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88 / 54 FIRST HOME GAME FIRST HOMECOMING CRHS faces pivotal game Warm, dry. FIRST WIN? against Kimberly. See Sports 1 Business 6 A MAGICAL PLAY >>> Let Ketchum cast take you into the ‘Secret Garden’,ENTERTAINMENT 1 FRIDAY 75 CENTS September 25, 2009 MagicValley.com State budget announcement coming today Thursday, but the number for budget hold- “Everybody’s going to have to TOXINS Six percent cuts planned announcement backs. But a cut of some- cut something,” said Mark comes after state agen- where in the 6 percent Browning, spokesman for the cies were asked by the range is widely anticipat- board. “We just don’t know how anticipated governor’s office to come ed among agencies,based much.” FOUND IN up with plans for how to on current revenue Rene LeBlanc, director of the By Ben Botkin deal with the decline in shortfalls. South Central Public Health Times-News writer state revenues. Plans The State Board of District, said the district wasn’t from state agencies were Otter Education, for example, part of the initial group asked to Gov. C.L. “Butch” Otter will due last Friday to the asked colleges and uni- submit plans. But that doesn’t SCHOOL announce at a press conference state’s Division of Financial versities to come up with two mean the health district will today in Boise his plan for dealing Management. ballpark scenarios: 4 percent be immune from holdbacks, with the state’s revenue shortfall. Agencies weren’t asked to sub- holdbacks and 6 percent hold- Details were not provided mit plans based on a specific backs. See BUDGET, Main 2 DRINKING T WIN F ALLS H IGH S CHOOL H OMECOMING PARADE WATER Schools in Buhl, M-C area listed in AP probe FEELING BLUE By Garance Burke Associated Press writer CUTLER, Calif. — Over the last decade, the drinking water at thou- sands of schools across the country has been found to contain unsafe lev- els of lead, pesticides and dozens of other toxins. An Associated Press investigation found that contaminants have sur- faced at public and private schools in all 50 states — in small towns and inner cities alike. But the problem has gone largely unmonitored by the federal govern- ment, even as the number of water safety violations has multiplied. “It’s an outrage,’’ said Marc Edwards, an engineer at Virginia Tech who has been honored for his work on water quality. “If a landlord doesn’t tell a tenant about lead paint in an apartment, he can go to jail. But we have no system to make people follow the rules to keep school children safe?’’ Among the Idaho schools listed in the investigation are buildings in Buhl, Burley and Rupert. The contamination is most appar- ent at schools with wells,which repre- sent 8 to 11 percent of the nation’s schools. Roughly one of every five schools with its own water supply vio- lated the Safe Drinking Water Act in the past decade, according to data from the Environmental Protection PHOTOS BY ASHLEY SMITH/TIMES-NEWS Agency analyzed by the AP. See WATER, Main 2 bove, Twin Falls High School senior Matthew Ashby,second from left, A painted himself blue Thursday,along T.F.police with his other teammates on the school’s swim team, before the homecoming parade in down- investigating town Twin Falls. Right, members of the Twin woman’s Falls High School band roll along Main Avenue North during the school’s homecoming parade. death at hotel 41-year-old found Sept. 5 in bathtub at Super 7 Motel Xavier teacher survives mountain fall near Ketchum By Andrea Jackson Times-News writer his classroom. After Fulcher tried per. “The original plan was to wait “He knows what he’s doing,” Krause dragged himself to find Krause at his apartment and it out until morning, but I decided McGovern said. Twin Falls Police are probing the talked with the landlord, the deci- it would be awful cold at night so I Chavez said that Krause is good death of a 46-year-old woman found three miles to his car sion was made to contact authori- set out. I couldn’t walk. In order to at pushing students in his math earlier this month in the bathtub of a ties after he couldn’t be found. move, I had to scoot down on my classes to go further. And that’s a local motel room. after injuring hip As it turned out,Krause had sur- butt.” trait that suited him for the ordeal The death investigation began at By Ben Botkin vived a fall while mountain climb- Students at Xavier described on the mountainside, he said. about 6:15 p.m. on Sept. 5 when Times-News writer ing near Ketchum on Sunday, then their teacher as someone with a “He has a lot of perseverance,” authorities found