GLENNS FERRY to GREEN BAY 10,000 Small Business Loans Q&A with NFL Fullback Korey Hall Kicks Off Are Expected, but Many Banks Aren’T Participating
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79 / 58 Rescue on the way? GLENNS FERRY TO GREEN BAY 10,000 small business loans Q&A with NFL fullback Korey Hall kicks off are expected, but many banks aren’t participating. Afternoon seven days of football, Sports 1 storms. S EE B USINESS 1 Business 8 CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE SUPERNATURAL KIND >>> Historical Shoshone house has eerie aura, FAMILY LIFE 1 SUNDAY $1.50 August 23, 2009 MagicValley.com CANYON RIDGE:CANYON A HISTORY BEGINS Was he serious? Former employee says Mikesell angled for SIRCOMM job By Jared S. Hopkins Times-News writer A former Southern Idaho Regional Comm- unications Center opera- tions manager says she lost her job in “a so-called reduction in force” and reorganization that appeared aimed at mak- ing Tom Mikesell, a Twin Falls County Comm- issioner and SIRCOMM board chairman, the cen- ter’s permanent director. Linda Lickley, 55, was a seven-year employee of the emergency dispatch By Ben Botkin center and was its sec- Times-News writer ond-in-command in April when Mikesell A new chapter in the history of Twin Falls informed her she was being laid off. She said public education begins Monday when the Mikesell intended to use doors of Canyon Ridge High School open for part of the money saved to increase the salary of the more than 900 students. center director — a job he It will be the first day of classes ever at the $47.4 SIRCOMM million, 220,000-square-foot high school, the See , Main 2 culmination of years of politics, financing, plan- Magicvalley.com ning and construction of the city’s newest land- READ Linda mark. Lickley’s first- But the future is just beginning for the second major hand account of high school in Twin Falls, which has the capacity to grow problems at the to 1,500 students as needed. Southern Idaho Regional Communications “It’s really neat to see how much excitement there is Center. about going to school,” said Brady Dickinson, principal of Canyon Ridge. And Canyon Ridge isn’t your grandfather’s high school. It has more than the traditional mix of classrooms, prin- cipal’s office and gymnasium. With more than 50 miles of Into the data cable and 400-plus computers, Canyon Ridge is wired with tools and technology for 21st-century students. wild blue See CANYON RIDGE, Main 5 yonder Former migrant worker about to Photos by MEAGAN THOMPSON/Times-News ABOVE: People take a peek at the new gymnasium in Canyon Ridge High School blast into space during its opening tour Aug. 14. Classes at the new Twin Falls high school begin Monday. By Marcia Dunn Associated Press writer TOP: A crowd gathers to celebrate the opening of the newly constructed Canyon Ridge High School Aug. 14 in Twin Falls. CAPE CANAVERAL, LEFT: Students try out the seats in the new auditorium during the opening tour Fla. — He toiled in at Canyon Ridge High School Aug. 14 in Twin Falls. California’s farm fields alongside his Mexican WATCH a video about Canyon Ridge High School. migrant worker parents READ Ben Botkin’s new School Zone blog on local education. and didn’t learn English MAGICVALLEY.COM until he was 12. Now Jose Hernandez, NASA astro- naut, is about to SKAGGS EVENT CENTER: THE $1.7 MILLION STADIUM rocket into orbit. the new Burley High School event facility, His par- By Damon Hunzeker which has operated under less-than- ents will be Times-News writer complete conditions for the past year, in Florida boasts some of the most advanced lighting next week BURLEY — Budge Field. Stadium. A and highest seating capacity in the state, for space Hernandez facility barely alive. especially for a relatively modest munici- shuttle Gentlemen, we can rebuild it. We have pality. Discovery’s launch, as will the donations. We have the capability to While most people imagine small-town his two older brothers and build the school’s first bionic football football games as dim, sparsely populated sister, who also worked field. Samuel M. Skaggs Event Center will affairs, the Skaggs Center seats well over the cucumber, sugar beet be that place. 