51 / 36 Rocking the Roper SEE ENTERTAINMENT 1 Student bands vie for Battle of the Bands title Showers. Business 6 FOOD FOR GUNS >>> Want your chance at an AR-15 assault rifle? All this Nampa store asks for is food, MAIN 5 FRIDAY 75 CENTS April 3, 2009 MagicValley.com Lincoln County officials mum about shooting By Andrea Jackson County: Hadden Realty, The Aside from several dogs and Times-News writer Main Stop gas and convenience a group of yaks, the resi- store and Idaho Yak, a business dence of Craig Hadden sits SHOSHONE — Residents here that raises the long-haired empty Thursday afternoon. are wondering what happened to bovine for slaughter. While residents say the local Craig Hadden, as Lincoln “Somebody shot him, but we County law enforcement offi- don’t know the details,” said businessman was shot cials say little about the Main Stop Manager Alex Wednesday, Lincoln County Wednesday shooting that left Surcaro. “We want to know, too. officials are not releasing the prominent local business- It’s scary.” details of the event that man in critical condition at a Surcaro told the Times-News occurred at about 9:30 a.m. Boise hospital. Thursday he visited Hadden in Wednesday north of Hadden, believed to be about the hospital. He said he thinks Shoshone. 60 years old, is associated with See SHOOTING, Main 2 three businesses in Lincoln MEAGAN THOMPSON/Times-News Day care bill EMPTY TWIN FALLS clears House committee Facilities serving 7 kids HOME CATCHES FIRE or more must be licensed By Jared S. Hopkins Times-News writer BOISE — A bill to tighten regulations at day cares cleared the House Health and Welfare Committee unanimously Thursday, but only after members agreed that almost a dozen amendments be attached to it. The decision came INSIDE a week after the 16- member committee Read a wrapup of heard more than four Legislative news. hours of public testimony, almost See Main 4 entirely in support of the original bipartisan bill. Members — some who have helped kill similar bills for the last four years — delayed the vote because they wanted to craft amendments to satisfy their concerns. “I think it was a good compromise bill,” Committee Chairwoman Sharon Block, R- Twin Falls, said afterward. “I think it will provide protection for Idaho’s children and allow providers to stay in rural areas.” The biggest changes, however, would See DAY CARE, Main 2 Wendell police ASHLEY SMITH/Times-News Twin Falls Fire Department Capt. Doug Moore looks through debris from a house fire at 647 King Circle Drive Thursday morning while investigating the blaze. The fire began around 6 a.m. to revamp Police, firefighters investigating cause of ‘suspicious’ blaze curfew law By Nate Poppino of a fire mysteriously starting Times-News writer Magicvalley.com in an empty house. Idaho appellate court WATCH: Video of the firefighters working at the burned Investigators are treating the An empty Twin Falls house home and an interview with investigators. fire as suspicious, he said, not calls local ordinance void caught fire Thursday morning, only because the home was continuing what officials say is by flames shooting out of a bedroom, said Capt. Doug supposed to be empty but also By Andrea Jackson a string of fires in unoccupied bedroom window on the Moore with the Twin Falls Fire because the main fuse was Times-News writer homes in the past two years. northwest side. Department. pulled, leaving it without elec- Firefighters and police were No one was in the home at Moore, sifting through the tricity. Wendell police this month will revamp a called to 647 King Circle Drive the time, but the house had remnants of the bedroom later Last year, police said three curfew ordinance that the Idaho Court of sometime around 6 a.m. severe smoke damage overall in the morning, noted that the Appeals on Tuesday said violates the con- Thursday morning and greeted and structural damage in that incident was yet another case See FIRE, Main 2 stitutional rights of young people. “By golly,we’ll get it done,” Wendell Police Chief Kirtus Gaston INSIDE said on Wednesday. Murtaugh man “We want to make will face jury for Open-meeting bill awaits Otter’s signature sure we’re changing it alleged sex crimes. the way it needs to be changed.” See Main 3 By Jared S. Hopkins Magicvalley.com First adopted in 1974, the The appellate Times-News writer Idaho Open Meeting Law judges unanimously sided with an uniden- READ: Capitol Confidential, a political blog by reporter guarantees all citizens the tified teenager who was ticketed for break- BOISE — A bill that would Jared S. Hopkins. right to observe and partici- ing curfew in Wendell. The lawyer for the put teeth in Idaho’s Open pate in meetings of public teen argued the ordinance doesn’t allow Meeting Law is on its