the woman in a dragged himself along the ground sense of humor who is helpful. Chavez said. bathroom at the Super 7 motel, blocks Xavier Charter School Principal back to his car because he was “If we don’t understand the After Krause reached his car, he away from the city police station, Cindy Fulcher noticed when unable to walk. material, he goes through it until drove to a gas station in Ketchum, authorities confirmed Thursday. DuWayne Krause, a math teacher He slid off a precipice and spent we get it,” said Cayden Chavez, a and authorities transported him to This month’s death at Super 7 fol- at the Twin Falls charter school, part of Sunday and Monday 10th-grader at Xavier who has a hospital. Krause’s hip was injured lows another woman’s death this year didn’t show up on Monday for pulling himself along a three-mile been in Krause’s class in the past. in the fall and he’s now at Saint the El Rancho Motel. Both motels are work. trail, according to the Idaho David McGovern, a ninth-grad- Alphonsus Regional Medical owned by Eric Watte, who on Krause, described by the princi- Mountain Express. er at Xavier, said the teacher is Center in Boise. Thursday declined to comment on the pal and students alike as a dedicat- “On the way down, I fell,” good at making math understand- Attempts to reach Krause were deaths. ed teacher, wasn’t one to not be in Krause told the Ketchum newspa- able. unsuccessful on Thursday. On Feb. 7, employees at El Rancho found a 41-year-old woman in room 15 “On the way down, I fell. The original plan was to wait it out until morning, but I decided it would be awful with a plastic bag over her head. City cold at night so I set out. I couldn’t walk. In order to move, I had to scoot down on my butt.” police said earlier this month that her — Xavier Charter School math teacher DuWayne Fulcher See DEATH, Main 2 Comics....................Sports 6 Crossword ......Classifieds 7 Obituaries ..........Business 5 Commodities ......Business 2 Dear Abby........Classifieds 4 Opinion ..................Main 6-7 IDAHO GAS PRICES 9TH HIGHEST IN NATION Community ....Business 3-4 Movies ......Entertainment 2 Sudoku ............Classifieds 3 Even with peak driving over, prices high > Business 1 MORNINGMORNINGMain 2 Friday, September 25, 2009 BRIEFINGBRIEF- TN Times-News, Twin Falls, Idaho Pat’s Picks TODAY’S HAPPENINGS Three things to do today CHURCH EVENTS Pat Marcantonio MORE INSIDE Hall at Yakima Avenue and Main Street, St. Catherine’s Indoor Yard Sale, 3 to 7 p.m., Filer, 734-0557. 446 N. State St., Hagerman, 837-4670. Al-Anon/Alateen family groups, to bring help • Don’t sit down and night at $15 per person. For detailed coverage of today’s and hope to families and friends of alco- watch TV.Go for a swim. • Enjoy the sounds of the Little Flower Catholic Church annual giant arts and entertainment all indoor flea market, with chili, cinnamon holics, hot-line: 866-592-3198. The Gooding Indoor Pool Jazz Master Class at 9 a.m. around south-central Idaho, will be open for lap swim at College of Southern rolls, potato bar, salad bar, nachos and bev- HOBBIES AND CRAFTS from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. Idaho’s Fine Arts Recital erages for sale all day, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., at check out our Events Calendar Mondays, Wednesdays and Hall, 315 Falls Ave., Twin the church, corner of 16th Street and in the Entertainment section of Magic Valley Woodturners monthly meeting, Fridays. Information: 934- Falls. It’s free and features Oakley Avenue, Burley, 878-7336. today’s edition. demonstration: segmented turning by Alan 4237. the music of jazz instruc- BENEFITS AND FUNDRAISERS Johnson; anyone interested may attend, 7 p.m., • Visit the Haunted tors. workout with stretching and gentle resist- 150 W.Fourth St. N., Burley, 678-0102. Mansions of Albion, open Homecoming Ham Dinner, menu: baked ance training, 9 to 10 a.m. at several Magic every Friday and Saturday Have your own pick you ham, garlic mashed potatoes, green beans, Valley locations: Blaine County Campus LIBRARY until Halloween. The fami- want to share? Something homemade rolls and brownie; fundraiser gym, CSI gym, Gooding ISDB gym, Jerome Burley Public Library Storytime, with stories, ly-friendly version goes that is unique to the area sponsored by Minico Booster Club, 5:30 to Rec. Center, Rupert Civic gym and rhyme, song and a small craft for toddlers, from 4 to 7 p.m. and costs and that may take people by 7 p.m., cafeteria gym, Minico High School, Shoshone High School (old gym); and 11:30 preschoolers and their caregiver, $5.