4,000 people — possibly as much as and tomato fields back in Better than it was before. Better, 5,000, District Superintendent Gaylen the 1960s and 1970s. stronger, faster. Smyer said — but one of its unique fea- “A lot of kids loved All right, it’s not actually bionic – and, tures is the lighting. RYAN HOWE/Times-News summer vacation,’’ unlike “The Six Million Dollar Man,” it Burley High School football players run during a recent practice on the arti- only cost $1.7 million, so far. Regardless, See SKAGGS, Main 5 ficial turf of the Skaggs Event Center, which is encircled by a new track. 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MORNINGMORNINGMain 2 Sunday, August 23, 2009 BRIEFINGBRIEF- Times-News, Twin Falls, Idaho Pat’s Picks TODAY’S HAPPENINGS Three things to do today ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT 2569 or [email protected]. features music, food, children’s activities, Music from Stanley concert series, features field trips to spawning grounds, salmon Pat Marcantonio Idaho musical group A Seasonal Disguise, 4 EDUCATION/LECTURES education, storytelling, and local arts and to 8 p.m., Redfish Lake Lodge, Stanley, no Sun Valley Writers’ Conference, features crafts, presented by Idaho Rivers United, 10 • Visit a gem in your • Or hit the trails at the cost, 208-484-9117 or talks, panels, readings and small-group dis- a.m. to 4 p.m., Pioneer Park, Stanley, free backyard. Murtaugh Lake Craters of the Moon [email protected]. cussions led by writers, Sun Valley Pavilion admission,1-800-878-7950. Park is a place where you National Monument. They Latin Jazz in the Garden, Latin Jazz and Sun Valley Resort, Sun Valley, single- can picnic, boat, camp and range from less than a mile To have an event listed, please submit the Ensemble (Phil Garonzik, sax and flute; event tickets: $25 each per presentation, even play volleyball. Find it to 8 miles, both above name of the event, a brief description, time, Russ Caldwell, Conga drums, percussion; 888-655-6529 or at the conference near off of U.S. Highway 30 east ground and in tunnels. But place, cost and contact number to Suzanne Bill Courtial, guitar; and Jeff Rew, bass) to the main entrance, schedule: of Twin Falls. what they have in common Browne by e-mail at sbrowne@magicval- play jazz with Brazilian and Afro Cuban www.svwc.com or 726-5454. • Discover Bear Lake State is walking by the unique lava rhythms; bring picnics (wine permissible), ley.com; by fax, 734-5538; or by mail, Park. The lake is 20 miles and volcano scenery. It’s 18 low chair or blanket,6 to 8 p.m., Knob Hill, FESTIVALS AND FAIRS Times-News, P.O.Box 548, Twin Falls, ID long and 8 miles wide with miles southwest of Arco on Inn, Ketchum, $5 cover, beer and wine avail- 83303-0548. Deadline is noon, four days in half in Idaho and half in Highway 20/26/93. able for purchase, 208-721-1624, 208-788- The 10th annual Sawtooth Salmon Festival, advance of the event. Utah. You’ll also find a two- mile-long beach or you can Have your own pick you fish for native cutthroat or want to share? Something lake trout. It’s two hours that is unique to the area and PHOTOGRAPHIC MEMORIES south of Pocatello. that may take people by sur- Information: 208-847- prise? E-mail me at 1045. [email protected]. Hernandez Continued from Main 1 than you will.’’ Hernandez said in a recent Each year, the Hernandez interview. “We dreaded it family would make the two- because we knew what that day car trip from La Piedad meant. That meant we were de Cavadas in the central going to be working seven Mexican state of Michoacan days a week in the fields.’’ to California in March, work- Hernandez, 47, vividly ing their way northward with recalls being dusty, sweaty the crops, until November. and tired in the back seat of Then it was back to Mexico the family’s car after a hard until the next March. The day of labor. Before starting parents insisted their chil- the engine, his father would dren always attend school. look back at his children and Hernandez, who was born tell them, “Remember this in French Camp, Calif., feeling because if you guys remembers asking his sec- don’t do well in school, this is ond-grade teacher for a cou- your future.’’ ple months’ worth of home- Photo courtesy Twin Falls Public Library “That was pretty power- work when it came time for In 1909, Walter Priebe — who lived to be 106 — started the ful,’’Hernandez recalled. the family’s annual pilgrim- All four took it to heart. age back to Mexico. The Southern Idaho Fish and Game Association to help conserve wildlife Each graduated from high teacher urged his parents to in the Magic Valley.