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MagicValley.com General manager testifies in Latham lawsuit By Andrea Jackson Finance Inc., registered to Reaves. Tracy Frank, general manager of RLS Times-News writer Frank was a general manager of Inc., or Hertz of Magic Valley, looks over Hertz of Magic Valley and Reaves a financial document from the stand A general manager for a shut- was general manager of Latham during a hearing Monday in Twin Falls tered auto enterprise testified Motors, owned by RLS Inc., Monday in Twin Falls that RLS according to court records. 5th District Court. KeyBank National Inc. sold cars out of trust since The bank alleges the defendants Association is suing Frank, along with about October, affirming an alle- violated bank credit agreements RLS Inc., Robert Latham Jr., Robert gation by KeyBank National by wholesaling cars, didn’t pay the Latham Sr., Scott Reaves, who managed Association in a $6.3 million law- bank millions from “selling out of Latham Motors, and 1-800 Finance Inc., suit. trust,” denied the bank inspec- which is registered to Reeves. The bank The bank in February filed the tions, and violated limits on older seeks $6.3 million and asserts the complaint against RLS Inc., or car sales, according to the lawsuit. Hertz of Magic Valley, Robert Frank affirmed the selling out- defendants violated bank credit agree- Latham Sr., Robert Latham Jr., of-trust allegation Monday from ments, though the local auto enterprise Tracy Frank, Scott Reaves, and has since closed. local finance company 1-800 See LATHAM, Main 2 MEAGAN THOMPSON/Times-News Judge rejects Soldier Adamson Mountain plea deal By Debbie Bryce Idaho, California and Idaho State Journal Oregon — including a number in the Magic POCATELLO — U.S. Valley. District Judge B. Lynn He pleaded guilty last Photo courtesy/PATRICK D. GALVIN Winmill refused to accept a October as part of a plea burns Firefighters battle the blaze Monday at Soldier Mountain Ski Resort. plea bargain Monday in the agreement. case of a former Idaho Under the agreement, gubernatorial candidate Adamson admitted to charged with collecting, deducting and collecting but not paying federal taxes federal income withhold- for his employees. ing taxes and employee Winmill said he was not contributions to Social comfortable rendering a Security and Medicare at sentence without hearing six California facilities all the evidence in the case while failing to send the against Dan Adamson of funds to the Internal Chubbuck. Revenue Services during Adamson owned and the third quarter of 2001. operated Northwest Bec Court records show that Corp., which managed nursing home facilities in See ADAMSON, Main 2 Disclosure bill will get full Senate hearing By Jared S. Hopkins tionnaires to make public Times-News writer their employers; where ASHLEY SMITH/Times-News they own real estate; Members of the Fairfield Volunteer Fire Department mop up a blaze Monday that engulfed the Soldier Mountain Ski Resort restaurant and BOISE — A measure to sources of gross income of lounge near Fairfield. Soldier Mountain first opened in 1948. require Idaho state govern- at least $10,000; and any ment elected officials and other financial interests their spouses to disclose valued of at least $5,000. their personal financial Candidates in election information unanimously must also complete the Lodge, ski shop destroyed; none cleared the Senate State form. Affairs on Monday. The bill is more scaled The bipartisan bill back than previous efforts requires state legislators brought by Democrats. It’s and statewide constitu- co-sponsored by Senate injured in end-of-season blaze tional officers like the gov- ernor to complete ques- See DISCLOSURE, Main 2 By Ariel Hansen Monday. The resort’s ski Times-News writer shop was also destroyed. Soldier Mountain The resort is owned by film FAIRFIELD — An early star Bruce Willis. The resort at a glance: morning fire Monday Wayne Marolf, chief of destroyed one of Fairfield’s the Fairfield Volunteer Fire • Founded 1948 Soldier Creek Road Obama puts GM and most iconic and historic Department, which covers • 1,150 acres To Sun Valley buildings, the day lodge at all of Camas County, said • 2 ski lifts; 15 runs Soldier Mountain. the fire likely started behind • Features back country Chrysler on short leash The lodge, built in 1948, the kitchen where appli- snowcat skiing. By David Espo was already a total loss when ances like hot water heaters Associated Press writer INSIDE firefighters responded after were kept, and he said it Obama tougher on Base Line Road a neighbor called in a smoke White Lane WASHINGTON — autos than banks. sighting at about 7:30 a.m. See BLAZE, Main 2 General Motors is on a Fairfield short leash. Chrysler — See Main 8 20 even shorter. President Barack Obama to the two auto giants. He Magicvalley.com To Mountain Home To Twin Falls asserted unprecedented bluntly rejected their turn- WATCH: A video and a slide show of the scene at the government control over around plans, demanded Soldier Mountain Ski Resort fire. the auto industry Monday OBAMA and delivered an ultimatum See , Main 2
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Three things to do today ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT GOVERNMENT training with resistance, state-of-the-art Pat Marcantonio Jazz Tuesdays, open jam session for musi- Twin Falls County commissioners, 8:30 equipment and “Curves Smart” personal- cians of all ages and abilities, 6 to 8 p.m., a.m., courthouse, 425 Shoshone St. N., 736- ized coaching, 5:30 a.m. to 7 p.m., Twin Falls • Stretch your mind and Highway 24. It’s free, but Pandora’s Restaurant, 516 Hansen St., Twin 4068. Curves, 690 Blue Lakes Blvd. N., no cost for skills. Today and they’ll take donations for Falls, no cover charge, 420-7066. Blaine County commissioners, 9 a.m., court- Humana Gold-insured or AARP provided by Wednesday the Twin Falls instrument repair and house, 206 First Ave. S., Hailey, 788-5500. Secure Horizons, 734-7300. College of Southern Idaho’s Over 60 and Senior Center hosts a free replacement, along with Jerome County commissioners, 9 a.m., Getting Fit programs, sampling of upcoming new music and equipment. CLUBS AND ORGANIZATIONS courthouse, 300 N. Lincoln St., 644-2700. 9:15 to 10:15 a.m., classes in felting, stained • If you want to play or lis- Historic Downtown Business Improvement Hagerman High School gym; and 11: 10 a.m. Southern Idaho Parrot Head Club meeting, to 12:15 p.m., at Declo High School gym, no glass, the science of hand- ten, there’s the regular Jazz a non-profit organization: provides opportu- District of Twin Falls meeting, 1:30 p.m., writing analysis and pet Jam, hosted by Brent Jensen City Council overflow room, 305 Third Ave. cost, 732-6475. nity to meet new friends, enjoy music and TOPS Weight Support Group Chapter ID No. poetry-writing-reading from 6 to 8 p.m. at Pandora’s E., 735-7313. volunteer for planned community service 374, 10 a.m., 410 E. Third St., Rupert, 436- from 1 to 2:30 p.m. restaurant, 516 Hansen St., and environmental projects sponsored by Admission is free. Twin Falls. There’s no cover. HEALTH AND WELLNESS 6037. O’Dunkens Draught House, 7 p.m., Fit and Fall Proof Exercise Class, Information: Merideth 10 to 11 O’Dunkens Draught House, downtown Twin SilverSneakers Fitness Program at Curves of a.m., Living Waters Presbyterian Church, Humphreys, 734-5084. Have your own pick you Falls, 208-720-8001. • Shoshone High School want to share? Something Twin Falls, complete cardio and circuit 821 E. Main St., Wendell, no cost, 737-5988. Music students present “A that is unique to the area Night of Classics” at 7 p.m. and that may take people by at the Shoshone School surprise? E-mail me at gymnasium, 61 E. Idaho [email protected]. Blaze Continued from Main 1 shop. Eventually a pump was Davenport said he hasn’t lodge is so closely associated appeared to be accidental. brought to suck water out of heard yet from the corporate with the Soldier Mountain Investigators from the state a nearby creek. “We’re lucky managers of Valley experience. fire marshal’s office are the creek was open; it’s Entertainment Group, “No matter where I travel, 5TH DISTRICT COURT NEWS expected to look over the sometimes not open at this owned by Willis, a part-time people say, ‘That’s where I TWIN FALLS COUNTY $1500 bond; public defender scene on Wednesday to time of year.” Hailey resident. Paul Bloch, a learned to ski,’” Davenport Monday arraignments appointed; April 21 pretrial determine an official cause. Stewart said it was also Rogers & Cowan publicist in said. “It was very nostalgic Uriel Jose Ortega, 20, Twin Falls; Andrew Joseph Powlus, 20, Twin Saturday was the last day lucky that the wind was min- Los Angeles, said he was not and there were a lot of mem- provide false information; April Falls; open container, malicious the mountain was open to imal. If it had been stronger, sure if Willis had learned of ories here for people.” 21 pretrial; recognizance release; injury to property, DUI; April 21 the public for the season, and as it was on Sunday, likely all the fire. Willis was married Those people include public defender appointed pretrial; $5,000 bond; public employees enjoyed a private the buildings on the property earlier this month and is on Stewart, who has enjoyed the Aaron Ervin Marshall, 18, Buhl; defender appointed “fun day” on Sunday while and the surrounding trees his honeymoon, Bloch said. mountain for decades. “This indecent exposure, DUI exces- Fred Leighton Graffee, 36, Buhl; performing maintenance would have ignited as well. “There was supposed to be is where I learned to ski; this sive; recognizance release; pub- delivery of a controlled sub- work. The resort is always This is the first large struc- a new lodge built eventually,” is where my kids learned to lic defender appointed; April 21 stance, possession of a con- closed Mondays. ture fire in many years in Davenport said. Mountain ski. My wife spent hours sit- pretrial; recognizance release trolled substance; $10,000 When Assistant Fire Chief Camas County, Stewart said, managers recently unveiled ting in that lodge waiting for Luis G. Alvarez-Cordero, 23, bond; public defender appointed Shaun Stewart arrived on the and he lauded the all-volun- plans for major improve- the kids.” Wendell; petit theft; $100 bond; ; April 10 pretrial snow-covered scene in the teer department for its ments to the site, including a Stewart and Davenport April 21 pretrial Jamie L. Allshouse, 18, Twin Falls; first fire vehicle just before 8 efforts to save the other new lodge at the north end of agreed that despite the loss of David Estrada Jr., 30, Twin Falls; no insurance; invalid driver’s a.m., he said, the two-story buildings. the parking lot. “I have no the lodge and ski shop, the provide false information; $100 license; April 21 pretrial; $100 main lodge was already Monday’s blaze was not idea at this time how it’ll timing was fortuitous. bond; public defender appointed; bond; public defender appointed destroyed and the ski shop, the first fire at Soldier — in affect that.” “We were lucky that it April 21 pretrial Jamie L. Allshouse, 18, Twin Falls; full of equipment, was the mid-1970s, the ski rental Davenport said he’s cer- happened today, and at the Aubrey R. Bradford, 21, Twin Falls; leaving the scene of an injury engulfed. shop burned, Marolf said. tain there will be a ski season end of the season, that’s the driving without privileges, no accident; April 10 preliminary “I had to make a quick However,there were no indi- at Soldier next year, even if it good part,” Stewart said. insurance; recognizance release; hearing; $5,000 bond; public decision about how to fight cations that the lodge posed a has to be conducted out of “The bad part is a lot of his- public defender appointed; April defender appointed this,”he said. With the 1,250 greater-than-typical fire temporary structures. He tory just went up in smoke.” 21 pretrial Jeffrey Scott Milner, 36, Kimberly; gallons in that first truck, his danger for a building of its expects no employees will be Thomas Leonard Jones, 38, Twin invalid driver’s license, posses- crew alternated between age, agreed Marolf and out of work this year. Times-News writers Falls; domestic battery, posses- sion of paraphernalia; $500 wetting the ski patrol build- Soldier Mountain manager Davenport said he was Amy Ballard and Nate sion of a controlled substance, bond; public defender appointed; ing next door and fighting Larry Davenport, and it had shocked and saddened by the Poppino contributed to this possession of paraphernalia; April 21 pretrial the fire at the modular ski been assessed recently. fire, especially because the report.
Latham Disclosure Continued from Main 1 owned them, that KeyBank Continued from Main 1 the stand in Twin Falls 5th didn’t have any right to makers are generally language. Otter supports the enough of a concern, and if District Court. Selling out of them,” Frank testified. “It Majority Leader Bart Davis, “attracted to” but it needed concept of the bill but does the information was already trust is to sell a car financed seriously jeopardized an R-Idaho Falls, who said he to maintain integrity in not take an official position available “on Google for by a bank without repaying ongoing business.” wants Idaho to improve its Idaho’s system. until it passes both cham- anybody.” the lender. The Lathams operated standing with good-gov- “When we look at the bers, his spokesman Jon “I think integrity in gov- “A dealer that’s out of Latham Motors in down- ernment groups. public and their need to have Hanian said. ernment is ultimate — I’m trust with the bank generally town Twin Falls, which Currently, legislators are confidence in this culture, The most recent disclo- just not convinced at this isn’t going to stay in busi- closed in October 2008, and required to disclose infor- the environment that we live sure brouhaha came in 2005, point that this is really gonna ness,” David Johnson, Twin Hertz of Magic Valley, which mation if there is a conflict of in,I felt that,on balance,this when then-Sen. Jack Noble, solve what we think it’s city councilman and 30-year opened in 2000 under the interest or personal benefit is probably something that is a Republican, tried unsuc- gonna solve,”he said. “I per- veteran in auto sales, told the franchise name RLS Inc. but may still vote. in Idaho’s best interest to cessfully to introduce a bill to sonally feel we have a hard- Times-News. “I think sell- A lawyer for KeyBank in Lawmakers would still not do,”Davis said. change the state’s formula in enough time getting honest ing a single car out of trust is court Monday called the be required to disclose spe- Senate Minority Leader setting the distance required people to run for govern- a bad thing.” defendants disingenuous. cific details of their personal Kate Kelly, D-Boise, another between schools and liquor ment and then we start Frank said about $2 mil- Frank was the only defen- finances. co-sponsor, said the meas- stores. But Noble’s conven- making it more onerous and lion was generated in out- dant present in the court- Last year, the non-parti- ure is preventative, and ience store would have ben- more inquisitive.” of-trust sales between room, though, and said the san Better Government noted provisions are similar efited and he initially didn’t Sen. Denton Darrington, October 2008 and February. Lathams tried to cooperate Association ranked Idaho to those followed by mem- declare a conflict of interest. R-Declo, who has served in “We were trying to keep the with the bank. “We made it 44th in overall integrity. In bers in Congress. After changing his story, a the Legislature since 1983, business open and operat- as easy as we possibly could,” 2005, the nonpartisan “We tried to strike a bal- Senate committee voted to said he didn’t have any ing,” said Frank, adding he said Frank. Washington, D.C.-based ance of gathering some use- censure Noble and he even- issues with the bill. doesn’t know the full scope The Lathams alerted the Center for Public Integrity ful information without get- tually resigned. “It’s pretty easy to comply of Latham Sr.’s agreements bank to their closures, said ranked Idaho tied with ting too personal,”Kelly said. Monday’s bill received with,”he said “It’s not intru- with KeyBank. Frank, and wanted to help Michigan and Vermont for “If the information isn’t unanimous approval from sive.” KeyBank asserts in its liquidate automobiles. the worst disclosure laws in there, no one can look at it.” the nine-member commit- lawsuit that cars worth $4.8 Twin Falls 5th District the nation. An attorney with the tee, but Sen. Monty Pearce, Jared S. Hopkins may be million were sold out-of- Court Judge Randy Stoker on Davis acknowledged the office of Gov. C.L. “Butch” R-New Plymouth, ques- reached at 208-420-8371 or trust. Monday ruled that the bank bill goes beyond what law- Otter helped craft the bill’s tioned whether there was [email protected]. Frank also testified the will need to make a good- bank repossessed cars it faith effort to give copies of shouldn’t have, which were documents and computer slated for use in a rental car files back to RLS Inc. and its business. directors, because the Adamson “I felt the dealership defendants need that infor- mation for federal financial Continued from Main 1 ent other evidence in the Winmill said Mallard and noon but said she expected a filings. specific quarter was only case, depriving Winmill of Salt Lake City attorney Max new sentencing date to be Stoker said Monday he part of a long-term pattern context the judge said he Wheeler, who represents set as soon as Tuesday. won’t tell the bank what to that started in the second needed. Adamson in the criminal Adamson, 57, ran for gov- do with the collateral.“If you quarter of 2001 and ran “I would have been more case, could renegotiate the ernor in 2006, losing in the Seasonal percentage liquidate things unreason- through the second quarter comfortable if you had pre- plea agreement,or Adamson Republican primary to C.L. Watershed % of Avg. peak ably, it’ll come back to haunt of 2007, for a total of $7.5 sented evidence of relevant could withdraw his plea and “Butch” Otter. He faces a Salmon 96% 91% you,”Stoker told lawyers for million. conduct,”Winmill said after proceed to court. maximum sentence of five Big Wood 84% 80% Little Wood 90% 88% the bank. U.S. Assistant District calling a 25-minute recess to Both attorneys said they years in prison and will be Big Lost 92% 88% The Lathams also operat- Attorney Michelle Mallard consider his decision. “I am were confident an accept- required to pay the more Little Lost 97% 91% ed Latham’s Auto Super said the agreement would sympathetic to your con- able agreement could be than $7 million in restitution Henrys Fork/Teton 88% 86% Store in Elko, Nev., which avoid a lengthy trial and the cerns, but Congress didn’t reached. to the IRS. Upper Snake Basin 96% 92% Oakley 90% 89% appears to have closed in expenses associated with list budget restraints as a Mallard was still working Salmon Falls 96% 94% early February. one. In exchange for the priority (for federal prosecu- on details of a new plea Staff writer Nate Poppino As of March 31 guilty plea, she did not pres- tors).” agreement Monday after- contributed to this report. Andrea Jackson may be MAGICVALLEY.COM reached at 208-735-3380 or [email protected].
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Hopkins The bill’s sponsor, Rep. “I heard from three Stephen Hartgen, R-Twin Times-News writer Tom Loertscher, R-Iona, pharmacists at home and Falls, voted in favor of the said pharmacists should be basically they said, ‘what bill. He said the argument Say Steve Crump BOISE — The House free to refuse fulfilling pre- are you doing messing with that it will reduce availabil- voted 48-21 on Monday in scriptions or items like this?’” he said. “They ity of drugs is flawed. He support of a bill to allow birth control based on their could exercise most of said there are pharmacies pharmacists with moral conscience. these rights already.” across the state, including Jazzman Peacock objections to refrain from Two Magic Valley Wood, a doctor, said the in supermarkets. fulfilling prescriptions. Republicans, Leon Smith bill serves as an intrusion “The idea that it’s The measure had passed of Twin Falls and Fred of the government in the restricting access doesn’t through committee after Wood of Burley, voted doctor-patient relation- reflect the reality today,”he strays far from hours of testimony, despite against the bill. ship. said. the fact that pharmacist Smith said he didn’t Opponents of the bill Rep. Wendy Jaquet, D- groups did not endorse it. oppose it for moral reasons argued that pharmacists Ketchum, opposed the bill. Some say current Idaho law but rather legal ones, and would be denying pre- “I don’t see the pharma- Burley roots doesn’t prohibit pharma- pharmacists told him most scriptions, thereby forcing cist as a gatekeeper, espe- cists from refusing to fill of the provisions already people to travel elsewhere cially in rural Idaho,” she ard to find all that prescriptions. exist in law. to get them filled. Rep. said. jazz in Burley these TELL ME ABOUT IT H days, but the dis- If it’s odd, poignant, weird, sad tinctly down-home city or funny and it happens in Check out what’s new online at may have produced the best south-central Idaho, I want to jazz bass player on the hear about it. Idaho Power told to planet … Call me at 735-3223, or write www.magicvalley.com He’s Gary Peacock, born to me at scrump@magicval- in Burley in 1935 … Peacock ley.com. expand energy has performed with Miles IDAHO COIN GALLERIES Davis, Art Pepper and most of the big-name jazz musi- to conquer, something to education in schools 30 Years Same Location cians of the past 40 years … control … It gave me a sense He grew up in Yakima, of identity and a purpose in BUY & SELL Wash.,studied piano at the life … One thing in my life PUC approves ON THE WEB: Westlake College of Music in that wasn’t flipping out all To read the decision, visit Scrap gold: rings, Silver & gold bullion Los Angeles and played over the place, something I Idaho Power plan http://www.puc.idaho.gov dental, etc. Coin collections piano in the Army until the could count on … As a result and click on “File Room,” OPEN ONLY: group’s bassist quit and of that, it produced a lot of By Nate Poppino then “Electric Cases” and Times-News writer TUESDAY - WEDNESDAY & THURSDAY Peacock took over the chair anxiety, because once I select case IPC-E-08-11. … After his discharge, became that identified with Idaho Coin Galleries, Inc. Peacock worked on the West the instrument, then let’s State regulators directed 302 N. Main Twin Falls, ID 83301 208-733-8593 or 731-1789 or 733-2934 Coast with Bud Shank and say something happened to Idaho Power Co. to expand tions had been well- Pepper — among others — my hands, I wouldn’t have two of its education pro- received by all parties at a and on the East Coast with an identity …” grams last week, using workshop the PUC held in Davis, Don Cherry and other ... money from the 2008 sale January in Boise. widely-known musicians … SELDOM WILL BE of sulfur dioxide emission Commissioners wrote that In 1964, Peacock left the HEARD a discouraging word credits, to teach kids about they favored the utility’s music scene to study eastern around Twin Falls radio sta- efficiency. proposal over one from the medicine in Japan, then tion KLIX on Thursday … In a decision signed state Office of Energy came back to America to The station will devote the Friday, the Public Utilities Resources and Department major in biology at the day to all good news, includ- Commission largely of Education because Idaho University of Washington ing listener-submitted sto- endorsed a proposal from Power’s focused on schools and teach music theory at ries, interviews and tidings the utility about how to use within its territory and has Cornish College of the Arts of a positive nature … $500,000 for energy-edu- lower overhead and admin- … Gradually he started play- “With so much bad news cation projects at schools istrative costs. ing again and in the early dominating the headlines across its service territory. A third proposal from 1980s he started working these days, it’s easy to let the The idea was first suggest- Chisholm was rejected last with Keith Jarrett and Jack good news slip through the ed more than a year ago by year for not being detailed DeJohnette, a collaboration cracks,”said the station’s the Idaho Energy enough. that continues to this day … general manager, Janice Education Project, whose Education spokeswoman A true Zen master, Degner … “By dedicating a coordinator, Bill Chisholm, Melissa McGrath said Peacock now lives on a farm 24-hour news cycle to this is from Buhl. Monday that Superinten- in upstate New York where, type of news, we are hoping Commissioners dent of Public Instruction among other things, he runs to offer a little sunshine and approved a modified ver- Tom Luna would have liked a Zen group in a prison … maybe help put things in sion of a plan the utility to see the joint proposal Peacock told the Web perspective” … proposed that would picked, but is excited to magazine allaboutjazz.com Sure hope the stock mar- expand its current educa- work with Idaho Power on recently that his has been a ket is listening … tion efforts. Using its plan. On March 21, 2009, George Toner complicated relationship $250,000 a year, the utility “We would have ensured with the bass … Steve Crump is the will expand the use of a that the energy-education celebrated his 80th Birthday with “At first it was me and the Times-News Opinion edi- home energy audit program programs were aligned to bass,”he said … “Something tor. in the classroom and pay state standards,”she said. Rosie, his wife of 61 years, their for teams of students to Chisholm said Monday research and present possi- that the approved program ble energy-efficiency represents progress, even if three children and their families. measures at their schools. it’s not quite what he first Commissioners, however, envisioned and took longer George and Rosie have 11 grand- Marijuana trafficking decided $75,000 a year for a to happen than he hoped. suggested solar-panel pro- He now plans to weigh in on children and 16 great-grandchildren. gram should be split two new sulfur-dioxide between the other two ini- sales, again recommending case dismissed tiatives. that some of that money be Happy Times-News $19,350 in cash, court An advisory committee invested in energy efficien- records show. will help Idaho Power cre- cy, conservation and edu- Birthday! Twin Falls County Evidence in the case was ate and run the programs, cation. Prosecutor Grant Loebs said sent to the lab for tests commissioners wrote, “I’m actually very excit- Monday he dismissed a within days of it being filed, though it will not play an ed that it is moving for- marijuana trafficking case Loebs said. The case was oversight role. It will also ward,”he said. against a former Realtor filed on Feb. 13, court help the utility create a final Idaho Power officials because lab tests on evi- records show. review of the two-year pro- could not be reached dence are not completed. Condon, of Twin Falls, gram after it ends. The Monday afternoon for The felony case against told the Times-News expanded programs are set comment. Laurel Condon was dis- Monday she has no com- to start with the new school Interested parties have 21 missed Thursday in Twin ment. In their dismissed year this fall. days to ask the PUC to Falls 5th District Court case against Condon, police Idaho Power’s sugges- reconsider its decision. without prejudice, which say she’s pictured on a lap- means Loebs could re-file top from her home posing 2009 Vendor Meetings charges. with marijuana plants, Condon, 39, was accused according to court records. Assisting in Wildland Fires of felony marijuana traf- Condon was also charged ficking after police searched with possession of a con- her house and a garage in trolled substance in a case February, according to court from last year, which has a records. Police allegedly hearing set for May 7 Need Help?? Contact: BURLEY - 4/1/09 found 3 pounds of pot worth regarding an alleged proba- Irene Gonzalez 10:00am-Noon an estimated $19,950 at 215 tion violation, court records Small Business Admin. Mini Cassia Classroom Fillmore St., along with show. 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/7 Ê - SECTION EDITOR ERIC LARSEN: (208) 735-3220 [email protected] TUESDAY, MARCH 31, 2009 MAIN 5 NorthNorth SideSide Covering the communities of Bellevue, Bliss, Carey, Dietrich, COMMUNITY Fairfield, Gooding, Hagerman, Hailey, Ketchum, Picabo, Richfield, Shoshone, Sun Valley, Triumph,Wendell. COMMUNITY Bliss NEWS Uncommon valor Basque dinner is Friday in Gooding The Gooding Basque child Association will hold a First Friday Dinner from 6 to 8 p.m. Friday at the Gooding Basque Center, 285 Euskadi Lane (located at the intersection of U.S. Highway 26 and Idaho find Highway 46, behind Family Dollar in Gooding). The dinner is open to the public. Tickets are $14 for adults, $12 for seniors and $6 for children. Menu includes nears lamb chops, fried pollock, Basque rice, Basque bread, Child find and kindergarten homemade soups, salad and registration for Bliss School various desserts. Information: District will be held from 8:30 to Julie, 308-5051. 