME — Lee Justus Halper toward salaries and benefits is a Cassia County School District: 6.5 percent pay reduction for teachers from the hearing to decide if the was alone in pointing a finger critical part in the district’s plan to Eight furlough days for teachers, repre- 9.68 percent pay reduction for admin- cuts are warranted and then notify Monday at Jerome County, after a cut nearly $3.3 million from its senting 4 percent reduction istrators employees of its decision. judge dismissed his lawsuit con- overall budget in light of state Both sides hope to finalize the nected to a failed election for a funding cuts. if the two sides are unable to come state’s financial emergency provi- contract before the hearing, but new jail. With the June 6 deadline fast to an agreement during its meet- sions — the timeline imposed by were required to schedule a Representing himself, Halper approaching, the board approved ing next week. the legislature. The declaration hearing anyway. filed a petition in January claiming a due process hearing planned for The deadline is 67 days from allowed qualifying districts to the county violated Idaho law by Memorial Day — a necessary step when the district opted into the open contracts for negotiations. See SCHOOLS, Main 3 not seeking bids for an expendi- ture of more than $25,000 when it contracted with Rocky Mountain Corrections,a Ketchum-based jail development and consulting firm, to provide voter education and other services connected to S ERENE SCENE November’s failed election. The county had paid RMC about $87,500 without going to bid for the services, according to Halper’s case. In one week,residents in Jerome County will vote on whether to let the county sign off on a lease- purchase agreement to construct a new jail and sheriff’s office.

See HALPER, Main 2 Silsby convicted in Haiti, but free to go By Jonathan M. Katz Associated Press writer

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — The last member of a group of American missionaries detained while trying to take 33 children out of Haiti after the Jan. 12 earth- quake was freed Monday when a judge convicted her but sentenced ASHLEY SMITH/Times-News her to time already served in jail. Laura Silsby, the organizer of louds are reflected in a pool of water off of Idaho Highway 46 in the Camas Prairie on Friday. the ill-fated effort to take the children to an orphanage being The weekend’s warm, pleasant weather across the Magic Valley is expected to dampen today, as set up in the neighboring Dominican Republic, returned to the National Weather Service’s Pocatello office is forecasting rain showers and highs near 60. her cell briefly to C retrieve belong- ings before quickly heading to the Port-au-Prince airport. “I’m praising Aston charged Rumors plague Twin Falls County God,’’ Silsby told The Associated Silsby with grand theft Press as she wait- Republican Central Committee ed for a flight out of Haiti. She declined to answer further ques- Unknown what M-C Sometimes officials cannot crossing out numbers and tions before clearing immigration Blogger accuses even respond publicly because writing different ones on and heading through a gate to official is accused of stealing they don’t know who their financial disclosure forms. catch a plane to Florida. former treasurer of accuser is. That happened because a The Idaho businesswoman had By Laurie Welch Ken Edmunds, former treas- refund was reported as income been in custody since Jan. 29. She Times-News writer rendering financial urer of the central committee, and the Idaho Secretary of was originally charged with kid- found that out the hard way. State’s office clarified the form napping and criminal association, BURLEY — Minidoka County When he resigned last week, an by rewriting different figures but those charges were dropped Community Development Director Paul disclosure forms anonymous blog called “Twin on the original form, Edmunds for her and the nine other Aston has been charged with felony grand By Ben Botkin Falls Republican Party said, adding that he had offered Americans who were previously theft,according to the county’s prosecutor. Times-News writer Restoration”suggested a possi- to file new reports with the released. Silsby was convicted of According to a press release issued ble reason was because the blog state. arranging illegal travel under a Monday afternoon, Aston was charged in The Twin Falls County put heat on Edmunds for his Edmunds said he tried to 1980 statute restricting move- Minidoka County. Republican Central Committee work as treasurer. contact the blog’s author to ment out of Haiti signed by then- “I can’t comment on the case at all,” has attracted undesired atten- “They misrepresent things give his side, but got no dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier. Minidoka County Prosecutor Lance tion on different fronts: an so badly, it’s very irritating,” response. The blog’s author Prosecutor Jean-Serge Joseph Stevenson said Monday afternoon. anonymous blog and com- Edmunds said, adding that he’s goes by the name “Jefferson is said she was convicted and sen- Aston also declined to comment plaints about the organization’s giving up his treasurer role to my Hero.” tenced to the three months and Monday on the pending charge. financial information are all in focus on his time on the Idaho “They hide behind the blog eight days she spent behind bars. “I don’t think it would be wise to com- the mix. State Board of Education and and aren’t willing to talk to Last week, the prosecution rec- ment until I’ve spoken with an attorney,” If anything, the attention the Idaho Youth Soccer organi- people,”Edmunds said, stress- ommended a six-month sen- Aston said. means area Republicans have to zation. ing that the committee’s books tence; she had faced a maximum fend off allegations of improper The blog takes Edmunds’ of three years. See ASTON, Main 2 handling of financial records. accounting work to task for See GOP, Main 2 “She is free,’’Joseph said.

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Pat’s Picks TODAY’S HAPPENINGS Three things to do today ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT Pat Marcantonio Let’s Dance Club, line and couples dances, 6 to 10 p.m., Twin Falls Senior Center, 530 FIND MORE ONLINE • Young talent is in the all their hits. Tickets are $55 Shoshone St. W., $3, no cost for children Check out our online calendar where you spotlight at the Canyon to $180. younger than age 14 with an adult, 410- Ridge High School and • Learn time- and 5650 or galenslatter.com. can submit events and search by category Robert Stuart Middle money-saving tips for soups Canyon Ridge High School and Robert for specific events and dates. School Spring Choral and casseroles and taste the Stuart Middle School Spring Choral www.magicvalley.com/app/calendar/events/ Concert at 7 p.m. at the samples at Soups On! with Concert, 7 p.m., College of Southern Idaho College of Southern Idaho Diane Bevan of Sweetheart Fine Arts Center auditorium, 315 Falls Ave., Fine Arts Center auditori- Manor at 6 p.m. at the Twin Falls, $3 adults, $2 seniors and stu- LIBRARY students, 732-6655 or csi.edu/herrett. um. Admission is $2 to $3. Burley Public Library, 1300 dents, 732-7555. • The Eagles hit the stage Miller Ave. It’s free. Teen Flicks in Yscapes, movie and snacks, at 8 p.m. at the Idaho 4 p.m., Twin Falls Public Library, 201 Fourth SCHOOL EVENT Center, 16200 Idaho Center Have your own pick to HEALTH LECTURE Ave. E., no cost, 733-2964 ext. 110. Blvd., Nampa. Doors open share? Something unique to “Children with Reactive Attachment Bliss High School Junior/Senior Banquet, all at 7 p.m. Glenn Frey, Don the area that may surprise Disorder,” hosted by Pro Active Advantage MUSEUMS AND PARKS juniors, seniors, their parents, and staff Henley, Joe Walsh and people? E-mail me at in honor of Children’s Mental Health Month, invited for a graduation send-off, 6 p.m., Timothy B. Schmit perform [email protected]. 7 to 8 p.m., 215 University Ave., Gooding, Faulkner Planetarium “The Planets,” 7 p.m., school cafeteria, 601 E. U.S. Highway 30, facilitated by John “JB”Burk, continuing Herrett Center for Arts and Science, College Italian dinner included, $4 single, $7 couple, education certificates available, no cost, of Southern Idaho campus, Twin Falls, $17 family (five to seven members), $27 How organized labor lost T.F. 539-5090. $4.50 adults, $3.50 senior citizens, $2.50 families of eight or more, 352-4447. ou don’t see many vestiges of it now, Ybut Twin Falls used YOU T.F.council approves July 5 fireworks display to be a union town. DON’T SAY No, I mean really a union display of its kind in the July is considered a town. Steve Crump Annual Fourth of July fireworks community. “sacred” day for some — Happened during World Councilman Lance Clow, though not in a religious War I and the years that istration had at its immedi- show moved from a Sunday however said that his “pref- sense. followed. During the First ate disposal a state police erence would be to keep it Councilman David World War, workers were at force. ... Idaho labor union- By Andrea Jackson The event is sponsored by on the Fourth.” Johnson said that “religion a premium in rural Idaho, ists and farmers who were Times-News writer Southern Idaho Fireworks, City Manager Tom aside,” his decision came both because so many men members of the Non- according to the city, and Courtney said six years ago down to the fact that spon- were in the Army and Partisan League suspected The Fourth of July fire- organizers of the event there was a Fourth of July sors should have a right to because Idaho was still that Davis might needlessly works display at the College requested the change from fireworks display held on a hold the event on either day. sparsely populated. deploy the constabulary of Southern Idaho will July 4, which is a Sunday Sunday, and city leaders Twin Falls police will So wages rose. And when against them.” come a day late to Twin this year, and a day of reli- said Monday that they likely require extra officer pay didn’t rise fast enough, After Twin Falls Falls. gious significance for some couldn’t recall another funding to assist with the workers went on strike. plumbers went on strike for The Twin Falls City community members. Fourth of July celebration event whether it’s on a “The strike of coal work- $9 a day in early 1920, local Council on Monday voted Councilman Will Kezele being moved from a Sunday or Monday,accord- ers brought on a shortage. businesses formed a chap- unanimously to let organiz- encouraged other council- Sunday. ing to Sgt. Dennis Pullin. In December the city had ter of the Division of the ers of the city’s annual men to support the Clow said he is concerned only 42 tons of coal and Southern Idaho Employers Fourth of July fireworks requested move, saying that some community members Andrea Jackson may be rationing was threatened Association to force an event hold this year’s fes- there wouldn’t otherwise may not be pleased with reached at ajackson@mag- until another six carloads open shop — workplaces tivities on July 5, a Monday. be another large fireworks this move, as the Fourth of icvalley.com or 735-3380. arrived,”wrote College of where union membership Southern Idaho historian wasn’t required. Jim Gentry in his “In the Employers played hard- Middle and on the Edge,”a ball, seeking an alliance CSI to offer different lengths for summertime courses history of the Twin Falls with farmers by warning area. that strikes would soon By Ben Botkin sections at the start and end president and chief aca- Springs, Calif., for an elec- Nineteen of 46 laundry spread to farmworkers. Times-News writer of the summer, six-week demic officer of CSI. tronic document process workers at the Twin Falls “Many people associated class sections, and the tra- Courses include core system that will cost Laundry and Troy Laundry unions with the threat of This summer there’s a ditional eight-week class requirements like English, $151,790. The equipment is went on strike, Gentry said. the communist revolution first for the College of option as well. math and social studies, designed to help speed the “Next strikes at garages coming from the newly cre- Southern Idaho: different The CSI Board of Fox said. He added that a efficiency of paperwork on and machine shops broke ated Soviet Union,”Gentry lengths of summer school Trustees heard about the four-week class offered the campus. out, focused on the Lind said. courses. changes at its meeting on before the fall semester • A $60,000 bid from Motor Company. In late Twin Falls strikes were In a departure from its Monday. starts will teach skills that National Bus Sales of Tulsa, November 1919, the News less effective in 1920 than traditional culture of eight- The different choices help students prepare for Okla., for a bus that will be (predecessor to the Times- in 1919 because the SIEA week summer courses that give students added flexi- college. used by Head Start. News) printed an editorial urged labor activists to get start in early June, the col- bility and the opportunity In other business, the • A bid for exercise against the strikers that out of town — and not too lege is adding other options to take courses while still college board approved: equipment that will cost reflected a more hostile subtly. When teamsters for students. They include a enjoying their summer,said • A bid from Hershey $34,029 from Life Fitness attitude against them.” threatened a boycott in couple four-week class Jeff Fox, executive vice Systems of Santa Fe and Hammer Strength. Still, in 1919 Idaho was a April 1920 because of their union-friendly state. But opposition to the open times were changing. shop, they were locked out Republican D.W.Davis was of three freighting busi- 5TH DISTRICT COURT NEWS elected in 1918 as an nesses, according to avowed foe of labor. Gentry. TWIN FALLS COUNTY ence, driving without privi- zance release, court compli- Raymond J. Higgins, 71, Hansen; “He recommended and “Brizee Sheet Metal and MONDAY ARRAIGNMENTS leges, $2,000 bond, public ance program, public defender aggravated assault, $2,500 the Legislature passed a American Electric Ronald P. Lehmann, 40, Buhl; defender appointed, June 8 appointed, pleaded not guilty, bond, private counsel, court criminal syndicalism law Company also closed their no-contact order violation, pretrial June 8 pretrial entered no-contact order, May that was vastly more pro- doors to union men. Some $10,000 bond, public defender Curtis M. Jones, 20, Twin Falls; Matthew W. Frantz, 50, Twin Fall; 20 preliminary scriptive than the earlier men repudiated the union appointed, plead not guilty, minor consumption, unlawful inhalation of intoxicants, Paul S. Evangelista, 37,Twin 1917 Idaho criminal syndi- and returned to work, and June 8 pretrial possession/use of a prescrip- $10,000 bond, public defender Falls; domestic battery, $2,500 calism law,”wrote High the union movement Michael L. Garrean, 22, Twin tion drug, possession of a con- appointed, pleaded not guilty, bond, private counsel, May 28 Lovin, a retired history pro- declined significantly in the Falls; driving under the influ- trolled substance, recogni- June 8 pretrial preliminary fessor at Boise State year,”Gentry wrote. University. “Scores of per- It’s not as if trade unions sons were arrested, a hand- disappeared from Twin ful of whom eventually Falls — they were a force for received lengthy prison years to come. But never sentences. Secondly, Davis again like the giddy days of Halper responded to radical men- 1919. Continued from Main 1 “I am a concerned citizen, Halper told Butler before said use of the existing jail, aces by persuading the A similar push narrowly your honor,”Halper told the the decision came down. which opened in 1975, will Legislature to authorize an Steve Crump is the failed to garner 66 percent judge Monday in court. “The county acted outside depend on whether the Idaho Constabulary in Times-News Opinion edi- supermajority approval at But Butler noted that the law.” Idaho Counties Risk order that the Davis admin- tor. the polls last year when the Halper had not shown how Mike Sieb, the Jerome Management Program con- consultants were used. he was specifically injured County prosecutor who tinues to insure it, despite a Jerome County Sheriff’s by the county’s actions and represented the county, said growing list of facility defi- CORRECTIONS Office authorities are now then denied a motion for Monday that he would rely ciencies. doing more of their own summary judgment and on his filed briefs and did Walker’s position on funding proposal Jerome public relations to push the dismissed the case. not make any arguments in Andrea Jackson may be County’s May 25 primary latest jail lease proposition, “There’s no place else for court. reached at ajackson@mag- jail funding misstated election ballot. they have said. me to go with this problem,” Jerome County officials icvalley.com or 735-3380. Jerome County Comm- ission candidate Gerlyn Number of stores “Sam” Walker’s position on the lease-purchase funding served inaccurate GOP option for the proposed A story published Sunday Continued from Main 1 state convention. to explain that,”she said. Jerome County Justice incorrectly reported that are transparent. “… I tried to contact On another front, Joseph Coffman Tim Hurst, chief deputy of the Facility was misstated in a Kick Back serves more than him. He won’t talk to anybody. Their of Twin Falls recently filed a report Secretary of State’s office, also agreed May 12 Times-News arti- 145,000 convenience stores. misrepresentations and accusations with Twin Falls County Clerk Kristina with her interpretation of the law,say- cle. The company serves thou- are pretty scary.” Glascock, claiming the central com- ing the reports are to be filed with the Walker said Monday that sands of convenience stores, Other opponents of the central mittee hasn’t properly filed its public state. while she believes the casinos and fixed-base committee’s leadership are more visi- financial disclosures with her office. As for Coffman, he’s not saying county will need to fund a operators. ble. In 2008, for example, precinct So far, Glascock hasn’t had much much. new jail soon, she is against The Times-News regrets committee members known for back- luck convincing Coffman that the “My statement would be what is in the current lease-purchase the error. ing presidential candidate Rep. Ron central committee’s disclosures are the complaint,”he said. 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By Karen Bossick some students to go up to six “My head is spinning, I’ve Trustee Paul Bates sug- Times-News correspondent months without taking a gotta tell you,” said Trustee gested a workshop to math class. Steve Guthrie. study the proposal. And HAILEY — Blaine An academic council Trustee Mari Beth Superintendent Lonnie County School District within the district examined Matthews questioned how Barber proposed that the trustees want more infor- several scheduling options, many teachers were behind committee work out a sample MEAGAN THOMPSON/Times-News mation before they con- including a traditional the proposal, to which schedule to present to the Before heading off to her place in line for a class spelling bee 7-year- sider scheduling classes at semester system, a rotation Blackman replied “most of board. old Maicee Carson asks her second grade teacher, Cathy Muus- Wood River High School block schedule and a modi- the staff.” Blackman said Wednesday Adams, a question while classmate Sierra Hill, 8, steals a hug Monday through a system similar fied trimester, said English Blackman said the aca- that he understood the afternoon at Perrine Elementary School in Twin Falls. to that of many U.S. col- teacher Amy McGraw and demic council would like board’s reluctance to act right leges. Carole Punnett, a parent permission to receive train- away since the information Wood River High serving on the council. ing necessary to begin con- he’d presented was new. Schools School Principal John The council settled on a structing a flex schedule, and “It’s a big decision to Blackman approached the flex schedule adopted in 1967 asked trustees to move change the entire infrastruc- Continued from Main 1 Dale Layne, superinten- school board Tuesday by Arapahoe High School in quickly to prepare for the ture,and you don’t do that on “These are uncharted dent of the Jerome School night with a proposal to Littleton, Colo. That sys- start of the 2010-11 school a whim,” he said. “I fully waters for all of us,” said District, said the school ditch the school’s current tem’s school year is divided year. understand where they’re Trustee Lori Ward, acting board will vote tomorrow on trimester system, in hopes into two semesters, and Board President Julie coming from.” board chairman during a proposal ratified by that the board will take courses are scheduled based Dahlgren said she wanted to Monday’s meeting, as Bryan the Jerome Education action at next month’s on time demands. A chem- proceed cautiously, as she’s Matsuoka was absent. Association to reduce meeting. istry lab, for instance, might concerned with how the LUNCH Education Association salaries by 1 percent and cut “We’ve outgrown the meet for two consecutive community might react Served daily Contract Negotiations Team 10 days out of the school trimester system,” periods on Tuesday and when they hear about the member Ammy Waters year. The total impact on Blackman said. Thursday, while a world civi- “free time” the schedule from 11:30am couldn’t comment about teacher and administrator The school adopted the lization course might meet could provide students. Everyone actual contract details on the salaries would be a nearly trimester system, which thrice weekly. Welcome! table but said, “We’re mak- 6 percent cut, he said. divides the school year Students may have a cou- ing sure we’re negotiating in Gaylen Smyer, Cassia into three parts,more than ple hours of flex time per Great Meals! good faith and both parties County School District 15 years ago to allow stu- week, which they could use $4.50 & $5.50 are working toward that superintendent, said the dents to take more elective to pursue lab work,meet with Members Non-members end.” Cassia County School Board classes, Blackman said. teachers regarding projects or TWIN FALLS SENIOR CENTER According to Superinten- will vote Thursday on a pro- Blackman said that as work with counselors on col- 530 Shoshone st. West • Twin Falls dent Wiley Dobbs, the dis- posal requiring eight fur- class requirements have lege and career planning or trict is committed to working lough days for teachers, changed and enrollment senior projects. Students with the association to find which would result in a in advanced placement would be allowed to leave an equitable agreement. 4 percent pay reduction, and courses has increased, the campus on a limited basis, The district has recom- 12 furlough days for adminis- planned implementation provided they don’t abuse Need HCG SUPPORT? mended cutting the teacher trators, leading to a 6.3 per- of the district’s dual the privilege. pay budget by 6.5 percent cent reduction. immersion and interna- The proposed schedule We Have I t ! • NON-OILY LOTIONS! and administration by The Gooding School Board tional baccalaureate also teaches students to 9.68 percent, with additional approved six furlough days classes will become a manage their time, which • CLEANSES! savings from 14 furlough for teachers, representing a problem in the trimester will be helpful in college, • DETOXES! days, suspension of comput- 3.6 percent pay reduction. system. Blackman said. • STEVIA-ASSORTED FLAVORS er and textbook purchases Administrators will have a Blackman said schedul- “The more we looked into • LIQUID B-12! and reducing activities and 4.35 percent reduction and ing difficulties with the it, the more it solved things • MULTI-VITAMINS athletics spending. the superintendent will have system force students to we’re struggling with,” he ... and of course, Yes!! Other school districts have a 5.7 percent reduction, said forgo electives for required said. made — or will decide — Superintendent Heather classes, and have led to The proposal caught the We have Homeopathic HCG!G! similar pay reductions. Williams. scheduling gaps leading board off guard. WHERE YOU CAN LOSE UP TO A POUND A DAY! TESTIMONIAL: I started taking HCG March 2ND and my starting weight was 244.2 lbs. I have lost 36.4 lbs. in 40 days. I feel great, have more energy and the best part is I feel good about AROUND THE VALLEY myself again. 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Member FDIC 736-2299 Paid by the Committee to Elect Chuck Coiner State Senate, Gale Kleinkopf Treasurer Main 4 Tuesday, May 18, 2010 IDAHO Times-News, Twin Falls, Idaho Idaho prisoners grow Idaho abuse victim gets produce for food bank BOISE (AP) — Idaho pris- “Occupying time is a big oners are growing produce issue in prison,’’ said new set of prosthetic feet for a food bank on cropland Deputy Warden Jay in the desert south of Boise, Christensen. “When ST. MARIES (AP) — A Doctors who treated her a project that aims to give inmates get up at 5 a.m. to young girl abused so badly There’s nothing that said she was slipping in and inmates something to do fire up the irrigation pumps, by her mother’s boyfriend out of consciousness. and the needy something to then work in the fields, that her legs had to be she can’t do “Both adults seemed very eat. when they come back, amputated has a new set of indifferent about condition Inmates are preparing they’re ready to hit the prosthetic limbs as she pre- with those feet.” of child,’’a deputy wrote in about 6 acres of prison bunks.’’ pares for kindergarten in the — Deanna Wine, grandmother of Kyra Wine, a June 2008 police report. ground near the South It also has the advantage fall. a girl abused so badly that her legs had to be amputated At the time of her arrest, Idaho Correctional Center of being convenient for the Kyra Wine, now just five, Haynes told the deputies for beans, carrots, corn and prison system. received new prosthetic “ she had been working out- red potatoes. Once the veg- The land is only about legs designed for outdoor draw attention to Kyra guilty in 2009 to one count side the home and had left etables mature, they’ll go to 400 yards from the prison, activities. The Spokesman- Wine’s plight and progress. of felony injury to a child. her 3-year-old with Smith, the Idaho Foodbank. so work crews don’t need to Review reports she’d worn Her short prosthetic legs, Her mother, Christina whom she met recently on The Idaho Statesman travel far to get to their job through a pair of specialty called stubbies, have a trac- Haynes, is serving up to 10 the Internet. reports this project harkens site. prosthetics she’d gotten tion grip and no knee joints, years in prison. In addition to her legs, back to an era when Idaho “It can be done at a very just last year. allowing the girl to partici- Authorities said Kyra Kyra Wine lost her kidney prisoners raised their own low cost near the facility,’’ Her grandmother, pate in summer activities Wine was near death when and finger. food. said prison spokesman Jeff Deanna Wine, who has cus- such as swimming in the an anonymous tip alerted She and her 8-year-old But a prison slaughter- Ray. “We don’t have a big tody of the girl, says Kyra family pool without dam- police to visit Haynes’ sister, Amanda Wine, plan house, dairy and produce- transportation issue, mov- can run, jump, swim and aging her conventional pair. home in St. Maries in June to attend a summer camp growing operation were ing inmates off site. In this climb with her new feet. It’s her second pair of the 2008. for children who have lost abandoned years ago, particular case, it’s very “There’s nothing that she specialty prosthetics she Wine was flown by heli- limbs. Amanda Wine had because it became cheaper easy to do.’’ can’t do with those feet,’’ wore through the first pair copter to Sacred Heart also been living in the home just to buy food for The University of Idaho Deanna Wine said. last summer. Medical Center in Spokane, with Smith at the time her inmates. Extension Service is lending The Associated Press Charles Smith, the Wash. 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Valley,Calif.,on Jan.23,1969, Eva was born in Norwood, Richard was born Jan. 10, the youngest child of Janard Mo., on Feb. 27, 1925, one of 1923, in Kimberly, Idaho, to Jones I and Donna Miller. He Miller (Clarence) of Jerome; seven siblings born to Jesse Archie and Anna (Martell) (Connie), Tim Quesnell, was 41 years old at the time of three brothers, Michael Jones and Nola (Pruett) Quesnell. Richard attended Cathy (Doug) Watts and his death. David was such a (Michelle) of Shoshone, McGowan. She lived her and graduated from Cynda Quesnell (Doug); his “happy-go-lucky” child Janard Jones II (Teresa) of younger life in Missouri, Kimberly High School in companion, Helen Dewey; with a huge smile for every- Twin Falls and Ed Jones of where she grew up on a fam- 1941.While in school,he was and one sister, Margaret one. Growing up he played Buhl; as well as two sisters, ily farm. On Dec. 29, 1946, a star athlete lettering in Tilley. He is also survived by with toy soldiers and trucks Sherry Shamey of Twin Falls Eva married Brendon G. track, basketball, football 10 grandchildren and 11 almost exclusively. After and Michelle Jones of Boise; Gill. In their earlier years, and family. and boxing. Richard, with great-grandchildren. Rich- graduating from Twin Falls many aunts, uncles, nieces, they lived in San Lorenzo, She is survived by her the help of six brothers, ard is preceded in death by High School, he joined the nephews and cousins’ and all Calif., where Eva worked for brother, Willard McGowan made the Quesnell name his wife, Lucille; his parents; Idaho National Guard. He of his “brothers and sisters”of Rawlston’s Drug Supply of Mountain Grove, Mo.; her famous in sports. Richard one sister; and six brothers. spent the rest of his life in the the 116th Idaho National Company and the Kelly- aunt, Gladys Pruett West remembered playing quar- A funeral service will be Guard. He did a tour of duty Guard. David was preceded in Springfield Tire Company. and daughter, Mary Ann terback in the first game held held at noon Wednesday, in Iraq, which lasted a year death by his sister, Trina In 1978, they moved to the Steinman; and many under the new lights at the May 19, at St. Edwards (this was his first dream). Jones; and his grandparents. country near Byron, Calif. beloved nieces, nephews, Kimberly stadium. On May Catholic Church,with inter- David and Dolores Biggers A celebration of David’s life Eva and Gill shared many and cousins. She was pre- 8, 1943, he married Lucille ment to follow at the Twin were married Aug. 4, 1995. will be held at 10 a.m. outdoor activities together ceded in death by her hus- Young in Twin Falls at St. Falls Cemetery. A visitation David drove long haul for Wednesday, May 19, 2010, at including fishing, abalone band, Gill; father, Jesse; Edwards Catholic Church. for family and friends will be many years (his second Our Savior Lutheran Church, diving and gardening. She mother, Nola; sisters, Doris To this union came four chil- held from 5 to 7 p.m. dream); he gave it up when his 464 Carriage Lane N. in Twin was a wonderful homemak- and Pauline; and brothers, dren. Tuesday, May 18, at White little girl became ill. He then Falls,with Pastor Scott Berner er who always had an open Robert, Lee and Merle. Richard farmed and Mortuary “Chapel by the went to work at Longview officiating. Burial will follow door for family and friends; A visitation for family and ranched in Murtaugh for Park,”with a rosary at 7 p.m. Fiber in Twin Falls. David’s at the Wendell Cemetery with something tasty to eat that friends will be held from more than 60 years. He and The family wishes to last employment was as an military honors by the Idaho she cooked, baked or 6 until 8 p.m. Wednesday, Lucille started with seven express their gratitude to electrician for JLJ (an electri- National Guard. A viewing for canned; and a friendly game May 19, at the Rasmussen head of cattle and built that Helen Dewey and her family cal contactor) of Twin Falls, family and friends will take of cards or dominoes. Eva Funeral Home, 1350 E. 16th to more than 100. He worked for the wonderful care and where he worked until his place from 6 to 8 p.m. also enjoyed crafts and St. in Burley. Interment will hard and taught his children concern they have given most recent fight with cancer. Tuesday, May 18, at Reynolds made beautiful hand- be in the Thomas Cemetery the value of work. He felt a Richard over the last few He is survived by his wife, Funeral Chapel, 2466 stitched quilts. In 1994, her in Norwood, Mo. great satisfaction from his years. They treated him like a Delores; son, Nade; and step- Addison Ave. E. in Twin Falls. husband, Gill, passed away. In lieu of flowers, the ranching and lifetime “king” and brought much daughter,Danielle, all of Twin Condolences may be left In 2003, Eva moved to family requests a donation accomplishments. Richard happiness to his life. Richard Falls; his father, Janard Jones I for the family at Rupert, to be near her sister, be made in Eva’s name to the was a member of St. will be remembered for his of Shoshone; mother, Donna www.reynoldschapel.com. Pauline Ball Cooper, American Cancer Society. Edwards Catholic Church great sense of humor which and a member of the Knights he shared with all. He was of Columbus. always “happy” and passed Richard is survived by his that happiness on to every- Dollie Ann Henry Oneida four children, Ron Quesnell one he met. SHOSHONE — Dollie their marriage and were in Survivors include her Ann Henry Oneida passed the sheep business with husband, Pete of Shoshone, away Monday, Feb. 8, 2010, Pete’s family and later Idaho; their children, Nellie Virginia Montgomery at the age of 86. farmed until Pete’s retire- Raymond (Kathy) of She was born Oct. 7, 1923, ment. Pete and Dollie also Buckley, Wash., Linda (Don) GOODING — (Dusek) Ridley and in Twin Falls, Idaho, the took over the operation of Board of Hailey, Idaho, Mike Mrs. Nellie Virginia husband, Richard of youngest child of Alton and the Oneida’s Basque (Debbie) and Rick, all of Montgomery, 93- Gooding; two Maude Henry. Dollie was Boarding House in the late Shoshone; 12 grandchildren; year-old widow, granddaughters, raised in Berger, Idaho, and ’70s until the mid-’90s. and numerous great-grand- died Monday, May 5, Myra Jean (Ridley) later Jerome, where she Dollie’s heart was filled with children. Dollie was preced- 2010, at the DeSano Hall and husband, graduated from high school. the lives of others, especially ed in death by two brothers Assisted Living Michael of Hills- She married Pete Oneida in her children and grandchil- and two sisters. Residence in boro, Ky., and Karen Elko, Nev., in 1944. They dren. Nothing was more A celebration of Dollie’s Gooding. Sue (Ridley) Collins would have observed their important to her than the life will be held at 11 a.m. Born Jan. 23, 1917, in and husband, Shane of 66th wedding anniversary happiness of her friends and Saturday,May 22,at the First North Platte, Neb., she was Wendell; three great-grand- on Feb. 10. They lived in Shoshone the greater part of the love of her family. Baptist Church in Shoshone. the daughter of the late Jess daughters, Brandi Lee (Hall) Edward and Lura Ellen DeWitt of Hillsboro, Ky., (Albers) Fellows. The family Jennifer Dawn (Collins) DEATH NOTICES left Buffalo County, Neb., Blanchard and husband, during the 1920s to live in Daryl of Oak Harbor, Wash., Primghar,Iowa, returning in and Zana Ann Hall of David F. Johnson Falls, died Monday, May 17, Dolores L. Harp Arrangements will be 1930. She remained in this Hillsboro, Ky.; one great- David F. Johnson, 67, of 2010, at the home of her son. Dolores Lucille Harp, 76, announced by Parke’s Magic area until her marriage in great-granddaughter, Kae- Twin Falls, died Sunday, Arrangements will be of Buhl, died Monday, May Valley Funeral Home of Twin 1937 to Thomas Dusek. She lyn Kimber Blanchard of Oak May 16, 2010, at his home. announced by Rosenau 17, 2010, at the Twin Falls Falls. completed the eighth-grade Harbor, Wash.; five sisters, A celebration of life will be Funeral Home in Twin Falls. Care Center in Twin Falls. course of study at School Vivian Pierce of Payette, held at 1 p.m. Friday, May 21, Arrangements will be District No. 15 Buffalo Lura Mae Schuller of at the Twin Falls Reformed announced by Farmer Ila L. Froemming County, Neb., on May 29, Ravenna, Neb., Barbara Church, 1631 Grandview Carl R. Alexander Funeral Chapel in Buhl. OAKLEY — Ila 1932. After her marriage, the Whaley of Ontario, Ore., Drive N. in Twin Falls; visi- GLENNS FERRY — Carl Froemming, 88, of Oakley couple relocated to Chicago, Lois Loveland of Heyburn tation 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday, R. Alexander, 94, of Glenns and formerly of Boise, died Ill., where she worked in the and Irene Thomas of Filer; May 20, at Reynolds Funeral Ferry, died Monday, May 17, Wallace L. Saturday, May 15, 2010, at hotel and toy maker indus- and two brothers, Virgil Chapel, 2466 Addison Ave. 2010, at a care center in Norris Jr. the home of her daughter, tries. After her divorce, she Fellows of Ontario, Ore., and E. in Twin Falls. Glenns Ferry. Sharon Jones in Oakley. joined her mother in Eugene Fellows of Fruitland. Arrangements will be FILER — Wallace Lee Arrangements will be Gooding, Idaho (1954) She also leaves behind sev- announced by Rost Funeral Norris Jr., 49, of Filer, died announced by Morrison where she met and married eral stepchildren and their Jane Tremblay Home, McMurtrey Chapel Sunday, May 16, 2010, at his Funeral Home and Robert Elmer Montgomery families; several nieces and Jane Tremblay,85, of Twin in Mountain Home. home. Crematory in Rupert. (1955). In 1960, she achieved nephews, who all had their a lifelong goal of completing lives touched by her and hers high school by graduating by theirs. May 15, 1960, from Gooding Special thanks goes out SERVICES High School. She was a for- from her family to her broth- mer member of the First er Virgil Fellows — her main Helen Lucille Herron N. Meridian in Rupert Jerome Cemetery, 900 W. Mortuary Rupert Chapel). Baptist Church of Gooding caregiver these last few years Walker of Twin Falls, service (Rosenau Funeral Home in Ave. I in Jerome (Farnsworth Sorosis Club for many years, and to the other family at 11 a.m. today at Amazing Twin Falls). Mortuary in Jerome). Gustaf Galen Engstrom of serving as president in 1957. members who played an Grace Fellowship, 1061 Boise and formerly of Declo, After being widowed in important part in her Eastland Drive N. in Twin Sylvia Ann Clark Betts of Donald Edward Wilferthof celebration of life from 2 to 1988, she moved to the remaining independent for Falls; graveside service at Provo, Utah, and formerly of Rupert, graveside memorial 4 p.m. Saturday at Edith’s Fruitland, Idaho, and so long. They also want to 3:30 p.m. today at the Jerome, graveside service at service at 11 a.m. Friday at the Café, E. Highway 81 in Ontario, Ore., area to be thank the members of Rupert (Mar) Cemetery, 450 2 p.m. Thursday at the Rupert Cemetery (Hansen Burley. near her siblings. She just Guardian Hospice and recently returned to Employees of the DeSano Gooding. Throughout her Assisted Living Residence life, she enjoyed fishing, for her care at the end of her camping, crafts, needle- long life. Jazz pianist, composer Hank Jones dies at 91 in N.Y. point, card games and A graveside memorial Bingo. service will be held at 1 p.m. By Ula Ilnytzky Grammy-nominated drummer Mel Lewis the end of things, it’s the end In addition to her parents, Saturday, May 22, at the Associated Press writer “Kids: Live at Dizzy’s beginning in the of the beginning for me.’’ she was preceded in death by Elmwood Cemetery in Club Coca-Cola’’ mid-’60s at New Jazz pianist-turned- two brothers, Albert Earl Gooding, with Pastor Roger NEW YORK — Jazz pianist (2007), called Jones York’s Village impresario George Wein, Harold Lee Fellows; one sis- Johnson of the Gooding First and composer Hank Jones, “one of the master Vanguard jazz club. who founded the Newport ter, Beatrice M. Fellows (died Baptist Church officiating. whose 70-year career musicians in the his- Jones “lived and Jazz Festival, called Jones “an as infant); and her husband Arrangements are under included a stint as Ella tory of jazz.’’ breathed music and inspiration to all of us. — Robert Elmer Mont- the direction of Demaray Fitzgerald’s pianist and “He was the con- was never far from a “Maybe by the time I’m his gomery. She is survived by Funeral Service — Gooding Marilyn Monroe’s accompa- summate accompa- Jones keyboard, even at the age, I’ll know a few changes her daughter, Gloria Diane Chapel. nist when she sang “Happy nist and played with a end,’’Leduc said. that he plays on the piano,’’ Birthday’’ to President John very free flowing approach ... “His incredible burst of joked the 83-year-old Wein F. Kennedy, has died, his His sound, his touch, his productivity — concerts, at the awards ceremony. For obituary rates and information, call manager said Monday. He ideas were all about feeling,’’ recordings, fundraisers, clin- Jones’ contemporary, sax- 735-3266 Monday through Saturday. Deadline was 91. Lovano said. ics — these last few years was ophonist James Moody, who is 3 p.m. for next-day publication. The e-mail Jones, who won a Grammy Throughout his career, unprecedented and truly recorded “Our Delight’’ with lifetime achievement award Jones was respected by his remarkable. He had gigs the pianist, said, “If someone address for obituaries is obits@magic- last year and received the fellow musicians for his ele- planned through next year’’ threw ink at a piece of paper, valley.com. Death notices are a free service and National Medal of Arts from gant touch, melodic sensitiv- and was scheduled to play at Hank could play it.’’ President George W. Bush in ity and stylistic versatility, the Birdland jazz club in New In 1989, the National can be placed until 4 p.m. every day. To view or 2008, died Sunday night at a making hundreds of record- York next week, he added. Endowment for the Arts submit obituaries online, or to place a message New York hospital after a ings, including more than 60 At last year’s Jazz Awards, named Jones as a Jazz Master, brief illness, Jean-Pierre as a leader. He played with Jones was voted pianist of the the nation’s highest honor in in an individual online guestbook, go to Leduc said. some of the biggest names in year by the Jazz Journalists jazz. www.magicvalley.com and click on “Obituaries.” A tireless musician who jazz, including Coleman Association among a crowd- Jones “leaves behind an performed his blend of swing Hawkins, Ben Webster, Wes ed field of nominees that amazing legacy as both a and bebop until the end, Montgomery, Nancy Wilson, included such distinguished leader and a sideman,’’ NEA Jones came from a family of Lester Young, Charlie Parker veterans as Kenny Barron, Chairman Rocco Landesman Cremation Service jazz musicians who included and Coltrane. Cecil Taylor, Ahmad Jamal said of his death. brothers Thad, a trumpeter, According to his website, and Keith Jarrett and newer Born in Vicksburg, Miss., composer and arranger, and Jones’ one regret was that he faces like Jason Moran and and raised in Pontiac, Mich., Funeral Services • Cremation • Monuments Elvin, a drummer known for didn’t record more often with Matthew Shipp. With char- near Detroit, he was influ- Pre-Funded Funeral Plans & Trusts the polyrhythmic beat that his late brothers. But he did acteristic modesty, Jones enced by such legendary propelled John Coltrane’s manage to record “The Great declared it “should be a group pianists as Art Tatum, Teddy classic quartet. Trio Collaboration’’ with award.’’ Wilson and Nat King Cole. Jason Saxophonist Joe Lovano, Elvin before his brother died “This to me is an honor and Lovano said Jones knew Third & Fillmore Jerome, Idaho 83338 • (208) 324-4555 with whom Jones made sev- in 2004. He was a charter also it’s a great incentive to them all, as well as eral CDs when he was an member of the big band that me to do better,’’ Jones said in Thelonious Monk and Bud octogenarian, including the brother Thad co-led with accepting the honor. “It’s not Powell. Hove-Robertson Funeral Chapel MAIN 8 TUESDAY, MAY 18, 2010 OPINION EDITOR STEVE CRUMP: 735-3223 [email protected] “The closing of Manchester airspace once again is beyond a joke.” — Virgin Atlantic President Sir Richard Branson criticizing British authorities after the National Air Traffic Service closed London's Heathrow Airport due to a dense cloud OPINION UOTABLE of volcanic ash drifting across England from Iceland Q EDITORIAL Say you want a revolution? It ain’t happening