way for the law clearer for public offi- years, were crafted by Idaho entities. for free speech activities. Gov. C.L. “Butch” Otter’s sig- cials to understand while Secretary of State Ben Ysursa, The bill now on its way to “If a minor wishes to attend a midnight nature, despite opposition strengthening the safeguards Attorney General Lawrence Otter clarifies some aspects of church service, participate in a city council Wednesday from a handful of against violations. It already Wasden and media groups. the law and spells out stiffer meeting, or join a protest voicing any House members. passed the Senate without a “This legislation provides penalties, including: number of social or political views, he Supporters say the bill, dissenting vote. the teeth,” said Rep. Erik which passed 59-10, will make The revisions, the first in 17 Simpson, R-Idaho Falls. See MEETING, Main 2 See WENDELL, Main 2 Comics ..........................Sports 5 Crossword ..............Classifieds 2 Obituaries ..................Business 5 Commodities ............Business 2 Dear Abby ..............Classifieds 3 Opinion ............................Main 6 RUNNING IN THE SPRING RAIN Community................Business 3 Movies ..............Entertainment 2 Sudoku....................Classifieds 6 Filer hosts track invitational > Sports 1 MORNINGMORNINGMain 2 Friday, April 3, 2009 BRIEFINGBRIEF- TN Times-News, Twin Falls, Idaho Pat’s Picks TODAY’S HAPPENINGS Three things to do today ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT valleycenter.org or 726-9491, ext.10. CLUBS AND ORGANIZATIONS Gallery walk, featuring continued exhibition Pat Marcantonio First Fridays, with Kenny Saunders and Joel of artwork, until 8 p.m., Jensen Ringmakers Burley Lions Club, noon, Morey’s Casserman acoustic folk and fancy pickin’, and Gallery, 109 Main Ave., downtown Twin Steakhouse, 219 E. Third St. N., 878-7235. • Enjoy the classic char- for adults and $5 for chil- free food tasting from Rudy’s Live Kitchen Falls, no cost, open to the public, 734-8091 acters of the Artful Dodger dren. and beverages sold by the glass, 6 to 9 www.jensen-jewelers.com/ringmakers EXHIBITS and Fagin, as well as great • Students perform at the p.m., Rudy’s-A Cook’s Paradise, 147 Main gallery.php. songs with the Oakley Danny Marona Performing Ave. W., Twin Falls, www.cooksparadise.com. The Disabled American Veterans Auxiliary New works by Dutch artist Sjer Jacobs, oil Valley Arts Council produc- Arts Scholarship Finals and Magic Valley Arts Council Artists Reception public dance, 8 p.m., DAV Hall, 459 Shoup paintings and bronze sculpture, 10 a.m. to 6 tion of “Oliver,”at 7:30 p.m. Curtain Call Awards at 7 and Gallery Opening, with new works by Ave., Twin Falls, $2 donation, 734-5208. p.m., Gallery DeNovo, 320 First Ave. N., today, April 6, 9 and 10; and p.m. at the College of member artists; “Wasn’t It a Ride?” photo Suite 101, Ketchum, free admission, gallery- at 2 p.m. April 4 and 11 at Southern Idaho Fine Arts works from The Mined Site Project by BENEFITS AND FUNDRAISERS denovo.com or 726-8180. the Howell Opera House, Center auditorium, 315 Falls Russell Hepworth and Steve Fildes in the Photographs and art by Carl Pulsifer and 160 N. Blaine Ave., Oakley. Ave. W.,Twin Falls. Galeria Pequena; “Flights of Learning” Lighthouse Christian School seventh annual Joyce Deford, noon to 5 p.m., The Eighth Reserved tickets are $8. Students compete for a top sculpture by Bryce Pettit on display; and dinner and auction, ’50’s attire for all, 5:30 Street Center, 200 N. Eighth St., Buhl, no • A fundraising dinner prize of $5,000 in scholar- live entertainment by The Acoustic Fools, p.m., LCS Campus, 960 Eastland Drive, Twin cost, 543-5417. and silent auction benefits ship funds. A suggested 7 to 9 p.m., Full Moon Gallery of Fine Art Falls, $30, 208-737-1425. Opening celebration for “Everything Cassidy Babb, who has been donation is $10. and Contemporary Craft, 132 Main Ave. S., First Friday Dinner, a buffet-style, traditional Forgotten,” paintings by Boise-based invited to represent Idaho Historic Downtown Twin Falls, no cost, 734- Basque meal featuring lamb chops and fish painter Chris Binion with 6 p.m. discussion on a national track team at Have your own pick you 2787. sponsored by the Gooding Basque by the artist, 5:30 to 7 p.m., The Center, 314 an international meet in want to share? Something Danny Marona Performing Arts Scholarship Association, 6 to 8 p.m., Basque Cultural S. Second Ave., Hailey, free admission, sun- Australia this summer. The that is unique to the area Finals and the inaugural Curtain Call Center, 285 Euskadi Lane (intersection of valleycenter.org or 726-9491. dinner goes from 6 to 8 and that may take people by Awards, 7 p.m., CSI Fine Arts auditorium, U.S.