11:30 a.m. April 22 at the school. Spring is the time for the Three make Azusa annual Bliss School District screening and preregistration of Pacific deans’ list children who will enter kinder- The following students garten in August. made the spring 2008 aca- Preregistration allows the staff demic deans’ list at Azusa to work with parents to make Pacific University in Azura, sure their child has the neces- Calif. They are honored for sary preschool skills needed for semester grade-point average kindergarten. If you have a child of 3.5 or above. who will be 5 years old on or Heidi A. Aardema,of before Sept. 1 who will enter Wendell, is a graduate of kindergarten in the fall, please Lighthouse Christian School, preregister them. You will need and the daughter of Mr. and to bring a copy of your child’s MARY HANSON/For the Times-News Mrs. Don Aardema. Aardema birth certificate and immuniza- On Thursday, Gooding County Sheriff’s Deputy Jeromy Smith, right, received recognition from Twin Falls County Sheriff Tom Carter is an undeclared major. tion records. for being instrumental in saving the life of a Kimberly man. Shalom N. Frank, of Paul, is Federal and state laws require a graduate of Minico High that all public school districts School and the daughter of Mr. conduct annual child find and Mrs. Marcia Frank. Frank activities to identify children Twin Falls County sheriff recognizes is a pre-nursing major. with special needs who may Kelly M. Vriesman, of Twin need special education services Falls,is a graduate of Twin Falls to meet developmental disabili- High School and the daughter ties and delays. Child find Gooding County deputy for heroism of Mr. and Mrs. Brian activities are conducted to cre- Vriesman. Vriesman is a liberal ate public awareness of special By Mary Hanson over his radio. in our county handle it, but he real- studies major. education programs, to advise Times-News correspondent Smith decided to help and arrived ized he could get there quickly and the public of rights of students, at the scene to find a bystander seconds greatly matter in a situation Area women compete and to alert community resi- GOODING — Gooding County attempting to resuscitate Gary like that.” dents of the need for identifying Sheriff’s Deputy Jeromy Smith was Dickenson of Kimberly. Smith put After Dickenson was safely on his in Ms. Senior Idaho and serving children with dis- honored Thursday for recently his first-responder experience to way to Twin Falls, Smith drove back Four women from the Wood abilities from the age of 3 going above and beyond the call of work, quickly using the portable to Gooding and finished his shift River Valley are participating through the semester in which duty. defibrillator in his vehicle to stabi- without mentioning the incident to this year in 2009 Ms. Idaho they turn 21. Smith, a six-year Gooding lize Dickenson before an ambulance his co-workers or family. Family Senior America Pageant. Disabilities and developmen- Sheriff’s veteran, was headed arrived to take Dickinson to St. members who attended the award Contestants include Hazel tal delays include children who home after assisting the Twin Falls Luke’s Magic Valley Medical Center. ceremony attributed that to Smith’s Mountain, Aysa Armitage, may have difficulty walking, County Sheriff’s Office on Feb. 27. “There is no doubt Deputy Smith modesty. Patricia Duggan and Betty talking, hearing or learning, or As he drove back toward Gooding contributed a major part in saving “He is modest,” Smith’s mother, Grant, representing Blaine who may display behaviors that in his sheriff’s vehicle through the man’s life,” Twin Falls County Kay Pierce, said. “That’s Jeromy, all County Senior Connection. appear different from other west Twin Falls County near Buhl, Sheriff Tom Carter said during a right.” The Ms. Senior America children their age or their sib- an emergency call concerning a Thursday award ceremony. Pageant showcases and honors lings. man found not breathing in the “Deputy Smith could have con- Mary Hanson may be reached at senior women from across the Information: 352-4445. water at Miracle Hot Springs came tinued to Gooding, letting someone [email protected]. nation, who demonstrate a combination of talent and inner beauty along with individual fulfillment and elegance. The pageant consists of a tal- ent show, a philosophy of life presentation and an evening gown appearance. This event is hosted by Hailey Chamber of Commerce and Blaine County Senior Center and will be held at 4 p.m. May 2 at the Community Campus in Hailey. Tickets are $7 for adults, $5 for seniors, or $20 per family. Children under 12 are free of charge. Tickets can be pur- chased through the Hailey Chamber of Commerce, 309 S. Main St., or the Blaine County Senior Connection, 721 S. Third St., Hailey. Advertisement space in the pageant brochure and sponsor- ship opportunities are avail- able. Courtesy photo Information: Hailey A group photo of some of the students at Robert Stuart Junior High School who are from foreign countries includes: Back row, left to right: Haider Faithullah, Iraq; Focus Chamber of Commerce, Kabura, Tanzania; Amir Saad, Iraq; Soren Thapa, Nepal; teacher Sherry Ritchie; Farazaneh Moradi, Iran; Jelena Develak, Serbia; Emanuel Nunez, Costa Rica; Mohammad Ahmed, 788-3484. Iraq; Jose Santos, El Salvador. Front row, left to right: Rehenia Sikuzani, Burundi; Anita Nigurkuri, Burundi; Tatu Mambo, Burundi. — staff reports
We want your Teacher chosen for national program community news E-mail your community news Sherry Ritchie, a ninth- gram/Save the Children goals, which include The organizations are United States. Ritchie’s and a photo, if you have grade teacher at Robert Foundation. learning about global building schools and students have opportuni- one, to frontdoor@magic- Stuart Junior High School, Along with her stu- issues that make a tangi- feeding and clothing hun- ties to help construct valley.com. Please put the has been selected to be a dents, she will work ble difference in the lives gry students throughout buildings and teach stu- word “community” in the leader and mentor for the on United Nations of students around the the world with help from dents in Kenya during a subject line. Oprah Ambassador pro- Millennium Development world. students throughout the summer program. Recurring trigger finger difficult to treat DEAR DR. GOTT: I get ger finger. However, I will More severe cases might While I can’t say you front of the television in trigger finger. This is the bring my reading audience lock the bent finger, and a won’t continue to have the evening, apply gentle third one I have gotten in ASK DR. up to speed before I answer person will be unable to symptoms, there are sev- massage to each hand for the past two years. A corti- GOTT your question. straighten it. More than eral steps you can take several minutes. sone shot does nothing, Trigger finger is a condi- one finger can be affected toward that goal. Soak Avoid repetitive gripping and surgery is the only Dr. Peter tion in which a finger joint at the same time, and both your hand or hands in whenever possible. If nec- thing that has helped me. catches in a bent position hands can become warm water. Stretch the essary, break up the routine The episodes are very Gott (partial dislocation). A per- involved. fingers of one hand, and with different hand exer- painful, and I want to know son might be able to Common causes are massage the palm and each cises between the repeti- if there is anything to pre- straighten the finger with a repetitive motion of the fin- digit with your opposite tions and take periodic rest vent them from happening you are probably a pro gun’s triggerlike motion gers of the dominant hand hand. Repeat the same breaks. again. when it comes to recogniz- and snap it back into prop- at work, during sports, or process with the opposite DEAR READER: Sadly, ing the symptoms of a trig- er position, thus the name. with some hobbies. hand. While you sit in See DR. GOTT, Main 6 Main 6 Tuesday, March 31, 2009 COMMUNITY Times-News, Twin Falls, Idaho SW Idaho officials say gang crime is down NAMPA (AP) — Cooperation among vari- ous agencies has led to the convictions in federal court of more than 40 Courtesy photos Pictured from left are Camas County High School Trig Star competi- gang members or their Pictured from left are Idaho Trig Star Coordinator Randy French of Bellevue and Carey High School Trig tors Erica Phantharasen, Megan Stampke, winner Mollie McLam and associates the last five Star competitors, winner Amy Ellsworth, Jessica Parke, Brett Adamson, Trevor Peck, and Brad Peck. Austin Walker. years in southwest Idaho, officials say. “My take on it is there has been a decrease in Trigonometry competition winners named crime generally and a marked decrease in gang A Trig-Star competition Students competed for a School contest was Amy times will now be entered of $2,000, $1,000 and $500 crime, but it tends to ebb was held recently at Camas first-place cash prize of $125 Ellsworth, daughter of into the competition at the scholarships for the first and flow,’’ Canyon County High School and and local merchant awards Spence and Laurie Ellsworth state level with other stu- three places, along with County Prosecuting Carey High School. The high provided by the Sun Valley of Carey. The winner of the dents from across Idaho to teacher excellence awards. Attorney John Bujak told school trigonometry com- Company, Soldier Mountain Camas County High School determine the Idaho Trig- Trig-Star, sponsored the Idaho Press-Tribune. petition is graded on cor- Ski Resort and South Valley Contest was Mollie McLam, Star winner, with an award nationally by the National “If you compare, go back rectness and time. The com- Pizzeria of Bellevue. daughter of Matt and Debbie of a $500 scholarship Society of Professional Land a year, there’s been a sig- petition was sponsored at Members of the Big Wood McLam of Fairfield. from the Idaho Society Surveyors was created in nificant decline in the the high schools by the Big Section administered the Awards were presented at of Professional Land 1984 to educate high school number of cases. We used Wood Section of the Idaho test in Carey on Feb. 25 and each school on March 9 dur- Surveyors. The state cham- students about the profes- to have drive-bys daily, Society of Professional Land in Fairfield on March 4. The ing a brief ceremony. The pion can go on to a national sion of surveying and pro- certainly weekly. Now Surveyors. winner of the Carey High winners test scores and competition which awards mote math skills. every once in awhile two rival gangs get in a spat and you have these drive- bys.’’ Bujak credited area task F IRST C HOICE forces specifically designed to combat vio- RECEIVES lent street crime com- bined with successful DONATION prosecution for the suc- cess in reducing gang Bill Bubak Sr., left, is shown presenting Mike Seward, crime. A special assistant U.S. right, of First Choice Home Care and Hospice, with a attorney works out of $500 donation raised by Royal Roping Productions. Bujak’s office and can Royal Roping Productions held the Triple Crown Team prosecute gang members Roping Series in the Magic Valley in the fall of 2008. charged with federal A portion of the proceeds raised has been donated to crimes, which can lead to First Choice Home Care and Hospice with the remain- longer sentences. ing funds being gifted to the Alzheimer’s Association Canyon County Deputy Prosecutor Ellie Somoza in Boise. said gang members con- victed of federal crimes are sent out of state to federal prisons. “It’s been pretty signif- icant the number of peo- ple we’ve taken off the Courtesy photo street,’’said Somoza, who has prosecuted gang cases at the state level for the past four years. “We don’t N EW AT THE G OODING P UBLIC L IBRARY have any federal prisons in the state of Idaho, so New items at Gooding “Men at Arms” by Terry The Cannon Law” by Eric the Real Jesus” by Lee for re-framing a water color they are sent away from Public Library include: Pratchett, “Honored Flint, “Selections from 90 Strobel, “Comedy Writing art piece on display in the family, their fellow gang Adult fiction Enemy” and “Talon of the Minutes in Heaven” by Don Secrets” by Mel Helitzer, “A library. The next Youth Book members, their sphere of “The Treasure” by Iris Silver Hawk” by Raymond Piper, “Veil of roses” by Whisper of Springtime” by Club will be held from 3:30 influence. It’s a way to Johansen, “The Devil’s E. Feist, “The Outlaw Laura Fitzgerald, “The Sky Tedi Tuttle Wixon, “A Forest to 4:30 p.m. April 16 at the effectively cut them out Web” by Mary Balogh, Demon Wails” by Kim People” by S.M. Stirling, of Wormwood” by Niels library. of the gang here in Idaho.’’ “Lethal Legacy” by Linda Harrison, “The Second “Run for Your Life” by Nokkentved, “How to Play Knitting or needle craft Fairstein, “Faith of the Opinion” by Michael James Patterson, “A Stolen Piano” by Roger Evans, sessions for people ages 14 Fallen” by Terry Goodkind, Palmer, “Big City, Bad Heart” by Candace Camp, “Walk on Water” by Michael and older will be held every “Fledgling” by Octavia E. Blood” by Sean Chercover, “The Negotiator” by Dee Ruhlman, “Flat Belly Diet” Thursday evening at the Butler, “Lord John and the “The Skin Gods” by Richard Henderson, “Empire Falls” by Liz Vaccariello, “The library from 6:30 to 7:30 Private Matter” by Diana Montanari, “Sugar Daddy” by Richard Russo Complete Book of p.m. All experience levels are Gabaldon, “Little Ellie by Lisa Kleypas, “The Art of Books on CD Papercrafts,” “The encyclo- welcome. Claus” by James Manos, Mending” by Elizabeth “Death Dance” by Linda pedia of Origami & “The Book of Unholy Berg, “Amazing Grace” by A. Fairstein, “Song Yet Papercraft Techniques” by FAST BAIL BOND Mischief” by Elle Newmark, Danielle Steel, “Salvation in Sung” by James MacBride, Paul Jackson “Vanishing Point” and Death” by J.D. 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Blue Lakes Twin Falls 837-4153 Fax: 208 934 9127 (208) 733 9133 Times-News, Twin Falls, Idaho OBITUARIES/NATION Tuesday, March 31, 2009 Main 7 Rueben Moses Jones Jr. Helen Freeman SERVICES Rueben Moses Jones Jr., BURLEY — Helen Garrison of Twin Hannah McReynolds, Gooding Chapel. 96 of Twin Falls, passed Pearl Freeman, age Falls; many grand- infant daughter of Matthew away Saturday, March 28, 86, of Burley, for- children and great- and Carmen McReynolds of Howard Don Christensen 2009, at his home of a short merly of Twin Falls, grandchildren; and Burley, funeral at 11 a.m. of Burley, funeral at 11 a.m. illness. passed away numerous nieces today at the First Baptist Wednesday at the Burley He was born on May 29, Saturday, March 28, and nephews. Church in Burley; visitation LDS Stake Center, 2050 1912, to Rueben Moses Sr. 2009, at Rosetta She was preceded one hour before the service Normal Ave.; visitation and Mary Della Jones, at Assisted Living in in death by her par- at the church (Hansen from 6 to 8 p.m. today at Mule Creek Ranch in grandpa and loved to be Burley. ents; her husband, Payne Mortuary in Burley). Rasmussen Funeral Home, Southern Idaho, which was a called that. He will be missed Helen was born on April Ward Freeman; an infant 1350 E. 16th St. in Burley, family owned ranch until by many friends and family. 25, 1922, in Darby “Teton,” daughter who died at birth, Clyde Clinton Wardle Jr. and 10 to 10:45 a.m. 1970. He was the only son Rueben is survived by Idaho, one of 13 children Deanna Fay Freeman; her of Burley, funeral at 11 a.m. Wednesday at the church. with three sisters. Rueben three sons, Rueben of Fort born to Joseph Elial and Rose daughter, Jean Parker; and 11 today at the Springdale LDS served in the U.S. army Air Smith, Ark., Benny of Buhl, Emma (Hill) Bagley. She brothers and sisters. Church, 475 E. 200 S. of Justin Ray Mallory of Corps, worked on farms, Idaho, and Bob (Terry) of lived most of her life in Twin The funeral will be held at Burley; burial at 4 p.m. Twin Falls, celebration of ranches and worked as a Everett, Wash.; 18 grand- Falls. She married Lorin 11 a.m. Friday, April 3, at the today at the Grove City life at 11 a.m. Saturday at miner.In 1964,he worked for children, and many self Wardell Freeman on Nov.20, Burley LDS Stake Center, Cemetery in Blackfoot; visi- Roper Auditorium at Twin McVeys Inc. in Twin Falls for adopting grandchildren. He 1937, in Twin Falls. Their 2050 Normal Ave., in Burley. tation from 10 to 10:45 a.m. Falls High School, 1615 Filer 10 years and then at Cactus was preceded in death by his marriage was later solem- Burial will be in the Twin today at the church. Ave. E. (Reynolds Funeral Pete’s until his retirement. parents, three sisters, three nized in the Salt Lake LDS Falls Cemetery. Friends may Chapel in Twin Falls). Rueben enjoyed hunting, grandchildren and one Temple on June 29, 1949. call from 6 until 8 p.m. Leah Lorraine Craner of fishing, visiting with people, great-grandchild. Helen was an active mem- Thursday, April 2, at the Murtaugh, funeral at 1 p.m. Alberta (Sally) Turner of and sharing stories, but his Memorial services will be ber of the LDS Church. She Rasmussen Funeral Home, today at Hansen Payne Twin Falls, memorial serv- biggest love was going to the held at 1:30 p.m.Wednesday, enjoyed crocheting, danc- 1350 E. 16th St., Burley, and Mortuary in Burley; visita- ice at 11 a.m. Saturday at hills to cut firewood. He was April 1, at White Mortuary ing, singing and playing the from 10 until 10:45 a.m. tion one hour before the Parke’s Magic Valley Funeral known to many around as “Chapel by the Park”. piano and organ. Friday at the church. service today at the mortu- Home, 2551 Kimberly Road She is survived by her two The family expresses their ary. in Twin Falls. sons, Gary Wardell (Ann) sincere appreciation to Dorothy Louise Cederquist Haslam Freeman of Burley, and Autumn Haven in Rupert, Angela Foltz of Eden, cel- Arlyne B. Kisling,former- Kenneth Alan (Terri) and to Rosetta Assisted ebration of life at 6 p.m. ly of Dietrich, funeral at 2 Dorothy Louise good enough for the Freeman of Herriman, Utah; Living in Burley, for the out- today at Reynolds Funeral p.m. Saturday at the First Cederquist Haslam, bridge or dinner a son-in-law, Zane Parker of standing care given to our Chapel, 2466 Addison Ave. Baptist Church in Shoshone 92, of Twin Falls party groups. In her Burley; one sister, Loah Jean mother. E. in Twin Falls. (Demaray Funeral Service, passed away Sunday older years, Dorothy Shoshone Chapel). morning, March 29, was glued to the tel- Owen Colter of Gooding, 2009, at St. Luke’s evision watching all Virginia E. Stigall funeral at 10:30 a.m. Judith Marie Lueders of Magic Valley Med- sporting events, but Wednesday at the Gooding Twin Falls, memorial serv- ical Center. you better not Virginia E. Stigall, favorite thing was United Methodist Church; ice at 1 p.m. April 21 at Dorothy was born expect a conversa- 88 (39 at heart) of going on the Friday visitation from 4 to 7 p.m. Sunset Memorial Park in to John Arthur “Art” tion during a golf or tennis Twin Falls, passed “Mystery” rides and today at Demaray’s Twin Falls. Cederquist and Hazel match. Speck passed away in away peacefully on visiting with her Cordelia Spencer on Dec. 8, June 1997. She especially Sunday, March 29, many friends and 1916, in Willitts, Calif. At loved her family and was 2009, at Woodstone family. She loved DEATH NOTICES that time, her father worked always interested in their Retirement Center everyone with her for Union Pacific Railroad lives at various places in the with her loving fam- whole being, and will be held from 4 to 7 p.m. and they moved frequently, world. She was a member of ily and close friends they loved her back. Frank Skowronski Wednesday at Demaray’s living in California, Nevada the First Presbyterian by her side. All the residents, caregivers, Frank Skowronski, 91, of Gooding Chapel. and Utah. They settled in Church in Twin Falls. She was born in Hartville, and workers at Woodstone Twin Falls died Sunday Salt Lake City so Dorothy Dorothy is survived by her Mo., on July 18, 1920, to became more than friends, March 29, 2009, at River could graduate from West daughters, Susan “Sue” Marv and Crystena Moore, they became part of her Ridge Care Center in Twin Raymond Harris High School in 1934. Pollard, Twin Falls, Linda along with four brothers and ever-growing family. The Falls. WENDELL — Raymond Dorothy played on the West (John) Pope, Livermore, two sisters. She is survived family would like to thank Arrangements are under Harris, 73, of Wendell, died Tennis Team and lettered in Calif.; son-in-law, Larry by three sons, Melvin Hospice Visions for all they the direction of White Monday, March 30, 2009, at that sport. Dorothy fell in McElliott, Twin Falls; seven (Linda) of Nipomo, Calif., have done for Virginia. Mortuary “Chapel by the his home in Wendell. love with L. H. “Speck” grandchildren, Steve, Gene of Twin Falls, Dean Virginia was devoted to Park”. Arrangements will be Haslam and they eloped to Melissa, Adam, Shelly, Brad, (Eleanor) of Twin Falls; her children and grandchil- announced by Demaray’s Tooele, Utah, on June 19, Chris and Lori; nine great- daughter, Shirley (Heinz) dren. She was a kind and Wendell Chapel. 1934.This marriage was kept grandchildren; four great- Schulz of Kennewick, caring person who deeply R. C. Virden a secret for over 50 years, great-grandsons plus one Wash.; sister, Ruth Roth of loved her family and friends. WENDELL — R. C. until the children were plan- more due anytime; a friend, Murrieta, Calif.; 11 grand- In lieu of flowers the family Virden, 87, of Wendell, died Karl Schmidt ning their 50th wedding Lynn Espy and her massage children; 25 great-grand- requests that memorial Sunday, March 29, 2009, at Karl Schmidt, 95, of Twin anniversary. In 1933 her therapist, Brenda Malone, children; 14 great-great- contributions be made to St. Luke’s Magic Valley Falls and formerly of father moved to Twin Falls, whom she loved and who grandchildren; and numer- Hospice Visions, Inc. Medical Center in Twin Gooding, died Monday, to start the Globe Seed and brought her great relief. She ous nieces and nephews. Friends may call from 6 to Falls. March 30, 2009, in Twin Feed, and later Dorothy and is preceded in death by her Virginia was preceded in 8 p.m. Friday, April 3, at Funeral services will be Falls. her mother followed, along parents; her husband; death by her father and Parke’s Magic Valley Funeral held at 10:30 a.m. Thursday, Arrangements will be with Speck. They were offi- daughter, Janet; sister, mother; four brothers and Home, 2551 Kimberly Road, April 2, 2009, at Demaray’s announced by Demaray’s cially married on Dec. 26, Virginia; an infant brother, one sister; two infant sons, Twin Falls. A celebration of Gooding Chapel; visitation Wendell Chapel. 1934, in Salt Lake City with Ellsworth; a great-great- Arbrie Gene and Melvin her life will be held at 2 p.m. all members of their families grandson, Andrew; a son- Rannial; her husband, Saturday, April 4, at Parke’s witnessing this event. To in-law, Roger J. Pollard and Loman Stigall; her son, Magic Valley Funeral Home. Floriene Roerich this union three daughters numerous aunts, uncles and Marvin E. Stigall; and Internment will follow at were born, Susan, Janet and cousins with whom she had grandchild, Tammy Jolene the West End Cemetery in Floriene Roerich, Falls; daughters, Linda. been very close. Dorothy Stigall. Buhl. age 75, died Sunday, Renell (Gary) In their younger years, was dearly loved by all of her She enjoyed being Condolences may be March 29, 2009, at Griffith, Everett, Dorothy and Speck were children and will be missed involved in the many activi- made at www.magicvalley- her home in Twin Wash., Renee (Paul) members of many social, by all who knew her. ties at Woodstone. Her funeralhome.com. Falls. Franklin, Wood- fraternal and trade organiza- Visitation for family and Floriene was born inville, Wash., tions in Twin Falls and friends will be held from 4 to July 29, 1933, in Filer, Debby Gee, Idaho. They were also char- 8 p.m. Thursday, April 2, at Rosella Ulrich Idaho, to Eli and Kirkland, Wash., ter members of the Blue White Mortuary “Chapel by Merna Priest. She Cindy (Tom) Lakes Country Club and golf the Park” with graveside Rosella Ulrich, 74, and friends. She also grew up in the Twin Falls Leavitt, Kirkland, Wash., was their passion. They only service being held at 11 a.m. of Twin Falls, left enjoyed reading and area, graduating from Twin Tamie (Doug) Moore, Twin took two vacations in their Friday, April 3, at Sunset this world on March listening to music. Falls High School in 1951. Falls, and Bridget Kazemi, lives that were not golf ori- Memorial Park. In lieu of 24, 2009, at St. Rosella is survived She married Jay Gee from Calgary,Canada; two sisters, ented, one to China (no golf flowers the family request Luke’s Medical by her daughters, Rupert in 1950 and to this Donna Roe, Wendell, Idaho, courses there at that time) that remembrances be sent Center and now Deborah Buckner, union was born four daugh- and Arlene (Stuart) Lincoln, and a Mississippi river trip to The Mustard Seed, 455 resides with her Twin Falls; Cathy ters. She married Gus Caldwell, Idaho; one broth- (this was a real water haz- Main Ave. E., Twin Falls, ID Lord and Savior, (Roger) Hunt, Roerich in 1986 and spent er, Jim (Pat) Priest, ard). Dorothy was a gracious 83301. Please join the family Jesus Christ. Cleburne, Texas; the 23 years they were LaMirada, Calif.; 13 grand- hostess and loved the close- in celebrating Dorothy’s life Rosella was born in Twin Machele West, Twin Falls; together supporting the CSI children and 14 great- ness of her dear friends. She by sharing remembrances Falls and grew up in Twin sons, Jerry (Brenda) Ulrich basketball and volleyball grandchildren. She was pre- was a fabulous cook, always and signing the Falls/Hazelton area where Jr., Twin Falls and Eric (Kim) teams. In the recent years ceded in death by her par- testing new recipes on her online guestbook at she met and married her Ulrich, Glendale, Ariz.; they enjoyed outings to the ents and one grandson, family to see if they were www.MeM.com. loving and devoted husband eleven grandchildren and “Arts on Tour” programs. Joshua Franklin. Jerry Ulrich Sr. They were many great-grandchildren. They loved to travel south for Arrangements are under married for 54 years and had She was preceded in death the winters on the Colorado the direction of Parke’s For obituary rates and information, call 735-3266 five children. They lived in by her husband, Jerry; River near Earp, Calif. They Magic Valley Funeral Home. Monday through Saturday. Deadline is 3 p.m. for next- Idaho, Southern California, brother,Theodore Sorenson; made many precious and A Private Family Memorial day publication. The e-mail address for obituaries is and most recently together grandson, Phillip Lopez and long lasting friendships for will be held at a later date. in Las Vegas, Nev., where her parents, Frank and Rose over 16 years. Condolences may be made [email protected]. Death notices are a free Jerry passed on. Sorenson. Flo is survived by her hus- at www.magicvalleyfuner- service and can be placed until 4 p.m. every day. To Rosella was retired from A memorial service will be band Gus Roerich, Twin alhome.com. view or submit obituaries online, or to place a mes- the Retail Clerk’s Union in held at 11 a.m. Saturday, sage in an individual online guestbook, go to Las Vegas. Rosella had a pas- April 4, at The Church of sion for cooking and enjoyed Christ Magic Valley, 2002 www.magicvalley.com and click on “Obituaries.” sharing it with her family Filer Ave. in Twin Falls. Check out what’s new online at www.magicvalley.com 1 ‘polypill’ may replace handful of heart drugs ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — greater side effects, a major in with that.’’ ed Monday at the cardiolo- he family of Linda Draper It’s been a dream for a study found. Taking it The polypill also has big gy college’s conference in decade: a single daily pill could cut a person’s risk of psychological advantages, Florida and published Twishes to express our sincere combining aspirin, choles- heart disease and stroke said Dr. James Stein of the online by the British med- thanks and appreciation to all our terol medicine and blood roughly in half, the study University of Wisconsin- ical journal Lancet. friends, neighbors and relatives for the pressure drugs — every- concludes. Madison. The study tested the cards, fl owers, food, visits and all other thing people need to pre- The approach needs far “If you take any medi- Polycap, an experimental vent heart attacks and more testing — as well as cines, you know that every combo formulated by acts of kindness that were so graciously strokes in a cheap, generic approval from the Food and pill you see in your hand Cadila Pharmaceuticals of extended to us during our recent loss. form. Drug Administration, makes you feel five years Ahmedabad, India. It con- h ey were deeply appreciated. Skeptics said five medi- something that could take older. Patients really object tains low doses of three cines rolled into a single pill years — but it could make to pill burden’’ and respond blood pressure medicines h e Gary Draper family would mean five times heart disease prevention by skipping doses, he said. (atenolol, ramipril and the more side effects. Some much more common and No price for the polypill “water pill’’ thiazide), plus people would get drugs more effective, doctors say. has been disclosed, but its the generic version of the they don’t need, while oth- “Widely applied, this generic components cost cholesterol-lowering statin Cremation Service ers would get too little. could have profound impli- only a total of $17 a month drug Zocor, and a baby One-size-fits-all would cations,’’ said Dr. Robert now and doctors expect the aspirin (100 milligrams). turn out to fit very few, Harrington, an American combo would sell for far Doctors have talked Funeral Services • Cremation • Monuments they warned. College of Cardiology less. about such a possibility for Pre-Funded Funeral Plans & Trusts Now the first big test of spokesman and chief of The study was led by Dr. years. As the patents on the “polypill’’ has proved Duke University’s heart Salim Yusuf of McMaster many heart medicines them wrong. research institute. University in Hamilton, expired and the drugs Jason The experimental combo “President Obama is trying Ontario, and Dr. Prem Pais became available as cheap Third & Fillmore Jerome, Idaho 83338 • (208) 324-4555 pill was as effective as to offer the greatest care to of St. John’s Medical generics, a few companies nearly all of its components the greatest number. College in Bangalore, India. started trying to develop taken alone, with no This very much fits The findings were present- all-in-one pills. Hove-Robertson Funeral Chapel NATIONMAIN 8 TUESDAY, MARCH 31, 2009 & WORLDTIMES-NEWS, TWIN FALLS, IDAHO 12 die in bloody siege at Pakistan police academy
