- r / ‘ , ; ; .n I f ' i '' £ a t ^ .SO{ c c n t s - S a t uurday. i May 10,2003'3 I- ; , J" I ;^5dbpi»toi ^ ; : ] f ^ S c h o Go l I; fc, ■ ....■ - Mro*iy:-Mostly I S '.-.--- l o t i 4 y ^ e s ' ,. :- ¥-mLEXIPRESgSIGNS^ p l a n c( a l l s —— i X l a s ! ^ ^ ------------------— ■ .■ .■ ^ ________ f o r t ee js t ^lAGie-'/W. - ^-‘■ I : ^ p a s s aa i g e i I V'^^HYiwh » « 7 :S e f> hirttfielVnn ■ y 's - " . ' ' jGraduates w(would need /■ B sUsYMCA-fe ; to meet neww :standards wt'.' newew director y m « m ^ h a sis , planned. By Robert Mayer ■ i , PageAS - i Tlme»News writon '____________ '-'■ .V F Jy l ‘- TWIN FALLS-S - High schuui ■ M o k t e v ' ■ students would havhave 10 earn pro- 9 ficient scores on :Idaho's stan- ■: Ooli«up:M^vrVall^con- ' R B dardized tests taagraduiite gr under W, struction iAdusttylygivesthe pJH I the latest versionon ofi a statew ide ■ '. yeai a robust startart. H school accountabiliiibility plan, Pag«B7 n In addition, teacteachers, sch<Kj|s B \ and districts whiwhose studenis 9 attain determinedled levels of per- ^ formance wouldId tbe rewarded, ■ R e u g i o n ■ while those tIuut dudon't w(»uid suf- H ' ferothercoasequetluences. H N one of thosese cconsequences I would necessarilyily affect;j the lives H of student.s or theiiheir families. Bui H students' perform»rmance on sian- I d .ird ized te s tss wouldw grciitly I affcct tlie managelagement of their I schools. m The state lk)iirdliird nf Educaiion 3 accountability plaiplan - now in its H seventh drafi - hholds teachers ujnMao/rkitWM. arid students to0 vivinprecedctUed ^ I acadcmic standardlards. r B RlChti in style: ih<n i e L D S Ipture and two others, the work Vo9d Riv«r.V«nay ituiimtt eathorher around the 'Mskln' Hay' scoliolpture as It goes up In a fieldd souths of Bellevue. This iculptu The public will.’ill 1have il diaiK c B . Church hosts a ^ fadiion "'2 If Moatani.tcttlptor Tom Ott«meule ss. WiU remain on display foraa year. to provide inputU oion the plan at ■> B ' showfeaturbigm<modest doth- ®** May 28 evoninKg Ikhearing in Twiti M f ir^ for young wonio m b n ,\. Falls. State honiird il tm em bers liopi' (0 have the planin fifinished l)v fall : and prosc-nted:-d to th e 2004 [ L g w i t h r co a d s i d e s c u l p t u r e i '* • “ A\ r t i s t c e l ee b r a t e s a | PleaseB se*see TESTS. P3EC »5 . 1 I ; SPOf^'l^ , •rness, whose bronze ofof h a y a n d called it ’Buf-I- m iB o M le k road on Thursday hndd Friday to Tom Ottcrn • eyeball these colossal stsculptures, pieces gractQce such mu-seums as Lx).”’Lx: nment s s even as they were beining erected -the Brookl;klyn Museum of Art,............ Otterness set about skuicl Govern! >. with a forklift and chainlin. Ih t; C u g genheim en Museum and liislii own drawings, making a ■ BEL!2LlSytJB.a There’s sbme- um of Modern An in spendingsp models and then : It ■ ”This is inspired., T>irhis is us," beMifseun ^difnciiric si^udngAip out ^and.^t,muscums in marizingm his work in mechai ' cash wiliill help , iscb, DaBas, Jerusiilem,. drawingsdi done to minute3 Ifrac- • evuemese'dayi onderful,” Valencia,, Spain,S and Sendai, tions.ti Workers at the W fmething that resembles a geous. absolutely woi larriage irt. an agri- Japan, WWalla Foundry pounded oui toutma pie of ia rm w oiheh fana m enn echocd Ron Thaemert ucator with Otterness;ss, whose works com- steel,st which adds up to 2 le out 'of sieeJ and hay bales>s cultural extension edu( The ABSoclated ProPress____________ daho. “I’m mand manyly thousands of dollars, poundsp< in each sculpture. ■ i S S i p ^ ring 17 feet into the azure•e the University of Id? going to take pictureses of these said he wasas inspired by viewing One resembles a line dra' TON - Namp;i I ■ . oveirseasloadup 10 of a farm worker bent over ro , WASIIINGTOi i t, and put them in a po'lower point smaller “WlWhat the Hay?’’ sculp- ol )rRani/atiitn will , ou could call it drive-by art. »oman lailh-Iifcd ore; H ’ nisrosten. people lhat tm ^ creatected on a whim.