his feels like a pop- Pick ’em: Three ulist moment. T Americans are Tea Partying. Greeks are riot- ing. Incumbents are being good choices for thrown out; the Federal Reserve is facing an audit; Goldman Sachs is facing Jerome County prosecution. In Kentucky, Ron Paul’s son might be about to win a Republican Commission Senate primary. erome County’s Republican voters can’t lose when they go to the polls for the primary election on May 25. Ross J Three solid candidates have emerged to Douthat succeed county Commissioner Joe But look through these Davidson, who is retiring anti-establishment the- at the end of the year. atrics to the deep structures Doug Suter, Roger Morley of political and economic inexorably, to further inte- Yes, some of the previous sector. and Gerlyn “Sam” power, and suddenly the gration and a more powerful administration’s more The pattern applies to Walker all have deep surge of populism feels like elite. sweeping claims have been personnel as well as policy. experience in local gov- ABOUT THIS RACE so much sound and fury, This trajectory should be repudiated. But the basic If Robert Rubin’s mistakes ernment and all three obscuring the real story of familiar to Americans. The post-9/11 architecture of helped create an out-of- Three candidates are seeking our time. From Washington panic of 2008 happened, in executive power — expan- would bring different control financial sector, the GOP nomination in the to Athens, the economic part, because the public sive powers to detain, inter- then naturally you need strengths to the table. May 25 pri- crisis is producing consoli- interest had become too rogate and assassinate, Timothy Geithner and Whichever the county’s mary to dation rather than revolu- intertwined with private claimed for the duration of Lawrence Summers — GOP voters choose will succeed tion, the entrenchment of interests for the latter to be an open-ended war — looks Rubin’s proteges — to set be well equipped for the Jerome authority rather than its allowed to fail. But every- destined to endure for pres- things right. After all, who job. County diffusion, and the concen- thing we did to halt the idencies to come. else are you going to trust Walker has an intrigu- Comm- tration of power in the panic, and all the legislation Taken case by case, many with all that consolidated issioner Joe hands of the same elite that we’ve passed, has only of these policy choices are power? Ron Paul? Dennis ing resume for a commis- Davidson, a Walker sion candidate. She’s a presided over the disasters strengthened the symbiosis. perfectly defensible. Taken Kucinich? Sarah Palin? Jerome in the first place. From the Troubled Asset as a whole, they suggest a This is the perverse logic cop, and has worked in Republican law enforcement — Consider the European Relief Program to the stim- system that only knows of meritocracy. Once a sys- who is retir- situation. For a week after ulus bill, from the auto how to move in one direc- tem grows sufficiently mostly in Gooding and ing after Greece’s fiscal meltdown bailout to health care tion. If consolidation cre- complex, it doesn’t matter Twin Falls counties — two terms. began, all the talk was about reform, we’ve created a vast ates a crisis, the answer is how badly our best and since moving to Idaho They are the weakness of the new array of public-private further consolidation. If brightest foul things up. from California in 1990. Gerlyn European Union, the folly of partnerships — empower- economic centralization has Every crisis increases their Her background in drug “Sam” Suter its too-rapid expansion, and ing insiders at the expense unintended consequences, authority, because they enforcement and victim’s Walker, 52, the failure of the of outsiders, large institu- then you need political cen- seem to be the only ones of Jerome, assistance would lend a Continent’s governing class tions at the expense of small tralization to clean up the who understand the system the chief to anticipate the crisis. ones, and Washington at mess. If a government con- well enough to fix it. valuable perspective to deputy the commissioners’ But then the EU acted, the expense of state and spicuously fails to prevent a But their fixes tend to sheriff of bailing out Greece to the local governments. Eighteen terrorist attack or a real make the system even more office. Twin Falls Relatively few law tune of nearly a trillion dol- months after the financial estate bubble, then obvi- complex and centralized, County; lars, and dictating economic crisis, the interests of our ously it needs to be given and more vulnerable to the enforcement officers — Doug Suter, Morley terms to Athens that resem- financiers, CEOs, bureau- more powers to prevent the next national-security sur- current or former — run 52, a ble “the kind of thing a sur- crats and politicians are next one, or the one after prise, the next natural dis- for county commission in Jerome rendering field marshal yoked together as never that. aster, the next economic Idaho. Since so large a contractor, and Roger signs in a railway car in the before. The CIA and FBI didn’t crisis. Which is why, despite percentage of Jerome Morley, 58, of Jerome, a forest at the end of a bloody A similar, quieter consoli- stop 9/11, so now we have all the populist backlash County’s budget involves retired Qwest employee. war,”in the words of the dation has taken place in the the Department of and all the promises from No Democrat has filed for the Washington Post columnist realm of national security. Homeland Security. Washington, this isn’t the the jail and the sheriff’s position. office, her insights would Anne Applebaum. If the After campaigning against Decades of government end of the “too big to fail” be a plus. bailout succeeds, the EU’s the Bush administration’s subsidies for homebuyers era. It’s the beginning. Morley, a self-described moderate Republican, authority over its member foreign-policy overreach, helped create the housing states will be dramatically President Obama has crash, so now the govern- Ross Douthat is a colum- has been involved in the effort to create a Jerome enhanced — and a crisis retained nearly all of the war ment is subsidizing the auto nist for The New York County Urban Renewal Agency and is a former created by hasty, elite-driv- powers that George Bush industry, the green-energy Times. Write to him at member of the county Zoning Commission. He has en integration will have led, took up in the wake of 9/11. industry, the health care [email protected]. a broad and varied background, including a career as a cable splicer for Qwest, a stint as a voice actor and a lobbyist in the state Senate for three years. Suter is a member of the Jerome County Planning and Zoning Commission best known for his efforts Judicial activism isn’t the answer to reduce urban sprawl and to protect farmland in what’s now Idaho’s third-fastest growing county. hen the Supreme the problem but none of provide a school funding All three of these candidates would be able to hit Court declares a R those approaches was man- program meeting the consti- W state program to EADER dated. To do so would have tutional requirement. That the ground running if they succeed Davidson next be unconstitutional, should COMMENT violated our constitutional legislation went into effect winter. Jerome County voters are lucky to have such it try to force a solution on separation of powers. on July 1, 2006. The a choice. the Legislature? I believe the Justice Roger In his interview with the Legislature followed up in Idaho Constitution’s separa- Burdick editorial board of the Idaho August 2006 with passage of tion of powers requires a Statesman, Judge Bradbury the Property Tax Relief Act, TIMES-NEWS conservative, rather than an to learning is inherently part stated that rather than taking which relieved property tax- activist, approach. of a thorough system of pub- the Supreme Court’s payers of the primary Brad Hurd . . . . publisher Steve Crump . ...Opinion editor The Supreme Court made lic, free common schools.” approach, he would have responsibility for mainte- The members of the editorial board and writers of five separate decisions in the The lower court was directed sent the case back to the dis- nance of school facilities and editorials are Brad Hurd, Steve Crump, Bill Bitzenburg school funding case. In 1993, to determine whether the trict court to determine how placed the burden on state and Mary Lou Panatopoulos. the court allowed the plain- Legislature had provided a much money was required in general funds through a 1 tiff school districts to pro- means to fund school facili- order to fix the defective percent increase in the sales ceed with their suit and held ties that provided such an school buildings (a state esti- tax. This addressed the main that the court would decide environment. The lower mate placed the amount at problem — the reliance on LETTER TO THE EDITOR what constitutes a thorough court held a trial in 2000, between $700 million and $1 the property tax to fund system of public, free and ruled in 2001 that the billion), that he would then school facilities and the diffi- Vote Heileson to speak out. The primar- schools. After that decision, Legislature’s system of have mandated the culty imposed by that system ies, as Yogi Berra might say, the Legislature increased the school funding was violative Legislature to come up with on poor school districts. for U.S. Congress are of primary importance. public school appropriation of the Constitution. In the the money and, if it did not Had the court followed the This year, I am voting for It has often been said that and directed the State Board fourth round in 2004, the make the necessary appro- activist approach, the solu- Chick Heileson for U.S. “the guy with the most of Education to develop new court struck down legislation priation, he would hold the tion would have required Congress! Chick Heileson money wins.”Well, not rules regarding the thor- passed in the previous year Legislature in contempt of additional litigation in dis- is opposed to CIEDRA and necessarily. oughness requirement. In imposing various restrictions court. This is activist trict court and, perhaps, a that should be headline Chick might not have the 1996, the Supreme Court on lawsuits related to school approach that would have constitutional confrontation. news! most money, but he has a directed the lower court to funding. I was on the court taken longer to resolve the The court observed the sepa- The Central Idaho ton of integrity, and that’s address the question of by that time and concurred matter and have produced a ration of powers with its Economic Development why my vote goes his way. I whether the funding system in the decision. constitutional confrontation constitutional approach and and Recreation bill is a certainly hope yours does met the Legislature’s obliga- In December 2005 the between the court and the got the desired results. worthless piece of trash, too! tion under the Constitution court held the Legislature’s Legislature. Activism is not the best and the incumbent should After all the Tea Party to provide a thorough system school funding program to be The approach taken by the answer. be ashamed of the amount people have said and done, of public education. unconstitutional, despite a court worked. Four months of time and money wasted let’s hope they turn out and In 1998, the court upheld number of improvements after the fifth decision, the Roger Burdick is seeking a on that blasted affront to vote on May 25. My advice the rules adopted by the edu- made by the Legislature. In Legislature passed the second full term on the the rights of all Idahoans. is, stick with Chick! cation board relating to the that last decision, the court School Facilities Idaho Supreme Court in the Chick Heileson is right JACK WAYNE CHAP- thoroughness requirement. suggested a number of Improvement Act, designed May 25 election. He is being on, right down the line! It PELL The court also ruled that “a approaches for the specifically to meet the challenged by 2nd District is high time for the voters Buhl safe environment conducive Legislature to consider to fix Legislature’s responsibility to Judge John Banbury.