By Stephen Graham The scenes were reminis- blowing themselves up and similar commando-style been struggling to rally pub- Associated Press writer cent of the three-day ter- authorities arresting four, attacks in Kabul on the lic support in the face of the rorist siege of Mumbai, officials said. At least three Justice Ministry in February violence in what many in LAHORE, Pakistan — The India, in November, and other unidentified bodies and a luxury hotel in January Pakistan see as America’s deadly police academy siege analysts say these comman- were recovered. 2008. war. played out for hours do-style attacks stoke even Mohammed Amir Rana, a “You see a trend here Pakistan’s top civilian Monday on Pakistani televi- greater fear than bombings terrorism expert at the from bombings to suicide security official said mili- sion, with scenes of the mil- because they generate more Pakistan Institute for Peace bombings and now com- tant groups were “destabi- itants in the compound media attention and portray Studies, said Pakistan- mando-style attacks,’’ said lizing the country,’’suggest- holding security forces at the state and its security based terrorist groups his- Rana. “When one group has ing the plot may have origi- bay. forces as weak. torically focused on battling started a new tactic, then a nated with Pakistani Taliban Local TV showed fright- Black-clad Pakistani India have often used com- second group adopts it leader Baitullah Mehsud. ened police scrambling over commandos eventually mando-style attacks rather attacks indicates terrorists because they think it is more Meanwhile, a Taliban the walls of the academy, stormed the compound on than the suicide bombings are learning from each other effective.’’ member claiming to speak desperately trying to escape the outskirts of Lahore to favored by al-Qaida and the and adopting what they see The year-old civilian gov- on behalf of a shadowy lit- the gunmen who killed at end the eight-hour siege by Taliban. as an effective tactic. ernment is under pressure tle-known group called the least six cadets and wound- the grenade-throwing gun- Rana said he believes a Taliban militants in from the United States to Fedayeen al-Islam said it ed scores of others. men, with three militants surge in these types of Afghanistan carried out contain extremists and has was behind the attack. Obama tougher on autos than banks By Charles Babington Associated Press writer Analysis WASHINGTON — Pres- ident Barack Obama is deal- been more lenient in terms ing with the beleaguered of time, personnel and other auto industry more sternly factors. Nor has Obama than he has with bailed-out demanded that financial- banks and insurers as he sector workers and unions takes the nation another step make more “painful conces- into uncharted government sions,’’ although that sector regulation of industry. is far less unionized than the By now, it may seem obvi- auto industry. ous that the government is Union contracts, it playing major roles in run- appears, are not as sacro- ning huge corporations, sanct in the administration’s including banks, insurance opinion as the one it has left companies and automakers intact at AIG, which provid- receiving billions of dollars ed politically radioactive in federal aid. Yet the mes- retention bonuses to sage is still hard to absorb by employees. many unions, retailers and, The president went far- AP photos most visibly, executives who ther down the road of feder- Tom and Pam Hlady pose Monday on the porch of their five-bedroom Fargo, N.D. home. They are willing to house as many as nine evacuees of took big bonuses or char- al intervention Monday. He the Red River flooding even while they go on vacation Thursday to Phoenix. Such overwhelming generosity is synonymous with North Dakota. tered jets to congressional embraced possible short- As a result, storm shelters are virtually empty. hearings where they sought term bankruptcy and reor- the money to keep their ganization by Chrysler and firms afloat. GM (Ford is not involved), an The Obama administra- idea he had rejected as presi- tion, perhaps reflecting dent-elect in November. public sentiment outside Obama even advanced the Looking out for Michigan, has shown less novel idea of having the gov- patience with the auto ernment back new-car war- industry than with other ranties issued by both GM troubled sectors. and Chrysler to reassure General Motors’ chief buyers nervous about taking executive, Richard Wagoner, a chance on those compa- must go, the administration nies. said, workers must make “I know that when people concessions and Chrysler even hear the word ‘bank- must pursue a merger with ruptcy’ it can be a bit unset- their own Italian automaker Fiat SpA if tling,’’ Obama said in his more government help is to remarks at the White House. be considered. Indeed. But many other The administration is events, including plunging tightening its oversight of job rates and savings bailed-out financial compa- accounts, have unsettled In Fargo, goodwill runs as deep as the Red River nies, too, but it has generally Americans even more. By Jim Suhr Associated Press writer
ARGO, N.D. — One family offered From economy’s ills, new their home to anyone left homeless by F flooding, even sharing their security American villains rise entry code. When another couple lost DEARBORN,Mich.(AP) — get dragged into the hot seat. their house, total strangers showed up at their “The better the villain,’’ It’s part of the American hotel with chicken dinners, brownies and quilts. Alfred Hitchcock said, “the process,’’ says Imad Hamad, better the movie.’’And in the who would know. He is In the neighborly spirit was ravaged by a fire more epic production that is the regional director for the synonymous with North than a century ago and test- United States of America, we American-Arab Anti- Dakota, some people have ed often over the years by have followed that advice Discrimination Committee National Guard soldier Michael Moore walks through a snow given out their phone num- the Red River. Fargo, they since the earliest settlers and is based in Dearborn, a bers on radio talk shows, say,is a survivor, and one storm as he heads to patrol a levee Monday in Fargo, N.D. Weary landed. For every hero the town just outside Detroit offering shelter to any lis- neighbor watching another’s residents welcomed the Red River’s further retreat Monday but American story factory pro- where Arabic script is ubiq- teners in need. The generos- back is a way of life. faced an approaching snowstorm expected to kick up wind- duces, a vivid new villain uitous and more than 30 per- ity is so common that even Hlady and his wife are whipped waves that could threaten the sandbag levees they built comes off the assembly line cent of the population is of as thousands of people are leaving this week for a vaca- to protect their city from a major flood. in short order. Arab descent. driven out of their homes by tion in Phoenix. They We love bad guys in In the eyes of some the overflowing Red River, planned to give their home’s America — even when Americans, Muslims and most storm shelters are vir- keypad security code to the Storm latest test for Fargo’s levees they’re not really bad. Middle Easterners became tually empty. church for anyone who FARGO, N.D. (AP) — A blizzard battered North Dakota on Demonizing helps define the the cultural bogeymen after “There is a different flavor needs a place to stay. Monday, threatening to create wind-whipped waves that could best in us. Here’s an incom- 9/11, and Hamad’s organiza- up here — the type of hard- “People can go in, use our lash the patchwork levee system that has shielded much of plete list from the history tion and community are still working ethic and the peo- food, our beds and do what- Fargo from the swollen Red River. books: Indians, Quakers, dealing with the fallout. Even ple helping each other up ever they need to do,’’ Pam Engineers scrambled to shore up the dikes in hopes of averting witches, Englishmen, the with a new president whose here that you don’t see in a Hlady said. the latest potential disaster nature has inflicted on this belea- federal government, South- grandfather was Muslim, he lot of cities,’’said Tom Red Cross spokeswoman guered city. erners and Northerners, says, suspicion continues to Hlady,who signed up Courtney Johnson said The winter storm was expected to bring up to a foot of snow and Chinese, Germans, Jews, make life difficult for people through his church to take as emergency shelters are being 30 mph winds that could weaken the levees with big waves. Japanese, North Koreans, stereotyped by anti-Muslim many as nine people into his used by a relatively small Officials acknowledged that no one knows whether the levees communists, socialists, sentiment. “In the Middle five-bedroom home. number of flood victims. will withstand the punishment. Vietnamese, liberals, con- East, they cut you one time,’’ On Monday,weary resi- On Sunday night, three The Red River dropped to 38.96 feet Monday, nearly 2 feet below servatives, gays, lesbians and Hamad says. “In America, dents were grateful to see shelters in Fargo, Grand its peak but nearly 21 feet above flood stage. Muslims. The Evil Empire they put you in the death the Red River retreating after Forks and Moorhead, Minn., and the Axis of Evil. machine over and over.’’ its steady,threatening climb hosted just 257 people, windshield for emergency studies teacher at Fargo Now, a fresh group has The minting of villains, last week. But they faced a including about 30 firefight- airboats, a listener volun- North High School, has seen been dropped into the cul- justified or otherwise, is a new threat: an approaching ers. That, Johnson said, sug- teered to make one. it at every turn. tural dunk tank. Bin Laden? time-tested human response snowstorm expected to kick gests that most families One caller to WDAY said Last Tuesday,when the Back-burnered, at least for to threat and fear. When up wind-whipped waves found other places to stay. he had delivered a bunch of sandbagging effort intensi- now.Saddam? Gone and for- something horrible happens, that could threaten the The spirit of outreach is all pizzas to the Fargodome sta- fied, more than half of her gotten. Instead, in these it’s easier to blame a group sandbag levees. The storm over news radio. dium, where the sandbag- students did not show up for jumbled days of economic than to blame a process or to was expected to arrive When sandbaggers were ging effort was based. Then classes. When her church uncertainty,fairly or unfairly, look inward. But in America, Monday afternoon and per- needed urgently in nearby he called back to say he offered free day care so par- America’s newest Snidely where big narratives have sist through Tuesday Hendrum, Minn., broad- would fetch a bunch of ents could help fight the Whiplashes bear faces like always ruled the day,it seems evening. casters repeatedly gave driv- crayons, coloring books and floodwaters, the Red Cross those of Bernie Madoff, AIG especially pronounced. Locals don’t consider the ing directions to volunteers, puzzles. showed up unannounced executives and the private You’d think a nation of outpouring of kindness at all and hundreds of people “Where do kids need with peanut butter and jelly, jet-flying heads of the Big immigrants might be warier unusual. turned out to save the town. them?’’ he asked. snack chips and pint-sized Three automakers. of demonizing outsiders, but Their 138-year-old city When someone requested a Sarah Sebranek, a social cartons of milk. “Someone always needs to history says otherwise. Times-News, Twin Falls, Idaho NATION Tuesday, March 31, 2009 Main 9 U.S. launches PROMISES, PROMISES: new fight against Saving teacher jobs tough Afghan drug trade By Lolita C. Baldor military and civilian pres- Associated Press writer ence there, Obama said A GLANCE officials will track the While Obama 5VKOWNWUCKOGFCVTGVCKPKPIVGCEJGTU WASHINGTON — growth of the Afghan illicit States will receive a financial boost this week with educational funding from the Recovery Act. OF STIMULUS American authorities are narcotics production as one intends stimulus Stimulus funds planning a broad new cam- measure of the administra- DOLLARS FOR paign to choke off the prime tion’s progress. money to states for - $1 billion 2 3 4 + source of financing for ter- The strategy review Least awarded, Wyoming, $143 million rorists in Afghanistan, called the drug trade the education, hard to EDUCATION sending in dozens of feder- major driver of corruption al drug enforcement agents in Afghanistan, and said make sure states The Associated Press to disrupt the country’s allied forces must support massive opium trade and local counternarcotics use it for that A glance of the estimated total the money that streams to efforts to destroy drug labs, D.C. amount of economic stimulus the Taliban and al-Qaida. equipment and caches. It By Libby Quaid dollars, in millions, for educa- The surge of narcotics also urges efforts to identify Associated Press writer tion to Western states: agents, which would boost other agricultural programs Most awarded, State Stimulus dollars the number of anti-drug for Afghan farmer to WASHINGTON — Pres- Calif., $8.6 billion Alaska: 189.1 officials inside Afghanistan replace their dependency ident Barack Obama prom- Texas, $6.1 billion Ariz.: 1,442.0 from a dozen to nearly 80, on the illegal drug trade. ises his economic stimulus Calif.: 8,564.4 would bolster a strategy The DEA aims to com- law will save hundreds of SOURCE: Department of Education AP Colo.: 1,051.0 laid out last week by the plete its expansion inside thousands of teaching jobs, Hawaii: 274.7 Obama administration to Afghanistan by later this but some states could end up with Republican governors: for schools. That means Idaho: 346.8 use U.S. and NATO troops fall, building a team of spending the money on Hawaii Gov. Linda instead of getting extra help Mont.: 231.2 to target “higher level drug nearly 80 agents and some playground equipment or Lingle wants to fill a budget to weather tough times, Nev.: 550.1 lords.’’ additional analysts, said wallpaper — and the presi- gap. school districts could wind N.M.: 512.3 Detailed plans described Michael Braun, who was dent might not have the Idaho Gov. C.L. up with no additional state N.Y.: 4,846.7 to members of Congress DEA’s operations chief until authority to stop them. “Butch” Otter wants to aid even as local tax rev- Ore.: 818.2 behind closed doors earlier late last year. Obama says nearly all of hold the money in reserve. enues plummet. Utah: 654.6 this month suggest the “We are undergoing a the education money in the South Carolina Gov. State lawmakers and Wash.: 1,400.9 effort will be modeled significant increase there as Recovery Act, which will Mark Sanford wants to pay governors in Kansas, Rhode Wyo.: 143.9 after the federal Drug we speak,’’said Braun, now start going out to states this down debt; he’s been Island and Texas are among Source: Department of Enforcement Administra- managing director of an week, is designed to retain turned down by the White those seeking to use their Education tion’s campaign against international security con- teachers. House budget office and is federal stimulus dollars to drug cartels in South sulting firm that works Education Secretary threatening to refuse some replace state aid, rather money as federal impact America. with U.S. authorities in Arne Duncan threatens to of the money, as is Alaska than add to it. aid, a relatively small pro- Rep. Adam Smith, D- south Asia. “come down like a ton of Gov. Sarah Palin. In addition, the law was gram for poorly funded dis- Wash., who chairs the Braun said proceeds from bricks’’ on anyone who There are loopholes in written so broadly that tricts. By contrast, most House Armed Services ter- the drug trade in defies the administration’s the stimulus law for both most of the stabilization federal education dollars rorism subcommittee, said Afghanistan have allowed plans to bring relief to states and school districts. dollars can be spent on just are supposed to be spent on the DEA’s effort is aimed at the Taliban to flourish. states like California where Of the $100 billion for about anything — carpet, teacher salaries or academ- crippling the Afghan nar- There are also indications, 26,500 teachers have got- education in the stimulus wallpaper, playground ics. cotics networks by driving he said, that al-Qaida is ten pink slips. Across the bill, $40 billion comes as equipment, even new “Congress opened a up the costs of the opium heavily involved in Afghan country, 9 percent of part of a fund to stabilize school construction — Pandora’s Box to allow dis- trade. opium trafficking. teachers — about 294,000 state and local budgets that which may bother Senate tricts to use the funds for “Any financing effort is — may face layoffs because has fewer strings attached. moderates who insisted on impact aid,’’ said Michael really going to focus on the of budget cuts, according to As the bill made its way dropping a new school Brustein, a Washington drug trade and the DEA is a University of Washington through Congress, law- construction program attorney who represents going to have to play a key WE UNDERSTAND study. makers decided not to pro- before they would vote for several state education role,’’Smith said. But plans for the money hibit states from using the the bill. agencies. “How you Unveiling his new strate- COMMITMENT. are pulling in other direc- stabilization money to That’s because school enforce against that is any- gy for Afghanistan last tions, particularly in states replace precious state aid districts can spend the one’s guess.’’ week, President Barack For decades, Edward Jones has Obama said the country’s been committed to providing economy “is undercut by a financial solutions and booming narcotics trade personalized service to that encourages criminality Individual investors. 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WASHINGTON — After reliability of the nation’s pendent arm of the Energy Its early years were marked more than a decade of work nuclear weapons as they Department, oversees by setbacks including trou- and $3.5 billion, engineers become older. nuclear weapons programs. ble — eventually overcome have completed the world’s The laser “will be a cor- The NIF laser was first — in keeping its critical most powerful laser, capable nerstone’’ of the weapons proposed in the early 1990s, optics perfectly clean. of simulating the energy stewardship program force of a hydrogen bomb “ensuring the continuing and the sun itself. reliability of the U.S. nuclear The law fi rm of The Energy Department stockpile without under- PEDERSEN will announce today that it ground nuclear testing,’’ AND has officially certified the Thomas D’Agostino, head of National Ignition Facility at the National Nuclear WHITEHEAD the Lawrence Livermore is pleased to announce that National Laboratory in California, clearing the way Brian J. 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While the NIF laser is PEDERSEN AND WHITEHEAD expected to be used for a TWIN FALLS ANIMAL SHELTER 161 5th Avenue South, Ste. 301 Twin Falls wide range of high-energy 420 Victory Avenue and high-density physics 736-2299 208.734.2552 MAIN 10 TUESDAY, MARCH 31, 2009 OPINION EDITOR STEVE CRUMP: (208) 735-3223 [email protected] QUOTABLE “He acted in nothing short of a heroic way today, and but for his actions, we certainly could have had a worse tragedy.” OPINION — District Attorney Maureen Krueger on officer Justin Garner, who wounded a gunman accused of killing eight people in a North Carolina nursing home EDITORIAL Payday loans in America State Max loan Max fee Cost/$100 APR* Alabama 31 days 7.5% $17.50 455% Trimming the sails Alaska Unlimited $15 + fee $20 520% Arizona Unlimited 15% of check $17.65 459% Arkansas 31 days 10% + $10 $22.50 579% California 30 days 15% of check $17.50 459% Colorado 40 days 20% first $300 $20 520% Delaware 59 days Unlimited Unlimited Unlimited D.C. 31 days Varies $16.10 419% of payday lenders Florida 31 days 10% + $5 fee $15 $390 Hawaii 32 days 15% of check $17.65 459% Idaho NA Unlimited Unlimited Unlimited daho is the Wild tomers in default an Our view: A bill in the Legislature requir- Illinois 120 days $15 per $100 $15.50 403% West as far as extended repayment plan Indiana Unlimited 15% per $250 $15 390% payday lenders ing Internet payday lenders to be at no additional cost, but Iowa 31 days $5 + 10% of check $16.67 435% are concerned. not all payday lenders are Kansas 30 days $15 per $100 $15 390% Short-term licensed is a good first step, but tighter members of the trade Kentucky 60 days $15 per $100 check $17.65 455% Iloans of up to $1,000 can group. 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The South Dakota, West not-sufficient-funds fee ment plans to customers Washington 45 days 15% up to $300 $15 390% legislation would invali- Virginia, Virginia and plus the original costs of in default. Wisconsin NA Unlimited Unlimited Unlimited date any loan provided Wisconsin are the only the loan and any addi- Even in a let-the-mar- Wyoming 30 days $30 or 20% $30 780% by an unlicensed lender, states that don’t limit tional fees or increased ketplace-rule state like *Annual percentage rate and allow the Idaho fees or interest rates interest rates the lender Idaho, lawmakers have Department of Finance which payday lenders can might impose. some responsibility to Connecticut, Georgia, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, to issue cease-and- charge. The trouble with Members of the payday curb predatory lending. Pennsylvania, Vermont and West Virginia have usury laws or small-loan desist orders and to sue that system is that once loan industry’s national Capping interest rates caps that would make payday loans illegal under the rates usually unlicensed lenders. The charged. you default, it’s practi- trade association are and fees would be good Source: bankrate.com legislation now goes cally impossible to catch required to offer cus- first steps. Should Obama be betting the ranch on Geithner?
eing slow to anger is Geithner when his then- fine. Being slow to nominee said he didn’t pay B honesty is not. his taxes because of some President Obama got misunderstanding of the tax frosty during last week’s code. Now Obama is stand- press conference when ing behind Geithner when asked about the bonuses he says he didn’t know paid to employees of about the AIG bonuses American International because he didn’t fully Group, the failed company understand what his staff that received an $180 billion was negotiating. taxpayer bailout. He said he The president is now ask- needed time to get angry ing American taxpayers to “because I like to know trust Geithner’s plan to help what I’m talking about buy up so-called toxic before I speak.” assets, as well as to expand the government’s authority to take over troubled corpo- rations like AIG. JOAN That’s asking for a lot of trust. So far, on a personal VENNOCHI level, Geithner has done lit- tle to show taxpayers he deserves it. But Obama con- tinues to praise him, and When Obama finally got even said in a “60 Minutes” mad, he got mad at Wall interview that he would Street. But he knows who reject Geithner’s resigna- else deserves the cold tion, if offered. shoulder. The list of bonus A market rally boosts conspirators includes his Geithner’s stock when it own economic team, which comes to pleasing Wall is headed by Treasury Street. But it shouldn’t erase Secretary Timothy the honesty question for Geithner. it and he did not know “the Some lawmakers raised could be done to stop AIG later said Geithner “was not Main Street. The controversial AIG full extent” of the bonus the matter of AIG bonuses from paying $160 million in aware of the timing or full A Treasury secretary who contracts, which provide for payments until March 10 — at a December hearing. Over bonuses. extent of the contractual trims the truth on any level so-called retention bonus- an assertion that defies the next weeks, AIG officials Geithner responded by retention payments or other is a liability. But Obama is es, were written in March logic. briefed lawmakers about the saying executive pay in the bonus programs until his sticking with his invest- 2008. A year later, after tax- Reporting by The Wall retention bonuses. On Feb. financial industry had got- staff brought them to his ment, out of loyalty, stub- payers became 80 percent Street Journal and The New 28, Treasury Department ten “out of whack” in recent attention on March 10.”It bornness, or both. owners of AIG, the bonuses York Times establishes the staff were briefed on AIG years. He promised to do took until March 20 for There has been plenty of were protected by following chronology: matters, including the something about it when Geithner to confirm that his time to figure out who knew Connecticut Senator AIG cited the bonus bonuses, by the New York companies getting taxpayer department pushed Dodd to what about the AIG bonus Christopher Dodd, via a retention plan in a public Federal Reserve Bank. bailouts were involved. write the budget loophole formula and when they special provision inserted filing in early November. On March 3, Geithner was The bonuses were front- into the economic stimulus knew it. If the full calcula- into the federal stimulus Geithner, then president of asked directly about the page news on March 15. plan. tion doesn’t get Obama bill. the Federal Reserve Bank of bonuses at a House Ways Geithner eventually said he The president has made it angry, it should. Dodd said he did it New York, was involved in and Means Committee would take “full responsi- clear Geithner is his guy. because Geithner’s Treasury major AIG matters until he hearing. bility” but insisted he did What he has never made Joan Vennochi is a Department asked him to do recused himself around the During that hearing, Rep. not learn of the bonuses clear to the American public columnist for the Boston it. time of his Nov. 24 nomina- Joseph Crowley, a Democrat until March 10. A Treasury is why. Globe. Write to her at ven- Geithner said his staff did tion as Treasury secretary. from New York, asked what Department spokesman Obama stood behind [email protected].
