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81 / 50 Do not resuscitate? BRONCOS A look at family decisions TRAMPLE about the end of life. COWBOYS >>> Family Life 1 Mostly sunny. >>> Sports 1 Sports 8 OUT OF CASH >>> Idaho’s unemployment trust fund’s situation expected to worsen, BUSINESS 1 SUNDAY $1.50 September 19, 2010 TIMES-NEWS Magicvalley.com Guard loses one of own Soldiers regroup before deployment By Laura Lundquist Times-News writer Soldiers know that com- rades may die when they are sent overseas but none expect to lose one while still on home soil. On Saturday, members of the 116th Cavalry Brigade Combat Team attended the services of fellow soldier Christopher Lubacky of Meridian. Lubacky, 24, died Monday, just a week before ASHLEY SMITH/Times-News, photo illustration SANDY SALAS/Times-News he was to ship out with the Vehicles drive along Addison Avenue West on Monday near St. Luke’s Magic Valley Medical Center in Twin Falls. While the hospital has long been the face of the west- rest of the team to train in ern entrance to Twin Falls along U.S. Highway 30, many questions remain about what will happen to the area when St. Luke’s moves into a new facility in May 2011. Mississippi for two months before heading to Iraq. Members of the 116th were originally scheduled to attend a Charlie Company Family Day at Idaho Power Park near Hagerman on Life Saturday. Sonya Nowland, Family Readiness Group representative, said the command staff had canceled the picnic to allow soldiers to support attend the funeral services. “They thought it best to handle it this way,”Nowland said.“Now the soldiers need to regroup and get ready to go overseas.” Eventual loss of See GUARD, Main 2 St. Luke’s stokes concerns of exodus Boy Scouts of nearby businesses shield abuser files used to ASHLEY SMITH/Times-News By Nick Coltrain — Times-News writer Medical Office Pharmacy pharmacist Anita Roberts, left, and Talisha Moreno look up a prescription Thursday at the business that is located in St. Luke’s Magic Valley Medical Center in Twin Falls. It remains uncertain whether vet volunteers Medical supply company Norco the pharmacy will be able to move with the hospital when it moves to its new location in May 2011. By Scott K. Parks was the first to leave. The Dallas Morning News Its new location — a prime spot less than a mile from the new St. DALLAS — The Boy Scouts of America calls Luke’s Magic Valley Medical Center Options are wide open for them the “perversion files.’’ in northwest Twin Falls — is The stories locked inside scrawled across the windows of its a neat row of metal file cab- filling vacant hospital facility inets at BSA headquarters in now-vacant Addison Avenue build- Irving would sicken the ing, drawing concerns that office most callous reader. Many fronts around it will display similar ‘Excited’ economic developer calls mass of them document the ST. LUKE’S MOVE activities of a pedophile signs when St. Luke’s vacates its availability of office space ‘unprecedented’ Number of plats to revert to banned from Scouting for current facility next summer. county control: 12 molesting boys in tents, on hikes or while helping them St. Luke’s move will leave a void greater By Nick Coltrain ideas,”Kramer said. “But the Square feet of medical facility: 300,000 square feet earn merit badges. than its 300,000-square-foot building. It’ll Times-News writer real question is if there is any The BSA, the nation’s take with it tenants in its auxiliary properties money in it.” Move date for hospital: May 21 End of hospital’s lease: July 1 premier youth organization, and its magnet-like quality for medical busi- A few select ideas have Simply put, the options its wholesome image honed nesses it brought to the area. been bandied about to fill are wide open, from multi- Commissioner Terry Kramer’s estimate for beginning to by iconic Norman Rockwell A swath of vacancies is a worst-case sce- the vacancy St. Luke’s Magic ple businesses renting paintings throughout the nario of sorts — some private medical practi- Valley Medical Center will offices to a single widget market the building: October 2011 20th century, has meticu- tioners say they plan to wait and determine leave in May: substance maker using all 300,000 lously kept the files since the move’s impact on their business before abuse clinic, Department of square feet of the main the 1920s. deciding whether to follow — but not an out- Veterans Affairs health care building. And there will be Region IV Development, an They number in the thou- landish one. facility, county jail. plenty of space to explore economic development firm sands, but no one knows “That’s a serious problem,”said Twin Falls But, more than a year the possibilities with: the in Twin Falls. “Getting this much about them because County Commissioner Terry Kramer. “The before Twin Falls County county will take back control amount of office space avail- Scout executives and their last thing we want is to create an urban- Commissioner Terry of 12 plats of land, all with able in such a short amount lawyers insist they remain of time is really unprecedent- blight-type situation.” Kramer thinks the property buildings on them. confidential. ed in the state.” While Kramer’s optimistic that won’t hap- will be completely available, “We’re kind of excited Now, a growing chorus of He said his office gets fairly pen, it’s always a concern, he said. With Norco those are ideas and nothing about all of the office space critics is calling on the more. for new business creation,” See LIFE, Main 5 “We can have tons of said Joe Herring, president of See OPTIONS, Main 4 See SCOUTS, Main 2 Bridge ..............Classifieds 8 Kids Only ........Family Life 6 Obituaries........Business 6-7 Crossword ......Classifieds 6 Jumble ............Classifieds 2 Sudoku ............Classifieds 9 FALL FOLIAGE IN OUR OWN BACKYARD Dear Abby........Classifieds 5 Movies ..................Opinion 7 Your Business ....Business 2 N. Idaho has a subtle beauty all its own > Main 8 If you are over 40, have a family Free Prostate Screening history of prostate cancer, have at St. Luke’s Mountain States Tumor Institute never been screened, or have gone September 21, 22, 6-9 p.m. 12 months or more since your last Appointment required. Call St. Luke’s 737-2998, screening, call to schedule this press option “2” simple, life-saving exam. MORNINGMORNINGMain 2 Sunday, September 19, 2010 BRIEFINGBRIEF- Times-News, Twin Falls, Idaho Pat’s Picks TODAY’S HAPPENINGS Three things to do today ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT events), at svspiritualfilmfestival.org; 100-target event, sign-up 9 a.m. and Pat Marcantonio Jerome Senior Center’s public dance, individual tickets are sold at the door, shotgun 10 a.m., 11 miles north of the with music by Melody Masters, 2 to 5 $8 per movie and $15 per special junction of U.S. Highway 93 and I-84 at • Tour 10 historical makers making appear- event, 788-9729. mile marker 64, if you have never shot buildings at Silver City from ances. Tickets are $8 per p.m., 520 N. Lincoln St., $4, 324-5642. 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