T HE LIGHTER SIDE OF POLITICS Doonesbury By Garry Trudeau Mallard Fillmore By Bruce Tinsley Times-News, Twin Falls, Idaho OPINION Tuesday, May 18, 2010 Main 9 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Allred will bring Worst, Jan Wygle and Larry means more revenue for the and $107,186 as the high. common sense back Election letters deadline is Young. school. By adding one hour (For the entire state, salaries If you don’t already know, a day, children can still meet were $10,015,321.) Why do to Idaho politics Wednesday that will give you a very the state hour requirement, districts with only three or If you think politics in good idea of who is best but the actual academic year four schools need a separate Idaho has changed, you’re The deadline for submitting letters to the editor about qualified to be Blaine can be shortened by up to 23 superintendent, and why right. candidates and issues in the May 25 Idaho primary elec- County’s district judge. days, which saves on busing are they paid so much more It has gotten more parti- tion is Wednesday at 5 p.m. There really is no question. and utilities. There are than the teachers? san, more extreme and less All election letters must be 300 words or less. It is Judge Robert J. Elgee. drawbacks of course, but I Combining the smaller dis- civil. Respect, moderation BOB FALLOWFIELD believe there are far more tricts could result in sub- and compromise have been Ketchum benefits stantial savings and, by cut- pretty much lost. $150,000 set aside for the able to all are at the core of (sde.idaho.gov/site/.../ ting from the top down But it doesn’t have to be program. Even those in that her platform. Michelle’s Morley will help Review of a 4-Day School instead of the bottom up, we that way. An outstanding deal with cystic fibrosis strength comes from listen- Week.ppt). can maintain teacher pay. Idaho citizen — Keith Allred every day said they should- ing to and working with Jerome County Another area we need to The Magic Valley has — has stepped forward to n’t be immune from cuts. others to make Idaho a bet- I served with Roger look at is superintendent some of the most outstand- run for governor and bring We offered it up saying save ter place. Her strong con- Morley while organizing the salaries. In Twin Falls ing and dedicated teachers I common sense and consen- this program do the fair nection to Idaho’s back- Jerome County Urban County alone, the combined have ever met, and they sus back to our state. amount of cutting save this country and agricultural Renewal Agency. He very superintendent salaries deserve our appreciation, You may know Keith as program and in better times lands gives her a clear per- quickly grasped the prob- totaled $620,786 for the not salary cuts. the founder of The hopefully we’ll be able to spective of the need to pre- lems and issues presented. 2008 to 2009 school year, HEATHER PILKINTON Common Interest, a biparti- build it back in,”cystic serve Idaho’s premier air, Moreover, he willingly spent with $79,000 being the low, Wendell san citizens’ organization fibrosis specialist Dr. Perry water and land for future the time and effort needed that built consensus for Brown said. generations. to find the best solutions. I common sense solutions to In the end, lawmakers Having worked with have watched him make teamwork Idaho’s problems. I have gave the program the ax, Michelle and been her decisions that put Jerome (n) watched Keith work for the telling the health and wel- friend for over a decade, I County’s interest above his past five years, and I’ve been fare department to find the assure you that she is an own. Roger served on the - coordinated effort on the part of a group of impressed at his skills and money if they wanted to excellent choice for senator Jerome County Planning persons acting together in the interests of a with his achievements. keep the program going. A for District 25. She will lis- and Zonning Commission, common cause. When you get your property tough task for a department ten, take action and be so he is aware of the various tax bills, they’ll be lower that had to shutdown sever- responsible to those who issues we face. We’d like to be an integral part of your fi nancial team. because Keith succeeded in al offices and layoff more elect her. Vote on May 25 for Roger is a native of Jerome raising the homeowners’ than 100 people in the last Michelle Stennett! County. His father owned exemption and tying it to few months.” MARGARET STEWART McCleary Drug. He gradu- the housing index. For the full article go to Ketchum ated from Jerome High The Common Interest http://www.kivitv.com/Glo School and has been mar- also succeeded in increasing bal/story.asp?S12454243. Judge Elgee right ried to a local girl — LaRene Bob Dan Verlene public access to the Quite frankly, after read- Burnham — for 38 years. *Advisory services offered through Investment Legislature, protecting us ing this article, I felt sick to choice in Blaine County Being retired from Qwest, Advisors, a division of ProEquities, Inc., a Reg- istered Investment Advisor. Securities offered from abuse of the govern- my stomach. This certainly When you need help on Roger has the time, and his through ProEquities, Inc. A Registered Bro- 161 5th Ave. S, Ste. 201 ker-Dealer, Member FINRA & SIPC. 3 Mark ment’s power of eminent looks like 44 Idahoans are your house, painting, car- past service shows that he Financial is independent of ProEquities, Inc. 732-0088 domain, killing a bill that facing death sometime after pentry, new roof, you ask has the knowledge and will- would have made ordinary June because they can’t your friends in the con- ingness it takes to properly drivers subsidize big trucks afford their medications. struction trades who you serve as Jerome County and protecting our right to Look no further for the should hire. When you have commissioner. Lastly, based vote in whatever primary we fabled “Death Panels” as we a medical problem, bad on personal interaction, I choose. have one right here in Idaho knee, allergies, a potential am sure that Roger has the Keith is capable and — our governor and cancer scare, you ask your skills and character to trustworthy, and he shares Legislature. doctor or friends who are simultaneously work with my values. As an outdoors- HOWARD JOHNSTON nurses who you should see. while learning from the two man, he knows the impor- Kimberly The legal business is no dif- hold-over commissioners — tance of protecting Idaho’s ferent. The lawyers you Cathy Roemer and Charlie special places. He under- Stennett excellent know can tell you who to use Howell. stands the needs of Idaho’s for a particular problem, KERM DOUGLAS families and supports tax choice for state Senate DUI, divorce, a real estate Hazelton policies that spread the bur- For 20 years, Michelle transaction, and they can den fairly. He knows that Stennett has been Sen. Clint tell you whether a judge is a School districts good education is our best Stennett’s sounding board good judge or an attorney a economic development tool. on issues concerning Idaho good attorney. have other options And he knows how to grow and those who live here. Take a look at the names besides budget cuts May 21 CSI Fine Arts Auditorium Idaho in a way that will Standing in for Clint this below of attorneys who Tickets: $7/Adult bring living-wage jobs to all past legislative session as he practice in Blaine County Ben Botkin’s expose on 7:30 p.m. $5/Students our citizens. focused on his health, and support Judge Elgee and teacher salary cuts high- Keith Allred has my full Michelle worked with and compare it with the list of lighted a very serious issue support. gained respect from both attorneys, if any, that are facing Idaho’s educational CECIL D. ANDRUS Democrats and Republicans supporting his opponent. system and that is, how do Boise for her knowledge and grasp Doug Aanestad, Rick we handle this budgeting GOOD (Editor’s note: Cecil of the issues. Her back- Allington, K. Ellen Baxter, crisis without forcing teach- Andrus, a Democrat, served ground working with non- Erin Clark, Bruce Collier, ers to bear the brunt of it? as governor of Idaho from profit groups has given Dan Dolan, Kevin Donohoe, Our teachers are some of EDUCATION 1971-76 and from 1987-95. Michelle a valuable under- Tracy Dunlap, Kirsten the lowest paid in the nation He also served as U.S. sec- standing of what the blue Dutcher, Brian Elkins, Jill as it is, and to force them to retary of the interior from collar workforce and busi- Eshman, Bob Harwood, Bob endure further salary cuts IS THE REAL 1977-81). ness owners need in order to Korb, Michael Kraynick, simply is not fair, especially survive in today’s trying James Laski, Ed Lawson, when there are other Governor, Legislature are economy. She knows giving Ann Legg, Barry Luboviski, options. One alternative is a STIMULUS PACKAGE back to her community, Chip Mills, Lori Nakaoka, four-day week. Several Idaho’s own ‘death panel’ locally and at the state level, Doug Nelson, Andy Parnes, schools have already gone to The cystic fibrosis pro- makes us stronger, able to Jim Phillips, Tom Praggastis, four-day weeks, and others, gram is coming to an end. grow and to work with Lee Ritzau, R. Keith Roark, including Boise Why wasn’t this headlined changing times. Evan Robertson, Honorable Independent and Meridian, in local newspapers and TV? Michelle’s belief in acces- E. Lee Schlender, Ed Simon, are considering it. The article goes on to say, sibility is a primary driver in Gary Slette, Jim Speck, Schools on four-day “State budget cuts will end a her quest to run for senator Miles Stanislaw, Steve weeks have experienced less 32-year program aimed at for District 25. She believes Thompson, Stan Welsh, absenteeism among stu- helping adult cystic fibrosis education at all levels Cynthia Woolley, Ben dents and teachers, which patients … About 44 adult should be accessible, cystic fibrosis patients use affordable and available to the money the program pro- all and that government and vided to help fight the dis- its resulting manifestations ease ... The cost of the pro- should be transparent and “PROFESSIONALPROFESSIONAL FURNITURE RRESTORATION” gram has skyrocketed in the all its records publicly avail- last 12 years. Idaho’s health able. Finish & Structural Repairs and welfare office asked Her quest for solid jobs Antique Restoration lawmakers to stash away for Idaho’s workforce and Stripping & Rei nishing $322,000 to pay for the pro- her strong belief that gram this year. Gov. Otter’s affordable and accessible Color Matching & Custom Finishes proposed budget even had health care should be avail- Missing Parts Replacement www.nlrestorations.com 208-934-9061 LEON SMITH STATE REPRESENTATIVE District 24

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BURLEY/RUPERT FORECAST TWIN FALLS FIVE-DAY FORECAST Yesterday’s Weather Today: Scattered showers move through. High 61. Today Tonight Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday City Hi Lo Prcp Boise 77 61 0.00" Tonight: Lingering scattered showers. Low 41. Challis 74 43 Trace" Coeur d’ Alene 81 54 0.00" Idaho Falls 80 39 0.00" Tomorrow: Turning partly sunny, mild. High 68. Jerome 79 52 Trace" Lewiston 79 61 0.00" Lowell 85 47 0.04" Malad City n/a n/a n/a" ALMANAC - BURLEY Malta 75 48 n/a" Scattered A few lingering Partial Showers, Partial Partly to Pocatello 82 40 0.00" showers showers sunshine, maybe a sunshine and mostly cloudy Rexburg 78 38 Trace" Temperature Precipitation Salmon 79 41 0.00" develop comfortable t-storm cooler Stanley 69 32 0.01" Sun Valley 71 38 0.00" Yesterday’s High 80° Yesterday’s 0.00" High 60° Low 43° 70° / 47° 73° / 42° 59° / 40° 55° / 38° Yesterday’s Low 50° Month to Date 1.91" Normal High / Low 71° / 42° Avg. Month to Date 0.76" ALMANAC - TWIN FALLS Record High 90° in 1992 Water Year to Date 6.7" Record Low 31° in 1955 Avg. Water Year to Date 7.54" Barometric Sunrise and Temperature Precipitation Humidity Pressure Sunset IDAHO’S FORECAST Yesterday’s High 82° Yesterday’s Trace Yesterday’s High 60% 5 pm Yesterday 29.72 in. Today Sunrise: 6:13 AM Sunset: 8:56 PM Yesterday’s Low 53° Month to Date 1.02" Yesterday’s Low 14% Wednesday Sunrise: 6:12 AM Sunset: 8:57 PM SUN VALLEY, SURROUNDING MTS. Normal High / Low 69° / 42° Avg. Month to Date 0.77" Today’s Forecast Avg. 66% Thursday Sunrise: 6:11 AM Sunset: 8:58 PM In the mid 50s today with rain showers likely. Record High 90° in 1988 Water Year to Date 6.57" Friday Sunrise: 6:10 AM Sunset: 8:59 PM Showers should diminish overnight with some Record Low 31° in 1971 Avg. Water Year to Date 8.32" A water year runs from Oct. 1 to Sept. 30 Saturday Sunrise: 6:10 AM Sunset: 9:00 PM clearing. Partly sunny tomorrow. Temperature & Precipitation valid through 5 pm yesterday Moonrise Coeur d’ Moon Phases Today’s U. V. Index Low Moderate High Alene Today Highs 50's to 60'sTonight’s Lows 30's to 40's and Moonset Forecasts and maps prepared by: 62 / 45 BOISE Today Moonrise: 10:35 AM Moonset: 12:49 AM 5 11 3 5 7 10 Rain showers are likely early today Wednesday First Full Last New Moonrise: 11:50 AM Moonset: 1:26 AM The higher the index the10 Cheyenne, Wyoming with cool temperatures. Showers May 20 May 27 June 4 June 12 Thursday Moonrise: 1:05 PM Moonset: 1:57 AM more sun protection needed www.dayweather.com should diminish tonight with partly cloudy skies. REGIONAL FORECAST NATIONAL FORECAST WORLD FORECAST Lewiston Today Tomorrow Thursday Today Tomorrow Today Tomorrow Today Tomorrow Today Tomorrow 67 / 52 Today Highs/Lows 60's / 40's City Hi Lo W Hi Lo W Hi Lo W City Hi Lo W Hi Lo W City Hi Lo W Hi Lo W City Hi Lo W Hi Lo W City Hi Lo W Hi Lo W Boise 63 44 th 72 48 pc 68 48 sh Atlanta 81 57 pc 79 59 pc Orlando 90 68 th 92 71 pc Acapulco 89 75 pc 88 75 pc Moscow 73 53 sh 69 50 pc Grangeville NORTHERN UTAH Bonners Ferry 67 46 th 71 41 sh 57 41 sh Atlantic City 59 52 r6355shPhiladelphia 60 51 r 68 56 sh Athens 68 63 pc 68 62 pc Nairobi 69 58 sh 71 56 sh A good chance of light rain Burley 61 41 th 68 44 pc 74 44 sh Baltimore 58 52 sh 67 51 sh Phoenix 88 65 pc 91 68 su Auckland 63 42 pc 58 48 pc Oslo 62 53 pc 69 54 pc 61 / 45 through the day today. Challis 65 41 th 67 38 pc 69 38 th Billings 82 51 th 76 48 th Portland, ME 64 51 sh 64 47 r Bangkok 92 80 th 92 80 th Paris 63 38 sh 65 44 pc Coeur d’ Alene 62 45 th 69 42 sh 55 42 sh Birmingham 81 56 su 81 59 pc Raleigh 75 55 th 73 58 sh Beijing 89 58 pc 93 59 pc Prague 55 41 pc 54 48 r Temperatures will be cool. Elko, NV 57 34 sh 69 38 pc 73 38 pc Boston 65 50 mc 55 53 r Rapid City 71 49 th 61 47 th Berlin 54 46 r 56 54 r Rio de Jane 78 65 sh 78 62 th Mild tomorrow with partial Eugene, OR 64 50 sh 64 44 r 58 44 sh Charleston, SC 85 67 th 83 67 pc Reno 62 42 pc 71 45 pc Buenos Aires 65 52 pc 67 56 pc Rome 69 53 sh 65 55 th McCall sunshine. 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My success is Regina 81 59 pc 82 58 pc Low: 22 at Daniel, Wyo. based on persistence, not luck.” More Magic Valley weather at www.magicvalley.com/weather Estee Lauder Get up-to-date highway information at the Idaho Transportation Department’s Web site at 511.idaho.gov or call 888-432-7623. Del. man charged Spacewalk hit by brief with faking his power outage, no danger way into Harvard By Marcia Dunn power temporarily was lost Associated Press writer to some equipment, includ- By Mark Pratt Rhodes and Fulbright ing the video monitors being Associated Press writer scholarships. A professor CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. used by the robot arm opera- reviewing his application — A partial power outage at tor, Piers Sellers. WOBURN, Mass. — A noticed similarities the International Space Reisman was perched on Delaware man has been between Wheeler’s writing Station briefly interrupted the end of the space station’s charged with faking his way and that of a colleague, Monday’s spacewalk,knock- 58-foot robot arm when into Harvard and duping prosecutors said. ing out robotic camera views Sellers lost his camera views. the Ivy League school out of Wheeler was indicted on of the two astronauts as they Bowen was working with $45,000 in financial 20 offenses, worked to install a spare connectors on the space sta- aid, grants and including larceny, antenna. tion’s framework. Both were scholarships. identity fraud and The outage happened two told to stop what they Adam Wheeler, pretending to hold a hours into the 7 1/2-hour were doing. 23, of Milton, Del., degree. He was spacewalk by Atlantis crew- NASA said neither space- was admitted to scheduled to be men Garrett Reisman and walker was ever in any dan- Harvard and arraigned Tuesday Stephen Bowen. The space ger. In less than a half-hour, became a student in in Middlesex station’s main command- everything was back to nor- AP photo/NASA 2007 after he falsely Wheeler Superior Court. and-control computer sud- mal, although the backup In this frame grab taken from NASA television, U.S. astronaut Stephen claimed he had Wheeler, who denly crashed. A backup computer remained in Bowen works on the International Space Station during a spacewalk earned a perfect academic was studying English, was computer kicked in, but charge. on Monday. record at Phillips Academy trying to transfer to Yale in Andover and had studied and Brown when he got for a year at the caught in the “web of lies Massachusetts Institute of and deceit,’’ Middlesex Technology, prosecutors County District Attorney U.S. court grants asylum to Obama’s African aunt said Monday. Gerry Leone said. Ultimately, authorities “This defendant’s act- By Meghan Barr public. People who seek asy- have played a role. In a situation should be fol- said, Wheeler’s attempts to ions cheated those who Associated Press writer lum must show that they November interview with lowed. be an overachiever were his competed honestly and face persecution in their The Associated Press, A judge later agreed to undoing: Harvard started to fairly for admissions and for CLEVELAND — A U.S. homeland on the basis of Onyango said she was dis- suspend her deportation look into Wheeler’s back- the scholarships that this immigration court has religion, race, nationality, abled and was learning to order and reopen her asylum ground after he sought the defendant fraudulently granted asylum to President political opinion or mem- walk again after being para- case. school’s endorsement for obtained,’’Leone said. Obama’s African aunt, bership in a social group. lyzed from Guillain-Barre Wong has said that allowing her to stay in the “The asylum process is syndrome, an autoimmune Obama wasn’t involved in country, her attorneys confidential and she wants disorder. the Boston hearing. Obama announced Monday. to keep it that way, so we Onyango moved to the spokesman Nick Shapiro The decision was mailed can’t get into details on why United States in 2000. Her said Monday that the White Roaming bear traps N.J. Friday and comes three the judge granted asylum or first asylum request was House had no involvement months after Kenya native the exact basis for her rejected, and she was in the case at any point in the paramedics inside building Zeituni Onyango, the half- claim,’’ said her attorney ordered deported in 2004. process. sister of Obama’s late father, Scott Bratton. He added: But she didn’t leave the In his memoir, “Dreams WAYNE, N.J. (AP) — ing ruler at it and scared it testified at a closed hearing “She doesn’t want people to country and continued to from My Father: A Story of Paramedics in New Jersey away. in Boston, where she arrived feel sorry for her.’’ live in public housing in Race and Inheritance,’’ have been slowed respond- Police Capt. Paul Ireland in a wheelchair and two doc- Another lawyer, Margaret Boston. Obama affectionately ing to an emergency call by a says the bear was gone by the tors testified in support of Wong of Cleveland, said last Onyango’s status as an referred to Onyango as bear that kept them trapped time officers arrived Monday her case. year that Onyango first illegal immigrant was “Auntie Zeituni’’ and inside their building. morning at the St. Joseph’s Onyango plans to apply applied for asylum “due to revealed just days before described meeting her dur- A nearby contractor get- Wayne Hospital ambulance for a work visa and can apply violence in Kenya.’’The East Obama was elected in ing his 1988 trip to Kenya. ting something from his building in Wayne, just west for a green card after she gets African nation is fractured November 2008. Obama Onyango helped care for truck says he came face to of New York City. He says an it, her attorneys said. by cycles of electoral vio- said he did not know his aunt the president’s half brothers face with a 200-pound bear ambulance then was able to The basis for her asylum lence every five years. was living here illegally and and sister while living with but threw a carpenter’s fold- get out. request was never made Medical issues also could believes laws covering the Barack Obama Sr. in Kenya.

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Photos by MEAGAN THOMPSON/Times-News Arden Schmitt of Gooding opens the cold frames on the garden beds attached to his underground, solar-powered greenhouse. The beds benefit from the greenhouse’s warmth.

Arden Schmitt Salvaged building tends to plants in his green- house outside Gooding on materials make Thursday. The greenhouse, heated by solar solar-powered power, has been producing ripe tomatoes, greenhouse cucumbers and green beans for By Melissa Davlin more than a Times-News writer month.

GOODING — Arden Schmitt’s home is a monument to do-it-yourself mastery, effi- ciency and resourcefulness. Nearly everything on the property — from his gazebo with a giant satellite dish as a roof, to the exotic-bird coops built with salvaged wood, to the 1,200-square-foot addition to his house — is built with recycled materials. And now, he has a new trophy in his refur- bished collection. Last summer, Schmitt designed and built a par- MORE ONLINE tially underground green- VIEW a slide show house, heated entirely by with sights and An organic carrot from Arden Schmitt’s greenhouse is ready to eat. solar power. While garden- sounds from Arden ers across Magic Valley Schmitt’s greenhouse. Although Schmitt raises mostly have struggled with a cold MAGICVALLEY.COM When the outdoor temperature hit vegetables in his greenhouse, spring and high winds, he negative 6 degrees in December, some flowers are interspersed and his family have enjoyed The solar panels — with the food. fresh tomatoes, green which he bought used for Arden Schmitt’s greenhouse stayed beans and cucumbers for $1,000 — are connected to at a comfortable raised garden beds, built more than a month. pipes with antifreeze, from wood from a torn- After reading a few which he gets used from a down bridge, on the other books and attending a local cheese factory. The stayed at a comfortable 46 north side of the structure. side of his property. greenhouse workshop at heating requires no elec- degrees. The setup also includes When he opens the door College of Southern Idaho, tricity, though two small The placement of the fans attached to a thermo- to the greenhouse, startled Schmitt designed his own electric pumps circulate greenhouse helps. The stat. When the tempera- birds flutter and toads hop greenhouse. The structure the antifreeze in pipes run- windows face south, so the ture reaches 140 degrees, across the concrete for is partially underground, ning through the walls of sun hits the plants directly the fans kick on so the shelter in the moist soil. taking advantage of soil’s the greenhouse. in winter when they need plants don’t overheat. Schmitt, an organic grower natural insulation, and is And it works. When the the most heat. The same Attached garden beds with and avian enthusiast, keeps hooked up to solar panels outdoor temperature hit placement shades the cold frames sit on the south pests away with canaries, that provide much of the negative 6 degrees in plants in summer, when side and add even more to warmth. December, his greenhouse the sun is parallel to the his harvest, as do Schmitt’s See GREENHOUSE, H&G 2 Try container gardening this season, Part plant, part art in a pretty pot you make yourself

By Karen Bossick “It’s fun, and you can decorate it Times-News correspondent any way you like,”said student Colby Many vegetables lend Benz.“I traced the image of a bear into SUN VALLEY — Plants add color themselves to container clay,cut it out and added it to the out- and beauty to our lives. So why not the side of one of my pots, gluing it on pots we show them off in, as well? gardening, including with a little wet clay.” Use a pretty pot for pretty flowers. Many vegetables lend themselves to Or use it to grow vegetables in a small carrots, radishes, leaf container gardening, including car- place. lettuce, green onions, rots, radishes, leaf lettuce, green Artisans at Boulder Mountain onions, tomatoes, eggplant, radishes, Clayworks in Ketchum will sell pots tomatoes, eggplant, squash and peppers. You can even suitable for plants at the Plant and radishes, squash and peppers. combine two or three vegetables, such Pottery sale at the Sawtooth Botanical as a tomato, cucumber and herbs, in Garden on May 30. Or you can make one pot. your own using some simple methods that have been colored with various The size of the pot dictates what can that don’t require a degree in ceram- stains. be grown. Pole beans do well in small ics. “It’s a very easy thing to do,”said pots. But larger vegetables like toma- KAREN BOSSICK/For the Times-News Anne Aganon has been showing her Aganon. “As the edges dry, the clay toes require at least a 2-gallon con- Do-it-yourself pottery studios can help you put this season’s container ceramics class at The Community pulls away from the pot it’s in. All tainer and preferably a 5-gallon con- garden in simple pots of your own design. Community School student School in Sun Valley a simple tech- you have to do is turn the pots tainer. Meredith Pintler adorned one of hers with a paw. nique called neriage or nerikomi that upside down and slip one out of the involves cutting and layering clays other.” See CONTAINER, H&G 4 Home & Garden 2 Tuesday, May 18, 2010 HOME & GARDEN Times-News, Twin Falls, Idaho

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By Susan Murphy Casey McClatchy Newspapers Calling all What might the gray- streaked stone atop your heirloom furniture have in common with a public stat- urban gardeners ue? Both are made of Carrara marble, quarried in Italy and Yes, even agricultural into tiny spaces; use long used in furniture as well southern Idaho has urban unusual spots such as pub- as statues and fountains. gardeners. lic lots or streetside boule- “Carrara marble has a As more of the region’s vards for their veggies; or timeless look,’’Amy Sanders population lives in cities rely on pots, balconies, of International Materials of instead of farms, cramped- window boxes or roofs to Design says. “It’s not conser- but-creative gardeners grow food. vative, but it’s not glitzy.’’ learn to use space wisely to If that describes you or Carrara is a white marble regain a closer connection someone you know, con- heavily streaked with small with their food. tact photographer and gray veins. Also popular (and Will that be you this sea- writer Meagan Thompson roughly three times as son? The Times-News is this week at 735-3251 or expensive) is Calacatta gold, looking for people who meagan.thompson@lee. which is a brighter white with cram vegetable gardens net. fewer (but usually larger) veins of brown, gold or green, depending on where it was quarried. White marble can bring class to a kitchen, bathroom, Remove mold fireplace or entryway. Because marble comes in the form of tiles, slabs, mosaics and moldings, homeowners often finish an entire room from vinyl siding for a stunning look, says Leslie Erickson of Carthage By Al Heavens handled with cleaners such Marble in Kansas City. The Philadelphia Inquirer as Fantastik or Windex. For The cost of decking the larger sections, a solution room can add up quickly, Any tips on of vinegar (30 percent) and particularly if the fabrication removing water (70 percent) has is detailed,but there are cost- Q:mold and proven to be successful. conscious ways to add white mildew from Alternatively, you could marble to a home. vinyl siding on the north try the following solution: “Consider resurfacing side of a house? 1/3 cup powdered laundry small areas that are focal From the Vinyl detergent, 2/3 cup pow- points of a room, like a Siding dered household cleaner, kitchen island or a coffee or MARBLE A:Institute: one quart liquid laundry end table,’’Erickson says. It’s Small spots of mold bleach, and also common for customers MAINTENANCE and mildew can be 1 gallon of water. to buy marble to fit a favorite table base and replace a worn Advice differs about upkeep or ugly top. and stain-guarding marble, For projects such as tables whether it’s polished or Pest control and even small bathroom honed, but a few tips are uni- by feathered vanities and backsplashes, versal. WANTED… Erickson suggests marble Find out if your marble was friends remnants,which can cost less treated with a stain-resistant than 40 percent of the origi- sealant before installation. Fitting domesticated We still pay top nal price. For a small vanity, Have it re-sealed yearly or as birds — exotic or say 2 feet by 4 feet, seek rem- needed (when beads of water ordinary — into your dollar for junk nants from slab and tiles or MCT photos absorb easily). landscape and your life. batteries! Use non-ammonia-based mosaics, Erickson says. Carrara marble with its gray streaks and Calacatta gold marble with its cleaner for minor spills. Other less expensive brown-to-gold streaks give a home a splashier look without bringing NEXT WEEK IN HOME &GARDEN Interstate Batteries options include a sundry Some experts suggest com- too much glitz. 733-0896 tower from Pottery Barn mercial marble cleaners for ($399) with a Carrara marble look of worn, aged marble choice of finish. Polished tougher stains or a poultice top or a “Carrara-style’’ because of its natural beauty, marble has a vibrant shine, with a baking soda base. IDAHO COIN GALLERIES marble table from CB2 says Katie Gruenewalk of Sue Shinneman of Kitchen ($299). Kitchen Studio in Kansas Studio says. 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To make a hand-built pot using the neriage or the nerikomi method, gather several pieces of clay that have been stained different colors. Clay that looks gray will turn white when fired. Roll the clay flat and cut into strips. If you ground wish, you can add texture to the strips by While Anne Aganon’s pots are meant to be rolling them over something with texture. seen, LavonneMarie Schildt’s pots are not. Overlap the strips in an old terra cotta pot. Schildt makes pinch pots by sticking her Pinch the edges together and add wetter clay thumb in the middle of a ball of local clay to make it stick together. Smooth the insides and creating a hole that grows larger and with your hand, a stone or a sponge. larger as she turns it in her hand working it. If you plan to use the pot for plants, make a She then puts a seedling in the planter and drainage hole in the bottom. If you do that, you might also want to make a saucer for the buries the planter in the ground. pot to sit in. “Clay, of course, is part of the soil and hap- Trim the edges of the clay at the top of the old pily returns to the surrounding earth as the terra cotta pot. Meredith Pintler rolls out one of several pieces of dif- roots grow through the pores of the pot- tery and moisture softens the dried clay At this point, you can keep the pot as is. Or you ferently colored clay. can add on. Colby Benz, for instance, body,”she said.“Talk about green ecolo- attached an image of a bear he’d cut out of gy!” clay. And Community School student This probably works best if you plant the Meredith Pintler has adorned her pots with pot in a shady, moist place, said Allison leaves, fruit, even a paw. Kennedy, education director for the Community School ceramics instructor Anne Fire the pot at one of the ceramics stores in Sawtooth Botanical Garden. Aganon displays a pinch pot created by Magic Valley or Wood River Valley. Glaze it for It does look nice if you’re presenting the LavonneMarie Schildt that’s designed to be a shiny texture, if you like. seedling as a gift, Aganon added. buried in the ground with the plant. — Karen Bossick Container Continued from H&G 1 Put a couple of plants in a pot that you’ve made Rather buy than and you have a wonderful Chelsea Cloud starts off with strips to give her fin- gift. create? ished pot a layered texture. The key thing is making Boulder Mountain Clayworks studio artists will exhibit and sell sure you have drainage or pottery designed for use with plants at the Sawtooth Botanical the plant’s roots will rot Garden’s Plant and Pottery sale from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. May 30. from sitting in water, said The sale is at the garden, a few miles south of Ketchum on Idaho Allison Kennedy, educa- Highway 75 and Gimlet Road. Proceeds benefit Boulder tion director at Sawtooth Mountain Clayworks and the Sawtooth Botanical Garden. Botanical Garden. If you don’t have a hole in the tive pots as they water. room for growth. Or bottom of the pot, you Be aware, too, that transfer your plant to a should at least place dark-colored containers bigger container as it pebbles in the bottom. can absorb heat that could grows. Some people also place damage plant roots. their plants in plastic Finally, plant your Karen Bossick may be pots that they can flower or veggie in a pot reached at kbossick@cox- remove from the decora- that allows adequate internet.com or 578-2111.