T HE LIGHTER SIDE OF POLITICS Doonesbury By Garry Trudeau Mallard Fillmore By Bruce Tinsley Times-News, Twin Falls, Idaho OPINION Tuesday, March 31, 2009 Main 11 How to pay off We’re figuring out how the national to win in Afghanistan credit card ARDAK disorder has been a perfect community structures. PROVINCE, nesting ground for the Mohammad Halim Fidai, resident Obama sent W Afghanistan — DAVID insurgents. The insurgents the governor of Wardak Congress a bold You drive up to the forward are not popular in province, and the guys in P budget reflecting the operating base in Wardak BROOKS Afghanistan. But they have the plywood room are cre- values of his campaign and ALICE province in an armored money, and young men in ating the Afghan Public the dire economic straits he M. RIVLIN Humvee, with the machine- the villages talk about Protection Program. Under inherited. This plan would, gunner sticking up through accepting a few hundred it, villages would no longer however, raise deficits to the roof and his butt swing- increased troop levels ten- bucks to plant an IED. depend solely on the unsustainable levels well ing on a little perch just by fold in Wardak. The parking Between 2002 and 2005, national police sent from after the economy recovers. heat-trapping carbon- your head. Outside there’s a lots are bursting with hulk- the coalition and the Kabul. Local committees Now Congress has a chance dioxide being released into scraggly downtown, with ing machinery, the ava- Afghans were slow to recog- would hire their own con- to make the budget better by the atmosphere. The ragamuffin Afghan children, lanche of metal America nize the perils of social frag- stabulary to guard schools, reducing the long-term impact of rising transporta- almost no old people (the brings to a war it takes seri- mentation. The general bridges and neighborhoods. deficits. tion costs on low-income median life expectancy is ously. view was that warlordism Alongside just 26 national Or it could make it worse. people would be mitigated 45) and dust everywhere. There’s a line of porta- and civil war were the policemen in the area, there The president’s budget by the proposed income tax The dust of Afghanistan potties and you’re brought biggest threats. Therefore, will be 250 local men from reflects the candidate’s changes in favor of low- piles up in front of the into a plywood room. There power should be centralized the APPP. diagnosis of America’s eco- income workers. storefronts and covers the are about 25 Army Rangers with the national govern- The program is contro- nomic ills and offers good The pay-for package is ruins of the buildings inside except for a special- ment. versial. Many feel it will lead remedies. It proposes persuasively designed, but destroyed during the Soviet ops guy, Maj. Moses, who is That approach has had to a return to local militias investments in education, it will not fully compensate period, or during the civil dark-skinned with a thick some success. The Afghan and warlordism. But if science and infrastructure for the rising spending. The war or during some lost beard. National Army is the coun- Afghanistan is to stabilize, that will, if spent effective- Congressional Budget conflict from centuries past. As they talk, it becomes try’s most trusted institu- there have to be local ly, enhance the productivity Office estimates that, if the The Humvee takes the clear that aside from killing tion. But it’s also had many authority structures. The of American workers. Steps president’s budget were serpentine path through the bad guys, they’re also trying shortcomings. The national culture of conversation and toward health-care reform, approved, deficits would checkpoint and you pass a to figure out how to reweave police force is ineffective. consensus has to be formal- especially electronic med- remain above 4 percent of double line of soldiers head- Afghan society. The central government has ized in institutions. These ical records and research on gross domestic product ing out on foot patrol. Before the Soviet invasion rarely been able to reweave local structures have to be the cost-effectiveness of even after the economy There’s a soldier that looks in 1979, Afghan towns had the social fabric at the vil- connected upward to the treatments, will help make recovers and that the from a distance like a child three parallel authority lage level. Nobody’s been central state. And that’s the system more efficient. national debt as a percent- in gear, but it turns out to be structures: the tribal elders, able to establish rule of law beginning to happen amidst Most of these targeted age of GDP would nearly a tiny American woman the religious clerics and the or end rampant corruption. the armored Humvees and cures enjoy wide public double, from 42 percent in smiling under her armor, government representa- So the Afghans and the the daily threat of death. support, but that support 2008 to 82 percent by 2019. pack and rifle, and you think tives. The Soviets decimated coalition are adapting. When you put more boots starts to erode when it Since much of that that of all the great powers the tribes and the indige- There’s been a shift to sup- on the ground, you not only comes to paying the bill. increased debt would be who’ve humped their way nous government. That left plement central authorities augment your army’s firing Designed to facilitate a held by the Chinese and over these mountains, not only the mullahs, and their with village authority power, you give it the rapid economic rebound, other foreigners, America’s another one sent out war- sudden unchecked promi- structures. Under the capacity to experiment. A the budget’s humongous vulnerability would be riors as unlikely or effective nence helped explain the National Solidarity few years ago, the good guys multiyear deficits (over- heightened. as these. rise of the Taliban. Project, villages elect had only vague ideas about whelmingly attributable to Congress could greatly After the checkpoint, The terror and the fall of Community Development how to win this war. Now the recession itself, the improve the president’s there’s a parking lot with the Taliban reduced clerical Councils. Western aid they’re much smarter. financial rescue and the budget by accepting its great lines of heavy vehicles. authority, too. By 2002, agencies give the councils temporary stimulus) are main outlines but adding For years, the coalition when the coalition forces up to $60,000 to do local David Brooks is a colum- both inevitable and appro- steps to reduce long-run forces fought this war on arrived, village society was projects, but it’s not the nist for The New York priate. But as the economy deficits. Lawmakers could the cheap, but that’s chang- fractured, social capital projects that matter most. Times. Write to him a recovers, that higher phase out the income tax ing. The U.S. has just decimated. The resulting It’s the creation of formal [email protected] spending should be cuts at a lower level by pro- recouped. The “pay-fors” tecting, say, 92 percent of in the Obama budget are taxpayers from tax increas- well designed, but they are es instead of 95 percent. not big enough to compen- They could convert tax sate for the increased deductions to tax credits in A few myths about nuclear power spending once economic a way that raises more rev- growth returns. enue or redesign the cli- hirty years ago this tures owe their existence to nuclear weapons use nuclear Obama would shift tax mate-change proposal to week, a chain of the mutating powers of radi- fusion: the fusing together of burdens from average increase revenue faster T errors and equip- ation. It’s easy to forget that hydrogen atoms to release working Americans to those (perhaps adding a small gas ment malfunctions triggered TODD radiation and nuclear even greater amounts of who earn most, but the tax increase that would rise the defining event in the his- TUCKER processes are pervasive in energy. proposed shifts are modest in the future). tory of American nuclear the natural world. President Nuclear power isn’t with- and, on balance, would Congress could increase power: the accident at Three Harry S. Truman put it out hazards, and the indus- reduce future revenue. The funding for health-care Mile Island. Although no one memorably when he try does itself a disservice by president would turn the reform by including part of died and the health conse- about 20 percent compared presided over the keel-laying proclaiming it can construct temporary Making Work employer-paid health ben- quences were insignificant, with 12.5 percent in 1979. of the USS Nautilus, the a reactor that is “inherently Pay credit into a small per- efits in taxable income. It the mishap was vivid confir- Nuclear power is bad for world’s first nuclear-pow- safe,”implying a condition in manent tax cut for most could put the Social mation that things could go the environment. Many ered ship, in 1952: “Her which nothing bad can ever workers and enhance the Security system on a sus- wrong with a nuclear reactor. nuclear reactor byproducts engines will not burn oil or happen. That’s not possible earned-income tax credit tainable long-term basis by It almost instantly galva- are dangerous and require coal. The heat in her boilers in any manmade creation. for low-wage earners. He making minor tweaks to nized popular opposition to careful long-term storage. will be created by the same It’s also easily disproven the would return the top tax- benefits and revenue to take this form of power, giving This is at the root of the fairly force that heats the sun — instant something bad does bracket rates to the effect a decade or more rise to lingering misconcep- widespread belief that the energy released by atom- happen — as it did at Three Clinton-era 36 and 39.6 hence. Or it could pare back tions about one of our nuclear power is incompati- ic fission, the breaking apart Mile Island. All methods of percent from the Bush-era future spending on pro- nation’s largest sources of ble with a concern for the of the basic matter of the power generation involve 33 and 35 percent. grams not contributing to electricity: environment, even though universe.” trade-offs, a balancing of Restricting tax deduc- raising productivity. All of Three Mile Island killed its effects compare favorably A nuclear power plant is risks against returns. We tions to a maximum of 28 this may sound politically the idea of nuclear power in with coal’s. similar to a nuclear bomb. shouldn’t evaluate nuclear percent is a good idea, but it poisonous, but so does the United States. The 1979 Nuclear power is “unnat- Not really.Nuclear power power any differently. should be pushed further. It unsustainable long-term accident and the fear it ural.” From Godzilla to plants use fission — the would be preferable to con- borrowing. spawned were undoubtedly Blinky the three-eyed fish on splitting of uranium atoms to Todd Tucker wrote this vert deductions to credits, There is also a serious setbacks to the nuclear “The Simpsons,”many of release enormous energy — commentary for The so that all taxpayers get the risk of Congress making the power industry.Only recent- pop culture’s oddest crea- to create power. Modern Washington Post same benefit from a given president’s proposal much ly did utilities even attempt dollar of, say, mortgage less fiscally responsible by to license new reactors again. interest paid. Differential accepting the new spending But Three Mile Island didn’t subsidies to upper-income and tax cuts but rejecting even kill nuclear power at homeowners are not only the pay-fors. That is a scary Three Mile Island. While BAD ASTRONOMY unfair but encourage the scenario that only strong, TMI 2 was destroyed, TMI 1 MythsM th andd MisconceptionsMi ti building of more responsible congressional is still in operation today.In McMansions. leadership can avoid. fact, in generating electricity, The other major “pay- nuclear power is second only 7:00 p.m. Tues., Fri. & Sat. for” in the budget is the Alice Rivlin, a senior fel- to coal, which produces Faulkner Planetarium cap-and-trade plan, since low at the Brookings about half the power we use. auctioning pollution per- Institution, was the found- Nuclear today produces Herrett Center, CSI mits would generate rev- ing director of the more electricity than it did at enue. Tightening the emis- Congressional Budget the time of the accident — Ph. 732-6655 www.csi.edu/herrett 315 Falls Ave., Twin Falls on the CSI campus sions cap over time would Office and was director of raise the price of carbon- the White House Office of based fuels in a reasonably Management and Budget efficient way, encourage from 1994 to 1996. She shifts to alternative fuels wrote this commentary for ATTENTIONATTENTION DIABETICS!!DIABETICS!! and reduce the amount of The Washington Post. NEVER STICK YOUR FINGER AGAIN!!! THE HEALTH FOOD PLACE Come check out the newest technology for testing your blood sugar and… (Across From KMVT) *NO OTHER DISCOUNTS APPLY Centre Pointe Plaza • 1111 BLUE LAKES BLVD. N. • 733-1411 NEVER STICK YOUR FINGER AGAIN!!! • M-F 9:30AM-5:30PM • SAT 10:00AM-4:00PM • CLOSED SUNDAYS All Diabetics who attend are eligible to receive the new Prodigy Blood Glucose Monitoring System to be paid for by your Part B Medicare. 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Main 12 Tuesday, March 31, 2009 WORLD Times-News, Twin Falls, Idaho Economic crisis Israeli army: No charges in Gaza probe By Josef Federman cutor angrily accused the entered a no-go zone, ments, the military Associated Press writer soldiers of harming Israel’s according to a transcript of launched a two-week international image. “It will the testimony obtained by ground offensive. JERUSALEM — The be difficult to evaluate the The Associated Press. More than 1,400 dominates Arab Israeli army on Monday damage done to the image The soldiers’ accounts set Palestinians were killed, closed an investigation into and morals of the Israel off soul-searching in a including more than 900 alleged killings of civilians Defense Forces and its sol- country where the military civilians, according to the during its offensive in the diers ... in Israel and the is widely revered. They also Palestinian Center for summit in Qatar Gaza Strip, saying soldiers’ world,’’ Brig. Gen. Avichai echoed Palestinian allega- Human Rights, which pub- testimonies were based on Mendelblit said. tions that Israel’s assault did lished a list of names of the hearsay, “purposely exag- Human rights groups not distinguish between dead. Israel has said the toll By Noha El-Hennawy Economic gloom over- gerated’’ and not supported accused the military of car- civilians and combatants, was lower, and the “vast and Borzou Daragahi shadowed the summit, often by facts. rying out a biased and hasty and fueled assertions by majority’’ of the dead were Los Angeles Times a pageant of decorum and Allegations of wrongful inquiry that ignored key some international rights militants. But it did not flowery rhetoric where sub- shootings emerged from evidence and urged an inde- groups that Israel violated publish a list to support the DOHA,Qatar — The glob- stantive issues are supersed- some soldiers speaking in a pendent body be formed to the laws of war. assertion. al economic crisis is set to ed by petty rivalries among closed-door meeting at a investigate Israeli army Israel used unprecedent- In announcing the find- plunge a Middle East already Arab states. military prep school. Their activity in Gaza. ed force during the three- ings Monday, the army said reeling from war and Arab leaders Monday accounts, along with their One case involved the week operation, launched the soldiers’ testimonies extremism into further called upon Israel to accept a reports of vandalism in killing of an elderly woman against Gaza’s Hamas rulers “were purposely exaggerat- chaos, the ruler of Qatar 2002 Saudi peace initiative Palestinian homes, were by a rooftop sniper, and the last December to halt eight ed and made extreme, in warned other national lead- offering the Jewish state for- published by Israeli media second described a sniper years of rocket attacks on order to make a point’’ to ers and diplomats Monday at mal diplomatic recognition earlier this month. fatally shooting a mother Israeli border towns. After a those attending the closed the annual Arab League in exchange for establishing The army’s chief prose- and two children who had week of aerial bombard- session. summit. an independent Palestinian Sheik Hamad ibn Khalifa state. al Thani, the emir of the tiny “The peace initiative but increasingly influential being proposed today will kingdom of Qatar, brushed not be on offer for a long Warships set sail ahead of N. Korean launch aside persisting squabbles time,’’ they said in a state- among Arab states to warn ment. “Arab commitment to By Hyung-Jin Kim the North’s political sys- tion banning the country Security Council. that the world economic cri- this initiative is dependent Associated Press writer tem. from any ballistic activity. Further heightening sis would strike a hard blow on Israeli acceptance.’’ North Korea says it will North Korea has threat- tensions on the divided to the Middle East Arab leaders also voiced SEOUL, South Korea — send a communications ened to quit international peninsula, North Korean “Our Arab world was support for Sudanese Japanese, South Korean satellite into orbit talks on its nuclear disar- authorities detained a among the most vulnerable President Omar Hassan and U.S. missile-destroy- between April 4 and 8. mament if punished with South Korean worker at a regions in the world to be Ahmed Bashir, who attend- ing ships set sail to moni- The U.S., South Korea and sanctions. The commu- joint industrial zone in the affected by the storm,’’ ed the summit in defiance of tor North Korea’s immi- Japan suspect the regime nist regime’s main news- North for allegedly Khalifa told the dignitaries an International Criminal nent rocket launch, as is using the launch to test paper, Rodong Sinmun, denouncing Pyongyang’s assembled in the capital of Court warrant for his arrest Pyongyang stoked ten- long-range missile tech- reiterated that warning political system and incit- his oil and natural gas-rich on charges related to the sions Monday by detain- nology, and warn it would Sunday, saying the talks ing female northern Persian Gulf peninsula counterinsurgency in the ing a South Korean worker face U.N. sanctions under will “completely col- workers to flee the coun- nation. Darfur region. for allegedly denouncing a Security Council resolu- lapse’’ if taken to the try. “The impact of this prob- lem of lack of confidence has affected the Arab world more than others,’’ he said. “Given its location and resources, its issues and problems and its previous and subsequent conditions, the Arab world is in the direction of the wind and the eye of the storm.’’ Economy in W.Europe GREAT RATES. faces a growing crisis NO GUARANTEE FEE. By Sebastian Rotella Los Angeles Times
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Experts Jen Smith, arborist for the city of Ketchum, and Dave Kiesig, horticulturalist at College of Southern Idaho, offer these tips: Choose your trees carefully “The funniest thing I hear from people is, ‘I planted a tree and it got too big,’” Photos by ARIEL HANSEN/Times-News Smith said. Ketchum arborist Jen Smith shows a pair of trees off Warm Springs Road that were improperly pruned. They are now weighted heavily to the south and may fall over. If they were Be sure to buy a variety of dangerously near homes or cars, she says, she would cut them down. tree that will work where you plant it even after many years. Numerous Web sites and books describe the heights and girths of mature trees. Nurseries are quick to rec- ommend varieties that grow well in your area, but don’t be afraid to vary a little from those recommendations. Otherwise, Smith said, you risk contributing to mono- cultures — too few varieties in an area can increase sus- ceptibility to pests and dis- eases. Ketchum arborist Jen Smith keeps this piece of tree trunk to demon- strate the damage that can be done by Christmas lights in just two Where to plant? years. She enforces regulations in the city of Ketchum that require lights to be removed during warmer months when the tree is growing. Again, keep in mind the mature dimensions of your tree when planting. Also WANT TO LEARN MORE? consider how buildings and sidewalk or street surfaces Construction equipment can damage tree branches and roots, and ultimately endanger the tree, so con- Contact your city’s administrators to find out what events will be will impact the tree — Smith sult an arborist if you are digging or building near trees. held in honor of Arbor Day — many sponsor workshops on prun- is quick to show a photo of a ing or fertilizing and other tree-related activities. This year, Arbor small tree planted in a three- inches of soil. People have to do your pruning unless which will be weaker and Day is April 24, but events may be held before or after the desig- foot gap between two tall this image of a tree’s roots you’ve taken classes and feel can more easily cause dam- nated day. buildings as an example of going to China, and that comfortable that you won’t age to both the trees and the If you hire professionals to assess or prune your trees, ensure they bad planting. doesn’t happen with most do damage. Inappropriate property beneath them. are certified by the International Society of Arboriculture. Visit Don’t plant the tree too species,”he said. pruning can be extremely Smith points to several trees isa-arbor.com for information about tree care and expert certifi- deep or too shallow. Where bad for a tree, even con- in downtown Ketchum that cation. the bark ends and the root Are there rules tributing to its untimely were badly topped — but ball begins is where the death. quickly fixed by the city’s Also, don’t be afraid to too great,”Smith said. ground surface should be, for pruning? Topping trees improperly, arborists. Although the trees take down a tree that could Kiesig recommends that Kiesig said. Yes, absolutely, say both for example, can cause the are growing healthily now, be hazardous. “At some people begin planting new “Ninety-five percent of a experts. That’s why you tree to respond by putting it’s easy to see where the point you have to cut your tree’s roots are in the top 18 want a licensed professional out lots of quick growth, original cuts were made. losses and realize the risk is See TREES, H&G 2 The fairest mirrors of them all can remake a room By Kim Cook With its elaborate ceiling tion, deflection. For The Associated Press art and solid silver tables, A well-placed mirror, lamps and orange tree pots, particularly one that When Louis XIV decided the magnificent 17th-cen- reflects an open doorway or that the royal palace at tury hall was the setting for window, can open up a A large Versailles should have a balls, births, even the sign- small space. It doubles the floor huge Hall of Mirrors, his ing of the Treaty of feeling of space and, in feng mirror minister of finance saw an Versailles. shui, serves an even greater framed in opportunity. We don’t live in glittering function: It’s believed that mirror Jean-Baptiste Colbert, a palaces, but many of us do when a mirror reflects with nail- fierce nationalist, was tend to think of mirrors as a something good — such as determined that Paris be tad gaudy, a bit Vegas, and a family portrait, pleasing head trim, able to compete with not a material we can deco- scenery or a symbolic by Venice in producing luxury rate with easily. object — its positive effects Horchow/ products like silk, lace and Horchow/Neiman Marcus’ $539 None of which need be are doubled. Bagua mirrors, Neiman mirrors. He recruited Porcupine Quill Mirror crafted of true. on the other hand, are seen Marcus. Venetian artisans to come handpainted wood. We might consider mir- in feng shui as bad-energy to Paris to craft all 357 of the rors the way feng shui prac- deflectors used on the out- hall’s mirrors. They devised allowed them for the first titioners do. They see mir- side of the home. a method of pouring hot time to make really big mir- rors as serving three pur- AP photos glass onto an iron table that rors. poses: expansion, reflec- See MIRRORS, H&G 2 H & G 2 Tuesday, March 31, 2009 HOME & GARDEN Times-News, Twin Falls, Idaho How to convert garage, Panel discussion on soil preparation Times-News 7:30 p.m. Thursday at basement space for living Hailey Public Library. Valley Victory Garden The event is free and DEAR JIM: We are older Club will hold a panel dis- open to all, experienced and have sold our car. For cussion on garden soil gardeners and newbies more living space, we plan to preparation, from 6:30 to alike. Details: 721-1798. convert our garage into a home theater and may also finish the basement. How should we insulate the brick and concrete walls? — Jack H. The Washington Post er. After sowing, cover the SENSIBLE pot with netting to dis- For a spring cutting mix, courage squirrels. HOME sow salad greens in a 14- Remove the netting inch or larger pot in a once the greens are grow- James sunny location by the ing. Mesclun mixes are Dulley kitchen door. Use fresh ideal for container gar- potting soil but no fertiliz- dens. DEAR JACK: With homes not selling well and con- struction costs still increas- ing, many families have decided to make major Trees improvements to their Courtesy of Owens Corning Continued from H&G 1 homes instead of moving or The retaining strip is being snapped into the mounting track to hold a wall panel against a concrete block Christmas lights wrapped building a new one. wall. trees nearby a few years around it for two years, Converting a garage or a before they will need to with ridges deeply embed- basement into additional system is connected to the climate and whether it is so I keep one-gallon jugs of take down an old one they ded in an irregular spiral. living space is popular. walls, and fabric-covered below or above ground level. water around the house dur- love. “That eases the hurt She said that since she The methods to make the insulated panels are snapped Repair any current or poten- ing winter for thermal mass. and the pain, and it works,” was hired in Ketchum conversions and to insulate into place. They have R-13 tial problems with the exist- Should I keep them full next he said. about five years ago, she the walls of the basement or insulation level, and the ing walls, because future summer,or should I pour the has spent much of her time garage are basically similar. special fabric covering access to them will require water on the garden? — Bill Minimize the educating people about The direction of moisture absorbs sound, making it cutting through the new H. their tree mistakes, and movement is generally good for home theaters. wall surface. DEAR BILL: Having much effects of people advising them how to nur- opposite though,making the The fabric panels can eas- If you will not need high thermal mass in your house Urban trees face chal- ture happy, healthy trees. placement of the vapor bar- ily be snapped out to gain levels of insulation, several can reduce your utility bills lenges that those in the She recommends that rier different. For below- access to the walls. companies make rigid foam and keep your family more wilderness do not — pollu- urbanites with trees con- ground walls (basement If you decide to do the insulation panels designed comfortable. With more tion, crowding by build- sult an arborist — some foundation) moisture typi- conversion yourself, there to fit neatly over furring thermal mass, temperature ings, insufficient fertiliza- cities offer the service for cally moves from outdoors are several methods to insu- strips. swings in your house are tion or watering. free — to keep from making to indoors. Concrete actual- late the walls. The simplest This makes the installa- reduced, particularly if you And people do stupid mistakes and keep those ly is porous. method is to build a 2-by-4 tion easy and provides a try to use some passive solar things, like backing cars trees in great shape for One option for converting studded frame against the nailing base on 16- or 24- heating. into them, nailing signs to years to come. the rooms is to have a con- garage or basement walls. inch centers to attach dry- Keep the jugs filled year- them or using poles to prop tractor install a predesigned Insulate it with fiberglass wall or paneling. Insulation round. During the summer, up dying, leaning trees. In Ariel Hansen may be room conversion system batts, and cover the walls values range from about R-3 thermal mass can slow down her office, Smith has a seg- reached at 208-788-3475 made specifically for this with drywall or paneling. A to R-10. how fast your house heats up ment of trunk she cut from or ahansen@magicvalley. purpose. drawback to this method is Don’t forget the floor, each morning. This should a tree that was strangled by com. These systems typically you will lose floor space because it also loses heat — keep your air conditioner include wall mounting sys- because the new walls are and carpet over concrete from coming on as early in tems for insulated panels. fairly thick. may not be comfortable. the day. Scholarships for standouts Special materials are used to This project requires only Consider installing a breath- The curtain rises on some of Magic Valley’s best young performers. block moisture and mini- a minimum skill level, but able resilient insulating Send inquiries to James FRIDAY IN ENTERTAINMENT mize mold and mildew. there are some important board over the concrete Dulley, 6906 Royalgreen Champion offers a partic- details. Pay attention to the floor. Drive, Cincinnati, OH ularly nice room conversion proper location of the vapor DEAR JIM: I try to be as 45244 or visit system. A vinyl attachment barrier depending upon your energy efficient as possible, www.dulley.com. CLEANINGCORNER uestion: My refrigerator has a Qface-out water dispens- Mirrors er on the front door. Continued from H&G 1 h rough the years it has accumulated hard water scale A mirror clad in a pretty or and scum on the bottom tray unusual frame will enliven and all around the dispenser. I didn’t realize how bad it was the most basic room. 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Counties of: Twin Falls franchise owned & operated by Noel & Donna Erickson Twin Falls, Jerome, Gooding, Minidoka, Mini-Cassia, Lincoln Times-News, Twin Falls, Idaho HOME & GARDEN Tuesday, March 31, 2009 H & G 3 ‘Cave’ men create male Man land havens in garage, basement By Jennifer Forker “If I could have a campfire in my basement, For The Associated Press a spit and a good dog, I would be content Is it a refuge? A club- for the rest of my life.” house? What is this thing, — Joe Stone, 40, from Thornton, Colo. this man cave? And is it dangerous? This is what the women boasts flatscreens and “I have the speakers that I folk may want to know. For framed art. Stone, the min- wasn’t ‘allowed’ to bring in some men, it’s all too clear: ister, is a staunch believer in the house wired up out The man cave is sanctuary. “less is more.’’A well-heeled there, too,’’Moshier said. “I “When we’re married, we man cave misses the point of can rock out.’’ have to give up a lot of terri- getting back to basics to Yes, the man cave may tory, then when we have lessen the stress load. also be a response to kids, we give up more terri- “They shine too much,’’ women’s tendency to do the tory,’’ said Joe Stone, 40, a he said. “There’s too much nesting and decorating in minister in Thornton, Colo. welcome in there.’’ the rest of the house. “We have this tiny area of Stone speaks of “defen- “It goes back to the tree territory that we’ll defend to sive perimeters’’ to main- house, the clubhouse, the the death.’’ tain his sanctuary. (He also ‘no girls allowed,’’’ said That’s the cave. It’s often plays a lot of the interactive Monica Pedersen, a design- in the basement but some- war game “Call of Duty’’ in er on HGTV’s “Designed to times in the garage among AP photo there.) Sell.’’“I think it’s their adult the garden tools. And it’s From right, Greg Nuccio, John Otterson, Tom Bruce, Joe Stone, Eirik Thune-Larsen and Fred Wilson watch “You have to learn the rel- version of that, and I don’t trendy. Turn on the televi- college on a big-screen television while Bill Reeves, back left, looks on while practicing his own shot in ative balance of filth,’’Stone blame them for that.’’ sion: DIY Network airs explained. “If it’s too dirty it Stone’s basement turned into a man cave in Thornton, Colo. “Man Caves,’’ hosted by will affect your relationship Jason Cameron and ex-NFL with your kids and your player Tony “The Goose’’ wife.’’ Siragusa, and HGTV will Design tips for a masculine-charged space He keeps cereal bowls, a children’s launch “Man Land’’ in June. few empty beer bottles and Reach out to friends, ask- By Jennifer Forker said). The list grows longer ing electronics in cabinets some clothes lying around portrait ing to speak with their For The Associated Press with every new episode of behind glass doors. his basement cave — noth- friends who have a man “Man Caves.’’ For seating, she recom- ing too offensive. He also cave, and wait for the For Jason Cameron, host Cameron recommends mends something sectional tries to clean it weekly “so I days responses to roll in: of DIY Network’s “Man earth-tone paint colors, or that can be added to later, don’t get sick.’’ From Columbia, S.C.: “I Caves,’’ the bare-bones as he puts it, “earthy man preferably in leather His wife, Laura Stone, 38, have one of those! TV with man space just won’t do. colors,’’ and hard surfaces, because it holds up well and has come to terms with the cable. Refrigerator.Pingpong Testosterone must seep out such as rock, brick and steel. cleans up easily. When it unkempt room, he said. table. Hockey equipment. of every corner. “It’s back to the cave comes to furniture, “look “She navigates through We haven’t had a car in that “It’s got to speak to you thing,’’he said. for options,’’said Pedersen. it,’’Stone said. “I keep a trail garage in years.’’ that this is a man cave when Comfortable seating is a “Your guy might want this open for her.’’ From Dubuque, Iowa: The you walk in,’’ said must, and the lights can’t right now, but you might Stone laughs at himself man cave is where “my deco- Cameron. glare on that giant TV. want to add to it or change and what he believes is some rations or sports memorabil- Cameron, and co-host Monica Pedersen, a it’’ later. primordial need. ia actually get to be on dis- Tony “The Goose’’ designer on HGTV’s Caves don’t have to have “There is something, def- play where no one else sees Siragusa, a former NFL “Designed to Sell,’’is creat- that dark, 1970s feel, she initely, to this,’’ he said. it,since it doesn’t go with the defensive lineman, have ing her husband’s cave in said. “We have this idea in “After a long day of hunting April 3RD & 4TH rest of the house’s ‘decor.’” created two dozen man their suburban Chicago our head of the man cave and gathering, we want to From Anchorage, Alaska: caves in the nearly two sea- home and also has design and how it’s going to look, go back to the safety of our CREATIVE SETS “It’s where I go to unwind sons they’ve been on the tips for this masculine- but it can be clean and sleek cave.’’ WITH LOTS OF (to watch movies). It’s air. Most are sports-relat- charged space. looking,’’she said. “If I could have a campfire VARIETY & MORE! mostly subterranean; no ed, with memorabilia, but She recommends wall For a guy with a lot of in my basement, a spit and a light gets in or gets out. It’s they’ve built at least one units that fit all of a man’s opinions about the cave, good dog, I would be con- Call 734-9969 the ‘war room’ — we pay our cigar lounge and a wine- stereo, TV and gaming you’d think Cameron tent for the rest of my life. taxes from down there.’’ tasting room. components, with room would have one of his own. As long as the fire would TO BOOK YOUR SESSION From Overland Park, The man caves they like to spare for future pur- You’d be mistaken. He and also power my TV,my gam- 5 pose session, $15 Kan.: “We built a sports have two things in com- chases. IKEA and his wife live in a 1,000- ing computer, my surround 10 pose session, $ basement a few years ago mon: There’s a bar, often JCPenney, for example, square-foot condo in sound and my ESPN Game 25 that is the ultimate ‘man with a Kegerator, and a sell good media walls that Hoboken, N.J. — there’s not Zone.’’ Packages starting cave,’ especially during flatscreen TV, the bigger, start in the $300 range, an inch to spare. Like Stone, others allow $ 99 football season. It is outfit- the better. she said. Does this concern family into their caves. Todd at onlyy ted with a big screen, full Some things that cannot “If your man falls more Cameron? Not in the Moshier, 39, an account 39 bar, fireplace, pool table, go into the man cave: and more in love with his slightest. manager at a graphics pingpong table, book scented candles, potpourri, space, he’ll need more stor- “I’ve built so many now, design business in shelves, Wii and auto- tchotchkes, doilies, baby age,’’Pedersen said. so when it comes time to Columbia, S.C., keeps a graphed footballs. A buddy toys, neon paint colors and If the cave has windows build my man cave, I’ll pink lawn chair in his of mine has nicknamed it plants (“guys usually kill or doors to outside, know exactly what I want,’’ garage-based man cave so ‘Nirvana.’ My 17-year old- them anyway,’’ Cameron Pedersen suggests protect- he said. he can watch “SpongeBob’’ son has friends over nearly cartoons with his 5-year- every weekend and they old daughter, Laura Claire. immediately head for the immature nor pathological, the cave,’’ he said. “You bare-bones variety that But he’s also got speakers so 119 2nd Ave. West basement.’’ Held said, for a man to need can’t live in it.’’ includes a sofa and a TV, to large they could double as Downtown Twin Falls www.pomerelleportraits.com Then there was the young this time alone — killing Caves range from the the high-end one that furniture. man at the Arvada, Colo., tanks on Wii or watching a liquor store who said his ball game — and it can serve cave is the Barcalounger in a marriage well. his garage. He doesn’t have a Men who need time alone Lawn & Garden Services wife, but he does have in their caves “are people roommates. The need for who don’t find talking to his own domain was the other people as energizing,’’ Conditioning Your Garden Soil same. Held said. “They see it as a “The man cave is a place demand, as draining.’’ The ideal garden soil is deep, friable, well-drained, and is high in organic matter. Proper for a fee. Once you determine fertilizer needs, broadcast evenly on the soil surface and till where they don’t have any Wives need not feel soil preparation provides the basis for good seed germination and subsequent growth of it in. Make sure the soil is not too wet during cultivation to avoid compaction. ... social demands on them,’’ rejected if their husbands plants. Managing soils for optimal plant growth is an ongoing process and consists of proper It is imortant to understand that most plants needs are supplied by the soil. Consequently, said Mark L. Held, a clinical spend a few minutes in the tillage, improvement through addition of amendments, fertilization, and irrigation. proper soil preparation will go a long way toward achieving a successful garden. psychologist in Greenwood cave every day, Held says, Soils in Idaho vary widely due to topography, climate, and origin. In southern Idaho, Information provided by University of Idaho Extention Offi ce. Village, Colo. although there’s a big dif- most soils are high in pH (alkaline) and have very little organic matter. These soils may The cave is where men are ference between minutes need extra applications of phosphorus and micronutrient fertilizers and should never be amended with lime or wood ash. The pH of your soil is important in determining which free from relating to people, and hours. Cave dwelling nutrients will be readily available to your plants (see illustration at left). 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Boise 50 28 0.00” Tomorrow: Mostly dry with a stiff breeze expected. Highs Burley 46 24 Trace Challis 42 18 0.00” upper 40s. Coeur d’ Alene 55 30 0.07” Idaho Falls 39 20 Trace Jerome 46 22 0.00” Lewiston 50 33 0.00” Lowell 43 33 n/a Malad not available BURLEY/RUPERT FORECAST Mostly cloudy, A brief shower Mostly dry, breezy Increasing shower Malta n/a n/a n/a Less likely to Becoming partly Pocatello 42 18 0.02” Today:Mostly cloudy and breezy to windy at times. Highs windy at times possible at times opportunities shower sunny Rexburg 37 17 Trace upper 40s to near 50. Salmon 43 21 0.00” Stanley 33 -2 0.00” Tonight: Perhaps a brief nighttime shower developing. Lows High 50 Low 31 47 / 32 51 / 31 49 / 30 53 / 32 upper 20s. ALMANAC - TWIN FALLS Tomorrow: More clouds and wind. Highs middle 40s. Barometric Sunrise and Temperature Precipitation Humidity Pressure Sunset IDAHO’S FORECAST Yesterday’s High 47 Yesterday 0.00” Yesterday’s Maximum 72% 6 pm barometer Today Sunrise: 7:21 AM Sunset: 8:03 PM Yesterday’s Low 26 Month to Date 0.91” Yesterday’s Minimum 31% Yesterday 30.07 in. Wednesday Sunrise: 7:20 AM Sunset: 8:04 PM SUN VALLEY, SURROUNDING MTS. Normal High/Low 53 / 29 Normal Month to Date 1.13” Today’s Maximum 43% Thursday Sunrise: 7:18 AM Sunset: 8:05 PM An active upper level weather pattern will keep rain and Record High 79 in 1978 Year to Date 5.24” Today’s Minimum 34% Friday Sunrise: 7:16 AM Sunset: 8:07 PM snow showers in the forecast more days than not this Record Low 17 in 1987 Normal Year to Date 6.47” A water year runs from Oct. 1 to Sept. 30 Saturday Sunrise: 7:15 AM Sunset: 8:08 PM Temperature & Precipitation valid through 5 pm yesterday week. U. V. INDEX Coeur d’ Moon Phases Moonrise Low Moderate High Alene Today Highs 32 to 38 Tonight’s Lows 12 to 19 and Moonset Forecasts and maps prepared by: Today Moonrise: 10:08 AM Moonset: 1:22 AM 39/23 BOISE Get ready for a rather damp week of 5 weather. Showers will be common Wednesday Moonrise: 11:11 AM Moonset: 2:27 AM Apr 2 Apr 9 Apr 17 Apr 25 The higher the index the Cheyenne, Wyoming Thursday Moonrise: 12:22 PM Moonset: 3:21 AM from day to day through Friday. First Qtr. Full Moon Last Qtr. New Moon more sun protection needed www.dayweather.com We’ll see a little improvement as the weekend arrives. REGIONAL FORECAST NATIONAL FORECAST WORLD FORECAST Lewiston 51/35 Today Tomorrow Thursday Today Tomorrow Today Tomorrow Today Tomorrow Today Tomorrow Today Highs/Lows 49 to 54 / 28 to 33 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 Grangeville NORTHERN UTAH Boise 51 30 mc 49 35 mc 51 34 sh Atlanta 69 48 sh 66 49 sh Orlando 82 68 sh 87 67 sh Acapulco 83 69 pc 82 68 pc Moscow 34 31 ls 34 30 r 38/21 Bonners Ferry 38 21 sh 37 29 mx 43 31 mx Atlantic City 54 39 su 54 39 su Philadelphia 60 37 su 57 41 sh Athens 73 63 mc 74 62 pc Nairobi 73 56 sh 71 54 sh There is a chance of rain Burley 49 29 mc 45 29 mc 47 30 sh Baltimore 61 39 pc 56 42 sh Phoenix 79 54 su 81 54 pc Auckland 68 49 pc 62 44 pc Oslo 39 27 r 40 30 pc and snow showers Challis 43 29 mx 42 30 ls 44 30 mx Billings 39 25 mx 39 25 mx Portland, ME 48 31 pc 46 40 pc Bangkok 89 75 th 91 76 th Paris 5639pc 6042pc developing late today and Coeur d’ Alene 39 23 sh 38 31 mx 44 33 mx Birmingham 68 47 th 70 49 su Raleigh 68 49 pc 67 49 sh Beijing 51 31 pc 58 32 pc Prague 54 30 pc 57 36 pc tonight. Conditions will Elko, NV 50 21 ls 40 24 ls 46 25 ls Boston 50 35 pc 50 41 mc Rapid City 32 17 pc 32 21 mc Berlin 57 32 pc 58 44 pc Rio de Janeiro 80 68 sh 74 66 sh Eugene, OR 54 38 sh 54 42 r 52 38 sh Charleston, SC 70 61 pc 73 57 th change frequently Reno 64 40 pc 62 40 pc Buenos Aires 75 55 sh 70 55 pc Rome 65 56 sh 67 52 sh McCall Gooding 52 32 mc 49 33 mc 53 32 sh Charleston, WV 69 48 pc 62 40 sh Sacramento 72 48 su 76 49 su Cairo 81 47 pc 80 47 pc Santiago 85 52 pc 80 55 pc throughout the week. Grace 41 23 mc 42 23 mc 40 25 mx Chicago 50 36 th 49 35 pc St. Louis 60 37 th 62 44 pc Dhahran 79 65 pc 79 66 pc Seoul 49 32 pc 51 33 pc Salmon 34/14 Hagerman 53 30 mc 50 31 mc 54 30 sh Cleveland 56 44 pc 56 35 sh St.Paul 38 23 mx 37 25 ls Geneva 55 39 pc 60 39 sh Sydney 69 67 sh 68 67 sh 45/30 Hailey 40 23 mx 38 29 ls 44 30 mx Denver 4924pc4221mx San Antonio 76 47 th 82 55 pc Hong Kong 73 68 r 73 67 pc Tel Aviv 63 60 pc 65 62 pc Idaho Falls 43 25 mc 41 26 mc 39 29 mx Des Moines 45 27 mx 45 30 pc San Diego 69 55 pc 64 55 pc Jerusalem 70 46 pc 78 55 pc Tokyo 47 39 r 52 36 r Kalispell, MT 42 26 mx 40 26 mx 42 26 mx Detroit 49 41 pc 52 36 r San Francisco 65 50 su 64 49 su Johannesburg 78 54 pc 74 52 sh Vienna 55 36 pc 57 37 pc Jackpot 50 33 pc 46 28 pc 48 33 mc El Paso 74 46 su 80 45 pc Seattle 49 39 sh 47 41 r Kuwait City 70 60 pc 74 59 pc Warsaw 54 36 pc 53 32 pc Jerome 43 24 mx 41 30 ls 47 31 mx Fairbanks 31 3 pc 26 2 mc Tucson 77 45 su 80 48 pc London 56 40 pc 58 42 pc Winnipeg 32 26 pc 30 23 ls Caldwell Lewiston 51 35 sh 52 39 c 56 39 sh Fargo 29 21 hs 30 18 sn Washington, DC 63 43 pc 58 44 sh Mexico City 78 45 pc 77 44 pc Zurich 36 33 pc 44 35 pc 53/28 Idaho Falls Malad City 45 24 mc 46 24 mc 44 26 mx Honolulu 80 69 sh 80 69 sh Malta 46 26 mc 42 26 mc 44 27 sh Houston 73 47 th 76 61 pc Boise Sun Valley 43/25 McCall 34 14 sn 31 22 ls 34 24 sn Indianapolis 62 42 th 56 40 pc TODAY’S NATIONAL MAP 51/30 41/17 Missoula, MT 44 27 mx 41 30 mx 44 30 mx Jacksonville 76 63 sh 78 63 th Pocatello 44 28 mc 45 28 mc 43 30 mx Kansas City 47 30 pc 55 36 pc -20 -10 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 Pocatello Portland, OR 51 39 sh 50 42 r 51 41 sh Las Vegas 73 52 pc 77 53 pc Rupert Mountain Home 44/28 Rupert 49 31 mc 45 31 mc 47 32 sh Little Rock 61 40 th 69 49 pc 49/31 Rexburg 41 23 mc 39 23 mc 36 27 mx Los Angeles 70 55 su 69 55 su 52/28 Richland, WA 51 33 r 52 35 mx 53 37 r Memphis 66 42 th 69 50 pc Burley Rogerson 50 32 mc 47 33 mc 51 32 sh Miami 82 73 th 86 71 sh Salmon 45 30 mx 44 31 ls 46 31 mx Milwaukee 45 32 sh 47 32 mx Twin Falls 49/29 L Fronts 50/31 Salt Lake City, UT 50 35 mx 45 34 ls 53 39 mc Nashville 65 44 sh 65 44 pc Spokane, WA 47 27 sh 45 30 pc 48 31 sh New Orleans 75 57 th 70 60 su Yesterday’s State Extremes: 55 at Couer d Alene Low: -2 at Stanley Stanley 37 15 sn 35 17 ls 39 15 sn New York 57 39 pc 53 42 r Cold Sun Valley 41 17 sn 39 19 ls 43 17 sn Oklahoma City 62 37 su 70 42 pc weather key: bz-blizzard, c-cloudy, fg-fog, hs-heavy snow, hz-haze, ls-light snow, Yellowstone, MT 30 11 ls 30 12 ls 32 15 ls Omaha 35 27 ls 45 31 sh mc-mostly cloudy, mx-wintery mix, pc-partly cloudy, r-rain, sh-showers, sn-snow, su-sunny, th-thunderstorm, w-wind L Warm CANADIAN FORECAST L Today Tomorrow Today Tomorrow Stationary City Hi Lo W Hi Lo W City Hi Lo W Hi Lo W GREGG MIDDLEKAUFF’S QUOTE OF THE DAY Calgary 34 18 ls 32 22 pc Saskatoon 34 18 pc 33 21 pc Cranbrook 30 15 ls 25 15 ls Toronto 45 35 pc 44 33 r Valid to 6 p.m. today Edmonton 42 26 ls 30 23 pc Vancouver 39 31 ls 35 33 ls Occluded “I believe the best leaders are the ones that are focused on bringing Kelowna 31 8 ls 28 24 ls Victoria 45 36 sh 42 39 ls Yesterday’s National Extremes: out the best in their people - transforming Lethbridge 42 26 ls 30 23 pc Winnipeg 32 26 pc 30 23 ls High: 101 at Laredo, Texas Regina 38 25 pc 35 26 pc Low: -2 at Stanley, Idaho lives. When someone has that as their purpose, the profi ts just naturally follow.” More Magic Valley weather at www.magicvalley.com/weather Susan Bagyura Get up-to-date highway information at the Idaho Transportation Department’s Web site at 511.idaho.gov or call 888-432-7623. An almanac of perennials Finally, a key to precise bloom times By Adrian Higgins The Washington Post WASHINGTON — What do the demure foamflower of April, the outlandish peony of May and the wild goldenrod of September have in common? They are hardy perennials, plants that bloom in their season and then retreat slowly into the ground, to grow afresh the next year. Inula ensifolia peaks from July to August. In ‘When Perennials Bloom,’Tomasz Anisko details the bloom A generation or two ago, periods and sequences of 462 varieties of perennials. perennials were viewed as occasional showstoppers. The peony was one, the all living things. hubrichtii flowers for a rela- bearded iris another, the In an interview, Anisko tively brief time in spring but lilies of summer a third. said it would be a mistake to is a valuable, fine-textured Today, with hundreds of plant long-flowering background plant that turns varieties easily obtained, perennials alone. “I was golden yellow in the fall. they are the life and soul of careful not to suggest a The underlying message is the garden. They ebb and Photos courtesy of Timber Press perennial that blooms for 25 that perennials are the class flow between the constancy Scabiosa Pink Mist flowers all season. Many of the long-flowering weeks is better than one that of plant that has drawn us of shrubs and trees and the blooms for only three closer to nature in the gar- breathless performance of perennials work best as filler plants, says Tomasz Anisko, curator of weeks,’’ he said. “There’s a den. A garden, by definition, flowering annuals. Annuals plants at Longwood Gardens in Kennett Square, Pa. place for both kinds.’’ is not untamed nature, but don’t know in October that Usually, the briefer the the expanse of perennials at frost is about to wipe the cus is well into its peak, the Susans, Inula ensifolia, per- show, the more intense and hand today allows us to smiles off their faces. lance leaf hosta joins the ovskia, swamp milkweed eye-catching it is. Many of emulate the meadow, wood Perennials are wiser plants, party with lavender flower and yarrow Fire King, to the long-flowering peren- and wetlands from March to growing with the warmth of spikes that decline alongside name a few. nials work best as filler November and beyond. the sun and the soil and the hibiscus bloom. I have planted areas of my Scarlet rose mallow Davis Creek, plants, he said. “We used to expect that shrinking when their flow- Once you can predict garden for September and It’s worth noting that only plants with huge double ering is done. They bring a bloom periods, you can October interest, but I won- a hibiscus, adds interest many perennials also are flowers deserved a place in natural rhythm to our gar- plant perennial combina- der what else would work at September to October. grown for their foliage the garden,’’ Anisko said, dens and, by extension, our tions with confidence and that time.Lo,the scarlet rose effect: such varieties as “and now plants that used to lives. design for a sequence of mallow Davis Creek, cat- bloom quickly. Flowering, hostas, Solomon’s seal and be relegated to some road- Tomasz Anisko has writ- blooms at points of the year mints, knautia, calamintha, after all, is about reproduc- heucheras. The feathery, side have a treasured place in ten a book that is destined to that interest you. Suddenly, caryopteris, toad lilies and ing, a primal motivation of shrublike Amsonia the garden as well.’’ become a perennial itself, for the old idea that the garden- the tall tatarian asters. it unlocks in a practical way ing season begins in March I am also intrigued by the one of the hardest aspects of and ends by June is quaintly idea of perennials that garden design: figuring out absurd. bloom for weeks on end, as which perennials bloom “I was trying to put annuals do, but without the when, exactly. together something that recurring work and constant As curator of plants at would be of very practical feeding and watering. Longwood Gardens, he has use to both home gardeners The Fire King yarrow synthesized plant blooming and professional landscape flowers in late May and per- periods, recorded over seven designers,’’ Anisko said. sists until November. There years at the public garden in “What I found frustrating is a cornflower,or centaurea, Kennett Square, Pa., and the reading a lot of books on named John Coutts that result is “When Perennials perennials was that the ref- blooms in May but is still in Bloom’’ (Timber Press, erence to the flowering peri- flower at Halloween. The 2008, $59.95). The book od is always very vague.’’ gaura variety Corrie’s Gold includes the bloom periods There is a dead time dur- cranks up in June and winds and sequences of 462 vari- ing the hottest weeks, down in November. eties. The spotted cranesbill between the beginning of A lot of this longevity is Espresso begins to flower in July and the end of August. produced, however, by cut- late April, reaches its peak in As an armchair exercise in ting back the plants as their mid-May and trails off winter, it’s fun to look at this first flush of bloom begins to through June. The flamboy- almanac and figure out how fade, spurring them to ant native rose mallow Lord to correct it. Here are peren- regrow and rebloom. Many Baltimore begins to unfurl nials that peak in that eight- of these rebloomers, Anisko its huge scarlet flowers in week period: purple cone- said, are found in habitats mid-July and peaks into flowers, coreopsis, where they would be grazed September before waning in helianthus Lemon Queen, on by animals, and so they early fall. When that hibis- agastaches, black-eyed developed to resprout and ‘Pork’ dollars for hog farm raises stink Agribusiness 3 A Stocks and commodities, Business 2 / Classified, Business 4-12 Dow Jones Industrial ▼ 254.16 | Nasdaq composite ▼ 43.40 | S&P 500 ▼ 28.41 | Russell 2000 ▼ 13.03 Agribusiness TUESDAY, MARCH 31, 2009 BUSINESS EDITOR JOSH PALMER: (208) 735-3231 [email protected] USDA and Treasury to fight payment fraud “One of the goals of this payments are actually dis- producer or payment recipi- Administration is to make bursed to them.” ent will be required for this Data provided by IRS will be used by certain that USDA payments In order to be eligible for process. The Farm Service are not issued to individuals USDA payments in 2009 and Agency will not receive actu- and entities that exceed following years, all recipients al tax data for the producers. agency to validate payment eligibility income eligibility limits will be required to sign a form In October 2008, the U.S. established by law,” Vilsack that grants the IRS the Government Accountability By Joshua Palmer Revenue Service have com- USDA payments meet said in a written statement to authority to provide income Office released a report stat- Times-News writer bined efforts to combat farm income limits set forth in the USDA state offices. “Once information to USDA for ver- ing that because the USDA program payment fraud. 2008 Farm Bill. this verification system is ification purposes. does not have the manage- Agriculture Secretary Tom Department officials say The move comes in response fully operational, high- Failure to obtain such form ment controls — such as Vilsack announced that the the joint effort will ensure to the discovery of nearly $50 income individuals and enti- will make the producer ineli- reviewing tax returns — it U.S. Department of that high-income individuals million in payments to ineligi- ties will be identified by gible for program benefits. Agriculture and Internal and entities who request ble farmers during 2008. USDA before farm program A written release from each See FRAUD, Agribusiness 4 Ethanol’s by-product raises Biotech seed concerns over food safety bill tabled in Montana Sidney. Five of nine com- Committee mittee members attended the dinner, paid for by attends dinner another bill opponent. “The lobbyists wanted to inform the committee of attended by their concerns, and that’s all it was about,” Monsanto reps Steinbeisser said. A nonprofit North By Kahrin Deines Dakota-based group Associated Press writer known as Growers for Biotechnology said it HELENA, Mont. — A picked up the tab and sent Montana Senate commit- out the invitations. tee has sidelined a bill that Democratic Rep. Betsy sought standards for how Hands, the bill’s sponsor, biotech companies test blasted the private meet- crops for patent infringe- ing, saying “the cards were ment, burying the measure stacked” by the time the after members attended a committee met for the private dinner also attend- bill’s actual hearing. ed by biotech giant Committee dinners are Monsanto Co. representa- not illegal in Montana, but tives. veteran lawmakers and AP file photo The Senate Agriculture lobbyists both said hosting Cows congregate on a farm. Several studies have linked distillers grain to elevated rates of E. coli in cattle, while ethanol producers try to kill Committee’s action on such an event prior to a bill bacteria with antibiotics. Tuesday provoked charges hearing is highly unusual. of unfairness after news The controversial meas- emerged of the dinner, ure discussed at the dinner which was attended by split the state’s farm lobby. Some worry antibiotics could enter food chain most of the committee at a It would have set rules for private club in Helena. how companies such as By Mark Steil If enough of the bacteria amycin to kill bacteria. And The bill would have Monsanto can test farmers’ Associated Press writer Ethanol producers use are present, von Keitz said that raises two potential required Monsanto and fields for what is known as penicillin and a fermentation can be ruined. concerns. other companies to get seed piracy. WORTHINGTON, Minn. “It gets acidified to the One is that these treat- permission from a farmer When farmers buy — Ethanol’s main by-prod- popular antibiotic point that the yeast is no ments might promote the before taking a sample genetically engineered uct, which is sold as live- called virginiamycin longer able to properly pro- growth of bacteria that are from their crops. If the seeds, they must agree not stock feed, has raised poten- duce ethanol, and then resistant to antibiotics. The farmer denied permission, to harvest and reuse them tial food safety concerns. to kill bacteria. you’re stuck with a big batch development of these the company could seek a from year to year. Some Several studies have of corn mash,” said von “superbugs” is a major con- court order. Under the farmers, however, argue linked the byproduct, people, it can also cause a Keitz. cern in health care because measure, either the farmer that pollen can drift with known as distillers grain, to variety of ailments in a batch If that happens, there’s no they reduce the effective- or the company could also wind and water, exposing elevated rates of E. coli in of ethanol. ethanol and no profit. To ness of medicines. ask the state Department small growers to expensive cattle. And now, distillers Mark von Keitz with the prevent the problem, pro- Von Keitz found some of Agriculture to oversee legal tussles with big grain is facing further University of Minnesota’s ducers rely on medicine. bacteria that were, in fact, the sampling. biotech companies even scrutiny because the Food Biotechnology Institute said “What people operating resistant when he sampled The bill was tabled on a when they are innocent. and Drug Administration in ethanol production, the these plants are trying to do bacteria at four Midwest 6-3 vote. “After the death penalty has found that it often con- main enemy is a bacterial is to keep these lactic acid ethanol plants several years The St. Louis-based and horse slaughter bills, tains antibiotics left over bug that makes lactic acid. bacteria in check,” said von ago. Monsanto did not offer this is the largest number from making ethanol. “What these organisms Keitz.