Courthouse Wednesday Afternoon

Thursday • October 13, 2011 www.magicvalley.com • 75¢ Limited by Funds, Buhl Recharge A Century Old, Seeing Red Before, Starts Up After Yet Still Young Comm- Again unity State officials look to take School advantage of this year’s Rallies plentiful water, but sparse resources will hamper for efforts. District BY KIMBERLEE KRUESI Title. [email protected] Page S1. Another round of water recharge has been approved in order to help replenish a key underground aquifer. But tight budgets will limit just how much the state can do as it seeks to replenish the heavily used Eastern 3 Free Snake Plain Aquifer. The Idaho Water Resource Board Trade met last week and approved $132,700 to fund 44,245 acre-feet of recharge. Agree- An acre-foot is enough water to cov- er one acre, one foot deep. ments This is the second recharge effort the board has led this year. This Passed spring, more than 59,200 acre-feet of water was put back into the Lake Page N1. Erie-sized aquifer. All recharge this fall will occur below American Falls, said Rich Rigby, senior adviser for the Idaho Depart- ment of Water Resources. The board seeks to divide recharge equally above and below American Falls. In years past, more attention Please see RECHARGE, M2 At a Glance Aquifer Recharge What is it? • Essentially, its dump- ing water into the ground to let it seep into an aquifer and build the underground body of water back up. How does it work? • Sometimes, the Idaho Water Resource Board will send water directly to a hole or pit set up as a recharge site. But of- ten, it pays canal operators to let water seep through the walls of their canals, into the ground. 8 Killed Different sites are chosen to spread recharge across the aquifer, When and because its more effective in Gunman some areas than others. Opens PHOTOS BY DREW NASH • TIMES-NEWS (TOP) Twin Falls County Parks and Waterways employees Chris Hall, front, and Scyler Gransbury, back, mow the Fire in grounds at the Twin Falls County Courthouse Wednesday afternoon. (LEFT) The facade of the Twin Falls County Courthouse. (CENTER) Original crown molding is seen at the courthouse. (RIGHT) Part of the first elevator in Twin Busy Falls is shown on the roof of the courthouse. Hair A Gentleman Twin Falls County primes to celebrate the 100th anniversary of They dropped off an enlarged photo Salon the dedication of its courthouse. of the courthouse while it was under and a Singer construction, a sepia-hued moment Page N4. BY BRADLEY GUIRE week prior to the celebration of the captured by an unknown shutterbug Longtime city resident Art [email protected] building’s 100th anniversary of its Oct. sometime in the summer of 1910. It’s Frantz — dentist, city 18, 1911, dedication. one of many historical photos that are councilman, veteran and rom the roof, they could see He took Shauna Robinson and My- framed and displayed around the Mount Harrison to the south- chel Matthews through five levels of building. In that particular photo, the IF YOU DO supporter of the arts — died ONE THING F east and Jerome to the north- history and the efforts being made to courthouse was just a shell of Bedford TODAY . Tuesday at age 90. west. In the bowels of the preserve it, revealing the nooks, cran- stone and brick, all exoskeleton with no building, the basement once served as nies and tales even these historians insides. Only three levels were com- Rootdown BY BEN BOTKIN a Cold War bomb shelter. didnt know. Robinson is chairwoman plete, and an American flag fluttered Concert: En- [email protected] Twin Falls County Prosecutor Grant of the Twin Falls County Historic atop a structural beam where the joy reggae at Loebs provided an intimate tour of the Preservation Commission, and fourth floor and roof would soon be. the Rootdown Dr. Arthur “Art” century-old Twin Falls County Cour- Matthews is the commissions admin- Twin Falls County was barely three concert, 7:30 Frantz lived a life thouse on Wednesday afternoon, a istrator. Please see COURTHOUSE, M2 p.m. at the that was woven College of into the fabric of Southern Ida- Twin Falls. hos Fine Arts Frantz was a TODAY IN Auditorium. dentist, but stayed OUTDOORS $5; free to CSI busy elsewhere. He served for 12 students with Frantz years on the Twin current ID. Watch for Falling Trout: Falls City Council, but he was equally devoted to the local arts scene. He was a founding member of the Dilet- tantes performing group in 1959, Fish Spill from Truck in T.F. THE with roles including singer, actor, FORECAST board member and a couple of stints as president. BY BRADLEY GUIRE “The driver didnt Frantz, 90, died Tuesday at the [email protected] Twin Falls Care and Rehabilitation even know he lost Center. Nearly 1,600 rainbow trout success- Many in the community reflected It’s a Tough Sport High fully made their way to Dierkes Lake them. In 17 years, 69° on his contributions Wednesday. on Wednesday, but a few may end up this is the first time Low 45° Frantz was on the council into his late Anyone whos done both knows: on a grill somewhere. 