Colby Benz decorates the clay’s top edge before loosening his creation from the old terra cotta Frannie Sensenbrenner pokes a hole in the bottom of pot. her pot so she can use it for plants.

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An For now, USDA is projecting the “It now appears that they are the improving economy will support By Cindy Snyder 13.37 billion bushels. The 3.31 bil- national farm gate price for corn at ‘new normal’ prices that we will increased domestic use, reducing Times-news correspondent lion-bushel soybean crop is $3.20 to $3.80 per bushel for the deal with for the foreseeable future stocks below 2010 levels. The all- expected to be the second largest 2010-11 marketing year compared but they are not low enough to milk price is projected to average Forecasters are projecting record on record. to the previous year’s forecast of support an expansion in and of $15.70 to $16.70 per hundred- corn and soybean crops for 2010, Analysts say growers could like- $3.50 to $3.70 per bushel. themselves,”they said. “With this weight next year, about 30 cents and ethanol demand seems to be ly plant more than the 88.8 million Analysts believe May estimates year’s supply reductions and con- higher than this year’s projected moving in the same direction — acres they intended to plant when set the stage for steady feed costs, sequent rally of cattle and hog price. the two are expected to leave live- surveyed in early March — further provided weather conditions work prices, though, these price levels Beef production for 2011 is fore- stock producers’ feed costs adding to the corn glut. in favor of early planted corn crops should provide some badly-need- cast at 25.217 billion pounds, down unchanged from last year. But the U.S. Department of and a soybean crop that is among ed profits to all meat protein sec- 2.2 percent from 2010 based on Those projections were factored Agriculture is projecting a 245 bil- the earliest planted. tors.” continued declines in U.S. cow into the May world grain balance lion bushel increase in total corn Timely rains and sufficient heat Milk production for 2011 is fore- inventories and calf crops, and sheet, which provides the first look usage in 2010 with 100 million units are needed to make those cast to increase as producers expected lower imports of cattle in at forecasts for this crop year. coming from increased ethanol bumper crop forecasts a reality,say respond to improving returns, 2011. Per capita beef consumption Forecasters are expecting 2010 to demand. Higher demand will push Steve Meyer and Len Steiner in the USDA forecasters say. Output is is expected to fall by 0.3 pounds break the last corn crop record at total corn usage to 13.3 billion Daily Livestock Report, but $3.50 estimated at 193 billion pounds, up next year. R EPLACING Wheat market LOSSES likely to stay flat this summer

By Cindy Snyder this month after dropping Times-News correspondent 210 million bushels in out- F.T. Freestone, a put last year. Currently the Wheat growers and mar- soft red crop is only 46 per- sugar beet grower in ket watchers who were cent of 2007’s outlook Hansen, replanted hoping to find a reason for level. Growing conditions prices to rally in the coming in the Pacific Northwest are 22 acres of beets months were disappointed better than the start to the south of Hansen by the latest revision to the 2009 crop and that has because of vole and world’s grain balance sheet. pushed the white wheat “There’s no reason for estimate up 15 million frost damage. wheat to go up,” said Jon bushels from a year ago to He wasn’t the only Marcus, a trader with 215 million bushels. one. Early estimates Lakefront Futures and Plenty of winter mois- Options, said in a press ture in Texas and put the number of conference call following Oklahoma and no frost acres that need to the release of the May damage this spring along world agricultural supply with improved feeder cat- be replanted from and demand estimate. tle prices could increase Gooding to The market is looking the number of winter Blackfoot at 27,000 to outside factors — pri- wheat acres used to feed marily the stock market cattle. Forecasters are acres to 28,000 and dollar’s value — expecting up to 200,000 acres, or 19 to 20 rather than supply or acres of winter wheat to be percent of the origi- demand to drive prices. used as spring pasture in He’s expecting a fairly flat both states. nal acres planted. year with wheat trading in Total wheat used is pro- Growers and agrono- a 30 to 40-cent range jected to be up 3 percent, mists are still evalu- through at least the sum- thanks to higher domestic mer. use and exports. But ating fields for wind The first U.S. winter despite higher expected use or frost damage and wheat crop estimate was and lower production,end- 24 million bushels over the ing stocks are projected at that estimate may trade’s average estimate of nearly 1 billion bushels, the still rise. 1.458 billion bushels with a highest since 1987.The sea- higher hard red wheat crop son average farm price for being the difference. Hard all wheat is projected at red’s output came in at $4.10 to $5.10 per bushel, 960 million bushels versus compared to the 2009 pro- 919 million last year and jection of $4.90 per bushel. expectations of 920 mil- The greatest unknown lion bushels Harvested facing the commodity acres in the Southern markets,Marcus said,is the Plains were higher than state of the world economy. expected. “We could see lower Soft red’s crop fell prices if we see a lack of CINDY SNYDER/ sharply by another 120 mil- demand or lack of export For the Times-News lion to 284 million bushels sales,”he said. Federal Reserve Flooding fields benefits birds, crops says Western farm Farmers take part in experiment economy looks OK By Phuong Le Associated Press writer The Associated Press winter wheat harvest on 53.8 million acres. The LA CONNER, Wash. — OMAHA, Neb. — Farm USDA has said farmers are Three-inch deep water income should improve in planning to plant 78.1 mil- would seem to be about the some Western and lion acres of soybeans and last thing Dave Hedlin Midwestern states during 88.8 million acres of corn in would want to see on the the second quarter because 2010. field where he grows livestock businesses will Bankers who answered cucumbers, potatoes and benefit from lower feed the survey expect overall other crops near northern costs, the Federal Reserve farm income to improve Washington’s Skagit Bay. Bank of Kansas City said. slightly in the second quar- But for the past three The Fed’s survey of banks ter but remain below last years, the third-generation AP photo in the 10th District says year. farmer has taken part in an Nature Conservancy biologist Julie Morse hefts a spotting scope as she walks along the shoreline of a total farm income fell The Fed said farmland experiment that contradicts farm field flooded to provide wetland habitat for migratory shorebirds near La Conner, Wash. slightly in the first quarter values increased about everything he’s known as crop prices declined, so 2 percent across the district about farming. For a fee, he this land well-drained and erty owners. Early results fattened up in the flooded that is expected to reduce during the first three agreed to flood about 20 dry,” said Hedlin, who have been so positive that field during spring and fall farmers’ income this year. months of 2010 because acres to provide wetland acknowledged skepticism organizers at The Nature migrations, and the farmers Crop prices declined over demand remained strong. habitat for migratory shore- when conservationists Conservancy, a group that noted a spike in nitrogen, a the past few months Most of the land buyers birds, a move researchers offered to pay him to flood works to protect land and key plant fertilizer, in their because of predictions of were farmers, but some hoped would also result in part of his farm. rivers throughout the world, fields. increased corn and soybean buyers were investors. more productive farmland. The effort, called Farming plan to replicate it in other “We absolutely want to plantings and expectations “Our grandparents spent for Wildlife,included Hedlin parts of the country. for a better-than-average See ECONOMY, Agribusiness 2 all their time trying to keep and two other nearby prop- Hundreds of shorebirds See FLOOD, Business 2

DATES — June 1 — DCP/ACRE sign-ups close. Extensions will NOT be accepted. RATES — 90-Day Treasury Bill 0.125%; Farm Operating, Direct 2.875%; Farm Ownership, Dates June 1 — Recons Should be filed. Direct 5.00%; Farm Ownership, Direct Down Payment 1.50%; Emergency 3.75%; Farm June 15 — Deadline for Adjusted Gross Income forms. Storage Facility 4.250%. and rates June 30 — Crop reporting deadline. Agribusiness 2 Tuesday, May 18, 2010 AGRIBUSINESS Times-News, Twin Falls, Idaho MARKET SUMMARY YESTERDAY ON WALL STREET

NYSE AMEX NASDAQ May 17, 2010 11,500 NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks had another MOST ACTIVE ($1 OR MORE) MOST ACTIVE ($1 OR MORE) MOST ACTIVE ($1 OR MORE) &QY,QPGU 11,000 wild day, but there was no big event, no Name Vol(00) Last Chg Name Vol(00) Last Chg Name Vol(00) Last Chg KPFWUVTKCNU 10,500 surprise announcement behind the Citigrp 9034699 3.86 -.12 Taseko 40856 5.40 -.25 PwShs QQQ1174453 47.08 +.15 swings. 10,000 S&P500ETF3056985 113.95 +.06 GoldStr g 33695 4.49 -.18 Cisco 719667 24.87 -.07 +5.67 All that happened was that the euro, bat- BkofAm 1759513 16.35 +.01 NA Pall g 32915 3.90 -.17 Intel 640924 22.02 +.13 9,500 tered to a four-year low Monday before SPDR Fncl 1681509 15.36 +.01 Rentech 29803 1.10 -.04 SiriusXM 632401 1.09 +.02 10,625.83 J F M A M FordM 1057312 11.95 -.16 VirnetX 28058 6.11 -.02 ETrade 472243 1.53 -.04 trading began in the U.S., started rising Pct. change from previous: +0.05% High 10,660.97 Low 10,436.06 again. And the stock market followed the GAINERS ($2 OR MORE) GAINERS ($2 OR MORE) GAINERS ($2 OR MORE) currency shared by 16 European nations. Name Last Chg %Chg Name Last Chg %Chg Name Last Chg %Chg May 17, 2010 2,800 Shortly after noon Eastern time, the Dow GLG Ptrs 4.36 +1.45 +49.8 CorMedix n 2.84 +.38 +15.4 InfoLgx rsh 10.72 +4.07 +61.2 2,600 Jones industrials were down 184 points. It GLG Ptr un 4.31 +1.26 +41.3 GerovaFn 11.50 +1.33 +13.1 VirtualRad 16.90 +3.91 +30.1 0CUFCS Pactiv 28.44 +4.47 +18.6 LGL Grp 8.20 +.85 +11.6 TTI Tm 2.42 +.33 +15.8 2,400 looked like they would add to the pile of GerberSci 7.41 +.73 +10.9 PacOffPT 4.25 +.40 +10.4 DeerCon s 8.87 +1.17 +15.2 EQORQUKVG 2,200 triple-digit losses they've suffered over the TRC Cos 3.09 +.27 +9.6 StreamGSv 6.66 +.57 +9.4 MillIndia 2.46 +.29 +13.4 past two weeks as investors worried that +7.38 2,000 1,800 Europe's economic problems would LOSERS ($2 OR MORE) LOSERS ($2 OR MORE) LOSERS ($2 OR MORE) 2,354.23 J F M A M spread to the U.S. Name Last Chg %Chg Name Last Chg %Chg Name Last Chg %Chg But the euro, which seesawed after earlier TerNRoy n 10.38 -1.67 -13.9 Banro g 2.01 -.25 -11.1 HaupgDig h 2.82 -1.11 -28.2 Pct. change from previous: +0.31% High2,364.65 Low 2,304.28 AcornIntl 3.62 -.52 -12.6 NIVS IntT 2.35 -.24 -9.3 PerfectWld 24.71 -8.23 -25.0 falling to $1.2237,finally started its move EngySvc un 4.10 -.40 -8.9 Astrotech 2.15 -.64 -22.9 higher — a bumpy move, but an upward MLDJREst10 5.25 -.70 -11.7 May 17, 2010 1,400 PSBMetDL 11.61 -1.54 -11.7 ChinaPhH n 2.87 -.23 -7.4 Andatee n 4.64 -.91 -16.4 1,300 one nonetheless. The Dow also racheted BiP Lead 44.80 -5.14 -10.3 FieldPnt 2.58 -.20 -7.2 ChiElMot n 6.41 -1.08 -14.4 5VCPFCTF 1,200 higher, finally ending with an almost six- DIARY DIARY DIARY 2QQT¶U 1,100 point advance. 1,000 Advanced 1,263 Advanced 150 Advanced 1,308 The Dow rose 5.67,or 0.1 percent, to 900 Declined 1,858 Declined 342 Declined 1,409 +1.26 10,625.83. The Standard & Poor's 500 Unchanged 82 Unchanged 35 Unchanged 120 800 J F M A M index rose 1.26, or 0.1 percent, to 1,136.94, Total issues 3,203 Total issues 527 Total issues 2,837 1,136.94 New Highs 30 New Highs 4 New Highs 41 while the Nasdaq composite index rose Pct. change from previous: +0.11% High 1,141.88 Low 1,114.96 New Lows 26 New Lows 4 New Lows 50 7.38, or 0.3 percent, to 2,354.23. Volume 5,934,830,778 Volume 105,085,469 Volume 2,327,249,679 SOURCE: SunGard AP