“And one way of doing The second concern is public testimony about the of communications I’ve Ethanol production relies do is they also compete with that is with the help of that the antibiotics could bill but did express its had, and these are from on enzymes, yeast and sugar the yeast for the sugar,”said antibiotics.” find their way to humans opposition in private at the farmers,” said Sen. Cliff to convert corn into fuel. von Keitz. “But instead of Ethanol producers use through the food chain. dinner, according to com- Larsen, D-Missoula, And just as the wrong bacte- making alcohol, they make penicillin and a popular mittee chairman state Sen. before voting in favor of the ria in the body can sicken primarily lactic acid.” antibiotic called virgini- See SAFETY, Agribusines 4 Donald Steinbeisser, R- measure. Oakley man to represent New Mexico gets split status for bovine TB; state relieved of reduced status By Sue Major Homes relieve most of the state from a list of bovine tuber- Idaho on potato board Associated Press writer from the burden of the culosis-free states. New reduced status,” New Mexico officials complained Times-News beets, wheat, barley and ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Mexico Livestock Board that action was excessive alfalfa. The U.S. Department of executive director Myles and could cost ranching and Ryan Cranney,of Oakley, “I am a fifth generation Agriculture has given New Culbertson said. dairy operations unneces- was seated as a Board farmer,” Ryan Cranney Mexico “split status” for Culbertson cautioned, sary tests — particularly for Member on the United said. “Our company, bovine tuberculosis — however, that the decision those far from the site of States Potato Board at the Cranney Farms, just cele- meaning only two counties has not been published in bovine TB. organization’s annual brated its 100th year of in the state will be under the Federal Register, so Caren Cowan, executive meeting earlier this operations in 2007.” strict requirements for details weren’t known. He director of the New Mexico month. Cranney graduated from moving and testing cattle. expects it to be published Cattle Growers’ Assoc- He was selected to serve Utah State University in The status, announced soon. iation, called the decision on the Board by former Logan, Utah with degrees Friday, will require bovine The livestock industry is “draconian,”and the state’s Agriculture Secretary Ed in political science and TB tests only for cattle New Mexico’s single most congressional delegation Schafer and formally Cranney finance. shipped from eastern New important agricultural asked the USDA to recon- begins his three-year term He has served on the Mexico’s Curry and commodity with total sider, saying the down- that will end in Feb. 2012. industry. NPC Board, is a board Roosevelt counties, said annual sales of dairy and grade could cost producers Cranney grows russet He has farmed with his member on his irrigation Sens. Jeff Bingaman and beef cattle totaling almost more than $4 million a potatoes — Rangers, father, Mike Cranney, for district and a PAC member Tom Udall, D-N.M. $2 billion. year. Westerns and Burbanks — the past 15 years. on the Idaho Crop “Good news. We’re quite Last September, the for the food processing They also grow sugar Improvement Association. pleased here. This will USDA removed New Mexico See TB, Agribusiness 4 Today - Final loan & LDP availability date for small grains, peas, grain sorghum, lentils, mustard seed, safflower June 30 - Final day to report all crop acreage. Dates honey, and oats. seed, small chickpeas, soybeans and sunflower seed. August 1 - Deadline to request farm combinations and farm divi- to remember May 31 - Final loan & LDP availability date for corn, dry June 1 - End of 2009 DCP Sign-up Period. sions to be effective for the current FYfor farms subject to DCP. Agribusiness 2 Tuesday, March 31, 2009 AGRIBUSINESS Times-News, Twin Falls, Idaho MARKET SUMMARY FUEL REPORT COMMODITY PRICES NYSE AMEX NASDAQ Fuel prices in south-central Idaho increased slightly compared to the previous week. Feed MOST ACTIVE ($1 OR MORE) MOST ACTIVE ($1 OR MORE) MOST ACTIVE ($1 OR MORE) The average price for a gallon of regular-grade gasoline Name Vol(00) Last Chg Name Vol(00) Last Chg Name Vol(00) Last Chg Corn (Per 100 pounds) BkofAm 4734744 6.03 -1.31 PSCrudeDL n231420 2.73 -.29 PwShs QQQ1490865 30.06 -.76 in the region increased 4 cents to $1.85, while price for Dairy Feed Supply NQ NQ Citigrp 4187806 2.31 -.31 EldorGld g 32410 8.81 -.34 Intel 544131 14.72 -.70 a gallon of diesel increased about 5 cents to $2.04. Land O’Lakes NQ NQ SPDR 3064557 78.79 -2.82 GoldStr g 23749 1.53 -.06 FifthThird 529474 2.48 +.13 The average price for a gallon of gas in Idaho was $1.90, DirxFinBull 2889987 4.85 -1.49 BarcGSOil 22304 18.64 -1.43 Microsoft 484564 17.48 -.65 Rangen NQ NQ SPDR Fncl 2148390 8.35 -.79 NovaGld g 22200 2.74 +.06 Cisco 444069 16.31 -.64 while the national average was $2.04. Barley (Per 100 pounds) Oil prices tumbled below $49 Monday as unease about GAINERS ($2 OR MORE) GAINERS ($2 OR MORE) GAINERS ($2 OR MORE) Rangen ASK NQ the economy — from Asia to Wall Street — raised Name Last Chg %Chg Name Last Chg %Chg Name Last Chg %Chg Ogden NQ NQ doubts about the global appetite for energy. Gasoline AcornIntl 4.49 +1.34 +42.5 HillmCT pf 10.55 +4.55 +75.8 MexRestr 4.00 +1.25 +45.5 Pocatello $5.58 — DirxFinBear 24.64 +4.69 +23.5 PSCrudeDS n176.83 +28.58 +19.3 CmtyPtrBc 4.00 +.99 +32.9 futures plunged more than a dime a gallon. Burley $6.00 — RdxInv2xF s 31.95 +4.95 +18.3 NovaBayP 2.61 +.41 +18.6 FstBkshVA 2.93 +.68 +30.2 Twin Falls $6.00 — ProUShtFn 110.03 +15.04 +15.8 Gulfstream 2.29 +.24 +11.7 FstFrnkln 3.68 +.83 +29.1 DB BGTM 5.81 +.76 +15.0 ReadgIntA 3.70 +.35 +10.4 ProvidSvc 6.88 +1.49 +27.6 Gas prices Hay (Mid/Ton) LOSERS ($2 OR MORE) LOSERS ($2 OR MORE) LOSERS ($2 OR MORE) Twin Falls: Maverik Country Store, 120 6th Ave. W.: $1.79 Alfalfa(Supreme) Low NQ High NQ Name Last Chg %Chg Name Last Chg %Chg Burley: Maverik Country Store, 701 N. Overland Ave.: Name Last Chg %Chg Alfalfa(Good) Low $100 High $100 LincNat 6.41 -3.96 -38.2 SL Ind 4.16 -.84 -16.8 ArenaPhm 3.23 -1.27 -28.2 $1.81 Manitowoc 3.07 -1.54 -33.4 Emergent n 8.08 -1.46 -15.3 HrtgeCo 5.02 -1.73 -25.6 Jerome: Kwik Service Inc., 992 W. Main St.: $1.83 Alfalfa(Fair) Low NQ High NQ LehGM24 2.72 -1.03 -27.5 Lodgian 2.52 -.43 -14.6 Habersh 3.50 -1.00 -22.2 GM qb41 2.74 -1.01 -26.9 AmApparel 2.87 -.48 -14.3 CityBank 3.76 -.98 -20.7 LincN pfG 10.60 -3.82 -26.5 GormanR 19.57 -3.18 -14.0 IndBkMI 2.20 -.56 -20.3 Diesel prices Small grain DIARY DIARY DIARY Twin Falls: Fil Mart - Phillips 66, 1612 Blue lakes Blvd. Soft white wheat Advanced 355 Advanced 153 Advanced N.: $2.08 Declined 421 Rangen Ask NQ Declined 2,771 637 Burley: Maverik Country Store, 701 N. Overland Ave.: Unchanged 51 Unchanged 73 Declined Ogden NQ NQ $2.05 Total issues 3,177 Total issues 647 2,092 Pocatello $4.50 — New Highs 3 New Highs 3 Unchanged Jerome: Kwik Service Inc., 992 W. Main St.: $2.09 Burley $4.20 -.05 New Lows 18 New Lows 6 133 *Price quotes by Mapquest.com as of Monday after- Twin Falls $3.50 -.52 Volume 5,795,965,977 Volume 95,455,404 Volume 1,989,339,022 noon. Subject to change at anytime. INDEXES Livestock 13,136.69 6,469.95 Dow Jones Industrials 7,522.02 -254.16 -3.27 -14.29 -38.66 RESERVOIR LEVELS 5,536.57 2,134.21 Dow Jones Transportation 2,653.61 -124.34 -4.48 -24.98 -44.53 530.57 288.66 Dow Jones Utilities 324.16 -7.11 -2.15 -12.57 -32.33 Lambs and hogs : 9,687.24 4,181.75 NYSE Composite 4,899.05 -197.59 -3.88 -14.90 -44.31 t a Lambs Low $93 High $99 2,433.31 1,130.47 Amex Index 1,332.45 -17.10 -1.27 -4.66 -40.29 t r m o Ewes Low $25 High $33 2,551.47 1,265.52 Nasdaq Composite 1,501.80 -43.40 -2.81 -4.77 -34.11 o p c . e 1,440.24 666.79 S&P 500 787.53 -28.41 -3.48 -12.81 -40.46 1 Fat hogs Low $38 High $49 r t r c 764.38 342.59 Russell 2000 415.97 -13.03 -3.04 -16.71 -39.54 i i Feeder hogs Low $42 High $44 r o t 14,564.81 6,772.29 Wilshire 5000 8,001.86 -289.40 -3.49 -11.94 -39.98 v s r i Price quotes as of Monday afternoon. Prices subject to change at any e d s r e time. To be included in this table, call Joshua Palmer at 208-735- e r STOCKS OF LOCAL INTEREST t l a l 3231. u w . AlliantEgy 1.50f 9 24.07 -.45 -17.5 Kaman .56 9 11.92 -.92 -34.3 f w AlliantTch ... 9 64.00 -1.03 -25.4 Keycorp .25 ... 7.28 -1.04 -14.6 e h w t LeeEnt h ... 1 .30 -.02 -26.8 AmCasino ...... 12.31 -.25 +42.5 w e Aon Corp .60 8 39.42 -.58 -13.7 MicronT ...... 3.88 -.29 +47.0 e MARKET TRENDS BallardPw ...... 1.52 -.16 +34.5 OfficeMax ...... 3.20 -.32 -58.1 S BkofAm .04m 11 6.03 -1.31 -57.2 RockTen .40 11 26.83 -.26 -21.5 ConAgra .76 8 16.62 -.33 +.7 Sensient .76 12 23.53 -.14 -1.5 Dairy trends Costco .64 17 46.25 -1.15 -11.9 SkyWest .16 6 12.38 -.87 -33.4 1. Little Wood: N/A 3. Ririe: 52% Milk production in many areas of the country are showing signs of the Diebold 1.04f 16 21.06 -1.60 -25.0 Teradyn ... 17 4.54 -.21 +7.6 2. Lake Walcott: 41% 4. American Falls: 86% spring flush, pushing milk production higher. DukeEngy .92 13 14.11 -.18 -6.0 Tuppwre .88 6 16.37 -.35 -27.9 5. Milner Milk supplies in the Intermountain region are mostly unchanged com- DukeRlty 1.00m 13 4.96 -.65 -54.7 US Bancrp .20m 9 13.78 -1.86 -44.9 pared to last year. Fastenal .70f 17 31.87 -.93 -8.6 Valhi .40 ... 8.91 -.29 -16.7 90% Heifer prices at two sales in the region have bounced back higher. The top Heinz 1.66 11 33.19 -.51 -11.7 WalMart 1.09f 15 51.76 -.81 -7.7 HewlettP .32 10 32.12 -1.21 -11.5 WashFed .20 23 12.69 -.60 -15.2 of the range varies from $1410-$1710. HomeDp .90 17 23.38 -.25 +1.6 WellsFargo 1.36 18 13.37 -2.22 -54.6 OMMODITY RICES Culling rates in the region remain heavy. Idacorp 1.20 11 23.32 -.35 -20.8 ZionBcp .16m ... 9.38 -1.08 -61.7 C P Barley trends Local barley prices were mixed, ranging from 25 cents lower to 80 cents Dairy higher this week. USDA reported barley export sales last week totaled 10 COMMODITIES REPORT TMT for Canada. Barley export shipments totaled 2.1 for Canada and Block Close Change Mexico. Exchange Average price $1.269 -.009 C LOSING FUTURES Barrels: $1.2975, + .0350: Blocks: $1.2900, + .0375 Wheat trends Barrel Local wheat prices were mostly lower this week: SWW ranged from 15 Mon Commodity High Low Close Change cents lower to 5 cents higher; HRW ranged from 60 cents lower to no Dec Live cattle 83.80 82.80 82.83 - 1.50 IVESTOCK Average price $1.275 -.060 Feb Live cattle 81.05 80.00 80.08 - 1.50 L Butter change; and DNS from 46 to 15 cents lower. U.S. wheat export sales last Jan Feeder cattle 93.00 92.15 92.20 - .93 week were below trade expectations at 264 TMT, up 24 percent from the MarFeeder cattle 94.00 92.85 93.05 - 1.25 POCATELLO (AP) — Idaho Farm Bureau Apr Feeder cattle 96.55 95.60 95.85 - 1.05 Intermountain Livestock Report on Monday. Average Price $1.186 +.003 previous week however it was down 20% from the prior 4-week average. Dec Lean hogs 60.90 60.25 60.55 + .75 LIVESTOCK AUCTION — Producers Livestock Market in Feb Lean hogs 70.80 70.40 70.65 - .55 Vale Oregon on Wednesday Utility and commercial Whey protein concentrate Export shipments last week totaled 592.9 TMT, up 90 percent from the Feb Pork belly 85.00 83.10 83.75 - 2.15 cows 38.00-47.00 canner and cut- week before and 81 percent from the prior 4-weeks. Mar Pork belly 81.80 80.55 80.55 - 1.00 ters 27.00-37.00 heavy feeder steers 74.00-94.75 Average price $.55 — Dec Wheat 513.00 501.00 512.50 + 5.25 light feeder steers 94.00-118.50 stocker steers Hay trends Mar Wheat 525.50 514.00 525.25 + 5.25 99.00-117.50 heavy holstein feeder steers Class III milk Dec KC Wheat 565.00 546.50 554.50 + 4.50 48.00-59.00 light holstein feeder steers 55.00- Not enough of any one class of hay reported last week for accurate Mar KC Wheat 566.00 555.00 565.50 + 5.00 62.00 heavy feeder heifers 74.00-88.25 Average price $9.31 — trends, however a lower undertone was noted. Dec MPS Wheat 613.75 602.00 611.25 + 3.50 light feeder heifers 86.00-106.00 stocker heifers Mar MPS Wheat 608.00 595.25 603.75 + 2.00 92.00-109.25 slaughter bulls 44.00-56.50 Dairies continue to be cautious only buying on an as-need basis. Dec Corn 387.00 379.75 386.25 - .75 Remarks: Yearling cattle steady to $1 higher. Steady Class IV milk Mar Corn 397.25 389.50 396.75 - .75 grass calf market with good demand. Average price $9.45 — Jan Soybeans 911.00 897.00 904.50 - 14.50 Mar Soybeans 908.00 896.00 902.00 - 13.25 Dec BFP Milk xx.xx xx.xx 10.46 + .00 Jan BFP Milk 11.55 11.40 11.30 - .42 M ETALS/MONEY Feb BFP Milk 12.28 12.28 12.10 - .64 WHILE THERE’S LOTS TO CHOOSE FROM Mar BFP Milk 13.70 13.10 13.10 - .67 Apr BFP Milk xx.xx xx.xx 14.25 - .60 Gold Supporting The Agriculture Industry! Mar Sugar 12.60 12.44 12.28 - .14 By The Associated Press Hesston 2190 4x4 May Sugar 13.35 13.12 13.16 - .16 Selected world gold prices, Monday. Dec B-Pound 1.4305 1.4112 1.4195 - .0111 London morning fixing: $923.00 off $1.00. London afternoon fixing: $928.00 up $4.00. Mar B-Pound 1.4285 1.4180 1.4180 - .0135 NY Handy & Harman: $928.00 up $4.00. Professional Pump Service, Inc. Dec J-Yen 1.0435 1.0183 1.0309 + .0097 NY Handy & Harman fabricated: $1002.24 up $4.32. Mar J-Yen 1.0425 1.0209 1.0334 + .0100 NY Engelhard: $930.23 up 4.01. DecEuro-currency 1.3288 1.3114 1.3164 - .0141 NY Engelhard fabricated: $999.99 up $4.30. 21 years experience MarEuro-currency 1.3249 1.3132 1.3174 - .0137 NY Merc. gold Apr. Mon. $915.50 off $7.70. HESSTON DecCanada dollar .8084 .7912 .7917 - .0174 NY HSBC Bank USA 4 p.m. Mon. $918.75 off $4.00 Licensed, Bonded & Insured MarCanada dollar .8089 .7926 .7930 - .0175 KNOWS HAY! Dec U.S. dollar 86.62 85.68 86.36 + .78 Silver Call me for your new pump system or repairs. Dec Comex gold 932.5 908.6 919.7 - 3.5 NEW YORK (AP) — Handy & Harman silver Monday Feb Comex gold 934.7 910.4 921.7 - 3.6 $13.105 off $0.540. Dec Comex silver 13.35 12.92 13.05 - .21 H&H fabricated $15.726 off $0.648. Drilling available! High Capacity Baler Mar Comex silver 13.32 12.94 13.08 - .22 The morning bullion price for silver in London DecTreasury bond 129.31 128.08 128.28 + 10.00 $12.960 off $0.260. Conventional or Constant Pressure Systems. MarTreasury bond 128.17 127.12 127.12 + 5.50 Engelhard $13.260 off $0.080. Coffee 115.55 112.85 113.00 - 2.85 Engelhard fabricated $15.912 off $0.096. 208-934-5040 Phil Park Mar Coffee 117.35 114.80 114.95 - 2.85 NY Merc silver spot month Monday $13.023 off 2009 RENT - PURCHASE PROGRAM Dec Cocoa 1954 1949 1950 + 9 $0.230. Mar Cocoa 1919 1913 1915 + 9 Dec Cotton 44.92 43.05 44.39 + 1.05 Nonferrous metals Mar Cotton 45.94 44.05 45.44 + 1.13 NEW YORK (AP) — Spot nonferrous metal prices MACHINE USED NEW Jan Crude oil 52.25 48.11 48.45 - 3.93 Monda Natural Alternative DecUnleaded gas 1.4765 1.3650 1.3823 - .1056 Aluminum -$0.6400 per lb., N.Y. Merc spot Mon. PER MO. PER MO. Dec Heating oil 1.4225 1.3395 1.3435 - .0893 Copper -$1.8785 Cathode full plate, U.S. destinations. Dec Natural gas 3.793 3.676 3.746 + .009 Copper $1.7610 N.Y. Merc spot Mon. Quotations from Sinclair & Co. Lead - $1263.0 metric ton, London Metal Exch. MF 2190 4x4 Big Baler $3,000 $4,200 733-6013 or (800) 635-0821 Zinc - $0.6064 per lb., delivered. FERTILIZER Gold - $928.00 Handy & Harman (only daily quote). Gold - $921.10 troy oz., NY Merc spot Mon. for conventional and organic uses MF 2170 3x4 Big Baler $2,700 $3,800 B EANS Silver - $13.105 Handy & Harman (only daily quote). Silver - $13.023 troy oz., N.-. Merc spot Mon. Mercury - $640.00 per 76 lb flask, N.Y. MF 2150 3x3 Big Baler $2,500 $3,300 Valley Beans Platinum -$1143.00 troy oz., N.Y. (contract). Prices are net to growers, 100 pounds, U.S. No. 1 Platinum -$1127.90 troy oz., N.Y. Merc spot Mon. EARTH TEA beans, less Idaho bean tax and storage charges. n.q.-not quoted, n.a.-not available r-revised Accumulator for any baler $400 $600 Prices subject to change without notice. Producers desiring more recent price information should con- Exchange rate and LIQUID FISH tact dealers. NEW YORK (AP) — Key currency exchange rates MF 9635 Disk S.P. Windrower $3,500 $4,500 Pintos, no quote, new crop great northerns, no Monday, compared with late Friday in New York: quote pinks, no quote, new crop Dollar vs: Exch. Rate Pvs Day small reds, no quote, new crop. Prices are given by Yen 97.08 98.04 Improve your soil’s productivity naturally. MF 9435 Sickle S.P. Windrower $2,800 $3,800 Rangens in Buhl. Prices current March 30. Euro $1.3161 $1.3304 Other Idaho bean prices are collected weekly by Pound $1.4196 $1.4302 Cost effective at only $26/acre. Bean Market News, U.S. Department of Agriculture Swiss franc 1.1505 1.1426 Pintos, not established great northerns, not Canadian dollar 1.2643 1.2374 It works. Worth a call… All Rents Based on 5-Month Minimum. established small whites, not established Mexican peso 10.3439 14.3265 pinks, not established small reds, Ltd. $38-$40. 100% of rent applies Quotes current March 30. Northwest Biologicals to purchase in the fall G RAINS www.magicvalley.com Call Andy Cofer 208.431.9741 Valley Grains Prices for wheat per bushel: mixed grain, oats, corn USED EQUIPMENT and beans per hundred weight. Prices subject to change without notice. TRACTORS BIG BALERS Soft white wheat, ask barley, ask (J) CIH 8580-4x4...... $17,500 oats, ask corn, ask (15 percent moisture). Prices are (L) Case 480FLL-4wd, ldr...... $18,90 given daily by Rangens in Buhl. Prices current March GOLDEN VALLEY WAREHOUSES, INC. (N) Cat TH330 telehandler...... $39,900 (N) Hes 4750-3x3, 42k bls...... $25,900 30. Barley, $7.00 (48-lb. minimum) spot delivery in Twin (S) FNH TN65S-4wd, ldr...... $18,900 (H) Hes 4900-4x4, 70k bls...... $12,000 Falls and Gooding: corn, no quote (Twin Falls only). (T) Fiat F140L wheel ldr...... $35,900 (N) Hes 4910-4x4, 35k bls...... $29,900 Prices quoted by Land O’Lakes Inc. in Twin Falls. Prices current March 30. Commercial & Custom Processors of Grain, Beans & Seed (T) Int 1086-2wd, cab...... $8,900 (H) MF 2170-3x4, low bls...... $89,900 (T) MF 2190-4x4, 21k bls...... $88,900 POCATELLO (AP) — Idaho Farm Bureau (L) JD 4320-2wd, cab, ldr...... $8,500 Intermountain Grain Report on Monday. (T) Kub M9540-4wd, cab...... $33,900 SMALL BALERS POCATELLO — White wheat 4.40 (steady) 11.5 percent winter 4.51 (up 1) 14 percent spring Known for our top quality seed! (H) MF 1085-2wd, cab...... $8,500 (N) Hes 4655-16x18 2 tie...... $9,900 6.49 (up 7) barley 5.58 (steady) (T) MF 8160-4wd, 3k hrs...... $41,900 (T) Hes 4690-3 tie...... $19,500 BURLEY — White wheat 4.17 (down 8) 11.5 percent winter 4.66 (up 5) 14 percent spring (J) Terex 760-ldr, backhoe...... $45,900 (T) NH 426-16x18...... $4,900 6.28 (up 7) barley 6.00 (steady) ARLEY HEAT LFALFAS ORN EED (J) Ver 256-4wd, ldr...... $18,900 (N) NH 1283-16x18 sp...... $3,500 OGDEN — White wheat 4.32 (up 7) 11.5 percent win- B ~ W ~ A ~ C S ter 4.87 (up 4) 14 percent spring 6.51 (up 6) MISC SP WINDROWERS barley 6.39 (up 9) PORTLAND — White wheat 5.50 (steady) OATS ~ TRITICALE ~ MALT BARLEY SEED (T) Aln 8803-5F rake $14,900 (H) Allied (J) CIH 8840-16’, 1800hrs...... $20,900 11 percent winter 5.74-5.90 (up 6 to up 5) 24row cultivator...... $14,500 (H) CIH 8870-16’, 4200hrs...... $28,000 14 percent spring 7.68 (up 5) barley n/a NAMPA — White wheat cwt 7.33 (steady): bushel 4.40 (J) CIH 620-14’ drill...... $3,600 (B) Hes 8400-16’...... $19,500 (steady) Prefer Your Seed? (N) Fre 5000 ton stacker...... $28,500 (W) Hes 8450-14’ w/dw...... $31,000 C HEESE (N) Hus IZ4217 mower...... $4,800 (T) Hes 8450-16’...... $21,900 We will custom clean & (J) IHC 6200-30’ drill...... $10,900 (T) Hes 8450-16’...... $55,900 (H) JD 331-25’ disk...... $12,500 (H) Hes 8550S-15’, 2500hrs...... $47,900 Cheddar cheese prices on the Chicago Mercantile treat it for you. (T) JD 355-18’ offset disk...... $8,900 (N) JD 4895 w/895 hdr...... $42,900 (T) NH BW38, bale wagon...... $112,900 (L) McDon 9350...... $37,900 (N) NH 1075 bale wagon...... $22,900 (J) NH 1112 as is...... $2,500 Rebuilt SR100s Locally Owned & Operated (H) Sit MK16 rake...... $7,500 (N) NH 2450-16’, 3300hrs...... $18,900 For Sale For more used equipment see www.agri-service.com Quality Seed at Competitive Prices SPRINKLER Grain Carts Available HEAD TWIN FALLS, ID BURLEY, ID BUHL, ID LOGAN, UT GOLDEN VALLEY WAREHOUSES, INC. 208-734-7772 208-678-2258 208-543-8883 435-563-1020 REBUILDERS 800-388-3599 800-251-3599 800-290-3599 866-896-3599 1000 S. 468 W., Burley, Idaho NYSSA, OR WEISER, ID TERRETON, ID ST. ANTHONY, ID 6 #1 541-372-3191 208-549-1523 208-663-4545 208-624-4300 2/ - 678 7324 or 678 7325 Manager, Royle Thomson 3 1-208-543-6633 800-972-3191 800-930-3599 877-805-3805 888-766-3599 1 Times-News, Twin Falls, Idaho AGRIBUSINESS Tuesday, March 31, 2009 Agribusiness 3 AGRIBUSINESS BRIEFS ‘Pork’ dollars for hog Farms, defend the spending, ogy to better manage hog The state Department of pointing out that HUD has waste, a major challenge on Agriculture has announced farm raises stink programs for rural economic farms that house thousands that it will receive funding KANSAS CITY, Mo. — development, too. of animals, said Shana for certified organic pro- Taxpayer watchdog groups The earmark was set in Marchio, Bond’s spokes- ducers and processors say something smells about 2006 while Bond, a woman. through the USDA’s cost- Serving Southern Idaho Since 1939 $250,000 in federal funding Republican, was chairman share program. earmarked for a factory farm of an appropriations sub- Producers and processors Buhl – 543-4252 Gooding – 934-4935 in northwestern Missouri: committee that handled the Funds to go toward can receive reimbursement Why is it coming from the money. for up to 75 percent of the Fairfi eld – 764-2205 Jerome – 324-2317 U.S.Department of Housing Bond designated it to help organic farming costs of obtaining or renew- Twin Falls Area – 733-7033 and Urban Development? Premium Standard Farms, a LINCOLN,Neb.—ing organic certification, up But Missouri Sen. Kit subsidiary of Smithfield, There’s good news for to $750. Bond and the company Va.-based Smithfield Foods Nebraska’s organic farming involved, Premium Standard Inc., come up with technol- industry. — The Associated Press Salutes All Farmers! Find more news at EATON DRILLING Agriculture futures trade www.magicvalley.com & PUMP SERVICE mixed on the CBOT ALFALFA SEED Serving The Magic Valley Since 1907 DEPRESSION PRICES CHICAGO (AP) — Beef futures traded lower Agriculture Agriculture futures were and pork futures were mixed 5 dormancy alfalfa 99.9% purity Germ 70% mixed Monday on the on the Chicago Mercantile Chicago Board of Trade. Exchange. tested 2/09 Best for elevations under 4000 FT Irrigation Wheat for May delivery April live cattle lost 1.5 cent 3 dormancy alfalfa 99.9% purity Germ 70% rose 5.25 cents to $5.125 a to 82.82 cents a pound; May tested 2/09 bushel; May corn slipped feeder cattle fell 1.25 cents to Domestic 0.75 cent to $3.8625 a bushel; 93.05 cents a pound; April $1.49 per pound May oats fell 2.5 cents to $1.93 lean hogs inched up 0.08 cent FOB Greenleaf ID Delivery can be arranged Commercial a bushel; and May soybeans to 60.55 cents a pound; and Call Doug at 208-989-7463 or 208-453-2694 dropped 12.5 cents to $9.045 a May pork bellies fell 2.15 Supports All Northside Farmers, bushel. cents to 83.75 cents a pound. GEERTSON Ranchers, & Dairy Industry See what’s new at SEED FARMS 485 South Idaho – Wendell www.magicvalley.com 536-2223 Agribusiness 4 Tuesday, March 31, 2009 AGRIBUSINESS Times-News, Twin Falls, Idaho “We have a saying Fraud TB around here: You Safety Continued from Agribusiness 1 Continued from Agribusiness 1 Continued from Agribusiness 1 of the problem; they’re a ethanol industry and the could not ensure that pay- The state immediately don’t need a sledge The U.S. Food and Drug patchwork and far from livestock farmers who rely ments are made only to qual- applied for split status. hammer to tune a Administration has taken a definitive on what levels of on it. ified individuals. Erik Ness, a spokesman mostly hands-off approach antibiotics in distillers grain Charlie Staff, executive The GAO report also found for the New Mexico Farm piano. That’s kind of to the use of antibiotics in are safe. director of the Distillers that of the 1.8 million indi- and Livestock Bureau in what was happen- the ethanol industry. But If the FDA decides to Grain Technology Council, viduals receiving farm pay- Las Cruces, said the amid increasing concerns restrict antibiotics in the said distillers grain is one of ments over a three year peri- USDA’s latest decision was ing.” over food safety in recent ethanol industry, it could the few dependable mon- od ending in 2006,more than “a big win for the livestock — Erik Ness, a spokesman for years, the agency is taking a have far-reaching conse- eymakers left for the 2,500 had an average adjust- industry.” closer look. quences. ethanol industry. ed gross income that made “We have a saying the New Mexico Farm and “A year ago we put a Distillers grain is a major “If they didn’t have dis- them ineligible for farm pay- around here: You don’t Livestock Bureau survey out to the FDA source of low-cost livestock tillers grain as a revenue, ments. need a sledge hammer to field people to collect feed. Any restrictions on its many more of them would- Because of the inability of tune a piano. That’s kind to change the USDA’s TB samples of those distillers sale and use as feed will n’t be able to operate,”said USDA to verify income,more of what was happening,” testing rule, which “has grains, and start analyzing hurt the profit-scarce Staff. than $49 million was paid to he said. clearly proven unwork- for antibiotic residues,” ineligible individuals. Cowan said the Cattle able for thousands of cat- said Linda Benjamin, a The 2008 Farm Bill man- Growers’ Association was tle producers in the U.S.” chemist with the FDA’s dates that recipients of pleased by the split status, States that accept cattle Center of Veterinary many Farm Bill payments, which she said will save from New Mexico also Medicine. including direct payments, millions of dollars in test- make their own rules. At this point the story are not eligible for these ing and handling fees for Culbertson said he gets murky.Benjamin won’t payments if their gross non- livestock producers expects receiving states to say if any of the antibiotics farm income average for the throughout the state. acknowledge the TB-free exceeded federal guide- previous three taxable years She said, however, her status for most of New lines. is greater than $500,000. organization plans to try Mexico. Those guidelines are part Additionally, direct pay- “Dedicated to Precision Machine ments cannot be paid to par- ticipants whose average Mycogen Corn Seed & Work Over 30 Years” adjusted gross farm income for the three-year period exceeds $750,000. Golden Harvest Corn Seed Participants are ineligible Machine Shop Services for conservation payments if their nonfarm average gross Available at: Please Call income for the three-year Motor Rebuilding period exceeds $1 million, unless at least two-thirds of Simplot Grower Solutions at: their total average adjusted Bell Rapids: 837-6111 Brad Philips gross income is derived from Agricultural, 30 Years Experience farming. Buhl: 543-6434 Jerome: 324-4357 Industrial & Domestic Joshua Palmer may be Twin Falls: 733-4502 reached at 208-735-3231 or OR at jpalmer@magicvalley. Janan Claiborn: 280-0064 com Ask about our rebuilt engines Stuart Wengreen: 280-0071 Scott Collins: 280-0146 Mention this ad and receive a 10% discount Ken McDonald: 308-6119 Subscribe on your next overhaul engine kit. Vance McHan: 280-0068 Good March 10 thru March 31, 2009 today. Glenn Vining: 280-0063 733-0931 Kevin Bleazard: 280-0061 Seth Mathews: 280-1173 124 4th Ave. East Gooding 934 4992 Horse Monthly APRILAPRRIL SCHEDUSCHEDULELE Disclaimer: The dates and timetimesess of events listed belobelowlow may changechange. Silver Spurs Equestrian Team, welcome new members. Join the fun of riding with your April 4 & 5 –3rd Annual Terri Wood Gates-Norma Wood Barrel Racing and County Fairgrounds, Salmon, Idaho. Selling 150 Head. For info: 208-756-2125 or family in local parades, drills, & trail riding. For more information contact: Charlene Horsemanship Clinic, Shu-Fly Arena; in Gooding, ID.– A FEW RIDING SPOTS LEFT. www.salmonidaho.com/horsesale/. Information is available at www.shufl yarena.com or Call - Lana Parker @ 208-536-2772. Royce (208)539-5804, Luann Studer 731-4311, or Rochelle Shank 731-9812. April 18, 19 & 26—Idaho Quarter Horse Races; Emmett, ID. More information www. Filer Junior Riding Club, are seeking more members (ages 8-18) for 2009. Contact April 4 & 5 --Arrow E Arena, Twin Falls, ID. Ranch Sorting. Information from www. idahoqhracing.com. arrowearena.com Karen Stoker at 308-3377 or Rick Schulz 308-4552. April 19—American West & Sageland Co-Approved Barrel Race, Shu-Fly Arena; Magic Valley Miniature Horse Club, Welcomes Registered, Non-registered and Long April 6, 13, 20, & 27 (Time Onlys at 6pm & race at 7:00pm) Arrow E Arena, Twin Falls, Gooding, ID. $500 added. Entry forms and details available on website www. Ears (under 38 inches) horse owners. For more Information, contact: Debbie Emery ID. Barrel Racing. Public is welcome. Must have at least 10 racers. Information from shufl yarena.com. www.arrowearena.com. 326-3951 or Stacy Storrer 732-0020. April 24 (6 pm) Twin Falls Livestock Comm. Co. Horse Sale (Schedule: tack, registered Grass Roots Cutters, which is an equestrian cutting club centrally located in Twin Falls April 8, 9, 10, & 11 (7 pm)––23rd Annual Doge National Circuit Finals Rodeo; ISU Holt horses, & grade horses). Member-ship information, location details & Entry forms visit www.grassrootcutters.com. Arena, Pocatello, ID. Call for (208) 282- FANS for rodeo tickets or (208) 233-1546 for events & information or visit www.dncfr.org. April 24 & 25 (7 pm) 5th District High School Rodeo; Shoshone, ID. Every Saturday (12:00 -2 pm) Magic Valley Pony Club meetings at the Southwind Ranch April 24, 25, & 26--THREE-DAY CLINIC Toby Lapp’s School of Equine Excellence, at J in Jerome, Idaho www.ponyclub.org or call 324-1496 for more details. April 10 (7 pm) & 11 (1 pm)––6th District High School Rodeo; Twin Falls County Fair Grounds in Filer, ID. Lazy J Training Stables in Filer, ID. (208)731-3315 or [email protected]. Every Tuesday & Thursday (6pm-8pm) College of Southern Idaho Equestrian Team April 25 - Magic Valley Team Sorting Association- 2 man Ranch Sorting. Come and holds meetings at the CSI Expo Center or at the Arrow E Arena when the CSI Expo April 11 (8:00 am) – The Grass Roots Cutters, which is an equestrian cutting club centrally located in Twin Falls are having a two day show although a Jackpot/Play have fun with us! Registration ends at 11:45 SHARP; with the Sorting starting at Noon. Center is being used for other events. www.ihsainc.com or call 324-1496 for more Copus Cove arena 1731 E. 3900 N. Buhl, Idaho. Contact: Leslie: 420-2290; Dan details. day may be added on Friday April 10th. Located at Thomason Arena. For more information at www.grassrootcutters.com. 308-3494; Roger: 578-0351; Roy: 539-6884. Every Sunday (10am) The Idaho Regulators (part of the Cowboy Mounted Shooting April 25—Sawtooth Equine Services Vet Day; Katie Breckenridge’s B Bar B Ranch, Association) April 11 - Magic Valley Team Sorting Association- 2 man Ranch Sorting. Come and have practice at Danny Mechams. Any one interested in Riding and Picabo, ID. Call for reservations, (208) 788-1465. Public Welcome. No Charge. shooting can call Kent Spaulding 532-4553. have fun with us! Registration ends at 11:45 SHARP; with the Sorting starting at Noon. Copus Cove arena 1731 E. 3900 N. Buhl, Idaho. Contact: Leslie: 420-2290; Dan April 25—23rd Annual Idaho Horse Expo; Idaho Horse Park; Nampa, ID. For Second Monday of each Month (7 pm) Magic Valley Reined Cowhorse Association 308-3494; Roger: 578-0351; Roy: 539-6884. more information visit www. meetings at Travelers Oasis Eden, ID. Contact Mike Zebarth (208) 423-9055 for more expoidahohorsecouncil.com. details. April 11(11am check in--Rodeo starts at noon) Idaho Little Buckaroo Rodeo, Youth Rodeo Series available to youth ages 16 and under. Held at the Rocky Mountain May 1 & 2 (7 pm) 5th District High School Thursday Evenings (7pm) Jackpot Ranch Sorting & Practice Copus Cove Arena, Buhl, Events Center (old Simper Barn) in Rupert, Idaho. Entry’s due by April 4th. For more Rodeo; Jerome, ID. ID. Call 543-6695 or 731-6635. information visit www.littlebuckaroorodeo.com. May 1 & 2 (7 pm) 6th District High School April 1, 8, 15, 22, & 29 (Time Onlys at 6pm & race at 7:30pm) Jackpot Barrel Racing, April 14 (6:30 pm) High Desert Backcountry Horsemen Meeting will meet at the home Rodeo; Burley Fair Grounds in Burley, ID. Shu-Fly Arena; in Gooding, ID. Entry forms available at www.shufl yarena.com or of the Stacys in Jerome, ID. Potluck at 6:30 p.m. with meeting at 7:00 p.m. Any May 1, 2, 5, 8, 9, 12, 15, 16, 19, 23, 25, 26 & Call Lana Parker @ 208-536-2772. interested horse people are always welcome. 