-^y by .sov- aa bale of hay. Another, a wc ' ' ^ o msed as it is next to IdaholO presonwtion and tell pi d The receive federal1 fuifunding for one of r e our alfal- eral U tica,M N ont., farmers. withw a scyihe in her hand, couplehway 75, which gets hun*:i. this is the way w e store uvo pilot projectsrets in the nation to ■ " O n e stuuuck a 10-foot ther- thirdt^ is of a farmwoman can ds of motorists whizzing by,y fa in Blaine County.” promote marria(ria g e am ong low- ■ S n akin-Hay”- . mometer inir a bale of hay and aa couple bales of hay. r y d a y .------------- ; -The unusual “Mak ------- income families.;s. I I N a t io n i b co lleg e ten- Idaho s 5S sculptures are th e worlork of inter- called it Hay'Hs Fever,”’ Otterness PageA2 The programm aaims to provide ‘ ut, then, that would dismiss olher built a buffalo out Please see HAY, Pa . Youpassers-by w ho pulled off th,e e • nationally acclaimed•d sculptor said. “Anolh counselint; andd oiother supportive H ; Ext«Kled^:p . B l poisec services to parentrents who are inter­ H - could remain in ] ■ Highw ested in man>-inBring each other. It's H . a top U.S. conum dreds I t’s BAD 01)U T THERE also tarneted:d .at preventing - —............every( divorce amongng those who are But, 1*T1 already marriedied and at improv- :U.S.tt^pS the pa 1. 1.1 ing parenting, skiskills of both mar- in Iraq for years, ' ■ ■ U n uusual weat]ither patter ried and non-mann arried couples. im an d er says.- 9 1 ^ The Nampa>a fproject, called ■ i . COIVIINC p ^ .A 3 g ^ Healthy Familiililies Nampa, will gues muchh of the U.5 include counsel!iseling services for F plag lat focus on good . Knight RIddeIder News Sewlce If that figure holds true,=. May's Pfifo""'-' 'ha' cUiliL falJ>“n"S. storms s will be the third co ment of Health and ever, following (hc devasiislallns • Tlie Dcpartraci K H T h e numjmbers can’t begin to « » S Humai. Service.ices said F rid ay it fGUP B ■fl measure‘ tlthe devastation, but tornadoest of May 3-7, 1999 $544,400 to the id April S""^ they do tellell th e story of one of the $1.6j billion in damage; and •ganization and 2-5, 1974, when storms c:cauUd Nampa orgai stormiest: ststretches of weather in i S990.000 to a pprogram in the $1.57 billion in damage a a ■■■^ U.S. history)ry. J Grand Rapids,J, M:Mich., area. states. Jim Hardenbrook. Since thh e first of May, 27& tor- * cteii 18 The Rev. Jim The 1999 storms affect at Nampa’s Church hadoes bla:(lasted through the cen- , dam aee ' states, but the heaviest di ;ren and also House ' tra l a n d scsouthern states, from' wJ as in Moore, Okla., just sosouth ot of Iho llrcthoron H I /spisi^ I to Virginia - by far the < lere a Chapla'" "Jin the Idaho - Colorado to Oklahoma City, whe , has worked for m ost ev erX rrecorded in that span. Category^ 5 tornado leveledsdmuch Lcgislaliiro, In ' B d n g atn o m isl to people were killed. , montlis to gett ththe program start- ||B |||M ||^ | ' Forty*two of toym. healthy marriages , estim ates total S425 mil- 's stonns «il- Ho s,.id ho; D a m ^ esi T he worst of Thursday’s i •ihle fath e rh o o d go ■ I tfiM» lion, b u t LlLoretta Worters of the targeted| Moore again, aalmost and respoii'iiliU :e Information Institute- { hand-inhand- ■ I S(indi four years to ihe day. I lougher to be a ■ I Ilw Tima itlMf PnU e swMiw dtlxto franI in front of bf r torRadMtanaged SSirS;fo rk said losses will like- “There were 1,500 buiu ild in g s “ I f s a U.i i< 18 liard enough. hlooM, OUa. PraM ’i heoM w nI onon* of Mveral htmdrtd damacmim In Moor, ,|y reach 5600$61 nullion to $650 mil- Please see WEATHER.1. PageF A2 Please see,ee hMARRIAGE. Page A2 !pectal*needs■ mdaywluM ■ tomado swiifit aerM:row tlw Oklahoma Cltj metio aiarea. lion. n d a y b i ■ I n d e x ^ N o rm al i^ e after doorc open[IS in flightt Tragedy In thUjesky / ’ ^A operatlon' ^ \ o l r o a r . H i Oass«eilX&2a"-* « r i t Arour>d129 ' '• . feet about 45 minuaItes after takeoff traumma e at Kinshasa General c a r g o ' TbBW passengers ol f l d o o r s o n . Ihursday night fron:>m Kinshasa, the HnqpltaItaL _ a Russian-built^ vas n ot known how m any peo- 5'^"' y ground m KINSHASA. Congo - The ri*rear capital of the ceientral African It wai Ilyushin 11*76 cargo ' ■ trosswod BIO' tor of [a caifo plane burst opeOM nation, said government pie wer/ere on the plane or whethei bad«eats.or_seaibd^_PMple)ple plane were sucked oc ■ .