INDEXES 11,258.01 8,087.19 Dow Jones Industrials 10,625.83 +5.67 +.05 +1.90 +24.95 COMMODITIES REPORT 4,812.87 2,971.98 Dow Jones Transportation 4,479.08 -8.65 -.19 +9.26 +42.37 without notice. Producers desiring more recent price information Round Reds 50-lb cartons Size A Minnesota-N. Dakota 9.50. 408.57 325.67 Dow Jones Utilities 379.49 -.33 -.09 -4.65 +14.91 C LOSING FUTURES should contact dealers. 7,743.74 5,552.82 NYSE Composite 7,063.83 -13.81 -.20 -1.69 +20.42 Pintos, no quote, new crop great northerns, no quote 1,994.20 1,451.26 Amex Index 1,832.22 -16.48 -.89 +.40 +21.30 pinks, no quote, new crop small reds, no quote, new crop. L IVESTOCK Mon Commodity High Low Close Change Prices are given by Rangens in Buhl. Prices current May 12. 2,535.28 1,664.19 Nasdaq Composite 2,354.23 +7.38 +.31 +3.75 +35.90 Jun Live cattle 93.50 92.45 92.50 - .75 Other Idaho bean prices are collected weekly by Bean Market 1,219.80 869.32 S&P 500 1,136.94 +1.26 +.11 +1.96 +24.98 Aug Live cattle 92.20 91.15 91.20 - .80 News, U.S. Department of Agriculture Pintos, $30 POCATELLO (AP) — Idaho Farm Bureau Intermountain Livestock 12,847.91 8,900.27 Wilshire 5000 11,950.03 +9.01 +.08 +3.48 +28.57 May Feeder cattle 110.35 109.53 109.65 - .58 great northerns, not established small whites, not estab- Report for Monday, May 17. Aug Feeder cattle 113.25 112.00 112.05 - .93 lished pinks, Ltd. $30 small reds, Ltd. $30. Quotes current LIVESTOCK AUCTION — Burley Livestock Market on Thursday. 745.95 470.37 Russell 2000 695.71 +1.73 +.25 +11.24 +40.61 Sep Feeder cattle 112.80 111.98 112.05 - .60 May 12. Utility and commercial cows 62.00-75.50 canner and May Lean hogs 83.50 81.45 81.50 - 2.05 cutters 45.00-58.00 heavy feeder steers 95.00- Jun Lean hogs 83.80 81.55 81.60 - 2.23 113.75 light feeder steers 108.00-128.00 stocker STOCKS OF LOCAL INTEREST May Pork belly xxx.xx 102.25 102.25 - 1.00 G RAINS steers 125.00-137.00 heavy holstein feeder steers 75.00-80.00 Jul Pork belly 100.20 98.55 98.55 - 2.85 light holstein feeder steers 75.00-88.00 heavy feeder heifers AlliantEgy 1.58 43 34.52 +.40 +14.1 Kaman .56 24 26.69 -.02 +15.6 May Wheat 473.50 466.25 469.00 - 2.50 90.00-108.00 light feeder heifers 105.00-118.50 stocker AlliantTch ... 9 75.07 -.95 -15.0 Keycorp .04 ... 8.26 -.17 +48.8 Jul Wheat 486.75 484.25 486.25 - 2.50 heifers 110.00-120.25 bulls 70.00-83.25 May KC Wheat 493.50 486.00 490.00 - 1.00 Valley Grains Remarks: no comments. AmCasino .42 ... 20.28 +.52 +33.2 LeeEnt ...... 3.39 -.11 -2.3 Jul KC Wheat 501.50 498.75 501.50 - .75 Prices for wheat per bushel: mixed grain, oats, corn and beans Aon Corp .60 17 41.85 +.24 +9.2 MicronT ... 57 9.17 +.23 -13.2 May MPS Wheat 514.00 508.50 511.75 -1.00 per hundred weight. Prices subject to change without notice. BallardPw ...... 2.16 -.06 +14.3 OfficeMax ... 47 18.21 +.28 +43.5 Jul MPS Wheat 525.75 520.00 524.00 + 0.00 Soft white wheat, ask barley, $5.70 oats, $5.80 M ETALS/MONEY May Corn 361.50 355.50 356.00 - 7.00 corn, $6.90 (15 percent moisture). Prices are given by Rangens in BkofAm .04 78 16.35 +.01 +8.6 RockTen .60 10 52.51 +.40 +4.2 Jul Corn 368.50 363.75 364.00 - 6.25 Buhl. Prices current May 12. ConAgra .80 14 24.48 +.11 +6.2 Sensient .80f 15 28.97 +.01 +10.2 May Soybeans 948.00 938.00 941.00 - 12.50 Barley, $6.75 (48-lb. minimum) spot delivery in Gooding: corn, no By The Associated Press Costco .84f 22 58.35 +.61 -1.4 SkyWest .16 9 14.67 +.24 -13.3 Jul Soybeans 939.00 939.00 935.25 - 12.25 quote (Twin Falls only). Prices quoted by JD Heiskell. Prices cur- Selected world gold prices, Monday. May BFP Milk 13.41 13.29 13.37 + .04 rent May 12. London morning fixing: $1230.25 off $6.25. Diebold 1.08 30 30.22 -.20 +6.2 Teradyn ... 71 11.32 +.13 +5.5 Jun BFP Milk 13.98 13.72 13.75 - .13 London afternoon fixing: $1236.00 off $0.50 DukeEngy .96 13 16.93 +.15 -1.6 Tuppwre 1.00 15 46.07 +.41 -1.1 Jul BFP Milk 14.69 14.30 14.31 - .22 POCATELLO (AP) — Idaho Farm Bureau Intermountain Livestock NY Handy & Harman: $1236.00 off $0.50. DukeRlty .68 ... 13.21 +.01 +8.5 US Bancrp .20 24 25.61 +.10 +13.8 Aug BFP Milk 15.16 14.90 14.91 - .15 Report for Monday, May 17. NY Handy & Harman fabricated: $1334.88 off $0.54. Sep BFP Milk 15.30 15.03 15.05 - .14 POCATELLO — White wheat 3.95 (down 10) 11.5 percent NY Engelhard: $1238.75 off $0.50. Fastenal .80f 42 53.65 -.01 +28.8 Valhi .40 ... 20.00 -1.53 +43.2 Jun Sugar 14.53 13.81 13.89 - .24 winter 3.78 (down 1) 14 percent spring 5.19 (up 1) barley 6.25 NY Engelhard fabricated: $1331.66 off $0.54. Heinz 1.68 17 46.71 +.60 +9.2 WalMart 1.21f 14 52.73 +.61 -1.3 Oct Sugar 15.08 14.37 14.44 - .29 (steady) NY Merc. gold May Mon. $1227.70 up $0.30. HewlettP .32 13 47.52 +.09 -7.7 WashFed .20 ... 19.05 +.32 -1.5 Jun B-Pound 1.4547 1.4250 1.4476 - .0082 BURLEY — White wheat 3.90 (down 10) 11.5 percent NY HSBC Bank USA 4 p.m. Mon. $1227.00 off $7.00. Sep B-Pound 1.4517 1.4261 1.4475 - .0082 winter 3.72 (down 1) 14 percent spring 4.98 (down 1) HomeDp .95f 23 35.59 +.39 +23.0 WellsFargo .20 13 31.97 -.07 +18.5 Jun J-Yen 1.0903 1.0791 1.0811 - .0037 Barley 5.25 (steady) NEW YORK (AP) — Handy & Harman silver Monday $18.825 off Idacorp 1.20 14 34.75 +.15 +8.8 ZionBcp .04 ... 27.30 -.03 +112.8 Sep J-Yen 1.0912 1.0813 1.0826 - .0036 OGDEN — White wheat 4.15 (steady) 11.5 percent $0.490. Jun Euro-currency 1.2417 1.2235 1.2389 + .0002 winter 3.90 (steady) 14 percent spring 5.12 (up 1) H&H fabricated $22.590 off $0.588. Sep Euro-currency 1.2427 1.2244 1.2397 + .0002 Barley 6.10 (steady) The morning bullion price for silver in London $19.110 off $0.530. Jun Canada dollar .9691 .9579 .9660 - .0030 PORTLAND — White wheat 4.74 (down 1) 11 percent Engelhard $19.310 off $0.170. HOW TO READ THE REPORT Sep Canada dollar .9686 .9583 .9657 - .0030 winter 4.95-5.05 (down 1) 14 percent spring 6.44 (down Engelhard fabricated $23.172 off $0.204. Jun U.S. Dollar 87.21 86.20 86.30 + .069 1) NY Merc silver spot month Monday $18.835 off $0.367. Jun Comex gold 1242.8 1219.1 1228.1 + .3 NAMPA — White wheat cwt 6.33 (steady): bushel 3.80 (steady) Stock Footnotes: cc – PE greater than 99. dd – Loss in last 12 mos. d – New 52-wk low Aug Comex gold 1244.3 1221.0 1229.9 + .3 NEW YORK (AP) — Spot nonferrous metal prices Mon. during trading day. g – Dividend in Canadian $. Stock price in U.S.$. n – New issue in May Comex silver 19.31 18.80 18.84 - .37 Aluminum -$0.9434 per lb., London Metal Exch. past 52 wks. q – Closed-end mutual fund; no PE calculated. s – Split or stock dividend of Jul Comex silver 19.45 18.74 18.86 - .37 Copper -$3.1546 Cathode full plate, LME. 25 pct or more in last 52 wks. Div begins with date of split or stock dividend. u – New 52- Jun Treasury bond 122.3 121.7 121.1 - 0.2 C HEESE Copper $2.9230 N.Y. Merc spot Mon. wk high during trading day. v – Trading halted on primary market. Unless noted, dividend Sep Treasury bond 122.7 120.2 120.3 - 0.2 Lead - $1951.50 metric ton, London Metal Exch. rates are annual disbursements based on last declaration. pf – Preferred. pp – Holder May Coffee 133.40 133.00 134.55 + 0.30 Zinc - $0.9298 per lb., London Metal Exch. Jul Coffee 134.05 132.00 132.55 - 1.75 Cheddar cheese prices on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange Gold - $1236.00 Handy & Harman (only daily quote). owes installment(s) of purchase price. rt – Rights. un – Units. wd – When distributed. wi – May Cocoa 2233 2185 2230 +12 Barrels: $1.4200, + .0025: Blocks: $1.4650, + .0025 When issued. wt – Warrants. ww – With warrants. xw – Without warrants. Jul Cocoa 2206 2161 2202 +10 Gold - $1227.70 troy oz., NY Merc spot Mon. Dividend Footnotes: a – Also extra or extras. b – Annual rate plus stock dividend. c – May Cotton 81.64 80.51 81.20 + .48 Silver - $18.825 Handy & Harman (only daily quote). Jul Cotton 77.50 76.81 77.21 + .41 Silver - $18.835 troy oz., N.Y. Merc spot Mon. Liquidating dividend. e – Declared or paid in preceding 12 mos. f – Annual rate, increased P OTATOES Platinum -$1697.00 troy oz., N.Y. (contract). on last declaration. i – Declared or paid after stock dividend or split. j – Paid this year, divi- Jun Crude oil 72.25 69.27 70.08 - 1.53 Jun Unleaded gas 2.1410 2.0415 2.0431 - .0877 Platinum -$1663.20 troy oz., N.Y. Merc spot Mon. dend omitted, deferred or no action taken at last meeting. k – Declared or paid this year, n.q.-not quoted, n.a.-not available r-revised accumulative issue with dividends in arrears. m – Annual rate, reduced on last declara- Jun Heating oil 2.0698 1.9816 1.9852 - .0754 Jun Natural gas 4.413 4.282 4.398 + .086 CHICAGO (AP) — USDA — Major potato markets FOB shipping tion. p – Init div, annual rate unknown. r – Declared or paid in preceding 12 mos plus Quotations from Sinclair & Co. points Friday. NEW YORK (AP) — Key currency exchange rates Monday, com- stock dividend. t – Paid in stock in last 12 mos, estimated cash value on ex-dividend or 733-6013 or (800) 635-0821 Russet Burbanks Idaho 50-lb cartons 70 count 11.00-11.50: 100 pared with late Friday in New York: distribution date. x – Ex-dividend or ex-rights. y – Ex-dividend and sales in full. z – Sales count 4.50-5.00. Dollar vs: Exch. Rate Pvs Day in full. vj – In bankruptcy or receivership or being reorganized under the Bankruptcy Act, Baled 5-10 lb film bags (non Size A) 2.50-3.00. Yen 92.54 92.21 or securities assumed by such companies. B EANS Russets Norkotahs Wisconsin 50-lb cartons 9.00-10.00: 100 Euro $1.2392 $1.2385 • Most active stocks above must be worth $1 and gainers/losers $2. count 6.00-6.50. Pound $1.4493 $1.4560 Baled 5-10 lb film bags (non Size A) 4.50. Swiss franc 1.1311 1.1308 Mutual Fund Footnotes: e – Ex-capital gains distribution. f – Previous day’s quote. n - Valley Beans No-load fund. p – Fund assets used to pay distribution costs. r – Redemption fee or con- Russet Norkotahs Washington 50-lb cartons 70 count 7.00-8.00: Canadian dollar 1.0343 1.0321 Prices are net to growers, 100 pounds, U.S. No. 1 beans, less 100 count 6.00-7.00. Mexican peso 12.7700 12.5870 tingent deferred sales load may apply. s – Stock dividend or split. t – Both p and r. x – Ex- Idaho bean tax and storage charges. Prices subject to change Baled 5-10 lb film bags (non Size A) 3.50-4.00. cash dividend. Source: The Associated Press. Sales figures are unofficial. Get more stocks and commodities information online at Magicvalley.com/business/ EPA will limit pesticides near salmon streams By Jeff Barnard will also be requirements to report “We are encouraged that they Associated Press writer dead fish. Even at very low levels, the chemicals have been are finally getting serious about Even at very low levels, the found by federal biologists to interfere with salmon’s implementing these protections GRANTS PASS, Ore. — The U.S. chemicals have been found by fed- and hope that the agency takes Environmental Protection Agency eral biologists to interfere with sense of smell, making it harder for them the most immediate and aggres- said Monday it will impose restric- salmon’s sense of smell, making it sive action available to it to ensure tions on spraying three agricultur- harder for them to find food, avoid to find food, avoid predators and return that pesticides are removed from al pesticides to keep them out of predators and return to native Northwest salmon waters,” said salmon streams after manufactur- waters to spawn. to native waters to spawn. Steve Machuda, an attorney for ers refused to adopt the limits vol- The EPA action stems from a spokesman Garry Hamlin. deficient. Earthjustice in Seattle, the pub- untarily. lawsuit filed by anti-pesticide In a letter to the EPA, a lawyer They also objected to EPA’s lic-interest law firm that repre- EPA will develop new rules for groups in 2001. for Dow AgroSciencies and handling of the case. sented the anti-pesticide applying the chemicals diazinon, Manufacturers Dow Agro- Makhteshim Agan said the com- The EPA decision comes a year groups. malathion and chlorpyrifos that Sciences, Makhteshim Agan of panies feel there is no scientific and a half after NOAA Fisheries Meanwhile, EPA notified will include no-spray zones along North America, Cheminova and evidence the pesticides are Service found the pesticides NOAA Fisheries that it is going streams and restrictions on spray- Gharda Chemicals Ltd. notified killing, harming or jeopardizing threaten the survival of 27 species ahead with implementing restric- ing depending on weather condi- EPA on Friday that they would not the survival of salmon, or harm- of salmon and steelhead that are tions on the next set of pesticides tions, EPA spokesman Dale voluntarily adopt the restrictions, ing critical habitat, and that the protected by the Endangered found to harm salmon: carbaryl, Kemery said in an e-mail. There said Dow AgroSciences NOAA Fisheries analysis was Species Act in the West. carbofuran and methomyl. Economy Flood Continued from Agribusiness 1 Continued from Agribusiness 1 The biggest gains in farm and ranch land val- replicate it,” said Julie Morse, ues were reported in Nebraska. Compared to a an ecologist with The Nature year ago, prices for nonirrigated farmland in Conservancy.“You could do it Nebraska increased 6.2 percent, irrigated farm- anywhere as long as there’s a land increased 4.6 percent and ranchland water source and you build increased 6.1 percent. berms to hold the water.“ The Fed said farm credit conditions held Buying land to create habi- steady in the first quarter with interest rates on tat wasn’t feasible because no operating loans remaining at historically low one wanted to sell, so Morse levels just below 7 percent on average. 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Supreme Court rules on sex offenders, juveniles who didn’t kill victims The Supreme Court took two cracks at one of the law’s thorniest questions Monday: When can you lock up a prisoner and throw away the key? Not when it’s a teenager who hasn’t killed anyone, the jus- could carry oil to Keys tices said. But when it’s a “sexually dangerous’’ inmate, maybe so, even if he has completed his federal prison sentence. By Jeffrey Collins lons are already in the Gulf. By a 5-4 vote, the court said young people serving life prison and Matt Sedensky The loop current is a rib- )WNHQKNURKNND[VJGPWODGTU terms must have “a meaningful opportunity to obtain release’’if they Associated Press writers bon of warm water that It’s been nearly a month since an offshore drilling platform exploded and sank of the coast of Louisiana and oil is still haven’t killed their victims. The majority opinion by Justice Anthony begins in the Gulf of Mexico gushing into the Gulf of Mexico. Kennedy extended the “children are different’’ rationale that drove ROBERT, La. — With BP and wraps around Florida. his decision five years ago that outlawed the death penalty for killers finally gaining some control Some scientists project the  Length in miles of a tube put into place on May 15 to funnel under 18. over the amount of oil spew- current will draw the crude crude oil from the leaking well into a tanker The court ruled in the case of Terrance Graham, who was implicat- ing into the Gulf of Mexico, through the Keys and then  Length in miles of the largest undersea plumes of oil scientists ed in armed robberies when he was 16 and 17. Graham, now 23, is in scientists are increasingly up Florida’s Atlantic Coast, have spotted in the Gulf of Mexico since the explosion prison in Florida, which holds 60 percent of juvenile defendants who worried that huge plumes of where the oil might avoid the  Number of workers killed in the explosion of the Deepwater are locked up for life for crimes other than homicide. crude already spilled could beaches of Miami and Fort Horizon rig on April 20 “The state has denied him any chance to later demonstrate that get caught in a current that Lauderdale but could wash  Distance in miles of the blown-out well from the Louisiana coast he is fit to rejoin society based solely on a non-homicide crime that would carry the mess all the up around Palm Beach.  Weight in tons of a container that was lowered over the he committed while he was a child in the eyes of the law,’’ Justice way to the Florida Keys and Many scientists expect the blown-out well in a failed attempt to cap the spill Anthony Kennedy wrote in his majority opinion. “This the Eighth beyond, damaging coral oil to get no farther north  Percentage of cleanup costs BP has promised to pay Amendment does not permit.’’ reefs and killing wildlife. than Cape Canaveral, mid-  Depth of the blown-out well in feet In a second case, the court voted 7-2 to uphold a federal law that Scientists said the oil will way up the coast, before it is allows for the indefinite imprisonment of inmates considered men- move into the so-called loop carried out to sea and  Gallons of crude oil that BP estimates is funnelled per day tally ill and “sexually dangerous,’’ no matter that their sentences current soon if it hasn’t becomes more and more into a tanker have been served. already, though they could diluted.  Gallons of oil that BP and the U.S. Coast Guard estimate not say exactly when or how The pollution could is spewing into the Gulf every day from the leak much there would be. Once endanger Florida’s shoreline  Dollars BP estimates it is spending per day Treasury says Chrysler will pay back $1.9B it is in the loop, it could take mangroves, seagrass beds on cleanup costs of $4 billion gov’t loan received in 2009 10 days or longer to reach the and the third-longest barrier  Dollars BP estimates it has spent so far on cleanup costs The Treasury Department said Monday it will lose $2.1 billion on a Keys. reef in the world, the 221- loan made to Chrysler in early 2009.Taxpayer losses from bailing out “It’s only a question of mile-long Florida Keys  Dollar amount of BP's first quarter 2010 profit Chrysler and General Motors are expected to rise as high as $34 bil- when,’’ said Peter Ortner, a National Marine Sanctuary, AP lion, congressional auditors say. 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Ramirez HR in 11th lifts Cubs over Rockies S >>> SPORTS 2 NFL, Sports 2 / Scoreboard, Sports 3 / Hockey, Sports 4 / NASCAR, Sports 4 Sports TUESDAY, MAY 18, 2010 SPORTS EDITOR MIKE CHRISTENSEN: 735-3239 [email protected] Huft leads 3A boys field at state golf tournament 91. Times-News while Jenna Sharp is sixth strokes, behind Nampa Zach Zollinger (Raft River) Wood River: Davis Hague 79, Crockett Stearns 81, with 88. Christian’s 426. MVC golfer and Nick Howard Chance McCroskey 84, Jonathan Hobbs 93, Charlie Evans 96. Kimberly golfer Gage Huft The Bruin boys are in Kristinia Reitsma is also sec- (Castleford) also shot in the Girls Team scores: 1. Moscow 341; 2. Middleton 345; 3. Twin holds the lead after the first fourth place at 323, while ond in the individual race, top 10. Falls 361; 4. Bishop Kelly 417; 5. Hillcrest 423; 6. Skyview 427; 7. Century 433; 8. Rigby 447; 9. Burley day of Class 3A competition Bishop Kelly is first with 314, while teammate Michelle The final round begins 512. at the 2010 Idaho High Moscow second with 318 Koostra is tied for fourth. today to crown this season’s Individual top 10: 1. Cali Hipp, Middleton, 73; 2. Kati Greear, Moscow, 76; 3. Taylor Anderson, Moscow 78; 4. School Golf Championships and Middleton third with Declo golfers Jacqueline champions. (tie) Sydney Lee, Twin Falls, 86; Nikki Tatham, Moscow 86; 6. Jenna Sharp, Twin Falls, 88; 7. Kenna Hopkins, Monday at The Links Golf 320. Wood River is fifth with Gibby and Elizabeth Kidd are Middleton, 89; 8. (tie) Morgan Shaver, Century, 90; Brandi Bork, Emmett, 90; 10. (tie) Katie Keller, Bishop Course in Post Falls. third, more than 20 shots 337 strokes. also in the top 10. 2010 Idaho High School Golf Kelly, 91; Shantelle Wood, Middleton, 91. Huft carded a 70 for the behind the leader, Shelley. Bruin Peter Seppi shot a 78 For the boys, Castleford Championships Area school scores Class 4A Burley: Shauna Pace 103, Kortni Karlson 112, Shelby first of two rounds, sitting Buhl is in seventh. to tie for fourth, while team- came up second after card- At Sandpoint Grace 142, Kelsi Deldon 155. Boys Twin Falls: Sydney Lee 86, Jenna Sharp 88, Allison four shots ahead of the rest In Class 4A competition, mate Brennon Lancaster is ing a combined 326. The Team scores: 1. Bishop Kelly 314; 2. Moscow 318; 3. Federico 93, Katherine Reed 94, Taylor Lancaster 97. Middleton 320; 4. Twin Falls 323; 5. Wood River 337; 6. of the pack. The Kimberly the Twin Falls girls have tied with Wood River golfer Wolves follow Soda Springs Century 348; 7. Bonneville 354; 8. Columbia 363; 9. Class 3A boys team is second with 314 their work cut out for them if David Hague at sixth place by a dozen shots. Oakley and Hillcrest 365. At the Links Golf Course, Post Falls Individual top 10: 1. Taylor Schmidt, Bishop Kelly, 69; Boys strokes, just two behind they wish to claim another with 79s. Declo are tied for seventh. 2. Cooper Wright, Moscow, 76; 3. Sterling Wood, Team scores: 1. Marsh Valley 312; 2. Kimberly 314; 3. Middleton, 77; 4. (tie) Peter Seppi, Twin Falls, 78; Shelley 320; 4. (tie) Filer 323; Weiser 323; 6. Kellogg Marsh Valley. Filer is tied for state championship. The The Magic Valley Castleford striker Dylan Braxton Miller, Middleton, 78; 6. (tie) Brennon 335; 7. American Falls 336; 8. Payette 341; 9. Bonners Lancaster, Twin Falls, 79; David Hague, Wood River, Ferry 342; 10. Salmon 345. fourth with Weiser at 323. Bruins are in third place with Christian girls could pull Kinyon is closing in on 79; 8. (tie) Derek Cook, Canyon Ridge, 80; Nick Individual top 10: 1. Gage Huft, Kimberly, 70; 2. Will For the girls, Angela Vitek 361 strokes, 20 behind field- ahead today for their second leader James Frankos (Soda Spaulding, Bishop Kelly, 80; Shaun Hill, Moscow, 80; Higham, Shelley, 74; 3. (tie) Tanner Hunsaker, Marsh Garrett Adair, Moscow, 80. Valley, 75; Dallin Davids, Marsh Valley, 75; J.D. Hurd, of Gooding is tied for fifth as leading Moscow. Sydney Lee consecutive championship. Springs), falling just three Area school scores Weiser, 75; 6. (tie) Clarke Huntsman, Shelley, 76; Canyon Ridge: Derek Cook 80, Sawyer McMillan 85. Dakota Chaves, American Falls, 76; 8. (tie) Kyle the top area golfer in the is tied for fourth in the indi- The Conquerors are sitting strokes behind the leader. Twin Falls: Peter Seppi 78, Brennon Lancaster 79; standings. The Bulldogs are vidual standings with an 86, in second place with 443 Travis Robinson (Oakley), Blake Fischer 82, Matthew Frank 84, Marcus Jardine See GOLF, Sports 4 CSI A LEG UP Expansion softball looms large hits Kobe gets at Big Ten another 40, Lakers meetings rout Suns By Andrew Seligman roadblock Associated Press writer nother 40-win sea- in opener CHICAGO — Wisconsin athletic son wasn’t enough, director Barry Alvarez understands A and neither the mul- By Greg Beacham the public would like some answers tiple team records set nor Associated Press writer about Big Ten expansion. Just don’t the 293 strikeouts were ask him. enough. The past weekend LOS ANGELES — Even Alvarez said the decision rests with marked the last mile on the on a balky knee, Kobe school presidents, not with the road to St. George, but the Bryant had no problem league’s athletic directors. Still, College of Southern Idaho giving the Los Angeles expansion was the hot-button topic softball team hit a road- Lakers an early leg up in Monday as conference coaches and block, and the journey is the Western Conference administrators gathered in Chicago now over. finals. for three days of meetings. Bryant scored 40 “People want to know what’s going points, Lamar Odom on, but nobody has any answers for added 19 points and 19 them,’’Alvarez said. “None of us do, rebounds, and the Lakers anyway.’’ Bradley opened the series with Michigan athletic director David ruthless offensive effi- Brandon senses “change is in the Guire ciency in a 128-107 victo- wind’’ but isn’t sure anything will ry over the Phoenix Suns happen. And Indiana’s Tom Crean For the fourth straight on Monday night. said expansion “is a topic of conver- season, the Golden Eagles Pau Gasol had 21 sation’’ even if it’s not on the written met Salt Lake Community points for the top-seeded agenda for the basketball coaches’ College, the No. 1 team in Lakers, who won their meetings. the nation, for the Region 18 seventh straight playoff The Big Ten last year grabbed the Tournament championship, game and snapped the attention of everyone in college and for the third time in Suns’ six-game streak sports by announcing that it was those meetings, Salt Lake with a phenomenal sec- considering whether to expand from came out on top to advance ond half highlighted by its current 11 members, a move that to the NJCAA Division I Bryant’s 21-point third would extend the reach of its lucra- National Tournament. quarter. tive TV network and add a champi- The same problems that “Kobe carried a lot of onship football game. The timeline plagued the Golden Eagles the offense tonight, no AP photo for any decision is said to stretch into came back to haunt them in doubt,’’Lakers coach Phil Los Angeles Lakers guard Kobe Bryant dunks Monday during the second half of Game 1 of the 2011, but expansion and the potential the tournament, namely Jackson said. Western Conference finals against the Phoenix Suns in Los Angeles. The Lakers won 128-107. domino effect have dominated dis- depth as CSI fielded the The defending NBA cussions from the Big East, SEC and smallest roster of any tour- champions beat the son date in five years, but Big 12 to the Pac-10. nament team with 14 play- third-seeded Suns at INSIDE the Lakers didn’t allow a Last week, Big Ten commissioner ers. For the 2011 season, six their own uptempo game Orlando Magic get serious week off to affect their Jim Delany e-mailed conference offi- sophomores depart, while when necessary, fluidly Lakers 128, Suns 107 preparing for tough series. remarkable execution. cials to squash a rumor that Missouri, up to eight freshmen could running the court to set Bryant alternated Nebraska, Notre Dame and Rutgers return. up baskets for Bryant in See Sports 2 jumpers and strong had been invited to join. Texas, The Eagles lose Michon his sixth straight 30- trolled the whole game. I drives while Los Angeles Syracuse, Pittsburgh and Maryland Vanderpoel, Brie Dimond, point game. Bryant then thought we could have Suns, who hadn’t lost pulled away, showing no have all been mentioned as possible Kayla Powell, Chelsea Nix, rested his sore knee for withstood the game that since April 24. Robin problems with rust or targets, too. Generra Nielson and most of the fourth quar- he had ... but when he’s Lopez started at center nagging injuries despite Missouri officials on Monday Brittany Gonzales, with the ter in the 11th 40-point making his jumper like and scored 14 points in barely practicing for the denied an Associated Press request most impactful being game of his playoff that, there’s not a whole his playoff debut, but past week. for documents related to the school’s Nielson and Gonzales. career. lot you can do about it.’’ Phoenix couldn’t keep up “He’s been very possible interest in the Big Ten. The Nielson was CSI’s ace “They played great, Game 2 is Wednesday with the champs in its optimistic through the university cited an exemption related pitcher for two seasons, and one of the best games I’ve night at Staples Center. first conference finals whole week,’’ Jackson to ongoing contract negotiations, but she leaves the program as seen them play in the Amare Stoudemire appearance since 2006. said. “He felt like he got indicated it had not determined if the new standard bearer for playoffs this season,’’ scored 23 points and Both teams swept their exactly what (rest) he such records even exist before individual success. She’s Suns coach Alvin Gentry Steve Nash had 13 points second-round series to needed to have. He was probably tired of people said. “Kobe kind of con- and 13 assists for the earn their third postsea- attentive and involved.’’ See BIG 10, Sports 4 hanging on her every pitch, putting the focus on her instead of her teammates. But with 293 strikeouts this season and 427 for her career, 28 victories (46 Former Yankee Brosius carves out niche back home career) and 228 innings (375 career), it’s hard not to take By Anne M. Peterson the Northwest Conference. notice. Associated Press writer Brosius, in his third year at the Beyond those abstract helm, was named the league’s numerals, the program will McMINNVILLE, Ore. — His coach of the year. also lose her attitude, her World Series rings are locked away Linfield, ranked No. 14 by the sheer determination to see a in a safe at his home, about 3,000 American Baseball Coaches game through, her mentali- miles from the bright lights of the Association, plays host to a six- ty to make every batter a Big Apple. team NCAA regional this week. mortal enemy bound for a Former Yankee Scott Brosius is Second-seeded Linfield will open disappointed return to the now Coach Brosius, guiding the against fifth-seeded Mississippi dugout. Kelsey Bryant and baseball team of his alma mater, College (36-9) on Wednesday. The signee Jyl Eckstein have Linfield College. winner advances to the double- While time and distance separate elimination D-III championship in See CSI, Sports 4 him from the big leagues, Brosius is Appleton, Wis. still enjoying success — just on a The job at Linfield is just part MORE ONLINE different level. Way different. time and pays “probably less than “My first road trip it was like,‘Oh minimum wage,’’ Brosius jokes. But READ updates on the yeah, I gotta take my own bag on this is more of a labor of love: He NJCAA National AP photo and off the bus. Welcome to real himself bought the field lights and Tournament, posted Linfield baseball coach Scott Brosius walks across the baseball diamond Thursday in life,’’’he said. the infield turf at the school’s Roy daily only on McMinnville, Ore. The former New York Yankee is now coach of his alma mater, Linfield College. The Division III Wildcats went MAGICVALLEY.COM Brosius was the most valuable player of the 1998 World Series while playing with the Yankees. 30-10 in the regular season to claim See BROSIUS, Sports 4 Sports 2 Tuesday, May 18, 2010 SPORTS Times-News, Twin Falls, Idaho Idaho State Baseball Championships Ramirez HR in 11th lifts Cubs Class 5A At Hawks Memorial Stadium, Boise Thursday, May 20 CHICAGO — Aramis Ramirez hit a Game 1: Lewiston (24-2) vs. Rocky Mountain (19-8), 10 a.m. two-run homer in the 11th inning, his Game 2: Madison (7-16) vs. Timberline (21-6), 1 p.m. first home run in more than a month, Game 3: Centennial (18-9) vs. Highland (19-11), 4 p.m. lifting the Chicago Cubs to a 4-2 victory Game 4: Coeur d’Alene (21-9) vs. Capital (15-12), 7 p.m. over the Colorado Rockies on Monday Friday, May 21 night. Game 5: Loser 1 vs. Loser 2, 10 a.m. Starlin Castro opened the 11th with Game 6: Loser 3 vs. Loser 4, 1 p.m. his third hit of the game,a single off Matt Game 7: Winner 1 vs. Winner 2, 4 p.m. Belisle (1-1). After Derrek Lee lined out, Game 8: Winner 3 vs. Winner 4, 7 p.m. Ramirez lined a 1-0 pitch through a stiff Saturday, May 22 wind into the left-field bleachers. Consolation: Winner 5 vs. Winner 6, 10 a.m. Ramirez, who also drove in Chicago’s Third-place: Loser 7 vs. Loser 8, 1 p.m. first run with a first-inning single, has Championship: Winner 7 vs. Winner 8, 7 p.m. been in a season-long slump. Even after the two-hit game,he is batting only .175. Class 4A He hadn’t homered since April 15. At Rodeo Park, Nampa Thursday, May 20 PHILLIES 12, PIRATES 2 Game 1: Lakeland (13-11) vs. Minico (21-11), 10 a.m. PHILADELPHIA — Kyle Kendrick Game 2: Bonneville (22-5) vs. Kuna (14-11), 1 p.m. pitched eight impressive innings, Ryan Game 3: Twin Falls (25-4) vs. Hillcrest (19-7), 4 p.m. Howard hit a grand slam and had six Game 4: Bishop Kelly (19-4) vs. Pocatello (16-11), 7 p.m. RBIs, and the Philadelphia Phillies beat Friday, May 21 the Pittsburgh Pirates 12-2 on Monday Game 5: Loser 1 vs. Loser 2, 10 a.m. night. Game 6: Loser 3 vs. Loser 4, 1 p.m. Jayson Werth had a three-run homer Game 7: Winner 1 vs. Winner 2, 4 p.m. for the NL East-leading Phillies, who AP photo Game 8: Winner 3 vs. Winner 4, 7 p.m. have won four straight and 12 of 15. The Chicago Cubs batter Aramis Ramirez, right, leaps into a crowd of teammates at home plate Monday Saturday, May 22 two-time defending NL champions are after hitting a walk-off two-run home run off Colorado Rockies relief pitcher Matt Belisle that also Consolation: Winner 5 vs. Winner 6, 10 a.m. 24-13 despite a slew of injuries. scored Starlin Castro during the 11th inning at Wrigley Field in Chicago. The Cubs won 4-2. Third-place: Loser 7 vs. Loser 8, 1 p.m. Championship: Winner 7 vs. Winner 8, 4 p.m. METS 3, BRAVES 2 struggles, he was facing a team that he defeated the Orioles for their third win in ATLANTA — Mike Pelfrey gave the was 0-3 with an ERA over 11 in four four games under new manager Ned Class 3A Mets a lift with 7 2-3 strong innings and career appearances. Yost. At Treasure Valley Community College, Ontario, Ore. New York beat the Braves to end a five- A crowd of 9,299 — second-smallest Thursday, May 20 game losing streak. CARDINALS 6, NATIONALS 2 in the 19-year history of Camden Yards Game 1: Orofino vs. Bear Lake (12-7), 10 a.m. Pelfrey (5-1) became the first Mets ST. LOUIS (AP) — Albert Pujols had — turned out on a wet, chilly night to Game 2: South Fremont (11-4) vs. Payette (22-5), 1 p.m. starting pitcher to win a game this three hits and a walk and helped fuel a watch the teams with the two worst Game 3: Buhl (21-5) vs. Timberlake, 4 p.m. month. He was perhaps an unlikely four-run first inning from the cleanup records in the AL. The all-time low Game 4: Kimberly (14-12) vs. Fruitland, 7 p.m. choice to end the May drought as he slot in the Cardinals’ victory over the attendance at the stadium was 9,129, Friday, May 21 improved to only 3-10 in 19 career starts Nationals. last month for a game against Tampa Game 5: Loser 1 vs. Loser 2, 10 a.m. in the month. Bay. Game 6: Loser 3 vs. Loser 4, 1 p.m. AMERICAN LEAGUE Game 7: Winner 1 vs. Winner 2, 4 p.m. REDS 6, BREWERS 3 YANKEES 11, RED SOX 9 RAYS 4, INDIANS 3, 11 INNINGS Game 8: Winner 3 vs. Winner 4, 7 p.m. CINCINNATI — Jonny Gomes’ NEW YORK — Alex Rodriguez hit a ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Jason Saturday, May 22 three-run homer completed a five-run tying homer off Jonathan Papelbon in Bartlett laid down a bunt to drive in the Consolation: Winner 5 vs. Winner 6, 10 a.m. rally in the seventh inning, and the Reds the ninth inning and Marcus Thames winning run in the 11th inning as the Third-place: Loser 7 vs. Loser 8, 1 p.m. made sure they’d stay in first place for connected moments later for a two-run Rays beat the Indians. Championship: Winner 7 vs. Winner 8, 4 p.m. yet another day by beating the Brewers. shot of his own, giving the New York John Jaso hit a one-out infield single Class 2A Gomes’ homer off Todd Coffey (1-1) Yankees a wild 11-9 victory over the against Jamey Wright (1-2) and went to At Glenns Ferry HS sent the Reds to their eighth victory in Boston Red Sox on Monday night. third on Gabe Kapler’s hit-and-run sin- Thursday, May 20 nine games. They moved into first place gle to right. Bartlett then laid down a Game 1: New Plymouth (16-5) vs. Grangeville, 9 a.m. in the NL Central on Sunday — they TWINS 8, BLUE JAYS 3 bunt on the first base side of the mound Game 2: Malad (14-5) vs. Parma (7-11), Noon haven’t been there this deep into a sea- TORONTO — Justin Morneau home- that Wright fielded and was forced to Game 3: Kendrick vs. Nampa Christian (16-7), 3 p.m. son since 2006. red twice,Delmon Young also went deep make a desperation toss toward the plate Game 4: Glenns Ferry vs. Soda Springs, 6 p.m. and the Twins beat the Blue Jays. that went over catcher Mike Redmond’s Friday, May 21 DIAMONDBACKS 5, MARLINS 1 Morneau went 3 for 4 with a walk and head. Game 5: Loser 1 vs. Loser 2, 9 a.m. MIAMI, Fla. — Edwin Jackson struck four RBIs. He hit a solo homer off Game 6: Loser 3 vs. Loser 4, Noon out a career-high 12 in eight shutout Rommie Lewis in the sixth inning and RANGERS 4,ANGELS 3 Game 7: Winner 1 vs. Winner 2, 3 p.m. innings to lead the Diamondbacks to a added a two-run drive off Shawn Camp ARLINGTON, Texas — Derek Game 8: Winner 3 vs. Winner 4, 6 p.m. victory over the Marlins. in the eighth, his first multihomer game Holland pitched into the sixth inning, Saturday, May 22 Stephen Drew, John Hester, and this season and the 13th of his career. Nelson Cruz drove in two runs, and the Consolation: Winner 5 vs. Winner 6, 10 a.m. Conor Jackson each drove in a run for the Morneau also homered Sunday at Rangers beat the Angels. Third-place: Loser 7 vs. Loser 8, 1 p.m. Diamondbacks, who won for just the Yankee Stadium and has hit safely in 10 Holland (2-0) allowed three runs and Championship: Winner 7 vs. Winner 8, 4 p.m. second time in 10 games. straight games. five hits in 5 1-3 innings in his second Jackson (2-5), who went 13-9 with start since being recalled from Triple-A Detroit last season and earned a spot on ROYALS 4, ORIOLES 3 Oklahoma City on May 12. Idaho State Softball Championships the All-Star team, came in with a 1-5 BALTIMORE — Kyle Davies allowed All Times MDT onship, if necessary, 2 p.m. record and 7.43 ERA. In addition to his two runs in six innings, and the Royals — The Associated Press Class 5A Class 3A At Twin Falls HS At Ramsey Park, Coeur d’Alene Thursday, May 20 Thursday, May 20 Game 1: Post Falls (14-9) vs. Game 1: Sugar-Salem (18-3) vs. Magic face first adversity of playoffs vs. Boston Mountain View (21-7), 3 p.m. Buhl (22-7), 4 p.m. Game 2: Highland (23-9) vs. Game 2: Marsh Valley (19-6) vs. Timberline (21-8), 5 p.m. Kimberly (25-0), 6 p.m. ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — said. “I can’t speak for every- paint, elbows and forearms Atlanta and Charlotte in the Game 3: Eagle (20-9) vs. Game 3: Fruitland (22-2) vs. Play time is over. one, but we may have been constantly jabbing, frustrated first two rounds, haven’t lost Capital (11-19), 3 p.m. Timberlake (15-10), 4 p.m. The trick shots that had feeling ourselves too much. Howard again. consecutive home games all Game 4: Lake City (21-5) vs. Game 4: Kellogg (11-8) vs. become a ritual after Orlando They kicked our tail last night, “I’m just playing him season. They’re banking on Rocky Mountain (20-7-1), 5 Teton (13-11), 6 p.m. Magic practices were gone and now we have to get back tough,’’ Wallace said. “The that streak continuing head- p.m. Friday, May 21 Monday. So were the usual to work.’’ difference is I’m clean with it. ing into Game 2, or their Friday, May 21 Game 5: Loser 1 vs. Loser 2, jokes and playful banter. There’s plenty on the agen- Some guys who do that, hopes of redeeming last year’s Game 5: Loser 1 vs. Loser 2, 11 a.m. They were small but telling da. they’re dirty with it. They’re NBA finals loss to the Lakers 10 a.m. Game 6: Loser 3 vs. Loser 4, signs of just how much has The Celtics swarmed walking under you when could be crushed. Game 6: Loser 3 vs. Loser 4, 11 a.m. changed in the Eastern Dwight Howard from the you’re shooting a jump shot. “You can’t allow it to hap- 10 a.m. Game 7: Winner 1 vs. Winner Conference finals after the opening tip, with four differ- I’m just playing him tough. pen again,’’Howard said. Game 7: Winner 1 vs. Winner 2, 2, 1 p.m. Boston Celtics took home- ent big men — Kendrick “I don’t do no dirty play.It’s While the Magic are trying Noon Game 8: Winner 3 vs. Winner court advantage, shattering Perkins, Rasheed Wallace, just all tough.’’ to prove they can overcome Game 8: Winner 3 vs. Winner 4, 4, 1 p.m. the Magic’s playoff invincibil- Glen Davis and Kevin Garnett The ripple effect allowed adversity,the Celtics are look- Noon Game 9: Winner 5 vs. Loser 8, ity. — all taking turns.Boston bul- the Celtics to close out fast on ing to regain their knockout Game 9: Winner 5 vs. Loser 8, 4 p.m. Orlando will now have to lied its way past the Magic in the Magic’s potent 3-point punch. 3 p.m. Game 10: Winner 6 vs. Loser 7, overcome a loss for the first punishing fashion. shooters, who went cold — Streaky for parts of the sea- Game 10: Winner 6 vs. Loser 7, 4 p.m. time in more than six weeks Howard was held to 13 especially early when Boston son,the Celtics have only now 3 p.m. Game 11: Winner 7 vs. Winner when the Magic face the points and 12 rebounds on 3- went ahead by 20 — and never started to find the defensive Game 11: Winner 7 vs. Winner 8, 6 p.m. resurgent Celtics in Game 2 of for-10 shooting. But he also allowed to get in rhythm. prowess that carried them to 8, 5 p.m. Game 12: Winner 9 vs. Winner the Eastern Conference finals had a game-high seven Orlando shot 41 percent from an NBA title two years ago. Game 12: Winner 9 vs. Winner 10, 6 p.m. Tuesday night. turnovers, some coming at the field and 22 percent from They spent the season, hob- 10, 5 p.m. Saturday, May 22 “It was a good wake-up call the worst of times. beyond the arc. bled by injuries, dazzling one Saturday, May 22 Game 13: Winner 12 vs. Loser for us,’’ forward Matt Barnes Boston’s scrappy play in the The Magic, who swept minute and baffling the next. Game 13: Winner 12 vs. Loser 11, 11 a.m. 11, 10 a.m. Game 14: Championship, Game 14: Championship, Winner 13 vs. Winner 11, 1 p.m. Winner 13 vs. Winner 11, Noon Game 15: Second champi- Game 15: Second champi- onship, if necessary, 3 p.m. Cowboys QB Tony Romo passing instead of putting onship, if necessary, 2 p.m. Class 2A Class 4A At Homedale HS IRVING, Texas — Tony Romo took a mid-June. The first training camp of Issaquah last month. At Pocatello HS Thursday, May 20 pass on putting. practice is July 24 in San Antonio. Before that, Hill was sentenced to 12 Thursday, May 20 Game 1: Melba (21-4) vs. West The Dallas Cowboys quarterback Returning receivers Patrick Crayton months of probation in Georgia on a Game 1: Blackfoot (22-4) vs. Side, 3 p.m. was on the field practicing Monday and Sam Hurd both were given permis- plea deal for a marijuana charge. Kuna (22-4-1), 3 p.m. Game 2: West Jefferson (9-10) during the first day of organized team sion to seek a trade after Bryant was The 27-year-old could be subject to Game 2: Lakeland vs. Wood vs. Parma (8-13), 5 p.m. activities instead of on the golf course drafted. Hurd took part in Monday’s testing and possible discipline in the River (10-17), 5 p.m. Game 3: Kamiah vs. Malad trying to earn a spot in the PGA Tour’s workout that was open to reporters. NFL’s confidential substance abuse Game 3: Jerome (17-12) vs. (13-8), 3 p.m. next tournament. Crayton didn’t. program. Hillcrest (16-12-1), 3 p.m. Game 4: Declo vs. New “There was really no decision there. Hurd, who had thumb surgery in Game 4: Mountain Home Plymouth (20-8), 5 p.m. For me, it was just this is what I love to February,said he is “working as hard as Dumervil participates (24-2) vs. Pocatello, 5 p.m. Friday, May 21 do. Why would you not choose that?” he can” and can’t predict what will Friday, May 21 Game 5: Loser 1 vs. Loser 2, Romo said. happen. in Broncos’ workouts Game 5: Loser 1 vs. Loser 2, 10 a.m. Romo had a tee time Monday morn- “Tony threw the ball well, didn’t putt ENGLEWOOD, Colo. — Elvis 10 a.m. Game 6: Loser 3 vs. Loser 4, ing in open qualifying for the Byron well,”coach Wade Phillips said jokingly. Dumervil is taking part in the Denver Game 6: Loser 3 vs. Loser 4, 10 a.m. Nelson Championship, which begins The coach said he wouldn’t have Broncos’ passing camp, the first time 10 a.m. Game 7: Winner 1 vs. Winner 2, Thursday just down the road from the minded if Romo had taken a crack at he’s worked out with the team since Game 7: Winner 1 vs. Winner 2, Noon team’s Valley Ranch practice facility. making the field for the Nelson. last season. Noon Game 8: Winner 3 vs. Winner 4, The 18-hole round conflicted with the The Broncos’ star outside linebacker, Game 8: Winner 3 vs. Winner 4, Noon voluntary Cowboys workout. Seahawks hopeful Hill who led the NFL with 17 sacks last sea- Noon Game 9: Winner 5 vs. Loser 8, “My coaches and teammates know son, is a restricted free agent who has Game 9: Winner 5 vs. Loser 8, 3 p.m. that I would rather not do anything else will play for them in 2010 skipped the team’s offseason condi- 3 p.m. Game 10: Winner 6 vs. Loser 7, than this right here,”Romo said. “They RENTON,Wash.— The Seahawks are tioning program while working out on Game 10: Winner 6 vs. Loser 7, 3 p.m. know it because they see me all the continuing to keep Leroy Hill at home his own in Miami. 3 p.m. Game 11: Winner 7 vs. Winner time, and they know it because it really while they wait for the NFL to possibly Dumervil hasn’t signed his $3.168 Game 11: Winner 7 vs. Winner 8, 5 p.m. is the funnest thing that we get to do.” discipline their dynamic linebacker. million tender or a contract extension. 8, 5 p.m. Game 12: Winner 9 vs. Winner Cowboys owner Jerry Jones said he Seattle coach Pete Carroll said It’s believed he signed a waiver so that Game 12: Winner 9 vs. Winner 10, 5 p.m. was not surprised Romo chose football Monday after Hill missed the latest he could participate in the three days of 10, 5 p.m. Saturday, May 22 over golf. organized team activity that the team workouts at Dove Valley this week. Saturday, May 22 Game 13: Winner 12 vs. Loser Romo got his first chance to throw doesn’t know when the league might Among those skipping the camp are Game 13: Winner 12 vs. Loser 11, 10 a.m. passes to receiver Dez Bryant, the rule on Hill’s playing status for 2010. offensive linemen Ryan Clady, Ryan 11, 10 a.m. Game 14: Championship, team’s first-round draft pick last Carroll says he is hoping the four-year Harris and Russ Hochstein, all of Game 14: Championship, Winner 13 vs. Winner 11, noon month in the first of four consecutive starter will be available this season. whom are coming off surgeries. Winner 13 vs. Winner 11, noon Game 15: Second champi- weeks of OTAs. The workouts will cul- Hill was arrested for investigation of Game 15: Second champi- onship, if necessary, 2 p.m. minate with a mandatory minicamp in domestic violence in the Seattle suburb — The Associated Press Times-News, Twin Falls, Idaho SPORTS Tuesday, May 18, 2010 Sports 3 SCOREBOARD