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Picabo, ID. Limited to 12 ropers/riders. April 3 -- Tooele Idaho Little Buckaroo Rodeo, for more information visit www. April 17 & 18 (7 pm) 5th District High School Rodeo; Glens Ferry, ID. Spectators welcome. Call for reservations, (208) 788-2329. littlebuckaroorodeo.com/Tooele. April 17, 18, & 19—Intermountain Reined Cow Horse Circuit; Magic Valley Practice Huge May 9th —BLM Wild Horse & Burro April 3 (7 pm) & 4 (1 pm)–6th District High School Rodeo; Buhl Fair Grounds in Buhl, ID. Show. Located at the Arrow E Arena; Twin Falls, ID. For more information visit www. intermountaincircuit.org/calendar. Adoption; Winnemucca, NV. Call 866-468- Spring Sale April 4 --Misfi t Farm Clinic “Dreading the fi rst Spring ride?” Call Susan Dudasik in 7826 for more details. Salmon, ID at 208-756-3182756-3182. 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His 17- By Mike Christensen doors for you,”Pope said in a Hutchinson, Kan., died point, 12-rebound average as Times-News writer recent phone interview. down, Pope found himself a senior keyed the Wendell The 2004 Wendell High staring down a tough ques- basketball team to a 25-0 The choices are plentiful graduate helped his Salt tion. record, including a 79-46 for Kael Pope these days. Lake Community College “Now that I’ve won it, shellacking of Ririe in the 2A Courtesy photo That’s what happens when Bruins claim their first-ever what do I work for?” he title game in 2004. you’re a NJCAA national junior college national title wondered. Pope earned a basketball Wendell High graduate Kael Pope, center, poses with his parents champion. on March 21, rallying past Throughout his career, scholarship at Southern Marilyn and Clayton Pope after helping the Salt Lake Community “Winning the national Midland (Texas) College in there’s always been a chal- College men win the NJCAA national championship March 21 in tournament opens a lot of the championship game. lenge ahead. At Wendell See POPE, Sports 2 Hutchinson, Kan. UConn, ’Nova, UNC ready to invade T.F. golfers prepare for key 5A meet By Bradley Guire Times-News writer The Class 5A state golf championship isn’t until May, but a preview of the possible matchups is hap- pening today at Twin Falls Though technically an ‘away’ team at Final Four, Municipal Golf Course. The Twin Falls Bruins will host Michigan State playing 90 miles from campus Treasure Valley teams from By Andrew Bagnato Capital, Centennial, Boise, Associated Press writer Timberline, Meridian, Eagle and Mountain View as well as Region Four-Five-Six s the higher seed, the Connecticut opponents from Highland, Idaho Falls, Skyline and Huskies will wear their white home Madison for the Twin Falls A Invitational. uniforms against Michigan State “We haven’t played any of in the national semifinals Saturday. the Boise schools yet, so we don’t know what they’ve The rest of Ford Field will probably be shot,” said senior Sara Federico, who was part of awash in Spartans green. last season’s state champi- This spring, there’s nothing neutral onship team. “But we’ve played with Highland and about the Final Four. I.F. a couple of times. We’re waiting to see what the Boise The Huskies’ third trip to the Final Four is a virtual road schools have to bring. We game: Michigan State’s East Lansing campus is 90 miles from haven’t heard anything yet.” Detroit, and many in the expected record crowd of 70,000-plus will be The Highland Rams, who Spartans fans. placed third at state last sea- “We’ll have the white uniforms on. That’s as close we’ll get to being a son, were bested a few weeks home team, I think,”UConn coach Jim Calhoun said on a Final Four coach- ago at Blue Lakes Country es teleconference Monday.“I’m very aware ... that there will be a little bit of Club by a Bruin squad that is noise for the guys in green. No question.” largely unchanged this sea- Ford Field, the domed home of the Detroit Lions, is expected to set the son. Hannah McNeley, who record for the largest Final Four attendance in the 71-year history of the finished third as an individ- event. Last spring, the stadium drew 114,591 to the two sessions of the ual medalist, alluded to the Midwest regional, another record. team makeup being a key The larger configuration opened up more seats to local fans, a goal of part to their overall success. the tournament committee, and NCAA organizers say about one in “We’re all really close, get seven spectators will be Michigan residents. “We’ve always along good,” she said. That can only work to Michigan State’s advantage, although playing “Playing-wise, our varsity in Ford Field didn’t help the Spartans much in a hideous 98-63 loss to stated our team’s team is close together.” North Carolina on Dec. 3. a blue-collar Of course, a refined short And the Huskies (31-4) hardly shrink when they venture out of game will play a huge part in Connecticut. team ever since I matches, especially at a UConn went 9-1 on the road this year, its only loss coming at course like Highland, where then-No. 3 Pittsburgh on March 7,and the Huskies are 8-1 in neu- came here. And the greens can be tough. tral-site games, losing only to Syracuse in six overtimes in the Big there’s no better “(Coach Mike Hamblin) East tourney in Madison Square Garden. always harps on us on the Though they’re a No.2 seed and finished first in the rough-and- blue-collar city short game,” McNeley tumble Big Ten, the Spartans (30-6) are being portrayed as gritty added. “It’s always impor- underdogs carrying the hopes of a depressed region. than Detroit, and tant. Anyone can hit the ball “We’ve always stated our team’s a blue-collar team ever since to the green, but from there I came here,”Michigan State coach Tom Izzo said. “And there’s all the things on …” no better blue-collar city than Detroit, and all the things they they go through.” The boys team, which fin- go through.” ished third at state in 2008, Michigan State hopes to fare better on this visit to Ford — Michigan State will see the defending cham- Field. But there may be an upside to the Spartans’ 35-point coach Tom Izzo pion and runner-up in Eagle loss to Carolina, which was part of a rugged nonconference and Centennial, respective- schedule that included games against Kansas, Oklahoma ly. Jordan Hamblin placed State and Maryland and trips to Texas and Wichita State. second in the individual That competition helped steel the Spartans for the rigors of scores in 2008 and called the NCAA tournament — and it may have paid off when they Eagle a favorite to repeat. AP photo beat Big East champion Louisville in the Midwest regional Illustration by Teammate Casey Faught final in Indianapolis,about 115 miles from the Cardinals’cam- BILL WAMBEKE/ expressed confidence that pus. Times-News the Mustangs are within reach. See SPARTANS, Sports 2 “I’ve just heard that Eagle will be pretty good, same as last year,” he said. “But I think we can beat them.” Both Faught and Hamblin said that course manage- Oklahoma’s Griffin leads AP All-America team ment will be a priority for the boys team, which also By Jim O’Connell 72-60 to advance to the defeated Highland at Blue Associated Press writer Final Four. INSIDE Lakes and previously won Joining them on the team Full AP All-American list. the March Madness event Blake Griffin and Tyler were players from schools with the girls team earlier Hansbrough spent a lot of time with little All-America his- See Sports 3 this month at the Muni. together on the court last weekend tory, sophomores DeJuan Action begins today with a and were back together Monday as Blair of Pittsburgh, James concussion only to drive head- 9 a.m., shotgun start. Bruin the top vote-getters on The Harden of Arizona State long onto the scorer’s table. coach Mike Hamblin said Associated Press’ All-America and junior Stephen Curry of He received 71 first-team that overall, it should be a team. Davidson. Griffin Hansbrough Parakhouski votes and 335 points from the good meet to gauge the com- Griffin, the sophomore forward Former College of same national media panel petition. from Oklahoma who led the nation Southern Idaho center Artsiom mention list along with Weber State that selects the weekly Top 25. “All the best teams will be in rebounding, was the only unani- Parakhouski was named the honor- guard Kellen McCoy. Balloting was done before the here,” he said. “We’ll get a mous selection for the team. able mention team after averaging Griffin, who averaged 21 points NCAA tournament. good chance to see how we Hansbrough, the consensus player 16.2 points and 11.2 rebounds at and 14.3 rebounds while shooting Hansbrough, a unanimous pick stack up against everybody.” of the year last season as a junior, Radford. Utah center Luke Nevill 63.5 percent from the field, became last season along with Kansas repeated as a first-teamer the day and Utah State big man Gary college basketball’s image for Bradley Guire may be after his Tar Heels beat the Sooners Wilkinson also made the honorable toughness when he returned from a See ALL-AMERICANS, Sports 2 reached at 208-735-3229 . Sports 2 Tuesday, March 31, 2009 SPORTS Times-News, Twin Falls, Idaho Stanford women back in Final Four Big sixth lifts Wendell baseball past Buhl Shelley: Tommy Higham 73, Tanner Higham 74, Will BERKELEY, Calif. — The on Monday night. one-tenth of a second Times-News said Wendell coach Jim Higham 77, Clarke Huntsman 83, Mason Higham 85. Big Appel is headed back to At the Final Four in St. remaining. Prince, “and we’ve got to Snake River: McKay Harper 87, Tate Murdock 104, Dallin Truman 105, Austin Garrett 114, Wayde Phillips the Final Four after a low- Louis, the Cardinal will meet Louisville is headed to the A six-run sixth inning learn how to get on base and 122. Sugar Salem: Fletcher Rydalch 88, Wilson Rydalch post performance surpassing the winner of Connecticut’s Final Four for the first time, lifted Wendell High School’s score.” 89, Kalin Miyasaki 98, Ladd Spackman 112, Zach anything in Stanford’s long, Trenton Regional final meet- after Angel McCoughtry baseball team to a 7-5 win The Trojans (3-5, 0-4 Dennison 112. illustrious basketball history. ing with Arizona State. finished with 21 points and over Buhl in Sawtooth Sawtooth Central Idaho Girls At Blue Lakes Country Club, Twin Falls Jayne Appel had a career- Stanford is the last team to 13 rebounds in a 77-60 Central Idaho Conference Conference) host Filer in a Team scores: 1. Century 448, 2. Burley 472, 3. Skyview 484, 4. Mountain Home 496, 5. Rigby 500, high 46 points and 16 beat the undefeated Huskies, upset of top-seeded action on Monday. A two- conference doubleheader 6. Wood River 548, 7. Jerome 556. Individual top 5: 1. Hannah Newhouse, Century, 97, 2. rebounds in the third high- doing it in last season’s semi- Maryland in the Raleigh run double by Keegan today. Buhl visits Declo on Shawna Pace, Burley, 98; 3. Ashley Ray, Century, 101; est-scoring performance in final game in Tampa. Regional final Monday Anderson and a two-RBI Wednesday. 4. Mindi Howard, Rigby, 111; 5. Taryn Staley, Blackfoot, 112. NCAA tournament history, night. single from Nolan Stouder Individual scores Blackfoot: Tayrn Starley 112, Dusti Rodriguez 129, overwhelming Iowa State’s LOUISVILLE 77, MARYLAND 60 Deseree Byrd added 17 keyed the pivotal inning. Buhl 10, Wendell 0, five innings Hailey Frederick 146. Buhl 301 42 — 10 7 1 Burley: Shawna Pace 98, Kortni Karlson 116, Jessie helpless defense and secur- RALEIGH, N.C. — As the points and nine assists and Buhl led 3-1 entering the Wendell 000 00 — 0 2 3 Winmill 123, Annelise Tilley 135. ing Stanford’s second Louisville Cardinals circled Candyce Bingham had 15 bottom of the sixth, but Katherine Hunter and Katy Hulse; Krystyl Miller and Century: Hannah Newhouse 97, Ashley Ray 101, Laurie Andrus. Brittany Bollinger 116, Kayla Payne 134, Adrianna straight Final Four appear- around to cut down the nets points for the third-seeded walks, errors and hit batters Extra-base hits — HR: Buhl, Kendyl Hamilton. Degivli 143. Jerome: Brittany Smith 126, Morgan Burke 131, Sara ance with a 74-53 victory in for the first time, the score- Cardinals (33-4). added to Wendell’s offen- Valdez 133, Kirsten Fernandez 166. the Berkeley Regional final board clock still showed — The Associated Press sive explosion. Minico: Ashley Cook 140. Golf Mountain Home: Shayla Streeter 115, Shelby Stevens The Trojans (2-2, 1-1 118, Alicen Wendall 121, Kelsey Equsquiza 126, Melanie Bates 142. SCIC) got 11 strikeouts from RIGBY, SHELLEY BOYS WIN Nampa: Elena Macovei 141, Bailey Luna 153, Amber Zachorisen 155. Stouder. Wendell won the JEROME INVITE Skyview: Taylor Harris 115, Krissy Galeai 116, Michell Meininger 123, Ashley Brewer 130. JV game 11-10. Led by Brian Panther’s Wood River: Jennie Williams 115, Kylee Richard 133, ND showing Big East might in NIT The Trojans host Filer 72, Rigby took first place in Karli Jeneson 139, Ali Town 161. today, while Buhl hosts the the Class 4A ranks at the NEW YORK (AP) — The where the Irish lost seven Twin Falls junior varsity on Dale Mower/Subway Amateur golf best indicator of how NIT semifinals straight, all but one of them Thursday. Jerome Invitational. mighty the Big East was to teams ranked in the top Bishop Kelly was second MUNI HOSTS PEPSI OPEN this season might not come Baylor vs. San Diego State, 20. They didn’t snap out of Wendell 7, Buhl 5 with a 329 at Jerome Twin Falls Municipal Golf 5 p.m., ESPN2 Buhl 000 030 2 — 5 4 2 from Detroit, where two of that funk until February, Wendell 100 006 x — 7 7 9 Country Club. Wood River, Course hosted the 2009 Notre Dame vs. Penn State, Matt Hamilton and Jack Hamilton; Nolan Stouder and its teams are in the Final when they routed confer- Jasper Peterson. W: Stouder. L: M. Hamilton. led by Jonathon Hobbs’ 79 Pepsi Open pro-am on 7 p.m., ESPN2 Extra-base hits — 2B: Wendell, Keegan Anderson, Four. It may be how well ence champ Louisville by Stouder. and Chance McCroskey’s Monday. The Canyon Notre Dame finishes in the 33. 81, took third with a 331. Springs team of Michael NIT. ference tournament to Penn State (25-11), one of Jerome’s Jordan Roberts Ericson, Larry Adams, After all, the Irish were West Virginia, the NCAA the last teams bumped GLENNS FERRY 21, and Minico’s Kody Miller Dwayne Tucker and Fred expected to contend for a tournament long ago from the NCAA bubble, is MARSING 4, FIVE INNINGS shot 83s to finish just out of Saltz won the team title with national championship this removed from the picture, playing its first postseason Cody Crawshaw struck the top 10 individually. a 193. season. Luke Harangody Brey stood before his guys in three years. San Diego out five on the mound and Minico wound up 10th and Kyle McAlarney in the locker room and said State (26-9) surpassed its aided his own cause by overall, while Burley was 2009 Pepsi Open results Twin Falls Municipal Golf Course formed one of the nation’s their new goal should be to Division I postseason win going 3-for-4 with five RBIs 11th and Jerome shared 12th Team results: 1. Canyon Springs (Michael Ericson, Larry Adams, Dwayne Tucker, Fred Saltz) 193; 2. best inside-outside return to Madison Square total (two) from the past 38 at the plate as Glenns Ferry with Nampa. Desert Canyon (Justin Ellis, Dave Tapp Jr., Dave Tapp Sr., Mike Brown) 199; 3. Sand Creek (John Graham, tandems, and there was Garden two weeks later for years in just one week with hammered Marsing 21-4 on The Class 3A boys title Paul J. Morgan, Brent Thompson, Dan Hanson) 200, plenty of depth and experi- the NIT title game. three wins in the NIT. Monday. went to Shelley with a 307 4. Juniper Hill (Dave Crozier, Jerry Magee, Dave Heinson, Charles Woodworth) 201; 5. (tie) Clear Lake ence with three seniors in They’re one step away, Then there’s Baylor (23- Crawshaw smacked a as Tommy Higham and (Steve Meyerhoeffer, Gary Paulsen, Doug Mackay, Norman Lancaster) and Crane Creek (Ron Rawls, the starting five. playing Penn State in the 14), the once-downtrod- two-run homer, while Mike Tanner Higham fired the Dave Leech, Kenny Walker, Mike Redman) 202. Individual results They didn’t even finish semifinals Tuesday night. den program that has over- Crane went 2-for-4 with a two best individual rounds Championship flight in the top half of the league. San Diego State and Baylor come so much in the past double and Destry Royce of the day with a 73 and a Gross: 1. (tie) David Tapp, Kenny Walker, Shawn Aicher 72; 4. Kurt Marostica 74; 5. Ronnie Ward 75. “I’ve been in the Big East play in the other semifinal. four years. The Bears have added an RBI triple. 74, respectively. Kimberly’s Net: 1.Charles Woodworth 65; 2. Tom Hersh 67; 3. (tie) Dick Krapff and Gary Paulsen 68; 5. Stanley nine years, and I’ve never Notre Dame (21-14) got never played a game in “I’m really pleased with Gage Huft was third with a Kolby 69. First flight seen anything like it,” caught in the spin cycle of April and will be playing in our progression,” said 75 as Kimberly took second Gross: 1. Brad Smith 76; 2. Mike Bosma 78; 3. Dwayne coach Mike Brey said. “It one of the toughest confer- New York for the first time Glenns Ferry coach Denis in the team standings. Filer Tucker 80; 4. Larry Adams 81; 5. Bob Dickson 82. Net: 1. Fred Saltz 66; 2. (tie) Dan Hanson, Gerald was off the charts.” ence schedules anyone can since losing in the 1950 Uhl, who praised the pitch- finished fifth behind Nate White and Jack Hansen 67; 5. James Carr 68. Professional After losing in the con- recall, an 18-game grind Final Four. ing performance of Simon’s 89, while Buhl, led 1. Jim Empey 69; 2. Michael Ericson 70; 3. (tie) Ben Bryson, John Graham, John Wallace, Mike Hamblin, Crawshaw. by Joel Christensen’s 89, Steve Meyerhoeffer 71. The 4-4 Pilots host New was seventh overall. Senior professional Plymouth for a doublehead- In the girls tournament 1. Jeff Thomsen 68. er on Saturday. at Blue Lakes Country Club Pope in Twin Falls, Burley’s OSTROM, RAY WIN Continued from Sports 1 For starters, he and Pope’s experiences at Glenns Ferry 21, Shawna Pace shot a 98 to COVE-PEPSI BEST BALL Utah University and served fiancée Ashley Swenson, a Wendell. Marsing 4, five innings take second individually, Todd Ostrom and James Marsing 000 04 — 4 4 6 an LDS mission in member of the SLCC dance “The emotion of a state Glenns Ferry 91(10) 1 — 21 16 4 one stroke behind Ray rallied from four shots Martin Galvez, Neal Sevy (3) and Ray Evans and Ricky Chihuahua, Mexico. When team, plan to marry on May championship was so much Miller (3); Cody Crawshaw, John Acord (5) and Rory Century’s Hannah back to win the champi- Hance. he returned from his church 8. Pope also feels a need to different,” he said. “You Extra-base hits — 2B: Glenns Ferry, Crawshaw, Mike Newhouse. Burley was sec- onship flight of the 2009 service, SUU had a new focus on school and said he spend your entire life work- Crane. 3B: Glenns Ferry, Destry Royce. HR: Glenns ond in the team scoring Cove-Pepsi Best Ball golf coaching staff and the has several prospects for ing toward that one goal. As Ferry, Crawshaw. with a 472, while Wood tournament at Twin Falls assistant who encouraged coaching high school bas- little kids on the playground River and Jerome finished Municipal Golf Course on Pope to come to Cedar City ketball in the Salt Lake area, we grew up talking about Softball sixth and seventh, respec- Sunday. had joined the staff at something he feels would winning a state champi- tively. The duo overcame heavy SLCC. best use his basketball onship. There were so many GLENNS FERRY 19, MARSING 4, winds to shoot a two-day So Pope followed Russ knowledge and ability. days of life spent preparing FOUR INNINGS Dale Mower/Subway Jerome 142 and take the title from Beck, now an assistant at Whatever he does next, for that. For the first time this Invitational Day 1 leaders Chase Boys CSI, to Salt Lake City. Pope plans to employ the “It was a lot of hard work school year, a Glenns Ferry At Jerome Country Club Schaniel and Isaac Wright, Class 4A “When I was presented attributes he’s learned in and a lot of dedication for girls varsity team has a win. Team scores: 1. Rigby 326, 2. Bishop Kelly 329, 3. who finished second. Wood River 331, 4. Middleton 339, 5. Century 343, 6. the chance to play for him, I basketball. Throughout his years to do it.” After going winless in vol- Columbia 351, 7. Pocatello 355, 8. (tie) Mountain Sal Acevedo and Gary jumped on board immedi- career, he’s done whatever Whether Pope pursues leyball and basketball, the Home and Skyview 361, 10. Minico 362, 11. Burley Philips from the net title in 370, 12. (tie) Nampa and Jerome 386. ately,”said Pope. his coaches and his teams another title at a new level Pilots picked up a softball Individual top 10: 1. Brian Panter, Rigby, 72; 2. Taylor the championship flight. Judy, Bishop Kelly, 75; 3. (tie) Ryan Pearson, Turned out to be a good have required of him. as a player or tries to coach win on Monday, routing Pocatello, and Sterling Wood, Middleton 78; 5. The first flight title was Jonathon Hobbs, Wood River, 79; 6. (tie) Chance decision. In two seasons, This season, that meant others to a crown, he’ll Marsing 19-4 in Glenns McCroskey, Wood River, and B. Skinner, Rigby, and claimed by Shawn Florke Pope helped the Bruins to a taking on a smaller role as never forget the triumphs of Ferry. Nick Spalding, Bishop Kelly, 81; 9. (tie) Taylor and Jake Wanhala, while Schmidt, Bishop Kelly, and Josh Kuhn, Century, 82. 63-10 record and two reserve. Pope missed the which he’s had part. A good pitching effort Individual scores Jaynie Chase and Nancy Bishop Kelly: Taylor Judy 75, Nick Spalding 81, Taylor appearances in the NJCAA beginning of the season “They’re memories that from Amy Young led the Schmidt 82, Julian Aguirre 91, Kyle Hinkle 93. Elliot won the ladies flight Blackfoot: Dylan Hammond 85, Skyler Jensen 92, title game. with a separated shoulder. I’ll always have,”said Pope. way and the Pilots took Garrett Buck 122. with a 157. But for the first time in When he returned, he found “The ring for (the NJCAA advantage of five errors and Burley: Josh Thurston 90, Zane Harman 93, Tyler Baumgartner 93, Jordan Kisler 94, Brogan Searle 94. his life, he is facing the himself playing limited title) will go with the rings numerous walks issued by Century: Josh Kuhn 82, Weston Dykman 86, Cory 2009 Cove-Pepsi Best Ball Christensen 86, Cole Pape 89, Brant Leo 97. Final Results prospect of not having a minutes behind all-region from Wendell. I won’t wear Marsing’s pitching staff. Columbia: Scott Weston 81, Mark Bolinske 87, Ian Mens Championship Flight Hannu 88, Adam Hanson 95, Tanner Preece 96. Gross: 1. Todd Ostrom and James Ray 142, 2. Chase “next season” on his hori- players D.J. Wright and any of them, but they’ll all “We put the ball in play Jerome: Jordan Roberts 83, Pete Barnes 89, Brady Schaniel and Isaac Wright 143. Lap: Roberto zon. While the 6-foot-8 Nate Bendall. sit right together in the safe. and ran the bases well,”said Craig 101, Joey Avila 113, Cory Cummings 128. Velasquez and Victor Velasquez 74. Middleton: Sterling Wood 78, Kyler Scott 83, Karson Net: 1. Sal Acevedo and Gary Phillips 138, 2. Gary center has plenty of offers “I’m not going to lie, it’s Maybe my kids will want to Glenns Ferry coach Kelli Schrader 83, Collin Haydock 95, Jay Simmons 97. Duncan and Mike Rawls 139. Lap: Tracy Harr and Minico: Kody Miller 83, Bronson Miller 84, Bryon Kendal Kowitz 73. to continue his collegiate always a tough transition pull them out and look at McHone. Pinther 90, Kody Andrew 105, Zale Amen 109. First flight Mountain Home: Nick Reynolds 87, Travis Goldsby 88, 1. Shawn Florke and Jake Wanhala 143, 2. (tie) Shay career at a four-year school, when you have to change them some day. If not, it’s The Pilots (1-6) travel to Stephen Elliott 89, Tyler Bennett 97, Mike Heinen 108. Lawley and Wes Startin, Dan Schnoebelen and Brad he said, “Part of me just roles,”said Pope, who aver- no big deal.” Declo on Thursday. Nampa: Jarod Curtis 86, Preston Myers 96, Christian Smith 146, 4. Duane Schneberger and Tom Standly Rohnert 100, Grayson Bosen 104, Cody Schlabach 146, 5. (tie) Larry Amen and Rich Birrell, Al Mulkey wants to hang it up.” aged 3.9 points and 2.1 That’s the wisdom, the 107. and Brad Richards 149. Lap: Steve Hofland and Chris Pocatello: Ryan Pearson 78, Mike Decker 90, Dave Schmahl 78. Pope said some people rebounds this season. But in perspective of a true winner Glenns Ferry 19, Marsing 4, Murley 90, Colten Morton 97, Garrett Hennessy 111. Second flight may call him crazy for the end, “it was all about — one at a crossroads where four innings Rigby: Brian Panter 72, B. Skinner 81, J. Groth 86, D. 1. Tim Andresen and Dave Slotten 148, 2. (tie) Brent Marsing 200 2 — 4 3 5 Bell 87, B. Pence 87. Powlus and Bill Schmahl, Rob Sellars and Dwayne walking away from his winning,” and that’s some- all signs point to future suc- Glenns Ferry 533 8 — 19 4 3 Skyview: J.T. Anderson 83, Geoff Endicott 89, Colby Wall 153, 4. Art Rathe and Chuck Skaggs 155, 5. Kinney, Loueks (4) and Rost; Amy Young and Cassie Snyder 93, Tom Statkus 96, Adam Freiburghaus 107. Blaine McAllister and Harold Stroud 156. Lap: Doug playing days, but he has his thing Pope has done all his cess. Garza. Wood River: Jonathon Hobbs 79, Chance McCroskey Barber and Brandon Buckway 77. 81, Davis Hague 85, Rex Nilsen 86, Ian Murphy 88. Ladies Flight reasons. life. Extra-base hits — 2B: Marsing, Clawsca. Gross: 1. Jaynie Chase and Nancy Elliot 157, 2. Larie Class 3A Hash and Rexanne Wheeler 167. Lap: Heidi Fleshman “There’s other goals in And while winning the Mike Christensen may be Team scores: 1. Shelley 307, 2. Kimberly 342, 3. Sugar and Val Wardle 93. life,” he said. “I have other NJCAA title was certainly reached at 208-735-3239 or BUHL 10, WENDELL 0, FIVE INNINGS Salem 364, 4. Marsh Valley 367, 5. Filer 380, 6. Snake Net: 1. Jean Hanson and Patty Lee 147, 2. Nancy River 410, 7. Buhl 423. Bastida and JoAnne Odiaga 155. Lap: Marguerite dreams.” special, nothing can replace [email protected]. Kendyl Hamilton’s Individual top 5: 1. Tommy Higham, Shelley, 73; 2. Astorquia and Chris Sterling 85. Tanner Higham, Shelley, 74; 3. Gage Huft, Kimberly, fourth-inning grand slam 75; 4. Will Higham, Shelley, 77; 5. Dallin Davids, Marsh Valley, 82. highlighted Buhl’s 10-0 Individual scores run-rule win over Wendell Buhl: Joel Christensen 89, Garett Schilz 97, Chris Spartans Newell 117, Brody McClain 120, Ethan Compton 124. Burley Golf on Monday. The Indians’ Filer: Nate Simon 89, Ben Shelter 92, Tyler Rue 97, Continued from Sports 1 Jesse Vierstra 102, Cody Massie 112. to feel comfortable return- ing its fifth NCAA title. Katherine Hunter kept Kimberly: Gage Huft 75, Dalton Harmon 86, Sam Wasko 89, Dylan Wheeler 92, Stephen Clements 93. Course “I do think we became a ing to the site of their romp UConn and Michigan State Wendell off the scoreboard. Marsh Valley: Dallin Davids 82, Tanner Hunsaker 84, little closer and a little past Michigan State. have two apiece. “Buhl’s got a good team,” Gary Davids 95, Skylar Hatley 106, Devin Shurtliff 878-9807 tougher team,” Izzo said. After Carolina coach Roy Villanova (30-7) has one 107. “I’d say the way we played Williams finished his NCAA title — and it came COMPANY & the last two weeks, I think postgame news conference in 1985, the last time the Jesse Woolley Memorial it helped it some, I really that night, someone said, Wildcats made it to the do.” “See you in April.” Final Four. GROUP GOLF Duke is the last team to “I’ll be back, and I hope Villanova coach Jay ng S mo SCRAMBLES play in a Final Four in its my team is with me,” Wright is making his first xi k home state, losing to Williams replied. Final Four trip. This is o e Arkansas in the 1994 His hopes came true in a Williams’ seventh Final r or Customer national final in Charlotte. decisive victory over Four, the fifth for Izzo and B Detroit is a long way Oklahoma in the South the third for Calhoun — Appreciation from Chapel Hill, N.C., but regional final. and all three have national the Tar Heels (32-4) ought North Carolina is seek- titles on their resumes. Scrambles, Church and Reunion All-Americans Saturday,d AApril il , Scrambles Continued from Sports 1 second straight Final Four 35.8 minutes. State’s Michael Beasley, got with the Tar Heels,is the third Curry averaged 28.6 points, Filer High School Gymnasium Prime 50 first-team votes and 304 North Carolina player to 4.3 rebounds and 5.7 assists as points. This is the fourth repeat. He joins Phil Ford the Wildcats won the Dates Still straight season the 6-foot-9 (1977-78) and Michael Jordan Southern Conference regular SmokerS begins at : pmm forward received All-America (1983-84). season title but lost in the (Doors open at : pm) Available recognition. He was a third- Blair, who was third in the tournament and didn’t make team pick as a freshman and voting with 294 points, aver- the NCAA field. Tickets Available at the Door in June was on the second team after aged 15.6 points and 12.2 Connecticut center his sophomore season. rebounds, was the only post- Hasheem Thabeet led the July & Harden is Arizona State’s season All-America player second team with 238 points General Admission . . . first AP All-America. not to be on the preseason and was joined by three other $ August Griffin, the Big 12 player of team. juniors, Ty Lawson of North Ringside ...... $ the year, is the third Harden was the Pac-10 Carolina, Luke Harangody of Call for Dates Oklahoma player to be select- player of the year after a Notre Dame and Jodie Meeks Proceeds to benefi t Filer Student Athletics and to ed and the first since Stacey sophomore season that saw of Kentucky, along with sen- provide two scholarships in memory of Jesse Woolley & Price Quotes King in 1989. him average 20.8 points, 5.5 ior Jerel McNeal of Hansbrough, who is in his rebounds and 4.4 assists in Marquette. For more information call Laurie White -. 