61 / 35 Cloudy, windy. Agribusiness 4 STATE GOLF TOURNAMENT >>> Find out how local golfers and teams fared at state, SPORTS 1 TUESDAY 75 CENTS May 12, 2009 MagicValley.com Council Hoping approves $10.25M BASE jumper still for the loan best? agreement School districts By Ben Botkin hesitant Times-News writer unconscious The Twin Falls City to declare Council on Monday voted on a loan agreement to emergencies finance up $10.25 million Enthusiasts say for the purchase of water By Ben Botkin rights at Pristine Springs. Times-News writer Attaining the water Maryland man skirted rights is a step that city So far, at least six area officials see at as a way of school districts are shying resolving high arsenic further injury with gear away from declaring a levels in parts of the city’s financial emergency. water supply. The vote School districts from allows the city to issue a By Andrea Jackson Filer to Dietrich aren’t promissory note to the Times-News writer declaring a financial State of Idaho Bond Bank emergency this year, Authority for up to $10.25 A 34-year-old BASE decisions that mirror million. jumper from Maryland Twin Falls and Gooding The final interest rate of had yet to wake up school districts. the agreement still needs Monday, after jumping Declaring a financial to be worked out, but the 280 feet from the Snake emergency allows school rate is expected to be River Canyon rim the day districts to reduce the lower than the 5 percent before, officials said. number of contract days maximum outlined in the The experienced BASE or the level of salary in resolution. Interest rates jumper, Scott Doyle, is a teacher contracts. State are expected to be firefighter and paramedic funding cuts to education between 3.7 percent and from Montgomery for the upcoming fiscal 4.1 percent, said Jim County, Md., who year meet one require- Wrigley, underwriter for authorities say suffered a ment for declaring a the bonds. serious head injury after a financial emergency. The 5 percent limit “line twist” when his The other requirement gives some “wiggle parachute opened. After is based on how low a dis- room,”he said. jumping from publicly trict projects it general The money will be paid owned land, Doyle struck fund balance to be at the back through revenues of the canyon wall in Jerome end of the next fiscal year. the city water fund, County by the Blue Lakes according to the agree- Country Club more than See SCHOOLS, Main 2 ment. The payments on once Sunday morning, the agreement will be up according to a press to $900,000 a year for 15 release from the Jerome years. That amount County Sheriff’s Office. includes principal and BASE jumping enthu- interest on the financing. siasts said Monday that Minidoka The financing is one Doyle skirted further piece of the project for the injury, or even death, city. because of equipment he Memorial The council in wore. November decided that “I suspect without all may change acquiring more water that gear he could have rights was necessary and had a crushed spine,”said sought judicial confirma- Twin Falls BASE nonprofit tion in court to finance Association Spokes- the project to the tune of person Mark Kissner. “He $33.2 million. In January, did sustain an injury, we status the court determined the think, and hope he’ll project is an “ordinary recover from it, but with- By Laurie Welch and necessary expense.” out preparation and plan- Times-News writer The entire project is ning it could have been estimated to increase over at the bottom of the RUPERT — The water rates by up to 10 cliff.” Minidoka County Com- percent each year as the Doyle was listed in crit- mission unanimously city takes on the new ical condition Monday agreed Monday to recom- debt, according to a afternoon at Saint mend that the county- memo from Gary Evans, Alphonsus Regional owned hospital be con- finance director for the Medical Center in Boise, verted to a 501(c)3 non- city. hospital officials said. profit so it can secure The city is looking at Kissner said Doyle was money for a renovation other options for the still unconscious Monday project that otherwise remaining financing, afternoon. may be grounded. Photos by ASHLEY SMITH/Times-News including a low-interest On Sunday,a helicopter Minidoka Memorial $13 million loan from the lifted Doyle from the ABOVE: While waiting for the wind to ebb Monday afternoon, Charles Bryan takes some time to work on a Hospital Administrator Idaho Department of canyon after other parachute at the visitor center near the Perrine Bridge in Twin Falls. Carl Hanson said the hos- Environmental Quality, TOP: BASE jumper Scott Doyle was injured Sunday morning during a jump in this area near Blue Lakes pital board is contemplat- Evans said. See BASE, Main 2 Country