Los Angeles 000 021 000 — 3 Sunday, May 30 2. Kaycee Feild, Payson, Utah $60,186 AUTO RACING Texas 004 000 00x — 4 x-Boston at Orlando, 6:30 p.m. 3. Steven Dent, Mullen, Neb. $42,373 E—Napoli (4), H.Kendrick (5), Andrus (6). DP—Los Monday, May 31 4. Wes Stevenson, Lubbock, Texas $34,937 NASCAR Sprint Cup Leaders Angeles 2. LOB—Los Angeles 5, Texas 6. 2B—Kinsler (6), GGAAMMEE PPLLAANN x-Phoenix at L.A. Lakers, 7 p.m. 5. Micky Downare, Hartsel, Colo. $34,591 Through May 16 Guerrero (6), N.Cruz (6). HR—Tor.Hunter (5), Napoli (3). 6. Matt Bright, Azle, Texas $32,866 Points SB—N.Cruz (6). SF—M.Young. 7. Bobby Mote, Culver, Ore. $30,498 1, Kevin Harvick, 1,768. 2, Kyle Busch, 1,699. 3, Matt IP H R ER BB SO NBA Playoff Box 8. Joe Gunderson, Agar, S.D. $30,446 Kenseth, 1,642. 4, Jimmie Johnson, 1,637. 5, Denny Los Angeles LOCAL FSN — Seattle at Oakland LAKERS 128, SUNS 107 9. Steven Peebles, Redmond, Ore. $28,737 Hamlin, 1,618. 6, Jeff Gordon, 1,605. 7, Greg Biffle, Kazmir L,2-4 7 9 4 4 1 4 NBA BASKETBALL PHOENIX (107) 10. Jason Havens, Prineville, Ore. $28,668 1,581. 8, Jeff Burton, 1,569. 9, Kurt Busch, 1,531. 10, S.Shields 1 0 0 0 1 0 Steer Wrestling Carl Edwards, 1,487. HIGH SCHOOL GOLF 6 p.m. Hill 1-5 5-6 7, Stoudemire 8-13 7-10 23, Lopez 6-7 2-2 14, Texas Nash 5-10 3-3 13, Richardson 6-12 0-2 15, Frye 1-8 0-0 1. Cody Cassidy, Donalda, Alberta $68,179 11, Mark Martin, 1,475. 12, Martin Truex Jr., 1,434. 13, Holland W,2-0 51-3 5 3 3 2 3 Class 4A state meet, Sandpoint Golf ESPN — Draft Lottery, at Secaucus, 2. Luke Branquinho, Los Alamos, Calif. $38,176 Ryan Newman, 1,404. 14, Tony Stewart, 1,397. 15, Clint 3, Dudley 1-5 2-2 5, Dragic 5-8 3-4 13, Barbosa 5-7 1-1 Nippert H,4 2-3 0 0 0 1 1 Course 11, Amundson 1-4 1-2 3. Totals 39-79 24-32 107. 3. Justin Blaine Davis, Bartonville, Texas $34,916 Bowyer, 1,392. 16, Dale Earnhardt Jr., 1,391. 17, Jamie Oliver H,4 2 0 0 0 0 1 N.J. 4. Matt Reeves, Pampa, Texas $29,888 Mcmurray, 1,346. 18, Joey Logano, 1,332. 19, Juan Class 3A state meet, The Links Golf L.A. LAKERS (128) N.Feliz S,10-12 1 0 0 0 0 1 6:30 p.m. Artest 6-14 1-2 14, Gasol 10-13 1-1 21, Bynum 2-4 0-0 4, 5. Josh Peek, Pueblo, Colo. $28,438 Pablo Montoya, 1,322. 20, David Reutimann, 1,262. HBP—by Kazmir (M.Ramirez). WP—Kazmir. 6. Clayton Morrison, Cavalier, N.D. $28,182 Money Course, Post Falls ESPN — Playoffs, Eastern Fisher 1-3 3-4 5, Bryant 13-23 11-12 40, Odom 9-15 0-0 Umpires—Home, Doug Eddings; First, Dana DeMuth; 19, Mbenga 1-2 0-0 2, Farmar 4-6 0-0 10, Brown 3-6 2- 7. Trevor Knowles, Mount Vernon, Ore. $27,749 1, Jamie Mcmurray, $3,114,702. 2, Jimmie Johnson, Second, Kerwin Danley; Third, C.B. Bucknor. Class 2A state meet, Lewiston Conference finals, game 2, Boston 8. Olin Hannum, Malad, Idaho $27,501 $2,669,300. 3, Kevin Harvick, $2,638,364. 4, Kyle 3 9, Vujacic 0-0 0-0 0, Powell 1-1 0-0 2, Walton 1-1 0-0 T—2:33. A—20,210 (49,170). 2. Totals 51-88 18-22 128. 9. Wade Sumpter, Fowler, Colo. $27,343 Busch, $2,359,526. 5, Denny Hamlin, $2,209,829. 6, at Orlando 10. Ethan Thouvenell, Fallbrook, Calif. $27,259 Dale Earnhardt Jr., $2,206,929. 7, Jeff Gordon, Phoenix 26 29 24 28 — 107 RAYS 4, INDIANS 3, 11 INNINGS NHL HOCKEY L.A. Lakers 35 27 31 35 — 128 Team Roping (header) $2,139,566. 8, Matt Kenseth, $2,077,891. 9, Kurt Busch, 1. Turtle Powell, Stephenville, Texas $70,605 $2,038,080. 10, Jeff Burton, $1,988,584. TV SCHEDULE 5 p.m. 3-Point Goals—Phoenix 5-22 (Richardson 3-6, Dudley 1- Cleveland Tampa Bay 5, Frye 1-7, Barbosa 0-1, Dragic 0-1, Nash 0-2), L.A. 2. Chad Masters, Clarksville, Tenn. $38,347 11, Greg Biffle, $1,975,904. 12, Kasey Kahne, $1,919,019. ab r h bi ab r h bi VERSUS — Playoffs, Eastern 3. Clay Tryan, Billings, Mont. $37,882 13, Juan Pablo Montoya, $1,905,076. 14, David CYCLING Lakers 8-17 (Bryant 3-6, Farmar 2-3, Brown 1-1, Odom ACarer ss 1 0 0 0 Zobrist rf-2b 5 1 1 0 1-2, Artest 1-5). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—Phoenix 4. Caleb Mitchell, Pollok, Texas $29,766 Reutimann, $1,839,027. 15, Tony Stewart, $1,809,130. Valuen ss 4 0 1 1 Crwfrd lf 5 2 2 1 3 p.m. Conference finals, game 2, Montreal 5. Travis Tryan, Billings, Mont. $26,670 16, Carl Edwards, $1,808,005. 17, Joey Logano, 42 (Amundson, Lopez, Richardson 6), L.A. Lakers 47 Grdzln 2b 5 0 1 0 Longori 3b 5 0 1 1 VERSUS — Tour of California, stage at Philadelphia (Odom 19). Assists—Phoenix 25 (Nash 13), L.A. Lakers 6. Ty Blasingame, Ramah, Colo. $25,877 $1,793,185. 18, Ryan Newman, $1,789,302. 19, Clint Choo rf 4 0 0 0 C.Pena 1b 5 0 1 0 7. Trevor Brazile, Decatur, Texas $24,262 Bowyer, $1,728,820. 20, Mark Martin, $1,679,089. 8 p.m. 26 (Bryant, Artest, Gasol, Farmar 5). Total Fouls— Hafner dh 4 0 2 0 Blalock dh 5 0 2 1 3, San Francisco to Santa Cruz, Phoenix 23, L.A. Lakers 21. Technicals—Hill, Bryant, 8. Tommy Edens, Gatesville, Texas $22,764 Kearns lf 4 1 1 0 BUpton cf 4 0 0 0 Calif. VERSUS — Playoffs, Western L.A. Lakers defensive three second. A—18,997 (18,997). 9. Colby Siddoway, Hooper, Utah $22,399 BASEBALL Branyn 1b 5 0 0 0 Jaso c 5 1 1 0 10. Joel Bach, Millsap, Texas $22,016 Peralta 3b 5 1 3 1 Brignc ss-2b 3 0 1 0 MLB BASEBALL Conference finals, game 2, Chicago Team Roping (heeler) Rdmnd c 5 1 1 0 Kapler ph-rf 2 0 1 0 8:05 p.m. at San Jose GOLF 1. Cory Petska, Lexington, Okla. $68,609 American League Crowe cf 5 0 2 1 SRdrgz 2b 2 0 0 0 2. Jade Corkill, Fallon, Nev. $38,347 All Times MDT WAyar ph 1 0 0 0 PGA Tour FedExCup Leaders 3. Travis Graves, Jay, Okla. $37,882 EAST W L Pct GB Bartlett pr-ss 0 0 0 1 Through May 16 4. Justin Copp, Justin, Texas $26,929 Totals 42 3 11 3 Totals 42 4 10 4 Tampa Bay 27 11 .711 — Roenicke 1 0 0 0 0 0 Dsmnd ss 4 1 4 0 McCllln p 0 0 0 0 Rank Name Pts Money 5. Cody Hintz, Spring Creek, Nev. $25,877 New York 25 13 .658 2 Cleveland 010 101 000 00 — 3 Eveland pitched to 1 batter in the 5th. Berndn cf 3 0 1 0 Stavinh ph 1 0 0 0 6. Michael Jones, Stephenville, Texas $24,695 Toronto 23 17 .575 5 Tampa Bay 200 000 010 01 — 4 WP—Slowey, Eveland. PB—Mauer. Stmmn p 2 0 0 0 Frnkln p 0 0 0 0 1. Ernie Els 1,541 $3,460,341 7. Patrick Smith, Midland, Texas $24,262 Boston 19 20 .487 8½ One out when winning run scored. Umpires—Home, Gary Cederstrom; First, Ed Hickox; Morse ph-rf 2 0 0 0 2. Jim Furyk 1,318 $2,588,070 8. Russell Cardoza, Farmington, Calif. $23,114 Baltimore 12 27 .308 15½ E—Grudzielanek (1). DP—Tampa Bay 2. LOB—Cleveland Second, Fieldin Culbreth; Third, Marty Foster. Totals 34 2 8 1 Totals 31 6 9 6 3. Phil Mickelson 1,286 $2,677,719 9. Justin Hendrick, Rosenberg, Texas $22,764 10, Tampa Bay 10. 2B—Hafner (5), Kearns (11), T—2:57. A—13,892 (49,539). Washington 000 020 000 — 2 4. Anthony Kim 1,215 $2,518,521 10. Martin Lucero, Stephenville, Texas $21,562 CENTRAL W L Pct GB Crawford (12). 3B—Peralta (2), Crawford (4). SB— St. Louis 400 000 02x — 6 5. Tim Clark 1,109 $2,559,158 Saddle Bronc Riding Minnesota 24 14 .632 — Grudzielanek (2), Crowe (1), B.Upton (10). S—Bartlett. E—Schumaker 2 (6). DP—Washington 1. LOB— 6. Robert Allenby 1,061 $2,394,057 1. Rod Hay, Wildwood, Alberta $70,620 Detroit 22 16 .579 2 IP H R ER BB SO NL Boxes Washington 7, St. Louis 6. 2B—A.Kennedy (6), Ludwick 7. Camilo Villegas 972 $2,118,415 2. J.J. Elshere, Quinn, S.D. $45,307 Cleveland 15 21 .417 8 Cleveland REDS 6, BREWERS 3 (9). 3B—Freese (1). SB—Y.Molina (5). CS—W.Harris (2). 8. Steve Stricker 966 $2,033,714 3. Wade Sundell, Boxholm, Iowa $43,917 Carmona 62-3 5 2 2 1 7 Chicago 15 22 .405 8½ Milwaukee Cincinnati S—Bernadina, Freese. 9. Dustin Johnson 938 $1,915,665 4. Shaun Stroh, Dickinson, N.D. $42,460 Kansas City 15 24 .385 9½ Laffey H,5 1-3 1 1 1 0 0 IP H R ER BB SO 10. Matt Kuchar 912 $1,909,688 5. Jeff Willert, Belvidere, S.D. $41,584 C.Perez BS,3-8 1 1 0 0 0 2 ab r h bi ab r h bi WEST W L Pct GB Weeks 2b 5 0 0 0 OCarer ss 5 1 2 1 Washington 11. Ben Crane 897 $1,713,426 6. Taos Muncy, Corona, N.M. $34,658 Sipp 1 0 0 0 1 2 Stammen L,1-2 6 6 4 4 2 4 12. Bill Haas 867 $1,463,831 7. Cort Scheer, Elsmere, Neb. $29,326 K.Wood 1 1 0 0 0 0 AEscor ss 5 0 2 0 BPhllps 2b 3 1 1 0 Texas 21 18 .538 — Braun lf 5 0 1 0 Votto 1b 3 1 2 1 Slaten 1-3 0 0 0 1 1 13. Hunter Mahan 848 $1,740,593 8. Ty Atchison, Jackson, Mo. $28,237 Oakland 18 20 .474 2½ J.Wright L,1-2 1-3 2 1 1 0 0 Storen 2-3 0 0 0 0 1 14. Luke Donald 785 $1,600,146 9. Chad Ferley, Oelrichs, S.D. $22,018 Tampa Bay Fielder 1b 4 0 1 0 Rolen 3b 3 0 1 1 Los Angeles 18 22 .450 3½ McGeh 3b 4 0 1 0 Bruce rf 2 1 1 0 Capps 1 3 2 2 0 0 15. J.B. Holmes 784 $1,556,922 10. Cody Martin, Eagle, Colo. $21,003 Seattle 14 23 .378 6 Niemann 6 10 3 3 3 3 St. Louis 16. K.J. Choi 781 $1,359,330 Tie-Down Roping Choate 1-3 0 0 0 1 1 Hart rf 4 2 3 2 Gomes lf 3 1 1 3 Sunday’s Games Zaun c 3 1 2 0 Masset p 0 0 0 0 Lohse W,1-3 6 6 2 1 1 4 17. Adam Scott 767 $1,542,260 1. Trevor Brazile, Decatur, Texas $71,793 Detroit 5, Boston 1 Benoit 12-3 0 0 0 0 5 T.Miller H,5 2-3 0 0 0 0 0 18. Jason Bohn 755 $1,567,366 2. Stran Smith, Childress, Texas $67,739 R.Soriano 1 0 0 0 0 1 Gerut cf 4 0 0 0 Herrer p 0 0 0 0 Minnesota 6, N.Y. Yankees 3 Gallard p 2 0 0 0 Corder p 0 0 0 0 Motte H,3 1-3 0 0 0 0 1 19. Ian Poulter 702 $1,700,025 3. Shane Hanchey, Sulphur, La. $53,042 Toronto 5, Texas 2 Cormier 2-3 1 0 0 0 0 McClellan H,4 1 0 0 0 0 1 20. Geoff Ogilvy 689 $1,400,306 4. Fred Whitfield, Hockley, Texas $51,963 Wheeler 1-3 0 0 0 0 1 Inglett ph 1 0 1 0 Stubbs cf 2 0 0 0 Cleveland 5, Baltimore 1 Coffey p 0 0 0 0 RHrndz c 3 0 0 0 Franklin 1 2 0 0 0 1 21. Bo Van Pelt 680 $1,370,817 5. Ryan Jarrett, Summerville, Ga. $44,716 Tampa Bay 2, Seattle 1 Sonnanstine W,1-0 1 0 0 0 0 2 Lohse pitched to 2 batters in the 7th. 22. Ryan Palmer 676 $1,320,802 6. Houston Hutto, Del Rio, Texas $36,419 Niemann pitched to 1 batter in the 7th. Suppan p 0 0 0 0 Cueto p 2 0 0 0 Kansas City 5, Chicago White Sox 3 Counsll ph 1 0 1 1 Heisey ph-lf 2 1 1 0 HBP—by Storen (Ludwick). 23. Rickie Fowler 659 $1,309,901 7. Tyson Durfey, Colbert, Wash. $31,980 L.A. Angels 4, Oakland 0 Laffey pitched to 1 batter in the 8th. Umpires—Home, Gerry Davis; First, Sam Holbrook; 24. Nick Watney 657 $1,251,197 8. Justin Maass, Giddings, Texas $31,183 PB—Redmond. Totals 38 3 12 3 Totals 28 6 9 6 Monday’s Games Milwaukee 000 100 002 — 3 Second, Brian Knight; Third, Greg Gibson. 25. Fredrik Jacobson 655 $1,301,905 9. Tuf Cooper, Decatur, Texas $30,424 N.Y. Yankees 11, Boston 9 Umpires—Home, Mike Estabrook; First, Jerry Layne; T—2:53. A—38,005 (43,975). 10. Ace Slone, Cuero, Texas $24,450 Kansas City 4, Baltimore 3 Second, Mike Winters; Third, Brian Runge. Cincinnati 000 001 50x — 6 Steer Roping Chicago White Sox at Detroit, ppd., rain T—3:42. A—18,879 (36,973). E—B.Phillips (1). DP—Milwaukee 1, Cincinnati 2. LOB— Champions Tour Milwaukee 9, Cincinnati 8. 2B—Zaun 2 (7), O.Cabrera PHILLIES 12, PIRATES 2 1. Rocky Patterson, Pratt, Kan. $16,670 Minnesota 8, Toronto 3 (6), Votto (7). 3B—A.Escobar (5), Heisey (1). HR—Hart 2 Charles Schwab Cup Leaders 2. Trevor Brazile, Decatur, Texas $14,586 Tampa Bay 4, Cleveland 3, 11 innings YANKEES 11, RED SOX 9 (7), Gomes (5). SB—A.Escobar (1). S—B.Phillips. SF— Pittsburgh Philadelphia Through May 16 3. Vin Fisher Jr., Andrews, Texas $14,433 Texas 4, L.A. Angels 3 Rolen. ab r h bi ab r h bi Rank Name Points Money 4. Bryce Davis, Abilene, Texas $13,671 Seattle at Oakland, late Boston New York DlwYn 2b 4 1 1 2 Victorn cf 4 3 2 0 5. Dan Fisher, Andrews, Texas $10,260 Tuesday’s Games ab r h bi ab r h bi IP H R ER BB SO 1. Fred Couples 1,015 $1,049,317 Scutaro ss 5 1 2 0 Jeter ss 4 1 1 0 Milwaukee AnLRc 3b 4 0 0 0 Polanc 2b 4 2 1 0 6. Neal Wood, Guy, Texas $9,145 Minnesota (Pavano 4-3) at Toronto (Marcum 2-1), Gallardo 6 4 1 1 6 5 AMcCt cf 4 0 0 0 Rollins ss 4 2 2 1 2. Bernhard Langer 818 $873,393 7. Scott Snedecor, Uvalde, Texas $8,692 10:37 a.m. Pedroia 2b 3 1 1 0 Gardnr cf 4 3 2 0 GJones rf 4 0 1 0 Howard 1b 5 2 3 6 3. Dan Forsman 466 $561,284 8. Walter Priestly, Robstown, Texas $8,648 Chicago White Sox (F.Garcia 2-2) at Detroit (Porcello J.Drew rf 5 2 2 3 Teixeir 1b 4 1 1 1 Coffey L,1-1 1 5 5 5 1 0 4. Nick Price 461 $539,102 Youkils 1b 5 2 2 2 ARdrgz dh-3b 5 2 2 4 Suppan 1 0 0 0 0 0 Church lf 4 0 0 0 Werth rf 5 1 2 4 9. Cash Myers, Athens, Texas $8,083 3-3), 11:05 a.m. Cincinnati Doumit c 3 0 2 0 Bastrd p 0 0 0 0 5. Tom Watson 437 $467,883 10. Will Gasperson, Decatur, Texas $7,367 Cleveland (D.Huff 1-5) at Tampa Bay (Price 5-1), VMrtnz c 4 2 2 2 Cano 2b 5 0 1 1 Clemnt 1b 3 0 0 0 Ibanez lf 4 1 1 0 6. Joey Sindelar 407 $421,382 Bull Riding 11:10 a.m. D.Ortiz dh 4 1 2 1 Cervelli c 4 3 2 1 Cueto W,3-1 7 7 1 1 1 7 7. Tom Lehman 375 $380,875 Beltre 3b 4 0 1 1 Thams rf 4 1 2 4 Masset 1 1 0 0 0 1 Tschnr p 0 0 0 0 Dobbs 3b 4 0 1 0 1. Shawn Hogg, Odessa, Texas $95,484 Boston (Beckett 1-1) at N.Y. Yankees (Sabathia 4-2), Herrera 1-3 3 2 2 0 0 Cedeno ss 3 1 1 0 C.Ruiz c 4 1 1 0 8. Tommy Armour III 370 $405,550 2. Wesley Silcox, Santaquin, Utah $51,189 5:05 p.m. Hermid lf 4 0 0 0 Winn lf 4 0 1 0 Morton p 1 0 0 0 Kndrck p 3 0 0 0 9. Mark O’Meara 366 $473,899 3. Tyler Smith, Fruita, Colo. $50,998 Kansas City (Greinke 1-4) at Baltimore (Millwood 0-4), VnEvry cf 0 0 0 0 R.Pena 3b 3 0 1 0 Cordero S,13-15 2-3 1 0 0 0 0 10. John Cook 343 $398,685 DMcDn cf-lf 4 0 1 0 Mirand ph 0 0 0 0 HBP—by Coffey (Stubbs). Iwamr ph 1 0 0 0 BFrncs ph-rf 1 0 0 0 4. Corey Navarre, Weatherford, Okla. $50,589 5:05 p.m. Umpires—Home, Brian Gorman; First, Ted Barrett; Karstns p 0 0 0 0 11. Chien Soon Lu 314 $323,000 5. Clint Craig, Mena, Ark. $45,075 L.A. Angels (Jer.Weaver 4-2) at Texas (C.Wilson 3-1), DMarte p 0 0 0 0 Pearce 1b 1 0 0 0 12. David Peoples 267 $269,508 6. Ardie Maier, Timber Lake, S.D. $44,276 6:05 p.m. Vazquz p 0 0 0 0 Second, Tony Randazzo; Third, Paul Nauert. Totals 32 2 5 2 Totals 38 12 13 11 13. Corey Pavin 249 $316,700 7. Marcus Michaelis, Caldwell, Idaho $42,836 Seattle (F.Hernandez 2-3) at Oakland (Sheets 2-3), Totals 38 9 13 9 Totals 37 11 13 11 T—3:02. A—12,409 (42,319). Pittsburgh 100 010 000 — 2 14. David Eger 240 $385,171 8. Luke Haught, Weatherford, Texas $42,437 8:05 p.m. Boston 010 131 030 — 9 Philadelphia 105 001 14x — 12 15. Tom Kite 217 $306,785 9. Chad Denton, Berry Creek, Calif. $40,804 Wednesday’s Games New York 510 010 004 — 11 DIAMONDBACKS 5, MARLINS 1 E—A.McCutchen (3), K.Kendrick (1). DP—Philadelphia 1. 16. Ronnie Black 211 $298,890 10. Beau Schroeder, China, Texas $36,090 Kansas City at Cleveland, 5:05 p.m. Two outs when winning run scored. 17. Mike Reid 202 $282,642 DP—New York 2. LOB—Boston 4, New York 6. 2B— Arizona Florida LOB—Pittsburgh 4, Philadelphia 5. 2B—Cedeno (4), Barrel Racing Tampa Bay at N.Y. Yankees, 5:05 p.m. ab r h bi ab r h bi Rollins (4), Werth (20). HR—Delw.Young (1), Howard 18. Tom Pernice, Jr. 167 $182,650 1. Sherry Cervi, Marana, Ariz. $90,372 Minnesota at Boston, 5:10 p.m. Pedroia (14), Gardner (3), Teixeira (8), Cervelli (3), 19. Russ Cochran 162 $264,950 Thames (4). HR—J.Drew (6), Youkilis (6), V.Martinez 2 KJhnsn 2b 4 0 0 0 Coghln lf 4 0 2 0 (7), Werth (8). SB—Delw.Young (1), Victorino (6), Dobbs 2. Brittany Pozzi, Victoria, Texas $60,311 Baltimore at Texas, 6:05 p.m. CJcksn lf 3 1 1 1 GSnchz 1b 3 0 0 0 (1). 20. Mike Goodes 161 $288,506 3. Christina Richman, Glendora, Calif. $37,415 L.A. Angels at Chicago White Sox, 6:10 p.m. (5), D.Ortiz (7), A.Rodriguez (5), Thames (2). SB— 21. Keith Fergus 145 $236,444 R.Pena (1). SF—Thames. S.Drew ss 5 0 1 1 HRmrz ss 1 0 0 0 IP H R ER BB SO 4. Tana Poppino, Big Cabin, Okla. $36,721 Detroit at Oakland, 8:05 p.m. IP H R ER BB SO J.Upton rf 4 0 2 0 Barden ss 3 0 0 0 Pittsburgh 22. Hale Irwin 143 $208,698 5. Jill Moody, Letcher, S.D. $33,871 Toronto at Seattle, 8:10 p.m. Boston AdLRc 1b 4 1 2 0 Cantu 3b 3 1 2 0 Morton L,1-7 4 6 6 6 0 3 23. Loren Roberts 141 $307,567 6. Lindsay Sears, Nanton, Alberta $32,658 CYoung cf 3 1 0 0 Uggla 2b 4 0 0 0 Karstens 21-3 3 2 1 0 2 24. David Frost 139 $191,682 7. Lisa Lockhart, Oelrichs, S.D. $31,864 Matsuzaka 42-3 9 7 7 3 3 25. Peter Senior 136 $293,780 National League Wakefield 21-3 1 0 0 0 0 TAreu 3b 4 1 2 0 C.Ross rf 3 0 2 1 Taschner 12-3 4 4 4 2 0 8. Layna Kight, Wills Point, Texas $28,513 All Times MDT Hester c 4 1 2 1 RPauln c 4 0 0 0 Philadelphia 25. Brad Bryant 136 $201,305 9. Janna Beam, Hallsville, Texas $27,085 D.Bard H,8 1 0 0 0 1 2 K.Kendrick W,2-1 8 5 2 2 1 4 25. Joe Ozaki 136 $187,547 10. Annesa Self, Valley View, Texas $25,903 EAST W L Pct GB Papelbon L,1-3 BS,1-10 2-3 3 4 4 0 0 EJcksn p 2 0 0 0 Maybin cf 3 0 0 0 New York Ryal ph 1 0 0 0 Volstad p 1 0 0 0 Bastardo 1 0 0 0 0 2 Philadelphia 24 13 .649 — P.Hughes 5 6 5 5 1 3 Heilmn p 0 0 0 0 Petersn ph 1 0 0 0 HBP—by Morton (Victorino). LPGA Money Leaders Florida 20 19 .513 5 Pinto p 0 0 0 0 Umpires—Home, Gary Darling; First, Bruce Dreckman; Through May 16 TRANSACTIONS Logan H,4 1 2 1 1 0 0 Second, Paul Emmel; Third, Bill Hohn. Washington 20 19 .513 5 Park BS,2-2 1 4 3 3 0 0 Meyer p 0 0 0 0 Rank Name Trn Money BCarrll ph 1 0 0 0 T—2:38. A—45,371 (43,651). BASEBALL New York 19 20 .487 6 D.Marte 12-3 1 0 0 1 0 American League Atlanta 18 20 .474 6½ Vazquez W,2-4 1-3 0 0 0 0 1 Leroux p 0 0 0 0 1. Ai Miyazato 6 $597,498 Totals 34 5 10 3 Totals 31 1 6 1 2. Suzann Pettersen 6 $509,047 KANSAS CITY ROYALS—Purchased the contract of RHP CENTRAL W L Pct GB Park pitched to 3 batters in the 8th. CUBS 4, ROCKIES 2, 11 INNINGS Bryan Bullington from Omaha (PCL). Optioned 1B Kila HBP—by Papelbon (Cervelli). WP—Matsuzaka, Arizona 130 000 001 — 5 3. Yani Tseng 5 $468,425 Cincinnati 22 16 .579 — Florida 000 000 001 — 1 Colorado Chicago 4. Song-Hee Kim 6 $328,804 Ka’aihue from Omaha. P.Hughes. TORONTO BLUE JAYS—Placed OF Travis Snider on the St. Louis 22 17 .564 ½ Umpires—Home, Mark Carlson; First, Angel Campos; E—H.Ramirez (6). DP—Arizona 1. LOB—Arizona 7, ab r h bi ab r h bi 5. Cristie Kerr 5 $291,914 Chicago 17 22 .436 5½ Florida 6. 2B—C.Jackson (3), Hester (3), Coghlan (2), CGnzlz cf-rf 5 1 2 0 Fukdm rf 5 1 2 0 6. Jiyai Shin 5 $245,512 15-day DL, retroactive to May 15. Activated 3B Edwin Second, Jeff Nelson; Third, Larry Vanover. Encarnacion from the 15-day DL. Pittsburgh 16 22 .421 6 T—3:47. A—48,271 (50,287). Cantu (11). 3B—J.Upton (2). SB—Hester (1), Coghlan (5). S.Smith lf 5 1 2 1 SCastro ss 5 1 3 0 7. Se Ri Pak 6 $237,851 Milwaukee 15 23 .395 7 SF—C.Jackson. Hawpe rf 3 0 0 0 D.Lee 1b 5 0 0 0 8. Inbee Park 5 $222,518 National League Fowler pr-cf 1 0 0 0 ArRmr 3b 5 1 2 3 ARIZONA DIAMONDBACKS—Acquired RHP Saul Rivera Houston 13 24 .351 8½ ROYALS 4, ORIOLES 3 IP H R ER BB SO 9. Na Yeon Choi 6 $198,524 WEST W L Pct GB Arizona Tlwtzk ss 5 0 1 0 Colvin cf-lf 3 1 1 0 10. Jee Young Lee 6 $197,458 from Cleveland for cash considerations. Placed RHP Kansas City Baltimore E.Jackson W,2-5 8 4 0 0 2 12 Helton 1b 3 0 2 0 ASorin lf 3 0 0 0 11. Michelle Wie 6 $186,708 Bob Howry on unconditional waivers. Signed OF San Diego 22 15 .595 — ab r h bi ab r h bi Heilman 1 2 1 1 0 1 Olivo c 4 0 1 1 Grabow p 0 0 0 0 12. Lorena Ochoa 5 $176,527 Wagner Mateo. San Francisco 21 15 .583 ½ Pdsdnk lf 4 1 1 0 CPttrsn lf 2 3 1 0 Florida Stewart 3b 5 0 0 0 Marml p 0 0 0 0 13. Brittany Lincicome 6 $174,968 CINCINNATI REDS—Signed OF Felix Perez to a minor Los Angeles 20 17 .541 2 Aviles 2b 5 1 1 0 Markks rf 4 0 1 0 Volstad L,3-4 5 7 4 3 1 4 Barmes 2b 4 0 0 0 Nady ph 1 0 0 0 14. Karrie Webb 5 $173,877 league contract. Colorado 19 19 .500 3½ DeJess rf 5 0 2 0 Wggntn 2b 5 0 1 2 Pinto 2 1 0 0 2 2 Cook p 3 0 0 0 Marshll p 0 0 0 0 15. Stacy Lewis 6 $165,817 PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES—Designated INF Wilson Arizona 16 23 .410 7 BButler 1b 4 0 2 2 MTejad 3b 5 0 2 1 Meyer 1 1 0 0 0 1 Beimel p 0 0 0 0 Fontent 2b 4 0 1 0 16. In-Kyung Kim 6 $149,553 Valdez for assignment. Sunday’s Games JGuilln dh 3 1 1 0 Scott dh 4 0 1 0 Leroux 1 1 1 1 1 0 RBtncr p 0 0 0 0 Soto c 0 0 0 0 17. Candie Kung 6 $119,799 ST. LOUIS CARDINALS—Activated INF Felipe Lopez from Florida 10, N.Y. Mets 8 Callasp 3b 4 0 1 0 Wieters c 4 0 2 0 HBP—by E.Jackson (C.Ross). Giambi ph 1 0 0 0 K.Hill c 3 0 1 1 18. Karen Stupples 4 $116,092 the 15-day DL. Optioned INF Tyler Greene to Memphis Cincinnati 7, St. Louis 2 Maier cf 3 1 0 0 AdJons cf 4 0 1 0 Umpires—Home, James Hoye; First, Wally Bell; Second, Belisle p 0 0 0 0 Theriot ph-2b 1 0 0 0 19. Amy Yang 6 $113,715 (PCL). Atlanta 13, Arizona 1 YBtncr ss 4 0 2 1 Atkins 1b 3 0 0 0 Laz Diaz; Third, Manny Gonzalez. R.Wells p 2 0 0 0 20. Morgan Pressel 6 $103,587 SAN DIEGO PADRES—Placed OF Scott Hairston on the Chicago Cubs 4, Pittsburgh 3 Kendall c 4 0 0 0 Lugo pr 0 0 0 0 T—2:48. A—10,870 (38,560). Byrd cf 2 0 0 0 21. Maria Hjorth 5 $103,171 15-day DL, retroactive to May 16. Selected the contract Colorado 2, Washington 1 CIzturs ss 4 0 1 0 Totals 39 2 8 2 Totals 39 4 10 4 22. Angela Stanford 6 $99,580 of OF Chris Denorfia from Portland (PCL). Transferred San Francisco 4, Houston 3 Totals 36 4 10 3 Totals 35 3 10 3 Colorado 001 000 010 00 — 2 23. Catriona Matthew 4 $97,882 RHP Chris Young to the 60-day DL. L.A. Dodgers 1, San Diego 0 Kansas City 110 001 100 — 4 METS 3, BRAVES 2 Chicago 100 100 000 02 — 4 24. Anna Nordqvist 5 $95,751 BASKETBALL Philadelphia 4, Milwaukee 2 Baltimore 100 010 100 — 3 New York Atlanta One out when winning run scored. 25. Momoko Ueda 5 $93,226 National Basketball Association Monday’s Games E—Kendall (6), Wigginton (6). DP—Kansas City 1, ab r h bi ab r h bi E—Olivo (3), Tulowitzki (3). DP—Colorado 3, Chicago 1. MINNESOTA TIMBERWOLVES—Named Tony Ronzone Philadelphia 12, Pittsburgh 2 Baltimore 1. LOB—Kansas City 8, Baltimore 10. 2B— JosRys ss 4 1 1 0 Prado 2b 3 1 2 0 LOB—Colorado 8, Chicago 5. 2B—C.Gonzalez (6), assistant general manager/player personnel. Arizona 5, Florida 1 B.Butler (9), Callaspo (10), Y.Betancourt (7). SB— LCastill 2b 3 0 0 0 Heywrd rf 4 0 1 0 Fukudome (8), Fontenot (5). HR—Ar.Ramirez (4). SB— HOCKEY FOOTBALL Cincinnati 6, Milwaukee 3 Podsednik (14), C.Patterson 2 (2). CS—Aviles (2). S— Bay lf 3 0 1 0 C.Jones 3b 1 0 0 1 S.Castro (1). National Football League N.Y. Mets 3, Atlanta 2 C.Patterson. Carter rf 2 1 1 1 McCnn c 4 0 0 0 IP H R ER BB SO Stanley Cup Playoffs BALTIMORE RAVENS—Signed CB Travis Fisher and S Chicago Cubs 4, Colorado 2, 11 innings IP H R ER BB SO Francr rf 1 0 0 0 Glaus 1b 4 0 0 0 Colorado All Times MDT Brad Jones. St. Louis 6, Washington 2 Kansas City DWrght 3b 4 0 0 0 Hinske lf 4 1 3 1 Cook 7 7 2 1 1 3 CONFERENCE FINALS CLEVELAND BROWNS—Signed DL Kwaku Danso, DB San Francisco at San Diego, late Davies W,3-2 6 7 2 2 1 2 I.Davis 1b 2 1 0 0 YEscor ss 3 0 0 0 Beimel 0 1 0 0 0 0 Sunday, May 16 Matthew Harris, TE Ryan Moya, DL Brian Sanford, DL Houston at L.A. Dodgers, late Farnsworth H,2 1 1 1 1 0 0 Barajs c 4 0 2 2 McLoth cf 4 0 2 0 R.Betancourt 1 0 0 0 0 1 Chicago 2, San Jose 1, Chicago leads series 1-0 Martin Tavaseu and PK Leigh Tiffin. Tuesday’s Games Bl.Wood H,2 1 1 0 0 0 0 MthwsJ cf 3 0 0 0 D.Lowe p 1 0 0 0 Belisle L,1-1 21-3 2 2 2 0 3 Philadelphia 6, Montreal 0, Philadelphia leads series DALLAS COWBOYS—Released OL Corey Procter. Milwaukee (M.Parra 0-2) at Cincinnati (H.Bailey 1-2), Soria S,10-12 1 1 0 0 2 1 Pelfrey p 3 0 0 0 OFlhrt p 0 0 0 0 Chicago 1-0 KANSAS CITY CHIEFS—Claimed TE Leroy Banks off 10:35 a.m. Baltimore Felicin p 0 0 0 0 Moylan p 0 0 0 0 R.Wells 62-3 7 1 1 1 3 Tuesday, May 18 waivers from Atlanta. Signed DL Jeffery Fitzgerald and Arizona (Buckner 0-0) at Florida (Jo.Johnson 3-1), Bergesen L,3-3 62-3 10 4 3 2 2 FRdrgz p 0 0 0 0 MeCarr ph 0 0 0 0 Grabow H,5 2-3 1 1 1 2 0 Montreal at Philadelphia, 5 p.m. DB Andre Jones. 11:10 a.m. Uehara 11-3 0 0 0 0 1 Saito p 0 0 0 0 Marmol BS,2-8 12-3 0 0 0 1 3 Chicago at San Jose, 8 p.m. MINNESOTA VIKINGS—Signed LB Ryan D’Imperio. Pittsburgh (Duke 2-4) at Philadelphia (Halladay 6-1), Ohman 1 0 0 0 0 1 Totals 29 3 5 3 Totals 28 2 8 2 Marshall W,3-1 2 0 0 0 0 4 Thursday, May 20 SAN DIEGO CHARGERS—Signed LB Boris Lee and LB 5:05 p.m. HBP—by Farnsworth (C.Patterson), by Bergesen New York 020 001 000 — 3 Beimel pitched to 1 batter in the 8th. Philadelphia at Montreal, 5 p.m. Mike Nixon to two-year contracts. N.Y. Mets (J.Santana 3-2) at Atlanta (Medlen 1-1), (J.Guillen). Balk—Bergesen. Atlanta 000 011 000 — 2 PB—K.Hill. Friday, May 21 SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS—Placed INF-OF Mark DeRosa 5:10 p.m. Umpires—Home, Bob Davidson; First, Alfonso DP—New York 3, Atlanta 2. LOB—New York 4, Atlanta Umpires—Home, Jim Wolf; First, Todd Tichenor; San Jose at Chicago, 6 p.m. on the 15-day DL, retroactive to May 9. Recalled INF- Colorado (J.Chacin 2-1) at Chicago Cubs (Silva 4-0), Marquez; Second, Tim Timmons; Third, Tim Tschida. 6. 2B—Carter (2), Barajas (6), Prado (11), Hinske (8), Second, Marvin Hudson; Third, Derryl Cousins. Saturday, May 22 OF Eugenio Velez from Fresno (PCL). 