70s, leaving in 1999 after current It’s a lot tougher to hit a target with The Idaho Department of Fish and Ive heard of a spill.” Councilman Trip Craig won a race an arrow than a bullet. And that Games Hagerman hatchery reported Joe Chapman, The Idaho Department Getting Warmer. against him. His peers say he carried challenge is exactly what is draw- losing between 20 and 50 of the fish of Fish and Games Hagerman Details on page S4. himself well. ing more Magic Valley folks to shortly after noon, when a latch on hatchery manager “He represented the reason to cel- archery. Among them are stealthy the truck transporting them broke as THE ebrate living in Twin Falls,”said Chris the truck neared Twin Falls. The fish Fish and Game office in Jerome INDEX Talkington, a former councilman. hunters who get a thrill from get- spilled out onto the road near the in- Wednesday afternoon. More were Bridge C10 “He was optimistic and had a certain ting so close to their game. But at tersection of Blue Lakes Boulevard unaccounted for,possibly ran over by Comics C12 dignity about him that lent a gra- Markets N4 practice ranges youll also spot North and Fillmore Street, according vehicles or picked up for someones ciousness to how he spoke. He had a archers like Terry Stanger,who ac- Crossword C11 to hatchery manager Joe Chapman. evening meal. But at 50 cents per fish, Dear Abby C6 great deal of dignity.I think that per- cessorizes with hair feathers that The trout were on their way to the the agency wont lose much in terms Jumble C9 vaded through the council and kind match her gear and carries a pink lake for the stocking. of financial value. The rest of the Obituaries O4 of provided a modeling for some of arrow for breast cancer awareness. “The driver didnt even know he trout were successfully transferred to Opinion M4 us younger whippersnappers.” While still satisfying the most ded- lost them,” Chapman said. “In 17 the lake. Sudoku C6 Frantz lent his artistic talent to years, this is the first time Ive heard Twin Falls emergency dispatchers Twin Falls Kiwanis Club gatherings icated of hunters, archery has got- of a spill.” said the spill didnt cause traffic de- as well and led the songs, Talkington ten surprisingly girlie. Chapman said about 20 rainbow lays or require an emergency re- said. Read more on Outdoors 1. trout were turned in to the regional sponse. Please see FRANTZ, M2 Main 2 • Thursday, October 13, 2011 Courthouse Buhl Puts Bugs to Continued from the front page years old, having split off from Cassia County. Ac- Work in New cording to the historic commission, construction began in 1908 from a design by C. Harvey Smith, who selected Wastewater Plant a mixture of classical styles. “You look at pictures took BY BLAIR KOCH ready being done in the area early on in the century,in the For the Times-News and pipes are already being 1900s, and the building real- dug out,saving time and cost ly hasnt changed,”Robinson BUHL • Buhls $15 million compared to if a company said.“The appearance is just sewer facility is treating was to come into town sim- the same. That historic waste. ply to complete one job at character has been so well Mark Holtzen with J-U-B one house. retained. A lot of counties in Engineers, who has worked Economically, all of this the state really dont have on the project with the city infrastructure work being that.” for more than five years,told completed within Buhl could The courthouse cost the City Council on Monday help it attract new industry $150,000, an astronomical that “seed materials” were or business, McCauley said sum at the time, considering added to the system last while introducing Larry Hall no one knew if the town week. The materials aid in with Southern Idaho Rural would grow around it. The the production of bacteria Development to the council. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statis- PHOTO COURTESY OF TWIN FALLS HISTORIC PRESERVATION COMMISSION and other bugs necessary to Hall gave a short presen- tics inflation calculator es- This 1910 picture, taken by an unknown photographer, shows workers at the Twin Falls break down organic matter tation on a plan he suggested timates construction would County Courthouse, which was dedicated on Oct.

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