69 / 45 CONTINUING TO SHINE Drier, partly Area athletes making their marks at college level SEE SPORTS 1 cloudy. Business 8 SECOND CHANCE >>> Birth family finds adopted son on the Internet, FAMILY LIFE 1 SUNDAY $1.50 June 7, 2009 MagicValley.com Completing the picture Spring recharge projects give healthy start to aquifer plan Times-News file photo Water flows through the Milner-Gooding Canal southeast of Hazelton in March. Its operator, American Falls Reservoir District No. 2, started releasing water in March to help recharge the Eastern Snake Plain Aquifer. The project has put the state within reach of its goal to help the aquifer. By Nate Poppino Times-News writer The way Hal Anderson describes The projects, carried out over same time water seeped into the “We know it it, things really couldn’t have gone two and a half months with help ground. better this year. from three irrigation districts and Considering the millions of 2009 Snake will do some Good reservoir storage, an aver- three canal companies, have put acre-feet that flow in and out of the age to above-average snowpack the state within 20,000 acre-feet aquifer each year,80,000 acre-feet River recharge good, but just and a cool, wet spring boosted the of its new, 10-year annual goal for is little more than “a rounding Between March 20 and May 31 exactly where the amount of water traveling down recharge projects aimed at helping error,”Anderson said. Canal cumulative acre-feet the Snake River. That, in turn, the aquifer, said Anderson, Idaho But even if it won’t fix the Aberdeen-Springfield 10,266 benefits will show allowed the Idaho Water Resource Department of Water Resources aquifer’s problems right away, he Burgess 13,792 Board to use its water rights to put administrator. The target comes said, this spring’s work is an Fremont-Madison 28,284 up, we can’t say just more than 80,000 acre-feet of from the Comprehensive Aquifer encouraging step forward in terms Harrison 7,137 water into the ground to recharge Management Plan, approved by of project coordination, participa- with accuracy.” Idaho Irrigation Dist. 547 the Eastern Snake Plain Aquifer. the Legislature this spring at the tion and effort. — Lynn Harmon, general Milner-Gooding 21,804 manager of American Falls S EE AQUIFER, MAIN 6 TOTAL 81,831 Reservoir District No. 2 SOURCE: Idaho Department of Water Resources INSIDE: CAMP committee begins to put plan into practice, Main 6 Jerome man remembers friendship Hundreds of farmers face with last survivor of Titanic sinking BLM in herbicide lawsuit By Nichole Carnell Times-News writer By Rebecca Boone were thirsty,’’ said Van land had been tainted with Associated Press writer Tassell, who farms outside Oust, a potent herbicide JEROME — Frank of Paul. “They looked like that kills plants by attacking Pearson, a third-grade BOISE — When his beets they were in a frozen state.’’ their roots and leaves. teacher from Jerome, is came in patchy, pushing It was 2001, and Van The pesticide had been mourning the loss of a through the soil with mis- Tassell, like most farmers, spread across more than friend. shapen and discolored had hundreds of thousands 100,000 acres of nearby Pearson was close friends leaves, Perry Van Tassell did of dollars invested in his public land at the direction with the last survivor of the what most farmers would crops. His corn fields stood of the Bureau of Land 1912 sinking of the Titanic. do. shorter than his toddler son Management, which was Millvina Dean, merely 9 He watered more. when they should have been hoping to prevent the weeks old when her family And more. And more. stretching 12 feet high. boarded the RMS Titanic, “They looked like they He came to believe his See LAWSUIT, Main 2 outlived 705 other passen- gers who made it to Photo courtesy Frank Pearson lifeboats and eventual safe- Frank Pearson of Jerome, right, poses with last Titanic survivor, ty. Millvina Dean, middle, and Bruno Normandis in Southampton, Dean died in her sleep on England, in 2004. Dean died May 31 in Southampton at age 97. Short on funds, school districts May 31 at a care facility in Southampton, England, a week after she was hospi- Magicvalley.com large and small looking