6:05 p.m. T—2:43. A—9,299 (48,290). McLouth (8). HR—Hinske (2). SB—Jos.Reyes (9), Bay (5), T—3:18. A—35,760 (41,210). Philadelphia at Montreal, 1 p.m. SEATTLE SEAHAWKS—Released TE Jason Pociask. Washington (Lannan 1-2) at St. Louis (Carpenter 4-1), Y.Escobar (3). CS—Prado (3). S—L.Castillo, D.Lowe, Sunday, May 23 TAMPA BAY BUCCANEERS—Signed C Jeff Tow-Arnett 6:15 p.m. TWINS 8, BLUE JAYS 3 Me.Cabrera. SF—C.Jones. San Jose at Chicago, 1 p.m. and LS Chris Mauriello. Released WR Damola Adeniji. San Francisco (J.Sanchez 2-3) at San Diego (Latos 3-3), IP H R ER BB SO BASKETBALL Monday, May 24 WASHINGTON REDSKINS—Signed DL Vonnie Holliday, 8:05 p.m. Minnesota Toronto New York x-Montreal at Philadelphia, 5 p.m. WR Brandon Banks, WR Shay Hodge and CB Melvin Houston (Norris 2-4) at L.A. Dodgers (Kuroda 4-1), ab r h bi ab r h bi Pelfrey W,5-1 72-3 7 2 2 2 3 NBA Playoffs Tuesday, May 25 Stephenson. 8:10 p.m. Span cf 5 1 1 0 FLewis rf 5 1 1 0 Feliciano H,4 1-3 1 0 0 1 1 All Times MDT x-Chicago at San Jose, 7 p.m. HOCKEY Wednesday’s Games OHudsn 2b 5 1 2 1 A.Hill 2b 5 0 0 0 F.Rodriguez S,6-8 1 0 0 0 1 1 CONFERENCE FINALS Wednesday, May 26 National Hockey League Chicago Cubs at Philadelphia, 5:05 p.m. Mauer c 5 2 3 0 Lind lf 4 0 2 0 Atlanta Sunday, May 16 x-Philadelphia at Montreal, 5 p.m. BUFFALO SABRES—Agreed to terms with F Mike Grier on a Milwaukee at Pittsburgh, 5:05 p.m. Mornea 1b 4 3 3 4 V.Wells cf 4 0 3 1 D.Lowe L,5-4 7 4 3 3 3 3 Boston 92, Orlando 88, Boston leads series 1-0 Thursday, May 27 one-year contract. N.Y. Mets at Washington, 5:05 p.m. Cuddyr rf 3 0 0 0 Overay 1b 4 0 0 0 O’Flaherty 2-3 0 0 0 0 1 Monday, May 17 x-San Jose at Chicago, 6 p.m. FLORIDA PANTHERS—Named Dale Tallon general manager. Cincinnati at Atlanta, 5:10 p.m. Kubel dh 4 0 1 0 AlGnzlz ss 4 1 2 0 Moylan 1-3 1 0 0 0 0 L.A. Lakers 128, Phoenix 107, L.A. Lakers lead series 1- Friday, May 28 MINNESOTA WILD—Signed C Chad Rau to a two-year con- Colorado at Houston, 6:05 p.m. DlmYn lf 5 1 1 1 JBautst 3b 4 1 1 2 Saito 1 0 0 0 0 3 0 x-Montreal at Philadelphia, 5 p.m. tract. Florida at St. Louis, 6:15 p.m. BHarrs ss 3 0 0 0 J.Buck c 3 0 1 0 HBP—by D.Lowe (I.Davis). WP—Pelfrey, D.Lowe. Tuesday, May 18 Saturday, May 29 NASHVILLE PREDATORS—Signed F Kelsey Wilson to a one- San Francisco at Arizona, 7:40 p.m. Casilla ss 1 0 0 0 R.Ruiz dh 4 0 1 0 Umpires—Home, Ed Rapuano; First, Tom Hallion; Boston at Orlando, 6:30 p.m. x-Chicago at San Jose, 6 p.m. year contract. San Diego at L.A. Dodgers, 8:10 p.m. Punto 3b 4 0 1 0 Second, Ron Kulpa; Third, Lance Barksdale. Wednesday, May 19 WASHINGTON CAPITALS—Signed C Nicklas Backstrom to a Totals 39 8 12 6 Totals 37 3 11 3 T—2:47. A—21,086 (49,743). Phoenix at L.A. Lakers, 7 p.m. RODEO 10-year contract and C Marcus Johansson to a three-year AL Boxes Minnesota 010 401 020 — 8 Saturday, May 22 contract. Toronto 020 010 000 — 3 Orlando at Boston, 6:30 p.m. Pro Rodeo Leaders COLLEGE RANGERS 4, ANGELS 3 E—Overbay 2 (3). DP—Minnesota 1, Toronto 1. LOB— CARDINALS 6, NATIONALS 2 Sunday, May 23 Through May 16 LSU—Named Lynn Nance men’s assistant basketball Los Angeles Texas Minnesota 9, Toronto 8. 2B—Span (6), O.Hudson (6). Washington St. Louis L.A. Lakers at Phoenix, 6:30 p.m. All-Around coach. ab r h bi ab r h bi HR—Morneau 2 (11), Delm.Young (4), J.Bautista (11). ab r h bi ab r h bi Monday, May 24 1. Trevor Brazile, Decatur, Texas $110,274 MARQUETTE—Announced sophomore basketball C SB—Punto (3). WHarrs rf 3 0 1 1 FLopez ss 4 0 0 0 Orlando at Boston, 6:30 p.m. 2. Ryan Jarrett, Summerville, Ga. $49,249 Youssoupha Mbao will transfer. EAyar ss 4 0 0 0 Andrus ss 3 1 2 0 NEBRASKA—Named Wes Flanigan men’s assistant bas- HKndrc 2b 4 0 0 0 MYong 3b 3 0 1 1 IP H R ER BB SO AlGnzlz ph 0 0 0 0 Ludwck rf 3 0 1 0 Tuesday, May 25 3. Josh Peek, Pueblo, Colo. $47,068 Minnesota A.Dunn ph 1 0 0 0 Hollidy lf 3 1 0 0 L.A. Lakers at Phoenix, 7 p.m. 4. Clint Robinson, Spanish Fork, Utah $31,405 ketball coach. TrHntr cf 4 1 1 1 Kinsler 2b 4 1 1 1 NEWBERRY—Named Stephen Flynn defensive coordi- KMorls 1b 3 0 0 0 Guerrr dh 4 1 2 0 Slowey W,5-3 5 8 3 3 0 2 Slaten p 0 0 0 0 Pujols 1b 3 2 3 0 Wednesday, May 26 5. Curtis Cassidy, Donalda, Alberta $28,650 Al.Burnett H,1 2 2 0 0 1 0 Storen p 0 0 0 0 Rasms cf 4 2 2 1 x-Boston at Orlando, 6:30 p.m. 6. Cash Myers, Athens, Texas $28,601 nator HMatsu dh 4 0 0 0 N.Cruz rf 3 0 1 2 POINT PARK—Named Mark Platts women’s soccer JRiver lf 3 1 1 0 Smoak 1b 4 0 0 0 Guerrier 1 0 0 0 0 2 Capps p 0 0 0 0 Freese 3b 3 1 1 2 Thursday, May 27 7. Jesse Sheffield, Austin, Colo. $24,520 Crain 1 1 0 0 0 1 CGzmn 2b 4 0 0 0 YMolin c 4 0 1 2 x-Phoenix at L.A. Lakers, 7 p.m. 8. Jesse Bail, Camp Crook, S.D. $20,918 coach. Napoli c 3 1 1 2 DvMrp lf 4 0 0 0 ST. JOHN’S—Announced sophomore basketball G BrWod 3b 3 0 1 0 MRmrz c 2 0 0 0 Toronto Zmrmn 3b 4 0 0 0 Schmkr 2b 3 0 1 1 Friday, May 28 9. Trell Etbauer, Goodwell, Okla. $17,246 Eveland L,3-3 4 9 5 3 4 2 Wlngh lf 3 0 0 0 Lohse p 2 0 0 0 x-Orlando at Boston, 6:30 p.m. 10. Landon McClaugherty, Tilden, Texas $16,727 Omari Lawrence will transfer. BAreu ph 1 0 0 0 Treanr c 0 0 0 0 TENNESSEE—Announced basketball F Emmanuel Willits rf 3 0 1 0 Borbon cf 3 1 2 0 R.Lewis 2 1 1 1 1 2 IRdrgz c 4 0 0 0 TMiller p 0 0 0 0 Saturday, May 29 Bareback Riding Camp 2 2 2 2 0 0 AKndy 1b 4 1 2 0 Motte p 1 0 0 0 x-L.A. Lakers at Phoenix, 6:30 p.m. 1. Ryan Gray, Cheney, Wash. $80,008 Negedu is transferring to New Mexico. Totals 32 3 5 3 Totals 30 4 9 4 WILLIAMS— Named Aaron Kelton football coach. Coroner: Ole Miss player had sickle cell trait OXFORD, Miss. — A coroner says complications of ball program.’’It also said he didn’t track what his staff Basketball Camp will be held June 14-17 at CSI sickle cell trait caused the death of Bennie F. Abram, was doing or make sure his players were following NCAA Gymnasium.The camp is for boys and girls in grades a University of Mississippi football player who col- rules, particularly those limiting the time spent on prac- Sports Shorts K-8. Sessions each day run from 8:30 a.m. to noon lapsed during a Feb. 19 workout. tice and football-related activities. and 1 to 4:30 p.m. Check-in will begin at 8 a.m. June Send Magic Valley briefs to [email protected] Officials released the autopsy results Monday for MAGIC VALLEY 14. Abram, a 20-year-old junior from Southaven. Each participant will receive a camp T-shirt and Lafayette County Coroner Rocky Kennedy said the JRD holds pet walk Find more area events by searching for ‘sports’ on the the first 150 campers registered received a CSI bas- official cause of death was the sickle cell trait associ- JEROME — Jerome Recreation District will hold its event calendar at Magicvalley.com ketball. ated with exertion. Kennedy said a contributing fac- Walk a Hound Lose a Pound Walk at 9 a.m., Saturday. Information: Jason Vickrey at 208-358-2593 or tor was that Abram had an enlarged heart. The cost is $15 per person and includes treats for Snake River Shootout planned Colby Blaine at 208-340-7588. your dog and refreshments. Proceeds benefit the Kennedy said a person with sickle cell trait inherits HAGERMAN — The Sawtooth Baseball Academy Jerome animal shelter. Dogs must be on a leash. The one gene for sickle hemoglobin and one for normal will host the Snake River Shootout June 5-6 in walk starts at the JRD and ends at Snake River Vet. Six-week soccer camp offered hemoglobin. Hagerman.The U10 baseball tournament includes a The People and Animal Health Fair will be from Soccer players ages 4-18 are invited to join North three-game guarantee and there is a Saturday only NCAA 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Information: Amy at 324-3389. American Soccer Camps and the Twin Falls Rapids Michigan to release option for teams preferring to not play on Sunday. Soccer Club for a flexible six-week soccer camp. Information: http://www.sawtoothbaseball.com. Sessions are divided by age group as well as goal- response to NCAA Blue Cruise of Idaho cycling keeper and strength and conditioning sessions. CHICAGO — Michigan will publicly release its Lady Bruin camp offered Information: 316-7005 or online at http://www.twin- response to NCAA allegations of major rules violations ride planned in Twin Falls The Lady Bruin Basketball camp will be held from fallsrapids.com. against coach Rich Rodriguez next week. The Blue Cross of Idaho Foundation for Health 9 a.m. to noon June 7-10 at Twin Falls High School. Athletic director David Brandon says there will be will hold the 2010 Blue Cruise of Idaho Saturday in The camp is for girls entering grades 5-8. “total transparency’’and that any school-imposed sanc- Twin Falls. Olympic gold medalist Kristin Armstrong NNU hosts NBC camp Registration forms are available at the front offices tions will be revealed in the report, which will be sent to will join the riders. Participants may choose a dis- NAMPA — Northwest Nazarene University will of Twin Falls schools. the NCAA on May 24 and made public the following day. tance of 15, 30 or 50 miles. Proceeds benefit the host the NBC Girls Basketball Camp July 5-9. The Information: Nancy Jones at 420-7588. Brandon spoke Monday in Chicago, where he was Canyon Rim trail system. A barbecue lunch will be camp is for girls ages 9-18 and includes room and attending Big Ten meetings this week. provided after the ride at O’Leary Jr. High School. meals in the NNU cafeteria. Information: The NCAA said in February that Rodriguez “failed to Information: Karri Ryan at 331-7317 or visit CSI holds youth hoops camp http://www.nbccamps.com. promote an atmosphere of compliance within the foot- http://www.bluecruiseidaho.com. The College of Southern Idaho Junior Eagles — Staff and wire reports Sports 4 Tuesday, May 18, 2010 SPORTS Times-News, Twin Falls, Idaho Golf Continued from Sports 1 Gooding: Angela Vitek 94. Indy could have record 5 Whalen, McCall, 77; Jed Oyler, Filer, 77; 10. (tie) Dan Class 2A Masterson, St. Maries, 78; Carey Reynolds, Bonners At Lewiston Ferry, 78; Clayton Zimmerman, Weiser, 78. Boys Area school scores Team scores: 1. Soda Springs 314; 2. Castleford 326; Filer: Jed Olyer 77, Jesse Vierstra 82, Ben Shetler 82, 3. Kendrick 339; 4. Nampa Christian 340; 5. Grace Nathan Simon 82, Sheldon Macklin 88. 345; 6. Parma 359; 7. (tie) Oakley 365; Declo 365. Kimberly: Gage Huft 70, Stephen Clements 80, Individual top 10: 1. James Frankos, Soda Springs, Derek Maloney 80, Dalton Harmon 84, Austin Askew 70; 2. Dylan Kinyon, Castleford, 73; 3. Jase Bennett, 89. Wallace, 74; 4. Travis Robinson, Oakley, 75; 5. Austin women in starting field Girls Hall, Kendrick, 77; 6. (tie) Hunter Matyus, Soda Team scores: 1. Shelley 373; 2. Weiser 377; 3. Springs, 78; Dylan Bass, Garden Valley, 78; 8. Dallas Kimberly 399; 4. Kellogg 411; 5. Fruitland 422; 6. Degn, Malad, 79; 9. (tie) Zach Zollinger, Raft River, INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — If each makes the May 30 Marsh Valley 428; 7. Buhl 442; 8. St. Maries 475. 80; Nick Howard, Castleford, 80. Individual top 10: 1. Kaceelyn Pouttu, Kellogg, 79; 2. Area school scores not available. Janet Guthrie can see field, it would mark the first Sheryl Bitter, Shelley, 81; 3. Hailey Woods, Weiser, Girls 92; 4. Asia Plaza, Fruitland, 93; 5. (tie) Angela Vitek, Team scores: 1. Nampa Christian 426; 2. Magic progress moving at full time any has been part of a Gooding, 94; Taylor Thomas, Kimberly, 94; Valley Christian 443; 3. Wallace 461; 4. Declo 476. throttle. race featuring five women. Savannah Driscoll, Shelley, 94; Laura Haun, Weiser, Individual top 10: 1. Jessica Young, Nampa Christian, 94; 9. (tie) Janie Huntsman, Shelley, 95; Rachel 89; 2. Kristina Reitsma, Magic Valley Christian, 94; The pioneering racer is “I think it would be neat,” Grimes, Fruitland, 95; Kirsten Syme, Weiser, 95. 3. Mecala Barger, Nampa Christian, 96; 4. (tie) Emily Area school scores Vester, Wallace, 97; Michelle Koostra, Magic Valley now watching five women Fisher said. “But what’s real- Buhl: Karlie Walker 107, Priscilla Sonner 109, Megan Christian, 97; 6. Sasha Lott, Soda Springs, 99; 7. Smalley 112, Krisjoan Wagner 114, Jennifer Kersey Jacqueline Gibby, Declo, 107; 8. Sara Langedyke, try to duplicate her milestone ly cool is they’re all qualified n/a. Soda Springs, 110; 9. Kenzie Dire, Wallace, 112; 10. achievement by qualifying (drivers).” Kimberly: Taylor Thomas 94, Taylor Sievers 98, Elizabeth Kidd, Declo, 114. Tenecia Grover 102, Jessica Olsen 105, Alyssa Area school scores not available. for this year’s Indianapolis While fans and officials Fehringer 124. 500. There are women welcome the influx of climbing over the wall for pit women, the times haven’t stops and female engineers always been so cordial. Big 10 dissecting data at Indy, giv- When Guthrie started her ing a male-dominated sport quest to qualify at Indy, she Continued from Sports 1 Philadelphia and those the kind of female touch became the target of a letter- responding with its denial. whopping television mar- Guthrie always envisioned. writing campaign to keep her The expansion talk comes kets. Notre Dame and “I thought it would take out. Companies insisted they at a time when at least some Nebraska boast storied tradi- two generations,” she told feared sponsoring a woman schools are struggling to pay tions — and dedicated alum- The Associated Press by because of racing’s dangers,a their bills, and no conference ni — as does Texas, which phone Sunday. “But it’s only refrain that included an air- gives its members more would also give the confer- taken a little more than one.” line company telling Guthrie money than the Big Ten at ence exposure in big Texas It’s been 33 years since it didn’t want “anything to approximately $22 million markets and a fertile recruit- Guthrie became the first do with a sport that involved each. That’s about double ing ground. Texas officials woman to start a race at the crashes.” Guthrie even what the SEC and Pac-10 pay, have denied any interest in famed Brickyard, and for remembers her team owner with the Big 12 at about $7 leaving the Big 12, but the most of that time, Guthrie explaining why NASCAR put million to $12 million and the speculation hasn’t stopped. stood virtually alone. three women on the 1977 Big East $4.5 million or less. “It’s a complex set of From her breakthrough Firecracker 400 starting grid Even expansion advocates issues,’’ Brandon said. moment in 1977 until 1999 — to prove they didn’t such as Alvarez don’t want to “There’s a lot of rumors out only one other woman, Lyn belong. sacrifice a dime if the confer- there, and from what I’ve St. James, qualified for Indy’s Guthrie’s calm, eloquent ence decides to grow. And been told, they’re just that — 33-car starting grid.No more demeanor helped stop those along with the money, there rumors.’’ than two women were arguments, even though it are other issues that would The potential travel costs entered in any 500 from wasn’t until 2001 that Fisher have to be addressed, such as for Michigan are a real con- 2000-06. AP photo noticed a different clientele academic credentials and cern for Brandon, who’s new Now the numbers — and Danica Patrick suited up Sunday for the second day of practice for the at the track. geography. to the job,even if his budget is perceptions — are rapidly “You’d see fathers bring- “We’ve talked from “in excess of $100 million.’’ changing. Indianapolis 500 auto race at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in ing their daughters to the 10,000 feet about the census “We service 750-ish ath- This year’s potential Indianapolis. autograph line,” Fisher said 20 years ago and the rust belt letes and the consequences female starters at Indy con- personable Sarah Fisher, the ly unknown but promising as she pointed toward a population, the Big Ten pop- of changes in the composi- sist of the glamorous Danica first woman to win an rookies, Brazil’s Ana Beatriz photo of a girl driving a go- ulation versus movement to tion of the conference are a Patrick, the first woman to IndyCar pole; fan favorite and Switzerland’s Simona de kart. “Now I sign a lot of pic- the Sun Belt over the last 20 material issue to my life,’’ win an IndyCar race; the Milka Duno and two relative- Silvestro. tures like this.” years,’’Iowa athletic director Brandon said. Gary Barta said. “I’ve got to get student- That data,he said,revealed athletes to and from compe- a big shift in population to the titions, and I’ve got to get South. them in class,’’ he said. Halak’s confidence not shaken by early exit “More and more people “That’s one of the things that have moved to the South,’’he I really want to get an under- PHILADELPHIA — nant the rest of the series, and the main reason the outstanding. Making just his said. “The Big Ten still has standing of from a schedul- Jaroslav Halak hit the showers the eighth-seeded Canadiens Canadiens stunned Pres- third start of the playoffs, the largest population base of ing competition standpoint. early in another playoff open- eliminated the defending idents’ Trophy winners Leighton stopped 28 shots for alumni, but we want to make In a world where we expand er. If he rebounds the same Stanley Cup champions in Washington and the reigning his first career NHL playoff sure years from now, if that the geographic scope of the way, the Montreal Canadiens seven games. champion Penguins in the shutout. movement continues, we’re conference and just the will be just fine. “It wasn’t one of his better first two rounds to go deeper Leighton has allowed only in position to say that.’’ number of places that we go, The star goalie was pulled games,” Canadiens coach into the playoffs than they four goals on 98 shots in four Piscataway, N.J., isn’t how will we make that hap- from a 6-0 loss to the Jacques Martin said Monday. have since 1993, when they games since replacing Brian exactly lined with palm trees, pen in a way that’s affordable Philadelphia Flyers after “I think he’ll recognize that, won the Stanley Cup a record Boucher, who is likely out for but Rutgers does offer prox- and consistent with our val- allowing four goals on 14 shots and not just him. I think it 24th time. the postseason with a knee imity to New York and ues?’’ in Game 1 of the Eastern goes with our hockey team. I Halak stopped 131 of the injury. Conference finals on Sunday think last night wasn’t a good final 134 shots he faced Leighton, who sat out from night. performance, and the result against the Capitals in the March 16 until May 10 That won’t shatter his con- was there to show it. I’ve got opening round. After his early because of an ankle injury,will Brosius fidence, or worry his team- lots of confidence, and his exit against the Penguins, take a shutout streak of 105 Continued from Sports 1 them. I got to play in an All- mates and coaches. After all, teammates have a lot of confi- Halak allowed just 12 goals in minutes, 50 seconds into Hesler Field. Star game,’’ he said. “I knew it’s nothing new. dence in Jaro that he’ll be able the last six games. Sidney Game 2. Yet he still feels he Brosius has a tiny office in I wasn’t going to the Hall of Halak got yanked after giv- to bounce back.” Crosby and Evgeni Malkin has to prove himself every the back of the third base Fame. There was nothing to ing up five goals in a 6-3 loss to Halak entered this series each had one in the series. game, and there is no guaran- dugout. The walls hold chase, so I was done chas- Pittsburgh in Game 1 of the with the best save percentage In the other net, Flyers tee he’ll have a starting job in photos from his playing ing. The time was right.’’ second round. He was domi- (.933) in the playoffs. He was goalie Michael Leighton was Philly next season. days, one of the Yankees An Oregon native, visiting the White House, Brosius returned to another of the ticker-tape McMinnville, where he parade through Manhattan made his offseason home. after the 1998 World Series He had friends there and his No excuse for skipping Hall of Fame induction championship. father had even taken a job Brosius was named MVP there. By Jenna Fryer mony. Earnhardt, the ceremony. Gordon cited of that World Series. The The town of some 33,000 Associated Press writer NASCAR’s most popular a prior commitment and Yankees went on to win the residents is located about 35 driver and a two-time Johnson said he was on one title again in 1999 and miles southwest of Portland CHARLOTTE, N.C. — incoming inaugural five- champion in NASCAR’s sec- final vacation with his wife 2000. in the heart of Oregon’s The NASCAR Hall of Fame member class, Johnson and ond-tier series, wasn’t there before the couple welcomes Originally drafted by the wine country. opened its doors with a star- Petty received a standing despite the upcoming their first child this summer. Oakland Athletics in the McMinnville is the birth- studded ceremony show- ovation. induction of his father. The slumping Stewart was 20th round of the 1987 place of children’s author casing many of its stars. It was a fitting close to a Their absence did not go testing with his team in amateur draft, Brosius Beverly Cleary and home to Retired champions Dale celebratory day for the sport. unnoticed. Petty, a seven- Virginia, while a spokesman made his big league debut in an annual UFO festival — Jarrett, Darrell Waltrip and But for a few moments, as time champion and for Earnhardt said there had 1991. He was traded after the legacy of a famous series Rusty Wallace sat on stage security cleared the plaza for NASCAR’s all-time win- been confusion as to which the 1997 season to the of photographs of a myste- alongside current drivers Petty and Johnson’s arrival, ningest driver, thought their events the driver was to Yankees. rious craft hovering above Greg Biffle, Kurt Busch and there was a quiet murmur absence was wrong. attend. His best year in the majors the town that were pub- Bobby Labonte. that perhaps NASCAR’s cur- “A lot of these drivers that It all speaks to a large came that first season in lished by Life magazine in Heavyweight team owners rent stars were about to are doing pretty well today scheduling problem. New York, when he hit .300 the 1950s. Rick Hendrick and Richard arrive. don’t realize what some of NASCAR runs a 38-race with 19 homers and 98 RBIs. In many ways Linfield Childress flanked NASCAR Missing from last week’s the guys went through to get schedule over 11 months that Brosius — called ‘Brosius looks like a small East Coast chairman Brian France, events were Jeff Gordon, it to this point,’’ Petty said takes drivers and teams from the Ferocious’ by Yankees college plunked down in the while Joe Gibbs watched Jimmie Johnson, Tony last weekend. “A lot of us old home a minimum of three play-by-play announcer West, complete with red- from the audience. Stewart and Dale Earnhardt timers look back and hope days a week. Throw in spon- John Sterling — left the brick colonial dormitories The ceremony ended after Jr. — the “big dogs’’ of that the guys that are doing it sor appearances, business game after the 2001 season and a bell tower that chimes NASCAR pioneers Richard today’s NASCAR. now appreciate what the obligations, team meetings with no regrets. He’d col- on the hour. Petty and Junior Johnson Gordon, Johnson, Stewart guys did who laid the and personal responsibili- lected his three rings, a Gold Brosius lives just a short drove replicas of their old and Matt Kenseth were the groundwork.’’ ties, well, it barely leaves Glove and an All-Star nod. drive away. cars onto the plaza. The only only three active Cup cham- All four champions had time for a haircut some It was a family decision,not “He loves coaching and two living members of the pions missing from the cere- various reasons for missing weeks. a baseball decision, he said. he has a passion for it,’’ath- “I never wanted baseball letic director Scott to feel like work, I never Carnahan said. “He’s great wanted to resent it. I felt like with the kids.’’ if I kept playing it would After his retirement from CSI almost do more harm than professional baseball, Continued from Sports 1 (.474 regular season), while course, the returning players good. I was so fortunate the Brosius served as an assis- their work cut out for them, running the bases (180 total and the newcomers must Bradley Guire may be things I got to experience, tant at Linfield under then- not to mention any pitcher bases regular season, 17 learn how to package all that reached at bguire@magic- going to four straight World coach Carnahan. Brosius yet to sign with CSI. stolen). She also shored up an talent together to form a solid valley.com or 735-3229. Series, winning three of took over in 2008. Gonzales will be missed at important spot in the middle team capable of knocking off the plate, as the future infield. the ultra-talented Bruins. Savannah College of Arts and So far, head coach Nick The road to nationals 2010 SPORTS PHYSICALS Design player routinely hit Baumert has three signees in starts over again with the between .350 and .400 Jerome senior T.J. Surrage fall scrimmage season. More Month of through her two seasons. She and Utah players Nikki than likely, it’ll again run also provided some power Brailsford and Eckstein. 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