Club, pictured Monday. ing changing the hospi- tal’s governance structure to help secure funding for an estimated $6 million renovation that will include a new emergency Judge denies motion to dismiss grazing challenge room, nurse’s station and a new building front. By Todd Dvorak initial victory for the Idaho-based consider a no-grazing option and Hanson said lenders are Associated Press writer Western Watershed Project in a or the cumulative effects of graz- basically not lending lawsuit against the Bureau of Land ing and climate change on sage money to government- BOISE — A judge has Management. The conservation grouse and its dwindling habitat. owned facilities like the refused to dismiss and group is challenging 18 BLM land Last month government hospital due to a 2006 break apart a sweeping use plans covering more than 25 lawyers, joined by members of the Idaho Supreme Court lawsuit accusing fed- million acres in Idaho, Wyoming, Wyoming livestock and petrole- ruling that restricted local eral land managers of Nevada, Utah, Montana and um industry, asked Winmill to governments’ ability to giving livestock graz- northern California. dismiss the lawsuit or split it apart enter long-term debt ing and energy devel- In a lawsuit filed last year in to be argued separately in federal without voter approval. opment priority over Boise, the group accused the courts in each state. The court’s decision protecting sage grouse agency of violating environmental Government lawyers argued tightened the use of debt habitat across millions of laws and its own policies in the that the court in Boise lacks juris- for “ordinary and neces- acres of public land in six management plans. Specifically, diction over challenges of policy sary” expenses of govern- western states. the lawsuit claims that at the developed in other states and that ment. The ruling by U.S. District direction of the Bush administra- Judge B. Linn Winmill marks an tion, federal managers failed to See GRAZING, Main 2 See HOSPITAL, Main 2 Comics ......................Sports 4 Crossword ..........Classfieds 9 Obituaries ....................Main 7 Commodities ..Agribusiness 2 Dear Abby ..........Classifieds 6 Opinion ........................Main 8 TILAPIA GROWING MORE POPULAR IN U.S. Community ..................Main 5 Movies ........................Main 10 Sudoku ..............Classifieds 4 Studies hope to lower costs > Agribusiness 1 MORNINGMORNINGMain 2 Tuesday, May 12, 2009 BRIEFINGBRIEF- TN Times-News, Twin Falls, Idaho Pat’s Picks TODAY’S HAPPENINGS Three things to do today BENEFITS AND CHARITIES Curves, 690 Blue Lakes Blvd. N., no cost for “Farming Humana Gold-insured or AARP provided by Pat Marcantonio Free mobile food bank, sponsored by in the 21st Secure Horizons, 734-7300. Crossroads United Methodist Church and Century” TOPS Weight Support Group Chapter ID No. Take in the art around the • And for members or Idaho Food Bank, noon to 2 pm., distribu- 374, 10 a.m., 410 E. Third St., Rupert, 436- area. those who want to become tion on first-come, first-served basis; bring 6037. • “Wasn’t It A Ride,” members, the American boxes and bags, 131 Syringa Ave., Kimberly, Fit and Fall Proof Exercise Class, 10 to 11 photo work from the Mined Legion Post 7 and Auxiliary [email protected]. a.m., Living Waters Presbyterian Church, Site Project by Russell are holding a meeting and 821 E. Main St., Wendell, no cost, 737-5988. Hepworth and Steve Fildes, potluck starting at 5:30 p.m. CLUBS AND ORGANIZATIONS Fit and Fall Proof Exercise Class, 10:30 a.m., is on display through May at the Post Home, 447 First Segregation Fire Station, Eden, no 30 at Magic Valley Arts Seastrom St., Twin Falls. Burley Rotary Club, noon, Burley Inn, cost, 737-5988. Council’s La Galeria You can bring side dish, 878-8382. Ongoing exercise program for people with Pequena, 132 Main Ave. S., salad or dessert. Rupert Kiwanis Club, noon, Rupert Elks Parkinson’s disease, offered by Magic Valley Twin Falls. It’s open from Information: 733-9306 or Lodge, 850 S. 200 W, 436-8124. Regional Medical Center, 11 a.m. to noon, noon to 5 p.m. and admis- www.twinfallslegion.org. Snake River Weavers’ Guild meeting, with Episcopal Church of the Ascension, 371 sion is free. hostess Ilse Hylton, 1:30 p.m., 734-6258 or Eastland Drive N., Twin Falls, no cost, 737- • Area students from sev- Have your own pick you 734-5358. 2977. eral schools display their want to share? Something American Legion Post 7 and Auxiliary meet- SilverSneakers Fitness Program, innovative projects from 10 a.m. to 9 that is unique to the area ing and potluck, roast beef dinner: bring exercise program designed specifically for p.m. in the Center Court at and that may take people by side dish, salad or dessert, 5:30 p.m.