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TUESDAY June 7, 2011 TIMES-NEWS 75 CENTS Magicvalley.com Kimberly’s four-time state champ is the 2011 Balance personality with neighborhood harmony Times-News Track Athlete of the Year, SPORTS 1 in the color of your house. HOME & GARDEN 1 What you show Triple quadruple the world No more local pickup: The licenses will be sent by mail within 10 business days and be sent in a secure enve- lope. Wolves kill Bellevue calf; officials to set traps Reports of livestock deaths from Staff photo illustration predators are down this year By Kimberlee Kruesi Times-News writer AT A GLANCE Federal officials have con- In 2009, the gray wolf firmed this year’s first in- was removed from the stance of wolves killing live- endangered species list Want a stock in south-central Idaho. in Idaho and other But it appears that overall states. Later that year, livestock deaths due to the Idaho Department of wolves are down, perhaps a Fish and Game had its product of last year’s public first-ever public wolf wolf hunt. hunt, which killed 188 new license? Be wolves. A group of at least three wolves killed one calf and se- A judge relisted the wolf verely injured another at the in August 2010, but that Cove Ranch in Bellevue on action was undone in Saturday, according to Todd May 2011 after a vote by prepared to wait for it Grimm, western district su- Congress — the first pervisor of the U.S. Depart- time that lawmakers ment of Agriculture’s took such a step for a Wildlife Services. The species. The Idaho Transportation Department began the transition to centrally agency contracts with states Idaho wolves are now managed the same as issued driver’s licenses and identification cards on Monday,starting with DMV closures to trap or kill problem preda- tors. other big game, and the Twin Falls Division of Motor Vehicles office. The good news is that The Twin Falls office is another hunt will be set the cards have new methods in place to protect against identity theft. The the first of nine south- See WOLVES, Main 2 later this year. central Idaho locations bad news is that you’ll have to wait for nearly two weeks after your DMV that will close for one day visit to get one. What you’ll need to know: during June to prepare for the new licenses. Q: What’s different about the cards? Q: Do I have to get a new card right now? Date DMV office T.F.senior center A: Idaho’s new driver’s license features a A: No.Existing cards will be honored to 6/6 Twin Falls myriad of extra security features to pro- their expiration date.The new method tect citizens against identity fraud.One apply to new licenses,concealed 6/7 Buhl major change is that cards will no longer weapons licenses and other special iden- gets OK to host 6/8 Burley be issued at local DMV offices.Some tification cards. changes include microprinting,“ghost 6/9 Rupert images”or other patterns to curtail un- Q: When does my license arrive in the 6/10 Shoshone lawful forgery.Cards for minors will be mail? What do I use while I wait on the card private events printed vertically and have color coding to be mailed? 6/27 Hailey to show if the cardholder is between 18 A: A new license should be in your mail- 6/28 Fairfield Council supports and 21 years old or is under 18. box by the 10th business day after your OPEN HOUSE visit.The DMV office will issue a tempo- 6/29 Gooding The U.S. Postal Service is Q: Why aren’t the cards made on site? rary paper card with much of the same keeping local mail 6/30 Jerome considering closing the A: The cards are made in a central facility information the final license will include. Twin Falls mail processing in the U.S.,which increases security for The temporary card,printed on specialty Source: Idaho processing center center, saving an estimat- card manufacturing.All but 14 states paper,is good for 30 days. Transportation Department By Nick Coltrain ed $623,000 by consoli- have switched to Central Issuance cards. * Schedules are subject to Times-News writer dating its operations with Have more questions? change. Some offices are Boise. The local postal Q: Will the price of getting a new card go up? Visit the ITD’s website at http://itd.ida- also in the process of re- The Twin Falls Senior workers union contends A: No.The price for a driver’s license or ID ho.gov/dmv/centralissuance.htm to modeling, and may be Citizens Center will be al- this will cost Twin Falls up card will remain the same,depending on learn more about the new driver’s license closed on additional dates. The public should check lowed to rent space for to 30 jobs and negatively classification and age.New equipment pro- and identification cards. with individual county of- private events, patching its impact service and local vided to your local DMV was paid for by the fices to confirm daily sched- finances. industry. U.S.Department of Homeland Security. By Bradley Guire, Times-News writer ules. The Twin Falls City WHAT: A public presenta- Council, which leases the tion on an impact study by center’s building to it for the USPS. ONLINE: Watch a video interview with the DMV on the new licenses at Magicvalley.com $1 a month, barely gave the WHERE: College of OK Monday to the center Southern Idaho’s Fine Arts to rent out portions of the Theater facility outside of its nor- WHEN: 6 p.m. today mal operating hours. In the 4-3 vote, council church group, and bridge Tornado warning, flash-flood watch make members David E. John- and pinochle players. son, Will Kezele, Rebecca “We do have expenses Mills Sojka and Mayor Don and this lease agreement for exciting Monday across Magic Valley Hall voted in favor. Coun- would allow us to offset cilmen Trip Craig, Greg some of those expenses,” Times-News north through Elmore, ther north, Camas County running at about 15,000 cu- Lanting and Lance Clow she said at the meeting. Gooding and Camas coun- sheriff’s dispatcher Vickie bic feet per second at 1 p.m. voted against. Vicky Davis spoke on A tornado warning for ties. That came the same day Chess said she’d received no Monday. The original lease be- behalf of senior citizens parts of southern Idaho that the agency issued a calls about a tornado — just The severe storms have tween the city and center opposing the change, ar- Monday prompted little flash-flood watch for much seen lots of rain and wind. passed as well,said Skari. disallowed renting the fa- guing it would shift the more than spotty reports. of central and southeast Ida- “It’s still black out there, “Things are winding down cility. center from senior use to National Weather Service ho, including the Big and Lit- but not like it was,”she said at here,” he said Monday. “All Diane Stevens, the cen- community use. She said meteorologist George Skari tle Wood rivers. That watch about 3:30 p.m. the heavy activity is up in ter’s executive director, center policy has already said Monday evening that his was expected to end this The good news is that the Montana now.” said allowing it to rent the been detrimental to sen- agency had no official sight- morning. Heavy rains were weather appears to be easing. That doesn’t mean the space could bring in more iors because some billiards ing of a twister, though a expected Monday evening Though a near-record rains are gone. than $12,000 this year and and snooker players were spotter up in the mountains across much of south-cen- snowpack has yet to melt in Today’s forecast across help close what’s become a “evicted” from a room later reported an uncon- tral Idaho. Idaho’s mountains, the south-central Idaho calls for multi-thousand-dollar dedicated to those games firmed funnel cloud. At their peak Monday af- Snake River near Milner has a 40 to 50 percent chance of deficit. so the room could become The NWS had followed ternoon, winds near Moun- dropped nearly two-thirds of showers, with possible Groups already signed multi-purpose. what appeared to be a torna- tain Home Air Force Base a foot since Friday,with flows thunderstorms tonight, and up to rent one-time space do on radar mid-afternoon reached gusts of 31 mph. 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