for help talized for pneumonia. She WATCH a video interview with Frank Pearson. was 97. own son. Her mother, Georgette Pocatello among districts that have “If he has to go, he has to Eva Dean, and brother, The Dean family’s final the Titanic as third-class go,’’ the ashen-haired Bertram Dean Jr., who was 2 destination was to be passengers. declared fiscal crises in past year Brumfield said on a recent at the time, both survived Wichita, Kan., where Coincidentally, Millvina afternoon. “I can’t hold the disaster after being sep- Bertram Dean was to open a Dean died on the 98th By Christine Armario sages in the brown leather back.’’ arated while boarding the tobacco shop. The family anniversary of the Titanic’s Associated Press writer Bible resting on his desk. The rural Jefferson lifeboats. The three were was originally scheduled to 1911 launch date from His school district is losing County School District reunited on their rescue set sail on a different White Belfast, Northern Ireland. MONTICELLO, Fla. — students. Utility and trans- in Florida’s Panhandle boat, the Carpathia, but Star ocean liner. Because of The Titanic left These days, Superintendent portation costs are rising. declared a financial Dean’s father, Bertram a coal workers strike, the Bill Brumfield finds himself And he’s expecting to lay off Frank Dean, did not survive. 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Blue Lakes Blvd. N. It’s free • For the Fred Astaire in and the flowers are beauti- all of us — that’s the guy in ful. tie and tails for those who are really young — the Twin Have your own pick you Falls Senior Citizens Center want to share? Something dance will be held from 2 to that is unique to the area 5 p.m. at the center, 530 and that may take people by Shoshone St. W.Admission surprise? E-mail me at is $4 per person. The live [email protected]. TODAY’S HAPPENINGS ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT Twin Falls Senior Citizens Center dance, with music by the Melody Masters, 2 to 5 p.m., at the center, 530 Shoshone St. W., Twin Falls, $4 per person, 734-5084. John Guare’s play “Six Degrees of Separation,” presented by Photo courtesy Twin Falls Public Library Laughing Stock Theatre, 6 p.m., nexStage Theatre, 120 S. Main St., If you have any information regarding this photo please contact the Twin Falls Public Library at [email protected]. Ketchum, $25, 726-4857. EXHIBITS Mini-Cassia Auto Collectors Car Show, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., Cassia Titanic County Fairgrounds, $3 for ages 13-69; $1 for children ages 7 to 12; Continued from Main 1 “I wrote to her and I turn into a friendship,”said Southampton, where her and no cost for adults age 70 and older or children from infancy to Southampton on its maid- received a letter back,” Pearson. family resettled after age 6, 678-9150. en voyage 11 months later Pearson told the Times- One of Pearson’s trips to spending only two weeks on April 10, 1912. Four days News in a 2004 interview. see Dean was to celebrate in America after being res- HOME AND GARDEN later, the “unsinkable” “I sent Idaho Spud bars her 92nd birthday. “I sat to cued from the Titanic, and ship struck an iceberg and and Idaho wine the next her right and was asked to her experiences in England Magic Valley Iris Society, all entries welcomed with “named” iris, sank in the Atlantic Ocean. time. We just kept corre- deliver a speech,” Pearson during World War II. 11 a.m. judging begins and 1:30 to 4 p.m. public viewing, KMVT Pearson was planning to sponding.” said in 2004. “It was a Southampton was bombed Community Room, 1100 Blue Lakes Blvd. N., Twin Falls, open to the visit Dean in July and is still The two kept a friend- beautiful party.” by the Luftwaffe when public, 734-3613 or 308-7054. planning to make the trip ship that spanned a “Millvina touched a lot Dean worked there as a for “closure,”he said. decade, Pearson said, and of different lives from mapmaker. According to SPORTS The Jerome teacher included nine visits to her many countries,” said the British Air Raid Minidoka County Sheriff’s Office/ Walcott Park boating safety day, came in contact with Dean home in New Forest out- Pearson.