878-9807 Times-News, Twin Falls, Idaho Tuesday, March 31, 2009 Sports 3 Williams, Jazz survive Knicks rally at home SALT LAKE CITY — Deron Carlos Boozer added 21 points ber, Orlando’s big man wrecked (55-18), which stayed five games mer teammates and the Williams had 24 points and 13 and 11 rebounds and Kyle Korver the party. behind Cleveland and percentage Milwaukee Bucks snapped a sea- assists and the Utah Jazz beat the scored 16 as the Jazz won their 15th Dwight Howard scored 22 points points ahead of defending cham- son-high, five-game losing New York Knicks 112-104 on straight home game. and grabbed 18 rebounds, passing pion Boston in the East race. streak. Monday night, rallying after blow- Al Harrington scored 24 to lead Wilt Chamberlain as the youngest Dwyane Wade scored 13 of his 42 Charlie Villanueva added 20 ing a huge lead at home for the sec- the Knicks before getting ejected NBA player to reach the 5,000- points in the fourth quarter for the points for the Bucks, who kept ond straight game. with two technicals for arguing a board mark, and the Magic kept Heat. their slim hopes for a playoff berth The Jazz led by 24 early in the foul call with 22 seconds left. their grip on the No. 2 spot in the alive by snapping a seven-game third quarter, but fell behind by a Eastern Conference. BUCKS 107, NETS 78 road losing streak and sending the point in the fourth before regroup- MAGIC 101, HEAT 95 Rashard Lewis scored 21 points, EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — Nets to their fifth straight loss, ing and closing the game on a 20-11 MIAMI — On the night Miami including the go-ahead 3-pointer Richard Jefferson had 29 points matching their season high. run. retired Alonzo Mourning’s num- with 1:32 remaining for Orlando and 10 rebounds against his for- — The Associated Press SCOREBOARD Atlanta at Philadelphia, 5 p.m. 26. Brian Gay 384 $622,195 Key Biscayne, Fla. BASEBALL Detroit at Cleveland, 5 p.m. 27. Luke Donald 375 $671,976 Purse: Men, $4.5 million (Masters 1000) Women, $4.5 L.A. Lakers at Charlotte, 5 p.m. 28. Tim Clark 364 $648,976 million (Premier) MLB Spring Training Dallas at Minnesota, 6 p.m. GGAAMMEE PPLLAANN 29. Mathew Goggin 359 $618,357 Surface: Hard-Outdoor All Times MDT Oklahoma City at San Antonio, 6:30 p.m. 30. Ben Crane 355 $686,482 Singles AMERICAN LEAGUE New York at Denver, 7 p.m. 31. Paul Casey 354 $918,500 Men W L Pct Utah at Portland, 8 p.m. 32. Stewart Cink 347 $783,992 Third Round New Orleans at Sacramento, 8 p.m. LOCAL HIGH SCHOOL TENNIS 33. Jim Furyk 345 $675,081 Juan Martin del Potro (6), Argentina, def. Janko Los Angeles 23 6 .793 Wednesday’s Games Century at Twin Falls, 3:30 p.m. 34. Ernie Els 332 $629,579 Tipsarevic, Serbia, 6-4, 6-1. New York 20 10 .667 Toronto at Orlando, 5 p.m. HIGH SCHOOL BASEBALL 35. Lucas Glover 329 $533,430 Viktor Troicki, Serbia, def. Bjorn Phau, Germany, 6-4, Texas 18 12 .600 Detroit at New Jersey, 5:30 p.m. 36. Justin Leonard 328 $703,645 6-3. Kansas City 16 11 .593 Charlotte at Boston, 5:30 p.m. Burley at Preston, 3:30 p.m., DH 37. Adam Scott 323 $635,992 Rafael Nadal (1), Spain, def. Frederico Gil, Portugal, 7- Boston 17 12 .586 Washington at Memphis, 6 p.m. Filer at Wendell, 3:30 p.m., DH 38. J.J. Henry 319 $621,967 5, 6-3. Minnesota 16 12 .571 L.A. Lakers at Milwaukee, 6 p.m. TV SCHEDULE 39. Scott Piercy 313 $574,906 Andy Murray (4), Britain, def. Nicolas Massu, Chile, 6- Detroit 13 14 .481 Miami at Dallas, 6:30 p.m. Kimberly at Wood River, 4 p.m. 40. Anthony Kim 305 $661,500 4, 6-4. Tampa Bay 13 14 .481 MEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL Seattle 14 16 .467 Houston at Phoenix, 8 p.m. Minico at Twin Falls, 4 p.m. 41. K.J. Choi 299 $622,308 David Ferrer (11), Spain, def. Marin Cilic (17), Croatia, Sacramento at Golden State, 8:30 p.m. 5 p.m. 42. Charlie Wi 299 $515,315 3-6, 6-3, 6-4. Chicago 14 17 .452 New Orleans at L.A. Clippers, 8:30 p.m. HIGH SCHOOL GOLF 43. John Senden 293 $503,548 Stanislas Wawrinka (16), Switzerland, def. Igor Oakland 14 17 .452 ESPN2 — NIT, semifinal, Baylor vs. Toronto 11 15 .423 Boise, Capital, Centennial, Eagle, 44. Ryuji Imada 293 $380,876 Andreev (20), Russia, 4-6, 6-3, 6-3. San Diego State 45. Briny Baird 291 $372,316 Radek Stepanek (18), Czech Republic, def. Fernando Baltimore 12 17 .414 NBA Boxes Highland, Idaho Falls, Madison, 46. Webb Simpson 288 $524,894 Gonzalez (12), Chile, 7-6 (1), 6-4. Cleveland 11 17 .393 7 p.m. NATIONAL LEAGUE Bucks 107, Nets 78 Meridian, Mountain View, Skyline, 47. Matt Kuchar 286 $468,268 Fernando Verdasco (8), Spain, def. Feliciano Lopez ESPN2 — NIT, semifinal, Notre Dame 48. Robert Allenby 272 $516,395 (32), Spain, 3-6, 6-3, 6-4. W L Pct MILWAUKEE (107) Timberline at Twin Falls Invitational, 49. James Nitties 268 $492,244 Women Milwaukee 18 9 .667 Jefferson 8-12 9-10 29, Villanueva 8-16 2-3 20, Gadzuric T.F. Muni, 9 a.m. vs. Penn State 50. Bob Estes 264 $478,546 Fourth Round Atlanta 18 10 .643 1-1 0-0 2, Sessions 4-11 5-6 13, Bell 2-9 0-0 5, Elson 2-3 NHL HOCKEY Caroline Wozniacki (13), Denmark, def. Elena 0-0 4, Mbah a Moute 4-9 1-3 9, Ridnour 3-6 0-0 7, Community School, Declo, Dementieva (4), Russia, 7-5, 6-4. St. Louis 17 11 .607 Alexander 6-11 2-5 16, Bogans 0-0 0-0 0, Allen 1-2 0-0 5:30 p.m. LPGA Money Leaders Pittsburgh 16 12 .571 Hagerman, Magic Valley Christian, Through March 29 Svetlana Kuznetsova (8), Russia, def. Alisa Kleybanova Chicago 17 15 .531 2, Jones 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 39-81 19-27 107. Murtaugh, Valley at Burley CC, VERSUS — Chicago at Montreal (24), Russia, 6-2, 6-1. San Francisco 17 17 .500 NEW JERSEY (78) Trn Money Victoria Azarenka (11), Belarus, def. Agnes Szavay (25), New York 14 14 .500 Hassell 0-3 0-0 0, Anderson 2-6 2-2 6, Lopez 3-6 4-8 10 a.m. TENNIS 1. Ji Yai Shin 5 $448,517 Hungary, 6-2, 6-4. Colorado 13 16 .448 10, Harris 3-11 4-6 10, Carter 3-11 3-4 9, Hayes 2-6 0-0 Buhl, Filer, Gooding, Kimberly, 11 a.m. 2. Lorena Ochoa 4 $398,369 Venus Williams (5), U.S., def. Agnieszka Radwanska Washington 12 15 .444 4, Dooling 0-2 2-2 2, Yi 2-5 5-6 11, Douglas-Roberts 6-11 3. Angela Stanford 4 $342,185 (10), Poland, 4-6, 6-1, 6-4. Cincinnati 13 17 .433 1-2 14, Boone 1-1 0-0 2, Ager 3-6 1-2 7, Williams 1-2 1-1 Wendell at Clear Lake CC, 1 p.m. FSN — ATP World Tour/WTA Tour, 4. Yani Tseng 5 $291,369 Samantha Stosur, Australia, def. Amelie Mauresmo Los Angeles 13 18 .419 3. Totals 26-70 23-33 78. Castleford, Glenns Ferry, Gooding, Sony Ericsson Open, round of 16, at 5. Karrie Webb 3 $285,183 (20), France, 6-4, 6-4. Florida 11 16 .407 Milwaukee 32 28 24 23 — 107 6. Paula Creamer 4 $230,280 Iveta Benesova (26), Czech Republic, def. Anabel Philadelphia 11 16 .407 New Jersey 13 24 16 25 — 78 Lighthouse Christian, Oakley at Miami 7. Angela Park 4 $228,241 Medina Garrigues (19), Spain, 6-4, 6-1. Arizona 11 18 .379 3-Point Goals—Milwaukee 10-21 (Jefferson 4-5, Gooding CC, 1 p.m. WOMEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL 8. Pat Hurst 4 $214,863 Serena Williams (1), U.S., def. Zheng Jie (17), China, 7- Houston 9 18 .333 Alexander 2-3, Villanueva 2-5, Ridnour 1-2, Bell 1-5, 9. Katherine Hull 4 $197,223 5, 5-7, 6-3. San Diego 8 18 .308 Jones 0-1), New Jersey 3-16 (Yi 2-3, Douglas-Roberts 1- HIGH SCHOOL RODEO 5 p.m. 10. Hee Young Park 5 $173,988 NOTE: Split-squad games count in the standings; 2, Harris 0-1, Ager 0-1, Anderson 0-2, Carter 0-3, Hayes District V cutting event, 5:30 p.m. ESPN — NCAA Division I tourna- 11. Cristie Kerr 5 $170,251 TRANSACTIONS games against non-major league teams do not. 0-4). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—Milwaukee 53 12. Na Yeon Choi 5 $164,983 Monday’s Games (Jefferson 10), New Jersey 51 (Lopez 10). Assists— HIGH SCHOOL SOFTBALL ment, regional final, Connecticut vs. 13. Song-Hee Kim 4 $148,447 BASEBALL Atlanta 4, Boston 3, 10 innings Milwaukee 27 (Sessions 8), New Jersey 15 (Douglas- Century at Minico, 3:30 p.m., DH Arizona State at Trenton, N.J. 14. Eun-Hee Ji 5 $148,242 American League Detroit 3, Washington 2 Roberts 4). Total Fouls—Milwaukee 24, New Jersey 22. 15. Brittany Lang 5 $145,879 CHICAGO WHITE SOX—Optioned RHP Lance N.Y. Yankees 3, Toronto 1 Technical—New Jersey coach Frank. Flagrant Foul— Wood River at Highland, 3:30 p.m, 7 p.m. 16. Suzann Pettersen 5 $140,625 Broadway, RHP Jack Egbert and RHP Jeff Marquez St. Louis 2, Florida 1 Dooling. A—12,205 (19,990). DH ESPN — NCAA Division I tourna- 17. Sun Young Yoo 5 $138,201 to Charlotte (IL). Reassigned INF-OF Josh Kroeger Minnesota 3, Tampa Bay 2 ment, regional final, Purdue vs. 18. In-Kyung Kim 4 $130,011 and LHP Randy Williams to their minor league Philadelphia 13, Houston 3 Magic 101, Heat 95 Skyline at Burley, 3:30 p.m., DH 19. Michelle Wie 2 $112,321 camp. Placed INF Jayson Nix on the 15-day DL, Pittsburgh 3, Cincinnati 2 Oklahoma, at Oklahoma City 20. Ai Miyazato 4 $109,497 retroactive to March 27. Milwaukee 9, Seattle 7 ORLANDO (101) 21. Jane Park 5 $103,701 CLEVELAND INDIANS—Placed OF David Dellucci on Oakland 9, L.A. Dodgers 5 Turkoglu 5-10 6-7 16, Lewis 8-12 0-0 21, Howard 8-11 6- 22. Jee Young Lee 5 $101,565 the 15-day DL. Recalled OF Trevor Crowe from Texas 7, San Francisco 5, 10 innings 9 22, Alston 4-12 4-6 13, Lee 4-7 0-0 10, Pietrus 3-7 0-0 23. Stacy Prammanasudh 5 $97,889 Columbus (IL). Traded LHP Shawn Nottingham to Chicago Cubs 8, Kansas City 8, tie, 10 innings 8, Johnson 1-2 0-0 2, Gortat 2-4 0-0 4, Battie 0-1 0-0 New York Trenton, N.J. 24. Lindsey Wright 5 $79,607 Pittsburgh for future considerations. L.A. Angels 13, Chicago White Sox 3 0, Redick 0-3 5-5 5. Totals 35-69 21-27 101. Semifinals Sunday, March 29 25. Kristy McPherson 5 $72,681 TAMPA BAY RAYS—Released INF Morgan Ensberg. Colorado 10, Arizona 3 MIAMI (95) Baylor (23-14) vs. San Diego State (26-9), 5 p.m. Connecticut 77, California 53 TEXAS RANGERS—Released LHP Jimmy Gobble. N.Y. Mets 2, Baltimore 1 Moon 1-2 0-0 3, Haslem 3-7 0-0 6, O’Neal 5-10 0-0 10, Penn State (25-11) vs. Notre Dame (21-14), 7:30 p.m. Arizona State 84, Texas A&M 69 National League Cleveland 5, San Diego 2 Chalmers 5-11 0-3 13, Wade 16-34 10-13 42, Head 0-2 0- Championship Regional Championship ARIZONA DIAMONDBACKS—Assigned OF Gerardo Tuesday’s Games 0 0, Magloire 3-5 3-5 9, Jones 1-2 0-0 2, Beasley 3-6 0- Thursday, April 2 At Sovereign Bank Arena HOCKEY Parra and OF Chris Roberson to their minor league Tampa Bay vs. Boston at Fort Myers, Fla., 11:05 a.m. 0 6, Cook 2-7 0-0 4. Totals 39-86 13-21 95. Semifinal winners, 5 p.m. Trenton, N.J. camp. Washington vs. Detroit at Lakeland, Fla., 11:05 a.m. Orlando 26 20 24 31 — 101 Tuesday, March 31 NHL ATLANTA BRAVES—Acquired RHP Rudy Darrow from N.Y. Yankees vs. Cincinnati at Sarasota, Fla., 11:05 a.m. Miami 21 22 26 26 — 95 Connecticut (36-0) vs. Arizona State (26-8), 5 p.m. All Times MDT Detroit for OF Josh Anderson and assigned Darrow Pittsburgh vs. Minnesota at Fort Myers, Fla., 11:05 a.m. 3-Point Goals—Orlando 10-19 (Lewis 5-6, Lee 2-3, 2008-09 AP All-America BERKELEY REGIONAL EASTERN to Mississippi (SL). St. Louis vs. Baltimore at Fort Lauderdale, Fla., 11:05 a.m. Pietrus 2-4, Alston 1-4, Redick 0-1, Turkoglu 0-1), Regional Semifinals ATLANTIC W L OT PTS GF GA CHICAGO CUBS—Released C Paul Bako and LHP Mike Miami 4-12 (Chalmers 3-3, Moon 1-1, Wade 0-1, Jones Stanton unconditionally. Kansas City vs. Oakland at Phoenix, 2:05 p.m. Basketball Teams At Haas Pavilion x-New Jersey 47 25 4 98 228 189 San Francisco vs. Texas at Surprise, Ariz., 2:05 p.m. 0-1, Head 0-1, Cook 0-5). Fouled Out—Lee. Rebounds— Statistics through March 15 Berkeley, Calif. CINCINNATI REDS—Optioned OF Norris Hopper and Orlando 51 (Howard 18), Miami 44 (Magloire 8). First Team Philadelphia 41 24 10 92 242 217 RHP Daryl Thompson to Louisville (IL). Reassigned L.A. Angels vs. Chicago Cubs at Mesa, Ariz., 2:05 p.m. Saturday, March 28 Pittsburgh 41 27 8 90 239 225 Seattle vs. Cleveland at Goodyear, Ariz., 2:05 p.m. Assists—Orlando 20 (Turkoglu, Alston 5), Miami 19 Blake Griffin, Oklahoma, 6-10, 251, sophomore, Iowa State 69, Michigan State 68 OF Jacque Jones to their minor league camp. (Chalmers 7). Total Fouls—Orlando 19, Miami 21. Oklahoma City, 21.9 ppg, 14.3 rpg, 2.3 apg, 63.5 fg pct N.Y. Rangers 40 28 9 89 199 208 COLORADO ROCKIES—Optioned OF Carlos Gonzalez, Colorado vs. Chicago White Sox at Phoenix, 2:05 p.m. Stanford 84, Ohio State 66 N.Y. Islanders 25 41 9 59 189 244 L.A. Dodgers vs. Arizona at Tucson, Ariz., 2:05 p.m. Technicals—Miami defensive three second 2. A—19,600 (71 first-place votes, 335 points) Regional Championship OF Matt Murton and LHP Greg Smith to Colorado N.Y. Mets vs. Florida at Jupiter, Fla., 5:05 p.m. (19,600). Tyler Hansbrough, North Carolina, 6-9, 250, senior, At Haas Pavilion NORTHEAST W L OT PTS GF GA Springs (PCL). Reassigned C Edwin Bellorin, LHP Atlanta vs. Houston at Kississimme, Fla., 5:05 p.m. Poplar Bluff, Mo., 21.4 ppg, 8.2 rpg, 52.2 fg pct, 85.6 ft Berkeley, Calif. Randy Flores and C Paul Phillips to their minor Toronto vs. Philadelphia at Clearwater, Fla., 5:05 p.m. pct (50, 304) y-Boston 48 17 10 106 254 179 league camp. Jazz 112, Knicks 104 Monday, March 30 Montreal 38 27 10 86 226 229 Milwaukee vs. San Diego at Peoria, Ariz., 8:05 p.m. DeJuan Blair, Pittsburgh, 6-7, 265, sophomore, Stanford 74, Iowa State 53 Buffalo 37 30 8 82 226 217 HOUSTON ASTROS—Released INF David Newhan NEW YORK (104) Pittsburgh, 15.6 ppg, 12.2 rpg, 59.9 fg pct, 1.5 steals RALEIGH REGIONAL Ottawa 33 32 10 76 200 215 unconditionally. Reassigned RHP Chad Paronto to Chandler 5-10 3-4 14, Harrington 7-17 8-8 24, Lee 8-14 (49, 294) Regional Semifinals Toronto 31 32 13 75 230 271 their minor league camp. BASKETBALL 5-8 21, Duhon 3-5 0-0 8, Hughes 1-3 0-0 3, Robinson 3- James Harden, Arizona State, 6-5, 218, sophomore, At RBC Center LOS ANGELES DODGERS—Agreed to terms with LHP 7 4-4 11, Jeffries 4-8 3-5 11, Wilcox 4-6 1-2 9, Curry 1-1 Los Angeles, 20.8 ppg, 5.5 rpg, 4.2 apg, 35.8 minutes, Raleigh, N.C. SOUTHEAST W L OT PTS GF GA Will Ohman on a one-year contract. NBA 1-3 3. Totals 36-71 25-34 104. 50.2 fg pct (45, 290) Saturday, March 28 x-Washington 46 23 7 99 245 222 MILWAUKEE BREWERS—Placed RHP Trevor Hoffman All Times MDT UTAH (112) Stephen Curry, Davidson, 6-3, 185, junior, Charlotte, Louisville 56, Baylor 39 Carolina 42 28 7 91 220 214 on the 15-day DL, retroactive to March 27. Optioned EASTERN Miles 3-6 0-0 8, Boozer 8-13 5-7 21, Okur 3-7 0-1 8, N.C., 28.6 ppg, 4.3 rpg, 5.7 apg, 87.6 ft pct, 2.6 steals Maryland 78, Vanderbilt 74 Florida 37 28 11 85 213 216 INF Hernan Iribarren to Nashville (PCL). Assigned C- ATLANTIC W L Pct GB Williams 10-21 4-4 24, Brewer 8-12 1-3 17, Millsap 4-7 4- (49, 288) Regional Championship Atlanta 32 38 6 70 237 262 INF Vinny Rotino to their minor league camp. Second Second NEW YORK METS—Agreed to terms with LHP Ken y-Boston 56 19 .747 — 5 12, Korver 4-6 7-8 16, Knight 1-1 0-0 2, Kirilenko 1-4 At RBC Center Tampa Bay 24 35 17 65 196 252 0-0 2, Harpring 0-0 2-2 2. Totals 42-77 23-30 112. Hasheem Thabeet, Connecticut, 7-3, 263, junior, Dar es Raleigh, N.C. WESTERN Takahashi on a minor-league contract. Philadelphia 37 35 .514 17½ Salaam, Tanzania, 13.7, 10.9 rpg, 4.6 blocks, 64.3 fg PITTSBURGH PIRATES—Optioned INF Brian Bixler to New Jersey 30 44 .405 25½ New York 24 22 32 26 — 104 Monday, March 30 CENTRAL W L OT PTS GF GA Utah 36 31 19 26 — 112 pct (19, 238) Louisville 77, Maryland 60 Indianapolis (IL). Reassigned OF Andrew McCutchen New York 29 45 .392 26½ Ty Lawson, North Carolina, 5-11, 195, junior, Clinton, to their minor league camp. Toronto 28 45 .384 27 3-Point Goals—New York 7-23 (Duhon 2-4, Harrington OKLAHOMA CITY REGIONAL y-Detroit 49 18 9 107 279 225 2-10, Hughes 1-1, Robinson 1-3, Chandler 1-3, Jeffries 0- Md., 15.9 ppg, 6.5 apg, 46.7 3-pt fg pct, 80.9 ft pct, 2.0 Regional Semifinals Chicago 40 23 11 91 242 202 ST. LOUIS CARDINALS—Optioned RHP Chris Perez to SOUTHEAST W L Pct GB 1, Lee 0-1), Utah 5-11 (Okur 2-2, Miles 2-3, Korver 1-2, steals (28, 232) At Ford Center Columbus 39 29 8 86 212 211 Memphis (PCL). Reassigned C Matt Pagnozzi to their y-Orlando 55 18 .753 — Brewer 0-2, Williams 0-2). Fouled Out—Duhon. Luke Harangody, Notre Dame, 6-8, 255, junior, Oklahoma City Nashville 38 30 8 84 196 209 minor league camp. x-Atlanta 43 31 .581 12½ Rebounds—New York 44 (Lee 10), Utah 42 (Boozer 11). Schererville, Ind., 23.2 ppg, 12.0 rpg, 2.1 apg (6, 135) Sunday, March 29 St. Louis 37 30 9 83 214 219 WASHINGTON NATIONALS—Reassigned RHP Ryan Miami 39 35 .527 16½ Assists—New York 19 (Duhon 7), Utah 27 (Williams 13). Jodie Meeks, Kentucky, 6-4, 208, junior, Norcross, Ga., Purdue 67, Rutgers 61 NORTHWEST W L OT PTS GF GA Wagner to their minor league camp. Charlotte 33 40 .452 22 Total Fouls—New York 26, Utah 25. Technicals—New 24.2 ppg, 3.5 rpg, 40.1 3-pt fg pct, 89.7 ft pct (8, 117) Oklahoma 70, Pittsburgh 59 BASKETBALL Washington 17 58 .227 39 York coach D’Antoni, Harrington 2, New York defensive Jerel McNeal, Marquette, 6-3, 200, senior, Chicago, Regional Championship Calgary 43 26 6 92 241 230 National Basketball Association three second, Utah defensive three second. Ejected— 19.3 ppg, 4.5 rpg, 3.8 apg, 40.6 3-pt fg pct (7, 114) At Ford Center Vancouver 41 25 9 91 229 203 CHARLOTTE BOBCATS—Named Pete Guelli executive CENTRAL W L Pct GB Harrington. A—19,911 (19,911). Third Team Oklahoma City Edmonton 36 31 9 81 218 231 vice president and chief sales and marketing officer. y-Cleveland 60 13 .822 — Terrence Williams, Louisville, 6-6, 215, senior, Seattle, Tuesday, March 31 Minnesota 36 32 8 80 195 187 NBA Development League Detroit 36 37 .493 24 12.3 ppg, 8.5 rpg, 5.1 apg, 2.5 steals (4, 103) Purdue (25-10) vs. Oklahoma (31-4), 7 p.m. Colorado 31 43 2 64 193 247 RIO GRANDE VALLEY VIPERS—Acquired G Cliff Chicago 36 39 .480 25 Sunday’s Late NBA Box Sherron Collins, Kansas, 5-11, 200, junior, Chicago, 18.3 FINAL FOUR PACIFIC W L OT PTS GF GA Clinkscales from the player pool. Waived G Jeff ppg, 5.0 apg (3, 94) Milwaukee 32 43 .427 29 Kings 126, Suns 118 At Scottrade Center Trepagnier. Indiana 31 43 .419 29½ Toney Douglas, Florida State, 6-2, 200, senior, St. Louis y-San Jose 49 15 11 109 243 187 FOOTBALL WESTERN PHOENIX (118) Jonesboro, Ga., 21.3 ppg, 3.9 rpg, 36.4 minutes, 1.9 National Semifinals Anaheim 38 32 6 82 219 217 National Football League steals (4, 85) Dallas 33 33 9 75 209 234 SOUTHWEST W L Pct GB Barnes 1-6 2-2 4, Hill 9-15 1-1 19, O’Neal 9-13 6-15 24, Sunday, April 5 HOUSTON TEXANS—Signed DT Shaun Cody. Richardson 5-13 2-4 16, Nash 12-21 2-2 31, Amundson 1- Sam Young, Pittsburgh, 6-6, 220, senior, Clinton, Md., Trenton champion vs. Stanford (33-4), 7 or 7:30 p.m. Los Angeles 31 33 11 73 191 219 NEW ORLEANS SAINTS—Re-signed QB Joey San Antonio 48 25 .658 — 3 0-0 2, Dudley 7-13 2-2 17, Dragic 1-3 0-0 2, Tucker 0-2 18.7 ppg, 6.1 rpg (1, 79) Louisville (33-4) vs. Oklahoma City champion, 7 or Phoenix 31 37 7 69 186 230 Harrington. x-Houston 48 26 .649 ½ 0-0 0, Swift 1-3 1-2 3, Lopez 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 46-93 16- Gerald Henderson, Duke, 6-4, 215, junior, Merion, Pa., 7:30 p.m. Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss or SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS—Signed OT Marvel Smith to New Orleans 45 27 .625 2½ 28 118. 16.6 ppg, 4.8 rpg (4, 74) National Championship shootout loss. a two-year contract. Dallas 43 30 .589 5 SACRAMENTO (126) Honorable Mention Tuesday, April 7 x-clinched playoff spot HOCKEY Memphis 18 54 .250 29½ Nocioni 7-11 2-2 19, Thompson 8-14 5-9 21, Hawes 10-16 Jeff Adrien, Connecticut; Josh Akognon, Cal State y-clinched division National Hockey League Semifinal winners, 6:30 p.m. Sunday’s Games NORTHWEST W L Pct GB 0-0 20, Martin 6-17 3-4 17, Udrih 6-10 4-5 16, Jackson Fullerton; Cole Aldrich, Kansas; Alex Barnett, ANAHEIM DUCKS—Signed D Mark Mitera to a three- 1-6 0-0 2, Garcia 7-13 3-3 19, McCants 4-8 4-4 12, Booth Dartmouth; Marqus Blakely, Vermont; Craig Brackins, Nashville 4, Detroit 3 year entry-level contract and assigned him to Iowa Denver 48 26 .649 — 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 49-95 21-27 126. Iowa State; Michael Bramos, Miami (Ohio); Jon GOLF St. Louis 5, Columbus 2 (AHL). Portland 46 27 .630 1½ Phoenix 33 31 32 22 — 118 Brockman, Washington; Brandon Brooks, Alabama Ottawa 3, Tampa Bay 0 MINNESOTA WILD—Signed C Cody Almond. Utah 46 27 .630 1½ Sacramento 35 35 35 21 — 126 State; John Bryant, Santa Clara. Vancouver 4, Chicago 0 NASHVILLE PREDATORS—Recalled F Mike Santorelli Minnesota 21 53 .284 27 3-Point Goals—Phoenix 10-26 (Nash 5-8, Richardson 4- Chase Budinger, Arizona; DeMarre Carroll, Missouri; PGA Tour FedExCup Leaders Boston 4, Philadelphia 3 from Milwaukee (AHL). Oklahoma City 20 53 .274 27½ 9, Dudley 1-4, O’Neal 0-1, Dragic 0-1, Tucker 0-1, Jeremy Chappell, Robert Morris; Dionte Christmas, Through March 29 Anaheim 4, Colorado 1 OTTAWA SENATORS—Reassigned C Jim O’Brien from Barnes 0-2), Sacramento 7-22 (Nocioni 3-6, Garcia 2-3, Temple; Earl Clark, Louisville; Darren Collison, UCLA; Rank Name Points YTD Money Minnesota 3, Edmonton 2 Seattle (WHL) to Binghamton (AHL). PACIFIC W L Pct GB Monday’s Games Martin 2-6, Jackson 0-1, Udrih 0-2, Hawes 0-2, McCants Dante Cunningham, Villanova; Devan Downey, South 1. Geoff Ogilvy 1,204 $2,730,577 SAN JOSE SHARKS—Signed D Nick Petrecki and D Joe z-L.A. Lakers 58 15 .795 — 0-2). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—Phoenix 59 Carolina; Tyreke Evans, Memphis; Levance Fields, N.Y. Rangers 3, New Jersey 0 Loprieno. Phoenix 40 34 .541 18½ 2. Phil Mickelson 1,153 $2,704,290 San Jose at Calgary, late (Dudley 11), Sacramento 52 (Hawes 10). Assists— Pittsburgh. 3. Nick Watney 1,137 $2,333,660 WASHINGTON CAPITALS—Recalled G Simeon Golden State 25 48 .342 33 Phoenix 26 (Nash 14), Sacramento 25 (Udrih 7). Total Jonny Flynn, Syracuse; Kenny Hasbrouck, Siena; Dallas at Phoenix, late Varlamov from Hershey (AHL). L.A. Clippers 18 56 .243 40½ 4. Kenny Perry 948 $1,952,263 Tuesday’s Games Fouls—Phoenix 21, Sacramento 24. A—13,623 (17,317). Jordan Hill, Arizona; Matt Howard, Butler; Lester 5. Zach Johnson 900 $1,827,850 COLLEGE Sacramento 16 56 .222 41½ Hudson, Tennessee-Martin; Matt Kingsley, Stephen F. Tampa Bay at Boston, 5 p.m. WESTERN ATHLETIC CONFERENCE—Suspended the x-clinched playoff spot 6. Retief Goosen 793 $1,547,595 Nashville at Columbus, 5 p.m. Austin; Kalin Lucas, Michigan State; Eric Maynor, 7. Pat Perez 783 $1,395,396 New Mexico State mascot one game for an incident y-clinched division Men’s NCAA Tournament Virginia Commonwealth; Kellen McCoy, Weber State; Chicago at Montreal, 5:30 p.m. during a March 13 men’s basketball tournament z-clinched conference 8. Sean O’Hair 759 $1,606,342 Ottawa at Florida, 5:30 p.m. All Times MDT Tywain McKee, Coppin State. 9. Dustin Johnson 750 $1,591,191 game against Utah State. Sunday’s Games FINAL FOUR Orlando Mendez-Valdez, Western Kentucky; Derrick Vancouver at Minnesota, 6 p.m. FLORIDA—Announced junior G Nick Calathes will Cleveland 102, Dallas 74 10. Steve Stricker 726 $1,434,923 Anaheim at Edmonton, 7 p.m. At Ford Field Mercer, American; Luke Nevill, Utah; Ahmad Nivins, 11. Charley Hoffman 629 $1,153,590 enter the NBA draft. Toronto 134, Chicago 129, OT Detroit Saint Joseph’s; Artsiom Parakhouski, Radford; A.J. Dallas at Los Angeles, 8:30 p.m. GEORGETOWN—Announced junior F DaJuan Atlanta 86, L.A. Lakers 76 12. Tiger Woods 622 $1,317,500 Wednesday’s Games National Semifinals Price, Connecticut; Alex Renfroe, Belmont; Tyrese Rice, 13. John Rollins 604 $1,233,979 Summers will enter the NBA draft. Minnesota 108, New Jersey 99 Saturday, April 4 Boston College; Kyle Singler, Duke; Jermaine Taylor, Buffalo at Atlanta, 5 p.m. MINNESOTA—Announced the resignation of diving Detroit 101, Philadelphia 97 14. Y.E. Yang 580 $1,142,271 N.Y. Islanders at Washington, 5 p.m. Michigan State (30-6) vs. Connecticut (31-4), 4:07 p.m. Central Florida. 15. Mike Weir 547 $1,097,485 coach Jason Baumann. Indiana 124, Washington 115 Villanova (30-7) vs. North Carolina (32-4), 6:47 p.m. Jeff Teague, Wake Forest; Marcus Thornton, LSU; Evan New Jersey at Pittsburgh, 5:30 p.m. NEBRASKA—Signed football coach Bo Pelini to a con- Boston 103, Oklahoma City 84 16. Kevin Na 532 $1,080,540 Philadelphia at Toronto, 5:30 p.m. National Championship Turner, Ohio State; Jarvis Varnado, Mississippi State; 17. Charles Howell III 525 $887,666 tract extension through Feb. 2014. New Orleans 90, San Antonio 86 Monday, April 6 Gary Wilkinson, Utah State; Booker Woodfox, St. Louis at Chicago, 6:30 p.m. NEBRASKA-OMAHA—Announced the resignation of Sacramento 126, Phoenix 118 18. David Toms 507 $925,505 Phoenix at Colorado, 7 p.m. Semifinal winners Creighton; Ben Woodside, North Dakota State. 19. Davis Love III 465 $855,489 athletic director David Miller who is taking the same Monday’s Games position at Upper Iowa. Milwaukee 107, New Jersey 78 20. Brett Quigley 455 $901,886 21. John Merrick 427 $771,507 TENNIS TRINITY, TEXAS—Named Allison Lawrence assistant Orlando 101, Miami 95 Men’s NIT Women’s NCAA Tournament volleyball coach. Utah 112, New York 104 All Times MDT 22. D.J. Trahan 412 $701,275 All Times MDT 23. Camilo Villegas 401 $854,400 UNION, TENN.—Announced the resignation of men’s Memphis at Golden State, late Semifinals TRENTON REGIONAL Sony Ericsson Open basketball coach Ralph Turner. Tuesday’s Games Tuesday, March 31 24. Mark Wilson 397 $832,833 Monday Regional Semifinals 25. Jeff Klauk 387 $586,505 VIRGINIA—Named Tony Bennett men’s basketball Chicago at Indiana, 5 p.m. At Madison Square Garden At Sovereign Bank Arena At The Tennis Center at Crandon Park coach. Dice-K makes first start with Boston since WBC Daisuke Matsuzaka got a kick out of District V rodeo holds smoker facing countryman Kenshin Kawakami M AGIC V ALLEY in his first start since he helped Japan Woolley Memorial smoker set Sports Shorts GOODING — The 17th Annual Fifth win the World Baseball Classic. Rich District High School Rodeo Boxing Smoker Harden also was feeling pretty good FILER — Boxers are needed for the Jesse Send Magic Valley briefs to [email protected] will be held at 7:30 p.m., Friday at the about his first start for the Chicago Cubs Woolley Memorial Boxing Smoker on Gooding High School Gymnasium. in two weeks. Saturday. Interested men and women are Entry fee is $10 and includes lunch. Green Tickets may be purchased at Seiferts in Matsuzaka allowed two hits and an invited to a tryout and weigh-in at noon and cart fees are additional. Gooding or at the door. Proceeds support earned run over five innings in his return Saturday at the Filer High gymnasium. The Information: 208-878-9807. Rotary scholarships and Fifth District to the Boston Red Sox. Kawakami gave event begins at 8 p.m., doors open at 7. Rodeo scholarships. Information: Kent up a two-run homer to Rocco Baldelli for Tickets are $7 for general admission and $12 Mini-Cassia all-star tryouts set Seifert at 934-4119 or Craig Hobdey at his only runs, and the Atlanta Braves ral- for ringside seats.The event is sponsored by 934-4309 or 934-4429. lied to beat the Red Sox 4-3 in 10 innings the Filer Booster Club. RUPERT — Mini-Cassia all-star baseball on Monday. Information: Ed White 731-4095. tryouts will be held Thursday and Friday at Filer YBA seeks sponsorship help More than 30 Japanese media mem- Big Valley Park in Rupert. Tryouts are for bers in the press box made the game a bit Gooding hosts best-ball tourney the Express team (ages 9-10) and the Braves FILER — Cedar Lanes in Filer will host more intense for the starters. (ages 11-12). Registration will begin at the Idaho State Youth Championship “With so many media, I guess I felt a GOODING — The Gooding Golf Course 5 p.m., Thursday. Bowling Tournament, beginning Saturday little more excited,” Kawakami said Two-man Best-ball tournament will be Information: Eric at 431-8811. and continuing each weekend through through an interpreter. “If I was in held Saturday and Sunday. The cost is $120 April. Japan, I’d probably enjoy (the matchup) per team and the entry deadline is 7 p.m., Filer holds sports sign-ups The usual number of entries is between also.” Thursday. 650 and 700 children that range in age from Kawakami, who was signed by the Information: 934-9977. FILER — Filer Community Recreation 3 to 22.The Filer Youth Bowling Association Braves this winter after starring in District will hold registration for baseball, is responsible for providing bowling towels Japan, pitched six innings and gave up Burley men hold scramble softball, pitching machine and T-ball from and goody bags to every participant. The four hits in Kissimmee, Fla. He did not 6-8 p.m., Thursday at Filer Middle School. association is looking for sponsorships play in the WBC. BURLEY — Burley Golf Course will hold Sign-ups continue from 6-8 p.m., April 6- from local businesses to help provide good- Matsuzaka, who was the MVP of the its opening golf scramble for the Burley’s 10, at the Filer File Station. The cost is $30, ies, fliers or coupons. tournament, liked the timing of the Men’s Club on Saturday. The two-man, with the exception of T-ball, which is $25. Information: Juliet Ridgeway at Cedar pitching pairing as he adjusted from the best ball event begins with a 9 a.m. meet- Insurance is $8.50 is necessary. Lanes (326-5903) or [email protected]. pressure of the WBC to spring training. ing, followed by a 10 a.m. shotgun start. Information: Bob Hansing at 326-3327. — Staff and wire reports Sports 4 Tuesday, March 31, 2009 COMICS Times-News, Twin Falls, Idaho B.C. 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