46 / 30 T.F.TITLE TRIO FACING PREGNANCY Three Bruins headline IN A NEW COUNTRY seven local wrestling Volunteers teach refugee families U.S. family-planning, birth facts >>> FL 1 Mostly cloudy. champions >>> SPORTS 1 Business 6 DROPPING COVERAGE >>> Number of Idaho employers offering medical coverage drops 26% in 7 years, BUSINESS 1 SUNDAY $1.50 February 28, 2010 TIMES-NEWS Magicvalley.com CHICK 8.8 quake MAGNET rocks Chile >> Hundreds dead following early morning temblor >> Full scope of damage unclear >> Tsunami sent racing across Pacific smaller than anticipated By Roberto Candia and Eva Vergara Associated Press writers INSIDE Chile was ready for giant quake, TALCA, Chile — One of Haiti wasn’t >> BUSINESS 5 the largest earthquakes ever recorded tore apart houses, Hawaii dodges bullet as tsunami bridges and highways in waves small >> BUSINESS 5 central Chile on Saturday and sent a tsunami racing Idaho father awaits call from teen halfway around the world. son in Chile >> BUSINESS 5 Chileans near the epicenter were tossed about as if shak- quake — shuddered across en by a giant, and the head of the disaster-prone Andean the emergency agency said nation. authorities believed at least President Michelle 300 people were dead. Bachelet declared a “state of The magnitude-8.8 quake catastrophe’’in central Chile was felt as far away as Sao but said the government had Paulo in Brazil — 1,800 miles not asked for assistance to the east. The full extent of from other countries. If it damage remained unclear as does, President Obama said, ASHLEY SMITH/Times-News dozens of aftershocks — one the United States “will be photo illustration nearly as powerful as Haiti’s devastating Jan. 12 earth- See CHILE, Main 2 Proposed chicken, egg processing plants would bring hundreds of jobs, controversy to Mini-Cassia By Laurie Welch TIMES-NEWS WRITER URLEY — As California tightens animal welfare laws that may B drive the poultry industry to neighboring states, a question has been hatched among locals: Will the chicken industry come to AP photo roost in Mini-Cassia? A woman sits in front a quake-damaged house in Talca, Chile, after a A bolstered poultry industry could provide new jobs, increase the tax 8.8-magnitude earthquake struck the country early Saturday. base and diversify agriculture locally. But some question the impact of more animal factory farms, and whether local farmers will be at risk when they contract with the large corporations. Cassia County officials have been paving the way for the industry for Dog-powered, months by establishing new guidelines for poultry confined-animal feeding operations. The new ordinance restricts the number of birds per facility to 4.2 million and implements a four-mile bio-security buffer student-built that would keep such facilities separated by eight miles. The ordinance Sun Valley teacher — Idaho’s sole Iditarod underwent minor amendments Monday and was unanimously passed by county commissioners. musher — will race in student-built sled Across the Snake River in Minidoka County, there is no cap on the By Karen Bossick “But we can’t wait to see it Times-News correspondent go.” number of animals allowed per poultry CAFO, nor any plan to create The kids have spent a such cap. Minidoka County Commissioner Robert Moore said govern- SUN VALLEY — Trent good part of this school year Herbst will start the 1,150- preparing for the race, ment shouldn’t try to regulate businesses as long as the companies meet mile Iditarod Great Sled which will be Herbst’s state guidelines for clean air and water. Race on Saturday, entrust- fourth Iditarod. “You can’t tell companies they can only have four million birds if they ing his life to his dogs and a They sewed hundreds of sled his fourth-grade stu- the 1,300 booties their need eight million to be profitable,”said Moore. “You might as well tell dents built. teacher will put on his dogs’ them not to come.” And the 18 Community paws to keep them from School students who con- cutting their pads on ice. structed Herbst’s sled will They packed the 70 pairs THE STORY CONTINUES ON MAIN 4 be at the race’s start in of work gloves and fleece Anchorage, Alaska, to cheer and liner gloves Herbst will their teacher on. use during the 14 to 15 days Find company profiles of Hy-Line North America and “All the drilling and cut- he expects to be on the trail. INSIDE Magic Valley Poultry Corp. and learn what their devel- ting make the sled building opments would mean to the Magic Valley >>> MAIN 4 tough,”said Emma Hansen. See SLED, Main 2 Bridge ..............Classifieds 2 Kids Only ........Family Life 6 Obituaries ..........Business 4 Crossword ......Classifieds 7 Jumble ............Classifieds 4 Sudoku ............Classifieds 5 MAGIC VALLEY SHOWS OFF ITS TALENT Dear Abby........Classifieds 8 Movies ..................Opinion 7 Your Business ....Business 2 Annual talent show gets under way > Main 5 Your New Hospital Opens 3-2-10 www.ncm-c.org 267 North Canyon Drive (intersection of Hwy 26 & 46) Gooding MORNINGMORNINGMain 2 Sunday, February 28, 2010 BRIEFINGBRIEF- Times-News, Twin Falls, Idaho Pat’s Picks TODAY’S HAPPENINGS Three things to do today ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT HORSE CLINIC Falls, speaker: Jan Mittleider, $12, reserva- Pat Marcantonio Mini-Cassia Adult Singles Regional Silver Spurs Equestrian Team horse clinic, tions, 734-2422. Conference, 8 a.m. to 11:30 p.m., Declo presented by Blue Ribbon Training, 9 a.m. to Meeting Memo for Thursday: NAIFA • Design, construct and material for just learning, Stake Center, 213 W. Main Street, Declo, 4 p.m., Silver Tree Indoor Arena, 3196 E. Southern Idaho meeting, program: race your own cardboard it’s a good time. activities: snow shoeing and sledding, 3500 N., about two miles south of Twin medicare advantage updates with Jeff sled in the Blaine County • The Family of Woman foods, humanitarian project, fireside and Falls, session: Horsemanship/reining clinic Haber, 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., Loong Hing Recreation District Snow Film Festival shows “The concert with “Preston Pugmire,”must be 31 by Paul Butler, (20 riders limit), $110 plus Restaurant, 1719 Kimberly Road, Twin Falls, Box Derby at the Rotarun Maid ” at 3 p.m. and or older and single, LDS dress standards, arena fee, pre-register: 539-5804, 358- 737-4112. Ski Area in Croy Canyon “Lemon Tree” at 7 p.m. at $10 donation, 438-8346 or 431-9628. 3200 or [email protected] or 731-9812. Meeting memo for March 16: The Shoshone west of Hailey. The event is nexStage Theatre, 120 S. Third Annual Family of Woman Film Festival, District Grazing Advisory Board, meeting, open to anyone 5 years and Main St., Ketchum. “Lemon with the showing of “The Maid” at 3 p.m. TODAY’S REMINDERS 9 a.m., Bureau of Land Management older. The entry fee is $10 or Tree” filmmaker Eran Riklis and “Lemon Tree” at 7 p.m., nexStage offices, Shoshone, 934-4956 or 539-0777. $25 for businesses. Check- will speak after the screen- Theatre, 120 S. Main St. Ketchum, $15 per Meeting memo for Monday: Magic Valley in begins at 9:30 a.m. with ing. Admission is $15 per film, 726-4857. Region of the Idaho Chapter American To have an event listed or to update any meet- races beginning at 10:15 a.m. film. “The Glass Menagerie” presented by Society of Farm Managers and Rural ing changes, please submit the name of the • If you want something a Company of Fools, modern American play, Appraiser, meeting topic: farm and livestock event, a brief description, time, place, cost little warmer, but still fun, Have your own pick to 8 p.m., Liberty Theatre, 110 N. Main St., update, 7 a.m., Depot Grill, 545 Shoshone and contact number to Mirela Sulejmanovic gather up the family and go share? Something unique to Hailey, $25 adults, $18 seniors (62 or over), St. S., Twin Falls; speaker: Rick Haines, 733- by e-mail at msulejmanovic@magic bowling. There are great the area that may surprise $10 students (18 and younger), and groups 0874 or [email protected]. valley.com; by phone, 735-3278; by fax, 734- bowling lanes around the people? E-mail me at of six or more receive discount rate of $18 Meeting memo for Tuesday: Magic Valley 5538; or by mail, Times-News, P.O.Box 548, valley. Whether you are pro [email protected]. per ticket, 578-9122 or www.companyof- New Neighbors, meeting luncheon, Twin Falls, ID 83303-0548. Deadline is noon, fools.com. 11:30 a.m., Pandora’s, 516 Hansen St., Twin four days in advance of the event. Jerome officials tout success of first town hall meeting By John Plestina John Shine. “I believe town said, adding that there is included the proposed skate Times-News writer hall meetings are an excel- support for encouraging park and fundraising efforts, lent forum to communicate reinvestment in the down- recreation, transportation, JEROME — City officials with our community. I was town area. facilities and growth. were ecstatic after a stand- very excited by the high level “The big reaction we got The city garnered several ing room only crowd filled of participation.” was to the concept plan for a volunteers to serve on Jerome’s City Council “Everything was very new city hall,fire station and municipal committees. Chambers Thursday night positive. We were able to police station,” Marchant “All in all, the meeting for a town hall meeting. open a dialogue with city said of the proposal to build ended on a very high note.